Box Score

VANCOUVER - The Calgary Dinos managed a weekend road split with the UBC Thunderbirds, taking a straight-sets, 3-0 victory Saturday night at War Memorial Gym (25-16, 25-22, 27-25).

Although they came out strong with a 5-1 lead early in the first set, the T-Birds again were the victims of a lopsided first set score as they were on Friday. An 8-0 run for the Dinos in the middle of the set led to a 25-16 opening win for them.

But while the T-Birds bounced back with three straight hard-fought set wins on Friday, head coach Richard Schick cautioned that his side can't rely on winning every close set they encounter, and they found themselves on the wrong end of two close ones to finish Saturday's match.

Graham Vigrass was huge for the Dinos late in both the second and third sets. He recorded the team's final two kills of the second set and two of the last three in the third. He also came up with a big block in the third set that halted a UBC rally and put the Dinos up 23-22.

UBC hung in with two David Zeyha Kills and a huge solo block from setter Milan Nikic, but after a Trent Monagle kill set up match point for Calgary, he then helped finish it off as part of a three-way block with Jay Blankenau and Levi Nutma to seal the win.

The Dinos block was strong all night. Nutma and Monagle had six block assists each, and Calgary had 13.5 as a team.

Allen Meek led the Dinos to a 2-0 lead with six kills in each of the first two sets. He added three in the third to finish with a match-high 15.

Zeyha led the T-Birds with 10 kills. Robert Bennett was next with eight, but the offence struggled as a whole, hitting just .101 in the match.

The Dinos improve to 5-5, and will be at home to wrap up their first half schedule against UBC Okanagan next weekend, Dec. 2-3, in the Jack Simpson Gym.

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