The Best of the West can add Clash of the Titans to its résumé.

Punahou’s boys volleyball team swept Huntington Beach 25-22, 25-20, 25-15 in front of a raucous crowd at Hemmeter Fieldhouse for the Clash of the Titans championship on Saturday. The Buffanblu have yet to drop a set against an opponent in Hawaii and knocked off another top-ranked team from California.

Punahou is ranked No. 5 in the national high school boys volleyball poll on MaxPreps.com, while the Oilers trail at No. 15. The Buffanblu have already beaten three of the top seven teams in the nation, and it doesn’t look like there’s much standing in the way between them and their sixth consecutive state title next month.

Junior outside hitter and Best of the West MVP Ryan Wilcox finished with a staggering 19 kills and hit .467 in the victory.

“We really stepped up in our maturity of play, and I think that made a huge difference because we were able to take sets that were not quite hittable and make the most out of them and keep them on their heels,” Wilcox said.

The Buffanblu bounced back from a sluggish start in Friday’s sweep over Kamehameha-Hawaii, when they trailed 20-8. Both teams played aggressively and evenly in Saturday’s match, with 12 ties in the first set. Punahou pulled away with an 8-0 scoring run to take a 19-12 lead. An out-of-system kill by Alex Anastassiades, brother of Rainbow Warrior James Anastassiades, broke the streak, but by then it was a tough gap to close.

The Buffanblu earned set point with a Kanai Akana kill off the block, but the Oilers didn’t roll over. Mitchell Bollinger used the block for his fourth kill of the match and two Buffanblu hitting errors forced Punahou coach Rick Tune to call his first timeout. Huntington Beach scored two more points to trail 24-22, but the momentum ended with a kill by Ethan Siegfried, whose shot barely made contact with the blockers and soared out.

The Buffanblu kicked off Set 2 with four straight points and never relinquished the lead. Although the Oilers tied it at 12, they couldn’t stop Wilcox and Jameson McKibbin’s well-balanced set selection. McKibbin’s high volleyball IQ helped end the set with a reverse dump to left front, just out of reach of libero Grant Guinasso, brother of Rainbow Wahine Gianna Guinasso.

Punahou failed to let up in the third set and continued to pepper Huntington Beach with tough serves and an efficient middle attack. Akana’s overpass kill ended the match and the Oilers’ hopes of upsetting the hometown titans.

Anastassiades and Noah Franklin led Huntington Beach with 10 kills each, while Aidan Knipe posted 24 assists. Punahou’s McKibbin finished with 42 assists.

“Our team is obviously really talented, but I think when any team gets away from the simple execution of the game … that’s when problems start to happen. The guys did a really nice job of executing the game plan tonight,” Tune said. “Ryan is at his best when he’s mixing up his shots and not trying to overpower the defense. He made a couple of really important adjustments and, credit to him, I think you saw the result.”