Here’s a recap of the key results, developments and conference standings from week six of the high school fall sports season in Chatham County:
Volleyball
Despite a combined 26 kills from Josie Valgus, Ally Forbes and Keira Rosenmarkle, Seaforth fell to highly-touted Chapel Hill, 3-1, on Sept. 18.
Every set in the heavyweight match up was decided by less than 10 points, and the second set went into extra play.
Chatham Central won 3-1 over its rival Jordan-Matthews on Sept. 17, but that game was also closer than the score indicates. The Bears won their three sets by less than 10 points and won the final two sets by a score of 25-17 after the game was tied at 1-1.
Woods Charter continued to dominate its conference opponents, sweeping River Mill and Chatham Charter. The Wolves have only given up one set in conference play as of Sunday.
Northwood lost two games during the week, but it finished with a 3-0 victory over Jordan-Matthews on Sept. 19.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Seaforth (11-2, 8-0); 2. North Moore (11-1, 5-1); 3. Chatham Central (8-5, 6-2); 4. Northwood (5-9, 5-4); 5. Bartlett Yancey (8-4, 4-4); 6. Southeast Alamance (5-7, 3-5); 7. Jordan-Matthews (1-10, 1-7); 8. Graham (0-13, 0-9)
Central Tar Heel 1A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Woods Charter (9-5, 8-0); 2. Clover Garden School (8-4, 5-2); 3. Chatham Charter (5-8, 4-2); 4. Southern Wake Academy (6-6, 4-4); 5. River Mill (5-8, 2-5); 6. Ascend Leadership (2-5, 1-4); 7. Triangle Math and Science (1-10, 0-7)
Boys’ Soccer
Due to postponements, there weren’t as many games as usual around the county last week. Yet, it was another slate of disappointing results.
The county went 3-5 in last week’s games with Jordan-Matthews owning two of those wins over Southeast Alamance (5-0) and Southern Alamance (2-1).
Woods Charter split the week with a 4-1 conference loss to Triangle Math and Science and a 3-0 win over American Leadership Academy-Johnston.
Northwood and Chatham Charter came up as the Chargers lost to Graham, 3-1, and the Knights fell to Southern Wake Academy and Research Triangle.
The Chargers’ home bout against Seaforth, originally scheduled for Sept. 16, got rescheduled for Oct. 10 at 6:30 p.m. Seaforth’s game at North Moore, originally scheduled for Sept. 18, will now be played on Oct. 30 at 6 p.m.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Jordan-Matthews (7-4, 4-0); 2. Graham (6-1-2, 2-0); 3. Seaforth (3-3-1, 1-0); 4. Southeast Alamance (5-6, 2-1); 5. Northwood (3-5-1, 1-3); 6. Cummings (3-3, 0-3); 7. North Moore (0-5, 0-3)
Central Tar Heel 1A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Clover Garden School (5-5, 4-0); 2. Triangle Math and Science (4-3-1, 4-0); 3. River Mill (2-5-1, 2-2); 4. Ascend Leadership (4-4-1, 2-2); 5. Woods Charter (2-4-1, 1-2); 6. Southern Wake Academy (3-6, 1-4); 7. Chatham Charter (0-8, 0-4)
Girls’ Tennis
Chatham Charter didn’t get a chance to add more wins to its undefeated season last week, but Seaforth bounced back from back-to-back losses in a huge way with a 9-0 win over Chatham Central on Sept. 18.
The Hawks swept the Bears in every singles match, and the latter is still looking for their first win of the season as of Sunday.
Northwood picked up a 7-2 win over Bartlett Yancey before its matchup with Jordan-Matthews on Sept. 19 got rained out. The Jets got the opposite result in its one game during the week, losing to North Moore, 7-2, on Sept. 18.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (from dual matches as of Sunday): 1. Seaforth (7-3, 6-0); 2. North Moore (3-3, 3-1); 3. Bartlett Yancey (5-2, 5-2); 4. Northwood (4-4, 4-3); 5. Southeast Alamance (3-6, 3-4); 6. Jordan-Matthews (3-6, 3-5); 7. Chatham Central (0-9, 0-9)
Cross Country
Seaforth and Northwood competed in the Adidas XC Challenge over the weekend.
Seaforth senior Jack Anstrom finished 20th in the boys’ championship 5K with a time of 15 minutes, 33.90 seconds. In the boys’ invitational 5K, the Hawks finished 15th as a team behind top 25 finishes from freshman Samuel Neil (21st place) and senior Will Cuicchi (22nd place). Northwood finished 33rd out of 37 teams, and junior Jordan Wiley ran a 16:46.50 to land at 31st place.
In the girls’ invitational 5K, Seaforth finished seventh out of 32 teams thanks to three top 60 finishes from Katie Leonard (40th), Claire Morgan (52nd) and Sasha Helmer (55th). Northwood senior Julia Hall had the best performance from any Chatham County runner in the race as she finished in 19th with a time of 20:01.30. The Chargers landed at 26th in the final team results.