Box Score  

The Waterloo Warriors (5-4) dominated the Toronto Varsity Blues (2-5) Saturday afternoon at the PAC, defeating the blue and white in straight sets (25-19, 25-17, 25-14). Jordan Dyck (St. Catharines) and Nikola Dimitrijevic (Mississauga) connected on 11 kills in the victory which pushes the Warriors to a three game winning streak who now sit in 4^th place in the OUA.

The Warriors jumped out to an early 12-8 lead over Toronto in the first set which was an otherwise back and forth affair. Both sides exchanged points as the Warriors were leading 16-13 at the technical timeout.

Waterloo would force the next 2 points to force Toronto into a timeout and this is where the momentum shifted immensely in the Warriors favour. Toronto would be forced into a 2^nd timeout at 22-15 for the black and gold before Waterloo would win the first set 25-19.

The Warriors offence continued to click and they jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the second set and forced the Varsity Blues into an early time out. Waterloo's Dimitrijevic continued to pass the ball around nicely as multiple Warriors got in on the hit parade and thwarted the Toronto defence. Waterloo pushed to a 16-11 lead at the technical timeout before eventually winning the set 25-18 to take a 2-0 lead.

Waterloo seemed most determined to take a straight sets victory as they jumped out to a 10-4 lead and forced Toronto to use a timeout. All afternoon the Varsity Blues' defence struggled against the black and gold's quick offence as they saw themselves down 16-10 at the technical timeout. Waterloo's Jordan Dyck (St. Catharines) would hammer down with an offensive kill on match point to close out the third set and the match 25-14.

The Warriors' Dyck lead the way with 11 kills and 8 blocks (OUA lead with 1.45 blocks per set) with Jordan McConkey (Stratford) and Zachary Doherty (Goderich) combining for 14 kills, 7 blocks and 4 digs. Dimitrijevic collected 32 assists and 2 blocks while Erich Woolley (New Dundee) picked up 16 digs to lead the OUA in digs (103; 5^th in CIS) and digs per set (3.12).

Standouts for the Varsity Blues were Thomas Meier with 9 kills and 3 digs while Jake Dysselhof who had 8 kills and 3 digs. Michael Denton picked up 17 assists and 7 digs in the losing effort.

Waterloo moves to 6-4 on the season and will look to close out their season in winning fashion against the Guelph Gryphons before the holiday break. The Warriors will host Guelph on Friday, November 28^th at 8pm in the PAC and on OUA TV.