Staff Reports
Brownstown Central’s varsity volleyball team ran into a strong opponent on the road Thursday night losing 25-15, 25-12, 25-20 at Floyd central.
The Braves (1-3) were 38-46-0 in serving with Riley May and Nadia Lakins both 6-6 and Jaydynn Yeadon 9-9.
Brownstown was 64-74-30 in attacks with Kelsey Wischmeier 17-22-11, Kaylee Borden 19-20-8 and Lakins 11-13-6.
The Highlanders won the junior varsity match 25-13, 25-11.
Brownstown was 22-25-2 in serves with Noe McPherson 5-5-1, Addison Darlage 4-4 and Kelsey Schneider 4-5-1. The Braves were 37-48-2 in attacks with McPherson 12-14-1, Darlage 11-12 and Schneider 6-10-1.
The freshman match also went to Floyd 25-18, 25-25.
The Braves were 36-43-2 in serves with McPherson 7-8-1, Whitney Branaman 6-6 and Bella Brown 12-13-1. In attacks, McPherson was 6-10-3, Liberty Wilkins 8-13-5 and Cass Helton was 7-8 with the team 29-40-11.
Brownstown will host their own Invite on Saturday morning at 9 a.m.
Girls soccer
Seymour picks up win
The Seymour girls soccer team picked up a 2-0 win over Scottsburg on Thursday night.
A goal from Eliza Cash (assisted by Haley Westfall) and a goal by Westfall (assisted by Brooke Trinkle) gave the Owls the advantage.
Lightning struck in the second half, canceling the rest of the game, but since the second half was already underway, Seymour picked up the win.
Jessica Hougland had one save on the day and now has two shutouts on the season.
The Owls (2-2) will return to action next week against Jeffersonville on Tuesday at home.
Tennis
Seymour gets fifth victory
Seymour’s boy’s tennis team improved its record to 5-1 Thursday with a 3-1 win over Jennings County at home.
The No. 2 doubles match between Seymour’s Reuben Kruse and Parker Thompson and Jennings’ Greyson Jackson and Jansen McDonald was cut short by lightning with the Seymour pair ahead 4-6, 7-5, 3-2 (40- love).
Owls winning in singles were Andrew Levine at No. 2 with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Gage Gasper, and Joe Schmidt at No. 3 singles with a 6-0, 6-3 win over Alex Leach
Jennings’ Owen Law topped Hunter Heckman 6-1, 6-3 at No. 1 singles
Seymour’s Eli Meyer and Jack VonDielingen beat Jacob Vogel and Justin Ramey 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 at No. 1 doubles.
Seymour’s next meet will be Tuesday at home to Jeffersonville.
Lightning causes cancellation for county teams
The Seymour boys’ varsity soccer match against Bloomington North at home Thursday night was canceled because of lightning.
Seymour’s junior varsity was leading North 3-2 with 6:14 left in the match when lightning was detected within 10 miles of the school, causing the alarm to go off, and more lightning was spotted in the area.
Martin Bartolome scored two goals and Amir Morales scored the other goal for the Owls.
Seymour will travel to Whiteland Saturday with the JV match set to start at 10 a.m.
Same goes for Brownstown boys tennis, who were at Scottsburg. Ethan Davis picked up a win for the Braves at one singles, while Scottsburg had taken both doubles.
Both number two and three singles were still in progress. Brownstown had won the first set in each of those, but were trailing in the second set when the lightning struck.
The Braves will resume that match on Monday.