Feb 3 SPARTANS MAKE IT LOOK EASY

Men’s Volleyball (Conference)
Friday, February 3, 2006
TWU Spartans (3) vs the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds (0)
(25-15, 25-17, 25-16)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

SPARTANS MAKE IT LOOK EASY
#2 TWU quickly disposes of #5 UBC in straight sets

LANGLEY, British Columbia – The second ranked Trinity Western University men’s volleyball team rebounded strong after last week’s losses to number one Alberta with a 3-0 (25-15, 25-17, 25-16) win over the fifth ranked University of British Columbia. The Spartans took just over an hour to improve their record to 13-4 and take over second place in the Canada West. While the loss drops the Thunderbirds (12-5) to third place.

TWU had a strong overall team effort with all players on the court contributing evenly in the win.

The Spartans got out to an early lead in the first set leading 8-4 at the first break. TWU continued to force their game on UBC and built up a 16-7 lead going into the second break. The Thunderbirds were unable to close the gap on the Spartans as TWU cruised to a 25-15 first set win.

The second set was closer heading into the second timeout where TWU led 16-13. Shortly after the timeout the Spartans put together a six point run with two big blocks at the net by Justin Pankratz (5th year, middle, Mission, BC), which pushed the lead to 22-15. TWU then sided out with UBC to take the second set 25-17.

Set three was all Trinity Western as they closed out the match with a 25-16 win.

Seth Schalk (4th year, leftside, Red Deer, Alta.) had a solid game with seven kills and a high kill efficiency of 64%. He also had three aces in the match. Jeff Stel (4th year, outside, Langley) led all players in the match with 10 kills.

Colin Bell (Chestermere, Alta.) led the Thunderbirds with seven kills and hit at 55%.

The rematch for these two teams is set for tomorrow night at 8 pm in the David Enarson gymnasium.

Match Notes: TWU hit at 39%, while UBC hit at 13%... TW had 8.5 team blocks; while the Thunderbirds had two ... Trinity Western had eight service aces, to the Thunderbirds one...TWU took this season’s two previous meetings 3-0, 3-1 at UBC in November...

-TW-

                           TWU Men's Volleyball 2005-06
        #5 UBC T-Birds vs #2 TWU Spartans (Feb 03, 2006 at Langley, BC)



   UBC T-Birds            |     ATTACK      |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF|  BLOCK |GEN
## Name                 GP|  K   E  TA   PCT|  A| SA  SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE|POINTS
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3  Jared Krause........  3|  2   0   2 1.000| 16|  0   2|  0|  1| 1  0  0|  0|   3.0
4  Kyle Bryce..........  2|  1   3   6 -.333|  0|  0   1|  0|  0| 0  0  0|  0|   1.0
9  Kyle Duperron.......  2|  1   1   2  .000|  0|  0   1|  0|  0| 0  0  0|  0|   1.0
11 Matt LeBourdais.....  3|  6   2  18  .222|  0|  1   2|  3|  5| 1  0  0|  0|   8.0
12 Rob Mackenzie.......  3|  3   1   6  .333|  2|  0   0|  0|  0| 0  0  0|  0|   3.0
15 Andrew Bonner.......  3|  5   9  24 -.167|  1|  0   2|  0|  2| 0  0  0|  0|   5.0
1  Richard Chou........  3|  0   0   0  .000|  0|  0   0|  1|  5| 0  0  0|  0|   0.0
5  Colin Bell..........  2|  7   1  11  .545|  1|  0   1|  3|  5| 0  0  0|  0|   7.0
8  Jonathan Wiskar.....  2|  3   0   5  .600|  0|  0   0|  1|  1| 0  0  0|  0|   3.0
10 Drew Webber.........  2|  0   0   0  .000|  8|  0   1|  0|  4| 0  0  0|  0|   0.0
14 Ian Simpson.........  3|  0   1   2 -.500|  0|  0   1|  0|  1| 0  0  0|  0|   0.0
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   Totals..............  3| 28  18  76  .132| 28|  1  11|  8| 24| 2  0  0|  0|  31.0

 TEAM ATTACK PER GAME                               TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 2.0
 Game  K  E  TA   Pct
   1   7  7  22  .000   GAME SCORES               1  2  3  TEAM RECORDS
   2  10  7  26  .115   UBC T-Birds......... (0) 15 17 16  12-5
   3  11  4  28  .250   TWU Spartans........ (3) 25 25 25  13-4

   TWU Spartans           |     ATTACK      |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF|  BLOCK |GEN
## Name                 GP|  K   E  TA   PCT|  A| SA  SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE|POINTS
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2  Seth Schalk.........  3|  7   0  11  .636|  1|  3   0|  0|  5| 0  1  0|  0|  10.5
3  Josh Howatson.......  3|  2   0   6  .333| 27|  3   1|  0|  3| 0  2  0|  0|   6.0
5  Jeff Stel...........  3| 11   2  16  .562|  2|  0   1|  1|  5| 0  4  0|  0|  13.0
7  Chris Meehan........  3|  6   1  11  .455|  0|  1   0|  0|  1| 0  2  0|  0|   8.0
9  Steve Rogalsky......  3|  6   4  19  .105|  1|  1   5|  0|  1| 1  1  0|  0|   8.5
10 Justin Pankratz.....  3|  3   0   8  .375|  2|  0   3|  0|  2| 0  5  0|  0|   5.5
8  Jeff Lindemulder....  3|  0   0   0  .000|  1|  0   0|  0|  8| 0  0  0|  0|   0.0
14 Stephen Nash........  1|  0   0   0  .000|  0|  0   1|  0|  0| 0  0  0|  0|   0.0
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   Totals..............  3| 35   7  71  .394| 34|  8  11|  1| 25| 1 15  0|  0|  51.5

 TEAM ATTACK PER GAME                               TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 8.5
 Game  K  E  TA   Pct
   1  12  4  23  .348   Site: Langley, BC (David Enarson Gym)
   2   8  1  18  .389   Date: Feb 03, 2006   Attend: 650   Time: 1:10
   3  15  2  30  .433   Referees:
                                         1   2   3 Total
                        Tie scores       0   3   0     3
                        Lead changes     1   2   1     4

Last Updated: 2009-02-16
Author: Scott Stewart
Email: ssstew@twu.ca