![]() “That was just fun to watch and, you know, fairways and greens and you’ve got to make some putts,” said Jody O’Neal. McNeill of Pinecrest replicated the score at Southern Pines Country Club in 1999. Chris Tucker of Central Cabarrus shot 62 at Cabarrus Country Club in 1971 and J.D. ![]() O’Neal eclipsed the mark of 62 held jointly but achieved 28 years apart. “The only thing, the only problem with that is you really don’t know like certain chips or wedge shots are going to skid or if they’re going to stop and grip,” he added. At the state 2-A tournament, Nate ended in a three-way tie for second a stroke off the lead while Drew took sixth. Drew won the regional for the first time while Nate, the two-time defending champ, finished second. The O’Neals led Beddingfield to its second straight 2-A Neuse 6 Conference title and third straight overall while winning their second consecutive 2-A East Regional. O’Neal was able to witness another pretty special event when the boys golf season rolled around and his twin sons, Nate and Drew started wrecking courses again. “And I had no clue what any of the records were like that but just after the game, it kind of blew up and pretty special for her.” I think somebody at halftime had mentioned something about, maybe it was one of the referees that said something about it,” he said. Jody O’Neal said that he was only focusing on 50 points as a nice career milestone, unaware of the NCHSAA records for 3-pointers that were in the balance. Briggs would hit 12 in another game later in the season but came out in in the blowout win over Princeton. She finished the season with 123, the most in the state across all associations, and that ranks third all-time. ![]() 29, 2021.īriggs alone tied the NCHSAA team record for 3-pointers in a half and Beddingfield ranks in the top 10 for a team in a game with Briggs’ 13. Briggs broke the record for 3-pointers in a half that was 10 and tied the 13 in a game made by Enka’s Emily Carver on Jan. ![]() Just wanted to get her in to get that and then take her out after that.”īriggs finished with 50 points, which tied the school record set by Gloria Burks in her senior season of 1981-82, and landed her in the top 25 all-time in single-game scoring. … I kept her in at the beginning of the fourth quarter, just so she could get another one when she was two points away from 50 and that’s pretty special. “It was really just one of those special nights where she was just starting to hit, the girls were really looking for her in transition - and they did all year - but just the way that game played out and for her to only play. “That game, as the game progressed, I felt like I was more of a fan than a coach,” said Jody O’Neal. 27, Briggs set an NCHSAA record with 12 3-pointers in the first half and tied another mark with 13 total treys in the game on her way to 50 points. That actually set a new state mark but it was matched by Aiden Vargosco of Stuart Cramer High in Cramerton just eight days later.īeddingfield senior Daneesha Briggs (22) fires a 3-point shot attempt over a Goldsboro player during a game Feb. Classmate O’Neal claimed his spot in the record book a little more than two months later when he fired a 61 in the first 2-A Neuse 6 Conference match of the season at Wedgewood. Briggs set the girls basketball scoring record for 3-pointers in a half with 12 and her 13 treys for the game also tied the NCHSAA record. The Beddingfield High senior duo of Daneesha Briggs and Nate O’Neal each established a new NCHSAA benchmark. It’s not often that a Wilson County student-athlete will set a state record, but it’s downright special when two student-athletes from the same high school etch their names in the NCHSAA record book in one school year. Both Briggs and O’Neal, along with twin brother Nate O’Neal, earned spots in the NCHSAA record book this past year. Beddingfield High seniors Daneesha Briggs, left, and Drew O’Neal were saluted as the school’s female and male scholar-athletes of the year, respectively, during an awards program last month. ![]()
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