This week’s Orange Panther of the Week is junior running back Kayden Bradsher. Since his freshman year, Bradsher has been a mainstay on the baseball diamond and the gridiron. This season, Bradsher scored eleven touchdowns. Against J.F. Webb, he rushed for a season-high 181 yards and scored four touchdowns in Hillsborough. That included a 48-yard…
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Ava Wilkerson will become the second Hillsborough product to join the Houston Cougars volleyball team early next year. Lottie Scully, who graduated from Orange in 2021, recently surpassed 2,000 college assists playing for the Cougars. On Wednesday, Wilkerson formally signed with Houston. During her career at Orange, Wilkerson helped transform the team from a squad…
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Photo by Kim Petrides In less prosperous times, a cynic may have said it would be a snowy day when Orange men’s soccer would play in the round of 16 of the state playoffs. Turns out, they would have been right. After waiting 38 years to play in the third round of the state playoffs,…
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Photo by Jacques Morin CARRBORO–Though football is the most team-oriented sport, Jamie Bailey knows firsthand how one player can take over a game. Now the head coach at Orange Middle School, Bailey was an assistant for Orange High during the days of Payton and Bryse Wilson when the Panthers won three straight conference championships. Some…
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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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