CALGARY – Maryn Boldon led all players with 14 kills to power Trinity Western to a 3-0 win over the Calgary Dinos women’s volleyball team Friday night from the Jack Simpson Gym.
TWU hit .327 for the match – including an impressive .542 in the third – to down the Dinos, 25-15, 30-28, 25-14.
The Spartans snapped a seven-game losing skid to improve to 6-9 on the year with the win, while Calgary drops to 3-12.
Bolden led the way with 14 kills, while Kaylee Plouffe added 12 on just 15 swings. Faye Murray also notched double-digit kills with 10.
Sophia Hansen continued her steller rookie campaign with a team-high 13 kills, while Daisy Olsen added 10 to go with a pair of blocks.
Tied at five in the opening set, TWU used a 6-1 run to create separation and they kept Calgary at arm’s reach from there before closing things out on a 7-2 run on a kill by Plouffe to take the opener.
Things were much different in the second. After the Spartans went ahead 12-8 early, the Dinos had an answer as a nice serving run by Narelle Arnold help tie things up at 12-all. A little while later, a big block by Sam Silva and Miranda Baines sparked another Calgary run that sent the home squad to a 17-15 lead. The set went back and forth from there on out, going deep into extras. After a TWU error, a kill by Arnold gave the Dinos set point at 28-27, but the Spartans came up in the clutch with three points in a row to steal the second.
It was all Trinity Western in the third, taking a close game at the midway point and blowing it open down the stretch with a 12-3 run to close things out.
“In that second set, we really found the level of compete we were looking for, both on the service line and on attack,” Dinos head coach Christine Biggs said postgame. “Overall, taking care of our own responsibilities and doing our job defensively put us in a position to have second and third chances and extend rallies. Just over all compete was better.
“We need to be consistent with that tomorrow. Every point being as meaningful as the one before and the one after.”
The two teams finish out the weekend set Saturday with a scheduled 5:30 p.m. start time following the men’s game.