LANGLEY, B.C. – Trinity Western rolled to a 3-0 (25-23, 25-19, 25-21) win over visiting UBC in the Spartans opening match of the Blue Team Cup Thursday at the Langley Events Centre.
The win sees the Spartans early season record improve to 3-1.
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Adam Schriemer – Interim Co-Head Coach
"I'm pretty proud of our guys' performance and our effort tonight. Before the match, we talked about how this is our first chance to protect home court, as it was our first game playing at the LEC this year. I thought our guys did just that. The first set was kind of sloppy on both sides – a lot of unforced errors and missed serves, but as the match went on, I think we got a lot better. That's something to be proud of.
"I think a highlight in the first set was a blocking section from
Cory Schoenherr (Waterloo, Ont.) where he had two positive touches and then he finished off the rally with a stuff. It's hard to get three positive touches in a full set sometimes and he did that in one rally and it resulted in a point, which was cool to see. I thought that was
Anselm Rein's (Erfurt, Germany) best performance as a Spartan so far. He was able to do that because of our passing lineup. I thought UBC served tough at times and the play of
Jesse Elser (Calgary,
Isaiah Olfert (Winnipeg),
Mathias Elser (Calgary) and
Brodie Hofer (Langley) in serve receive allowed Anselm to do some really cool things.
"I think we got better tonight and we're looking forward to the rest of the Blue Team Cup, as we will have our hands full with our next two games."
NOTABLE
· After a five-set loss to UBC in the finale of last weekend's WolfPack Invitational, the Spartans impressed with a full lineup in Thursday's win.
· TWU has an all-time record of 58-24 against UBC and is now 29-9 at home against the T-Birds.
UP NEXT
TWU will now prepare to play UBC Okanagan Friday at 8 p.m. (PT) in the Spartans second match of the Blue Team Cup before taking on Mount Royal Saturday at 6 p.m. (PT).
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men's rugby, as well as women's and men's disc golf. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 13 U SPORTS team championships and 31 Canada West team championships.
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