No. 15 Volleyball Defeats Purdue, 30-18, 30-13, 30-21 – Ohio State Buckeyes
9/28/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Sept. 28, 2001
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The 15th-ranked Ohio State (12-0 overall, 4-0 Big Ten) women’s volleyball squad defeated Purdue (1-8, 1-2) 3-0 (30-18, 30-13, 30-21) Friday night in St. John Arena in front of 1,191 fans. The sixty-seven minute victory kept the Buckeyes perfect on the season. OSU’s Stacey Gordon (Fr., Oshawa, Ontario) had a match-high 19 kills in the match with Anne Botica (Sr., Windsor, Ontario) adding 16 and Suzie Stiling (Jr., Glenview, Ill.) 12. Shelly Draeger (Jr., Milwaukee, Wis.) equaled her career-high of seven ace serves and tied the Ohio State match record for the second time this season. Leah Wischmeier (Fr., Brownstown, Ind.) had a team-high six kills for Purdue with Lyndsey Phillips (Fr., Orem, Utah) adding five.
Game one started close with Ohio State holding an 11-8 lead. The Buckeyes put together a six point run to open a 17-8 margin. The run had two kills from Gordon, two ace serves from Botica and two Purdue errors. A Gordon ace ended the game at 30-18. Ohio State hit .548 for the game to .250 for Purdue. Gordon collected seven kill in the game with Stiling adding five.
Ohio State held a two-point lead (10-8) in game two before a four-point run opened the lead to 14-8 off kills by Stiling and Gordon, a Botica ace and a Boilermaker error. At 15-9, OSU ran off six straight points with two Gordon kills, a kill by Draeger, a block by Erin Baker (Sr., Elmhurst, Ill) and Draeger and two Purdue errors to open a 21-10 margin. At 24-13, the Buckeyes closed out the game with another six-point run with two Stiling kills and four Draeger ace serves, including the final three points of the game to win 30-13. The Buckeyes hit .478 for the game to .000 for Purdue. OSU’s Gordon and Stiling contributed five kills each in the game with Draeger adding her four ace serves.
Purdue opened game three with a 1-0 lead off a Phillips kill. After three ties, Ohio State regained the lead, at 4-3, with a Gordon kill. At 8-5, OSU, a Maegan Petersen (So., Waupun, Wis.) kill cut the lead to 8-6. A Baker kill, an ace serve from Nikki Cisco (Sr., Dublin, Ohio) and a Purdue error opened an 11-6 Buckeye lead. Purdue cut the margin to 18-16 off an OSU error. Botica and Phillips exchanged kills to make it 19-17. The Buckeyes had a six-point run to push the lead to 25-17 off kills by Stiling, Botica (twice), Katie Virtue (Jr., St. Charles, Ill.), a block by Stiling and Virtue and Draeger’s seventh aces of the match. Gordon’s kill ended the game at 30-21. Ohio State hit .417 for the game to .192 for Purdue. Botica had a game-high eight kills for Ohio State with Gordon adding seven.
For the match, Ohio State hit .478 to Purdue’s .154. OSU had a 56-21 advantage in kills and a 25-15 margin in digs. The Buckeyes outserved Purdue, 16 to one with Draeger having seven aces and Botica five. OSU had 17 service errors to five for Purdue. The Boilermakers had a five to three margin in blocks with Tiffany Yoskey (Jr., Canal Fulton, Ohio) collecting a match-high four blocks.
Ohio State will play road matches next week at Northwestern (Friday, Oct. 5) and No. 7 Wisconsin (Saturday, Oct. 6).
