Thomaidis, who is in her 26th season of coaching the Huskies and holds a career total record of 345-161, tied the benchmark of 344 wins — set by former UBC head coach Deb Hubbard — on Friday night as the Huskies defeated the Griffins 83-35.
University of Saskatchewan Huskies head coach Lisa Thomaidis became the most winningest coach in Canada West women’s basketball history on Saturday night as she guided her team to a 91-35 victory over the host MacEwan Griffins for the 345th win of her career.
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Thomaidis, who is in her 26th season of coaching the Huskies and holds a career total record of 345-161, tied the benchmark of 344 wins — set by former UBC head coach Deb Hubbard — on Friday night as the Huskies defeated the Griffins 83-35.
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Saskatchewan’s Logan Reider led both teams with 17 points on Friday, while teammate Gage Grassick picked up a game-high 26 points on Saturday.
The wins have also improved the Huskies to a 14-2 record this season. With two weekends left to play, they are sitting second in the Canada West Prairie Conference.
Saskatchewan’s men’s team also picked up a weekend sweep against the Griffins — their first of the season — pulling out narrow victories of 69-64 on Friday and 85-79 on Saturday.
Easton Thimm scored a team-high 15 points for the Dogs in the first game, while Freddy Kapinga led both teams with 21 points in the second game.
The men’s team, which improves to 3-13 and sit ninth in the Prairie Conference, will be in a fight to finish Top 7 and make playoffs with two weekends left in the regular season.
VOLLEYBALL
Fifth-year players for the U of S men’s and women’s volleyball teams played their last regular-season game in front of a hometown crowd on Saturday night, with both capturing wins against the UBC-Okanagan Heat.
Led by 18 kills from Emmett Graham, the men’s team won 3-1 (25-27, 25-13, 25-16 and 29-27), while the women also won 3-1 (25-16, 25-18, 25-27 and 25-20) with Rosetta Cyr picking up 20 kills.
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It was a similar scene on Friday night as Lucas Musschoot’s eight kills helped the Huskies sweep the Heat 3-0 (25-16, 25-18 and 25-19) on the men’s side, while Taryn Hannah earned 17 kills with the women winning 3-2 (25-20, 25-22, 21-25, 25-27 and 15-7).
Outside hitters Jefferson Morrow and Joshua Thorson, a serve specialist, were honoured as graduating fifth-year players on the men’s team.
Meanwhile, the women’s team paid tribute to former setter turned Libero/back-row specialist Haley Poier, outside hitter Julia Tregobov and middle Julia Howell Bourner, all graduating players.
There’s only one weekend left of regular-season action for the volleyball teams and both are poised to finish Top 10 in their respective standings and move onto playoffs, with the men currently third at 13-5 and the women seventh at 10-8.
HOCKEY
Chase Bertholet scored three minutes and 53 seconds into overtime to give the Huskies the 5-4 victory over the host MacEwan Griffins on Saturday night in men’s hockey action.
The two teams went back-and-forth for most of the game with Gunner Kinniburgh, Keaton Sorensen, Dawson Holt and Raphael Pelletier also scoring for the Dogs, while Jordan Kooy made 20 saves in net.
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On Friday, Saskatchewan entered the third period tied at one, but Ty Prefontaine and Ethan Regneir both scored in the final period to give their team the 3-1 win.
Chantz Petruic opened scoring for Huskies in that game with a goal in the first period, while goaltender Roddy Ross made 19 saves.
Saskatchewan has clinched a spot in the Canada West playoffs and are first overall in the Canada West conference with a 20-4-0 record.
In women’s action, Bronywn Boucher and Jayde Cadiuex scored a pair of goals in the second period on Saturday night to tie the game 2-2 against the visiting Griffins, eventually forcing overtime and a shootout where MacEwan came out on top 3-2.
Colby Wilson made 28 saves in that game.
The night before, Wilson claimed her fourth shutout victory of the season as the Huskies defeated the Griffins 1-0. Boucher had the lone goal for Saskatchewan.
With a 5-13-6 record and only two weekends left to play, the Huskies are in a must-win situation to finish Top 3 in the East Division and make the playoffs. They are currently fourth and trail the third-place Regina Cougars by eight points.
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