This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is freshman baseball player Jesus Velazquez. In his first varsity season this year, Velazquez hit .250 as the Red Wolves hosted a state playoff game for the first time since 2018. Among the season highlights for Velazquez came on April 15 when he drove in the…
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This week’s Orange Panther of the Week is senior softball shortstop Sadie Cecil. This season, Cecil hit .465 for an Orange team that reached the second round of the 3A State Playoffs. She led the team with 33 hits, 27 runs scored and 21 singles. On March 7, Cecil hit two home runs and drove…
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This week’s Orange Panther of the Week is junior pole vaulter Owen Grant. Last week at the NCHSAA 3A State Outdoor Track & Field championships, Grant finished in the top 15 in the pole vault at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. Grant cleared eleven feet, six inches to place 14th overall. In April,…
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This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is senior soccer forward Fleury Nicholson. She joined esteemed company is winning this award for the fourth time in her career. She joins Takia Nichols, Cameron Lloyd, and Josh Mayhew as the only Cedar Ridge athletes to win the award four times. Nicholson scored a goal…
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The Orange lacrosse team has won 14 state playoff games since 2021. Last week, the Panthers opened the 2025 3A/2A/1A State Playoffs with a 11-7 win over Carrboro. Brett Clark scored the Panthers final four goals. Orange started the game with a 10-3 run. In his final game at Auman Stadium, senior longstick defensemen Kale…
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Photo by Abigail Pfeiffenberger PITTSBORO–It’s May and the Orange Panthers are the best lacrosse team in their conference again. Yet Orange’s win at Seaforth on Tuesday night in the 3A/2A/1A State Playoffs felt different. It wasn’t the domination that the Panthers had established against its Mid-Carolina Conference rivals the past four years. In fact, Orange…
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For the fifth year in a row, the Orange lacrosse team has reached the state quarterfinals of the 3A/2A/1A State Playoffs. On Tuesday night, the Panthers held off Seaforth 10-8 in the third and final meeting between the Mid-Carolina Conference rivals. It was the Panthers’ second win against the Hawks in Pittsboro this season. After…
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GREENSBORO–Not only is Ender Buchanan a competitor in pole vaulting. He’s also a fan. The name Emmanouil Karalis, a Greek pole vaulter who finished 4th at the Tokyo Summer Games in 2021, rolls right off his tongue in casual conversation. So does Armand Duplantis, the current world record holder who has two Olympic gold medals….
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