Regional Press Conferences Today

If you need Mike Gainey today and need to talk Rocky Mount high sports business you will need to see him in Greenville attending the Regional informational meeting. Typical information for the teams, which door to enter that kind of stuff as well as the media gets a chance to talk to all the coaches involved. There is always excitement any time your team progresses this far but Mike should be an old hand at all the hoopla this week. This is his third trip to Greenville and the regional in the last nine years.

Girls soccer begins today at D H Conley. baseball and softball begin Tuesday at home both at 4.00pm.

Stephan Virgil is at the NFL conbines in Indianapolis and today begins the physical side of the things. Today is weight lifting to find out how strong you are and tomorrow the forty yard dash and agility drills. Sunday all the teams got to interview the future NFL players.

Last night on the "Stretchlon Sports Show" on WHIG-TV Martin Fleming who is the authority in eastern North Carolina on high school wrestling announced his All Area team. Chandler Phillips at 135 pounds and J K Williamson at 171 made it from Rocky Mount. Freshman Mason Holt made honorable mention.

Joe Young from Northern Nash also made the team and I would like to congratulate Joe on finishing 5th in the state this weekend. He was the top finisher in the state who went to Greensboro from our area. Joe and Tavis Richardson from Northern were also on the all area team.

Martin was calling the all area team out so fast toward the end of the show that I couldn't write fast enough. A replay of the show will be on at 5.00pm today on WHIG-TV. You know making the all area team covers more territory than the all area team when the Rocky Mount Telegram announces it winter sports all area team. The news paper is for it's coverage area while Martin's area is pretty much northeastern North Carolina from Raleigh to the coast and Kinston to the Virginia line.

College baseball this weekend Campbell took two out of three from NCA&T. Northern's Bryan Braswell continues to knock the cover off the ball.Braswell was 3 for 5 and 5 rbi's in the three game series. Nash Central's Xavier Macklin for the Aggies had three hits over the series and Rocky Mount's Ben Fish had an inning behind the plate in one of the games. Alex Pearce the former Bulldog from Nash Central has four RBI's so far this season for UNC-Pembroke.

ECU took 2 out 3 from South Carolina. They are 4-3 on the season but 6 of their games have been against top 15 teams. State and UNC have lost only once each. Sure does look like Brian Goodwin has his feet on the ground now for the Tar Heels. Last week he started out his college career going zero for nine but now is 7 for his last 17. He has a homer, two triples, two doubles. He is second on the team in RBI's and leads the team in total bases.