Rolesville sweeps Corinth Holders in NAC-6 back-to-back

By: Zack Adams

1/10/18

ROLESVILLE -- It was night two of a NAC-6 back-to-back for both Corinth Holders and Rolesville. It was the same story, different day for Rolesville as another school came into "their house" and walked away with two varsity losses. Tuesday, Knightdale felt defeat at the hands of the Rams and Wednesday, Corinth Holders got the exact same treatment in two very rough games for the Pirates.

GBB: Corinth Holders vs Rolesville
From the opening tip, this one was all Rolesville (11-5, 2-0 NAC-6). The Lady Rams pounded the Lady Pirates from Corinth Holders (5-11, 0-2 NAC-6) by the final score of 56-29 on Wednesday. When I say put away from the opening tip, I mean from the get go because the Rams were up 35-8, which is 27 point lead, going to intermission. Clinton Williams' ladies can really shoot the three ball. Rolesville hit eight threes, to Corinth's one which also just shows where this game was won; behind the three point line. Abby King hit three of those eight triples in her 10 point night. But King did not lead the Lady Rams in scoring. Her teammate, Alisa Davenport finished with 13 points on 4/5 shooting from the foul line. On a porous shooting night from the Lady Pirates (from both two and three), nothing much can come as a "positive" by looking at the film or any field goal shooting statistics. But Gabby Miller did have herself a solid game as she lead the Lady Pirates with nine points. Miller scored all six of the Pirates first quarter points.

MBB: Corinth Holders vs Rolesville:
For the second night in a row, Corinth Holders (4-11, 0-2 NAC-6) leads at halftime, then crumbles in the second half leading them to a loss. Tonight, the Pirates were up 21-20 at the break on Rolesville (11-4, 2-0 NAC-6) but after the second 16 minutes, found themselves on the losing side of things as Rolesville took this one, 53-38. Tuesday night, Ricky Clemons welcomed himself and the Knightdale Knights to NAC-6 play as he exploded for 37 points (11/18 shooting) in the Rams 74-61 win. Tonight, Corinth Holders played great man-to-man defense on the senior guard, holding him to only two points at the half. Well, I do not know what went on in the Rams locker room at halftime but someone awoke the "sleeping giant" (can someone be a giant at 6'2"?) because he came out and scored nine in the third and just two in the fourth to finish the contest with a game high, 13 points. Clemons would get help. Forward Chris Maye had a quiet eight points and six rebounds, six of those eight came in the third. Like Maye, Dominique "Dom" Johnson finished with eight. The senior had 10 rebounds at the half but one grabbed one board in the second half as he finished the game with 11 rebounds. Dom Johnson probably had the "play of the game" when point guard Jaylin Parker tossed him an alley and Johnson threw it down with 3:06 to play in what was an eventful third.

Continuing on this monstrous third, Rolesville outscored Corinth Holders 20-3 out of the locker rooms. The Rams started the quarter on a 14-2 run. Against Wake Forest Tuesday, Corinth Holders got outscored 24-10 out of the half and that really put the ballgame away. Two straight nights on third quarter runs put the Pirates at the bottom of the NAC-6 standings. Compete out of the half and keep up the defense that was played in the opening 16 minutes, Corinth Holders could very well be sitting at 2-0 in conference, or at least 1-1.

Cameron Walden led the Pirates with nine points and eight rebounds. The junior picked up his fourth foul halfway through the third when he contested Ricky Clemons on a drive (that he made, plus the foul shot went down as well). Senior Warren Ramsey added eight points as he made the only Pirate three of the ballgame. Lavelle Gilchrist grabbed ten rebounds to go with his six points, all of which came on put backs. Marcus Bland (a guard) had his best rebounding performance of the season as he came down with seven.

Neither team shot the ball well from three. Combined, Corinth Holders and Rolesville went 2/31 from three. Those without a calculator, or just in pure disbelief of that stat; that is 0.06% from behind the arc. Rebounding was the strength tonight for both teams. Rolesville grabbed 42 boards and Corinth had 41; 83 combined. A big reason for that of course, poor shooting as proven by the three point stat.

Both Rolesville and Corinth Holders have conference road tilts scheduled for Friday (Jan. 12). Rolesville will travel to Wake Forest on Friday. Of course, Wake Forest-Rolesville used to be a high school until Rolesville was built and opened its doors back in 2013. That game will have a lot of bragging rights attached to it along with it being a conference game. Corinth Holders on the other hand, will meet Wakefield. The two met last year in Raleigh where the Wolverines took down the Pirates, 59-43. Wakefield opened NAC-6 play with a 76-54 loss on the road to Heritage.