Box Score BINGHAMTON, N.Y. – After losing consecutive sets to open the match at Binghamton, the Cornell volleyball team stormed back to win the final three sets and defeat the Bearcats (21-25, 19-25, 25-13, 25-19, 15-9) this evening in West Gymnasium on the Binghamton campus. With the win, the Big Red improves to 6-9 on the season and will look to carry that momentum into this weekend's Ivy League contests against Yale and Brown. Friday night's game will be the Big Red's Dig Pink night.

Cornell got big contributions from everyone who played, with four players – Breanna Wong (11), Rachel D'Epagnier (11), Macey Wilson (11) and Grayce Campbell (10) – reaching double-digit kills. The quartet was also remarkably consistent, as all four hit above .300 on the evening. Wilson led the way with a .421 hitting percentage (11-3-19) to go along with six block assists and three service errors. D'Epagnier and Sarah Hunt also finished with six blocks apiece (one solo, five assists).

Setter Alyssa Phelps handed out 39 assists, tallied six kills, had seven digs and posted three blocks (one solo), while libero Natasha Rowland was outstanding with a match-high 29 digs. Wong also finished with 11 digs, while Sierra Young posted nine digs and had a match-high five service aces.

Binghamton (4-15) was led by Grace Vickers' 18 kills and .389 hitting percentage, but she was the only Bearcat to hit above .116 for the contest, as the team finished at .115 for the evening. The Hovie sisters, Allison and Kristin, were held to a combined 19 kills and 16 errors on 69 attempts for a .043 hitting percentage. Setter Amanda Dettman finished with 36 assists and both she and Xiomara Ortiz led the Bearcats with 19 digs.

Despite being edged in the first two sets, Cornell was firing on all cylinders throughout the match, hitting .273 as a team on offense, while posting 70 digs and 14 total blocks on defense.

The Big Red completely dominated the third set, which was the turning point of the match, as the visitors jumped out to a 6-2 lead and never looked back. Cornell eventually stretched the lead to seven points (12-5) on consecutive kills from Wong, Phelps, and Kelly Marble, and Binghamton never pulled within six points the rest of the way.

The fourth set was tight early on, as the teams battled through six ties, with the last coming at 12-12 when Cornell got four unanswered points, including kills from D'Epagnier and Campbell to go along with a service ace from Young, to make it a 16-12 contest. The Big Red managed to maintain at least a three-point lead the rest of the way before closing the set on a 5-1 run to force a fifth set.

Cornell carried that momentum into the fifth set, jumping out to a 3-0 lead thanks to a block from the duo of Hunt and Wilson, a kill by Hunt and a kill by Campbell. Moments later, another ace from Young made a 6-2 lead and the Big Red rolled to the 15-9 victory.