Spartans to face Golden Bears for Gold

Men’s Volleyball (Canada West Final Four – Semi-Final)
Friday, February 24, 2006
TWU Spartans (3) vs. the University of Saskatchewan Huskies (0)
(25-16, 25-15, 25-23)

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Spartans to face Golden Bears for Gold
TWU sweeps past injury riddled Saskatchewan Huskies

EDMONTON – An injury depleted University of Saskatchewan Huskies were no match for the #2 ranked Trinity Western University Spartans in the second semi-final of the men's Canada West Volleyball Final Four tournament, at the University of Alberta's Main Gym, losing in three straight sets, 25-16, 25-15 and 25-23.

The #3 ranked Huskies were playing without fifth year and Team Canada member, Darren Dove, FISU Team Canada Member, Kris Brand and Canada West Player of the Year Mark Dodds, who returned to the program this season, played hurt and only, appeared in two sets.

Trinity Western, powered by third year right-side hitter Steve Rogalsky, took full advantage of the banged up Huskies, winning the opening sets by nine and 10 points respectively.

With Dodds in and out of the line-up and strong contributions from Joel Ens, Hart Spencer and Cole Hintz, Saskatchewan made the third set close, losing out by two in the end, 25-23.

The Spartans owned a 50% attack success rate in the opening set, while the Huskies found themselves committing more attack errors than kills.

By the end of the match, Saskatchewan had committed 22 attack errors on 81 attempts and just 29 completed kills.

Rogalsky and the Spartans averaged a 36% attack rate through three sets, with Rogalsky nailing the game high in kills with 11.  Jeff Stel banked eight, while Doug Van Spronson turned seven of eight attack attempts into points, an 88% kill rate.  Seth Schalk and Josh Howatson brought up six digs each.

Ens led the Huskie attack, putting down 10 kills, but also chalked 10 attack errors, in a frustrating night for the Saskatchewan players. Hart Spencer managed nine kills and a team high in digs with six. Dodds, playing in just two sets, had one kill and one dig.  Rookie setter, Cole Hintz, put up 16 set assists.

The Trinity Western Spartans will meet rival, Alberta Golden Bears tomorrow night, at 8:30 PM, for the Canada West Gold, their second consecutive meeting in the final.  Saskatchewan will face #4 ranked Manitoba Bisons for the bronze at 6:30 PM in the Main Gym.

-courtesy of Alberta Sports Information

-TW-

 Volleyball Box Score
UBC Women's Volleyball 2004-05
#5 Calgary vs #5 TWU (Feb 24, 2006 at Vancouver, BC)
Calgary                |     ATTACK      |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF|  BLOCK |GEN
## Name                 GP|  K   E  TA   PCT|  A| SA  SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE
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2  Brittany Hutton.....  3|  0   0   0  .000|  0|  0   0|  0|  1| 0  0  0|  0
3  Janelle Findlay.....  4|  0   0   0  .000|  0|  0   0|  0|  3| 0  0  0|  0
4  Julie Young.........  5| 17  10  49  .143|  1|  0   2|  1| 11| 0  2  1|  0
5  Raynell Lavertu.....  2|  1   0   1 1.000|  1|  0   0|  0|  0| 0  1  0|  0
6  Laura Spence........  4|  7   7  24  .000|  0|  1   1|  0|  1| 0  1  0|  0
7  Natalie Schwartz....  5|  3   2  13  .077| 49|  1   1|  0| 20| 0  1  0|  1
8  Neda Boroumand......  4|  0   0   0  .000|  4|  0   0|  0| 20| 0  1  0|  1
12 Lauren Perry........  5| 15   7  40  .200|  2|  0   0|  2| 18| 0  1  0|  0
14 Carolyn Macdonald...  5|  7   8  36 -.028|  0|  0   2|  0|  7| 0  4  0|  0
15 Deanna Delisle......  5| 12   2  25  .400|  0|  2   0|  0|  5| 0  7  0|  0
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Totals..............  5| 62  36 188  .138| 57|  4   6|  3| 86| 0 18  1|  2
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME                               TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 9.0
Game  K  E  TA   Pct
1  13 10  42  .071   GAME SCORES           1  2  3  4  5  TEAM RECORDS
2  15  7  42  .190   Calgary............. 22 26 23 25 14  14-6
3  14  7  40  .175   TWU................. 25 24 25 23 16  15-5
4  11  7  35  .114
5   9  5  29  .138
TWU                    |     ATTACK      |SET| SERVE |SRV|DEF|  BLOCK |GEN
## Name                 GP|  K   E  TA   PCT|  A| SA  SE| RE|DIG|BS BA BE|BHE
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2  Saralyn Raugust.....  5| 13   3  43  .233|  1|  0   1|  0|  8| 0  4  0|  0
3  Julie Blackburn.....  3|  0   0   3  .000|  0|  0   0|  2| 26| 0  0  0|  0
4  Jodi Schaufele......  5| 11   5  27  .222|  1|  1   0|  1| 13| 0  4  0|  1
5  Danielle Foth.......  5| 12   6  38  .158|  1|  0   2|  0| 11| 0  5  1|  1
7  Liz Spear...........  5| 12   5  29  .241|  2|  0   0|  0|  5| 0  7  1|  0
9  Alicia Van Huizen...  4|  0   0   1  .000|  0|  0   1|  0|  2| 0  0  0|  0
10 Dayna JansenVanDoorn  4|  8   3  21  .238|  0|  0   1|  0|  5| 0 11  0|  0
13 Anna Paddock........  5|  2   4   7 -.286| 49|  2   0|  0| 12| 0  3  0|  0
15 Julie Koepke........  5|  0   0   0  .000|  0|  0   2|  0|  0| 0  0  0|  0
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Totals..............  5| 58  26 169  .189| 54|  3   7|  3| 82| 0 34  2|  2
TEAM ATTACK PER GAME                               TOTAL TEAM BLOCKS: 17.0
Game  K  E  TA   Pct
1  11  4  33  .212   Site: Vancouver, BC (War Memorial Gym)
2  13  6  33  .212   Date: Feb 24, 2006   Attend: 200   Time: 2:20
3  14  4  40  .250   Referees:
4  13  6  34  .206   Canada West bronze Medal Match
5   7  4  28  .107

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