All season long, the Academy of Our Lady of Peace volleyball team has hovered around the end of The San Diego Union-Tribune’s Top 10 poll.

A big win would secure the Pilots’ spot; a loss would knock them back out.

OLP is now the last team standing.

The Pilots played perhaps their cleanest match of the season and moved within one step of winning it all after a 25-21, 25-18, 25-10 sweep of visiting Mission Vista on Tuesday in the CIF State Division 3 Southern California Regional Championship.

OLP will play the winner of Redwood City Sequoia (24-15) and San Francisco Lincoln (36-8) in Saturday’s CIF State Championship match. The showdown begins at 1:30 p.m. from Santiago Canyon College in Orange.

“This is a team that has worked hard to build the depth of this program for the years leadin

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