Cedar Ridge High School

After Cedar Ridge unseated Chapel Hill last season as the heir apparent to Cardinal Gibbons atop the Big 8 Conference, the rivalry that carried over into 2016 was certain to be intense. Sure enough, Tuesday night didn’t disappoint.

After dropping the first set, the Tigers rallied to defeat the Red Wolves 3-2 on scores of 14-25, 25-21, 25-23, 23-25 & 15-13. It was the 2nd 5-set game for Chapel Hill in two nights. They held off crosstown rival East Chapel Hill on Monday.

Cedar Ridge got another strong performance from Lily Henry, who appeared in only her second match of the season after returning from ACL surgery. Henry finsihed with 21 assists, eight digs and 2 aces.

Meg Anderson registered 22 digs and ten kills. Lindsay Thompson had 16 digs and four aces, while BayleeAnne Twilla had 8 kills.

Chapel Hill freshman Courtney Zwikker, the daughter of former UNC center Serge Zwikker, finished with 13 kills on a .463 hit percentage. Shea Golden had 29 digs for the Tigers.

Cedar Ridge is now 4-7, 2-4 in the Big 8. Chapel Hill is in 1st place in the Big 8 with a 3-0 conference record, 9-3 overall. The Tigers visit Orange on Thursday. Cedar Ridge travels to Northwood Thursday.

As Cedar Ridge girls tennis reaches the midway point in the season, there’s no question they’ve established themselves as the team to beat in the Big 8 Conference.

A week after sweeping Chapel Hill and Northwood in road matches, the Red Wolves captured its eighth straight victory over Webb 7-2 in Hillsborough on Monday afternoon.

Olivia Ward won at #2 singles over Anna Freuler in three sets,  capturing the 10-point tiebreaker 10-7. Ward is now 7-3.

From there, Cedar Ridge dominated singles play, dropping only three games in the final four matches.

Leah Thompson defeated Sarah Monte 6-1, 6-1 to bolster her record to 7-1. Serena Sauters dispatched of Erin Bostic 6-1, 6-0 to remain undefeated at 10-0. Alana Lutz swept Emily Burns 6-0, 6-0. Hannah Spear wrapped up the victory wth a 6-0, 6-0 golden bagel of Anna Currin.

Spear is also undefeated at 8-0.

Thompson & Lutz won its doubles match 8-1. Emma Wilson and Sauers swept its doubles match over Burns and Currin 8-0. Lutz & Thompson improved to 6-1 as a tandem in 2006. Sauers & Wilson improved to 4-1.

Cedar Ridge is now 9-1, 5-0 in the Big 8 Conference. They travel to the Rock Quarry on Thursday to face Voyager Academy before venturing back into conference play next week.

It’s a full week for volleyball, girls tennis and soccer in Hillsborough. The shape of the Big 8 Conference Volleyball race will start to take form as Cedar Ridge at Orange both have matches against Chapel Hill. The Red Wolves play three road games in four days, including a trip to CHHS on Tuesday. Orange hosts the Tigers on Thursday.

The Cedar Ridge girls tennis team will look to remain atop the Big 8 when they host Webb this afternoon at 4:30. It’s the Red Wolves only conference match this week. The Orange girls tennis team hosts Northwood this afternoon and Webb on Wednesday.

Here’s this week’s slate:

Monday:

Boys Soccer:  Cedar Ridge at Northern Vance 5:00; Orange at Carrboro 6:00.

Volleyball: Cedar Ridge at Eastern Alamance 6;30 (V); 5:00 (JV)

Girls Tennis: J.F. Webb at Cedar Ridge 4:30; Northwood at Orange 4:30.

Tuesday: 

Volleyball: Cedar Ridge at Chapel Hill 6:30 (V); 5:00 (JV); Orange at Southern Durham 6:30 (V) 5:00 (JV)

Wednesday: 

Boys Soccer: Southern Durham at Cedar Ridge 6;30 (V) 4:45 (JV); Northern Vance at Orange 6:30 (V) 4:45 (JV).

Girls Tennis: Orange at J.F. Webb 4:30

Thursday: 

Football: Orange JV at Western Guilford 

Volleyball: Cedar Ridge at Northwood 6:30 (JV) 5:00 (JV); Chapel Hill at Orange 6:30 (V) 5:00 (JV)

Girls Tennis: Cedar Ridge vs. Voyager Academy (at the Rock Quarry) 4:30; Person at Orange 4:30.

Friday: 

Football: Cedar Ridge at Cardinal Gibbons 7:00; Western Guilford at Orange 7:00 (Coverage on HillsboroughSports.com starts at 6:45.)

Another week comes to an end, and another week ends with Cedar Ridge girls tennis atop the Big 8 Conference.

On a week that started with two large tasks on the road, the Red Wolves came away with victories at Chapel Hill on Tuesday and at Northwood on Thursday.

Cedar Ridge defeated the Chargers 8-1 on Thursday in Pittsboro to improve to 8-1 overall, 4-0 in the Big 8. Senior Tess Johnson got things going with a straight sets victory over Sam Sparrow 6-3, 6-2. Leah Thompson was stretched to three sets by Rachel Yanders before prevailing 6-7 (7-4), 6-1, 10-6. Thompson is now 6-1 on the season.

Seneca Sauers improved her unblemished record to 9-0 with a 6-1, 6-2 sweep of Natlia Huggins. Hannah Spear also remained undefeated with a 6-1, 6-0 win over Korinne Fuller. Spear is now 7-0.

Kate Milner insured the victory for the Red Wolves with a. 6-0, 6-0 triumph over Sophie Cook.

The Red Wolves captured all three doubles matches. Johnson and Ward teamed for an 8-2 victory over Sparrow and Faith People’s. Thompson and Alana Lutz won 8-1 over Yaneers and Natalie Huggins. Sauers and Emma Watson defeated Fuller and Cook 8-3.

Thompson & Lutz are now 5-1 this season.

Cedar Ridge hosts J.F. Webb in Hillsborough on Monday. They have a nonconference match against Voyager Academy at the Rock Quarry next Thursday.

Tonight, both Cedar Ridge and Orange High football games will be available for everyone to hear.

The Red Wolves will try to go 4-0 for the first time in school history against Riverside in Hillsborough. That game can be heard on 97.9 FM WCHL, as well as Chapelboro.com. Plus, there’s the new pregame show Prep Sports Tonight, hosted by Jeff Hamlin. That airs at 6:30, featuring interviews with Cedar Ridge’s Shemar Miles, Kevin Wright and London Saunders, along with Orange coach Pat Moser.

As always, Orange football can be heard here on HillsboroughSports.com starting at 6:45.

The Prep Sports Tonight show will be available for download tomorrow night here on HillsboroughSports.com.

A vital part of Cedar Ridge’s 2015 Big 8 Conference Championship team has returned.

Libero Lily Henry underwent ACL surgery earlier this year, forcing her to miss the Red Wolves opening seven games. On Thursday night, she returned to the lineup as Cedar Ridge defeated Southern Durham 3-0 on scores of 25-18, 25-7 and 25-10.

Upon her return, Henry was back to dong what she does best: setting up kills and serving aces. She finished with ten assists and five aces. Alexis Dumann had 12 kills with a hitting percentage of .364 and added four digs. Meg Anderson had nine digs and 3 aces. Macy Henry registered 11 assists.

Cedar Ridge is 3-6, 2-1 in the Big 8 Conference. Next week, they face three road games in four days, starting with Eastern Alamance in Mebane on Monday. On Tuesday, there’s a vital game at Chapel Hill.

Cedar Ridge’s Trent Gill and Justin Callemyn Discuss the 1-1 Tie with Orange

Gill continued his scoring streak by scoring the Red Wolves’ only goal, which equalized the game against the Panthers.

The story of the Big 8 Conference opener between Orange and Cedar Ridge wasn’t that it ended in a 1-1 draw. It was how easily it could have ended differently.

In the 2nd overtime, Cedar Ridge goalkeeper Justin Callemyn was caught in the crosshairs of a breakaway against Orange’s R.J. Pherribo, who was one good strike away from giving Orange the lead. But Callemyn made a sprawling kick save, the last denial on a night full of them.

As it was, the Panthers and the Red Wolves ended in a 1-1 draw at Cedar Ridge Stadium. After a lifeless first half which saw only two shots fired between the two teams, Orange’s Jamar Davis ended the drought after receiving a cross from Alfredo Rodriguez in the 48th minute. It was Davis’ tenth goal of the season.

Cedar Rdge got the equalizer in the 56th minute off a corner quick. Trent Gill grounded a shot into the Orange net off a low entry by Rene Castellanos.

Cedar Ridge outshot the Panthers 12-7. Callemyn made four saves.

As the game ventured into two 10-minute overtime sessions, but teams had opportunities to take the lead. Rodriguez had a fine strike on a free kick which hit the football crossbar over Callemyn’s head. Cedar Ridge’s Seth Maile left a free kick into the arms of the Panther goalkeeper.

Orange right center back Jesus Chavez made numerous clearances to keep the game level.

Orange is now 4-1-1, 0-0-1 in conference play. Before venturing back into Big 8 play next Wednesday, they face two huge nonconference games. On Friday, they travel to Riverside looking to avenge it’s only loss of the season. The Pirates defeated Orange 1-0 last week in Hillsborough. On Monday, Orange travels to Carrboro. The Jaguars are 4-2-4 and a contender to win the 2A state championship. The Panthers host Northern Vance next Wednesday.

Cedar Ridge is 2-1-3 and travels to Northern Vance on Monday night.

The Cedar Ridge Girls Tennis team is off to a 7-1 start. Senior Senera Sauers is a big reason why. She’s 8-0 in singles matches this season. Cedar Ridge surprised Chapel Hill 6-3 on Tuesday and faces Northwood in Pittsboro on Thursday.

Cedar Ridge Red Wolf of the Week Senera Sauers

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Before the team’s first match against Eastern Alamance, Cedar Ridge girls tennis coach Lennie Corbett said he expected big things from his team. He wasn’t kidding.

On Tuesday, the Red Wolves laid down notice to the rest of the Big 8 Conference that they’re the team to beat this season, shocking perennial power Chapel Hill 6-3 at Tiger Tennis Courts.

Junior Kate Milner clinched the victory with a 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 victory over Rachel Thomas in #6 singles. Mitner improved to 8-0 on the season. She’s one of three undefeated singles stars for the Red Wolves.

Freshman Senera Sauers is now 8-0 after defeating Sarah Combs 6-2, 6-4 at #3 singles. Senior Hanna Spear grinded out a 3-6, 6-2, 10-8 victory over Megan Wu to maintain an undefeated record at 6-0.

Freshman Olivia Ward clinched CRHS 1st win by beating Haile Polsky in another three-set affair, 6-4, 2-6, 11-9.

Leah Thompson captured her match at #3 singles over Lauren Bolzan 6-4, 6-4.

By winning five of six singles matches, the Red Wolves captured the dual match before doubles play even started. Nonetheless, the doubles team of Thompson and Alana Lutz defeated Polsky and Wu 7-7 (7-5)

Cedar Ridge has now won six dual matches in a row. After opening the season with a victory over Eastern Alamance, they lost to Durham School of the Arts. They responded with victories over Orange, Person, Northern Vance, Eastern Alamance and Tuesday’s milestone victory at Chapel Hill, possibly the first time in team history the Red Wolves defeated the Tigers.

Cedar Ridge travels to Northwood on Thursday.