IOWA CITY, Iowa – Illinois volleyball took down Iowa in a four-set match at Xtreme Arena on Sunday afternoon.
The Fighting Illini moved to 14-6 overall and 6-4 in Big Ten play. The Hawkeyes fell to 9-13 and 3-7 in league action.
The Orange and Blue amassed 60 kills while hitting .260 for the match. Raina Terry paced the Illini with 18 kills. Her 22.5 points in the match gave her 2,311.5 for her career, a new record for the program. The Ohio native also became the third Big Ten player to achieve 200 aces in the rally scoring era.
Defensively, the team posted 62 digs with Christina Martinez Mundo recording 20. Terry (12), Lily Barry (10), and Brooke Mosher (10) tallied double-digit digs. Mosher also added 36 assists for a double-double. Illinois logged 10 blocks as a squad with Ashlyn Philpot notching six roofs. Terry and Cari Bohm also impressed with five blocks each.
HOW IT HAPPENED
Illinois jumped ahead 12-7 early following a five-point turn with Raegen Reilly behind the service line. Following a timeout by the opposition, the Illini continued to dominate with a 3-0 rally helping Illinois gain an eight-point advantage, 19-11. Iowa scored four-straight to creep within four, but a Laynie Smith kill put away the set 25-21.
In the second frame, both teams battled back-and-forth with the Orange and Blue holding the slight 15-14 edge at the media break. A kill by Smith followed by a block by Terry and Bohm, put Illinois ahead by three, 19-16, with the Hawkeyes calling a timeout. The break did…
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