Carrboro’s co-recreational softball league is back and has played its first round of games. The standings so far:

Armadillo Grill 1-0
Chapel Hill Realty 1-0
Farrell’s Self-Storage 1-0
Milltown 1-0
Bread & Butter 0-1
Fearrington 0-1
The Lawn Wranglers 0-1
The Tooth House 0-1

Carrboro High School women’s soccer won two matches this week. On Friday they defeated Chatham Central High School 7-0. Scoring for the Lady Jaguars were Melody Cranfill, Molly Acuff with two, Peyton Kennedy, Marshall Babcock, Katie Gilmore, and Rosie Scanga, with assists by Rosie Scanga, Sarah Luca, Allison Rosen and Olivia Blanford. Carrboro took 29 shots and Chatham Central took 4. Carrboro had 2 saves, Chatham Central had 16.

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Basketball fever is running high and fans are showing their pride.

Angelo Marrone shows his colors while taking pre-game pizza orders last Saturday at Italian Pizzaria Number 3 on West Franklin Street.

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By Alexandra Mansbach
Carrboro Commons writer

Even the pouring rain couldn’t dampen the spirits of the women’s Carrboro High School soccer team on a recent game night.

Carrboro High School took on the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics on March 19 in a game riddled with rain, wind and power outages. But the team stayed strong, passing accurately and communicating clearly — eventually ending the game with a 1-1 tie in overtime. The Carrboro soccer squad appeared to be anything but a new team.

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By Tracey Theret
Carrboro Commons writer

By the end of next year, Carrboro residents who prefer to putt with a disc won’t have to venture out of town to get their golf fix.
The Carrboro Parks Project, a nonprofit that works to improve parks and open spaces in town, plans to raise money to install a disc golf course in Anderson Park off N.C. Hwy. 54.

“It’s a chill sport, but it has a competitive edge too,” said Krista Moll, a Raleigh resident who travels to UNC’s Outdoor Education Center, the disc golf course closest to Carrboro.

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The Lady Tar Heels basketball team was knocked out of the NCAA Women’s Tournament by the Tigers of LSU on Monday.
The final score was 56-50.

The Tar Heels scored only 21 points in the first half — and while Latoya Pringle scored 19 in the second, the rest of the Heels could add only 10.

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The Town of Carrboro will hold a public meeting to collect input on a comprehensive bicycle plan that will guide future bicycle improvements.

The meeting will be held from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on April 10 in the Carrboro Elementary School cafeteria at 400 Shelton Street.
The town asks that community members stop by any time during the meeting to learn about the project, talk to town staff and project consultants and provide input.

For more information, visit www.greenways.com/pages/CarrboroBicycle.html

By Frank Heath
Sports Columnist

It seems likely that only on this past Sunday, at NC State’s home arena, the RBC Center, could one have witnessed such a scene. There, in plain view, a sea of light blue-clad fans screamed their heads off for a team from North Carolina clad in State red uniforms, as that team came back from 17 points down to upset a highly ranked opponent, the Georgetown Hoyas — those very same Hoyas who happened to have bounced UNC from the post-season twice in the past six seasons.

Other than 1,500 or so Georgetown fans who had scored tickets, every soul in the Wolfpack’s lair seemed to get caught up in Davidson Wildcat hysteria. (Well, there was that one sad-looking guy in the Duke shirt who wandered the aisles and really didn’t look consolable.)

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Photo by Jim Kenny

March 17

The Carrboro High School men’s lacrosse team defeated Durham School of the Arts by a score of 7-6 in sudden death overtime on Monday night. The Jaguar’s scoring was paced by Rich Leeper (3 goals, 1 assist), MacKenzie Price (2 goals) and David Hare (2 goals), while Brooks Covington, Ty Fenton and Ken Ryan each provided one assist. Hare and Leeper also helped out in the battle for possession by snagging six ground balls each. Goalies Gus Brighton (6 saves) and Nick Swartzwelder (4 saves) led the defense during the Jaguar’s late comeback and overtime score. More »

By Frank Heath
Sports Columnist

Bravo, Heels!

Following Tywon Lawson’s severe ankle injury early in February, there were a lot more questions about this UNC basketball team than answers. Sure, the Tar Heels still possessed the talent — as they very often do — to compete against top opposition on any given night.

But when North Carolina looked in the mirror after losing to Duke in Chapel Hill on Feb. 6, all the Tar Heels could say to themselves was, “We gotta do better than this.” If what Carolina sought from that moment was the best opportunity to attain our goals, to meet its expectations and to fulfill its - and our — hopes, the Tar Heels would need to figure out ways to improve their defense, sharpen their half-court offense and solidify their overall focus.

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Carrboro High
Women’s Soccer

March 10
(via Tony Blanford)

Carrboro defeated Raleigh Charter, 2-1, after two periods of extra time.
Raleigh goal by C. Morgan, assist H. Deters.
Carrboro goals V. Aldana , M. Cranfill.
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Terry Sturdivant has been a lifelong baseball fan — and a Yankees fan, at that — an act he admits was a bit of rebellion against his father, a Red Sox loyalist.

So when Sturdivant Tire and Auto at White Cross decided to focus its philanthropy, helping local baseball seemed pretty natural.
Sturdivant reports that the annual fundraiser in which he donates 10 percent of new tire sales for high school baseball programs is in full swing with a promised goal of $500 for each school. “We’re doing really well,” he said.

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(via Linda Thomason)

Carrboro High School’s men’s golf team played in their first-ever Mid-State conference golf match Monday 3/10 at Hillandale Golf Course. The Jaguars finished second out of 8 teams competing. Cardinal Gibbons finished first with a score of 147, followed by Carrboro HS (162) and Graham HS (164). The next Mid-State match is Monday 3/17 at Occoneechee Golf Club.

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Smith Middle School with host the 19th annual 4 C’s Basketball Camp July 7-11. The camp is designed for rising fifth- through seventh-grade boys and lasts from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. each day. For more information, contact 918-2145, ext. 21905.

The Carrboro Recreation and Parks Department will be sponsoring a Volleyball Drop-In on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m., beginning March 11 and running until May 22 at Grey Culbreth Middle School. $3 per participant, no pre-registration necessary. For information, call 918-7364.