The N.C. High School Athletic Association dual-team tennis tournament begins Tuesday, Oct. 20.

Undefeated Broughton, the 2009 state 4-A champion, opens at home against Wilmington Hoggard (10-4). Tri-Nine winner Green Hope (18-1) is at home against Durham Riverside (13-4) while Piedmont Athletic champ East Chapel Hill (17-3) is at home against Fayetteville Britt (12-2).  Clayton (15-2 and the top seed from the Greater Neuse) is home against Apex (12-4).

Read more for the complete pairings.

Although several Triangle schools are ranked this week, the highest-ranked team is Durham's Jordan High, which is No. 2 in the 4-A rankings.

The Green Hope girls are the unanimous pick for the top 4-A team in the state in the N.C. Cross Country coaches poll. The Green Hope boys lead Broughton in the boys poll.

Chapel Hill High's boys and girls are first in the 3-A polls, while Carrboro's boys and girls and each first in the 2-A polls.

Eurosportsscoreboard.com has even more Triangle-area teams ranked this week than the last. Here's how each of the five classifications break down:

This week's statewide soccer rankings are littered with Triangle-area teams.

East Chapel Hill was the winner in this past weekend's "Play 4 the Cure" field hockey tournament at Cary Academy, which raised more than $1,000 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation for Breast Cancer Research.

Carrboro High finished second in the N.C. High School Athletic Association's 2-A Wachovia Cup competition for all-sports excellence. Salisbury topped the Jaguars 612.5-465.

NCHSAA release

Nassar Omar, a student at Carrboro High, is one of eight high school athletes in the state named to the N.C. High School Athletic Association's Student-Athlete Advisory Council.

                  The council will serve as a voice for student-athletes who participate in NCHSAA programs. The council will discuss topics that are relevant to high school student-athletes and develop ways to maintain a positive athletic experience.  Prior to the council’s start date, members will undergo leadership training to help build a solid team.  The SAAC will exemplify leadership and sportsmanlike conduct while carrying out the overall mission of the NCHSAA and the Student Services Division.

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.

Four Advanced Placement course have been added to the Carrboro High School curriculum after parents complained the new school was being shortchanged.

AP biology, AP chemistry, AP French and AP Latin all will be offered next year, Chapel Hill-Carrboro Schools Superintendent Neil Pedersen said Thursday.

The classes will have lower enrollments than their counterparts at Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill high schools. AP Latin, for example, only has six Carrboro High students signed up, Pedersen said.

“These are stretch in terms of numbers, but we do recognize the school has to go through sort of a transition period,” Pedersen said of the school now entering its second year.

Jenny Kopczynski, the parent of a rising Carrboro High sophomore, was pleased. Her son now will get to take AP chemistry.

“I think the school board and Dr. Pedersen have a difficult challenge,” she said.

“The definition of educational equity does not mean the course selection is identical. But it needs to be roughly similar across the board.”

William Ilgen, the grandparent of a rising Carrboro High junior, still is unsatisfied. His grandson wants to take AP physics, so the additional courses won’t help him.

Ilgen said parents were told that Carrboro High students would be given the same opportunities as students at the other two high schools.

School administrators didn’t say “that the consequences of having a smaller school are going to be that is that students at upper levels are not going to be able to count on courses that they absolutely need for college," Ilgen said.