North Carolina
Princeton women top NC State 64-63 in March Madness opener
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Grace Stone is making a behavior of game-winning jumpers for the streaking Princeton Tigers.
“She’s received ice in her veins. She has that look in her eyes and you understand she’s gonna make a play. She’s gonna hit a shot,” Princeton coach Carla Berube mentioned.
Stone scored 22 factors, together with her fifth 3-pointer of the sport with 4.7 seconds remaining, to raise Tenth-seeded Princeton to an exhilarating 64-63 win over North Carolina State within the first spherical of the ladies’s NCAA Match on Friday evening.
“That’s a shot I’ve taken in a recreation earlier than and my teammates have all the arrogance on the planet in me,” mentioned Stone, who hit game-winners in opposition to Columbia and Rhode Island earlier this season.
Kaitlyn Chen, who additionally scored 22 factors, made a 3-pointer with 55 seconds remaining to chop the Tigers’ deficit to 63-61 after which Madison St. Rose and Stone each got here up with steals within the last minute to provide the Tigers an opportunity.
On North Carolina State’s last possession, the Tigers created chaos — as that they had achieved all recreation lengthy — and knocked the ball free to stop the seventh-seeded Wolfpack from getting a shot off.
St. Rose “received her hand on the ball after which I feel all people dove on the ball,” Berube mentioned, who was then drenched by a “water social gathering “ within the locker room and carried out her press convention all moist.
The Tigers (24-5), who held the Wolfpack scoreless for the ultimate 5:43 of the sport, ran to the middle of the courtroom screaming for jubilation at their unlikely victory.
It’s the second straight season that Princeton has received a first-round recreation. The Tigers beat Kentucky final season earlier than falling to Indiana within the second spherical by some extent.
The Tigers’ males’s and ladies’s groups are the primary Ivy League duo to each advance within the NCAA Match after the boys’s staff upset second-seeded Arizona on Thursday.
“We watched that recreation and checked out one another and mentioned, ‘All proper, we’re subsequent. It’s our flip,’” mentioned Julia Cunningham, who had 14 factors and eight assists for the Tigers.
Mimi Collins scored 14 factors and Madison Hayes and Jaki Brown-Turner every had 10 factors however the Wolfpack missed their last 5 photographs and had 5 turnovers down the stretch.
“We received the photographs that we needed. A few of them rimmed out and in. They’re protection was good, however I really feel like … our photographs simply weren’t falling,” Collins mentioned.
Aziaha James was the catalyst in pushing the Wolfpack’s (20-12) result in 63-55 with a steal and back-to-back layups with 5:44 to play however they didn’t rating once more.
“It’s a troublesome loss. Heartbreaking,” North Carolina State coach Wes Moore mentioned.
The Tigers scored the primary 10 factors of the third quarter however then went chilly in opposition to the Wolfpack’s defensive strain. North Carolina State regained the lead 55-51 by forcing 12 straight misses from Princeton over the ultimate 6:52 of the interval.
“We’ve gone by means of stretches the place we’ve struggled to attain and we all know that our protection goes to maintain us in video games,” Stone mentioned and cited their motto — ‘Protection Travels!’
The Wolfpack began the sport lacking level guard and main scorer Diamond Johnson, who has an ankle damage that has been hobbling her for weeks. They appeared out of kinds and missed their first seven photographs.
To make issues worse, her backup James, who received the beginning, suffered a decrease leg damage with 9:21 left within the second quarter and needed to be helped off the courtroom. She later returned to spark North Carolina State.
However the Wolfpack used their bodily benefit inside to stake a 41-35 halftime lead on the power of submit gamers Collins and Hayes each scoring 10 factors off the bench within the first half.
The Tigers have now received 16 in a row heading right into a matchup with host Utah (the second seed) on Sunday afternoon.
“Wow! Simply so thrilled with that win. I imply, that’s what it’s all about,” Berube mentioned because the Tigers superior. “Now we simply have to take that subsequent step.”
BIG PICTURE
Princeton: The Tigers used protection when their offense sputtered and got here up large when it mattered most. The Tigers solely allowed 52.5 factors a recreation this yr and their tenacity received the day even after they received down by eight factors.
NC State: The Wolfpack arrived with their lowest seed since 2016-17 however appeared to have the expertise and power to regulate the sport. However the Wolfpack couldn’t get clear seems when the Tigers received determined and disruptive. ___
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North Carolina
Vigil held to protest expected veto override of North Carolina immigration bill HB 10
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — A vigil was held outside the state legislature to protest HB 10 — the bill changing the laws on how North Carolina’s sheriffs will need to process undocumented people that they’ve arrested.
That bill, vetoed by Governor Cooper in September, is expected to be overridden by the state’s Republican supermajority this week.
The vigil came just hours after President-elect Donald Trump took to social media, confirming that he would declare a national emergency and use the military to carry out the mass deportations he promised along the campaign trail.
“Where there is injustice we will stand, we will push back,” said Ana Ilarazza-Blackburn, founder of Women Leading Together and an organizer for El Colectivo.
Ilarazza-Blackburn’s been a vocal critic of HB 10 and made the drive up to Monday’s event from Moore County. She said she was stunned by the President-elect’s post about a national emergency on social media.
“It blows my mind. I never thought our country would come to this,” she said.
HB 10 would require North Carolina Sheriffs to follow new protocols should they learn someone who they’ve arrested is undocumented. It requires those sheriffs — once a court order has been issued — to keep those undocumented people in custody until federal agents from ICE can step in. It’s a law that advocates in the immigrant community say will devastate trust among North Carolina’s Latino community.
“What humane, civilized society targets at a community that has helped build them? Where’s the empathy for that and where’s the moral in that?” asked Ilarraza-Blackburn.
Willie Rowe and Clarence Birkhead, Sheriffs of Wake and Durham counties respectively, have publicly spoken out against HB 10 — arguing it takes away their ability to determine how to best serve their communities. Neither sheriff was available to comment for this story.
Conversely, the North Carolina Sheriffs’ Association supports the latest version of HB 10, saying:
“The Association appreciates the legislature for its willingness not to impose onerous recordkeeping requirements on our state’s 100 sheriffs; and not to interject the Attorney General into these judicial matters.”
Monday’s vigil in opposition to that bill — attended by dozens of advocates for North Carolina’s Latino and immigrant communities — stuck a different tone.
“We can see the different ways that the attacks and the racism and the anti-immigrant sentiment is going to be more out there,” said Pilar Rocha-Goldberg, CEO of El Centro Hispano.
Rocha-Goldberg said they’ll continue to organize despite the news out of Washington on Monday.
“We saw it in the past. We saw it here, ice coming to take people from our community with really not the right way to do it. So, yeah, we are very concerned about that,” she said.
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North Carolina
Residential explosion leaves elderly couple injured, house severely damaged: See aftermath
Explosion under investigation in North Carolina neighborhood
An explosion damaged part of a North Carolina home. The owners are in “stable condition,” according to officials.
Officials are investigating a residential explosion that left an elderly couple injured in a North Carolina neighborhood on Sunday.
First responders were called to a home in Weddington, North Carolina on Sunday morning after multiple 911 reports of a large explosion, according to a Union County Government news release. The home sustained “severe damage,” according a statement from the Union County Sheriff’s Office.
Weddington is located about 20 miles south of Charlotte, North Carolina.
The elderly couple who lived in the home were injured, but both are expected to make a full recovery, according to the news release. The 82-year-old man sustained burn injuries and was in stable condition at a burn center, as of Sunday. His 83-year-old wife was treated at a local hospital and has been released.
“We are thankful for the swift and coordinated response from our first responder community,” Jon Williams, Union County fire marshal, said in the news release. “Our thoughts are with the couple and their family as they begin their recovery.”
The cause of the explosion remains under investigation, which is being led by the Union County Fire Marshal’s Office.
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WEDDINGTON, N.C. (AP) — A house exploded and caught fire in suburban Charlotte, North Carolina, injuring two people, authorities said.
Reports came in Sunday morning of an explosion at a home in Weddington that was felt across Union County, the sheriff’s office said. First responders found severe damage to part of a home.
A man who was inside when the explosion happened was burned and taken to a hospital in Winston-Salem, where he was stable Sunday night, officials said. His wife was treated at a hospital and released, officials said. Both were expected to fully recover.
County officials said they believed the explosion was accidental, but the investigation continues.
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