Volleyball
Owls, Braves win thrilling five-set road matches
Both the Seymour and Brownstown Central volleyball teams won in five-set fashion on Thursday night.
After dropping the first two sets against Jennings County on Tuesday, Seymour rallied off three-straight sets to win in five 22-25, 18-25, 25-19, 25-19, 15-8.
Olivia Fish went 48-52 with 16 kills, Cali Cummings went 25-27 with 11 kills and Journee Brown went 23-25 with nine kills. As a team, Seymour hit 136-149 with 48 kills.
Fish served 22-23 with four aces, Addi Lemon served 18-21 with two aces and Greer Henry served 18-19 with one ace. As a team, the Owls served 84-95 with 10 aces.
Lemon had 37 assists, while Henry had 18 digs.
In the JV match, Seymour also won 25-16, 25-18. Zoe Williams had five kills, while Delaney Thomasma and Anna Kute each had four. Jamie Bobb and Abby Otte both had three aces, and Maddie Schrader had one. Kenzie Gagner had eight assists, and Schrader had 10 digs.
The Owls are now 9-2 this season and will compete in the Avon Tournament today.
As for Brownstown, the Braves were in a tough battle at New Albany on Thursday night, but they prevailed in five sets 25-22, 26-28, 25-23, 20-25, 15-10.
Kalee Borden went 43-51 with 16 kills, Sophie Wischmeier went 43-50 with 11 kills and Brailey Teipen went 10-12 with eight kills. As a team, Brownstown hit 132-156 with 49 kills.
Wischmeier served 18-18 with four aces, and Borden served 20-22 with two aces. The Braves served 101-107 with eight aces.
Brownstown’s JV team also topped New Albany 25-12, 17-25, 16-14. Olivia Justice had seven kills, Mairi Shaw had five kills and Erica Warren had four kills. Justice served three aces, while Kate Skaggs served three.
The Braves are now 5-5 this season and will compete in the Early Bird Tournament today at Providence.
Tennis
Braves fall to Paoli
The Brownstown boys tennis team lost to Paoli 3-2 on Friday night.
Pierson Wheeler won 6-4, 6-3 at two singles, and Lane Steward won 6-4, 7-5 at three singles. Smith Hackman lost 1-6, 0-6 at one singles, the one doubles team of Connor Gwin and Bryce Reaser lost 6-3, 2-6, 3-6, and the two doubles team of Evan Schneider and Elix Preston lost 1-6, 1-6.
Brownstown is now 3-5 this season and will play at Corydon on Thursday.
Cross-country
Braves run at North Harrison
The Brownstown Central boys and girls cross-country teams raced in the North Harrison Invitational on Thursday.
The boys team finished in fourth place, and the girls finished 11th.
Leading Brownstown was Chance Ratliff, who placed 13th overall in 17:55.40. His brother, Shane, was right behind him in 14th with a time of 17:57.86. Traven Wellman ran a 18:49.87, Bradley Edwards 19:21.62, Garrett Driver 20:53.81, Evan Sibrel 21:37.82 and Damien Owens 22:12.06.
Trinity Cody led the Lady Braves with a 40th-place finish in 23:23.80. Maddy Schepman ran a 24:51.17, Cambell Shasteen 25:06.42, Kelsey Schneider 25:14.24, Tori Lokey 26:52.82, Madison Stuckwisch 27:38.95 and Claire Schepman 29:19.22.
Corydon Central won the girls race, and Jasper won the boys race.
The Braves will race Sept. 10 at the Eagle Classic in Brown County.