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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Three players posted double-digit kill totals, and the No. 19 Boilermakers outhit Indiana .379 to .179 and outblocked the Hoosiers 9-4 en route to their second sweep of IU in four days Saturday. Purdue won the match 25-22, 25-15, 25-20 to move to 6-0 in the Big Ten and 15-2 overall and to clinch a season sweep of Indiana for the third straight year.
Senior Annie Drews racked up 17 kills, while hitting at a .500 clip and turning in four blocks, to pace the Boilermaker attack. Redshirt junior Faye Adelaja added 10 kills on a team-best .529 hitting effort, while also adding three blocks. Sophomore Danielle Cuttino also posted 10 kills, while hitting .333, and putting up a team-leading five blocks. Freshman Alexa Smith chipped in eight kills, while hitting .273 and recording nine digs.
Defensively, senior Amanda Neill pulled up a team-best 13 digs, while redshirt sophomore Ashley Evans rounded out a double-double with 10 digs to go with her 37 assists, three kills, two blocks and an ace. Smith added nine digs, while freshman Brooke Peters recorded seven digs.
The Boilermakers outlasted the Hoosiers 25-22 in Set 1, scoring five of the final seven points en route to the win. Drews pounded down 10 kills on 13 swings in the stanza, hitting .769, while Purdue put up four blocks and outhit IU .483 to .171. The teams split the first eight points of the night, but Purdue broke away with a 6-1 run including three Drews putaways to go ahead 10-5 and force a Hoosier timeout. Down five again at 15-10, Indiana mounted a comeback, scoring eight of the next 12 points to cut the margin to one at 19-18. Purdue took a timeout and got a kill from Drews out of the break, but IU tied the score at 20 with a block and a kill. A kill by Evans and three straight blocks, a solo effort by sophomore Azariah Stahl and a pair of stuffs by Cuttino and Drews, made it 24-20 Boilermakers. A kill by Drews ended the stanza three serves later.
Set 2 saw the teams split the first 16 points, before the Boilermakers pulled away with a 9-3 run and never looked back. After the tie at 8-8, Purdue got a trio of kills from Adelaja and putdowns by three other players en route to a 17-11 lead. A stuff by Cuttino and Stahl prompted an IU timeout at 17-11. The Hoosiers scored two of the next three, but the Boilermakers closed out the set with a 7-2 rally. Adelaja had two kills, including the final blow, while Drews and Smith added offensive help and Neill served up an ace to set up set point. Adelaja had six kills in seven swings in the stanza as Purdue hit at a .548 clip. Cuttino added five kills and Smith chipped in four in the set.
Drews and Cuttino each posted five kills and the Boilermakers put up three blocks in a 25-20 Set 3 win to cap the night. Purdue went up 11-5 with help from five IU miscues and a pair of kills by Cuttino. A stuff by Stahl and Adelaja made it 10-5 and forced the first IU timeout. The Hoosiers scored three of the next four, but the Boilermakers upped the advantage to seven at 18-11 as Cuttino added three more kills, forcing the final IU timeout. Kills by Drews and Smith made it 20-13. Indiana scored two in a row, but Evans put down a kill and teamed up with Cuttino on a block to make it 22-15. The Hoosiers cut the margin to three at 23-20 forcing a Purdue timeout. The Boilermakers got a kill from Stahl out of the break and scored the final point on a kill by Neill, as her overdig of the IU block attempt landed safely for a point.
The No. 19 Boilermakers (15-2, 6-0 Big Ten) return to action at 7 p.m. Friday when they take on No. 9 Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio, live on the Big Ten Network.