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By Brian Pitts
Davie Enterprise Record

The Davie varsity girls basketball team had the home crowd in a frenzy when it surged to a six-point lead in the fourth quarter, but the cushion evaporated as East Forsyth responded with an 8-0 run and Davie endured a brutally close loss, 35-33, on Jan. 24.
The War Eagles took down East 52-46 in December in Kernersville, but this setback changed the CPC standings. At the end of last week, Reagan was alone in first at 7-1, with Davie and East tied for second at 6-2.
“I said: ‘This sucks but there’s a lesson somewhere in it,’” coach Lindsey Adams said. “I guess it’s just part of the growing pains. But I told them the goals are still there. Winning the conference championship is still there. We can still do it. We just made it a little harder on ourselves with a little less leeway to do it.”
The War Eagles rocked East with an early 8-2 advantage, but East answered with a 17-3 run. Davie fought back with a 9-0 run in a span of 2:31 as Bailey Aderhold sandwiched an inside bucket and 3-pointer around a Madison Daugherty triple.
The whole game was a knockdown, dragout fight. After Avarie Martin fouled an East player with 1:03 remaining in the third quarter, tempers flared and players had to be separated by coaches and officials.
Then Davie rode its roaring crowd to the six-point lead in the fourth. Martin hit two free throws, Aderhold drained an 18-footer and Emmie Burris got a steal at halfcourt and raced down for an uncontested layup to give Davie a 30-24 lead.
East, though, refused to roll over. It went on an 8-0 run to take a 32-30 lead. Then Makenzie Gentry rose to the occasion. She was hammered on a drive to the hole and was slow to get up. Still, she made both free throws to tie the game at 32 with 30 seconds to go.
East threw away the ensuing inbound pass, with Martin securing the ball before it went out of bounds and calling timeout.
The end was painful for Davie. Gracie Shore missed on a drive at :17, East streaked downcourt for a transition basket at :12 that put the visitors in front 34-32 and Burris was fouled as she attacked the lane with 3.9 seconds left. She missed the first foul shot, hit the second and Davie had to foul. There wasn’t enough time for Davie to get a shot off at the final horn.
Although it was an ugly offensive fight, Davie played its guts out. “That was a rough game,” Adams said. “We couldn’t get a call. We couldn’t buy a basket. It was just rough.”
Notes: Aderhold paced Davie with 10 points. Daugherty and Martin were next with six each. … Shore did not score, but she was still a factor with team highs in rebounds (seven) and assists (three). … Davie was averaging 59 points a game before this. … While East improved to 11-4 overall, Davie slipped to 11-6. … East broke a four-game losing streak to Davie. … East went 12 of 38 from the field (31 percent) and 8 of 18 from the foul line. Davie was 10-47 from the floor (21 percent), but did well at the line (9-12).
E. Forsyth 35, Davie 33 – Bailey Aderhold 10, Madison Daugherty 6, Avarie Martin 6, Emmie Burris 5, Vivian Vaughters 3, Makenzie Gentry 2, Londyn McDowell 1.