Eastern Regional Information
For the fifth time in the last six seasons, the Wildcats find themselves making the trip south to Fayetteville to participate in the 4A Eastern Regionals. The #2 seeded Wildcats will square off on Thursday night against #3 Seventy First. Tip-off is scheduled at 8:30 and that game will be the conclusion of a quadruple header at the Crown Coliseum.
Tonight:
The game will begin 15 minutes after the conclusion of the 7:00 PM #1 Garner vs. #4 South Central game, the winner of that game will play the winner of the Millbrook/Seventy First game on Saturday at 2:00 PM in the Crown Coliseum
Directions:
All 4A Eastern Regional games will be played at the Crown Coliseum located at the Crown Complex in Fayetteville, NC.
The address for the Crown Coliseum is,
1960 Coliseum Drive
Fayetteville, North Carolina - 28306
Directions from Millbrook to the Crown Coliseum can be found by clicking HERE
Parking:
Below is a map of the parking lot at the Crown Complex. We will be playing in the Coliseum, NOT the Arena. It is recommended that you park in the North VIP Lot or the West VIP Lot and proceed to the closest ticket window at the entrance.
Fans:
Admission to all 4A Eastern Regional games is $9. The theme for Thursday night is a White Out, all Millbrook Maniacs are advised to sit in Section 103 behind the Millbrook bench. Below is a map of the Crown Coliseum, seating is general admission in the pink area of the arena. There will be a sign over section 103 that will read “Home Student Section”. The Wildcats will be the home team for Thursday night's game. The blue area marked with a “1” is the Maniac Section, the area marked “2” will be the Wildcats bench, the area marked “3” is where the Cheerleaders will be located, area “4” is the main entrance to the Coliseum.
History:
Before we get into this year's regional, we take a look back at how Millbrook has fared in recent
regionals. Minges Coliseum on the campus of East Carolina was the host of Eastern Regionals six seasons ago in 2010, and the Wildcats fell 59-49 to future NC State star, and current Phoenix Sun, TJ Warren and Riverside. Donzell Hill had 19 points and 12 rebounds in the loss for Millbrook.
The next year the Wildcats found themselves back at Regionals, this time in Fayetteville's Crown Coliseum and it was a rather memorable two games for the 2011 Millbrook team as they pulled an amazing
upset of undefeated Terry Sanford in the semi-final, 47-41 behind DaVon Silvera's 15 points, then in the regional final, the Wildcats knocked off eastern powerhouse, New Hanover to advance to the first and only state championship in the program's history. Junior's Shi'Chee Moore and Karon Blount both had 19 points in the 73-67 win that night.
It was a third straight regional berth for Millbrook in 2012 as they upset Garner in the 3rd Round on the road. Once again, New Hanover stood in the Wildcats way and despite a huge second half comeback, New Hanover was just too much as they went on to win in the final seconds, 42-40. Karon Blount led Millbrook in scoring that night with 13 points, followed by Carlee Clemons' 12.
It wasn't until last season that the Wildcats found themselves back at Regionals. Once again they were at the Crown Coliseum and in the semi-final, the dispatched of Panther Creek rather easily 82-74 behind Chris Clemons' 22 points. With a trip to the state championship on the line in the regional final the next night, Millbrook would just come up short to the eventual state champions in Apex by a score of 63-57. Chris Clemons once again was the leading scorer for the Wildcats but he only managed to muster 12 points in the loss.
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