The action will be fast and beginner-friendly at the Raleigh Rugby Complex on Saturday as the Raleigh Rugby Football Club hosts its annual Charity Sevens tournament.
"Sevens" competition is a smaller, quicker version of the sport, club spokesman Brent Vaughn said. Instead of the usual 15 players per side, each team sends seven to the field, or pitch, and instead of the usual 40-minute halves, teams play seven-minute halves. The result is a family-friendly format that is ideal for introducing spectators to the game.
"Spectators can expect a very fast-paced, full-contact sport that they will be able to enjoy with people around the facility who are familiar with the sport and will be happy to explain," Vaughn said. 

Runners from Raleigh and Chapel Hill took home the titles and adoption
supporters took in more than $9,500 at the 10th annual Second Empire 5K
Classic, which was run on May 2 in downtown Raleigh.

The road race and related events, which included an expo with North
Carolina-based
adoption-related organizations, are conducted by the Second Empire
Restaurant and Tavern, which released the fundraising total on Tuesday.

Proceeds
will benefit the programs and services
provided by Hopeful
Parents, a nonprofit
organization that supports adoptive and birth families and assists
prospective parents, according to the event news release.

In what is very accurately called a grassroots effort, more than 1,000
tee times are up for public bid, giving recreational golfers in the
Carolinas a chance to play some elite private courses.

The foursome rounds - which can make great Father's Day or Mother's Day gifts - are being auctioned at Rounds4Research.com.

The purpose of the April 7-21 auction is to raise money for golf
turfgrass research, which includes outstanding research programs at
N.C. State and Clemson, according to an event news release.

Beautiful weather greeted runners for benefit road races in Raleigh and Durham on Saturday.

Bolt for the Blue 5K: Two veteran runners from Morehead City
topped the field of more than 280 runners and walkers who turned out
for the third annual Ligon GT Magnet Middle School benefit on a
beautiful morning. ...

newhope 5K – If the family that runs together, stays together, then the Mitchell family will be a close-knit group, Young said. Coleman Mitchell, 39, of Durham and his two sons took the top three spots Saturday at the third annual road race in Durham. ...

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.

The N.C. Runnin Rebels youth basketball team of Clayton needs money
for new uniforms and travel expenses, and they're working hard to raise
it.

At 8 a.m. Saturday, the Rebels will conduct a Flapjack Fundraiser at
the Applebee’s Restaurant located at 501 E. Six Forks Road in Raleigh.

The fundraiser is part of a larger program conducted by the area Applebee's franchisee.

Readers of the Eastern Wake News may remember a story from March about two college freshman and their efforts to raise money for a scholarship to be given to a Knightdale High School senior.

Chris Baskett and Jon Wall — both KHS graduates — hosted a cookout in March to raise money for a new scholarship.

They are at it again. After their first effort netted about $350, they decided to do some more fundraising. So this Friday, at Rudino's in Knightdale, the pair will host a Wii tournament. The entry fee is $5. Half the money will go to the winner and the other half will be added to the scholarship.

Baskett said the scholarship will be awarded at the school's senior award program May 29.