DANVILLE, Va. - Shenandoah University clinched the fifth seed at next week's USA South Conference men's soccer tournament with a 4-1 conference victory over Averett in the regular season finale Saturday afternoon.

After starting the season without a victory in its first 12 matches, SU (4-10-2, 2-3-1) has now won four straight heading into next week's tourney.

The Hornets will face Methodist in Tuesday's quarterfinal round game - Shenandoah and the Monarchs could tie for fourth in the league but MC earns the No. 4 seed (and the accompanying home game) as a result of a 1-0 win over SU two weeks ago.

The winner of that Tuesday contest will face regular season champion NC Wesleyan in the tournament semi-finals on Saturday in Rocky Mount.

For the second straight game, Shenandoah staged a comeback to earn the victory on Saturday. After Averett (5-11, 0-6) scored the opening goal of the game in the 19th minute, SU netted the equalizer 20 minutes later on a Will Weber goal.

Weber scored again in the 59th minute to put the visitors on top to stay before his goal at 63:37 gave him a natural hat trick.

The Winchester native was not done yet - he assisted Freddie Ventura at 77:12 to put the finishing touches on his seven-point afternoon.

Hornets keepers Brian Garretson and Armand Bozorgmanesh combined to make three saves.

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The quarterfinal round game at Methodist is expected to start at 3:00.