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Chatham News & Record

PITTSBORO — The Friday night lights will be back this week as scrimmages will give a sneak preview of the upcoming regular season.

The Jack Shaner Jamboree at Northwood High School signals the return of football as teams will make their way to Pittsboro for a first look at the area’s lineup on the gridiron.

Kicking off at 6 p.m. on Friday, a total of seven teams: home Northwood, Chapel Hill, Jordan-Matthews, Southern Lee, Carrboro, Trinity Christian and Providence Grove will meet for scrimmages.

6:10 p.m. — Chapel Hill vs. Northwood; Jordan-Matthews vs. Southern Lee

6:40 p.m. — Carrboro vs. Northwood; Trinity Christian vs. Providence Grove

7:10 p.m. — Chapel Hill vs. Southern Lee; Jordan-Matthews vs. Providence Grove

7:40 p.m. — Northwood vs. Southern Lee; Trinity Christian vs. Carrboro

8:10 p.m. — Chapel Hill vs. Providence Grove; Carrboro vs. Jordan-Matthews

8:40 p.m. — Trinity Christian vs. Northwood playing in the Chatham County Pony League. The league played a 12-game regular season at Chatham Central High School in Bear Creek. Following a league tournament, a 15-player all-star team was selected to compete in the Pony League national tournament. Eastern Randolph High School varsity baseball coach Nathan Cockman led the squad.

The Chargers, who take the field with first-year head coach Mitch Johnson, will look to get in shape ahead of their season opener against Riverside-Durham.

“Putting the pieces together is the name of the game right now. But we have high expectations being in this new conference,” Johnson told the Chatham News & Record earlier in the summer.

The other Chatham team playing in this week’s jamboree, Jordan-Matthews, looks to improve after a winless 2022 season.

Jets supporters are eager to see how their team under thirdyear head coach Ryan Johnson looks ahead of their season opener at home against South Davidson.

Earlier this week, the Seaforth Hawks took on Moore County’s Union Pines Vikings in a scrimmage.

The team was comprised of Landon Albright, Bauer Bowling, Miles Cox, Cameron Hin- ton, Chance Holdaway, Shane Immel, Carson Jackson, Daniel Jaimes, Gabriel Jaimes, Cade McCallum, Ryder Murphy, Davis Rhodes, Ayden Walsh, Carson Williams and Rhett Wood. Going into the tournament, the Chatham-Randolph team knew it would need four wins to capture the East Zone title and advance to the World Series. It picked up two early wins to stay in the winners’ bracket in the double-elimination tourna- ment, but the team’s third game was a shutout loss to eventual champion Manchester, dropping them to the loser’s bracket. Chatham-Randolph then suffered a 1-0 loss to Ohio in a nine-inning rematch.

In its first game, Chatham-Randolph started McCallum on the mound against the New York team from the Bronx. McCallum struck out nine N.Y. batters and earned the win for C-R. The game started with back-and-forth scoring through the first three innings. In the bottom of the fourth, C-R plated five runs to break open an 8-2 lead. Chatham-Randolph added four runs in the bottom of the fifth to earn a 12-2 mercy

Lleyton Lackey of Asheboro ZooKeepers enjoys a moment late in the season after hitting a home run.