Danita Whitaker State Champion

The very least Danita Whitaker had a very fruitful 18 hours of her life Thursday night and Friday. The Sports banquet Thursday night Whitaker hauled home the Most Outstanding award in Volleyball, MVP of the girls basketball team and Female Athlete of the year for the Rocky Mount Gryphons.

Friday after the first event in the girls 3-A track championships in Greensboro Whitaker can claim the title of State Champion winning the shot put competition. The top four finishers in each event are awarded All State honors so Whitaker can also claim to be all state in track. There is a banner that hangs in the gym for all state champions with their name of it and Danita's will hang forever at Rocky Mount High School.

South Central the team that beat Rocky Mount in the East regional won the state title while the Gryphons finished eighth. Fike's girls finished 11th and Nash Central 21st.

Gryphon Zikeener Parker finished 3rd in the 100 meter run and also finished 3rd in the 200 meters.

Nash Central's Xaviera Bass finished 4th in the 100 meters and 2nd in the 100 meter hurdles. Nash Central's relay team finished fourth in the 4x200 relay with Jennifer Cofield, Xaviera Bass, Danaisha Pitchford and Jasmine Williams

The boys saw Nash Central finish 9th,Southern Nash 21st, Fike 24th and Rocky Mount 34th.

Justin Hines of Northern Nash finished third in the long jump. Nash Central's 4x800 relay team finished 4th with team members William Ball, Jeremy Judd,Andrew Nguyen and Tevin Richardson.

Tevin Richardson finished second in the 800 meters for Nash Central. Rocky Mount's Paul Lilley crossed the line fourth in the 3200 meter run.

High School baseball playoffs Hunt beat Fike 1-0 to advance to the fourth round to face Eastern Wayne who knocked off West Brunswick 2-0.

Former D H Conley and North Carolina pitcher Alex White's stay in Kinston playing for the Carolina leagues Indians is over. White has moved on to AA Akron.

Big Surprise Sandra Langley who has coached basketball at SouthWest Edgecombe as long as the school has been in Pinetops was surprised Monday night during SouthWest's sport banquet when the Edgecombe County Board Of education announced the gym at SWE will forever be known As Sandra Shelton Langley Gymnasium.

Carolina has been left out in the cold. The Tarheels swept Virginia Tech in baseball this weekend but needed Boston College to lose today in order to make the ACC tournament starting Wednesday and it didn't happen. State swept Duke to take 7th spot and opens Wednesday at 4.00pm against Clemson a team that swept them the opening weekend of conference baseball season way back in March.

ECU won today over Houston and by doing so qualifies for the Conference USA tournament which will be held in Houston.

Did you by chance watch ECU Friday on channel 255 when they played Houston on TV. Sometime around the 5th inning I get a call from Bobby English who wanted to know if I knew the Hunt-Fike score. Bobby says look for me and wife Theresa behind the ECU dugout. I had no more than flipped the channel and sure enough Bobby is sitting just over the right shoulder of every right handed batter whenever the camera from the Houston dugout gave shots of the hitters.