Senior Kenzie Martin has been a key player for Southwestern Randolph’s undefeated girls’ basketball team this season. (Randolph Record)
Southwestern Randolph’s girls’ basketball team finished an undefeated regular season as one of the area highlights for going into next week’s conference tournaments.
There’s still plenty to sort out with conference tournaments.
Because of weather-related concerns for next week, the Mid-Piedmont Conference Tournament has been reduced to include only the top four teams instead of all six. Semifinals are set for Monday with the title games Tuesday night at Central Davidson.
That means the Asheboro’s girls, who tied for fifth place, are left out of the tournament.
In the Piedmont Athletic Conference, the tournament semifinals were moved to Tuesday night (instead of Wednesday). The rest of the slate remained in place with the girls’ championship game slated for Thursday night at Southwestern Randolph and the boys’ title game Friday night at Randleman.
Here are some notables from last week’s regular-season games:
Boys’ basketball
Randleman concluded a 21-1 regular season with Thursday’s 81-46 romp at Trinity in a PAC game.
The Tigers went 11-1 in league play.
Chase Farlow poured in 26 points against Trinity, while Jireh Pride had 15 and Pacey Wagner posted 13.
Earlier in the week, Randleman upended visiting Ledford 64-55 with Farlow scoring 18 points and Connor Cassidy adding 16 points.
** Eastern Randolph finished second in the PAC with three victories last week, topping visiting Uwharrie Charter Academy 83-63, rolling past visiting Trinity 91-47 and winning 89-62 at Providence Grove.
The Wildcats, who notched a 10-2 record in PAC play, take a five-game winning streak to the conference tournament.
Eastern Randolph’s Timothy Brower pumped in 30 points and Will Stalker had 23 points against Trinity, which received 20 points from Zy’iveon Holmes. Brower had 28 points in the Providence Grove game to counter Will Dabbs’ 26 points for the Patriots.
** Wheatmore received 25 points from Parker Kines and 22 points from Walker Stepp in a 63-46 victory against visiting Uwharrie Charter Academy.
** UCA overcame host Southwestern Randolph 71-68 in overtime with Braeden Lamb’s 19 points leading the way, while Jayden DeNamur and Aaron Smith both had 15 points. The Cougars rallied from 15 down in the fourth quarter but couldn’t complete the task.
** Providence Grove’s 71-54 road victory against Wheatmore came with 21 points from Will Dabbs and 19 points from Andrew Thomas, while Kines had 16 points for the Warriors. The Patriots earlier dropped a 71-62 decision to visiting Burlington Williams despite Thomas’ 21 points and Stephen Beeson’s 14 points and 10 rebounds.
** Osiris Rodriguez scored 26 points as Asheboro won 62-53 at home against North Davidson to finish in fourth place in the Mid-Piedmont Athletic Conference. That followed the Blue Comets’ 87-34 road rout of Montgomery Central.
Girls’ basketball
Maddie Strider had 23 points when Southwestern Randolph defeated visiting UCA 64-39 for a four-game cushion in the PAC standings.
The Cougars also had a 55-31 home victory against East Davidson in non-conference play as Strider had 19 points and Jordin George notched 15 points.
** Providence Grove was the second-place team in the PAC, defeating host Wheatmore 49-48 as Lauren Bernhardt supplied 23 points and stopping visiting Eastern Randolph 55-36 with Bernhardt racking up 20 points.
** Randleman and UCA shared third place at 7-5 in the PAC.
Randleman ended the regular season by winning 55-37 at Trinity. Randleman edged visiting Ledford 48-43 in a non-league game behind Jacquline McDaniel’s 17 points and Gracie Beane’s 15 points.
** Wheatmore knocked off visiting UCA 48-41 despite 13 points for the Eagles’ Lainey Thomas.
** Asheboro defeated visiting North Davidson 37-31 to avoid solo occupancy of last place in the Mid-Piedmont Conference.
