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MAY 9-15, 2018 UCW 25 WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM Lorraine Ross Douglas Byrd • Basketball/ Soccer • Junior Ross has a grade point average of 3.79. She is in the Academy of Finance, the National Honor Society, the ROTC color guard and drill team and is a men- tor for the Student-to- Student program. Brandon Bagley Gray's Creek • Baseball • Junior As a member of the Bears' baseball team, which advanced to the finals of the Patriot Athletic Conference tournament recently, Bagley has a grade point average of 3.79. Rocket Fizz Soda Pop and Candy Shop congratulates these amazing scholar athletes of the week and invites them to the Rocket Fizz Store at 1916 Skibo Rd. to receive a FREE gift recognizing their achievement! www.rocketfizz.com Updates to high school athletics rules by EARL VAUGHAN JR. ere's no such a thing as a routine meeting of the N.C. High School Ath- letic Association's Board of Directors. Last Wednesday's spring session was no exception. Here's a look at what happened, in- cluding a few editorial comments from me about possible results. One of the things that drew the sharpest and quickest response was a decision to require all regular-season soccer matches next year to be played to a winner. Most schools let regular-season matches end in ties. Some soccer coaches expressed immediate outrage on social media, but Terry Sanford's Karl Molnar wasn't among them. Molnar said schools in Cumberland County have previously experimented with breaking regular-season ties and added it didn't have a major impact the year it was tried. "It obviously gives you a better outcome because it gets rid of potential ties in the record,'' he said. "Aside from a little bit later ball game, it didn't affect it much.'' Molnar did add that conferences where travel is an issue might not be as happy with a regular- season game going into overtime and running late. e board again tweaked the controversial playoff format that uses MaxPrep rankings to determine seeds, clarifying language that says no team can leap frog one that it finished behind in the regular season because of some problem with the MaxPreps rankings. ey also voted to increase the number of teams qualifying in some classifications. My only comment here is I've been covering the board and playoff formulas for over 40 years and I've yet to see one that made everybody happy. It's impossible to fix this to everyone's satisfaction. Two hot issues for the board, seven-on-seven competition in the summer for football and the plan to allow home-school students to play on public school teams, will be aired out by special committees this summer. Both of these issues are critical and need to have clear rules governing them. Seven-on-seven competition needs to be governed for safety reasons and also to prevent possible nega- tive influences like those associated with Amateur Athletic Union bas- ketball. e home-school issue has a lot of potential for abuse if clear rules aren't established dealing with residency and which school or schools a home- schooler would be allowed to attend. It looks like Fayetteville and Greenville will continue to share the Eastern Regional basketball tournament for at least another year, according to East Bladen's Patty Evers, who represents Region IV on the board of directors. But there are problems finding a site in the west, and Evers said the board is possibly looking to move to high school gyms there. Cost is a major issue as well unless the NCH- SAA can find some additional outside funding. Here are some other items that the board took action on last week. • e contract of NCHSAA commissioner Que Tucker was extended for two years. • Errol Daniels was approved as the regional supervisor of basketball officials for the South- eastern Athletic Officials Association. He replac- es Brad Allen, who had to step down because of his responsibilities as a full-time official for the National Football League. • e NCHSAA staff will use video to invoke sanctions and ejections not reported by game officials. Video must be submitted for review within two business days of the contest. • Acceptance of money or any forbidden award will cause an athlete to lose eligibility in all sports for 365 days. • For Saturday playoff games, if teams can't mutually agree on a starting time the home team can chose a time between 1-7 p.m., 1-6 p.m. if the visiting team is more than 100 miles away. • Increased membership dues to $1 per pupil, the first dues increase in 22 years. & BRINGING YOU THE BEST IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS April Athlete of the Month (Baseball): Andrew Jayne, Terry Sanford HS 6-8pm May 9 th May 15 th May 12 th 1st Round - Teams TBA NCHS Athletic Assn 2nd Round - Teams TBA NCHSAA 3rd Round - Teams TBA NCHSAA 10 20 30 40 40 30 20 10 50 10 20 30 40 40 30 20 10 50 20 30 40 40 30 20 10 50 10 20 30 40 40 30 20 50 MONDAY Join Don Koonce & Trey Edge for the Baseball Game of the Week ALL on WCLN 105.7 FM Airtime 6:45 PM