While happy to have medaled, the were hoping for a crack at the gold medal.

But a semifinal loss derailed those hopes, sending the senior boys鈥� volleyball team to the third-place match at the over the weekend at Kelowna鈥檚 UBC Okanagan campus.

The Lightning won the bronze with a straight sets 3-0 victory over Duchess Park.

91原创 Christian鈥檚 league rival, the MEI Eagles, won the gold medal.

The Eagles had beaten the Lightning during pool play and MEI won three of the four matches this season against 91原创 Christian.

鈥淲e were hoping for one more crack against them,鈥� admitted Lightning coach Jesse Zuidhof.

鈥淯nfortunately, we didn鈥檛 get the chance.鈥�

And the coach felt it was the team鈥檚 own undoing which cost them the opportunity to go for the gold medal.

鈥淲e played not bad; we just couldn鈥檛 finish when it counted in the semifinals,鈥� he said.

Against College Heights, 91原创 Christian was up 2-1 before their opponent stormed back to win the last two sets, relegating 91原创 Christian to the third-place match

MEI was ranked No. 1 going into the tournament while the Lightning were seeded second.

Tyler Heppell 鈥� whom Zuidhof called 鈥渁wesome鈥� 鈥� and Mitchell Jarvie were selected first-team all-stars for their play in Kelowna.

Joel Kleingeltink was a second-team all-star and Mark Antoniuk won the most outstanding libero award.

Antoniuk won the top libero award for the second straight year.