Mid-State 3-A Conference at Southern Guilford High School:
#1 Seed Smith girls(23-2) face the #2 Seed Dudley Panthers(19-7) TONIGHT at Southern Guilford HS for the Mid-State 3-A Confernece Tournament Championship….You will be able to hear the game on GreensboroSports Radio 2, with Demetri Morrison on the call…Morgan Smith, Drayton-Gill, Williams, Morales, Woods, London Haith, Calecia DeBerry, Rutledge, you can say that Smith goes a very strong eight deep, and they call go with at least four more players who can see playing too, on any given night…
Dudley strong with Adriana Moses, Kimora Haith, Jewel Pass, Raelyn Baker, Nadia Vonreichbauer, Heaven Cooper, Jalyn Taylor, Kami Jackson…And that is Dudley’s top eight(8) right there for you…For Dudley, they are top-heavy at guard, which means they have plenty of guards, but Smith has Morgan Smith, and she is the Big Dog…Hard to get anything past her….She is on her watch and she is not allowing anything at all to go by her spot on the court…Her defense and Drayton-Gill’s speed are two key components for Ben L. Smith….
Dudley may to try to run, and then if that doesn’t work it may be time to go inside and pound the ball upwards to HEAVEN…Heaven Cooper and get Kami Jackson slashing to the bucket too…
Game Broadcast on GreensboroSports Radio 2 with Demetri Morrison….LIVE action and the Game Rewind/Replay to follow…
#2 Seed Smith Golden Eagles boys(21-4) vs. #1 Seed Southern Guilford Storm(25-1) TONIGHT at Southern Guilford High School…Game time will be 7:30pm, and you can listen to/hear the game with Demetri Morrison, on GreensboroSports Radio 2…Mid-State 3-A Boys Conference Championship Game…Smith made fairly quick work of Dudley, in Thursday night’s semifinal game at Smith HS…89-74 with Smith over Dudley, but the halftime score was Smith 51, Dudley 29…
Gage Lattimore and Kenny Miller Jr. very strong for Smith on Thursday night, and it is hard to gauge how far Gage Lattimore will go as he enters his own personal Lattitude…When Gage gets the three-pointers falling, he is hard to slow down…Get Gage off of his spot, and maybe a different story…
SG defeated both Smith and Dudley in the regular season, and Southern ran away from Smith in the meeting between the Eagles and the Storm, at Southern Guilford…SG topped Rockingham County 63-50 in the Storm’s semifinal game, and SG trailed The ROCK at halftime, by 7 points….
Southern can not afford to come out flat like that versus the Golden Eagles from Smith…The ROCK was killing three’s and Mr. Lattimore, has more 3s from his Lattitude than nearly every other kid in the County…Jamias Ferere, Jy Dawkins, and Jucarie Love are the J3 SG, and take it from me, you have to see how good those three can be at SG in 2023-2024…
The bodies will be a banging, there will be legs running all up-and-down that SG gym floor…And these boys, both Eagles and Storm, like to skip the Storm Door, and go right through the Front Door, to the Back Door, and in-between, they want to tear The House down…
Smith with Lattimore, Miller Jr., Jaylon Bumpass, Cowan, Mann, Leak, Palmore, and Johnson, with Smith going strong with those eight fellows…J3 SG will look to Franklin Brown, Tobias Hill, and Zy McGee for help and Southern is just not as deep as Smith is…SG has lung power, and they will need it, and need to use it tonight…
Only loss this season for SG was a loss a long time ago, to the Caldwell Academy Eagles, and I do believe that one was a three-point defeat for the Storm…One loss on the season, and half of Smith’s four losses came from the Southern Guilford Storm…
Ferere, Dawkins and Love will be forced to put up their BEST performance of the season tonight, and if they don’t have it, Smith will take this game and win with them, back to the Southside, on South Holden Road….
Game can be heard LIVE and Rewind/Replay, with Demetri Morrison on GreensboroSports Radio…
Metro 4-A Tournament at Northern Guilford High School:
Northern Guilford(25-1) vs. Southeast Guilford(17-9) for the Girls/Womens Championship TONIGHT at 6pm, at Northern Guilford High School…SEG defeated Page in Round One 63-60, and then the SEG Falcons upset #3 Seed Northwest Guilford back on Tuesday evening, 52-48…Southeast is flying high right now, and they are the upstart Falcons of 2024….
These three photos sort set the tone for Northern girls basketball:
https://twitter.com/NGHSWBK/status/1760701324058874217
https://twitter.com/NGHSWBK/status/1760692500098867432
https://twitter.com/NGHSWBK/status/1760307000250880172
They sort of have a Big-Three Deal going at NG with, Jasmine Harris, Malena DeLisa, and Leena McField…SEG with Morgan Odom, Jasmine Riggs, Sophie Stevens, and Logan Erhardt, feel like they have found a Big Four, and not the North Carolina, Duke, N.C. State, and Wake Forest big four forms…
Tonight at 7:30pm, you’ll find the Grimsley boys(20-5) vs. the Southwest Guilford Cowboys at (21-5) for the Metro 4-A Conference Championship in the final game for this week, at Northern Guilford High School…The two teams split during the regular season with Grimsley winning at SWG, 81-68, and Southwest winning at Grimsley, 80-72…SWG on an offensive tear in recent games, going with 80, 91, 93, and 91 points scored over the Cowboys last four games…SWG averaging 88.7 points per game, over the Cowboys’ last four games….Grimsley with an extra large win over Page, back on Wednesday night…Richard Goods and Nick Keith sparked the Whirlies to that victory over the Page Pirates…
Also on the plate you have:
Mid-State 2-A Championship Game:
#1 High Point Andrews Red Raiders girls(20-4) vs. McMichael(13-8) 6pm
#1 Reidsville boys(22-0) vs. Walkertown(21-5) 7:30pm
Northwest Piedmont 1-A Conference Tournament Championship Game:
#1 Bishop McGuinness girls(21-4) at Leadership Academy(15-8) 6pm
#1 Bishop McGuinness boys(23-3) at CPLA/Leadership Academy(18-9) 7:30pm
Bishop Boys plat College Preparatory and Leadership Academy (CPLA) at 7:30pm