Heritage blows past Corinth Holders for the second time in a week

By: Zack Adams

2/1/18

WENDELL -- For the second time in just six days, Heritage took down Corinth Holders in both varsity girls and boys basketball. Both Heritage girls and boys are ranked in the Top 10 in ther respective N&O Preps Now polls. Corinth Holders on the other hand are just moving up to 3A and when facing the best team in the conference twice in six days, these losses are expected to occur.

GBB: Heritage vs Corinth Holders
#2 Heritage (18-2, 6-0) won their seventh consecutive game Thursday, 56-30 over Corinth Holders (5-15, 0-6). Washington, Johnson, and Smalls paced the Lady Huskies Friday in their 44-point victory over the Lady Pirates and they did the same again tonight in Wendell.

Demi Washington led Heritage with a double-double, totaling 16 points while grabbing 10 rebounds. Cydney Johnson had herself a 15 point night where eight of those came right before the half in quarter two. Morehead State commit, Alissa Smalls filled up the stat sheet for Coach Kennedy. The senior point guard finished with five points, nine assists, three rebounds, and eight steals. Now that is being a true point guard. Smalls dished out five assists and forced six steals by halftime.

Friday, Heritage needed a 22-1 run to spark their victory over Corinth Holders. Thursday, they outscored the home Pirates by 12, 17-5 in the opening quarter. Also, the Lady Huskies played great defense as not in a single quarter did Corinth Holders reach double-digits.

Junior Mikayla Thompson led Corinth Holders with eight points. Gabby Miller added seven points and six rebounds to the Lady Pirates total.

MBB: Heritage vs Corinth Holders
Heritage (15-4, 6-0) never let their foot off the gas from the get-go as they earned their eight straight victory over Corinth Holders (4-15, 0-6), 83-47. Heritage opened up the game on a 25-4 run after the first quarter. From there, the Preps Now #6 team would never look back.

Virginia Tech commit Jarren McAllister paced the Huskies with 21 points. McAllister scored 10 of those 21 before halftime including a couple of dunks to bring both the Heritage and Corinth Holders faithful to their feet. McAllister got a "shot to the mouth" and came back on the court and scored six consecutive points in that 10-point second quarter. Jayden Gardner is a "dawg". I feel like I have tweeted that out before but the East Carolina commit had 15 points and 14 boards. The Huskie big man had 13 points and 11 of those rebounds at halftime. That just shows you the work the "big fella" was doing on the boards Thursday night in Wendell. Dyson Pender added nine points (four dimes) and Redford "Red" Dunton had eight points and seven boards.

Sophomore Tanner Smith got back on track in Thursday's loss to Heritage, luckily for the Pirates. Smith scored a team-high 13 points on 3/5 (60%) shooting from three. Jermaine Best added eight points off bench while Marcus Bland contributed six for Corinth Holders.

Rebounding, yet again haunted Corinth Holders. Heritage grabbed 46 rebounds Friday against Corinth Holders and Thursday, the Huskies could grab 40 to the Pirates 22. A load of those went to Gardner of course where he found opportunities for multiple second chance points. Corinth Holders did knock down a team NAC-6 high, seven threes on the ballgame though, which was noted by Coach Chris Davis post game.

Friday, #2/6 Heritage will play host to red-hot Knightdale (#13 boys) in a game that could very well decide who wins the regular season NAC-6 Boys Championship, or at least a share of it. Corinth Holders plays Wakefield (#8 girls // #16 boys) Friday. The girls contest are supposed to tip-off at 6:30, followed by the guys at 8:00.