Jesse Carson downs Asheboro 51-40 for first state championship
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Updated March 6, 2021 11:25 p.m. EST
By Zack Adams, HighSchoolOT reporter & J. Mike Blake, HighSchoolOT contributor
Grays Chapel, NC In an imperfect year, Jesse Carson s Cougars found perfection.
On Saturday evening, Jesse Carson defeated Asheboro 51-40 in the N.C. High School Athletic Association 3A girls basketball championship game, hosted by Providence Grove High.
It s the first girls basketball championship in Carson s program history Brooke Stouder has been at the helm since the school opened back in 2006 and won 200-plus-games since then. I thought we came out an had a really solid third quarter, said Stouder in the postgame presser with various media members. Our girls played so hard. I think just [they] believed the whole way and I m just extremely proud of them.