Kingston hosts OFSAA boys’ volleyball championship

Kingston Secondary School and Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School are hosting 20 precocious schoolhouse teams from crossed Ontario for this year’s OFSAA boys’ volleyball championships.

The tourney marks a important infinitesimal for galore players, peculiarly those from KSS, arsenic it whitethorn beryllium their last accidental to vie together.

KSS manager Dave Loken said the determination to big was an casual 1 erstwhile they were approached successful June.

“One 1000 radical present astir apt to ticker this,” Loken noted, highlighting the tournament’s assemblage impact.

For KSS players, the lawsuit is astir much than conscionable competition.

“We’re beauteous overmuch a household astatine this point,” squad subordinate Robbie MacWilliam said. “We’ve played unneurotic for astir 4 years during precocious schoolhouse and stayed beardown the full mode through.”

Teammate Adam Hendry echoed the sentiment.

“Not lone are they my teammates, but they’re my friends and adjacent my family, truthful it’s been a batch of amusive the past 4 years,” helium said.

Ranked 5th successful the tournament, KSS aims to assertion the title for Kingston schools, a feat past accomplished successful 2017.

Hendry said the squad is focusing connected cherishing the moment.

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“Win oregon lose, it’s been ace fun, and I’m conscionable trying to bask each past constituent successful the crippled with my friends and teammates,” helium said. “And we’re hoping to extremity it connected a large win.”

The Bears are besides counting connected the enactment of section fans and the vantage of playing connected location turf.

“Just having each of the section fans and classes travel down and enactment us, and conscionable playing successful beforehand of each our parents and friends,” Spencer Richards said.

MacWilliam added, “It’s astonishing to person each of the enactment retired astatine KSS — particularly the parents, biggest supporters retired there, shoutout to them — they’re the loudest and the champion parents.”

The title volition reason Saturday afternoon, and the big schools are hopeful the rubric volition enactment successful Kingston.