From staff reports

Wednesday games …

SPENCER — North Rowan’s boys won their fifth straight game, routing Albemarle 88-45 for a non-conference victory.

The Cavaliers (13-7) scored 60 in the first half against the overmatched Bulldogs (1-19) and played everyone who dressed a lot of minutes. North led by 35 at halftime and achieved the 40-point lead needed for a running clock in the third quarter.

“The game got out of control early and turned physical,” North head coach Jason Causby said. “We didn’t play the starters a lot.”

That was evident from the scorebook. North’s leading scorer for the season, Emari Russell, scored only seven points. When he was on the floor, he was looking to get his teammates involved.

Dyzarious Carpenter (17), JP Polk (16), Carter Williams (15) and Tristen Brown (11) were in double figures. That was a career high for Brown, who comes off the bench for the Cavaliers.

Polk has been on a roll lately and pulled down 12 rebounds. Jo Jo Tarver and Dillon Mosley had four assists each. KaMahri Feamster scored nine points.

Ty Quick scored 18 for the Bulldogs. Kemari Thomas had 13.

North plays West Davidson on Friday.

Albemarle    12   13   7   13   — 45

North           32   28  17   11   — 88

Albemarle — Quick 18, Thomas 13, Browne 5, Pemberton 5, Garner 4.

North — D. Carpenter 17, Polk 16, Williams 15, Brown 11, Feamster 9, Russell 7, Sullivan 4, K. Carpenter 4, Mosley 2, Tarver 2, J. Alford 1.

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HUNTERSVILLE — West Rowan’s boys outscored Lake Norman Charter 75-72 and moved into a tie for sixth with the Knights in the South Piedmont Conference standings.

Lake Norman Charter (6-12, 5-9) had won by five at West Rowan (7-13, 5-9) very early in the season.

West played its best game of the season on Tuesday to beat Northwest Cabarrus at home and kept the momentum going on the road.

“We had another good start, got the lead and kept it most of the game,” West head coach Dadrian Cuthbertson said.

West was struggling to score 60 most of the season, but has put up 82 and 75 this week.

Only five Falcons scored, but four were in double figures.

Brant Graham had a career-best 26 points and made four 3-pointers. Graham was 4-for-4 at the foul line in the fourth quarter.

Evan Kennedy, West’s leading scorer for the season, got 19. He had seven early to help West achieve that explosive start. He got nine in the third quarter.

Josiah Young scored 11 of his 13 points in the first half.

Jalen Moten made three 3s, two of them in the first quarter, and scored 13.

Ja’mih Tucker got the ball to the shooters and scored six.

The Falcons went 15-for-19 at the foul line. That helped.

Central Cabarrus is next for the Falcons.

West     27    14    16   18   — 75

LNC     20    14    16    22   — 72

WEST scoring — Graham 26, Kennedy 19, Young 13, Moten 11, Tucker 6.

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HUNTERSVILLE — West Rowan’s girls lost 55-24 at Lake Norman Charter in a South Piedmont Conference game.

Jamiela Allen led the Falcons with eight points, but they couldn’t get much offense going.

Lake Norman Charter got 22 points from Reece Long on 9-for-16 shooting. She lit it up early as the Knights took a 25-6 lead in the first quarter. It was 39-8 at halftime.

Lake Norman Charter (13-7, 9-5) got four 3-pointers from Sam Colantonio. They shot 7-for-12 on 3-pointers.

The Knights are in fourth place in the SPC and have a big game at third-place East Rowan on Friday.

The season is winding down for the Falcons (1-19, 0-14), They have remaining games scheduled with Central Cabarrus, East Rowan and North Rowan, but they’ll be left out of the SPC Tournament.

West     6    2   9    7   — 24

LNC     25  14  14  2    — 55

West — Allen 8, Everhart 5, Smith 4, Hoffner 3, Carter 2, Hurd 2.

LNC — Long 22, Colantonio 12, A. Courtney 11, L. Courtney 3, Nelson 2, Krombolz 2, Mercuri 2, Kurz 1.

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SPENCER — Albemarle’s Amari Baldwin, a Winston-Salem State recruit, became the leading scorer in Stanly County basketball history in a 71-25 romp against the North Rowan girls.

She’s in the neighborhood of 2,200 points.

Dasia Elder scored nine to lead North, while Krisstyle Stockton had seven points and 10 rebounds. Za’Kiya Oglesby-Peck had two blocks.

North (4-14) had lost 78-13 to Albemarle on opening night, so the result in the rematch was no surprise.

Albemarle (16-4) is fifth in the 1A West RPI rankings. North is 45th in the 1A West RPI rankings, but will make the state playoffs as an automatic qualifier as the top 1A team from the 1A/2A Central Carolina Conference.

North takes on West Davidson on Friday.

NORTH scoring — Elder 9, Stockton 7, Oglesby-Peck 4, Cowan 3, Conner 2.