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Fowler, Parrish Rescue Davie, Deliver Tie For Third
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| The bench howls in delight as Davie’s girls overcome a 10-point deficit against East Rowan on Senior Night. - Photos by Jim Barringer |
The War Eagles (10-14 overall) were coming off a 53-46 loss at West Forsyth in which they went belly-up in the second quarter and trailed 44-23 before West emptied the bench.
That abysmal showing spilled over to the first quarter against East, which carved out a 21-7 advantage in a regular season-ending game to determine the third, fourth and fifth seeds in the Central Piedmont Conference. Davie won the second quarter, but still trailed 29-21 at halftime. When East scored the first points of the fourth, Davie was in trouble at 41-31.
But Davie coach Debbie Evans said she never doubted her team’s chances. She might have been the only one who didn’t. With Davie seemingly destined for fifth place and East looking at sole possession of third - which is significant since the CPC guarantees four state-playoff berths - guards Meisha Fowler and Amber Parrish came to the rescue.
With Mount Tabor (12-0) and North Davidson (9-3) seizing first and second, West Forsyth, Davie and East Rowan finished in a tie for third. West got the three seed, Davie four and East five.
“We’ve come back a lot all year, but we hadn’t been able to get the comeback win,” Evans said. “We were finally able to get that, and we had to win to give ourselves a shot (at third place). We’re familiar with getting in that hole, but they never stopped playing hard and never stopped shooting. We were real disappointed when we came out of West (Forsyth). We had two real good defensive practices, and we were wanting this one bad.”
W. Forsyth 53, Davie 46
The visiting War Eagles outscored West 23-9 in the fourth. But it didn’t matter by then because West had already done enough damage in the middle quarters.
They played terribly in the first half (4 of 32, 0 of 11 from 3-point range, 2 of 6 foul shooting, 8 turnovers). The third wasn’t much better as Davie finished at 21-percent shooting, a season low.
It was a downer given that Davie defeated West 51-47 here. The blame for Davie’s fourth losing streak of the season stopped short of center Morgan Owens, who scored 11 points - or nearly eight above her average - by sinking ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.