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The Press-Dispatch Sports Wednesday, September 12, 2018 B- 5 The Lady Trojans would score seven of the next nine points to close to within 22-16 before Pike Central scored three straight points – including the final two on ace serves by Keepes – to take a 2-0 lead. Wood Memorial began the third set with a 5 -1 scor- ing run before the Lady Chargers rallied, scoring four straight points – includ- ing three following serves by Crow – to pull even at 5 -5. Pike Central would open up a 19 -14 lead, but the Lady Trojans scored four straight points – two on kills by se- nior Adison Stone and two on ace serves by freshman Bree Rowe – to close to with- in 19 -18. A fter a net serve stretched the Lady Chargers' lead to 20 -18, the Lady Trojans tal- lied back-to-back points to pull even. However, ace serves by junior Karsyn Pipes and se- nior Taylor Lamey would spark a 5 -1 scoring run to end the match. Kylie Dawson and Taylor Lamey both had three kills for Pike Central, which im- proved to 6 -6 with its third straight win. Englert regis- tered a team-high nine ser- vice points, including three on ace serves, while Crow had eight service points. Aubrie Dawson, meanwhile, served up two aces. In addition, Keepes and Pipes had one set-assist each while Crow, Aubrie Dawson and Shoultz each had one block-assist. Aubrie Daw- son also had 13 digs. Kylie Dawson and Keepes both had 11 digs. "The girls played very well during this match," Pike Central head coach Brandi Chestnut said. "I was very pleased with their lev- el of play. We are hoping to continue the consistency in- to the rest of the week, and bring our record over .500." In junior varsity action, sophomore Kenzie Pow- ell had a team-high five kills as Pike Central defeat- ed Wood Memorial 25 -17, 25 -10. Freshman Maddie Lamey had four ace serves and one kill while freshman Jaize Mills had three ace serves and one kill. Fresh- man Morgan Blackburn added two ace serves and a team-leading six digs while sophomore Addie Johnson had five digs. Powell also led the Lady Chargers with seven set-assists. Sopho- more Zoey Davis had one block-assist. VOLLEYBALL Continued from page 1 WIN Continued from page 1 Neither Pike Central or South Knox fielded a No. 2 doubles team. With the win, the Char- gers improved to 1-5. Southridge 4, Pike Central 1 At No. 1 singles, Char- gers sophomore Ethan Huck lost to Raiders se- nior Carson Mundy 6 -0, 6 -3. At No. 2 singles, Char- gers junior Dalton Wil- liams lost to Raiders ju- nior Owen Kinker 6 -2, 6 -1. At No. 3 singles, Char- gers senior Joey Church lost to Raiders senior Mi- chael Kappner 7-6, 6 -3. At No. 1 doubles, the Chargers' team of senior Kyle Williams and junior Quinton Sorgius defeat- ed the Raiders' team of senior Garrett Altmey- er and sophomore Austin Barkley 7-5, 6 -4. At No. 2 doubles, the Raiders' team of senior Alex Biehl and freshman Max Rasche won by for- feit. A home match sched- ule for Thursday, Sept. 6, against visiting Tell City was postponed due to in- clement weather. The match has been resched- uled to be played on Sat- urday, Sept. 15, at 11 a.m. "Even though it was a short week in terms of competition, we have played pretty well the last few matches," Pike Cen- tral head coach Brent Beck said. "We came up just short last week and lost 3-2 to Wood Memo - rial, but continued to play well and picked up the win against South Knox, winning at all of the sin- gles positions as well as 1 doubles. We got beat by Southridge 1-4 and had our Tell City Match post- poned." PCHS boys' tennis team falls 4-1 at Forest Park The Pike Central High School boys' tennis team slipped to 1-7 overall and 0 -4 in the Pocket Athletic Conference with a 4-1 loss at Forest Park on Monday, Sept. 10. At No. 1 singles, Char- gers sophomore Ethan Huck lost to Rangers se- nior Reid Steffe 6 -0, 6 -0. At No. 2 singles, Char- gers junior Dalton Wil- liams lost to Rangers soph- omore Nathan Jarboe 6 -0, 6 -0. At No. 3 singles, Rang- ers sophomore Evan Stein- metz won by forfeit. At No. 1 doubles, the Chargers' team of senior Kyle Williams and junior Quinton Sorgius defeat- ed Rangers seniors Aar- on Hurst and Joe Hurst 6 - 3, 7-5. At No. 2 doubles, the Chargers' team of senior Joey Church and Jed Ev- ans lost to the Rangers' team of junior Caiden Per- sohn and sophomore Wes Stout 6 -4, 6 -0. The Chargers will host North Posey on Wednes- day, Sept. 12, at 5:30 p.m., before traveling to Boon- ville on Thursday, Sept. 13. On Saturday, Sept. 15, Pike Central will host Tell City at 11 a.m., before wrapping up the regular season with road matches at Heritage Hills on Monday, Sept. 17, and at Vincennes Lincoln on Thursday, Sept. 20. PCHS boys' soccer team overcomes 2-0 second-half deficit for 3-2 win at South Knox A goal by senior Chris- tian Benson late in the sec- ond half as the Pike Central High School boys' soccer team – trailing host South Knox 2-0 at halftime – ral- lied in the match's final 10 minutes for a 3-2 victory on Tuesday, Sept. 4. "A couple of mental mis- takes cost us and we had to play from behind for most of the game," Chargers head coach Jacob Western said. "Christian did a good job creating chances for us the whole second half." Western noted, however, that Pike Central's starting goalie, junior Noah Whann, went down with an injury on a corner kick with about 25 minutes left in the game, and the Chargers turned to their junior varsity goalie, sophomore Sammy Ballard, as Whann's replacement. "Sammy made a couple big saves right away that really gave the team some- thing positive to feed off of," Western said. "Noah left the game with eight saves. Sam- my finished the game with six saves." With approximately 10 minutes left in the sec- ond half, Pike Central ju- nior Ethan Scott was able to beat the South Knox goalie to a ball and slid it inside the back post, cutting the Spar- tans' lead to 2-1. A few minutes later, se- nior Austin Holder finished what Western described as "a nice left-footed goal" off of an assist by sophomore Con- nor Young, tying the score at 2-2. "The boys were playing with intensity and I knew we would have a couple good chances left," Western said. Then, with about three minutes left, Benson beat several defenders and put away the go-ahead goal. "This is the second time we have scored three goals in the last 10 minutes this year," Western said. "I love how we continue to play hard for 80 minutes every game." Junior Andrew Clark add- ed an assist for the Char- gers, who improved to 5 -2. Pike Central 3, North Posey 2 A goal by junior Sam Hen- son midway through the sec- ond half snapped a 2-2 tie, lifting Pike Central to a 3-2 victory over visiting North Posey on Thursday, Sept. 6. "Against North Posey, we suffered a similar start to the South Knox game, as a lapse defensively cost us an early goal," Chargers head coach Jacob Western said. However, Western not- ed, Pike Central scored the game-tying goal off of a throw in by senior Christian Benson about 15 minutes in- to the first half. Approximately 10 minutes later, a throw-in by Benson that senior Jacob Vest head- ed into the goal gave the Chargers a 2-1 lead. "We finished the first half happy to be in the lead be- cause we really felt like we were outplayed for most of the half," Western said. "We were unable to connect pass- es with any consistency." "In the second half, we gave up an early goal to even the score 2-2," Western said. "The boys stayed composed throughout the whole game, even though we were caught defending deep in our half for most of the game." Midway through the sec- ond half, a shot by junior Ethan Scott was blocked, but Henson "jumped on it and put it past the keeper," according to Western. "We were able to stay strong defensively and come out with the 3-2 win against a good conference team," Western said. Western noted that sopho- more goalie Sammy Ballard, who started the place of the Chargers' injured starter, junior Noah Whann, "was great in goal," collecting a total of seven saves. "Sam, (sophomore) Re- ece Ashley and ( junior) An- drew Clark did a great job stepping up when needed, and giving quality minutes," Western said. Benson had two assists for the Chargers while Scott had one assist. Pike Central, which im- proved to 6 -2 overall and 3- 0 in the Pocket Athletic Con- ference, will travel to Heri- tage Hills on Thursday, Sept. 13. Last year, the Chargers posted their first-ever win over the Patriots by a score of 4-0. Previously, Heritage Hills was 10 -0 -1 against Pike Central. "I am really excited to get four days of practice in be- fore a huge test against Her- itage Hills," Western said. "We are finding ways to win right now, but I still believe we have better soccer ahead of us." Pike Central enters Thursday's match having won 13 straight against PAC foes. The Chargers' last con- ference loss was a 2-1 set- back at Heritage Hills on Sept. 15, 2016. Pike Central will sub- sequently return home to host North Knox on Satur- day, Sept. 15, and Northeast Dubois on Monday, Sept. 17. Lady Chargers fall in straight sets at North Posey The Pike Central High School volleyball team fell to 7-11 overall and 1-2 in the Pocket Athletic Con- ference with a 25 -15, 25 - 9, 25 -7 loss at North Posey on Monday, Sept. 10. Pike Central held a 5 - 4 lead in the first set be- fore the Lady Vikings scored six straight points – including five follow- ing serves by junior Ha- ley Wilson – to take a 10 - 5 lead. Then, leading 13-8, North Posey scored four straight points – including three following serves by junior Emily Abernathy – to extend its advantage of 17-8. Pike Central would get no closer than six points the rest of the set while falling behind 1-0 in the best-of-five match. In the second set, after the Lady Chargers took an early 1-0 lead, North Posey scored eight of the next nine points to open up an 8 -2 lead. A fter Pike Central scored to close to with- in 8 -3, the Lady Vikings scored seven consecutive points to widen their lead to 15 -3 and cruised to the second-set win. In the third set, North Posey led from start to finish, scoring four of the first five points. Junior Audrey Keep- es led the Lady Chargers with four kills, while se- nior Alyssa Jenkins and junior Aubrie Dawson added two and one, re- spectively. Keepes and senior Taylor Lamey both had one ace serve. Se- nior Becca Crow had two set-assists while sopho- more Kaila Lamey had a team-high 10 digs. Keep- es had eight digs while Taylor Lamey and senior Kylee Shoultz added sev- en and six digs, respec- tively. Senior Alyssa Jen- kins had one block. In the junior varsi- ty contest, Pike Central dropped a 26 -24, 12-25, 15 -11 loss to North Posey. Sophomore Kenzie Powell had a team-high eight earned points on four ace serves and four kills. Sophomore Ad- die Johnson added sev- en earned points on four kills, two ace serves and one block while fresh- man Erika Vinnedge tal- lied six earned points on four kills, one ace serve and one block. Sophomores Maddie Williams and Lily Willis – who also had two kills – added two ace serves each. Powell had nine set-assists while John- son had 13 digs. Sopho- more Neeley Correll had 10 digs. PCHS junior varsity netters take two from Washington Catholic Sophomore Kenzie Powell dished out a to- tal of 17 ace serves to go along with three kills to lead the Pike Central High School junior varsi- ty volleyball team to a 25 - 7, 25 -13 victory over host Washington Catholic on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Powell, who committed just one service error in 25 attempts, also led the Lady Chargers with three set-assists and four digs. Sophomore Neeley Cor- rell scored a total of four points on three ace serves and one kill. Sophomores Addie Johnson (two kills) and Maddie Wil- liams (one ace serve, one kill) and freshman Erika Vinnedge (two kills) col- lected two earned points each. Sophomores Riley Morgan (one ace serve) and Lily Willis (one kill) added one earned point apiece. In a second junior varsi- ty match, freshmen Jaize Mills (eight ace serves) and Madison Riley (sev- en ace serves, one kill) scored eight points each to lead Pike Central to a 25 -10, 25 -11 victory. Freshman Addie Faulk posted seven earned points on four ace serves and three kills, while freshman Morgan Black- burn (four kills) added four points. Freshman Kayla Gladish (two ace serves, one kill) had three points. Freshman Maddie Lamey had two points on one ace serve and one kill. Riley also had a team- hjgh five set-assists while Gladish led the La- dy Chargers in digs with four. With the wins, the Pike Central junior varsity team improved to 7-2. PCHS volleyball team wins one of four matches in Evansville Central Invitational The Pike Central High School volleyball team won one of four matches while placing third in the silver bracket during the nine- team Evansville Central Vol- leyball Invitational on Satur- day, Sept. 8. The Lady Chargers opened pool play with a 25 -15, 25 - 9 loss to Evansville Bosse. Junior Audrey Keepes had three kills while senior Al- yssa Jenkins added two kills and one block. Senior Ky- lie Dawson had a team-high nine digs while sophomore Kaila Lamey and senior Bec- ca Crow had eight and seven digs, respectively. Pike Central ended pool play 1-1 with a 25 -22, 19 -25, 15 -12 victory over Evansville Central. Jenkins (three kills and two blocks) and Keepes led the Lady Chargers with five earned points each. Ju- nior Karsyn Pipes, who had four kills, and senior Taylor Lamey, who had two kills and two ace serves, and both add- ed four earned points, while sophomore Addie Johnson had two earned points on two ace serves. Crow paced Pike Central in both digs (12) and set-assists (13). Kaila Lamey had nine digs while Keepes and senior Kylee Shoultz add- ed eight digs apiece. In the first round of silver bracket play, Pike Central dropped a 25 -13, 25 -16 loss to Vincennes Lincoln. The Lady Alices, trailing 1-0 in the first set, scored 12 straight points – including 11 following serves by soph- omore Maycee Lange – to take a 12-1 lead. In the second set, after Pike Central took an early 5 -2 lead, Vincennes Lincoln scored seven straight points – including six following serves by senior Alison Hein – to take a 9 -5 lead. Pike Central would bounce back, scoring five of the next six points – including three following serves by Keepes – to pull even at 10 -10. Howev- er, with the score tied at 11-11, the Lady Alices scored 12 of the next 14 points to open up a 23-13 lead. Keepes paced the Lady Chargers with four earned points on three kills and one ace. Taylor Lamey added three earned points on one kill and two ace serves. Crow, Keepes and Kaila Lamey had seven digs each while Pipes added six. Crow dished out a team-high five set-assists. Pipes had two set-assists. In the second round of the silver bracket, Pike Central dropped a 25 -20, 25 -15 loss to North Posey. Trailing 9 -6 in the opening set, the Lady Vikings scored seven straight points – includ- ing six following serves by ju- nior Rylie Farr – to take a 13-9 lead. Pike Central would get no closer than two points the rest of the set. In the second set, after the Lady Chargers scored the first points – including three following serves by Taylor Lamey – North Posey bounced back, scoring five of the next six points to tie the score at 5 -5. Pike Central would re- gain the lead, scoring three straight points – including two following serves by Crow – to take an 8 -5 lead. However, with the La- dy Chargers leading 14-12, North Posey rolled off 11 straight points – including 10 following serves by junior Haley Wilson – to take a com- manding 23-14 lead. Crow (two kills and two ace serves) and Taylor Lamey (four kills) led Pike Central with four earned points each. Kylie Dawson had three kills. Keepes and Kaila Lamey had six digs each while Au- brie Dawson and Kylie Daw- son added five each. Crow led the Lady Chargers with four set-assists. Pike Central, which slipped to 7-10, played at North Posey on Monday, Sept. 10, and hosted Princeton on Tues- day, Sept. 11. They will re- turn to action in a four-way round-robin hosted by East- ern Greene on Saturday, Sept. 15, before returning home to host Vincennes Rivet on Tues- day, Sept. 18, and South Spen- cr on Thursday, Sept. 20. Pike Central High School senior Kylee Shoul- tz passes the ball during varsity volleyball action against visiting Wood Memorial on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School senior Becca Crow (5) sets the ball during varsity volleyball action against visiting Wood Memorial on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Ed Cahill photo Pike Central High School junior Alexis Englert goes to a knee to receive a serve during varsity volleyball action against visiting Wood Memorial on Tuesday, Sept. 4. Ed Cahill photo