Coach Seth Baxter and his Southwestern Randolph team have stayed unblemished going into late January. (PJ Ward-Brown / Randolph Record)
MT. PLEASANT — There were just a smattering of games last week in the area, but the Southwestern Randolph girls’ basketball team made the most of outings on back-to-back days.
Southwestern Randolph won 39-33 in Saturday’s non-conference game at Mount Pleasant to remain undefeated.
Jordin George posted 11 points and Maddie Strider had 10 points for the Cougars, who improved to 17-0.
Southwestern Randolph overcame a 20-16 halftime hole by outscoring Mount Pleasant 15-5 in the third quarter. The Tigers dropped to 9-8.
It was a season-low point total for the Cougars and marked the first team other than Randleman (twice) to hold Southwestern Randolph to fewer than 50 points.
On Friday night in the Piedmont Athletic Conference, Southwestern Randolph defeated visiting Trinity 61-28 with Macy Allred and Kenzie Martin each providing 14 points and George notching 13 points.
Weather-related schedule adjustments resulted in a limited number of games last week.
** Randleman secured a 48-42 road victory against Wheatmore with Bella Byman providing 21 points and Gracie Beane adding 13 points.
** Uwharrie Charter Academy claimed a key 44-33 victory against visiting Providence Grove in a matchup of teams trying to stay in contention in the PAC. Nevaeh Staples had 19 points for the Eagles.
UCA and Randleman enter this week tied for second place in the PAC.
** Eastern Randolph defeated visiting Faith Christian 52-29 in a non-conference outing to end a three-game losing streak.
** Asheboro came close to winning for the first time in Mid-Piedmont Conference play but fell 48-47 to visiting Montgomery Central despite nine points from Adalynn Scherer.
