Sisters’ Isabelle Tara (12) tips the ball over the fingertips of Alena Davis (5) during the first game of Tuesday night’s match against Sweet Home in Sisters.

SISTERS — From the opening serve, Sisters was in control.

The Outlaws, who have won three straight Sky-Em League volleyball championships, continued to impress in 2013, racking up 47 kills Tuesday night while committing just nine errors en route to a 25-8, 25-16, 25-14 league victory over Sweet Home.

“We definitely stayed together as a team tonight and we all stayed positive,” said Sisters junior middle Nila Lukens, whose team improved to 7-0 in the Sky-Em with the win.

“We always pass pretty well so we can run a strong offense,” Outlaws coach Miki McFadden added. “And in the first game and parts of the other two games we backed up our hitters, kept the ball in play.”

Isabelle Tara was credited with 17 kills for Sisters, Allie Spear had nine kills, and Lukens had eight. Lukens also led the team with three aces, and Alex Hartford totaled 24 assists.

According to Sweet Home head coach Alicia Meier, the Huskies (3-4) struggled against the Outlaws, mentally as well as in serves and kills.

“For some reason our team thinks Sisters is much better than them,” Meier said. “I think they came in with a mindset that Sisters was going to beat them. So it just got into their head and they stopped focusing on the things that we do well.”

While the Outlaws offense led Sisters to its 14th win of the season (14-4 overall), McFadden says that to be competitive in the postseason, her team’s offense needs to be quicker.

“We’re going to continue on working on a little quicker offense,” McFadden said. “This is our normal way we play. We serve tough and take teams out of their offense.”

After the first set, McFadden began rotating the starters, and Lukens said the Outlaws lost momentum toward the end of the second game and in the beginning of the third.

“This happens to us when we start making errors we just kind of let that get into our heads,” Lukens said. “So I feel like we did that a little bit tonight, but we got over that better than we have in the past.”

Sisters regained its momentum midway through the third set, and shut out Sweet Home to earn the victory.

“We have this fire near the end of the game that propels us to do our best when we want to just finish it,” Lukens said.