Perhaps Perry girls volleyball coach Fred Mann could feel Mountain Pointe's pain after the Pumas swept the Pride Wednesday evening on the Pumas home floor, 25-21, 25-17 and 25-7.

Perry sprung back into action Tuesday night with a road trip to Sandra Day O'Connor and returned with a 3-1 defeat -- its first and only power-ranking loss in now seven matches. 

"I don't know if we had the energy (Tuesday) after the tournament last weekend," Mann said, a tournament his team finished second to Hamilton in. "O'Connor is really good. We  didn't have it. Tonight was different. We served really well. That started everything."

Mountain Pointe played in the same tournament - the Westwood Tournament of Champions - and after a .500 Friday in the invite rebounded to win four of  its five matches on Saturday to finish 6-3 in the tourney. The Pride followed up Tuesday resuming power-ranking matches with a sweep of Highland at home.

The match with Perry, however, gradually got away from Mountain Pointe after a close first set. The second set Perry's blocking , led by middle Grace Doyle, thwarted much of Mountain Pointe's attack. And the serving Perry brought to the court completed what was a demolition in the third set. Perry improved to 13-3 overall and 6-1 in power ranking matches. Mountain Pointe is 10-6 overall, 5-4 in prm.  Perry collected 12 aces in the match, seven in the third set.

"Grace is a stud," Mann said of the 6-2 senior. "She did a nice job the whole match and in the second set we had multiple blocks."

Leading Perry in the stat deparrment was outside hitter Sian Richardson with 13 kills and outside Tatum Stall eight kills. Doyle posted five blocks, libero Matea Suan 16 digs and Madison Beasley four aces. Beasley served 10 consecutive points taking a 6-2 lead to 16-2 in the third set.

Mountain Pointe was led on the attack by Piper Manross with six kills and Jahara Campbell with five. Perry plays again Thursday hosting Chaparral while Mountain Pointe takes Thursday off and prepares for the Nike TOC on Friday and Saturday at ASU and the Kroc Center in Phoenix.