LANGLEY, British Columbia– The No. 2 Trinity Western Spartans defeated the visiting Calgary Dinos 3-0 Friday night at the Langley Events Centre in Langley, B.C. to remain unbeaten in Canada West conference play. The 25-18, 25-23, 25-19 win improves the Spartans to 5-0, while the loss drops the Dinos to 0-3.
Brodie Hofer (Langley, B.C.) with 15 kills and six digs and four aces, and Henry Rempel (Swift Current, Sask.) with nine kills, seven digs, two blocks and two aces led the Spartans. While Louis Kunstmann and Liam Kuppe with nine kills each led the Dinos.
TWU’s Mathias Elser (Calgary) led the Spartan attack with 35 set assists, while Anders Bouck led the Dinos with 23 set assists.
QUOTABLE TWU Head Coach Adam Schriemer
“We talk a lot today about winning the terminal serve battle. Which is stuff we have been working on this week, and I definitely think that we did today. The frustrating part was how many chances we had to create more of a spread and convert on our opportunities and we just didn’t convert. We had so many chances and we just weren’t clean. We sections of unforced errors and that was really frustrating to see just how many chances we had but just didn’t convert.
I was really happy with our second set and how we were able to keep it close and able to just catch a run. That’s the cool thing about our servers. At any point they can get hot and we can always stay in a match. But we have a lot of opportunities that we just need to convert and we have to upgrade that for tomorrow.
NOTABLE
• The Spartans are 48-28 lifetime against the Dinos.
• Trinity Western has not lost to Calgary since February 26, 2016 when the Dinos prevailed 3-1 in Calgary.
• It has been over 11 years since the Spartans have lost to the Dinos at the LEC. That loss, 3-0, occurred on January 22, 2011.
• The Dinos had a 6-4 edge in total blocks, while the Spartans had a 26-23 edge in total digs.
• The Spartans used a strong end line attack, finishing with 13 service aces to Calgary’s two aces, while hitting at .303 (38-15-76) to the Dinos .224 (27-12-67).
UP NEXT
The Spartans will match up against the Dinos again tomorrow night at the Langley Events Centre. Game time is set for 7 p.m. 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.