The Hilltop Invitational, the Triangle's largest spring break baseball tournament, begins Thursday and uses the fields at East Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, Orange and Cedar Ridge high schools to host two eight-team tournaments.

The "American Division" is hosted by East Chapel Hill and Orange and features Cary, East Chapel Hill, East Forsyth, South Granville, Burlington Williams, Granville Central, Maury (Va.) and Orange.

The "National Division" is hosted by Chapel Hill and Cedar Ridge and features Cardinal Gibbons, Durham Jordan, Surry Central, Cedar Ridge, Southern Alamance, Kernersville Glenn, Tallmadge (Ohio) and Chapel Hill.

The Carolina-12 Conference, which has both 1A and 2A members, splits its post-season basketball tournament by classification.

Northwood's boys were upset by Carrboro in the 2A tournament final, while the Northwood girls defeated host Granville Central.

Roxboro Community's boys thwarted a Cinderalla run by Franklin Academy in the 1A final, while River Mill's girls defeated Franklin Academy in the other final played at Durham's Voyager Academy.

Here is the N&O story from the 2A tournament.

Joe Kilby will be leaving his post as head football coach at Cedar Ridge after accepting the job as the head coach at Apex High.

There exists a possibility that the Triangle could sweep the 4A, 3A, 2A and 1A East in girls tennis and have four representatives in Saturday's state championships in Burlington.

Two of the four are certanties.

After Tuesday's matches, the N.C. High School Athletic Association girls team tennis playoffs are down to just eight teams in each classification. Scroll down to see who is left standing and where their matches will be played at next Tuesday.

Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill will play at 8 p.m. Thursday on the campus of Carrboro High School in the finals of The O.C. - an invitational soccer tournament that matched prep teams from Orange and Chtham counties.

Thirteen area football players made one of the four NCpreps.com preseason football teams, with the most coming at the 4-A level.

Here are tonight's conference tournament championships in the Carolina 6, Carolina 10 and PAC-6 Conferences.

Today starts the wrestling dual-team playoffs. Teams meet in four-team pods today, with the advancing team moving on to Thursday for another four-team pod. The state championships will be held at school sites on Saturday.

Orange County Schools, after conducting an investigation into a comment made to a student by Cedar Ridge High School teacher Jim Pappas, has removed him as athletic director and head boys basketball coach at the Hillsborough school.