Iowa at Purdue (in game)

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Iowa playing at Purdue tonight, to start in about 5 minutes

Gametracker is available at

www.purduesports.com

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Starting lineup for Iowa
Smale
Fister S
Barcus
Vitali
Schipper
Meister
L Hiza


For Purdue
Gray S
Dildine playing OH
Mader
Jacques
Lynch
Merlau
L Miller

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Gray serving for Purdue
Meister's attack from the ls blocked by Merlau and Jacques
Vitali gets a kill on an out of system play 1 - 1
Jacques on a quick set from Gray
Merlau with an ace 3 - 1
Smale goes soft down the line off Mader
Jacques kill before I can look up - good one
Dildine hits wide 4 - 3
Smale kill on an over pass
Barkus gets an open shot in the middle - Purdue ran away from her
Mader goes cross court
Vitali (I think) hits wide
Nice tip by Smale 6 - 6

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Dildine hits into the middle of the open court
Johnston for Iowa with a kill 7 - 7
Gurnell on a slide 8 - 7
Lift on Fister 9 - 7
Schipper kill on a Dildine dig
Vitali kill 9 - 9
Jacques kill 10 - 9

A pretty long rally (although not clean) that finally goes to Iowa

But then Jacques makes it quick work 11 - 10
Vitali on the kill 11 - 1

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A nice Merlau attack from the back is dug, and Barkus hits another one where Purdue ran away from her. 11 - 12

TO Purdue. They need an adjustment there

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Mader kill ties it up 12 - 12
Vitali kill, I thin 12 - 13

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Mader tools another off the block 13 - 13
Smale with a kill - Purdue moves to a 5 - 1
Lynch with a solo block on Barkus 14 - 14
Iowa point (missed who)
Gray with a dump - love the 5-1!
Meister kill - teams trading sideouts 15 - 16

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Fister service error 16 - 16
Gray tries Jacques but doesn't get the ball high enoug
Merlau with a wide open tip 17 - 17
Vitali kill 17 - 18
Jacques with another quick thro//kill
Dildine kills one off the block 19 - 18
Smale hits long and wide
Vitali kill 20 - 19

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Mader hits off the top of the block 21 - 19
Shondell hits a wicked ace - that ball moved
Shondell serve gets Iowa out of whack and they hit long
Lynch loads up and cranks it 24 - 19
Johnson for Iowa
Gurnell with an awkward attack that isn't completed
But Lynch does 25 - 21
Johnson with a kill off the overdig
Merlau can't get the hit around the antena
Gurnell from the middle 26 - 23
Johnson kill 26 - 24

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Gurnell can't get a slide over the tape 26 - 25

TO Purdue

Iowa hanging around

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Jacques comes through nicely 27 - 25
Merlau with a kill after a Jacques/Mader stuff
Jacques with another 29 - 25
Schipper hits it no where close to the court 30 - 25

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So Purdue settled down after the to and poured it on

Jacques with 6 kills
Mader with 4

Vitali has 6 kills for Iowa (6/0/7)
Smale and Johnson each with 4

Purdue outdigging 20 - 10

Outhit them .395 to .275

Megan McCormick did not play, if you are looking at gametracker

Side out score was 12 - 7

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Jacques starts out where she left off
Schipper hits off the net 1 - 1
Jacques again (man it's easy when you pass)
Meister on the slide 2 - 2
Mader kill from the middle
Miller ace as Smale and Schipper watch
Lynch from the middle goes backward with the kill 5 - 2
Lynch beat at the net by Meister 5 - 3
Merlau hits long from teh back row
Dildine pounds one off Schipper 6 - 4
Smale kill 6 - 5

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Smale off the block 6 - 6
Dildine tools the block
Merlau with a cross court kill, set up by Dildine serve
Barcus can't get it over the net 9 - 6
Vitali hits wide 10 - 6

Purdue makes a run with Dildine serving. She didn't serve any points in game 1, but has three in a row now

[ohiostatetad]

p-d, sometimes you break me up. thanks for the live stats!