KELOWNA, British Columbia – After a five-set marathon Friday night the Trinity Western Spartans turned in an efficient performance Saturday night to sweep the UBC Okanagan Heat 3-0. The 25-19, 25-18, and 25-22 victory improves the No. 1 Spartans to 16-2, while the loss drops the Heat to 8-10.
Ansah Odoom (Surrey, B.C.) with 13 kills, and five digs, and Meaghan Mealey (Calgary) with 10 kills and nine digs, and Dora Komlodi (Calgary) with 31 set assists, 19 digs, and three blocks led the Spartans attack. While Jade Bussard with seven kills and seven digs, and Rayn Perry with 20 set assists and seven digs led the Heat.
QUOTABLE TWU Head Coach Ryan Hofer
“The weekend at UBC Okanagan is always a long hard weekend of great volleyball, with two teams bringing out the best in each other. So I’m really proud of our team coming in and just taking care of our side of the court. Overall, it was just a great team effort. Really appreciated the girls coming off the sideline and just supporting the crew.”
“Proud of Dora Komlodi, she has done a wonderful job for us. Just in her distribution of the ball, her decision-making and just her being a leader both on and off the floor.”
NOTABLE
• The Spartans are 27-6 lifetime against the Heat.
• TWU finished the night hitting at .224 (43-15-125), while UBC-O finished at .079 (30-20-126).
• The Spartans had the edge in kills 43-30, Aces 11-6, blocks 9-7, assists 39-27, and digs, 68-59.
• With the weekend’s two wins the Spartans have now had 10 straight seasons with at least 15 conference wins. Winning their final six matches will enable the Spartans to tie their all-time record for conference wins in a season at 22, which they set in 2019-20 at 22-2.
UP NEXT
The Spartans will now have a bye week before hosting the Regina Cougars on February 3 and 4. Match times are set for 7 p.m. and 5 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.