UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – No. 11 Penn State women’s volleyball closed the match with a 7-0 run to secure a 3-2 (23-25, 27-25, 25-17, 15-25, 15-8) win over No. 19 Purdue in a Big Ten matchup Friday night at Rec Hall.
The Nittany Lions won seven of their final eight matches in the regular season to up their record to 24-7 overall and 13-7 in the Big Ten as they head into the NCAA Tournament. They finished 5-5 against teams currently ranked in the AVCA Coaches Poll, including wins over No. 6 Stanford, No. 9 Minnesota, No. 10 Oregon, and the 19th-ranked Boilermakers twice.
Needing a win to boost its resume for a top-16 seed and hosting rights in the first two rounds of the NCAA Tournament, Penn State shook off the pressure and rallied behind a crowd of more than 3,500 with a dominant performance in the fifth set. The teams battled to an 8-8 before the Lions scored the final seven points. Seleisa Elisaia and Kashauna Williams had kills early on in the run, while Zoe Weatherington put the match away with back-to-back kills for the final two points.
Elisaia and Williams were two of four Penn State players honored for Senior Day following the match, joining Katie Clark and Anastasiya Kudryashova. Clark had one of her best matches as a Lion, hitting .360 with 14 kills and six blocks. She provided the spark in Penn State’s 25-17 third-set win that put her team up 2-1 in the match, tallying four kills with no errors on four swings in addition to a pair of blocks.
Clark set the tone early in that third-set win, taking part in four of five Penn State points…
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