The UFV volleyball teams had a weekend of mixed results on their first road trip of the season.
\nFacing the Vancouver Island University Mariners in Nanaimo, the Cascades women opened with a straight-sets victory (25-14, 25-23, 25-17) on Friday to run their record to 5-0. Katie Peacock and Emily Carroll tied for team-high honours with six kills apiece.
\nThe next night, though, the Mariners turned in a performance befitting their status as the reigning PacWest conference champs, handing UFV its first loss (25-14, 24-26, 25-17, 25-15).
\n\u201cThe effort and desire was there, but the execution was not,\u201d UFV head coach Dennis Bokenfohr analyzed. \u201cIn volleyball, if you can\u2019t pass and don\u2019t serve very efficiently, it\u2019s pretty hard to score points. It was just one of those games where it seemed like anything that could go wrong did go wrong.\u201d
\nThe Cascade men, meanwhile, found themselves on the wrong end of a weekend sweep.
\nFriday\u2019s opener was a game of wild momentum swings, with the Mariners ultimately eking out the victory in five sets (25-14, 25-23, 15-25, 16-25, 16-14). Kurtis Stromdahl (16 kills, 12 digs, two aces) and Joel Kleingeltink (11 kills, 15 digs, three blocks) led the way for UFV with well-rounded performances, while middles Robert Koenig and Connor Nickel were instrumental in the team\u2019s mid-game comeback, notching six kills apiece and combining for nine blocks.
\nSaturday\u2019s rematch wasn\u2019t as close, as VIU prevailed in three straight (25-19, 27-25, 25-21). Kleingeltink had 12 kills, while Stromdahl and Adam Chaplin notched 10 apiece.
\n\u201cAgain, we didn\u2019t get off to a good start and it put us in a tough spot,\u201d Cascades coach Kyle Donen said. \u201cOur passing wasn\u2019t the best, but we found our way and we battled. At certain points in the match, we just couldn\u2019t get some breaks. Sometimes that\u2019s just how it goes on the road. We couldn\u2019t sustain momentum.\u201d
\nThe Cascades volleyball teams wrap up their first-semester schedule with six straight home games, beginning this Friday and Saturday vs. the Capilano Blues at the Envision Athletic Centre (women 6 pm, men 8 pm both nights).<\/p>\n
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For more information, contact Dan Kinvig at dan.kinvig@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n 11\/07\/2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UFV volleyball teams had a weekend of mixed results on their first road trip of the season. Facing the Vancouver Island University Mariners in Nanaimo, the Cascades women opened with a straight-sets victory (25-14, 25-23, 25-17) on Friday to run their record to 5-0. Katie Peacock and Emily Carroll tied for team-high honours with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-myufv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}