SPARTANS TAKE WARRIORS IN STRAIGHT SETS

LANGLEY, British Columbia–The Trinity Western Spartans defeated the Waterloo Warriors in straight sets, 25-17, 25-20, 25-19 Saturday afternoon in the Volleyball Showcase at the Langley Events Centre in Langley, B.C. The win improve the Spartans to 2-0 in the Showcase and 8-1 overall. While the loss keeps the Waterloo winless at the Showcase and 1-2 in preseason play.

Waterloo’s Claire Gagne was named player of the match for the Warriors, while Emma Gamache was named player of the match for the Spartans.

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TWU Head Coach Ryan Hofer
“I was really pleased with how we handled serve receive today. All three passers did a really nice job on serve receive and Emma had one of her past passing matches. I thought we handled the ball really well. We are experimenting with a few things and the girls did a great job.”

On mixed line-up
“We are still trying to figure out what the season is going to look like and I feel that in order to go deep in this league you can’t just have seven players. We are trying to develop a team and give opportunity to players and figure out what our combination is going to look like and what is going to help us for the season.”

UP NEXT
The Spartans will now play the Queen’s Gaels tomorrow afternoon in the final match of the Showcase. Match time is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Centre Court at the Langley Events Centre.

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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