September 21, 2012 7:00 a.m. SAEGERTOWN — The Saegertown girls volleyball team wasn’t going to let Thursday night’s lead slip away.

Following back-to-back Region 2 losses to conference leaders Cochranton and Maplewood after leading 2-1 both times, the Panthers registered a decisive 25-16, 25-20, 25-20 win over Cambridge Springs.

“It’s an amazing feeling because we’ve been down for the past week or so,” Saegertown senior Arianna Hanley said. “Obviously Cochranton and Maplewood are good teams, but we had a lot of unforced errors and we decided to just come out here and play with no regrets. It turned out good for us.”

Saegertown moved into fourth place in the region with a 2-2 overall record and 2-2 league mark. Cambridge dropped to 2-3 and 1-3.

Both teams donned “Bump, Set, Cure” shirts to honor two locals — Monica Erdos, who has brain cancer, and the late Kelly Kedziora, who died of pancreatic cancer.

The Panthers wore green shirts with Erdos on the back, and the Blue Devils had purple shirts with Kedziora on their backs in order to bring awareness to brain and pancreatic cancer.

“It was awesome bouncing back from two losses to beat Cambridge, especially on our Dig for the Cure night,” Panthers senior Rachel DiBartolomeo said. “I think we did really good.”

Unforced errors have been an issue for Saegertown all season. After the Panthers won the first set 25-16, Cambridge hung around during the next two sets.

“We have to learn to play under pressure and when we have unforced errors, we have to eliminate our opponents’ runs,” Saegertown head coach Brian Shoop said. “That’s what kills us. I’ll call a timeout and we’ll still have the unforced errors. We work on it in practice. It’s just being able to do it in a game situation as opposed to practice.”

The Panthers were up 10-5 during the second set, but that lead quickly turned into a tie at 10. The set remained close for a while before Saegertown’s 6-2 run after leading 19-18 made it a 2-0 entering the third set.

Neither team was able to pull away for a while during the third set. The biggest lead for a good portion of the set was two points before the Devils took 15-12 and 18-14 advantages.

But back came the Panthers thanks to a dig by Hanley that soared over the Cambridge defense and into the right-back corner for a point. Hanley, who finished with 21 points and seven digs, added a kill to make it 19-19 and the Panthers completed a match-ending 11-2 run to clinch the sweep.

Thursday’s tone for Saegertown was much different compared to the team’s prior two defeats. The Panthers came together as a team and finished the match on top.

“The girls were laughing and they were having a good time,” Shoop said. “That’s important. Whenever we were in those five-game matches, they weren’t having a good time. You could see the pressure on their face.”

Courtney Lilly and McKenna Morian led Saegertown with seven kills apiece. Lilly added 12 service points and six aces, and DiBartolomeo tallied 21 set assists.

For Cambridge, Paige Wolfrom registered a match-high 13 kills. Mackenzie Turner totaled 19 assists, Renee Dalbec led with nine digs and Jennae Shinsky had eight points.

Cambridge Springs head coach Laura Bullock said her team couldn’t execute its middle attack and had inaccuracies in the serving and passing game.

“(The difference was) serving and passing and just executing defensively,” Bullock said. “Our passing just set up the offense. We needed it at the key moments and it wasn’t there.”

Four Saegertown sophomores were on the court at the conclusion of the match. Shoop said he’s still searching for a lineup that is consistent.

“I’ve had to change lineups and it’s a progress in work,” Shoop said. “Each game I evaluate what we’re going to do and hopefully it pans out. If it doesn’t, then I may switch things up. ... Until we can get a rhythm with a lineup, I’m going to keep changing it.”