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Raiders ready for breakthrough against rival
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Published: January 22, 2010
One of the best rivalries in the county will be renewed tonight when North Iredell's girls basket-ball team hosts Statesville.
Statesville is the three-time outright defending North Piedmont Conference champion, but it's the Raiders who enter this first meeting of the season between the teams in first place in the conference.
The Raiders (11-2, 6-0 NPC) intend to keep their momentum going and aren't making radical changes in their pursuit to take a two-game lead in the standings over the second-place Greyhounds (9-6, 5-1 NPC).
"We've been working on how we're going to defend," North coach Tami Ramsey said. "Basically, we're not going to really stray away from what we've been doing. … We're just going to get after it and treat it like any other game."
In a way, it's not just another game, though.
Statesville ruled the series the last four years, never losing once to North.
"We haven't beaten them since I've been the head coach of the varsity team," said Ramsey, who took over for longtime Raiders coach Kent Blackwelder in 2006. "I feel like that's incentive enough for our team to not just beat them, but beat them pretty bad. Not only beat them, but get after it and take it to them."
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