FREMONT — Perrysburg swept Toledo Notre Dame, 25-15, 25-19, 25-8, in Division I tournament volleyball Wednesday at Fremont Ross, and now the Yellow Jackets get a chance to avenge a regular season loss to the Ross Little Giants next week.

Perrysburg senior middle blocker Wrigley Takats, who has committed to play NCAA Division I volleyball at Eastern Michigan University, led the Yellow Jackets with seven kills, seven blocks, and four aces.

Takats is nearly always on the leader board in kills, but she takes every opportunity to take her opponents down serving and blocking, too.

“I just think I try to contribute as much as I can, like blocking,” Takats said. “Tonight wasn’t my hitting night, but I knew that we needed to step up on our blocks more in order to be dominant. And from the service line, we win when we serve aggressive.”

Perrysburg improves to 18-5 while Notre Dame Academy sees its season end at 5-18.

On Monday, Perrysburg will travel to Bascom, Ohio to take on Northern Lakes League Cardinal Division champion Fremont Ross (20-3) in a 7:15 district semifinal at Hopewell-Loudon High School.

Ross swept Tiffin Columbian (16-7), 25-20, 25-22, 25-20, in the first sectional final played Wednesday.

If it were not for the Little Giants defeating Perrysburg in a non-league match in five sets, 26-24, 25-19, 18-25, 16-25, 18-16, earlier this season, the seeding between No. 3 Ross and No. 4 Perrysburg would likely have been reversed.

That means Wednesday’s games would likely have been played on the Jackets’ court instead of in Fremont. As it is, they will face off Monday on a neutral court.

Takats and Perrysburg coach Laura Davidson believe the Jackets are better prepared this time fot the Little Giants.

“We’ve seen them coming up, we’ve watched them before this match, and I think we’re going to need to be really solid with our blocks and replacing the ball and watching their defense,” Davidson said. “We are going to come after them aggressive.”

Takats added, “We’re really excited for a redemption match. I mean, I think we’ve grown up a lot since we played them and we’re ready.”

The Yellow Jackets had very little difficulty getting past NDA Wednesday, never trailing until early in the third set, and Perrysburg ended up holding the Eagles to single digits in that final set.

Perrysburg was putting down aces and blocks all over the place.

“Our big focus coming into today was serving aggressive and passing,” Davidson said. “I felt like our offense could take care of the ball then.

“We had something like 14 aces and maybe four misses, which isn’t too bad, really, and blocking we definitely had a lot of blocks and a couple block solos. I thought we were really solid in watching their players and lining up with them.”

Takats added, “I think that is something we prioritize in practice. A good blocking team is really hard to play against, so we take pride in our blocking.”

Perrysburg scored the first five points of the match, an ace by Takats put them up 7-1, and an ace by junior outside hitter Sophie Burkey extended the Jackets’ lead to 12-3.

The Eagles closed the gap to six, 20-14, on a kill by junior outside hitter Amira Dupree, but Takats and senior setter Lydia Steyer combined on set winning block assists for set point.

The Eagles hung around the second set, although they never got the lead. An ace by NDA senior setter Tessa Miller pulled her team to within one, 12-11.

However, behind the serving of Takats and senior defensive specialist Maddie Trautman the Jackets rallied to an 8-1 run, going up 20-11, closing on consecutive kills by Burkey. As Steyer was serving, Takats had consecutive kills to close the set.

In the third set, NDA opened its only lead, 2-1, but the Jackets dominated after that, outscoring the Eagles 24-6 until the match was finished.

Burkey finished with 12 kills and five aces, including a string of four consecutive aces in the third set, and sophomore middle blocker Mia Brandeberry had six kills and one solo block.

Davidson says when players like Brandeberry and sophomore outside hitter Katie Pahl step in to contribute, it helps the top hitters like Takats, Burkey, and junior outside hitter Mackenzie Hurley succeed, too.

“It’s very important for them to support the bigger hitters so then we can open up the net for people like Sophie and Wrigley so they don’t know who we are going to,” Davidson said.

“Honestly, we like to spread our offense out as much as possible to get it to Mac (Hurley) more — I thought she had some good swings. I think they all played their part tonight.”