Jacksonville, Fla. -- The Stetson volleyball team dropped its regular season finale 3-0 (25-21, 25-19, 25-22) to host North Florida Saturday afternoon at UNF Arena.
The Hatters completed the regular season with a mark of 16-12 overall, 7-7 in the Atlantic Sun Conference.
Stetson will enter next week's A-Sun Championship as the No. 5 seed and will play No. 4 seed Northern Kentucky (18-10) in the quarterfinals on Thursday. Game times will be announced later. The Stetson-NKU winner will advance to play top-seeded Lipscomb in the semifinals on Friday. The Championship will be played Saturday with the winner earning the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
All five matches will be broadcast live on ESPN3. Jacksonville is the defending champion.
Saturday, UNF (13-17, 6-8 A-Sun) hit .394 for the match while Stetson was held to a .148 attack percentage. The teams split the season series with each team winning on its home court.
McKenna Foster and Madison Akins each collected 11 kills to lead the Hatters. Kayla Weller dished out 28 assists and Alexa Drost picked up 15 digs. Akins served four of the Hatters' eight aces.
Notes: Stetson tied with Northern Kentucky and Jacksonville for third place in the A-Sun standings, but JU and NKU finished ahead of Stetson on a head-to-head sets tiebreaker ... Stetson will be making an appearance in the A-Sun tournament for the second straight year.
