so this past weekend was our best 2-3 series with he Dal Tigers for the AUS Championships, and fortunately for us, we made it a clean sweep! We defeated the tigers on home court Friday evening with a score of 3-1 (23-25, 25-22, 25-17, 25-23), player of the match was league MVP, Julio Fernandez who tallied up 13 kills, 8 digs and 2 blocks in the 4 set match. The 2nd match took place Sunday evening at the Richard J Currie Center....the crowd was electric to say the least! Once again however, we were unable to capitalize in the first set (whether it was nerves etc), and lost a close one 25-23, but after that, it was all smooth sailing. We took the next 3 sets with scores of 25-17, 25-19, 25-7...and the AUS Banner!! Player of the match was AUS rookie of the year, Eivind Andersen who racked up 10 kills, 9 digs and 3 blocks for the varsity reds.
Winning on home court was definitely a surreal experience, especially for myself and other graduating teammate Matt Sweet. It was an awesome way to finish off our career at UNB! On behalf of the team, we just want to say a huge thanks to all the fans that came out for our match and battled through the snowstorm to do so, we all really appreciate it...without a doubt the 7th man!
Our next step is now looking ahead at CIS nationals in Quebec City in two weeks! University of Laval hosts this years championship and so far, 3 teams have booked their tickets, ourselves, University of Laval and University of Montreal. The OUA and CanWest playoffs are this weekend and the final 5 deciding teams will be known by sunday evening. We are unsure what seed we will get going into nationals, but it doesn't matter,we are practicing and training harder and better than ever and we will be ready for whoever we face in the first round.
As we get closer to the nationals, I will fill you all in on our seeding, as well as give you the webcast link to the matches. Thanks again for all the love and support at home over the season, UNB hands down has the best fans out there! Cheers,
Costa
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