Eastern Regional Match Up

The Lady Knights of Northern Nash 26-1 will play West Craven 26-1 at 7pm Tuesday night in the first of the two semi final games in the girls 3-A Regional.  The winner of this game will meet the winner of the second game of the night when Union Pines 24-4 takes on unbeaten Chapel High 29-0.Between these four teams they head to the regional with and over all record of 105-6.

Chapel Hill's last regular season lost was at Northern Nash  during the 2012-13 season.  Chapel Hill met West Craven during the High school OT Christmas Tournament this year with Chapel Hill winning 76-52.  The only game Tuesday that matters right now is the West Craven Eagles and let go one on one in the stats.

WC averages 67.1 points per game while Northern is set at 57.3.  WC gives up 36.7 points per game while  the Knights  average 37.7 per outing.  The Eagles are lead by all State player Jamie Cherry who is headed to Chapel Hill to play for Carolina who scores at a 33.6 points per game.  The Lady Knights are spearheaded by Alexus Hill at 18 points per game and is headed to Gardner Webb to extend her basket ball career.

The leading rebounder for West Craven is Kaykee Koerperich who grabs 8.1 while Northern's leading bounded is Kiana Thomas who grabs 11.3 every game.  Team wise WC gets 34.6 boards a game while Northern 36.3.

WC dishes out 9.1 assist per contest while Northern gets 11.2.  The leading assist maker for the Eagles  is Jasmine Raynor passing to team mates who score 3.4 times per game while Alexia Hines  dishes out a a rate of 4.2 per game.

West Craven steals the ball 12.2 times per game while the Knights 10 times per contest.  The leading thrives on each team are Jamie Cherry at 4.3 while Alexus Hill gets hers hands on 2.7 per game.

If you have a player that scores half your points then the Lady Knights goal has to be slow down Jamie Cherry.  The Lady Gryphons did that in the Regional in 2012 but could not do it last year in the sectional final.  My guess is Alexia Hines will get the assignment to Guard Cherry.  This will be a factor in winning and losing in controlling Cherry.

The Lady Knights need to play a complete team game as Cherry can shoot the three or drive to the basket.  Slow her down and the Knights play Saturday.  GO LADY KNIGHTS