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Thursday, November 12, 2009
1-vs-2 D-I final set at state volleyball
FAIRBORN — The match that volleyball fans around the state have been waiting for is going to happen.
No. 1-ranked Cincinnati Ursuline Academy (28-0) will face No. 2 Dublin Coffman (29-0) at 11 a.m. Saturday for the Division I state championship after both swept their semifinals on Thursday, Nov. 12, at the Nutter Center. The schools have been ranked as the top two in the state since Sept. 26.
How’s this: Combined, the teams have won 157 of 160 sets this season.
The teams got a taste of each other at an August scrimmage, hosted by Ursuline, at which Coffman participated.
“I knew right away how good they were,” said Ursuline coach Jeni Case. “I had a feeling we’d be seeing them.”
Ursuline will be trying for its third state championship after losing the title match last season to Olmsted Falls in four sets (with a first-set score of 39-37). Coffman is making its first state tournament appearance.
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Nutter Center new experience for state volleyball teams
FAIRBORN — Mary Anne Souder, the Dublin High School volleyball coach, brought her team to the Nutter Center to look at the arena, the locker rooms and everything else that seems bigger than other gyms in which the team has played.
Even the floor was a challenge.
“We told them to look at the shoes of the person across the net, reset your distance,” Souder said. “In this huge gym, we were thinking, ‘Oh, we can serve farther than before,’ but we can’t, it’s still the same size on the court.”
Dublin Coffman didn’t have too much trouble adjusting. The Shamrocks, in their first state tournament appearance, rolled into Saturday’s final with a three-set sweep of Stow-Munroe Falls in a Division I semifinal on Thursday, Nov. 12, and improved their record to 29-0.
Speaking of dominance, Coffman has only lost one set all season, against Cincinnati Mount Notre Dame in the regional final.
For each team at the state volleyball tournament, though, the experience in the Nutter Center is a new one.
“This isn’t like any gym we’ve played in,” Souder said.
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