You want to bring that big gold state championship trophy home?

You want earn that police escort for the team bus through town?

You want to give your mom a big sweaty hug after the biggest win of your life?

Then you’d better be willing to find some fifth set magic to make it happen.

Top seed Mountain View did just that on Saturday, willing its way past No. 3 Desert Hills in a five-set thriller (25-22, 25-27, 25-21, 23-25, 15-12) for the 4A boys volleyball state championship at the UCCU Center.

“They’ve been this way the whole year and during their club season,” Bruins head coach Jon Fairbanks said. “They just are resilient. They don’t panic. They have a lot of poise and a lot trust in each other, and they have a lot of talent. At some point, they know that they can do it. With all the pressure on, they perform.”

And yes, a squad of police cars, lights flashing, led the Bruins bus through Orem to the high school, where the players and fans celebrated in the commons area with treats and lasting memories.

“For boys volleyball to progress to this point, to this level, it’s never been this high,” Fairbanks said. “Desert Hills is an amazing team. It took every ounce of everything for us to beat them, so hats off to them. They played an amazing match. This was the best match we’ve had all year. It was epic, it was awesome.”

It was also down to the wire.

The fifth set was tied 10 times as neither team was willing to give away anything. Desert Hills forged a 9-7 advantage but the set was tied 11-11 when Toby Smith earned a kill for the Bruins. From there, Mountain View scored four of the next five points, with two kills each from Smith and Carson King to set off a much-deserved celebration.

“We have always been a come-from-behind team,” said senior outside hitter Nick Nelson, who led the Bruins with 23 kills. “We tend to go down early in sets. We couldn’t quite climb our way back in that fourth set, but I think that momentum from the fourth gave us that push we needed in the fifth.

The first four sets were just an appetizer for the finale, nearly two hours of high-level volleyball and a showdown between two of the state’s top players. Mountain View (25-5) went to Nelson for its big swings and Desert Hills (24-7) did the same with high-flying Brodie Hoag, who rang up 30 kills on the night.

The Bruins kept pace with fanatical effort on defense. Libero Henry Hulse and defensive specialist Packer Smith chased down several Hoag swings by leaping over the chairs on the sideline to keep the ball in play.

“They took down the side nets (playing on the center court) so we have everywhere to play,” Nelson said. “If the ball goes there we can play it. We were going to put it all on this court right here.”

King added: “We’re supposed to put in 100 (percent). We put in 110.”

While Hoag was spectacular, Mountain View gave some help to Nelson’s big night with King (12 kills), Micah Fairbanks (eight kills, .438, four blocks) and setter Adam Maya (53 assists, three aces) to come out on top.

“I was going crazy (in the fifth set),” King admitted. “But we have a 3-second reset. We use that to calm ourselves down when we’re in our heads.”

It’s been a long journey for Jon Fairbanks and the Bruins — who have nine seniors — to their first championship.

“I’m so proud of these seniors, most of them played three years ago in that (first) match,” he said. “To be able to win a state championship in their last match, that’s something special. Micah is my youngest son. I’ve been coaching Mountain View volleyball for 15 years. I coached all five of my boys through the whole program and only two got to play (high school) sanctioned, so it’s pretty sweet to watch it.

“We had some crazy digs, guys jumping over chairs. The strength of our team is that we have so many good players at all the different positions. Most of them are seniors. Toby is the only junior. These guys wanted it and worked hard to get it.”