High school basketball: South girls smacked by North Stanly
Published 10:30 pm Saturday, December 16, 2023
NEW LONDON — North Stanly’s girls have played a super-friendly schedule so far, but 11-0 is 11-0.
The 11th straight victory for the Comets came on Friday in a non-conference game in which they easily handled South Rowan 49-28 at home.
North Stanly’s 6-foot-1 Shalyn Bell, an active and mobile future college small forward, is the key player for the Comets and was too much for the Raiders. She dominated the glass, swatted shots and scored 23 points.
Bell recently had a game in which she had 42 points and 23 rebounds. She has at least one D-I offer — from North Carolina Central.
North Stanly didn’t make a single 3-pointer, but it didn’t attempt many. The Comets did their scoring point-blank on layups and second-chance stickbacks. The Comets had 21 2-point buckets, with most of them coming in the paint.
The last tie was at 5-all. The Comets led 17-10 after a quarter, and South fell behind 30-12 during a second-quarter offensive drought. Ella Morgan made a shot to close the half to make it 30-14.
South (1-5) got to the line often and made 14 free throws, but only hit six field goals. Because of Bell’s presence, the Raiders never got anything easy.
Hannah Atwell, who scored 12, and Morgan, who scored eight, were the only Raiders to hit field goals, and they had to make tough shots.
Atwell’s two 3-pointers were the only 3s made in the game.
S. Rowan 10 4 7 7 — 28
N. Stanly 17 13 13 6 — 49
SOUTH — Atwell 12, Morgan 8, Dextraze 4, Alston 2, Krieg 1, Fisher 1.