BRANDON – Provincial rivals are on a collision course and the Canada West playoffs will be their battleground.
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The Brandon University men's volleyball team will welcome the Winnipeg Wesmen for a best-of-three quarter-final series at the Healthy Living Centre this coming weekend.
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Match 1 – Friday, February 23 at 7:00 pm
Match 2 – Saturday, February 24 at 7:00 pm
Match 3 – Sunday, February 25 at 4:00 pm
(if necessary)
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Tickets can be purchased at the front desk of the Healthy Living Centre or online through
AuthentiGATE. Playoff tickets are $10 for adults; seniors, BU staff, faculty and alumni pay $7 while youth (age 14-17) are $5. Kids 13-and-under can catch the playoff games for free, as can all current BU students.
Brandon clinched home court advantage in the opening round thanks to a fourth-place finish in the conference with a 17-and-7 record. Home court was huge for BU during the regular season as they posted a near perfect record of 10-and-1.
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The Bobcats split their home-and-home series with the Wesmen during the regular season. Brandon fell in five sets in Winnipeg on November 28, but rebounded with a five-set victory of their own on December 1 at the HLC.
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Brandon also came out on top in their two exhibition meetings with Winnipeg. The Bobcats won a four-set showdown at the end of September as part of BU's pre-season tournament. They later eliminated Winnipeg from the Wesmen Classic during the Christmas break. The Bobcats swept Winnipeg in the semifinals en route to winning the tournament title.
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BU and Winnipeg have a long history and it includes a previous showdown in the post-season. The last time the Bobcats hosted in the playoffs was 2014-15 when BU earned a hard-fought quarter-final series win over the Wesmen.
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