The South Point Red Raiders will head out on the road to take on the Cox Mill Chargers at 7:30 p.m. on Friday. South Point will be strutting in after a victory while Cox Mill will be coming in after a loss.
If Cox Mill heads into halftime all tied up, they better play a good second half: that's when South Point took over last week. South Point skirted past Metrolina Christian Academy 41-38. The 41-point effort marked the Red Raiders' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.
South Point's win was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Cayden Rumph, who posted 11 points. Another player making a difference was OB Lowery Jr., who put up seven points.
Meanwhile, Cox Mill played a tough contest last Monday in which they were outscored in every quarter. They were dealt a 100-69 defeat at the hands of Chambers. Despite running the score up even higher than they did in their prior game last Saturday (62), the Chargers still had to take the loss.
South Point will need focus on slowing down Teeshon Smith, one of several Cox Mill players who made an impact when they last played. He had 15 points. The game was Smith's ninth in a row with at least ten points. The team also got some help courtesy of Sherod McCmormick, who went 5 of 11 on his way to 17 points.
The victory made it two in a row for South Point and bumps their season record up to 6-4. As for Cox Mill, their loss dropped their record down to 5-5.
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