Volleyball Tamed By No. 13 Penn State

Sunday, October 23

State College, Pa.

1:00 PM (ET)

Rutgers University

7-15,1-9Big Ten

Penn State

17-4,6-4Big Ten

Rutgers

Penn St.

Taylor Humphrey and Alissa Kinkela on the court against Northwestern at Jersey Mike's Arena

Photo by: Rich Graessle

Oct 23 | Women's Volleyball

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- The Rutgers volleyball team was on the road facing its fourth top-25 opponent of the season dropping a 25-13, 25-15, 25-21 contest at No. 13 Penn State at Rec Hall on Sunday.

STANDOUT STATS

Freshman Taylor Humphrey collected double-digit kills for the seventh time this season leading the Scarlet Knights with 10 kills.
Redshirt junior Lauren DeLo collected 20 assists to go along with a trio of dump kills, six digs and an ace.
For the defense, junior Madyson Chitty led RU with seven digs, while redshirt freshman Alissa Kinkela and freshman Sasha Stotler had a pair of blocks each.

KEY MOMENTS

SET 1 (13-25) | The host Nittany Lions hit a blistering .545 to open the match and take a 1-0 lead. Four different Scarlet Knights, meanwhile, registered a pair of kills. Penn State opened with a 7-1 advantage, but midway thru Rutgers was able to whittle down its deficit to four. Swings by Taylor Humphrey and Alissa Kinkela saw RU trail 12-8 while a Bekah Williams kill and blocks from Kristina Grkovic and Kinkela had the Scarlet Knights down 14-10. The Lions responded with three-straight points and closed out the frame on a 5-0 run.
SET 2 (15-25) | It was another hot start for Nittany Lions as they raced out to an 8-1 lead and swung at a .423 clip. Humphrey led RU adding four kills to her stat line. The Scarlet Knights had a late scoring run with four unanswered. Back-to-back kills by Humphrey along with a Lauren DeLo ace saw Rutgers trail 22-15.
SET 3 (21-25) | Rutgers took a nine-point Nittany Lion advantage down to three points late in the third set. Penn State was up 16-7 when a Sasha Stotler solo block started some momentum as RU went on to outscore the Lions 11-5. During the Scarlet Knight surge, PSU committed six errors while points also came from back-to-back dump kills from Lauren DeLo. Stotler teamed with Kinkela at the net to cap the outburst with Rutgers down 22-19. Two more Nittany Lions errors prevented the hosts from capturing match point with Rutgers still in the battle at 24-21 before Penn State prevailed.

UP NEXT

The Rutgers volleyball team is out on the road again to meet Indiana on Friday, Oct. 28 for a 7 p.m. match in Bloomington.
The Scarlet Knights return home to begin a three-game homestand starting with Illinois on Sunday, Oct. 30 at 1 p.m. in their lone match to be played this season at the College Ave. Gym.
Admission is free to the match at the College Ave Gym.
Parking is free with registration.

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