The Windsor Lancers women's volleyball team closed out the fall semester with a huge win at home in front of a loud and proud crowd at the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse. The Lancers snapped the York Lions 3-game winning streak coming into the match in a 3-2 (25-19, 25-21, 22-25, 14-25, 15-12) thrilling win to close out the 2019 home games.
 
The win improves the Lancers to 3-4 on the year while the Lions fall to 4-4 this season.  The Lancers are now riding a 2-game winning streak heading into their next match. 
 
GAME STATS
Ally Winik had herself a night in front of her hometown crowd putting up a season high of 14 kills in the victorious effort. Yaila Sealy also played a major part in securing the win with 14 kills of her own on the night and led the team with 3 service aces. Amie Slawson continued to be a defensive beast digging up 27 balls in the win. Brooke Davis had 35 assists in the win as well. York's Olivia Kim led the game in kills with 20 on 57 attempts which was the most attempted by a player on either team in the match. 
 
Game Flow
The first set started out with both teams trading points going back and forth early on in the set. It would be not until the midway mark of the set that the blue and gold would capture control to lead themselves to victory in the first by a score of 25-19.
 
For the second set, the Lancers came out strong early on holding a 4-0 lead when then things started to get interesting again with both sides exchanging points with one another similarly to the first set. The Lancers however would break the spell and prevail after tying things off 25-21 and take a 2-0 lead in the match.  
 
The third set would begin differently though with York picking up most of the momentum early on looking to extend this match to at least another set. Consistent play by the Lions allowed them the chance to play another set taking it 25-22 making things interesting in the match as it sat at 2-1 Lancers. In the fourth set, York yet again maintained control and dominated in the set and were ambitious enough to force a 5^th set but they indeed did following a statement set win by a score of 25-14 which started to quiet down the hype crowd at the St. Denis Centre and allow them to chase their potential fourth straight win in a row.  
 
The raucous crowd would come alive though in the fifth set and become the "7^th man" for the blue and gold. It was an unbelievable atmosphere to be in if you are a fan of the Lancers, probably the loudest volleyball crowd on the year to date for the women's game. The Lions were trapped in the Windsor madhouse and the Lancers managed to capitalize feeding off the energy provided by the crowd and sealed the deal in dramatic fashion with a fifth set win by a score of 15-12 terminating the Lions winning streak. 
 
UP NEXT
The Lancers are now off until next Sunday when they travel up the 401 to Guelph to face the Guelph Gryphons in their barn for the blue and gold's final game of 2019.    They will go to Guelph holding a 2-game winning streak following a perfect weekend at home. Game time is scheduled for 2PM.  You can catch the action live on OUA.tv.