NCISAA State Championships: Noteworthy Guards

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I was able to catch the NCISAA 2A, 3A, and 4A state championship games on Saturday that were held at North Raleigh Christian.  Six teams came to compete against one another from across the state trying to take home some hardware.  Let's take a look at the guards from the games that you should know including some new names.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["686468"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"u003cp class=u0022p1u0022u003eAle'na Lewis was doing a nice job attacking the basket battling contact for her points.u003cspan class=u0022Apple-converted-spaceu0022u003e  u003c/spanu003eShe set 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