The Tri-Nine Conference tournament is set to start next Tuesday. First round games will be played at the higher seed, while Thursday's semifinals and Friday's finals will all be played at Green Hope High.
Click "read more" to see the tournament layout.
As the offseason moves along for the Carolina RailHawks, we will track who goes where in this blog.
It will be updated with each new signing.
See who is returning, who's leaving and who is being brought in.
The Kinston Arendell Parrott Academy boys and Cary Christian girls each won Eastern Plains Independent Conference swim titles on Tuesday at Triangle Aquatic Center.
The final standings are below.
Boys standings
Girls standings
The Cary Academy boys swim team won its third straight Triangle Independent Schools Athletic Conference on Tuesday. Ravenscroft's girls were dominant in winning their TISAC title as well.
High school football players who lose their helmets during play in the 2012 high school season must leave the field for one play according to a rule change adopted by the National Federation of State High School Association Football Rules Committee.
Cary High and Orange High will be among the host sites for the quarterfinal and semifinal round rounds of the N.C. High School Athletic Association dual-team wrestling tournament on Thursday.
As you can read in this game story, Green Hope manager Nitin Reddy -- who has special needs -- got a chance to play on senior night in the Falcons' 61-34 win Tuesday night.
The Green Hope students were chanting for Nitin to get into the game.
He did with 1:42 left.
It takes for Reddy (#24) awhile to get his bearings.
He first lines up in a wrong spot at the free throw line. His first two shots were well off the mark (he usually shoots from straightaway, but took all six of his 3-pointers from the left wing against Cary).
But his fourth 3-point attempt -- after almost hitting the shot clock on a high bounce off the rim -- fell straight through.
What resulted, was pandemonium (around the 2:50 mark).
Around the 3:48 mark, the Green Hope students chant his name.
After the game (around the 4:50 mark) his teammates carry him on their shoulders off the floor.
Here's a link to the video on our website, and it's also embedded below
ONE GAME LEFT.
Yet somehow, we still have a lot of possibilities.
First, here are 3 rules you need to know. I'll post them now to save myself from repeating it 4,000 times below:
Basketball is moving to a different playoff format this year, using a system that -- much like the one football uses -- includes automatic spots, seeding priority based on overall winning percentage and the use of pods based on each school's geographical position from east-to-west.
And while the football model -- which includes eight 32-team brackets -- has been the source of much scrutiny, Triangle soccer and volleyball coaches have been wanting something like this for years.
So let's play around a little bit -- how much improvement would we see competitively if this past fall's boys soccer and volleyball playoffs were done using the new basketball 64-team pod system playoffs? Would it be good for travel?
The N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs are set to start this Tuesday. The first and second rounds will be played at one school site. With exception to the 1A bracket, the third and fourth rounds are held at a school on Thursday (the 1A only has one match that day for the regional title.
All four state championships Saturday between the East and West champion, also held at a school.
