Box Score | Season Stats
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Northwestern took No. 15 Penn State to the wire in the first two sets, but the Nittany Lions prevailed for a three-set sweep at home Friday night.
Symone Abbott had a match high 18 kills, and Sofia Lavin was second with 12 of her own. Lavin hit .500 for the match.
Junior setter Taylor Tashima nearly had her sixth double-double of the year, handing out 32 assists and notching eight digs.
Northwestern had 44 kills to the Nittany Lions' 43.
Penn State won each of the first two sets, 25-23, before taking the third, 25-16.
The Wildcats led late in both the first (19-18) and second (20-19) sets, but the hostile Penn State crowd helped put the hosts on top going into intermission.
The 2016 season wraps up tomorrow night when the 'Cats take on Rutgers at 6 p.m. in Piscataway, N.J.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Northwestern took No. 15 Penn State to the wire in the first two sets, but the Nittany Lions prevailed for a three-set sweep at home Friday night.
Symone Abbott had a match high 18 kills, and Sofia Lavin was second with 12 of her own. Lavin hit .500 for the match.
Junior setter Taylor Tashima nearly had her sixth double-double of the year, handing out 32 assists and notching eight digs.
Northwestern had 44 kills to the Nittany Lions' 43.
Penn State won each of the first two sets, 25-23, before taking the third, 25-16.
The Wildcats led late in both the first (19-18) and second (20-19) sets, but the hostile Penn State crowd helped put the hosts on top going into intermission.
The 2016 season wraps up tomorrow night when the 'Cats take on Rutgers at 6 p.m. in Piscataway, N.J.