A pair of B.C. teams, 91原创鈥檚 Trinity Western University, and UBC Thunderbirds, dominated at the Volleyball Showcase in 91原创.

Organized by The Volleyball Network, the event featured six of the premier women鈥檚 USPORTS volleyball programs, two Canadian women鈥檚 university programs apiece from B.C., Alberta and Ontario at the three-day event held October 14 to 16 at 91原创 Events Centre.

鈥淭he level of play was incredible, especially for the middle of October,鈥� said Elie Shermer, creator and founder of the Volleyball Network.

While Shermer was happy with the competitiveness of each match, he said both the Thunderbirds and Spartans, the defending champions, showed just how strong they are.

Both the TWU and UBC teams finished with identical 3-0 records, with each team also dropping just a single set over those the course of those three games.

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Trinity Western鈥檚 women鈥檚 volleyball team, entering the year as the defending national and conference champions, opened the Volleyball Showcase with a 3-1 (25-22, 25-23, 23-25, 25-13) win over Alberta on Friday. The game was a rematch of last year鈥檚 Canada West championship, which the Spartans won.

Spartans closed with 3-0 wins over both the Waterloo Warriors (25-17,25-20,25-19) and Queen鈥檚 (25-23,25-20,25-12).

Following TWU鈥檚 win over the Warriors, where Spartan Emma Gamache was named player of the match, head coach Ryan Hofer, who is experimenting with the team lineup, had nothing but good things to say about their performance, pronouncing himself 鈥渞eally pleased.鈥�

鈥淲e are still trying to figure out what the season is going to look like, and I feel that in order to go deep in this league, you can鈥檛 just have seven players,鈥� Hofer said.

鈥淲e are trying to develop a team and give opportunity to players and figure out what our combination is going to look like and what is going to help us for the season.鈥�

Thunderbirds were 3-0 winners over both the Queen鈥檚 Gaels (25-18,26-24,25-23) and Alberta Pandas (25-19,27-25,26-24) on the first two days before dropping their first set of the weekend on Sunday, only to close with three straight to defeat the Mount Royal Cougars 3-1 (20-25,25-15,25-23,25-23).

Mount Royal finished the weekend at 2-1 while Alberta was 1-2. Both Waterloo and Queen鈥檚 were 0-3.

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