Month: January 2020

Cedar Ridge senior Jai’kel Gibbs talks sweeping Orange

On Senior night, Cedar Ridge guard Jai’kel Gibbs came off the bench to lift the Red Wolves. Within seconds of entering the game, Gibbs hit three 3-pointers in a span of three minutes against crosstown rival Orange. Gibbs finished with 15 points as the Red Wolves completed a regular season sweep of the Panthers, 66-60…

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Cedar Ridge senior Caitlyn Lloyd talks her final home game

It was a night of emotion for the Cedar Ridge women’s basketball team on Friday night. They played its senior night game against crosstown rival Orange. For the second time this season, Cedar Ridge led at the half before the Panthers closed out strong for the win. Senior Caitlyn Lloyd played her final game with…

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Orange at Cedar Ridge basketball! Listen live to the doubleheader here!

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Chapel Hill wrestling stuns Orange 32-30 for Panthers first conference loss since 2003

If the Chapel Hill wrestling team didn’t understand the magnitude of what they accomplished at the end of Thursday night, you really can’t blame them. Very few of them were alive the last time Orange lost a conference match. That was 17 years ago, which was also the last time the Panthers didn’t win a…

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Orange wrestling beats Northern, faces Chapel Hill Thursday for Big 8 title

For two decades, it has been an annual tradition for the Orange wrestling team to compete for a Big 8 Championship in the final days of January. It will be no different this year. On Tuesday night, the Panthers defeated Northern Durham 81-0 at Poe Gymtorium in Durham to officially clinch a birth in the…

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Cedar Ridge’s Fowlkes, Horne, Orange’s Mims qualify for state indoor track championships

With the North Carolina High School Athletic Association Indoor Track & Field Championships only two weeks away, several Hillsborough athletes will be included in the festivities. After qualifying for the NCHSAA 3A Outdoor Track & Field Championships last year, Cedar Ridge sophomore Caroline Fowlkes has qualified for the Indoor State Championships in the pole vault….

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Vance County at Orange men’s basketball! Listen live here!

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Orange’s Korbin Nevius talks winning the Silver Fox Invitational

Orange’s Korbin Nevius won his first individual championship at the varsity level on Saturday. Nevius claimed the 160-pound championship in the Silver Fox Invitational at Riverside High School in Durham. He pinned Cary’s Jake Wolfram in the championship match in 1:53. In the semifinals, Nevius defeated Matthew Leathers of Voyager Academy 6-4. Nevius started the…

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Alumni Update: Barnett sets career-high for Chowan

Icez Barnett: The 2019 Orange graduate was the first player off the bench for the Division II Chowan women’s basketball team in its 81-55 win over Southern Wesleyan at the Helms Center in Murfreesboro on Saturday. Barnett scored a career-high ten points as the Hawks defeated the Warriors 81-55. Barnett also played 14 minutes, her…

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Two Cents from the Franklin Mint: A New Turn of Events

On January 24, Nick Stevens of HighSchoolOT.com released a report stating that the North Carolina High School Athletic Association has distributed ballots to all 418 member schools for two proposed changes to its by-laws. Principals are designated voters on behalf of each member school and each school receives a singular vote. Any school who fails…

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