Future Is Bright

This Spring the Lady Gryphons soccer team stopped a seven year conference winning streak at Fike and in doing so won the number one seed in the conference . Three players from that team made all conference. Kelsey Benson, Casey Cooke and Sydney Browder. All three return next year.

I told you I was going to find out what I could about a wooden bat league. Today they play at Faith Christian School's baseball field at 1.00pm. The players from the area that I know about on this team are Former Rocky Mount players Chad Womble, Dillon Cockrell and Gabe Brown. Alex Pearce from Nash Central and Andrew Webb from Northern Nash are some of the players on the team.

Post 58 has not played since last Tuesday night and they will return to action Monday night as they host Wilson Post 13. Post 13 did play another conference game last week and lost to Pitt County Post 39 14-13. I hope being off six days that 58 doesn't show any rust.

The ACC sent four team to the Super regional of the NCAA baseball tournament. Virginia is the only team with zero losses. They can make it to the College World series with a win today over Oklahoma. Florida State can make it to the Series with a win today also but they are tied 1-1 in their series so they could also get sent home with a loss. Clemson loss the first game in their series 5-4 with Alabama and Miami (if you could ever say a team gave a game away this is it) has six errors in losing in extra innings to Florida. Miami's baseball season is over.

I need to vent just a little. I have a daughter Morgan who will turn 16 this Thursday. In no way would I allow her to drive to Raleigh by herself. How in heavens name can any parent allow a sixteen year old get on a sailboat and even try to sail around the world by themselves? This young girl who's mast has been beaten off the boat by high winds and waves is being rescued in the Indian Ocean.

First question who is going to pay all this money wasted on the rescue. There has to be people who become the first to do things. Charles Linburgh the first to fly solo across the Atlantic. Look what that opened up to the world by his courage. I don't see where this young girl being the youngest ever to sail around the world is important at all.

We spend a lot of money rescuing people being stupid. Climbing mountains etc. People have to risk their lives to save these fools. I don't care how bad the economy is, when there is enough money to spend it doing ridiculous things as this then we have too much money.