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Published Tue, Nov 03, 2009 02:00 AM
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Playoffs continue in NCHSAA

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The N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs in volleyball and dual-team tennis continue today, and the boys' soccer tournament begins tonight and Wednesday.

Tonight's volleyball winners are scheduled to play for state titles Saturday at N.C. State.

Dual-team tennis quarterfinals are today, with the semifinals scheduled for Thursday and the championships Saturday.

In dual-team tennis, teams advance. The individual championships were held last weekend.

Volleyball: Enloe and Cardinal Gibbons head to Greenville tonight for the Eastern finals.

Enloe (24-3), which upset previously undefeated Wakefield on Saturday, plays at nationally ranked and undefeated Greenville Rose (23-0).

Gibbons (23-1), which is also nationally ranked, plays at defending Eastern 3-A champion Greenville Conley (26-2).

Cedar Ridge plays at East Duplin in a 2-A semifinal.

Dual-team tennis: Broughton (17-0) plays at Green Hope (20-2) in the 4-A quarterfinals.

Both teams are loaded. Broughton had two teams advance to the 4-A doubles championships, and Green Hope's Melissa Kandinata reached the state singles semifinals.

Chapel Hill plays at Cardinal Gibbons in 3-A, Carrboro is at Pittsboro Northwood in 2-A and Durham Science & Math is at Ayden-Grifton.

Soccer: Some NCHSAA boys' soccer tournament first-round games are tonight, and some are scheduled for Wednesday.

Tonight in 4-A, Wakefield is at Durham Jordan (6 p.m.); Harnett Central is at New Hanover (6); Wilmington Laney is at Clayton (6); Leesville Road is at Fuquay-Varina (6:30); Middle Creek is at Sanderson (6:30); Athens Drive is at Broughton (6:30); and Northern Durham is at Apex (6:30).

Chapel Hill is home against Rockingham in a 3-A game.

Tigers doubles win: Tori Helpingstine and Hannah Kimbrough won the NCHSAA 3-A doubles championship Saturday. They defeated Lindsay Thomas and Kate Gray 6-1, 6-2 to take the title.

Cross country regionals: Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Durham Science & Math swept the 3-A, 2-A and 1-A titles, respectively, at the Mid-East boys and girls cross country championships Saturday.

Sarah Rapp (19:16.56) won the 3-A Mideast girls race ahead of Chapel Hill's Tristin Van Ord (19:23.63).

Gibbons freshman Samiiah Wilson (19:23.89) was third.

In the boys 3-A Mid-East race, Jake Hurysz of Eastern Alamance (15:39.11) won easily over Gibbons' Sean Magee (15:53.64) and Mark Sullivan (16:23.36). Asher Colburn-Hertzberg was fourth to lead Chapel Hill.

Carrboro's Elliot Pahel-Short (17:44.41) won the 2-A Mid-East boys, and Carrboro freshman Grace Morken (20:12.53) was the girls winner.

Science & Math finished second, third, fourth, fifth and seventh in the boys Mid-East 1-A to easily outdistance second-place Raleigh Charter, 16-62.

Science & Math's Francis Dougherty and Callie Turlington finished 1-2 in the girls Mid-East 1-A.

Broughton and Green Hope were the Mid-East 4-A boys and girls winners. The West Johnston boys won the 4-A East.

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