SCOTTSBLUFF — Players have been selected for the East and West teams for the 28th-annual West Nebraska All-Star Volleyball Game. The 26 members of the volleyball teams were nominated by their respective high school coach and selected by the all-star coaches.

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The volleyball coaches have been selected to lead the West and East teams for the 28th annual West Nebraska All-Star Volleyball Game. This year’s game will be played Saturday, June 2 in Scottsbluff at Cougar Palace on the campus of Western Nebraska Community College. Game time is set for 2 p.m. MDT.

Veteran volleyball coach Craig Schadwinkel from Gering High School has been selected as the Head Coach for the West. This is Coach Schadwinkel’s second time coaching in the All Star Game. He previously served as the assistant coach for the West in 1986.

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The Gering volleyball team came into this season with the motto, “Leaving a Legacy.”

Thanks to the solid leadership and steady play of eight seniors, the Bulldogs did indeed have a season to remember.

Class A
(Ranking, Team, Record, Last Week’s ranking)
1. Papillion-LaVista South (41-0) 1
2. Omaha Marian (34-8) 2
3. Omaha Burke (32-7) 3
4. Lincoln Southwest (29-6) 4
5. Bellevue East (30-10) 6
6. Lincoln Northeast (22-17) NR
7. Grand Island (29-6) 5
8. Papillion-LaVista (17-20) 8
9. Millard West (17-17) 9
10. Omaha Westside (18-17) 7

Contenders: Lincoln North Star, Omaha Benson, Kearney

The official state tournament brackets will be released on Saturday morning by the NSAA.
A
Papillion-LaVista South (34-0) vs. Millard West (17-16)
Grand Island (19-5) vs. Lincoln Northeast (21-15)
Omaha Burke (30-6) vs. Bellevue East (30-9)
Omaha Marian (32-8) vs. Lincoln Southwest (29-5)

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OGALLALA - The Gering and Sidney volleyball teams advanced to the championship match of the Class B, District 6 Tournament with semifinal wins on Tuesday night in Ogallala.

Gering, the tournament's top seed and defending champion, overcame a pesky Alliance squad 26-24, 20-25, 25-11, 25-16. Alliance advanced to the semifinals after beating McCook in five sets.

Sub-districts are officially one week away in the smaller classifications and that means that it is time for conference tournament and final late-season rivalries to finish up and for teams to get ready for postseason play. Below are the updated NebVolleyball.com/Jones Insurance Agency, Inc. rankings for Oct. 24.

Class A
(Ranking, Team, Record, Last Week’s ranking)
1. Papillion-LaVista South (30-0) 1
2. Omaha Marian (24-7) 3
3. Omaha Burke (24-5) 2
4. Lincoln Southwest (26-5) 5
5. Grand Island (25-5) 4
6. Omaha Westside (15-14) 6
7. Bellevue East (24-8) 7
8. Papillion-LaVista (14-17) 8
9. Millard West (12-13) 10
10. Lincoln North Star (14-13)

Contenders: Lincoln Northeast, Omaha Benson, Kearney, Bellevue West

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BRIDGEPORT - The Gering girls volleyball team kept up its winning ways after downing a tenacious
Bridgeport squad in straight sets 25-18, 27-25, 25-18 to extend its winning streak to nine games on Thursday night at Bridgeport High School.

But the win was anything but easy.

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SIDNEY - The Gering volleyball team stayed on a roll Tuesday night, registering its eighth straight win with a 26-28, 25-22, 25-16, 25-17 victory over Sidney.

The win helped Gering gain a little redemption against the Red Raiders, who defeated the Bulldogs in two sets in their previous meeting Sept. 22 at Sidney.

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SIDNEY - In Craig Schadwinkel's 27 years as a volleyball coach at Gering High School, his Bulldog teams have accomplished just about everything.

But on Saturday in Sidney, this year's squad became Schadwinkel's first to win the championship of the Western Conference Tournament four straight times.