The second round of the NCHSAA girls soccer playoffs takes place either Friday or Saturday. Here are all the match-ups from around the area and the rest of the state.

Millbrook junior football running back Keith Marshall is among 440 players who have been nominated to be selected to play in the U.S. Army All-America Game in San Antonio, Texas on Jqan. 7, 2012.

The NCHSAA boys dual-team tennis playoffs continue with the third round on Tuesday. The third round, regional finals and state championship will all be held next week.

The regional finals are scheduled for Thursday, with state championships taking place at school sites on Saturday. See the match-ups here.

The NCHSAA boys dual-team tennis playoffs begin Tuesday, and the brackets were unveiled today. The winners advance to next Tuesday's second round. The regionals for the individual boys tennis championships begin Friday at area venues.

Who makes the most money in the Wake County school system?

That's one of the questions that the Charlotte Observe looked at as part of a Sunday article on six-figures salaries in Wake and Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. Wake had 99 employees making at least $100,000 with 60 of them being principals.

This compares to 103 Wake employees with six-figure salaries in 2010, 112 in 2009 and 99 in 2008.

League leaders Person and Wakefield will play on Friday at 7:30 in the Bobby Murray baseball tournament.
 

East Chapel Hill is the top-ranked Triangle team in this week's 4-A boys tennis poll, coming in second to only Winston-Salem Reynolds.

RALEIGH There was no denying Anna Dulaney’s impact on Sanderson’s 2-0 win over Millbrook on Wednesday night. It was written all over her walk.

After struggling to score goals the last two weeks, Sanderson (4-3-1, 4-3-0 Cap Eight 4-A) needed more out of its offense against Millbrook (4-4-0, 3-3-0). It needed to more opportunities. It needed someone to scrap. That’s what Dulaney did.

She put herself in the middle of the action against Millbrook, forcing the defense to match her intensity. Sometimes it resulted in offense for herself – taking a Savannah Parrish pass and putting it in the upper-left corner in the 54th minute – and other times it set up her teammates as she drew a foul in the penalty box Olivia Costello’s penalty kick in the 70th minute.

Should a Wake County student who gets into a fight at a school bus stop be subject to a long-term suspension?

As noted in today's article, Superior Court Judge Carl Fox ruled Monday that Wake did not have jurisdiction to issue a long-term suspension to a Millbrook High student who punched a student at a bus stop in September 2009.

Wake had insisted it could suspend students for behavior that takes place off campus, even when it's not part of a school-sponsored trip or activity.

UPDATE

Click here to view the court order.

Very seldom do we high school reporters get a chance to talk to administrators of the schools we cover. But with the circumstances this week surrounding the importance of Millbrook having both its girls and boys basketball teams playing for a state title tomorrow, I felt Principal Dana King needed to have a voice in our coverage.

I’m really glad I had a chance to meet King, who not only was Wake County’s Principal of the Year in 2010 but she is an avid sports fan. She knows her basketball and she was able to give a good sense of the pulse at Millbrook right now. She’s been at the school for 10 years and has seen the Wildcats only come close to a state championship. Now with both teams playing for the titles for the first time, here’s what King had to say about the school rallying around its basketball teams.

King on Millbrook’s victories in Fayetteville in the Eastern Regional final:

“I was in tears because it was such an emotional day and because we’re the underdogs. And those are our kids. It was high visibility for the school. We were in the stands saying to each other ‘What does this means?’ For our Millbrook Maniacs it meant you run around the gym.”

On what makes both teams refreshing:

“I’ve been here those years when someone was the perceived superstar on the team and the attention is on that person first and everybody might get mention if they have a good game. For some reason both teams have figured out the right combination of playing for each other and doing what the coach tells them. I think this team understands they have to work together to play at this level. It’s fun to see that everybody has a place on this game and that everyone needs to contribute.”