Cardiac Canes

Like they have done all year the Rocky Mount Gryphon bats were alive against a lower division team of the New-6. Tonight the Bats smoked Southern Nash 11-0 in a five inning affair.

Benton Moss the Gryphon sophomore remained undefeated in his high school career notching his 13th high school win without a loss. Much like the Energizer Bunny Moss just keeps on doing what ever Pat Smith ask of him. Pitch once every three weeks or take the hill In the eastern finals Benton keeps doing what the team needs.

Gryphons have company at the top of the standing as the one thing that Gryphon fans didn't want was either Fike or Northern to sweep today's double header at Northern. Tyler Joyner two hit Fike in the opener and Joyner and Tyler Clark hit homers in a 5-0 win. In game two Northern once again won by five winning the night cap 7-2.

A week and a half left in the regular season Northern now has the bottom rung of the conference left to play while the Gryphons still have a matchup with Fike next week.

I smell a playoff game coming.

Rocky Mount and Northern are both 6-1 in the conference while Fike falls to 4-3. The real race is who will finish fourth as Southwest Edgecombe, Nash Central, and Southern Nash all are alive for the #4 spot and the playoffs.

Tonight I came home from revival at our church and saw the last two periods of the Hurricanes game with New Jersey. Around the three minute mark of the third period during a commercial I fired up my computer to write about how the Canes played well but lose a good one to New Jersey.

The headline on NHL.com says all you need to know. Cane you believe it. Jussi Jokinen scored for the Canes with 1.20 to play in the third period. Surely that will at least get us to overtime. Not so fast my friend. Eric Staal scored with 31.8 seconds to play and and the Canes had stolen an opening round series from New Jersey 4-3.

Up next the Boston Bruins the number one seed in the eastern conference but on ESPN tonight during the high lights of tonights game Barry Melrose predicted the Canes would beat the Bruins. He also picked the Canes over the Devils.