Matt Sawatzky: February Lionheart Sports Male Athlete Of The Month
Congratulations to Matt Sawatzky of Men's Volleyball on being selected the CMU Lionheart Sports Male Athlete of the Month for February. A picture of consistency at middle, the rookie was at it again this month leading CMU to a strong finish to the 2018-19 MCAC regular season with a conference-best record of 15-1 and a run of victories that unfortunately ended in a Championships defeat in last weekend's MCAC Men's Volleyball Championship Final.
Continue ReadingJana Klassen: February's Lionheart Sports Female Athlete Of The Month
Congratulations to Jana Klassen of Women's Volleyball on being selected the CMU Lionheart Sports Female Athlete of the Month for February. Klassen helped the Blazers clinch top-spot in the MCAC standings with a big away match-victory on February 9th at USB. The fourth-year left side led her team lead with 12 kills with only 4 errors while adding 3 solo blocks, 1 service aces and 8 digs in the win. Klassen also started the month of February, with a 16 kill performance with 4 solo blocks, 2 aces and 14 digs on February 2nd versus Providence.
Continue ReadingRebels Outlast Blazers In Thrilling MCAC Women's Volleyball Championship
Slow starts in the first and final sets proved to be too large an obstacle for CMU to overcome as the Blazers watched the Red River Rebels lift their first-ever MCAC Championship Trophy in Women's Volleyball on Sunday afternoon in Otterburne.
White-out conditions didn't stop a large crowd from gathering at Providence University College to witness the 2019 edition of the MCAC Volleyball Final Fours. Confident and coming off a straight-sets win on Saturday over the ACC Cougars and what was likely their most complete performance of the season, Women's Volleyball found themselves down 13-7 early on after Rebels setter Chloe Orteza served a run of six consecutive points, including an ace, to force CMU to their first timeout. Momentum in the opening set would continue out of the timeout, as Red River went on to take the first set in convincing fashion, with Championship Most Valuable Player, Ashley Goodwin, scoring off a block for the set-winning kill.
Continue ReadingNo Nerves For Men's Volleyball As The Defending Champs Enter Final Fours
The Blazers are now 48 hours away from taking the first step in a successful title defense of the Manitoba Colleges Athetic Conference Men's Volleyball trophy they won exactly one year ago. But entering matches of this magnitude of importance with the a target on their backs, is nothing new for the team. 2019 will be the second year in a row where CMU expects to win and after solidifying the top-seed this season in mid-January with a nearly perfect record of 15-1, no one on the team is going to be losing sleep this week as they prepare for the 2019 MCAC Final Fours.
Continue ReadingPlett Scores Six As Women's Futsal Rediscovers Form Against Pilots
After Women's Futsal's record 16-match winning streak, (dating back to March 2017), came screeching to a halt on January 25th in a 7-2 home defeat to the Red River Rebels and CMU let a two-goal advantage slip away in the final few minutes in last night's 5-4 loss to the USB Rouges, the Blazers had their tails up and were back to scoring goals in large numbers on Sunday afternoon when they hosted the Providence Pilots.
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