KINGSTON, Ont. (November 11, 2017) - The Queen's Gaels (3-1) came back from a 2-1 deficit to take down the Waterloo Warriors (3-3) in five sets on Saturday night. Set scores finished 25-19, 17-25, 34-32, 23-25 and 11-15.
GAME FLOW
A match between two rivals in the OUA, fans on Saturday night were not disappointed after the match. The Warriors were quick out of the gate taking two of the opening three sets to lead 2-1 in the match.
The Gaels did take the second set 25-17 finishing the frame with a 0.524 kill percentage and just two attack errors, but the Warriors outlasted the Gaels in the third with a 34-32 set win.
Despite trailing the Tricolour were able to rally. Â Down 22-20 in the fourth set, the Gaels rattled off five of the next six points to extend the match to a fifth and final frame. Jack Peckham (Hamilton) had a pair of kills during the run, and Mitchell Neuert (Toronto) finished off a set from Zane Grossinger (Richmond Hill, Ont.) to seal the frame.
In the fifth set, the Gaels used four early kills from
Markus Trence (Hockley Valley, Ont.) to get out to a 13-6 lead on the Warriors. Waterloo battled back with five straight points of their own to get to within two.
Trence put down his 27th kill of the match, and the Warriors committed an attack error to hand Queen's the win.
BY THE NUMBERS
56 - Assists from Grossinger
27 - kills and 11 digs from Trence
4 - Gaels with double-digit dig totals
5 - Blocks for
Malcolm Prentice
UP NEXT
The Gaels are back in action next Saturday when they visit their cross-town rivals the RMC Paladins.
