ORANGE — When the Capistrano Valley Christian girls volleyball team qualified for the CIF-SS Division 6 playoffs with a record well under .500, a long postseason run appeared highly unlikely.

But the Eagles advanced to the semifinal round and earned a berth in the CIF Southern California Division IV Regional.

Capistrano Valley Christian then won four regional playoff games to reach Saturday’s CIF State final against Immanuel at Santiago Canyon College.

But the remarkable run finally ended, as Immanuel swept Capistrano Valley Christian, 25-22, 25-13, 25-22.

“We never gave up,” Eagles outside hitter Hope Van Rensselear said. “No matter how many losses we had, we still believed that we could grow so much as a team. And we’re here. And we just did what the coaches asked and it was a whole

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