Transfer: Sage Surratt to Lincolnton High School
East Lincoln’s Sage Surratt to transfer to Lincolnton HS. Photo courtesy of Gaston Gazette One of North Carolina’s most prolific scorer’s in basketball is planning to transfer from East Lincoln High School to rival Lincolnton High School. Rising senior shooting…
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Continue ReadingOne of North Carolina’s most prolific scorer’s in basketball is planning to transfer from East Lincoln High School to rival Lincolnton High School. Rising senior shooting guard Sage Surratt amassed 2,015 career points in three-seasons at East Lincoln HS. He is the Lincoln County record holder for most points scored in a season and a career. He was selected All-State by the Associated Press last season. His point guard and quarterback brother Chazz Surratt has moved on, now a freshman playing football at North Carolina with a open invite to walk-on the basketball team.
Surratt has basketball offers from Charlotte and Appalachian State along with a high-major list of football offers including UNC, Duke, ECU, Wake Forest, Harvard and Yale. He averaged nearly 32 points per game this past season at East Lincoln High School and plays on the Under Armour circuit with Team Charlotte coached by Jeff McInnis, a former North Carolina point guard.
I had a chance to talk with Sage after his recent Charlotte offer, “I think it is a good program and I really want to learn more about it. Playing for a Hall of Fame coach would be neat. I don’t know yet if I am going to play both sports in college yet.”
East Lincoln High School finished runner-up last season in the NCHSAA 2-A state championship game to Farmville Central High School. Where Surratt is to transfer, Lincolnton High School finished with a 22-6 record last season ending with a 3-point loss to a Surratt-led East Lincoln HS team in the third-round of NCHSAA playoffs.
Lincolnton High School will have to replace 7-footer Raekwon Long who graduated and will be attending Florida International University, but will return four players off last years’ squad including 6’5 junior wing Cordell Littlejohn (also football quarterback) and 6’5 junior three-point specialist Robbie Cowie.