Tuesday's games:

(2) Apex 4, (4) Northern Durham 0

(3) Fuquay-Varina 3, (3) Leesville Road 2 

(1) Sanderson 1, (4) Middle Creek 0 

(2) Broughton 1, (5) Athens Drive 0 

Wednesday's games:

(1) Green Hope 1, (WC) West Johnston 0

Apex will face Durham Riverside on Saturday at 6 p.m. Fuquay will travel to unbeaten-and-untied Durham Jordan. Green Hope will host Sanderson.

No. 1 Apex vs Northern Durham (6 p.m.)

No. 2 Green Hope vs Purnell Swett (1 p.m.)

No. 3 Panther Creek vs Broughton (6 p.m.)

No. 4 Cary at Enloe (6 p.m.)

No. 5 Middle Creek at Wakefield (1 p.m.) 

Earlier, we claimed that the Tri-Nine had four teams in the NCHSAA girls dual-team tennis playoffs with four. The brackets have since changed, and Apex's wild-card spot has been taken away and awarded to Person County.

The Cougars will not be in the postseason this year, despite tying for third in the conference with Athens Drive, which did receive a wild-card spot. Green Hope and Panther Creek automatically qualified.

Apex and Athens split their two meetings this year. No word on why the change was made. We apologize for the misprints coming in Wednesday's paper. 

The Tri-Nine Conference, with two automatic berths and two wild-card bids, leads all conferences in the state with four schools in the NCHSAA dual-team playoffs.

Green Hope and Panther Creek, by finishing first and second respectively in the conference, received automatic bids.

Apex and Athens Drive, which split with one another in the conference to tie for third, each received two of the state's three wild-card spots.

Only Green Hope (18-2) will play at home on Tuesday in the first round against Wakefield (11-4). The Falcons have only lost to Broughton and East Chapel Hill this year, and hope a tougher out-of-conference schedule will have them better prepared for the postseason than last year.

Panther Creek (16-3) will hit the road to face Durham Riverside (12-3).

Apex (11-6) has the unenviable task of playing at Broughton (15-0) and Athens Drive (14-8) must play at powerhouse East Chapel Hill (20-2).

The winner of Green Hope-Wakefield will play the winner between East Chapel Hill-Athens Drive. Meanwhile, the winner of Panther Creek-Riverside will play the winner of Apex-Broughton.

Four days after it began, Tri-Nine Conference girls tennis championships were decided today.

Green Hope junior Melissa Kandinata defeated teammate sophomore Helen Wang for the singles title with 6-0, 6-1 scores.

In doubles, Apex juniors Shelby Bickel and Nikki Bowser repeated their conference doubles title by defeating Green Hope's Kayla Stokes and Brianna Steele in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3. Stokes and Steele finished runner-up in last year's tournament to Bickel and Bowser. 

 We'll have more coverage of this tournament in the future, so keep watching carynews.com/sports and southwestwakenews.com/sports for the full story!

According to a report by the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise, junior Cassandra Mitchell has transferred out of Apex High girls basketball program, moved cross-country and enrolled at Fontana's Miller High School. This makes her the second player to leave the Cougars this summer for Miller High, the first being Chloe Wells.

According to a report by the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise, junior Cassandra Mitchell has transferred out of Apex High girls basketball program, moved cross-country and enrolled at Fontana's Miller High School. This makes her the second player to leave the Cougars this summer for Miller High, the first being Chloe Wells.

As a junior, Wells averaged 19.1 points per game for Apex on her way to conference player of the year honors. Mitchell averaged 11.2 points per game as a sophomore and totaled almost as many rebounds. Both were named to the Tri-Eight Conference's first team as they led the Cougars to a perfect 21-0 record in the regular season.

For Wells, a move the east coast meant working out with her father and being able to visit powerhouses Duke and North Carolina. She quickly grew homesick and unhappy with the change of scenery, however, and re-enrolled at Miller this summer.

Rumors swirled last season that when, not if, Wells decided to go back home to California, she would take the 5-8 Mitchell with her.

Mitchell's loss means Apex's top returning scorer is now BethanyCollins — who averaged 10 points per game as a freshman. The LadyCougars will compete in this year's GlaxoSmithKline HolidayInvitational in December.

Miller High was the antithesis of Apex, going 0-21 in their only year without Wells' services.

Even if he doesn't block another punt this season, Darius McClain should be the Tri-Nine Specialist of the Year.

I know it's an award that typically goes to kickers and punters (see last year when Cary's Will Gillfillan got the nod over punt returner/kick returner/kickoff kamikaze Bryan Wilson), but McClain's earned it.

In the last two weeks, he's blocked three punts. One against Cary resulted in a safety. Two more last night against Panther Creek gives him an unheard-of three in back-to-back games.

While Middle Creek's Matt Frongello is having a great year as is Holly Springs' Nick Hohns, McClain's accomplishments can't be forgotten. The Tri-Nine teams are voted on by coaches, so hopefully McClain can get a few votes this year. 

Two of our area's schools, Apex and Cary High, will have live play-by-play webcasts available for online streaming during their respective football games tonight.

At Cary, Sports Information Director David Maney II will be voicing play-by-play of tonight's Fuquay-Varina at Cary football game at caryhighimps.ihigh.com. The site, which is maintained and updated by Maney, is the third-most visited team page on the ihigh network.

Online streaming will also be available for Apex High as they travel to Lee County, thanks to the upstart North Carolina Sports Network. The for-profit online service is headed by Apex's own Jacques Gilbert and Wake County native Ben McKeown.

The broadcast of Apex's games will be available at NCSportsLive.com and 933MVP.com. The NCSN will also be producing a weekly talk show, The 60 Minute Timeout, which will also be devoted to discussing local high school sports.

In addition to live coverage, the broadcasts for both Cary and Apex will be archived and accessible in streaming format after the conclusion of the games on their respective sites.

Both sites plan on covering the remainder of football season in addition to this year's basketball and baseball seasons. The NCSN will be doing the same for Apex High, as well as Wakefield High and Cary Academy, while Cary's ihigh already plans on doing the same webcasts for volleyball games next week and showing video of those matches on tape delay.

Leesville Road's football game at Apex is now scheduled for Friday, Sept. 4.

The game originally was scheduled for Thursday, but was moved. The listing of games in Tuesday's High School Huddle was incorrect.

The kickoff of the Friday night game is set for 7:30 p.m.