Due to snow in Guilford County and their opponents' problems with travel, Chapel Hill's top-seeded boys' and girls' basketball teams will postpone their first-round games in the NCHSAA Mideast Regional pod to Tuesday evening.

The CHHS girls (24-2) will host No. 16 seed Eastern Guilford (15-12) at 6 p.m. Tuesday. That's followed by a 7:30 p.m. boys game between No. 1 Chapel Hill (25-1) vs. No. 16 seed Southern Guilford (8-17).

The Northwood boys' game with Granville Central in the NCHSAA 2-A Mideast also has been moved, to 7 p.m. Tuesday.

The Carrboro girls; game at Northwood is still on for Monday night, with a 6 p.m. start.

Down 7-0 after two innings in Pittsboro, a deficit that ballooned to 14-5 by the top of the sixth, North Chatham came back Thursday night to win Game 1 of its American Legion playoff series with Clayton by a 16-15 score.

That puts North Chatham one up versus Clayton at 7 p.m. tonight for Game 2 of the best-of-three series. The game will be played at Smithfield-Selma High School.

Saturday, if necessary, Game 3 will be back at Northwood High School's Donald Horton Baseball Complex at 7 p.m.

Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill both won their opening games in the NCHSAA boys’ basketball state tournament and will play second-round games Wednesday. Orange and Northwood also won.
East Chapel Hill (21-7), a 68-46 winner Monday over Apex, will play at Middle Creek (23-4) Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. Champions of the Tri-9 4-A Conference, the Mustangs eliminated Sanderson 78-56 in the first round.
Chapel Hill (19-4), which beat Mayodan McMichael 82-51 on Monday, will host Fayetteville Westover (20-3) at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Westover’s Wolverines burned Asheboro 56-42 in the NCHSAA 3-A’s first round.
Orange (11-12) will also be on the road Wednesday, playing a second-round 3-A game at Cape fear Valley champion Southern Lee (19-4). The Panthers advanced Monday with a 71-59, come-from-behind win at Eastern Guilford, thanks to a career-high 43 points by Devantay Jones.
In 2-A action, Northwood (23-4) got by Franklinton 54-47 on Monday and will host a surprising St. Paul’s team (9-14) Wednesday. Despite its lackluster record, St. Paul’s defeated 17-7 Northwest Halifax by a 50-36 score in the first round.
Carrboro (15-11) bowed out of the 2-A first round with a 64-58 loss at Bunn.
Northwood had the only local girls to survive the NCHSAA first round. The Chargers (17-9) easily handled North Johnston, 72-52 on Monday, and will travel to Winston-Salem Carver (18-7) for Wednesday’s second round.
All four Carolina-6 girls’ teams were eliminated from the 3-A tournament by the four Mid-State Conference teams — Northern Guilford, Eastern Guilford, Burlington Williams and Rockingham.
Chapel Hill (12-12), three nights after winning the Carolina-6 Conference tournament, fell 52-35 to Williams (24-3). Orange’s girls (11-11) lost 54-42 at Eastern Guilford (22-5); Cardinal Gibbons (17-7) was upset 64-62 by Mid-State No. 4 seed Rockingham (14-12), and Webb (6-14) lost 70-42 to Northern Guilford (23-4).

Carrboro's excellent run in the NCHSAA 2-A soccer playoffs ended Wednesday night near Jacksonville, where the Jaguars fell 4-1 to defending state champion Swansboro in the East Region final. Carrboro, which was the last area soccer team in the tournament, ends its year at 17-5-1.

That record and playoff run marks the best finish yet for Carrboro in spring soccer, completing its third year of varsity competition. With only one senior, talented Rosie Scanga, the Jaguars already figure to be one of the top contenders for another Carolina-9 title.

Head coach Robin Bulleri notes that all three local high schools -- 2-A Carrboro, 3-A Chapel Hill and 4-A East Chapel Hill -- won their respective conferences this year. And all three advanced at least to the fourth round of their respective classification's post-season tournament.

Chapel Hill defeated Western Alamance 4-1 Tuesday night to win its NCHSAA East 3-A baseball sectional. CHHS (23-5) advances to host Wilson Hunt (24-4) for a best 2-out-of-3 regional series Thursday-Friday-Saturday. The winner of that will play for the NCHSAA 3-A state championship the following week.

Chapel Hill and Hunt will play their first games at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Tiger Stadium, located near the corner of Seawell School and High School Roads. The third game, if necessary, will be played Saturday at a time yet to be determined.

Chapel Hill defeated Western Alamance 4-1 Tuesday night to win its NCHSAA East 3-A baseball sectional. CHHS (23-5) advances to host Wilson Hunt (24-4) for a best 2-out-of-3 regional series Thursday-Friday-Saturday. The winner of that will play for the NCHSAA 3-A state championship the following week.

Chapel Hill and Wilson will play their first games at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Tiger Stadium, located near the corner of Seawell School and High School Roads. The third game, if necessary, will be played Saturday at a time yet to be determined.

Tuesday’s results were as dark as the weather for local high school teams. Of those teams that did manage to get a game finished before the rains forced multiple postponements, only the varsity soccer team from Chapel Hill came out a winner. The Tigers got a second-half goal from Chelsey Stark to defeat Northern Guilford 1-0 in the NCHSAA 3-A playoffs.
Elsewhere Tuesday, Northern Guilford defeated Orange 10-5 in NCHSAA baseball. In softball Purnell Swett defeated East Chapel Hill 4-2, and Bunn edged out visiting Northwood 7-6.
At Raleigh, Cardinal Gibbons eliminated CHHS for the dual-team tennis playoffs with a 6-3 decision.
Two baseball games were postponed until Wednesday (or maybe later, considering how it looks outside this morning.) Chapel Hill hosts Asheboro in the 3-A baseball playoffs and Carrboro is at Bartlett Yancey in a 2-A game. Both are supposed to start at 7 p.m. today.
Orange’s softball playoff game at Union Pines was put off until 6 p.m. this evening.
Things may be dry enough by tonight for the third-round matches to go on as scheduled. In the 2-A, Carrboro is at Franklinton, and Northwood is at Roanoke Rapids, all at 6 p.m. In the 4-A, perennial power Raleigh Broughton is at East Chapel Hill at 7 p.m.

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Canes center Matt Cullen was back on the ice today for the first playoff practice at the RBC Center.

Cullen missed the last eight games of the regular season with a foot injury but did do some skating on his own last week.

"It's good to back out there and get some timing back," Cullen said. "You never know what to expect. Every injury is different in how it reacts and how long it takes you to get back."

We know the opponent, know the seedings and know the playoff schedule. It's the Canes and Devils, again, and it starts Wednesday in Newark.

So let's keep it short and simple today:

What do you like the most about the Canes heading into the playoffs and what worries you the most? Can they make a deep run, even grab the Cup again, or could it be one and done?

The floor is open.