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Hilltoppers' postseason hopes vanish at FAU

With their postseason hopes hanging by a thread, the WKU baseball team traveled to Boca Raton, Florida to take on 17th-ranked Florida Atlantic in a three-game Conference USA series to conclude the 2016 regular season.

The Hilltoppers needed to sweep the Owls to clinch a spot in the C-USA tournament. The Owls needed to sweep the Hilltoppers to clinch the C-USA regular season championship and the number one seed in the conference tournament, and that's exactly what happened.

The Owls swept the Hilltoppers by scores of 4-3, 10-2, and 4-1 in route to clinching the regular season championship.