Bracket Busters

How many people do not have UNC-Asheville making the Final Four. Let's get those brackets out and find a place to put the Bulldogs. Trailing practically the entire game Asheville makes a three pointer with ten seconds to go to send the first game of the NCAA basketball Tournament to overtime and then in overtime the Bulldogs score more at the free throw line than Arkansas Little Rock and win their first NCAA Division one playoff game 81-77. I hate to pop the Bulldogs bubble but they play Pittsburgh Thursday in Washington D C.

Gryphon baseball won today at SouthWest Edgecombe 11-2. Sophomore Spencer Ramsey and freshman Andy Morris took care of the pitching. Tomorrow the Gryphons travel to Riverside for an Endowment game. They return home Thursday to play Rose.

Lady Gryphon softball lost twice today .

Today ends the Sidney Lowe era as basketball coach at N C State. Lowe resigned and during a news conference tonight Athletic Director Debbie Yow said her search committee would be going after a winning coach probably coaching in the NCAA Tournament over the next three weeks so don't look for any announcement about a new coach too soon.

The thing that struck me listening to her news conference was she would seek a proven winner and looking back State did not do that when they hired Lowe. She also said that no tax dollars would help pay for the new coach that income from the so called sneaker contract, ticket sales, parking income, Wolfpack apparel and Radio and TV shows etc that all coaches at N C State were paid through those monies and the Wolfpack was self sufficient. When asked about salary of the new coach considering Lowe was tenth in salary in the ACC, Yow said" they would pay what ever it took to get a quality coach".

We are in the kind of lull period until conference games start in spring sports so on a daily basis I will try to keep up with our local college players.

Nash Central's Xavier Macklin playing at A&T is hitting 317 with four home runs and 17 rbi for the Aggies.

Mike Williams Northern Nash Product has found a home pitching for Pitt Community College. Mike in six appearances has pitched 10.2 inning and given up only one run for an ERA of .843.

Finally I can tell you something about of Brian Goodwin. So far Miami Dade is 11-4. Brian is hitting 419 and driven in 19 rbi with his 26 hits this season.

I'll cover some more players tomorrow.