The junior varsity football game between Cedar Ridge and Cardinal Gibbons, which was scheduled originally for Hillsborough, will be played instead at the Raleigh school's campus. Kickoff is now set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Cardinal Gibbons field.
Cedar Ridge High School is renovating its track, making use of the Red Wolves' field impractical.
The junior varsity football game between Cedar Ridge and Cardinal Gibbons, which was scheduled originally for Hillsborough, will be played instead at the Raleigh school's campus. Kickoff is now set for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Cardinal Gibbons field.
Casey Ward of Chapel Hill hit the second hole-in-one of her burgeoning golf career on Monday — and it came in competition at the 43rd annual Trusted Choice Big “I” National Championship.
Casey Ward of Chapel Hill hit the second hole-in-one of her burgeoning golf career on Monday — and it came in competition at the 43rd annual Trusted Choice Big “I” National Championship.
East Chapel Hill defeated Riverside 58-38 Thursday night to advance to tonight’s championship final of the Piedmont Athletic Conference basketball tournament. The second-seeded Wildcats will host No. 1-seeded Jordan at 8 p.m. at East.
East also hosts the girls’ final, which features No. 1 Northern Durham against No. 2 Hillside at 6 p.m.
Those are just two of the six championship finals tonight in Orange County.
In the Carolina-10, Northwood's boys and girls teams both reached tonight’s finals at Cedar Ridge High School. The Northwood girls play River Mill Academy at 6 p.m. and the Charger boys take on Carrboro at approximately 7:30 p.m.
Carrboro’s boys defeated tournament host Cedar Ridge 68-43 Thursday to advance. Northwood topped Granville Central 69-50 Wednesday in the tournament’s first semifinal.
The CHHS girls’ and boys’ teams won their semifinal games this week in the Carolina-Six Conference basketball tournament and will play tonight at Carrboro High for their respective championship finals. (The CHHS gyms were booked in advance for the NCHSAA 3-A Mid-East wrestling regionals.)
The CHHS girls play top-seeded Cardinal Gibbons at 6 p.m. Friday, and the boys follow 20 minutes after that first game ends, at approximately 7:45 p.m.
For all the scores tonight, see www.newsobserver.com/sports or check out the up-to-the-minute Preps Now blog.
ELIZABETH CITY - Friday night in the 2-AA Eastern Region championship game, Cedar Ridge ran into the same problems the previous 12 Northeastern opponents faced and the Red Wolves saw their season end by a 21-7 score.
The 13-2 Eagles will go on to play Salisbury next Saturday in the state championship game at Wake Forest University.
PITTSBORO - In the third round of the NCHSAA 2-A playoffs, Northwood found out just how hard it is to beat a good team twice.
After beating conference foe Cedar Ridge at home in the regular-season finale to capture the conference crown, Northwood couldn’t find the same formula on Friday night, falling 28-20 to the Red Wolves.
HILLSBOROUGH - Cedar Ridge quarterback Cam Pappas told his team not to worry. Even though Randleman High had just retaken the lead with 1:38 left in the game, Pappas said nobody panicked.
Instead, the Red Wolves calmly drove 70 yards on seven plays to seal a 23-20 win on a Pappas 24-yard over-the-middle strike to Fred Blanks with 11.6 seconds left in the second round of the Mid-Carolina 2-A high school playoffs. Cedar Ridge will meet Pittsboro Northwood next Friday night.
PITTSBORO — With his team up 28-17 with more than eight minutes left in the conference championship-deciding game, Northwood’s Austin Matthews burst through the line, confronted punter Brandon Phares and gobbled up the punt to take it down to the 6-yard-line.
The block set up Northwood’s third fourth-quarter touchdown and distanced the Chargers (7-4, 4-0) from their Carolina-10 opponents, eventually winning the game and the conference title with the 41-17 victory.
CARRBORO — Just as many great rivalry games are, this one was decided in the closing seconds.
Johnathan Allison recovered a fumble after Carrboro’s Derek Bryant was sacked at the Cedar Ridge 7 with 10 seconds left, preserving the Red Wolves’ 20-14 win over their Orange county rivals Friday night at the Jaguars’ field.
