29th Annual Sheetz Christmas Classic Basketball Tournament for Monday at Southwest Guilford HS:
BOYS
Seventh Place Game: Seaforth vs. NCLA/North Carolina Leadership Academy 1:30pm in Annex Gym
Seaforth over NCLA/Score not available…
Fifth Place Game: Western Guilford(8-3) vs. Davie(8-2) 1:30pm..Jim Coggins Gym
Final: Davie 64, Western Guilford 40
Third Place Game: High Point Central(7-2) vs. Southwest Guilford(5-4) 4:30pm..Coggins Gym
Final: Southwest Guilford 75, High Point Central 73
Championship Game: High Point Christian Academy(11-4) vs. Wesleyan Christian Academy(9-6) 7:30pm…Coggins Gym
Final: Wesleyan Christian Academy 57, High Point Christian Academy 41
**********WES 2024 Sheetz Christmas Classic Champions**********
from the WES-HPCA Men’s Championship Game….
End of the First Quarter:WES 18, HPCA 11…Halftime:WES 25, HPCA 22…End of the Third Quarter:WES 47, HPCA 36….Final:WES 57, HPCA 41…
WES scoring:Jasean Williams 15 points, Zacch Wiggins 13 points, RJ Morning 11, Nick Keith 7, Quamir Ingram 5, Owen Hancock 3, Owen Augunas 2…
HPCA scoring:Max Van Weerdhuizen 8 points, Toot Clay 8 points, Chris Mitchell 6, Brady Bennett 6, Andre Gyabaah 5, Jeremiah Davis 4, Sonne Williams 4…
GIRLS
Seventh Place Game: Southern Guilford(1-10) vs. High Point Central(0-9) 12 NOON…Annex Gym
Final:Southern Guilford 64, High Point Central 33
Fifth Place Game: Western Guilford(5-6) vs. Northwest Cabarrus(8-2) 12 NOON…Coggins Gym
Final:Northwest Cabarrus 67, Western Guilford 39
Third Place Game: Davie(6-4) vs. Southwest Guilford(7-2) 3pm…Coggins Gym
Final: Davie 53, Southwest Guilford 48
Championship Game: Oak Grove(6-4) vs. Wesleyan Christian Academy(12-2) 6pm…Coggins Gym
Final:Wesleyan Christian Academy 68, Oak Grove 45
**********WES 2024 Sheetz Christmas Classic Champions**********
from that Girls/Women’s Championship Game…End of First Quarter:WES 16, OG 9…Halftime:WES 46, OG 22…End of Third Quarter:WES 60, OG 37…Final:WES 68, OG 45
WES scoring:Sarh Kate Carr 14 points, Taylor Hawley 14 points, Cooper Cox 12, Blythe Cunningham 12, Kennedy Jackson
8, Lexi Powell 3, Hannah Forester 2…
Oak Grove scoring: Cora Hadley 13 points, Katherine Lockamy 12, Kalin Favreau 7, Hailey Ray 4, Ashlyn Grubb 3, Emory Hodge 3, Addie Parrish 2, Savanah Tiller 1…
**********Southwest Guilford 75, High Point Central 73**********
++++++++++With this game we are talking about what looked to me to be the Best Game of the Day/Night…++++++++++
And this was the Third Place Game in the boys/men’s bracket at the 2024 Sheetz Christmas Classic, there at Southwest Guilford High School, there in High Point and inside the Jim Coggins Gym…
When I walked in, the score was like 54-49, with SWG on top of the HP Central Bison, but I quickly learned that with the clock saying right around two minutes remaining, well this was YES two minutes left to play, but we are talking two minutes left to play in the Third Quarter…..This game was tight, and we were in for a battle, as the Third Period came to close, with the score now at 58-51, with the Southwest Guilford Cowboys in front…
But the best was yet to come…SWG had no trouble grabbing a two-point lead over HP Central, but Central would not let the SWG Cowboys pull away…The HP Central Bison, to their credit, and to the credit of their leader and head coach Josh Prince, the HP Central Bison would not go away….The game was tied up at least three to four times in the last quarter….Every time Southwest would go on top, but by 2 or even more points, Central would battle back and tie the game up again….
For Southwest Guilford, Braden Gatling hit four key, key, key, key, Free Throws down the stretch to help the SWG Cowboys nail down the win….This game was what some people would call a Battle, but this is one of those games that I would call War, and for the SWG Cowboys, it was “Mission Accomplished” as the final horn sounded and the clock hit 0:00…
This game ended, but both of these two teams, SWG and HP Central, both have just begun to lay the groundwork for what could turn out to be outstanding seasons for the Cowboys and the Bison respectively…And boy, how ’bout Them Bison????
Those guys have really showed us great improvement under head Coach Josh Prince…HP Central was playing lost there for a couple of season, and they Lost a load of games, as the weight from their lack of success was wearing them down…Many nights they were defeated before they even hit the court, but not any more….
This HP Central Bison team is a major 3-A contender, and they could end up finishing as high as second place in the Regular Season, in the Mid-State 3-A Conference….Coach Prince has his young men primed, and ready to go…Coach Vlazny has his SWG Cowboys ready also, and they plan on making some noise in the Metro 4-A Conference….
The Mid-State 3-A is Smith’s for the taking, but after the Smith Golden Eagles, it is anybody’s game…The Metro 4-A could go to a number of teams, and Southwest Guilford is right there in thick of things…If Grimsley still had Zacch Wiggins and Nick Keith, to go along with Faizon Brandon, the new Whitsett kid, Kaden Catoe, and the others, I would hate to try and stop that machine, but Wiggins and Keith are locked in at Wesleyan and the Trojans just “Took the Title” there in High Point, at the Sheetz Christmas Classic…
Good lineup of talent there this year, and it should keep getting better, as more kids spread their wings and fly around the county/area in search of the school that will give them the best chance of succeeding at the next level…We always try and level with you, and to be totally honest, the Wesleyan-Greensboro Day boys meetings and the girls meetings too for that matter, those meetings are going to be PRIME TIME…..Coach Prime, Deion Sanders, may want to try and get a seat for those Bengal-Trojan matchups….
According to the notes, GDS and WES have met once already at WES, with the GDS Bengals boys winning that contest, 53-44, in a very low-scoring affair…WES girls topped GDS, 66-58, in a game with plenty of points…Next meeting between GDS and WES, is January 28, at the Greensboro Day School…
Back into that Metro 4-A boys race with the SWG Cowboys in the hunt, and of all teams, Western Guilford is (3-0) and the top team for now, when they get going again next week with Conference action….It would almost be impossible to give a true favorite right now for the Boys this season in the Metro…SWG is at (2-1), along with several other teams, and Western on top, then you got SWG, Grimsley, NWG, Page, Northern, and that’s six teams right there with a chance to win it all for 2024-25…Any of those six could end up being the Metro 4-A Champion, and it could be the Southwest Guilford Cowboys…Ragsdale and Southeast Guilford look to be the two teams not in it for this year…More on the way…
Also from Southwest Guilford on the All-Tournament Team they had Braden Gatling and Darrell Howze…From the High Point Central Bison, it was Josiah Hill and Adonai Tyrance, and both of those young men are juniors for the HP Central Bison….Gatling a sophomore and Howze a freshman for Southwest Guilford…..
Will try and get you folks some MORE content on this post, but like we have said before, we did not have total award-winning content on here tonight, but we did have plenty of it…Like my old farming neighbors used to say on Old Oak Ridge Road, back in the day….All we have out here is Cow Manure, but brothers and sisters, we have plenty of it…”Come and Get It”…..
MORE All-Tournament Members at the Sheetz Christmas Classic:
NW Cabarrus – Lady Trojans
Mackenzie Ortschied
Marisa Furner
Western Guilford Women
Janiya Williams
Davie County War Eagles – men
Elliot Erlandsson
Bryson Mickey
Western Guilford Men
Seth Harris
Women
Davie County – War Eagles
Gracie Shore
Avarie Martin
SWG Cowgirls
Kennedy Leggett
Aleesia Everette
Wesleyan Christian Academy Lady Trojans
MVP Blythe Cunningham
Kennedy Jackson
Taylor Hawley
Oak Grove Lady Grizzlies
Victoria Lockamy
Katherine Lockamy
Cora Hadley
Wesleyan Christian Academy Trojans Men
MVP- Zacch Wiggins
Nick Keith
Jasean Williams
High Point Christian Academy Cougars Men
Jeremiah Davis
Toot Clay
Chris Mitchell
MORE Games:
Northeast Guilford girls(2-7) vs. Orange County(4-6) 11am
Western Alamance girls(8-2) vs. Eastern Alamance(5-6) 3:30pm
Final: Western Alamance 64, Eastern Alamance 53
Caldwell Academy boys(12-7) vs. Raleigh Broughton(8-4) 2pm
Final: Caldwell 63, Broughton 54
High Point Andrews 78, Grace Christian 64
North Stanly 49, CPLA 46
Gate City Holiday Classic at Ben L. Smith HS…
Cardinal Gibbons boys(8-3) at Smith(10-1) 8pm…Gate City Holiday Classic
Also:
NC Good Better Best vs. LAB U 11am
Sun Valley vs. Lead Academy 12:30pm
Mount Tabor vs. Pearl Cohn 2pm
Grace Christian(TN) vs. High Point Andrews 3:30pm
QEA Regional vs. Elevation Prep 5pm
Holly Springs vs. The Burlington School 6:30pm
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: Cardinal Gibbons boys(8-3) at Smith(10-1) 8pm