Purdue Fort Wayne
Louisville
Mastodons Fall in Four to Louisville 3-1
9/5/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Volleyball
Sept. 5, 2009
Muncie, IN - The IPFW Mastodons forced the Louisville Cardinals into a fourth set, but it was not enough, as the Cardinals topped the Mastodons 25-19, 25-17, 20-25, 25-18.
Rebekah Roehm's 16 kills were a team-high, as Stephanie Lamberti totaled a career-high eight in the losing effort, with Jen Krumwiede chipping in six. Jamie Schwartz served up a career-high three aces, with she and Tessa McGill picking up seven digs, the total snapping a seven-match double-digit dig streak for Schwartz, a senior.
Two Mastodons, Roehm and Taryn Parker, had five blocks apiece, with Megan Steenhuysen dishing out 20 assists and Shannon Reuter 13.
IPFW (3-4) opened the match strong, scoring the first three points on a Roehm kill, a Stephanie Lamberti kill, and a Schlindwein service ace, before Louisville (3-2) responded by scoring 10 of the next 13 points to lead 10-6, forcing the `Dons into a timeout.
The Mastodons regrouped after the break, scoring the next four points to tie the match at 10. The next 16 total points would come from a series of runs, including back-to-back 4-0 runs, one by Louisville to put them up 16-12, which was immediately followed by one for IPFW to re-tie the match at 16. The teams found themselves tied at 18 until the Cardinals ended the set on a strong run, scoring seven of the final eight points to win the opener 25-19.
Set two was a near mirror-image of the first, with IPFW jumping ahead to a 4-1 lead out of the gate, before Louisville responded with a 5-0 run that was sandwiched by a pair of Lola Arslanbekova kills, giving the visitrs on the scoreboard a 6-4 lead.
IPFW would not stay down for long, running off three straight points on a Roehm kill, a Cardinal attack error and then a Roehm/Taryn Parker block that gave the `Dons a 7-6 lead. With the match tied at eight, Louisville quickly took over, scoring four straight to lead 12-8, and then used runs of 3-0 and 4-0 over the next 14 points, and led 23-15. The teams traded points over the rest of the set, with Louisville taking the 25-17 second set victory.
In a repeat of the first two sets, IPFW pushed ahead early to a 4-1 lead, the third time in the match that the `Dons led by three early, only this time, Louisville's run would only tie the match, not give the visitors on the scoreboard the lead. Louisville used a 3-0 lead to tie the match at five, before the Blue and White answered back with a 3-0 run of their own that included an ace from freshman and Muncie native Tessa McGill.
The 5-5 tie would be the final even score of the match, as IPFW used two 2-0 and a 3-0 run to jump ahead 16-9, their largest lead of the match at that point. Louisville fought back with two 3-0 runs that sandwiched an IPFW 2-0 run on a pair of blocks. Ahead 18-15, IPFW scored the next three points on a Lamberti kill, a Jen Krumwiede kill, and a McGill ace to lead 21-16.
With IPFW ahead 23-16, Louisville stormed back, using a 4-0 run to close the gap to three at 23-20, until Krumwiede and Roehm recorded back-to-back kills to give IPFW a 25-20 third-set win that sent the match into a fourth set.
Louisville switched the starts for the fourth and eventually final fourth set, as they jumped out to a 5-2 lead, unlike the first three, which saw IPFW jump ahead to an early lead. The Cardinals used their fast start to lead 14-9 through 23 total points before the Mastodons ran off four straight points, including an Alli Hook kill, a Schwartz service ace, her career-high-tying third of the match, and Roehm's 15th kill of the match, bringing the `Dons to within one at 14-13, before Louisville scored five of the next six points to jump ahead 19-14.
The teams traded side-outs for the next five possessions, before Louisville pushed to a 3-0 run to lead 24-17. A Roehm kill was the only other score for the Mastodons, as Louisville closed the match on a Kasey Heckelman kill, to win 25-18.
Arslanbekova pounded down a match-high 19 kills on 38 total attempts, with Lecia Brown picking up a dozen. Lindsey Mango had a match-high 15 digs, while Arslanbekova added four aces, and Justine Landi a match-high 44 assists in the win.
The team takes the afternoon to rest before taking on the Cougars of SIU-Edwardsville starting at 5:00 PM in the final session of the Ball State Active Ankle Challenge in Worthen Arena.
~Dons~
