The NCHSAA 3-A East volleyball quarterfinals Thursday will be an entirely Carolina-Six affair: Carolina No. 2 seed Chapel Hill (23-5) will host No. 3 seed Southern Vance (18-11), and Carolina Conference champion Cardinal Gibbons (21-1) will host No. 4 seed Orange (19-9).

All four advanced from the NCHSAA second round with wins on Tuesday evening.

In Wentworth, Chapel Hill took down Mid-State champion Rockingham with a 25-21, 23–25, 25–16, 25-12, road win. Three Tigers had double-digit kills — Katelyn Layden (16), Megan McCluskey (14) and Kiaya Robinson (11) — while setter Elise Healy had perhaps her best all-around match of 2009, with 43 assists and 5 serving aces.

Cardinal Gibbons swept McMichael, 3 sets to none on Tuesday, and the OHS Panthers won a five-set match at former Mid-State rival Eastern Alamance. Southern Vance upset Mid-Piedmont champion Southern Guilford in four sets Tuesday.

In the 2-A East, Cedar Ridge (21-4) plays in the third round of the playoffs Thursday night against Bunn (23-3), champion of the Northern Carolina Conference and a 3-0 winner Tuesday over St. Pauls.
Playing at Hillsborough, the Red Wolves swept High Point Andrews on Tuesday, 25-13, 25-10, 25-4, to advance. Taylor Thompson made 18 kills and Emily Holmes 12 kills to lead CRHS, while Morgan Veasey made 10 blocks, and Chelsea Howlett had 29 assists and 2 aces.

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