Panther Creek's girls' basketball team will have two D1 players on its roster next year. Head coach Geoff Bowman announced today via Twitter that senior center Allie Tuttle has committed to Northwestern and senior forward Mercedes Harris has committed to Long Island.
I didn't feel good about doing fall sports predictions before the season started. I hope you'll forgive me. I had my reasons.
But now that we have a very small sample size of results, I'm ready to forecast this year's fall sports in the Tri-9 Conference. You can click the keyword 'predictions' above to see how I've fared in the past.
The Central Carolina Scholastic Summer League announced its East and West rosters for its Futures Game and All-Star Game.
The Futures Game rosters are made up of primarily rising juniors, while the All-Star Game rosters are of almost entirely rising seniors.
The full list of each is below:
Former Garner High School girls basketball coach Lawrence Dunn is one of the eight individuals selected for induction into the 2012 class of the N.C. High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame.
Dunn led Garner to the state girls basketball championship and an undefeated season in 1977-78 and later coached at Athens Drive from 1979-2001 winning 445 games during his tenure as boys coach. He was a recent inductee to the Garner High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
The 2012 Central Carolina Scholastic Summer League playoffs are being held amid the thunderstorms this week. The schedule seen many revisions. Here's the latest one. The playoffs conclude tonight (Friday) at Lee County High School.
Friday's Semifinals
at Lee Senior High
Midway vs. Orange County, 2:30
Richmond County vs. West Johnston, 5
Friday's Championship
at Lee Senior High
Game 15, 7:30: Semifinal winners meet
"Counterattack goal" has been a frequent term in our stories this year when describing goals allowed by the Carolina RailHawks. When it happened a few times in a July 7 against Fort Lauderdale, a 3-3 tie, Colin Clarke voiced his displeasure.
First, he compared his team's defending to the postgame fireworks: "all over the place."
He continued: "We’ve got to read the game and understand what’s going on during the game and react to it better. You can’t run and sprint and go forward for 90 minutes at the pace we do. There are times when you’ve just got to sit and be compact and get your breather, get your rest and then go again.”
But what exactly did he mean by this?
Kurt Ehlert is an orthopaedic surgeon, but last year he became a high school assistant football coach at Raleigh Cardinal Gibbons. He was an assistant football coach who knew little about coaching football and who coached kickers, although he knew nothing about kicking a football.
Apex claimed a pair of one-run victories over Garner in the first two games of its American Legion Baseball Area I West Championship Series on Sunday. Post 124 took the rain-suspended Game 1 3-2, then won Game 2, 9-8.
Game 3 of the best-of-five series will be played Monday night at Apex High School at 7. If needed, Game 4 would be hosted by Post 232 back at Garner on Tuesday night.
Green Hope boys' soccer, the defending 4A state champions, have tabbed former RailHawks assistant and professional soccer veteran Richard Huxford as its next head coach.
Huxford, who as an assistant coach for the RailHawks during the 2009 season, played for professional teams in England and Scotland from 1992-2007, per his Wikipedia page.
The native Scot earned a degree as a sports scientist in 2008, which also interested Green Hope athletics director Wayne Bragg.
Johnston County Post 71 and Garner Post 232 cruised into the second round of the American Legion Baseball playoffs with two-game sweeps of Creedmoor and Cary Post 67, repsectively.
The two division rivals will meet in a best-of-three series starting Monday at Smithfield-Selma High School.
The series schedule:
Game 1: Monday at Smithfield-Selma High School
Game 2: Wednesday at Garner High School
Game 3, if needed: Thursday at Smithfield-Selma High School
We'll have updates on each game online.
