Ogallala plays Gothenburg today on October 28th in Girls' High School Varsity Volleyball for Subdistrict Championship

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By: Evan Troxel

The #1 seeded Ogallala Indians Girls' High School Varsity Volleyball team defeated the #4 seeded Chadron Cardinals three sets to zero in the Class C1-10 Subdistrict Tournament on Monday.

Ogallala will play the #2 seeded Gothenburg Swedes today on Tuesday, October 28th, 2025, for the Subdistrict Championship in Ogallala, Nebraska, on the Steve Morgan Court in the Prairie View Gymnasium at 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time.

Ogallala won against Chadron 25-15, 25-6 and 25-16.

The Indians (29-3) are ranked first in the Class C1-10 subdistrict tournament and also are currently ranked number one in Class C1 according to nsaahome.org with 46.2500 wild card points.

Milford is in second in Class C1 currently with 45.6897 wild card points while Lincoln Lutheran is in third with 45.6364 wild card points.

In Monday's match against Ogallala, Chadron's Jove Griese had four blocks and two kills.

Sophie Watson had one block and five kills.

Jezreel Alcorn had three kills and two blocks.

Alex Ervin led Ogallala with 15 kills and also had one block and one kill.

Shaydyn Rasby recorded 10 kills and had three blocks.

Laney Caskey had eight kills, two aces and one block.

Addison Powell had four kills and two blocks.

Kooper Knispel had five kills.

The number two ranked Gothenburg Swedes (in the C1-10 Tournament) defeated the number three ranked Chase County Longhorns (in the C1-10 Tournament) three sets to two in the fourth and final match on Monday, October 27th, 2025, at the Steve Morgan Court at the Prairie View Gymnasium in Ogallala, Nebraska.

Gothenburg is 18-11 so far this season with 42.5172 wild card points.

Chase County won sets one and three 25-21 and 25-17, while Gothenburg won sets two, four and five 25-12, 25-19 and 15-12.

In set one, Chase County led 8-4, 16-10 and 20-16.

In set two, Gothenburg jumped out to a 10-2 lead and led 17-3, 21-7.

In set three, Chase County led 10-5, 15-11 and 20-14.

In set four, Chase County led 6-2 and then both teams were tied at 7, 8, 9 and 10 before Chase County again built a 15-11 lead. Both teams tied at 16 and 18 before Gothenburg led 23-18 and won the set 25-19.

In set five, it went back and forth as Gothenburg led 2-1 and then Chase County led 4-3. Gothenburg led 6-4 before Chase County took a 7-6, 8-7 and 9-8 lead.

The game was tied at ten and then Gothenburg led 13-10.

Chase County trailed 12 to 13 before Gothenburg won the next two points and Gothenburg won on a kill from Ruby Bell as Chase County was out of position to make a reasonable play on the volleyball right near the net.

For Chase County, Hayley Rusher led with 11 kills, three blocks and two aces.

Miranda Spady had six kills and five blocks.

Riley Rusher had eight kills and three blocks.

Alexandria Reeves recorded a team-high three aces.

For Gothenburg, Lindly Anderson recorded 16 kills and three blocks.

Halsey Thomalla had 12 kills and three blocks.

Zoe Beveridge had 14 kills while Grace Evert had 13 kills.

Peyton Hilbers recorded a team-high four aces.

In the first match on Monday afternoon, the Chadron Cardinals defeated the #5 seeded Cozad Haymakers three sets to one.

Cozad won set one 25-22. Chadron won the next three sets 25-12, 25-23 and 25-18.

In set one, Cozad led 6-2 before trailing 8-6. Cozad then trailed 12-9 before coming back to tie at 13, 14 and 15.

Chadron then led 20-17 and 22-19 before Cozad's Braelyn Malcom served for the last five points and Chadron one set one 25-22.

Cozad's Emersyn Propp recorded 21 kills (20 for sure), one ace and had one block.

Braelyn Malcom had one ace, 13 kills (12 for sure) and one block.

Lucha Olvera had one ace, five kills and one block.

Chadron's Sophie Watson had 5 aces, 13 kills and one block.

Beau Behrends had ten kills (nine for sure) and four blocks (three for sure).

Jezreel Alcorn had eight kills and one ace.

Paige Slingsby recorded 13 kills.

Jove Griese had four blocks and two kills.

In the second match on Monday afternoon, the Chase County Longhorns defeated the #6 seeded Bridgeport Bulldogs three sets to zero.

Chase County won 25-20, 25-7 and 25-10.

Bridgeport made it close by only being down by one 20-19 in the first set.

Bridgeport's Fallon Deblois recorded six kills and had one block.

Jailyn Nichols had four kills and one ace.

Chase County's Karlie Anderson had nine kills and four aces.

Riley Rusher had 10 kills and one block.

Hayley Rusher had four kills and two blocks while Jordyn Stafford had three aces and two kills.

It appears to me that Ogallala and six other teams for sure in Class C1 have already qualified (although not officially yet) for an appearance in one of eight Class C1 District Final matches which will be played on Saturday, November 1st.

There are seven scheduled subdistrict tournament championship games slated for today, October 28th, 2025, in Class C1.

There are six semifinal matches today in three Class C1 subdistrict tournaments with the remaining championship games to be played tomorrow on Wednesday, October 29th, 2025.

It appears all of the top-seeded teams in today's semifinal matches in Class C1 in the C1-3 and C1-9 subdistrict tournaments (except for the C1-6 subdistrict tournament) will probably lock up a spot in a District Final game on Saturday with a win today.

According to me, it appears Ogallala is going to be the #1 overall seed in the District Final match and is going to be playing Battle Creek or Clarkson/Leigh if every higher seeded team wins every (or nearly every) single game remaining today and tomorrow (October 29th) for the remainder of the ten total Class C1 subdistrict tournaments.

Or, If Gothenburg defeats Ogallala today, it looks like a strong realistic possibility Ogallala and Gothenburg might play each other again on Saturday, November 1st in Ogallala.

It also looks like Ogallala could be playing Boone Central or the winner of the C1-6 Subdistrict Tournament if Battle Creek and/or Clarkson/Leigh doesn't each win their subdistrict tournament.

As for Gothenburg, they have to win today for their season to continue and they will likely be playing a top five team in Class C1 in a District Final if they do win today.

The winners of each District Final game on Saturday, November 1st, 2025, get to go to the State Tournament with eight teams in each class qualifying for the State Tournament in Lincoln, Nebraska.