Mariners Battle Blues at Nationals
The VIU Mariners meet the Dawson Blues on Thursday in a national quarterfinal
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The Mariners open the CCAA national championship tournament on Thursday afternoon with a game against the RSEQ champion Blues.
Coming into the tournament the Blues were the fifth ranked team in the nation are will give the Mariners some challenges in the quarterfinal.
The Blues are a bit of a surprise coming out of the RSEQ upsetting the top ranked Vanier team 82-68 in the Quebec finale. They did finish 18-4 during the regular season and can score in bunches averaging over 75 points a game while giving up 64, the second lowest average in the Conference.
The Mariners are looking to bounce back after losing the PACWEST title game to another team with the nickname the Blues.
They will look to jump out quickly and get their big guns into a groove early. All-Canadian Tori Odom will run the offence and distribute the ball down low to the likes of Richard Henderson and Akoi Yuot. All three of these players need to have a strong first quarter to set the pace the rest of the way.
The winner moves onto the national semi-final on Friday.