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CHAPEL HILL – A vigil against Amendment One will be held at 7 p.m. tonight (Wednesday) at Peace and Justice Plaza outside the Franklin Street post office.

“We are aware of the dismay that many of our members and friends are experiencing today following the passage of Amendment One in North Carolina,” the Revs Jill and Richard Edens of United Church of Chapel Hill, said in an email announcing the vigil.

Churches are being credited with helping the amendment pass. The co-pastors said tonight’s vigil will help highlight people of faith who opposed and worked against it

“Churches across our state stood with those who would be harmed by this Amendment including the Episcopal dioceses of North Carolina, both Methodist bishops in North Carolina together with the NC Council of Churches and many, many UCC, Baptist, Lutheran, Unitarian, MCC and progressive Pentecostal pastors from across our state,” the email says. “We are aware of the special pain that comes with reading quotes from people saying things like, ‘God’s mercy prevailed.’ Not only is this hurtful to the LGBTQ community, but also to the integrity of God’s word and God’s love.”

Orange County voters overwhelmingly opposed the amendment, which will restrict marriage to one man and one woman and bar other forms of legal domestic union such as civil unions.

The vote in Orange County was 35,988, or 78.9 percent, against the amendment, and 9,597, or 21 percent for the amendment. Voter turnout was 43.6 percent, according to the Board of Elections.

In a news release Wednesday, Orange County GOP Chairman Bob Randall said despite the county results the statewide passage was “a victory for everyone.”

“Opponents of the marriage amendment had predicted dire consequences if the Amendment passed including loss of insurance coverage for same-sex and even heterosexual, non-marital partners, challenges to domestic violence statues and protections and, prohibitions against private party agreements such as end-of-life matters,” the news release said.

“Anyone who was paying attention to the facts of the case knows that many of the same folks who opposed the Amendment have already benefited from this type of coverage to-date with little opposition and they should continue uninterrupted,” Randall said in the release. “Simple Wills and Powers of Attorney protect most folks in these situations anyway, and that is the solution and should allay their fears.”

“It’s unfortunate that opponents used fear, intimidation and lies to support their position,” he added. “In the end, as always, truth wins out – plain and simple. The Amendment was simply designed to define marriage and prevent activist judges from interpreting the law and letting everything from Polygamy to Billie-Bob marrying his pet goat in the spirit of ‘no discrimination.’ Where would it end?”

Article source: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2012/05/09/71309/anti-amendment-vigil-wednesday.html

“Churches across our state stood with those who would be harmed by this Amendment including the Episcopal dioceses of North Carolina, both Methodist bishops in North Carolina together with the NC Council of Churches and many, many UCC, Baptist, Lutheran, Unitarian, MCC and progressive Pentecostal pastors from across our state,” the email says. “We are aware of the special pain that comes with reading quotes from people saying things like, ‘God’s mercy prevailed.’ Not only is this hurtful to the LGBTQ community, but also to the integrity of God’s word and God’s love.”

Orange County voters overwhelmingly opposed the amendment, which will restrict marriage to one man and one woman and bar other forms of legal domestic union such as civil unions.

The vote in Orange County was 35,988, or 78.9 percent, against the amendment, and 9,597, or 21 percent for the amendment. Voter turnout was 43.6 percent, according to the Board of Elections.

In a news release Wednesday, Orange County GOP Chairman Bob Randall said despite the county results the statewide passage was “a victory for everyone.”

“Opponents of the marriage amendment had predicted dire consequences if the Amendment passed including loss of insurance coverage for same-sex and even heterosexual, non-marital partners, challenges to domestic violence statues and protections and, prohibitions against private party agreements such as end-of-life matters,” the news release said.

“Anyone who was paying attention to the facts of the case knows that many of the same folks who opposed the Amendment have already benefited from this type of coverage to-date with little opposition and they should continue uninterrupted,” Randall said in the release. “Simple Wills and Powers of Attorney protect most folks in these situations anyway, and that is the solution and should allay their fears.”

“It’s unfortunate that opponents used fear, intimidation and lies to support their position,” he added. “In the end, as always, truth wins out – plain and simple. The Amendment was simply designed to define marriage and prevent activist judges from interpreting the law and letting everything from Polygamy to Billie-Bob marrying his pet goat in the spirit of ‘no discrimination.’ Where would it end?”

Article source: http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/09/2054311/anti-amendment-vigil-wednesday.html

Hillsborough, N.C. — Durham Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson extended his ruling Tuesday that Chapel Hill cannot ban the use of a cellphone while driving. In March, Chapel Hill became the first municipality in North Carolina to ban use of cellphones, including hands-free devices, for all drivers. The ordinance would have taken effect June 1.

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The first challenge to that law came from a local towing company, which argued that the cellphone ban is at odds with a law that drivers must call police to report when they tow a car. 

Hudson agreed with lawyers for George’s Towing Recovery Tuesday and made his injunction against the ban permanent. 

Tom Stark, the attorney for George’s Towing, said the town council had exceeded its authority in initiating the ban, and that it would damage his client’s business. “The phone is a lifeblood for this kind of business,” he said. “This is not a big business with a dispatcher.

“There is not a grant of authority to Chapel Hill to regulate cell phones,” Stark said.

Attorneys for the town pledged to work out the conflict between the towing ordinance and the cellphone ban before June 1, but Hudson was unmoved.

The next step for the ban is unclear.

Article source: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/11075526/

BY BETH VELLIQUETTE

bvelliquette@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6632

HILLSBOROUGH — A judge granted a preliminary injunction against Chapel Hill’s cellphone ban and its towing ordinance during a short hearing Tuesday morning in Orange County Superior Court.

After hearing about 15 minutes of argument from both sides of the issue, Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson sided with George’s Towing and Recovery.

George’s Towing filed the complaint May 2 against the town of Chapel Hill, saying that Chapel Hill’s towing ordinance and its cellphone ban would do irreparable harm to its business. It also stated that the two ordinances had contradictory requirements that would make it impossible for the towing company to comply with both ordinances.

The towing ordinance requires that a towing company answer its phone so that people who have had their vehicles towed can immediately contact the towing company.

However, the cellphone ban restricts the use of cellphones by drivers within the city limits.

Chapel Hill Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos told the judge that the Chapel Hill Town Council would likely correct that inconsistency by changing the regulation so that a towing company would not be required to answer the phone immediately but would be required to return calls within 10 or 15 minutes.

The cellphone ban was passed in March but is not scheduled to go into effect until June 1, and Karpinos said the council would make the change before June 1.

Mayor Mark Kleinschmidt, who voted against the ordinance, said the legal test is simply a part of the larger democratic process that gives citizens the right to challenge laws with which they disagree.

“We’ll take a look at what changes the town attorney might suggest,” Kleinschmidt said.

Meanwhile, Joe Capowski, a Chapel Hill resident, who championed the ban, said he was a disappointed by Hudson’s ruling.

“But I’m also confident that the cellphone ban will pass and be implemented,” Capowski said. “The judge’s ruling does not change the fact that it’s dangerous to drive and talk on a cellphone whether it’s handheld or hands-free.”

The new amendments of the town’s towing ordinance went into effect May 1, however, and the judge’s order has the effect of completely killing the whole ordinance, not just the new amendments, until the issue is permanently resolved by the courts.

The town is expected to file a motion for a summary judgment, which would likely be heard in 30 to 60 days. A summary judgment allows a judge to rule on the issue before a full-blown trial.

In George’s Towing complaint against the town, the company complained that the town had no authority to enact an ordinance prohibiting the use of mobile phones while driving because cities do not have the authority to enact that type of legislation.

It also wants the court to declare that the town’s towing ordinance is unconstitutional and that the local ordinance violates the North Carolina Constitution because it allows the Chapel Hill police department to search the company’s tow lot without a search warrant.

The complaint asks that if the court does not find the ordinance unconstitutional, that it declare that the town went beyond the powers granted to it by North Carolina statutes.

George’s Towing has contracts with several businesses near the intersection of West Franklin Street and Mallette Street and near Franklin and Rosemary streets.

Those businesses have had problems with people parking in their private parking lots and walking off the property, leaving no place for the business’s customers to park.

However, people who have had their vehicles towed from those lots have complained to the town that they didn’t see the no parking signs, couldn’t find out where their vehicles were or couldn’t contact the towing company to get their vehicles back.

They also complained the towing companies didn’t always allow them to get their vehicles back immediately and then were charged excessive storage fees.

So the town amended its towing ordinance to include regulations that would increase the signage and make it easier for people to contact the towing company and retrieve their vehicles.

Among the requirements were that the towing company had to call the police department before leaving the parking lot with a vehicle to give the department information about the car and where it would be stored.

It also required that calls to the tow company be answered by a person with the authority to and ability to release the vehicle within 30 minutes of the call.

Councilwoman Penny Rich led the effort to adopt the cellphone ban, which was narrowly approved by the council in March on a 5-4 vote.

Reporter Gregory Childress contributed to this story.

Article source: http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/18499221/article-Judge-halts-Chapel-Hill%E2%80%99s-cellphone-ban--towing-ordinance--

CHAPEL HILL – A controversial staff report on dual-language programs dominated another meeting of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board, even though it was nowhere on the agenda.

Addressing the families, teachers and staff of Frank Porter Graham Elementary School, board member Jamezetta Bedford apologized at the beginning of Thursday’s meeting for fears caused by the report’s release.

“If we had a do-over, like you get at the playground,” Bedford said, “I think we all regret any disrespect and hurt that was caused to them in advance … in releasing that dual-language report.”

The report, released in March, was a staff proposal and has not yet been submitted to the Board of Education. The final draft will reflect community input, said assistant superintendent Todd LoFrese.

Once again, supporters of the Mandarin Chinese dual-language program turned out Thursday to oppose the report’s recommendation that the Chinese program be dismantled at the end of the year.

Parents also addressed the board during public comment session to speak for and against the report’s recommendation to turn Frank Porter Graham into a magnet school for Spanish dual language instruction.

Some raised concerns about Frank Porter Graham’s status as the school district’s most diverse elementary school, with the highest number of students on free or reduced lunch plans. Others pointed to the school’s high percentage of Karen language-speaking immigrants from Myanmar.

Many Karen-speaking families, whose language is outlawed by Myanmar’s government, have settled close to Frank Porter Graham.

Nancy Pekar, who has a first-grader and a fourth-grader who are taught some general subjects in Spanish and others in English under the program, said she agreed with support for a Spanish dual language magnet school.

“I want to thank the board for making dual language a priority this year,” she said. “Whatever the plan ends up being, some people will be unhappy and end up facing difficult changes.”

Chinese ‘rocks’

The Glenwood School Improvement Team presented its May 1 vote against supporting the dual language report’s recommendation.

Dianne Jackson, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Federation of Teachers, after addressing the board to present grievances regarding electronic grading software, added:

“The dual language Chinese program rocks, and it deserves your full support.”

Later, Jackson said that her comments were not on behalf of the Federation of Teachers, but her personal feelings as a librarian at Glenwood Elementary who took part in getting the Chinese program established in 2001.

“I find it ironic that we’re looking to eliminate the Chinese program, when everyone is recognizing the importance of China emerging as a leader internationally. That is why I think that we should not abandon the program at this point,” Jackson said outside the meeting.

The citizen comment session was again plugged with parents who are committed to keeping the Mandarin Chinese dual language program, wearing red “Friends of Chinese DL” T-shirts.

LoFrese met with a group of parents on Friday morning, who presented to him a 15-page draft proposal, with 126 pages of appendices, for remedying some of the difficulties outlined in the staff report released in March.

Christina Benson, one of the parents, said she hoped that some of their suggestions make it into the district’s final report that will be presented to the Board of Education on May 17. That report and its final recommendations will be released online ahead of time, possibly as early as Friday.

LoFrese said their proposal reiterated many suggestions that have been presented at community forums since the report was released.

“We’re listening to those things; we’re considering that information,” he said. “That will help us determine what our final recommendation is.”

Article source: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2012/05/05/71240/chapel-hill-carrboro-dual-language.html

CHAPEL HILL – A controversial staff report on dual-language programs dominated another meeting of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board, even though it was nowhere on the agenda.

Addressing the families, teachers and staff of Frank Porter Graham Elementary School, board member Jamezetta Bedford apologized at the beginning of Thursday’s meeting for fears caused by the report’s release.

“If we had a do-over, like you get at the playground,” Bedford said, “I think we all regret any disrespect and hurt that was caused to them in advance … in releasing that dual-language report.”

The report, released in March, was a staff proposal and has not yet been submitted to the Board of Education. The final draft will reflect community input, said assistant superintendent Todd LoFrese.

Once again, supporters of the Mandarin Chinese dual-language program turned out Thursday to oppose the report’s recommendation that the Chinese program be dismantled at the end of the year.

Parents also addressed the board during public comment session to speak for and against the report’s recommendation to turn Frank Porter Graham into a magnet school for Spanish dual language instruction.

Some raised concerns about Frank Porter Graham’s status as the school district’s most diverse elementary school, with the highest number of students on free or reduced lunch plans. Others pointed to the school’s high percentage of Karen language-speaking immigrants from Myanmar.

Many Karen-speaking families, whose language is outlawed by Myanmar’s government, have settled close to Frank Porter Graham.

Nancy Pekar, who has a first-grader and a fourth-grader who are taught some general subjects in Spanish and others in English under the program, said she agreed with support for a Spanish dual language magnet school.

“I want to thank the board for making dual language a priority this year,” she said. “Whatever the plan ends up being, some people will be unhappy and end up facing difficult changes.”

Chinese ‘rocks’

The Glenwood School Improvement Team presented its May 1 vote against supporting the dual language report’s recommendation.

Dianne Jackson, president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Federation of Teachers, after addressing the board to present grievances regarding electronic grading software, added:

“The dual language Chinese program rocks, and it deserves your full support.”

Later, Jackson said that her comments were not on behalf of the Federation of Teachers, but her personal feelings as a librarian at Glenwood Elementary who took part in getting the Chinese program established in 2001.

“I find it ironic that we’re looking to eliminate the Chinese program, when everyone is recognizing the importance of China emerging as a leader internationally. That is why I think that we should not abandon the program at this point,” Jackson said outside the meeting.

The citizen comment session was again plugged with parents who are committed to keeping the Mandarin Chinese dual language program, wearing red “Friends of Chinese DL” T-shirts.

LoFrese met with a group of parents on Friday morning, who presented to him a 15-page draft proposal, with 126 pages of appendices, for remedying some of the difficulties outlined in the staff report released in March.

Christina Benson, one of the parents, said she hoped that some of their suggestions make it into the district’s final report that will be presented to the Board of Education on May 17. That report and its final recommendations will be released online ahead of time, possibly as early as Friday.

LoFrese said their proposal reiterated many suggestions that have been presented at community forums since the report was released.

“We’re listening to those things; we’re considering that information,” he said. “That will help us determine what our final recommendation is.”

Article source: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2012/05/05/71240/chapel-hill-carrboro-dual-language.html

One of the best spring soccer seasons in years for local high schools came to a fitting end last Thursday, with Chapel Hill and East Chapel Hill meeting head-to-head in the last match for both before they enter this week’s NCHSAA playoffs.

East Chapel Hill (14-5-3) claimed local bragging rights with a 3-1 victory on the Tigers’ home field.

That left the 4A Wildcats as the only undefeated team against local rivals; they tied 2A Carrboro twice and beat 3A Chapel Hill in both meetings.

All three won their respective conference.

“I know that this is a unique area along with Onslow County; we have teams in three different classifications,” East Chapel Hill coach Mark Kadlecik noted. “But it still says something about the quality of soccer here that each team won its conference. It really does.”

Carrboro (15-1-2), which allowed only four goals by opponents all year, remained the state’s No.1-ranked team despite a 1-0 loss to Chapel Hill.

Chapel Hill (18-4-1) ended its regular season without a loss to a 3A team. The only other CHHS losses came against 4A Broughton and 4A Mt. Tabor.

The Tigers had their chances against East Chapel Hill and even out-shot the Wildcats, 17-15, but had trouble finding the net. The ’Cats needed only seven goalkeeper saves for the win.

“I hope that we got it all the bad luck we could have behind us in this game,” CHHS coach Ron Benson said. “We played pretty well with East, but what we hit did not go in, and what they hit did go in. We had our chances, we just couldn’t get it on goal frame.”

Caroline Jones got Chapel Hill on the board first by fighting her way in between two defenders and nailing in a low shot from about 15 yards out just 78 seconds into the match, while many spectators were still finding their seats.

East’s Emma Daum answered in the game’s sixth minute by running onto a long pass out of midfield to the top of the penalty area and out-legging a defender into the right side of the box, where she struck a hard ball toward the far post; the ball glanced off the keeper’s hands and into the net for a 1-1 tie.

After a collision in the 10th minute sent East goalkeeper Blakeney Blair to the sideline, the Wildcat defense stiffened and severely limited Chapel Hill’s chances.

East sophomore Lauren Douglass scored in the 19th minute and again in the 27th, the second time off an assist from Abbey Underwood to put the ’Cats ahead for good.

“It feels so awesome to beat them this season, and to beat them after being down 1-0 makes it even more awesome,” Douglass said.

The win, added to a 2-1 win at home over CHHS, gave the Wildcats a sweep of Chapel Hill after a tie and loss to the Tigers last year. East Chapel Hill will host Sanderson at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in the opening round of the NCHSAA 4A playoffs.

Chapel Hill plans to play Tuesday in the 3A’s first round, hosting Hope Mills’ Gray Creek (12-8-1). Carrboro will host Providence Grove (8-10-0) in the 2A tournament. None of the teams could confirm a game time before this weekend; see the schools’ web sites for updates.

Article source: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2012/05/05/71210/east-tops-chapel-hill-in-season.html

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By Melody Guyton Butts

mbutts@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6684

CHAPEL HILL – Erik Martin got his first “sort of exciting taste of the Internet” when he was a student at Chapel Hill High School using AOL’s Instant Messenger service to communicate with friends away at college. Fast-forward about 15 years, and Martin’s leading one of the Web’s most talked-about social platforms in a quest to make the Internet a more connected place.

He’s general manager of Reddit, a user-generated social news aggregation site that’s not just addicting users like gangbusters – 28 million different people used the site last October – but also played a leading role in the January protests of SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), which were widely seen in online communities as promoting censorship.

Adding to what’s likely been a surreal year for the former Chapel Hill resident is his inclusion on Time magazine’s “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” list. But Martin, who hasn’t been able to part with his 919-prefix cellphone number despite living in San Francisco, suggests it hasn’t gone to his head.

“I am sort of a vessel for Reddit itself on this list,” he said by phone last week. “At Reddit, we see ourselves as sort of groundskeepers or janitors. All of the content – and sort of the filtering and curation and moderation – is all done by the community. We’re just there to help facilitate and help keep the site up. Really, all of the awesome stuff comes organically from the community.”

Reddit allows users, or “redditors,” to post content – from news article links and posts about events to photos and videos – on either a general page or “subreddit” pages (like the Triangle-focused triangle.reddit.com). The content is then ranked in popularity by fellow redditors with clicks of up- and down-facing arrows.

Martin had an ideal upbringing for an outside-the-box career. His parents, Werner and Susan Martin, are entrepreneurs and often had five or six people working out of their home, he recalled.

“I kind of grew up in an environment where that was totally normal,” he said. “I think I learned a lot from that, just seeing that it’s possible to grow something from an idea and hard work and a couple of people working together, to having a big impact and then doing some important things.”

He knew that such a career wouldn’t always be easy, but that “it’s certainly more interesting and charmed than working at a more traditional and stable job.”

Martin said he was also shaped by his friends, classmates and teachers at Chapel Hill High, where there were a lot of “really smart, talented people.”

“It was OK to do half-baked ideas on school projects, and it was OK to get a group of friends together and say, hey, let’s figure out something fun and ridiculous that we had no idea how it would turn out,” he said.

After graduating from high school in 1996, Martin majored in American studies at Tulane University. He graduated in 1999, right in the midst of the dot-com boom, and returned to the Triangle to work for a handful of startups and work on his own startup project, shooting video and editing.

In late 2008, he began working as Reddit’s community manager, and he began his tenure as the platform’s general manager about a year ago.

“I don’t know what I’m going to encounter when I log onto my computer or walk into the office,” Martin said. “There’s always a new story, a new phenomenon, a new idea, and sometimes a new crisis. … It’s really exciting to not always know what’s coming, and then have to sort of improvise day to day. It’s never boring.”

Check out Martin’s Time Magazine nod at http://ti.me/I5ToHz.

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CHAPEL HILL – New regulations for Chapel Hill taxi drivers are in the works.

The town is considering a new ordinance that could limit the fees charged by taxi drivers and impose new rules to make sure taxi companies are safe and fair to passengers.

The Chapel Hill Town Council scheduled a June 18 public hearing to get feedback from residents about the regulations.

The new rules could require taxi drivers to get a permit, charge a flat-rate, require a taxi franchise to have more than one vehicle and add pedi-cabs as a regulated transportation mode.

Taxi companies would be inspected at least once a year by the Chapel Hill Police Department, which would designate responsibilities into a formal office of “taxicab inspector,” Chief Chris Blue told the council Monday night.

The town also may explore putting taxi stands downtown, he said.

“When we’re trying to monitor the many companies in Chapel Hill, if they’re congregated in one location, it makes it a lot easier for our officers … to see that they’re licensed businesses,” he said.

The rules come after a petition by former UNC student body President Mary Cooper last year, who said regulations would help make sure students were safe and charged fairly.

Town officials met with a number of taxi-company owners over several months, Blue said. One of the key issues raised had to do with predictable rates and fares, he said.

“Sometimes they charge significantly higher rates because the number of trips they’re able to complete on a night with lots of traffic is significantly reduced,” Blue said.

Article source: http://www.chapelhillnews.com/2012/05/04/71206/chapel-hill-town-council-considers.html

By Dan E. Way

Herald-Sun correspondent

CHAPEL HILL — Storming onto the field with something to prove, East Chapel Hill mounted a swarming attack and smothering defense to blow away Wilmington Ashley 16-4 in the opening round of the state lacrosse playoffs Friday night.

East will hit the road for a second-round game Tuesday night, likely at Cardinal Gibbons in Raleigh.

The Wildcats jumped out to a 12-3 lead at the half, and held Ashley scoreless from the 10:52 mark in the second quarter until there was 1:20 left in the game. After going up 15-3 at 4:17 in the third period, East Chapel Hill got the benefit of a clock that kept moving. Playoff rules dictate the clock does not stop, except for timeouts, once a team goes up by 12 points.

East Chapel Hill played most of the game in Eagles territory, passing, circling and hovering around the opponents’ net more often than not, and took 42 shots to just 22 for the visiting team from New Hanover County.

Wildcats junior attackman Ryan Dotson nailed five goals to lead all scorers, and teammates Tate Beason, a senior attackman, and Campbell Johnston, a freshman midfielder, drilled three goals each.

Midfielder Mason Owens had a pair of goals to lead Ashley.

“They overwhelmed us,” said a dejected Ashley coach Dave Kintzer, who expected a much tighter game.

“Our defense didn’t play well,” he said. “My first goalie wasn’t seeing the ball,” and allowing East Chapel Hill to build a big early lead affected his squad’s ability to come back.

“They got all the ground balls. That’s what wins games,” Kintzer said.

Wildcats coach Austin Bridges said his team was on a mission.

“We played on Tuesday against Chapel Hill (a seeding playoff loss to the co-regular-season champions) and we didn’t execute the way we wanted to, so we were fired up” coming into Friday’s game, Bridges said.

“Playoffs are a different animal because it’s one and done, so you have to play with a lot of intensity,” he said. He instructed his team to “focus on simple things, ground balls, crisp passes and work on turnovers. The name of the game is possession time” to control the pace of the game and the scoring.

One of the reasons the Wildcats clicked so well is because they reverted to coordinated play.

“What I was really proud of was the teamwork,” Bridges said. “We flow very smoothly and play like you saw tonight,” as opposed to the rough edges when players try to do to much on their own, as they did against Chapel Hill earlier in the week.

Bridges did single out two players for their contributions Friday.

Junior midfielder Riley Reid “is fantastic. He has three times the work ethic of anyone I ever coached,” Bridges said, and when he’s on the field he lifts the team’s level of play.

“The morale, the teamwork, the ground balls were because of him,” Bridges said.

Junior defenseman William McEntee “has been a force for us,” Bridges said. “His leadership on the field is unparalleled. [He] really, really changes the tide in any type of game, especially one as important as this.”

East Chapel Hill 16, Ashley 4

Ashley|2|1|0|1—4

ECH|6|6|3|1—16

Goals—Ashley 4 (Mason Owens 2, Michael Magness, Owen Finnegan). ECH 16 (Ryan Dotson 5, Tate Beason 3, Campell Johnston 3, Leo Moran 2, Ian Levin, Baxter Perkins, Alan Chen, Allen Liu).

Assists—Ashley 3 (Brandon Trauchon 2, Cameron Batson). ECH 8 (Ian Levin 3, William McEntee 2, Leo Moran, Baxter Perkins, Chris Kelly).

Saves—Ashley 12 (Zach Tilley 3, Alex Thomas 9). ECH 14 (Levi Brown 14).

Records—Wilmington Ashley 11-6, East Chapel Hill 11-6.

Article source: http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_story/18467143/article-East-Chapel-Hill-crushes-Ashley-in-lacrosse-playoff-bow