HAMILTON, ON - The University of Guelph women's volleyball team fell to the McMaster Marauders 3-1 Sunday afternoon in Hamilton. Set scores were 11-25, 14-25, 25-19 & 21-25. With the loss, the Gryphons fall to 6-7 on the season while McMaster improves to 11-1.

The first set saw the Gryphons get off to a very poor start as they were forced to take a timeout after falling behind 5-0. Behind 16-5 at the technical timeout, Guelph was never in the set losing 25-11. Set 2 was only slightly better for the Gryphons as they trailed 16-8 at the timeout before falling 25-14. The third set finally saw Guelph come to life as they led 16-12 and were able to maintain the lead to win the set 25-19. Set 4 was close for much of the first half of the set but McMaster forged a 3 point lead later and were able to maintain the lead to take the match with a 25-21 win.
 
Gryphons Head Coach Paul Funk stated, "We did not compete or follow our game plan at all in the first 2 sets and you're not going to be successful doing that. In the second half of the match when we executed what we had talked about before the match, we were competitive, but today our fate was sealed early on." Nicole Collard led the Guelph offense with 11 points (9 kills, 1 ace, 1 block) followed by Becky Breau (8 kills, 1 ace) and Victoria Golebiowski (6 kills, 3 aces) with 9 each while Kristen Almhjell led the defence with 15 digs. The Gryphons next action is next Friday on the road when they take on the Western Mustangs at 6pm.