Chapel Hill High School wide receiver and defensive back Rodney (R.J.) Quick, pictured above left, is one of four Triangle players to have been selected to play in this summer's 2012 East-West All-Star Football Game.

The N.C. High School Athletic Association girls lacrosse playoffs begin Friday, May 4. Conference champions East Chapel Hill, Green Hope and Cardinal Gibbons received first-round byes. Defending state champ Apex is a 2-seed.

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The Carolina League announced today that the Carolina Mudcats’ Jeremie Tice was named the Player of the Week for the week of April 23-29.

Tice was stellar in a four game series against the Lynchburg Hillcats at Five County Stadium. The slugger from Dacula, Ga., was 9-for-14 with three home runs, three doubles, seven RBI and six runs scored. He finished the week with a .643 batting average.

The 25-year-old leads the Mudcats with four home runs and 18 driven in. He’s raised his batting average to .328.

Boys dual-team tennis pairings for the first round

The Eastern Carolina 3A Conference will begin its baseball, softball and girls soccer conference tournaments all on Tuesday. Play continues through Friday in soccer and next Monday in baseball and softball.

All games will begin at 6 p.m. and be played at the higher seeded school.

Girls Soccer

Tuesday’s First Round

(7) North Lenoir at (2) Cleveland

(6) Southern Wayne at (3) Eastern Wayne

(5) South Johnston at (4) Triton

The Duke University women's volleyball team is coming to Neuse CharterSchool Tuesday to conduct a volleyball camp for the greater Johnston County area.  The camp for grades 5-8 us from 3:45 - 5:45 p.m. with check-in at 3:30pm.  Grades 9 - 12 go from 6:30 until 8:30 with check-in at 6:15. 
The camp is limited to the first 20 fully-registered athletes for each session; stand-bys will be invited into the gym on a first-comefirst-serve basis if space is available.  The cost for the camp is $30 per athlete and the camp will provide college-level instruction from bothDuke coaches and players. 
Registration and payment can be hand-delivered to coach Kurt Bienias at 909 Booker Dairy Road, Smithfield.  Bienias and he can be reached at bieniasncs@gmail.com or 919-938-1077, extension 222.

N.C. High School Athletic Association member schools will vote this week on whether Cardinal Gibbons, and other parochial non-boarding schools, can remain in the organization.

Tuesday's schedule for the Johnston County Easter Invitational prep baseball tournament at South Johnston High School's Bruce Coats Field…
Consolation Games
Cleveland vs. Corinth Holders, noon
Rocky Mount vs. South Johnston, 2:30
Clayton vs. West Johnston, 5
Championship
Middle Creek vs. Smithfield-Selma, 7:30

The Four Oaks Bank Tri-Nine Challenge is back for another season, and this year it features six teams in the round-robin field.

Apex, Holly Springs and Panther Creek are this year's representatives from the Tri-Nine Conference.

*Update: due to the death of a student at Western Harnett High School Friday morning, the Eagles will not play any more tournament games this weekend. Below is the new schedule*

Monday brings us second round action in the prep baseball touranment, the Johnston County Easter Invitational at South Johnston High School. We're recapping each game here after they end.

Game 7 & 8 Semifinals

Smithfield-Selma 3, West Johnston 1

Middle Creek 3, Clayton 1 (10)

Smithfield-Selma went to its proven road combination of Ben Youngblood and Blake Mitchell on the mound Monday night in the semifinals of the Johnston County Easter Invitational against defending champion West Johnston.