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Four area players selected for the North Carolina/South Carolina All-Star Basketball Classic

All year long, the Tri-Eight has had boasted of the best teams and players in the state, so it comes as no surprise that four players from our area were selected to play in the North Carolina/South Carolina All-Star Basketball Classic on March 21.
 
Panther Creek's Earnest Ross (Auburn signee) will join Middle Creek's Garrius Adams (Miami signee) and Tom Tankelewicz (Charleston Southern signee) and Athens Drive's Josh Davis (undecided) on the North Carolina team.
 

Twenty of the North Carolina’s best basketball players have accepted invitations to represent North Carolina in the North Carolina / South Carolina All-Star Basketball Classic to be played at Socastee High School (S.C.) on March 21. The women’s game will begin at 6:30 and the men’s game will follow. Tickets are $10.  On Friday, March 20, there will be a slam dunk contest and 3-point contest starting at 7:30 at Myrtle Beach High School. The price for Friday evening is $5.

 

 

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Panther Creek had all the answers


CARY —
It was your typical Panther Creek-Middle Creek affair.

Which is the Tri-Eight Conference's equivalent of the UNC-Duke rivalry.

A packed gym with both schools well represented and both sides fired up. Two of the top teams in the state. Panther Creek even wheeled out its marching band for the first time.

The host Catamounts shut down Garrius Adams and Tom Tankelewicz and grabbed control of the conference with a 60-48 win Friday.

Middle Creek holds on for win over Athens after huge first-quarter lead

APEX — Middle Creek 20, Athens Drive 0.

That was the score right before Athens finally scored on Tuesday night with 2:32 left in the first quarter. The Jaguars continued to fall behind even further, and trailed Middle Creek 29-8 after one.

But the No. 9 Jags clawed their way back into it, using a 19-4 third quarter and their first lead of the game at 44-43. However, the comeback bid seemed to take its toll on the Athens players' energy come the fourth quarter, as the Jaguars finally succumbed to the No. 10 Mustangs, 62-59.

"I'm proud of them because we could have just keeled over and they came back with some fight and showed a lot of heart and showed a lot of character," Athens coach Robert Clemons said. "It took a lot of energy to come back and to take the lead. It took a lot of energy and then when we needed some big shots to sustain it, we were worn out from coming back from that huge deficit."

Four area players named to all-Glaxo teams

I don't have much of a say in who makes the two GSK all-tournament teams
(there's one from each the three brackets; Girls, Holiday Summit Group and Randolph
Foundation Group), but I know those who do. And from all indications, it
appears we'll have four local players on the two teams.

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