Month: November 2019

Friday night will be the end of the chapter of the lives of Braedon Thompson and Braxton Mergenthal. It will be their last football game as Cedar Ridge Red Wolves when they face Vance County in Henderson. Thompson and Mergenthal have been teammates on the gridiron for over a decade of their young lives. Aside from one year when Mergenthal moved to Germany, they’ve been teammates more often than not. While Cedar Ridge is 1-9 this season, the key role for Thompson, Mergenthal and the rest of the Cedar Ridge seniors wasn’t simply about winning. It was keeping the program alive. Cedar Ridge didn’t field a varsity team in 2018. Instead of transferring, Thompson, Mergenthal and the rest of the seniors stayed at Cedar Ridge and played junior varsity football last year. Whatever success the Red Wolves have in the future will be directly because of the sacrifice that the Red Wolves seniors made this year. Hillsboroughsports.com will broadcast Cedar Ridge at Vance County tonight at 6:55 with Tim Hackett on the play-by-play. Kickoff will be at 7.

Leading into last Friday’s game against Cedar Ridge, Orange had struggled to get off to a good start in its last three games. They trailed Northern Durham 17-0 in Hillsborough. At Vance County, they trailed 20-0 midway through the second quarter. Against Northwood, the Chargers led 17-0 and were 21 yards away from going ahead 23-0 before Khaleb Smith came up with an interception that sparked an Orange comeback.

Last Friday, Orange didn’t have that problem against crosstown rival Cedar Ridge. The Panthers scored touchdowns on four of its five possessions. The only exception came with a failed fourth-down conversion deep inside the Red Wolves red zone.

Orange had its best offensive game of the season. compiling 299 rushing yards. They finished with 418 yards total offense, eclipsing its previous high of 407 yards against East Chapel Hill.

Going through this edition of the Dire Dozen, you’ll notice how great an all-around game junior linebacker Elliott Woods played. He had the most important defensive play of the game for the second week in a row, plus he finished with a career-high 87 rushing yards and two touchdowns. On top of that, sophomore Omarion Lewis also had a career-high with 170 rushing yards and two touchdowns.

Here are the twelve plays that decided Orange’s win over Cedar Ridge. We have video of ten of them.

1. Orange’s opening possession, 3rd-and-7 from the Orange 43-yard line, Wyatt Jones hits Zyon Pettiford with a 57-yard touchdown pass.

Pettiford opened the season with eight receptions for 117 yards in the opening five games. This was his longest reception of the year and his third touchdown. On opening night against R.J. Reynolds, he scored on a 56-yard touchdown from Jones. It was also Jones’ longest touchdown pass of 2019.

2. Cedar Ridge leads 8-7. Orange ball, 3rd-and-9 from its own eleven yard line, Jones throws to Joe Kiger for 19 yards.

After Pettiford’s touchdown catch, Cedar Ridge had a long strike of its own when William Berger threw to Desi Raspberry for a 55-yard touchdown pass. Berger threw to Zach Holmes on the two-point conversion to give Cedar Ridge an 8-7 lead. Orange faces a 3rd-and-9, but they stood up to a blitz. Good blocking by Orange left guard Dari’us Matkins gave Jones a steady pocket to find Joe Kiger, who finished with a career-high five receptions for 62 yards and a touchdown.

3. Orange ball, 3rd and 4 from the Orange 36-yard line, Elliott Woods with a 31-yard gain.

A strong block from pulling guard Juan Navarro helped spring Woods for his longest run of the game. After being thrown back to its own 11-yard line following a 9-yard tackle for loss by defensive tackle Braxton Mergenthal, Orange crossed midfield with this run.

4. Orange ball, 2nd-and-3 from the Cedar Ridge 4-yard line. Woods scores on a four-yard touchdown run.

Since the Northern Durham game, Orange has used a full-house formation on goal line situations with Courtney Edwards and Owen Brimmer as halfbacks. On his first touchdown of the game, Woods followed his halfbacks behind Matkins for the touchdown that put Orange back in the lead.

5. 2nd quarter, Orange ball, 1st-and-10 from the Cedar Ridge 10-yard line, Woods scores on a 10-yard touchdown run

In its final possession of the first quarter, Cedar Ridge marched right back down the field on Orange. After Mergenthal took the ball to the 1-yard line, Berger scored on a quarterback sneak. Orange methodically went down the field on the opening drive of the second quarter on a 9-play, 65-yard drive. Woods scored on a 10-yard touchdown run to put Orange ahead 22-14.

6. Cedar Ridge ball, 2nd-and-12 from the Red Wolf 28-yard line, Woods sacks Berger.

Woods had perfect timing on this blitz up the middle. He leads Orange in tackles. Woods is third on the team with eight tackles for loss.

7. Cedar Ridge ball, 4th-and-22 from the Red Wolf 18-yard line, Orange’s Caulin Fansler blocks a punt.

Against Southern Durham, Fansler had an interception that led to an Orange touchdown to bolt the Panthers to a 14-0 lead. This block was set up by a bad snap. Jackson Phillips rushed over to recover the loose ball, setting up another Orange touchdown. For those wondering, a blocked punt doesn’t count as a turnover. This was the first game all season where Orange didn’t score a point off a turnover.

8. Orange ball, 4th-and-12 from the Cedar Ridge 19-yard line, Jones hits Joe Kiger for a 19-yard touchdown.

A days worth of rain made a 36-yard field goal too much of an undertaking for junior kicker Nigel Slanker. Instead, Coach Van Smith and offensive coordinator Marty Scotten relied on Jones once again, who chucked a gorgeous pass to Kiger. It was Kiger’s 2nd touchdown catch of the season.

9. 3rd quarter, Orange ball, Omarion Lewis scores on a 12-yard touchdown run.

Lewis rushed for 119 yards in his first game agains South Granville on September 6. in Creedmoor. This was his 2nd 100-yard game. This five-yard run was Orange’s only touchdown in the 3rd quarter.

10. Orange ball, 1st-and-10 from the Orange 18-yard line, Lewis runs for 59 yards.

This was Lewis’ longest run of the season. It was the final play of the 3rd quarter.

11. 1st-and-10 from the Cedar Ridge 23-yard line, Lewis runs for eleven yards.

Lewis followed the blocks of Matkins and Kalen Moore around guard to push the ball into the red zone. Video not available.

12. 1st-and-goal from the Cedar Ridge 2-yard line, Lewis scores his 2nd touchdown of the game.

Lewis now leads the team with eleven touchdowns after Orange pushed one in here.

With basketball season only two weeks away, the Orange men’s and women’s basketball teams won’t wait until the season-opener against Northern Guilford to ring in the new year.

Instead, they’re starting things in grand fashion on Friday afternoon.

The first-ever Panther Hoops Tip-Off Celebration is scheduled for Friday afternoon at 4:15 inside Orange High Gymnasium. The brainchild of Orange men’s basketball coach Derryl Britt, the event will include a grand introduction for the men’s and women’s players that will start the season at Northern Guilford on November 22 in Greensboro.

The event will include a 3-point shooting challenge, a dunk exhibition, and an Orange-White intersquad scrimmage. Each of the players for the 2019-20 season will be introduced with music and fanfare. Cost for the event is $3 for students and $5 for non-students.

The tipoff will take place just before the Orange football team’s Senior Night game against Chapel Hill at nearby Auman Stadium.

The Tip-Off Celebration will also include a cheerleading and dance presentation at 4:30. There will also be a drumlins presentation. The women’s team will be introduced at 4:45.

The Orange High women, which finished 2nd in the Big 8 Conference last season, are coached by B.J. Condron. They will look to replace co-Big 8 Player of the Year Icez Barnett, who now plays at Division II Chowan University. Orange also lost guard Lauren Cates, who led the team in scoring last season. Cates now plays at Wake Tech.

“It’s Coach Britt’s idea,” Condron said. “He’s been very persistent about it. He’s worked very hard to get it going and I think it will be a great way to introduce our team to the community this season. I’m looking forward to it.”

The men’s team will be introduced at 4:50. Britt, now in his second season, returns senior Joey McMullin, who started on Orange’s 2015-16 Big 8 Conference regular season championship team that reached the state quarterfinals. Jason Franklin, now on his third year on the varsity team, provides valuable backcourt scoring for the Panthers after being a regular starter last season.

Among the other events at the Tip-Off Celebration will be a relay race at 5:00. There will be a women’s 3-point shootout at 5:15, following by a men’s 3-point shootout at 5:30.

The women’s team will have a scrimmage starting at 6, following by a men’s scrimmage at 6:20. The event will wrap-up at 6:40 to give fans and students plenty of time to walk over to the football stadium to watch the final home football game of the season.

After starting the season against Northern Guilford, the Orange men and women will have its home opener against Granville Central on December 3. Granville Central is coached by Mike McDaniel, a former All-PAC-6 Conference linebacker at Orange who also was once a defensive coordinator for the Panther football team. It will be a rematch of an emotional Orange win over GCHS in front of a packed and heated gymnasium.

The Orange men will have an endowment game against Southern Lee on December 5, which will not include a women’s game. The Orange women will travel to Southern Alamance on December 6.

On Wednesday afternoon, Cedar Ridge tennis senior Olivia Ward formally signed with Methodist University in Fayetteville. On hand for the ceremony were Olivia’s parents, Lynn & Ashley, Cedar Ridge Athletic Director Andy Simmons, tennis coach Lennie Corbett and many of Olivia’s teammates and friends. Over the course of four years of varsity tennis, Olivia was a part of 65 singles and doubles victories. She also has a 4.2 grade point average. Last month, Ward qualified for the 3A State Singles Tournament at the Burlington Tennis Center. In each of the past two years, Ward qualified for the state championships. In 2018, she teamed with Alana Lutz to qualify for the state doubles championship. In her freshman year, Ward was a starter for a Cedar Ridge team that won the 2016 Big 8 Conference Championship, the only team in school history to win a conference title in tennis.

This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is senior soccer midfielder Reese Weaver. On October 23, Cedar Ridge defeated Vance County 9-0 at Red Wolves Stadium. Weaver scored six goals against the Vipers. This season, Weaver scored 14 goals for the Red Wolves, which led the team. He scored against Orange on September 18, a game that Cedar Ridge won in penalty kicks 4-3. Unfortunately, Cedar Ridge missed the 3A State Playoffs when the field of 64 was unveiled on Monday. Weaver will have the benefit of saying he swept Orange his senior year, the first time the Red Wolves took the season series from its crosstown rivals since 2015. Once Weaver graduates from Cedar Ridge in June, he plans to attend Durham Technical Community College while trying to transfer to a 4-year college. He also plans to continue his soccer career with the Triangle United travel team. 

Editor’s note: This is the 2nd Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week for this week. It is to make up for Week 7,  when we were unable to interview an athlete because of a lack of practices due to hot weather. 

The fall sports season will officially end in Hillsborough on Saturday—unless Orange football can make the state playoffs.

The possibility of that appears remote, at best, as of Wednesday night. Orange’s current MaxPreps ranking is #69. Assuming that Orange beats Chapel Hill on Friday night, three of Orange’s five wins will have come against teams ranked in the bottom ten of 3A football, according to MaxPreps.

The Cedar Ridge men’s soccer team narrowly missed the state playoffs. The field of 64 was announced on Monday morning. Cedar Ridge was on the bubble, but missed out after losing to Southern Durham in the season finale.

Cedar Ridge ended the season 7-12-1, 5-9 in the Big 8 Conference.

The Cedar Ridge women’s cross country team has a good showing in the 3A Mideast Regionals at Northwood High School in Pittsboro. While Cedar Ridge didn’t qualify for the state championships as a team, like last year, there are several individual Red Wolves who will participate in the states on Saturday at Ivey Redmon Park in Kernersville.

Here is this week’s Magnificent 7, which will be the next-to-last edition for the fall sports season. We’ll begin focusing on winter sports next week.

Anne Morrell: Finished 12th at the 3A Mideast Regional Cross Country Championships at Northwood High. Morrell, a junior, qualified for the state championships for the third year in a row with a time of 20:16.4.

Zoe Wade: Finished 24th at the Mideast Regional Championships. Crossed the finish line at 21:05.84. Wade also qualified for the 3A State Championships. A sophomore, Wade will have participated in the state championships each of her first two years at Cedar Ridge.

Desi Raspberry: Cedar Ridge junior wide receiver had three receptions for 69 yards, including a 55-yard touchdown pass from William Berger against crosstown rival Orange on Friday night. Raspberry had the most yards from scrimmage for the Red Wolves.

Elliott Woods: Had 87 rushing yards and two touchdowns for Orange in a victory over Cedar Ridge at Red Wolves Stadium. Woods also had two tackles. Coming into the game, Woods led Orange in receptions and tackles. He was named this week’s Orange Panther of the Week.

Omarion Lewis: A sophomore, Lewis had a career-high 173 yards rushing against Cedar Ridge. Lewis added two touchdowns. He now leads the team in rushing yards and touchdowns this season, even though he missed the season-opener against R.J. Reynolds because it appeared he would spend this season on the junior varsity team.

Joseph Kiger: Led Orange in receiving with a career-high five receptions for 62 yards and a touchdown. On defense, Kiger led the team with six tackles. He also had ten rushing yards. Kiger also was the long snapper on extra points for kicker Nigel Slanker. He will play his final game in Hillsborough against Chapel Hill on Friday.

Bennett Fleming: The top finisher for the Orange men’s cross country team last week at the Mideast Regionals. Fleming came in 32nd with a time of 18:08.88. At the Big 8 Cross Country Championships at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, Fleming was also the top finisher for Orange.

Trenton Gill: In his first year playing for the N.C. State football team, 2018 Cedar Ridge graduate Trent Gill has been put on the watch list for the Ray Guy Award, presented to the college punter of the year. This season, as a sophomore, Gill has averaged 47.1 yards per punt. Of his 40 punts, eleven have been downed inside the 20-yard line. He’s had eighteen punts of over 50 yards, along with five touchbacks. Gill also handles kickoffs for the Wolfpack. At Cedar Ridge, Gill was an All-Big 8 Conference performer in football and men’s soccer. The Wolfpack will host #4 Clemson this Saturday at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh.

Kayla Hodges: The Elon women’s soccer team had its season come to an end on Sunday in the semifinals of the Colonial Athletic Association Tournament. Top-seeded Hofstra defeated the Phoenix 3-1 on Sunday at Hofstra Soccer Stadium. Hodges started at midfield at fired one shot. After winning only three games in 2018, Elon went 12-6-2 this year. Hodges was named second-team All-CAA. She finished the year with four goals, two assists and ten points. Hodges, a sophomore, started all 18 games that she appeared in for Elon.

Taylin Jean: The Division II Limestone women’s soccer team ended the regular season with a 2-0 victory over King University at Parks Field in Bristol, TN on Sunday. Jean started as goalkeeper for the Saints and earned the win by making one save. She played 77 minutes. Limestone finished the regular season 9-8, 8-3 in Conference Carolinas. Limestone is the #4 seed in the Conference Carolinas Tournament, which starts on Friday. In the opening round, Limestone will host North Greenville University. In the regular season, Jean started all 17 games for the Saints in net. She went 9-8 with a 1.37 goals against average. She had six shutouts.

Lionel Reid-Shaw: The Division III Dickinson men’s soccer team finished its regular season on Saturday. Johns Hopkins defeated the Red Devils 4-1 at Homewood Field in Baltimore. Reid-Shaw, who scored the first goal of his four-year career last week, started for the Red Devils at centerback. Dickinson ended the regular season 10-7 overall, 6-3 in the Centennial Conference. The Red Devils earned a #3 seed for the Centennial Conference tournament, which starts Saturday at Franklin & Marshall University in Lancaster, PA. Dickinson will face Johns Hopkins, once again, in the opening round.

Madison Wardlow: Now playing for the Guilford Technical Community College women’s basketball team, Wardlow scored 28 points for the Titans in an exhibition game in Apex. Interestingly enough, one of the officials for the game was Felton Page, who was Wardlow’s high school coach. Page resigned as Cedar Ridge women’s coach in March. On a totally and completely unrelated note, Wardlow finished the game with one foul. Wardlow will officially start her career on Wednesday night at Methodist College in the Riddle Center in Fayetteville.

Lauren Cates: The 2019 Orange High graduate started her college career with the Wake Technical Community College Eagles on Monday night. Cates started and scored nine points as the Eagles defeated Caldwell Community College 57-47 in Raleigh. Cates was 3-of-11 from the field. All of her field goals were 3-pointers. Wake Tech continues its season at Fayetteville Technical Community College on Wednesday night.

by Curran Campbell

In this week’s edition of the ramble, I think I finally have an idea of what the true pecking order in the coastal is. Let’s find out together next week when it turns out I actually have it all wrong again! Also, we will have basketball power rankings and predictions but only for conference games. There will also be no basketball analysis until football season is over.

Note: Since neither Clemson nor Virginia Tech played conference games this past weekend, I will not have analysis on them.

Wake Forest

Pure dominance over an inferior opponent is what the Demon Deacons displayed last Saturday against the Wolfpack in a 44-10 victory. The Wake defense took advantage of a freshman QB in Leary much like they did with Sam Howell earlier this season, and Wake continues their quest towards an Orange Bowl bid.

Boston College

AJ Dillon is the best tailback in the conference, and his performance led the Eagles to a 58-27 annihilation of Syracuse. 691 total yards of offense, with 496 of those coming on the ground from the likes of Dillon and David Bailey is generally a good formula for success.

Miami

The Miami defense was dominant in a 27-10 rivalry victory over Florida State, and I think Miami finally has the QB situation ironed out with Jarren Williams cementing his role as the starter. His play has been huge in Miami’s resurgence and will be critical for the Canes success down the stretch.

Pittsburgh

Not much to say here, Pitt did enough to beat a god awful Georgia Tech team 20-10, and they will go into the bye week looking to improve before playing a solid North Carolina team next Thursday night.

Virginia

Bryce. Perkins. I think that says enough about UVa’s performance in a 38-31 win over in Chapel Hill. UVa is now the clear favorite to win the coastal division. Assuming they win out going into the final week of the season, it’ll be a Commonwealth Clash for the ages that would theoretically decide the coastal.

NC State

State has played 3 quarterbacks so far this season, and they have all been bad with all 3, the most recent dumpster fire performance coming from Devin Leary. Leary went 17-45 for 149 yards to go along with a touchdown and two picks. That kind of play is unacceptable and with all the talent on that NC State roster, you have to think if they just had a QB they could be competing at the same level as Wake. Alas, they don’t have a QB.

Syracuse

Syracuse’s most recent performance was enough to get defensive coordinator Brian Ward fired a year after he was nominated for the Broyles Award. Simply put, when you lose 57-28 and give up nearly 700 total yards to Boston College, some sort of change has to be made, and Ward was the sacrificial lamb.

Florida State

After the 27-10 loss to Miami, FSU pulled the plug on the Willie Taggart era. I never thought that Taggart was the right hire for Florida State in the first place, that being said, Florida State never gave him enough of a chance. Let’s see how the Seminoles ruin their next coach!

North Carolina

The 38-31 loss to UVa killed the Tar Heels chances at a coastal crown, but the Heels still have a ton left to play for. With 3 games left in the season, the Heels need 2 more wins to go to a bowl game. They have 1 pretty much guaranteed with the Mercer game, but how will the Heels steal one on the road at Pitt, or win what is always a tough game at Carter-Finley stadium. Logic would indicate that the Heels shouldn’t have a problem against this NC State team in a few weeks, but we all know that logic doesn’t exist in that football game outside of 2015 when that dominant Carolina team just took care of business easily. Every other time, it’s a grinder of a football game, so it will be a tough, but very much doable climb for the Heels to go bowling for the first time since 2016.

Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is bad, their players on offense still don’t suit the system that Geoff Collins is trying to run. A 20-10 loss to Pitt is a pretty solid result for GT as they continue a massive overhaul in Atlanta.

Football Power Rankings

1. Clemson

2. Wake Forest

3. Virginia

4. Virginia Tech

5. Louisville

6. North Carolina

7. Pitt

8. Miami

9. Duke

10. Florida State

11. Boston College

12. NC State

13. Georgia Tech

14. Syracuse

Football Predictions

Florida State at Boston College (-1.5): Boston College, 38-28

Georgia Tech at Virginia (-15): Virginia, 48-20

Wake Forest (-2.5) at Virginia Tech: Wake Forest, 31-27

Louisville at Miami (-6.5): Louisville, 35-24

Clemson (-31.5) at NC State: Clemson, 52-10

Notre Dame (-8) at Duke: Notre Dame, 21-17

Last week’s predictions: 3-3

Season Total: 16-12

Basketball Power Rankings

1. North Carolina

2. Duke

3. Virginia

4. Louisville

5. NC State

6. Florida State

7. Syracuse

8. Miami

9. Notre Dame

10. Pitt

11. Clemson

12. Georgia Tech

13. Virginia Tech

14. Boston College

15. Wake Forest

Basketball Predictions

Louisville at Miami: Louisville, 73-69

Virginia Tech at Clemson: Clemson, 64-58

Georgia Tech at NC State: NC State, 83-70

Notre Dame at North Carolina: North Carolina, 87-72

Wake Forest at Boston College: Boston College, 61-55

Florida State at Pitt: Pitt, 81-75

Virginia at Syracuse: Syracuse, 65-62

Win or lose on Friday night’s season-finale at Auman Stadium, Chapel Hill’s players will probably walk off the field in a double-file formation.

That’s Issac Marsh’s way. He doesn’t stop coaching his players once the game ends. As a special needs teacher at CHHS, he knows proper tutelage is needed throughout a young person’s life.

When Chapel Hill didn’t field a varsity football team in 2018, it was heartbreaking for many longtime high school football fans. Just four years prior, Chapel Hill had played in the 3-AA Eastern Regional Championship game, losing to Northern Guilford.

Then again, perhaps the cancellation of a season was the only logical extension for Marsh. He’s has seen just about everything else in his 15 years at Chapel Hill. He’s the most successful football coach in school history. In 2007, he led the Tigers to its first state playoff win since the mid-1960s, when the school was still on Franklin Street.

He even led Chapel Hill to a 2008 PAC-6 Championship in the Tigers final season as a 4A school.

When the National Football League commemorated the 50th Super Bowl in 2015, they sent gold footballs to all high schools that had a player participate in any of the previous 49 NFL Championship games.

Chapel Hill received one. Orange didn’t, but they should have.

In the early 1990s, when high school football received more coverage because newspapers were still a primary influence (the Durham Herald-Sun doesn’t even print a Saturday edition anymore), Chapel Hill-Orange was the biggest rivalry in Orange County by default. It was the only rivalry in Orange County since they were the only two high schools.

Nonetheless, the vast majority of coverage was focused on Northern Durham since the Knights had several state championship contenders at that time. What slipped through the cracks was that Orange and Chapel Hill often played excellent games featuring players who would go on to long, distinguished careers.

In 1990, Orange defeated Chapel Hill at Auman Stadium in Jermaine Lattie returned a fumble for a touchdown midway through the fourth quarter. On the field that night for Chapel Hill was Bernardo Harris, who would go on to play at UNC in the glory years of Mack Brown. Despite going undrafted, Harris would spend nine seasons in the NFL and play in Super Bowl 31 for the Green Bay Packers, who defeated New England 35-21 for Brett Farve’s only world championship.

On top of that, no less than three players who would go on to become instrumental parts of Appalachian State’s 1995 Southern Conference Championship team were on the field. At safety for Chapel Hill was Matt Stevens, a native of Michigan. After graduating from Boone, Stevens went on to eight-year NFL career that included a stop in New England in 2001. That year ended with a quarterback named Tom Brady leading the Patriots to its first World Championship over St. Louis.

Of course, for Orange there was quarterback/safety Scott Satterfield, who would start a long association with Appalachian the following year as the quarterback on head coach Jerry Moore’s scout team. 22 years later, he would become the Mountaineers’ head coach.

Tailback Damon Scott shared the backfield with Satterfield, both in Hillsborough and in Boone. Scott would become an FCS (then it was I-AA) All-American at Appalachian and graduate in 1997.

Two years later, Orange’s Alvis Whitted would have a memorable moment of his own against Chapel Hill–no matter how hard he tries to forget. On a rainy Monday night where the field was a quagmire of mud, Chapel Hill kicked off after a touchdown. Whitted, with his cleats digging in the mud, took the ball on a reverse and had the entire side of the field to himself. But the mud stopped him and Whitted slipped and fell at the Chapel Hill 1-yard line. On the next snap, quarterback Mark Pounds fumbled and Chapel Hill recovered, won the game and went on to the state playoffs in Bill Hodgin’s final year.

Whitted went on to play for the Oakland Raiders and played special teams in Super Bowl 37 against Tampa Bay. Yet Orange never got its gold football from Roger Goodell’s office four years ago. Perhaps the commissioner is a reader of the website and can correct this wrong.