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Homewood celebrates following a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Ramsay on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood assistant coach Krimson White celebrates following a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Ramsay on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Venice Sanders (16) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Ramsay on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood Volleyball
Homewood's Lia Roberson (3) serves in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood Volleyball
Homewood's Taylor Gurram (15) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood Volleyball
Homewood's Josie Graf (8) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Game action in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Venice Sanders (16) serves in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood Volleyball
Homewood's Kalia Cunningham (17) sets Lia Roberson (3) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Alejandra Loo (4) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Lia Roberson (3) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood Volleyball
Homewood's Kalia Cunningham (17) reacts after a point in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood Volleyball
Homewood's Kassidy Crawford (24) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood head coach Carol Chesnutt in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Lia Roberson (3) serves in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Game action in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Taylor Gurram (15) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Kalia Cunningham (17) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood celebrates following a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Ramsay on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Venice Sanders (16) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Tori Webb (33) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood's Venice Sanders (16) and Alejandra Loo (4) in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood Volleyball
Homewood's Taylor Gurram (15) reacts after a point in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Ramsay on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood Volleyball
Action from a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Parker on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood celebrates in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Ramsay on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood head coach Carol Chesnutt in a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Ramsay on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood celebrates following a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Ramsay on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Homewood celebrates following a Class 6A, Area 10 tournament match between Homewood and Ramsay on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, at Ramsay High School in Birmingham, Alabama.
The Homewood High School volleyball team was not content with simply securing a berth in the Class 6A Super Regionals later this week.
The Patriots went ahead and finished the job, knocking off Ramsay in five sets (25-11, 18-25, 22-25, 25-22, 15-12) to win the Class 6A, Area 5 tournament on Monday night at Ramsay High School.
“I’m just so excited for this team,” said head coach Carol Chesnutt. “They steadily worked hard to improve and improve and improve every week and I’m just so excited for them. It’s great.”
To call it a five-set thriller would sound cliché, but that’s exactly what the championship match was. Each team put forth its best shot, and the Patriots were able to muster up enough to pull off the win.
The first set was all Homewood, as the Patriots turned an 8-8 set into a blowout. They won 17 of the final 20 points in the set, including nine in a row at one point, to take it 25-11.
Ramsay was not deterred, though, winning the second set 25-18 and stretching out a 20-12 lead in the third set before the Patriots rallied. Homewood nearly tied things up, but Ramsay prevailed, 25-22, to give the Rams a 2-1 edge.
The fourth set was a back-and-forth slugfest, with the rallies intensifying and the celebrations becoming more emphatic with every point. Homewood was able to gain just enough separation towards the end of the set to take it, 25-22.
With the momentum from the fourth set, the Rams were unable to stop the snowball of emotion in the fifth set. Homewood executed when it had to, winning 15-12 to take the set, match, and championship.
“This is the time you want to peak, right now, and I feel like we’re playing good ball,” Chesnutt said. “That’s a great team across the net. Ramsay’s a strong team.”
The stats for the Patriots were impressive. Kalia Cunningham had a whopping 53 assists in the Ramsay match alone. Venice Sanders led the way with 19 kills and seven blocks, while Tori Webb registered 16 kills.
Kassidy Crawford finished with seven digs and Lia Roberson had five blocks.
To get to the final, Homewood swept Parker 3-0 (25-20, 25-9, 25-11) and Ramsay defeated Shades Valley, 3-1.
The Patriots now move on to super regionals, which are set to take place on Friday and Saturday at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville. Homewood must win two matches on Friday to qualify for the state tournament the following week at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
Homewood is set to play Brewer, the Area 14 runner up, on Friday at 12:45 p.m. in Huntsville. Should the Patriots wins, they would then face the winner of Hazel Green vs. Minor at 5 p.m.
Chesnutt said, “It’s a great atmosphere up there.”