SSS downs Chapel Hill

Garner 68, Riverside 31

Football has more participants than any other high school sport with over one million player, according to the National Federation of State High School Associations.

Hoping to get the game in before Hurricane Hanna can make landfall, Smithfield-Selma has moved up its football game with Chapel Hill to Thursday at 7:30 p.m.

The game between CHHS (1-0) and the (1-1) Spartans is rematch of last year’s state 4-A playoff game.

Chapel Hill won that second-round game in Smithfield, 13-7, in what some Triangle observers thought was an upset. The Spartans finished 2007 at 7-6, having won 21-16 in Chapel Hill during the regular season.

Also Thursday, Cardinal Gibbons (0-1) will be at Carrboro (0-2), and East Chapel Hill (0-2) will host Cedar Ridge (1-1). Each of those games is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

Most area high school football games have been moved from Friday to Thursday to avoid Friday's expected high winds and rain.

Friday night games are: Southeast Raleigh at Enloe (7 p.m.), Middle Creek at Sanderson (7 p.m.), Millbrook at East Wake (7:30); Panther Creek at Broughton (7); Rocky Mount at Northern Vance (7:30)

THURSDAY GAMES

(7 p.m. start times unless otherwise noted)
Anson at Richmond, 7:30
Apex at Leesville Road
Burlington Cummings at Reidsville
Cardinal Gibbons at Carrboro

Cedar Ridge at East Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill at Smithfield-Selma, 7:30
Dixon at Princeton
Durham Riverside at Garner
East Carteret at East Bladen, 6:30
East Duplin at Pender, 7:30

Edenton Holmes at Plymouth, 7:30
Fuquay-Varina at Holly Springs, 7:30
Green Hope at Erwin Triton, 7:30
Greenville Rose at New Hanover
Hillside at Goldsboro, 7:30
Hoke County at Pembroke Swett
Kinston at North Lenoir, 7:30
Lee County at Western Harnett, 7:30
Louisburg at Franklinton, 7:30
Oxford Webb at Southern Vance, 7:30
Ravenscroft at Chatham Central, 7

Saint Pauls at Southern Pines Pinecrest
South Johnston at Clayton
Southern Lee at Greensboro Page
Tarboro at Northern Nash
WF-Rolesville at Southern Durham
Wakefield at Knightdale
Warsaw Kenan at Rocky Point Trask
West Johnston at North Johnston
Wilmington Laney at Havelock
Wilson Hunt at Wilson Fike, 7:30

AP North Carolina High School football rankings

Earnest Ross, a 6-foot-5 basketball guard at Cary (N.C.) Panther Creek, committed to Auburn University on Tuesday night.

Ross averaged 22.5 points per game during Panther Creek's 22-8 season. 

 Few games were played since the last poll. The biggest tumble was Panther Creek descent to No. 11 after losing to No. 10 Sanderson, 3-1. 

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

 The News & Observer tracks high school soccer on-line at its High School Extra site:

http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/preps/
 

Here are the area scoring leaders.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS
POINTS
Name    Sch    G    GOALs    ASTs    PTS
E.Garner    CED    4    12    1    25
A.Bunn    BNN    3    8    2    18
ChaseRagland    LOU    6    7    3    17
E.Delphonce    FRI    4    7    3    17
D.Fowler    DAC    5    8    0    16
J.Woodburn    FRA    4    7    0    14
M.Pelcastre    WBB    3    6    1    13
Aragon    EWK    5    5    3    13
B.Cavenaugh    RCN    4    5    3    13
Y.Eban    LOU    6    5    2    12
J.Rafferty    SAN    5    5    2    12
J.DelRosario    JOR    4    5    2    12
G.Latigue    PAN    5    5    2    12
S.Rodriguez    CRY    6    4    2    10
M.Gutowski    CLY    4    5    0    10
G.Mendoza    JOR    4    4    2    10
F.Sousa    MBK    4    4    2    10
T.Murray    FRI    4    4    2    10
S.Keel    MID    5    3    4    10
D.Garner    CED    4    4    2    10

My column in today's News & Observer has generated several calls. Some people have asked to see New Hanover's Code of Ethics. Here is the link: 

 http://www.nhcs.net/athletics/NHCSCodeofEthicsPledge.pdf