THE TIMES TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013
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regroup after losses; UFV women grab Heat back home Friday night Canada West title T
JEAN KONDA-WITTE
JKonda-Witte@abbotsfordtimes.com
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– JEAN KONDA-WITTE/TIMES
UFV’s Nicole Wierks shoots despite a block by Trinity post Holly Strom in Friday night action at the Envision Athletic Centre.
he UFV Cascades women beat Trinity Western twice on the weekend to claim the school’s first ever Canada West regular season title in basketball. “I like how our bench stepped up tonight. They really gave us a spark and that is going to be huge for us as we head to playoffs,” said head coach Al Tuchscherer. On Friday the Cascades beat the Spartans 77-66 at Envision, and on Saturday the score was 84-76 for UFV. The double win gives the Cascades an 18-4 regular season record, establishing a new win mark and shattering the old mark set last year at 12. Sarah Wierks was the overall Cascades leader with 16 points and 14 rebounds on Saturday, Kayli Sartori had 14 points and seven rebounds, and Aieisha Luyken ended with 14 points and six rebounds.
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In Friday night’s contest the Cascades were led by Nicole Wierks with 17 points, five assists and 11 rebounds. Luyken finished with 11 points and Katie Brink had 10. The team is now ready to face the University of Saskatchewan this week on home court in quarter-final action. The best-of-three series kicks off Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Envision Athletic Centre. Other games are Friday and Saturday, with 7 p.m. start times. The games will be broadcast live via Canada West TV Conference web site at www. canadawest.org or at www. ufvcascades.ca.
he Abbotsford Heat lost its last four games on the road but still retain their lead in the North Division with 59 points (26-20-3-4), which is also good enough for third in the AHL Western Conference. It was a rough weekend for the Heat, as they lost 4-1 to Peoria, Friday, 7-2 to Rockford Saturday and 3-1 to Milwaukee on Sunday. On Wednesday they face the Chicago Wolves (Vancouver Canucks farm team) before heading home for a weekend set against the Charlotte Checkers at the AESC. Danny Taylor is back with the Flames after trading places with Leland Irving on Saturday, as part of corresponding goalie transactions. Taylor was signed by the Flames on Feb. 6 and didn’t touch the ice before being assigned to Abbotsford. Taylor has never made an NHL start but did play 20 minutes in the 2008-09 season for the LA Kings, who drafted him in 2004 NHL Entry Draft. When asked about Irving, Flames GM Jay Feaster stated: “We want Leland to go down and work on sharpening his game. At the same time this enables us to continue to evaluate Danny Taylor at the NHL level. We are undergoing a process of evaluating our other goaltenders, and this assignment of Leland and subsequent recall of Danny is in furtherance of that evaluation process.”
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