Staff
Two got away but the first one may be the toughest to swallow.
The Muskie senior boys’ volleyball team let a pair of one-set leads go to waste to finish fourth in Pool ‘B’ with an 0-3 record at the OFSAA ‘AA’ championships in Dryden.
No. 14-seeded Muskies led the eighth-ranked Dr. G.W. Williams Wildcats (Aurora) after a 27-25 first-set victory yesterday afternoon.
But the Wildcats bared their teeth and took the next two sets 25-15 and 15-9 to win the best-of-three match.
That loss knocked the Muskies out of championship contention, regardless of this morning’s outcome against the ninth-ranked Cobourg Collegiate Institute Wolves (Cobourg).
A back-and-forth first set finally was claimed by the black-and-gold with a strong block at the net to win 26-24.
But trailing 10-9 in the second set, the Muskies were shredded by a 13-0 run from Cobourg.
Fort High made it respectable with a late 6-0 run but still fell 25-16.
Cobourg then continued its hot streak in the third set, racing out to a 7-1 lead to force Muskie coach Kirsten Talsma to call time-out to try and settle her team down.
But the fight looked completely drained out of the Muskies at that point as Cobourg finished a 9-0 run en route to a 15-4 win.
Fort High took on the sixth-ranked Lockerby Composite School Vikings (Sudbury) in the consolation quarter-finals today at 3 p.m.
The Vikings had finished third in Pool ‘A’ with a 1-2 record.
