On Thursday, Phenom Hoops traveled to Reidsville, North Carolina for another evening of quality high school basketball between the hometown Rams and the visiting Morehead Panthers. There was a fantastic atmosphere in the gym, as the city of Reidsville certainly seems to show out for their team. So far this season, the Rams (8-5) have been playing primarily through sophomore point guard Breon Pass, but have also embraced the team concept quite well from top to bottom. Coach Curtis Pass has done a great job with this group and has coached them into quality high school contributors. Meanwhile, Morehead (9-6) has maintained a more evenly spread plan of attack and are able to throw out a variety of different lineups, but have mainly played through the junior trio of Shytiek Lampkin, Jarrett Stewart, and Jevan Chandler.

 

This contest opened up in a hurry and Reidsville quickly established themselves as the dominant team by getting out to a double-digit lead before the end of the first quarter. However, Morehead simply refused to go away and seemed to fight back every time Reidsville would start to gain true separation. The first half could