Hawaii Baptist coach Teoni Obrey has perfected winning to a tee.

His young, unseeded Eagles outplayed No. 2 Seabury Hall 21-25, 26-24, 25-12, 25-20 to win their fourth consecutive New City Nissan/HHSAA Division II state championship on Saturday at Blaisdell Arena.

"We had two points of emphasis: We wanted to have fun and we wanted to continue to execute," said Obrey, who has coached HBA to five state titles in the past six seasons. "With a group that’s pretty much never been in the state tournament, we felt that was the best approach."

The Eagles (13-2) started four sophomores, while the Spartans (12-6) started two freshmen.

HBA sophomore Caleb Fisher finished with a match-high 28 kills, with fellow underclassman Isaac Liva adding 18. Seabury’s two middles led the team’s offense with Makena Jost’s 15 kills and Blake Rizzo’s 10.

Both teams cruised to the championship match, sweeping through the quarters and semifinals. It was a different story Saturday.

Set 1 was tied 14 times with five lead changes. Seabury earned its first lead at 8-7 on a block by Jost on a joust with Brett Miller. An out-of-system kill by Justin Ringsby forced the defending state champs to call the first timeout of the set trailing 9-7. A four-point run by the Spartans persuaded Obrey to call his second and last timeout trailing 17-15.

Fisher pounded back-to-back kills to put the Eagles up 20-19. At 21-all, the Spartans launched a four-point run, punctuated with a double block on Fisher, to seal the set. It was one of a dozen blocks by the Spartans, who finished with a 12-5 edge.

"We have a really young team, and the first game was a little shaky and we were a little nervous," HBA senior Matthew Kishaba said. "We just laughed it off and kind of just took a deep breath and came to play after that."

The Eagles were visibly frustrated in Set 2. HBA trailed by as many as seven (19-12) with a medley of hitting errors. Seabury’s offense relied on their towering middles, who tooled hits off the block, and even whiffed a couple of shots into the middle of HBA’s defense.

The Eagles didn’t fold. With Nicolas Caballes at the service line, HBA rallied to within 19-18. HBA’s Samuel Nishimiya and Jordan Kauwe combined for a surprising block on the 6-foot-1 Rizzo for game ball. Two Eagle hitting errors tied the set at 24, but setter BJ Hosaka went to the hot-handed Liva, who ended it with back-to-back kills from the right side.

"They have a great program, and when you’re up like that, you have to put a team away, because they’re not going to give it to you," Seabury Hall coach Caleb Palmer said. "We let them creep back in the game and they took the second set. That was all the confidence they needed."

HBA opened Set 3 with a kill by Fisher and never trailed. The Spartans closed to within 17-12 on a kill by Jost, but it would be all Fisher after that. The standout sophomore closed out the set with four consecutive kills on various shots; a Seabury net violation ended it.

With confidence and momentum on their side, the Eagles ran out to a 21-12 lead. The Spartans strung together five unanswered points to make things interesting at 21-17, using a couple of HBA hitting errors and a dump kill by Nyck Yashiro.

After the teams traded several points, another kill by Liva from the right gave the Eagles aloha ball. Miller and Kauwe teamed up for a final block on an off-balanced middle attack to end the match.

"We came in unseeded and we played with a vengeance," Kishaba said after posting a team-high 22 digs. "We’re just happy to come on top."