Justen Best’s desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer erased a 3-point Carrboro lead and Peter Rathmell’s try at a game-tying layup at the end of overtime rolled off as East Chapel Hill nipped the Jaguars 65-63 Wednesday night.
Boys' and girls' basketball, wrestling ... Carrboro, NCSSM boys win ... Northern, Carolina Friends, Chapel Hill girls win ... South Granville pins Northern Vance.
Darien Ortiz almost singlehandedly ends big Hillside homecourt comeback Tuesday night. His back-to-back steals in a 30-second span in the final 1:13 slamming the door on the Hornets and giving Jordan sole possession of the PAC-6 lead. In girls' game opener, PAC-6 leader Hillside routs Falcons.
Durham Academy went on an 11-0 run in the fourth period and got out of the gym at Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill with a 48-38 win.
Either the defense was very good Saturday when Orange and Cedar Ridge renewed their rivalry, or the shooting was just awful. “We’ll give them the benefit of the doubt. The defense was good,” Orange coach Greg Motley quipped after his Panthers got a 40-34 road win. “But, no, we struggled shooting the ball. It’s been a really tough week for our kids, and stuff. I didn’t know how they would play.”
Corinth Holders, a scrappy, senior-laden 2A team from Johnston County, was king of the mat at Saturday’s Bull City Throw Down. The Pirates upended 4A host Jordan and breezed to a 5-0 finish as the only unbeaten squad in the seven-team duals tournament that featured 15 state-ranked grapplers.
Hot-shooting, bomb-launching Carrboro dominates visiting South Granville 78-61 to remain undefeated in boys' Carolina 12 1-A/2-A Conference play. Carrboro's girls get 26 points from star Diamond Tyson and rout the Vikings 64-39.
Northwood remained unbeaten in Carolina 12 1-A/2-A Conference behind tough defense and double figure scorers Jasmine Atkins (13) and Shontai Totten (12).
Jordan ran off 16 unanswered points in the third quarter Friday night to bury Southern 61-48 and hold on to at least a share of first place in the PAC-6 boys’ basketball standings.
Northern got in a groove early and stayed there, taking apart Riverside 88-63 for a road win in PAC-6 boys’ basketball on Friday
Malik Evans scored 21 and De'Shon Self added 17 as Hillside won its second straight PAC-6 road game in convincing fashion at Person on Friday night.
Bryce Griffin scored on a drive to the basket with nine seconds remaining as Durham School of the Arts won a slugfest over Granville Central 51-49 on Friday night.
Former Hillside High School football star Josh McNeil, who will be featured in today’s nationally televised (5 p.m., ESPN) Under Armour All-America Game at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., has backed out of a verbal college scholarship commitment for the second time in less than two years.
Some claim the NBA doesn’t really get going until the Christmas Day games — the real ones, not the video games — are unwrapped.
Along Tobacco Road, the bumper crop of PAC-6 4-A basketball gets harvested after holiday hoops tournaments offer final tune-ups before conference clashes.