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.

Out of three Tri-Nine girls tennis teams advancing to the 4-A NCHSAA dual-team playoffs, only Green Hope advanced to the second round on Tuesday.

The Falcons (19-2) were  6-0 winners over Wakefield after sweeping all six singles matches. The teams agreed to not play doubles after the match was in hand.

Green Hope will now face East Chapel Hill, the team that bounced Athens Drive (14-9) from the tournament by an 8-0 score. East Chapel Hill defeated Green Hope earlier in the year by a 6-3 margin. That match will take place at East Chapel Hill thanks to conference seeding priority.

Panther Creek (16-4) saw its year end in the first round as well, losing to Durham Riverside by a relatively slim 6-3 margin. It was the first time the Catamounts advanced to the state tournament in the school's short four-year history.

Athens Drive's girls golf team appears to be on the warpath to repeating their state title of a year ago.

The Lady Jags won the East Regional by 18 strokes, and their score of 233 was 28 strokes lower than the next-best team in the West or Central regionals.

Freshman Sarah Bae led the Jags by winning the East Regional with a 74. Katherine Perry was close behind, coming in third with a 78. The Jags' Sydney Shackleford finished fifth with a 81 and Mandy Monchick tied for sixth with an 82. 

All those four can post something similar, the Jaguars will be hard to beat in Tuesday's state title at Foxfire Country Club in West End, N.C.

Green Hope, which finished second in the Tri-Nine Conference to Athens Drive, came in with the third-lowest team score and qualifed for the state championship as well.

The Falcons were led by Andrea Estes, who finished 10th with an 84.

Apex may have missed the cutoff to qualify as a team, but they will send one individual qualifier in Michelle Pilo. Pilo tied Athens' Monchick for sixth.

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.

Katherine Perry, senior, Athens Drive golf

Senior golfer Katherine Perry confirmed today via text message that she will be playing golf for the school of her dreams, UNC-Chapel Hill, next year. Perry grew up a fan of the Tar Heels and had wanted to play there for quite some time.

This summer, Perry won two the North Carolina Amateur title, U.S. Open qualifying events and competed in the Women's U.S. Open in Bethelehem, Pa.

She was also the highest finisher (eighth overall) on last year's state championship team. She nearly missed conference Player of the Year honors last year, finishing less than a half-stroke behind Courtney Rousse (now playing at the University of Richmond).

Athens Drive returns all four players from last year's state championship team this season.

N.C. State recruits, one of whom is regarded as the top player in the state, switch schools and are now in the Tri-9.

This week, we're going to break down the upcoming football schedules for our Tri-9 teams. Things are a bit tricky now with Holly Springs joining the conference. There will be one conference team with a bye week every week of the conference season, there will only be three non-conference games and some teams who will have to meet in the same location as last year's games. We start with the "northern half" of the conference, meaning all the schools located off Ten Ten Road or farther north.

America hasn't had enough of the Josh Hamilton story. That much can be assumed after the former Athens Drive High star, despite missing half of this season with injuries, received more than 2.4 million votes to the American League All-Star team.

Hamilton had the third-highest total of any outfielder, which, if healthy enough to play, gives him a starting spot in the MLB All-Star game on July 14 game in St. Louis.

 Katherine Perry, a rising senior at Athens Drive, had already led her team to a state title and been named to first team all-state this year before her biggest accomplishment of all.

Perry won the U.S. Women's Open Sectional qualifier at Carolina Trace Country Club in Sanford on Thursday, earning a spot in this year's women's U.S. Open. 

 Perry won the qualifier with a 3-under score after firing rounds of 70 and 71 on the par 72 course.

 The U.S. Open will be held from July 6-12 at the Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, Penn.