From staff reports

Monday tournament games…

GRANITE QUARRY — The long journey to 1,000 career points came in the best way possible for East Rowan senior Mary Church.

Church reached the milestone in a win and she reached it at home.

Church, who overcame missing most of her sophomore season with a knee injury, needed seven for 1,000, but there wasn’t any 1,000-point anxiety. She got 22 in leading the Mustangs to a 73-32 blowout of Concord in the first round of the South Piedmont Conference Tournament. The win was the 20th for the third-seeded Mustangs (20-5). They could get a first-round home game in the playoffs. They are on the bubble for that.

“That was our first 40-point win of the season,” East head coach Bri Evans said. “Proud of Mary and proud of the 20 wins, This team has come a long way from where we were a few years ago.”

Sixth-seeded Concord finished 4-19. Three seniors ended their careers.

Eleven Mustangs scored. Kady Collins scored 13. Lilly Kluttz had a season-high 10.

EAST scoring — Church 22, Collins 13, Kluttz 10, Featherstone 8, Smith 5, Miller 4, Alderman 4, Ewing 3, Wise 2, Quick 2.

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LEXINGTON — Salisbury’s girls bounced back from Friday’s loss to North Rowan and beat West Davidson 51-40 in a semifinal game in the Central Carolina Conference Tournament.

The third-seeded Hornets (13-9) split with the second-seeded Green Dragons (10-12) during the regular season. West Davidson ended a 45-game losing streak against the Hornets with the win in Tyro, but Salisbury refused to lose the Green Dragons twice in a row.

“We did everything well except shoot free throws,” Salisbury head coach Lakai Brice said. “We played three bigs and played zone. We did a good job against (West Davidson star) Wyatt Cooper. She’s really good, but we held her to 15. Janiyah Fomond did a great job in the middle of the zone.”

Torese Evans scored 19 to spark the Hornets. Mariana Zapata made three 3-pointers and scored 11. Fomond added 10.

Salisbury         16   13   9   13   — 51

W. Davidson   13  11    5   11    — 40

SHS scoring — Evans 19, Zapata 11, Fomond 10, Spruill 7, McNeely 4.

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CONCORD — South Rowan’s season ended quietly with a blowout loss at Robinson in the first round of the South Piedmont Conference Tournament.

The top-seeded Bulldogs rolled 64-23 over the eighth-seeded Raiders (7-16), who lost their last six games.

Camri Hobbs scored 23 points for the Bulldogs (21-4) on 11-for-14 shooting.

South was down 12-0 when Ella Morgan hit a 3-pointer to put the Raiders on the board in the middle of the first quarter. It was 26-4 after a quarter.

Danica Krieg made two 3s and scored eight for the Raiders. Robinson held Kynlee Dextraze to two points, but she finished her career with more than 900.

South Rowan     4    7   2   10  — 23

Robinson           26  14  14  14  — 64

SOUTH scoring — Krieg 8, Fisher 4, White 4, Morgan 3, Dextraze 2, Pharr 2.

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CONCORD — Carson came close to upsetting Northwest Cabarrus on the last night of the regular-season, but the Cougars ran into a much more intense and focused group of Trojans in the first round of the South Piedmont Conference Tournament.

The second-seeded Trojans (20-4) used aggressive defense to pound the seventh-seeded Cougars 52-31.

Northwest jumped out to a 12-1 lead before Laila Furr made Carson’s first field goal. about a minute into the second quarter.

The lead was 21-3 before Julia Burleson made Carson’s first 3-pointer.

Northwest led 22-8 at the half and cruised from there. Mackenzie Ortscheid scored 19 for the Trojans.

Carson (6-19) got 11 points from Allie Martin and nine from Rylee Hedrick.

Carson   1    7    12   11    — 31

NWC     10  12  13    17   — 52

CARSON scoring — Martin 11, Hedrick 9, Burleson 5, Furr 4, Benfield 2.

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HARRISBURG — Seventh-seeded A.L. Brown ended a 4-21 season with a 76-18 loss at second-seeded Hickory Ridge in the first round of the Greater Metro Conference Tournament.

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HUNTERSVILLE — Myajan Nix scored 20 points to lead fifth-seeded Central Cabarrus to a 62-51 win against fourth-seeded Lake Norman Charter in the first round of the SPC Tournament.

Abby Courtney scored 22 for the Knights.

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LEXINGTON — Lily Ervin scored 17 points to lead top-seeded Lexington to a 56-47 win against fourth-seeded East Davidson in a CCC Tournament semifinal.