The regular season, with one exception, is over, and now its time for high school
conference basketball tournaments.Pairings
are set in the 3A South Piedmont Conference and 4A Central Piedmont Conference, but not in
the 2A Central Carolina Conference.
North Rowans boys, who have already won the
CCC championship, will be at home against Lexington at 7 p.m. Monday in the final game of
the regular season. Lexington will be trying to pull off an upset of the Cavaliers to
finish in a four-way tie for second place and gain the No. 2 seed for the CCC tourney. If
North wins, Lexington would be No. 5.
The Ledford, Salisbury and HighPoint Central boys
have already tied for second with 6-6 records.Lexington, 5-6, chose to play the makeup
game at North, because it would need only two wins this week to make the sectional
playoffs. If Lexington were to beat North, then win two tournament games, there would be
no CCC boys championship game on Saturday. Thats because the North Carolina High
School Athletic Association does not allow a team to play four games in a week.
If Lexington were to beat North and gain the No. 2
seed, Ledford, Salisbury and High Point Central would be the 3, 4 and 5 seeds,
respectively. Salisbury is seeded ahead of High Point by virtue of a coin toss. If
Lexington loses, Ledford, Salisbury, High Point and Lexington would be the 2, 3, 4 and 5
seeds, respectively.
The North Rowan-Lexington girls game will not be
played, because it would not affect the pairings.
The CCC Tournament opens Tuesday at Ledford with
three games. The second-seeded Ledford girls (21-2) will play No. 7 Lexington (8-13) at
5:30. The No. 2-seeded boys team, either Ledford (10-13) or Lexington (10-11) will meet at
7. The third-seeded North Rowan (14-6) girls will play No. 6 North Stanly (10-11) at 8:30.
Tuesdays 5:30 opener will match the No.
3-seeded boys team, either Salisbury (10-14) or Ledford against No. 6 North Stanly (8-14).
Salisburys fourth-seeded girls (6-17) take on No. 5 East Davidson (7-15) at 7. The
fourth-seeded boys team, either High Point (11-11) or Salisbury will play No. 5, either
Lexington or High Point, at 8:30.
Semifinal action starts Thursday, when the No. 1
High Point (21-2) girls meet the the Salisbury-East Davidson winner at 6, followed by the
No. 1 North Rowan (18-3) boys against the No. 4-No. 5 winner at 7:30.
The Ledford-Lexington winner lays the North
Rowan-North Stanly winner in the other girls semifinal at 6 on Friday. The other boys
semifinal will be at 7:30.
The girls championship contest is set for 1 on
Tuesday, followed by the boys finals at 2:30. That boys game, of course, would not be
played if Lexington wins in the semifinals.
The SPC Tournament is more clear cut with the top
four seeded girls teams playing at home on Monday and the top four seeded boys teams
playing at home on Tuesday, all at 7.
The top-seeded West Rowan (18-5) girls host No. 8
Harding (2-15). No. 2 Northwest Cabarrus (18-6) is at home against No. 7 Kannapolis A.L.
Brown (6-16). No. 3 Concord (17-6) takes on No. 6 Piedmont (14-8). No. 4 East Rowan (17-7)
plays No. 5 Central Cabarrus (11-9).
Tuesdays boys pairings are: No. 8 Kannapolis
A. L. Brown (5-17) at No. 1 West Rowan (22-1), No. 7 East Rowan (4-19) at No. 2 Central
Cabarrus (18-5), No. 6 Concord (6-17) at No. 3 Northwest Cabarrus (17-7), and No. 5 Sun
Valley (12-10) at No. 4 Harding (15-8).
The girls semifinals will be played Wednesday at
Kannapolis with the West Rowan-Harding winner taking on the East Rowan-Central Cabarrus
winner at 6, followed by the Piedmont-Concord winner vs. the Northwest Cabarrus-Kannapolis
winner at 7:30.
The boys semifinals are set Thursday with the West
Rowan-Kannapolis winner meeting the Harding-Sun Valley winner at 6, followed by the
Northwest Cabarrus-Concord winner against the Central Cabarrus-East Rowan winner at 7:30.
The girls championship contest is scheduled for 6
on Friday with the boys finals set for 7:30.
The CPC Tournament gets under way at Mount Tabor
at 6 on Monday, when the South Rowan (4-19) and West Forsyth (4-18) girls, who tied for
the No. 4 seed, battle for survival and a state playoff berth. The No. 5 South Rowan
(7-16) boys take on No. 4 Mount Tabor (11-11) at 7:30.
The top-seeded girls team, either Mount Tabor
(15-4) or R. J. Reynolds (15-6), will play the South Rowan-West Forsyth winner at 6 on
Tuesday. The top-seeded West Forsyth (18-5) boys will meet the South Rowan-Mount Tabor
winner at 7:30.
Davie Countys third-seeded girls and boys
swing into action in Wednesdays semifinals. The Davie girls (10-13) will meet either
Mount Tabor or R. J. Reynolds at 6. Davies boys (19-4) will play R. J. Reynolds
(20-2) at 7:30.
The CPC finals are set for 6 and 7:30 on Thursday.