Lady Pirate Cross Country Finishes Third in Sectional

Cross Country

Charlestown High School Cross Country team traveled to Hanover College for the IHSAA Boys and Girls Sectional round of the state tournament.  Charlestown joined Austin, Henryville, Jennings County, Madison Consolidated, New Washington, Rock Creek Academy, Scottsburg, Shawe Memorial, Silver Creek, Southwestern (Hanover), and Switzerland County in the Southwestern Sectional.  The Lady Pirates were lead by freshman Carley Conway finishing in 3rd place with a time of 20:57.  Junior Katie Rhodes wasn’t far behind in 6th place with a time of 21:27 (her season best).  The girls team finished in 3rd place overall, qualifying Charlestown for next Saturdays Brown County Girls Regional.  Pirate runner Seth Parker also advanced for next Saturday’s Boys Regional, also at Brown County.  Congratulations to all!

Pirate Soccer Advances to Sectional Final

Boys Soccer

The Pirate Soccer team (7-3-3) outlasted the Corydon Central Panthers in the Floyd Central 2A Sectional Semi-Final Wednesday evening.  The Pirates won 1-0 behind a 36 minute Ian Flora rocket to the top-right corner of the goal that also proved to be the game winner for the Pirates.  Charlestown will face host Floyd Central Saturday at 7:00 pm in the Sectional Championship game.

Pirate Football to Host North Harrison to Open Sectional

Football

CaptureThe IHSAA conducted its blind draw to determine the Sectional first round match-ups in the annual Indiana HS Football State Tournament Sunday evening.  The Charlestown Pirates (6-1) will host North Harrison (5-2) in the lower bracket, to open Class 3A Sectional #31 play on Friday, October 21st at 7:00 PM (EDT).  The remaining Sectional #31 pairings include Brown County (1-6) at Brownstown Central (6-1) and Salem (4-3) at Corydon Central (3-4) in the upper half of the bracket; and in the lower half of the bracket, Heritage Hills (5-2) at Southridge (7-0).

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Cross Country Improves at MSC Meet

Cross Country

XCallMSC2016Finally getting some great race day weather, the Lady Pirates finished 4th in conference with six Charlestown ladies finishing with running personal records, and 1 running a season best! Leading the way was Freshman Carley Conway who was conference runner-up, running a PR of 20:55, and also making All-Conference was Katie Rhodes in 8th place in a time of 21:41. Others running personal records were Claire Mitchell, Piper Clark, Kelsey Lakes, Alexis Gurr and Samantha Matthews.

The Pirate men’s team finished 8th in conference, led by Seth Parker in 32nd place in a time of 18:25. I was so happy to see 4 Pirates run personal records, with Josh McCoy and Harrison Adams both breaking 20 minutes for the first time this season. Also Matt Fellows (20:34) and Logan Gurr (21:19) ran personal records today. We are now looking forward to Sectional next Saturday at Hanover. I am amazed at the improvement over the last couple of meets. The ladies were only 3 spots behind Silver Creek for 3rd place. If they keep this trend up next weekend, we can definitely make it very interesting at Sectional!

Volleyball Chalks Up Senior Night Victory

Volleyball

2016VBseniorsCharlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball improved to 15-11 Thursday night and honored their three Seniors; Alex Chester, Emalee Craven, and Amelia McCoy while sweeping visiting South Central.  Charlestown topped the Lady Rebels 25-19, 25-19, and 25-13.

“I’m super proud of my team tonight, especially my seniors-Alex Chester, Emalee Craven and Amelia McCoy. They have been good leaders this year, and I’m glad we could get the win for their last home match.  I’ve got a great group of girls and it’s hard to believe our season is coming to an end”, commented Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.  The first two sets of the evening saw Charlestown playing pretty even with the Rebels until about 16 or 17 points; before the Lady Pirates decided to make a push to finish the match.  The third set Charlestown finally picked up the intensity early on and kept the Rebels to only 13 points.  Kaia Reid had a big night offensively with 21 kills and three service aces.  Emalee Craven was second with 8 kills and three aces.  Maddie Nuxoll did a nice job of using her hands to distribute 34 assists and also had two aces.  Defensively, the team was led by Chrissa Ledbetter and Kaia Reid who each had 12 digs.  Chrissa also did a nice job in serve reception.  The team will get a much deserved rest before we go into our last tournament at New Washington on Saturday October 8th, before Sectionals.  The Lady Pirate Junior also improved their season record, sweeping the Rebels 25-16 and 25-16.

Lady Pirate Soccer Falls to Creek

Girls Soccer

The Lady Pirates battled for 80 minutes against the Dragons in their last regular season game tonight. Playing against a talented team, the Pirates lost 9-0 but gained a sense of accomplishment through never giving up and being challenged by good players.

We saw passing from our kids tonight that we haven’t seen build all season. We went hard in on tackles and were fierce and fought hard in the first half. We play Floyd Central at Floyd Next Tuesday at 5:00 pm in the first round of sectionals!

Captain Tayte Motsinger put together a wonderful night honoring Down Syndrome awareness. Players on both teams kicked the ball around, danced, laughed, and sang with the DSL participants. It was an awesome time.

Pirate Tennis Blanks Salem, 5-0

Boys Tennis

The Charlestown Pirate Tennis team improved their record to 13-3 (7-2 MSC), finishing third in the final conference standings Tuesday, by dispatching Salem on the road 5-0.  Miles Matthews won #1 singles (6-3, 6-3), Trey Woodward won #2 singles (6-4, 6-4), and the Pirates won #3 singles by forfeit.  In doubles #1 play, Pirates Josh Copeland / Jacob Doherty won (6-2, 6-2) and Steven Delaney / Chase Wray won #2 doubles (6-1, 6-0).  The Pirates begin Sectional play Wednesday versus Silver Creek at Silver Creek beginning at 4:30 pm.

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