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.

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.