WAVERLY - The Buena Vista volleyball team was hoping to secure its berth into the conference tournament with a road win at Wartburg College on Tuesday night, but the Beavers were dealt a tough 3-0 loss by the Knights (25-15, 25-12, 25-17), who wrapped up the regular season title with the victory.

BVU finished with only 10 fewer kills than the Knights but had 11 more attack errors (17-6).  Wartburg also had 10 ace serves compared to just three for the Beavers.

Sophomore Sydney McLaren tallied a team-high 12 kills and has just three errors for a .214 percentage. She extends her career-high to 316 on the year Hannah Smith and Camryn McClintock each posted six kills with McClintock also coming up big, defensively, with 14 digs.

Senior Summer Goss registered 21 digs and now has 561 on the year which pushes her past Jess Wilcox (560) and into fifth-place on the program's single-season list.  She needs only 21 to reach fourth and 31 shy of third.  

Taylor Wedemeyer dished out 20 assists and goes over 800 for the year.

"Obviously not the result we wanted," said BVU head coach Aubrey Havlichek.  "Credit Wartburg, they're undefeated for a reason.  They take care of busiess.  When we executed our game plan we were competing right there with them.  We just deviated from it too much and reverted back to our safe tendancies."

Buena Vista (11-15) has now dropped three straight matches overall and finish the conference slate at 3-5.  The team will now await the result of Wednesday night's match between Coe and Luther being played in Cedar Rapids.  The Beavers are needing a Kohawk win over the Norse to give them a berth into next week's conference tournament.  A Luther win would give the Norse the final spot as a result of last Friday's four-set win over the Beavers.

BVU will have a pair of matches to play at the end of the week regardless as the team takes part in the Grinnell College Classic on Saturday.  It will take on the host Pioneers at 11 a.m. followed by a 1 p.m. match against Illinois College.