VOLLEYBALL: Jeffersonville update

The following Facebook link is an update on the Jeffersonville volleyball program.

https://www.facebook.com/100011987173130/videos/722413004834932/

FOOTBALL: Providence update

The following Facebook link is an update on the Providence football team. The Pioneers (5-6) will host Triton Central (8-3) in the Class 2A Sectional 39 championship game at 7 p.m. this coming Friday at Murphy Stadium.

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=711660312576868&id=100011987173130

VOLLEYBALL: Providence collects pair of wins in round robin

By KEVIN HARRIS
Southern Indiana Preps
CLARKSVILLE – On Saturday, Sept. 14, Providence improved its record to 17-0 by winning two matches in a three-team home round robin against Jasper and Carmel.
The Pioneers started the round robin with a 25-13, 25-21, 25-11 victory over the Wildcats. Senior Courtney Glotzbach led the Providence offensive attack with 13 kills, followed by teammate Ali Hornung with 12. Pioneer junior Emma Kaelin distributed 29 assists. Senior Ceci Rush paced the Providence defense with 10 digs.
The Pioneers defeated Carmel in the third and final match of the day, 28-26, 25-21, 25-18. Glotzbach matched her kill total from the Jasper match with 13, while Kaelin dished out 24 assists. Rush made 12 digs and Providence senior Maggie Purichia had five blocks. Hornung and teammate Ali Hughes each had four blocks.
“(Jasper) did some things to us that we didn’t necessarily expect, and we had to make some adjustments, which were really good,” Pioneer head coach Terri Purichia said. “They served the ball really aggressive at us, so we got into a little serve-reception trouble. But (Providence) worked through it, which was good.
“We just had a tremendously good match against Carmel. It was probably the best match we’ve played all season. Carmel played us with such great intensity. It was a back-and-forth battle that we were so thankful to get out with (a victory).”

Note: The following is a Facebook link to a complete interview with Providence head volleyball coach Terri Purichia on Sept. 14:

www.facebook.com/100011987173130/videos/675320606210839/?id=100011987173130

VOLLEYBALL: Interview with New Albany head coach Ryan Woosley

Facebook link to my interview with New Albany head volleyball coach Ryan Woosley on Saturday, Sept. 21 after the Bulldogs finished sixth in the Active Ankle Challenge at New Albany.

https://www.facebook.com/100011987173130/videos/679924302417136/?id=100011987173130

BOYS’ BASKETBALL: New Albany fends off Crown Point at Noblesville in 61-59 win

By KEVIN HARRIS

kevinharris1972@gmail.com

NOBLESVILLE – New Albany held off a fourth-quarter rally by Crown Point to post a 61-59 victory in the first round of the seventh annual Noblesville Holiday Tournament on Thursday, Dec. 27 at The Mill.

Senior guard Derrick Stevenson paced New Albany (5-2) with 17 points on 8-of-14 shooting. Bulldog junior forward Julien Hunter registered a double-double with 14 points and a team-high 10 rebounds.

Senior guard Landon Sprigler chipped in 10 points and four assists for the Dogs, while teammate Jordan Thomas had eight points, six rebounds and four blocked shots.

New Albany took its largest lead of the first half at 30-17 late in the second quarter as Stevenson converted a steal into a layup.

With New Albany up 32-20 at halftime, Crown Point (5-2) started the third period with a 13-4 run to slice its deficit to 37-33. But New Albany answered by closing the stanza with a 12-2 spurt to grab its biggest advantage of the game at 49-35.

“I felt like their kids never gave up. They hung in there,” New Albany head coach Jim Shannon said. “We didn’t get off to a very good start I didn’t think in the third quarter. We were a little lackadaisical to start the quarter. We felt we took some pretty good shots, but we didn’t make them. We felt we were giving them way too many easy shots. We got into a little foul trouble and put them on the line quite a bit.”

Crown Point began the fourth with six consecutive points to pull within 49-41. New Albany got its lead back up to 52-41 thanks to a Sprigler free throw and a Hunter basket.

However, Crown Point kept chipping away at its deficit. With less than three minutes left in regulation, senior Sam Snodgrass made a reverse layup to pull Crown Point within three at 54-51. That bucket capped off a 10-2 run.

Sprigler got New Albany’s advantage back to 57-51 with under two minutes remaining by knocking down a runner.

But Crown Point cut the New Albany lead down to three in the final 20.4 seconds. Snodgrass hit a pair of foul shots to get Crown Point within 58-55.

With 19.2 ticks left, senior guard Chris Johnson made two free throws to up New Albany’s lead back to five at 60-55. At the 10.7-second mark, though, Crown Point’s Ty Smith converted a layup to slice its deficit to 60-57.

Freshman Kaden Stanton hit a free throw with 8.6 seconds remaining to put New Albany up 61-57. Crown Point senior Elias Gerodemos made the final basket as time expired.

Shannon thought his players could have contained Crown Point’s comeback attempt if they would have hit their free throws in the fourth. New Albany shot 6-of-12 from the stripe in the final period and 10-of-19 for the game.

“In the fourth quarter, we basically thought we would spread them out a little bit and make them foul us, which they did,” Shannon said. “But we didn’t make our free throws. You’ve got to make them. I felt comfortable that we would go in there and put them in. But we missed too many. We’ve got to work on that.

“All in all, we played a good game against a good team. We’re happy to get out of here with a win.”

Gerodemos scored a game-high 22 points, while Snodgrass recorded a double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds.

New Albany wound up fourth in the tournament after losing two games on Friday, Dec. 28. It fell in the semifinals to Lawrence Central, 65-52. New Albany then lost the third-place game to Columbus North, 64-61.

For a complete post-game interview with New Albany head coach Jim Shannon, go to the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/100011987173130/videos/530349554041279/UzpfSTEwMDAxMTk4NzE3MzEzMDo1MzA5MDE2MjM5ODYwNzI/?id=100011987173130

NOBLESVILLE HOLIDAY TOURNAMENT

FIRST ROUND

NEW ALBANY 61, CROWN POINT 59

New Albany       14 18 17 12-61

Crown Point         9 11 15 24-59

New Albany (5-2): Derrick Stevenson 8-14 1-2 17, Julien Hunter 6-10 2-7 14, Landon Sprigler 4-6 2-4 10, Jordan Thomas 4-5 0-0 8, Chris Johnson 1-3 2-2 4, Kaden Stanton 1-1 1-2 4, Tucker Biven 0-1 2-2 2, Trey Hourigan 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 25-42 10-19 61.

Crown Point (5-2): Elias Gerodemos 6-14 9-9 22, Sam Snodgrass 5-15 4-5 15, Ty Smith 3-5 1-2 7, Sam Decker 3-7 1-2 6, Matt Hanlon 2-4 1-1 5, Sam Krutz 2-6 0-2 4, Tyler Jeeninga 0-0 0-0 0, Ben Uran 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 21-52 16-21 59.

Three-point field goals: New Albany 1-5 (Stanton 1-1, Biven 0-1, Johnson 0-1, Stevenson 0-2); Crown Point 3-12 (Gerodemos 1-1, Decker 1-3, Snodgrass 1-5, Krutz 0-3).

Rebounds: New Albany 28 (Hunter 10); Crown Point 24 (Snodgrass 11).

Turnovers: New Albany 9, Crown Point 5.

Total fouls: New Albany 19, Crown Point 19.

Fouled out: Stevenson.

Technical fouls: New Albany bench.

New Albany’s Mosley - a true three-sport athlete

By KEVIN HARRIS

kevinharris1972@gmail.com

NEW ALBANY – For the last couple of decades, three-sport high school athletes have been on the decline, especially at large schools.

One of the main reasons for the decrease in these special student-athletes is more teenagers are focusing on improving their skills in their best sport. In turn, these athletes hope to earn major accomplishments in the future in their sport of choice, like receiving a full-ride athletic scholarship from a successful NCAA Division I program.

But in the previous academic year, 2018 New Albany graduate Aaron Mosley showed that a student-athlete can still succeed at three sports.

During his senior year, Mosley was a member of three Bulldog boys’ athletic teams – football, wresting and track and field. He collected all-Hoosier Hills Conference honors in each of those sports. He earned a trip to the Indiana High School Athletic Association State Finals in wresting, which is his best sport. Plus, he nearly reached the IHSAA State Finals in boys’ track.

Kyle Weigleb, who is New Albany’s head boys’ track coach and an assistant coach for the Bulldog football squad, praised Mosley for what he accomplished as a three-sport standout last school year.

“It was remarkable and unique. It was just a unique situation because kids don’t (play three sports) anymore,” said Weigleb, who would like to see more student-athletes compete in three sports.

Bulldog head football coach Steve Cooley thinks Mosley’s competitive nature helped him persevere in three sports.

“He’s an intense, high-energy individual,” Cooley said. “He’s just a competitor and he’s just that good of an athlete.”

In the 2017 football season, Mosley’s overall play at linebacker garnered him a spot on the all-HHC team as he helped New Albany post a 5-5 record. Playing on the gridiron helped Mosley stay in shape and lift weights on a consistent basis. That aided in his preparation for the 2017-18 wrestling season.

“With football, I lifted a lot. That got me bigger and stronger,” Mosley said.

Mosley’s final wrestling season at New Albany was without question his best.

Mosley posted a 44-4 record as he competed in the 182-pound division. He won his first 42 matches of the season, entering the Evansville Reitz Semistate undefeated.

Mosley made the all-HHC squad by winning his class at the conference meet last January. He followed that up by capturing championships at the Southridge Sectional on Jan. 27 and the Bloomington South Regional on Feb. 3.

Despite suffering his first loss of the season in the 182-pound semifinals at the Evansville Reitz Semistate on Feb. 10, Mosley wound up third in the tournament and qualified for the state finals for the first time in his high school career. The semifinal setback to Brownsburg’s Nathan Walton, who proceeded to collect the semistate title, ended Mosley’s 42-match winning streak.

Mosley said his work ethic was the main reason he reached state as a senior.

“I put 100 percent into it every day. I wasn’t taking any breaks,” Mosley said. “I practiced three hours a day sometimes and then lifted weights with coaches and teammates after that. It was a real big accomplishment for me.”

Mosley defeated Elwood’s Jalen Morgan by an 8-3 decision in the first round of the 182-pound bracket of the state finals on Feb. 16 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. But Mosley lost in the quarterfinals the next day to eventual state champion Conner Graber from Northridge by a 9-1 major decision.

Mosley’s season ended with a couple more losses at state. He fell by a 4-2 decision to Chesterton’s Cade Girgenti in the consolation round, then suffered a 4-2 decision loss to New Haven’s Jonyvan Johnson in the seventh-place match. Mosley concluded his senior year with an eighth-place finish at the state finals.

While competing at state, Mosley had to deal with an environment he was not used to. Bankers Life Fieldhouse was the largest arena he had competed in all year along with the largest crowd he had wrestled in front of all season.

“Coming out onto the mat was insane,” Mosley said. “I tried not to let it get to me. You almost feel like a celebrity out there.”

Mosley carried the momentum from his final prep wrestling campaign into the 2017-18 track season.

He collected all-HHC honors in two events at the conference meet on May 10 in Seymour with victories in the 110- and 300-meter hurdles. A week later in the Floyd Central Sectional, Mosley advanced to the regional meet in three events. He won the 110 hurdles and finished second in both the 300 hurdles and 400 relay, as the top three finishers in each event qualified for the Evansville Central Regional on May 24.

Of his three regional events, Mosley came the closest to qualifying for the state finals in the 300 hurdles. He finished fourth in the event, one spot shy of earning a state berth. Mosley recorded a time of 40.61 seconds, .25 seconds behind third-place Trey Riggs from Gibson Southern.

Mosley’s success enabled him to earn the Bulldog track team’s most valuable athlete award at the end of the season.

Weigleb lauded Mosley’s athleticism in competing in the 110 and 300 hurdles throughout the season.

“He weighs 190 pounds and he’s running over hurdles,” stated Weigleb, who said the average standout high school hurdler weighs between 150 to 160 pounds. “That’s really impressive.”

Mosley will wrestle at tradition-rich Campbellsville (Ky.) University this coming season. The Tigers have captured four individual NAIA national championships and had nine wrestlers who were NAIA national runners-up in their respective weight classes.

Mosley felt that Campbellsville was the school for him after he and fellow New Albany wrestler Jaden Sonner visited the campus after the state finals.

“We practiced with the team and liked their facilities,” Mosley said. “I liked the intensity of their practices.”

Mosley will study business management at Campbellsville. As of now, he does not plan to participate in a second sport at the Christian university.

FOOTBALL: Glesing ready for next challenge at Jeff

NOTE: This article appears on GLICOD's website (www.glicod..com). The link to the article is the following: www.glicod.com/single-post/2018/06/29/Glesing-ready-for-next-challenge-at-Jeffersonville.

BY KEVIN HARRIS

JEFFERSONVILLE – Brian Glesing is a man who embraces a challenge.

Throughout his head coaching career, Glesing has been known for turning lowly football programs into winners. He has accomplished great turnarounds at LaVille in Northern Indiana, Clarksville and Floyd Central.

Now, Glesing faces possibly the biggest rebuilding project in his 18-year head coaching career.

On May 1, the Greater Clark County Schools board approved Glesing as the new head football coach at Jeffersonville High School. The Red Devils have not had a winning season since 2015, as they posted a 4-6 record in 2016 and a 3-7 mark last season. Jeff’s last sectional championship came in 2007 and it has not captured a Hoosier Hills Conference title since 1997.

“When I started coaching in Southern Indiana, I asked some people where the best place is to coach in Southern Indiana. A lot of people said Jeffersonville,” said Glesing, who is a Jeffersonville resident. “It was the right time to make a switch. I’ve always liked the challenge of rebuilding programs.”

LaVille was the first stop where Glesing turned a struggling program into a winner.

After the Lancers went winless in his first season in 2001 at 0-10, Glesing guided them to successful seasons in 2002 and 2003. LaVille went 9-4 and captured a Class A sectional championship in each of those campaigns. Prior to that two-year run, the Lancers’ lone sectional championship came in 1982. In four years at LaVille, Glesing posted a 23-24 record. 

Glesing moved to Southern Indiana in 2005 to take over Clarksville’s football program. Glesing coached the Generals for two seasons, compiling a 17-6 record. His best season at Clarksville was 2006 when the Generals recorded a 10-2 mark and claimed the outright Mid-Southern Conference title.

Before Glesing’s arrival, Clarksville went seven consecutive seasons without a winning record.

For the past 11 seasons, Glesing has been in charge at Floyd Central. He wound up with a 70-51 mark with the Highlanders, including a Class 5A sectional crown in 2009. Prior to taking the Floyd helm, the Highlanders recorded three straight losing seasons from 2004-06 as they went 6-24 in that span.

Jeff athletic director Todd Satterly says he was stunned when Glesing expressed interest in the Red Devil coaching job, especially with Glesing’s success at Floyd Central. But Satterly is thrilled that the veteran head coach is on his side now.

“Yes, it was surprising to us. But after speaking with Brian, all the things he brought to the table meshed well with us,” Satterly said. “Brian’s track record in Southern Indiana is nothing but successful. The attitude, the teaching and the culture he brings made him a lock for us as a hire.”

Glesing’s first meeting with his new team came on May 7. During the meeting, he stressed three things that he expects his players to show every day.

“Attitude, character, effort,” stated Glesing, who has uttered those words to his players thousands of times during his career. “We’re going to take things slow and steady. We’ve got to make sure we’re doing things right.”

Throughout his coaching tenure, Glesing has been known as a person who likes to establish a power running game on offense. However, since he took over the Jeff reins, Glesing has talked about constructing an offense that fits his players’ strengths to move the football and put points on the scoreboard.

“We’re going to do whatever it takes to move the football, whether it’s running the ball or passing the ball,” Glesing said. “We’ve got to establish the running game, but we’ve got to have a balanced attack. We’re going to do whatever it takes to get first downs and score points.”

Probably the largest obstacle Glesing faces is attempting to turn Jeffersonville, a city with a strong basketball tradition, into a football town as well. He plans to get out in the Jeff community constantly and sell Red Devil football to the Jeff faithful.

“We’ve got to make football an important part of the community,” Glesing said. “Getting the community involved in your program is very important, especially in Jeffersonville. They’ve had some good football players in the past.”

Last season, Glesing battled Hodgkin’s lymphoma for the second time in his life. He acquired the form of cancer for the first time in 1994 when he was an assistant coach at Whiteland in Central Indiana.

Glesing says he is in good health and he is ready to coach football at full strength again.

“I’m a lot better. I’m just trying to get back in shape,” he said. “By August, I hope to be 100 percent by then.”

Satterly said Glesing’s health was not a worry as far as affecting Glesing’s job performance. In fact, Satterly did not inquire Glesing about his condition when he interviewed the former Floyd Central boss.

“We didn’t ask him about it. He went ahead and shared his health with us,” Satterly said. “It was a concern for us on a personal level, but not on a professional level.”