Already up 1-0 in their best-of-three series against Montreal, no. 5-Laval Rouge et Or clinched its 9th consecutive RSEQ title with an exciting 3-2 victory over the Carabins last Friday.
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The Alberta Golden Bears will be the number one ranked team at the CIS men’s volleyball championships starting on Thursday at the University of Calgary.
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UBC claims their fifth national title in a row.
It was hardly the dominant run of years past, but the UBC Thunderbirds claimed their fifth-consecutive national women’s volleyball title at the expense of the Alberta Pandas on Sunday night.
Battling back from a two set to one deficit in front of a large and energized crowd at McMaster’s Burridge Gym, the Thunderbirds capped their comeback victory with a block on Alberta’s rookie standout Alena Omelchenko.
Final set scores were 25-21, 15-25, 19-25, 25-20, 15-12 in favour of the British Columbian outfit in what was a neck-and-neck encounter between the nation’s top two teams.
The opening frame saw the Pandas open an early lead at 10-6 as UBC began to misfire from the outside, and the Alberta squad would maintain that advantage at the technical timeout after an emotional single block brought the score to 16-13 in their favour.
The Thunderbirds would emerge the stronger from the timeout however, and after Omelchenko botched an attempted attack from the middle, the Pandas’ lead had dwindled to just a single point at 20-19. UBC seized their opportunity and completed the first set comeback with a double block for 25-21.
The 2011 CIS Women's Volleyball Championship brackets powered by challonge.com
Fresh on the heels of the 2011 CIS Men's Volleyball Championship, the seeds have also been announced for the 2011 CIS Women's Volleyball Championship. The women's tournament will take place in Quebec City, Quebec hosted by Laval University. The seeds are as follows:
- UBC Thunderbirds
- Trinity Western Spartans
- Laval Rouge et Or
- Alberta Pandas
- Montreal Carabins
- UNB Varsity Reds
- Western Ontario Mustangs
- Sherbrooke Vert et Or
The tournament schedule has also been released. The schedule is:
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The Excalibur Classic continues today at York University.Day two of the Excalibur Classic brings an end to pool play and continues with playoffs. After the very surpirsing results of Day one, these eight teams will hit the court again to play their last pool play match at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.. Starting at 3:30 p.m. we have the first round of playoffs, starting with the consolation semifinal matches. The championship semifinal matches will take place at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
As always, we will be covering these events live. Check back for more scores and pictures after the jump.
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York University. Photo: WikipediaThe annual York University Lion's Excalibur Tournament begins today up at the YorkU Keele Campus. With last year's winner, Laval, not in attendance, the championship will be undefended. Teams from the OUA, AUS, RSEQ and Japan will compete over the next three days. The teams attending the tournament are: York, Western, Windsor, Ryerson, Montreal, Sherbrooke, UNB and Budo.
We will be covering this tournament live so check back for score updates, photos and interviews.
Update: We have now posted a selection of images taken from Day 1 pool play. You can check out the images in our galleries section.
Scoreboard
12 p.m.