WOLFPACK WOMENS VB ENTER CHRISTMAS BREAK WINLESS November 30, 2009
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Anna Dyakiewicz against Regina (A. Snucins)
It’s going to be a longer than usual Christmas break for the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack women’s volleyball team. The days will likely be the same, but its the atmosphere going into it which will make it seem longer. The struggles of the ‘Pack continue. They were swept in both their weekend matches (Nov 28-29) by the hometown University of Winnipeg Wesmen.
On Grey Cup Sunday, the WolfPack played a little better but they were still beaten 3-1. The scores were: 15-25,2125,25-17,21-25. The WolfPack enter the Canada West break winless in ten starts while Winnipeg moves to 3 and 6.
“Again, we started battling in the third set,” said WolfPack head coach Cal Wohlford. “we had 14 kills in both the third and fourth sets. But we back down at points in the match when we should be taking the game to them”.
The hometown Wesmen got off to a great start in the first set opening up a 8-2 lead at the first technical and holding their ground to lead 16-10 at the second break. Winnipeg went on to win the opening set 25-15. The Wesmen had an attack percentage of .412 in the opening set. The Pack were at .152
“We are still tentative at key points of the match,” added Wohlford.
Set number two was closer than the first. Winnipeg held a slim lead 8-7 at the first technical break but the Wolfpack responded to take the lead at 16-15 at the second break. The Wesmen regrouped outscoring Thompson Rivers 10-5 down the stretch to win the second set 25-21.
Anna Dyakiewicz (3rd year,outside hitter, Burnaby, BC) led TRU a match high 15 kills in 49 attempts. She had a service ace and 11 digs and two solo blocks. “Anna got better in the third set,” said Wohlford. “But to be successfull, our team needs to have a lot of players on board. When Anna got kickstarted, we were waiting for people like Kelly (Asleson, 3rd year, outside hitter, Richmond, BC) and Amanda (Frayne, 3rd year, outside hitter, Kamloops, BC) to join in.” he added.
Asleson and Frayne each had 9 kills. Frayne added 11 digs. Marilla Vasconcellos (4th year, libero, Jundai, Brazil) added 20 digs. Asleson was in on three blocks.
The Wolfpack found their game in the third set leading at both technical timeouts 8-7 and 16-12. Thompson Rivers got themselves back in the match winning the third set 25-17.
Thompson Rivers carried the momentum for a good portion of the fourth set leading 8-5 and 16-14 at the set breaks. Winnipeg found their legs late in the set and back-to-back kills by Alix Krahn led the Wesmen to a 25-21 set win to conclude the match.
Winnipeg was led by the trio of Ariel Smith, Lauren Sears and Carleen Kruschel who all finished with 13 kills. Winnipeg had a strong serving match finishing with 11 service aces with Ariel Smith leading the way with three. Sonia Rossy led the Wesmen with 19 digs. Lauren Sears finished with three blocks.
Wohlford gave praise to 3rd year middle Vanessa Weibe (South Surrey, BC):”She played better tonite. She held their middle blocker in the third and fourth sets.”
He said the thorn in the WolfPack’s paw in the first half of the season has been unforced errors. “We gave up seven unforced errors in the last set. This is something that we have to work on as individuals. The players have to be aggressive all the time. Pulling back doesn’t work for you. There are right mistakes and wrong mistakes. In the first half of the year, we have been making too many bad mistakes.
The WolfPack are now off until January 8 th when they return to Manitoba to face the Bisons at the U of M.
(With help from University of Winnipeg Sports Information)
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