FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA - Down two sets to nothing, UC Santa Cruz rallied for a 3-2 win (23-25, 20-25, 25-19, 25-21, 15-11) over Christopher Newport in the Coast-To-Coast third place game. 
It's the third time in their last four matches UC Santa Cruz (19-5) pulled off the "reverse sweep."
Head coach Gabby Houston said, "After things not going our way yesterday, to regroup and come back the way they did today was great. It feels really good to finish third in the conference and in the way that we did."
Junior Peyton Tazelaar led three Banana Slugs in double-figure kills with a career high 20, along with a career-high 18 digs. Samantha Taylor had 15, and made the All-Tournament team for the second-straight year. Kelly Ann Greene had 11. 
The Banana Slugs hit just .100 and .114 in dropping the first two sets, but rallied for a combined .234 percentage in sets three and four as they pulled even. That set up the decisive fifth set, where All America candidate Sinead Beaupain's serving put the Banana Slugs up 4-0 before CNU called a time out. After UC Santa Cruz hit three straight points to go up 8-4, CNU was able to tie it at 8-all to make the ending exciting.
After CNU got within one at 12-11, the Banana Slugs took the last three points, helped by a combo block by Taylor and Audrey Gilbert and a Tazelaar kill.
Beaupain had a career-high 51 assists to become the fifth person in program history to reach that milestone. Libero Emily Pasion had 25 digs, putting her over 400 for the season.
The 19 wins is the most for a volleyball squad since the 20 wins in 2013, the year of UC Santa Cruz's first NCAA bid. The Banana Slugs will now wait until Monday morning to see if they make this year's tournament.
"We have high hopes and fingers crossed that we still have more season ahead of us," Houston said.