Prep girls: Wheatmore completes league sweep

Wheatmore’s girls’ basketball team won the Central Carolina 3A Conference Tournament championship by defeating second-seeded Providence Grove 54-38 on Friday night at home.

Kaelyn Whitehart’s 21 points led the top-seeded Warriors, while Jocelyn McDowell added 11 points and Kinsley Davis had 10 points.

Wheatmore defeated fourth-seeded East Davidson 46-31 a night earlier as Whitehart posted 17 points.

Providence Grove withstood third-seeded West Davidson for a 55-38 semifinal victory as Adi Johnson poured in 31 points.

Earlier in the week in the completion of the regular season, Wheatmore won 57-31 at West Davidson.

Providence Grove edged host East Davidson 36-32. Trinity rolled past host Thomasville 49-24.

Also, Wheatmore blitzed visiting East Davidson 44-16, while Providence Grove tamed host Trinity 58-37.

Four Rivers Conference

The conference tournament was a one-night event pitting the top two teams, with Northwood defeating visiting and second-seeded Uwharrie Charter Academy 51-37.

Kayla Brown had 11 points for UCA.

Earlier last week, teams played make-up games to finish the regular season.

UCA pulled into a second-place tie by defeating visiting Southwestern Randolph 44-42 with Nevaeh Staples supplying 13 points. Jordin George had 17 points for the Cougars.

UCA also upended visiting Eastern Randolph 63-40 as Staples had 12 points and Lainey Thomas provided 10 points. Callie Craven scored 12 for Eastern Randolph.

UCA also topped host North Moore 65-31 with Erika Ledbetter’s 11 points.

Southwestern Randolph took down visiting Eastern Randolph 69-42 with Nauttica Parrish racking up 27 points. Craven scored 20 for the Wildcats.

Triad Area Athletic Conference

Fourth-seeded Asheboro was eliminated in the conference tournament semifinals with a 50-39 loss to top-seeded Northern Guilford despite Adalynn Scherer’s 24 points.

The Blue Comets won 39-16 against fifth-seeded Northeast Guilford in the quarterfinals as Scherer had 14 points.

Northern Guilford was the champion, defeating Eastern Guilford 53-32 in the final.

Asheboro finished the regular season at the beginning of last week with a 46-26 road loss to Eastern Guilford.

Piedmont Athletic Conference

Randleman’s regular season ended with a 63-28 bashing of visiting High Point Central on Thursday.

Earlier in the week, the Tigers absorbed a 41-29 road loss to Montgomery Central and suffered a 48-44 loss to visiting Central Davidson/

There was no conference tournament.