Regional Is Set

Monday is always media day for the regional basketball in Greenville and Wes Bradshaw is going to represent us and get us our press passes for the week long regional to be held in Greenville. You will see interviews on the locals TV stations like 7 and 9 during the week which they will actually get on Monday.

Rocky Mount after the reseeding plays 25-2 North Guilford. I doesn’t really matter to me who they play because in order to advance any further the Gryphons will have to play better than they did Friday and I thought they played great. There is an old farmers saying that from here on out who ever they play they are in the tall cotton.

Tip time is 7.00pm Thursday

Heart break for the fighting Bishops of NC Wesleyan who had won the regular season championship and as the #1 seed played Christopher Newport today in the conference finals at Newport’s home court and lost. 67-63. The loss knocks the Fighting Bishops out of the NCAA Div III basketball tournament.

Nash County sent 11 wrestlers to the state championship in Greensboro on Friday. Southern Nash sent Buddy Jones who wrestled at 125 pounds, Steven Morgan at 135. Nash Central two wrestlers and they were Josh Taylor at 105 and Jacob Robinson at 135. Rocky Mount was represented by Chandler Phillips in the 135 pound class and Janicento Williamsonat 171. Big East conference champion Northern Nash had the most wrestlers with five. Tavis Richardson 145 pounds, Kris Horton 160, Bryant Sweet 171, Danzel Perry at 189 and Joe Young wrestled at 215.

I have had a hard time getting on the NCHSAA website to the wrestling brackets but the only locaL wrestler to make it to the quarter finals was Northern’s Joe Young. I am sure it is all over by now but it has be very frustrating when you click on the brackets and nothing appears for five minutes. I am sure with all the people trying to get on the site plus thee NCHSAA updating it ever so often it has been for every one.

Brian Goodwin hit his first college home run Saturday in Carolina’s first loss of the season. N C State beat Cal(Irvine )Yesterday the #3 team in the country and beat James Madison today. ECU got ninth inning heroics to beat South Carolina Saturday 4-3 after losing the opener yesterday. While I was at the playoff basketball game Friday night wife Pat went out with a friend Debbie to Mario’s and Billy Godwin was there e having dinner.

Finally , I have never been a Danica Patrick fan. She has never shown me to be much of a driver when she was in Indy Car racing. Saturday during the race at Las Vegas in the Saturday division of NASCAR Patrick crashed and promptly got out of the car and blamed the other guy. It is clear to me that Patrick is a pretty face that can sell spark plugs but she needs to go to Kenly on a Saturday night and learn to drive in the push and shove division before she gets killed or kill someone else.