'Survive and advance' is the name of the game come playoff time.
For the Bunker Hill Lady Bears' varsity girls basketball team, it did just that in first-round action of the North Carolina High School Athletic Association 2A West state playoffs.
These two programs just came off of a close encounter on Feb. 3 in which Maiden came into enemy territory and knocked off the No. 1 team in the South Fork 2A Conference, 67-64.
Coming off of a big win over then South Fork 2A Conference third-place holder Lake Norman Charter (7-4) on Friday, Feb. 5, the Lady Blue Devils returned home for a match-up with another team of Lady Knights.
Coming off a tough road contest against Patton on Thursday night – in which the Lady Tigers outlasted a rally in the fourth quarter to pull out the 59-52 win – the Fred T. Foard varsity girls basketball team returned to Jerry Copas Gymnasium on Friday with much more aggression from the outset.
The Lady Red Devils varsity basketball team (5-0, 5-0 South Fork 2A) came out with reckless abandon en route to a 63-18 win over North Lincoln (1-1, 1-1 South Fork 2A) on Wednesday night.