In the past 10 years Guilford County has sent seven girls teams to the NCHSAA Basketball Championship Games…Dudley, Southwest Guilford, Grimsley, Page, High Point Andrews and this year we have Northwest Guilford and Northern Guilford in the Final Game….Dudley and Southwest Guilford both brought back home Titles(Add High Point Andrews to list of schools that won State Titles) and now on Saturday, Northwest and Northern Guilford will both try and do the same thing….NWG will face the Raleigh Millbrook Wildcats, the same school that Page faced in the Finals back in 2013….Page had Paris Kea, Chelsey Coleman, Debrisha Barnes, Kayla Johnson and Bailey Kargo, but the Pirates came up just bit short(62-56) against the Day sisters and Ryan Flowers from Millbrook….Let’s check out the Northwest Guilford Vikings’ opponent for this Saturday, at the Dean Dome, in Chapel Hill…
MILLBROOK WILDCATS
Overall: 29-2
Conference: 14-0 1st Cap 8 4A
Head Coach: Chris East
Location: Raleigh, NC
Roster
#5 – Kai Crutchfield – Jr*
#10 – Jorjie Wilson – Sr
#11 – Dazia Powell – Jr*
#15 – Zairya West – Jr*
#20 – Raya Coley – So
#22 – Danielle Audain – Sr
#25 – Lauren Braswell – So
#30 – L’Donnisty Granison – Sr
#33 – Alexus Tucker – So
#35 – Jaleesa Dillard – Sr*
#40 – Kiara Rochelle – Jr
#44 – Andreal Bass – Jr
#45 – Sarah Gutierrez – So
#50 – Symone Daniels – So
#55 – Dominique Cross – Sr*
IR – Sis Norman – Jr
* Expected starter
PG – Zairya West – 3rd year Varsity, Cap 8 All-Conference
SG – Kai Crutchfield – 3rd year Varsity, Cap 8 All-Conference
SF – Dazia Powell – 3rd year Varsity, Cap 8 All-Conference
PF – Jaleesa Dillard – 4th year Varsity, Cap 8 All-Conference
C – Dominique Cross – 3rd year Varsity
Millbrook advances to their fourth 4A Girls State Championship in the last six seasons. Between 2011-2013, the Wildcats reached three consecutive championship games, winning it all in 2012, and 2013. They carry a 29-2 record into the Dean E. Smith Center after a 58-51 victory over Hillside in
the regional final, halting the Hornets 27-game winning streak. Dazia Powell and Jaleesa Dillard led a balanced Wildcat attack with ten points each in the regional final win. Coach East and the Wildcats identified last year’s loss in the second round as the driving force behind this year’s Wildcat squad. The team blasted their way through the Cap 8 Conference, a perfect 14-0 on the year winning the regular season and the Conference Tournament.
Four starters named to the All-Conference team are the backbone of the Wildcat team, as they pushed their way past their Wake County rival, Southeast Raleigh in the fourth round 51-47.
*****Millbrook has not lost a game this season to a team from the state of North Carolina….The two losses were to St. Francis(54-40), Georgia and to Lower Richland, South Carolina(43-40)….
Millbrook Schedule/Results
11/19 @ Knightdale 71 – 50 (W)
11/23 @ Apex 59 – 40 (W)
11/24 Fuquay-Varina 67 – 21 (W)
11/28 Hillside 48 – 40 (W)
12/1 East Wake 55 – 53 (W)
12/11 Enloe* 71 – 21 (W)
12/15 @ Wake Forest* 65 – 21 (W)
12/17 Broughton* 70 – 39 (W)
12/18 St. Francis (GA)** 40 – 54 (L)
12/19 Lower Richland (SC)** 40 – 43 (L)
12/21 St. James (SC)** 68 – 33 (W)
1/5 Wakefield* 62 – 38 (W)
1/8 @ Heritage* 53 – 33 (W)
1/15 @ Sanderson* 59 – 13 (W)
1/18 Scotland 63 – 32 (W)
1/20 Leesville Road* 38 – 24 (W)
1/27 Wake Forest* 51 – 12 (W)
1/29 @ Broughton* 60 – 42 (W)
2/2 @ Wakefield* 66 – 34 (W)
2/3 @ Enloe* 74 – 42 (W)
2/5 Heritage* 59 – 53 (W)
2/9 @ Leesville Road* 51 – 32 (W)
2/12 Sanderson* 62 – 21 (W)
2/16 Sanderson# 68 – 38 (W)
2/17 Wakefield# 67 – 43 (W)
2/19 Leesville Road# 51 – 37 (W)
2/23 Northern Durham^ 70 – 26 (W)
2/25 New Hanover^ 69 – 53 (W)
2/27 East Wake^ 56 – 50 (W)
3/1 Southeast Raleigh^ 51 – 47 (W)
3/5 Hillside 58 – 51 (W)
* – denotes Conference Game
** – denotes CresCom Bank Invitational
# – denotes Conference Tournament Game
^ – denotes NCHSAA Playoff Game
Past Championships
Regionals: Last Appearance: 2014; All-time: 7 app. (7-3)
State: All-time – 3 appearances; Record 2-1
Won 2013 (4A) def Page 62-56
Won 2012 (4A) def West Forsyth 57-40
Coach East and Millbrook won back-to-back State Championships in 2012 and 2013 with another powerful squad that included Ryan Flowers and the Day twins, Bria and Briana.
*****On the Guilford County State Championship teams for girls we had Southwest Guilford, Page and Grimsley get there on the 4-A level, Dudley did it as a 3-A team and High Point Andrews goes long at the 2-A level……*****Seven teams total and Guilford County has talent, there is no doubt about that….*****