Yale vs Dartmouth Volleyball: Yale Wins 3-0 (Oct 30, 2026)

FinalFri, Oct 30, 2026ESPN+

3:0

RallyIQ pre-match: Yale 95.1% · favorite wonLocked before first serve (Oct 30, 4:55 PM CT). The Pre-match panel below is a season fit that includes this match.

Yale won at Dartmouth 3-0 (25-23, 25-7, 25-18) on Fri, Oct 30, 2026. Yale's Betsy Goodenow led with 10 kills, and Kalyssa Taggart added 16 digs.

Data through Nov 4, 1:55 AM CT · final Oct 30

Set	1	2	3	Sets
YALE	25	25	25	3
DART	23	7	18	0

Match story · written from the play-by-play

Yale held Dartmouth to .032 hitting.

No single rally moved win probability more than 2.7 points. Dartmouth peaked at 12% in Set 1. These are the stats that built the gap. Yale went in as RallyIQ's 95% pick.

YaleDartmouth

Break %+23.4 pts
58.134.7
Points won on own serve: 43 of 74 vs 17 of 49. Dartmouth sided out 41.9% of the time.
Hitting+.309
.341.032
43 K / 12 E against 23 K / 20 E.
Longest run+0
77
Yale scored 7 straight in the second set to stretch an 18–7 lead to 25–7. That set ended 25–7.

Dartmouth above 50Yale belowMax swing 2.7%

YaleDartmouth

Aces: Yale 6·Dartmouth 3
Serve err: Yale 8·Dartmouth 4
Blocks: Yale 7·Dartmouth 63 BS · 8 BA vs 1 BS · 10 BA
Digs: Yale 49·Dartmouth 32

Win probability

RallyIQ model · strengths locked at first serve

Dartmouth above 50 · Yale below

Biggest swing: 2.7% to Dartmouth — set 1, YALE 20-22 DART. Dartmouth ace. DART win probability 9% → 12%.

Pre-match

Season fit · includes this match

YALE 95.3%4.7% DART

Yale wins

3-0

56.3%

3-1

29.4%

3-2

9.6%

Dartmouth wins

3-0

0.5%

3-1

1.3%

3-2

2.9%

YALE break %: 48.9% vs this opp
DART break %: 36.1% vs this opp

Exact Markov model on each team's RallyIQ serve and receive strength, adjusted for schedule and applied to this matchup (D1 average break % 42.5%). Ratings use the whole season, including this match. Gold = actual result.

Top plays

Largest win-probability swings

01
DartmouthAce+2.7%
Dartmouth ace
Set 1 · YALE 20-22 DART · DART 9% → 12%
02
Isabel PattersonBlock+2.5%
Maddie LaFata stuffed by Isabel Patterson
Set 1 · YALE 23-22 DART · YALE 92% → 95%
03
Laurece AbrahamBlock+2.5%
Elle McCreery stuffed by Laurece Abraham
Set 1 · YALE 22-22 DART · YALE 90% → 92%
04
Maddie LaFataKill+2.3%
Kill by Maddie LaFata (set by Sophia Gagnepain)
Set 1 · YALE 20-21 DART · DART 7% → 9%
05
Jaida CekicAttack error+2.0%
Attack error by Jaida Cekic
Set 1 · YALE 24-22 DART · YALE 95% → 97%
06
Betsy GoodenowKill+1.7%
Kill by Betsy Goodenow (set by Kalyssa Taggart)
Set 1 · YALE 25-23 DART · YALE 96% → 98%
07
Isabel PattersonAttack error+1.5%
Attack error by Isabel Patterson
Set 1 · YALE 19-19 DART · DART 5% → 7%
08
Laurece AbrahamKill+1.4%
Kill by Laurece Abraham (set by Kalyssa Taggart)
Set 1 · YALE 21-22 DART · YALE 88% → 90%

Box score

Official NCAA box

Yaleaway

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
33Betsy GoodenowOH	3	10	1	19	.474	1	1	2	1	1	1	1	1.5	12.5
2Ava PoinsettOH	3	9	4	27	.185	1	1	3	15	0	0	0	0	10
4Laurece AbrahamMB	3	7	0	11	.636	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	2.5	9.5
20Gaby StasysMB	3	8	2	11	.545	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0.5	8.5
1Kalyssa TaggartS	3	4	1	7	.429	27	1	0	16	0	0	1	0.5	5.5
11Yuri ParkL/DS	3	0	0	0	–	0	1	1	9	0	0	0	0	1
23Isabel PattersonOH	3	3	4	12	-.083	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	5
16Mila MijailovicOH	3	0	0	0	–	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
6Arya JueL/DS	3	0	0	1	.000	4	0	1	7	1	0	0	0	0
15Skylar JacksonOH	2	2	0	3	.667	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
5Naya SalfitiOH	1	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		43	12	91	.341	34	6	8	49	3	3	8	7	75

Dartmouthhome

Player	S	K	E	TA	Hit%	AST	SA	SE	DIG	RE	BS	BA	BLK	PTS
4Clementine TebbeMB	3	6	1	10	.500	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	3	9
17Maddie LaFataOH	3	4	6	21	-.095	0	0	0	6	1	0	1	0.5	4.5
5Zori BrownOH	3	2	4	23	-.087	0	1	1	11	3	0	1	0.5	3.5
7Elle McCreeryMB	3	3	2	7	.143	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0.5	3.5
20Irmak MakasciOH	3	1	2	7	-.143	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	1
2Audrey KalorinS	3	0	0	1	.000	5	0	0	2	0	0	1	0.5	0.5
13Jaida CekicOH	3	7	5	25	.080	0	0	1	5	0	0	2	1	8
10Sloan BalsleyOH	3	0	0	0	–	1	2	1	4	1	0	0	0	2
11Sophia GagnepainS	3	0	0	1	.000	10	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0
22Julia YorkS	1	0	0	0	–	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23Raeli SmithMB	1	0	0	0	–	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Team totals		23	20	95	.032	19	3	4	32	6	1	10	6	48

Starters listed first. BLK is the NCAA total: a solo counts 1, a block assist ½. Recaps and press releases usually quote solos + assists instead, so the same night can be reported as a bigger, whole number. The box score is the source for every counting stat on this page.

Yale vs Dartmouth

Season series · Yale leads 2-0

Sat, Oct 3, 2026Dartmouth at Yale · Yale won 3-0Result →
Fri, Oct 30, 2026Yale at Dartmouth · Yale won 3-0This match

Momentum

Point differential by rally

Longest run 7 YALE · DART 7

Set 1

25-23

Longest run 4 YALEDART 7

Set 2

25-7

Longest run 7 YALEDART 2

Set 3

25-18

Longest run 3 YALEDART 2

Bars above the line = Dartmouth leads, below = Yale leads. Bright bars are points inside a run of 3+.

Rotations

Sideout and break % by rotation slot

Yale

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	78%7/9	54%7/13
2	75%6/8	65%11/17
3	38%5/13	64%9/14
4	63%5/8	29%2/7
5	71%5/7	55%6/11
6	100%4/4	67%8/12
All	65%32/49	58%43/74

Dartmouth

Slot	Sideout %	Break %
1	35%6/17	0%0/5
2	43%6/14	25%2/8
3	45%5/11	33%3/9
4	56%5/9	58%7/12
5	36%5/14	38%3/8
6	44%4/9	29%2/7
All	42%31/74	35%17/49

Slot = rotations since the start of the set (slot 1 is the lineup a team opened the set in), not a fixed player alignment. Only clean sets count (3 of 3 here): sets where the NCAA play-by-play has gaps or score corrections are left out because the rotation can't be tracked through them.

Rally log

123 rallies

#	YALE-DART	Srv	Point	End	Player	Setter / blockers / passer	WP Δ
Set 1
1	1-0	YALE	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett		+0.6
2	1-1	YALE	DART	Blocked	Ava Poinsett	blk Elle McCreery, Audrey Kalorin	+0.5
3	2-1	DART	YALE	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.4
4	2-2	YALE	DART	Serve err	Yale		+0.5
5	3-2	DART	YALE×3	Kill	Kalyssa Taggart		+0.4
6	4-2	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Gaby Stasys	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.5
7	5-2	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Zori Brown	set Sophia Gagnepain	+0.4
8	5-3	YALE	DART	Serve err	Yale		+0.3
9	5-4	DART	DART	Attack err	Isabel Patterson		+0.6
10	6-4	DART	YALE	Attack err	Jaida Cekic		+0.4
11	7-4	YALE	YALE	Attack err	Maddie LaFata		+0.5
12	7-5	YALE	DART	Serve err	Yale		+0.3
13	8-5	DART	YALE	Serve err	Dartmouth		+0.3
14	9-5	YALE	YALE	Blocked	Jaida Cekic	blk Laurece Abraham, Isabel Patterson	+0.4
15	9-6	YALE	DART	Kill	Jaida Cekic	set Elle McCreery	+0.3
16	9-7	DART	DART	Kill	Maddie LaFata	set Audrey Kalorin	+0.5
17	10-7	DART	YALE×3	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Elle McCreery	+0.4
18	11-7	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.4
19	12-7	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.3
20	12-8	YALE	DART	Kill	Elle McCreery	set Audrey Kalorin	+0.2
21	13-8	DART	YALE×3	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Arya Jue	+0.2
22	14-8	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Arya Jue	+0.2
23	15-8	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Arya Jue	+0.1
24	15-9	YALE	DART	Attack err	Zori Brown		+0.1
25	15-10	DART	DART	Attack err	Ava Poinsett		+0.2
26	16-10	DART	YALE×3	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
27	17-10	YALE	YALE×3	Attack err	Zori Brown		+0.1
28	18-10	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Gaby Stasys		+0.1
29	18-11	YALE	DART	Attack err	Ava Poinsett		·
30	18-12	DART	DART	Blocked	Gaby Stasys	blk Clementine Tebbe, Zori Brown	+0.1
31	19-12	DART	YALE	Attack err	Irmak Makasci		+0.1
32	19-13	YALE	DART×7	Serve err	Yale		+0.1
33	19-14	DART	DART×7	Blocked	Kalyssa Taggart	blk Clementine Tebbe, Jaida Cekic	+0.1
34	19-15	DART	DART×7	Kill	Jaida Cekic		+0.2
35	19-16	DART	DART×7	Blocked	Isabel Patterson	blk Clementine Tebbe, Maddie LaFata	+0.4
36	19-17	DART	DART×7	Blocked	Ava Poinsett	blk Clementine Tebbe	+0.7
37	19-18	DART	DART×7	Blocked	Gaby Stasys	blk Jaida Cekic, Clementine Tebbe	+1.1
38	19-19	DART	DART×7	Attack err	Isabel Patterson		+1.5
39	20-19	DART	YALE	Blocked	Maddie LaFata	blk Gaby Stasys, Isabel Patterson	+1.1
40	20-20	YALE	DART×3	Kill	Jaida Cekic	set Sophia Gagnepain	+1.3
41	20-21	DART	DART×3	Kill	Maddie LaFata	set Sophia Gagnepain	+2.3
42	20-22	DART	DART×3	Ace	Dartmouth		+2.7
43	21-22	DART	YALE×4	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.4
44	22-22	YALE	YALE×4	Blocked	Elle McCreery	blk Laurece Abraham	+2.5
45	23-22	YALE	YALE×4	Blocked	Maddie LaFata	blk Isabel Patterson	+2.5
46	24-22	YALE	YALE×4	Attack err	Jaida Cekic		+2.0
47	24-23	YALE	DART	Kill	Maddie LaFata	set Sophia Gagnepain	+0.8
48	25-23	DART	YALE	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+1.7
Set 2
1	1-0	DART	YALE	Kill	Kalyssa Taggart		+0.3
2	1-1	YALE	DART	Kill	Clementine Tebbe	set Irmak Makasci	+0.3
3	2-1	DART	YALE×4	Kill	Gaby Stasys	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.3
4	3-1	YALE	YALE×4	Attack err	Maddie LaFata		+0.3
5	4-1	YALE	YALE×4	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.3
6	5-1	YALE	YALE×4	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.2
7	5-2	YALE	DART	Kill	Jaida Cekic	set Sophia Gagnepain	+0.2
8	5-3	DART	DART	Ace	Dartmouth	aced Arya Jue	+0.3
9	6-3	DART	YALE	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.2
10	6-4	YALE	DART	Kill	Jaida Cekic	set Sloan Balsley	+0.2
11	7-4	DART	YALE×3	Kill	Gaby Stasys	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.2
12	8-4	YALE	YALE×3	Ace	Yale	aced Maddie LaFata	+0.2
13	9-4	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Betsy Goodenow	+0.2
14	9-5	YALE	DART	Bad set	Gaby Stasys		+0.1
15	10-5	DART	YALE×6	Kill	Gaby Stasys	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
16	11-5	YALE	YALE×6	Ace	Yale	aced Zori Brown	+0.1
17	12-5	YALE	YALE×6	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
18	13-5	YALE	YALE×6	Kill	Gaby Stasys	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
19	14-5	YALE	YALE×6	Attack err	Elle McCreery		·
20	15-5	YALE	YALE×6	Attack err	Zori Brown		·
21	15-6	YALE	DART	Kill	Elle McCreery	set Julia York	·
22	16-6	DART	YALE×3	Kill	Isabel Patterson	set Kalyssa Taggart	·
23	17-6	YALE	YALE×3	Ace	Yale	aced Irmak Makasci	·
24	18-6	YALE	YALE×3	Attack err	Clementine Tebbe		·
25	18-7	YALE	DART	Kill	Zori Brown	set Julia York	·
26	19-7	DART	YALE×7	Blocked	Zori Brown	blk Laurece Abraham, Kalyssa Taggart	·
27	20-7	YALE	YALE×7	Attack err	Maddie LaFata		·
28	21-7	YALE	YALE×7	Bad set	Zori Brown		·
29	22-7	YALE	YALE×7	Attack err	Zori Brown		·
30	23-7	YALE	YALE×7	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	·
31	24-7	YALE	YALE×7	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	·
32	25-7	YALE	YALE×7	Kill	Isabel Patterson		·
Set 3
1	1-0	YALE	YALE	Ace	Yale	aced Zori Brown	+0.2
2	2-0	YALE	YALE	Kill	Kalyssa Taggart	set Mila Mijailovic	+0.1
3	2-1	YALE	DART	Kill	Clementine Tebbe	set Sophia Gagnepain	+0.1
4	3-1	DART	YALE	Kill	Kalyssa Taggart		+0.1
5	4-1	YALE	YALE	Blocked	Jaida Cekic	blk Betsy Goodenow, Laurece Abraham	+0.1
6	4-2	YALE	DART	Attack err	Isabel Patterson		+0.1
7	4-3	DART	DART	Kill	Elle McCreery		+0.2
8	5-3	DART	YALE	Kill	Isabel Patterson	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
9	6-3	YALE	YALE	Ace	Yale	aced Sloan Balsley	+0.1
10	6-4	YALE	DART	Kill	Maddie LaFata	set Sophia Gagnepain	+0.1
11	7-4	DART	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
12	7-5	YALE	DART	Serve err	Yale		+0.1
13	7-6	DART	DART	Kill	Zori Brown	set Audrey Kalorin	+0.2
14	8-6	DART	YALE	Serve err	Dartmouth		+0.1
15	8-7	YALE	DART	Serve err	Yale		+0.1
16	8-8	DART	DART	Kill	Irmak Makasci		+0.2
17	9-8	DART	YALE	Serve err	Dartmouth		+0.2
18	10-8	YALE	YALE	Kill	Gaby Stasys	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.2
19	10-9	YALE	DART	Serve err	Yale		+0.1
20	11-9	DART	YALE	Attack err	Maddie LaFata		+0.1
21	11-10	YALE	DART	Kill	Clementine Tebbe	set Sophia Gagnepain	+0.2
22	11-11	DART	DART	Ace	Dartmouth	aced Betsy Goodenow	+0.3
23	12-11	DART	YALE	Serve err	Dartmouth		+0.2
24	12-12	YALE	DART	Kill	Jaida Cekic	set Sophia Gagnepain	+0.2
25	13-12	DART	YALE×3	Kill	Laurece Abraham	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.2
26	14-12	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.2
27	15-12	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.2
28	15-13	YALE	DART	Serve err	Yale		+0.1
29	16-13	DART	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
30	17-13	YALE	YALE	Bad set	Audrey Kalorin		+0.1
31	17-14	YALE	DART	Kill	Jaida Cekic	set Audrey Kalorin	+0.1
32	18-14	DART	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
33	18-15	YALE	DART	Attack err	Betsy Goodenow		+0.1
34	19-15	DART	YALE	Attack err	Irmak Makasci		+0.1
35	19-16	YALE	DART	Kill	Clementine Tebbe	set Audrey Kalorin	+0.1
36	20-16	DART	YALE	Attack err	Jaida Cekic		+0.1
37	20-17	YALE	DART	Kill	Clementine Tebbe	set Sophia Gagnepain	+0.1
38	21-17	DART	YALE×3	Kill	Betsy Goodenow	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
39	22-17	YALE	YALE×3	Kill	Skylar Jackson	set Kalyssa Taggart	+0.1
40	23-17	YALE	YALE×3	Ace	Yale	aced Zori Brown	·
41	23-18	YALE	DART	Kill	Clementine Tebbe	set Sophia Gagnepain	·
42	24-18	DART	YALE	Kill	Skylar Jackson	set Kalyssa Taggart	·
43	25-18	YALE	YALE	Kill	Ava Poinsett	set Arya Jue	·

Score shown after each rally, Yale first. WP Δ = match win-probability points gained, colored by the team that gained them.“NCAA feed gap” rows mark points the NCAA play-by-play never logged (tap Why? for details).

Yale def. Dartmouth 3–0

Yale held Dartmouth to .032 hitting.