Will Bass Sets Meet Records

Nash Central's Senior Will Bass is having a senior season to remember this year as today during the Elon Phoenix High School Classic set the meet record in the mile run at 4 minutes and twenty seconds. Bass already has won a Indoor season state championship will be the odds on favorite this spring to win another state title.

If setting one meet record wasn't enough Bass preceded to win the two mile in record time running it in a time nine minutes and twenty five seconds. You know we have special athletes in different sports and Will Bass just may be the greatest long distance high school runner ever from this area.

One thousand six hundred athletes took part in today's meet at Elon College and several local athletes either with their time or effort automatically quality for the regional later this spring. Bass certainly has qualified but he was joined by team mate Tevin Richardson who won the 800 meter event in a time of 1 minute and fifty seven seconds.

Rocky Mount's Paul Lilley ran a two minute and three seconds half mile which is a good enough effort to qualify for the regional. Lilley qualified for the regional in another event as he ran a four minute and thirty four second mile.

Rocky Mount's Donte Harrison has qualified for the regional with a high jump of six feet two inches. I think if I remember correctly back when I was in junior high school they had what they called the President's Council for physical fitness where they tested you in track and field events and I think I cleared three feet three inches in the high jump.

Two of Rocky Mount's relay teams qualified as the 4x800 ran an eight minute and thirty four seconds and the 4 x100 relays team finished second but their time is good enough.

We will continue our look at our local college ball players and their seasons as they unfold. Jim Leggett has never quite comeback from the surgery that he has had following Rocky Mount's State Championship in 2008. Leggett has pitched two innings going into this week for Pitt C C

T J Taylor is playing for Wake Tech. The former Bulldog of Nash Central was three for three in a game this year but Wake does not post team stats and I can't tell how his season is going.

Southern Nash's Brian Allen playing his senior season at NC Wesleyan is batting 259.

Up until just a second ago or so I was having a great day in the NCAA basketball action until former Michigan basketball player Chris Webber showed up disguised as a Pitt Panther and pulled the bone head play of this years tournament and my first final four team is out.