The N.C. High School Athletic Association plans no changes to its cross country regionals on Saturday despite requests from several coaches to find a way to advance more teams.

The Mideast boys regional at Cary's SAS Soccer Park has six teams that are ranked among the top eight in the state cross country coaches' poll.

Only four teams will advance from each of the four 4-A regionals.

Enloe, Broughton and Green Hope are ranked Nos. 1, 2 and 3 in the coaches' boys poll and Chapel Hill, the 2006 4-A champion, is No. 5. Cary is No. 8.

In the girls regional, Chapel Hill is No. 1 followed by Mideast regional competitors Cary (No. 4), Green Hope (No. 5), East Chapel Hill (No. 6) and Apex (No. 8).

The Mideast regional has schools from the Tri-Eight, Cap Seven, Piedmont Athletic and Coastal conferences.

This year, and for the past several years, those conferences have been loaded.

"You are looking at a situation where a team that is one of the top 10 in the state doesn't even get to go to the state," said Cary coach Jerry Dotson.

Carolyn Shannonhouse, an assistant executive director of the NCHSAA, said the organization will follow the regional procedure approved by its board.

"We can't be making changes on the week of the regional," she said. "The coaches may have valid concerns, but they need to bring them to the board for future consideration."

The NCHSAA knows that in many years the best teams do not meet in the state championships.

The best teams in the state could meet in the regionals or even in an earlier round in most sports.

NO HARM INTENDED: Chapel Hill was not trying to circumvent NCHSAA rules recently when it added a game to its boys soccer schedule, according to Tigers athletics director Ronnie Hayes.

Chapel Hill had two players red-carded in a 3-3 tie with Durham Jordan on Sept. 26. Players who receive red cards cannot play in the next two games -- which would have been Person on Oct. 1 and East Chapel Hill on Oct. 5.

By adding a game with Durham Science & Math on Oct. 4, the players were eligible for a key Piedmont Athletic 4-A conference game against East Chapel Hill.

The players missed the 9-1 win over Person and the 2-1 win over Science and Math.

Chapel Hill, at full strength, defeated East Chapel Hill 1-0.

"I know it looks terrible, but we didn't add a game to get those players back in the lineup against East," Hayes said.

Hayes said Chapel Hill had a game scheduled with Pittsboro Northwood rained out on Aug. 21. The game was rescheduled for Sept. 14 and was rained out again.

After Northwood couldn't find another date to reschedule, Hayes said coach Ron Benson tried to find a non-conference opponent to replace Northwood. Science & Math was available on Oct. 4.

"We had been working on this before we played Jordan," Hayes said.

Benson said there was a gap in the schedule that the game filled.

"We did nothing illegal," Benson said.

Hayes said the appearance of wrongdoing became apparent after the Oct. 5 game.

"When we realized the perception, I met with our administration and decided to suspend our coaches for our next East Chapel Hill game," Hayes said, referring to Friday's 3-0 win.

"I regret this happened. I know that if something like this ever comes up again, I am going to look at it long and hard."

Mark Dreibelbis, an assistant executive director of the NCHSAA, said even if Chapel Hill had scheduled the Science & Math game in an effort to have its team at full strength for a later game, the school violated no rule.

"You can't legislate ethics," Dreibelbis said. "You hope that our coaches don't get caught up in chasing wins so much that they forget what they are supposed to be teaching our young people.

"If I were a principal, superintendent or athletic director of a school and I suspected my coach had added a game to dodge a rule, I would act accordingly."

ANDREWS WINS HONOR: Bo Andrews, a junior at Ravenscroft, has been named as an honorable mention on the Rolex Junior All-American golf team by the American Junior Golf Association.

He had five top-20 finishes in 2007, including wins at the Mooney Rome Classic and the Golf Pride Junior Classic in Pinehurst.

He is No. 58 in the final 2007 Polo Golf Rankings.

HISTORIC ACE: Former Fuquay-Varina girls golfer Brooke Godwin recorded a historic hole-in-one at the 230-yard No. 16 at Pebble Beach (Calif.) Cypress Point Golf Club on Monday.

The internationally famous hole requires golfers to hit the ball over water -- the Pacific Ocean -- to a small green.

Godwin, a sophomore member of the Vanderbilt team, used a driver to ace what has been called the greatest golf hole in the world.

She is the 18th golfer to ace the hole, the second -- and maybe the first -- female to ace it from the men's tees and the first left-hander.

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