Cedar Ridge High School

Our Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week is freshman #1 singles player Ivy Garner. On Thursday, Garner defeated Northern Durham’s Chloe Baker 6-1, 6-2 for her fifth win this season. Tennis isn’t even Ivy’s top sport. During the summer, she plays soccer with a club team and is planning to make her debut for the Cedar Ridge girls soccer team next spring. Her play at singles has led the Red Wolves to a 5-2 start in a new, tougher Big 8 conference.

Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week: Ivy Garner

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Evidently, four double bagel victories over Orange weren’t enough for the Cedar Ridge girls tennis team on Tuesday. So on Thursday, they did themselves one better, putting together five double bagel wins over Northern Durham.

The Red Wolves easily put away the Knights 9-0 on Thursday afternoon at Red Wolves tennis courts. Freshman Ivy Garner won the most competitive match of the day, defeating Chloe Baker 6-1, 6-2. After that, it was total Cedar Ridge domination. Olivia Ward, Kate Milner, Nora Sauers, Brianna Cellini and Maddy Werner all won their respective singles matches by a score of 6-0, 6-0.

In doubles play, Milner teamed with Sauternes to capture an 8-3 victory. Cellini partnered with Werner on a #2 doubles victory 8-1. And Rachel Quade won her 2nd doubles match of the week, teaming with Natalie Marochak to record an 8-1 win.

After a heated loss to Chapel Hill last week, the Red Wolves rebounded this week with consecutive 9-0 wins. Cedar Ridge travels to powerful East Chapel Hill Monday. The Red Wolves return home to face Hillside Wednesday.

It came longer than Coach Chris Walker is used to, but Cedar Ridge found a way to earn its first win of the season on the road.

Seth Maile was the hero on Tuesday night as Cedar Ridge defeated Graham 3-2. Maile notched the game-winning goal on a penalty kick and also assisted on the other two goals.

Dean Allen scored the opener for the Red Wolves. Than Aung notched the equalizer as the Red Wolves improved to 1-5. Cedar Ridge starts its Big 8 Conference slate tonight at Northwood at 6:30. The Chargers, also in its conference opener, are 1-5, as well.

The term in tennis is “double bagels.” No, it’s not what you order with cheese strata and coffee during Breakfast at Wimbledon. It’s when a singles player wins two consecutive sets 6-0 in a singles match.

On Tuesday, Cedar Ridge had no less than four players take double bagel wins over crosstown rival Orange.

#1 singles player Ivy Garner, sophomore Olivia Ward, senior Kate Millner and sophomore Brianna Cellini all earned 6-0, 6-0 wins as the Red Wolves defeated the Panthers 9-0 at Panther Tennis Courts. At #4 singles, Nora Sauers won her match 6-1, 6-2, while Maddy Werner captured the most competitive battle of the day, earning a 6-3, 6-2 victory.

Red Wolves Coach Lennie Corbett played some reserves in doubles, pairing Hannah Johnson with Cellini at #2 for an 8-2 victory. Rachel Quade played her first match of the year, teaming with Natalie Marochak for an 8-3 win at #3 doubles. Garner and Ward swept #1 doubles 8-0 to make quick work of the Panthers, who were coming off its first win of the season against Hillside the previous Wednesday.

Cedar Ridge is now 3-2, 2-1 in the Big 8. They host Northern Durham on Thursday in Hillsborough. Orange looks to bounce back with a home match against Northwood on Thursday.

Cedar Ridge picked up where they left off against its crosstown rivals on Tuesday, putting away Orange 9-0 at Panther Tennis Courts. Cedar Ridge improves to 3-2, 2-1 in the Big 8 after wins by Olivia Ward, Ivy Garner, Kristi Lescinski, Rachel Quade and Katie Watkins, to name a few.

CRHS Ward, Lescinski, Quade and Watkins Discuss the Red Wolves’s Win over Orange

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Bryse Wilson: The former Orange High right-hander finished his first full professional season on Labor Day with the Rome Braves of the South Atlantic League. He threw three hitless innings against the Columbia Fireflies on Monday, striking out six while walking one before a crowd of 2,077 at State Mutual Stadium in Georgia. The Braves won the game 4-2 as Wilson had a no-decision.

Last week, Wilson was named the South Atlantic League’s Right Handed Pitcher of the Year. He made the South Atlantic League All-Star team, leading Rome with a 2.50 ERA. Wilson completed the year 10-7, striking out 139 while walking just 37 in 26 starts. Statistically, Wilson’s best performance of the season came on July 8th when he threw a five-hit shutout against the West Virginia Power, his only complete game of the season. Wilson struck out seven and walked no one, hurling 69 strikes on 109 pitches.

Lindsay Thompson: After being a member of the Cedar Ridge volleyball team that won 52 games over the course of three years, Thompson is now a defensive specialist with the Cape Fear Community College Sea Devils in Wilmington. CFCC, which plays in the Carolina Junior College Conference of the National Junior College Conference Athletic Association, is 2-0 after victories over Potomac State College of West Virginia and Central Carolina Community College. They also defeated North Carolina Wesleyan (an NCAA Division III team) in an exhibition game. Thompson has played in both of CFCC’s official matches. In her college debut against Potomac State, Thompson had two assists and five digs in a 3-2 victory. Against CCCC, Thompson played two sets as the Sea Devils swept the Cougars

Jordan Lloyd: After leaving White Cross during the summer to move to Transylvania County, Lloyd has played in two of Brevard College’s first three volleyball matches last weekend in the season-opening Pfeiffer Tournament in Richfield, NC. The Tornadoes lost its opening match against West Virginia St 3-0. Lloyd played in one set against the Yellow Jackets. Brevard, a D3 team, defeated Virginia Union and Pfeiffer on Sunday, both 3-0 victories. Against Pfeiffer, Lloyd recorded her first kill as a college player. She finished with two kills as Brevard finished second in the tournament.

Andie McKinnon: The 2015 Big 8 Player of the Year and 2016 Orange High graduate, McKinnon just started her sophomore season playing volleyball at Emory University in Atlanta. The Eagles, who play in Division III, opened the season going 2-1 in the Wittenberg University National Invitational in Springfield, Ohio over the weekend. In the opener, Emory defeated Johns Hopkins 3-1. Wittenberg, ranked #11 in D3, rallied from a 2-0 deficit to defeat the Eagles 3-2.  McKinnon saw her first action of the season on Sunday in a 3-2 victory over Illinois Wesleyan. She played all five sets and recorded 12 digs.

The Cedar Ridge boys and girls cross country teams starting their respective seasons at the 2017 Jungle Run at South View High School in Hope Mills on Saturday. Billed as “the Original Night-Time Race,” the Red Wolves had junior Rory Legg-Bell, senior Brian Finch, junior Grant (Alistair) Stewart and senior Josh Goularte record personal best times.

Legg-Bell finished the course at 17:36, coming in 40th overall among 207 runners. Finch recorded a time of 18:39, while Stewart crossed the finish line at 18:46. Goularte came in at 19:04. As a team, Cedar Ridge finished 17th among 26 schools.

R.J. Reynolds’ John Tatter finished first overall with a time of 15:27. Chapel Hill’s Ryan Combs was the only runner of the Big 8 finishing in the top ten, coming in eighth.

In the girls’ race, sophomore Laney Nissler was the fastest of the Red Wolves, registering a time of 22:00. Freshman Anne Morrell crossed the finish line at 22:14. Sophomore Allison Musty came in 65th at 22:21 while junior Abby Averette finished at 23:05. The Cedar Ridge girls finished 11th overall as a team.

Chapel Hill captured the girls race with 19 points. CHHS senior Katherine Dokholyan won the individual championship with a time of 18:46, while teammate Madi Marvin finished 3rd. Chapel Hill had four of the top six runners and six of the top nine.

For one year, the power structure of girls tennis in the Big 8 Conference shifted. That was last season, when Cedar Ridge swept Chapel Hill for the first time in school history, claiming its 1st-ever conference championship.

Now, it appears the balance of power is back on the southern end of Orange County.

In a heated match that saw several private discuss between the respective coaching staffs about words being exchanged on the courts, Chapel Hill defeated Cedar Ridge 7-2 in HIllsborough on Wednesday. The Tigers, who missed the state dual playoffs for the first time in recorded history last season, earned five of the six singles matches to end any hope that the Red Wolves would find a way to repeat. Cedar Ridge’s Ivy Gardner claimed the Red Wolves’ only individual match at #1 singles over Chapel Hill’s Hailey Polsky 6-0, 6-1.

Cedar Ridge’s Briana Cellini and Kate Millner team at #3 doubles for the Red Wolves’ only other win, an 8-0 shutout of Lauren Bolzan and Sarah Combs.

Chapel Hill earned wins from Gabby Kmiec, Gracie Kmiec, Lauren Bolzan, Cameron Pehlivanzade and Julia Ziaee. Polsky and Grace Kmiec captured the #1 doubles match, while Gabby Kmiec and Pehlivanzade won at #3 doubles.

The loss ends Cedar Ridge’s 13-match Big 8 winning streak. The Red Wolves went 12-0 in 2016, and hadn’t lost a Big 8 match since October 5, 2015 against Northwood. Cedar Ridge falls to 3-2, 1-1 in the Big 8 with a road trip to Orange coming up next Tuesday.

Chapel Hill improves to 4-0, 2-0 in the Big 8.

Playing for the 2nd consecutive night, the Orange volleyball team earned its first Big 8 Conference win of the season in Durham.

The Panthers (5-1, 1-1 in the Big 8) hammered Hillside 3-0 at Hornets Gymnasium on scores of 25-12, 25-4 and 25-13. Orange racked up a whopping 21 aces against the Hornets, including junior Meg Gattis finishing with six. Sophomore Emma Clements came away with three.

Senior co-captain Carolina Compton finished with two aces, two kills, 12 assists and three digs. Kaitlyn Werden had two aces, four kills and five assits. In addition to her six aces, Gattis added a kill and five digs. Faith Foushee led Orange with seven digs.

In Hillsborough, the news wasn’t as good for Cedar Ridge. Defending Big 8 Conference champion Chapel HIll defeated the Red Wolves 3-0 on scores of 25-12, 25-17 and 25-16. Tigers sophomore Kaya Merkler came away with an astounding 25 kills as CHHS improved to 5-3, 2-0 in the Big 8.

Cedar Ridge falls to 4-3, 0-2 in the Big 8.

Orange will host Cedar Ridge on Thursday night inside Jim King Gymnasium.

With two Orange County rivals coming up later this week, Cedar Ridge found the right time to end its two-game losing streak.

The Red Wolves swept Jordan 3-0 in Durham on Monday on scores of 25-16, 25-18 and 25-9. Macy Henry had a complete evening with 24 assists, one solo block, two aces and six digs. Juliann De Jesus finished with six kills. Tori Zielke led the team with seven kills, while senior Alexa Pagnanelli came away with eight digs and six aces.

As a team, Cedar Ridge had four solo blocks, 15 aces and 25 kills to improve to 4-2.

After a 3-0 start, the Red Wolves lost to Bartlett Yancey, then fell to Northwood in its Big 8 Conference opener.

The Red Wolves will face a stiff test against Chapel Hill on Tuesday night in Hillsborough before taking on Orange in Jim King Gymnasium on Thursday.