The St. Andrews Presbyterian College volleyball team rallied from a 2-1 deficit by winning the final two sets in route to a 3-2 (26-24, 24-26, 13-25, 25-19, 15-4) Conference Carolinas victory over host Queens University of Charlotte on Friday night in the “Oven”.

St. Andrews earned the eighth and final bid to the 2009 Conference Carolinas Volleyball Tournament with the victory in the team’s regular season finale. The No. 8 seed Lady Knights will visit top seeded and regular season champion Lees-McRae College in the quarterfinals on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m.

SAPC finishes the regular season with a 12-19 overall record and a 7-11 mark in the league after winning their second straight five-set match. The Knights have won the last four matches that have gone the distance. Queens maintains 7-23 and 3-14 ledgers after the match.

After trading the first two sets by matching 26-24 scores, Queens looked ready to pull off the upset with an impressive 25-13 win in the middle frame. However, the Knights tied up the match in the fourth with a six-point win before dominating play in the sprint to 15 in the fifth set by winning 15-of-19 points to complete the season series sweep of the Royals.

St. Andrews had a .114 hitting percentage for the match including a staggering .382 clip in the fourth and fifth sets. The Knights finished with 12.0 team blocks and 10 aces marking the second time this season that St. Andrews has reached double figures in both categories in a match.

SAPC sophomore Heather Bolwerk had a season-high 19 kills to lead all attackers. Bolwerk spiked her 19 kills on 47 attempts with only six errors for a .277 hitting percentage including four kills in the decisive fifth set. Bolwerk was one dig shy of a double-double with nine scoops.

Knights’ freshman Jessica Himalstein followed with a season-high 12 kills. Classmate Kelly Stine added eight kills.

Jaime Hayes tallied her third double-double of her senior season with a team-high 31 assists and 11 digs.

St. Andrews received strong play in all areas of the court including a trio of Knights posting match-high totals in different statistical categories. Sophomore Erica Davis served up a match-high three aces; and junior Leah Davison was a wall on the front-line defense with a match-high seven total blocks; and senior libero Courtney McDonald provided a match-high 28 digs.

The Royals were led by Erica Mazur’s 18 dig, 14 kill double-double and Annie Henderson’s 19 dig, 10 kill double-double. Erinn Moore added a match-high 40 assists for Queens.