From staff reports

Tuesday games …

HUNTERSVILLE — Mary Church scored a career-high 30 points to lead East Rowan’s girls to a 72-56 South Piedmont Conference win at Lake Norman Charter.

East (11-2, 4-2) got its ninth straight win.

The Mustangs scored 43 points in the second half.

“Slow start and we were down one at the half, but we responded well in the second half,” East coach Bri Evans said.

Sadie Featherstone scored 12 for the Mustangs. Kady Collins had 10. Eight Mustangs scored, as East moved ahead of Lake Norman Charter (8-5, 4-3) in the league standings.

East   15    14   23    20  — 72

LNC   15   15    14     12   — 56

EAST SCORING — Church 30, Featherstone 12, Collins 10, Kluttz 6, Smith 5, Wise 4, Stepp 3, Miller 2.

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SALISBURY — Lexington beat Salisbury 62-56 in overtime in a battle for first place in the Central Carolina Conference.

Very tough game,” Salisbury coach Lakai Brice said. “We had them, but we let it go.”

The Hornets (7-5, 3-1) dominated early and led 15-4 after a quarter. Salisbury’s lead was 26-13 at halftime.

But the Yellow Jackets had a big advantage in the third quarter to get back in it.

It was a see-saw fourth quarter. Salisbury needed two free throws by Torese Evans with 1.6 seconds left to force overtime at 50-all.

Evans scored 26, one short of her career high, to lead the Hornets. She was 11-for-17 at the foul line. She got nine of her points in the first quarter as Salisbury jumped ahead.

Young post player Janiyah Fomond, who had three buckets in the third quarter, had a career game with 16 points. She fouled out early in the overtime session, and that hurt the Hornets.

Lexington (11-1, 4-0) got 19 points from Kakayla Bobo and 15 from Lily Ervin.

Lexington   4     9    20     17    12   — 62

Salisbury    15   11    11     13      6     — 56

SHS scoring — Evans 26, Fomond 16, Fatovic 8, Zapata 3, Pearson-Hasty 2, Myers 1.

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SPENCER — West Davidson (4-10, 1-2) won 66-63 at North Rowan in a Central Carolina Conference game despite huge efforts by Krisstyle Stockton and Dasia Elder.

Stockton had a career game for the Cavaliers (2-7, 1-3)  with 25 points, 11 rebounds and five steals.

Elder had a season-high 20 points and added five rebounds, five assists, three blocks and three steals.

Allanah McArthur had eight points and nine rebounds.

NORTH scoring — Stockton 25, Elder 20, McArthur 8, Mason 4, Conner 4, Oglesby-Peck 2.

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MOUNT ULLA — Central Cabarrus used a big fourth quarter to pull away from West Rowan in a South Piedmont Conference game.

The Vikings (5-8, 4-2) got 12 points from Loulle Blanchard in a 47-32 victory.

Daniyah Burton added 11 points for Central Cabarrus, while Myajah Nix had 10.

Jameila Allen led the Falcons (0-11, 0-7) with 13 points. Jayden Carter added eight. West played without Sydney Smith (illness).

The Vikings led 16-10 after a low-scoring first half.

Central Cabarrus   11   5   10   21   — 47

West Rowan           6     4    13    9   — 32

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CONCORD — Carson lost a thriller at Concord’s Rimer Gym in South Piedmont Conference action.

Kaylin Williams scored 18 points and made the big shots for the Spiders in a 54-52 victory.

Carson (2-11, 1-5) can’t play much better than it did during the first five minutes and jumped all over the Spiders, building a 14-2 lead.

But Concord (3-9, 3-3) finished the first quarter on a 9-0 run to get back into it. The Spiders got a layup, plus a foul. They missed the free throw, but got the offensive rebound and made a 3-pointer. Then Concord got two steals off the press and two quick buckets, and it was 14-11.

Carson recovered from that burst and led 28-22 at halftime.

But the third quarter was disastrous for the Cougars. With Allie Martin and Julia Burleson on the bench with foul trouble, Carson’s offense came to a halt. The Cougars were outscored 17-5 in the quarter to fall behind by six.

Carson trailed by nine at 42-33 early in the fourth quarter.

Burleson fouled out with about seven minutes left, but Martin led a furious comeback by the Cougars. She scored 11 of her 23 points in the fourth quarter, driving around and through Spiders to get to the rim. Martin got the Cougars even at 44-all with a little over five minutes left.

Carson inched ahead 50-49 on two Emma Carpenter free throws with 3:20 left before both teams hit a scoring drought that lasted more than two minutes.

Williams made a stick-back for the Spiders with 1:07 left for a 51-50 Concord lead. Then Concord stole the inbounds pass, and Martin got her fifth foul trying to get the ball back. Then Williams made a 3-pointer off an inbounds play for a 54-50 Concord lead.

With Carson down four, Rylee Hedrick got a bucket to cut the lead in half. In the final seconds, Carson nearly sent the game to overtime. Hedrick had the ball in the lane and passed to Carpenter. She got the shot up, but it wouldn’t fall.

Carson    14    14   5   19   — 52

Concord  11    11  17   15    — 54

CARSON scoring — Martin 23, Hedrick 12, Burleson 9, Carpenter 4, Guiton 3, Sheets 1.

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CONCORD — Cox Mill won 61-37 against A.L. Brown in a Greater Metro Conference game.