PREVIEW: Crucial clash ahead when ‘Pack host Spartans

Game Information
 
Date: Thursday, January 25
Time: 6:45 p.m.
Location: TCC Gym

 
Date: Friday, January 26
Time: 4:15 p.m.
Location: TCC Gym

Weekend Story
 
KAMLOOPS – The TCC is set for a pair of important games when the Thompson Rivers WolfPack men’s volleyball team plays host to the Trinity Western Spartans.

The WolfPack (9-7) will host the Spartans (9-7) – who enter the weekend ranked No. 9 in the country –  at 6:45 p.m. on  Thursday and 4:15 p.m. on Friday. The games are the makeup games that were originally scheduled for December 2 and 3 before being postponed.
 
With both teams currently tied for the eighth and final playoff spot, the contests will go a long way in determining the postseason picture.
 
A sweep of the UBC Okanagan Heat inside the TCC last weekend gave TRU their fifth win in the past six games.
 
TRU won both games by identical scores of 3-2 as a veteran ‘Pack squad outlasted UBCO en route to helping the school capture its first Presidents’ Cup title since the 2019-20 season.

TWU split a pair of games at home with the Brandon Bobcats in the last action. The Spartans earned a 3-1 victory on Friday before falling 3-2 on Saturday. TWU is 4-2 since the winter break. 

The Spartans won both games that these teams played in Langley last season.
 
By The Numbers
 
4.14 & 3.84: In a battle between two of the best attackers in the conference, Henry Rempel of TWU and his 4.14 kills-per-set and TRU’s Sam Flowerday with 3.84 enter the weekend fourth and fifth in the conference respectively.
 
2,000: Last weekend setter Sam Elgert became just the second player in program history to reach 2,000 career CW assists.
 
70: Nobody in the conference has played more sets than TRU at 70.