CENTENARY — History makes its way to the new Gallia Academy High School on Saturday afternoon when the first-ever Southeastern Ohio Athletic League championship will be decided in the new building as the Blue Angels will square off with visiting Marietta in the SEOAL Day of Champions volleyball championship contest.

The Blue Angels (16-4) won their second SEOAL South Division championship in three years this fall by going unbeaten (8-0) in the regular season, although they do have one SEOAL South matchup remaining with Ironton.

The Lady Tigers (16-3) won the SEOAL North crown by default, finishing 7-2 overall and tied with Warren. MHS — which lost to both Logan and Warren in the SEOAL North — won the tiebreaker and is headed to its first SEOAL Day of Champions title game.

These two programs have already met once this season at the Athens Invitational, where Marietta pulled off a 25-12, 14-25, 25-16 victory in the consolation match. These two clubs also met a year ago in the fifth-place SEOAL Day of Champions contest, which the Lady Tigers won. Marietta has won the last two head-to head meetings.

These same two schools played in the last SEOAL DOC held, as the Blue Angels won the SEOAL softball title last spring.

Gallia Academy won the SEOAL crown in 2007 — the first year of the Day of Champions — after defeating Warren in three games, 26-24, 25-20, 25-15. The Blue Angels won their only outright title in school history that season, doing so at the friendly confines of the old GAHS.

Zanesville — last year’s North Division champion — won the SEOAL title a year ago after defending its home court by knocking off Chillicothe in four games, 25-22, 10-25, 25-20, 25-19.

The home team has come away victorious in each of the previous two SEOAL Day of Championships in volleyball. The SEOAL North also won all four DOC contests played a season ago.

The SEOAL championship game will start approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the junior varsity contest, and that match will begin at 11 a.m.