VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The UBC Thunderbirds scored three power play goals to defeat the Trinity Western Spartans 3-0 in a midweek game Thursday night at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre  in Vancouver, B.C. The win improves UBC to 5-4-1-1 while the loss drops TWU to 1-9-0-1 in Canada West conference play.
 
UBC got goals from Josh Willams, Cyle McNabb, and Scott Atkinson. TWU's Berk Berkeliev (Calgary) made 46 saves in the loss, while UBC's Cole Schwebius made 25 saves to earn the shutout victory.  
 
AS IT HAPPENED
The Thunderbirds opened the scoring with a power play goal by Josh Williams at 8:42 of the opening period. UBC would finish the period outshooting TWU 16-8, while going 1-2 with the man advantage. The Spartans finished the period going 0-3 on the power play.
 
UBC made it a two goal margin with their second power play goal of the night. The Thunderbirds Cyle McNabb scored at 4:08 with his seventh of the season to put UBC up 2-0. The Thunderbirds again finished with the shot advantage outshooting the Spartans 17-10. UBC finished the period 1-3 on the power play, while TWU finished 1-2.
 
The T-Birds made the final a three goal margin with a late goal at 18:52 of the third period. UBC's Scott Atkinson got his fourth of the season on the power play to make the final 3-0 for the Thunderbirds. UBC finished the period 1-4 with the advantage, while TWU finished 0-4. UBC outshot TWU 16-7 in the final period.

NOTABLE
• The Spartans were outshot 49-25 by the Thunderbirds
• Trinity Western finished the night 0-8 on the power play, while UBC finished the night 3-7.
• TWU is now 0-10 lifetime against UBC.
• The Thunderbirds are currently ranked second in Canada West on the power play. UBC is 16-51 (31.4 percent) with the man advantage. They are also third on the penalty kill at 80.7 percent (11-57). The Spartans are last on the power play at 5-57 (8.8 percent) and eighth on the penalty kill at 70.2 percent (17-57).

UP NEXT
The Spartans will now travel back to Langley to take on the T-Birds in the second game of their home-and-home weekend.  Game times is set 7:15 p.m. at the George Preston Arena and can be seen live on CanadaWest.TV.
 
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. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 13 U SPORTS team championships and 32 Canada West team championships.
 
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