Gryphon Population Grows

This has been a pretty good week for Kent and Emily Cox.

Early in the week, the announcement came that Kent had been named the new head baseball coach at Rocky Mount. Friday, the news got even better in the Cox household as Caleb Patrick Cox was born - their first son. I heard this morning in church that Kent had Caleb in the batting cage yesterday.

Congratulations to Emily and Kent!

There have been so many rumors about Rocky Mount football before B.W. Holt resigned. One of those rumors was that Chad Smith would would be an assistant on the staff again next year. Holt's resignation kind of blew the doors off that rumor and I see through the Gryphon Grapevine that Smith is returning to near his home in Pickens, S.C.

Chad maybe was not ready to be a head coach of a program that was as down as Northern Nash's was at the time he took over, but Chad is a football coach and he will get another chance at some point.

Right now, Post 58's players are coming off an outstanding five-game stretch. All five have been conference games and in all five, they have scored at least 11 runs and as many as 28.

Since Thursday, Post 58 has hit more than 10 home runs - including a shot Saturday night by Tyler Clark that cleared the score board at Fleming Stadium. Anyone who has ever seen a game at Fleming knows that is a poke.

Tonight they are in Edenton playing Post 40. If they can win tonight ,they have a conference game at home Monday against Ahoskie and another Thursday against Tarboro.

A victory would clinch first place in the regular season for Post 58 if they win in Edenton Sunday. Two victories would give them first place when the playoffs start.

They are now 7-1 on the season and 5-0 in conference.

If there was one good thing about all the rain at the U.S. Open Golf Championship, I got to watch golf until dark both Saturday and Sunday. There should be a new champion of American golf around 2 p.m. Monday.

I really like that the U.S. Open Men's and Women's Championships will be at Pinehurst No. 2 in 2014 in back-to-back weeks. But, if I am a woman player, I would not like the idea because several players come early the week before to practice and if the men are there, they will not get practice at he course.