THE RANCHO ALAMITOS boys’ volleyball team won the Garden Grove League title this year and advanced to the CIF-SS Divison 5 playoffs this week (GGUSD photo).

The Rancho Alamitos boys’ volleyball team faced off against Flintridge Prep in the first round CIF-SS Division 5 game on Tuesday and came away with a 3-2 win and an advance to the second round contest against the winner of the Saugus-Chaminade match on Friday at 6 p.m.

This year’s team has brought home the Garden Grove League championship after a long dry spell going back to 2012.

After the two previous years of just falling short of the championship, this year’s team that has put together a 18-9 record and been led by Marcus Tran, Vi Lien Hung, Alex Madrid and Sean Nguyen.

Under new coaches Karyn Allen and Kevin Allen, since starting 2.5 years ago, they have put together a record of 37 wins and 13 losses between both boys’ and girls’ programs.

They have also brought home a Garden Grove League championship for the girls’ program which had the best season (18-5) in school history.

The team was led by Angela Alvarez, Miley Morales, Jaelin Tabaniag, Christina Trinh, Sophia Tran, Riley Way and Anjia Pham after a long dry spell of a not winning a league title.