Canada finishes sixth at men’s Pan Am Cup

 SANTO DOMINGO (July 14, 2012) - Canada placed sixth at the Pan Am Cup men’s volleyball tournament falling 25-17, 22-25, 25-22, 18-25, 15-13 to Mexico on Saturday in the fifth place match.  Canada’s overall record at the tournament was two wins and three losses.

Dane Pischke of Winnipeg led all scorers in the two hour match with 27 points while Steven Marshall of Abbotsford, B.C., added 15.

Canada’s head coach Larry McKay said: “our reception was very poor and Mexico’s serve was very good which caused problems for us. But the sets we won were well deserved with few errors. Our rivals played better but my team battled until the end.”

Canada was represented by its national B team at the annual tournament.

Canadian team for the Pan American Cup men’s volleyball tournament July 9-14 in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic (name, school or club, hometown)

Alberta

Lucas Van Berkel, Trinity Western University, Edmonton

Ciaran McGovern, National Training Centre, Grande Prairie

Jay Blankeneau, University of Calgary, Calgary

Blair Bann, National Training Centre, Edmonton

 

British Columbia

Steven Marshall, Trinity Western University, Abbotsford

 

Manitoba

Dane Pischke, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

 

New Brunswick

Jacob Kilpatrick, National Training Centre, St. John

 

Newfoundland and Labrador

Max Burt, National Training Centre, Gander

 

Ontario

Sander Ratsep, National Training Centre, London

Reid Halpeny, National Training Centre, Grand Bend

 

Quebec

Chris Hoag, University of Calgary, Sherbrooke

 

Saskatchewan

Braden McLean, University of Saskatchewan, Birch Hills

 

Staff:

 

Head coach: Lawrence McKay

 

Assistant coach: Stephen Michael Leknois assistant-coach

 

Assistant coach: Tilen Kozamernik

 

Athletic therapist: Luc Campbell

 

Team manager: Sophie Gadoury

 

 

Information: www.norcea.net and www.volleyball.ca