MORRIS, Minn. – The University of Minnesota Morris volleyball team's playoff seeding will come down to the final match of the regular season as the Cougars host the University of Wisconsin-Superior for a 1 p.m. match on Saturday.
 
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If UW-Superior wins its match against Crown College on Friday, the following playoff scenarios will determine the No. 2 seed. The Cougars will earn the two seed in one of two ways: with a three-set victory or a four-set victory with a point margin greater than 13 across the match. UW-Superior will earn the two seed with a win or a five-set Cougar victory. If the Yellowjackets fall to Crown, the winner of Saturday's match will earn the two seed.
 
Last week, the Cougars went 2-0 with a pair of conference sweeps. Minnesota Morris' first match was against Martin Luther College. Braxtyn Meyer led the attack with 10 kills while hitting .474. In the following match against Bethany Lutheran College, Natalie Wahl had a team-high 10 kills, with Bella Nelson following with nine. Over the week, Rachel Bopp led the Cougars with 37 digs. Sella Fleming earned her seventh UMAC Setter of the Week award with 66 assists.
 
This season, Wahl and Ella Johnson have led the attack, totaling 220 and 208 kills, respectively. Nelson follows with 142 kills, while Meyer and Tori Scheler have recorded 138 and 130, respectively. As a team, the Cougars are hitting .176, the second-best mark in the UMAC. Fleming has set up the offense with a conference-leading 708 assists. Wahl also leads the team with 26 service aces, with Johnson and Meyer following with 20 apiece.
 
Bopp is leading the team defensively with 356 digs, the fourth-most in the UMAC. Johnson follows and is approaching 300 with 296. Fleming rounds out the top three with 251 digs. At the net, Scheler has recorded 61 blocks this season and ranks ninth all-time at Minnesota Morris with 266.
 
UW-Superior has an overall record of 17-8 and is currently second in the UMAC at 8-2. Last week, the Yellowjackets went 1-1, starting the week with a sweep against North Central University before taking No. 24 University of Northwestern to five sets and falling 3-2. Head coach Molly Stock is in her first season with the program. Makenna Hohbein paces the team with 284 kills, with Kyndra Peterson following with 173. Defensively, Melissa Hoff has tallied 81 blocks.
 
The first time these teams met, the Yellowjackets won in four sets. The sets were close, with the Cougars scoring at least 25 points in three of the four. Wahl had a team-high nine kills, while Fleming tallied 28 digs.