C. JEMAL HORTON
It just was.
Not only was Northwest Cabarrus, one of the oldest schools in the county, bringing its undefeated girls basketball team to West Cabarrus Highâs glistening new gym, the game itself had more subplots than an Emmy-winning soap opera.
Just a first-year program, West Cabarrus had proven itself to be a legitimate contender for the South Piedmont 3A Conference title â which Northwest also is in position to win for the first time since sharing it with Concord in 2013, when most of the current Trojans were in elementary school.
Then, there was the fact that players from both teams knew each other quite well, some of them former middle-school teammates who grew up zoned to play for Northwest but were rezoned for West Cabarrus when the new school opened this academic year.