Millbrook's Chris Mahan and John Karlawish were runner-up in 4A doubles
The NCHSAA individual tennis championships saw the area have four players earn state championships: Middle Creek's Nick Stachowiak and Cardinal Gibbons' Robert Kelly won singles championships, while Matt Galush and Noah Constantine won a doubles titles.

Wakefield's Bo Boyden and Carrboro's Brian Freiburghouse were runners-up.

Story from 4A finals in Raleigh
Story from 3A finals in Burlington

We've updated each bracket below with local players in bold.

Green Hope won the conference for the 11th straight year

The all-conference list, final regular season standings, list of regional qualifiers and conference tournament results from the 2012 Tri-Nine Conference girls' golf season.

Previous seasons

• 2012 Tri-9 boys golf blog
• 2011 Tri-9 boys golf blog

Panther Creek girls' basketball coach Geoff Bowman stepped down last week, joining volleyball coach Bonnie O'Connor as longtime Catamounts coaches who have been at the school long enough to take their programs from the early cellar-dweller days to yearly playoff contenders.

The results from the 4A Mideast boys' tennis semifinals hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill. All semifinalists advance to this weekend's state championships.

Middle Creek senior Quinton Ray signed with Campbell men's basketball on Friday. Ray is a four-year starter for the Mustangs and three-time participant in Dave Telep's Carolina Challenge.

3A Mideast regional at Burlington Williams HS saw Cardinal Gibbons and Chapel Hill take part in a three-way tie for first in girls'. Northern Guilford won in boys'.

As noted in today's story from the NCHSAA board of directors meeting, change is coming to next year's playoffs in most sports. For seven different sports, where 64-team brackets are primarily used, the number of automatic qualifying spots in the postseason has changed.

Previously, the metric used been half-plus-one. But as we reported earlier this year, some classifications were going to have more than 64 automatic qualifying teams next season if that had stayed the same.

These numbers were calculated looking at next year's realigned conferences.

Tim Stevens will be reporting with more from the NCHSAA board of directors meeting later today. Stay tuned for a longer story on nando.com/preps after commissioner Davis Whitfield meets with the media

The NCHSAA board of directors did not pass a motion that non-boarding parochial schools who were successful in their sport would move up a class. It will stay the same next year, which keeps Cardinal Gibbons in 3A for all sports - regular-season and playoffs.

The proposal that the board agreed upon in principle in December included moving teams up a class (in the playoffs only) if they had: advanced to the regional semifinals in six of the preceding eight years OR made the regional finals in four of the previous six years OR made the state finals in three consecutive years in its current classification.

That story is at this link: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/12/07/2529555/nchsaa-board-agrees-to-changes.html

The NCHSAA board also voted that transfers from one NCHSAA school to another school within its own LEA (local educational agency) or between LEAs will be ineligible for 365 days without a bonafide change in residence or LEA approval. The LEAs can have their own rules to override the NCHSAA. The NCHSAA rule simply sets a statewide standard.

Spring football practice did not get to the board - it did not get out of committee.

The basketball playoffs will continue to use seeding, but will have minor tweaks like every conference only getting half automatic bids instead half-plus-one. For the Cap-8, for instance, the league would get four automatic bids instead of five.

Seeded playoffs will be added to boys and girls soccer next year as well.

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Anthanee Doyle ends his career as the all-time leading scorer in Holly Springs boys' basketball history.

Eleven players from Wake County were among those honored with scholarships this week from the National Football Foundation. Each one of them at the annual scholars banquet of the NFF's Bill Dooley Triangle/East Chapter was presented with a plaque and will receive a $1,000 scholarship to be sent directly to the university of their attendance.