Week three of the high school fall sports season in Chatham Country brought an entertaining slate of intra-county showdowns, impressive individual performances and growing win streaks.
Here’s a recap of the key moments, developments and conference standings from last week’s fall sports games:
Volleyball
Numerous intra-county rivalries highlighted the volleyball action from last week. Seaforth winning over Chatham Central to take first place in the Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference was the biggest moment of the week, but the Hawks also dominated neighboring Northwood, 3-0, on Aug. 27. Woods Charter won the season’s first battle with rival Chatham Charter, 3-1, on Aug. 27, and the Wolves fought their way back to .500 with a 3-1 victory over Oxford Prep on Aug. 29.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A standings (as of Sunday)(overall, conference): 1. Seaforth (5-1, 4-0); 2. Chatham Central (5-2, 4-1); 3. Northwood (4-4, 4-2); 4. North Moore (5-1, 2-1); 5. Southeast Alamance (2-4, 1-2); 6. Bartlett Yancey (2-3, 1-3); 7. Jordan-Matthews (0-6, 0-3); 8. Graham (0-6, 0-4)
Central Tar Heel standings (as of Sunday): 1. Clover Garden School (5-0, 3-0); 2. Woods Charter (3-3, 2-0); 3. Southern Wake Academy (2-1, 2-1); 4. Chatham Charter (2-5, 1-1); 5. River Mill (3-4, 1-2); 6. Ascend Leadership (0-3, 0-2); 7. Triangle Math & Science (0-6, 0-3)
Boys’ Soccer
Chatham Charter and Woods Charter joined the party last week, but they didn’t have the warmest welcome. The Knights lost to Southeast Guilford, 9-0, on Aug. 26 and Cornerstone Charter, 8-1, the following night, and the Wolves started their season with a 2-2 draw against River Mill.
Behind two goals from junior Nadir Martinez, Seaforth picked up a 4-1 win over Grace Christian (Sanford), and the Hawks followed that with a 2-0 loss to Western Alamance. As of Sunday, Martinez leads the Hawks with six goals this season.
Jordan-Matthews came close to drawing and possibly knocking off Franklin Academy in a rematch of last year’s 2A East regional semifinal, but its game-tying goal was waived off and the Jets lost, 1-0.
But, it was Northwood that had the best week as the Chargers went 2-0 against Southern Alamance and North Moore.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A standings (as of Sunday): 1. Northwood (3-1-1, 1-0); 2. Jordan-Matthews (2-4, 1-0); 3. Cummings (2-1, 0-1); 4. North Moore (0-2, 0-1); 5. Graham (1-1-1, 0-0); 6. Seaforth (2-2, 0-0)
Central Tar Heel 1A standings (as of Sunday): 1. Triangle Math & Science (1-3-1, 1-0); 2. River Mill (0-1-1, 0-0); 3. Woods Charter (0-0-1, 0-0); 4. Southern Wake Academy (1-2, 0-1); 5. Ascend Leadership (1-1, 0-0); 6. Chatham Charter (0-2, 0-0); 7. Clover Garden School (1-2, 0-0)
Girls’ Tennis
Chatham Charter remained undefeated last week with a 5-4 win over Providence Grove on Aug. 26. Seniors Sasha Blackmon and Reece Callihan and the pair of junior Mak Allen and sophomore Maggie Moody kept the Knights perfect with wins in the doubles matches.
Seaforth, picking up steam after its season-opening loss, dominated its rival Northwood, 9-0, and the Chargers bounced back with a 7-2 win over Jordan-Matthews.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A standings (from dual matches as of Sunday): 1. Bartlett Yancey (3-0, 3-0); 2. Seaforth (3-1, 2-0); 3. Northwood (2-2, 2-2); 4. Jordan-Matthews (2-3, 2-2); 5. North Moore (1-2, 1-1); 6. Chatham Central (0-2, 0-2); 7. Southeast Alamance (0-5, 0-3)
Central Tar Heel 1A standings (from dual matches as of Sunday): 1. Triangle Math & Science (1-3, 1-0); 2. Chatham Charter (5-0, 0-0); 3. Southern Wake Academy (0-1, 0-1)
Cross Country
Northwood and Seaforth went to Southeast Alamance and joined the Stallions as the only teams to compete in a Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference meet on Aug. 27.
In the boys’ race, the top three finishers in order were Northwood junior Jordan Wiley (18 minutes, 32.11 seconds), Northwood junior Joe Flynn (19:28.96) and Seaforth junior Will Lippers (19:54.08). The Chargers had five racers finish in the top 10, and they led the boys’ final team scores with 22 points. Seaforth finished third as a team with 59 points.
For the girls’ race, the top three finishers were all Chargers with junior Sydney Gray (20:50.96), senior Julia Hall (21:19.40) and sophomore Ashley Perry (23:46.18) crossing the finish line in that order. Senior Natalia Davis was the first Seaforth runner to finish as her time of 24:32.93 earned sixth place. Northwood, the team with five top 10 times, also led the girls’ final team scores with 22 points, while Seaforth finished in second place with a score of 49.