Mac wins OUA West, will host Final Four

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For the first time since the 2009-10 season, the McMaster women’s volleyball team are division winners.

The landscape of the OUA has changed a couple times in the past six seasons, with the provincial league being one whole division in the 2011-12 and 2012-13 seasons. This season, the OUA reverted to a two-division style: the OUA East and OUA West.

Mac’s OUA West title didn’t come easy, for a couple different reasons. The Marauders had to retool after losing their highest usage player and their setter. Those players were instrumental to McMaster’s OUA title win.

Even the division-winning game was dramatic; McMaster was down two sets to the defending division champions, the Guelph Gryphons. Behind Joanna Jedrzejewska and Lauren Mastroluisi, the Marauders rallied and beat Guelph in five sets to solidify their division title.

The real benefit from the OUA West division win? Mac will host the OUA Final Four as long as they win a quarterfinal game in playoffs.

Teams that host the OUA Final Four have had successful track records in recent years – three of the past four hosts have made it to the OUA championship game.

Mac will look to repeat as conference champions, but have to grind through the rest of their regular season.

They will have a test against 11-6 Queen’s before taking on RMC, the team with the worst record in the OUA.

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