The Southern Regional High School girls volleyball team has returned to its once-accustomed heights. The Rams, the two-seed in the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association Group 4 Tournament, beat the tourney’s six-seed, Ridgewood, in Manahawkin on Wednesday in a semifinal match to punch their ticket to Saturday’s Group championship match against top-seeded North Hunterdon.

It wasn’t easy. Ridgewood took the first set, 25-21, and led in the second, 22-16.