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HDR 2019 All-Catawba County High School Basketball Honors
With the high school basketball season complete, it's time to see who stood out the most. Below are the HDR's picks for the top players and coaches in Catawba County this season. Girls Player of the Year: Chyna Cornwell, Newton-Conover David Scearce/Record File Photo No player in Catawba County – boy or girl – had a more dominant season than the Red Devils’ star center.
Prep Hoops: Fourth-quarter lead slips away for St. Stephens boys in Watauga defeat
The St. Stephens boys basketball team has been put through its paces since the calendar turned to 2019. The New Year’s gauntlet has been met with mixed results so far, as the Indians squeezed a one-point win at McDowell between 20-point losses to Freedom and Alexander Central. Watauga presented the next challenge Friday night, as well as an opportunity to get back to .500 on the season.
Huge comeback goes by the wayside for Titans
The McDowell Titans must have felt a lot like Sisyphus Friday night. Like the unfortunate king from Greek mythology, they struggled mightily to roll a ponderous boulder up a great hill, only to see the rock roll right back down the mountain as they neared the summit. The Titans battled back from an 18-point, first-half deficit to take a five-point lead down the stretch; but fell to the Saint Stephens Indians 69-68 when they couldn’t convert on a pair of scoring opportunities as time expired.
Prep Hoops: Foard boys capitalize on St. Stephens' cold shooting for tourney win
St. Stephens’ cold shooting day allowed Fred T. Foard to secure a 51-44 win during a consolation bracket semifinal Friday in the Dick’s Sporting Goods Classic at CVCC’s Tarlton Complex. The victory puts the seventh-seeded Tigers (2-10) into the fifth-place game Saturday against No. 5 Bunker Hill. “I thought defensively we were really good for most of the game, pretty much the whole game,” Foard coach Andy Hodges said. “We defended well.
Watauga JV boys hold off St. Stephens
BOONE — Watauga’s junior varsity boys’ basketball team held off a fourth quarter rally by St. Stephens and took a 62-59 victory in a Northwestern Conference matchup at Lentz-Eggers Gym on Jan. 27.Watauga took a 46-31 lead into the fourth quarter, but was outscored 28-16 in the final seven minutes of the game. St. Stephens made 8-of-9 foul shots in the quarter, and back-to-back 3-point baskets by Axavier Byrd and Malik Hilton pulled the Indians to 62-59.
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