The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

at CWOSSA The wo Junior Girls Volley- ball team lost a tough three- set decision to the Preston Panthers in the CWOSSA finals, last Thursday " UW, to win silver. The girls stand out strong winning the first set, MEI? In! 'rthvec- and set, before the Panthers went on an extessded-poirtt scoring streak and won the second set. In the third set, the girls got down early, but fought off four match points before finally succumbing IS- 13 in the final set. Head coach Wendy Sherlock was plased with her team's ability to hang tough, but said PtestorG third set lead was too much to come back from. Sarah Kcllsey, right, tried a spike against Preston to bring her team back. . WCI wins silver Lllljl,,ffflli)l] ll.tl,l,ll,lll3jll)ltirl"i'iiii' fi-if-rt-ft-ttf-i- WHY WAIT r, DOAILNOWESW’E The Unnersuy cl Waterloo Warriors outduelled the No. l ranked McMaster Marauders, 78-74, to become the last gun- slinger standing at the wild west shootout Saturday. The wm earned the Warriors a berth at the CIAU national championships m Halifax, Match 20-22 The Warnors got to the championship game by laming the favored Western Mustangs 68-63, Friday night, In front of a Jam-packed house at UW's Physncal Athletics Complex. More than 2,000 fans wlupped the Warriors into a high intensuy frenzy that helped them run the other teams off the court, The raucous crowd support was remlmscenl of the 1970s and the early [9805 when the Wamors last made their cham- pionshrp runs, Warriors head coach Tom kteswetter gave a nod to fans for gpving his team a boost, h was a definite factor in the deciding game. "It was exciting and Inlense to play m front of our fans," he said. "Playing at home was clearly an advantage." Bin kiesweier was also quick to give his team credit for peaking at the rjght tipe “It was a difficult challenge starting with the first game (against Iskehead)," he sad. "But we Just gel better every game - "lt was the peaking phenom- ena, We played our best games at the end " games But the wheels stayed on the Wamors' wagon even though there were times when u looked like they'd fall off. espe- (tally during the wild-west lt was quite a surprise for a team that hmshed the Season at 7-7 after losing its last four 3g Bob Vrbanac Chronicle stall 100’s of New Bicycles to choose from l shootout with the high pow- ered "Mac Attack," who were up by nine at one poier _ "We hung in tough," said kieswetter, "The wheels got loose, but they didn't come off." Manomtsarts1ifiedoffthedediaher hatockistgdowrra basaetassddrauistherouidaringthewestemrme,rridar. The Warriors also had a number of players who stepped up and took the pres- sure off of star pom! guard Mano Watsa, who was nutsmg a sore paw On Friday mght, Derek Mam led the Warriors m swung with Ill, while shooting guard Paul Kwotkowski hn some big baskets down the stretch to add ll. On Saturday, Mike gaversh- mk stepped up scoring 15 poy"s, while adding seven boards. Mike Stroeder also remmed m form and added 17. But the Warriors were led by the inspirational play of their leader Watsa who notched 17 points, had six boards and dished off for SIX assists. "Mano Watsa played with a lot of heart," said Kiesweuer "We needed him to do that. His two Iumovers was the lowest of the season." Klesweller gave the Warriors the last few days on to relish the victory, but they are back at practice to day They travel to Sudbury on Saturday to face Lauremun for the OUA overall mic The Voyageurs should be the No 1 team when they get there The game starts at 2 p-m- 21