Cox Named New Baseball Coach

Kent Cox JV Baseball coach at Rocky Mount for the past ten years has been named as the new baseball coach at Rocky Mount High School.

Cox a graduate of Tarboro High school lead the Babe Ruth team in 2004 that finished 3rd in the World Series that was played in Wilson at Fleming stadium. Kent has also been for the past six years the JV football defensive coordinator during the Baby Gryphons run where they lost less than ten games in that stretch.

Cox will take over for Pat Smith who retired at the end of the school year who has taken the Gryphons to the state title in 2008.

Kent’s family consist of wife Emily, daughter and a new little Gryphon expected to arrive this Friday.

North Carolina survived the first elimination game in the college world series by beating Southern Mississippi 11-4. Dustin Ackley needed three hits to become the all time hit leader in world series history got five in leading the Heels to another day of baseball Thursday night. They will play Arizona State who blew a 6-0 lead and lost to Texas 10-6.

Southern Mississippi getting knocked out leaves six fighting for the National Championship.

Sammy Sosa's name has now come out as being a steroid users in 2003. I think we all knew that he used. It's time to release all the names of the 2004 testing done by major league baseball that failed. The test in 2004 showed that 10% of the players were using drugs and brought on the MLB drug testing policy that they use today.

I think we need to know just so the player who didn't have a fair shake at the Hall of Fame with lesser numbers over those who did.