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A few weeks ago, in the Moore League opener, a young Wilson Bruins team battled Lakewood to a fifth set in the Lancers’ gym. <\/span>It was a sign of the Bruins’ potential\u2014but that fifth set wasn’t, as Lakewood steamrolled them to victory. <\/span>On Saturday afternoon, that same Bruins team looked a lot older, as they once again battled with a top CIF team, this time the Los Al Griffins, and forced a fifth set. <\/span>This time, however, they did the steamrolling in the final frame, getting a huge win, 25-19, 22-25, 22-25, 25-16, 15-10. <\/span><\/p>\n “It was amazing,” said sophomore Rebecca Strehlow. <\/span>“We just didn’t want to lose the fifth set [like we did] against Lakewood. <\/span>This is a team that knows how to keep fighting.”<\/p>\n Strehlow, maybe the craftiest player in SoCal, continued to utilize dump shots and off-speed balls to flummox her opponent, keying a tone-setting first frame win. <\/span>Wilson started to look hesitant in the next two sets, allowing Los Al to gain the advantage. <\/span>“We definitely tightened up,” said Wilson coach Susan Pescar. <\/span>“I said after the third set, we need to start making plays or I’ll have to start making substitutions. <\/span>And they responded, we didn’t look cautious or careful in the last two.” <\/span>No kidding\u2014against a premier team, the Bruins closed the match out 45-26.<\/p>\n Strehlow filled the stat box, leading the way with 16 assists, 26 kills, 3 blocks, and an ace. <\/span>Co-captains Kellie Culbertson (12 kills, and a block) and Kellie Woolever (31 assists, 10 kills, 3 blocks and 2 aces) were also major contributors for the Bruins, who will next face Poly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No team showed more obvious improvement at the Volleyfest on Saturday than the Wilson Bruins, who put their fifth-set blues behind them in a big win over Los Al.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}