In Pittsboro on Saturday evening

Northwood boys continue hot streak in rout of Northern Guilford

Chargers shoot 50% from the floor in improving to 11-4 on the year

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PITTSBORO - Northwood raced
out to a 17-7 advantage after one period
and was never seriously threatened
while outscoring Northern
Guilford as the Chargers trampled
their cold-shooting visitors from
Greensboro 58-35 in a first-ever
meeting Saturday afternoon in Lewis
Norwood Gymnasium.

The winners improved to 11-4
for the year with the easy victory,
while the Nighthawks dropped to
6-9 overall.

Deuce Powell topped Northwood
with 16 points and Adam Omar
pumped in 15 as the Chargers shot
23-of-46 (50%) from the floor
and held a 28-24 advantage on the
boards while only turning the ball
over nine times.

Northern Guilford was led by
Adonijah Whitley’s 10 points as the
Nighthawks connected on just 12-
of-43 (28%) of their shots from the
floor while committing 11 turnovers.

Jackson Helms’ three-pointer from
the left wing less than a minute-anda-
half into the contest gave Northern
Guilford its only lead at 3-1 before Northwood  seized the advantage for good at 6-3
following an Aaron Ross
trey from the left side barely
a minute later.

With Powell, Omar and
Aaron Ross teaming up
for 26 first-half points,
the Chargers expanded
their 10-point lead after
one quarter into as much
as a 23-point advantage
(39-16) following Omar’s
three-pointer from the left
wing with 54.4 seconds to
go until intermission.

After settling for a 39-20
spread at halftime, Northwood’s
third-period advantage
ranged between 19 and
21 points, with the winners
eventually carrying a 48-27
lead into the final stanza.

The Chargers continued to
slowly extend their advantage
throughout the fourth
quarter and forged their biggest
lead of the day at 58-31
following Jack Thompson’s
lane put-back with 1:43
remaining to play.

NG 7 13 7 8 – 35
NOR 17 22 9 10 – 58
Northern Guilford (6-9)
– Lomax 1 1-2 3 Whitley
3 4-5 10 Yonatis 1 0-0 2
Helms 2 0-0 5 Hodge 0 1-2
1 Pleasant 0 1-2 1 Emerick
1 2-4 4 Vail 2 1-1 5 O’Connor
1 0-0 2 Lewis 0 0-0 0
Efird 0 0-0 0 Nolet 1 0-0 2.
Totals 12 10-16 35.
Northwood (11-4) –
Powell 6 1-2 16 Thompson
3 0-0 6 McAfee 3 1-3
7 Brower 1 0-0 2 Ross 3
0-0 7 Arnold 1 2-3 4 Omar
6 2-2 15 Mehringer 0 0-0
0 Ocariza 0 1-2 1 Raines 0
0-0 0. Totals 23 7-12 58.
Halftime-Northwood,
39-20. Three-point
goals-Northern Guilford
1-13 (Helms 1-4, Lomax
0-1, Efird 0-1, Hodge 0-2,
Vail 0-2, Pleasant 0-3);
Northwood 5-11 (Powell
3-4, Ross 1-1, Omar 1-3,
Arnold 0-1, Brower 0-2).
Fouled out-Thompson. Rebounds-
Northern Guilford
24 (Helms 5); Northwood
28 (Thompson 6). Turnovers-
Northern Guilford
11; Northwood 9. Total
fouls-Northern Guilford 17;
Northwood 17.

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