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SIOUX CITY -- A season filled with unknowns has certainly yielded quite a few pleasant surprises.
As the Morningside College volleyball team heads into more of the same in the NAIA women's volleyball championships, first-year Coach Sara Horn can only hope a little ignorance keeps adding up to bliss.

"I really didn't know what to expect,'' said Horn, reflecting on her expectations as she prepared for her first season with the Mustangs. "People asked me how I thought we would be and I just didn't know.''
When Great Plains Athletic Conference coaches picked her team to finish eighth in an 11-team race, she was scarcely delighted.

With four teams of the 11 Crossroads Conference teams at the state tournament this season, the competition level was fierce.

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The official state tournament brackets will be released on Saturday morning by the NSAA.
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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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KEARNEY – Thursday’s D2 final between Giltner and Ansley wasn’t for the faint of heart.

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YORK - The Hampton volleyball team has been a work in progress all fall. Hawks coach Diane Torson likes how the project looks at this point of the season.

Senior outside hitter Taylor VanHousen had 21 kills and junior standout Kalynn Dahlke 17 to lead Class D-2 No. 2 Hampton to a 21-25, 25-16, 25-21, 25-20 win against Class D-2 No. 7 Giltner in the quarterfinals of the Crossroads Conference Tournament on Monday night.

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

GILTNER – It took the NebVolleyball.com D1 No. 4 Heartland volleyball team a set to get its bearings on Tuesday against D2 No. 10 Giltner.

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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