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October 10
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Athletes of the week
Reese Wiggins School: Southern Sport: Football (wide receiver) Year: Senior Highlight reel: The senior had seven catches for a team-high 79 yards and scored two touchdowns in a win over Northern last Friday. He scored his first touchdown of the night when he returned the opening kickoff 87 yards — his third return for a touchdown this season. Blue Devils, Tar Heels or Wolfpack?: Tar Heels Favorite Movie: Glory Road Favorite Athlete: “Chad Johnson because he’s an entertainer and a really good player on the field. He works hard at what he does and he gives people their monies worth everytime he comes out.” Playing on my iPod right now: “Green Light” by John Legend Favorite restaurant: O’Charley’s Three people I’d invite to dinner: My mom, my dad and my brother College Plans: Undecided but has an offer from ECU
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Thursday's high schools roundup
From staff reports
DURHAM -- Person swept Jordan 3-0 on Thursday and improves its conference record to 11-2. The Rockets beat the Falcons by scores of 25-20, 25-21 and 25-21.
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October 9
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Jordan goes looking for 'redemption' vs. Southern
Each week the Jordan football team picks a word to be its key word of the week.
The word this week? Redemption.
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October 8
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Wednesday's Prep Roundup
BOYS' SOCCER
Northwood 1, NCSSM 0
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Tigers' upset bid blocked
Nobody was quite calling it a moral victory, but Chapel Hill kept favored Raleigh Broughton interested for 80 minutes Wednesday night.
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Tuesday's high school sports roundup
GIRLS TENNIS
Huang wins singles at PAC-6 tournament
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October 7
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After coach's dismissal, Cedar Ridge volleyball team keeps its focus to beat Carrboro 3-0
At least between the lines, Cedar Ridge's volleyball players did a great job of staying focused Tuesday night.
In their second match following the dismissal of coach Laurie Calder-Green for reasons no one seems to want to discuss, the homestanding Red Wolves blew past a scrappy Carrboro team 25-17, 25-14, 25-22 in Mid-State 2-A/1-A action.
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October 6
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Cavs sweep individual races; Jordan reclaims girls' title
Last year, the Durham School of the Arts girls toppled Jordan to claim the Durham City-County cross country meet title, a race the Falcons had dominated from 1999 to 2006.
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October 4
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Person shocks Riverside
Person scored 14 unanswered points, including a scoring pass in the game's final 20 seconds, handing the Rockets their first PAC-6 win of the season.
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Chapel Hill tops rival ECH
Chapel Hill smothered East Chapel Hill with defense to come out victorious in the series for the fifth straight year, 37-0.
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Gattis helps the Hornets to comeback
Corey Gattis wasn't feeling good about his team being shut out in the first half Friday night, so he said he decided to "man up."
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Spartans' final defensive stand preserves win over rival Knights
For the second week in a row, it took a big defensive stop by the Southern defense at the end of the game to secure a Spartans victory.
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October 3
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Jones aims for titles at Morgan horse competition
In a sport that lends itself to life-long competition at its highest levels, Rebecca Jones has gotten used to beating opponents older than her parents.
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Today's High School Football games
ECH (0-5, 0-1) at Chapel HIll (3-2, 1-0) The lowdown: Even though this is a rivalry matchup of the two high schools in Chapel Hill, the Tigers enter tonight’s game as the clear favorites. The Wildcats still are looking for their first win of the season and the senior class has never beaten Chapel Hill. After starting the season 1-2, the Tigers have won two straight, outscoring their opponents 52-25. Coach Isaac Marsh said after last week’s 24-12 win over Person that his team had taken a big step forward.
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Herald-Sun Athletes of the Week: Josh Anderson and Azariah Bell
Josh Anderson School: Riverside Sport: Soccer (center and left midfield) Year: Senior Highlight reel: The senior captain scored a goal and had two assists to lead his team past East Chapel Hill on Monday. Anderson has scored six goals and has had nine assists this season to lead his team to a 8-4-1 overall record. Blue Devils, Tar Heels or Wolfpack?: Blue Devils Favorite Movie: The Fast and the Furious Favorite Athlete: “Cristiano Ronaldo because he’s my favorite center mid and I like how he moves on the ball.” Playing on my iPod right now: “I’m Me” by Lil Wayne Favorite restaurant: Carrabba’s Three people I’d invite to dinner: My girlfriend, Cristiano Ronaldo and Ike Opara. College Plans: Undecided but plans on playing soccer somewhere
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Thursday's prep roundup
DURHAM -- Michelle Edwards had nine kills and served out the final three points of the decisive fifth game for Jordan, as the Falcons beat the Pirates 3-2.
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October 2
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Long streak on the line at Northern
For the past three years that Anthony Thorpe and his fellow seniors have played for the Northern football team, they've never beaten rival Southern. In fact, Thorpe can't remember the last time the Knights topped the Spartans.
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Wildcats claim PAC-6 girls' tennis title
East Chapel Hill continued its string of regular season conference championships Wednesday afternoon with a 6-2 victory at Chapel Hill, the only team that had a chance to stop the streak.
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October 1
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Tuesday's Prep Roundup
GIRLS' TENNIS
Chapel Hill 7, Riverside 2
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September 30
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Jordan's Rhodes commits to play football for Heels
One of Jordan High's most high-profile football recruits ever has verbally committed to play football at North Carolina. Jerrell Rhodes, a 5-9, 192 pound running back, informed the UNC coaching staff of his decision Monday night.
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Northern shows no letdown heading into big matchup
It was far from its toughest match of the year, but Northern stayed focused enough to take care of business in girls' tennis on Tuesday against visiting Hillside.
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Monday's prep roundup
FOOTBALL
Eastern Guilford knocks off Cedar Ridge
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ECH's Kennihan continues recovery with victory at invitational
Three months ago, East Chapel Hill’s Mackie Kennihan was having surgery on her leg because of a rare condition called compartment syndrome.
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September 27
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Friday's prep sports roundup
S. Granville 35, Bart. Yancey 8
CREEDMOOR — Ian Bosley rushed for 167 yards and three touchdowns Friday night, leading South Granville to a 35-8 win over Bartlett Yancey.
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Riverside runs out to big lead to top ECH
The season couldn't have started out much slower for Riverside, but the Pirates seem to be picking up the pace at the most opportune time.
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Knights pull a big upset over Falcons
Northern quarterback Andrew Peacock came into Friday night's game at Jordan as an underdog sporting a 1-3 record.
He left in rhythm and with a perfect PAC-6 record after shocking the dumbfounded Falcons 31-13.
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Tigers' win shows improvement
Isaac Marsh said his Chapel Hill football team took a big step forward Friday night.
The Rockets had been four-for-four against the Tigers in his first four seasons as head coach. But that streak is now over.
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Spartans, Lea overcome turnovers for PAC-6 victory over Hornets
Southern quarterback Alan Lea has a short memory.
The junior had thrown three interceptions and committed a fumble in the first three quarters. But with the game on the line Friday night, Lea told his coach he wanted the ball.
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September 26
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Today's scheduled football games
Riverside (0-4, 0-0) at ECH (0-4, 0-0)
The lowdown: One of these teams will get its first win of the season tonight. Riverside, which lost its first two games by an average of 47 points, lost its final two nonconference games by an average of only seven points – including a 31-26 loss to Wakefield last week. ECH is coming off a 34-0 loss to South Granville and has been outscored 146-33 in its four games. The Pirates main offensive weapons are running back Chauncey Burgess and quarterback Andrew Evans, who has had at least two games of over 200 yards in the air.
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September 25
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Thursday's Prep Roundup
Volleyball
Chapel Hill 3, East Chapel Hill 0
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Southern, Hillside open up the PAC-6 slate
When Southern travels to cross town rival Hillside tonight to kick off conference play, expect the Spartans to be all business.
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September 24
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Wednesday's Prep sports roundup
BOYS' SOCCER
Riverside 8, Southern 0
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Falcons, Tigers come up even
Once again, Jordan and Chapel Hill squared off for 100 minutes of solid soccer and settled absolutely nothing.
But fans of both sides are used to it.
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September 23
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Monday's prep roundup
BOYS' SOCCER
Riverside 5, Chapel Hill 1
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September 22
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Tigers shut out the Pirates, cash in on penalty corners
Chapel Hill field hockey coach Diego Cabellero likes to tell his team that a penalty corner is half a goal, and for that reason the Tigers practice them every day.
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September 20
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Hillside rolls to victory
On a night when the usually potent Hillside offense couldn’t get much going, thanks in part to a stingy Northern Vance defense, the Hornets turned to its defense to come up with big plays.
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Strong defense carries Spartans to victory
Southern High stifled New Hanover throughout the night on its way to a 36-6 nonconference football victory Saturday night.
Southern played sloppy out of the gate, fresh with adrenaline from their previous victory over Wake Forest-Rolesville. On its third drive of the game, back-to-back personal fouls pushed Southern back 30 yards.
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Falcons win second in four days
Forget that adage about lightning not striking in the same place twice -- it struck five times Friday night at Currie Stadium.
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Moore's 245 yards carry Tigers to win
Feed Chapel Hill's Steven Moore the ball and he'll tote it -- all you have to do is ask him.
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September 19
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Prep football: Today's games
S. Alamance (4-0, 0-0) at Chapel Hill (1-2, 0-0)
The lowdown: Chapel Hill enters tonight’s game looking for a better offensive night than it had in last week’s 17-7 loss to Broughton. In that game the Tigers scored on their first possession but then struggled to move the ball and missed two field goals. Chapel Hill has one of the best defenses in the area but needs the offense to step up and make plays if it hopes to get a win against Southern Alamance, which beat Jordan-Matthews 15-0 last week to record its second shutout of the season.
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Thursday's prep roundup
A look at Thursday's high school sports action.
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Prep star of the week: Mark Linnville
Mark Linnville
School: NCSSM
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September 18
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Hillside closes non-conference schedule with Northern Vance
The nonconference portion of a majority of local high school football schedules concludes tonight, and along with most other coaches, Hillside's Ray Harrison is hoping to fine tune his team before the games really begin to count toward playoff contention.
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Prep star of the week: Michelle Prata
Michelle Prata
School: Chapel Hill
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September 17
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FitzGerald delivers for Falcons
Jason FitzGerald and his Jordan teammates had to go to overtime to get it done.
But when it mattered -- with just 25.7 seconds left on the second overtime clock and a tie game imminent -- the senior captain came through in the clutch.
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Chapel Hill wins fourth straight
The Chapel Hill volleyball team entered Tuesday's match against Riverside believing it was a must-win situation.
The young Tigers, who had started the season with six straight losses, needed a victory over the Pirates, one of the top teams in the PAC-6, to stay in contention for a playoff spot.
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September 15
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Jordan gets past Knightdale
Heading into Monday night's game, Jordan football coach Mike Briggs was a little concerned about how his team would play. The Falcons last played on Aug. 29 when they routed Green Hope, then had an off week and Friday's game was postponed because of rain. But Jordan showed no signs of rust as it had zero turnovers and never trailed as it to cruised to a 27-14 win over Knightdale on Monday.
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Monday's prep roundup
VOLLEYBALL
Durham Academy 3, Cresset Christian 2
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September 13
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Rockets get a test from Halifax County
Person faced the prospect of losing a lead in the final seconds for the second consecutive game Friday night.
The Rockets, however, never lost their cool.
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Jaguars hang in, can't hang on
Orange High School put down a pesky Carrboro High football team Friday, defeating the Jaguars 66-30.
The game looked like it might go Carrboro's way out of the gate, especially after halfback David Brooks made his mark. Brooks started off the scoring with a 26-yard scamper to complete Carrboro's first drive.
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Millbrook rolls Knights
Friday night's game was a homecoming of sorts for Northern coach Anthony Sullivan, who had been an assistant at Raleigh Millbrook until this season.
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Tigers, Caps pay tribute to fallen player; Broughton goes on to pull out victory
Friday night's game was another emotional exorcize for the Chapel Hill High football team, as the Tigers played their first home game since the death of defensive lineman Atlas Fraley on Aug. 12.
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September 12
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Today's football games
Orange (2-1, 0-0)at Carrboro (0-3, 0-3)
The lowdown: It’s a short week for Orange, which is looking to rebound from a loss to South Granville on Monday. The Panthers had too many penalties and couldn’t seem to find an offensive rhythm in the 13-7 defensive struggle. Carrboro, which plays only conference opponents for the first five weeks, is coming off its best game of the season, where it almost won its first-ever conference game. The Jaguars led Cardinal Gibbons in the third quarter but couldn’t hang on for the victory.
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Thursday's prep roundup
GIRLS’ TENNIS
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Players of the week: Raven Watlington and Blake Williams
Raven Watlington
School: Orange
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Vacation is over for Jordan vs. Knightdale tonight
After two weeks off, the Jordan football team is ready to get back on the field for a game. The Falcons are coming off a bye week and coach Mike Briggs said his team is tired of practicing.
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September 10
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Wildcats, Tigers post shutouts in PAC-6 boys' soccer
BOYS' SOCCER
ECH 9, Person 0
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