Box Score The Waterloo women's volleyball team lost their seventh straight as the No. 8 Ottawa Gee-Gees edged the Warriors 3-1 on Saturday afternoon in Ottawa. 

The Gee-Gees improved their record to 12-1 and remain atop the OUA standings, while the Warriors fell to 2-10.

The Gee-Gees took an early 8-2 lead to start the first set, forcing the Warriors to burn a timeout. The timeout did nothing to stop Ottawa's momentum, as Ottawa scored the next five points to stretch their advantage to 11 points. The Warriors attempted to make a game of it late in the set, but it was a case of too little, too late as Ottawa won 25-12.

The Warriors matched the Gee-Gees' effort point-for-point to start the second set, as Waterloo took a 10-8 lead. Ottawa re-took the lead at 12-11 thanks to a strong blocking effort from third-year right side hitter Kelsie English and fifth-year middle Kathryn Weihrer and uOttawa had a three point advantage at the technical timeout. The Gee-Gees scored eight straight points to end the second set, winning 25-14.

Once again, the Warriors competed hard to begin the third set, and were able to sustain their high level of play, taking a 16-11 lead at the technical timeout—Ottawa made some uncharacteristic errors to help Waterloo's cause as they would take the set 25-19.

Waterloo's momentum carried into the fourth set, as the Warriors earned a 10-5 advantage early in the fourth frame. The Gee-Gees cut Waterloo's lead to just 15-14, thanks to some top-notch serving from sophomore middle Alix Durivage and Ottawa managed to take the lead at 17-16 after a 7-1 run. In the end, the Gee-Gees got the points when they needed it most, beating Waterloo 25-20 in the final set of play.

Second year outside hitter Clara Tse (Hong Kong/) was the top point getter for the Warriors with 13 kills.  Tse also added seven digs in a losing effort.  Shannon Lodoen (Waterloo/) was next with nine kills while Roselyn Zhang (Toronto/) did a good job of coming off the bench and tallying seven kills in two sets of play.  Third year setter Mikaela Klie (/) had 28 assists in the match.

The Warriors will look to snap their losing streak today when they battle the Queen's Gaels in Kingston at 12pm.