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Weekend Sports Update

While all the weekend athletic events have been cancelled, the Trojan Gymnastics team will be back in action on FRIDAY NIGHT at 7:00 in the State Championship Gymnastics meet. The meet will be held at Raleigh Gymnastics.

"I'll get da fiend to duppy her den"

Those are the words that led to two East Londoners getting sent down for lengthy prison sentences, and linguistics had a major part to play in getting them off the street and into a cell. An article in yesterday's Independent tells us more:

To give you the background: in December 2008, two months after the conversation above, the girl pregnant with Jolie's baby was lured by text to a spot close to the Regent's Canal in Islington, North London. There, Ogundele lay in wait to batter the girl over the head with an iron bar before throwing her in the waterway. Both the girl and the baby escaped alive, and the search turned to her assailant. After Ogundele and Jolie became prime suspects, their computers were seized. They had forgotten to delete their MSN history folders and police called in experts from the University of Aston's Centre for Forensic Linguistics. They helped decipher the boys' language, and the two rappers were sentenced for conspiracy to murder last month. Ogundele got 18 years in prison, Jolie, 14.

Forensic Linguistics is something we've looked at before (try here and here) and it's a fascinating area in which close study of people's language use can lead to the solving of some pretty unpleasant crimes. Last February, Krzysztof Kredens from the Centre for Forensic Linguistics did an excellent talk to SFX students about some of the cases in which forensic linguistics had been applied, and some of the techniques they have employed, and we're hoping to repeat this in the future. But in the meantime, the article itself is a good introduction to some of what they're up to. You can find out more about the work of the Centre for Forensic Linguistics here.

Promiscuous polysemy

There's a very good article on Language Log about how meaning change in language is a natural and positive thing. Using the word post as an example ("Fence posts, army posts, the New York Post, blog posts, ambassadorial posts, post offices..."), Geoff Pullum argues that the prescriptive point of view -  change is a bad thing that must be prevented or controlled at all costs - is cobblers, and that words change meanings all the time. As he says: 

Human languages do not strive to avoid ambiguity. They do not try to align words with meanings one to one. They are not in danger of anarchy when a new word sense evolves. People don't just tolerate languages with multiply polysemous words, they seem to love them; people thrive on multiplicity of meaning. There are thousands of examples that show this. It is only the prescriptivist thickheads who cannot see what it means.

So, he argues, polysemy - multiple meanings of the same word - is not inherently confusing. One major argument used by prescriptivists against semantic change is that it leads to misunderstanding and confusion (How can sick mean good when it also means ill, or wicked mean excellent when it also means evil?) but Pullum's take on this is a strong counterblast to all of this.

Trojan Rally Falls Short at Knightdale

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The crowd wasn't as big as it will be when Duke and North Carolina get together later this year, but the intesty level was much the same and on Thursday night at Knightdale High School, the game had just about everything you could ask for, however, the Trojans rally fell short as the Knights came away with at four point, 78-74 win to make the GNRC race wide open.

Garner and Knightdale both raced out of the gate giving Garner play by play announcer, Chris Edwards all he could handle in the first quarter, but after the first stanza, Garner had a 29-24 lead.

After hitting just three shots from beyond the arc on Tuesday night, Garner came out on fire from downtown as they hit six first half three pointers including two from 6-7 Senior, Stephon Drane. The only problem was Knightdale was equally as hot from behind the line as they hit five shots to stay in the game. As the first half came to a close, the officials really let the two teams play and it became very physical which benifited Knightdale as they closed the half on a big run to take a 45-39 lead into the locker room.

The Knightdale lead would grow to as many as 12 points in the third quarter, but to the credit of the Trojans, they never let the game get away as the continued to chip away and the lead and eventually got the lead to singe digits.

Garner had the game down to under five points midway through the quarter, but after a touch foul that was call on Emmanuel McClain, one official whistled him for a technical foul which allowed Tyler Nicholson to go to the line and hit the two technical shots which put Knightdale back up and gave them some momentum as they closed the third quarter on a bit of a run as Garner had missed chances toward the end of the quarter which allowed the Knights to grow their lead to seven points, at 62-55 after three.

But, in the fourth quarter, the Trojans embodied the spirit of their Coach as they never quit even when the Knightdale lead grew to double digits, Garner continued to claw and eventually took the lead when Emmanuel McClain fired in a three from the right wing to give Garner their first lead since the first quarter at 68-66.

However, Knightdale fought right back and over the final four minutes of the game the two teams went back and forth, but in the end, the Knights made their free throws and came away with the 78-74 win over the Trojans.

With the loss, Garner's seven game winning streak has been snapped and the Trojans fall to 9-7 overall and 8-1 in the conference, meanwhile, Knightdale moves to 10-9 overall and just one game back of Garner in the conference race at 7-2.

The two teams will meet again on Wednesday night at 7:30 at Garner. But, before the Trojans and Knights renew their vows again this year, Garner will host SSS on Tuesday night also at 7:30.

**The Trojan Sports Network would like to thank Knightdale AD Guy Blough for his cooperation with tonight's web cast***

Scoring:
GARNER: S. Drane 24, D. Johnson 20, E. McClain 15, G. Wilson 9, D. Anderson 3, D. Reed 2.

Knightdale: T. Nicholson 21, A. McDowell 11, A. Smith 10, R. Fredrick 9, K. Brodie 9, A. Pope 4, D. Monroe 3, A. Abullah 2.

Varsity Girls Give Coach Mays a Happy Birthday

Varsity Girls basketball Coach, Hardrick Mays celebrated his birthday day on Thursday and his Lady Trojans gave him a very Happy Birthday with at 55-43 win over Knightdale.

After a slow start in the first quarter by both teams, Garner was the first team to really get things going in the second quarter as they took a double digit lead into the locker room at halftime.

The lead would continue to grow in the second half as the Lady Trojans were able to get out in transition as the fast break really helped Garner as they pulled away in the second half to come away with a 55-43 win over the Knights.

Garner will return home on Tuesday night as they host SSS at 6:00

JV Boys Lose First Conference Game of the Year

One the same night when the Varsity boys dropped their first conference game of the season, the JV Trojans lost their halftime lead as they fell to Knightdale 58-55 to split the season series with the Knights.

The Trojans took a 34-18 halftime lead after playing one of their best halves of basketball so far this year, but, Knightdale came storming back in the second half thanks mainly to the sloppy play of the Trojans.

Garner just couldn't overcome the tough second half as the fell to the Knights 58-55. With the loss, the Trojans fall to 12-3 overall and 9-1 in the conference.

They will return to action on Tuesday when they travel to SSS for a 7:30 tip off.

Garner Wrestling Closes Home Season with Tough Loss

The 2009-2010 Wrestling season has been full of close matches for the Trojans, and on Wednesday night as Garner honored their seniors, it was a tough match but the East Wake would come out on top by two at 36-34.

103 - Timothy Jones (Garner) win by forfeit
112 - Damian Harrell (Garner) Fall 3:39 over Derrion Moody (East Wake)
119 - Scott Staples (East Wake) Fall :39 over Markell Harewood (Garner)
125 - Azzam Dhamra (East Wake) Fall :30 over Isiah Cain (Garner)
130 - Anthony Chiles (Garner) Major Decision 14-1 over Charlie Manarino (East Wake)
135 - Marchus Carter (Garner) Decision 3-0 over Daniel Killette (East Wake)
140 - Steven Lombana (Garner) Decision 10-7 over Branden Beck (East Wake)
145 - Cory Estes (East Wake) Decision OT 17-15 over Anthony Finochio (Garner)
152 - Connor Porter (East Wake) Decision 8-1 over Christian Townsend (Garner)
160 - Mitchell Morgan (East Wake) Fall 4:59 over Drawman Fouty (Garner)
171 - Cullen Casper (East Wake) Fall :43 over Jamel Thomas (Garner)
189 - Kyander Moore (East Wake) Fall 3:07 over Darius Davis (Garner)
215 - Vincent Mollo (Garner) Fall 3:27 over Austin Smith (East Wake)
285 - Tyler Maher (Garner) Fall 2:11 over PJ Shuler (East Wake)

JV MATCHES:

Vinnie Sarroco (Garner) Fall 3:47 over Rupert Perez (East Wake)
David Huie (Garner) Fall 1:40 over Zack Heath (East Wake)
Brandon Walden (East Wake) Decision 6-1 over Javon Fowler (Garner)
Alex Rogers (Garner) Decision OT 5-0 over James Morris (East Wake)


Saturday's tournament at Green Hope is questionable at the moment due to the threat of winter weather. The next conference match will be next Wednesday we are at Harnett Central and then on Saturday, February 6th the Conference Tournament at Smithfield-Selma.

JV Boys Basketball Update

The JV Boys basketball team is currently on a roll in the GNRC as the Trojans are undefeated inside league play. After downing Harnett Central on Jan. 15 67-52, the JV Trojans put together one of the most improbable wins in recent memory.

Last Friday, the JV Trojans were down by 17 points at home to West Johnston as the third quarter came to a close. Then at the 4 minute mark of the final period, Garner finally decided to turn it on and proceeded to go on a 36 to 6 run to finish with a 76-63 overtime win.

Coach Bloms said after the game "It was the most impressive comeback that I've been a part of, the guys never gave up and despite playing a lackluster 3 and 1/2 quarters were able to dig down and pull out an important conference win. Our bigs, Rashaun Shaw and Cameron Redd really stepped it up and controlled to paint in the 2nd half."

SCORING:
Juwan Moye 20 pts, 5 rebs, 4 stls, 1 blk
Jarie Hicks 10 pts, 3 assts, 2 rebs, 2 stls
Rashaun Shaw 9 pts, 6 rebs
Cameron Redd 9 pts, 11 rebs
Demarcus Sanford 8 pts, 4 rebs, 3 assts, 2 stls

Following the comeback win over West Johnston, the Trojans again played a very tough conference game as they traveled to Clayton just two nights ago. This time, Garner didn't have to come from 17 down, but just like the game against the Wildcats, the game went to overtime and again the Trojans came out on top 68-66.

SCORING:
Larry Richardson 20 pts, 3 stls, 2 blks
Jarie Hicks 19 pts
Cameron Redd 12 pts, 12 rebs
Anthony Tucker 7 pts, 7 assts, 5 rebs, 2 stls, 2 blks

The Trojans are now 12-2 on the year with their only losses coming in the early part of the season, and Coach Bloms and his squad lead the conference with a perfect 9-0 Conference record.

The JV Boys are back at home on Thursday night (Jan. 28) as they host Knightdale at 7:30.

Swim Team Has Strong Finish at Conference Championship

Congratulations to the boys and girls swim team as they both had very strong finishes at the Conference Championships held last week at the Smithfield Aquatic Center on the SSS campus. Below you will find a complete list of results


Boys
1. Clayton 457, 2. Garner 448 1/2, 3. Harnett Central 250, 4. West Johnston 244,
5. SE Raleigh 196, 6. East Wake 189, 7. Smithfield-Selma 125, 8. Knightdale 72.5.

Girls
1. West Johnston 527, 2. Clayton 331, 3. Garner 301, 4. Harnett Central 279, 5. East Wake 257, 6t. Southeast Raleigh and Knightdale 147, 8. Smithfield-Selma 138.

Gymnastics Team Tops GNRC

Congratulations to the Garner Gymnastics team who captured the Greater Neuse River Conference Championship last Friday night.

The team consists of: Megan Clifford, Kaisha El-McPherson, Jessica Hellman, Sarah Rogers, Holly Townsend and Coach Karen Hughes. Great job ladies!!

The GNRC Champs will be back in action this weekend at the State Championships!

Scholarships: FUNDACIÓ RIERA GUBAU

Trojans Blast Comets to Stay Perfect in Conference

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Coming into Conference play, Coach Gray had one goal and that was to be the first team to win all their conference games, and on Tuesday night, the Trojans took another step toward achieving their goal as they blasted Clayton 73-49.

Garner and Clayton played a typical Garner/Clayton first quarter as the Trojans held a 17-13 after one, but in the second quarter, Garner really began to separate themselves thanks to the inside play of Stephon Drane and D'Andre Anderson, and Garner also had a great defensive effort in the first half on Clayton's Adam Parrish.

Parrish scored 17 points and hit five three pointers in the first meeting with Garner, but in the first half of Tuesday's game, Parris had yet to score a point as the Trojans had a 34-23 halftime lead.

Clayton began to come back on Garner in the third quarter, as the Trojans left a lot of points at the free throw line, but they made up for those lost points with style points as Stephon Drane and D'Andre Anderson got loose for some impressive dunks to put the game out of reach as the Trojans opened up a 20 point lead early in the fourth quarter and never looked back as for the second straight year, Garner sweeps the season series with the Comets.

Garner (9-6, 8-0) extends their win streak to seven games, while Clayton (14-5, 6-3) had their eight game winning streak snapped.

***NOTE: The Varsity Game that was originally scheduled for Friday has a good chance of being moved to THURSDAY NIGHT at Knightdale due to a possible winter storm. A final decision will be posted as soon as it becomes known. Stay tuned***

Scoring:
Clayton: A. Parrish 11, J. Getty 11, S. Clayton 7, D. Johnson 6, K. Frasier 6, T. Jones 3, T. Williams 3.
GARNER: S. Drane 21, G. Wilson 14, D. Anderson 13, D. Johnson 10, D. Reed 6, E. McClain 5, J. McClain 4

Varsity Girls Fall to Comets

The Varsity Girls had another tough test on Tuesday night as they faced a Clayton team that was sitting atop the conference along with Southeast Raleigh.

But, for the first quarter, Garner hung with the Comets, however, in the second quarter, Clayton began to pull away and the Lady Trojans just couldn't stay with the Comets quickness as the Comets downed Garner 68-41.

Adding, but not taking away

Marshall-Smith week

Jimmy Marshall

Those of you know know anything at all about winter climbing in Scotland will know instantly what I’m talking about just from the title. In 1960 Jimmy Marshall and Robin Smith  climbed 6 routes on Ben Nevis in one week that were all cutting edge at the time. Some of them were first ascents such as the famous Smith’s Route (V, 5) but the others like Point Five Gully were done very much faster than previous ascents. The week has been a bit legendary ever since as pretty much the finest achievement in ice climbing using the step cutting technique and a formidable display of mountaineering skill and fitness that was not surpassed for man years or even decades.

Anyway, It’s 50 years since the famous week next month, and myself and Andy Turner will be trying to repeat the week as away of marking it personally and on film. It’s something that a few of us in Lochaber had been talking about doing for a while, but Mike Pescod from the Fort William Mountain Festival really galvanised us into action over the past few weeks, roping in Diff from Hot Aches to film us during the week and arranging for us to talk at the festival after the week about our thoughts on it and it’s importance as a great story and achievement in Scottish winter climbing.

There is more on it on the FWMF’s page on it here. But our plan is to climb the 6 routes on  Feb 6th-12th, repeat the Grey Corries traverse as Smith and Marshall did for their ‘rest day’ on the 13th and talk about it on Marshall night at the festival on the Sunday night (14th) where Jimmy himself will be making an appearance. I’m not so sure if we’ll repeat the theft of the Fort William pub’s set of Draughts and ensuring arrest by the polis, but we’ll see ; ) All very exciting.

I’ll talk more about it next week. And I’ll be tweeting, blogging etc during the week of climbs itself. Right now I’m off to train on the board and get ready for travelling to Dublin for my coaching and lecture there…

Andy Kirkpatrick is on at the FWMF on the Friday night (12th) and Diff’s lecture on Sat 13th is called ‘Climbers I’ve shot and some I’d like to shoot’ which I’m hearing is a good laugh. See y’all there.

Climb Swaziland

Things coming up

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Orientation	John slumped in the armchair, his arms crossed and his face with with a gloomy frown. He was a new kid in town, but no-one knew he was even there. John didn’t like anybody and they didn’t like him. All day he sat in the armchair, staring out the window.	who? where? mental process action verb
Complication	Through the window he saw a gigantic hollow tree in vacant lot. The tree seemed to call him. He stood slowly up, then started to walk towards the tree. Its branches were very thin and its roots dug into the ground like claws. The tree had thorns all over it. John tried to turn away from the tree but he couldn’t. A mysterious force was pulling him into the hollow.	linking words specific participants
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Texting: not the work of the dark lord himself & actually quite good for you

As if by magic, having posted yesterday on texting being linked to young people's illiteracy, a news article crops up saying that texting is actually good for you and can be shown to improve young people's communication and literacy skills. It's based on research by Clare Wood and Bev Plester and their team at Coventry University (the same people who brought you this and this) who say this about their work:

We began studying in this area initially to see if there was any evidence of association between text abbreviation use and literacy skills at all, after such a negative portrayal of the activity in the media. We were surprised to learn that not only was the association strong, but that textism use was actually driving the development of phonological awareness and reading skill in children. Texting also appears to be a valuable form of contact with written English for many children, which enables them to practise reading and spelling on a daily basis.

Emma Jackson and Lucy Hart, members of the Coventry team, did a talk for teachers at SFX last summer as part of our QIA Beacon Colleges workshops and their earlier research can be seen in this Powerpoint on the resources site, while this most recent research is available as a pdf here.

This is all good stuff for ENGA3 Language Discourses (A2 students) but equally it's excellent material for Language & Mode ENGA1, especially the material here on the British Academy's news release about the research.

• Shortenings: cutting the end off a word, losing more than one letter, e.g. bro = brother.
• Contractions: cutting letters, usually vowels, out of the middle of a word, e.g. txt, plz, hmwrk.
• G Clippings: cutting off only the final g in a word, e.g. goin, comin, workin, swimmin. 
• Other Clippings: cutting off other final letters, e.g. I’v, hav, wil, com.
• Symbols: using symbols, including emoticons, and x used symbolically, e.g. &, @, ;-), :-p, xxx. 
• Initialisms: a word or group of words is represented by its initial letter, e.g. tb = text back, lol = laughing out loud, gf = girlfriend. 
• Letter/Number Homophones: a letter or number is used to take the place of a phoneme, syllable, or word of the same sound, e.g. 4, 2, l8r, u, r, c. 
• Non-conventional Spellings: a word is spelled according to legitimate English phoneme-grapheme conversion rules, but not the conventional one used to spell the word, e.g. nite, cum, fone, skool. 
• Accent Stylisation: a word is spelled as it is pronounced in casual speech, e.g. gonna, wiv = with, av = have, wanna, elp = help, anuva = another.
• Missing Apostrophes: left out either in possessive or traditional contraction form, e.g. dads, Im, Ive, cant.

Texting: the work of Satan himself

According to an article in last week's Times, texting is not only making teens' vocabulary shrink to an almost caveman-like 800 words a day but it's also making them unemployable. The article quotes research commissioned by the government which states that teenagers "are avoiding using a broad vocabulary and complex words in favour of the abbreviated “teenspeak” of text messages, social networking sites and internet chat rooms". So, it's not just texting then , but all computer-mediated communication that's to blame.

It's another moral panic which stokes the public's fears about a new generation of illiterate imbeciles being spawned by feckless parents and incompetent teachers. And do u no wot? It's rubbish. But at least it's exactly the kind of article you can use in preparation for the Language Discourses part of ENGA3 and this article even manages to quote a proper linguist, the ubiquitous (look it up and improve your meagre vocabulary if you don't know what this word means) David Crystal:

David Crystal, honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University in Wales, said many experts underestimate the breadth and complexity of a teenager’s vocabulary. “The real issue here is that people object to kids having a good vocabulary for hip-hop and not for politics. They have an articulate vocabulary for the kind of things they want to talk about,” he said. “Few academics get anywhere near measuring that vocabulary.”

Go David, go David. We're gonna party, like it's your birthday. Etc.

An encouraging aspect of an otherwise scaremongering article is the mention of the government 's Communication Czar, Jean Gross, and her plan to get teenagers to record language being used in workplaces and for them to study what they record. Sounds to me like what we've been doing very successfully for the last 10 years with English Language A level...

Edited on 23rd Jan to add: David Crystal has a very good post on this on his own blog here.

Trojans Survive Wildcat Comeback; Win in OT

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Coming into play on Friday night, Coach Eddie Gray and his Garner Trojans were looking to extend their current winning streak to six games, but in order to keep that winning streak going, they would have to defeat a West Johnston team that was 6-1 at home this season and had already defeated Knightdale at home in overtime earlier in the season, and after a slow start Garner jumped out to a big lead only to see West Johnston send the game to overtime, but the Trojans survived and hung on to win 70-62.

Garner was coming off a week layoff as they took a break to finish exams and it took a while for the Trojans to get rolling as West Johnston took a 14-12 lead after the first quarter.

But, as the first quarter ended Coach Gray had a stern message for his club and Garner responded on both ends of the floor as Garner scored 16 points in the second quarter while holding West Johnston to just one point in the second quarter to take a 28-15 lead into the locker room.

Garner's lead would continue to grow in the third quarter thanks to a very balanced effort, but as the game wore on, the Trojans' built up a 11 point lead after the third quarter, however, Garner was in some deep foul trouble and that would prove to be very costly late in the game.

West Johnston relied on the outside shot to climb back into the game in the fourth quarter as Mark Parker hit three big shots from beyond the arc and Shaq Dance also contributed with 16 second half points including 5 three pointer's to put the Wildcats right back in the game.

That's when things began to go south for the Trojans as both Emmanuel McClain and Gavin Wilson fouled out in the fourth quarter, and that lead to some offensive confusion late in the game for the Trojans and with Garner leading by two late in the fourth quarter, Ben Jacobs moved his way to the left baseline for a wide open lay up to tie the game at 52 as Garner's desperation heave was no good and the Trojans were playing their first overtime game of the year.

In the extra stanza, Garner dominated from the opening tip, thanks mainly to the play of Donald Johnson who went to the line a total of 21 times in the second half and overtime periods and of those 21, Johnson made 16 of his shots from the charity strip and after scoring just two points in the first half, Johnson scored 22 in the second half and overtime to lead the Trojans.

West Johnston, who was out the services of Jacob McNeill and Sean Johnson, who were both out due to injuries, had no match for the deeper Trojan bench and Garner began to pull away in overtime as they remained perfect in the conference with at 70-62 win over West Johnston.

Garner (8-6; 7-0) now leads the all-time series with West Johnston (8-6; 4-3) 11-2 and the Trojans will now prepare for a very difficult week as they will host Clayton on Tuesday night at 7:30 then travel to Knightdale on Friday also at 7:30.

Knightdale is currently second in the conference while Clayton is third.

Scoring:
GARNER: D. Johnson 24, J. McClain 15, G. Wilson 12, S. Drane 6, D. Anderson 6, M. Sloan 6, E. McClain 1.
W. Johnston: M. Parker 22, S. Dance 16, B. Jacobs 11, T. Davis 7, M. Fogg 6.

Varsity Girls Sweep Season Series With Wildcats

The Lady Trojans have had their ups and downs this year but on Friday night, Garner came out hitting on all cylinders and after scoring just seven points in the first quarter, the Lady Trojans came out on fire in the final three quarters.

Garner's lead grew to 21 points in the latter parts of the third quarter. West Johnston tried to battle back, but Garner was too much on this night as the Lady Trojans swept the season series from the Wildcats with at 51-39 win.

They are back at home on Tuesday night at 6:00 when they host Clayton.

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2012 Trojan Lacrosse

Date	Day	Opponent		Varsity
Mar. 9	Fri.	Enloe		L 12-1 (0-1)
Mar. 13	Tue.	Wakefield		L 12-3 (0-2)
Mar. 16	Fri.	Heritage		L 12-6 (0-3)
Mar. 20	Tue.	Millbrook		need score
Mar. 23	Fri.	Leesville Road		L 13-2 (0-4)
Mar. 27	Tue.	SE Raleigh		need score
Mar. 29	Thr.	Broughton		L 18-7 (0-5)
Apr. 10	Tue.	Enloe		6:00 (H)
Apr. 13	Fri.	Broughton		6:00 (A)
Apr. 17	Tue.	Wakefield		6:00 (A)
Apr. 19	Thr.	Heritage		6:00 (A)
Apr. 24	Tue.	Millbrook		6:00 (H)
Apr. 26	Thr.	Leesville Road		6:00 (A)
May 1	Tue.	SE Raleigh		6:00 (H)

2012 Lady Trojans Soccer

Date	Day	Opponent		JV	Varsity
Mar. 5	Mon.	Athens Drive		need score	L 4-1 (0-1)
Mar. 8	Thr.	Fuquay-Varina		need score	L 5-3 (0-2)
Mar. 9	Fri.	Cary		need score	L 3-0 (0-3)
Mar. 12	Mon.	Clayton			W 3-2 (1-3, 1-0)
Mar. 14	Wed.	East Wake			W 3-0 (2-3, 2-0)
Mar. 15	Thr.	Harnett Central			W 4-0 (3-3, 3-0)
Mar. 22	Thr.	Smithfield-Selma			W 8-1 (4-4, 4-1)
Mar. 21	Wed.	West Johnston		need score	L 3-1 (3-4, 3-1)
Mar. 22	Thr.	Holly Springs		PPD.	PPD.
Mar. 26	Mon.	Knightdale		need score	W 3-2 (OT) (4-4, 4-1)
Mar. 28	Wed.	Southeast Raleigh			W 8-1 (5-4, 5-1)
Apr. 11	Wed.	Clayton			L 1-0 (5-5, 5-2)
Apr. 12	Thr.	Fuquay-Varina		need score	T 2-2 (5-5-1, 5-2)
Apr. 17	Tue.	East Wake			6:00 (A)
Apr. 18	Wed.	Smithfield - Selma		4:30 (A)	6:30 (A)
Apr. 23	Mon.	West Johnston		4:30 (A)	6:30 (A)
Apr. 25	Wed.	Knightdale		4:30 (H)	6:30 (H)
Apr. 30	Mon.	Southeast Raleigh			6:00 (H)
May 2	Wed.	Harnett Central			6:00 (A)

VARSITY GIRLS SOCCER ROSTER

Bayleigh Adams
McKenzie Bennett
Taylor Cooke
Gabi Dugal
Victoria Ellsworth
Ashley Ford
Kaity Fulkerson
Emily Hargrove
Sarah Izzell
Ka’asha Jefferies
Krista King
Taylor King
Micaela Kymer
Samantha Mitchell
Lauren Pierce
Elizabeth Pittman
Heather Wilfong
Michaela Wycoff


JUNIOR VARSITY GIRLS SOCCER ROSTER

Caroline Banker
Jordan Blake
Hannah Brameyer
Natalie Buitrago
Hannah Hamlin
Sarah Hamlin
Cassaundra Martinez
Karla Paredes
Hannah Pounds
Brooke Povich
Ana Rojas
Bailey Roque
Brittany Sobha
Rachel Wolf
Lindsay Young
Makaila Eberhard

2010 Lady Trojans softball

Date	Day	Opponent	JV	Varsity
Mar. 2	Tue.	Broughton	4:00 (A)	4:00 (H)
Mar. 3	Wed.	Fuquay - Varina (DH)	4:00 (H)	6:00 (H)
Mar. 5	Fri.	Broughton	4:00 (H)	4:00 (A)
Mar. 9	Tue.	West Johnston (DH)	5:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
Mar. 11	Thr.	Millbrook	4:00 (A)	6:00 (H)
Mar. 12	Fri.	Clayton (DH)	5:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
Mar. 16	Tue.	Knightdale (DH)	5:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
Mar. 19	Fri.	SSS (DH)	5:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
Mar. 23	Tue.	SE Raleigh	4:00 (A)	4:00 (H)
Mar. 26	Fri.	East Wake (DH)	5:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
Apr. 8	Thr.	Wake Forest - Rolesville (DH)	5:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
Apr. 13	Tue.	Harnett Central (DH)	5:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
Apr. 15	Thu.	Apex (DH)	5:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
Apr. 20	Tue.	West Johnston (DH)	5:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
Apr. 23	Fri.	Clayton (DH)	5:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
Apr. 27	Tue.	Knightdale (DH)	5:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
Apr. 30	Fri.	SSS (DH)	5:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
May 4	Tue.	SE Raleigh	4:00 (H)	4:00 (A)
May 5	Wed.	Cary (DH)	5:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
May 7	Fri.	E. Wake (DH)	5:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
May 10	Mon.	Harnett Central (DH)	5:00 (H)	7:00 (H)

DH - JV and varsity teams playing at same location



2009 Lady Trojan Softball

2008 Lady Trojan softball recap

Thank you Trojan Club supporter:

2012 Trojan Baseball

Date	Day	Opponent	JV	Varsity
Feb. 28	Tue.	Broughton	W 9-3 (1-0)	W 7-5 (1-0)
Mar. 1	Thr.	Middle Creek	W 11-3 (2-0)	W 9-1 (2-0)
Mar. 2	Fri.	Broughton	W 5-4 (3-0)	W 7-5 (3-0)
Mar.7	Wed.	Athens Drive	L 9-8 (3-1)	L 6-4 (3-1)
Mar. 10	Sat.	Fuquay-Varina (DH)	W 6-5 (4-1)	L 8-7 (3-2)
Mar. 13	Tue.	Clayton (DH)	W 5-4 (5-1, 1-0)	W 2-0 (4-2, 1-0)
Mar.14	Wed.	Middle Creek	need score	L 3-2 F/8 (4-3, 1-0)
Mar. 16	Fri.	East Wake (DH)	W 6-2 (6-1, 2-0)	W 14-4 F/5 (5-3, 2-0)
Mar. 20	Tue.	Smithfield - Selma (DH)	W 5-3 (7-1, 3-0)	W 3-1 (6-3, 3-0)
Mar. 23	Fri.	West Johnston	W 4-3 (8-1, 4-0)	W 4-3 (7-3, 4-0)
Mar. 27	Tue.	Knightdale (DH)	W 13-1 (9-1, 5-0)	L 6-1 (7-4, 4-1)
Mar. 28	Wed.	Fuquay - Varina (DH)	T 5-5 (9-1-1, 5-0)	W 4-1 (8-4, 4-1)
Apr. 5	Thu.	Varsity Spring Break Tournament @ Panther Creek		W 7-2 F/9 (9-4, 4-1)
Apr. 6	Fri.	Varsity Spring Break Tournament vs. Apex		L 2-1 (9-5, 4-1)
Apr. 7	Sat.	Varsity Spring Break Tournament @ Holly Springs		L 9-0 (9-6, 4-1)
Apr. 11	Wed.	Southeast Raleigh		W 16-0 F/5 (10-6, 5-1)
Apr. 17	Tue.	Clayton (DH)	4:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
Apr. 19	Thu.	East Wake (DH)	4:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
Apr. 23	Mon.	Harnett Central (DH)	4:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
Apr. 24	Tue.	Smithfield - Selma (DH)	4:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
Apr. 27	Fri.	West Johnston (DH)	4:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
May 1	Tue.	Knightdale (DH)	4:00 (H)	7:00 (H)
May 4	Fri.	Southeast Raleigh		7:00 (H)
May 7	Mon.	Harnett Central (DH)	4:00 (A)	7:00 (A)
May 11	Fri.	State Playoffs		TBA

DH - JV and varsity teams playing at same location

**Schedule subject to change daily***

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Trojan Wrestling Has Tough Weekend

Wake Forest-Rolesville 48
Garner 30

103 - Mitchell Goldbach (Wake Forest-Rolesville) Fall :59 over Timothy Jones (Garner)
112 - Donald Cotton (Wake Forest-Rolesville) Fall 4:32 over Damian Harrell (Garner)
119 - Jack Hayes (Wake Forest-Rolesville) Fall 2:36 over Markell Harewood (Garner)
125 - Isiah Cain (Garner) Decision 10-3 over Donte Harvey(Wake Forest-Rolesville)
130 - Anthony Chiles (Garner) win by forfeit
135 - Marchus Carter (Garner) Decision 7-4 over Darin Holm (Wake Forest-Rolesville)
140 - David Caldwell (Wake Forest-Rolesville) Fall 3:09 over Steven Lombana (Garner)
145 - Anthony Finochio (Garner) Fall 2:45 over Barrett Kayes (Wake Forest-Rolesville)
152 - Christian Townsend (Garner) Fall 2:51 over Nathan Cascio (Wake Forest-Rolesville)
160 - Dillon Brawner (Wake Forest-Rolesville) Fall 1:19 over Drawman Fouty (Garner)
171 - Charlie Holder (Wake Forest-Rolesville) Fall 1:57 over Jamel Thomas (Garner)
189 - Dylan Melnik (Wake Forest-Rolesville) Fall 3:34 over Darius Davis (Garner)
215 - Antonio Cordova (Wake Forest-Rolesville) win by forfeit
285 - Tyler Maher (Garner) Fall 2:15 over Aaron Blomberg (Wake Forest-Rolesville)

JV Match

Adkins (Garner) Fall 1:26 over Williard (Wake Forest-Rolesville)

East Wake 40
Garner 39

103 - Timony Jones (Garner) win by forfeit
112 - Damian Harrell (Garner) win by forfeit
119 - Scott Staples (East Wake) Fall 2:38 over Isiah Cain (Garner)
125 - Azzam Dhamra (East Wake) Fall 4:45 over Markell Harewood (Garner)
130 - Anthony Chiles (Garner) win by default 1:31 over Brandon Walden (East Wake)
135 - Marchus Carter (Garner) Decision 6-3 over Daniel Killette (East Wake)
140 - Steven Lombana (Garner) Fall :51 over Rupert Perez (East Wake)
145 - Anthony Finochio (Garner) Fall 3:18 over Cory Estes (East Wake)
152 - Connor Porter (East Wake) Major Decision 13-2 over Christian Townsend (Garner)
160 - Mitchell Morgan (East Wake) Fall 3:18 over Drawman Fouty (Garner)
171 - Cullen Casper (East Wake) Fall 1:17 over Jamel Thomas (Garner)
189 - Dyander Moore (East Wake) Fall 1:45 over Darius Davis (Garner)
215 - Austin Smith (East Wake) win by forfeit
285 - Tyler Maher (Garner) Fall 2:56 over Patrick Shuler (East Wake)

JV Matches
Casey Rucker (Garner) Fall 1:58 over Zach Heath (East Wake)
Vinnie Sarrocco (Garner) Decision 11-7 over Antwan High (East Wake)

Athens Drive 52
Garner 21

103 - Andrew Caongegro (Athens Drive) Fall :50 over Timothy Jones (Garner)
112 - Shane Goodchild (Athens Drive) Major Decision Damian Harrell (Garner)
119 - Andrew Gintis (Athens Drive) Fall :36 over Markell Harewood (Garner)
125 - Ryan Goodchild (Athens Drive) Fall 1:21 over Isiah Cain (Garner)
130 - Matthew Peterson (Athens Drive) Fall :53 over Casey Rucker (Garner)
135 - Sam Greenstein (Athens Drive) Fall 2:20 over Marchus Carter (Garner)
140 - Daniel Martin (Athens Drive) Tech Fall 18-1 over Steven Lombana (Garner)
145 - Tyree Utley (Athens Drive) Fall 1:06 over Vinnie Sarrocco (Garner)
152 - Christian Townsend (Garner) Decision 3-2 over Duc Doan (Athens Drive)
160 - Ahston Rodgers (Athens Drive) Fall 2:42 over Drawman Fouty (Garner)
171 - Daniel Adkins (Garner) win by forfeit
189 - Darius Davis (Garner) win by forfeit
215 - Double forfeit
285 - Tyler Maher (Garner) win by forfeit

Garner is back in action on Wednesday, January 27th at home against East Wake. This will be Senior night for the Trojan Wrestling team, and the match will begin at 7:00.