East Regional Begins Tonight

There was doubt whether the east regional would wait another day until near noon today before the officials deemed the roads safe to let teams travel to their perspective regional games. It wasn't so much getting there but what happens tonight when teams who have traveled 100 miles or more head home with possible black ice on the roads.

Now a day behind instead of two games Wednesday and Thursday the Tuesday games missed out by the weather yesterday will be made up at 5.00pm, one on Wednesday and one on Thursday. Rocky Mount will still play at 7.00pm Thursday but there will be a game in progress if you are planning to attend the games.

There will be no live radio of the game but the "Stretchlon Sports Show" will be there taping the game and hopefully Saturday also. Should Rocky Mount win Thursday the game Saturday will be played back Sunday night on WHIG at 8.00pm.

If you are staying home "The Rocky Mount Telegram" will blog live from the game so that is about as live as you are going to get for the playoffs. Wes Bradshaw like during football season will be updating NC Preps so there is two as live as you are going to get sources.

Girls soccer opened their season with a 2-0 win at D H Conley. They are home Thursday at 4.00pm meeting C B Aycock. Girls softball season starts Thursday as the Lady Gryphon softball team will host Tarboro at "Mutt" Wilson Park at 4.00pm. Baseball kicks it season off Friday when they travel to Riverside and then Saturday meet Aubrey Kell in the Baseball classic at the USA Baseball complex in Cary.

HOW bout those Heels! 2,000 wins in 100 years. If you are a non math major that's 20 wins a year.

I tried Tuesday night to watch a replay of the defensive backs combine workouts and saw Stephan Virgil several times still in his warmups. The replay was 3 hours and 43 minutes long and I just didn't have enough time to see him during his combine workouts. I think he was right in the middle. All the reports I have seen are talking about the DB's who were great or terrible and he was not in either category.

When the NFL draft comes up at the end of April look for the former Gryphon to go in the 4th or 5th round.

I will not blog Thursday until after the basketball game in Greenville so it will probably be 11.00pm before I have a story up on the blog. I have to be in Richmond at 8.00am Friday so I will not hang around Minges Thursday night to see who we might play if we win Thursday night.