The four Bladen County high school basketball teams received bids to the N.C. High School Athletic Association playoffs.

ROSE HILL — An improbable run to a seemingly impossible goal has put the East Bladen boys’ basketball team atop the Carolina Conference.

FAIRMONT — Senior Tylik McCall lit up the scoreboard with 31 points and a 14-2 fourth quarter spurt carried West Bladen to the Southeastern 3A/4A/5A boys’ tournament championship with a 64-55 victory over Fairmont on Friday night.

ROSE HILL — The East Bladen girls’ basketball team knew it had to contain Lakewood’s Areona McKoy in order to win the Carolina Conference tournament championship.

A Bladen County Sheriff’s Office deputy and a suspect who had multiple arrest warrants on file were shot Friday morning in the area of the 600 block of Pine Acres Road in White Oak, the Sheriff’s Office reported.

A comeback for the ages Thursday night lifted the West Bladen boys’ basketball team into Friday’s championship game of the Southeastern Conference tournament.

BLADENBORO — Jeniyah and Racquel Whittington combined for 25 points Thursday in leading the Elizabethtown girls to a 26-23 victory against Bladenboro in Bladen County middle school basketball.

ROSE HILL — Lakota Schmale poured in 34 points Thursday in the East Bladen boys’ junior varsity basketball team lost to East Columbus 64-55 in the semifinals of the Carolina Conference tournament played at Union High School.