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CARY, N.C.—Eighth-seeded Clemson lost the doubles point but came from behind to beat ninth-seeded North Carolina, 4-2, in the second round of the 2025 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship on Thursday afternoon at the Cary Tennis Park.

With the victory, the 22nd-ranked Tigers improved to 21-6 this season and advanced to meet top-seeded Wake Forest in Friday's quarterfinal round. Clemson has won four of its last five matches.

Carolina fell to 13-11 in 2025.

The Tar Heels started strong and won the doubles point with a pair of wins over ranked Tiger duos. Vladislav Melnic and Chris Xu grabbed the first win, 6-3, at No. 1 over #28 Noa Vukadin and Max Smith. After Viktor Markov and Matt Pitts topped Nick Mangiapane and Constantinos Djakouris, 7-5, at No. 3, the teams progressed to a tiebreaker at No. 2 to decide the doubles point.

Diego Jarry and Anthony Wright rushed to a 4-0 lead in the tiebreak against #31 Max Damm and Romain Gales before holding on for a 7-6 (6) win and the doubles point.

The Tigers tied the score at 1-all when Edoardo Cherie Ligniere beat Mangiapane, 6-1, 6-2 at No. 6 singles, but Melnic picked up a key ranked win over #50 Vukadin, 6-2, 6-4 at No. 1 to make it 2-1 UNC.

Clemson tied it up again at 2-2 when Markov beat Xu, 6-4, 7-5 at No. 2 singles, then the Tigers took their first lead of the day at 3-2 when Marko Mesarovic beat Wright, 6-3, 7-5. Marko Mesarovic clinched it on court No. 5 with a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 over Jarry.

FINAL SCORE: No. 22 Clemson 4, No. 52 North Carolina 2

Thursday, April 17, 2025 Cary, N.C. (Cary Tennis Park) 2025 ACC Championship Second Round

Match Results Doubles 1. Vladislav Melnic/Chris Xu (UNC) def. #28 Noa Vukadin/Max Smith (Clem), 6-3 2. Diego Jarry/Anthony Wright (UNC) def. #31 Max Damm/Romain Gales (Clem), 7-6 (6) 3. Viktor Markov/Matt Pitts (Clem) def. Constantinos Djakouris/Nick Mangiapane (UNC), 7-5 (Order of finish: 1, 3, 2)

Singles 1. Vladislav Melnic (UNC) def. #50 Noa Vukadin (Clem), 6-2, 6-4 2. Viktor Markov (Clem) def. Chris Xu (UNC), 6-4, 7-5 3. Constantinos Djakouris (UNC) vs. Romain Gales (Clem), 6-2, 3-6, 4-4 (unfinished) 4. Wissam Abderrahman (Clem) def. Anthony Wright (UNC), 6-3, 7-5 5. Marko Mesarovic (Clem) def. Diego Jarry (UNC) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 6. Max Smith (Clem) def. Nick Mangiapane (UNC), 6-1, 6-2 (Order of finish: 6, 1, 2, 4, 5)

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Have you visited Fenton in Cary? This is a guide to everything Fenton has to offer, including restaurants, retail, special events, movies and more.

Restaurants at Fenton

AVA Rooftop Bar - This Instagram-worthy seasonal outdoor rooftop bar serves craft cocktails, wine and Mediterranean-inspired small plates. The bar opens at 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Late night hours and DJ events make it a nightlife spot. AVA accepts reservations for VIP bottle service beginning at 9 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. All other guests are welcome on a first come, first served basis.

Coming soon: Brewery Bhavana - Brewery Bhavana's 2,000 square foot Fenton location will feature an extensive outdoor patio and courtyard, Belgian-inspired beers and dim sum offerings, along with a bookstore and floral shop.

Carriage House Coffee - Find this mobile coffee truck near Fenton's green space. Carriage House Coffee has a focus on local, including serving baked goods from local eateries like La Farm Bakery. The menu includes both classic coffee staples and some special sweet options like the butter beer latte, the s'mores latte, the honey oat milk latte, the lavender white mocha and the cookie butter oat milk latte.

Colletta - Reservations are recommended for this upscale yet causal Italian bistro that has quickly become a favorite at Fenton. Guests can enjoy indoor and outdoor seating. Appetizers range from $7 to $24, and entrees start at $17 and go all the way up to the $60 ribeye. Family-style dining is available for $65, where the chef will curate three courses for the table to share. Colletta is open for lunch Thursday through Sunday 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.. Dinner is served daily beginning at 5 p.m.

Crawford Brothers Steakhouse - The modern American steakhouse specializes in house dry-aged beef and feature an extensive wine selection. The restaurant also features a lighter lunch menu, a cocktail bar and a lounge area.

CRÚ Food & Wine Bar - CRÚ serves brunch, lunch and dinner. Guests can enjoy charcuterie and stone-fired pizza and taste and share platters and entrees like salmon, filet mignon, and scallops. It is open for lunch seven days a week between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. Dinner is served from 3 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 3 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Doc B’s Restaurant - Brunch, lunch and dinner all served. There's an outdoor patio, six TVs, drink specials and more.

Dram & Draught - Dram & Draught serves seasonal craft cocktails and a full menu of shareables, flatbreads, sandwiches, salads, sides and desserts. Lunch and dinner are served daily between 12 p.m. and 5 p.m., and snacks and desserts are available after 5 p.m.

Honeysuckle Gelato-Gelato scoops, milkshakes and gelato sandwiches are served daily beginning at 11 a.m. Many flavors are Southern-inspired, like bananas foster, carrot cake, lemon bar, blackberry lemon sorbet and butter pecan blondie.

M Test Kitchen - M Test Kitchen is open daily at 5 p.m., serving tapas-style options and craft cocktails. The concept from award-winning chef Micheal Lee features a constantly evolving menu with tapas-style bites meant to be shared.

M Sushi -M Sushi serves specialty and classic sushi rolls from Michael Lee, the owner of M Sushi Durham and other restaurants.

My Tartine - A artisan-crafted sandwich and salad spot with a kid-friendly menu for Fenton's youngest shoppers.

Sports & Social - This sports bar features a 30-foot high-definition LED TV and games like skee ball, table tennis, air hockey and a golf simulator, open 7 days a week at 11 a.m. There is a full menu of cocktails, beer and wine, as well as burgers, appetizers, salads, bowls, dessert and more. Brunch is offered on Saturdays and Sundays with breakfast skillets, avocado toast, chicken and waffles and more.

Superica- Serving Tex-Mex food and cocktails, Superica offers weekend brunch, lunch and dinner. Lunch specials are available for $14.99 Monday through Friday.

The Agency Bar + Social-The Agency Bar + Social, anchoring Paragon Theaters, features a 100-foot-long craft cocktail bar and full menu for the public and movie theater patrons. People who wish to dine while they watch a movie can enjoy VIP Lux Box Dine-In seating with individualized QR codes for online ordering.

Makers Market at Fenton

March through December on the third Saturday of the month, the Fenton Makers Market powered by Triangle Pop-Up takes over Fenton Square with live music and local artists selling handmade items. The event runs 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the third Saturday of each month excluding January and February. The November and December markets are holiday themed.

Ice skating at Fenton: Skate the Square

Fenton Skate the Square kicks off in November and will run each year from November through February. In 2023, general admission tickets were $17 (skates included). Reservations online are recommended. Discounts are available for everyone on Monday nights and for veterans, military, police, firefighters and medical professionals on Tuesdays. Skate rentals are available in toddler through adult sizes (size 15). Skating is available for 75 minutes after admission. Ice skaters can enjoy thousands of lights covering Fenton's walkways and a large, sparkling Christmas tree.

Movie theater at Fenton: Paragon Theaters

Paragon Theaters at Fenton includes leather electric recliners, a Lux Box dine-in seating concept so movie-goers can order food, beverages and dessert, a bar lounge and more. The theater also features an Axis 15 screen to reduce eye strain and increase viewability for patrons.

Movies are $5 every Tuesday all day, any show.

More events at Fenton

Events are held year-round at Fenton, including craft markets, live music, 5Ks, visits with Santa, yoga and exercise classes, St. Patrick's Day events, jewelry and antique shows and more. The schedule of events is available online.

Shopping at Fenton

Retail stores at Fenton include:

Spas, health and wellness at Fenton

Places to pamper and care for yourself at Fenton include:

History of Fenton

Construction began in late 2020, and Fenton opened in Cary in May 2022. The sprawling mixed-use center is down the road from what used to be Cary Towne Center Mall, which closed in January 2021 after being purchased by Epic Games to be used as their new headquarters.

Cary Mayor Harold Weinbrecht said the project is considered one of the largest in town history.

"It's exciting. We've been talking about this property and it's been years in the making," he told WRAL News months before the grand opening.

Apartments at Fenton

The Allison at Fenton features studio, 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments. Prices as of April 2025 vary, with a 627 sq. ft. studio apartment listed at $1,577. One-bedrooms apartments are listed anywhere from $1,607 to $3,364. Residents have access to a resort-style pool, gym, rooftop lounges, coffee bar, pet spa, dog park, coworking spaces and more. The building is six stories.

Offices at Fenton

200,000 sq. ft. of office space is available at the Offices at Fenton. According to Fenton, additional office space will be available in future phases.

RALEIGH, N.C. — It's hard to find bad ice cream -- but when it's good, it's so good! We've been taste-testing to find the best locally made ice cream in the area.

The best ice cream in North Carolina

These shops are taking ice cream to a new level of tastiness. Many of these have also been finalists and winners in the WRAL Voters' Choice Awards.

Andia's, which has shops in Cary and Raleigh and a food truck location in Durham, has taken home national honors for its French vanilla ice cream. The shop is also known for its unique ice cream flavors (like lemon basil sorbet and baklava) and sundaes (like the warm doughnut ice cream sundae). They have also won the WRAL Voters' Choice Award for best ice cream.

Where to find Andia's: 10120 Green Level Church Rd, #208, Cary1008 Ryan Road, CaryRaleigh Iron Works: 2201 Iron Works Drive, Suite 129, RaleighThe Can Opener Food Truck Park: 205 S Gregson Street, Durham, NC 27701

Two Roosters is also known for creative ice cream flavors like margarita, blackberry hibiscus and butterscotch haystack. Of course, their classic flavors are amazing too! They have three Raleigh locations, plus locations in Durham, Wake Forest and Cary. This shop is a multiple WRAL Voters' Choice Award winner for best local ice cream.

Where to find Two Roosters:At a game: The Lenovo Center and Durham Bulls gamesGreystone Village: 7713 Lead Mine Road, Raleigh Person Street Plaza: 215 E. Franklin St., Raleigh Lake Boone Trail: 4025 Lake Boone Trail, RaleighGolden Belt Campus: 800 Taylor St., DurhamThe Factory: 1839 S. Main St., Wake Forest Waverly Place: 302 Colonades Way, Cary

Lumpy's features ice cream made with locally-sourced ingredients. It is known for its waffle cones and amazing gingerbread sundae. Lumpy's has been a finalist for the WRAL Voters' Choice Award for best local ice cream.

Where to find Lumpy's: 306 E Wait Ave, Wake Forest

Mama Bird's Cookies + Cream has its flagship location in Holly Springs. An Apex location is also in the works.

The shop features custard-style ice cream with a rotating selection of flavors featuring scratch-made ingredients. You can also find cookies, cobbler, chocolate-covered bananas, ice cream cookie sandwiches and brownies. Yum!

Where to find Mama Bird's Ice cream: 304 North Main St., Holly Springs

Sunni Sky's features more than 100 homemade flavors. The cash-only shop is known for its tasty flavors like banana pudding and Rice Krispy Treat as well as one of the spiciest ice creams around. Cold Sweat features some of the hottest peppers in the world -- visitors even need to sign a liability waiver to try it!

Where to find Sunni Sky's: 8617 NC-55 in Angier

We love this Bull City ice cream shop with its unique flavors like Honey Ricotta and Summer Corn with Blueberry Swirl.

Where to find The Parlour: 117 Market St., Durham

Sisters II Ice Cream scoops up happiness with a delightful selection of flavors! They churn out all their ice cream in-house, ensuring fresh taste and quality. While they don't have a constantly rotating selection by the pint like some shops, they do feature seasonal specialties alongside their classic favorites.

Sisters II Ice Cream started with a dream. Deborah Davis longed for a mobile ice cream business. When Kay Wood, co-owner of Sister's Cake "N Cream" trailer, sadly passed away, Rose Allen, the other co-owner, decided to sell. Deborah, wanting to honor Kay's memory and the "Sisters" legacy, bought the trailer. Sisters II Ice Cream was born, symbolizing a new chapter that keeps the spirit of the original business alive.

Where to find Sisters II Ice Cream: 108 S Market St., Benson

Celtic Creamery is a fusion of an Irish and American desire to bring this truly unique ice cream across the Atlantic from Ireland to the USA. They use fresh cream and all-natural ingredients to craft a daily selection of 14 rotating ice cream flavors. Craving something more? Pair your scoop with a hot, made-to-order donut, a decadent sundae, or a classic banana split. They also offer refreshing Celtic blend coffee, milkshakes, and pints to go, so you can enjoy our deliciousness at home.

Where to find Celtic Creamery:257 N.C. Highway 210, Smithfield

Located at Carolina Beach, this ice cream shop serves more than 4,000 flavors of homemade ice cream. They can create so many flavors by using their trademark method known as "The Squigley." It is a real vanilla ice cream base that includes two to three items mixed together into a custom flavor.

Where to find Squigley's: 208 Lake Park Blvd., Carolina Beach

This ice cream has been made on campus for more than 75 years using milk from the university's cows at the N.C. State Dairy Farm on Lake Wheeler Road.

Where to find Howling Cow: Many area Harris Teeter locations have it in the frozen ice cream sectionHowling Cow Dairy Education Center and Creamery, 100 Dairy Lane, Raleigh NC State Fair every year

More ice cream to check out

FRESH. Local Ice Cream on 6033 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, is an independent shop scooping housemade ice cream in many flavors.

Dairy Depot in Wake Forest serves up soft serve ice cream in many flavors. They are known for their Trainwrecks, which are similar to a Dairy Queen Blizzard with many flavors and toppings mixed together.

Raleigh Rolls is located in Morgan Street Food Hall. It is fun to watch them make the ice cream right before your eyes by rolling it.

Amorino Gelato on 137 E Davie St., Raleigh, serves gelato. Gelato is denser than ice cream and has a richer flavor because it has less air whipped into it.

The Yard Milkshake Bar opened its first North Carolina location in 2024 in Raleigh's Seaboard Station. With gourmet shakes featuring cookies, cheesecake and other delectable toppings, the shop earned a strong following that helped propel it to victory for best new restaurant in the 2024 WRAL Voters' Choice Awards.

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams on 2014 Cameron St, Raleigh, is a chain scooping creative flavors of ice cream and frozen yogurt made from local ingredients.

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If pine pollen is a plague that keeps you locked indoors for three weeks in spring, you can open your eyes — and your windows — again in the next three to seven days.

It’s almost over.

Dr. Robert Bardon, associate dean for extension and a professor at N.C. State University’s College of Natural Resources, has developed a mathematical formula to simplify the complicated courtship of the loblolly pine and its cousins that results in the ubiquitous yellow film now clinging to your porch furniture.

While other trees, grasses and weeds add to the mix of particulates, it’s pine pollen that descends like a yellow curtain across central and Eastern North Carolina in late February to early March.

The arrival, departure and density of pollen depend largely on winter and spring temperature patterns.

This year, according to Bardon’s formula and temperature records on weatherspark.com, pine pollen began to fall in Raleigh around March 11, and it peaked on Monday, March 31.

It has decreased since then, and this week it should be safe to wash the car.

The makers of antihistamines seem to say every year it’s going to be the worst allergy season ever.

The trend toward warmer winters means pollen season starts earlier. Warm weather lasting later into the year extends the growing season, meaning pollen output lasts longer.

The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality measures daily pollen counts in Raleigh in grains per cubic meter and tracks the amounts over time. The levels are categorized as low, moderate, high or very high.

According to its database, 2025 has so far been a tough year for people who are sensitive to pine pollen or just tired of tracking it into the house.

This year, Raleigh had its first “high” reading on March 3, and through March 28, the most recent readings available, Raleigh had seen 14 high-pollen days, and no very-high-pollen days.

In 15 years, comparable pollen seasons were reported in 2017 and 2023.

It’s worth noting that while it’s a nuisance because it’s a large granule and it’s yellow, pine pollen is not the one that causes the most people to weep and sneeze. Statistically, NCSU says, more people are allergic to oak, birch, cedar, maple and hickory than to pine.

In North Carolina, oak pollen usually peaks in April.

This story was originally published March 31, 2025 at 3:20 PM.