South Pointe, North Augusta Ranked One-Two In SCHSL AAAA Girl’s Basketball
HSSR AAAA Girls Basketball Rankings (As of Feb., 5 2025)
1.South Pointe
2. North Augusta
3.Westside
4.Lower Richland
5.Daniel
6. Bishop England
7.Wilson
8.Camden
9. Fountain Inn
10.AC Flora
By Billy G. Baker
Publisher
Moncks Corner—The SCHSL AAAA girls’ basketball championship will start the action on Friday March, 7 at 2 p.m. at The Florence Civic Center and power house teams like South Pointe and North Augusta are hoping to be one of the that represents the upper state in the gold medal round.
South Pointe is (24-0 & 10-0) and they have beat Dorman (55-39) and knowing that Dorman defeated the Gaffney girls twice this season you do not have to be too smart to rank the Lady Stallions number one.
Head coach Stephanie Butler-Graham has a roster full of next level players. We will mention three of them by name. Freshman guard sensation Kaleigh Lucas is averaging 19.9 points, 3.8 rebounds, along with 3.5 assists and 4.5 steals a game. Sophomore JaNyia Cunningham is a 6-0 forward averaging 18.9 points and 10 rebounds a game. The third all-star Lady Stallion is senior guard Serenity Woods averaging 11.4 points, 2.6 rebounds, three assists and two steals a game.
Number two North Augusta (22-1 & 12-0) has only lost to highly regarded Butler. Ga (47-41) this season. They counter with 5-10 sophomore guard/forward Ashley Walker who is averaging 12 points, 4.7 rebounds and 2.4 assists a game. Junior guard/forward Celena Grant is at 15 points and 6.1 rebounds a game including 2.9 assists and 2.2 steals a game. Then you have junior point guard Kenedi Wright at 9 points and 3.1 rebounds along with 6-2 inside player Messiah Williams averaging 5.5 points and 6.2 rebounds a game.
North Augusta is head coached by the veteran Al Young.
The Wilson girls’ basketball team are holding down the number HSSR 7th place ranking entering the play-offs.
Logan Murray leads the Wilson girls in scoring at 20.2 to go with 8.7 rebounds, 3.8 seals and 2.2 assists. Senior Leanissa Swinton is the leading rebounding at 10.3 to go with 8.7 points and 2.9 steals.
Junior Zoey Miller averages 13.7 points, 2.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 2.8 steals. Junior Leah Speers leads in steals at 4.0 and assists at 3.0 to go with 5.7 points and 4.7 rebounds.
“The key for us is staying together and playing team ball,” girls head coach Frank Williams said. “When we play good team ball, we’re very hard to stop.”
One year later the 8th ranked Camden lady Bulldogs have been moved up to Class AAAA with realignment and former high school 6-3 all-American Joyce Edwars is now and South Carolina and former Camden head coach Natalie Norris has stepped down.
Despite all of that, the beat just goes on for the Lady Bulldogs under first-year head coach Lewis Mungo. They are 14-5 overall, 7-2 in Region 3-AAAA.
“This is not a rebuild, it’s a reload,” Mungo said. “Wherever we look there is a sign that says, ‘We believe.’ They see it every day.”
CHS’ region losses both came to undefeated South Pointe, which is ranked No. 1 in the High School Sports Report AAAA girl’s poll. The Lady Bulldogs are ranked eighth and have three region contests left, two of them against 7-2 A.C. Flora, which is ranked 10th.
While expecting his team to be good, Mungo admits to some surprise.
“I’ll be honest; they’ve played above my expectations. We’ve got four 10th-graders and one senior starting. They’re playing at a high level, higher than I thought they would be coming into the season.”
Camden is averaging 70 points per game with four players scoring in double figures.
Sophomore Braylin Mungo, the coach’s daughter and in her fourth year as a starter, was leading in scoring at 16.2, assists at 5.0 and steals at 5.6. Senior Morgan Champion was averaging 15.0 points, 3.8 assists, 3.1 steals and 3.6 rebounds.
Sophomore Harmony Jefferson was averaging 13.4 points and 4.1 steals, and sophomore Jillian Rush was averaging 11.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.0 steals.
Sophomore Shanaryah Wright led in rebounding at 10.1 and blocked shots at 1.2 while scoring at an 8.5 clip.
Coach Mungo said the key for his team the rest of the way is how it plays defense.
“Being consistent on the defensive end will tell the story,” he said. “We can definitely score the ball. We’ve got to prove we can lock in on the defensive end. If we stop them from scoring it makes it a lot easier for us.”
