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Martin Bazyl

Women's Volleyball

BLUES SET TO HOST OUA WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL FINAL FOUR

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.

Final Four Website
 
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.
 
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.
 
Advanced tickets for all four games are on sale here. The Final Four will also be webcasted live on GoBlues.tv.
 
Semifinal #1
 
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.
 
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.
 
The Marauders ended the regular season on a three-game win streak, placing second overall in the OUA West with a 13-6 record. McMaster defeated the Windsor Lancers 3-1 on Saturday night in quarter-final action.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Semifinal #2
 
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.
 
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.
 
The Guelph Gryphons are the top seed from the OUA West after finishing with a 14-5 record and cruising to a 3-0 quarter-final victory over Lakehead.
 
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.
 
The Gee-Gees defeated the Gryphons 3-0 in their lone meeting of 2013-14 on Nov. 16 in Guelph.

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