Girls basketball teams play this Friday with a chance to advance to next week's regionals. Two area Cinderellas are still alive: 12-seed Cary and 11-seed Sanderson, who play at 1-Millbrook and 7-Southern Durham, respectively.

Hillside at Green Hope, a rematch from a second-round thriller from last year, highlights the area games as the two sides are a combined 49-5 this year.

Chapel Hill, Northwood, Jordan-Matthews and Goldsboro are at home in their quests to make regionals, while Bunn and Southern Lee are on the road.

All game times are 7 p.m.

After sweeping the regular season titles, Bunn also swept the Northern Carolina 2A Conference tournament titles.

See a story from Bunn's boys championship win against Corinth Holders by clicking here.

See the photo gallery by clicking here.

Each football bracket is down to eight teams apiece, and next week's third-round games means we'll have a winner for each of the 32 pods. Undefeated Leesville Road and undefeated Garner figures to be the largest match-up (and the only one in Wake County).

It's the third round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association boys soccer playoffs, meaning each classification is down to just 16 teams total -- 8 in the East brackets.

The third round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association volleyball playoffs will be played Thursday night. Below show who is left in the 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A East brackets. In cases where teams have the same seed from different conferences, we've placed the host team on top.

There are several intriguing match-ups left in each area.

Saturday

Roanoke Rapids at Bunn, Saturday, 6 p.m.

Broughton at Leesville Road, Saturday, 2 p.m.

Monday

Northwest Halifax at Corinth Holders, 6:30 p.m.

Cary at Middle Creek, Monday, 7 p.m.

Millbrook assumes the top spot in the N&O girls high school basketball rankings after defeating previously top-ranked Green Hope in the sectional finals.

Garner, one of two undefeated 4-A boys basketball teams in the state, received two votes for No. 1 this week in the NCPreps.com statewide poll. Meanwhile, two 1-A teams from area conferences are ranked No. 1.

Garner boys and Green Hope girls are ranked No. 2 in their 4-A polls. The Princeton boys fall from No. 1 to No. 3 in 1-A boys.

Green Hope and Millbrook continue to hold the top two spots in the N&O girls basketball rankings, but Graham River Mill and Raleigh Sanderson break into the top dozen.