Friday made it three.

“I think losing the first match was a bit of a wake-up call,” Kebe said. “We treated it like more of a warm-up set than we should have.”

With one set to each team entering the third frame, Cornell quickly jumped out to a 6-0 lead behind five service aces from Natalie Danenhauer.

“There’s no reason for any more than two points in a rotation,” Harvard coach Jennifer Weiss said last weekend. “So when we get them to dial in and do that, we’ll have success.”

But the Crimson stormed back almost immediately with six straight of its own behind two kills from Bain and a kill apiece from Kebe and freshman Grace Roberts Burbank. From there, the Crimson rolled on, ending the set on a 11-4 run to push ahead by one set entering the fourth frame.

It was the freshmen who sealed the deal in the fourth set, as an ace from Erin McCarthy and kills from Burbank and Maclaine Fields ended the Big Red’s night. Bain led all Crimson with 10 kills, while Meyer set a season-high with nine on the night.

“I think the Cornell game went pretty well,” Kebe said. “It was one we definitely expected to win. I think we did a good job of performing and executing our game plan.”

Elsewhere in the Ivy League, Princeton suffered its first loss to a conference opponent at the

hands of Yale on Friday, cutting the Tigers’ lead over the Bulldogs to just one game with one more weekend to play.

–Staff writer Kurt T. Bullard can be reached at kurt.bullard@thecrimson.com.