Men's Volleyball vs. Ryerson 2012 Gallery

GUELPH, Ont. - The Guelph Gryphons men's volleyball team lost in three sets to the visiting Ryerson Rams tonight (Nov 24) at the W.F. Mitchell Centre. Set scores were 25-16, 25-23 and 25-22. The loss drops the Gryphons to 2-7 and boosts the Rams to 5-4.

Winston Rosser (Whitby, Ont) of the Gryphons led all scorers on the night to round out their weekend doubleheader at home with 18 kills to contribute to his 20.5 points on the night. He was followed by Marc Wilson (Stratford, Ont) who had four kills and three blocks for 5.5 points.

Stefan Ristic (Belgrade, Serbia) and Marc Reardon (London, Ont) each contributed 13.5 points to the Ryerson sweep with ten and eight kills, respectively.

The Gryphons got off to a shaky start with consecutive mishaps that unfortunately set the tempo for the remainder of the set as the Rams pulled ahead with an early lead they would maintain throughout. Despite falling 16-10, the Gryphon attack remained strong as Tim Warnholtz (Guelph, Ont) shut down the Ryerson lead to set Rosser up to bring the set to within three. But combined with a strong defensive effort by Phillip Wessel (Cambridge, Ont) at the net, Ristic and Reardon kept the

Gryphons defensive core scrambling as they pulled ahead to secure a 25-16 win in the first.
Building off their earlier mistakes from the first, the Gryphons wasted no time in pulling ahead 6-3 to establish their presence in the second. But the Gryphon control was short lived as Reardon was able to string together a strong set of serves including a service ace to regain the Rams' momentum. Yet Phillip Wessel remained unfazed in his defensive attempts to pull in his first of two successful blocks to tie the game at 12 and send the Gryphons ahead 16-14 into the technical time out. However, Ryerson was able to use the timeout to their advantage to surge forward in the final moments to narrowly take the second 25-23.

To open the third, Ryan Killeen (Oakville, Ont) capped off his third consecutive serve with an ace to establish a 4-3 lead in an effort to keep the Gryphons' night alive. Ryerson was quick to respond to jump ahead 11-10 to spark another nail-biting matchup in the third. But, following the technical timeout, Ryerson established yet another dominating streak to pull ahead 22-16 to hold onto the third despite a strong Gryphon comeback to sweep the Gryphons with a 25-22 win in the third.

Tonight's (Nov 24) loss ends the Gryphons play in the first half semester. Their first game of the new-year is scheduled for Saturday, January 12 as they travel to Kingston to take on the Queen's Gaels. The game is set to start at 2:00 pm.