ITHACA, N.Y. – The Cornell volleyball team hits the road for their last regular season road trip where they will face Princeton and Penn.
GAME INFO
Cornell vs. Princeton
Friday, Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.
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Cornell vs. Penn
Saturday, Nov. 9 at 5 p.m.
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CORNELL'S NUMBERS
Cornell is leading the conference in blocks per set (2.53), opp hitting percentage (.175) and team total blocks (182).
As for the individuals, Camryn Carlo is ranked 24th nationally in blocks per set and first in the conference, averaging 1.37 per set.
Mackenzie Parsons is ranked 25th nationally in hitting percentage (.393).
Eliza Konvicka is second in the Ivy in kills per set (3.90) and points per set (4.65) behind Kamryn Chaney from Princeton in both (4.37) and (5.09).
RECORD BOOK UPDATE
Konvicka recorded her 811th kill in the game against Dartmouth passing Janelle Kenny's 800 (1992-95) and earning the tenth spot in Cornell career kills.
Konvicka also sits third in points per set with 4.14 as well as fourth in career kills per set averaging 3.47 over 234 total sets played
Carlo is ninth with career hitting percentage, .294 on 909 attempts.
Doga Ozalp is moving up in career assist per set averaging 9.03 over 159 set. She currently sits in sixth.
Sarita Pomar rocketed into sixth place in career service aces per set (0.40).
RECORDS TO WATCH
Career Records
10th Konvicka - Career Kills - 811 --- 9th Emily Wemhoff (2014-17) - 817
3rd Konvicka - Career Points Per Set - 4.14 --- 2nd Katie Marshall (2007) - 3.51
4th Konvicka - Career Kills Per Set - 3.47 --- 3rd Becky Merchant (1987-89) - 4.30
Konvicka - Total Career Points - 969.5 --- 10th Jenn Drais (1990-93) - 993.0
9th Carlo - Career Hitting Percentage - .294 --- 10th Jada Stackhouse (2016-19) - 1.05
Carlo - Career Blocks Per Set - 1.04 --- 10th Jada Stackhouse (2016-19) - 1.05
Carlo - Career Solo Blocks - 51 --- 10th Rachel D'Epagnier (2010-13) - 65
Carlo - Career Total Blocks - 255.0 --- 10th Jenna Phelps (2016-19) - 296
4th Ozalp - Career Asssits Per Set - 9.03 --- 5th Amy Gordon (2004-07) - 9.16
4th Pomar - Career Service Aces Per Set - 0.40 --- 5th Sandra Berzups (1987) - 0.41
Season Records
5th Konvicka - Season Kill Per Set - 3.90 --- 6th Alex Gross (1990) - 4.00
6th Konvicka - Season Points Per Set - 4.65 --- 5th Robin Moore (1999) - 4.81
6th Carlo - Season Blocks Per Set - 1.37 --- 6th Heather Young (2004) - 1.38
2nd Parsons - Season Attack Percentage - .393 --- 1st Joanna Weiss (2005) - .406
SCOUTING PRINCETON
Princeton is 8-2 in Ivy play and coming off a weekend sweep of Brown and Yale. Earlier this season, Cornell lost to Princeton 1-3 at home.
Over the weekend the Tigers snapped Yale's 30-match winning streak at John. J. Lee Amphitheatre, the second-longest home winning streak in NCAA Division I, Friday night with a 3-1 victory over the Bulldogs.
Sophomore Kamryn Chaney earned Ivy League Player of the week after averaging 4.89 kills per set (44 kills), 2.67 digs per set (24 digs), with seven service aces and three blocks on the weekend. She led the match against Yale with 25 kills, no errors and a .532 hitting percentage along with 13 digs for her ninth double-double of the season.
Other key players in the match at Yale included Lucia Scalamandre who tallied 12 kills on a .611 hitting percentage and six blocks while junior Valerie Nutakor added 11 kills. Sydney Bold recorded a match-high 20 digs along with a match and career-high five service aces.
In the match at Brown, Scalamandre recorded 16 kills on a .519 hitting percentage, five blocks and three service aces while sophomore Sydney Draper handed out a team-high 46 assists.
Jackie Onyechi leads the Ivy in hitting percentage (.436) while Chaney leads the kill column with 332 (4.37 kills/set).
SCOUTING PENN
Penn is 4-6 in Ivy play after losing to Yale and Brown last weekend. Cornell beat Penn 3-1 at home in the first meeting back in October.
The Quakers battled Brown in an extremely close match on Friday night at home but fell 3-0. (25-23, 25-22, 26-24) Freshman Ellie Siskin topped the Quakers in kills (9) and digs (13) and Freshman Emery Moore dished out 33 assists (11.0 a/s), came up with two block assists, and served up two aces against the Bears.
In the match against Yale, Belle Rittenberg, Adell Murray and Siskin all notched team-high eight kills. Jenniya Lane had seven kills without an error on 10 attacks, a .700 hitting night. Defensively, she led the way with four block assists, two aces and two digs.
Penn is third in aces (1.75) behind Cornell (1.76) and second in digs per set (14.44) behind Dartmouth.
HARVARD RECAP
Cornell fell to Harvard in three sets at Newman Arena.
Konvicka led the Big Red offensively with eight kills, three block assist, two digs and an ace. Jaida Sione and Kohanihokuao Misipeka added seven and six assists respectively. Carlo threw in four blocks and four kills while Pomar grabbed 10 digs and one assist.
DARTMOUTH RECAP
The Big Red defeated Dartmouth for the second time this season during the second match of the weekend.
Two Cornellians finished in double-digits attacking paced by Konvicka with 17 kills, six digs, three aces and two block assists. Parsons also ended in the doubles with 15 kills, career-high nine digs, and four blocks. Ozalp dished out 41 assists, 13 digs and an ace to mark her fifth double-double of the season. Pomar earned a career-high four aces.
UP NEXT
Cornell wraps up regular season conference play when they host Brown and Yale at Newman Arena on Nov. 15-16