Chris Cherry, who started the athletics program at Southern Lee High and has been the school's only boys basketball coach, is now coaching at Goldsboro High.

Cletis Gore, who has been an assistant athletic director at Southern Lee, is the interim athletics director. He is a 1980 graduate of Southern Pines Pinecrest, played football at N.C. A&T and graduated from Shaw University. He is an assistant football coach at the school.

Gore said the school plans to name a basketball coach within the next two weeks.

The Southern Lee basketball team, led by high-scoring Akeem Richmond, is to contend for the state 3-A championship this year. 

Green Hope is No. 1 in the N.C. Soccer Coaches Association boys 4-A poll. Cardinal Gibbons is No. 2 in 2-A and Durham Science & Math is No. 2 in 1-A.

The complete polls for 4-A, 3-A, 2-A, 1-A and private teams can be found at:

http://www.eurosportscoreboard.com/findhighschoolnc08/

The N&O soccer rankings are thoroughly realigned this week.
Millbrook, which breaks into the poll at No. 5, handed Broughton its first loss in a couple of seasons, 2-1, then promptly lost to Wakefield 3-1.
Broughton holds No. in the rankings despite the loss. Since the setback, the Caps have defeated Leesville Road 4-0 and Wake Forest-Rolesville 6-0.
Apex is a team to watch. Coach Kevin Todd’s club has allowed only one goal and that came in a 4-1 victory over Millbrook.

Another hot team is East Wake, which is out to a 7-1 start.

Joining the rankings this week are Millbrook, East Wake and Wakefield.

N&O Soccer rankings
1. Green Hope (1)    5-0-1
2. Broughton (2)    5-1-1
3. Durham Jordan (3)    4-1-0
4. Apex (4)    3-0-1
5. Millbrook (NR) 5-2-0
6. Chapel Hill (6)    4-1-0
7. Fuquay-Varina (8) 5-1-0
8. Athens Drive (7)    4-2-0
9. N. Ral. Christian (9)    5-1-0
10. East Wake (NR) 7-1-0
11. Panther Creek (11) 4-2-1
12. Wakefield (NR) 5-3-1

St. David’s running back Raine McMillan rushed 14 times for 435 yards in Friday’s 76-35 victory over Hobgood Academy.

He scored on runs of 56, 27, 74, 49 and 23 yards and averaged 31 yards per carry.

McMillan is a 5-foot-10, 155-pound sophomore who runs 40 yards in about 4.8 to 4.9 seconds.

“He is a tough kid,” said St. David’s coach Wes Wilder. “But a lot of the credit needs to go to the offensive line.

“Raine was usually eight yards downfield before anyone touched him. He had lots of running room.”

Here are his carry-by-carry totals:

First half: 55, 10, 2, 56*, 45, 24, 21, 5, 27*, 74*. Total: 10 carries, 319 yards

Second half: 20, 24, 49*, 23* Total: 4 carries, 116 yards.

Game total: 14 carries, 435 yards

*touchdown runs 

Cardinal Gibbons' Cayla Shortley (a 5-foot-5, Libero) is one of two players from North Carolina to appear on PrepVolleyball.com's 2008 "Senior Aces" list of the nation's top 250 recruits from the class of 2009. 

Shortley has committed to North Carolina.

PrepVolleyball.com's he list is compiled exclusively through the input of college coaches from around the country. 

 She  shares the school record for digs in a single season (295, 2007).

The other player from North Carolina on the list is Andrea Beck (6-0 Middle Blocker, Winston-Salem Mount Tabor). She is committed to Wake Forest.

Millbrook is the obvious choice for No. 1 in the N&O poll, but  who should be No. 2? How would you rank the area's top teams?

Millbrook is the obvious choice for No. 1 in the N&O poll, but  who should be No. 2?

Tim Stevens' observation following week 3.

Sept. 12 NCHSAA football schedule

Enloe 3,
Southeast Raleigh 0
Matt Jurek booted a 24-yard field in the second period for the only points of the game.
    SER    ENL
Rushes-yards    34-125    48-103
Comp-Att-yards    5-13-76    1-2-6
SER    0    0    0    0    —    0
ENL    0    3    0    0    —    3
SCORING SUMMARY
ENL—M.Jurek 24 FG
INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
Rushing: SER—G.Henderson 9-47, K.Howell 17-69, H.Mallette 3-(-10), T.Walker 5-19; ENL—D.Highsmith 14-42, D.Jackson 8-29, P.Jordan 1-0, M.Jurek 11-(-19), J.Senegal 13-54, J.Smith 1-(-3).
Passing: SER—G.Henderson 4-12-14-1, B.Mitchell 1-1-62-0, J.Satterwhite 1-1-49-0; ENL—M.Jurek 1-6-6-0.
Receiving: SER—G.Farringer 1-3, K.Moore 1-2, A.Mull 1-62, K.Tucker 2-9; ENL—P.Jordan 1-6.