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| North’s Sean Newman fights for the ball with South’s Denzel Redmon. - Photo by James Barringer |
But, for South, it wasn’t to be. North’s Wallace DuHart, Alex Newman and Matt Rembielak made sure of that. The Wildcats held on 50-47 to improve to 7-2. South suffered its second three-point loss to fall to 1-3.
South coach Brent Wall was gracious in defeat.
“Hats off to North,” he said. “They do have a good team. They ran their offense against our man-to-man, and they created turnovers out of their press.”
North dominated the first half, riding Alex Newman’s eight points to a 27-13 lead. At that point Wall’s disgust had reached the boiling point.
“I told them you need to do what we’ve been working on in practice for two weeks, or you can continue to get your tail kicked,” he said. “They were outworking and outhustling us.”
South got the message, outscoring North 34-23 in the second half.
“(My players) came out of the locker room with 30 seconds on the clock, and they stepped it up,” he said. “We decided to do what we’ve been doing in practice, and we got layup after layup.”
South’s Kenyatta Brand took matters into his own hands, draining two 3-pointers and outscoring North by himself during a 14-6 run in the third. South’s man-to-man defense complemented Brand’s outburst.
“We are athletic enough to play man-to-man with anybody,” Wall said.
Shannon Dillard almost singlehandedly pulled South all the way back in the fourth, scoring 10 of his game-high 16 points. The human trampoline made an impromptu explosion after scoring six points in three previous games.
“He had an excellent second half,” Wall said. “Very few people can jump ... subscribe to the Davie County Enterprise Record, P.O. Box 99, Mocksville, N.C. 27028.