NCHSAA 3-A Championship games
At Lawrence Joel Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem
BOYS
Central Cabarrus 90, Seventy-First 62
Central Cabarrus entered Friday’s NCHSAA 3-A boys basketball title game with some impressive credentials. It wasn’t long before their opponent, Seventy-First, learned they were more than legitimate.
The Vikings scored the game’s first 10 points and never allowed Seventy-First to turn it into a contest, rolling to a 90-62 win for their second consecutive 3-A title.
The victory was also Central’s 65th in a row, the longest current active winning streak in the country.
Central finished the season with a 33-0 record. Seventy-First wound up 28-3.
Four players reached double figures for Central. Josh Dalton had 22, Desmond Kent Jr. 20, Chase Daniel 14 and Carson Daniels 13.
Seventy-First’s leaders were Jacquez Foster with 15, Mylon Campbell 14 and DeAndre Nance 12.
GIRLS
West Rowan 64, Terry Sanford 52
Terry Sanford battled defending state 3-A champion West Rowan evenly for three quarters Friday, but in the final period the Falcons used their experience to pull away for a 64-52 win as they claimed their second straight state title.
West Rowan finished the season 31-1 and has only lost once in the last two seasons.
The Bulldogs ended the year 26-6.
Terry Sanford held the lead for nearly 17 minutes of the game to only eight minutes for West Rowan. The scored was tied nearly seven minutes.
The good news for the Bulldogs is they will return four of the five starters in Friday’s game, losing only senior Rebecca Kaba.
Breonna Roaf and Ameya Brown were the only Terry Sanford players in double figures against West Rowan, Roaf getting 18 and Brown 17.
West Rowan also had three double-figure scorers, Tiara Thompson with 18, Lauren Arnold with 17 and Emma Clarke with 13. Arnold and Clarke also dominated rebounding with 17 and 12 respectively.
Terry Sanford led at halftime 29-27, but West Rowan won the second half, outscoring the Bulldogs 14-9 in the third period and 23-14 in the fourth.
