Entering the NJSIAA Boys Volleyball State Championship match on June 9, many probably had figured Southern Regional was the favorite to win a seventh state crown. On paper, it certainly looked that way.

The Rams were undefeated, on a 33-match winning streak during which they had lost just two games the entire stretch, and those squads that had managed to take Southern to three games in a match weren’t on the other side of the net inside South Brunswick High School.