During the September 15th Pirate Football Game versus Providence, Senior Wide Receiver Mitchell Wurtsmith broke the Charlestown High School Record for Most Receiving Yards in a Game; breaking Tyle Odle’s 143 receiving yards versus Corydon in the 2011 Sectional.  Wurtsmith finished the Providence game with six receptions totaling 161 receiving yards, including catching both of Charlestown’s two touchdowns of the game.  Through five games this season, Mitchell has 17 catches totaling 353 yards and five touchdown receptions.

Congratulations to Pirate for Life, #80 Mitchell Wurtsmith.

Indiana’s longest running high school football Homecoming Parade will be held Thursday, September 21st beginning at 5:00 pm from the south parking lot of the Charlestown High School. The parade route will include traveling south on Monroe from the high school, then west on Main Street before stopping on the city square for a pep rally. Additionally and traditionally, the Pirate Football parents will be selling rib eye sandwiches up on the square from 5:00-6:00 pm during the pep rally festivities like in years past. Pirate Football will host MSC football new comer Scottsburg Friday night in the Bone Yard with a 7:00 pm kick-off and annual Homecoming ceremony taking place during halftime of the game. HAPPY HOMECOMING PIRATE NATION!

The Annual Pirate Football Blue-White Scrimmage will be held this Friday, August 4th on Dutch Reis Field, at Charlestown HS!  Watch ALL PIRATE FOOTBALL TEAMS Scrimmage, from Charlestown Little Pirate Football, to Charlestown Middle School Pirate Football, and of course…Charlestown High School Pirate Football!!!! Admission is $2.00 to support Charlestown football.  1st and 2nd graders will scrimmage from 6:15 to 6:30, 3rd and 4th graders from 6:30 to 6:45, 5th and 6th graders from 6:45 to 7:00, 7th and 8th graders from 7:00 to 7:30 and then High School Pirate Football will scrimmage beginning at 7:30 pm.  Pirate Football will scrimmage at Floyd Central the following Friday (Aug. 11th); then travel to Silver Creek for the regular season opener on Friday, August 18th at 7:00 pm.

Charlestown High School Pirate Football will be hosting their annual benefit golf scramble on Sunday, July 30th, at the Wooded View Golf Course in Clarksville, Indiana.  The scramble tee off time is scheduled for 8:30 am; at a cost of $300 per team.  Lunch will be served after the scramble along with door prizes awarded.

For more information, to register a team or sponsor a hole, contact Chad Vincent 502-310-8855, Brad Crace 812-987-1356 or Jason Hawkins 502-609-1209.