Box score

ST. MARY'S CITY, Md. - After dropping a 3-0 decision to St. Mary's (Md.) in the regular season, the Stevenson University women's volleyball team won the opening set and battled the second-seeded Seahawks on the road before falling in the semifinals of the CAC Volleyball Championship Thursday night, 3-1.

The Mustangs (31-7) conclude the season with 31 wins, setting a new school record and smashing the previous mark of 31 set in 2005 and 2007. The team will wait until Monday to see if it will be one of eight teams selected to the ECAC Championship.

Meanwhile, St. Mary's (27-6), ranked seventh in the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Region, advance to the championship game where they will face No. 20-ranked Salisbury who extended its winning streak to 34 matches with a 3-1 decision over fourth-seeded Mary Washington.

Stevenson posted a higher hitting percentage, more digs and more blogs than the Seahawks, but the hosts totaled eight more kills which proved to be the difference in the last three sets as St. Mary's won all three by a combined nine points.

Sophomore Dani Katsampis (New Windsor/Francis Scott Key) led the Mustangs with 13 kills while senior Alana Eller (Ellicott City/Centennial) totaled 12 along with a team-best 20 digs.

Stevenson took the first set after hitting .312, totaling 12 kills with just two errors in 32 attempts, compared a .176 percentage for the Seahawks.

However, St. Mary's made the most of the final three error plagued sets to edge out a victory and avoid the upset-minded Mustangs. Stevenson committed 18 hitting errors, eight service errors and seven reception errors while the Seahawks had 25 attack errors and 14 service errors, but just three reception errors.

Junior Brittany Umetin (Havre de Grace/Mt. Zion) had 37 assists and 12 digs as she was one of four Mustangs with at least 12 digs. In addition to Eller's 20, senior Julie Olson (Spofford, N.H./Keene) had 18 and freshman Amy Rudolph (North East/Rising Sun) added 12.