Winter Sports Roundup: 2/12-2/18

Basketball regular season comes to an end

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Middle School Basketball

The Chatham County Schools Middle School Basketball tournament concluded Friday night at Seaforth High School and crowned two champions for the 2023-24 season.

For the boys, Chatham Middle beat J.S. Waters, 39-34, to win its second straight middle school championship.

In the girls bracket, Pollard Middle beat George Moses Horton Middle, 20-15.

Boys Basketball

Northwood beat Chatham Central, 69-48, on Feb. 13 and Bartlett Yancey, 64-17, on Feb. 14 to close out its regular season.

Seaforth also finished its regular season with two wins, beating Jordan-Matthews, 66-57, on Feb. 13 and Bartlett Yancey, 67-46, Friday.

Chatham Central won over North Moore Friday, 85-64.

Jordan-Matthews won its last regular season game over Graham Friday, 68-51.

Chatham Charter picked up two big wins, beating River Mill, 59-39, on Feb. 13 and Ascend Leadership, 78-22, Thursday.

Woods Charter beat Clover Garden School, 54-52, on Feb. 13 but lost to Southern Wake Academy, 91-38, Friday.

Final Power Rankings

  1. Northwood

  2. Chatham Central

  3. Chatham Charter

  4. Seaforth

  5. Jordan-Matthews

  6. Woods Charter

Girls Basketball

Northwood finished the regular season with two huge wins, beating Chatham Central, 73-38, on Feb. 13 and Bartlett Yancey, 72-30, on Feb. 14.

Seaforth beat Jordan-Matthews on Feb. 13, 63-8.

Chatham Central won over North Moore Friday, 58-13.

Jordan-Matthews finished its regular season with a win over Graham Friday, 46-35.

Chatham Charter picked up a forfeit win over River Mill on Feb. 13 and beat Ascend Leadership Thursday, 71-7.

Woods Charter lost to Clover Garden School on Feb. 13, 55-21, and beat Southern Wake Academy Friday, 50-7.

Final Power Rankings

  1. Seaforth

  2. Northwood

  3. Chatham Charter

  4. Chatham Central

  5. Jordan-Matthews

  6. Woods Charter

Wrestling

Outside of Seaforth’s state champions and state placers, here’s how other Chatham County wrestlers fared at the state individual wrestling tournament.

Elijah Farrow (Northwood, 165 pounds, lost in consolation round two); Jakari Blue (Jordan-Matthews, 190, lost in consolation round one); Jordan Miller (Seaforth, 113, lost in consolation round two); Caden Brewer (Seaforth, 144, lost in consolation round one); William Bass (Seaforth, 150, lost in consolation round one); Alex Hinchman (Seaforth, 165, lost in consolation round one); Maddock Cody (Seaforth, 132, lost in consolation round three)