Lady Pirates Battle Heat in Crawford County

Cross Country

The Charlestown High School Lady Pirate Cross Country team finished 4th out of 22 complete teams this past Saturday at Crawford County.  “A couple of the ladies struggled with the heat, but still had an impressive team finish on a tough course”, commented Head coach Jerry Doyle.  Top 15 in each grade level received medals; including Freshman Skyler Cochran in 15th, Sophomores Carley Conway in 8th, and Ashley Wight in 14th place.  Senior Katie Rhodes finished in 7th place for Charlestown.  For the boys, Sophomore Josh McCoy finished 8th in his grade level; and Freshman Camden Latham turned an ankle early in the race and had to drop out, so the boys were incomplete.  Freshman Alex Settles ran a personal record in a time of 21:35.

Volleyball Doubles Up on Kills, Tops Salem

Volleyball

volleyball-Ledbetter2The 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.

 

Pirate Tennis Sweeps Corydon 5-0

Boys Tennis

Charlestown HS Pirate Tennis improved to 9-3 & 4-2 MSC Thursday evening after hosting conference rival Corydon and shutting them out 5-0.  Steven Delaney won #1 singles, Jacob Doherty won #2 singles, and Alec Sipes won #3 singles.  Chase Wray and Aaron Meyer  won #1 doubles and Jacob Roberts and Isaac Bates won #2 doubles.  The Pirates are back in action Monday afternoon hosting MSC rival Brownstown (4-3).

Lady Pirates Sweep Lanesville in Volleyball

Volleyball

volleyball-VincentCharlestown 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).

Pirate Soccer’s 10 Goals Shuts Out Austin

Boys Soccer

BoysSoccer20173Charlestown Pirate Soccer (4-4-1 & 2-2-1 MSC) traveled to Austin Tuesday evening for an important conference match up with the Eagles.  The Pirates got a dominating 10-0 victory, however Pirate Head Coach Martinez didn’t see everything he wanted.  “This evening, we played against Austin and won. However, I was not happy with the Pirate’s performance. They played like it was a practice game. The team was not applying passes fast enough and they were not getting open when they needed to. Regardless of the outcome, I have seen them play better”, commented Coach Martinez.

Scoring for the Pirates in the first half was Bryce Wray with assist from Sergio Bolanos; Gryphon Brading with assist from Andrew Mattingly; Sergio Bolanos solo; Andrew Mattingly with assist from Sergio Bolanos; Gryphon Brading with assist from Sergio Bolanos; and Andrew Mattingly solo.

During the second half, the Pirates got goals from Ian Flora with assist from Sergio Bolanos; solo goal by Bryson Andasol; Sergio Bolanos with assist from Bryson Andasol; and Eric Sipes with assist from Bryson Andasol.

Kameron Kimmel had 1 save and allowed none; while the Pirates had 42 shots and 27 on goal.  Austin had 3 shots with 1 on goal.  The Pirates return to action Monday versus Jeffersonville in the Bone Yard.

Volleyball Falls to Eastern in Conference Play

Volleyball

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.

Lady Pirate Soccer Falls to Southwestern 4-2

Girls Soccer

In their home opener Tuesday evening, the Charlestown Lady Pirate Soccer team lost a hard fought match against the Southwestern Rebels.  The Rebels started the game strong and scored 2 goals in the first half. Both goals were scored by Kayla Adkins. The Pirates could not reciprocate and the score remained 2 to 0 at half time.  The Pirates came out quick at the start of the second half as senior, Ilayah Keltner, put one away within less than a minute.

Junior, Jessaca Rawson, scored a second goal, off of a corner kick from Tayte Motsinger, for Charlestown with about 20 minutes remaining in the game.  The score remained tied until 10 minutes were left when the Rebels were able to score 2 more in just 5 minutes. The two second half goals for Southwestern came from Kayla Adkins and Emma Foley.

Charlestown outshot Southwestern 15 to 8 but were unable to finish and the game ended 4-2.  “We have to keep our heads up and put this game behind us. We have 2 more games this week and 3 again next week so we don’t have room in our schedule to dwell on this loss. I’m proud of the way these girls came back after being down at halftime. We just need to finish on our opportunities by the goal and not have let downs on our end. It was a hard game and loss at home but we played really well even if the score board didn’t show it. Our next game is against Jeff on Wednesday and I’m looking forward to the match up”, commented Lady Pirate Head Coach Kelsey Rogers.

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