Champions

The second day in a row the Lady Gryphon basketball team awoke to find out that Fike has lost the night before. In doing so this time after the Lady Gryphons had won over Hunt Wednesday night the Fike lost give Pam Gainey and the Lady Gryphons the first ever Big East 3-A basketball title.

So what do you do to celebrate. The girls basketball team traveled to Durham Thursday night to be in attendance at the N C State-Duke womens basketball game held at Cameron Indoor Stadium. Duke won 70-39.

The boys can clinch first place tonight but they must beat arch rival Northern Nash at Northern to do it. The big East basketball tournament begins Monday at Hunt and we know for sure the Lady Gryphons will not play until Thursday. To keep from playing Monday a boys victory would put them in the Wednesday Semi's.

I hate to have to say this but Rocky Mount High School got a state champion over last weekend and here it is six days later and just now talking about it.

Hannah McMillan a senior at RMHS won the North Carolina Jr. Miss Scholarship competition which was held last weekend in Greensboro. This is a big deal and there has hardly been any mention of this from any body.

The Jr. Miss main focus is academic excellence,phyical fitness, interview, talent and and self expression.

I use to be in the Ahoskie JC's back in the 80's and we sponsored the Jr Miss there. I for several years worked with the judges and was there during the interview process.

I remember one year a girl who I thought had a real shot at winning was marked down in the interview because on her Jr Miss application UNC was not one of the school she wanted to attend. You might say ,Oh the judge pulled for the Tar Heels but no. This young lady was a finalist for the Morehead Scholarship. Her answer was not very convincing as to why she didn't want to go to UNC but was going through the interviews for the scholarship.

McMillan will now compete for the National Jr. Miss in June in Mobile Alabama. Good going Hannah. I am sorry it took so long to mention it.

Tonight basketball at Northern to finish the regular season in basketball. Thursday Northern Nash hosted the 3rd round of the 3-A wrestling duels. Northern survived as the only Big East team to get out of the first round but lost to Havelock one of the best wrestling teams in the state at any level.