Tonight's baseball and softball games have been rained out. Baseball will probably play Saturday and once the time is set will pass it on.
The job search at N C State seems to be on hold waiting on Shaka Smart of VCU who's team is of course still in the final four. All indications are Smart has told the N C State search committee that he is very interested in the job but wait till next week. Any job opening these days comes with a price tag to the team that another school is after their coach. In order to keep Smart VCU will have to triple his $350,000 per year salary plus come up with all the extras.
The #2 target on the Wolfpack list is Gary Marshall of Wichita State who several years ago put Winthrop on the map. Whichita State is playing tonight for the NIT title.
Those Carolina Hurricanes are trying to do it again this year. They have been in about 10th place the entire season and now with five games to go are pushing hard to make the playoffs. There is such a fine line between winning and losing. The Hurricanes are just as good as the fifth place team and just as bad as the fifteenth team.
Doesn't that sound a lot like Big East sports. Every body is evenly matched.
This deal about the Fiesta Bowl and the CEO spending all this money may be the beginning of the end for the BCS. My thinking is the reason you don't have a NCAA football playoff would mean that the President's and all supporters of a playoff system would have to go four straight weeks to a site kind of like going to a bowl game.That could be expensive for anybody.
My solution is go back to a ten game regular season. The top 16 teams selected by the selection committee just like basketball would be in. Any one who does not make the playoffs could still go play in the Mieneke Car Care Bowl just as they do now. A ten game season plus the two teams that play in the championship game would not play more than 14 games. D2 and D3 do it so D1 could too.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
You Should Have Been
I have seen a lot of baseball games in my life whether I was there in person or watch it on TV but last Night the Benton Moss performance for Rocky Mount night was as good as you would think it can get.. 17 of the 21 outs failed to get out of the batters box. Gryphon History there have been two others to strike out 19 in a game.
Carter Harrell struck out 19 in a playoff game in 2001 against Orange County High school. Donnie Bobbitt struck out 19 in 1986 when the Gryphons played Southern Nash which I think was a non conference game back then. After seeing the 17 last night it is hard to believe adding two more to the total.
The Gryphons have two more conference games this week and both will be against the teams that also won opening night. Hunt edged Northern and Fike beat Southern. Should either game get rained out you can expect a makeup game Saturday night at Gryphon Stadium if needed.
One of the things growing up was hearing stories from your grand parents would tell but sometimes you had heard them before,and as I get to that age when I have some good stories I might tell one that you already have heard.
You may have seen this story in the past that I have told about the greatest pitching performance that I was there to watch. It was 1964 and as an 11 year I was in the crowd the night Jimmy Hunter and his teammates from Perquimans High came to Ahoskie. Four players from Hertford or Perquimans County had played Legion ball in Ahoskie the previous two summers. Jimmy Hunter who went on to the Baseball Hall Of Fame. Freddie and Francis Coombs both went to NC State. Freddie made All American in Football and both he and Francis were members of the 1968 N C State College World Seriesteam .The fourth member was Gene Nixon who played third base.
That previous Christmas Holiday Hunter had a hunting accident and shot off one his toes of his foot and had close to 100 shotgun pellets lodged in his foot. Despite that they had a special shoe made which had no top but basically his baseball shoe was taped on over his injuries. That night Hunter pitched a no hitter against Ahoskie. Since the previous Summer was the Summer that Ahoskie won their only Legion league championship and played forthe State Title in Legion ball Jimmy was our boy in Ahoskie.
Much like around here after all our schools send players to play legion you look at guys like Andrew Webb from Northern or B J Taylor from Central differently after they have played for yourside. Every one in Ahoskie knew and loved Jimmy Hunter and to see his career in baseball all most end before it ever began. So to watch him dominate practically with only one shoe the crowd openly cheered every out in the seventh inning and gave him a standing ovation after they whipped our butts.
I got some news at the ball game last night that I need to pass on. I noticed that the Chicago Rage who played on the NFL Network a couple of weeks ago, I never saw Terrell Hudgins on the sidelines. Yesterday his dad Darius was security at the game and he told me that Terrell had left camp. Terrell has been disappointed at the quality of training being provided and felt that if he is to ever make it in the NFL that Arena football was not the place. The Rage have placed Terrell on the left camp list. He is home in Rocky Mount.
Carter Harrell struck out 19 in a playoff game in 2001 against Orange County High school. Donnie Bobbitt struck out 19 in 1986 when the Gryphons played Southern Nash which I think was a non conference game back then. After seeing the 17 last night it is hard to believe adding two more to the total.
The Gryphons have two more conference games this week and both will be against the teams that also won opening night. Hunt edged Northern and Fike beat Southern. Should either game get rained out you can expect a makeup game Saturday night at Gryphon Stadium if needed.
One of the things growing up was hearing stories from your grand parents would tell but sometimes you had heard them before,and as I get to that age when I have some good stories I might tell one that you already have heard.
You may have seen this story in the past that I have told about the greatest pitching performance that I was there to watch. It was 1964 and as an 11 year I was in the crowd the night Jimmy Hunter and his teammates from Perquimans High came to Ahoskie. Four players from Hertford or Perquimans County had played Legion ball in Ahoskie the previous two summers. Jimmy Hunter who went on to the Baseball Hall Of Fame. Freddie and Francis Coombs both went to NC State. Freddie made All American in Football and both he and Francis were members of the 1968 N C State College World Series
That previous Christmas Holiday Hunter had a hunting accident and shot off one his toes of his foot and had close to 100 shotgun pellets lodged in his foot. Despite that they had a special shoe made which had no top but basically his baseball shoe was taped on over his injuries. That night Hunter pitched a no hitter against Ahoskie. Since the previous Summer was the Summer that Ahoskie won their only Legion league championship and played for
Much like around here after all our schools send players to play legion you look at guys like Andrew Webb from Northern or B J Taylor from Central differently after they have played for yourside. Every one in Ahoskie knew and loved Jimmy Hunter and to see his career in baseball all most end before it ever began. So to watch him dominate practically with only one shoe the crowd openly cheered every out in the seventh inning and gave him a standing ovation after they whipped our butts.
I got some news at the ball game last night that I need to pass on. I noticed that the Chicago Rage who played on the NFL Network a couple of weeks ago, I never saw Terrell Hudgins on the sidelines. Yesterday his dad Darius was security at the game and he told me that Terrell had left camp. Terrell has been disappointed at the quality of training being provided and felt that if he is to ever make it in the NFL that Arena football was not the place. The Rage have placed Terrell on the left camp list. He is home in Rocky Mount.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A Career Night
There is a beauty about baseball that regardless of how many runs you scored yesterday that guy standing on the mount makes today a different ball game. Nash Central opened Big East Conference play tonight against the Gryphons of Rocky Mount, They are off to their best start in the history of the school winning ten of their first eleven games. Tonight they ran into a Gryphon pitcher that after tonight there is not a hitter for Nash Central that will not tell you there is any better pitcher in the state .
Benton Moss pitches a complete game one hit seventeen strikeout performance and in doing so ties Jim Leggett with the most wins in Gryphon history at 28. The victory gives the Gryphons a 1-0 conference record while Nash Central suffers a disappointing 10-1 loss.
Heading to the bottom of the fourth inning Bulldog Pitcher Jeremy Sloop maybe wasn't matching the strikeout count like Moss was but the scoreboard looked the same as neither side cross home the first three and half innings. Thomas Berry lead off the Gryphon fourth with a single, Benton Moss walked, Taylor Clontz singled to load the bases. Gryphon freshman Andy Morris drew a walk and the flood gates opened wide for the Gryphons after that. Collin Watson hit a ground ball straight at Shortstop Khalil Macklin who made a great play just to stop the ball because the infield was in close to stop the run at home which knocked him to his knees. His throw home to get a force out was wide and the Gryphons had two runs.
Damien Smith singled to left to make it 3-0 with the bases still loaded and no outs. Jeremy Johnson hit a bloop fly ball toward right with a hard charging right fielder he over ran the ball and another run was home and still the bases loaded and no outs. The next batter Spenser Ramsey hit a deep fly ball to right this time the right fielder drops the ball near the warning track and the bases are cleared with Ramsey on second. Matt Berry doubled home Ramsey and he too scored before the inning ended.
Moss carried a no hitter into the into the sixth inning walking the lead off batter Ryan Barham and Colton Vaughn the Bulldog ninth place hitter singled home Barham who had reached third on Moss's throwing error at first trying to pick Barham off first. Moss would walk his second hitter of the sixth but proceeded to get three outs without a strikeout. Oddly enough the seventeen strikeouts were done in six innings which means he struck out 17 of the 18 outs he recorded in the six innings where he did not allow a run or hit.
Rocky Mount would add one more in the bottom of the sixth as Spenser Ramsey walked and easily scored on a triple by Thomas Berry. The Gryphons scattered seven hits lead by two by Thomas Berry and Taylor Clontz. Matt Berry, Benton Moss and Damian Smith each had one.
Benton Moss line for the game was seven innings one hit, two walks, one hit batter and seventeen strikeouts. Benton Moss career record is now 28-4.
Benton Moss pitches a complete game one hit seventeen strikeout performance and in doing so ties Jim Leggett with the most wins in Gryphon history at 28. The victory gives the Gryphons a 1-0 conference record while Nash Central suffers a disappointing 10-1 loss.
Heading to the bottom of the fourth inning Bulldog Pitcher Jeremy Sloop maybe wasn't matching the strikeout count like Moss was but the scoreboard looked the same as neither side cross home the first three and half innings. Thomas Berry lead off the Gryphon fourth with a single, Benton Moss walked, Taylor Clontz singled to load the bases. Gryphon freshman Andy Morris drew a walk and the flood gates opened wide for the Gryphons after that. Collin Watson hit a ground ball straight at Shortstop Khalil Macklin who made a great play just to stop the ball because the infield was in close to stop the run at home which knocked him to his knees. His throw home to get a force out was wide and the Gryphons had two runs.
Damien Smith singled to left to make it 3-0 with the bases still loaded and no outs. Jeremy Johnson hit a bloop fly ball toward right with a hard charging right fielder he over ran the ball and another run was home and still the bases loaded and no outs. The next batter Spenser Ramsey hit a deep fly ball to right this time the right fielder drops the ball near the warning track and the bases are cleared with Ramsey on second. Matt Berry doubled home Ramsey and he too scored before the inning ended.
Moss carried a no hitter into the into the sixth inning walking the lead off batter Ryan Barham and Colton Vaughn the Bulldog ninth place hitter singled home Barham who had reached third on Moss's throwing error at first trying to pick Barham off first. Moss would walk his second hitter of the sixth but proceeded to get three outs without a strikeout. Oddly enough the seventeen strikeouts were done in six innings which means he struck out 17 of the 18 outs he recorded in the six innings where he did not allow a run or hit.
Rocky Mount would add one more in the bottom of the sixth as Spenser Ramsey walked and easily scored on a triple by Thomas Berry. The Gryphons scattered seven hits lead by two by Thomas Berry and Taylor Clontz. Matt Berry, Benton Moss and Damian Smith each had one.
Benton Moss line for the game was seven innings one hit, two walks, one hit batter and seventeen strikeouts. Benton Moss career record is now 28-4.
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