VANCOUVER – Trinity Western lost its final game of the preseason, dropping a 7-1 decision against defending Canada West champion UBC Friday at the Doug Mitchell Thunderbird Sports Centre.
 
TWU's Landon Fuller (Williams Lake, B.C.) scored the lone goal for the Spartans, with Tyler Schweitzer (Burnaby, B.C.) and Sammy May (Richmond, B.C.) earning assists. Spartans goalie Leon Sommer (Linz, Austria) stopped 29 of 36 shots he faced.
 
UBC got goals from Sam Huo (2), Kayden Sadhra-Kang, Cyle McNabb, Jake Wright, Josh Williams and Jack Wismer. The Thunderbirds Cole Schwebius stopped nine of 10 TWU shots.
 
The Spartans finished their preseason slate with two wins from six outings, having knocked off BCIHL sides Vancouver Island University and the University of Victoria before losing a pair of contests with both UBC and Simon Fraser.
 
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Ben Walter, TWU Head Coach
"It was definitely not our best performance tonight. We have some work to do this week to get ourselves in a good position for our home-opener next Friday. We're going to have a great week of practice. I thought UBC came hard and put a lot of pressure on us and forced us to defend and we didn't do a great job of dealing with that." 
 
NEXT UP
TWU will open their Canada West regular season schedule with back-to-back home games against Mount Royal Oct. 4-5. The Spartans home-opener is Oct. 4 at 7:15 p.m. at George Preston Arena.  
 
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 and women's and men's disc golf. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 14 U SPORTS team championships and 34 Canada West team championships.
 
About Trinity Western University
Recognized for quality, TWU has received seven consecutive A+ rankings for Quality of Teaching and Learning, holds three Canada Research Chairs, and wins national championships in CIS sports. More importantly, lives are changed at TWU through its whole-person, Christ-centred approach to education. With a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and adult degree-completion programs, TWU equips leaders of character and competence to make a positive impact in the lives of others. 
 
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