Volleyball Drops Contest With No. 3 Nebraska

Friday, September 30

Piscataway, N.J.

7:00 PM (ET)

Rutgers University

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Nebraska

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Nebraska

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Photo by: Ariel Fox

Sep 30 | Women's Volleyball

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PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Last season's national runner-ups defeated Rutgers volleyball on Friday night at Jersey Mike's Arena as No. 5 Nebraska picked up a 25-13, 25-7, 25-15 victory over the Scarlet Knights.

STANDOUT STATS

Redshirt freshman Alissa Kinkela led Rutgers with eight kills with redshirt junior Lauren DeLo assisting the attack with 13 helpers.
Junior Madyson Chitty led the Scarlet Knight defense with 16 digs while graduate student Megan Vernon picked up a pair of blocks.
Nebraska entered the contest second in the nation in opponent attack percentage and went on to hit a season-high .402 and serve up a season-best 12 aces.

KEY MOMENTS

SET 1 (13-25) | Nebraska opened up the match with a 7-1 advantage with a Kaitlyn Cord kill putting the Cornhuskers up by double digits at 15-5. Taylor Humphrey and Alissa Kinkela each had four kills for the Scarlet Knights. Kinkela made six swings and hit .500 for the frame.
SET 2 (7-25) | The Cornhuskers hit a game-best .480 with only one attack error on their 25 swings. A Bekah Williams kill saw Rutgers down 9-4 before Nebraska closed on a 16-3 run.
SET 3 (15-25) | Rutgers kept the set close early and was within a point five times. A kill from Megan Vernon saw RU trail 8-7 and an attack by Kinkela had the Scarlet Knights down 9-8, while a trio of Cornhusker errors saw the Scarlet Knights in the game at 11-10, 12-11 and 13-12. From there, Nebraska captured six-straight points to pull ahead. Kinkela and Vernon along with Williams each had a pair of kills in the final set.

UP NEXT

The Rutgers volleyball hits the road for the first time in Big Ten play and will meet No. 5 Purdue on Sunday, October 2 at 1 p.m. in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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