HAMILTON (February 24, 2017) - The Queen's Gaels (9-9) traveled to Hamilton to face the No.8 McMaster Marauders (15-3) where they lost in three straight sets to snap the Gaels four-game winning streak. 

GAME FLOW

The Gaels began the match with the first serve by Victoria Wensley (Coquitlam, B.C.) and an attacking error put Queen's up 1-0. They continued to control the play early as Danielle Corrigan (North Vancouver, B.C.) and Caroline Livingston (Kelowna, B.C.) went for back-to-back kills giving the Gaels an early 5-2 edge. Seven of the next eight points went to McMaster and the Marauders and Gaels stayed close throughout the opening set. McMaster was finally able to pull away and take the opening set 25-19.

The second set started out strong for the Gaels once again, this time keeping a lead of their own through to 8-7.  Unfortunately, at a tied score of 8-8 a series of attack errors led to a string of points for the Marauders who jumped ahead 15-8. Unable to come back into the game and regain their lead, the Gaels lost 25-18 in the second set. 

The third set was a strong game for the Marauders, with a hitting percentage of .522 they were making kill after kill looking to close out the match.   Fighting back the Gaels were able to make up a few points but McMaster was too strong taking nine straight and one point and sealing the match with a 25-11 third set win. 
 

BY THE NUMBERS

244-  Caroline Livingston (Kelowna, B.C.) was the Queen's Athlete of the week this past week and is currently seated number two in the OUA for number of kills. Livingston is also third in the league for average number of kills with 3.64

25- The number of kills made by the Gaels tonight

UP NEXT

Queen's will close out the OUA regular season tomorrow night at 6pm when they visit the Brock Badgers.