(11-12-26) Both Division VII state semifinals ended in sweeps Thursday at Wright State University’s Nutter Center, setting up a Friday night final between unbeaten Tiffin Calvert and Fort Loramie.

Division VII 

Tiffin Calvert (28-0) def. Westerville Northside Christian (25-3), 3-0 (25-8, 25-12, 25-16)  STATS

Fort Loramie (24-4) def. Newark Catholic (21-6), 3-0 (27-25, 25-18, 25-19)  STATS

The state championship is Friday at 6 p.m. at the Nutter Center — the Friday nightcap of the OHSAA volleyball finals.

Tiffin Calvert 3, Northside Christian 0

Tiffin Calvert (28-0) stayed perfect with a 25-8, 25-12, 25-16 sweep of Westerville Northside Christian (25-3) in the noon semifinal.
The Senecas left no doubt in any of the three sets, winning the opener 25-8 and closing it out 25-16 in the third.

Senior Bella Borgio reached 1,000 career kills in the match, a milestone celebrated in the arena. Borgio is one of three Calvert players on the Division VII first-team All-Ohio squad, along with senior Bryn Dircksen and junior Gracie Miller, and head coach Lori Rombach is the Division VII Coach of the Year.

Northside Christian, which entered 25-2, ends its season 25-3.

Fort Loramie 3, Newark Catholic 0

Fort Loramie (24-4) beat Newark Catholic (21-6) 3-0 (27-25, 25-18, 25-19) in the 2 p.m. semifinal, and the box score tells the story of a match that was tight once and then got away from the Green Wave.

The first set was the battle — Fort Loramie took it 27-25, the only set of the match with a tie score or a lead change. From there the Redskins pulled away, 25-18 and 25-19, in a match that lasted 1 hour, 18 minutes.

Fort Loramie spread the attack around: Charleigh Albers, Isabelle Hoying and Corynn Hoelscher each finished with 12 kills. Albers added four aces and 12 digs for a team-high 16 points, Hoying added 17 digs, and Hoelscher hit .312. Setter Tessa Boerger ran the offense with 38 assists. As a team, Fort Loramie hit .223 with 46 kills and 65 digs.

Newark Catholic got a big day from its two All-Ohio hitters — senior Leah Caudill, a first-teamer, led all players with 15 kills and added 13 digs, and junior Sophia Basham, a second-teamer, hit .464 with 14 kills. But the Green Wave hit just .185 as a team, and no other Newark Catholic player had more than five kills. Setter Gabbie Hill had 22 assists and libero Calla Whitlach had 17 digs.

Albers, Hoelscher and Boerger are all All-Ohio picks themselves — Hoelscher on the second team, Albers and Boerger on the third team — so Friday’s final will have All-Ohio first-teamers on both sides of the net.

The final

Tiffin Calvert (28-0) vs. Fort Loramie (24-4), Friday, 6 p.m., Nutter Center, Wright State University. Calvert is chasing a perfect season.

All matches stream live on the NFHS Network.

Sources: OHSAA box score (Fort Loramie vs. Newark Catholic); OHSAA state tournament pairings; Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune; Calvert Catholic Schools.

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