Last Week:
The Varsity Reds trained for two weeks in preparation for hosting Memorial Seahawks. The Seahawks opened league play last weekend by splitting matches with Saint Mary’s in St. John's, NF. The V-Reds were without 2009-10 AUS 1st Team All-Star Tanya Paulin (Bathurst, NB). The 4th year middle left midway through the STFX match on October 24th and hasn’t practiced since. Complications from her August surgery continue to be challenging forcing her to be out indefinitely.
MUN 2 @ UNB 3 (18-25, 25-16, 25-21, 22-25, 15-11)
Game Notes:
-5th year left-side Jill Blanchard (Saint John, NB) had 21 kills, 10 digs and 26 points.
-2nd year setter Amanda Bakker (Winnipeg, MB) was named Player of the Game with 30 assists and 10 digs.
-In game 4 the V-Reds led 9-8 only to be outscored 0-12 which resulted in being down 9-20. UNB regrouped and outscored MUN 9-0 to bring it back to 18-20.
MUN 0 @ UNB 3 (25-21, 25-20, 25-22)
Game Notes:
-2nd year middle Rebecca Glancy (Toronto, ON) had 11 kills, 4 blocks and hot an impressive .348% to earn Player of the Game.
-5th year left-side Jill Blanchard had 11 kills, 7 digs and 14 points.
-2nd year setter Amanda Bakker had another 30 assists to go along with 5 points.
Some other Conference Results:
DALHOUSIE 3 @ STFX 0
MONCTON 3 @ ACADIA 2
DALHOUSIE 3 @ CBU 2
Coach’s Comments:
“On Saturday our execution level was probably as low as it has been all season. We believed and found a way to steal another five setter, but from a pure execution standpoint we weren’t very good against a pretty good experienced squad. Sunday morning we passed quite a bit better which led to our side-out game improving as well as a drastically better hitting percentage. It was a much better played match all around and I really thought we were able to run some middle offense for the first time in a few weeks.”
UNB Team Record:
Conference Play 3 – 1
Non-CIS Exhibition Play 1 – 0
CIS Exhibition Play 6 – 4
Playoff Results 0 – 0
Overall Record 10 – 5
Upcoming:
The Varsity Reds will now take Monday off before returning to the court to train all week in preparation for two more tough road games. Friday morning the team leaves for Halifax to play at Dalhousie that night at 6:00pm prior to a men’s UNB @ DAL match at 8:00pm. Both matches can be seen on webcast free of charge live at www.ssncanada.ca On Saturday the team will play at 2:00pm against Saint Mary’s.