Cougars earn weekend split with four-set win over MacEwan

Cougars earn weekend split with four-set win over MacEwan

The University of Regina's women's volleyball team earned a weekend split and celebrated Senior Night in fashion with a four-set victory over MacEwan on Saturday night at the Centre for Kinesiology, Health & Sport.

The two teams split the opening sets with the Cougars (7-15) opening up the match with a 25-22 win and MacEwan taking a 25-19 win in the second, but it was all Regina from there. The Cougars took the third set by a 25-19 score thanks in large part to a 6-0 run with Tori Glynn serving, then hit .348 as a team in a dominant fourth which they won by a 25-13 count.

Saturday's match marked the final time that fifth-year players Lindsay Braul, Michelle Sweeting, and Chelsea Ziolkowski will play at the CKHS. Each had major contributions in the win, with Braul finishing with 13 digs, Sweeting collecting 11 kills and 11 digs, and Ziolkowski adding 11 kills and 10 digs.

Leah Shevkenek had 38 assists and eight digs for the Cougars, while Glynn had nine kills and led all players with 16 digs. Sweeting, Ziolkowski, and Molly Wade-Cummings all had four blocks.

The Cougars fired a total of 11 service aces in the win, including five by Sweeting and four by Jenna Krahn. Sweeting now has 102 career aces, which ties her with Beth Clark for the school's all-time lead with two matches left in her CIS career.

The loss was a critical one for MacEwan, which drops to 10-12 on the season and can now only make the postseason if the Griffins sweep Manitoba next weekend and the Cougars go on the road and take two over UBC. Madison Porisky led the Griffins with eight kills, while Dakota Wilson had 11 blocks for the second consecutive night and Christina Campbell had 12 digs, seven kills, and seven blocks.