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GREENSBORO — In March, Helen Terry dismantled Ken Beaty's Gastonia Forestview team to help Dudley win the 3-A state championship.

On Monday night, Beaty finally got a chance to unleash Terry on someone else.

The former Panthers star, now at Charleston Southern, scored 10 points, including eight straight during a 13-0 run in the second quarter, to help the West to an 87-77 win in the 35th annual N.C. Coaches Association East-West All-Star Game at the Greensboro Coliseum.

Terry has been at college since June to take two summer classes and work out with the team, including some outdoor runs that have shocked her system.

"You work harder because there's more competition," said Terry, who will play behind a sophomore at point guard. "And because I'm smaller than everybody, I've got to work extra hard to get stronger."

The 5-foot-2 Terry showed why size has never been an issue, flying into traffic to grab rebounds (she had five) and pestering ballhandlers so tightly up the floor even their shadows couldn't breathe. Her second-quarter spurt gave the West a 45-32 halftime lead, and the East would never get closer than 10.

East Davidson's Anna Freeman (Appalachian State) had nine rebounds and five blocks for the West — one more than everyone else in the game — and Southeast Guilford's Paris Alston, the last player added to the West roster, finished with nine points and seven rebounds.

"It'll help a lot going off to college," said Alston, who will play for S.C. State. "It was real cool. I had fun."

LaKevia Boykin of Southeast Raleigh led the East with 19 points, and N.C. A&T-bound Amber Calvin of Hope Mills South View added 13 points and five steals.

Reidsville's Eleisha Hairston is getting her first look at future Elon teammate Ali Ford this summer, so she had an idea that Ford's 20-point, MVP performance might be possible.

"I knew what she could do," said Hairston, who had three points, four rebounds and three steals. "She does what you want all point guards to do. She looks up, she advances the ball, she doesn't look for her shot but she takes it."

Ford, the NCHSAA Female Athlete of the Year from Morganton Freedom, hit 4-of-6 3-pointers and finished 8-of-12 from the field.

Hairston said she's been getting up at 5:15 a.m. to get to Elon's 6 a.m. summer practices. Asked the last time she set her alarm for 5:15 before that, the answer was an emphatic never.

Another of Hairston's incoming Phoenix teammates, Kelsey Evans of Raleigh Wakefield, played for the East team Monday, so Hairston asked the West squad to forgive her for cheering for Evans' baskets, too.

"Anybody who says it isn't about winning, it is," Hairston said.

Contact Tom Keller at 373-7034 or tom.keller@news-record.com

East 13 19 20 25 — 77
West 15 30 25 17 — 87

East — LaKevia Boykin 19, Amber Calvin 13, Sarah Wollett 8, Jazmine Cooper 7, Sasha Millington 7, Alyssa Leubs 6, Asia Williams 6, Shontel Mallory 6, Kelsey Evans 4, Tierra Coleman 1.

West — Ali Ford 20, Christal Caldwell 13, Helen Terry 10, Shay Jones 9, Paris Alston 9, Keyrra Gillespie 8, Jai Forney 7, Anna Freeman 4, Jazmin Cromartie 4, Eleisha Hairston 3.