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The Press-Dispatch Sports Wednesday, September 5, 2018 B- 5 Then, after Forest Park scored to pull to within 21- 17, the Lady Chargers rolled off four straight points – in- cluding three following serves by Crow – to win the first set 25 -17. In the second set, the Lady Rangers scored four straight points to snap a 1-1 tie and extended their lead to 15 -6. Pike Central would close to within five points twice – at 19 -14 and 21-16 – before Forest Park scored four straight points to tie the match at 1-1. Trailing 4-3 in the third set, the Lady Chargers tal- lied seven of the next nine points – including three following serves by Kaila Lamey and one following serves by Crow and Kylie Dawson – to take a 10 -6 lead. The Lady Rangers would close to within two points three times – at 10 -8, 11- 9 and 12-10 – before Pike Central scored five straight points, including four follow- ing serves by Taylor Lamey, to extend its lead to 17-10. Forest Park would answer with a 5 -0 run of its own, cut- ting the Lady Chargers' lead to 17-15, but Pike Central scored four straight points – including two on kills by Kylie Dawson and one by ju- nior Karsyn Pipes – to take a 21-15 lead. The Lady Rangers could get no closer than three points the rest of the set. In the fourth set, Forest Park, after falling behind 2-1, scored three straight points to take the lead, which the Lady Rangers ex- tended to five points, at 12-7. That lead proved short- lived, however, as Pike Cen- tral scored 15 of the next 17 points – including five fol- lowing serves by Kylie Daw- son and four each following serves by Kaila Lamey and Crow – to take a 22-14 advan- tage. "We were just finding our holes, making them work, knowing what was open," Chestnut said. "Our sideline girls that were on the bench were keeping a lookout, making sure they were see- ing what was open, letting their teammates out on the court know. And that's real- ly big. Just because they're on the bench doesn't mean they're out of the game. So we need that from every- body. We need everybody to be in the game and be ready." "Whenever we get down, we kind of huddle togeth- er and we talk to each oth- er," Crow added. "We ask, 'What's going on? ' We try to help each other pick out points on what should be fixed and stuff, and I think that just kind of gives us more confidence, know- ing that our teammates are there to back us up." Following back-to-back points that pulled Forest Park to within 22-16, the Lady Chargers scored two of the next three points – including one on a dink by Crow – to extend their lead to 24-17, setting the stage for the match's thrilling conclusion. "It felt pretty good," Crow said of the win. "I really wanted to win tonight." Forest Park slipped to 2- 8 overall and 1-2 in the PAC with the loss. Chestnut, who described the victory as a "very, very big win," admitted that she was a little concerned about fatigue being a factor enter- ing the match. "And possibly them being a little down on themselves, just because we fought so hard on Monday at Reitz," Chestnut explained. "But they pulled it out. They did very well. I couldn't be any prouder of them. Their en- ergy was there. Their fight was there. Their hustle was there. That's all we wanted from them, and they showed it tonight." Crow gave Chestnut and assistant coach Ti- na Vinnedge credit for the team's ability to ward off fa- tigue. "That's why we practice hard in practice," Crow said. "Our coaches make practice 10 times harder than what a game really should be, so I think that helps us stay ac- tive on the court." Chestnut and Crow also praised the team's serving. For the match, Pike Central committed just 12 errors on 96 serve attempts, an 87.8 percent average, while scor- ing 51 service points, includ- ing 12 on aces – four by Tay- lor Lamey, three by Crow, two each by Kylie Dawson and Kaila Lamey and one by junior Audrey Keepes. "I think that might have been our best serving game, actually," Crow said. "It feels good knowing that you can get the ball over and in and make it harder for the other team to get it back." "I don't think we could have done it without our serving," Chestnut said. "Getting on those runs and getting a few points ahead, to get a cushion, really worked in our favor. Push- ing the serve back, get- ting their setter off the net, which gets their hitters off the net, which gives us more time to set up, was key." Keepes and Taylor Lamey both had seven kills while Pipes had five. Keepes al- so had two blocks and one block-assist. Crow had one block and one block-assist, while Kylie Dawson and Jenkins had one block-as- sist each. Kylie Dawson led the La- dy Chargers in digs with 18, followed by Keepes (17), Crow (16), Kaila Lamey and Pipes (13 each) and senior Kylee Shoultz (11). In the junior varsity match, sophomore Kenzie Powell had four kills while sophomore Addie John- son and freshman Erika Vinnedge added two each to lead Pike Central to a 25 - 20, 25 -23 victory. Johnson and sophomore Neeley Correll dished out two ace serves each while Powell had seven set-assists. Correll also had a team-high 19 digs, Powell 16, Johnson 13 and freshman Alaina Mc- Clellan 10. VICTORY Continued from page 1 Members of the Pike Central High School var- sity volleyball celebrate after a five-set victory over visiting Forest Park on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School se- nior Taylor Lamey (12) serves the ball during varsity volleyball action against visiting Forest Park on Tues- day, Aug. 28. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School se- nior Becca Crow (5) throws the ball over the net during varsity volleyball action against visiting Forest Park on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School senior Alyssa Jenkins (24) gets set to hit the ball over the net while senior Kylie Dawson (far left), ju- nior Karsyn Pipes (7), senior Becca Crow (5) and senior Tay- lor Lamey (12) look on during varsity vol- leyball action against visiting Forest Park on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School sophomore Riley Mor- gan (21) passes the ball while sophomore team- mate Kenzie Powell (2) looks on during junior varsity volleyball action against visiting Forest Park on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School freshman Jaize Mills (26) knocks the ball over the net during junior varsity volleyball action against visiting Forest Park on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Ed Cahill photo Lady Charger netters post three-set win over Shoals Senior Alyssa Jenkins had a team-high seven kills while senior Becca Crow and junior Audrey Keepes added six more as the Pike Central High School volley- ball team defeated visiting Shoals 25 -16, 25 -22, 25 -22 on Thursday, Aug. 30. Crow also had a team- high ace serves (4), set-as- sists (23) and digs (20) as the Lady Chargers im- proved to 5 -6. Senior Taylor Lamey had two ace serves while Keep- es and junior Emma Rus- sell added one each. Jen- kins had one block. Junior Lily Frederick-Rice had one block-assist. Senior Kylie Dawson had 13 digs while Kaila Lamey had 10. Keepes, junior Aubrie Daw- son and senior Kylee Shoul- tz all had nine digs. In the junior varsity match, sophomore Ken- zie Powell had a team-high eight kills and sophomore Addie Johnson added seven to lead Pike Central to a 2-1 victory over Shoals. Sophomore Riley Mor- gan had a team-high four ace serves while freshman Morgan Blackburn had two. Powell, sophomore Neeley Correll, freshman Addie Faulk, freshman Kayla Gladish, sophomore Shelby Ridao and sopho- more Lily Willis dished out one ace serve each. Fresh- man Erika Vinnedge had two kills. Pike Central, which hosted Wood Memorial on Tuesday, Sept. 4, will trav- el to Southridge on Thurs- day, Sept. 6, before compet- ing in the Evansville Cen- tral Invitational on Sat- urday, Sept. 8. The Lady Chargers will then trav- el to North Posey on Mon- day, Sept. 10, before return- ing home to host Princeton on Tuesday, Sept. 11. PCMS 7th and 8th grade volleyball teams top Washington Alyna Sharp scored a team-high 12 service points as the Pike Cen- tral Middle School eighth grade volleyball team de- feated host Washington 25 -19, 25 -20 on Tuesday, Aug. 28. Trailing 19 -18 in the first set, the Lady Char- gers scored seven straight points – including six off serves by Sharp – to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three match. Then, leading 17-16 in the second set, Pike Cen- tral scored six straight points – including five off serves by Ashlyn Shoultz – to open up a 23-16 lead. The Lady Hatchets would get no closer than 24-20 before Pike Central tallied the match-winning point. Shoultz had nine ser- vice points, including two on ace serves, for the La- dy Chargers – who im- proved to 1-2 – while Del- aney Welch had seven. Rea- gan Craig had two service points. Liberty Taylor had one. In the seventh grade match, Brailey Mills had a team-high 14 service points – including 10 on ace serves – while Karley Kavanaugh had 13 service points – including seven on ace serves – to lead Pike Central to a 25 -10, 25 -14 victory over Washington. In the first set, after the Lady Hatchets took an ear- ly 4-0 lead, Pike Central scored 12 straight points – including 11 following serves by Kavanaugh – to open up a 12-4 lead. Then, after Washington rallied to within 14-8, the Lady Chargers rolled off six straight points – includ- ing five following serves by Mills – to extend their lead to 20 -8. The Lady Hatchets would answer with back-to- back points to narrow the deficit to 20 -10 before Pike Central scored the set's fi- nal five points – including four following serves by Lexie Onyett – to take a 1- 0 lead in the best-of-three match. Leading 5 -3 in the sec- ond set, the Lady Chargers scored 10 straight points – including nine following serves by Mills – to open up a 15 -3 lead. Washington would close to within 16 -9 before the Lady Chargers tallied six straight points – including five following serves by Ad- dy Russell – to extend their lead to 22-9. For the match, Pike Cen- tral had a total of 25 aces – 10 by Mills, 7 by Kavana- ugh, 4 by Onyett, 3 by Rus- sell and 1 by Ella Adams. Adams led the Lady Chargers in kills with three while Onyett and Hailey Fulcher had two each. Rus- sell and Jaidyn Gogel tal- lied one kill apiece. "We had an awesome match against the Wash- ington Hatchets," said La- dy Charger seventh grade coach Kinsey Barrett, whose team improved to 2-1. "The girls are getting comfortable on the court together and really work- ing as a team well." The seventh grade's B team also played one set to 25, winning by a score of 25 -18. "They served extreme- ly well and had some ex- cellent passes on serve re- ceive," Barrett said. "Over- all, a great night for PC vol- leyball." Pike Central, which traveled to South Knox on Tuesday, Sept. 4, will host South Spencer on Thurs- day, Sept. 6, and Barr- Reeve on Monday, Sept. 10, before playing at Tecum- seh on Tuesday, Sept. 11. PCMS 6th grade volleyball team drops three-set loss at South Knox The Pike Central Mid- dle School sixth grade vol- leyball team fell to 1-1 with a 22-25, 25 -20, 15 -9 loss to visiting South Knox on Wednesday, Aug. 29. The Lady Chargers took an early 2-0 lead at the start of the first set and extended their lead to as many as 12 points – at 19 -7 – before South Knox rallied, scoring 13 of the next 15 points to close to within 21-20. However, Pike Central closed out the first-set win by scoring four of the next six points, including one following a serve by Karly Morson. The Lady Spartans scored the first 18 points of the second set while sailing to a 15 -point win to tie the best-of-three match at 1-1. In the third set, Pike Central jumped out to a 4-0 lead following serves by Lakin Sorgius before South Knox – trailing 9 -7 – scored eight consecutive points to claim the three- set win. Sorgius led the Lady Chargers with 10 points off serve. Emma Hunt had eight points, Eve Burns had four points, Morson had two and Myra Hens- ler had one point. "The A team came out on fire," Pike Central head coach Stephanie Shedd said. "They served well and passed well. We keep having trouble in the sec- ond set. It's just some- thing we are going to have to work through and fig- ure out our rhythm." In the B match, the La- dy Chargers dropped a 25 -18, 25 -19 loss to South Knox. Brylee Walker led Pike Central with five points off serve while Lillian Mann and Alexis Oswalt added two each. "The B team played much better," Shedd said. "We improved on our serving and passing. We didn't pull out a win, but I am very proud of how the girls communicated and worked as a team." Pike Central, which played at Oakland City on Tuesday, Sept. 4, will visit South Knox on Thursday, Sept. 6, before returning home to host Francisco on Tuesday, Sept. 11.