{"id":84285,"date":"2023-03-17T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=84285"},"modified":"2023-03-18T00:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T04:33:25","slug":"badgers-advance-to-u-sports-consolation-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/03\/badgers-advance-to-u-sports-consolation-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"Badgers advance to U SPORTS consolation bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 2 Brock Badgers will move on to the consolation bracket after falling 3-1 (25-18, 19-25, 25-27, 20-25) to the No. 7 University of British Columbia Thunderbirds at War Memorial Gymnasium in the quarter-finals of the U SPORTS Women\u2019s Volleyball Championships on Friday, March 17.<\/p>\n<p>The Badgers will play the loser of No. 6 Manitoba versus No. 3 Mount Royal on Saturday, March 18. Details to follow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/03\/student-athlete-brings-same-dedication-to-hospital-as-volleyball-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grace Pyatt<\/a> was named Brock\u2019s Player of the Game. She scored 16 kills on 26 swings for a .577 attacking percentage. The senior middle added three blocks and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Badgers won the first set in convincing fashion as they hit for .429 (18-3-35) while holding UBC to .176 (11-5-34).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them after the game we played a set and a half of some of the best volleyball I\u2019ve ever seen us play. It was great,\u201d said head coach Steve Delaney. \u201cWe had the momentum and then at the end of the third set we started getting tight and unfortunately that carried over into the fourth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After dropping the second set, the Badgers began to rally in the third before the Thunderbirds pulled away by three points.<\/p>\n<p>Brock second-year outside hitter Laurin Ainsworth led all players with 22 kills. She added five digs, three blocks and two service aces.<\/p>\n<p>Ainsworth threw down nine kills in the first set at a clip of .615 attacking percentage.<\/p>\n<p>She had 16 after the Thunderbirds tied the match up in the second set.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaurin was our Most Improved Player last year and she has transitioned to a new position at university because she was basically a middle before she arrived at Brock,\u201d Delaney said. \u201cI\u2019m super proud of the way she\u2019s developed in her two years that she\u2019s been with us, and I think she\u2019s only going to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Libero <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2023\/03\/brock-badgers-defensive-standout-inspired-by-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aleiah Torres<\/a> and outside hitter Emily Foest posted 13 and 11 digs, respectively. Torres chipped in four assists and Foest contributed nine kills.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m proud of what we did. At times, we looked like we were just going to walk away with it, but when we\u2019re playing the home team in their gym, there\u2019s momentum that can switch as we know that happened last week in our gym, in our favour,\u201d Delaney said. \u201cThis time it happened against us. It\u2019s tough, but we must be able to regroup.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The No. 2 Brock Badgers will move on to the consolation bracket after falling 3-1 to the No. 7 University of British Columbia Thunderbirds at War Memorial Gymnasium in the quarter-finals of the U SPORTS Women\u2019s Volleyball Championships on Friday, March 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":84286,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,58],"tags":[256,4437,582,4620,669],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84287,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84285\/revisions\/84287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}