The worst thing about being out of school for three days this week meant that basketball went eight days without playing. Tonight a rusty Gryphon boys team can't keep up with Fike as they whip the Gryphons 86-63.
Despite the loss the Gryphons still have a game lead over both Hunt and Fike as the final week of the regular season is yet to unfold next week. The Gryphons are now 6-1 in conference play and lose for only the second time all year and fall to 15-2.
It was a closer game for the Lady Gryphons but at the end of overtime the Lady Golden Demons had taken down the Lady Gryphons by a 62-58 score. By winning both teams have one loss in conference and on the season the Lady Gryphons are 14-3 overall.
Next week is a three game week for the Gryphon teams with home game Tuesday and Wednesday. Southern Nash tries the Gryphons on for size Tuesday followed by Hunt Wednesday. The regular season ends next Friday night at Northern.
The Jim Clack Foundation is having a kickoff Sunday afternoon at the Gateway center in Rocky Mount. The newly formed organization is having their first public outing as the are looking for people to come check out the foundation have some free food and see what the Jim Clack Foundation is all about.
Jim Clack a former Rocky Mount High Blackbird of the sixties was a two time state football champion on the 62 and 63 Blackbird teams. Played his college ball at Wake Forest and spent eleven years in pro football including being on two Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl Championship teams.
Clack was the center in the infamous Miracle at the Meadowlands in 1978 when the Giants were running out the clock when on the last play the quarterback Joe Pisarcik fumbled the snap and Herman Edwards of the Philadelphia Eagles picked the ball up and scored as time ran out.
Once Clack retired from football he moved back to Rocky Mount where he lived several years. Earlier this decade Clack fought cancer and from his experience he had hopes of starting a Foundation to help others in their fight. Before that dream could come true Clack died in 2006. Many of his local friends have follow through on Clacks dream by starting the Jim Clack Foundation.
It all starts Sunday at 4.00pm and you can stay as long as you like right up to the end of the Super Bowl.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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