Photo by Shannon Murphy

Women’s golf: Orange senior Shannon Murphy is going to the 3A State Golf Championships next week. Lady Panthers sophomore Gianni Burnette will join her.

On Monday at the Central Regional championships, Murphy finished 15h overall with a 92, including shooting a 44 on the front nine at the Valley Golf Course in Burlington. It will be the first time that Murphy has reached the state championships.

Brunette finished in 21st place with a 98.

Cedar Ridge’s Laci Sykes also qualified for regionals. She finished in 42nd place. Orange senior Kayla Pope was the third Lady Panther to earn a spot in regionals, coming in 49th.

Southern Alamance’s Riley Bush tied with Carrboro’s Cristina Murphy and Lee County’s Sydney Pomeranz for first place, each carding a 77.

Terry Sanford 8, Orange 1: Another solid season for the Orange women’s tennis team came to an end in the 2nd round of the 3A State Dual Team Playoffs in Fayetteville on Wednesday.

Terry Sanford, which has won four state championships, defeated Orange to advance to the round of 16. The Bulldogs won all six singles matches to sew up the team victory before doubles play even started.

Orange’s double team of Adelyn Alvis and Kyla Mehl was the lone Lady Panther victory of the day. Alvis and Mehl teamed to defeat Autry Canady and Grace Farmer 8-4. Alvis ends the season with an overall record of 27-2, including an 11-0 record in doubles play.

It was the final match in the Orange career of senior Shannon Sollars, who reached the 3A State Tournament twice in doubles play. Sollars was Orange’s top singles player and won 22 overall matches in 2024. Sollars older sister, Erin, was an assistant coach for head coach Justin Webb. In 2022, the Sollars sisters teamed to reach the 3A State Tournament. Erin and Shanon Sollars defeated Ellie Holtzman and Berkeley Geyer of Hickory 6-0, 6-2 to reach the state quarterfinals.

Overall, Sollars won 103 matches in her career.

It was also the final match for Orange senior Aubrey Petrosanu, who won all four of the matches she started this year.

Orange ends the year 14-5.

South Johnston 6, Cedar Ridge 3: The Cedar Ridge women’s team had its season end against South Johnston in the opening round of the 3A State Playoffs in Four Oaks on Monday night.

Cedar Ridge senior Ella Caltabiano won the final singles match of her career. Playing at #1, Caltabiano defeated Alyssa Newton in one of four singles matches that required a third set, 10-point tiebreaker. Caltabiano won 2-6, 7-5, 11-9.

Caltabiano and senior Adeline Cummings won their final doubles match together. Cummings and Caltabiano defeated Newton and Olivia Meyers 8-3.

Cedar Ridge dropped two of the matches that wound up going to tiebreakers. Myers defeated Cumming 5-7, 6-4, 11-9.

Cedar Ridge junior Caroline Hall defeated Kira Kelly 2-6, 6-2, 11-9.

Caltabiano ends her senior year with 18 wins, including a 9-4 victory in doubles play. Cummings and Caltabiano were the top-seeded doubles team from the Central Conference going into regionals.

Caltabiano, who played at Cedar Ridge four varsity seasons, won 58 overall matches in her career.

Cummings ends her career with 59 overall victories. She also played four varsity seasons.

Lila Rhoades ended her Cedar Ridge career with a start at #5 singles. It was also the final match for seniors Sydney Lund, Anna Grove and Lily Golden.

Cedar Ridge finishes the year 9-7.

Men’s soccer: Orange 6, Southern Alamance 0: The Orange men’s soccer team is one win away from tying the school record for most wins in a season. On Tuesday night, the Panthers played its second game in as many night, beating Southern Alamance in Hillsborough.

Orange improves to 14-4. The all-time school record is 15 wins, set by the 2010 team.

Daniel Romero Toledo, who scored the game-winning goal in a 1-nil win at Cedar Ridge last week, earned two goals against the Patriots. Senior Joseph Lopez and Issac Gallegos each scored one goal.

Junior Yurem Tapia Mendez, who leads the squad with 14 goals this season, added another to his total. Demetrius Holmes and Carson Condon each had an assist.

Sophomore goalkeeper Hector Garrido made two saves to earn his sixth clean sheet of the season.

 

 

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