By David Rogers. BLOWING ROCK, N.C. — In the Rockets’ last middle school basketball home game of the 2022 season, Blowing Rock defeated Cove Creek, 28-11, in front of a raucous home crowd on hand for the occasion.
Susanna Goff put an exclamation point on her “8th grade night” by scoring a game-high 9 points, including five in the opening quarter to set the tone for the host Rockets. Anna Byrne was close behind with 8 points.
The game ebbed and flowed, but Blowing Rock built on their lead with every quarter. A narrow 5-3 lead at the end of the first quarter became 13-6 at halftime, 20-9 at the end of the third quarter, and then the 28-11 final result as the pestering Rockets’ defense clamped down on the Raiders.
Cove Creek’s Emily Morales Mendez recorded a team-high six points, accounting for more than half of the Raiders’ total by game’s end.
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SCORING
- BR Susanna Goff (9)
- BR Anna Byrne (8)
- CC Emily Morales Mendez (6)
- BR Kate Rex (4)
- BR Francis Davis (4)
- BR Caroline Durham (2)
- CC Payton Carter (2)
- CC Elizabeth Cook (2)
- BR Nara Westwood (1)
- CC Addison Foster (1)
ALL WATAUGA MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS SCORES
- @Blowing Rock 28, Cove Creek 11
- @Parkway 12, Bethel 9 (overtime)
- @Mabel 16, Valle Crucis 12
- @Hardin Park 20, Green Valley 11
- Watauga District Girls 32, @Liberty Bell-Morganton, 31
Watauga School Specific Girls Standings Through Nov. 29
- 1. Parkway (5-0)
- T2 Blowing Rock (4-1)
- T2 Bethel (4-1)
- 4 Mabel (3-2)
- T5 Cove Creek (1-4)
- T5 Green Valley (1-4)
- T5 Valle Crucis (1-4)
- T5 Hardin Park (1-4)
