BERTHOUD — Friday night in the confines of its own gym, the Berthoud volleyball team made certain its 2025 story wasn’t finished.

The Spartans (24-1) swept both Pueblo Central and Falcon to claim the Class 4A Region 7 championship and a spot in next weekend’s state tournament at the Denver Coliseum.

Berthoud will play in the state tournament for the first time since 2021. The Spartans have come close in recent years, but Friday night they made sure they would get to write another chapter.

“At this point, we get to write our own story,” Berthoud head coach Hayden Sweet said. “Our goal was to make it to state, and we’ve never really talked about what that looks like after. So now we get to have the conversation and be like, ‘What do we want to accomplish when we get there? What’s our new

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