Here’s a roundup of the key results, developments and conference standings from week nine of the high school fall sports season in Chatham County:
Volleyball
The volleyball regular season wrapped up last week as the county’s teams made their final pushes for the state playoffs.
Seaforth finished the season undefeated in conference play with a 3-0 win over Bartlett Yancey on Oct. 10.
Woods Charter also remained perfect against conference opponents, sweeping Ascend Leadership on Oct. 8.
Chatham Charter ended the year with a winning record following two straight victories over Ascend Leadership and Central Carolina Academy.
Chatham Central ended its four-game losing streak with two consecutive wins over Northwood and Graham on Oct. 8 and 9, respectively. But for a potential boost in the 1A East RPI standings against second-place North Moore on Oct. 10, the Bears lost 3-0.
Final Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings: 1. Seaforth (17-4, 14-0); 2. North Moore (18-2, 12-2); 3. Chatham Central (10-10, 8-6); 4. Northwood (8-12, 7-7); 5. Bartlett Yancey (13-7, 7-7); 6. Southeast Alamance (8-12, 6-8); 7. Jordan-Matthews (2-18, 2-12); 8. Graham (0-18, 0-14)
Final Central Tar Heel 1A conference standings: 1. Woods Charter (14-5, 12-0); 2. Chatham Charter (11-9, 9-3); 3. Clover Garden School (12-7, 8-4); 4. Southern Wake Academy (8-9, 6-6); 5. River Mill (8-12, 5-7); 6. Ascend Leadership (2-12, 1-11); 7. Triangle Math and Science (2-14, 1-11)
Boys’ Soccer
Jordan-Matthews lost its nine-game win streak and its first conference game of the season to Graham, 2-1 on Oct. 10. Graham scored the first goal of the game with just under 28 minutes remaining in the first half, but the Jets didn’t tie it up until they knocked in a corner kick halfway through the second half. The Red Devils took the lead with just over 10 minutes left to play and held off Jordan-Matthews for the upset.
The Jets beat Northwood, 3-1, a day before the loss.
Northwood and Seaforth finished their first meeting of the year in a 1-1 double overtime stalemate on Oct. 10. For the Chargers, the week could’ve been better as they also lost to Southeast Alamance, 8-0, on Oct. 7.
Seaforth, on the other hand, had one of its best stretches of games all year, beating Graham, 2-1, on Oct. 7 and Cummings, 3-0, on Oct. 9.
Woods Charter had the largest victory of the week, though, as the Wolves dominated Central Carolina Academy, 6-0, on Oct. 9.
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Jordan-Matthews (11-5, 7-1); 2. Southeast Alamance (10-6, 7-1); 3. Graham (10-3-2, 4-2-1); 4. Seaforth (5-6-2, 3-2-1); 5. Northwood (4-7-1, 2-5); 6. North Moore (2-7, 1-5); 7. Cummings (4-8, 1-8)
Central Tar Heel 1A conference standings (as of Sunday): 1. Triangle Math and Science (6-5-2, 6-0-1); 2. Clover Garden School (6-8, 5-2); 3. River Mill (6-5-2, 4-2-2); 4. Ascend Leadership (5-5-1, 3-3); 5. Woods Charter (5-5-1, 3-3-1); 6. Southern Wake Academy (3-7, 1-5); 7. Chatham Charter (0-13, 0-7)
Girls’ Tennis
Conference tournaments were played out last week to determine qualifiers for the regionals Friday. Here’s the county’s regional qualifiers by conference:
Mid-Carolina 1A/2A:
1A Singles: Carlee Callahan (Chatham Central) and Emma Burke (Chatham Central)
1A Doubles: Bailea Marley and Leah Covington (North Moore)
2A Singles: Lillian McFall (Seaforth), Ella Gentel (Seaforth), Andi Wicker (Northwood)
2A Doubles: Bailey Shadoan and Claire Coady (Seaforth), Jenna Robinette and Makenzy Lehew (Seaforth), Kailey Gonzalez Cabrera and Takyra Henderson (Bartlett Yancey)
Central Tar Heel 1A:
Singles: Jordyn Garner (Chatham Charter)
Doubles: Mak Allen and Maggie Moody (Chatham Charter)
Girls’ Golf
Results from the fifth Mid-Carolina 1A/2A conference match on Oct. 7:
North Moore (162); 2. Southeast Alamance (164); 3. Seaforth (169); 4. Northwood (173); 5. Chatham Central (180); 6. Graham (186)
Cross Country
Top performances from county runners in the second Southeast Alamance meet on Oct. 8:
Boys
Jackson Hughes (Chatham Central, 20 minutes, 25.71 seconds, third place), Damian Lagunez (Chatham Central, 21:01.24, seventh place), Aiden Leysath (Jordan-Matthews, 22:32.96, 10th place)
Girls
Athena Dispennette (Jordan-Matthews, 26:19.83, fifth place), Nyla Miller (Jordan-Matthews, 26:46.81, sixth place), Bree Thomas (Chatham Central, 31:34.55, 10th place)