B1G Match 2: Gophers Host Purdue (9-28-24)

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#10 Purdue Falls to #4 Penn State in Big Ten Opener - Purdue Boilermakers

In the Big Ten season-opener, the No. 10 Purdue Boilermakers (9-3, 0-1 Big Ten) fell in straight sets to No. 4 Penn State (11-1, 1-0 Big Ten), 14-25, 21-25, ...
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In the Big Ten season-opener, the No. 10 Purdue Boilermakers (9-3, 0-1 Big Ten) fell in straight sets to No. 4 Penn State (11-1, 1-0 Big Ten), 14-25, 21-25, 20-25.

A strong Penn State team hit .369% in the match while Purdue was held to .176 on the night, the lowest hitting % of the season for the Boilermakers while setting an opponent-high.

The Boilermakers were led by Chloe Chicoine's double-double with 10 kills and 11 digs. Meanwhile, Eva Hudson produced just one attack error and a .375 hitting % on seven kills through the first two sets ended the night with 10 kills, five digs.

Middles Lourdes Myers and Raven Colvin led the team's attack % with an errorless .429 (3-0-7) and .308% (6-2-13), respectively.

Setter Taylor Anderson notched 29 assists, two digs and a block assist in the match
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Gophers seem to be pretty evenly matched with Purdue, at least today they are. Match tied 1-1 both deuce sets.
 

Look what we have here, down 2-1 again. If they keep this up they'll be burned out by the end of the season.
 



Screwed the pooch on that one but at least pushed it to 5 and lost to a quality opponent that was ranked higher than them. Unfortunately between passing failures and Minatee having an off night outcome could have been different.
 

One step forward, two steps back, "easier" part of their schedule coming up to try and get some more wins.
 




More like one forward and one back. Story of the season.
 


For some reason we didn't have scoreboard stats last night. But we didn't need them to know Raven Colvin exploited the same weakness over and again with her serve.

 

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