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MONTREAL – Catherine Amyot of Ottawa scored 16.5 points and Virginie Hebert of St. Donat, Que., added 16 but it was all in vain as McGill fell 3-2 to the Sherbrooke Vert & Or in a wild women's volleyball "Dig for the Cure" cancer fundraiser at Love Competition Hall, Friday.
 
Sherbrooke rallied from a 2-1 deficit to win by set scores of 25-21, 19-25, 11-25, 26-24 and 15-13 in a marathon match that took two hours and four minutes.
 
The Martlets, who played in pink outfits for the second straight year hosting this event, raised $1,553 for the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation, including a $300 donation from the visiting Sherbrooke squad.
 
Amyot, a 5-foot-10 engineering sophomore, who led the team with a 2.30 passing ratio, racked up a game-high 16 kills and an assisted stuff block on offence, to go along with 11 digs on defence. Hebert, a physical therapy senior, contributed nine kills, three aces, four blocks and three digs.
 
Despite the loss, McGill had a monumental 102-73 advantage in digs and a 48-38 edge in kills. But the Vert & Or more than made up for that deficit with an 18-8 margin in service aces and a 30-16 difference in blocked shots.
 
Defensively, Daphnee-Maude Andre-Morin, a fifth-year education senior from Kitchener, Ont., registered a game-high 33 digs. The 5-foot-7 libero now ranks second in the nation with an impressive 5.04 digs per set.
 
"The main difference between us and Sherbrooke is that they play more consistently on offence,' said McGill head coach Rachele Beliveau. "It seems that every game, we have one of two players who are hot offensively when we really need to have three or four. It seems to take us a little bit of time to figure out who will be our top offensive players and then we go with them. But if we don't have more than two players connecting, other team eventually makes adjustments to focus on our two hot players. We need to have more than two players scoring the ball (with kills and aces)."
 
It was a painful loss for the Martlets, who fell to 5-3 in the RSEQ conference. Instead of sitting two points back of division-leading Montreal (7-1), the Martlets now find themselves tied with Sherbrooke (5-4) for the last playoff spot, with a game in hand.

McGill takes on the Carabins at the Centre CEPSUM on Sunday at 1 p.m.
 
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