The Lady Pirate Volleyball program traveled to Lanesville Wednesday evening for a varsity and junior varsity non-conference match-up.  The Junior Varsity team improved their record to 7-4 by dispatching the Lanesville JV team in the evening opener, 25-17, 25-18.  “Our JV team continues to step up, Wednesday evening with very consistent serving tonight from Hannah Vincent, Adia Wells, Madison Christy and Kaia Reid.  We also had good leadership from our captains, Amelia McCoy and Hannah Vincent.  The strength of this team shows that the future for CHS volleyball will continue to grow and improve!”, summarized Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.

In the second game at Lanesville, the short-handed Charlestown varsity team got an important win over the Lady Eagles 25-22, 25-22, 18-25, and 25-21.  “I am super proud of our girls tonight. We have been dealing with sick players this week and tonight we were without two starters. I had to start girls in positions they were not used to and everyone stepped up to contribute to the win. We got ourselves a little behind at the end of the first set, but was able to pull out the win. We continued to battle back and forth for the next two sets and was able to win the second, but lost the third. The fourth set was a battle until the end. We played very smart at the end of the fourth set and Sidney Goedecker and Molly Braunecker made some key plays at the end of that set to get us a a few points to help push us to the win. Bri Harvey also played smart tonight by mixing up her shots and was the attack leader with ten kills and five blocks. Sidney Goedecker contributed five kills and Danielle Miles had four. Maddie Nuxoll was the assist leader with 10 and she handled some tight net passes that helped us continue play. Maddie also had four aces. Haley Vincent led in digs with thirteen while Chrissa Ledbetter had nine and Danielle Miles had six. Danielle also had a good night passing. We need to carry this momentum into our match against Salem.

The Lady Pirates will host Salem Thursday (TONIGHT) in MSC play at the CHS Sports Arena.  The Junior Varsity game will begin at 6:00 pm with the Varsity immediately following.  The Varsity game will be broadcasted live on www.CPPSB.com by Pirate Pride Sports beginning at 7:00 pm.

The Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball program traveled to Eastern High School Tuesday evening for a varsity and junior varsity conference match-up.  Charlestown varsity (2-17 & 0-6 MSC) lost to Eastern in five sets, 29-27, 20-25, 24-26, 25-18, 13-15.  “It is very difficult to lose a match like this after you have fought so hard.  I’m proud of the girls for working together and fighting for every point.  We just came up a little short tonight. We had some opportunities where we had some leads, but were not able to hang on. We were without one of our middles tonight and had to move some people around. Kiersten James really stepped up tonight moving from the outside to the middle. She was the kill leader tonight with fourteen. Danielle Miles also had a big night with nine kills. Maddie Nuxoll led in the assist category with sixteen and Molly Braunecker led the dig category with thirty-one. Haley Vincent, Danielle Miles and Chrissa Ledbetter did a good job passing tonight which helped us with our offense. We need to build on what we did tonight when we face Lanesville tomorrow”, commented Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.

The Charlestown JV team however defeated their Eastern counterparts 25-12 and 25-7 in a best of three set game; improving their season record to 6-4 (2-2 MSC).  “Our JV team continues to win.  They played very consistent tonight and led the whole way.  Kaia Reid led the offense and Amelia McCoy and Alex Chester did a good job serving for us tonight”, concluded Coach Nuxoll.

Charlestown Varsity lost in four: 25-21, 16-25, 19-25, 16-25

Coach Nuxoll:  We played really well at times tonight. We had stretches of good defense and heads up plays along with good serving, but we also had some stretches of not being completely focused and had some miscommunication. We definitely had a night of ups and down. We had a 17-7 lead in the first set, but let North Harrison chip away at us until they were only one or two points behind.. We were able to hang on, but didn’t come out focused in the second set. North Harrison didn’t make as many errors and we were not able to put the ball way. We are overall better at passing this year, but we still tend to have pockets of poor passing that doesn’t allow us to run an offense. Emalee Craven led the offense tonight with 10 kill and 4 aces. Bri Harvey contributed 8 blocks and Maddie Nuxoll had eleven assists and six digs. Molly Braunecker added 4 kills and six digs. Chrissa Ledbetter had a good night passing. We will have to continue to put big plays together this weekend when we participate in the Jeffersonville Invitational.

Charlestown JV won in three: 21-25, 25-22, 15-3

The JV team improved their record tonight! They had a slow start in the first set, but were able to start a come back at the end of set with the strong hitting of Kaia Reid. They took that momentum to win a close second set ended by a big kill by Madison Christy. The third set they came off strong behind the serving of Amelia McCoy and never looked back. This team has done a good job of battling back all year!

Charlestown Varsity lost 19-25, 16-25, 18-25

Charlestown JV lost 21-25, 22-25

Coach Nuxoll:  I am extremely proud of the way the Charlestown Program played tonight. Christian Academy has a great program and there is a reason they were state runner up last year. Despite not having a great passing night, our girls hung in there and played with determination. They did not give up on plays and showed a lot of hustle. We were down in the first set and was able to come back off of some strong serving by Maddie Nuxoll. Molly Braunecker came up with some nice hustle plays on defense contributing eight digs and Emalee Craven led the offense with 5 kills and seven blocks. My hope is that we can continue to play at a high level for our match at North Harrison on Thursday.

Our JV team also played well tonight. There were times when they dug themselves in a hole, but I was encouraged at the way they continued to fight back and were able to keep the matches tight.

Charlestown Varsity lost 20-25, 26-24, 23-25, 21-25

Coach Tammy Nuxoll:  I was proud of the way we consistently played with heart all four sets tonight. Each and every set came down to the wire and the girls played hard until the end. I was pleased with the overall team effort and the improvements I saw from our last match. We did a much better job on serve receive and didn’t let too many ball drop on defense. Emalee Craven had a big offense night with 15 kills, four blocks and four aces. Southwestern had trouble stopping her when she was on the front row. Bri Harvey also contributed seven kills and four blocks. Molly Braunecker and Maddie Nuxoll contributed 13 assists a piece and Maddie also had four aces. Haley Vincent, Danielle Miles and Chrissa Ledbetter did a good job passing for us tonight and Haley Vincent led the team with ten digs.  This is a great group of girls who I hope will start believing that they can win.  We need to continue to work on not panicking when the match is tight.  As we compete with more teams in close matches, we need to stay calm and in control.  I hope we take the way we played tonight and continue to improve in our match against Silver Creek on Thursday.

Charlestown JV won 25-21, 25-21

Coach Tammy Nuxoll:  Our JV team continues to win matches. I’m very proud of their hard work and effort on the court. Amelia McCoy and Kaia Reid do a good job of leading the offense. Hannah Vincent contributes with leadership on the court and consistent serving. I’m very excited about what all these players will contribute to the Charlestown Volleyball program.

The Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball team traveled to Madison for a non-conference match-up Thursday night.  The varsity fell in their contest after the junior varsity improved their record to 3-2 on the season with 2-1 set win over their Cub counterparts (25-19, 20-25, 15-9).  The varsity fell, on their third straight night of competition, in three sets 15-25, 11-25, 14-25.  “We played better tonight than we did against Henryville last night.  Madison probably has the hardest hitters that we have seen this year.  We are still working on watching our hitters and lining up on their hitting arms.  At the beginning of the match our defense was not reading where they could see the hitters, but we made some adjustments and started to pick up a few more balls.  We had consistent serving and passed better than we did the night before.  This has been a long week for us with three matches in a row, but we have to stay mentally prepared to play in the Southern Indiana Invitational this weekend in Scottsburg,” commented Coach Nuxoll on the loss.  Lady Pirate stat leaders at Madison include Emalee Craven with five kills, Bri Harvey with seven blocks, while Molly Braunecker, Chrissa Ledbetter, and Dani Miles each contributed four digs.  Danielle Miles also had consistent passing tonight.

The Lady Pirate Volleyball team hosted the Henryville Hornets Wednesday evening in the CHS Sports Arena.  Charlestown lost the best of five game 17-25, 9-25, and 15-25.  Emalee Craven led the team with four kills and Bri Harvey added two.  “We played a good Henryville team tonight.  I thought we played pretty well in the first match.  We did a good job of watching their hitters and made sure we had blockers up to slow down their attack. We did not really show up in the second match and began to struggle more with our passing. We could not get anything going and really beat ourselves. This is the first match where we really struggled with passing”, commented Coach Nuxoll.  The Lady Pirates travel to Madison Thursday for a non-conference showdown with the Cubs.