Cedar Ridge High School

When you’re a number one seed starting play in the opening round of a state tournament, you have to prove your dominance.

That’s exactly what Cedar Ridge did on Saturday.

The top-seeded Red Wolves defeated Swansboro 25-7, 25-9 and 25-13 to advance to the 2nd round of the playoffs. Cedar Ridge will face Eastern Alamance next. The Red Wolves defeated the Eagles in four sets earlier this month.

Asha Barnes, who was named Homecoming Queen on Friday night in Cedar Ridge’s football victory over Oxford Webb, finished with 14 kills. Alexis Dumain registered 16 assists and 5 aces.

In the first set, the Red Wolves Meg Anderson served as the Red Wolves ran off 13 consecutive points to take a 16-1 lead.

The Pirates, who drove four hours on Saturday morning to arrive in Hillsborough, drew closer in the second set. At one point, they trailed 7-4. The service by Dumain and Courtney Eckmann proved too much as the Red Wolves finished the set by winning 18 of the last 21 points.

Cedar Ridge is now 21-3 on the season.

In other volleyball action from Saturday, Orange defeated Eden Morehead in four sets. The Panthers advanced on scores of 22-25, 25-23, 25-20 and 25-17.

Orange will travel to Greensboro to face Northern Guilford on Tuesday night.

Hillsboroughsports.com will continue radio coverage of Cedar Ridge games with the Eastern Alamance contest.

This week’s Cedar Ridge Red Wolves of the week are the tandem of Leah Thompson and Maddie Allen. Leah and Maddie finished 4th last week in the Big 8 Conference Doubles Tennis Tournament at Orange High Tennis Courts. Thus, they qualified for this weekend’s Mideast Tennis Regionals at the Burlington Tennis Center.

Remarkably, last week was the first time the two had teamed together this season.

Junior Tess Johnson of Cedar Ridge will compete in the singles tournament.

Cedar Ridge Red Wolves of the Week: Leah Thompson and Maddie Allen

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Cedar Ridge’s Ian Elliott captured his first conference championship at the Big 8 Champtionships at Northwood High in Pittsboro.

Elliott, a junior, finished with a personal best time of 17:04.6 to finish first overall. Orange’s Hunter Spitzer finished 2nd overall at 17:04.6. The Panthers Spenser Husen came in 4th at 17:12.28

Chapel Hill swept both varsity championships in the boys and girls ranks. CHHS won the boys team championship with 35 points. Orange finished second with 46. Cedar Ridge was third at 69 points. Cedar Ridge’s Colin Bunner came in 5th with a time of 17:12.62. Orange’s Danny Archibald registered an 8th place finish at 17:29.78.

In the girls meet, Chapel Hill was even more dominant, finishing with 16 points. Orange was the runner-up with 62 points, while Cedar Ridge was third with 79.

Cedar Ridge’s Liz Zarzar was the only non-Chapel Hill runner to finish in the top 6, finishing 5th with a time of 20:04.75. Orange’s top finisher was Adalyn Fleming, who crossed the finish line at 20:44.59. Juliana Lester of Orange came in 10th.

Elliott, Spitzer, Husen all qualify for regionals.

It was no secret that the Cedar Ridge Red Wolves would be the #1 seed from the Big 8 Conference. They will host a home match in the first round of the state playoffs on Saturday night.

But there was a question as to who would make the playoffs after three teams tied for 2nd place in the Big 8: Chapel Hill, Orange and Webb. Now, we have the answer.

A drawing was held on Wednesday night. Chapel Hill drew 2nd, Orange 3rd. They’re both in the state playoffs. Webb was the unlucky one, drawing 4th. That doesn’t mean the Warriors are out of the postseason, but they will need an at-large birth in order to make the field of 64.

We’ll have coverage of Cedar Ridge, including possible radio broadcasts, here on HillsboroughSports.com. Check here for more information.

Get ready to listen to some of the game for the Red Wolves starting next month here on Hillsborough Sports.com. Here’s the schedule released by boys basketball coach Clay Jones.

DATE​ OPPONENT​ SITE JV VARSITY
Nov. 12 (Thurs.) Riverside & Granville Central (Scrimmage)​ HOME Starting @ 5:00 p.m.
Nov. 14 (Sat.)​ Wheatmore (Jamboree) ​ ​ Away TBA TBA
Nov. 17 (Tues.)​ Carrboro (Tripleheader)​ ​ Away (JV-B)4:30 / (V-G )6:00 / (V-B) 7:30
Nov.20 (Fri.) Bartlett Yancey (Tripleheader)​ HOME (JV-B)4:30 / (V-G)6:00/ (V-B) 7:30 Nov. 23 (Mon.)​ Person​​ ​ Away (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B ) 7:00
Dec. 1 (Tues.) South Granville (Tripleheader)​ HOME (JV-B)4:30 / (V-G)6:00 / (V-B)7:30
Dec. 2 (Wed.)​ Southern Alamance (Vars. Girls & Boys ONLY!) Away — (V-G)6:00 / (V-B) 7:30
Dec. 3 (Thurs.)​ Southern Alamance (JV Girls & Boys ONLY!) HOME (JV-G)5:00/ (JV-B) 6:30 —
Dec. 4 (Fri.) Cummings ​ Away (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B ) 7:00
Dec. 7 (Mon.) Australian Team (Varsity Boys ONLY!)​ HOME — / (V-B) 7:30
Dec. 8 (Tues.)​ Graham (Tripleheader)​ ​ Away (JV-B) 4:30 / (V-G)6:00 / (V-B)7:30
Dec. 11 (Fri.)​ *OHS​​ ​ ​ Away (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B ) 7:00
Dec. 15 (Tues.)​ *NORTHERN VANCE (Tripleheader)​HOME (JV-B)4:30 /(V-G)6:00 / (V-B)7:30
Dec. 18 (Fri.)​ *SOUTHERN DURHAM​​ Away (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B ) 7:00
Dec. 28-29(Mon-Tues) Clinton Christmas Tournament (JV & V.Boys) Away (JV-B) TBA / (V-B ) TBA
Jan. 5 (Tues.)​ *CHAPEL HILL​​​ HOME (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B) 7:00
Jan. 8 (Fri.)​ *NORTHWOOD​​​ HOME (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B) 7:00
Jan. 19 (Tues.)​ *OHS​​​ HOME (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B) 7:00
Jan. 20 (Wed.)​ *J.F. WEBB​​​ Away (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B ) 7:00
Jan. 22 (Fri.)​ *NORTHERN VANCE (Tripleheader)​ Away (JV-B)4:30 / (V-G)6:00 / (V-B)7:30 Jan. 26 (Tues.)​ *SOUTHERN DURHAM​​ HOME (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B) 7:00
Jan. 29 (Fri.)​ *CHAPEL HILL​​​ Away (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B) 7:00
Feb. 2 (Tues.)​ *NORTHWOOD​​​ Away (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B) 7:00
Feb. 5 (Fri.)​ *J.F. WEBB​​​ HOME (JV-B) 5:30 / (V-B) 7:00
Feb. 9 (Tues) Roxboro Comm.School (Tripleheader) ​ HOME (JV-B)4:30 / (V-G )6:00 / (V-B) 7:30
Feb. 11 (Thurs.)​ Carrboro (Tripleheader) [SENIOR NIGHT!]​ HOME (JV-B)4:30 / (V-G) 6:00 / (V-B) 7:30
*DENOTES – CONFERENCE GAMES — Bold denotes – HOME Games

After holding Orange to a scoreless first quarter, the Red Wolves gave up 27 points in the second quarter. The Panthers went on to win 41-6. Shemar Miles scored the Red Wolves only touchdown in the fourth quarter, his eighth of the year. Miles finished with 73 rushing yards. Quarterback Peyton Pappas finished 8-of-20 for 83 yards.  Montae Kee and Lucas Baldwin had interceptions for the Red Wolves.

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The Cedar Ridge Women’s Tennis team will start play in the 3-A state team tournament on Tuesday facing either Union Pines or Fayetteville 71st. Plus, two Red Wolves representatives will compete in the 3-A Regionals next weekend. Tess Johnson will compete in the singles tournament, while the doubles team of Leah Thompson and Maddie Andrews will enters the doubles tournament.

Cedar Ridge coach Lennie Corbett discussed Wednesday’s Big 8 Tournament at Orange High Tennis Courts and what lines up ahead for the Red Wolves.

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Cedar Ridge will have one singles player and a doubles team involved in the 3-A Regional Tennis Tournament at the Burlington Tennis Center on October 24th.

Tess Johnson qualified after making the semifnals of the Big 8 Conference singles tournament on Wednesday at Orange High Tennis Courts. Johnson defeated Orange’s Lexie Mignosa 6-0, 6-1 in the 1st round, then captured her quarterfinal match over Oxford Webb’s Brycyn Smith 6-1, 7-5.

Johnson fell in the semfinals to Northwood’s Sam Sparrow 6-1, 7-5.

In the doubles ranks, Leah Thompson and Maddie Allen qualified for the semifinals by winning its quarterfinal match.

Cedar Ridge will be busy next week. In addition to the regionals, they’ll compete in the 3-A state team tennis tournament. Their first round opponent will be either Fayetteville 71st or Union Pines.

Chapel Hill captured both the singles and doubles conference championships. Hailey Polsky won the Big 8 conference title with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Sparrow. The doubles match was an all-CHHS affair as sophomore Gabby Kmiec and freshman Carolina Coch, in their first year as a team, defeated teammates Ellen Yu and Joy Stouffer 6-2, 6-1.

Coch was named the Big 8 Player of the year and Chapel Hill’s Neil Alderman was named coach of the year.

Cedar Ridge’s Tess Johnson makes 3-A Regional Tennis Tournament.

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With a showdown for first place against Chapel Hill looming on Wednesday night, Cedar Ridge took care of business on Monday with a 5-0 victory over Southern Durham.

Senior Chris Walker scored two goals to lead the Red Wolves, who remained 1 game behind Chapel Hill for 1st place in the Big 8 Conference. Ivan Carbajal, Elmer Trujillio and Johnny Caldaron also tallied goals for Cedar Ridge.

Sean Purner added an assist. Cedar Ridge is now 10-4-1 on the season, 5-2 at home.

Red Wolves goalkeeper Brendon Boss notched his fourth clean sheet of the season. He is now 11-4-1 on the year.

Cedar Ridge continues its pace to make the state playoffs. They travel to Chapel Hill on Wednesday night with first place in the Big 8 on the line.

The Cedar Ridge Red Wolves captured the Big 8 Regular Season championship on Thursday night with a 3-1 victory over Chapel Hill in Tiger Gymnasium.

The Red Wolves captured the match by scores of 25-12, 24-26, 25-11 and 25-20. CRHS is now 18-3 overall, 10-0 in the Big 8 with road matches remaining against Northwood and Oxford Webb next week.

The win guarantees Cedar Ridge will host a first-round 3-A state playoff match, and will likely have more as the season continues.

On Tuesday night, the Red Wolves won on senior night downing Southern Durham 3-0.

Cedar Ridge has won ten in a row.