sport scores and highlights news 18 Sports from where you live good evening and welcome back I know you were probably expecting to see a Friday Night Frenzy show and well we were too but storms across the area had other plans however up the road inside hallay gym the Purdue volleyball team kicked the season off against Kansas State the Wilder makers play the second game of its very own Stacy Clark classic tonight and Purdue walks away Victorious after knocking K State three sets to one coach Shandell said earlier this week that this may be one of the better defensive teams he's had and that defense showed up huge tonight as the team racked in 17 blocks which is the most in a match since 2022 the tournament continues through Sunday as Purdue will face UNBC tomorrow night at 7 p.m. and Purdue men's basketball head coach Matt painer was presented with the order of the Griffin which is the highest honor that a University employee can receive the recognizes outstanding service to Purdue by men and women whose commitment has gone beyond the Call of Duty and has been a great benefit to the university and the weekend is full of big games continuing with Purdue football who will make their season debut tomorrow against Indiana State here's head coach Ryan Walters ahead of week one um ultimately you're trying to win a ball game and you know we all know how how difficult it is to win um and also I think you know the more you show especially early in the season the more your opponent has to work on um and so you know we'll we'll show what we need to show and um try to be strategic in that in that uh aspect you know right now you know success for us is scoring more points than Indiana State on Saturday again the boilet makers will be at home tomorrow for the season opener with kickoff set for noon and before we wrap things up here's a look at our area foot ball postponements from tonight West Lafayette will travel to McCutchen and that game will be played at 5:00 p.m. lingfield will make the trip back to Harris Harrison for an 11: a.m. matchup followed by seagar at bitton Central and Frankfurt at Clinton Prairie and both of those will be at 6:00 p.m. and don't forget that voting is now open for our game of the week for next Friday with the lineup as follows Clinton Central versus Clinton Prairie Frontier at North White and L at West Lafayette you can visit our website wlfi.com right now and vote for your Top Choice