North Carolina State Women’s Tennis Polls
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Week Six Regular Season-Published 9/30/09                                                 

4-A
       Team                Points
1.         Charlotte Myers Park                    50
2.         East Chapel Hill                            43
3.         Greensboro Grimsley                  39
4.         Raleigh Broughton            36
5.         Green Hope                31
6.         Wilmington Hoggard            22
7.         Greenville Rose            17
             T.C. Roberson            17
9.          Winston Salem R.J Reynolds        10
10.        Pinecrest                5
Others receiving votes: Charlotte Providence (4), Durham Riverside (1).

     3-A
Team            Points
1    Charlotte Catholic        70
2    Chapel Hill            62
3.    Cardinal Gibbons        53
4.    Wilson Fike            48
5.    Burlington Williams        39
6.    Rocky Mount            29
7.    Weddington            21
8.    Asheville            20
9.    Marvin Ridge            15
10.    Franklin            10
Others receiving votes: Ledford (6), Concord (6), Union Pines (3).

2-A
       Team                Points
1    Salisbury            69
2    Greene Central        64
3    Edenton Holmes        51
4    Shelby                49
5          Tarboro                                   42
6    East Duplin                             32
7          North Lincoln                         27
8          Brevard                                   19
9    Maiden                                    17
10    Topsail                  12

Others receiving votes: Northwood (2), Forest Hills (1).

1-A
       Team                              Points
1          North Carolina School of Science and Math   49
2          Mount Airy                    43
3          Raleigh Charter School            39
4          East Montgomery                32
    Bishop McGuiness                32
6             North Stokes                    30
7          Gray Stone Day                17
    East Surry                    17
9          Elkin                        11
10       East Wilkes                      4                                                                                                 
Others receiving votes:  North Rowan (1).

Wakefield defeated Broughton in an important Cap Seven 4-A girls volleyball match on Tuesday night.

The undefeated Wolverines topped the Caps in straight sets,. 25-20, 25-17, 25-22. 

Let's play a game designed to help you get into the International Baccalaureate Program mindset.

Loren Baron, the new IB coordinator at Millbrook High School, asked teachers at Tuesday's training session to imagine that they had to leave the U.S. and relocate to another country. He then handed out a sheet with random statistics from various countries using the United Nations Human Development Report.

Click here to view the sheet, which listed stats such as urban population, public expenditure on education, prison population and adult literacy rate. The 16 countries listed only had letter identifiers with no names attached.

Broughton coach had won numerous state titles, but had officially retired as a teacher.

Colin Summers, a 6-foot-3, 310-pound football offensive guard, has accepted a football scholarship to Wake Forest University.

Summers also had offers from Elon, Duke and East Carolina.

"Colin is a great kid, very coachable," said Broughton coach Chris Martin. "He moves well for a big kid. One college coach said he runs like a 250-pounder. He has really quick feet and a great work ethic."

Summers is expected to be a two-year starter for the Caps.

"I think he is going to make a good adjustment to college football because he is so coachable," Martin said. "He listens and is willing to work to get better." 

The District 7 race is getting more crowded with Jerry Ballan the lone candidate to file today for the school board.

Ballan, a securities principal/certified financial planner, became the third candidate in District 7. It looks like Ballan is positioning himself between Deborah Prickett, a board critic. and Karen Simon, a supporter of school policies.

"I'm not pro-SES (socioeconomic status) but we have to find a way to work around it to find something better," Ballan said. "You can't throw the baby out with the bath water on the first day."

The current Wake school board may rue the day it agreed to reassign Brier Creek area families from Panther Creek High to Broughton High.

The board's decision to reassign those kids in February helped trigger Deborah Prickett's desire to run for the District 7 school board seat. Her son would move to Broughton in 2010 after having spent his freshman year at Panther Creek.

"I'd been interested in [running for the school board]," Prickett said in an interview. "But what they did with reassigning 26,000 students, I said, 'That's enough.'"

So Wake is saying that no one is assigned to a school 20 miles from home.

"I don't know of a single child assigned to a school 20 miles away — not one," said Asst. Supt. Chuck Dulaney in the latest issue of In Context, the weekly newsletter of the Wake Education Partnership.

That sure would come as a surprise to some folks. For instance, nodes 51.0 and 444.4.

Not surprisingly, a lot of students and teachers skipped school Monday and will likely do so again today.

As noted in today's article by Jane Ruffin and Josh Shaffer, the student absenteeism rate hit 18.5 percent on Monday compared to a more typical 5.5 percent. Families opted to go ahead with the spring break plans they had made before the first two days of this week were changed to makeup days.

Staff absenteeism was also a problem. For instance, a shortage of teacher assistants for cafeteria duty at Davis Drive Elementary was to have caused students to eat lunch in their classrooms. At Broughton High, 16 percent of the staff was out.

According to the article, Michael Evans, Wake's chief communications, officer said they might have used a Saturday instead of spring break if only one day had to be made up.

Caps beat Winston-Salem Reynolds in tournament finals.