A Little Bit of This And A Lot Of That

Gryphon Baseball plays at home today at 1.00pm. The Tarboro Vikings are in town. Girls soccer puts their undefeated season on the line at the Brittany in Wilson. They will meet Burlington Williams also Saturday afternoon. Tennis beat Hunt Thursday 8-1 to go to 2-0 in conference play. Softball is still winless.

Wake Forest is the only ACC team playing a second round of the NCAA tournament on Saturday. They meet Kentucky at 8.15pm. The ACC is 4-2 after the first round with Maryland, Duke and Georgia Tech winning Friday.

Carolina plays in the second round of the NIT at high noon against Mississippi State. I think it is on ESPN 2. State plays on ESPNU in Birmingham Al at 5.00pm in round two against Alabama Birmingham. Should both State and Carolina win they meet next week in round three of the NIT.

I haven't given you much update lately on our local players playing college baseball. The last couple of weeks I have had basketball on the brain.

Brian Goodwin: Carolina -Had an eleven game hitting streak stopped on Wednesday but started a new one Friday night against Florida State. Brian has a hit in all four of Carolina's conference games. He is hitting 362 after Friday Night.

Xavier Macklin: NC A&T- The X man is following up his sensational freshman year right where he left off last year. Heading into this weekend X is hitting 371 with four homers and sixteen RBI's.

Brian Braswell: Campbell- hitting 400 in this his senior season for the 13-6 Fighting Camels.

Ben Fish: Campbell- Braswell's backup catcher at Campbell. Has been to bat nine times getting two hits but like he did at RMHS he has four rbi's with those two hits.

Alex Pearce: UNC Pembroke- has won the starting catchers job as a sophomore. Batting 238 right now and Pembroke is 18-4. rated 16th in their division. Big series this weekend at USC-Aiken rated #6.

Zack Woodley: Pitt C C- Has pitched four inning without allowing a run in two appearances.

Jim Leggett: Pitt C C- Has not allowed a run in two inning of pitching.

Mike Williams: Pitt C C- Has been converted to a pitcher and in three games pitched three innings.

Daniel Moore: NC Wesleyan- batting 294 for Charlie Long.

Tyler Clark: C Wesleyan- freshman hitting is up to 288.

Brian Allen: NC Wesleyan- batting 264 for the Battling Bishops.

Andrew Webb: NC Wesleyan- Webby is doing double duty. 2-1 as a pitcher and hitting 156 when he plays the field.

Chad Womble: NC Wesleyan- Pitched 15 inning to date. ERA at 4.80.

Heading back to Ahoskie tonight. My wife Pat is having her 40th class reunion. Boy she sure is getting old.