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ITHACA, N.Y. — Junior Kit McCarty had a career-high 18 kills and senior Alyssa Phelps doled out a season-best 49 assists, but the volleyball team came up short on a pair of close sets late to suffer a 3-1 loss to Yale on Saturday night at Newman Arena. Games scores were 25-19, 19-25, 25-23, 26-24.

Cornell (5-7, 0-3 Ivy League) mixed and matched its lineup, using a total of 14 players on the night and hitting .274. Four hitters posted at least nine kills and hit .400 or better on the night individually. Freshman Jenna Phelps had a career-high 13 kills, and senior Macey Wilson had Emily Wemhoff nine kills apiece.

Yale (9-3, 2-1 Ivy League) got 15 kills from Brittani Steinberg, and Kelsey Crawford had 10 digs and 10 assists. Steinberg had a pair of aces during an early five-point run, and the Bulldogs never trailed for the balance of the first set to take an early lead. The Big Red evened up the score at the intermission with Jenna Phelps' four kills leading the squad in the second set.

The Big Red was down in the third set, 11-5, before fighting back to draw even at 14 and again at 23 after consecutive kills from Wilson. Yale's Brittani Steinberg then put down her sixth kill of the set to pull the Bulldogs back ahead, and a Cornell attack error led the visitors' 2-1 advantage. Cornell then led 19-15 in the fourth set before Yale clawed back and eventually won on Steinberg's team-high 15th kill of the night.

The game served as the Big Red's annual Dig Pink game, with the program joining forces with the Side-Out Foundation as part of its Breast Cancer Awareness Rally. Proceeds from the game will be distributed among research teams focused on target therapies and molecular profiling as well as "living with cancer" organizations nationwide. The program also sold pink t-shirts and ribbons before the match.