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By Paul DurhamSports EditorBack by popular demand, the Fike Night Relays will observe its encore run Saturday night at Gillette Athletic Complex with a fun-based start to the high school cross-country season.The event will have 10 boys teams and nine girls squads competing in a relay event of four 2,500-meter legs with the girls race set to begin at 8:30 p.m. and the boys at approximately 9:30 p.m. A special course has been set up by the soccer fields so spectators can watch the entire race.Besides girls and boys teams from Fike, the participating N.C. High School AthleticAssociation schools are Beddingfield, Hunt, Southern Pines Pinecrest, South Central,Fayetteville Pine Forest, Edenton Holmes, Greenville Rose, Havelock and The Epiphany School of New Bern, which competes in theN,C. Independent Schools Athletic Association. Pinecrest will only have its boys team present.Before the relays there will be individual boys and girls developmental 2.5K races and, to begin the festivities, a community 2.5K run that will start at 7 p.m.“We want to get as many people in the community to come out and run a cross-country course,” said first-year Fike head coach Patrick Yarbrough.Yarbrough was involved with the Fike program as a parent last year when then head coach Tom Griffith conceived the idea to build support for cross-country in the area. The inaugural Fike Night Relays had 11 schools,plus Fike, at Gillette and was very well received and Griffith spoke of expanding the event in 2013. But with Yarbrough not getting approval as the new Fike coach until July, the chance to bring in more teams had lessened. Yarbrough said he spoke with many colleague at the annual coaches meeting in Greensboro in July who had interest in participating but their schedules had already been set.But the number of runners could be more with Pine Forest and Rose bringing significant groups.“Between Pine Forest and Rose, I think we’ve got about 120 runners,” Yarbrough said. “We could have close to 200 high school runners.”The biggest change from the first incarnation of the event is the reduction of legs from five to four in the relays, Yarbrough said, to get more teams on the course.Cary Green Hope won the girls relay last year while Pinecrest edged Green Hope for the boys championship. With the top threeSee RELAYS, Page 2B
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