CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Cleveland State volleyball team closed out its current four-match homestand Saturday, picking up a 3-0 victory over Purdue Fort Wayne. With the win, the Vikings are now 14-6 overall this season and 5-4 in Horizon League play.

Liberty Torres led the Viking offense with 17 kills, while Nia Hall added nine kills on the day.

Ella Mihacevich finished with 33 assists and 14 digs for her fifth double-double of the season.

Emma Walker tallied 13 digs, while Ayva Leon added 11 and Laken Voss finished with 10.

With her 13 digs against the Mastodons, Walker moved into second place on the CSU Career Digs List, finishing the match with 1,496 total digs.

As a team, the Vikings finished with 10.0 total blocks, including eight from Julia Jozefov and four from Hall.

During the opening set, the two teams played a back-and-forth frame, with Cleveland State holding off a pair of Purdue Fort Wayne set-points before gaining its own set point at 25-24 on a Hall kill. Although the Mastodons responded to even the set at 25-25, the Vikings answered with back-to-back points on kills from Hall and Koehler, closing out the 26-24 first set victory.

The second set was much of the same then, as both teams traded points throughout the majority of the frame, until Cleveland State gained a 23-18 edge following three straight Torres kills. The Vikings then earned set-point on a Torres and Jozefov block, before a Jozefov and Hall block two points later closed out the 25-19 second set victory.

Cleveland State then carried its momentum into the third set, as the Vikings earned a 22-17 advantage late in the frame following a Walker service ace and Voss kill. The Vikings then closed out the frame with kills from Mihacevich and Torres, earning the 25-21 third set victory.

The Vikings will hit the road next weekend, beginning a five-match roadswing with a two-match series at RMU on Thursday, October 24 and Friday, October 25.