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 For one area high school, it was business as usual, for another, it was school history in the making, but both the Asheville High School girls basketball team and the Pisgah High School boys basketball team brought home state championships on Saturday, March 12, 2005. Asheville High’s girls recorded an impressive “three-peat” against a very tough opponent, winning their third state championship in as many years. The team, loaded with tall and talented players, defeated High Point Central at NC State’s Reynolds Coliseum, 72-65, making it the tightest score the team has had since November. The team finished the season with a perfect 32-0 record. Asheville’s 6’-5” post player, Danielle Burgin, was named MVP, and battled a tough, fellow 6’-5” opponent who is currently being recruited by the University of Connecticut. Burgin scored a team-high 18 points and had 11 rebounds. Asheville’s only loss, it seems, will be six very valuable seniors, many of who will continue their basketball careers in college. Rashanda McCants (11 points, 15 rebounds), who fouled out of Saturday’s game with minutes to go, will join her basketball-star brother, Rashad McCants, a UNC-Chapel Hill next year. Lauren Powell (17 points, 7 rebounds) will be on the roster at Western Carolina next year. Pisgah High School’s boys basketball team made history on Saturday at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill by not only recording a perfect season – the first in school history – but by winning the 2A state championship – the first in school history. Pisgah defeated Warren County, 66-41, and junior center Jake Robinson earned Most Valuable Player honors with his game-high 23 points and 19 rebounds. A huge crowd of Pisgah supporters chanted their now familiar “We believe” throughout the game in Chapel Hill, just as they did throughout the team’s regular season and post-season play. The Pisgah Black Bears are also losing six seniors, all of who have played together since middle school. Pisgah finished the season with a 29-0 record, but also compiled a remarkable 54-2 record over the past two seasons.
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