by Trevor Howlett, Fort McMurray TODAY

11/04/2011 -Both Keyano volleyball teams are on the road this weekend to take on the King's College Eagles in ACAC action.

The women's team are looking for their first win of the season after going 0-4 the last two weekends, but they may have a hard time against the Eagles.

"They are a top team from last year, they finished at the top of the league in the regular season and they returned all of their players except one on the outside," said coach Sean Seywright.

"I expect a consistent performance from them and some dynamic attacking. We put in a game plan to try to put them at some disadvantages or just force them out of where they are comfortable."

With the challenge ahead of them, Seywright is simply looking for improved play from last weekend.

He knows that his team can play well under pressure and hopes they can realize that.

"It's still early in the season for us and we still have a lot of new players in our program so we're looking for growth," said Seywright.

"They're a good team and they know that we're hungry. In the preseason we only lost by a couple of points, maybe 3 or 4, but we were with them in every game.

"Also we're pretty hungry and hopefully we'll come away with our first win of the year."

The men's Huskies team are looking to build off a strong homeopener weekend and improve their record from 2-2.

Kings is coming off a loss to NAIT but otherwise have the same record as King's so the two should have a close match.

Will Gelderman, left-side for the Eagles, is currently fifth, just behind Huskies right-side Matthew Hebert in kills per set in the ACAC, adding to the interest in the matchup.

The men's team plays Kings at 8 p.m. tonight and 3 p.m. on Saturday.

The women play at 6 p.m. and 1 p.m. at the King's Gym.

10/29/2011 - Despite getting beat 25-17, 25-21 and 25-21 today, the Keyano College Huskies women’s volleyball team came away with some positive vibes after losing to the Lethbridge Kodiaks at the Syncrude Sport & Wellness Centre.

In Game 1 instead of being down 13-1 as was the case the previous night, they stayed even until 4-4 in which Kodiaks Cassie Mucciarone went on a seven serve run which included three aces.

In Game 2 Huskies Tena Brass managed to bump a third hit over the net despite being at least 20 feet off the far end of her own side. Huskies Kathleen Sharun came alive with back-to-back kills at 14-22 and again at 17-21.

In the end it was just too much power at the net as the Kodiaks out spiked the Huskies 39-20.
Sharun led the Huskies attack with six kills.

“We had a better commitment to serve/receive today,” said Huskies head Coach Sean Seywright. “It gave us more chances and got us more engaged into the game.”
Seywright juggled the line-up a bit today starting rookie Rianne Virostek who came through with four kills.

“She is young and still makes a few unforced errors here and there. She brings that fearlessness that kids sometimes bring.”

Seywright was also high in praise of 5th year setter Brass who was named Huskies game MVP.

“When she is focused, there is no better kid on the team. She brings a great sense of leadership and communication to the team that the other kids feed off of.

10/28/2011 - Keyano College Huskies women's volleyball could not regroup from the opening game against the Lethbridge Kodiaks tonight in which they committed six unforced errors to give the visitors a quick 13-1 edge. It was not until scoring their fifth point at 5-17 that the Huskies had their very first bump-set-spike and point. The Huskies lost the opening game 25-17 and game two 25-11. Huskies coach Sean Seywright pulled three starters and replaced them with Kelsey Bergey, Tiersa Kejick and Rianne Virostek for Game 3 which saw the Huskies playing under more control and confidence despite losing 25-16.

Sara Bizovie was Huskies MVP while Hannan Minck with 9 kills got the Kodiaks honour.  Kodiaks had 26 kills compared to 11 for the Huskies.

The two teams return to Syncrude Sport & Wellness Centre tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Huskies men won 3-1 by scores of 25-16, 25-25, 17-25 and 27-25 statistics still to come.

by Trevor Howlett, Fort McMurray TODAY

It's another Keyano College homeopener weekend in the CNRL gymnasium at the Syncrude Sport and Wellness Centre as both the men's and women's Huskies volleyball teams are set to take on the Lethbridge College Kodiaks.

The women's Huskies are up first, taking on the Kodiaks at 6 p.m. tonight and 1 p.m. on Saturday.

The Huskies are currently 0-2 after losing to Grant MacEwan last weekend, while the Kodiaks split their sets last weekend against Kings and currently hold a 1-1 record.

"We don't have that much information on them. They've got kind of a new team this year, a couple of new players," said Huskies assistant coach Kristy Fewchuk.

"Their middles are obviously going to be a big part of their team. They're going to have a good fight, they did decently last weekend against Kings, and we've played Kings and held our own against them so it should be a good battle."

She added, "But it's important that we show up and execute our game plan that we've been practicing."

Fewchuk believes her team needs to do well on serving and serve-receive if they are going to come away with some victories this weekend.

First-year outside hitter Rianne Virostek, said the team needs to improve on their mistakes last weekend if they are going to win against Lethbridge.

"We need to pass balls and keep our attitudes positive and work as team," said Virostek.

"Last week we didn't play the way we can, but we should be able to beat Lethbridge because their defence isn't supposed to be strong."

The men's team similarly didn't have a great first weekend, but they're ready to work hard against the Kodiaks after a hard week of practice.

The Huskies lost to Grant MacEwan last week, but all matches except one were within two points.

"The only challenge is on our own side; we just need to improve on some things," said men's coach Trent Mason.

"We haven't seen their side, so we'll just worry about our own team for now. We just need to go out and play volleyball and do what we're capable of doing, having our experienced guys showing their veteran presence on the floor."

The men's team is hoping that playing where they practice will give them a home-court advantage this weekend, as they haven't played any games at home yet this year.

The team is thinking that with Lethbridge's long drive and having their players sleeping in their own beds might help them come out on top this weekend.

"Any time someone has to make that drive north instead of us going south, it's a big advantage," said Mason.

"That first night is always crucial when there is a team in a brand new gym for the first day. We'll definitely be looking to take advantage of that."

The men's Huskies will play Lethbridge at 8 p.m. tonight and 3 p.m .on Saturday