The Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball team improved to 14-8 & 4-4 MSC Monday evening after sweeping visiting Austin three sets to nil.  Charlestown won 25-14, 25-8, and 25-14; as the Lady Pirates started and ended strong in a three set win over conference opponent Austin.  “I was very pleased with our focus and control throughout the entire match.  We were without one of our starters, but Sam Crace and Korea Tutt did an outstanding job of stepping up.  All of our main hitters, Kaia Reid, Hannah Thibideau, Kiersten James, and Kayleigh Smith did a great job of making smart shots and finding ways to score. Maddie Nuxoll did a nice job of mixing up the sets and Hannah Vincent, Chrissa Ledbetter and Sidney Goedeker did a terrific job with passing and defense. Very proud of our play tonight and look to continue it in our conference match against Scottsburg on Thursday”, summarized Coach Tammy Nuxoll.  The Charlestown JV team was also successful versus Austin in the opener Monday evening, winning the best of three match 25-15, 24-25, and 15-13.  Listen to the varsity game broadcast by going to www.CPPSB.com and clicking on the archived broadcast schedule.

The Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball team (11-6 & 3-4 MSC) continued a busy week, playing for the third consecutive night in advance of Saturday’s Borden Invitational.  Thursday evening the Lady Pirates earned an important conference victory by dispatching  visiting Salem 3-0 (25-15, 25-11, & 25-23).  “Overall, I was pleased with our performance tonight against our conference opponent.  We played very well in the first two sets and played in control.  Our offense played strong, despite Salem’s good defense, and continued to wear them down”, commented Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.  During the second set, Sophomore Hannah Thibideau had a good serving run with 9 service points and Senior Kaia Reid had a ten point service run in the third set.  Charlestown allowed Salem to come back in the third set, but hung on to finish the match.  Senior Kaia Reid had a great night offensively with 15 kills; and was named the Coyle Chevy, Buick, GMC and Coyle Nissan Player of the Game by Pirate Pride Sports Broadcasting.  Senior Maddie Nuxoll contributed 28 assists and Senior Chrissa Ledbetter led the defense with 14 digs.  “I hope we can carry this momentum into our tournament this weekend at Borden”, concluded Coach Nuxoll.  The CHS Junior Varisty squad evened their record at 6-6 by dropping their contest against Salem 0-2 (17-25, & 17-25).  Follow CPPSB on Twitter for set by set updates on Lady Pirate play in Saturday’s Borden Invitational, a tourney Charlestown returns as the defending Champions.

Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball traveled to Lanesville Wednesday evening for a non-conference match with the Eagles.  Charlestown (10-6) got it’s tenth victory of the season after sweeping Lanesville 3-0 (25-16, 27-25, 25-12).  “It was good to get a win tonight and have pockets of some solid performance.  We started off slow and found ourselves down 13-16 before Senior Hannah Vincent came up to serve 12 straight points to help us win 25-16.  The second set we just battled back and forth with them but were able to win the close set. The third set we were more in control and took an early 8-2 lead and was able to keep it.  Hannah Vincent really stepped up and helped us with her serving having 20 service points on the night.  Chrissa Ledbetter had some great hustle on defense and came up with some big digs.  Molly Braunecker and Maddie Nuxoll also had a good defensive night”, commented Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.

Senior Kaia Reid led the offense with 17 kills and Nuxoll had 24 assists.  “It been a long week but we will need to keep pushing forward for our third match of the week tomorrow against Salem”, concluded Coach Nuxoll.  The Charlestown JV squad got their second straight win, improving to 6-5 on the season with a 2-0 win over Lanesville (25-20, & 25-19).

Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball (9-6 & 2-4 MSC) hosted Eastern (11-6 & 4-2 MSC) in Mid-Southern Conference play Tuesday evening, in the CHS Sports Arena.  The Lady Pirate suffered a setback loss to the Lady Musketeers in a 3-1 decision (25-17, 25-27, 18-25, and 16-25).  “Tonight was a disappointing conference loss.  We played well in the first set, but could not put the match away in the second.  After the second set, we played tenative.   I will give Eastern’s defense a lot of credit.  They picked up everything and we got frustrated.  We have to get better at mixing things up more effectively,” commented Coach Tammy Nuxoll.  Charlestown’s offense was led by Senior Kaia Reid with 11 kills.  Maddie Nuxoll had 27 assists and 10 digs.  The defense was balanced with Chrissa Ledbetter, Molly Braunecker, and Hannah Vincent with 13 digs each.  “We have a long week, so we will regroup and be ready to play Lanesville Wednesday”, concluded Coach Nuxoll. The Charlestown Junior Varsity squad flexed it’s muscle against Eastern, dominating their visiting counterparts, 2-0 (25-9, 25-7).  Charlestown is at Lanesville Wednesday, and hosting Salem Thursday.

The Lady Pirate Volleyball team (7-4 & 2-3 MSC) traveled to Ramsey, Indiana Thursday evening for an important Mid-Southern Conference clash with the North Harrison Lady Cats.  The night didn’t go as planned as Charlestown fell 1-3 to the hosts, to the tune of 17-25, 29-27, 7-25, and 20-25 in the best of five set match.  “Tonight was a tough conference loss against North Harrison.  We stuck with them in the first set and were tied at 16-16 and then we just completed fell apart and let them pull way.  We started the second set the same way battling back and forth and was able to play tough until the end of the set to win 29-27. Instead of carrying the momentum over from that great win in the second set, we fell apart.  We struggled some with passing and had several hitting errors. The third set may have been our biggest loss of the season so far.  We came out slow in the final set, but was able to make it more of a match”, commented Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.  The Charlestown Offense was led by Senior Kaia Reid, who recorded 11 kills; and Sophomore Hannah Thibideau, who added another ten.  Thibideau also had five big blocks in the stat book.  Senior Chrissa Ledbetter led the defense with 15 digs and Senior Hannah Vincent was right behind her with 13 digs.  The Charlestown JV also camp up short at North Harrison in the opener, falling 0-2 (22-25 & 16-25).  “We enter a tournament this weekend with teams we have never played, so we will need to focus on our execution and what we are doing on our side of the court”, summarized Coach Nuxoll.  The Lady Pirates will play in the Crawford County Round Robin Tournament against Springs Valley (9am), Mitchell (10am) and Crawford County (11am) Saturday at Crawford County High School.  Crawford County is on Eastern Time, same as Charlestown.

Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball improved to 6-4 on the season after defeating Madison Shawe 3-1 on the road Wednesday (25-13, 25-16, 20-25, & 25-15).  “A win is a win, but we did not execute as well as I would have liked tonight. Even in the first set that we won 25-13 we just weren’t as sharp as usual, and we didn’t communicate very well.  In the second set we just traded points with Shawe until Kaia Reid went on a nine point serving run.  The third set we started down 0-5 and couldn’t overcome the gap. The fourth set was better and we were able to win 25-15 to finish the match.  We were able to play the entire roster tonight and everyone was able to contribute”, summarized Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.  The Charlestown offense was led tonight by Kiersten James, who finished the game with 11 kills while Maddie Nuxoll contributed 27 assists.  Chrissa Ledbetter and Maddie Nuxoll each had 11 digs to lead the defensive effort.  “We will have to have better focus in our conference match against North Harrison tomorrow night”, concluded Coach Nuxoll.  The Lady Pirate Junior Varsity squad improved their record to 4-4 while sweeping Shawe 2-0 (25-14, 25-10).  Charlestown at North Harrison Thursday night will be broadcasted lived by Pirate Pride Sports Broadcasting beginning at approxiately 7:00 pm at www.CPPSB.com.