August 2012 marked the last Mid-Southern Conference win for the Lady Pirate Volleyball program; a drought that Charlestown ended Thursday evening with a varsity win over visiting Salem 22-25, 25-23, 25-23, and 25-17.  “We had a very rough start to the evening allowing Salem to serve eight straight points to start the night.  Charlestown (4-17 & 1-6 MSC) were down 10-20 before Danielle Miles went back and served eight straight to get us back in the game. We had some momentum going, but were not able to finish the first set for the win. The next two matches went back and forth and we narrowly won both 25-23. It is encouraging that we can be tied with a team at 20 or get a point down late in a set, but continue to fight until the end. The more opportunities we are able to finish strong at the end of the set the better. Late in the fourth and final set, we were able to secure a few points lead and keep it without allowing them to come back. Emalee Craven came back from being sick this week to earn fourteen kills and nine blocks. Danielle Miles had an all-around good night with six kills, seven aces, and ten digs. Molly Braunecker led in assists tonight with sixteen and also had 24 digs. Chrissa Ledbetter had sixteen digs. We hope to continue winning as we face Austin, another conference opponent, Monday night”, commented Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.

The Charlestown Junior Varsity continued their consistent play, beating their Salem counterparts 25-18 and 25-20; improving their record to 8-4 and 3-2 in MSC play.  “Although I think we struggled more than we should have tonight, it is encouraging that we may not have played our best match, but we were able to stay focused enough to get the win”, concluded Coach Nuxoll.

The Lady Pirates are back in action Monday against Austin in the CHS Sports Arena.

The Lady Pirate Volleyball program traveled to Lanesville Wednesday evening for a varsity and junior varsity non-conference match-up.  The Junior Varsity team improved their record to 7-4 by dispatching the Lanesville JV team in the evening opener, 25-17, 25-18.  “Our JV team continues to step up, Wednesday evening with very consistent serving tonight from Hannah Vincent, Adia Wells, Madison Christy and Kaia Reid.  We also had good leadership from our captains, Amelia McCoy and Hannah Vincent.  The strength of this team shows that the future for CHS volleyball will continue to grow and improve!”, summarized Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.

In the second game at Lanesville, the short-handed Charlestown varsity team got an important win over the Lady Eagles 25-22, 25-22, 18-25, and 25-21.  “I am super proud of our girls tonight. We have been dealing with sick players this week and tonight we were without two starters. I had to start girls in positions they were not used to and everyone stepped up to contribute to the win. We got ourselves a little behind at the end of the first set, but was able to pull out the win. We continued to battle back and forth for the next two sets and was able to win the second, but lost the third. The fourth set was a battle until the end. We played very smart at the end of the fourth set and Sidney Goedecker and Molly Braunecker made some key plays at the end of that set to get us a a few points to help push us to the win. Bri Harvey also played smart tonight by mixing up her shots and was the attack leader with ten kills and five blocks. Sidney Goedecker contributed five kills and Danielle Miles had four. Maddie Nuxoll was the assist leader with 10 and she handled some tight net passes that helped us continue play. Maddie also had four aces. Haley Vincent led in digs with thirteen while Chrissa Ledbetter had nine and Danielle Miles had six. Danielle also had a good night passing. We need to carry this momentum into our match against Salem.

The Lady Pirates will host Salem Thursday (TONIGHT) in MSC play at the CHS Sports Arena.  The Junior Varsity game will begin at 6:00 pm with the Varsity immediately following.  The Varsity game will be broadcasted live on www.CPPSB.com by Pirate Pride Sports beginning at 7:00 pm.

The Charlestown Lady Pirate Volleyball program traveled to Eastern High School Tuesday evening for a varsity and junior varsity conference match-up.  Charlestown varsity (2-17 & 0-6 MSC) lost to Eastern in five sets, 29-27, 20-25, 24-26, 25-18, 13-15.  “It is very difficult to lose a match like this after you have fought so hard.  I’m proud of the girls for working together and fighting for every point.  We just came up a little short tonight. We had some opportunities where we had some leads, but were not able to hang on. We were without one of our middles tonight and had to move some people around. Kiersten James really stepped up tonight moving from the outside to the middle. She was the kill leader tonight with fourteen. Danielle Miles also had a big night with nine kills. Maddie Nuxoll led in the assist category with sixteen and Molly Braunecker led the dig category with thirty-one. Haley Vincent, Danielle Miles and Chrissa Ledbetter did a good job passing tonight which helped us with our offense. We need to build on what we did tonight when we face Lanesville tomorrow”, commented Lady Pirate Head Coach Tammy Nuxoll.

The Charlestown JV team however defeated their Eastern counterparts 25-12 and 25-7 in a best of three set game; improving their season record to 6-4 (2-2 MSC).  “Our JV team continues to win.  They played very consistent tonight and led the whole way.  Kaia Reid led the offense and Amelia McCoy and Alex Chester did a good job serving for us tonight”, concluded Coach Nuxoll.

Charlestown Varsity lost in four: 25-21, 16-25, 19-25, 16-25

Coach Nuxoll:  We played really well at times tonight. We had stretches of good defense and heads up plays along with good serving, but we also had some stretches of not being completely focused and had some miscommunication. We definitely had a night of ups and down. We had a 17-7 lead in the first set, but let North Harrison chip away at us until they were only one or two points behind.. We were able to hang on, but didn’t come out focused in the second set. North Harrison didn’t make as many errors and we were not able to put the ball way. We are overall better at passing this year, but we still tend to have pockets of poor passing that doesn’t allow us to run an offense. Emalee Craven led the offense tonight with 10 kill and 4 aces. Bri Harvey contributed 8 blocks and Maddie Nuxoll had eleven assists and six digs. Molly Braunecker added 4 kills and six digs. Chrissa Ledbetter had a good night passing. We will have to continue to put big plays together this weekend when we participate in the Jeffersonville Invitational.

Charlestown JV won in three: 21-25, 25-22, 15-3

The JV team improved their record tonight! They had a slow start in the first set, but were able to start a come back at the end of set with the strong hitting of Kaia Reid. They took that momentum to win a close second set ended by a big kill by Madison Christy. The third set they came off strong behind the serving of Amelia McCoy and never looked back. This team has done a good job of battling back all year!