Pirates Play to Scoreless Tie with Scottsburg

Boys Soccer

PirateSoccer2017Charlestown Pirate Soccer (2-3-1 & 0-1-1 MSC) hosted Scottsburg Thursday evening, playing to a scoreless tie in conference play in the Bone Yard.  “Tonight, we finished with our first tie of the season.  I will start by saying the Pirate’s played hard.  I feel they were concentrating on the game and showed strong effort. Unfortunately, I did observe some poor decision-making on the field.  I believe we could have beat Scottsburg, but it just didn’t happen.  All we can do is keep working hard,” summarized Head Coach Christian Martinez.  The Pirates are scheduled to host conference rival Silver Creek, who fell to Salem (2-1) Thursday evening, Tuesday on Dutch Reis Field at 6:00 pm.

Lady Pirate Volleyball Battles, but Falls to #10 Creek

Volleyball

Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball (5-4 & 2-2 MSC) hosted Class 3A #10 Silver Creek Thursday evening in the CHS Sports Arena.  Creek (13-2 & 4-0 MSC) coming off a solid win over #4 Madison and the Lady Pirates off a solid outing at Southwestern.  Charlestown hung tough with the Dragons in the first and third set, but fell respectfully (19-25, 10-25, 16-25) 0-3 to the visitors.  “Silver Creek has a good program and they are always a tough opponent to play.  Although we lost, I was still encouraged with the way my team played especially in the 1st and 3rd sets.  Before we played in the match tonight we set some smaller goals for our team in the areas of serve receive, kills and blocks.  We were close to meeting our goals and I was glad that my girls did not play intimidated or get frustrated even when we struggled in the 2nd set.  We will work on taking the positives from tonight and applying them to our matches next week”, summarized Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.  The Lady Pirates were led on offense Senior Kaia Reid’s six kills; and the Defense by Coyle Chevy, GMC, Buick & Coyle Nissan Player of the Game Senior Chrissa Ledbetter, who finished the match with 12 digs.  The Charlestown Junior Varsity also fell to Creek (0-2) 19-25, 10-25; moving their record to 3-4 and 1-1 in MSC.  Lady Pirate Volleyball is next in action next Wednesday at Madison Shawe and Thursday at North Harrison; which will be broadcasted live by CPPSB.

Football, Soccer & Volleyball Schedule Changes Announced

Boys Soccer, Football, Volleyball

Due to the forecast of impending bad weather, including torrential rains for Friday, the Charlestown HS Athletic Department has announced the following schedule changes effecting Pirate Football, Lady Pirate Volleyball and Pirate Soccer.  Lady Pirate Volleyball hosting Silver Creek in the CHS Sports Arena will begin at 5:30 pm Thursday instead of 6:00 pm (Junior Varsity first, followed by Varsity).  Pirate Soccer hosting Scottsburg on Dutch Reis Field will begin at 5:30 pm instead of 6:00 pm.  Finally, Pirate Football hosting Clarksville has been moved from Friday on Dutch Reis Field to Thursday evening with a 7:30 pm kick-off.

Lady Pirates Top Southwestern 3-1

Volleyball

In another first victory in over five years, the Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball team improved to 5-3 on the season Tuesday evening by defeating the Rebels for the first time in at least the last six season 3-1 (26-24, 25-22, 15-25, and 25-18).  “I’m super proud of how my team worked together and supported each other in the match tonight.  Southwestern is another program we have not been able to beat in at least five years so this is a good win for us.  We took a while to warm up in the first set and found ourselves down 14-21.  After our second timeout we finally started to inch our way back into the set and ended up winning it 26-24.  The second set had good rallies and defensive plays and we were able to pull it out 25-22.  The third set we let down and allowed Southwestern to dictate was was happening on the court and they took the win 15-25.  We had a several point lead in the fourth set, but allowed them to close the gap.  We were able to hang on in the end to win the set 25-18 and the match. My primary passers, Chrissa Ledbetter, Hannah Vincent, Molly Braunecker and Sidney Goedecker did an outstanding job tonight getting the ball to the setter, and they also made some great defensive plays”, summarized Charlestown Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.  Chrissa Ledbetter led the defense with 31 digs; while Hannah Thibideau led the offense with 9 kills and 6 service aces.  The Junior Varsity squad fell to Southwestern 1-2 (25-22, 22-25, and 9-15) after a strong start; just couldn’t find the offense needed to maintain.

Pirates Drop Contest at Madison

Boys Soccer

The Charlestown Pirate Soccer team traveled to Madison for a non-conference clash with the Cubs.  The Junior Varsity recorded a 5-0 win however the Varsity fell 1-3.  “Tonight was another game where we lost our concentration.  It was very unfortunate that the Pirate’s lost the help of their captain due to a head injury.  Madison was an organized team and put up a difficult match, winning 3-1.  Hopefully the Pirate’s learned some more things tonight and will continue to put forth a good effort.  I have high hopes for our upcoming home game”, summarized Pirate Head Coach Christian Martinez.  Charlestown sole goal came in the second half at the 5 minute mark by Pascual Gonzalez with an assist by Andrew Mattingly.  The night ended with the Pirates taking 22 shots, which 10 were on goal with Madison taking 13 shots, with 7 on goal.  Pirate Goalie Matt Parrella had 4 saves and allowed three.  The Pirates will next host Scottsburg in MSC play.

Lady Pirates Fall to Jeff, Continue to Improve

Girls Golf

The Charlestown Girls Golf team competed against Jeffersonville HS and New Washington at Elk Run Tuesday evening; falling to Jeffersonville 228 to 250 (New Washington did not score).  New Washington did post the outing medalist, as Katlyn Price carded a 44.  The Lady Pirates were led again by Lizzie Hill, who shot a 59, and Andrea McCoy, who shot a 62; while Kylan Burke (63), and McKenna Harbin (66) rounded out the Charlestown team score.

“This is our lowest team scored posted this year.  Lizzie Hill shot her lowest score to lead the Pirates with 59.  Andrea McCoy followed up with a 62.  I am pleased with the consistency of all our golfers scores each match.  All of them have improved over the season”, commented Lady Pirate Head Coach Kim Carroll.  Next match: Thursday, August 31 at Hidden Creek 4pm, against CAI

Open Letter to Pirate Nation from CPPSB

Broadcasting

2013FootballCrew600-300x205The Charlestown Pirate Pride Sports Broadcasting project started in 2008 with a mission of giving something back to the players, team, school & community; by highlighting the hard work of our CHS student athletes.  The project was NEVER intended to compete with any of the very sports programs it supported.  That being said, the relationship between the CPPSB football broadcast crew and the HS coaching staff has reached a point that is no longer compatible.  The coaching staff is convinced that CPPSB’s coverage is to “negative”; of which we (the broadcasters) strongly disagree.  For ten years we have promised to keep “it real”, with “it” being the broadcasting product we produce voluntarily.  Hundreds of weekly listeners have voiced approval and a dozen of our sponsors have concurred; most for the majority of our ten years.

Pirate Nation, we love you, we have deeply appreciated your support over the past decade and sincerely apologize for any interruptions; however CPPSB has decided to not broadcast this week’s Clarksville game while we continue to evaluate the compatibility problems eluded to above.

Once all factors have been properly evaluated by CPPSB; including impacts on supporters, arrangements with sponsors, and effects on our student athletes, an announcement will be made on the remainder of the season’s football broadcast schedule.  The coverage of Lady Pirate Volleyball will continue as planned; and will not be affected.

Respectfully,

Lynn “Bud” McQuillen, Brian Keith, Bryan Glover, & Chuck Ledbetter

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