The Orange Middle School Chargers football team is back in the Orange Person Athletic Conference championship game. This afternoon (Wednesday), they will face Culbreth at Carrboro High School. Last week, the Chargers defeated Gravelly Hill to wrap up the Northern Division championship at Cedar Ridge High School. Jameson Torain scored two touchdowns against the Grizzlies….
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HAW RIVER–At the very end of Fritz Hessenthaler’s first season at Orange, he saw something that made his return to coaching worth it. There were tears in the eyes of some of the 25 sophomores, commiserating over the fact they would never get to play alongside three seniors ever again. “You can’t really put a…
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This week’s Orange Panther of the Week is senior men’s soccer forward Yurem Tapia. For the past two years, Tapia has been the leading scorer during a golden era for Orange men’s soccer. This season, Tapia has 12 goals and 15 assists and paces the team with 37 points. Among the highlights was scoring both…
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Sometimes the bigger the stakes are, the biggest surprises arise. Thursday night was just the second time that Orange men’s soccer hosted a state playoff game. It came against Seaforth in the round of 32 of the 5A State Playoffs. The Panthers’ top scorers, Yurem Tapia, John Gomez and Dallas Johnson, all had their moments….
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For the first time ever, the Orange men’s soccer team has advanced to the round of 16 in the state playoffs. On Wednesday night, the Panthers defeated Seaforth 4-1 in just the second-ever home state playoff game at Orange Soccer Field. The Panthers scored the opener when Ajali Carter sent a cross into the penalty…
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A pair of Orange seniors finished their careers among the top three runners at the 5A State Men’s Cross Country Championships. In his final cross country run for the Panthers, Myles Jermyn finished runner-up in a field of 145 competitors at the State Championship at the Ivey Redmond Sports Complex in Kernersville last Saturday. It…
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There will be at least one more home game for the Orange men’s soccer seniors. It will be this Thursday in the 5A State Playoffs. The senior group of John Gomez, Yurem Tapia Mendez, Dallas Johnson, Carson Condon, Jay Parker, Durvin Lopez, Cris Lopez, Gabe Yen, and Logan Edwards have been the most successful group…
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