You Heard Me Say It Before and now We Are Saying It Again:”We just saw the Game of the Week, the Game of the Month, and the Game of the Year, on the Middle School Basketball Level”/More Scores

Kiser girls 45, Kernodle 20

Southwest Guilford boys 69, Northwest Guilford 37
SWG(9-0/5-0)/NWG(6-5)
Northwest Guilford girls 38, Southwest Guilford 27
Cooper Cox led NWG girls in scoring with 24 points…
SWG girls(5-4)

Northern Middle Girls 50, Southeast Middle 11
Northern Middle Boys 39, Southeast Middle 18

Mendenhall boys 55, Western Guilford 52
They were down by nine points at the end of the First Quarter, down by nine points at halftime, and still down by nine points at the end of the Third Quarter, and they still came back and won the game…Mendenhall Middle School Mustangs 55, Western Guilford Middle School 52 was the final…Mustangs’ coach Richard Sherman told me before the game that he was missing some players due to the flu, and I told him, “You Still Have Poindexter”, and Asai Poindexter hit for 25 points for Mendenhall and they won the Game of the Week, the Game of the Month, and the Game of the Year, on the Middle School Basketball Level in North Carolina….Poindexter and McKnight led the way for Mendenhall, while Seth Harris and McCullen were tops for the WG Tigers…This was one of those “Game of the Year” moments, tonight at the Western Guilford Middle School Gym…Both teams were outstanding, but in the end, the Mendenhall Mustangs took it home…

In this game, Western Guilford roared out to the early lead, but Seth Harris got into some early-game foul trouble, as he was hit with two fouls in the first period(Harris had four fouls at the end of the third period)…Harris is one of the biggest forces in the post, in Guilford County Middle School basketball..When Harris sat down, McCullen, Hernandez, and Lowe helped WG stay out in front, but Mendenhall stayed within striking distance the entire game, with Poindexter(25 points) and McKnight(19 points) keeping the Mustangs in the ballgame…Harris and McCullen both hit for 19 points each to lead Western….McKnight hit three huge 3’s for Mendenhall…Plus Poindexter proved to be potent at the free throw line, connecting on five(5) key foul shots in the contest…Harris also nailed five(5) big free throws for Western, but he missed a few, he would love to have back…Western lost a key player to an ankle injury late in the contest, as McCullen went out limping, with about 2:30 left in the contest, and never was able to return for the WG Tigers…

Down the stretch, this was THE ballgame, the kind of the game they/we call “the Game of the Week, the Game of the Month, and the Game of the Year” all rolled into one, on the Middle School Basketball Level, here in North Carolina…These kids just coming up with huge shots down the stretch in this contest, and we had lead changes, the score was tied, and the kids just continued to come up BIG on both ends of the court…You won’t see a better ballgame than this one, this season in North Carolina…I will put this one up there with the Northern Guilford Varsity boys Overtime Win over Northwest Guilford, at NWG, a few weeks back…

WG AD Steve Sexton kept the House in Order today at Western Guilford Middle School, and you could have not ordered up a better basketball game than this one…Coach/General Sherman and his Mustang troops deserve a lot of credit for coming back and taking this victory, and our Player of the Game, is Asai Poindexter from Mendenhall Middle School…
(I think we need to go out and catch our breath, after this Boys Middle School Game Today.)

CLICK ON BELOW for our postgame interview with Coach and players…Poindexter and McKnight in here with Coach Sherman, all from Mendenhall..

With Western Guilford Middle School head Coach Beard, after her WG Middle School girls topped the Mendenhall Mustangs…More details from this big WG Tigers win on the way…Final Score for the girls:Western Guilford 23, Mendenhall 15
On our interview, Coach Beard with players Mitchell(11 pts.), and Hunter(9 pts.), the Western Guilford leaders…
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WG girls 23, Mendenhall 15
End of First Quarter:Mendenhall 7, WG 5…Halftime:WG 17, Mendenhall 10…End of Third Quarter:WG 19, Mendenhall 12…Final:WG 23, Mendenhall 15….WG Girls now (6-4/4-2)
WG Scoring:Mitchell 11 points, Hunter 9, McCullen 3
Mendenhall Scoring:Herring 4 points, K. Johnson 4 points, Horton 3, Austin 2, McCullough 2
Mitchell moves the ball well for WG, and Hunter was having a primetime shooting day today, for the Tigers…Hunter told us she has only been playing basketball for around one year…Free throw shooting for the girls is becoming a new fashion…The rub their socks, then adjust their socks, flip their arm toward the basket, like a follow-through, and then they let the shot rip…Hunter hit five big free throws in the game for Western Guilford, and Mitchell put in three FT’s…Hunter does a step back, she dribbles maybe two-to-three times, repeats that same routine again, and then releases the basketball for the Free Throw…

Mendenhall boys 55, WG 52
End of the First Quarter:WG 19, Mendenhall 10…Halftime:WG 33, Mendenhall 24…End of the Third Quarter:WG 43, Mendenhall 34…Mendenhall stayed down by nine points at the end of each period…Final:Mendenhall 55, WG 52…WG Boys now (5-5/3-3)
Mendenhall Scoring:Poindexter 25 points, McKnight 19, Lynch 2, Poole 2, Penderleith 2, Dawkins 2, Cruz 1
Western Guilford Scoring:Harris 19 points, McCullen 19 points, and others on the way…
(We could write more about this Mendenhall-Western Guilford boys game, because like we were saying earlier, this was “The Game of the Week, The Game of the Month, and The Game of the Year”, all rolled into one.)

Middle School Basketball Today(2/2/2023) in Guilford County
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Penn Griffin at Allen Jay Prep girls at 4:45/boys at 6pm
Welborn at Ferndale girls at 4:45/boys at 6pm
Allen at Hairston girls at 4:45/boys at 6pm
Swann at Jackson girls at 4:45/boys at 6pm…Monday:Jackson girls 46, Allen 35
Southeast Guilford at Northern Guilford girls at 4:45/boys at 6pm
Eastern Guilford at Northeast Guilford girls at 4:45/boys at 6pm
Jamestown-OFF Jamestown girls at (9-1) on the season…
Southern Guilford-OFF
The Academy at Lincoln-OFF

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Bragain Rights Tournaments (AAU)
6TH-8TH GRADE TOURNAMENTS (1)

Fundamentals Over Everything (F.O.E.)
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Roots Rockin Academy (Training Brochure)
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