The Press-Dispatch
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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, August 22, 2012 B-3 Lady Chargers soccer has tough first week soccer season for the re- building Pike Central Lady Chargers, but Head Coach, Alisha Knight, saw some good things despite the two losses. The Lady Chargers It was a tough start to the By Mike Johansen opened at home on Wednes- day evening and dropped a 2-1 decision to the North Knox Lady Warriors in the season opening action. "It was really obvious this VIDEO NETedition Exclusive Lady Chargers seeking to rebound after losses Lincoln defense as Lauren Morton is ready to help. The Lady Chargers lost a close one in the season opening match. Olivia Leighty stretches and strains to make a hit against the Vincennes Pike Central Lady Chargers in Volleyball as they lost two hard fought matches to open the new season. One loss came at home and the second, the closest one, on the road. The Lady Chargers It was a rough start for the By Mike Johansen opened the season losing to the Vincennes Lady Alices 1-3 by the scores of 13-25, 25-21, 16-25 and 21-25. In the opening set of the match, the Lady Chargers used a serve by Haylea Harden to tie the match at 2-2, but then allowed Lincoln to score five straight points and they were never able to recover. Another nine point run by the Lady Alices had the match well out of hand. Only service points by Em- ily Howes and Michal Ashby allowed the game to get a little closer. Serves by Ashby had the pop ahead 13-7. Pike Cen- tral rallied on the serves by Ashby again to come within two, 12-14. A serve by Harden had them back at two, but the Lady Alices put the game away from that point to win 25-16. Ashby again had Pike Cen- tral an early edge, 2-1, but the Alices scored the next six points and stayed in front leading 16-7 until Em- ily Howes came to serve. Howes put PC down just 11- 16 and service points from Olivia Leighty and Lexie Shoultz had PC down just 19-21. Then the service er- ror bug hit and Lincoln es- caped, winning 25-21. "The first game nerves Lady Chargers ahead 4-2 in the second match with two falling for ace serves. The Lady Alices came back to lead 8-4 and 11-6 thanks to some net violations by the Lady Chargers. Serves by Lexie Shoultz brought the score back to 10-11. Ashby came to serve at 13-18 and served in four straight aces and used a spike by Olivia Leighty on a set by Harden for an 18-18 tie. After falling back 20-18, the Lady Char- gers rallied on the serves of Shoultz with three return er- rors by Lincoln and a return from Whann to score points for a 25-21 Pike Central win. Ashby served the Lady Chargers ahead in game three, but then Lincoln re- gained the momentum to were very apparent for the players and myself. We made some mistakes, but we will learn from them. We will face Vincennes again and we will be ready for them," said Coach Marla Stemle. Olivia Leighty led in at- Ashby 11, Shoultz 8, Morton 8, Howes 6, Whann 4 and Harden 4. Shoultz led in serving go- ing 17 for 17 with an ace and 10 points; Leighty 10 for 10, 3 points; Ashby 21 of 23 with 7 aces for 13 points; Howes 10 of 11 for 5 points; and Harden 10 of 12 with an ace for 2 points. Last Wednesday, the Lady Chargers were on the road facing the Washington Lady Hatchets and came home losing in five sets 25-17, 25- 23, 21-25, 24-26 and 10-15. "We went five games to- was our first game. There were a whole lot of jitters and they got the best of us. We started out right away with a shot on the goal by Allison Sheffler, but they got the first score and we fell apart fast," said Coach Knight. "This was a game I fully believe we could have won if we weren't so ner- vous. Presley Bryant had her first game as our new goalie, she was hesitant the first half, but by the second half she came out of her shell. She was more aggres- sive and they didn't score at all the second half." "My defensive line up (Kenna Longabaugh, Dani- elle Uppencamp, Lauren Luff and Ally Sutherland) has a lot of fresh faces, they are still learning to work together. North Knox took advantage of that and got in their two goals in the first half," added the coach. "The defense came out hard the second half and didn't let them score again. Lauren Luff got our sole goal off a corner kick that the goal keeper didn't get a good hold on. We had plenty of opportunities to score we just couldn't finish." Despite losing by 0-8 to an experienced Mount Vernon Team on the road Satur- day, the Lady Chargers still showed some positives dur- ing the match. "As bad as this score looks, it doesn't really rep- resent the way we played. Mount Vernon is a very talented team. We came in ready to work hard, the girls had a hard time on the offensive end," added Coach Sutherland. "But the defense and Presley (goal- keeper) kept us in the game. This was Presley's game to shine, she really played ag- gressively. Mount Vernon took shot after shot on her and she handled it well for only her second game. My offense came out the sec- ond half and started getting shots off on the goal. As bad as the score looks I think this was a really great game, my girls really started to come together." Teams needed for softball on Labor Day Weekend Labor Day weekend will be a time for fun and relax- ation and for co-ed softball in Bicknell. The Bicknell Labor Day Co-ed Softball Tournament will be held at the Bicknell fields at Southwood Park on Labor Day weekend. Games start Friday night or Satur- day, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, and continue through Monday, Labor Day, Sept. 3. Teams are for men and women on a one and one count, no dou- ble wall bats and no compos- ite bats allowed, only single wall bats. The entry fee is $150 per team and there will be awards and prizes. Contact Paul Jones, (812) 910-0107 or Jessica Kent, 910-0175 for information or to enter a team. There will be other activi- Knox defender trying to get a shot on goal during a 2-1 season opening loss. night. Washington hung in until the end," said Coach Stemle. "Michal Ashby and Emily Howes were named players of the game. They both had good games spik- ing and blocking. Lauren Morton also had 62 sets for us (16 assists)." Harden also had 13 sets tack and kills with 17 and 12; Michal ashby 17 attacks with 8 kills; Emily Howes 11 and 5; Kalee Hadley 9 and 1 and Lauren Morton and Haylea Harden each had 4 attacks. Leighty had five solo blocks and five assists; Howes four and three assists; Hadley two and two assists; Morton three assists, Harden one assist and Ashby two assists. Morton led in sets with 52 good sets and 16 set assists with Harden having 16 and 11 assists. Olivia Whann had four sets. Howes was 2.43 in serve receiving average on a 3.0 scale; Morton 2.20; Whann 1.64; Shoultz 1.33; Leighty 2.21 and Ashby 2.33. Leighty had 16 digs, Parker takes 20th in first boys meet gers boys cross country team took on a difficult task for the first meet of the sea- son in the Terre Haute Early Bird Invitational Saturday on the same course as the state meet. As a team, the Chargers The Pike Central Char- By Mike Johansen placed 12th with 342 points in the 17-team field. Law- rence Central won the meet with 44 points. They were fifth in the state finals last season. Terre Haute South had 82, Bloomington South 57, Bloomington North 147, Indian Creek 191, Silver Creek 192, Brown County 222, Edgewood 224, Mar- tinsville 243, Northview 267, Lighthouse Christian 320, Pike Central 342, Southpoint 352, Crawford County 400, Bloomfield 403, Clay City 418, Monrovia 442. The leader for the Char- gers was senior, Cain Parker, with a time of 17 minutes and 36.1 seconds for 20th place overall. First place went to Jackson Ber- toli, Terre Haute South, in 16:03.7. He was 34th in the state last season. Cole Hes- ter of Lawrence Central was second at 16:13.7 and Matt Dorsey of Lawrence Central was third at 16:14.8; Kyle Burke, Bloomington South, fourth at 16:17.5; and Chan- dler Ball, Lawrence Central, third at 16:29.6. "It was a good experience for our teams to run on the state finals course. Most of our boys had pretty good first runs," said Head Coach Randy Graham. "We will just look to improve one meet at a time." Elijah Punturi was second and 2 assists, Howes 2 sets and Whann 3 sets. Leighty had 10 digs, Ashby 8, Whann 6, Howes 4 and Shoultz 4. In serve receiving on a 3.0 scale, Ashby was 2.27, Leighty 2.00, Shoultz 1.40, Howes 1.83, Mor- ton 1.71 and Whann 1.94. Leighty had 14 spikes and 14 kills; Ashby 16 and 13; Howes 14 and 10 kills; Hard- ens even spikes; Morton 3 spikes; and Hadley 7 spikes and 3 kills. In serving, Shoultz was Catherine Kimbrough works against a North ties throughout the Labor Day weekend in Bicknell. There will be games, food and all types of activities for children as well as the adult who attend the event. 16 for 16 with an ace and 7 points; Ashby 11 of 19 with 3 aces and 8 points; Harden 20 of 24 with 6 aces and 13 points; Leighty 14 of 16 with 4 aces and 6 points; Howes 11 of 13 with 2 aces and 5 points; and Morton 17 of 17 with 4 aces and 8 points. Pike Central JV goes 1-1 watches her make the defensive play in the opening match. Pike Central lost to Vincennes Lincoln 24-24 and 23-25 but came back to beat Washington 23-25, 25-14 and 15-12. Hope Waltz goes down low to dig up a hard spike as Bailey Davis, libero, Dr. Kris Gunn Urologist Center. Dr. Gunn received his medical degree at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. U for the Chargers in placing 84th in the 213 runner race, clocked at 19:38.3. Kaleb Hill was 130th for the Char- gers with a time of 20:55; Damien Fulcher was 134th at 21:06; Sawyer Douglas was 136th at 21:07.3; Tan- ner Mason was 154th in 21:54.4 Earl Townsend was 179th place in 22:36.3; and Paul Heldring was 173rd in 22:44.1. The next action for the Chargers will be Tues- day, Aug. 28, with North Knox and Washington at North Knox High School course. It starts at 4:30 p.m. On Aug. 30, the Chargers will be in Fort Branch at the Alan Hopewell Invitational. rologist Kris Gunn, M.D. was recently appointed to the Medical Staff at Memorial Hospital and Health Care He completed his residency in urology at Washington University Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri and completed a research fellowship at University of North Carolina School of Medicine's Division of Urologic Surgery in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Dr. Gunn is a member of the American Urological Association. For more information or to schedule an appointment, please call Memorial Urology Associates at 996-5850. Respect for Human Dignity • Quality • Justice • Stewardship • Compassionate Caring