Boys Basketball: The Gravelly Hill Grizzlies continue a solid season with a 52-25 victory over Stanback on Thursday night in Efland. Landon Dalehite led the Grizzlies with 20 points. Kai Wade added seven points. Nathan Sorrells had 6. D.J. Norman and Carson Farmer each had four. Tyler Fields finished with 3. Micah Cates, Deacon McCory and Malachi Poole had two each for Gravelly.
On January 9, Gravelly defeated Southern Roxboro 45-23. Wade led the Grizzlies with 16 points. Sorrells had eight. Dalehite finished with seven. Hayden Kirk finished with four points. Norman had five. Sincere Hanner registered four points. McCrory had two points and Poole scored one.
Gravelly, which has won both of its games to open 2020, will travel to Stanford next Thursday.
Girls Basketball: Northern Roxboro edged Stanford 25-24 on Tuesday. Evelyn George finished with eight points to lead the Chargers. Katie Wolter had six. Arianna Lewis finished with three. Dyreshia Farrish, Olivia Jones and Kennedy Winters each had two points. Caden Robinson scored one. Stanford will travel to Stanback on Wednesday at 4:45.
Wrestling: Before its victory over Stanback last week, the Stanford Chargers opened 2020 by beating Smith Middle School 87-18 to improve to 5-0 on the season. Wyatt Hedrick (85), Vincent Steven (92), Jared Hutchins (108), Luke Nevius (122), Colton Jones (128), Jace Womble (134), Andre Hill (140), Sascha VanPraag (154), Josh Merrill (162) and Vincent Jaubert-Stenzel (172) all claimed pitfall victories for the Chargers.
Joshua Cowan won by decision at 115 pounds. Aiden Cain claimed a major decision at 100 pounds. Luke Stitz (78), Laurencio Grimaldo (147) and Abais Miles (184) claimed forfeit wins.
Hedrick, Stevens, Cain, Hutchins, Cowan, Womble, Hill, VanPragg, Merrill and Jaubert-Stenzel went into the Stanback match last Friday with undefeated records.
Last week, the Gravelly Hill wrestling team fell to Culbreth in a tight match 54-43. The Grizzlies are 2-4 overall, 2-2 in the Orange-Person Athletic Conference.
Two Grizzlies remain undefeated on the season. Carlos Vazquez scored a pin at 106 pounds to improve to 6-0. At 145 pounds, Angus Pritchard scored a pin to also go to 6-0.
Mason Cates claimed a pinfall win to go to 4-1. At 76 pounds, Ada Adkins won via forfeit to improve to 3-1. At 195 pounds, Lucan Cavlin won by forfeit to go to 5-1. Conner Wobble won by forfeit at 220 to go to 1-1. Jonathan Willis won at 250 pounds by forfeit and is now 3-3.
Gravelly coach Nathan Cates is trying to rebuild the program after they didn’t field a wrestling team in 2018.
“We are better than last year,” Cates said. “We’re more competitive this year. Not having a team in 2018 hurt the program. But we are rebuilding. Most of the guys are first year wrestlers going up against 3rd-year wrestlers. But we continue to show improvement in every match.”
Gravelly had lost only two matches by more than one weight class. Cates says there has been several injuries that has plagued the team, but they continue to get stronger. The Grizzlies will host McDougle Middle School on Wednesday in Efland. The match starts at 4:45.
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