Green Hope's girls and Apex's boys won the regular-season titles, and backed them up by winning the conference tournament.
Lee County to take part in USA Baseball National Invitational
Submitted by jmikeblake on 11/22/2011 - 16:01Lee County is the only North Carolina team invited to the inaugural USA Baseball National High School Invitational, which will be held March 28-31 at the USA Baseball Complex in 2012.
Bottom 4-A East bracket filled with locals
Submitted by timstevens on 02/19/2011 - 16:31Travel will be at a minimum in the bottom bracket of the NCHSAA 4-A bottom sectional. Jordan, Panther Creek, Broughton, Lee County, Enloe, Millbrook and Southern Durham are in the same bracket.
Millbrook, Harnett Central, Sobham and Tucker win state gymnastics titles
Submitted by jmikeblake on 01/30/2011 - 22:10
RALEIGH The Millbrook gymnastics team, led by its all-around champion Hannah Sobhan, snapped a five-year reign of Lee County by winning the state gymnastics title on Saturday in the large-team division.
"We knew it was going to be really close with [Lee County]," Millbrook coach Tim Baker said. "We've gone undefeated the whole season, won the conference and won the state, so we're happy."
Tri-Nine gymnastics scores
Submitted by jmikeblake on 01/23/2011 - 21:37
Lee County won Friday's Tri-Nine Conference gymnastics meet while Athens Drive sophomore Alyssa Tucker took home individual all-around honors. Click "Read More" to view the rest of the scores posted.
Chatlee Shootout brackets, match-ups
Submitted by jmikeblake on 12/14/2010 - 06:55NOTE: The Chatlee has been postponed to Dec. 28-30.
The ChatLee Shootout will be held at Lee County High School and will have a boys and girls bracket.
The first-round match-ups for the boys bracket are as follows:
Panther Creek, Lee County move dates
Submitted by jmikeblake on 11/30/2010 - 17:59For one school, it's the upcoming football game that caused a need to reschedule basketball games. For the other, it's the one that just passed that will do the same.
Thursday predictions for Friday night (week eight)
Submitted by jmikeblake on 10/07/2010 - 13:02As I did last year, I'll post my weekly predictions right here on this blog every Thursday before Friday's games. This week's common theme: rivalry games separated only by a few stoplights. So with each game, I'm also including how many stoplights separate the two schools.
We will have all four area games covered Friday night both at carynews.com/sports and on the N&O's high school sports page. Everyone's in action except for Apex (1-6, 0-4), which has their bye week.
GAME OF THE WEEK
Lee County at Middle Creek 
Thursday predictions for Friday night (week seven)
Submitted by jmikeblake on 09/30/2010 - 17:14As I did last year, I'll post my weekly predictions right here on this blog every Thursday before Friday's games.
We will have all four area games covered Friday night both at carynews.com/sports and on the N&O's high school sports page. Everyone's in action except for Middle Creek (5-1, 3-0), which has their bye week.
GAME OF THE WEEK
Athens Drive at Lee County
Tri-Nine All-Conference baseball
Submitted by jmikeblake on 06/03/2010 - 09:08
After going 14-2 in league play, Holly Springs swept the Tri-Nine coach
and player of the year awards and placed four on the Tri-Nine
all-conference baseball teams.
Rod
Whitesell (left) was named Coach of the Year.
Golden Hawks star
pitcher Carlos Rodon (left) was Player of the Year. The junior
lefty and N.C. State commit threw a no-hitter, two one-hitters and four shutouts this season. He led the area with 129 strikeouts and a 0.80 ERA.
Here are the rest of the Tri-Nine teams:
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