The Cap Eight conference tournament is set to start first-round games Monday and Tuesday. First round games will be played at the higher seed, while the semifinal games on Wednesday and Thursday, along with Friday’s finals, will all be played at Broughton’s Holiday Gym.

MONDAY (times 7 p.m.)

Girls first-round games:
No. 8 Leesville Road at No. 1 Millbrook
No. 5 Enloe at No. 4 Sanderson
No. 7 Heritage at No. 2 Broughton
No. 6 Wake Forest-Rolesvillle at No. 3 Wakefield

TUESDAY (times 7 p.m.)

Boys first-round games
No. 8 Heritage at No. 1 Millbrook
No. 5 Sanderson at No. 4 Wake Forest-Rolesville
No. 7 Enloe at No. 2 Broughton
No. 6 Leesville Road at No. 3 Wakefield

The Tri-Nine Conference tournament is set to start next Tuesday. First round games will be played at the higher seed, while Thursday's semifinals and Friday's finals will all be played at Green Hope High.

Click "read more" to see the tournament layout.

LaDwaun Harrison has been named as head football coach at Durham Jordan High.  He replaces Mike Briggs, who resigned in November.

The Eastern Carolina 3A Conference wrapped up its regular-season prep basketball schedule on Thursday night. The conference, like so many others, starts its tournament week on Monday.

Triton (boys) and C.B. Aycock (girls) are the league's regular-season champions.

The tournament schedules...

The Kinston Arendell Parrott Academy boys and Cary Christian girls each won Eastern Plains Independent Conference swim titles on Tuesday at Triangle Aquatic Center.

The final standings are below.

Boys standings

1. Kinston Parrott, 145
2. St. David's, 106
3. Cary Christian, 99
4. Rocky Mount Academy, 63
5. Halifax Academy, 53

Girls standings

1. Cary Christian, 130
2. Kinston Parrott, 119
3. Rocky Mount Academy, 97
4. St. David's, 87
5. Halifax Academy, 72

The Cary Academy boys swim team won its third straight Triangle Independent Schools Athletic Conference on Tuesday. Ravenscroft's girls were dominant in winning their TISAC title as well.

High school football players who lose their helmets during play in the 2012 high school season must leave the field for one play according to a rule change adopted by the National Federation of State High School Association Football Rules Committee.

Durham Hillside junior football standouts Khris Francis and Korrin Wiggins committed to the University of North Carolina on Wednesday night while making unofficial visits during the Duke-Carolina basketball game.

Enloe senior point guard Dana Brown is the only Triangle-area player named to the N.C./S.C. All-Star Women's Basketball Classic. The N.C. roster was released today for the game, which will be played on March 17 at Socastee High School in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

The men's game released its roster last week.

Cary High and Orange High will be among the host sites for the quarterfinal and semifinal round rounds of the N.C. High School Athletic Association dual-team wrestling tournament on Thursday.