This week’s Orange Panther of the Week is senior tennis player Zachary Cole. This season, Cole helped the Orange men’s tennis team get in a position to host a first-round match in the 5A State Dual Team Playoffs for the first time in the program’s history dating back to 1982. The Panthers won the match…
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This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is senior Laci Sykes. Over the past four years, Sykes has been a two-sport athlete. She has played softball for head coach Allan Byrd. This season, Sykes hit .269 with two home runs and 15 RBIs for a Cedar Ridge team that finished second in the…
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Back in the fall, the North Carolina High School Athletic Association reorganized itself from a four-classification standard to an alleged “expanded”, eight-classification approach. And yet,the Association had an opportunity to rectify a wrong it has been committed for many years. That wrong was that there were too many teams making the state playoffs when…
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The Orange women’s soccer team got the help of a freshman to help its chances of hosting a state playoff game. On Friday night, Emery Kruse scored the game-tying goal with eight seconds remaining in regulation as the Lady Panthers played to a 2-all tie with Southeast Alamance at Orange Soccer Field. Kruse’s scored her…
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Photo by Sam Sawyer PITTSBORO–It would have been an injustice for Ryan Sawyer to throw the best game of his career and not get a win. Fortunately, Kayden Bradsher delivered the hit that paved the way for an Orange win so justified, it would have made Raylan Givens proud. Bradsher drove in Ben Knowles with…
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It may have been the best game in the career of Orange senior pitcher Ryan Sawyer. In his final regular season game, Sawyer struck out ten batters in eight-and-two-thirds innings as Orange defeated Seaforth 2-1 in Pittsboro on Thursday night. Sawyer allowed just four hits as he earned his fifth win of the season. It…
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Photo by Jacques Morin In a season where Hayleigh Hammond has hit the most home runs than any Orange softball player in nearly a decade, she delivered her most timely one on Tuesday night. Hammond delivered a two-run walkoff blast in the bottom of the seventh as Orange defeated J.F. Webb 7-5 at Panther Softball…
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For the sixth year in a row, the Orange lacrosse team has won the Big 7 Conference Championship. On Wednesday night, the Panthers defeated Cedar Ridge 16-5 at Auman Stadium in Hillsborough. Junior Jackson Eakes scored a career-high five goals to pace the Panthers. Eakes won ten of eleven face-offs against the Red Wolves. Over…
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