Jesse Carson downs Asheboro 51-40 for first state championship
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Updated March 6, 2021 11:25 p.m. EST
By Zack Adams, HighSchoolOT reporter & J. Mike Blake, HighSchoolOT contributor
Grays Chapel, NC In an imperfect year, Jesse Carson s Cougars found perfection.
On Saturday evening, Jesse Carson defeated Asheboro 51-40 in the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3A girls basketball championship game, hosted by Providence Grove High.
It s the first girls basketball championship in Carson s program history Brooke Stouder has been at the helm since the school opened back in 2006 and won 200-plus-games since then. I thought we came out an had a really solid third quarter, said Stouder in the postgame presser with various media members. Our girls played so hard. I think just [they] believed the whole way and I m just extremely proud of them.
Asheboro girls reach 3A title with 54-44 win at Northwood
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By Joel Bryant, HighSchoolOT reporter
Pittsboro, N.C. The Asheboro Blue Comets girls basketball team won the 3A Eastern Regional Final at Northwood High School over the host Chargers on Tuesday night. The Blue Comets never trailed during the game and won 54-44.
Asheboro got off to a hot start. Senior shooting guard Ashton Maness hit two early 3-pointers to help Asheboro out to a 9-2 lead within a couple of minutes. Maness went on to finish the game with 13 points.
At the under 4:00 timeout in the first quarter, Asheboro had a 13-6 lead. The two teams combined for only six points in the rest of the third quarter, with four of them going to the Blue Comets.
Highlights: McDowell scores 20 points as Asheboro downs No. 11 Randleman, 67-45
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Asheboro won a battle of undefeated teams on Wednesday night on its home court. The Blue Comets beat No. 11 Randleman, 67-45, and were led by senior Diamond McDowell with 20 points on nine made field goals. Tanaesha Ellison (senior) and Janiya Jackson (senior) provided an additional 18 and 10 points for head coach Don Corry, who was honored for reaching 700 career wins prior to the ballgame.
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