Men's Volleyball Win Battle For First Place

The St. Clair College men's volleyball team continued their second semester OCAA schedule on Wednesday night defeating the Fanshawe College in 3-2 in an exciting back and forth match at the Sportsplex. Set scores for St. Clair were 24-26, 25-19, 25-21, 21-25 and 15-12.

It was a outstanding all around team effort by the Saints. Rookie outsider hitter Arthur Richard (Woodstock; Woodstock Collegiate) led the way offensively with 16 kills and a .519 kill percentage. Third year middle Jonah Certossi (Belle River; Belle River District) had a great match as well with 10 kills on 19 attempts, 2 service aces and 4 stuff blocks. Third year setter Nick Kwiatkowski (Essex: Essex District) had a solid match spreading the ball around well with 48 assists, 11 digs, 1 kill, 3 service aces and 2 stuff blocks.

The Saints are now 12-3 on the season and are ranked 1^st in Ontario and 5^th in Canada. The Falcons dropped to 10-5 with the loss and are ranked 3^rd in the OCAA and 11^th in the CCAA.

St. Clair will wrap up their regular season home schedule on Saturday at 2 pm against the 2^nd place Conestoga College Condors. The Saints will be honouring their graduating seniors prior to the match.