Crusaders win boys and girls NCHSAA 1-A/2-A swim championships

Apex, Cardinal Gibbons, Athens Drive, Green Hope among first round winners

Seven area boys soccer teams are ranked among the top 15 in the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association poll. Broughton is No. 2.

Cardinal Gibbons, the top-ranked 2-A boys soccer team in the state, plays at No. 2 Pittsboro Northwood tonight at 7 p.m.

The NCSCA 2-A boys rankings are at:

http://www.eurosportscoreboard.com/cgi-bin/sirkpt1.pl?Type=h&Div=2&Gender=m&State=nc&Season=08&Rtype=1&S=01&Sport=s

Broughton, Cardinal Gibbons, Durham Science & Math still on top

ECU lands Raleigh lineman

CGI    CAR
Rushes-yards    39-305    29-106
Comp-Att-yards    4-9-77    12-33-166
CGI    7    13    14    7    —    41
CAR    6    14    6    6    —    32

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing: CGI—T.Buckley 9-75, M.Forbes 2-(-28), C.James 13-150, K.James 7-36, S.Jukes 8-72; CAR—E.Arant 1-7, D.Bryant 20-74, A.Knapp 1-5, J.Wyatt 8-24.
Passing: CGI—M.Forbes 4-9-77-0; CAR.
Receiving: CGI—B.Burkey 1-23, A.Shafer 3-54; CAR—D.Bradley 6-83, J.Wyatt 2-18.

Cardinal Gibbons leads the 2-A girls tennis poll while Durham Science & Math is No. 1 in 1-A. East Chapel Hill and Broughton are near the top of the 4-A ranking.

SWakeSports is in the midst of its first road trip. I'm here in lovely Greensboro for the N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Games. I arrived last evening for the girls' and boys' soccer games, and I'll remain through tonight for the football game.

As a quick aside, I am now officially a "blogger." Bloggers get stereotyped as the loser sitting in his underpants in his mom's basement commenting on whatever he feels like. Well, this is coming to you from the game room of my in-laws house, and I'm still wearing my pajamas. So close enough.

Thoughts on the soccer games after the jump.