Parkside 3, Purdue Northwest 0
On a night where the Parkside volleyball team defeated Purdue Northwest 3-0, senior Ann Leo broke the Parkside all-time digs record, previously held by Stacy Esme. The Rangers took down the Pride to improve to 2-1 in the GLIAC with a 25-20 win in set one, 25-20 win in set two and a dominating 25-12 victory in the third.
 
ANN LEO
The Shorewood, Wis., native is now at 1,886 career digs, as she passed Stacy Esme who had 1,878 digs. Esme played for the Rangers from 1998 to 2000. Leo owns the second, third and sixth best season totals for digs in Parkside history.
 
HEAR FROM COACH BAREA
"I'm really proud of how we executed and we got much better as the match went on," head coach Leigh Barea said. "Jazmine Neal has been a force for us and I think she really set the tone for us early in the match."
 
"I'm really excited to see Ann become to all-time leader in digs in Parkside history, she continues to come in every day with a focused attitude and a high-level of play."
 
MATCH RECAP
Parkside trailed for much of the first set, including a 17-13 deficit midway through. The Rangers rattled off 10 of the next 12 points en route to the 25-20 win. Parkside also scored the final five points of the set.
 
In the second, again PNW held a 13-10 lead early on, but Parkside used a 7-0 run to grab a lead they would not surrender and rallied to another 25-20 win to take a 2-0 lead.
 
In the third set, it was all Rangers, as the team jumped out to a 15-8 lead and quickly made it a 20-9 lead to thwart any thoughts of a PNW comeback.  
 
STATWORTHY
Parkside finished with more kills (40-24), blocks (10-5), assists (36-22) and digs (50-37) while hitting .206 in the match. Neal finished with a team-leading 13 kills, while Kendall Holmes had eight and Reese Rossnagel had six.
 
Carlee Behnke was the team's leader in blocks with 5.0, while Alysha Brickl had a team-high 19 assists and Leo had 18 digs to lead the way.
 
WHAT'S NEXT
Parkside will hit the road for a pair of matches over the weekend, first battling Northwood on Friday, Sept. 27 at 6 p.m. and finishing the weekend against No. 16 Ferris State. Parkside returns home on Friday, Oct. 4 against Davenport for Pink Weekend.