PISCATAWAY, N.J. – The Rutgers volleyball team captured a Big Ten sweep on Friday night at Jersey Mike’s Arena downing the Iowa Hawkeyes 25-14, 25-14, 25-23. It was the Scarlet Knights’ first conference sweep since 2019.
- Freshman Taylor Humphrey put away a match-high 11 kills to go along with eight digs.
- Classmate Lexi Visintine, who garnered a start against the Hawkeyes, had a career-high eight kills in addition to six digs.
- Redshirt junior Lauren DeLo and senior Alyssa Nayar each had 13 assists.
- The Scarlet Knights had 11.0 team blocks led by Megan Vernon with two solo and four assisted swats. Redshirt freshman Alissa Kinkela picked up five blocks.
- Junior Kristina Grkovic served up a trio of aces for the second-straight contest and had four blocks.
- Junior Madyson Chitty aided the defense with a match-high 14 digs.
- SET 1 (25-14) | Sophomore Lexi Visintine set a career-high in the opening set with four kills along with a trio of digs as Rutgers won the first set for the second-straight contest. Alissa Kinkela added four kills and a trio of blocks, while Megan Vernon collected four total rejections. After the Hawkeyes held a 4-2 edge, the Scarlet Knights would only allow the visitors back-to-back points one more time. The set was knotted at 5-5 when an Iowa service error and swing from Vernon gave RU the lead for good. Iowa put together consecutive points to trail 13-11 but the Scarlet Knights followed with a 9-1 run including seven unanswered points. Visintine had two of her kills during the burst.
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