The South Johnston varsity girls basketball team opens its season tonight with a 6 p.m. tipoff at Clinton. There will be no varsity boys game because the Dark Horses are still in the NCHSAA 2-A football playoffs as the top seed in the Eastern bracket. … South has signings for four athletes this morning. Katie Mitchell is going to Gardner-Webb for softball, Kyndal Woodard is headed to Mount Olive for softball, Savannah Lockamy will sign for softball with Piedmont International University in Winston-Salem and Eston Lee will be going to East Carolina to play golf. … Midway visits Neuse Charter in basketball on Friday. … Host N.C. Central topped Campbell, 67-64, in women’s basketball on Tuesday. … No. 7 Virginia dealt visiting Vermont its first loss, 61-55, in men’s hoops on Tuesday. … LSU, Ohio State, Clemson and Georgia are the top four in the College Football Playoff poll announced Tuesday. … No. 5 North Carolina (3-0) hosts Elon (2-2) tonight at 8:30 p.m. in men’s college basketball.