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Edwards funeral bumps Duke basketball off WRAL

According to our friends over at ACC Now, the Duke vs. St. Louis basketball game, scheduled to tip off at noon Saturday on WRAL, has been moved to the WRAL Fox affiliate WRAZ (aka Fox 50).

WRAL is moving the Duke game in order to air coverage of the funeral of Elizabeth Edwards.

Coverage of the funeral begins at 12:30 with a special, "Remembering Elizabeth Edwards," and then the funeral will be aired beginning at 1pm. The coverage will also stream on the WRAL.com website.

WRAL occasionally airs funerals of well known local people. They aired the funeral of Senator Jesse Helms in 2008 and the funeral of NCSU basketball coach Kay Yow last year.

UPDATE: The funeral will also air at 1pm on the MSNBC cable station.

10U Tarheels win girls basketball tournament

The host Triangle Tarheels defeated the Greensboro Gaters 35-28 to win the five-team Triangle Invitational girls 10-and-under AAU basketball tournament played Saturday at Long Mill Elementary School in Youngsville, coach Ahmad Smalls said.

Sarah Gutierrez led the Tarheels with nine point.

Check out the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar

Check out the Play! Recreational Sports Calendar with listings for camps, leagues, tryouts, instruction, fundraisers, tournaments and events around the Triangle and elsewhere.

Still time to sign up for a summer sports camp

A week into July already! How summer flies.

The season's summer sports camps are flying by, too, but a few spots remain in camps offered by colleges, professional teams, pro athletes, high schools, grade schools, churches, parks and recreation departments, nonprofit organizations and for-profit enterprises around the area.

The camps cover a variety of sports, including baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, jump rope, sailing, soccer, softball, tennis, volleyball and wrestling. Multi-sport camps give participants a chance to try a variety of sports without having to pay for several camps.

AAU basketball teams turn out for Kenny Inge Invitational

Even when temperatures push 100, it’s basketball season in the Triangle.

Nineteen AAU boys teams from the region converged over the weekend for the Kenny Inge Invitational Tournament at Cary Academy.

The tournament, named for and hosted by the former N.C. State star, raised scholarship funds for underprivileged kids and was put on by the Basketball Heights charitable foundation, tournament spokesman Rob Orton of the Cary Cougars said.

Hillsborough Police hosting youth basketball camp

The Hillsborough Police Department is now signing up participants for its 2010 Basketball Camp.

The camp for youths ages 10 to 18 years old will be 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., July 26-30, in the gymnasium at C.W. Stanford Middle School, 308 Orange High School Road in Hillsborough.

A registration fee of $5 will go toward a pizza party on the last day of camp.

To sign up, visit the Community Policing Substation, 501 Rainey Ave., to fill out the necessary paperwork. The camp will be limited to 60 participants.

For more information, contact Cpl. Tereasa King at 732-2441, ext. 26.    

N.C. State, N.C. A&T teams take recreational basketball championships

Mention the words "college" and "basketball" and "national
championship" together around here, and most people naturally assume
you're talking about the Triangle's well-known varsity programs.

But basketball is played at the recreational level on college campuses,
too, and a team from N.C. State produced a national championship this
past weekend.

The N.C. State Wolfpack Men's Club Team won the American Collegiate
Intramural Sports National Championships basketball tournament played
Friday through Sunday on the Raleigh campus.

Pistons and Cavs win Raleigh youth basketball championships

Seventy teams competed, but only two went undefeated, and that's how
the Pistons and the Cavs won Raleigh Parks and Recreation boys
basketball championships.

The Junior League Pistons and the Little League Cavs capped undefeated
seasons by winning their divisions in the City of Raleigh Youth
Basketball Championships played March 17 at the Barwell Road Community
Center.

Twenty-eight Junior League teams and 42 Little League teams are divided
over four Raleigh Parks and Recreation Department districts, program
manager David Tugwell said.

Middle-schooler works to buy 'sports chairs' for Triangle youth wheelchair basketball team

This track-out week is anything but a break for Austin Pittsley.

The seventh-grader at Lufkin Road Middle School in Apex has been busy
writing letters, making phone calls and putting up posters.

It's all to promote a wheelchair basketball event Friday featuring Lufkin Lightning players from his school and Junior Thunder
players from Bridge II Sports, a Durham-based nonprofit that provides adaptive and wheelchair sports opportunities in the Triangle.

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NCISAA basketball semifinals

Raleigh Word of God was eliminated from the N.C. Independent School Athletic Association 1-A boys tournament on Thursday night with a 71-55 loss to Wilson Greenfield. The Rams' C.J. Leslie, a McDonald's All-America selection, missed his second straight playoff game with an ankle injury.

The Word of God girls play in today's semifinals. The Ravenscroft boys and girls and the Cary Christian girls also advanced to semifinal matches.

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