Friday’s basketball roundup: Canes and Colonels win road games with late-game shots
January 24, 2025
The Cartersville and Cass boys basketball teams earned region wins on the road Friday night with clutch baskets in the final seconds, while the Adairsville boys, Cartersville girls, and Cass girls also garnered wins.
CARTERSVILLE BOYS 55, HIRAM 54
Grayson Warmack’s rebound and stick back with 1.5 seconds remaining lifted the Hurricanes to a 55-54 region road win Friday night at Hiram.
Nas Bennett scored 21 points and collected seven rebounds for Cartersville. Wyatt Thomason finished with 13 points and five rebounds for the Canes.
Hiram (8-12, 6-4) got 16 points from Mason McKinney and 10 by Quinn Jackson.
Cartersville (12-10, 7-4) moves into third place in the Region 7-4A standings with three games remaining. The Canes play at Southeast Whitfield on Tuesday.
CASS BOYS 57, CEDARTOWN 54
Playing short-handed Friday night, the Colonels collected a key region win at Cedartown 57-54.
Cass held narrow leads at the end of each quarter, but the host Bulldogs moved into a one-point lead in the final 20 seconds. Jason Brown knocked down his third three-pointer of the night with 12 seconds remaining to regain the lead for the Colonels. Dylan Miller made one of two free throws at the end for the final margin.
“We were missing two of our top guys, but everyone else stepped up big on the road,” said Cass coach Kevin Cunningham. “I can’t tell you how well Jahlil Anderson and Derris Reece played defensively on Quinton Cothran of Cedartown.”
Comari Nettles scored 15 points to pace the Colonels’ offense. Miller scored 14 points, and Brown scored 11.
Zane Pasley led the Bulldogs with 15 points. Cothran scored 11, and Davion Smith added 10 points for Cedartown (11-10, 4-6).
Cass (9-12, 5-6) travels to Dalton on Tuesday.
ADAIRSVILLE BOYS 55, NORTHWEST WHITFIELD 36
The Tigers survived a sluggish first half with a scoring flurry in the second half to beat visiting Northwest Whitfield Friday night, 55-36.
The Bruins led 17-14 at halftime, but Adairsville outscored Northwest 41-19 in the second half.
“We really defended well in the second half,” noted Tigers’ coach Alex Disbrow.
Tre Winters led the Adairsville scoring column with 18 points. Xavious Nalls scored 12. Ben Abernathy posted 11 points, and Eli Pearson added eight.
Kenven Douglas and Caden Ramsey scored 10 points each for the Bruins (14-4, 6-2).
Adairsville (12-8, 7-1) took over the region standings lead with their win and will travel to Ridgeland on Friday.
DALTON 63, WOODLAND BOYS 37
Woodland started with a strong defensive first half, but the visiting Dalton Catamounts forged an even stronger comeback in the second half for a 63-37 win Friday night.
The Wildcats led 13-1 at the end of the first quarter and Isaiah Livsey made a three-pointer at the first half buzzer for Woodland to carry a 22-19 advantage to the intermission. The Catamounts bounced back in the third quarter, outscoring the Wildcats 21-9 in the period to gain a 40-31 lead.
"We played our best defensive first half of the season," Woodland coach Kip Dyer said following the loss. "It was still a close game for most of the second half, but we just ran out of gas down the stretch."
Livsey led Woodland with 19 points. Bryson Van Tonder contributed six for the Wildcats.
Dalton finished with four players in double-digits led by Jermichael Craft with 18 points. CJ Weaver scored 12. Drew Snyder pitched in 11 points and Melo Weaver added 10 for the Catamounts (12-8, 9-2).
Woodland (5-17, 1-10) hosts Cedartown on Tuesday.
CARTERSVILLE GIRLS 76, HIRAM 43
The Lady Canes had three players reach double-digits Friday night and rolled to a 33-point Region 7-4A win at Hiram, 76-43.
Cartersville led 41-23 by halftime, adding to their advantage in the second half.
KK Arnold led the Lady Canes’ scoring with 19 points. Zoe McCurry followed with 17 points. Bayley Stanley and Senai Camper added 11 and nine, respectively.
Arnold added six rebounds and five steals. McCurry had five assists with two rebounds, and Stanley grabbed four rebounds.
Taylor Crawford produced 18 points for the Lady Hornets. T’nasia Nance added eight for Hiram (8-12, 7-3).
Cartersville (14-8, 10-1) travels to Southeast Whitfield on Tuesday.
CASS GIRLS 63, CEDARTOWN 37
The Lady Colonels improved their hold on the fourth place spot in the Region 7-4A standings Friday night with a resounding 63-37 win at Cedartown.
The outcome differed from the narrow 50-47 win by Cass at home in mid-December.
In the rematch, the Lady Colonels jumped to a 16-4 lead in the first quarter and held a 27-16 advantage at the break. Darianna Sosa made four shots from behind the arc in the first half and scored 14 of her game-high 21 points before halftime.
Cass maintained a 12-point lead through three quarters and pulled away in the final eight minutes by outscoring the Lady Bulldogs 23-9 in the fourth quarter.
KK Evans scored 18 points for the Lady Colonels. Cadie Paez posted 11 points, and Anizah Taylor added seven.
Hayvin Barclay led Cedartown (7-14, 4-6) with 10 points.
The Cass girls (10-11, 7-4) travel to region co-leader and ninth-ranked Dalton on Tuesday.
NORTHWEST WHITFIELD 70, ADAIRSVILLE GIRLS 53
The Lady Tigers kept pace with visiting Northwest Whitfield in the first half but managed only two points in the third quarter and dropped a 70-53 decision Friday night.
The Lady Bruins led 18-16 after one quarter and 26-24 at halftime before pulling away by outscoring Adairsville 22-2 in the third quarter.
The Lady Tigers scored 27 points in the fourth quarter, but it wasn’t enough to overcome their deficit.
NaXyria Roberts scored 24 points to pace the Lady Tigers. Samantha Gough added nine points.
Sloan Pender led three Lady Bruins in double-figures with 21 points. Beckley Manning and Kennedy Baker added 13 and 10 points, respectively.
Northwest Whitfield improved to 12-5 overall and 5-3 in Region 7-AAA.
The Adairsville girls (9-12, 2-6) return to region action on Friday, January 31, at Ridgeland.
DALTON 75, WOODLAND GIRLS 3
The ninth-ranked Dalton girls improved to 18-3 on the season and 10-1 in Region 7-AAAA with a 75-3 win Friday night at Woodland.
Woodland (1-22, 1-10) hosts Cedartown on Tuesday.
