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

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COZAD - The Sutherland Lady Sailors will be making their ninth trip, and second in two years, to the Nebraska State Volleyball Tournament after downing Twin Loup in four sets, 23-16, 25-13, 19-25 and 25-11 in the Class D1-6 Final at Cozad on Thursday.

Sutherland will open state tournament play on Thursday at Grand Island Northwest. The four D1 matches will be contested at 12:30, 2:30, 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.

Courtesy Photo The SPVA championship team from North Platte St. Pat's includes back row from left: Coach Shelly Byrn, Student Manager Macy Granger, Charleigh Kadlecek, Zandra Carlini, Brittany Lawrence, Student Manager Caleigh Wilbourn, Breelyn Saner, Natalie Mackley, Samantha Byrn and Assistant Coach Ronda Lewis; Front row from left: Jenna Torres, Shelby McClellen, Candice Shelton, Kari Slattery and Shelby Allberry.

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HERSHEY - Going into the SPVA Volleyball Tournament, most coaches felt the teams would be close and games hotly contested.

Saturday during the semifinals and finals, the girls from Hershey, Chase County, Sutherland and St. Pat's didn't disappoint those who attended.

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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.

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SUTHERLAND - There's a saying among coaches and fans that states: "You can't teach big."

For Chase County volleyball coach Jodie Schuller, the saying should be, "You can beat big."

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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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PAXTON - The Paxton Lady Tigers downed Sutherland 25-14, 30-28, 25-20 Thursday in Paxton.

Bailee Schow had six kills for the Lady Tigers and Bekkan Martinosky scored eight points with five kills.

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

MCCOOK - The 20th Annual Sertoma All-Star Volleyball Classic gets underway at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 18th when 25 of the area recently graduated volleyball stars meet at McCook High School.

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NebVolleyball recently asked Sutherland head volleyball coach Valerie Kershner about the 2010 State Volleyball Tournament. Below are the questions and her responses.

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