Green Hope has surpassed Leesville Road as the top-ranked 4-A girls soccer team in the state. The move comes after Green Hope's 3-2 overtime win over Apex (a team that Leesville tied 0-0).
Cardinal Gibbons is still the top-ranked 3-A team in the state.
Among the others ranked in this week's Eurosportscoreboard polls (by classification):
There is no weekly coaches or media statewide weekly poll in North Carolina high school lacrosse.
In its place is a mathematical formula by laxpower.com. Much like the RPI in college basketball, the formula takes into account several factors, and the teams change position with each game.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Triangle girls and boys lacrosse teams were well-represented in the poll.
Four Chapel Hill players lead Carolina 3-A all-conference boys basketball team. Chapel Hill's Denzel Ingram is the player of the year and the Tigers' Tod Morgan is the coach of the year.
Chapel Hill grabs the No. 1 spot in the N&O boys basketball rankings. Wakefield climbs to No. 2.
Several area wrestlers at the 4-A, 3-A and 2-A levels have a shot at state championships later today. We will have the story from Greensboro plus Twitter updates at twitter.com/prepsnow.
The East regionals start Tuesday with the 4-A girls and 3-A boys.
Southeast Raleigh, Millbrook, Northwood and Northern Durham girls begin play while Chapel Hill, Millbrook, Wakefield and Northwood boys start play.
In the 4-A ranks, Garner and New Hanover meet for a sectional title for the second straight year. Chapel Hill gets a chance to advance to the 3-A East Regional, while Northwood visits cross-county rival Jordan-Matthews in the 2-A ranks.
Winners of Friday's sectional final (third round) will advance to next week's East regionals in Fayetteville. See the rest of the NCHSAA boys basketball playoff match-ups in the East by clicking "Read More" below.
Undefeated Garner remains atop the N&O boys high school basketball rankings.
Here are tonight's conference tournament championships in the Carolina 6, Carolina 10 and PAC-6 Conferences.
Garner, one of two undefeated 4-A boys basketball teams in the state, received two votes for No. 1 this week in the NCPreps.com statewide poll. Meanwhile, two 1-A teams from area conferences are ranked No. 1.
