With Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools closed Wednesday due to lingering icy conditions, the evening’s sports activities have been called off.
Chapel Hill High moved quickly to reschedule its conference-opening basketball games with Cardinal Gibbons to Saturday. The JV (2 p.m.) and varsity (3:30 p.m.) play at CHHS Gym; the JV and varsity girls play at the same times at Cardinal Gibbons’ gym on Saturday.
Also, the wrestling match between CHHS and East Chapel Hill has been re-scheduled for the CHHS Lower Gym on Friday. That’s going to make for a busy 18 hours for the wrestlers; CHHS already is scheduled to be at the Northwood Duals at 9 a.m. Saturday along with Carrboro; East Chapel Hill is scheduled to be at the DSA Duals in Durham at 9 a.m. Saturday.
No word yet on when the East Chapel Hill basketball game at Carrboro High School will be played.

News 14 Carolina will televise the state 4AA high school football championship game between Matthews Butler and Wake Forest-Rolesville live from Carter-Finley Stadium this morning.

Coverage begins Saturday, December 11, at 10:30 am.  Kick-off is scheduled for 11:00 am.

The telecast will include half-time and post-game coverage with highlights from other championship games played at UNC-Chapel Hill and Wake Forest University.

Chapel Hill High School has named two new lacrosse coaches for the Tigers, according to athletics director Tod Morgan. David Klarmann will lead the CHHS boys’ lacrosse program and Christen Campbell will be the new girls’ lacrosse coach, Morgan announced in an email.
Klarmann may be best known to  lacrosse cognoscenti as the former Tar Heel who played on Carolina’s first NCAA tournament team, and who later coached the ‘91 Carolina team to the NCAA Championship.

Chapel Hill High School has named two new lacrosse coaches for the Tigers, according to athletics director Tod Morgan. David Klarmann will lead the CHHS boys’ lacrosse program and Christen Campbell will be the new girls’ lacrosse coach, Morgan announced in an email.
Klarmann may be best known to  lacrosse cognoscenti as the former Tar Heel who played on Carolina’s first NCAA tournament team, and who later coached the ‘91 Carolina team to the NCAA Championship.

Here are tennis, soccer and volleyball scores from Tuesday night.

Tennis:

Broughton 9, Wakefield 0

Singles:

O King def. T Orlando 6-1 6-1

L Robertson def. A Albrecht 6-1 6-0

K Boole def. J Martin 6-1 6-2

J Fountain def. N Burns 6-1 6-1

P Escobar def. M Miller 6-1 6-0

G Barnard def. M Began 6-3 6-1

Doubles:

Escobar & Johnson def. Albrecht & Martin 8-5

Boole & 7O'Han def. Orlando & Orlando 8-2

Barnard & Ramsay def. Miller & Cole 8-2

R.J. Quick caught an 8-yard touchdown pass from Chapel Hill quarterback T.J. Johnson in the final minute of Thursday’s first half for a two-touchdown lead, and the Tigers never gave up their lead or their grip on the Hodgin Cup in a 40-28 victory over archrival East Chapel Hill.

Playing in front of a home crowd at Culton-Peerman Stadium, Johnson passed for four touchdowns. But it wasn’t until Quick’s 78-yard run for a touchdown in the fourth quarter that Chapel Hill (3-2) secured its grip on the cup, which is sponsored by The Chapel Hill News and named for former CHHS coach and East athletics director Bill Hodgin.

East’s Drew Davis ran in two scores himself, and he threw TD passes of 27 and 6 yards to keep the Wildcats (1-4) in the game. After Quick put CHHS up 40-21, Davis’ last pass, the 6-yarder to Tyler Klimko, got East back within two scores with 3:15 left to play.
Chapel Hill’s Carlos Hill fell on East’s last-gasp onside kick, and the Tigers ran out the final 3 minutes.

For more, read Friday's News & Observer, or see www.newsobserver.com.

The Knights travel to East Wake this afternoon for their first match up of the year at 6:30.

A little background: East Wake was a serious state playoff contender last year (a 30-plus win team) that got dropped in the first round by Fuquay-Varina. Ever since the team has struggled with "knowing how good it is, but not playing to that level" as coach DeLane Hayes has stressed several times this season.

Knightdale, which was no show-stopper last year, had a rough start to the 2009 season, but the team impressively knocked off Wake Forest Rolesville in its first win and showed, even if only for a couple hours, it can contend when needed. 

Those that like soccer need to check this one out, especially in light of the rivalry. It will be interesting to see which team can hold off for the big W.  

See a gallery of photos from several selected high school games in the Triangle area.

First Look: Staff photojournalist Ethan Hyman's raw edit from the Friday Night Pigskin Kick Off at Heritage High School in Wake Forest on Aug. 14, 2009.

See a First Look gallery of photos from Fuquay-Varina High School's softball games on Friday, June 5th, 2009.