VANCOUVER – A colourful Pride Night crowd saw the UBC Thunderbirds (7-5) earn their fourth straight victory and first home series sweep of the season, in a straight sets (25-15, 25-21, 25-18) win over the Saskatchewan Huskies (2-8) at War Memorial Gym Saturday night.

First-year T-Bird Brynn Pasin had an impressive 10 kill, 10 dig, three ace performance off the bench, and U SPORTS leading attacker Kiera Van Ryk continued her tear with 20 kills and a monster .621 hitting percentage.

Emily Koshinsky led the Huskies with 11 kills and a service ace, while setter Averie Allard tallied 16 assists and a team-high seven digs.

The home squad would assert their dominance early, leading 16-8 into the first technical timeout, and a Saskatchewan attack error gave the T-Birds their first set point at 24-13. Van Ryk converted with her eighth kill for a 25-15 set win.

Koshinsky cranked her second and third kills of the match to open the second set and dropped an ace for a 5-1 advantage. The Huskies led by as many as eight points on a run of T-Bird errors before Pasin catalyzed a comeback to make it a three-point deficit down 13-10.

Another Koshinsky kill made it 16-11 Saskatchewan at the technical timeout, but an ace by Kacey Jost eventually tied it at 17-17. Danae Shephard's solo block evened it up again at 21-21, before Van Ryk helped the 'Birds earn the second set on back-to-back kills.

Angela Lavoie gave the Huskies a short-lived lead at 6-5 in a tight third set that saw both teams trade blows until a Van Ryk off-speed tip put the 'Birds up 18-16. The Thunderbirds would maintain the lead through to a 25-18 win.

UBC will resume Canada West competition on January 4 and 5 in Calgary against Mt. Royal, while the Huskies are back at it next weekend to host UBCO.