{"id":112176,"date":"2026-01-25T21:08:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112176\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:08:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:08:24","slug":"caleb-queens-big-game-cant-quite-lead-west-rowan-over-salisbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/112176\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Queen&#8217;s Big Game Can&#8217;t Quite Lead West Rowan over Salisbury"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nc\/mt-ulla\/west-rowan-falcons\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">West Rowan<\/a> lost to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nc\/salisbury\/salisbury-hornets\/basketball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salisbury<\/a> back in January of 2025 and unfortunately they wound up with the same result  on Tuesday. The  game between the Falcons and the Hornets didn&#8217;t end well, with the Falcons falling  80-66. While losing is never fun, the Falcons can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; North Carolina basketball rankings (they are ranked 264th, while the Hornets are ranked 104th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"> West Rowan lost  despite a true team effort on offense. The best among them was  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nc\/mt-ulla\/west-rowan-falcons\/athletes\/caleb-queen\/?careerid=eoigfeu8ihn88\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Caleb Queen<\/a>, who  posted 14 points and six  rebounds. The team also got some help courtesy of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nc\/mt-ulla\/west-rowan-falcons\/athletes\/jaylen-donaldson\/?careerid=ulfgj3i30e477\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jaylen Donaldson<\/a>, who  went 5-for-12  on his way to 15  points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\"> Salisbury was led to victory by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nc\/salisbury\/salisbury-hornets\/athletes\/braylon-taylor\/?careerid=3sm22jae4b666\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Braylon Taylor<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nc\/salisbury\/salisbury-hornets\/athletes\/jonathan-ross\/?careerid=n7glr852mmb44\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jonathan Ross<\/a>.  Taylor  scored 27 points along with eight  assists and seven  boards, while  Ross  earned 21  points and six  steals. Those  eight  assists gave  Taylor a new career-high. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/nc\/salisbury\/salisbury-hornets\/athletes\/royce-perkins\/?careerid=ki7uq6tdjb7m6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Royce Perkins<\/a> was another key player,  putting up eight points and four  steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\">West Rowan&#8217;s loss dropped their record down to 8-8. As for Salisbury, they are  on a roll lately: they&#8217;ve  won seven of their last nine matchups. That&#8217;s provided a nice bump to their 12-5 record  this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:5\"> West Rowan wasted no time getting back out on the court and has already played their next  contest,  a  57-52  win against East Rowan on the 23rd. As for Salisbury, they have also already played their next game,  a  79-57  victory against Northwest Cabarrus on the 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Rowan lost to Salisbury back in January of 2025 and unfortunately they wound up with the same&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-112176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}