Photo credit Andrew Snucins / Courtesy Thompson Rivers sports information

KAMLOOPS, B.C. (CIS) – The Queen’s University Gaels of the OUA will play for fifth and sixth place at the 2010 CIS Men’s Volleyball Championship.

Championship website (including complete stats): http://english.cis-sic.ca/championships/mvball

The Gaels defeated the University of Montreal Carabins  of the FSQE 3-1 on Saturday (Mar 13) at the Tournament Capital Center.   The scores were 27-29,22-25,25-16,24-26.
The match was very slow and methodical in the first set as both teams looked to see how they would play.
Aside from the third set where the Carabins jumped out to a 5-0 lead and never looked back, it was very close.
Queen’s was led by player of the game Bryan Fautley (3rd year, Oakville Ont) who had 21 kills and five digs.  2nd team CIS All-Star Joren Zeeman ( 3rd year,  Cambridge, Ont) had 15 kills and six digs. Niko Rukavina (3rd year,Mississauga, Ont) had 11 kills.

The Carabins were paced by Emmanuel Andre-Morin (4th year, Vaudreil-sur-le-lac, Que). The 2010 Dale Iwanoczko Award winner had22 kills.  Andy Oshima (4th year, Saitama-Ken, Japan) added 12 kills.

Queen’s will await the winner of a 3 pm PDT match between the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack and Dalhousie University Tigers.

The Championship side semi finals have the Trinity Western Spartans of Canada West taking on FSQE’s University of Laval Rouge et Or at 6 pm PDT.   The other semi final is an “all Canada West affair” with the two time defending national champion University of Alberta Golden Bears pitted against their provincial rivals: the University of Calgary Dinos. That match has a 8 pm PDT start time.

STATS LEADERS

Queens
Kills: Bryan Fautley (21), Joren Zeeman (15), Niko Rukavina (11)
Blocks: Joren Zeeman (2), Niko Rukavina (2)
Digs: Alex Oneid (8)
Assists: Daniel Rosenbaum (51)
 
BlackBerry player of the match: Bryan Fautley
 
Montreal
Kills: Emmanuel Andre-Morin (22), Andy Oshima (12)
Blocks: Guillame Drouin (1)
Digs: Maxim Morin  (8)  Marc Langlois (7)
Assists: Vincent Dumas (51)
 
SCHEDULE & RESULTS (all times LOCAL: Pacific Time)

Friday, March 12

Quarter-final #1: Laval 3, Montreal 0 (25-20, 25-20,, 25-18)
15:00 Quarter-final #2: Trinity Western 3  Queen’s (25-19,15-23,25-19)
18:00 Quarter-final #3: Alberta 3  Thompson Rivers 1  (25-21,20-25,20-25,22-25)
20:00 Quarter-final #4: Calgary 3  Dalhousie 2  (21-25,24-26,25-20,25-19,16-14)

Saturday, March 13

13:00 Consolation #1: Queen’s 3 Montreal 1 (27-29,22-25,25-16,24-26)
15:00 Consolation #2: Thompson Rivers vs. Dalhousie (SSN Canada-raw feed)
18:00 Semi-final #1: Laval vs. Trinity Western  (SSN Canada)
20:00 Semi-final #2: Alberta vs. Calgary (SSN Canada)

Sunday, March 14

13:00 5th/6th place: Queen’s vs
15:00 Bronze medal (SSN Canada)
18:00 Championship final (SSN Canada)

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