WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In the first-ever regular-season meeting between the No. 10 Purdue volleyball team and UCLA, the Boilermakers earned a gutsy 3-2 victory (23-25, 27-25, 25-20, 19-25, 15-11). The win not only included the highest hitting % in Big Ten play this season (.325%), but six individual season and/or career-highs along the way.
With the result, Purdue improves to 14-4 (5-2 Big Ten) while UCLA, a team receiving votes in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), falls to 8-8 (2-5 Big Ten). It was Purdue's second win in five-set matches (2-1).
Purdue was guided by setter Taylor Anderson's 51 assists, 12 digs, five blocks and a career-high seven kills. The sophomore was responsible for three kills and a block assist in the fifth set, including a block assist and kill on back-to-back points for the 12-8 advantage. Meanwhile, it was the fourth match this season she's reached 50 assists and the seventh match with a double-double.
Anderson and the hitters allowed no attack errors in the fifth set, marking the second consecutive five-setter (last: at No. 2 Nebraska) to remain errorless. In fact, in four of the night's five sets, Purdue's efficiency was at .308% or higher, and hit over .400 in two.
Eva Hudson led the attack with 24 kills on 56 attacks with two errors (.393%). The outside hitter tied a career-high 17 digs in the outing, the most since her freshman season (17 vs. Illinois, 9/30/22), and went errorless in three of the five sets.
The Boilermakers came back to steal Set 2 in its largest set comeback of the season to win it 27-25. The 10-2 run to end the set included five UCLA set points, marking the second time this season that the Boilermakers have erased multiple set points during its comeback (last: 3 set points erased vs. Cal in Salt Lake City, Utah). Hudson had four kills and two block assists in the run while middle Lourdes Myers posted a kill and three block assists. Chloe Chicoine put away the set-winning kill.
Raven Colvin finished with a team-leading hitting % (.556) while registering 17 kills and 2 errors on 27 attacks and six total blocks (1-5). She came just two kills shy of tying her career-high in kills, set earlier this season at No. 16 Minnesota.
Chicoine was errorless in four of the team's five sets as she finished the night with 15 kills and three attack errors on 52 swings (.231%).
Libero Ali Hornung led both teams with 19 digs after seeing 43 receptions, also the most by any player in the match and tied a career-high seven assists.
No. 10 Purdue returns to action Saturday night at Mackey Arena, as the team is poised to take on Indiana at 7 p.m. ET on Big Ten Network for the rights to the Monon Spike.
With the result, Purdue improves to 14-4 (5-2 Big Ten) while UCLA, a team receiving votes in the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA), falls to 8-8 (2-5 Big Ten). It was Purdue's second win in five-set matches (2-1).
Purdue was guided by setter Taylor Anderson's 51 assists, 12 digs, five blocks and a career-high seven kills. The sophomore was responsible for three kills and a block assist in the fifth set, including a block assist and kill on back-to-back points for the 12-8 advantage. Meanwhile, it was the fourth match this season she's reached 50 assists and the seventh match with a double-double.
Anderson and the hitters allowed no attack errors in the fifth set, marking the second consecutive five-setter (last: at No. 2 Nebraska) to remain errorless. In fact, in four of the night's five sets, Purdue's efficiency was at .308% or higher, and hit over .400 in two.
Eva Hudson led the attack with 24 kills on 56 attacks with two errors (.393%). The outside hitter tied a career-high 17 digs in the outing, the most since her freshman season (17 vs. Illinois, 9/30/22), and went errorless in three of the five sets.
The Boilermakers came back to steal Set 2 in its largest set comeback of the season to win it 27-25. The 10-2 run to end the set included five UCLA set points, marking the second time this season that the Boilermakers have erased multiple set points during its comeback (last: 3 set points erased vs. Cal in Salt Lake City, Utah). Hudson had four kills and two block assists in the run while middle Lourdes Myers posted a kill and three block assists. Chloe Chicoine put away the set-winning kill.
Raven Colvin finished with a team-leading hitting % (.556) while registering 17 kills and 2 errors on 27 attacks and six total blocks (1-5). She came just two kills shy of tying her career-high in kills, set earlier this season at No. 16 Minnesota.
Chicoine was errorless in four of the team's five sets as she finished the night with 15 kills and three attack errors on 52 swings (.231%).
Libero Ali Hornung led both teams with 19 digs after seeing 43 receptions, also the most by any player in the match and tied a career-high seven assists.
No. 10 Purdue returns to action Saturday night at Mackey Arena, as the team is poised to take on Indiana at 7 p.m. ET on Big Ten Network for the rights to the Monon Spike.