Gophers Top Purdue

#1 posting 10.15.2006
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GOPHERS 3, PURDUE 1
(28-30, 30-26, 30-25, 30-22)

#23 Minnesota won their game in "the barn" over #9 Purdue. You can get the details in the respective press releases. Megan Crumpston was the face on the ticket to enter the game, and she delivered a career high 22 kills as a result.

NUMBER CRUNCHING
team, 1stso/serves--1stso%; pts scored, % earned, % allowed
Minnesota 36/61---.590; 118; .814; .252
Purdue 25/60---.417; 103; .748; .186
Minnesota had better side out % even in game one when they were beat. The problem in that game was the four points they gave up in rotation four, and the four point run in rotation two later in that first game. In fact that was the back breaker with a 22-19 lead and failing to get the side out.

ROTATION POINTS
1 Tan 19-14 +5
2 Peniata 24-20 +4
3 Bowman 25-20 +5
4 Crumpston 17-15 +2
5 Nelson 20-14 +6
6 Hartmann 13-20 -7
Nelson's rotation came through to lead with a +6 on the night, and three other rotations were slightly behind.
However Hartmann's rotation has consistently been in the negative category this big 10 season with -4 against Michigan, -2 against Michigan State; -2 against Indiana; and -7 against Purdue.


The odd thing was I went over the StarTribune five times and never saw a story about the match, just the box in the scoreboard section on the last inside page. We do have a team ranked in the top 25 and I would have thought a battle between two top 25 teams would merit some ink.

North Dakota State won their home opener, that is right their home opener on October 14, over Utah Valley State 3-1. It was the 7th straight win for NDSU.

D2 ACTION
NORTH CENTRAL
MSU Mankato went the distance with St. Cloud State and survived.
#5 UM Duluth had a bit of a surprising struggle with South Dakota as that match went five games. SD was up 2-1 when UMD put the hammer down.
UN Omaha broke the pattern with a four game win over Augustana.

NORTHERN SUN
Concordia St. Paul beat Winona State in four after losing the first game. CSP then turned it up a notch in game two 30-6. CSP only hit .070 in game one. Story from the Winona Daily News. I found the box on Winona State's site.
#22 SW MN State took care of UM Crookston in three 16, 20, 21.
#23 Wayne State swept Bemidji State 12, 16, 19.
Northern State swept MSU Moorhead 19, 23, 24

Upper Iowa went out of the conference to get swept by Missouri Western.


NUMBER CRUNCHING
ASSISTS
5 games
D2
Katie Gangelhoff, UM Duluth 62 vs South Dakota 3-2
Sierra Nowak, St. Cloud State 55 vs MSU Mankato 2-3
4 games
D1
Mattie Johnson, North Dakota State 59 vs Utah Valley State 3-1
Rachel Hartmann, Minnesota 57 vs Purdue 3-1
D2
Katie Agnew, UN Omaha 59 vs Augustana 3-1
Lisa Hoegh, Augustana 46 vs UN Omaha 1-3

DIGS
5 games
d2
Andreana Pieper, St. Cloud State 28 vs MSU Mankato 2-3
Amber Kobus, South Dakota 27 vs UM Duluth 2-3
Chelsea Meierotto, UM Duluth 24 vs South Dakota 3-2
4 games
D1
Malama Peniata, Minnesota 22 vs Purdue 3-1
D2
Stacie Wemhoff, UN Omaha 30 vs Augustana 3-1
3 games
D2
Melanie Perez, Northern State 27 vs MSU Moorhead 3-0

KILLS
5 games
D2
Vicky Braegelmann, UM Duluth 23 vs South Dakota 3-2
Kristi Pangrac, St. Cloud State 22 vs MSU Mankato 2-3
Deanna Pieper, St. Cloud State 20 vs MSU Mankato 2-3
Ashley Gross, South Dakota 15 vs UM Duluth 2-3
4 games
D1
Megan Crumpston, Minnesota 22 vs Purdue 3-1
Sheila Parrish, North Dakota State 22 vs Utah Valley State 3-1
Chloe Quirk, North Dakota State 17 vs Utah Valley State 3-1
Meredith Nelson, Minnesota 17 vs Purdue 3-1
Lindsay Rogers, North Dakota State 15 vs Utah Valley State 3-1
Kyla Roehrig, Minnesota 15 vs Purdue 3-1
D2
Christina Reicks, UN Omaha 17 vs Augustana 3-1
Jessica Lucia, Concordia St. Paul 16 vs Winona State 3-1
Carlie Christensen, UN Omaha 15 vs Augustana 3-1
3 games
D2
Erin Contons, SW MN State 19 vs UM Crookston 3-0
Darcy Hageman, Upper Iowa 15 vs Missouri Western 0-3

Next up: later today D3/NAIA/HS results from yesterday.