Wednesday, October 31, 2012 —
The North Carolina High School Athletic Association announced this weekend and on Monday the pairings for both the football and soccer state championships.
Two Stanly County football teams and three soccer squads will open postseason play this week.
1A Football Playoffs
The Albemarle Bulldogs and South Stanly Rowdy Rebel Bulls have both qualified for the postseason.
Albemarle is the No. 1 seed in the Midwest and the West Region overall and hosts South Robeson (3-7) the #8 in the Midwest and No. 16 in the West.
South Stanly is in the same Midwest pod as the No. 3 Midwest seed and No. 6 in the West Region and hosts Chatham Central, who is No. 6, overall No. 12 in the West Region.
Should Albemarle and South Stanly win their first two playoff contests, the two teams would play again at Albemarle in the third week of the playoffs.
Both games are at home Friday night at 7:30 p.m.
1A Soccer Playoffs
Albemarle and Gray Stone will both play on Halloween night in the opening round of the 1A state playoffs.
The Bulldogs (8-6) are at home Wednesday night and host the Union Academy Cardinals (10-5) from the Rocky River Conference at 6:30 p.m. Lake Norman Charter (15-3-1 ) awaits the winner of Wednesday’s match.
Gray Stone, with a record of 4-6, earned a wild-card berth into the playoffs and travel to Bishop McGuinness for a 5 p.m. match with the Villains. The winner of the match would face East Montgomery (14-4-3) in the second round.
2A Soccer Playoffs
The West Stanly Colts finished in third place in the 1A/2A Rocky River Conference this season among the 2A schools and will be on the road in the first round.
West travels to Trinity High School to face the 14-4-2 Bulldogs, the No. 1 seed from the Pac-6 Conference.
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Five Stanly teams reach the playoffs
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Stanly County Baseball / Softball Notes
The opponent for South Stanly in the fourth round of the 1A state baseball playoffs has been determined, while there has been a change made in the time of Tuesday's 2A softball game between West Stanly and Cuthbertson.
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Stanly County Baseball / Softball Update
In local playoff games on Friday, South Stanly hosted Albemarle in a third-round 1A baseball playoff matchup, while West Stanly hosted Piedmont in the 2A softball third-round and Gray Stone traveled to Chatham Central for a 1A third-round softball game.
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Stanly County Baseball / Softball Playoff Update
The four Stanly County high school varsity baseball and softball teams still remaining in their respective high school state playoffs all earned victories last night and advanced to the third round of the playoffs.
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Stanly County Baseball Playoff Notebook
Three Stanly County baseball teams opened play in the state playoffs on Friday night, two on the road and one at home.
South Stanly hosted a familiar opponent in East Montgomery, while Albemarle traveled to Central Academy in Monroe and West Stanly travelled to Randleman. -
Stanly County Softball Playoff Notebook
In the opening round of the state playoffs, the softball teams of West Stanly and Gray Stone advanced to the second round of the playoffs, while South Stanly was upset at home by Lake Norman Charter.
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Gray Stone soccer loses playoff game in overtime to Union Academy
At Friday’s second-round playoff game at Union Academy, the Gray Stone Knights girls’ soccer team continued a trend that had helped them to win 17 straight games this season: playing stellar defense and limiting teams to few scoring chances.
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High School Soccer Playoffs
The Gray Stone girls’ soccer team faced a tough opponent Wednesday in the first round of the NCHSAA state 1A playoffs in a Central Academy team that played in a tough 1A/2A Rocky River Conference that includes two teams ranked in the top 15 in the 2A in the latest poll.
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Yadkin Valley Conference Baseball Tournament
The fifth-seeded Albemarle Bulldogs took to a soggy yet well-prepared North Moore High School baseball field on Tuesday night to take on No. 2-seed West Montgomery for the 2013 Yadkin Valley Conference tournament.
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High School Tennis Playoffs
The boys’ tennis season for the Gray Stone Knights continued this week as the Knights advanced to the 1A quarterfinals for the first time in school history.
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High School Baseball / Softball Playoffs
Six high school baseball and softball teams from Stanly County have qualified for their respective classification's state playoffs to start this week.
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Stanly County Baseball / Softball Notes
