{"id":35476,"date":"2026-04-04T11:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=35476"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:16:57","slug":"bellmont-to-return-to-3a-volleyball-tournament-in-new-look-sectional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/bellmont-to-return-to-3a-volleyball-tournament-in-new-look-sectional\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellmont to return to 3A volleyball tournament in new-look sectional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bellmont&#8217;s stint in 4A volleyball may have cost them their sectional streak, but it also gave them a very memorable 2025 sectional victory as coach Krull&#8217;s program started a new sectional streak in a five-set thriller over Homestead in the opening round. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Braves will return to their normal classification of 3A in 2026 and 2027 and they&#8217;ll play in a much different sectional from the last few sets of decisions from Indianapolis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3A Sectional #22: Bellmont, Bluffton, Bishop Luers, Heritage, New Haven, Norwell, Woodlan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year&#8217;s 3A champion, Roncalli, will play 4A volleyball for the next two seasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bishop Dwenger, last year&#8217;s 3A runner-up, will be in the other local 3A sectional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3A Sectional #21: Angola, DeKalb, East Noble, Bishop Dwenger, Concordia Lutheran, Garrett, Leo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2A, Adams Central and South Adams will no longer have to worry about Bluffton and Woodlan, with both ACAC rivals moving up to Bellmont&#8217;s 3A sectional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, the Jets and Starfires will be favorites in a five-team field. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2A Sectional #36: Adams Central, Manchester, South Adams, Wabash, Whitko<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellmont&#8217;s stint in 4A volleyball may have cost them their sectional streak, but it also gave them a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,13,52,15,51,46,28,53,26,55],"class_list":["post-35476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-adamscentral","tag-bellmont","tag-bluffton","tag-featured","tag-heritage","tag-norwell","tag-southadams","tag-southernwells","tag-sports","tag-volleyball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DSC_0846.jpg?fit=2464%2C1632&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35477,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35476\/revisions\/35477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}