From staff reports

Thursday games …

CONCORD — CP Perry took a nasty fall late in the third quarter and didn’t return to action, but Carson finished off an emphatic 78-52 South Piedmont Conference win at Central Cabarrus without him.

The Cougars (12-6, 6-4) got some payback for a 64-56 loss to Central (8-9, 6-4) in China Grove early in the season.

Perry got hurt making a driving layup for his 17th point. He was fouled on the play but was unable to shoot the free throw. He had six assists when he went down. He had a personal 7-0 scoring run in the first quarter when the lead was still see-sawing.

Carson had one of those nights when it was drilling 3-pointers — 13 of them — and the Cougars hit the Vikings with some flurries.

It was 24-all about five minutes before halftime when a 3-pointer by Jonah Drye — Drew Neve made the pass — triggered a Carson burst. Maverick Walters came off the bench to make two 3s in that run. On both of Walters’ 3s from the left corner, Neve made the kick-out pass. The Cougars outscored Central 19-4 to close the half and took a commanding 43-28 lead to the locker room.

Carson blew out the Vikings with another spree at the start of the fourth quarter. Drye made two 3-pointers in that stretch, while Walters made one.

Jacob Mills made three 3-pointers, as well as pull-ups, and matched Perry’s 17 points.  Neve made two 3s and also scored 17. Drye didn’t have one of his better percentage shooting nights, but he accounted for four 3s and scored 13.

“We moved the ball great,” Carson head coach Brian Perry said. “We got good shots all around.”

Coach Perry said CP, his son, would be evaluated by a trainer on Friday afternoon. Carson was scheduled to play West Rowan on Friday night.

Kevonta Martin led the Vikings with 19 points.

“Central has some men,” Coach Perry said. “We had one of our better defensive games.”

Carson    19   24   16   19  — 78

Central    17   11    15   13   — 56

CARSON scoring — Mills 17, Perry 17, Neve 17, Drye 13, Walters 9, Martin 2, Kluttz 2, Rockwell 1.

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CONCORD — Those 10-minute scoring droughts are never helpful, and East Rowan’s boys basketball team suffered through one in a 68-25 loss at Northwest Cabarrus.

East (1-16, 1-9) trailed 17-9 after getting three buckets from Brody Thomas and a 3-pointer from Logan Bradley in the first quarter.

East got within 19-12 when Aiden Lino made a 3-pointer from the top with 6:40 left in the second quarter, but the Mustangs didn’t score again in the half. East head coach Trey Ledbetter was hit with a technical with 5:42 left in the half, and Aiden Rochevot made the techs for a 21-12 lead. Those free throws triggered a 24-0 run by the Trojans that lasted the rest of the half and kept rolling into the second half.

Thomas finally made a 3-pointer for East to end the drought — Jaden Reid made the inside-out pass — to make it 43-15 with a little over five minutes left in the third quarter.

The Trojans (11-6, 8-2) overpowered East on the glass and went up by 40 points at 63-23 for a running clock with 4:30 left to play. The Mustangs scored only two points in the fourth quarter.

East Rowan      9    3   11   2    — 25

NW Cabarrus   17  14  23  14  — 68

EAST scoring — Thomas 11, Bradley 3, Lino 3, Klingler 2, Shive 2, Lyons 2, Reid 2.

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LANDIS — Carter Rohletter won the opening tip, but things went downhill quickly for South Rowan after that against league-leading Robinson.

The Bulldogs wiped out the Raiders 78-34 mostly on the strength of a 32-point third quarter.

“We fought really hard until the last 40 seconds of the first half,” South interim head coach Justin Pauley said.

South was down 22-8 after the first quarter, but played its best ball of the night in the second quarter.

Corbin Goodman and Mason Long made 3-pointers and Tristian Littlejohn flipped in a runner off the glass as South cut an 18-point deficit down to 33-21 with 1:40 left in the half. But Robinson was able to get the last six points of the half for a 39-21 lead.

Then Robinson scored the first 17 points of the second half to blow away the Raiders. Jelani King got two buckets for South to finally stop the run midway through the third quarter, but the Bulldogs achieved a 40-point lead for a running clock and led 71-27 heading to the fourth quarter.

David Frazier scored 19 for Robinson (15-2, 9-0). CJ Miranda made four 3-pointers.

Goodman made three 3-pointers to lead South with nine points. Rohletter put South on the board with a 3-pointer, but he didn’t score again. Jadon Moore, South’s leading scorer for the season, was held to a single point.

Robinson     22   17   32   7    — 78

South           8      13   6     7    — 34

SOUTH scoring — Goodman 9, Long 6, King 4, Littlejohn 4, Rohletter 3, Overcash 3, Ritchie 2, Collins 2, Moore 1.