Basketball Playoffs Set

There is a big difference between basketball and football when it comes to going the the North Carolina High School Athletic Association website when the brackets are released. The main reason is football is seeded by the NCHSAA on the Saturday of the announcement where basketball is totally based on you conference seeding. Unless there is a #4 seed winning a conference tournament just about all seedings are known even before the conferences hold their tournaments.

Tonight when I went on line I had no problem what so ever of getting the playoff brackets. The last several years there has been so many people trying to get the seeding for football that the computers at the NCHSAA have locked up causing chaos for any one wanting to see the brackets.

The #1 seed Rocky Mount of the Big East will play at home Monday against Jacksonville. Big East #2 Fike is at home hosting Southern Wayne. Hunt the Big East boys #3 hits the road playing at South Central. The last representative from the Big East Nash Central is also traveling to C B Aycock.

The girls bracket has Big East #1 The Lady Gryphons home Monday night hosting West Carteret. Since several of the girls basketball players also were on the Volleyball team West Carteret was the team as a #4 seed that knocked the Lady Gryphon Volleyball team out of the playoffs in the second round this past fall. The Big East #2 Fike is home against C B Aycock. Hunt as the #3 will travel down I-95 to Dunn and play Triton. Finally #4 seed Nash Central will take on South Central in Winterville.

I just did catch the end of the Brain game today on Channel Five . Looks like the Rocky Mount team easily advance in the Brain Game playoffs.

Carolina loses again in basketball. State finally made a shot towards the end of a game and Wake Forest looked like they wanted to be any where but Raleigh.

ECU who has the toughest baseball schedule of anybody in the county the first week of the season got revenge with Virginia today. Freshman John Wooten the son of former Gryphon great Sonny Wooten hit a home run in leading the Pirates. Northern Nash remembers Wooten from the Eastern Regionals last season.

I promised to talk about our local guys playing for Wesleyan today. Charlie Long has seven Nash County players, Northern has three players Daniel Moore who is roaming the outfield, Tyler Clark is starting as a freshman behind the plate where he has a good view of his dad's name on the outfield wall in left. Andrew Webb is getting action at second base and as a relief pitcher.

Southern Nash's Brian Allen is playing third. Gryphon Chad Womble has pitched out of the bull pen so far and Eric Mull gives Faith christian a player playing college ball.