San Gabriel Academy coach Derek Duran, center, celebrates with his players and the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship plaque in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy’s Achilles Huang is hoisted up as his team celebrates winning the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship against Brea Ollinda in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy’s Fernando Lemus, left, and Esteban Piedra (3) celebrate winning the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship against Brea Olinda in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda’s Jeremiah Ammermann, right, gets the kill against San Gabriel Academy’s Nehemiah Sanchez in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy’s Achilles Huang makes a kill shot against Brea Olinda in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy’s Ryan Agustin, left, goes for a kill shot against Brea Olinda’s Addison Altermatt in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda’s Kaeden Vasquez sets the ball during the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship against San Gabriel Academy in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda’s Seth Vivek bumps the ball back toward his teammates during the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship against San Gabriel Academy in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy players celebrate with the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship plaque in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy’s Gavin Eslava, left, and Mark Middleton get their wires crossed as they go for the ball against Brea Olinda in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda’s Ivan Haluska, left, and Addison Altermatt high-five each other after a scoring play against San Gabriel Academy in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda’s Ivan Haluska, left, and Addison Altermatt, right, block a shot by San Gabriel Academy but the ball gets hung up on the net in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda’s Ivan Haluska, right, hits the ball past San Gabriel Academy defenders in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda coach Kavita Arasu, right, lets out a yell as her players celebrate tying the match 2-2 against San Gabriel Academy in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy’s Isaac Mehra sets the ball in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship against Brea Olinda in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda’s Kaeden Vasquez, left, and Mason Del Rosario, right, reach up to block a shot by a San Gabriel Academy player in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy coach Derek Duran is lifted up to celebrate with the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship plaque in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda’s Kaeden Vasquez reaches to bump the ball back over his head against San Gabriel Academy in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Brea Olinda players Seth Vivek (7), Addison Altermatt (15), and Ivan Haluska, right, get ready to start the tie-breaking set against San Gabriel Academy in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy’s Gavin Eslava, right, gets encouragement from his coach Derek Duran during the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship against Brea Olinda in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) The San Gabriel Academy volleyball team pose for a photo with the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship plaque in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) San Gabriel Academy’s Nehemiah Sanchez, left, and Fernando Lemus reach up to block a shot by Brea Olinda in the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Show Caption1 of 22San Gabriel Academy coach Derek Duran, center, celebrates with his players and the CIF-SS Division 7 boys volleyball championship plaque in Brea on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Expand
BREA — The Brea Olinda boys volleyball team was on the verge of being swept in the CIF-SS Division 7 championship match against San Gabriel Academy on Wednesday at Brea Olinda High School.
The Wildcats went down in the first set, lost badly in the second set, but then won the next two to force a fifth and deciding set.
But the Eagles, led by their strong outside hitters, Achilles Huang and Ryan Agustin, came back to take the fifth set and win the match and the championship, 25-20, 25-15, 23-25, 21-25, 15-10.
The Wildcats hadn’t made it to the Southern Section playoffs since 2009, when they lost in the first round, Brea Olinda coach Kavita Arasu said.
“This is the first time in school history that we’ve made it this far,” Arasu said. “So, this season we did phenomenal job and I have to give a big shout out to my assistant coach. He really stepped up and did some things that I wasn’t able to do and we double teamed up. We were able to have a great group of boys that wanted it and wanted to work hard and agreed that they needed to be disciplined the whole, entire time. So that’s what really took us the furthest.”
The Wildcats battled back despite losing starting outside hitter C.J. Villaverde to an injury in the second set.
“The boys fought for him,” Arasu said. “They wanted it. It was hard because we really wanted to win the whole thing but I congratulate San Gabriel Academy for coming out and having an amazing season as well.”
San Gabriel Academy (16-10) relied mainly on Huang, who got set often and finished with 34 kills.
The Wildcats (18-13) were led by Addison Altermatt and Mason del Rosario who had 11 and eight kills, respectively, and combined for six blocks.
“We have a lot of younger guys that stepped up,” Altermatt said. “And it’s the first time in our program that we’ve have a good team that our coach built. And nobody’s ever made it this far in our school history. And I think we just had a fire under us this season to keep competing.”
After the Wildcats lost Villaverde, Eagles coach Derek Duran said he thought his team would come away with a sweep.
“But they fought hard,” Duran said of Brea Olinda. “I give them all the respect because for them to go out there and throw another guy in and win the next two and then bring it to five and scare us like that, it’s a testament to good coaching and a good squad.”
The Wildcats jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the third set and while the Eagles were always close behind and got to within one point to make the score 24-23 before Jeremiah Ammermann got the final kill for the Wildcats to send the match to a fourth set.
Brea Olinda trailed early in the fourth set but took a 7-5 lead on back-to-back kills from Seith Vivek and never trailed from that point.
Huang and Augustin combined for eight of the Eagles’ 15 points in the fifth set.
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