The St. Clair College women’s volleyball team won a tight match on Saturday afternoon at the Sportsplex over Redeemer University. The Saints defeated the Royals by a score of 3-2.

by Jay Shewfelt

Game scores for St. Clair were 27-25, 21-25, 25-23, 15-25, and 15-12. The Saints had a solid team effort but were led by Shalena Horst with 11 kills, 2 stuff blocks, and 13 digs. Sara Yablonsky had a solid match as well with 7 kills, 3 service aces, 2 stuff blocks and 4 digs. Helen Wiebe chipped in with 5 kills, 1 ace, 3 stuff blocks and 23 digs.

The St. Clair women improved to 6-4 on the season while Redeemer fell to 4-6. The Saints are now tied for 4^th place in the OCAA West Division with Cambrian but St. Clair has a game in hand over the Golden Shield.

The volleyball match was also highlighted by Redeemer’s Curtiss Straatsma who broke the all time career OCAA points record. Heading into the match Straatsma needed 12 points to take over the record which was at 1239. The fifth year player got that no problem as she ended up with 22 points to take over the record with a total of 1250 points.

The Saints are next in action when the host the Niagara Knights on Sunday January 17 at 2 pm at the Sportsplex.

St. Clair College Men’s Volleyball

The St. Clair College men’s volleyball dropped a close match on Saturday afternoon at the Sportsplex in their first game of the second semester. In an exciting back and forth game the Saints lost to the Redeemer Royals by a score of 3-2. After winning the first 2 sets, Redeemer stormed back to win the next three. The Saints lost each of the last three sets by 2 points each and had several chances to put the Royals away but couldn’t pull it off.

Game scores for Redeemer were 21-25, 11-25, 25-23, 25-23 and 15-13. Justin Fisher had a solid match for St. Clair with 10 kills on 24 attacks, 1 ace and 1 stuff block. Michael Knight also had a good match with 14 kills, 1 stuff block and 9 digs. Jared Niziolek chippind in as well with 9 kills, 1 ace and 11 digs.

With the loss St. Clair’s record fell to 2-8 on the season while Redeemer improved to 7-3. St. Clair is next in action when they host the top ranked Niagara Knights on Sunday, January 17 at the Sportsplex at 4 pm.