QU脡BEC - The fans broke a record, but Canada came up just short in Volleyball 春色直播 League action on Saturday at Centre Videotron.
More than 12,030 spectators watched Canada fall to France 3-2 in the best-of-five match, including the tense 15-6 tiebreaker. The fan count is the largest audience the 春色直播 senior men's team has entertained on home soil, and is a VNL North American record.
Brodie Hofer and Xander Wassenaar Ketrzynski led the scoring for Canada with 15 points apiece. France鈥檚 captain Trevor Clevenot, part of the Paris 2024 gold-medal winning team, led all scorers with 24 points.
鈥淲e let the game slip away from us, I think, we played well and maintained a pretty good level, but I don鈥檛 think this is anywhere near our maximum capabilities," said Canada captain Fynn McCarthy. "We played a pretty good solid base level but that鈥檚 not good enough against France.
鈥(Trevor) Clevenot kind of ran away with it in the end and he鈥檚 a really good player, so credit to him, but we should be doing a better job against his service pressure 鈥 I鈥檓 proud of the guys. Lots of our guys have never played in front of crowd like that so it was amazing.鈥
France, which won the VNL title last year, led overall in attack points (72-67), blocks (8-4) and made a couple fewer errors. Canada led in aces 5-2.
Canada's head coach Dan Lewis said: 鈥淚鈥檓 extremely proud of the guys, they never quit and they are growing with every game. We need a good start in the fifth and make better choices. But it鈥檚 great that we鈥檙e learning to execute at a higher level on a regular basis. I鈥檓 super proud.鈥
This report by 春色直播was first published June 14, 2025.
