EDMONTON – The No. 2 Trinity Western Spartans used an efficient team attack to sweep the MacEwan Griffins 3-0 Friday night in Canada West men’s volleyball action at MacEwan University in Edmonton. The Spartans held off the Griffins to improve to at 10-1 with the 25-19, 25-23, 26-24 victory, while the loss keeps the Griffins winless at 0-11.
Brody Hofer (Langley, B.C.) with 11 kills, five aces, and five digs, Mathias Elser (Calgary) with nine kills, and three aces, and Cory Schoenherr (Waterloo, Ont.) with nine kills led the Spartans attack. While Jefferson Morrow with 11 kills and Alexei Walisser with eight kills led the Cougars. Anselm Rein (Erfurt, Germany) ran the Spartans offence and finished with 42 set assists. While the Cougars setter alexander Lyndon finished the night with 22 assists.
QUOTABLE TWU Head Coach Adam Schriemer
“Overall we need to be cleaner and more efficient when we have our opportunities. They went on a run in the second set and put us under pressure. We had our opportunities to side out, we just weren’t clean enough. We are pretty fortunate to get out of that match clean after giving up 10 straight points in the second set.”
“That will be our challenge tomorrow. In Canada West when you have your opportunities to score, you need to take advantage of them immediately. Tomorrow is going to be another grind. Winning on the road is never easy, especially at the end of the semester; it’s going to be a challenge, because MacEwan won’t make it an easy one.”
NOTABLE
• The Spartans are now 13-0 lifetime against the Griffins.
• TWU finished the evening hitting at .390 (45-13-82), while MacEwan hit at .257 (29-11-70).
• The Spartans had an 11-0 edge in service aces, 5-3 edge in blocks, and 25-20 edge in digs.
UP NEXT
The Spartans and the Griffins will match up again tomorrow evening in Edmonton. Match time is set for 4:00 p.m. MT 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.