WolfPack women’s volleyball upset CIS #1 ranked TWU to move closer to playoffs
KAMLOOPS —The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack women’s volleyball team added another chapter in their story of rebuilding.
The WolfPack got some retribution on the CIS’ number one team-the Trinity Western University Spartans. Playing at the TRU gym on Friday (Feb 12), and knowing their playoff lives hang in the balance, the WolfPack downed the Spartans 3-1. The scores were 25-27, 28-26, 25-23, 27-25.
TRU moves to 12-11 on the year while Trinity Western falls to 18-3 and out of first place in the Canada West as the team they were tied with: UBCO was a winner over MacEwan 3-0 (25-18,25-23,25-20).
“The turning point was at the end of the first set,” said WolfPack head coach Chad Grimm. “They served two balls and we took them. They wound up taking the set. It was one we had a chance to win. We had the top team in the country on the ropes and we lost it—in the past, we would have faded away. Tonight we did not.”
“It is always exciting volleyball when we play in this old gym,” stated Spartans head coach Ryan Hofer. “This reminds us of our old gym. We had a fantastic game tonight. I thought the difference was we didn’t manage the ball as well as we should. We gave them too many opportunities to let them bang away. When you do that with some of the players you have over there we make it hard on ourselves to win. There were a couple of points that I would like to review but you can’t do that.”