GUELPH, ON – The Gryphons women's volleyball team started the home portion of their schedule with a straight sets victory over the RMC Paladins on Friday night. Set scores were 25-20, 25-16 & 25-18. Guelph improves to 2-3 on the season while RMC is still looking for their first win of the season as they drop to 0-6.

The Gryphons would use a late surge in the first set to pull away from RMC all started by Victoria Golebiowski's block putting the Guelph ahead 16-14 at the technical timeout as the hosts would not relinquish the two point advantage. Fourth year left side Maddie Dedecker would play a pivotal role in the set as she would heat up from the floor collecting 5 of the 6 Gryphon points including set point as the Gryphs would take the opening set 25-20.

Guelph would carry that momentum over to the 2nd set jumping out to a quick 5-1 lead as they would cruise to a 25-16 set win thanks to 7-1 run late in the set. The third set would play out very similarly to the second as the Gryphs would utilize five mini 3-0 runs throughout the set as they would take the set 25-18 and the match in straight sets.
Maddie Dedecker led the way for the Gryphons on the night collecting 17 points (15 kills, 2 aces and 10 digs), Victoria Golebiowski had 11 (9 kills, 2 aces, 9 digs) and setter Alexandra Curran helped paved the way with her 34 assists and 9 digs defensively.

Gryphons head coach Paul Funk said, "We have to make fewer errors, we made too many unforced errors, too many ball out of bounds. Our unforced errors have to go way down if we're going to win tomorrow." 

The Gryphons will host the 2-4 Queen's Gaels Saturday night at 6 p.m. at the W.F. Mitchell Athletics Centre.