PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Cornell volleyball team reached double-digit wins for the first time since the 2008 season, and senior setter Alyssa Phelps eclipsed 3,000 career assists, as the Big Red downed Brown, 3-1, this evening in Providence, R.I. Cornell won the first two sets, 25-23 and 25-19, before narrowly falling in the third to the Bears, 26-24. The Big Red stormed back to win the fourth in dominating fashion, 25-13.
 
Phelps finished the game with 50 assists, just two off her season-high, to make her just the second player in Cornell history, and 20th in the history of the Ivy League, to reach 3,000 career assists. She also registered six digs, three block assists, and four kills with one error on 10 attempts for a .300 hitting percentage.
 
For the second night in a row, Carla Sganderlla registered 20 kills to lead the Big Red, and hit an impressive .327 (20-4-49), to go along with 10 digs for her ninth double-double of the season. Emily Wemhoff also reached double-digits with 14 kills, hitting .278 (14-4-36), while Kara Rogers chipped in eight kills and Jenna Phelps hit .400 (6-0-15) on the evening.
 
All but one Big Red player finished with a positive hitting percentage as the team hit .260 (58-18-54) on the evening.
 
Defensively, the team finished with 11 total blocks, led by Jada Stackhouse's six blocks (one solo, five assisted), in front of a back line that put up 67 digs. Libero Kiley McPeek led the team with 19 digs, while defensive specialist Lily Barber finished with 14.
 
Brown (4-16, 2-8 Ivy) was led by Makena Ehlert's 14 kills and .250 hitting percentage (14-4-40), but the Bears managed to hit just .150 as a team and finished with only 47 kills on the evening. Melissa Cairo finished with a match-high 23 digs.
 
The first set was a back and forth battle before Brown took a late 23-20 lead. But consecutive Bear errors, followed by a kill from Wemhoff tied the set for the 10th and final time, before Jenna Phelps registered a service ace and then teamed up with Stackhouse for a block to hand Cornell the 25-23 victory.
 
The teams continued to trade the lead throughout the early part of the second set before five unanswered Cornell points blew open a 15-15 tie and led to the 25-19 Big Red victory. During the decisive run, Cornell received kills form Sganderlla, Alyssa Phelps, Jenna Phelps, and Wemhoff, as well as a solo block from Jenna Phelps.
 
Cornell used another 5-0 run in the third set to break open a 17-17 tie, but this time the Bears stormed back and managed to take the 26-24 win to force a fourth set.
 
The Big Red responded by jumping out to a 7-2 lead in the fourth and never looked back en route to a dominating 25-13 victory.
 
Cornell (10-10, 4-6 Ivy)  will play its final home games of the season, and honor the team's two seniors – Alyssa Phelps and Macey Wilson – when it welcomes Harvard and Dartmouth to Newman Arena on Friday, Nov. 4 and Saturday, Nov. 5, respectively.