ITHACA, N.Y. – The Big Red completed its first Ivy League weekend sweep since 2012 when it defeated Penn, 3-1, this evening at Newman Arena. The win over the Quakers, coupled with last night's victory over Princeton, puts Cornell (8-8, 4-3 Ivy) firmly in fourth place in the Ivy League, behind three teams that entered tonight's games tied for first. After dropping the first set, 22-25, Cornell stormed back to take the final three sets, 25-20, 25-21, 25-21.  
 
Samanta Arenas led the Big Red with a career-high 20-kill, 20-dig double-double, while Kara Rogers had another extremely efficient night, registering 14 kills and just two errors on 33 attacks for a .364 hitting percentage. Kit McCarty also finished with 12 kills and just one error on 25 attempts. The middle blocker tandem of sophomores Jada Stackhouse (9-1-13) and Jenna Phelps (5-1-13) combined to hit .462 to go along with six total blocks.
 
As a team, Cornell hit a season-high .315 (65-18-149).
 
Defensively, senior libero Kiley McPeek finished with a match-high 24 digs to wrap-up the weekend with an incredible 7.4 digs per set, while Zoe Chamness (12) and Chelsea Sincox (11) also tallied double-digits.
 
Chamness and Sincox were also solid running the offense with 33 and 22 assists, respectively, as the Big Red assisted on all 65 of its kills.
 
Penn (8-8, 3-4 Ivy) was led by Parker Jones (19 kills) and Hayley Moinar (10 kills), while libero Caroline Furrer and Michelle Pereira registered 14 digs apiece.
 
The Quakers came out strong in the first set and held a slim lead until some solid serving from Arenas helped Cornell turn a 6-8 deficit to an 11-9 advantage. Penn fought back with a run of its own and finally regained the lead late with three kills from Raven Salaimon handing the visitors the 25-22 victory. In all, the set was the closest of the night with 10 ties and four lead changes.
 
Cornell led wire-to-wire in the second set, hitting .256 as a team and getting six kills from Arenas en route to the 25-21 victory.
 
Penn responded with a quick 2-0 lead in the third set, but that was the biggest lead the visitors would have over the final two sets. An ace from McPeek, three kills from Arenas, and a kill from McCarty restored the advantage to the home team as they went on to win, 25-21.  
 
The Big Red got out to a big lead early in the fourth set and cruised to the 25-21 victory.
 
Cornell is back in action next weekend when the second half of Ivy League play begins in New York City vs. Columbia on Oct. 21 at 2 p.m. The Big Red won the first meeting this season, 3-1, at Newman Arena.