UCF's historic season came to an end at JoAnne Graf Field on Sunday afternoon with a 5-0 loss to ninth-seeded Florida State in the championship of the Tallahassee Regional.
 
The Knights finished with a 50-9 overall and set a program record for the most wins and the fewest losses in a season. UCF, ranked 13th in the nation, fell to the top seeded Seminoles, who are ranked ninth in the country.

“It was a hard fought weekend,” UCF head coach Renee Luers-Gillispie. “(It was) good to be able to have that kind of competition in a regional and I felt our girls did a great job of fighting through that. We did our very best, but just came up a little bit short.”

The Knights made the sixth NCAA appearance in program history, with the season marking the first time they have gone in back-to-back campaigns. UCF won both the American Athletic Conference regular season and conference tournament titles for the first time in school history.

Senior Mackenzie Audas, who closed out her UCF career tossing the final five innings of the game while allowing just one hit, is the winningest pitcher in school history with 78 victories. Both Audas (0.95) and junior Shelby Turnier (0.87) turned in earned run averages below 1.00 and posted the lowest team ERA in UCF history at 0.93. Senior Kahley Novak set the program record with 125 stolen bases.

Florida State used a pair of hits to take a 2-0 lead in the top of the third and added to it in the top of the fourth, leading the Knights 5-0.