Expections Are High

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The weather has gotten today's baseball game with Rose. The game has been rescheduled for March 18th.
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If the weather holds off Rocky Mount high school baseball will start the 2010 schedule today hosting Rose. The Gryphons are Pre-season #1 state wide in just about all the polls based on the return of their pitching. Hobbs Johnson and Benton Moss. Johnson already inked with Carolina for next year and Moss waiting for his senior year before his signature sends him to Chapel Hill.

Northern Nash found out last year during the regional that you never have enough pitching and the progress of who becomes the #3 and #4 reliable pitchers will be a key to this teams success. If their was a failure last year it was timely hitting and question marks abound.

Kent Cox who takes over for legend Pat Smith has a load on his shoulders already with the high expectations. This week they start out with Rose and defending 4-A champions Aubrey Kell. The Gryphons could easliy start out 0-2.

Softball has already moved today's home game to Thursday. Boys tennis begins it's season Wednesday weather permitting.

If we are going to get the snow in eastern North Carolina today that the weatherman says we might. Then the basketball regional might wind up doubling up later in the week. We will worry with that when we know for sure.

I hear that WRMT is working on doing the games on radio and I know WHIG-TV is taping the Rocky Mount game for showing on the "Stretchlon Sports Show" Sunday night.

I hope you read Nick Phillps blog Thoughts from out of my head. His blog Sunday talking about winning is not everything is great. I need to add Nick's blog to my list at the bottom of this page so it would be easy for you to access.

I did not get a chance to see the overtime Sunday night but I thought the Canada-USA hockey game was one of the best ever. I went to church Sunday night and missed over time.

34% of American homes were tuned in to the Super bowl but Sunday 80% all all Canadian TVs were watching the hockey. You think they like hockey in Canada. What else is there to do there this time of year?T