Gryphons Sweep Knights On Mabry's Night

If you have ever watched basketball games on any TV in the United States over the past thirty some years then you know of Phil Ford. Tonight Phil Ford moved over to the passenger's seat as Tashawn Mabry became the all time leading scorer in Gryphon basketball history when a three pointer swished the nets in the third quarter.

Mabry lead an all around attack for Rocky Mount as Mabry had 31. He was followed by Detrail Jenkins with 15 and Tecoby Hines with ten. All twelve Gryphons who played scored as Rocky Mount crushes Northern 95-58.

Rocky Mount won the rebounding battle 40-25 but where the Gryphons were impressive was they committed only seven turnovers in the game. The three guard lineup with Tevin Taylor, Darius McKnight and Kenyatta Bulluck has produced good ball handling , outside shooting and excellent pressure on the ball. Either of the three can be the point guard and either can be the shooting guard. a tough match up for any team trying to play Rocky Mount.

The opening game saw the Lady Gryphons pressure Northern all over the court. Northern out rebounded the Gryphons by one at 22-21 but where Rocky Mount dominated is they forced 41 Northern Turnovers while committing 24 themsevles but those seventeen more turnovers produced a nineteen point victory.

Alexis Farmer lead the way scoring 19 points and Danita Whitaker added ten rebounds which was all most half of the Gryphon rebounding total

The first cycle through the conference both Gryphon teams are 5-0. The boys won their fourteenth with only one loss while the girls posted victory #13 with two losses on the season.

The Gryphons are home again Friday night against Nash Central

The NFL Big Void

Ever since the NFL went to having two weeks between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl it has been hard for the NFL to do anything the Sunday before to hold viewer interest.

This year for the first time the NFL is bringing the Pro Bowl to the same city as the Super Bowl. This of course means that if you are playing in the Super Bowl you are out of the Pro Bowl.

The players perspective has been that if they played in the Super Bowl they didn't care about jumping on a jet the Sunday night after the Super Bowl and flying to Hawaii. The winners of the Super Bowl were on such a high from winning and the losers an all time low feeling.

The Pro Bowl is the only all Star game played at the end of the season and for some it has been a month since they have played. Due to injury factor and since it has always been when the season was over the NFL are hoping to revive the players enthusiasm to play in the Pro bowl.

Last night the Women of Carolina and State met on the hardwood in Raleigh with the trees of Carolina holding off the Wolfpack women. My only question is how good in Connecticut to have beaten UNC by forty in Chapel Hill?

Tonight Northern Nash makes a visit to Rocky Mount in Big East conference basketball. History may be in the offering if Tashawn Mabrey scores 23 points he will break Phil Fords's all time Rocky Mount scoring record. I would suspect you need to be in your seat early for this one.