Bandys High senior guard Madi Story is ready for Saturday's state 2A championship game at N.C. State against High Point Andrews. She had to have five stitches to close a cut on her chin that happened in the West 2A Regional title game, a 71-65 double overtime victory over Franklin in Greensboro.
Note: Madi Story's Bandys team (31-0) faces High Point Andrews (24-6) at noon today at N.C. State’s Reynolds Coliseum for the state 2A title.
By CHRIS HOBBS Record Sports Editor
CATAWBA -- Trooper that she is, Bandys High guard Madi Story had an easier time while getting stitches for a cut she sustained in the West 2A Regional than her dad, Mark, did.
About 7:30 p.m. on Saturday night, after a good meal during the return trip from Greensboro, the Storys met up with Mark’s cousin – Dr. Alan Story of Newton Family Physicians – and Madi received five stitches to close a wound under her chin.
Madi Story, a senior who has signed to play for Appalachian State, had never experienced needing stitches. And it didn’t seem to bother her at all, her dad said.
“He said she talked the whole time,” Mark Story said. “It bothered me more than it did her.”
She got a cut in a collision just past mid-court in the Trojans’ 71-65 double overtime victory for the West 2A Regional title Saturday over Franklin at UNC-Greensboro.
Going to field a long inbounds pass, she collided with two Franklin players. She said on Saturday her chin hit the temple of another player and she wasn’t immediately aware it had opened a wound beneath her chin.
“I didn’t even know I was bleeding,” until a referee blew the whistle, Madi Story said. That stopped play with 26.3 seconds left in the second overtime and officials (by rule) told Story to change her jersey.
Story, who wears No. 34, went to the Bandys bench and got sophomore Kaylan Callaway’s No. 21 jersey on and returned.
Before play resumed, game officials also noticed blood on the shorts of Bandys’ Morgan Bibey and sent her to end of the bench so she could hurriedly get into another pair of white game shorts.
Mark Story said Madi’s stitches could come out on Friday but more than likely they’ll be left in as a precaution since she’ll play Saturday.
Bandys coach Kyle Moretz said the Franklin game is the craziest he’s seen in prep basketball and also one of the best he’s ever seen.
“That (blood on uniforms) is a sign of a good championship game right there,” he said.
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