{"id":489525,"date":"2026-02-21T08:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489525\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T08:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T08:27:12","slug":"dinos-force-game-3-with-big-road-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/489525\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinos force Game 3 with big road win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/logoWPG.png\" alt=\"Winnipeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Match:<\/p>\n<p>at Winnipeg<\/p>\n<p>2\/21\/2026 | 3:00 PM MT<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Feb. 21 (Sat) \/ 3:00 PM MT&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/logoWPG.png\" alt=\"Winnipeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Winnipeg&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/opponent-history\/winnipeg\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    WINNIPEG \u2014 The Calgary Dinos extended their season for at least another day.<\/p>\n<p>The Dinos rallied from three points down in the fifth set and defeated the Winnipeg Wesmen 3-2 (25-19, 22-25, 22-25, 15-11) in Match 2 of their Canada West women&#8217;s volleyball play-in series Friday night at the Duckworth Centre.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The deciding third match goes Saturday at 3 p.m. MT at the Duckworth and live on Canada West TV.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A night after lamenting her team&#8217;s &#8220;compete&#8221; in a straight-sets loss, Calgary coach <a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/coaches\/christine-biggs\/2675\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"2675\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Biggs<\/a> was once again emphasizing it, only this time as a deciding factor in her team&#8217;s ability stay alive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We fixed it,&#8221; Biggs said. &#8220;I had very little to say besides we needed to compete harder yesterday, and very little to say today except we competed harder. That&#8217;s what happens when you battle for everything.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did a better job of fighting and getting after the spaces we knew we were looking for and fighting when it wasn&#8217;t going well. When execution wasn&#8217;t there, we just stayed in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/sophia-hansen\/16850\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16850\" target=\"_blank\">Sophia Hansen<\/a> had a team-high 19 kills and 16 digs for the Dinos, who trailed 8-5 in the fifth set before rattling off seven of the next eight points to seize control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/godinos.com\/sports\/womens-volleyball\/roster\/leni-blanke\/16856\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"16856\" target=\"_blank\">Leni Blanke<\/a> added 16 kills and 11 digs as the Dinos got a ton of production from their hitters on the pins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brooke Duncalfe continued her torrid play with 24 kills and 13 digs. It was her fourth 20-kill match of the season and her third straight double-double. Megan Kendziora added 17 kills but the Wesmen were held to -.056 attacking in the fifth set while the Dinos attacked at .350 in the deciding frame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg hit .235 for the night and Calgary .282 &#8211; tied for their best hitting performance this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>-UC-<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Match: at Winnipeg 2\/21\/2026 | 3:00 PM MT &#13; Feb. 21 (Sat) \/ 3:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-489525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}