Chapel Hill High School won a coin flip Saturday to get the top seed in the Carolina-6 Conference's girls basketball tournament. That means, if they win their semifinal game on Wednesday, that the Tigers would host the finals for both boys and girls in the Carolina-6 Conference  tournament on Friday night.

Today is National Signing Day, when high school athletes from fall sports make their official commitments to college teams.

While several high school seniors who play Olympic sports are signing as well, much of the emphasis for many schools is placed on football programs.

Locally, offensive lineman William Heine of East Chapel Hill has committed to Georgetown and Chapel Hill's R.J. Quick has signed on for Winston-Salem State.

Heine, a 6-5, 280-pound senior played at right tackle for East, helping to protect record-setting QB Drew Davis in coach  Bill Renner's "five-wide" offense. Heine will be joining his brother James at Georgetown, who's a pitcher for the Hoyas' baseball team.

Quick, not the biggest Tiger at  5-11, 180 pounds, was still one of the biggest guns as a top receiver for coach Issac Marsh as CHHS went 10-3 last season. He was also one of the quickest, no pun intended, with 4.5 speed.

The University of North Carolina is announcing its commitments — including Phil Williamson of Jordan — from the Class of 2012 this afternoon. See UNC Now (http://blogs.newsobserver.com/uncnow) for the latest on Carolina's recruits, and ACC Now (http://blogs.newsobserver.com/accnow/home) for updates on Duke and N.C. State.

Hoping to get the game in before Hurricane Hanna can make landfall, Smithfield-Selma has moved up its football game with Chapel Hill to Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

The game between CHHS (1-0) and the (1-1) Spartans is rematch of last year’s state 4-A playoff game.

Chapel Hill won that second-round game in Smithfield, 13-7, in what some Triangle observers thought was an upset. The Spartans finished 2007 at 7-6, having won 21-16 in Chapel Hill during the regular season.

Also Thursday, Cardinal Gibbons (0-1) will be at Carrboro (0-2), and East Chapel Hill (0-2) will host Cedar Ridge (1-1). Each of those games is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

Most Chapel Hill-area high schools have moved their varsity football games this week to Thursday in anticipation of Hurricane Hanna.
Hoping to get their games in before the heavy rains predicted for this weekend, Carrboro, Chapel Hill, Cedar Ridge and East Chapel Hill each plan to play one day earlier than previously scheduled.
Chapel Hill (1-0) now is scheduled to play at Smithfield-Selma (1-1) at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in a highly anticipated rematch of last year’s state 4-A playoff game. CHHS won that game 13-7.
Also, East Chapel Hill (0-2) will host Cedar Ridge (1-1) and Carrboro (0-2) will host Cardinal Gibbons (0-1). Each of those games is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Thursday
Orange (2-0) and South Granville (2-0) have yet to announce a decision about their game in Hillsborough.

Effects are still being felt from the heavy rains that inundated the Triangle in midweek. Tonight’s football in Hillsborough between East Chapel Hill and host Orange has been postponed before the first drop of rain Friday.
East Chapel Hill (0-1) now is scheduled to play at 7 p.m. Monday at Orange (1-0).
Orange’s field is situated between two concrete stands, which tend to funnel rains into the middle. Significant standing water remained across the playing surface Wednesday, and the field was still thoroughly saturated Friday morning.
"They said they walked out onto the field and sank down to their shins in one spot," East Chapel Hill athletics director Ray Hartsfield said. "They’re worried someone could get seriously hurt."
The JVs will play Sept. 11 in Chapel Hill.
Orange’s decision leaves the county without a game tonight. Chapel Hill High School (0-1) has a bye week; Cedar Ridge (0-1) is at Bartlett Yancey (0-1) in Caswell County; and Carrboro (0-1) is at Burlington Cummings (0-1).

Effects are still being felt from the heavy rains that inundated the Triangle in midweek. Tonight’s football in Hillsborough between East Chapel Hill and host Orange has been postponed before the first drop of rain Friday.

East Chapel Hill (0-1) now is scheduled to play at 7 p.m. Monday at Orange (1-0).

Orange’s field is situated between two concrete stands, which tend to funnel rains into the middle. Significant standing water remained across the playing surface Wednesday, and the field was still thoroughly saturated Friday morning.

"They said they walked out onto the field and sank down to their shins in one spot," East Chapel Hill athletics director Ray Hartsfield said. "They’re worried someone could get seriously hurt."

The JVs will play Sept. 11 in Chapel Hill.

Orange’s decision leaves the county without a game tonight. Chapel Hill High School (0-1) has a bye week; Cedar Ridge (0-1) is at Bartlett Yancey (0-1) in Caswell County; and Carrboro (0-1) is at Burlington Cummings (0-1).

In the second full week of prep sports a slow moving spinner has to come out of the gulf and hose down all mid-week sporting events.

It really caught me off guard in trying to stay on top of scheduling eight sports at each of two schools, only to realize the beginnings of my scheduling had been drowned before I finished my plans for week 12.

What great timing, though. The first week of college football and some of the best non-conference matchups in the high school realm are at the doorstep and WHAMMY – three inches of rain and talk of two-three more days of isolated storms are the rumor in the weather room.

Sure it was weird for me to have to rewrite my week's plans before they got started, but think about the coaches (who many forget are 99 percent teacher as well) and how fun it must be for them to start off week one and early week two rescheduling events already.

It's frustrating. It's not as easy as "throw it on the bye week." Sometimes these games are skipped completely, and that's where I lose big-time. I suppose the moral of the story is: If it's raining a whole bunch send Aaron all the submitted info in the world, because the uglier the weather, the better the chance he will use it, and sooner than later as well.  

The soccer match Aug. 27 between East Chapel Hill (1-0-1) and Apex (1-0-1) was cancelled due to lightning and heavy rain Wednesday in the Chapel Hill area. It has not been rescheduled at this time.
Apex still has a big early season test coming Sept. 4 at Chapel Hill High School. Apex is No. 3 in the latest N.C. Coaches poll and No. 4 in the N&O’s Triangle Top 12. CHHS (2-0-0) is No. 10 and No. 7 in those same polls.
Chapel Hill also had to reschedule a midweek match. The CHHS game at Raleigh Ravenscroft, the Tigers’ oldest soccer rival, has been reset for Thursday at 7 p.m. (A JV match at 5:30 p.m. precedes the varsities.)
Even without a rematch yet with Apex, some changes to the ECH schedule have been made; notably, Carrboro at East Chapel Hill has been moved from next week to Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. in Wildcat Stadium. Also, both ECH games with Hillside are cancelled, since Hillside failed to field a varsity team this fall.

The highly anticipated match Aug. 27 between East Chapel Hill (1-0-1) and No. 3 Apex (1-0-1) has been cancelled due to lightning and heavy rain in the Chapel Hill area. It has not been rescheduled at this time.
Games next week feature Roxboro Person at CHHS in a PAC-6 game Sept. 3 and then Apex at No. 10 Chapel Hill on Sept. 4. East Chapel Hill hosts Riverside on Sept. 3 and then Carrboro on Sept. 5
The Jaguars have a busy week, playing at Orange Sept. 2 and hosting DSA Sept. 3 before heading to East.

Severe weather in midweek has caused cancellation of several sporting events. Cedar Ridge and Orange both cancelled soccer and tennis matches scheduled for Aug. 27. None of them have been rescheduled, yet.
Wednesday, funnel clouds were reported in northern Chatham County and eastern Alamance County, as were strong storms in Orange County. There were no reports of significant damage before 4 p.m.
Some school parking lots in Orange were flooded Wednesday.