Celebrating two scores of Rainbow Soccer

Rainbow Soccer, the original youth soccer league, is 40 years old this year, and alumni players, staff coaches and referees are invited to gather from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Saturday, May 19 at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro.

RSVP to victoriabrawley@gmail.com.

Sutton finishes second year at Guilford

Chapel Hill High alumna Natalie Sutton recently concluded her second season as a member of Guilford College’s tennis team. The sophomore captain posted a 6-17 singles mark, primarily at second singles. She posted a 10-13 doubles record, including a 9-8 mark with teammate Kim Kleimeier, mainly at No. 1 doubles.

On March 10, Sutton’s 6-3, 6-4 singles win and 8-1 doubles win with Kleimeier were crucial in the Quakers’ 5-4 victory over Virginia Wesleyan.

Sutton helped head coach Dave McCain’s squad to a 9-9 overall record, 6-4 in the ODAC, Guilford’s best season since 2008. The Quakers return as many as eight letter winners for the 2012-13 season, including Sutton.

Fisher leads CHHS to second straight

Chapel Hill went 2-1 in baseball last week, slipping a game behind Cardinal Gibbons at the top of the Carolina-6 Conference. The Tigers gave up three runs in the bottom of the eighth to lose an extra-innings affair at Northern Vance, 3-2.

They bounced back to defeat Southern Vance 6-3, with Zach Jansen improving to 6-0 by scattering four hits over six innings worked and striking out five.

Chad Fisher topped that by striking out 15 Warriors in a 4-1, two-hitter win against Oxford Webb – and he did it after he dislocated a finger.

Fisher, who went 1-for 3 with a double and a walk, jammed his finger on a stolen base attempt in the first inning. Freshman Jeffery Williams took the mound in the bottom of the first, gave up solo home run to Webb’s leadoff batter, but then settled down complete the inning.

Fisher returned in the bottom of the second and completed six innings for the win that improved CHHS to 12-9, 7-2.

NCHSAA meeting this week in Chapel Hill

The North Carolina High School Athletic Association holds its annual meeting this week in Chapel Hill, where two significant issues affecting local teams are expected to be finalized.

The NCHSAA board of directors is expected to set the realignment of the state’s high schools for 2013-17, with East Chapel Hill hovering between 3A and 4A status. If the board accepts the NCHSAA realignment committee’s final plan, East Chapel Hill will drop into a 3A conference with Chapel Hill and Orange. If the board accepts the appeal of Panther Creek and Green Hope – who noted that East’s first attendance numbers failed to reflect the school’s larger study body – then the Wildcats would stay in the 4A PAC-6 and those two Wake County schools will stay in their present conference.

The NCHSAA also is expected to announce its vote on the eligibility status of Cardinal Gibbons, Charlotte Catholic and Bishop McGuinness, deciding if those parochial schools should be denied membership.

The NCHSAA’s annual awards presentations, including Chapel Hill High School’s Sherry Norris being recognized as the North Carolina female coach of the year, will be held Thursday at the Dean E. Smith Center.

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