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CEDARVILLE, Ohio - The Ursuline College volleyball team ended its season with a 3-0 loss to second-seeded Ohio Valley University in the semifinal round of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Volleyball Championships on Friday (Nov. 14) afternoon.

Set scores were 25-23, 25-17 and 25-13.

Ursuline ends the season with a record of 18-9 overall. The .667 winning percentage is the best in program history, topping the 2007 team's .541 (20-17). Pair this year with last season's 19-17 (.528) campaign and the Arrows have strung together back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since the program's inception in 2001.

Ohio Valley University, now 24-9 overall, will take on the winner of Friday's second semifinal (6:30 p.m. start) between top-seeded Cedarville University and fourth-seeded Kentucky Wesleyan College at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday in the G-MAC title match. All of that action will be covered with free live stats and video.

Junior Abbie Fabo led the Arrows with 10 kills, many of which came from senior setter Molly Hilfinger who was playing in her last collegiate match. Hilfinger finished with 29 assists.

Sophomore Makayla Windau had eight kills, one more than junior Elise Harcek, as well as six digs. Freshman Courtney Burns had four kills and sophomore Emily Adkinson chipped in three.

Defensively, sophomore Sammi Marcum had a team-high 12 digs while Fabo had eight. Hilfinger, Windau and junior Sabrina Kinney all had six stops.

One night after recording 13 team blocks, Ursuline had six on Friday.

On the other side, Great Midwest Athletic Conference Player of the Year Alyx Henry and fellow sophomore Imani Ward were just too much to handle. Henry had a match-high 19 kills and just three errors in 35 total chances (.457) while Ward contributed 11 kills.

Setter Jessica Simpson distributed the ball around and finished with 40 assists and nine digs, the third most on the team - only Megan Morrison (20) and Emily Ohrn (14) had more.