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GRAND ISLAND — Two Hub Territory teens were honored as athletes of the year last week at the 26th-annual Central Nebraska Fellowship of Christian Athletes banquet in Grand Island.

Kara Ostrand, a senior at Ansley High School, and Lance English, a senior at Sumner-Eddyville-Miller, took home female and male top honors in front of a crowd of about 600 people that included former Seattle Mariners pitcher Brian Holman and current Nebraska Cornhusker football safety Austin Cassidy.
According to Josh Reynolds, area director of Central Nebraska FCA, the criteria in determining athlete of the year awards is athletic and academic achievement, Christian testimony, FCA leadership and involvement and how the students “compete for the glory of God.”

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SUPER SQUAD

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KEARNEY — At Anlsey’s district volleyball final, Warrior fans often cheered, “A-H-S Let’s Go.”

It’s a cheer whose days are numbered.

KEARNEY – Thursday’s D2 final between Giltner and Ansley wasn’t for the faint of heart.

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ARCADIA — The Class D-2, No. 6 Ansley volleyball team won a pair of matches to take the Loup Valley Conference Tournament Saturday.

The Warriors (21-1) opened with a 25-9, 24-26, 25-17, 25-18 victory over Twin Loup in the tournament semifinals. Siera Rohde led the way with 16 kills. Katie Drake and Kara Ostrand each had 13 set assists.

It’s conference tournament time across the state with quite a few already having been completed last week, many more this week and the final ones next week. Conference Tournaments will affect the rankings in all division as many of the top teams likely will face each other. Some those results were reflected in this week’s new NebVolleyball/Jones Insurance Agency, Inc. Rankings for each classification.

Class A
(Ranking, Team, Record, Last Week’s ranking)
1. Papillion-LaVista South (29-0) 1
2. Omaha Burke (24-4) 3
3. Omaha Marian (24-7) 4
4. Grand Island (21-4) 5
5. Lincoln Southwest (23-5) 6
6. Omaha Westside (13-14) 8
7. Bellevue East (23-8) 2
8. Papillion-LaVista (14-16) 7
9. Lincoln Northeast (18-11) 9
10. Millard West (11-13) 10

Contenders: Omaha Benson, Kearney, Bellevue West, Fremont, Lincoln North Star

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Papillion-LaVista swept Class B's new top team Lincoln Pius X in in the finals of the Lincoln Northeast Tournament, while former Class B No. 1 Gretna was defeated for the first time this season. Earlier last week, Kearney Catholic was defeated by Grand Island Central Catholic, switching up the rankings in C1. D1 BDS lost to Class C2 Blue Hill, but remains atop in D1 as does Bertrand in D2 and Lutheran High Northeast in C2 in this week’s Oct. 3 NebVolleyball/Jones Insurance Agency, Inc. Rankings for each classification.

Class A
(Ranking, Team, Record, Last Week's ranking)
1. Papillion-LaVista South (21-0) 1
2. Omaha Burke (20-3) 2
3. Grand Island (18-3) 5
4. Bellevue East (14-5 ) 8
5. Omaha Marian (15-7) 3
6. Lincoln Southwest (16-3) 4
7. Papillion-LaVista (12-10) 6
8. Omaha Westside (8-9) 7
9. Lincoln Northeast (13-10) 9
10. Millard West (9-11) 10

Contenders: Omaha Benson, Kearney, Bellevue West, Fremont, Lincoln North Star

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Ansley def. Elba/NLS

SCOTIA — Ansley won two matches at the Elba/North Loup-Scotia Triangular

The third week of the season has come and gone. There were some more shake ups among some of the top teams in the lower classifications while most of the larger schools remained relatively unchanged in the Sept. 19 NebVolleyball/Jones Insurance Agency, Inc. Rankings for each classification.

Class A
(Ranking, Team, Record, Last Week's ranking)
1. Papillion-LaVista South (9-0) 1
2. Omaha Burke (13-2) 2
3. Omaha Marian (10-4) 3
4. Grand Island (14-1) 5
5. Lincoln Southwest (14-2) 4
6. Bellevue East (11-3) 6
7. Papillion-LaVista (6-6) 7
8. Lincoln Northeast (9-6) NR
9. Omaha Benson (12-2) 10
10. Bellevue West (10-9) NR

Contenders: Millard West, Omaha Westside, Millard North, Kearney, Lincoln North Star