Jacksonville girls soccer is headed back to the state championship after rallying to defeat J.H. Rose 2-1 in the regional finals Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals and Rampants entered the matchup after splitting the regular season series.<\/p>\n
After a scoreless first half, J.H. Rose took a 1-0 lead early in the second half on a corner kick goal by Carys Carson.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville quickly answered and later took the lead on a goal by Caroline Doyle following an assist from Riley Morrow.<\/p>\n
The Cardinals held off several late scoring chances from Rose to secure the win and advance to their second state championship appearance in three seasons.<\/p>\n
In 5A girls soccer, Dixon upset previously unbeaten Western Alamance 2-1 to advance to the program\u2019s first state championship match since 2008.<\/p>\n
Croatan girls lacrosse will host the East Regional Finals on Wednesday night with a chance to advance to the state championship game for the second time in four years.<\/p>\n
In college sports, ECU announced the hiring of Haley Hinklen as the new head coach of the Pirates women\u2019s lacrosse program.<\/p>\n
ECU baseball also learned it will open NCAA Tournament play Friday at noon against Tennessee in the Chapel Hill Regional.<\/p>\n
In the NHL playoffs, the Carolina Hurricanes defeated Montreal in overtime to take a 2-1 series lead in the Eastern Conference Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville girls soccer is headed back to the state championship after rallying to defeat J.H. Rose 2-1 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-285710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}