Final Stats

HIGH POINT, N.C. - The Coastal Carolina volleyball team wrapped its final season of competition in the Big South in historic fashion on Saturday, defeating High Point in three sets to finish its conference slate with a perfect record for the first time in program history.

The Chanticleers are the ninth team overall to go undefeated in the Big South, fifth since the conference moved to a 14-match format in 1999 and first since 2006 when Winthrop went undefeated for three straight seasons.

Coastal Carolina will enter the Big South tournament, set for Nov. 19-22 in High Point, N.C., as the number one seed after winning the conference's regular season title for the fifth time as a program, and first since 2008.

The Chants (22-4, 14-0) open the tournament at noon on Thursday with a quarterfinal match against No. 8 Charleston Southern (10-22, 4-10). Coastal has defeated CSU twice already this season with each victory coming in straight sets.

Saturday's win at High Point marked the second against the Panthers this season, who enter the tournament as the No. 2 seed with an 11-3 conference mark.

The match featured just two ties and lead changes total. The Chants led for the entire first set en route to a 25-17 victory, and High Point held brief leads in the second and third sets as the Chants finished off the final two games by 25-11 and 25-13 scores, respectively.

Coastal hit .340 as a team while holding the Panthers to .062. The Chants also dominated at the net, recording seven team blocks to High Point's two.

Leah Hardeman led all players with 13 kills while hitting .314. Lian Bernett and Sara Boothe each tallied double-doubles as the former notched 10 kills and 12 digs and the latter provided 25 assists and 10 digs.

Bernett also tied Annayka Legros for the team's lead in blocking as the pair each tallied four. Eszter Nagy finished close behind with one solo and two assists while also putting down six kills with a .308 hitting percentage.

Hardeman and Bernett provided five and four kills, respectively, in the opening set as the Chants quickly gained a 10-4 advantage and used a .256 hitting percentage to sail to an eight-point victory.

Coastal's hitting improved to .444 in the second, its best of the match. The Chants also posted three blocks in the set as Legros, Bernett and Natasa Savovic each sent back Panther attacks.

High Point claimed the opening point of the third set but did not hold the lead long as Coastal went on a 12-4 run on the serves of Hardeman and Carla Cahill. HPU was held to hitting a mere .033 in the final set.

Big South Teams With Undefeated Records
1. 1990 -- UNC Asheville (7-0)
2. 1992 -- UNC Asheville (7-0)
3. 1994 -- UMBC (7-0)
4. 1995 -- UNC Greensboro (7-0)
5. 2001 -- Radford (14-0)
6. 2004 -- Winthrop (14-0)
7. 2005 -- Winthrop (14-0)
8. 2006 -- Winthrop (14-0)
9. 2015 -- Coastal Carolina (14-0)