Cyclists nearing end of the road Editor's Note : The Cycle20Ten riders comprise members of Boy Scout Troop 845 and other Chapel Hill students. Team leader Brian Burnham checks in periodically to let us know how they're doing in their quest to cross America and raise funds for UNC's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. This arrived last Wednesday:"We are now relaxing on a day off in Sandpoint, Idaho, camped out at the lake, enjoying the beach as well as the hot tub and pool that our campsite offers. This town is great for a day off, boasting an infinite amount of activities as well as some great food. However, we take off tomorrow at 6 a.m. to begin the last and final bike trip within this bike trip.
"Tomorrow begins the Cascades.
"There has been plenty of talk and plenty of nervousness over this next part. Some of the days are quite short, only 29 miles sometimes, but the catch is that they are all uphill.
"There are five huge passes in the Cascades, done on five consecutive days, some of which are over 4,000 feet of climbing on pretty steep grade. But no matter how long the climbs really are, we'll handle it like we always have for the last eight weeks -- get up at 6, grab a granola bar, plug in some good tunes and crush out each climb one by one.
"After one last glorious hoorah on Washington Pass on Aug. 16, we'll drop all the way down and roll into Anacortes, Wash., our ultimate goal, and finish up our last bike trip within a bike trip and begin a couple months of days off."
-- Brian Burnham
B&B moves into first place
Bread & Butter has taken over sole possession of first place in the Carrboro Co-Rec Softball League, thanks in part to a forfeit by 300 East Main Street. The 2009 league champions ceded a win Tuesday night to Armadillo Grill, leaving both those teams at 3-1.
B&B (4-0) defeated Whole Foods by a 26-2 score Tuesday and then edged the veteran Ghost Riders by 6-5 on Thursday to emerge as the league's last undefeated team just three weeks into the season.
In Tuesday's other game, Ghost Riders downed Fightin' Squids 30-2.
Thursday, 300 East Main bounced back to defeat Whole Foods 17-3, and Armadillo Grill beat Fightin' Squids 21-3.
Cobey, Denny make top 10
Munroe Cobey of Chapel Hill and Apex's
George Leight of Apex combined to card a 5-under-par 211 last week to tie for ninth place in the North Carolina Senior Four-Ball Championship at River Run Country Club in Davidson. Their final round 68 helped them earn $145 in prizes from the Carolinas Golf Association.
Mark Wagner of Statesville and
Dick Hogan of Burlington holed 5- and 12-foot birdie putts on 17 and 18 respectively to win the championship by one stroke.
Elsewhere in amateur golf,
Maggie Denny of Chapel Hill shot 90-91--181 Wednesday to finish sixth in the Girls 15-17 Division of the 10th annual TarHeel Youth Golf Championship, held at Sapona Country Club in Lexington.
Tucker, six more, join NCHSAA Hall of Fame
N.C. High School Athletic Association deputy commissioner
Que Tucker is among seven people who have been selected for the NCHSAA Hall of Fame in Chapel Hill.
The group will be presented at halftime of the University of North Carolina football game in Chapel Hill against Virginia Tech on Nov. 13 and will be inducted next spring.
Other members of the hall's 2010 class include: former Sanderson soccer coach and athletics director
Bob Catapano;
Harvey Brooks, who coached football, basketball, baseball and track for more than 40 years at several eastern schools; former Lumberton coach and A.D.
Tunney Brooks; Maiden coach
Tom Brown, whose record of 352-132-7 includes the most wins of any NCHSAA football coach at one school; football's
Joe Hunt, who had a 87-43-6 record at Sylva-Webster and a 118-40-2 mark at Hendersonville; and
Carolyn Rogers, who coached volleyball, cheerleading, track and field and basketball at Perquimans High from 1972 to 2009.
Tucker was a successful athlete at Mars Hill College, coached at Reidsville High, and was an assistant women's basketball coach at N.C. State under Kay Yow before she joined the NCHSAA in 1991. She also was a high school game official before heading to NCSU, and later served as a radio and TV analyst for women's basketball broadcasts.
The Hall of Fame plaques are on permanent display in the North Carolina High School Athletic Association's Hall of Fame room, located in the Simon F. Terrell Building in Chapel Hill, which houses the Association offices.
Correction: Law will attend Tilton
The Chapel Hill News
("Talent shines in summer tourney" / CHN, July 18) listed the wrong school that East Chapel Hill grad
Aaron Law will attend next semester. Law, a standout guard for the Wildcats, plans to do a post-grad year at Tilton School in New Hampshire.
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