WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Coming off a Friday night contest with last year’s national runner-up, the Rutgers volleyball team hit the road for the first time this season in Big Ten action to face No. 5 Purdue at Holloway Gymnasium on Sunday.
The Scarlet Knight and Boilermakers were in a tight battle in the first two sets, with the opening frame enduring 13 ties and five lead changes and Rutgers leading by as many as four in the second set. Purdue, however, prevailed in both sets with 25-22 and 25-13 wins and closed out the match with a 25-13 victory in the third set.
- The match saw a total of 21 lead changes and eight ties in the first two sets with Rutgers hitting above .300 in each frame.
- Freshman Taylor Humphrey led RU swinging .419 for the match with 16 kills, both bests by a Scarlet Knight thru the early Big Ten schedule.
- Five different Scarlet Knights served up aces with redshirt junior Lauren DeLo serving a pair.
- DeLo also captured assists on 33 of Rutgers’ 34 kills.
- On defense, graduate student Megan Vernon posted three blocks while junior Madyson Chitty came up with eight digs.
- Chitty’s eight digs against the Boilermakers moved her into eighth past Alex Lassa (2012-15) on the Rutgers rally-era career leaders list with 745 digs. She needs three more digs to move into seventh past Kallie Pence (2008-11).
- SET 1 (22-25) | Rutgers hit .375 in a frame that was knotted up on 13 occasions with the…
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