Croatan girls basketball overcomes 'adversity' to win outright Coastal title

SWANSBORO – Croatan’s Leah Johnson said her girls’ basketball team was fully aware of what was at stake Monday night in the Cougars’ regular season finale at Swansboro. “We knew if we won, we would get the conference all to ourselves undefeated, but if we lost, we would have to share it,” the sophomore said. “Coach said before the game that we don’t share. That was our mentality going into the game and it really helped us.” It sure did. Despite missing two injured starters,...