The Windsor Lancers men's volleyball team played well against the visiting Queen's Gaels on Saturday night in front of their fans during UWindsor Proud Night at the Dennis Fairall Fieldhouse. However, the blue and gold could not manage to finish off the Gaels in each set as the 2019 defending champion Gaels earned a 3-0 (26-28, 22-25, & 21-25) win to extend their winning streak to 6 games in a row now.
 
With the loss, the Lancers now drop to 6-5 on the campaign. 
 
GAME STATS
Lancers fourth year veteran Pierce Johnson led the blue and gold offensively with 11 kills in the loss. Third year outside hitter Sean Spencer also had a great night offensively contributing 10 kills towards his team's cause and also leading his team defensively on the evening recording 8 digs. Nolan Langley had 29 assists in the loss. 
 
The Queen's Gaels were led by Adam Boljkovac who had 13 kills in his team's win while Zac Hutcheson came up strong too throughout the night recording 12 kills for the Gaels. The Gaels setter, Zane Grossinger added 38 assists towards his impressive season continuing to lead the league in assists to date. 
 
GAME FLOW
In the first set, both teams proved why they were both OUA medalists last season and OUA contenders this season keeping up the intensity early and exchanging points regularly. The biggest gap in the score was held by the Gaels when they held a 5 point lead on the Lancers at 22-17, however the Lancers managed to remained focus and battled back to force extra points in this one but ultimately the Gaels prevailed capping off Windsor 28-26 to take the first set and to lead the match 1-0. 
 
In the second set, it started off very similarly to the first set as both teams traded points early and it was not easy to tell which side was going to pull away later in the set. The equally matched teams played well throughout this set but ultimately the Gaels would be the ones to finish off the set taking it 25-22 over Windsor going up 2-0 in the match. 
 
For the third set, the Gaels seemed hungry to get a victory in Windsor, doing a great job of tuning out a loud and proud Windsor crowd. Their strong focus emulated their performance on the court as they continued to keep up their pace against an equally strong Lancers squad. However, the Lancers held their own once again ensuring things did not get out of hand as once again the set scores remained close throughout this one like the previous two sets. In the end though the Gaels appeared to be the team more in control throughout this contest as they were able to close out the Lancers in three sets and complete their big two-game weekend road trip with two victories including the huge sweep over the No. 10 U SPORTS nationally ranked Lancers to add towards their campaign. 
 
UP NEXT
The Lancers men's volleyball team will now have bye week next weekend as they await their next pair of games which will be on the road in two weeks. The Lancers will be travelling up to Peterborough first to face the Trent Excalibur on Saturday February 1st at 7:00pm at the Trent Athletics Centre.  Unfortunately, there will not be any livestream on OUA.tv for this game but be sure to keep up to date by following the Windsor Lancers Twitter page @WindsorLancers to stay informed during the game.