By CHRIS HOBBS
HobbsDailyReport.com
DAVIDSON – High-scoring freshman Mallorie Haines has left Bandys High and will attend and play basketball next at Davidson Day.
Haines – a 5-foot-8 guard-forward who averaged 28.5 points in Bandys’ first 12 games — starts school on Wednesday morning at Davidson Day. Her first game with the Patriots (7-3) is Thursday night when Community School of Davidson visits Davidson Day.
Haines’ mother, Tanya Hall, confirmed her daughter’s move in a phone interview on Tuesday night with HobbsDailyReport.com.
Haines was not in the lineup Tuesday night when Bandys played at East Lincoln, a 61-35 loss in the South Fork 2A that dropped the Trojans to 8-5 overall.
She played middle school basketball for one season at Mill Creek after her family moved back to North Carolina from California. Haines attended Sherrills Ford Elementary before the move to California, her mother said.
In her most recent outing for the Trojans, Haines scored 25 points in a 62-33 victory over West Lincoln in the Peoples Bank Holiday Clash last Friday at West Lincoln.
Her biggest scoring game came Nov. 21 in a 66-65 victory at Bunker Hill, where she scored 48 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and made nine steals. That came in her second varsity game for Bandys.
The 48 points are the most scored in a game by a Bandys girl in available records back to 1970. Hainor’s total eclipsed a 46-point game by Mitzi Yount Story – now principal at Tuttle Elementary – on Feb. 29, 1986.
Story’s output came in a sectional final title game against Newton-Conover at Lenoir-Rhyne University. The Trojans won 68-64 to gain a West 2A Regionals berth.