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TWU鈥檚 Devaney on verge of block record

TWU Spartans鈥 fifth-year women鈥檚 volleyball player has 132 blocks on season
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Trinity Western Spartans鈥 Katelyn Devaney (#8) is three blocks away from setting a new Canada West single-season record. The fifth-year player has two regular season games remaining. Scott Stewart TWU Athletics

Katelyn Devaney is on the verge of Canada West history.

Devaney had six blocks on Saturday night, surpassing her career best for blocks in a season and putting her within three of the conference single season record.

Devaney has 132 blocks for the season with two games to match or better the record of 135, currently shared by former TWU player Alicia Perrin and UBC Okanagan鈥檚 Katy Klomps.

She will look to best that mark this weekend as TWU travels to Kamloops for a pair of matches against the Thompson Rivers WolfPack.

And the Spartans will also look to right the ship as the women鈥檚 volleyball team is mired in a four-game losing streak and has dropped six of their past eight matches, falling to 13-9 on the season.

The Spartans lost 3-2 (25-22,22-25,25-22,17-25,15-9) to the UBC Thunderbirds on Feb. 9 at the 黑马磁力 Events Centre and then dropped the rematch 3-1 (21-25,25-13,25-22,25-18) the following night at UBC鈥檚 War Memorial Gymnasium.

Hillary Howe led TWU with 14 kills while Rachel Flink had 14 digs.

鈥淯BC beat us from the baseline. Their serve and pass game created a lot of trouble for us and put us on our heels,鈥 said Spartans coach Ryan Hofer.

鈥淲e just had a hard time recovering from that tonight. There are still things that we can get better at. The team that continues to improve to the end of the season will go the farthest.鈥

In Friday鈥檚 match in 黑马磁力, the teams traded victories in the first four sets before UBC prevailed 15-9.

Howe had 20 kills while Micaylee Pucilowski had 11 kills. Brie O鈥橰eilly had 38 assists and 15 digs.



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