Tonight begins the High school basketball playoffs and either you win and move on or put up the equipment until next year. Rocky Mount begins their playoff journey at home as the girls host West Carteret and the boys Jacksonville.
Tonight Morgan Doughtie sings the National Anthem around 6.00pm just before the girls game. This time of year I am at WHIG-TV at 6.00 doing the Relay For Life show but will be late tonight in order to watch Morgan. I'll be back to the game as soon as TV is over.
I am not a fan of split conferences. Some teams are 3-A while some are 4-A all playing in the same league. Hunt who is the #3 seed from our conference. Should they win tonight and West Brunswick wins as a #2 seed from the Waccamaw conference then Hunt second round game would be at West Brunswick. West Brunswick is 1-18 on the year an get a home game tonight in the first round. West Brunswick is the second best 3-A in a mostly 4-A league. To say the least there are holes in the seeding system in high school sports.
The two biggest division one baseball players from our area last year have finished their first weekend of college baseball. Rocky Mount's Brian Goodwin started all three games in right field for Carolina. His first college hit was a triple and drove in two runs. For the weekend Brian had three RBI's and on another at bat advance a runner into scoring position that eventually scored.
Tyler Joyner of Northern Nash took the mound for ECU yesterday in the top of the second inning with ECU already down 5-1 and runners on second and third. He pitched 1.1 innings of relief and gave up three runs on three hits. This was a real hot spot to bring in a freshman pitching against the #2 team in the country in Virginia. This just shows you what Billy Godwin thinks of TJ. He had enough confidence in him to bring him in to pitch his first college baseball game at the most important time for ECU all weekend. The Pirates lost 14-11.
The Charlotte Bobcats as we speak are now 27-27 on the season. Last week they lost to the New Jersey Nets the worse team in pro basketball, then Friday night they beat LaBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers the best team in basketball. Just shows you what and average team can do, be the great one night and sorry the next.
Just a note I will blog after tonight's playoff games so Tuesday's blog will come by 11.00pm tonight.
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