GHS HOSTS OFSSA A-LEVEL SR. BOYS VOLLEYBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS AT SCHOOLS ACROSS MUSKOKA THURSDAY TO SATURDAY; OPEN TO PUBLIC $10, $20

Mark Clairmont | MuskokaTODAY.com

MUSKOKA — Ontario’s best small school volleyball players are in Muskoka this weekend for the senior boys’ provincial championship.

Twenty teams are vying for the OFSSA A-division senior boys title at the four high schools in a tournament, which is being hosted by GHS with Bracebridge Muskoka Lakes, Huntsville High and St. Dominic’s also providing gym space for the games Thursday, Friday and Saturday when the finals take place in Gravenhurst.

No. 15 Gryphs in tough

The GHS Gryphons kick off the pool round robin tournament play tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m., then 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. And could advance if they win.

But the Muskoka-Parry Sound and Georgian Bay champions are in tough in their opening round as part of Pool C play with four other teams.

Including Hamilton District Christian High School, which is the defending champion, having won OFSSA five of the past six years since 2019. (There was no tournament in 2020.) The Southern Ontario Secondary School Association (SOSSA) team is ranked second this year.

The Gryphons are ranked 15^th after beating Penetang’s Le Caron Catholic high school last Friday.

Le Caron, ranked No. 16 here, are the GBSSA representative as the GHS is the host.

But they, too, face stiff competition in their pool with CWOSSA’s E.S. Macdonald Cartier the tournament’s No. 1 seed.

Play goes for three days with the finals at GHS Saturday afternoon.

Games are open to the public.

One-day ticket $10 or $20 for all 3 days.

But games are available to watch for free online.

Click the links below to join the live YouTube feeds for games at Gravenhurst, Bracebridge and Huntsville.

GHS

https://www.youtube.com/@GHSGryphons

Huntsville

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCLZytbr646vm7WdFSCrnjg/live

Bracebridge

https://www.youtube.com/@EricCrowe-e8r

NOTES:

• Burk’s Falls High School won OFSSA volleyball title in 1957 — the last Muskoka team to do so.
• OFSSA (Ontario Federation of Secondary School Associations) was founded in 1948 and became the governing body of high school athletics in 1952. There are 18 associations, including separate schools, with 850 schools competing, 280,000 student athletes, 18,000 teacher coaches and 45 team and sport championships and tournaments.

  

  

  

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