High-profile high school basketball showcase, Battle at the Rock, releases schedule

The boys Northwestern High School basketball team will open play at the high-profile, national high school basketball showcase that is the Battle at the Rock later this year, the event’s Twitter announced on Wednesday night.

Northwestern is scheduled to play at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12, against an Arizona-based preparatory academy in AZ Compass Prep. Also that day, Dorman’s boys team will play perennial powerhouse Oak Hill at 8 p.m.; Fort Mill’s boys team will play Northside Christian Academy at 5 p.m.; South Pointe’s girls team will play Keenan at 6:30 p.m.; and Legion Collegiate’s boys team will play Combine Academy at 8 p.m.

On Friday, other South Carolina schools will take action: Byrnes’ boys and girls teams, Nation Ford’s boys and girls teams, and Legion Collegiate’s girls team will play throughout the day.

The Rock Hill High School boys and girls teams are scheduled to play on Saturday afternoon.

The second iteration of the annual event, which will take place Dec. 12-14, will take place at Nation Ford High School, like it did last year.

Nationally-known talent will be in this year’s showcase, including five-star recruit Milaysia Fulwiley, from Keenan High School; four-star recruit from Dorman High School, P.J. Hall, who has offers from a variety of schools including Clemson; and more.

Some notable alumni in last year’s showcase include Cole Anthony (now at UNC-Chapel Hill), Armando Bacot (now at UNC-Chapel Hill), Josiah James (now at Tennessee) and others.

“Running nationally recognized events throughout the region, we are excited to be working with a first-class organization like Visit York County,” Rick Lewis of Phenom Hoops Report said in a statement. “This event will feature many of the best players from around the country.”

Tickets will be available for sale at the door during the event dates and at designated areas later this month, according to a provided press release.

For more information, visit the event’s website.

This story was originally published October 16, 2019 at 7:28 PM.

Alex Zietlow

The Herald

Alex Zietlow writes about sports and the ways in which they intersect with life in York, Chester and Lancaster counties for The Herald, where he has been an editor and reporter since August 2019. Zietlow has won nine S.C. Press Association awards in his career, including First Place finishes in Feature Writing, Sports Enterprise Writing and Education Beat Reporting. He also received two Top-10 awards in the 2021 APSE writing contest and was nominated for the 2022 U.S. Basketball Writers Association’s Rising Star award for his coverage of the Winthrop men’s basketball team.