Salisbury girls 58, Central Davidson 32

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:00 AM |

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Ayanna Holmes #13-Salisbury High photo by Wayne Hinshaw

Staff report

LEXINGTON — Salisbury's girls trailed Central Davidson after one quarter and finished with their second-lowest point total of the season.

The visiting Hornets still managed to remain unbeaten with a 58-32 victory Monday night.

Salisbury (18-0, 7-0 CCC) outscored the Spartans (10-8, 3-4) by a 36-6 margin in the middle two quarters.

"We expected a tough game out of Central," SHS coach Andrew Mitchell said. "To me, they are one of the top teams in the league."They made it an ugly game early on and we have not been shooting the ball well lately, but once we got our legs under us we did a really good job."

Bubbles Phifer scored a game-high 17 points for Salisbury, and Olivia Rankin added 14. Jazmine Charles led Central with 14.

The Hornets had been held under 60 points one other time this season — they won 51-30 against Mount Tabor in their third game.

Central led 15-14 after one quarter, but Ayanna Holmes sank a 3-pointer from just inside the midcourt line as the halftime buzzer sounded to give Salisbury a 29-17 advantage. The Hornets were ahead 50-21 heading to the fourth quarter.

"We turned the ball over like six or seven straight possessions to start the third quarter," Central Davidson coach Kevin Hudson said. "We talked at halftime that we were only down 12 and maybe we had them doubting in their minds a little. They are so awfully good, and they are physical. You have to be able to withstand that for 32 minutes, and we were not able to."

Salisbury is scheduled to visit Thomasville tonight, play host to second-place East Davidson on Friday and travel to Lexington on Saturday.

"You miss a week of conditioning and we have four games this week, it is going to be tough," Mitchell said, "but we are not the only team in that situation."

SALISBURY (58) — Phifer 17, Rankin 14, Heilig 8, Miller 6, As.Holmes 4, Ay. Holmes 3, Richardson 2, Feamster 2, Allison 2.

CENTRAL DAVIDSON (32) — Charles 14, Burkhart 7, Young 6, Beck 3, Tuttle 2, Chavis, Hall, Oxendine.

Salisbury 14 15 21 8 — 58

C. Davidson 15 2 4 11 — 32

Owen Schwartz of The Dispatch contributed to this story.

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