Men's Volleyball Drop Final Two Matches of the Season

(Windsor, ON)- The St. Clair men's volleyball team wrapped up their OCAA regular season schedule losing a couple tough matches to some high ranked competition on the weekend.

On Friday afternoon, the Saints hosted the top ranked Humber Hawks (Etobicoke) and suffered a tough 3-0 loss in an rare afternoon matinee.

Set scores for Humber were 25-10, 25-16 and 25-18. Rookie outside hitter Jaiden Nuckles (Windsor; Vincent Massey) had a solid game for St. Clair with 4 kills, 1 service ace, 1 stuff block and 4 digs. Humber improved to 8-0 on the year with the win. The Hawks are ranked in 1st in Ontario and 1st in Canada.

On Saturday afternoon the Saints travelled to Oakville to take on the Sheridan Bruins and came home with a 3-0 loss.

Set scores for Sheridan were 25-9, 25-22 and 25-20. Jacob Derksen (Cottam; Essex District) had a great match for the Saints with 9 kills and 1 service ace. March Galipeau (LaSalle; Sandwich) also had a solid game with 10 kills. With the win the Bruins improved to 7-2 on the season. Sheridan is ranked 5th in Ontario

With the two losses St. Clair ends the COVID shortened regular season with a record of 1-8. The Saints ended up missing the playoffs by one win in the very tough OCAA West Division. COVID played havoc with the St. Clair roster for the first few matches of the season and the Saints had issues getting in sync with many players coming and going for the first couple weeks.

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