CALGARY, Alta. – The No. 1 Trinity Western Spartans continued to roll, as they remain unbeaten after an impressive 3-0 victory over No. 4 Mount Royal Cougars Saturday night at Kenyon Court in Calgary, Alta. The 25-16, 25-14, 25-17 victory improves TWU to 8-0, while the loss drops MRU to 5-3.
Ansah Odoom (Surrey, B.C.) finished with nine kills and Savannah Purdy (Victoria, B.C.) and Meaghan Mealey (Calgary) with five kills each led the Spartans. Emma Boyd with seven kills, and Madison Marshall with six kills led the Cougars.
TWU Setter Dora Komlodi (Calgary) finished the night with 21 assists, four aces and seven digs. Libero Emma Gamache (Abbotsford, B.C.) paced the Spartans with 11 digs in short match. Setter Quinn Pelland finished the night with 19 assists and six digs for the Cougars.
QUOTABLE TWU Head Coach Ryan Hofer
“It doesn’t matter whose house you go into or whose gym you go into, to be able to walk away from there with a sweep is not an easy thing to do. So I’m really proud of our women and what they did this weekend.”
“I thought we played some gritty volleyball. They never eased up, they never gave them a reprieve. They just kept a lot of pressure on them in a couple of different areas. We put great serving pressure on them and some block D pressure. And just generally try and be very efficient and make them play and make them pay.”
“An outstanding weekend for Ansah, Dora and our defensive group. So just great to come out of MRU with a sweep as we look forward to the next two weeks.”
NOTABLE
• The Spartans are now 28-3 lifetime against the Cougars.
• TWU defeated MRU 3-1 (25-14, 14-25, 25-19, 25-20) in last year’s U SPORTS gold medal match.
• Trinity Western finished the night hitting .227 (26-11-66), while Mount Royal finished at .101 (28-19-89).
• Both the Spartans had a 5-1 edge in team blocks, while TWU had a sizable 13-3 margin in service aces, and a 4-14 edge in errors, to go with a 32-25 advantage in digs.
• TWU and UBC are the only remaining unbeaten team in Canada West with identical 8-0 records.
UP NEXT
The Spartans will now head to Vancouver to battle the Thunderbirds. Match time on November 25 and 26 is set for 6 p.m. and 5 p.m. PT. Both games 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.