Courtside: Where You Should be – Friday & Saturday, Sept. 6-7

<em>**Note – Nebraska HS Volleyball will be live tweeting from the Bellevue Invitational today and the Heartland Crossroads in Fremont on Saturday. Please follow along or mention us in your updates from matches at @NebHSvolleyball</em> So much for the idea of easing into the 2013 Nebraska High School volleyball season. Between the Bellevue Invitational, Beatrice Invitational and Heartland Crossroads Tournament in Fremont, all but 4 of the top 10 teams in Class A and B combined will be squaring off against each other. Class C’s top-ranked Columbus Scotus also hosts its own invite this weekend. The Bellevue and Beatrice tournaments are both 2-day affairs with pool play on Friday and bracket play on Saturday. The Fremont and Columbus Scotus tournaments are both single-day format on Saturday. Here is a quick look at the schedules and match-ups for this weekend’s top tournaments. <p align="center"><b>Bellevue Invitational @ Bellevue West High School</b></p> <b><i>Pool play begins at 4 p.m. on Friday with bracket play starting at 9 a.m. Saturday. Top two teams from each pool advance to championship bracket while bottom two teams advance to consolation bracket. Rankings are Nebraska HS volleyball rankings in Class A unless noted otherwise</i></b><b>.</b> Pool A: #1 Marian;  Class B #8 Omaha Skutt; Class B #7 Omaha Gross; Bellevue East. Pool B: Western Christian of Iowa; #7 Lincoln Southeast; Bellevue West; Omaha Burke. Pool C: #5 Millard North; #8 Papillion-LaVista South; #4 Lincoln Northeast; Omaha Central. Pool D: #6 Papillion-LaVista; Sioux City Heelan; Millard South; Omaha Westside. <p align="center"><b>Beatrice Invitational @ Beatrice High School, Middle School, City Auditorium &amp; Southeast Community College</b></p> <b><i>Pool play begins at 4:30 p.m. with bracket play starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Following pool play, the top 8 teams advance to the Gold Tournament and remaining four teams will play in the Silver Tournament. Rankings are Nebraska HS volleyball rankings in Class B unless noted otherwise.</i></b> Orange Pool (High School Gym): #5 Grand Island Northwest; Elkhorn; Beatrice; DC West. Black Pool (Middle School &amp; City Auditorium): #2 Waverly; Class C #2 Kearney Catholic; Norfolk; Council Bluffs Abraham Lincoln. White Pool (Southeast Community College): #1 Lincoln Pius X; #4 Aurora; Bennington; Ogallala. <p align="center"><b>Heartland Crossroads Tournament @ Fremont Senior High</b></p> <b><i>Round-robin play begins at 9 a.m. with 5^th and 3^rd place matches scheduled for 1:30 p.m. and the championship match scheduled for 3 p.m.</i></b> Teams: Class A #2 Millard West; Class B #6 Elkhorn South; Class B #3 Gretna; Class A #10 Fremont; Columbus; Lincoln High. <p align="center"><b>Shamrock Invite at Columbus Scotus</b></p> <b><i>Tournament is bracket play only beginning at 9 a.m. Opening-round matches of the eight-team tournament is as follows:</i></b> Class C #1 Columbus Scotus vs. Twin River; Stanton vs. Columbus Lakeview; Hartington Cedar Catholic vs. Wahoo Neumann; Norfolk Catholic vs. Pierce.