Staff report

GRANITE QUARRY — Drew Neve scored a career-best 30 points as Carson’s boys basketball team beat East Rowan 85-51 on Friday.

The sophomore can score in the paint or from the 3-point line. His previous high was 26 points.

“Holy cow! Drew was that guy,” East coach Trey Ledbetter said. “We actually played pretty well until the fourth quarter. Then it was an onslaught of 3s from Jacob Mills and Jonah Drye.”

CP Perry, the other member of Carson’s high-scoring foursome, didn’t play a lot. He got in foul trouble and sat for a while, and then he banged knees with a Mustang when he returned. With a tough game coming up on Saturday against Hickory Ridge, he sat down after that.

But the Cougars (6-1, 3-1) still romped in the South Piedmont Conference game, putting up 85 points, even with Perry only scoring two. Drye made six 3-pointers and scored 21. Mills scored 19. Neve was unstoppable.

Brody Thomas scored 15 for the Mustangs. East perked up some from a disappointing 37-32 loss at West Davidson on Wednesday. That West Davidson game had looked like a potential first win for the Mustangs (0-6, 0-4).

Carson    16   21   20   28   — 85

East         7      17    15    12   — 51

Carson — Neve 30, Drye 21, Mills 19, Kluttz 5, Covington 3, Hales 3, Perry 2, Martin 2.

East — Thomas 15, Reid 9, Bradley 7, Ailshie 7, Shive 4, Lino 4, Blakeney 3, Butler 2.