Prairie City celebrates a successful rally.

Prairie City Panther senior Rilee Emmel’s great serving in the third set helped her team jump from a 7-6 to a 14-7 lead, and Laken McKay helped seal it with five good serves to close the set 25-12 in Friday’s sweep of the Sherman Huskies in Prairie City.

The Panthers won the first two sets 25-21 and 25-20.

Prairie City also swept two teams at home Saturday in nonleague games, beating the Pine Eagle Spartans with scores of 25-17, 25-21 and 25-11 and the Trinity Lutheran Saints 25-21, 25-12 and 25-17.

On Friday, Prairie City senior Emily Ennis said they didn’t play to the best of their ability, but she was glad to see they improved.

Panther head coach Jordan Bass said Sherman is a team that will “give everything back to us.”

She said her team was able to eliminate their errors.

“I ask the girls to have a lot of purpose,” Bass said. “We worked on control of the ball and controlling the speed of the game.”

She said they also fought to avoid letting their opponents run the score up on them.

“Attitude and energy” are two points they’re focusing on, she said.

“I let the starters work some things out,” she added. “They have to battle through ups and downs. They have to figure out how to change that momentum when the game isn’t going our way.”

Prairie City hosted the Grant Union Prospector junior varsity team on Tuesday, past press time. The Panthers face the Harper Hornets at noon (MT) Friday on the road in league play. On Saturday, Prairie City travels to Trinity Lutheran in Portland, where they’ll play Sherman at 1:30 p.m. and Trinity Lutheran at 3 p.m in nonleague games.