Varsity Women
Ashe County 68 Alexander Central 61
West Jefferson: Ashe County ended the undefeated season for Alexander Central Friday night beating the Lady Cougars 68-61 in the conference opener.
The Lady Huskies out scored AC in every quarter. The visitors from Taylorsville led twice in the opening period. The home team might have made this a rout but for poor free throw shooting. They went to the charity stripe 40 times and made just 22.
Lexie Dawson led Ashe with 26 points. Kirstyn Herman had 19 points for Alexander Central. Meredith Wike, Hallie Jarrett and Addie Jack each had 11.
The loss puts the Lady Cougars at 14-1 and 0-1 in Northwestern Conference Play. Ashe County is 9-5 and 1-0.
Varsity Men
Ashe County 54 Alexander Central 48
The Cougars led 40-39 heading into the final quarter but were out scored 15-8. Ashe County was led by Harrison Langdon with 15 points. Chad Lasher had 16 for the Cougars and Carter Fortner added 11.
The Huskies went 9 of 24 from behind the three-point line, AC was 3 of 12.
Ashe County is 5-9 and 1-0. Alexander Central falls to 6-9 and 0-1
Junior Varsity
Girls: Alexander Central 54 Ashe County 20…Kendall Rector , 16 points for Alex. Central
Boys: Alexander Central 40 Ashe County 27…Graham Hoke and Sammy Lowe, 11 each