Key to the sweep of Brown was the Crimson’s defense at the net. Harvard tallied 15 blocks in three sets.

“When you’re a hitter and you get blocked—that is the most demeaning thing that can happen to you,” Kinsella said. “So blocking someone else is better than getting a kill, better than getting an ace. It’s just the best feeling. We got so pumped up.”

Co-captain outside hitter Taylor Docter led the team with nine kills in the contest, and Wallace was not far behind with eight.

Sophomore outside hitter Kristen Casey and freshman setter Hannah Schmidt led the team with nine digs apiece.

At the start of the first set, the Bears seemed to have the upper hand with a 5-1 lead.

Harvard came back attacking, but it wasn’t until Wallace and freshman middle blocker Caroline Holte blocked the first ball of the game that the Crimson tied up the score, 6-6.

That block and a series of many more that put Harvard on the road to victory.

Holte tallied a career-best eight blocks—the most blocks in a three-set match for the Crimson since 2008.

Harvard led a steady offensive with a consistent 13 kills in each game.

In the second set, Harvard came out strong with a 4-0 lead.

Dominating from behind the back line, the Crimson totaled six service aces—four from Doyle.

For Harvard, the third set was not as easy a win as the first two. The Crimson had a six-point win streak in the middle of the match, but the game was otherwise very back and forth between the Crimson and Brown. Harvard ultimately managed a 25-21 victory.

“We can improve on working on the pace of our game,” Wallace said. “We can be a bit faster.”

A pair of errors by the Bears and a kill by sophomore middle blocker Caroline Walters sealed the Crimson’s second Ivy win.