Here’s a roundup of the key results, developments and conference standings from week seven of the high school fall sports season in Chatham County:
Volleyball
Not much was out of the ordinary in last week’s slate of volleyball games with Woods Charter and Seaforth continuing their undefeated campaigns in conference play.
However, Northwood did hand Seaforth its first loss in a set from a conference opponent.
The Hawks beat the Chargers, 3-1, on Sept. 26 after dropping a tightly-contested third set, 26-24. Northwood played Seaforth just as close in the final set as it lost 25-23, but it was a good week nonetheless for the Chargers who have won three out of their last four games as of Sunday (including a 3-2 win over Lee County on Sept. 25).
Chatham Charter edged Clover Garden School, 3-2, on Sept. 26 behind a season-high 18 kills from junior Kynzie Jordan to hold on to the second-place spot in the Central Tar Heel 1A conference.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (as of Sunday) (overall, conference): 1. Seaforth (13-2, 10-0); 2. North Moore (14-1, 8-1); 3. Chatham Central (8-7, 6-4); 4. Northwood (7-10-1, 6-5-1); 5. Southeast Alamance (7-8, 5-5); 6. Bartlett Yancey (9-6, 4-6); 7. Jordan-Matthews (1-13, 1-10); 8. Graham (0-13, 0-9)
Central Tar Heel 1A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Woods Charter (10-5, 9-0); 2. Chatham Charter (7-8, 6-2); 3. Clover Garden School (9-6, 6-3); 4. Southern Wake Academy (7-8, 5-5); 5. River Mill (6-9, 3-6); 6. Ascend Leadership (2-6, 1-5); 7. Triangle Math and Science (1-12, 0-9)
Boys’ Soccer
Seaforth gave Jordan-Matthews a scare on Sept. 25, but the Jets’ undefeated conference record stood tall with a 1-0 win.
Jordan-Matthews picked up its largest win of the season with a 9-0 victory over American Leadership Academy-Johnston on Sept. 23, and on the same day, conference foe Northwood ended its four-game losing streak with a 6-1 win over Cummings.
Following a four-game losing streak during the month of September, Woods Charter won back-to-back games for the first time this season with a 2-0 victory over Clover Garden School on Sept. 23. With that win putting them back at .500 in conference play, the Wolves are in better position to make a playoff push in the final month of the regular season.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Jordan-Matthews (9-4, 5-0); 2. Southeast Alamance (7-6, 4-1); 3. Graham (7-2-2, 3-1-1); 4. Northwood (4-5-1, 2-3); 5. Seaforth (3-5-1, 1-2-1); 6. Cummings (4-4, 1-4); 7. North Moore (0-6, 0-4)
Central Tar Heel 1A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Triangle Math and Science (6-3-1, 6-0); 2. Clover Garden School (5-7, 4-2); 3. Ascend Leadership (5-5-1, 3-3); 4. River Mill (3-5-1, 2-2-1); 5. Woods Charter (3-4-1, 2-2-1); 6. Southern Wake Academy (3-6, 1-4); 7. Chatham Charter (0-9, 0-5)
Girls’ Tennis
Last week marked the second-to-last week in the dual team regular season, and the county teams began their final pushes for a playoff berth.
After two more 9-0 wins over Northwood and Southeast Alamance, Seaforth, which leads the Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference, still has yet to give up a point to a conference opponent as of Sunday.
Northwood, the fourth-place team as of Sunday, split a double header with North Moore on Sept. 25, winning and losing a game, 5-4.
Meanwhile in the Central Tar Heel 1A conference, Chatham Charter continued its undefeated season with a 9-0 win over Jordan-Matthews on Sept. 24.
As of Sunday’s RPI rankings, Seaforth, Northwood, Chatham Charter and Chatham Central are in position to make the state playoffs.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (from dual matches as of Sunday): 1. Seaforth (9-3, 8-0); 2. North Moore (5-4, 5-2); 3. Bartlett Yancey (6-3, 6-3); 4. Northwood (5-6, 5-5); 5. Southeast Alamance (4-8, 4-6); 6. Jordan-Matthews (3-8, 3-6); 7. Chatham Central (0-11, 0-9)
Central Tar Heel 1A conference standings (from dual matches as of Sunday): 1. Chatham Charter (11-0, 3-0); 2. Triangle Math and Science (1-4, 1-1); 3. Southern Wake Academy (0-4, 0-3)
Cross Country
Here are the top performances from races involving county runners last week:
Boys
Jackson Hughes (Chatham Central, 21 minutes, 32 seconds, second in North Moore Meet No. 2); Holton Mody (Woods Charter, 19:39, third at Central Tar Heel- Southern Wake); Torris Price (Chatham Charter, 18:39.66, third at CTHC Meet No. 6)
Girls
Athena Dispennette (Jordan-Matthews, 28:19, fourth at North Moore Meet No. 2); Michaela Valentine (Woods Charter, 22:24, first at Central Tar Heel- Southern Wake); Anna Peeler, (Woods Charter, 22:29.18, first at CTHC Meet No. 6)
Girls’ Golf
Results from the third Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference match on Sept. 23 (team score): 1. North Moore (159); 2. Northwood (167); 3. Seaforth (169); 4. Southeast Alamance (176); 4. Chatham Central (176); 6. Graham (182)