St. Ambrose will enter the CCAC Tournament as the hottest team in the conference as the Bees wrapped up the regular season with their fourth straight victory, a 25-14, 25-17, 25-21 decision at St. Francis Thursday night.

Winners of six consecutive league matches, SAU will begin the postseason as the league's No. 2 seed and host Roosevelt in a quarterfinal match next Tuesday.

The Bees earned second place in the CCAC by taking care of business Thursday. St. Ambrose (16-14, 10-4 CCAC) hit better than .450 in each of the first two sets in cruising to the 3-0 win.

SAU put down 13 kills against just two errors for a .458 hitting percentage in the opening set, and nearly matched those numbers in the second set (16 kills, two errors, .452 percentage). The team slipped slightly in the third, collecting 11 kills and hitting just .152, allowing St. Francis (10-20, 8-6 CCAC) to stay in the set.

The Fighting Saints led by two points as late as 17-15 before a kill from Meredith Umland and an ace from Meredith Siebers powered a four-point run to put the Bees in front. With the set tied at 19-19, Devyn Church and Mackenzie Grafton put down back-to-back kills to give SAU the lead for good. After a USF point, the Bees won the next three points, the last two coming on a kill from Alex Horne and an ace from Kaleigh Bergschneider for a 24-20 lead. Two points later, St. Ambrose closed out the win.

Grafton led the way with 17 kills. She had just one hitting error to finish with a .667 hitting percentage. She also picked up eight digs.

It was a balanced attack from there as Church had seven kills, Siebers six, Umland five and Horne three. Hannah Sondag, who led the team with 30 assists and 11 digs, and Kennedy Hugunin each registered one kill.

Haley Doucet was credited with three assists. Lexi Huntley recorded nine digs in the win. Adriana Diaz finished with four digs and three of the team's nine aces. Skyler Kuntzman added two digs.

Now the Bees will prepare for a quarterfinal match against the Lakers, a team that took down SAU 3-2 in Chicago on Oct. 3.