Volleyball Concludes Season At Michigan

Friday, November 25

Ann Arbor, Mich.

7:00 PM (ET)

Rutgers

8-24,2-18Big Ten

Michigan

17-13,8-12Big Ten

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Rutgers	22	9	11	0
Michigan	25	25	25	3

Rutgers volleyball on the court at Jersey Mike's Arena against No. 9 Minnesota

Photo by: Ben Solomon

Nov 25 | Women's Volleyball

Box Score Box Score - Michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The Rutgers volleyball team closed out the 2022 season on the road Friday night at Cliff Keen Arena with Michigan taking the win 25-22, 25-9, 25-11.

STANDOUT STATS

Redshirt freshman Alissa Kinkela led Rutgers for the 14^th time this season in kills with eight.
Junior Kristina Grkovic logged seven kills and a pair of blocks.
Senior Alyssa Nayar put up 10 assists while Lauren DeLo added nine helpers of her own.
Junior Madyson Chitty and freshman Lexi Visintine each had eight digs. Visintine also served up a pair of aces.

KEY MOMENTS

SET 1 (22-25) | A late run by the Wolverines gave the hosts the 1-0 lead. Rutgers scored four unanswered, including back-to-back service aces from Lexi Visintine, to go in front 9-6 and used a 6-1 run that featured a trio of kills by Taylor Humphrey for a 15-10 edge. Humphrey's fourth kill of the frame put RU up 20-18, however, Michigan scored the next five and closed on a 7-2 run to take the set.
SET 2 (9-25) | Michigan committed only two errors and swung .680 to take the second set. While the Scarlet Knights took the first two points, Michigan proceeded on a 9-1 run to take control. Alissa Kinkela captured three kills in the set.
SET 3 (11-25) | Blocks from the hands of Lauren DeLo and Kristina Grkovic saw Rutgers trail by a point at 7-6. Michigan limited the Rutgers attack and outscored the visitors 18-5 the rest of the way. Grkovic collected three kills in the stanza along with a pair of blocks.

KNIGHT NOTES

In the rally-era season record book …
- Megan Vernon ranks second in solo blocks (18), fourth in total blocks (106), eighth in attack percentage (.261), tenth in block assists (88)
- Kristina Grkovic ranks third in aces (34), fourth in solo blocks (15), fifth in total blocks (103), ninth in blocks per set (1.02) and tenth in block assists (88)
- Lauren DeLo ranks eighth in assists (673)
- Alissa Kinkela ranks ninth in kills (301)
In the rally-era career record book …
- Taylor Humphrey ranks fourth in kills per set (2.54)
- Kristina Grkovic ranks seventh in attack percentage (.248), ninth in solo blocks (22), tenth in blocks per set (0.80)
- Megan Vernon ranks sixth in solo blocks (23) and blocks per set (0.93) and eighth in attack percentage (.247)
- Lauren DeLo ranks fifth in assists per set (5.97) and seventh in assists (758)
- Madyson Chitty ranks fourth in digs per set (3.08) and sixth in digs (880)