High School Basketball Tonight Finals as Round One of the NCHSAA Playoffs gets running:SG runs past Alexander Central with a balanced “Storm Front”/Other scores coming your way and get your Mad Marchness #’s in here!!!

Let’s everybody start getting those scores on here….We have been hustling and we have all of our the Guilford County scores up here for you brothers and sisters…We are set with Round One and now on to Round Two…..Let’s get it…

Final from Southern Guilford High School, “Home of the Storm”
Round One of the NCHSAA Basketball Playoffs:
Southern Guilford boys 76, Alexander Central 41
SG(22-4)/AC(17-10)
End of 1st Q:SG 16, AC 11…Halftime:SG 34, AC 19…End of 3rd Q:SG 55, AC 30…Final:SG 76, AC 41…
The Southern Guilford Storm will play the Hickory-Asheboro winner on Thursday night at Hickory if Hickory won and at SG, if Asheboro came out the winner tonight…

SG Scoring for tonight:Jimmy Cooper 20 points with 5 three’s…Tyler Dearman with 17 points with 3 three’s…TJ McMaster with 14 points and two three’s…Julius Burch with 12 points…Adnan Aurangzeb with 6 points…Chris Tucker with 4 points…Roman Johnson with 2 points, and Myles Crisp with 1 points…All for the Southern Guilford Storm…

Alexander Central Cougars scoring tonight:
Jem Lowrance with 17 points for the Cougars…Dalton Stikeleather with 7 points…Dawson Elder had 3, Maddox Kerley had 3, Jaden Chapman had 3, Lucas Walker with 3, Jamison Benfield with 3 points, and Dawson Elder with 2 for the Cougars…..

Comments from SG Storm Coach Evan Fancourt….
Coach Evan Fancourt said the reason Southern Guilford won was due to the pace of the game…”We kept up the defensive pressure and that dictated the ‘pace of the game” to our advantage”….

Expectations for the next round on Thursday…”We will see and feel a ‘sense of urgency’…In Round One there is such a quick turn-around from last week’s conference tournament, and you don’t have much time to dwell on the one game, you just play the Round One ball game and roll….For Thursday game, you start to feel some of the urgency of what this tournament is all about”…..

The Balance we see in your team these days…It used to be almost like a two-man game of Dearman and Burch…Now you have those two and McMaster and Cooper and everybody dealing out there…Coach Fancourt said, “The key is balance, get everybody involved and get each other baskets”……

Is the Southern Guilford court a regulation-size high school basketball court??? You make it look like it is Middle School court, the way your team plays defense out there…”We get up there quick on defense”…”We have to be active off of the ball, and force the opposition to make tough decisions”….”We are a very unselfish team and we work together to get up in those passing lanes quick on defense, work to get the steal and then finish on the offensive end, in transition”…

Coach Fancourt also told us the young man that suffered the concussion a few weeks back at Eastern Guilford, Brandon Ruffin, is back and full strength now for the SG Storm….Tom Palumbo, Guilford College Quakers head coach, and Ronnie Thomas, the Quakers top assistant, were the game tonight checking out the SG Storm…..

Halftime score:Eastern Guilford boys 36, Person County 32
EG boys now up 58-44 end of 3rd Q…..Now a final:EG 77, Person County 64
Last check Grimsley and HP Central boys all tied up at 51-all with 3:27 left in the game at HPC…
Grimsley boys and High Point Central’s boys tied at 57, going into Overtime…
Grimsley boys win 69-64 over High Point Central in Overtime….

Finals:
Grimsley boys 69, High Point Central 64…..Overtime
Grimsley boys now (12-14) and on to Round Two of the NCHSAA Playoffs…

Southwest Guilford boys 87, Watauga 30
SWG boys now (27-0) and on to Round Two of the NCHSAA on Thursday night at home on “The Ranch”…

Eastern Guilford boys 77, Person County 64
EG now (19-9) and on to Round Two…
Eastern Guilford scoring:Nick Cheeley with 20 points, Kamel Smith with 15, Nathan White with 10, Kaden Dawkins with 10, Dylan Spencer with 6 and Justin Matthews with 4 points…

Ben L. Smith boys 59, Sun Valley 55…..Overtime
Smith boys now (14-12) and on to Round Two of the playoffs….

Dudley boys 63, Harnett Central 56
Dudley boys improve to (16-11) and move on to NCHSAA Round Two…
Dudley girls 41, Northwood 35
Dudley girls now (22-4) and on to Round Two on Thursday….

Southeast Guilford girls 57, Chapel Hill 29
SEG girls now (23-3) and on to Round Two…

High Point Central girls 50, Jack Britt 46 OT
HP Central girls now (19-7) and on to Round Two…

High Point Andrews girls 44, North Pitt 34
HPA girls now (20-6) and on to Round Two of the playoffs….

Havelock girls 61, Eastern Guilford 38
EG closes the season at (19-9)

Jacksonville girls 65, Northeast Guilford 53
NEG closes the season at (8-16)

Carson girls 63, Southern Guilford girls 46
SG girls season ends at (10-14)

North Gaston 54, Northern Guilford 45
Two-time Defending NCHSAA 3-A Champs Northern Guilford done for this season, as it ends, (20-8)…Sort of hard to believe, but what a run by the ‘Hawks……….
Southern Lee boys 57, Northern Guilford 39
Northern Guilford boys close the season at (11-15)

Erwin girls 57, Southwest Guilford 32
SWG finishes the season at (11-17)….

Mallard Creek boys 58, Ragsdale 50
RHS completes the season at (13-11)…

Bishop McGuinness boys 63, Mount Airy 53
Bishop boys (19-8) and on to Round Two…
Bishop McGuinness girls 53, North Moore 27
Bishop girls also now (19-8) and they move on to Round Two…

Here are all of the games we are still tracking from tonight…
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