From staff reports

Wednesday games …

CHINA GROVE — Carson’s girls basketball team got its third win on Wednesday.

The Cougars won 42-37 in overtime in a non-conference game against Kings Mountain (0-13).

Carson (3-11) needed it after a painful 54-52 loss to Concord on Tuesday.

“It took us a while to get going, but we did it when it counted tonight,” Carson head coach Chloe Monroe said. “We pulled it out.”

Carson scored only eight points in the first half, but had an outstanding game at the foul line. Allie Martin was 11-for-12 on free throws for most of her 17 points.

Rylee Hedrick was 4-for-4 at the line, all in overtime, and scored 10. Emily Guiton made a 3-pointer in the third quarter.

It was 31-all at the end of regulation.

Carson got huge 3-pointers in the overtime period from Julia Burleson and Caylee Sheets. Neither had scored in regulation.

Carson plays South Rowan on Thursday in a game that has been moved up due to the weather forecast. That means three games in three days for the Cougars against a rested South team that hasn’t played yet this week.

CARSON scoring — Martin 17, Hedrick 10, Guiton 5, Sheets 3, Burleson 3, Benfield 2, McBride 2.

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MOUNT ULLA — East Rowan won its 10th straight on Wednesday in a game moved up due to the weather forecast.

The Mustangs  rolled 67-39 at West Rowan for a South Piedmont Conference victory.

Mary Church scored 18 for the Mustangs (12-2, 5-2). The Meredith recruit is averaging 17.4 points to lead Rowan County.

Sadie Featherstone scored 17. Featherstone is averaging 10.4 points for the season, but has bumped that up to 12.7 during her last 10 games.

Kady Collins scored 10, her seventh double-figure game of the season. Izzy Stepp chipped in with eight points. Stepp’s two biggest games of the season have been against West Rowan.

Defensively, East held the Falcons (0-12, 0-8) to single digits in the first three quarters.

Jayden Carter led the Falcons with 11 points, Katie Hoffner scored a career-best eight.

East — Church 18, Featherstone 17, Collins 10, Stepp 8, Smith 5, Wise 3, Alderman 2, Kluttz 2, Miller 2.

West — Carter 11, Hoffner 8, Hurd 6, Allen 5, Sawyer 5, Everhart 2, Sherrill 2.

 

 

 

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