WOLFPACK MVB FOURTH IN CANADA WEST

For Immediate Release: March 7, 2010


Edmonton, Alta-The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack will go into the 2010 CIS National Men’s Volleyball Championship as the number four seed from the Canada West.

For the first time in three years, the ‘Pack lost in the Canada West Bronze Medal match. Thompson Rivers came out on the short end of a 3-0 decision to the University of Calgary Dinos. The match, played Sunday (Mar 7) at the University of Alberta saw the Dinos win 27-25, 25-19,25-22.

“We played very up and down,” said TRU head coach Pat Hennelly, who returned to the bench after a one game suspension. “ We came back in the first set and lost by two. That seemed to deflate the guys. We couldn’t seem to generate any momentum.”

Henelly felt Robin Schoebel (4th year, outside hitter, Monaco) played well while Canada West Rookie of the Year Kevin Tillie (1st year, left side, Cagnes Sur Mer, France) came on at the end. Tillie had 10 kills. Schoebel chipped in with nine kills. Their attack average of .276.

“As a team, we need to regroup from a tough weekend and be ready to play in front of our home crowd on Friday (Mar 12).”

“We talked about having a tough game,” Hennelly added “Between us and Calgary we are looking at Dalhousie and Laval as potential first round CIS Matchups Those are two tough teams regardless. I don’t know who were are going to get, but we know it is going to be tough. We know we are going to face someone in the top end of the bracket.”

Dinos coach Rod Durrant told the University of Alberta Sports Information department that while he thought his team played well, they needed to work on sustaining that effort for an entire match. His club hit .350 in the match. Don MacNeill (5th year, Grande Prairie, Alta) had 13 kills.

(with assistance from the Alberta Golden Bear Sports Information
Department)
TRU WOLFPACK ATHLETICS: PROUD HOSTS OF THE 2010 CIS MENS NATIONAL VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS-MARCH 12-14 TH TOURNAMENT CAPITAL CENTER, KAMLOOPS BC.
WEBSITE: http://english.cis-sic.ca/championships/mvball/index
http://francais.cis-sic.ca/championships/mvball/index




Larry Read
Sports Information Officer
Thompson Rivers University
900 McGill Road, P.O. Box 3010
Kamloops, BC, Canada V2C 5N3
(250) 377-6117 (office)
(250) 371-5672 (fax)
lread@tru.ca
(250) 819-5255 (blackberry)