For most of the Southern Regional boys volleyball team’s match on April 4, coach Eric Maxwell stood along the sideline, not too animated, his arms folded across his chest, a look of displeasure etched on his face.

“Fortunately, we can play pretty badly and still beat most teams,” he said after his Rams bounced Cherry Hill East, 25-18, 25-20, in their second match of the season. “I can’t give out what I said to them in the locker room, but they know what they were today can’t be who we are.