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Six Texas champions will be crowned this week at the UIL volleyball state tournament.
The tournament, which begins Wednesday afternoon and concludes on Saturday night, returns to the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland.
State semifinals will be played in each classification with the winners advancing to a gold medal game.
Here's a look at the field:
Class 1A1 p.m. Wednesday:
Leverett's Chapel 31-13 vs.
Tioga 29-14
3 p.m. Wednesday:
Bronte 33-9 vs.
Round Top-Carmine (Carmine) 24-17
3 p.m. Thursday: State final
Did you know?: Round Top-Carmine, the 2015 champion, is making its 20th appearance in the state tournament and has swept all four playoff matches in three games…Tioga took five-set wins over Avalon in the second playoff round and Blum in the fourth to reach the state tournament for the first time…Bronte is making its 11th state tournament appearance and has the tallest play among the final four teams in 5-11 sophomore Kristen Stilley…Three Williamson's dot the Leverett's Chapel roster, juniors
Aubrey and
Sara and freshman Ariauna.
Class 2A5 p.m. Wednesday:
Iola 41-1 vs.
Weimar 31-11
7 p.m. Wednesday:
Archer City 37-7 vs.
Thrall 37-10
5:30 p.m. Thursday: State final
Did you know?: Iola, the defending state champion returns all-tournament selections Landry Wagner and Shelby McKnight…Weimar, which made its first state tournament appearance last year, returns all-tourney selection
Amberlee Munsch, a 5-8 senior…Archer City eliminated last year's state finalist Windthorst to reach state and has yet to lose a set in the playoffs…Coach Bethany Grissom is guiding Thrall to its first state tournament appearance
Class 3A11 a.m. Thursday:
Goliad 42-2 vs.
Callisburg (Gainesville) 35-11
1 p.m. Thursday:
Leon (Jewett) 46-0 vs.
Peaster 42-8
11 a.m. Saturday: State final
Did you know?: Defending state champion Leon, making its 28th state tourney appearance, returns three off last year's all-tourney team:
Kaydee Honeycutt,
Toryn Cox and MVP
Kaitlyn Robinson…Goliad brings a 36-match winning streak into the tourney, including sweeps in all five playoff matches…Callisburg, making its first state tournament appearance, is 4-1 in matches going to a fifth set, including two in the playoffs…Peaster, a state semifinalist a year ago, returns all-tourney selection
Kennedy Warren, a 6-foot junior.
Class 4A7:30 p.m. Thursday:
Bushland 41-3 vs.
Liberty Hill 36-15
11 a.m. Friday:
Navarro (Geronimo) 44-4 vs.
Argyle 40-9
1:30 p.m. Saturday: State final
Did you know?: All-tourney selection
Allison White had 10 kills in Argyle's victory in the title game…Bushland, a state finalist a year ago, returns all-tourney pick Savannah Sullins, who had seven kills in 13 digs in the title match…Juniors
Jenna Lyons and
Brooklynn Jones stood out with 11 kills and 30 assists respectively in Liberty Hill's regional final victory…Eight of the 10 Navarro players are underclassmen, the tallest being 6-2 freshman Kelly Helms.
Class 5A1 p.m. Friday:
Lovejoy (Lucas) 41-7 vs.
Cedar Park 41-10
3 p.m. Friday:
Amarillo 41-6 vs.
Tuloso-Midway (Corpus Christi) 40-8
4 p.m. Saturday: State final
Did you know?: Lovejoy, a six-time state champion, defeated Frisco schools in three of its five playoff matches…Cedar Park won its five-set regional final over Leander Rouse behind 25 combined kills by a pair of 6-1 seniors,
Alana Geymer and
Luci Albertson…Nine-time state champion Amarillo was down two sets to one to Boswell (Fort Worth) in a regional semifinal before rallying for a five-set win…
Bethany Clapp, a 6-1 junior, had 10 kills as Tuloso-Midway secured the first state tournament berth for a Corpus Christi school since 2010.
Class 6A5 p.m. Friday:
Oak Ridge (Conroe) 46-0 vs.
Hebron (Carrollton) 44-6
Hebron takes on Oak Ridge in the Texas 6A volleyball semifinals on Friday in a battle of volleyball titans.
Photo by Gregory LaGrange
7 p.m. Friday:
Clear Creek (League City) 46-4 vs.
Reagan (San Antonio) 42-4
6:30 p.m. Saturday: State final
Did you know?: Returning for defending state champion Hebron is
Kylee McLaughlin, last year an all-tournament selection. She is verbally committed to Oregon State…Oak Ridge has not lost since a four-set defeat in last year's state semifinal.
Carly Graham, a 6-1 junior, was an all-tournament selection…The blocking of 6-2 sophomore
Allie Garland and the spikes of 5-10 senior
Caitlyn Burroway carried Clear Creek in the regional final…
Camryn Ennis helped end Reagan's four-year losing streak in regional finals with 16 kills, 23 assists and 26 digs in a victory over Brandeis (San Antonio).
