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The Raleigh Venom women's rugby team on Saturday advanced to today's
Women's Division II National Championship semifinals in Houston. (Details are below.)
The fourth overall seed after losing the pool championship 17-15 to the
Pittsburgh Angels, the Venom was scheduled to play Providence in the
semifinals this morning.
A victory would put the Venom in this afternoon's championship match.
The Wilders Grove Wolfpack, the Capital City Steelers and the Cary Chargers saw their Consolidated Football Federation teams advance to next week’s second round of the Pop Warner Little Scholars Mid-South Region playoff with victories Saturday. Several organizations also saw their cheerleading teams advance to the Nov. 27 region championships. (Results are below.)
- In a Division II Junior Peewee game, Capital City defeated the Churchland (Va.) Tigers 6-0.
- In Division II Midgets, Wilders Grove defeated the Suffolk (Va.) Steelers 6-0.
- In Division III Junior Peewee, Wilders Grove defeated the Havelock Rams 18-12.
- In Division III Junior Midgets, Cary defeated the New Bern Warriors 31-6.
Seven of the Triangle's Consolidated Football Federation teams will be playing in Raleigh on Saturday as the CFF hosts 12 first-round games in the Pop Warner Little Scholars Mid-South Region playoffs. (The schedule is below.)
Winners
of the 29 overall first-round games will advance to second-round games
on Nov. 14, and the winners of those games will advance to the Nov. 28
Turkey Bowl region championships in Charlotte.
Regional champions advance to the Pop Warner Super Bowl to be played Dec. 5-12 at Disney's Wide World of Sports in Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
In gymnastics, the attention tends to fall on the female competitors.
In Raleigh on Nov. 21-22, the stage will be for male competitors only.
The third annual Boudreaux Classic boys meet is scheduled for Nov. 21-22 at North Raleigh Gymnastics.
More than 270 men and women from North Carolina completed the gruelling 26.2 miles of the New York City Marathon on Nov. 1.
The top finisher was James Pearce of Durham, in a time of 2 hours, 40
minutes and 3 seconds.
A list of the state's finishers is below.
Soccer players, think you've got the game to go pro?
The Carolina RailHawks are giving you a chance to find out.
Looking
ahead to next season, the men's team will conduct an open tryout and
the annual RailHawks Combine in December at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary.
Most high school athletes don't take up their sports when they reach
ninth grade. Instead, they gain skills and experience while they're in
lower grades by participating in recreational and club sports leagues.
In Wake County, hundreds of middle school-age athletes gain experience
in baseball through the Wake County Club Baseball League.
League play is open to students in grades 6-8 who attend participating middle schools in Wake County.
The Raleigh Venom women’s rugby team defeated Brandywine (Md.) 22-12
on Saturday and the Maryland Stingers 18-0 on Sunday in Baltimore to
win the Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union playoff championship.
Raleigh earned a place in the Nov. 7-8 Division II national tournament in Houston.
On
Saturday, you can see the Venom in action when the team hosts N.C.
State at noon at the Raleigh Rugby Football Club, 7417 Poole Road,
about four miles east of the Beltline. The Raleigh Vipers men’s team
will host the Washington Furies at 2 p.m., and a B-side men’s game will
follow at 3:30.
Whether you compete in or just follow triathlon, you will have the
opportunity to hear one of the sport’s all-time greats in Raleigh on
Sunday, Oct. 25.
Six-time Ironman world champion Dave Scott will speak at the North Carolina Triathlon Series awards banquet at the Hilton North Raleigh hotel.
List five popular sports in the Triangle, and rugby probably won't be
on your list. But don't think the sport isn't played here - and played
very well.
The Raleigh Rugby Football Club
is a long-established organization that has collected several men's and
women's national championships in recent years, and the club's
two-pitch complex on 15 1/2 acres off Poole Road is top-notch, hosting
national and international competitions.
Rugby fans and curious spectators can see the Vipers men and Venom
women in action and perhaps meet current and former players on
Saturday, Oct. 3, when the club conducts a homecoming event and three
of its teams play regular-season matches. Admission for the matches is
free.
