You know you've had a good game when you bring your opposition to tears, which is exactly the reaction that the No. 7 Cal volleyball team elicited from No. 10 USC in the Bears' dominant win on Saturday night.

"Our coaches were like, 'We need to play as a team. We need to stay together as a team,'" senior outside hitter Am'ra Solomon said. "(If the Trojans) pick on one person, we come together. We fight. We play as a team."

Cal struggled with its passing in the first set, and it appeared as though the Bears' defensive troubles might continue. But Cal was able to suddenly turn things around in the second set. Down 24-17, the Bears rallied for eight straight points and eventually took the set on a crushing kill by junior Hana Cutura, who recorded 22 kills in the match.

Cal went on to win the match 3-1 (18-25, 30-28, 25-17, 25-6) on Senior Night at Haas Pavilion.

"That's almost an impossible situation," coach Rich Feller said. "To knock off seven set points like that was really gratifying to see. It was heartwarming, gratifying, all those cliches … I've never seen a comeback like that since we went to rally score and since certainly the 25-point game. That's something certainly we'll remember a lot and watch a lot of tape of."

From there, the floodgates were opened.

Cal (22-5, 12-4 in the Pac-10) unleashed on USC after halftime, attacking at a .540 rate and recording 11.5 blocks. The Trojans (18-10, 9-8), on the other hand, hit .020 in the third and fourth sets while committing 16 attacking errors.

But for the 1,641 fans who saw the match, the most impressive show of superiority they witnessed Saturday night was undoubtedly the Bears' fourth and final set-which they won 25-6.

"Everybody just did their jobs, and I think we put every ball away on the first (reception)," senior middle blocker Kat Reilly said. "There weren't rallies. We just put every ball away. It was amazing."

In a dominant display of strength and precision, Cal destroyed USC's hopes of coming back to win the match. In the fourth set alone, the Bears hit .632 with zero errors, much of which was made possible by junior Mindi Wiley's performance behind the line.

"Mindi Wiley did a great job of serving," Solomon said. "I was on the sideline with Kristen Kathan, and she's the libero and she was out for 10 minutes. She was like, 'I'm actually cold right now.' So it was all about serving."

For weeks, Cal has-by its own admission-inexplicably struggled to put together consistent setting and passing, but the match against the Trojans may have provided the breakthrough the Bears have been looking for.

"It's like, twist the dial, flip the switches, clap your hands for the clapper to go on," Feller said. "I think they just really stopped trying to figure things out and just said, 'We've got to believe in ourselves.'"

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