If you thought the 2018 Pinelands Regional girls volleyball team wouldn’t be as good as the 2017 version that shared a B South Shore Conference divisional title with Donovan Catholic and eventually ended up as overall Shore Conference champs, you thought wrong.

Despite losing Carly Jannsch, the Press of Atlantic City’s 2017 Player of the Year, and Jessie Rising, an All-Shore First Team setter, to graduation, the 2018 Pinelands season is starting to look a whole lot like the 2017 campaign.