Friday night, Rocky River High, which officially opened Wednesday, will play its first football game at home. The Ravens will face Hough High, Mecklenburg County's other new high school.

Kickoff is 7 p.m. at Rocky River's new stadium.

"Everybody's excited," Ravens coach Jason Fowler said. "There's a little buzz in the air. I'm sure the same thing is going on at Hough. But I tell you this, unless we get a lot better than we are now, I don't know what it's going to look like."

Neither school has a senior class and both are stocked with players who, for the most part, have only played junior varsity football. Rocky River did inherit some players from ultra-successful programs at Independence and Butler, but Fowler said none of them have played on Friday night yet.

That's why he thinks this first game is so big.

"We're trying to build from the ground up," he said. "But that's what makes this so huge. Realistically looking at it, if you don't get this one, you probably won't get one the rest of the year. We've tried everything we can do to get this one and I'm sure (Hough coach) Bobby (Collins) is doing the same thing over there. This is our Super Bowl."

Football

Durham Hillside quarterback Vad Lee has been selected as the NCPreps.com Player of the Week. Lee, who has verbally committed to Georgia Tech, completed 14 of 23 passes for 308 yards with four touchdowns and ran six times for 63 yards with a touchdown in a 42-8 victory over Grimsley.

Carolina Pride, a Mecklenburg County-based team for home-schooled students, will play host to the Central Virginia Disciples on Friday. Central Virginia is the No. 6-ranked home-school team according to the national recruiting site MaxPreps. Central Virginia beat the Raleigh Titans 55-6 last week. Carolina Pride lost 14-13 to Charlotte Christian last week.

Charlotte Country Day begins the 2010 season at 7 tonight at High Point Andrews. The Bucs have not been shut out since the 2001 season and have only been shut out once since 1990, coach Bob Witman said.

Dillon Burdette, Concord Hickory Ridge's 6-foot-3-inch, 220-pound all-conference and team captain linebacker, had 17 tackles, including six tackles for a loss, against Carson last week. That was his career best.

Soccer

Morganton Freedom senior Demetrio Andrade had three goals in a 7-0 win over East Burke Tuesday. Andrade has had three goals in each of his past two games. Freedom sophomore Alexis Regino also had three goals, plus two assists in the game. He has five assists in his past two games. Freedom is 2-2-0.

Gastonia Forestview coach David Shearer, Gaston County's all-time winningest coach, has switched to an assistant's role due to a job conflict. Shearer led Forestview to five conference championships in seven seasons. His teams were 125-34-11 overall and 79-6-3 in conference play, once winning 54 straight league games.

Former Gastonia Huss player Trey McKeown is the new Forestview coach.

Basketball

Olympic girls' basketball coach Dustin Terrell has resigned. He's on staff at Belmont Abbey College working with the men's team.

Olympic finished 17-11 last season and was third in the ME-GA 7 conference. Olympic beat North Meck in the first round of the N.C. 4A playoffs. This year's team will return leading scorer, junior Alexius Hampton (16.5 ppg, 4.1 apg, 2.9 rpg) as well senior forward Rhianna Moncrief (10.4 ppg, 9.4 rpg, 2.7 spg) and senior forward Vanissa McMillian (7.5 ppg, 10.1 rpg, 3.1 apg).

Olympic will return 65 percent of its scoring, 59 percent of its rebounding and players who got 63 percent of the steals last season, and has what Terrell calls "a great freshman class and a couple of transfers."

East Mecklenburg girls' basketball star Jaymee Fisher-Davis has transferred to Butler. Fisher-Davis' father said the family had been redistricted to Butler, though Jaymee was in an IB program at East Meck and could remain there.

Jaymee, a Southwestern 4A all-conference pick and college recruit, decided to attend school with her brother, who plays three sports. At Butler, she will join the N.C. 4AA state champions, who will return All-American Cierra Burdick, who was MVP of the Bulldogs' title win last season.

Cross country

Rock Hill is fifth and Rock Hill Northwestern ninth in the S.C. coaches 4A preseason poll. Northwestern's girls are No. 10.

Recruiting

Rick Wire of Dynamite Sports will speak at Ardrey Kell's auditorium at 7 p.m. Monday. Wire will talk about the college recruitment process in a presentation geared for prospective college student athletes in grades 8 through 12.