‘They looked pretty sharp.’ Clover basketball notches pair of rivalry wins over York.

Clover swept York on Friday night in a pair of rivalry games. Here’s what you need to know.

Girls game: Alyesha Wade leads

The Clover Blue Eagles held York to three first-half points and dominated from start to finish in a 56-11 victory over the Cougars Friday night at Clover High School.

Clover led 30-3 at halftime as Clarenda Young had all three Cougar points. Aleysha Wade led all scorers in the game with 17 points for Clover. Young led York (3-4) with eight. With the win, the Blue Eagles move to 7-1 on the young season.Clover held the Cougars scoreless in the second period and to only one point in the final eight minutes.

Only three Cougars scored. Janelle Carter had 10 points for the Blue Eagles.

Clover will play host to Kings Mountain on Monday night while the Cougars will welcome Indian Land.

Boys game: ‘We all shot it well’

The Clover Blue Eagles dress to impress in pregame, with blue blazers stitched with the block-C and blue eagle, blue and white striped ties, and khakis.

“That’s something I’ve thought about doing for a while,” Clover head coach Bailey Jackson said.

“They looked pretty sharp.”

Indeed they did: The home team got 21 first-half points from Markus Nastase to build a 37-18 lead at halftime, and it stiff-armed the York Cougars in the second half to hold onto that edge and gain a 67-48 rivalry win Friday night in Clover.

York (3-2) cut the lead to 13 with a 12-2 run in the third period, but that’s as close as they would get. Nastase led all scorers with 27 points, and Malik Proctor had 19 to lead York. Zy Brown had 13 for the Cougars, and Donavon Fitzgerald also had 11 for Clover.

The Blue Eagles (2-3) hit six three-pointers in the first period, three from Nastase, to lead 19-8 after the first eight minutes.

“We all shot it well,” Jackson said. “But that’s what we’re capable of. We haven’t shot it well the last two games, and we played teams that play defense just like York does.”

Nastase had 12 points in the second period.

“Markus, when he’s seeing a big basket he hits a lot of shots,” Jackson said.

The Cougars gave the Blue Eagles trouble at times by applying pressure with their quick guards, especially during the third period run to get back into the game.

“That helps us when we play teams in our region like Northwestern,” Jackson said. “We have things we can improve on and we certainly will.”

Clover had some foul trouble at times but York couldn’t capitalize, hitting only 17-of-31 from the free throw line.

Both of Clover’s teams will return home against Kings Mountain on Monday.