A Game for the Ages Tonight at Southwest Guilford High School…Darrell Howze was “In the House” with 40 POINTS for the SWG Cowboys…..
You just don’t see games like this every day/night…The Southwest Guilford Cowboys’ Darrell Howze had a game for the ages on Tuesday evening at “The Ranch”…Howze was tearing down “The House”, that Guy Shavers, the Langley Brothers, and Coach Greg Vlazny built, with Darrell Howze leading Southwest Guilford over Wesleyan Christian Academy, 83-69, and this victory gave the SWG Cowboys the Men’s 2025 Sheetz Holiday Invitational Basketball Tournament Championship….Howze got help from Braylen Gatling who added 21 points, and Wesley Oxce pumped in 13 to pace the SWG Cowboys…
All Tournament Team for the Men from the Title Game….
Darrell Howze(Southwest Guilford) MVP
Braylen Gatling(Southwest Guilford)
Wesley Oxce(Southwest Guilford)
Tyson Thompson(Wesleyan Christian Academy)
RJ Morning(Wesleyan Christian Academy)
Nick Keith(Wesleyan Christian Academy)
Game Flow:End of First Quarter:WES 18, SWG 15…Halftime:SWG 37, WES 37…End of Third Quarter:SWG 54, WES 48…Final:SWG 83, WES 69
SWG Scoring:Howze 40 points, Gatling 21 points, Oxce 13 points, Watkins 4, Hall 3, Martin 2…
WES Scoring:Nick Keith 18, Whitsett 17, Thompson 16, Hancock 9, Morning 4, Young 3
Let’s go with the Darrell Howze line from the game….2-2-1-1-2-1-1-2-2-1-2-3-3-2-2-2-1-1-1-2-2-1-1-1-1…..
Women’s Championship Game:
Oak Grove 42, Northwest Cabarrus 34
Oak Grove(11-0)
End of First Quarter:Oak Grove 8, NW Cabarrus 7…Halftime:NW Cabarrus 20, Oak Grove 18, End of Third Quarter:Oak Grove 33, NW Cabarrus 27…Final:Oak Grove 42, NW Cabarrus 34
Men’s Third Place Game:
Western Guilford 71, Thomasville 52
Halftime:WG 31, T’ville 23…End of Third Quarter:WG 55, T’ville 38…Final:WG 71, T’ville 52
WG All Tournament Team:
Seth Harris and Jayce Williams….Congrats to ALL….
Women’s Third Place game:
SW Guilford 65 over WCA 62
More on the way….
2025 All-Tournament Team Girls:
5th Place
1- Ja’mya Bodie Ragsdale
2- Aaliya Bodie Ragsdale
4th Place
1- Lexi Powell WCA
2- Blythe Cunningham WCA
3rd Place
1- McKenzie Moore SWG
2- Alyson Webb SWG
2nd Place
1- MacKenzie Conder NW Cabarrus
2- Mackenzie Ortsheid NW Cabarrus
3- Skylar Burton NW Cabarrus
1st Place
MVP Kalin Favrean Oak Grove
2- Emma Hadley Oak Grove
3- Victoria Lockamy Oak Grove
2025 All-Tournament Team Boys
6th Place
1- Tylen Goode Southern Guilford
5th Place
1- Josiah Hill HP Central
2- Isaiah Lockhart HP Central
4th Place
1- Jay Jackson Thomasville
2- Zy’iveon Holmes Thomasville
3rd Place
1- Seth Harris Western Guilford
2- Jayce Williams Western Guilford
2nd Place
1- Tyson Thompson Wesleyan Christian Academy
2- Nick Keith Wesleyan Christian Academy
3- RJ Morning Wesleyan Christian Academy
1st Place
MVP Darrell Howze Southwest Guilford
2- Wesley Oxce Southwest Guilford
3- Braylen Gatling Southwest Guilford
**********From our GreensboroSports.com archives we look back at the history of high-scoring games from Southwest Guilford Cowboys…Old saying goes from Terrell Leach, that “You reach, Leach will teach”…..
Terrell Leach had several high-scoring games at Southwest Guilford (SWG), including a 54-point outburst in the 2012 Sheetz Holiday Classic and another game with 40 points in February 2013, leading the Cowboys to victories while averaging around 30 points per game for his senior season and earning national recognition as a top scorer before moving on to a successful college career at Virginia Union, where he continued to score big, even dropping 42 points in a college game.
from GreensboroSports on February 2, 2020…..
You reach, Leach will teach!!! Terrell Leach(Southwest Guilford HS) goes for 42 points and leads Virginia Union past St. Augustine’s, 82-67
/ College, High School / By Andy Durham
Virginia Union got 42 points from Terrell Leach(Southwest Guilford High School), as the Panthers topped St. Augustine’s 82-67. This mark’s Leach’s third straight game with at least 30 points. He leads the CIAA with 23.7 points per game.
from the Virginia Union University athletics website:CLICK HERE to see #0, Terrell Leach, from Southwest Guilford High School……
Leach Scores 42 in Win Over St. Augustine’s
Virginia Union University’s Terrell Leach became the first Panther men’s basketball player since A.J. English to score 40 or more points in a single game when he tallied 42 in VUU’s 82-67 win over Saint Augustine’s University on Monday, February 3, at Barco-Stevens Hall in Richmond, Va.
A.J. English was the last VUU men’s player to accomplish the feat, scoring 54 points against Saint Augustine’s on February 8, 1990.
Leach’s 42 points also propelled him to atop the scoring leaders for the CIAA. Leach is now averaging 23.7 points per game while his closest competitor, Ray Roger of Livingstone College, is averaging 22.9 points per game.
“That was one of the best scoring performance I’ve witnessed as a player and a coach here at Virginia Union,” said VUU Head Men’s Basketball Coach Jay Butler. “Terrell was unbelievable tonight. He was very efficient from the free throw line, three point line, and his overall field goal percentage was excellent. I just told him to keep attacking and good things will happen. We wanted to get more scoring in the lineup, so we started Tyriek Railey tonight. He got us off to a good start, offensively knocking down shots. I think the key to the win was that our defense stepped up, holding them to 30 points in the second half. When we play defense we are a very good basketball team.”
More archives, and from December 29, 2012 and back when SWG Cowboys coach Greg Vlazny was writing the Game Reports for us….
Greg Vlazny with Game Report on SWG over WG 98-97, Terrell Leach 54 points and Southwest Guilford stands at (11-0)
Courtesy of Greg Vlazny Southwest Guilford High School:
The Sheetz Holiday Classic Championship game featured the Hornets of
Western Guilford facing off the hosting Cowboys of Southwest Guilford.
This title game is actually the 3rd time these teams faced off this
season, with the Cowboys winning both previous matchups handily. But,
you play games on the court, and not on paper. Western earned a spot
in the title game by winning consecutive 2 point victories over Myers
Park, and then Southern Alamance. The Cowboys won their way into the
title game by beating Westchester Country Day, and then squeaking past
High Point Central.
Could the Cowboys keep their season unblemished?
Could the Hornets find a way to lasso the hosts the third time around?
What a game it turned out to be.
From buzzer to buzzer it was a
tremendous dog fight. After the first quarter Southwest lead 24-19.
The tide seemed to favor the Cowboys, but every time the lead was
spread out to double digits, the Hornets had an answer. Going into the
half the Cowboys were up 44-35. The third quarter was the same dog
fight as each teams traded lengthy runs, with Western out scoring the
Cowboys in the frame making it 64-57 in favor of SW. For the second
straight night the fourth quarter was full of drama. The Hornets came
out and grinded all the way back to tie it at 73 with 3:38 to go. 5
lead changes 3 lead changes lead to an outstanding finish. Western
went up 80-78 with just under 2 minutes to play. 40 seconds later the
Cowboys responded. The Cowboys scored 5 more points to go up 85-80
with a minute to play. But the Hornets still had one more sting. A
deep three cut the deficit, and after 2 missed free throws, Western
scored a basket at the buzzer to take the game into overtime tied at
85. In the extra period, Southwest’s Terrell Leach showed why he was
the tournament MVP, scoring 8 of the teams 13 points. The game changer
was a thunderous dunk over a would be defender which gave the Cowboys
the lead for good at 92-91. Riding the momentum from that the Cowboys
were able to hold off the Hornets, who scored a tip in at the buzzer
to make the final tally 98-97. The Hornets were lead by Quinton Miller
(27), Carmoni Marks (26). Southwest was lead by Terrell Leach with 54,
5 Rebs, 2 Asts, 2 Blks, 2 Stls, Antonio Banks with 12, 6 Rebs, and
Tyliek Brister with 9, 2 Asts, 5 Rebs, 3 Stls. Another gritty win
makes the Cowboys the Sheetz Holiday Classic Champions at 11-0.