Without a shot clock, the pace of a high school basketball game in North Carolina is always unpredictable.
However, it must be said. The higher the tempo, the higher the probability that Christ School wins.
The Greenies are 8-0 in varsity games this season when they score 60 or more points. They reached the magic threshold again Tuesday, winning 69-50 at Asheville Christian Academy.
Three players were in double figures – Emanuel Richards ’23 (22 points), Jozohn Price ’24 (19), and Ty Besses ’22 (10) – and Christ School (11-6, 2-0) made nine 3-pointers as a team in its second Carolinas Athletic Association victory.
ACA (8-9, 1-3) is the defending NCISAA 3-A state champion. Two early baskets in the paint from Florida State University recruit De’Ante Green injected some life into the home crowd. But shortly after the Greenies took the lead for good at 5-4, De'Ante went down with a leg injury and did not return. Christ School held the rest of the Lions’ team to a combined four points in the first quarter to lead, 18-8, and then kept pouring it on.
ACA, to its credit, cut the lead to as little as 13 points in the second half, but couldn’t draw any closer.
The rest of the scorers for the Greenies were Anthony Robinson ’23 (nine points), Bryson Cokley ’24 (five), Zack Myers ’24 (two) and Bruce White ’24 (two).
Next on the schedule for the varsity is Friday’s 6:30 p.m. home game with Asheville School, following a JV matchup between the two schools at 5.
JV Greenies 47, Asheville Christian 35
Jimmy Jones ’25 and the JV Greenies staved off a second-half comeback from ACA to win their fourth straight game Tuesday.
Jimmy went 6-for-7 from the foul line in the fourth quarter and finished with a team-high 12 points. Truett Compton ’25 added 11, while Carter Compton ’24 and Cooper Perone ’24 netted eight points apiece.
The Greenies (9-2, 2-0) led by as many as 12 points and as few as two in the second half. The remaining scorers for Christ School were Fallou Faye ’25 (four points), Brewer Nitcher ’25 (two), and Calvin Williams ’24 (two).