Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 The Lancer men's volleyball team split their final two home games before the Christmas break this weekend at the St. Denis Centre. 

They narrowly missed completing a come from behind victory on Friday night when they fell 3-2 (23-25, 21-25, 25-18, 25-19, 14-16) in a very tight contest to the York Lions before rebounding on Saturday to sweep the Nipissing Lakers 3-0 (25-13, 25-21, 25-16) at the St. Denis Centre. 

Heading into their final week of competition, Windsor is 4-4 on the year and in a three way tie with the Western Mustangs and Queen's Gaels. 
 
On Friday night, the Lions won the first two sets before Windsor stormed back to win sets three and four to send the game into the fifth and final set. Just like the rest of the match, the teams' battled hard in the fifth and traded points back and forth right until the final point.
 
The Lions opened up the scoring in the first set with a kill from Ray Szeto, however, the Lancers didn't let the Lions take the lead as they tied the score several times.  With the set tied at 23, two Lancer errors gave the Lions the win.
 
The second set proved to be another tie-breaking battle with the Lions barely pushing through at the end to win the set.
 
The Lancers came out determined in the third set and did not let the Lions advance. A number of kills from Gabriel Burlacu guided the Lancers as they shut down the Lions to win the set. In the fourth set, the Lancers battered kills on the Lions en route to a six point set victory.
 
Windsor was led by Greg Simone with 14 kills, two aces and one block, while Gabe Burlacu has similar stats with 14 kills, two blocks and one ace and Adam Thompson had 10 kills.
 
Ray Seto led the Lions with 20 kills and 12 digs, while Josh Henderson had a big game defensively for the visitors with 5.5 blocks to go along with 16 kills.
 
On Saturday against Nipissing, the Lancers dominated the game from the opening serve.

The Lancers jumped out to an early lead, winning the first set 25-13 before the Lakers responded in the second with a better effort, but it was still Windsor who came away with the win.

In the third, the Lancers put things away, winning 25-16 to close things out.  

Burlacu led all athletes with a game high 16 kills and 19 points. 

The Lancers will travel to the GTA next weekend for a pair of games against the Toronto Varsity Blues and Ryerson Rams.