HS girls basketball roundup: Hornets win, but South, Carson, North lose
Published 7:16 pm Saturday, February 1, 2025
- Salisbury freshman Gabbi Fatovic
From staff reports
Friday games …
SALISBURY — Keaira Spruill scored a career-high 17 points to lead Salisbury to an easy 65-34 Central Carolina Conference win against South Davidson.
Spruill enjoyed her first double-figure effort since the Christmas Tournament.
Salisbury coach Lakai Brice explained that Torese Evans had a bruised thigh muscle, so Evans sat down early, but she scored 12 and helped get the Hornets rolling with two 3-pointers.
Mariana Zapata and Tristian Myers also made 3-pointers in the first quarter as the Hornets jumped out to a 16-3 lead. Taloria Gaither made a 3-pointer early in the second quarter to make it 19-3.
Zapata and Gabbi Fatovic added eight points each for the Hornets (10-7, 5-2). They finished a season sweep of the Wildcats (4-13, 0-8).
The 65 points were the most the Hornets have scored since they beat South Davidson 73-21 in Denton in December.
S. Davidson 3 7 18 6 — 34
Salisbury 16 12 20 17 — 65
SALISBURY scoring — Spruill 17, Evans 12, Zapata 8, Fatovic 8, McNeely 6, Fomond 6, Gaither 3, Myers 3, Pearson-Hasty 2.
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CHINA GROVE — Camri Hobbs scored 30 points as Robinson overpowered Carson 65-41 in a South Piedmont Conference game.
“We hung with them for a half, but we didn’t hit shots in the second half and we had no answer for Hobbs,” Carson head coach Chloe Monroe said.
The 6-foot-3 Hobbs is a guard and is one of the state’s top prospects in the Class of 2026. She shot 65 percent, made a 3-pointer and had seven rebounds, four blocks and three steals.
Destiny Chambers, a 6-foot-2 junior, added 19 points for the Bulldogs (16-4, 12-0), who won their eighth in a row and stayed unbeaten in the South Piedmont Conference.
Allie Martin and Rylee Hedrick scored 14 each for the Cougars (4-17, 2-11). Martin got 10 points at the foul line.
Carson’s best quarter was the second when Martin and Hedrick scored eight points each.
Robinson’s lead was only 34-27 at halftime, but the Bulldogs shut down the Cougars in the third quarter to pull away.
Robinson 13 21 15 16 — 65
Carson 9 18 4 10 — 41
Robinson — Hobbs 30, Chambers 19, Rucker 8, Young 4, Forte 2, Gray 2.
Carson — Martin 14, Hedrick 14, Burleson 5, Snow 4, Sheets 2, McBride 2.
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LANDIS — South Rowan played about as well as it can for three quarters, but Central Cabarrus went to work on the offensive glass in the fourth quarter and took a 58-46 South Piedmont Conference victory.
South started the game making a concerted effort to get the ball inside to Kynlee Dextraze. She scored the Raiders’ first seven points for some early leads. Central led 15-13 after a quarter.
South had a good first half as far as breaking the press and getting layups. Ella Morgan had five assists in the half, with Dextraze and Meghan Eagle providing most of the finishes. Central led 29-28 at the break.
Central scored the first eight points of the second half to go up 37-28, but South came back. Central had a three-point lead heading to the fourth quarter.
Central (8-11, 7-5) finally got control then, mostly with second-chance points and third-chance points. The Vikings hit the offensive glass hard.
Dextraze scored 17 for the Raiders (7-12, 4-9), boosting her career total to 867 points. She’s 15th on the program’s all-time scoring list. Eagle scored a career-high 13.
Louella Blanchard made several 3s for the Vikings and scored 15. Felicity Arevalo and Danijah Burton scored 13 each, and Myajah Nix added 10.
Central Cabarrus 15 14 13 16 — 58
South Rowan 13 15 11 7 — 46
Central — Blanchard 15, Arevalo 13, Burton 13, Nixon 10, Pickett 4, Ducan 3.
South — Dextraze 17, Eagle 13, Morgan 6, Krieg 5, Pharr 3, Fisher 2.
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THOMASVILLE — North Rowan experienced its lowest scoring game since November and lost 47-27 at East Davidson in a Central Carolina Conference game.
North got down 19-7 in the first quarter. The Cavaliers’ defense tightened up after that, but North (4-12, 2-4) couldn’t score often enough to mount a comeback.
Za’Kiya Oglesby-Peck had nine points to lead North’s scoring. Allanah McArthur had six points and eight rebounds. Krisstyle Stockton also had eight rebounds.
East Davidson (6-13, 3-4) finished a season sweep of the Cavaliers.
North Rowan 7 5 2 13 — 27
East Davidson 19 9 10 9 — 47
NORTH scoring — Oglesby-Peck 9, McArthur 6, Cowan 4, Elder 3, Stockton 3, King 2.
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Mackenzie Ortscheid scored 29 points to lead Northwest Cabarrus to a 76-57 South Piedmont Conference win at Lake Norman Charter.
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Cox Mill won 60-35 against A.l. Brown.
Concord’s girls won at West Rowan.