CIS women's volleyball Saturday roundup: Four Gaels finish with double digit kills in win over Gryphons

KINGSTON, Ont.`- Shannon Walsh of Kingston, Ont., finished with a game high 44 assists as Walsh was given the opportunity to start as the Gaels setter. The match was back and forth, going five sets before the Gaels (7-3) sealed the win over Guelph (4-4) in set five 15-10 ( (25-22, 16-25, 25-22, 23-25, 15-10).
 
Walsh had no shortage of offensive outlets to feed the ball to, with Becky Billings of Ottawa, Natalie Gray of Oshawa, Ont., Katie Neville of Cambridge Ont., and Katie Hagarty of Aurora, Ont. registering double digit numbers in kills. This well rounded attack overwhelmed the Gryphon defense, which was led up at the net by Erinn Bickle of Whitby, Ont., who individually accounted for a game high 10 blocks in the loss. Bickle contributed 14 kills to lead all Gryphons on the day.
 
The Gaels final point to seal the match came off of an outside kill from Gray who went cross court to seal the win for Queen's.
 
This first win of the new year maintains the Gaels spot near the top of the OUA standings as they now sit tied with the Toronto Varsity Blues and Ottawa Gee Gees for second place at 7-3.
 
The Gaels will take to the court again tomorrow at home against the Waterloo Warriors with game time set for 12pm.

Source: Queen`s Sports Info

WINDSOR, Ont. - The Lancer women’s volleyball team lost a pair of home games over the weekend to the Toronto Varsity Blues and the Ryerson Rams.
 
In the first match back from the holiday break, the Toronto Varsity Blues defeated the Windsor Lancers 3-0 (13-25, 17-25, 19-25).
 
Toronto came out strong in game one as they jumped out to an 8-1 and 12-2 leads. Windsor battled back to make the score 16-12 for Toronto, only to see Toronto end the game on a 9-1 run. 
 
In game two, Toronto again jumped out to an early lead at 5-1, but Windsor again battled back to make the score 9-7 Windsor on the strong front row play of Ana Vrcelj and Kaila Seguin.  With the game tied at 12, the Varsity Blues used the strong play of Charlotte Sider and setter Malena Rapaport to gain a 22-15 advantage and eventually take the second set 25-17.
 
In the third, the Blues jumped out to an early 6-2 lead and maintained that gap the rest of the way to hang on 25-19 and take the match in three sets.
 
Ana Vrcelj and Kaila Seguin led the Lancer attack with 7 kills, while Jen Ellig had 10 digs defensively.
 
On Saturday, the Rams were too much for the Lancers as Ryerson won the match 3-0 (18-25, 22-25, 15-25).
 
Team leaders for the Lancers were Jessica Shipley with 19 assists, Kaila Seguin with 8 kills, and Chelsey Drouillard 11 digs.
 
For Ryerson Danielle Lenarduzzi contributed 33 assists, Chelsea Jensen had 16 kills, and Carli Yim had 13 digs.
 
Windsor hits the road next weekend to take on the Waterloo Warriors at 6:00pm on Friday night.

Source: Windsors Sports Info