CHAPEL HILL — The soccer match Aug. 27 between East Chapel Hill (1-0-1) and Apex (1-0-1) was cancelled due to lightning and heavy rain in the Chapel Hill area. It has not been rescheduled at this time.

Apex still has a big early season test coming Sept. 4 at Chapel Hill High School. Apex is No. 3 in the latest N.C. Coaches poll and No. 4 in the N&O’s Triangle Top 12. CHHS (2-0-0) is No. 10 and No. 7 in those same polls.

Ravenscroft also had to reschedule a midweek match. Chapel Hill's game at Ravenscroft, the Tigers’ oldest soccer rival, has been reset for Thursday at 7 p.m. (A JV match at 5:30 p.m. precedes the varsities.)

Even without a rematch yet with Apex, ECH already has made some changes to its soccer schedule; notably, Carrboro at East Chapel Hill has been moved from next week to Oct. 17 at 5 p.m. in Wildcat Stadium. Also, both ECH games with Durham Hillside are cancelled, since Hillside failed to field a varsity team this fall.

Raleigh Word of God will play its first regular-season home football game Friday night against Halifax Academy.
Word of God playing its home games at North Garner Middle School, which is eight miles from Word of God.
 “At a lot of our games, we’d have the team, a few moms and dads and a handful of students,” said Word of God coach James Jenkins.

Severe weather in midweek has caused cancellation of several sporting events. Cedar Ridge and Orange both cancelled soccer and tennis matches scheduled for Aug. 27. None of them have been rescheduled, yet.
Wednesday, funnel clouds were reported in northern Chatham County and eastern Alamance County, as were strong storms in Orange County. There were no reports of significant damage before 4 p.m.
Some school parking lots in Orange were flooded Wednesday.

Broughton at Apex football game that was scheduled for Thursday night has been moved to Friday night. Also, Rocky Mounts game at Wilson Hunt has been moved to Friday.

Cary is scheduled to play at Leesville Road and Northern Durham is scheduled to play at Greensboro Grimsley on Thursday. Both games are scheduled for 7 p.m. 

Northwood High, often better known for the success of its football team, has won its third straight girls tennis match, and its first conference match of the season, with a 7-2 victory over Durham School of the Arts. That brings the Chargers' early season record to 3-0 under coach Susie Shachtman.
"It’s pretty exciting," Shachtman says. "We’re also really happy with our win over (Siler City’s) Jordan-Matthews. We’d never beaten them before."
Catherine Shachtman, Claire Pauley, Katie Watkins and Kelsey Mays won their singles matches in straight sets Aug. 25 over DSA, and then helped the Chargers sweep the doubles. Jennifer Devinney-and-Pauley, Shachtman-and- Watkins, and Wilhelmina Cole-and-Mays all won their doubles matches, giving up just four games total among them.
Individually, Shachtman, Pauley, Watkins and Mays have each won their first three singles matches this season.

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With more rain expected this afternoon and the area under a Tornado watch until 5 p.m. today's boys' soccer matches in the annual Herald Cup soccer tournament have been postponed until Thursday at North Johnston High School.

Johnston Christian and North Johnston will also play their consolation round match on Thursday at North.

The schedule will be:

Johnston Christian vs. North Johnston, 3:30

Clayton vs. West Johnston, 5:15 (or 10 minutes after the conclusion of JCA-North)

South Johnston vs. Smithfield-Selma, 7 (or 10 minutes after the conclusion of Clayton-West)

The championship round will be made up at a later date.

We'll post future schedule updates as soon as we know something.

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