This is the eleventh trip to the final four for coach K and I would label this team #11 of best Duke teams to make the final four but they are there. They are the only surviving #1 seed left in the tournament which will have two #5 seedsfor the first time ever in the final four. Duke will match up against a #2 seeded team in West Virginia who will be going to the big dance for the first time since a guy named Jerry West lead the Mountaineers.
Duke 78 Baylor 71
The "Rocky Mount Telegram" had a good feature today on the Rocky Mount State Championship basketball team. Nick Cammarota the newest member of the sports team has done a great job since coming to Rocky Mount. Let's hope baseball will give him another shot at a second state title in his first four months in town.
I told you in my Saturday blog I was pulling for Amanda Griffin, a junior at Northern Nash to win the Rocky Mount Junior Miss and she did. I was off watching N C State lose to Miami in baseball but both of the rest of my house hold was there.
Jerry Lewis has poster children for his telethons for MD and Amanda should be the poster child for the Nash County Relay. While in junior high Amanda and her family found out that she had cancer.
Her entire fight was supported by her church Red Oak Baptist and Red Oak Middle school. Today Cancer free Amanda plays on the basketball team and Soccer team that I know of. I was told that is was every emotional for all those who were there supporting her Sunday afternoon when she was announced as the winner.
Greenfield's Victoria Vesce was first runner-up and Southern Nash's Michaela Bauer was second runner up.
I think some of you have seen the Relay for Life show on WHIG-TV which I host leading up to the relay on April 23rd. It's on at 6.00pm every Monday night and any time a cancer survivor like Amanda does well surviving cancer it can only help others when they hear that they have it.
Good going Amanda!!!!
