GUELPH, ON - The University of Guelph women's volleyball team started off the second half of their schedule with a 3-0 sweep of the Brock Badgers at the W.F. Mitchell Athletics Center Saturday night. Set scores were 25-17, 25-11 & 25-23.

The first set saw the Gryphons jump out to a 7-2 lead but a 5-0 run by Brock evened the set at 13 all. Brock led 16-15 at the technical timeout but a 10-1 Guelph run ended the set at 25-17.

Set 2 again had the Gryphons leading early and a big Guelph run surrounding the technical timeout allowed them to comfortably take the set at 25-11.

The third set saw the Gryphons lead early again but Brock tied the score at 8-8 and the rest of the set was a see-saw affair. Guelph forged a 4 point lead late and then held on to take the set and the match at 25-23.
 
Coach Paul Funk stated, "We had good stretches of play in both the first and second sets but we really struggled mentally towards the end of the third set. We were waiting around for mistakes from the opposition instead of finishing strong and we'll need to be mentally tougher than that going forward." Maddie Dedecker led the Guelph offence with 14 points (11 kills, 3 aces) followed by Farren Varty-Macdonald (10 kills, 1 block) and Becky Breau (8 kills, 2 aces, 1 block) with 11 each. DeDecker and Breau also contributed 10 digs each for the defense. The Gryphons next action is next Friday at home when they host the Ottawa Gee-Gees at 6pm.