Box Score The McMaster women’s volleyball team won its second straight match over the weekend with a 3-1 defeat of the visiting Waterloo Warriors, but had to comeback in every set they won to do it.

McMaster got off to a much slower start than in their previous match versus Guelph, and allowed Waterloo to jump in front 13-10 in the first set.  At that point Marauder Shannon McRobert came up to serve and ran off nine straight points to give her team a 19-13 advantage.  Waterloo tried to recover, but the Marauders maintained the momentum and won the first set 25-19.

The second set saw the Marauders continue to struggle and the Warriors again took an early lead, and were in front 16-10 at the technical timeout.   Poor passing plagued McMaster and Waterloo was able to take advantage and even the match with a 25-16 win.

The third set again saw Waterloo grab the early lead, but at 13-8 Mac’s Lauren Skelly got into a serving groove and the Marauders took a 14-13 lead behind her strong service.  The Marauders led 16-14 at the technical timeout and outscored the Warriors 9 -1 to close out the set 25-15 and go up 2-1 in the match.

Waterloo started the fourth set looking determined to extend the match and jumped out to a 7-2 lead.  But again a Marauder got hot from the service line and Amada Weldon served McMaster into an 8-7 lead.   McMaster maintained the lead and went into the technical timeout up 16-13.  Shannon McRobert continued to serve well and extended the Maroon lead after the timeout and McMaster won the set 25-20 to take the match.

Shannon McRobert was named the BIG MAC player of the game for the Marauders.

Next action for McMaster women’s volleyball is on Saturday, November 24^th when it will host the Brock Badgers.  Game time in the Burridge Gym is 1 p.m.