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Damian Calhoun. Sports Newsroom Assistant.

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NORWALK The emotional swings of the second set nearly had the Laguna Beach boys volleyball team staring at the possibility of a short day.

After dropping the first set, the Breakers faced set point five times in the second set, before turning the tide late to even the match.

That momentum carried over through the remainder of the match as the Breakers (26-9) defeated Saddleback Valley Christian, 19-25, 30-28, 25-23, 25-19, in CIF Southern California Division III Regional final.

This is the fifth regional title for the Breakers, having previously won in 2009-2011 and 2014.

Dane Olson, who had just four kills in the first set, finished the match with 24 to lead the Breakers.

Pete Obradovich and Tyler Alter had 17 and 12, respectively.

“Based on our year, I think it (winning the second set) was huge,” Breakers coach Darren Utterback said. “Last year’s team had a different personality. This year’s team … they play really hard, but they take things really hard.

“It could have been a backbreaker. The flip side of that is winning it catapulted us and that definitely made us play better.”

Isaac Wulf had 49 assists for the Breakers.

The Breakers trailed 20-17 in the third set, but scored three consecutive points to tie the Warriors at 20-20. Later, with the score tied at 22-22, the Breakers had a kill from Alter and a block from Barry Greenough for set point.

“We took the next day off (after losing in the CIF-SS Division 2 semifinals) to lick our wounds a little bit, but be ready to work and they came out and worked hard,” Utterback said. “They had their eyes on this (regional title).”

Noah Dyer led the Warriors with 25 kills. Trevor O’Reilly had 11.

SVC hit .520 in the first set with just two errors. In the second set, the Warriors hit .079 with 11 errors. Their percentage continued to as the match continued.

“The effort that they put forth was awesome, no one was lacking in that department,” SVC coach Ryan Van Rensselaer said of his team. “It was just performance. It was frustrating.”