Orange High School

It’s time for the weekly “Jamar Davis collects a hat trick” story.

For the third time in five weeks, the Orange striker scored a hat trick, this time against Northern Vance on Wednesday at Orange Soccer Park. The Panthers rolled past the Vikings 10-1.

Davis has 13 goals this season after hat tricks against Northern Durham and Bartlett Yancey (where he finished with 4 goals).

Also scoring for the Panthers were Bryan Torres and Ewan McCallum with 2 goals each. McCallum also finished with three assists.

Clevin Noronha had a goal and an assist. Levi Anderson finished with two assists. Cameron Krogstad, Malcolm Phillips and Noah Miller each registered with an assist.

The news wasn’t as good on Thursday night against 2A power Carrboro. The Jaguars pitched a clean sheet with a 2-0 victory.

Orange is 5-3-1, 1-0-1 in the Big 8.

With a vital match against Chapel Hill on the horizon, Orange volleyball took care of business against Southern Durham.

The Panthers swept the Spartans 3-0 on Tuesday night at Spartans Gymnasium on scores of 25-9, 25-15 & 25-11. Macy Hughes had six aces and six kills. Emma Clements has four aces, four kills and 5 digs. Julia Fish added five kills and four blocks. Julia Lovingood had 2 kills and 15 assists.

Orange has won three in a row and are now 4-5. They are tied with Webb for 2nd place in the Big 8 with a 2-1 record, one game behind undefeated Chapel Hill. The Tigers visit Jim King Gymnasium in Hillsborough on Thursday night at 6:30.

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.)

It was a classic battle of ground game vs. air game on Auman Stadium on Thursday night, but some good old fashioned defense turned out to be the biggest play that earned the Orange JV football team its second win of the season.

Cameron White recovered a Cummings fumble at the 15-yard line with 2:35 remaining to keep the Cavaliers from scoring the go-ahead touchdown as Orange held on to defeat Cummings 34-32.

It was a strong night for the Orange running game. Colin Guentensberger scored three touchdowns. Eryk Mercado added two scored. Vital runs on the final drive by sophomore Jett Satterfield helped run the clock out as the Panthers continue its dominance in the JV ranks.

Orange bolted out to a 24-6 lead before Cummings scored touchdowns on five consecutive possessions. The game ran nearly three hours because a Cummings player had to be stretchered off the field by Orange County EMS after a frantic scramble for a fumble on a 2-point conversion. The player was breathing on his own and moving his legs as he was stretchered into the awaiting ambulance.

The Orange JV squad is slated to travel to Western Guilford in Greensboro next Thursday for its final nonconference game.

Senior Mileah Shriner had a strong night as Orange earned its 3rd win of the season on Thursday over Northern Vance. Meanwhile, junior Bailey Lucas is just getting used to North Carolina after moving from Illinois during the summer.

Mileah Shriner & Bailey Lucas Talk Orange’s Win over Northern Vance

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Coming off a disappointing loss to Cedar Ridge last week, the Orange volleyball team went into the week searching for salvation. And they got it.

After sweeping Graham on Tuesday, the Panthers earned its first Big 8 Conference win of the season by sweeping Northern Vance at Jim King Gymnasium on Thursday night on scores of 25-23, 27-25 & 26-24.

Macy Hughes had a solid all-around game for the Panthers, finishing with eight kills, three aces, 2 digs and 2 blocks. Mileah Shriner had seven kills, 1 block and 1 ace. Bailey Lucas had two kills, 15 assists and five digs.

Orange improves to 3-5, 1-1 in the Big 8. On Tuesday, they travel to Southern Durham. Next Thursday, they host Chapel Hill.

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.

Orange’s Alfredo Rodriguez Talks His Assist vs. Cedar Ridge

Rodriguez set up the Panthers’ only goal against Cedar Ridge, scored by Jamar Davis.

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.