The Northern Carolina 2A Conference has set its conference prep basketball tournament schedule for this week. Bunn swept the regular-season league championships in boys and girls play.

The semifinal and championship rounds in girls and boys play will be played at Franklinton High School. Quarterfinal games in the girls tournament will be played on Monday and Tuesday. All boys' quarterfinal round games are on Monday night.

The N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs are set to start this Tuesday. The first and second rounds will be played at one school site. With exception to the 1A bracket, the third and fourth rounds are held at a school on Thursday (the 1A only has one match that day for the regional title.

All four state championships Saturday between the East and West champion, also held at a school.

Three Johnston County high schools will host first and second round pods Tuesday as the NCHSAA dual team wrestling playoffs begin. Northern Carolina 2A Conference champion Corinth Holders, North Johnston and Clayton will all serve as host schools.

Girls Basketball
Cleveland 48, South Johnston 42
East Wake 57, West Johnston 31
Garner 51, Harnett Central 48
Southeast Raleigh 85, Smithfield-Selma 27
Wake Christian 42, Lee Christian 27

Boys Basketball
South Johnston 66, Cleveland 43
Corinth Holders 64, Louisburg 51
East Wake 63, West Johnston 51
Garner 74, Harnett Central 60
Bunn 51, North Johnston 47
Wake Christian 62, Lee Christian 52
Goldsboro 52, Princeton 51

Prep Dual Wrestling
Cleveland 55, Triton 18
West Johnston 63, Harnett Central 15

Former North Johnston High standout and East Carolina standout Willie Smith is seeing extended action at left tackle today for the Washington Redskins in their contest against the New England Patriots.

Smith was a free agent signee of the Redskins after the lockout and has spent much of the season as a game day inactive.

But the suspension of left tackle Trent Williams and the injury of regular starting right tackle Jammal Brown in pregame warm ups today thrust Smith into action.

Smith had been working a lot at left tackle during practice this week.

4-AA

Garner 55, Wilmington Laney 35 (FINAL) Demetrius Fairly has four TD

Leesville Road 49, Wake Forest-Rolesville 20 (FINAL) QB Braxton Berrios leads unbeaten Pride

Fayetteville Britt 31, Cary 0 (FINAL) Britt has not allowed a point in last 5 games

Middle Creek 34, Fuquay-Varina 20 (FINAL)

4-A

New Hanover 41, Southeast Raleigh 34  (FINAL) New Hanover stops Southeast at the nine in the final minute

Durham Hillside 40, Fayetteville Smith 12 (FINAL)

Scotland 55, Southeast Guilford 8 (FINAL)

3AA

Fayetteville Byrd 40, Chapel Hill 12 (FINAL)

Cardinal Gibbons 25, Erwin Triton 15 (FINAL)

3A

Cleveland 40, Southern Vance 34 (FINAL) Cleveland scored with 22 seconds left to tie the game and returns a blocked field goal for a touchdown with five seconds left for the win.

1A

Edenton Holmes 37, North Johnston 10 (FINAL)

NCISAA Eight-man finals

Word of God 46, Kinston Parrott 34 (FINAL)

The NCHSAA boys soccer playoffs begin this week with matches set for tonight and Wednesday. The schedule with start times that have been announced.

1-A

Martin Riverside at Princeton, 6 p.m on Wednesday

2-A

Corinth Holders at Graham, 6 p.m. on Wednsday

North Johnston at Greene Central

3-A

Greenville D.H. Conley at South Johnston, 7 p.m. on Wednesday

4-A

Garner at Wilmington Laney, 6 p.m. on Tuesday

West Johnston at New Bern, 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday

Clayton at Fayetteville Terry Sanford, 6 p.m. on Wednesday

The NCHSAA boys soccer playoffs begin this week, with most matches likely set for Wednesday. Here are the matches involving area teams in the Garner and Johnston County area. North Johnston, whose status was in limbo at the end of the regular season, is in as a wild card team.

We'll update with match times as soon as we know.

The NCHSAA's preliminary football playoff brackets are out. Remember, this is just the first try so these could change later today when they become official. We'll update things after that. ...

The NCHSAA prep volleyball playoffs begin Saturday and first round pairings have been announced. Some teams have yet to announce their match time. We'll update those as we get them.

A look at the matches involing Garner & Johnston County schools which are set for Saturday.