SPARTANS SWEEP HEAT TO OPEN WEEKEND SERIES

KELOWNA, British Columbia – Led by Henry Rempel, (Sift Current, Sask.)  with 12 kills, and Mathias Elser (Calgary) with 11 kills, and five aces, the Trinity Western Spartans made it a quick night with an impressive 3-0 victory over the UBC Okanagan Heat Friday night at the UBC Furnace Centre in Kelowna, B.C. The 25-21-25-17, 25-15 win improves the Spartans to 12-5, while the loss drops the Heat to 4-13.
 
Renn Petryk with eight kills and Thys Weststrate with six kills led the Heat attack. Anselm rein led the Spartans with 38 set assists, while Zach van Geel ran the UBC O offence and finished with 18 set assists.
 
QUOTABLE
TWU Head Coach Adam Schriemer
“Sweeping a team on the road is never easy, so I’m obviously happy with tonight’s result. Outside of the middle section of the first set, where we had some unforced hitting errors, I thought that we played pretty clean. Which was our focus for the day. How can we hold our level for a longer period of time, other than the middle section of the first set, I thought we did that. Our block D was hard to play against and we earned a lot of points in our transition phase.”
 
NOTABLE
• The Spartans are 39-4 lifetime against the Heat.
• TWU finished the night hitting at .354 (46-17-82), while UBC-O finished at .183 (25-12-71).
• The Spartans had the edge in kills 46-25, Aces 7-1, assists 45-23, and digs, 32-10.
 
UP NEXT
The Spartans and the Heat will match up again tomorrow afternoon at 3 p.m. The game 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.
 
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