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Coldwater ends Pleasant volleyball's state title hopes
ONTARIO — The quest for perfection and a state championship came to an end Saturday, Nov. 7 in the O-rena. Previously undefeated Pleasant fell to top-ranked Coldwater 3-1 in a Division V regional championship volleyball match at Ontario High School. Coldwater (23-4) will now face second ranked Meadowbrook (25-1) at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 13 at Wittenberg University. The D-V state championship with either No. 5 South Range or No. 6 Versailles will be at 3 p.m. Nov. 14 inside Wright State's Nutter Center. "It was a tough one to take for them," Pleasant coach Kory Ute said of her seventh ranked squad in D-V. The Spartans (26-1) came into the Coldwater match having won two straight regional championships. Also in 2026, they had yet to drop a set in a match. However, that changed Saturday. The Cavaliers opened with a 25-20 victory in the first set, but Pleasant showed it could answer, charging to a 25-13 win to even the match at 1-1. "We just powered the ball to them, and they didn’t have an answer," Ute said of her team's second set dominance. "We served much better that set than we did the other ones. We just really
The Marion Star
Week 13 Marion-area football standings, OHSAA playoff schedule
Here are the Marion-area high school football standings after 12 weeks, plus playoff matchups for Week 13: Mid Ohio Athletic Conference SCHOOL ALL MOAC xz-Shelby 11-0 7-0 z-Ontario 10-1 6-1 z-Clear Fork 9-2 5-2 Galion 5-5 3-4 Marion Harding 5-5 3-4 z-Highland 4-7 3-4 Pleasant 2-8 1-6 River Valley 0-10 0-7 x-league champz-playoffs Week 12, Nov. 6, regional quarterfinals Division IV Region 14: No. 2 Shelby 42, No. 7 Firelands 3 Division IV Region 14: No. 4 Clear Fork 38, No. 5 Otsego 0 Division III Region 20: No. 2 Ontario 22, No. 7 Tiffin Columbian 19 Week 13, Nov. 13, regional semifinals Division IV Region 14: No. 3 Perkins (11-0) at No. 2 Shelby (11-0) Division IV Region 14: No. 4 Clear Fork (9-2) at No. 1 Ottawa-Glandorf (11-0) Division III Region 10: No. 6 St. Marys Memorial (9-3) at No. 2 Ontario (10-1) Northwest Central Conference SCHOOL ALL NWCC xz-North Baltimore 9-2 7-1 xz-Elgin 8-3 7-1 z-Waynefield-Goshen 7-4 6-2 Perry 5-5 5-3 z-Upper Scioto Valley 5-6 4-4 z-Ridgemont 3-8 3-5 Hardin Northern 3-7 2-6 Cory-Rawson 2-8 2-6 Ridgedale 0-10 0-8 x-league champz-playoffs Week 12, Nov. 6, regional quarterfinals Division VII Region 26: No. 5 Mohawk 54, No. 4
The Marion Star
Pleasant's volleyball legacy lays with the next generation
You know a program has reached a new plateau when finishing as a regional runner-up is considered a disappointment. In 2023, just making it to the regionals was a celebration as it was just the second time in Pleasant history that its volleyball squad advanced that far. In 2024, the Spartans made their first trip to a volleyball state tournament and brought home a Division VI state runner-up trophy. Last year, with an all-underclassman roster, Pleasant moved up to Division V but still advanced to the Final Four, losing a heartbreaking reverse sweep 3-2 to New Lexington in the semifinals. With seven uber-experienced seniors and three equally experienced juniors in the rotation, the expectations were high, and they put those expectations upon themselves. Unfortunately, the tournament layout placed them in arguably the toughest region in Division V. On the other side of the regional bracket at Ontario was top-ranked Coldwater and No. 3 Huron. After handing Centerburg in three sets , Coldwater did the same to Huron to set up the regional final Nov. 7. Coldwater was not only the No. 1 team in Division V, but it was the team that beat Pleasant for the state championship in 2024.