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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, September 12, 2018 B-1 SPORTS Submit sports items: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: sports@pressdispatch.net or bring in a hard copy: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Kennedy Willis and Kah- le Young scored two goals each to lead the Pike Cen- tral Middle School girls' soccer team to a 5 -1 victo- ry over visiting Princeton on Monday, Sept. 10. Ariel Moade also scored a goal on a penalty kick with just under 24 minutes re- maining as the Lady Char- gers improved to 8 -2. On Thursday, Sept. 6, Pike Central lost at North- east Dubois 5 -2. "Northeast Dubois played a great game and allowed us to learn from them," Lady Chargers head coach Brit- tney Coan said. "We hope to put what we learned from this game to the test in our next matchup." On Wednesday, Sept. 5, Keena Young scored five goals, Willis netted three and Kahle Young had two as Pike Central rolled to a 10 -2 victory at South Knox. Tallying assists were Wil- By Ed Cahill Press-Dispatch Sports Editor sports@pressdispatch.net Junior Audrey Keep- es scored a team-high 10 points – on seven kills and three ace serves – to lead the Pike Central High School volleyball team to a 25 -22, 25 -16, 25 -21 victory over visiting Wood Memori- al on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Senior Becca Crow, who led the Lady Chargers in set-assists (16) and digs (16), accounted for a total of 6 -1/2 points with six kills and one block-assist. Pike Central jumped out to a 14-9 lead in the first set before the Lady Trojans ral- lied, scoring 10 of the next 13 points to surge ahead 19 - 17. However, the Lady Char- gers answered by scoring four straight points – includ- ing three following serves by senior Kylee Shoultz – to take a 21-19 lead. Wood Memorial would close to within one point twice – at 21-20 and 22-21 – before a kill by senior Kylie Dawson and an ace serve by junior Alexis En- glert stretched Pike Cen- tral's lead to 24-21. A fter a net serve by En- glert narrowed the score to 24-22, the Lady Chargers scored the game-winning point on a hitting error by Wood Memorial freshman Kaitlyn Jarboe to take a 1- 0 lead in the best-of-five match. In the second set, Pike Central jumped out to a 3-0 lead, scoring two points fol- lowing serves by junior Au- brie Dawson, and extended its advantage to as many as 11 points – at 20 -9. By Ed Cahill Press-Dispatch Sports Editor sports@pressdispatch.net There were few smiles, much less laughter, when Pike Central High School head football coach Dave Ste- phens and his staff got togeth- er early Saturday, Sept. 1, to begin game planning for their next opponent, Tell City. A fter all, the previous eve- ning, the Chargers had fallen to 0 -3 – and 0 -1 in the Pocket Athletic Conference – with a 62-2 loss to visiting Heritage Hills. That all changed, howev- er, when Chargers' special teams coordinator Jorden Froderman arrived. "He came walking into the coaches office on Saturday, and had a big ole smile," Ste- phens recalled. "I said, 'What are you smiling about? ' He goes, 'Heh, heh, heh.' I said, 'Okay, what are you laughing about.'" "We can block Tell City's punt," Froderman replied. Trailing the host Marks- men 6 -0 with 3:59 left in the third quarter, Pike Central senior Randy Powell not on- ly blocked a punt, but senior Eli Coleman recovered the loose ball in the end zone as the Chargers rallied for a 7-6 victory on Saturday, Sept. 8. "He called his shot," Ste- phens said of Froderman. "He said, 'We're going to have a certain lineup, I'm going to put this certain punt block against it.'" "Now, he didn't call the block AND the touchdown, but he did call the block," Ste- phens added. "Coach Froder- man had a great call there – and it was able to get us in the end zone." Powell said afterward that the punt block happened ex- actly as planned. "We saw they had only three linemen," Powell said. "They kind of split the line apart, and they left a hole, straight in the middle. We set up that play for me to go Bohnert earns all-conference honors as PCHS girls' golf team places third in PAC Championship PCHS boys' tennis team picks up win against South Knox PCMS 8th grade volleyball team posts win over South Spencer PCMS girls' soccer team improves to 8-2 with win over Princeton BLOCKED PUNT BY POWELL LEADS TO TD AS CHARGERS SLIP PAST TELL CITY 7-6 Pike Central High School junior Audrey Keepes (left) passes the ball while senior Kylee Shoultz right looks on during varsity volleyball action against visiting Wood Memorial on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central Middle School's Hannah Fair (left) battles a Princeton play- er for possession of te ball during girls' soccer action on Monday, Sept. 10. Ed Cahill photo Randy Powell Eli Coleman By Ed Cahill Press-Dispatch Sports Editor sports@pressdispatch.net Senior Natalie Bohnert earned all-conference honors for the third straight year while lead- ing the Pike Central High School girls' golf team to a third-place finish in the Pocket Athletic Confer- ence Championship at the Oakland City Golf Course on Monday, Sept. 10. Bohnert shot a nine- hole score of 42 – 5 over par – to tie for third place with Gibson Southern's Claire Jones. Haylee Ex- line of North Posey fin- ished first with a 39, while Baileigh Schneider of Southridge was second with a 40. Also earning All-PAC honors were Allie Sens- meier of Gibson South- ern, who was fifth with a 43; Makayla Murphy of South Spence, who was sixth with a 44; and Mag- gie Newcomb of North Posey and Macie Marley of Southridge, who tied for seventh with a 45. The PAC Champion- ship was originally sched- uled to be played on Satur- day, Sept. 8, but was post- poned to Monday – and shortened from 18 holes to 9 holes – because of heavy rain that ultimate- ly made the course un- playable. "We got seven holes in and, I mean, they were miserable," Lady Char- gers head coach Jarrod Gideon said. "It was pour- ing down rain. It got to the point where it was raining so hard you couldn't see, and there was puddling on the greens, so we had to kind of call it." "But it was for the bet- ter," Gideon added. "To- day was a beautiful day to play." The Pike Central High School boys' tennis team picked up its first win of the season with a 4-0 vic- tory over visiting South Knox on Tuesday, Sept. 4, before dropping a 4-1 loss to visiting Southridge on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Pike Central 4, South Knox 0 At No. 1 singles, Char- gers sophomore Ethan Huck defeated Spartans freshman Nathan Ruppel 6 -2, 6 -0. At No. 2 singles, Char- gers junior Dalton Wil- liams defeated Spartans sophomore Caleb Cun- ningham 6 -3, 6 -0. At No. 3 singles, Char- gers senior Joey Church defeated Spartans Nolan Hayes 6 -1, 6 -0. At No. 1 doubles, the Chargers' team of senior Kyle Williams and junior Quinton Sorgius defeated the Spartans' team of ju- nior Jace Willis and soph- omore Tom Schmidt 6 -0, 6 -0. By Ed Cahill Press-Dispatch Sports Editor sports@pressdispatch.net The Pike Central Mid- dle School eighth grade volleyball team improved to 3-2 with a 25 -17, 21-25, 15 -8 victory over visiting South Spencer on Thurs- day, Sept. 6. In the first set, the La- dy Chargers scored five straight points – includ- ing four on ace serves by Delaney Welch – to take a 5 -0 lead. South Spencer would rally, however, clos- ing to within 9 -7 on back- to-back ace serves by Em- ma Williams. Pike Central would an- swer by scoring the next three points – including two on ace serves by Lib- erty Taylor – to extend its lead to 12-7. South Spencer would pull to within three points twice – at 12-9 and 14-11 – before the Lady Chargers rattled off five straight – including two on ace serves by Welch – to open up a 19 -11 advantage. The Lady Rebels an- swered by scoring five straight points of their own, including three on ace serves by Madison Damm, to pull back to within three points – at 19 -16 – but could get no closer as Pike Central scored six of the next sev- en points to take a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three match. In the second set, the Lady Chargers held a 10 - See VOLLEYBALL on 5 See IMPROVES on 3 See WIN on 5 See THIRD on 3 See CHARGERS on 4 WE ARE PROFFESIONAL GRADE uebelhorgm.com 1-800-937-8721 Jasper, IN Keepes leads PCHS volleyball team to three-set win over Wood Memorial See PCMS on 2