Courtesy Photo Wood River's Morgan Heise signs her national letter of intent while her family and CCC head coach Mary Young look on.

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COLUMBUS — The National Junior College Athletic Association Division II Women’s Volleyball Tournament ended just over two weeks ago, and the Raiders are already preparing for next season.

For Central Community College, finishing sixth at nationals was a great achievement, the highest finish in the school’s history. But that doesn’t mean the Raiders are content. Since, CCC has signed three players — including two area athletes — to National Letters of Intent.

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GRAND ISLAND — Alyssa Frauendorfer pounded 31 kills to lead Humphrey to its first Class D-1 state volleyball championship Saturday at the Heartland Events Center.

Humphrey, making its first state appearance, defeated top-ranked Exeter-Milligan 25-22, 17-25, 25-22, 25-20 to earn the title.

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After watching their teams lock up state volleyball titles, coaches Gwen Egbert of Papillion-La Vista South and Jake Moore of Lincoln Pius X each pointed to a regular-season match that had a major impact on their squads.

Both were against Omaha Marian.

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

GRAND ISLAND - Exeter-Milligan will be shooting for its third-consecutive D1 championship while Humphrey continued its run of firsts this state tournament.

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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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ALBION — Believe it or not, the Bulldogs were the inexperienced ones.

Judging by the dominating performance shown Thursday by the Humphrey High volleyball team against Cedar Valley in the D1-3 District Final, one would think the Bulldogs were in a comfortable situation which they’d been in plenty of times before.

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COLUMBUS — They took very different paths to get there, but the Bulldogs and Bluejays ended up at the same destination ... the final.

The Humphrey and Newman Grove volleyball teams won their respective matches Monday in the Class D1-5 Subdistrict Tournament at the Lakeview High School gym to advance to tonight’s championship match with a spot at districts on the line. Humphrey was cool and collected in a 25-13, 25-23, 25-19 sweep of Osceola, while Newman Grove used a ferocious rally to dispose of Humphrey St. Francis 22-25, 14-25, 25-22, 25-18, 15-13. Osceola defeated East Butler 25-15, 25-14, 25-8 in the evening’s first match.

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COLUMBUS — The Bulldogs served hard, and then sat back and watched the points stack up.

Well, things weren’t necessarily that easy for the Class D-1, No. 5 Humphrey High volleyball team against Class D-2, No. 1 Howells in Tuesday’s Cornhusker Conference final at the Raider Fieldhouse.

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