"Telegram" Announces All Area Teams

This past week the Rocky Mount Telegram has been displaying the winter sports all area team.  Since Wednesday they have covered swimming, wrestling and basketball.

One sport which is hard to follow is swimming.  There are no rosters that when the swimmers steps up on the starting block you can look for his number.  Just as soon as one event ends another starts and even doing it as fast as possible it take three hours for one afternoon.

This year Tarboro's Chandler Harris and Rocky Mount's Zach Vestal are the area's best swimmers

They say  that football players wrestle in the winter to stay in shape  for football.  Being a senior he no longer needed to stay in shape.Northern Nash's T J Marshall was a little bit better than staying in shape. He went through the entire regular season and did not lose a match.  He made it through the regional still undefeated.  T J lost for the first time all year in the state tournament.  That is good enough to make any player the wrestler of the year and the Telegram  has T J as Area Wrestler of the year.

Turning to basketball  Rocky Mount's J'Kyra Brown was voted area girls player of the year.  Brown just a sophomore will have scouts hounding her the next two seasons wanting her to come play for me.  When she had to she could play all five positions for Rocky Mount but colleges will be looking at her for shooting guard.

There will not be a host of scouts showing up for every game at North Edgecombe next year as the Telegram boys player of the year has already declared for Virginia Tech.  Junior Montrezl Harrell  is six feet seven inches tall but his bulk makes him look bigger.  You can bet there are not many teams at any level that want to play North Edgecombe next year.

This week  we will be trying to line up Jesse Nunnery and the sports gang at the paper and  will be shooting to have a live show on the Stretchlon Sports Show next Sunday night with the All Area team. 

Hope it happens!