The No. 7 University of Toronto Varsity Blues women's volleyball team hosts the OUA Final Four, sponsored by Mikasa, February 22-23, at the Athletic Centre Sports Gym.
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The host Varsity Blues will take on the McMaster Marauders in the first semi-final match up on Saturday at 12 p.m., followed by a tilt between the defending champion and No. 10 Ottawa Gee-Gees and Guelph Gryphons at 2:30 p.m.
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The semifinal winners will earn their ticket to the 2014 CIS championship, February 28-March 2, hosted by the University of Regina, and will face each other for the OUA title on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. The bronze medal match will precede it at noon.
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Advanced tickets for all four games are on sale
here. The Final Four will also be webcasted live on GoBlues.tv.
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Semifinal #1
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The Toronto Varsity Blues finished the season atop the OUA East division with a 15-4 record and advanced to their 24th Final Four in 25 years with a 3-0 quarter-final victory over Ryerson on Saturday.
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Fourth-year left side hitter Charlotte Sider leads the Blues and ranked third in the OUA with 3.21 kills per set, while fellow veteran Jennifer Neilson is riding a hot streak having averaged 3.46 points per set over the last three matches. Rookie standout Tessa Davis ended the season ranked second in the OUA with 53 blocks.
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The Marauders ended the regular season on a three-game win streak, placing second overall in the OUAÂ West with a 13-6 record. McMaster defeated the Windsor Lancers 3-1 on Saturday night in quarter-final action.
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They are led by rookie standout Sophie Bukovec, who ranked fifth in the OUA with 3.79 points per game, while Maicee Sorensen sat third in the province with 52.5 blocks.
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The Blues defeated the Marauders 3-1 in their lone regular season meeting. The two teams also met twice at the University of Winnipeg's pre-season tournament. Toronto took the first game 3-0, before falling 3-2 in the second match.
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Semifinal #2
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The Ottawa Gee-Gees finished in a three-way tie for second in the OUA East with a 14-5 record, and wound up as the third seed. That didn't stop the powerhouses from the nation's capital as they upset the second-seeded York Lions, 3-0, in quarter-final action on Friday night.
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Twin sisters and Gee-Gees standouts Kelsie and Myriam English led the OUA with 4.12 and 4.75 points per set in the regular season, while also topping the league with 43 aces each.
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The Guelph Gryphons are the top seed from the OUAÂ West after finishing with a 14-5 record and cruising to a 3-0 quarter-final victory over Lakehead.
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They are led by first-year left side hitter Madison DeDecker, who ranked seventh in the OUA with 3.07 kills per set. Fourth-year middle Alicia Combe-Dingwall topped all players in the province with 60.5 blocks this season.
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The Gee-Gees defeated the Gryphons 3-0 in their lone meeting of 2013-14 on Nov. 16 in Guelph.
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