The NCHSAA, due to the number of entries, plans to combine the 1A-2A and 3A Eastern Regional Diving competition to be held Friday, Feb. 1, at Pullen Aquatic Center in Raleigh.
All three classifications will dive together.
Warm-ups for men and women will begin at 8:30 am.

Time Warner Cable subscribers can watch all eight North Carolina High School Association football championship games live on television this weekend. The seven Saturday games will air on TWC Special Events Channels 520 or 521, and the 4AA title game between Jack Britt and Butler will air Friday morning on News 14 Carolina.

Of local interest, the Carrboro High School Jaguars play South Iredell Saturday night at 7 on 520.

And even if you don't have Time Warner Cable, you can still watch online, because the games will also stream live from the News 14 website.

The complete schedule is below:

Football playoff update with scores as we get them

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association reports that it has received documentation that Chapel Hill High School coach Sherry Norris is a new leader in the state of North Carolina in career volleyball victories.

The NCHSAA announced last week that 127 schools were ejection free for the last athletics year (2011-12).

In 2007, 202 schools (54.8 percent of the association at the time) were ejection-free. This year's percentage was down to 32.6, but up from the previous year where only 113 (29 percent) of the schools were ejection-free. 

Sportsmanship and ejections have been a hot topic lately as several top football teams have either been deemed ineligible for the postseason or came close due to ejections.

The following area schools (sorted by county) were among the NCHSAA's ejection-free schools for 2011-12

• Cardinal Gibbons (Wake)
• Leesville Road
• Raleigh Charter
• Corinth Holders (Johnston)
• North Johnston
• Princeton
• Durham School of the Arts (Durham)
• Kestrel Heights
• Southern Durham
• Voyager Academy
• Franklin Academy (Franklin)
• Franklinton
• Louisburg
• Roxboro Community (Person)
• Lee County (Lee)
• Triton (Harnett)
• Western Harnett

The five of the swimmers and divers who helped set 10 records in 12 events during the 2006 N.C. High School Athletic Association 4A swimming and diving championships are pursuing berths in the London Olympics during this week's U.S. Olympic Trials.

ARTICLE FOUR, MEMBERSHIP
           CURRENT: "Any North Carolina public or non-boarding parochial high school is eligible for membership provided it is accredited by State Department of Public Instruction and provided it adopts and maintains the following code of participation in high school athletics…"

           PROPOSED CHANGE: "Any public secondary school in North Carolina is eligible for membership provided it is funded as a 'free public school' in accordance with provisions in the state constitution and adopts and maintains the following code of participation in high school athletics…"

           ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PROPOSAL ONE: The change would eliminate the three current non-boarding parochial schools from the membership and one that has been approved to join for the 2012-13 academic year. Non-boarding parochial schools have been a part of the NCHSAA membership for about 50 years.

           Currently, the non-boarding parochial schools have additional restrictions as conditions of NCHSAA membership: (1) Any student-athlete may not receive financial aid of any sort (academic, etc), and receiving aid would make the student ineligible, and (2) a transfer restriction; a student has to have been in attendance at the non-boarding parochial school the two most recent semesters to be eligible. That second restriction means if a student transfers from an NCHSAA public school member to one of these schools, he or she is ineligible for one year. The transfer rule is customarily waived when the student transfers from a non-member school, either in state or out of state.

PROPOSAL TWO:

BYLAW VI, CLASSIFICATION

           PROPOSED ADDITION TO THE BYLAW:

           Charter schools with a high school athletic program are eligible upon request for assignment by the NCSHAA to an athletic conference, and as such are on equal standing with all schools in that conference until the conference season concludes. At that time, if two or more teams from charter schools qualify for a playoff berth in a bracketed sport that culminates in an NCHSAA state championship, they will be consolidated into a separate playoff bracket for that team championship.

           Individuals from member charter schools who qualify for playoff competition in non-bracketed sports above the conference level will compete with athletes from other public high schools in the NCHSAA.

           ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR PROPOSAL TWO: There are currently approximately 20 charter schools in the NCHSAA membership, all of whom are in the 1-A classification. This provision would pull charter schools out of the regular 1-A playoffs, if they qualify through the regular conference procedure, and then they would meet in some kind of separate tournament format leading to a championship. This would represent an exception to the current procedure for offering championships by classification.

The recommended changes for both proposals, if approved, would take place in conjunction with the next realignment cycle, beginning at the start of the 2013-14 academic year.

N.C. High School Athletic Association member schools will vote this week on whether Cardinal Gibbons, and other parochial non-boarding schools, can remain in the organization.

Carrboro's undefeated girls soccer team remains No. 1 in the latest statewide ratings of NCHSAA 2A schools by www.eurosportscoreboard.com. Chapel Hill High School has moved up to No. 3 in the 3A classification.

Carrboro (9-0-2), which was tied 2-2 Tuesday night at 4A East Chapel Hill, next plays Cedar Ridge on Monday.

Chapel Hill (10-2-0) has won four straight, but took off spring break and hasn't played since a 9-0 shutout March 28 of Northern Vance. The Tigers host Oxford Webb (8-3-0) tonight and travel to East Chapel Hill (6-4-3) on Thursday.

Chapel Hill's Sherry Norri has been named the 2012 women's Toby Webb Coach of the Year by the N.C. High School Athletic Association.  Norris, who has coached two  volleyball teams and one girls' basketball team to past NCHSAA championships, has led Chapel Hill teams to more than 1,100 total wins over 34 years.