NEW ALBANY — Like it did in last Saturday’s New Albany Invitational, the Bulldogs edged rival Providence, 3-2 in a dual match on Friday at Community Park.

New Albany’s Arvind Dhanapal defeated Nolan Carrico at No. 2 singles and the Bulldogs swept the doubles’ matches to get the win.

At No. 1 doubles, Ryan Zirnheld and Brett Medley won the first easily, 6-1 over Weston Spalding and Luis Garcia. Zirnheld and Medley then needed to win 9-7 in the second-set tiebreaker to take the point. At No. 2 doubles, Jake Kennard and Tanner Goller swept Patrick McPhillips and Brad Haas, 6-4 and 6-3.

Will Andres at No. 1 singles and Jacob Quinkert at No. 3 singles won for the Pioneers. Both are 8-0 on the season.

“We made too many mistakes in the other spots,” Providence coach Scott Gurgol said. “I can live with getting beat, but I don’t like to see our guys handing away points.”

NEXT: Providence vs. Gibson Southern at Forest Park, today; New Albany at Seymour, Tuesday.

• Pirates knock off Christian Academy: On Thursday, Charlestown won the first two singles spots and swept the doubles positions to defeat Christian Academy, 4-1. Winning for the Pirates were Chris Braun at No. 1 singles, Tyler Massie at No. 2 singles, Kam Heil and Kyle Jackson at No. 1 doubles and Ben Delaney and Zach Gibson at two doubles.

NEXT: Charlestown at Austin, Tuesday; Christian Academy at Lanesville, Tuesday.



CROSS COUNTRY

• Highlanders dominate North Harrison Invite: Floyd Central’s boys’ cross country team won Thursday’s North Harrison Invitational, which included most of Southern Indiana’s cross country powerhouses, by 50 points on Thursday.

The Highlander girls were even more dominant.

Five Floyd Central girls finished in the top 11 and six in the top 15 as the Highlanders ran away for the meet victory, finishing 83 points ahead of Jasper and Perry Central, which tied for second.

Alyssa Moore paced the Highlander girls, finishing fifth in a time of 20:30, 55 seconds behind North Harrison’s Ashton Bosler, who was the girls’ individual winner.

Floyd Central’s Madison Barney, Jamie Bierman and Cassie Nale finished seventh, eighth and ninth, respectively, and Gabrielle Rodriguez was 11th. Teammate Zoe Doebbler finished 15th.

Borden finished 14th in the girls’ meet and was paced by Shelby Kirchgessner’s 43rd-place finish.

Charlestown and Henryville didn’t have complete teams, but each had a high finisher. The Hornets’ Sadie Spears was sixth in 20:59 and the Pirates’ Whitney Andrews’ 22:33 was good for 21st place.

In the boys’ race, Zach Doebbler finished in a Floyd Central-best fourth place in 17:08. Grant Reynolds was seventh and Luke Uhl ninth as all seven Highlanders finished in the top 34.

Borden finished fourth as a team, led by freshman Julien Magallanes’ sixth-place finish and Jeffersonville placed seventh, led by senior Tyrell Dowdell in fifth place. Henryville’s Jacob Hedrick finished 13th for an incomplete Hornets’ team.

North Harrison’s Jonathan Reynolds was the boys’ champion, one second ahead of Corydon’s Levi Taylor in 15:53.



BOYS’ SOCCER

• Providence falls at Hoosier Cup: Plainfield jumped out to a 2-0 lead on Providence on Friday at the Hoosier Cup in Bloomington and the Quakers held on for a 2-1 win. Pierce Crawley scored the Pioneers’ lone goal. He was assisted by Logan Rauck in the 70th minute to pull Providence within 2-1.

NEXT: Providence today in Hoosier Cup.



VOLLEYBALL

• Braves top South Central: Leslie Beatty had 14 kills and Shelbie Farvour added 12 as Borden defeated South Central 23-25, 25-14, 25-11, 25-14 on Friday.

Paige Kruer had eight digs and four aces for the Braves.

NEXT: Borden at Madison Shawe, Tuesday.