The taste of revenge was sweet for the Cape Coral Seahawks on the volleyball court at crosstown rival Mariner Thursday night.

Things started rather wobbly for the Seahawks, who dug themselves into a deep hole early with net violations, mishits and volleys out of bounds against the host Tritons, who opened leads of 6-0, 14-3 and 20-7.

That’s when the bottom fell out for the Tritons as the Seahawks stormed back to win the match 25-27, 25-20, 26-24, 25-19. The win avenges a straight-set defeat to the Tritons a month ago.

“We’ve done a lot of work since that first meeting,” said Seahawks coach Lindsey Conley. “We’ve changed positions for some players. We have a different middle hitter (Kristi Maselter, 7 kills, 9 blocks) and Erica (Hoegler) found out just before the game that she was our setter tonight. She stepped in and filled hole due to injury.”

As the Tritons built their huge lead in the first game, Conley called a time out.

“I just told them to keep working hard and we pulled it out,” said Conley.

With Hoegler (6 assists) on the service line, the Seahawks started their comeback. Hoegler served four straight points to cut the Tritons’ advantage to 20-12. After a side-out, Alison Harper (8 aces) served two aces to shave the deficit to 21-15. Another side-out put freshman Kaitlin Upton on the service line.

Upton served seven straight points as the Seahawks took a 23-22 lead. The Seahawks had recorded four aces, one block and one kill during the run. The rest of the points came on Mariner mishits and unforced errors.

“We did not pass very well tonight,” said Tritons coach Briska Wolfe. “Actually, it was terrible. There’s nothing left to say.”

The game was tied again at 24-24 and 25-25 before the Tritons managed to pull it out on a kill by Heather Getman and an ace serve by Abby Willis (16 kills).

Despite the Tritons taking the first game 27-25, the momentum had shifted to the Seahawks, who opened leads of 5-1 and 14-8 in the second game. The score remained withing a few points until the Seahawks grabbed a 19-18 lead. With the Tritons obliging by serving into the net or out of bounds three times, the Seahawks outscored their hosts 6-2 the rest of the way and ended it on an ace by Jennifer Le.

The Tritons looked like they might regroup in the third game, but wilted toward the end when Upton and Cassie Maselter (10 digs) combined to serve a stretch of eight of the nine points to put the Seahawks ahead 23-21 en route to a 26-24 win.

Perhaps the Tritons’ last gasp came at the start of the fourth game when they opened a 6-0 lead with three aces by Getman and a kill by Cody Sawyer.

The Seahawks came back again to take a 10-9 lead. The Seahawks took the lead for good at 16-15 and recorded nine of the next 13 points to wrap up the victory.

The Seahawks (3-12) participate in a tournament Saturday at Estero and host Ida Baker on Tuesday.

The Tritons (7-6) play at South Fort Myers on Wednesday and Ida Baker on Thursday.

Lemon Bay 3, Ida Baker 0: Lemon Bay stuffed Ida Baker 25-9, 25-14, 25-17 Thursday night.

Payton Van Horn and Lexi Goldberg each contributed three kills and Goldberg was credited with 16 digs for the Bulldogs (5-9), who visit Cape Coral on Tuesday.

Oasis 3, Community Christian 0: Larra Becklehaupt came through with eight kills and nine digs to lead Oasis to victory over Port Charlotte Community Christian 25-9, 25-16, 25-19 Thursday night.

Emma Nelson contributed six kills and 12 assists for the Sharks (2-10), who host Sarasota Christian on Oct. 14.

Boys Golf

At Magnolia Landing: With Dylan Fine scoring a career low 4-under-par 32, the Ida Baker Bulldogs captured the North of the River Challenge championship Thursday by a comfortable margin.

Tyler Doyle scored under par for the first time this year at 35 for the Bulldogs, who also got rounds of 38 from Anthony Montoya and 41 from Anthony Myers toward their team total of 146.

Dean Hofer led Mariner (185) to second place with a 41 while John Inkster added a 46 and Tyler Till 48.

Blair Langford shot 43 to lead Cape (192) to third place and Zach Holton carded 44 to lead North Fort Myers (198) to fourth place.

The next action for the teams is Monday in the LCAC Tournament at Palmetto Pine Country Club.

1. Ida Baker 146 – Dylan Fine 32, Tyler Doyle 35, Anthony Montoya 38, Anthony Myers 41.

2. Mariner 185 – Dean Hofer 41, John Inkster 46, Tyler Till 48, Jordan Kenney 50.

3. Cape Coral 192 – Blair Langford 43, Anthony Lawrence 49, Mitch Maranack 49, Tim McBride 51.

4. North Fort Myers 198 – Zach Holton 44, Casey Perkowski 47, Eric Schnell-Hall 52, James Yi 55.

5. Island Coast 251 – Nick Gee 52, Ben Abdil 53, Nathan Carbonell 73, Chris Quiroga 73.

Girls Golf

At Coral Oaks: Ida Baker, led by Kaitlin Schafe’s round of 45, captured the North of the River Challenge championship Thursday by a 10-stroke margin over North Fort Myers.

Mariner was third and Cape Coral fourth in the five-team field.

Cape’s Regina Sin won the individual title with her nine-hole round of 39 as the Seahawks garnered a team total of 255.

Mariner (249) was led by Kelsey Fallish with 46 and Brittany Agricola turned in a 46 to lead North (244).

The teams are back in action Monday in the LCAC Tournament at Copperhead.

1. Ida Baker 234 – Kaitlin Schafe 45, Cathy Wainey 51, Jordan Goffar 65, Samm Mattson 73.

2. North Fort Myers 244 – Brittany Agricola 46, Brittany LaFenetre 65, Mariah Koch 66, Brooke Bailey 67.

3. Mariner 249 – Kelsey Fallish 46, Mallory Bell 67, Jessica Lanza 67, Kelsey Whitaker 69.

4. Cape Coral 255 – Regina Sin 39, Carrie McDonald 66, Wendlyn Sanabria 74, Shevania Desai 76.

5. Island Coast 318 – Jessica Robinson 77, Alivia Werner 79, Elisa Perez 81, Zainab Rashid 81.