MOUNT VERNON – Grace Marti's match-high 10th kill finished off the visiting Central Dutch and another Cornell volleyball sweep – 25-21, 29-27, 25-22 – on Senior Night Monday inside the Small and Athletic Wellness Center.
 
The Rams (15-6) fired 11 ace serves – their second-highest total of the season – and improved to 5-1 against American Rivers Conference foes. This was the 14th 3-0 sweep of the fall for Cornell, a winner of 11 of its last 13 matches.
 
Senior starters Marti, Rory Light and Olivia Richards were recognized in front of the home crowd prior to the contest. Then they went on to notch their 35th victory as teammates over the past two years.
 
Junior Ilah Perez-Johnson fueled Cornell's strong service match, planting four aces during a personal 6-0 run that put the Rams in control late in Set 1.
 
The teams went back-and-forth in an extended second set. Perez-Johnson finally pushed the Rams through with back-to-back spikes to end it at 29-27. In Set 3, Central (7-12) denied the Rams match point six times before Marti blasted the winning attack.
 
Setter Clare Green dished 35 assists and served three aces. Freshman Ella Becker also had three aces and scooped a match-high 17 digs.
 
Freshman Carly Puffer enjoyed a fine .333 hitting line with nine kills. Ella McLaughlin contributed eight kills, followed by Perez-Johnson and Light with seven apiece. Perez-Johnson added 14 digs.  
  
Coming up – Cornell (5-0 MWC) resumes conference play Wednesday with a 7 p.m. match against Beloit (4-14 overall, 2-3 MWC) in Beloit, Wis.