SOUTH BEND, Ind. - The No. 24 Boilermakers got strong efforts from junior Danielle Cuttino and Azariah Stahl and a solid blocking effort in a 3-0 sweep of Coastal Carolina on Saturday morning. Purdue won the match 25-19, 25-23 25-11.
Cuttino put down a match-high 14 kills, while hitting at .367 clip and adding three blocks, while Stahl managed 11 kills on a .348 hitting effort to go with seven digs, two aces and two blocks. Redshirt junior setter Ashley Evans tallied six kills of her own to go with eight digs, 30 assists and a team-leading three aces.
Defensively, sophomore Brooke Peters paced the tam with 13 digs, followed by Evans, Stahl and redshirt sophomore Carissa Damler (6). At the net, redshirt senior Faye Adelaja and redshirt freshman Blake Mohler tallied four blocks apiece as Purdue outblocked Coastal 10-5. The Boilermakers also won the serving battle with eight aces to two, and outhit the Chanticleers .312 to .130.
After a tie at 3-3 in Set 1, the Boilermakers were off to the races with a 8-0 run, including two aces by Evans and two kills and a solo block by Cuttino, to go ahead 11-3. Coastal Carolina would get no closer than five the rest of the way, narrowing the gap at 15-10. An overpass kill by Cuttino and an ace by Peters helped Purdue to a 19-11 lead. Up 23-18, the Boilermakers got kills from redshirt sophomore Sherridan Atkinson and Stahl to lose out the stanza at 25-19. The Boilermakers outhit CCU .433 to .290 in the set as Evans and Cuttino put down four kills apiece.
Coastal Carolina led for most of Set 2, but the Boilermakers stole away the 25-23 win by scoring seven of the final nine points. Purdue called timeout after trailing 15-9 midway through the set and scored five straight out of the break to cut the margin to one at 15-14 on a stuff by Mohler and Cuttino. Evans also had an ace during the rally. CCU stretched its lead to four at 21-17 but the Boilermakers turned the tables by capitalizing on four Chanticleer miscues, including two hitting errors which clinched the set. Cuttino also put away two kills in the final stretch.
Purdue poured it on in Set 3 to the tune of five blocks in a runaway 25-11 win. The teams split the first eight point, but after that, it was nearly all Boilermakers as they soon went up 14-6 care of aces by freshman Natalie Haben and Mohler and back-to-back stuffs by Adelaja. A solo block and an ace by Stahl put Purdue up 10 at 18-8. Cuttino took over with three kills and a block to help the Boilermakers to a 23-10 edge. A service error and hitting miscue closed out the match for Purdue at 25-11. Cuttino managed six kills in the final stanza.
The No. 24 Boilermakers (4-1) return to action at 7 p.m. against the host Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The match will be streamed live on ACC Network Plus via ESPN3 here.