Cary’s Green Hope and Panther Creek will be in a high school conference with Durham Hillside, Durham Jordan, Durham Riverside, Northern Durham and Person for the next four years according to a plan approved Wednesday by the realignment committee of the N.C. High School Athletic Association.

The Cap Eight conference tournament finals featured two Broughton vs. Millbrook matches.

While the top-seeded Millbrook girls handed the Caps a loss, the 2-seed Broughton boys defeated the Wildcats.

Here is the story from both championship games.

Here is a photo gallery from the boys championship.

Here is a photo gallery from the girls championship.

Green Hope and Panther Creek made requests to the N.C. High School Athletic Associaton on Tuesday to place the schools in a league with other current Tri-Nine 4A schools.

Cap Eight 4-A all-conference football team

Players of the year: Austin Berrios, Leesville Road; Connor Mitch, Wakefield

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
Karelov Sasha, Leesville Road

COACH OF THE YEAR
Taine Mergenthaler, Leesville Road

Broughton will being the toughest week of its season tonight in hosting Southeast Raleigh after postponing the game Friday due to inclement weather produced from Hurricane Irene.

The decision to move the game created a unique week for the Caps, who were already scheduled to play Garner on Thursday night because of Labor Day weekend.

Now, the Caps will play two of the best teams in the Greater Neuse 4-A conference in just four days.

High school football teams will have their first official practices tomorrow morning. Most schools in the area have already had mini camps, but tomorrow coaches will start to get an idea of the number of players they will have with incoming freshman allowed to participate.

Since it’s the first day of practice, players will dress in helmets, shorts and football shoes. There can be no body-to-body contact. The News & Observer will be at many of the practices tomorrow morning to provide news updates and photos – especially for schools in the Cap Eight 4-A conference.

You've seen the 2011 Tri-Nine helmet schedule, now here is one for the Cap-8 Conference - available for you to download. Throughout the next few weeks, more conference helmet schedules will be uploaded to the PrepsNow blog.

Refresh this blog as area conferences wrap up league tournaments.  State playoffs begin next week.

Our area community sports editors have been busy all week covering their conference tournaments and posting who will finish where. Now, it's time to put all the conference championships scheduled for tonight under one roof. Or in this case, one blog.

Here's the who, what and when for the Tri-Nine, Cap-8, Greater Neuse, PAC-6, Carolina 6, Eastern Carolina, Cape Fear Valley, Northern Carolina, Carolina 10, Carolina 1-A and TISAC conference championships going down tonight...