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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SUTHERLAND - It was what everyone thought it would be.

The Class C2-6 District Finals on Friday at Sutherland featured two South Platte Valley Association teams - St. Pat's and Perkins County - who were 1-1 against one another in the regular season. This time a state tournament berth was on the line and both teams played like it.

C1-1 at Plattsmouth
Friday's final: Ashland-Greenwood def. Auburn 23-25, 25-18, 21-25, 25-12, 15-11

C1-2 at Seward
Friday's final: Columbus Scotus def. Milford 25-18, 25-9, 25-13

C1-3 at Oakland-Craig
Friday's final: Concordia def. Wisner-Pilger 25-15, 25-17, 26-24

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Kristin Beck, a senior at Perkins County High School has been selected as the October 2011 Senior of the Month.

She is the daughter of Doug and Janet Beck of Grant.

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HERSHEY - St. Pat's and Sutherland moved on Thursday during action in the SPVA Volleyball Tournament at Hershey.

The Lady Irish knocked off Perkins County in the opening match of the tournament 25-16, 25-23, 13-25 and 25-18 and will continue on to play No. 1 seed Chase County in the 11 a.m. match on Saturday.

There were many big matches during the second week of the high school season that have shook up some of the NebVolleyball/Jones Insurance Agency, Inc. Rankings for each classification.

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

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One week of the 2011 season is down and there were quite a few big matches right out of the gate that help to reshape the NebVolleyball/Jones Insurance Agency, Inc. Rankings for each classification.

Games to Watch the Week of Sept. 5, 2011.

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Let's start things this week with an announcement, shall we? I can get easily confused when volleyball coaches start talking.

Sure bump, set, spike is supposed to be easy, but then last year I was reading about Nebraska and John Cook running an offense with two setters and now he's gone back to a single setter, but using an outside hitter when the setter is on the front row, meaning the setter then is someone else.

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Coaches like an early-season test. It tells them where there team is and what areas the team needs to work on.

Thursday night at St. Pat's, Lady Irish volleyball coach Shelly Byrn believes her team's weakness has been shown.

Volleyball practice kicked off Monday across Nebraska and though the first games of the high school season are still two weeks away, it's time to put the best educated guess together for the NebVolleyball/Jones Insurance Agency, Inc. Preseason Rankings for each classification.

Class A
1. Papillion-LaVista South
2. Omaha Marian
3. Omaha Burke
4. Millard North
5. Papillion-LaVista
6. Lincoln Southwest
7. Bellevue East
8. Lincoln Southeast
9. Grand Island
10. Lincoln Northeast

Class B
1. Lincoln Pius X
2. Grand Island Northwest
3. Bennington
4. Omaha Skutt
5. Elkhorn South
6. Waverly
7. Gretna
8. Seward
9. Elkhorn
10. Aurora