You Have to Plan Ahead

Some people might say you are putting the cart before the horse but in order to make things happen you must plan ahead. The Nash County Relay for Life doesn't just happen three hours before the event April 23rd.

Knowing that Time Warner Cable has the broadcasting rights to the State basketball tournament next week in both Raleigh and Chapel Hill, I spoke with Rick Strunk of the NCHSAA earlier this week about broadcasting the Rocky Mount game if they made it and he referred me to Time Warner.

Promptly I received a call from them and to my surprise since Rocky Mount is not tied in to Time Warner but with Suddenlink they have given us the right to replay the State Championship game next Sunday night on WHIG-TV. Here is the real winner. It's free to WHIG since we are not in Time Warner area. I am delighted we can get a copy of the game.

We also started trying to get one of the local radio stations to broadcast the game live Saturday night from the Dean Dome. WZAX 99.3 is in the works trying to sell advertising to get the game live on Radio. Please contact Wes Bradshaw or myself if you can be a part of the state championship broadcast. We will not get on unless the can get enough support(MONEY) to do it.

My wife Pat saw her first Gryphon basketball game since we moved to Rocky Mount in 1995 yesterday. I started on the way home from the game giving her wouldn't this be neat to go to the Carolina baseball game Saturday in Durham as Carolina and Duke begin ACC baseball season and watch Brian Goodwin play for Carolina an then head to Dean's Dome for the basketball game. At least she hasn't said no to that yet.

The Gryphons will play Concord the champions of the South Piedmont Conference. They are 25-6 over all and we will talk more on them as the week progresses.

Baseball suffered their first defeat of the season losing to Ardrey Kell 7-2 yesterday in Cary.

Finally let's give a big clap to Nancy Thai is she has won the Park Scholarship to N C State. Like athletes when several schools are trying to lure you to come to their school Nancy is in the running for several other scholarships and will wait before deciding to accept or not.

Emily Capps of Northern Nash also won the Park and I be lived she has already accepted.