Box Score The Warriors men's volleyball team did something no other OUA team has been able to do this year and that's take the No. 3 McMaster Marauders to five sets.
The mighty Marauders had only lost four sets coming into their contest with the Warriors on Friday night but Waterloo showed their bright future pushing McMaster to the brink. Unfortunately McMaster would take the final set 15-12 to pick up their 14th straight win. It was a great crowd on hand at the PAC with over 600 fans taking in incredible OUA volleyball action.
The loss drops Waterloo to 6-8 on the season but they are still comfortably in the fourth spot in the OUA west with 12 points. With Waterloo in the fourth spot and McMaster in first in the OUA west an opening round playoff match is very much imminent.
Waterloo got a stellar effort from a pair of outside hitters as
Braden Cok (Waterloo) and
Aidan Simone (London) each put away 13 kills. Rookie outsider hitter
Kevin LeBreux (Cumberland) was also on his game tonight with eight kills and six service aces, including an impressive serving clinic late in the fourth set. At the net Matt Mawdsley and
Jordan McConkey (Stratford) were Warrior Walls with six and nine blocks respectively. The middle blockers also teamed up for nine kills. Setting up the Warriors was
Nikola Dimitrijevic (Mississauga) who had 36 assists while
Waylon Chen (Markham) was Waterloo's defensive leader with eight digs.
It was senior night as
Daniel Fiddick (Bermuda) saw some playing time with one kill as the Warrior bench erupted.
For McMaster it was Andrew Richards who was the go-to target all night for setter Andrew Kocur. Richards led all players with 14 kills in the victory.
Waterloo will now close out their season with three road games with their first tonight in Toronto against Ryerson.
