RANDLEMAN – Randleman’s boys’ basketball team rose to the top among a crowd of contenders in the Piedmont Athletic Conference.
The Tigers clinched the regular-season title last week with a pair of victories.
Randleman won last week’s showdown at Uwharrie Charter Academy by 77-66 with Tyshaun Goldston’s 23 points and Chase Farlow’s 18 points leading the way. That avenged the Tigers’ only loss of the season.
Jaylan Brown had 18 points and Braedan Lamb provided 16 points for UCA.
Then on Friday night, Randleman’s Connor Cassidy had 22 points and Farlow notched 20 points as the host Tigers withstood 25 points apiece from Providence Grove’s Andrew Thomas and Will Dabbs for a 79-61 victory.
So Randleman, regardless of results this week, will hold the top seed for next week’s PAC Tournament.
** Eastern Randolph drilled host Southwestern Randolph 72-50 last week. The Wildcats also topped visiting Jordan-Matthews 68-55 in a non-league game with Timothy Brower scoring 24 point sand Julian Brooks posting 15 points.
** Providence Grove upended visiting Trinity 75-33 with Dabbs providing 26 points.
In a non-league game, Providence Grove topped visiting Southern Alamance 61-59 in overtime with Thomas scoring 24 points and Dabbs racking up 17 points. It marked a sweep of two meetings for Providence Grove.
** Wheatmore drubbed visiting Southwestern Randolph 56-34 behind 20 points from Parker Kines.
** Asheboro had a four-game winning streak snapped with Friday night’s 67-62 loss at Ledford in the Mid-Piedmont Conference. Asheboro guard Elijah Woodle (illness) missed the game.
Earlier last week, the Blue Comets used Osiris Rodriguez’s 21 points in a 66-54 victory against host North Davidson.
Asheboro’s non-conference make-up game at Northwest Guilford was called off Monday.
