If the Bears played in the Big East tonight they would sit a top of the standing after having beaten Nash Central and Rocky Mount on consecutive nights. Last night trailing late Hertford County beat the Bulldogs in Ahoskie and they follow that up downing the Gryphon in Rocky Mount.
This was a strange game Mike Gainey called time out thirty second into the game and took Kenyatta Bullock out of the game and sent him to the dressing room where he never returned. Donte Battle with his left elbow wrapped played in the first half and none in the second. The Gryphons made two shots all night from more than ten feet as this was a game of shoot and go get the rebound and Hertford County got their share of the boards.
Hertford County lead by 11 at the end of the first quarter and the Gryphons never lead even though they tied the game at 38-40-42 before Hertford County forges a four point lead in which the Gryphons never caught up.
Hertford County downs the Gryphons 62-56 giving the Gryphons two losses in a row and they head to conference play struggling to find someone to push the ball at the basketball where the Gryphons are good but the ball must get there first.
Dontez Tyler lead HC with 17 points and he was followed by Jordon Jones with 16. Tecoby Hines starting for Donte lead the Gryphons with 16 and Exzavier Cooper added 14.
Rocky Mount only had 12 turnovers but they could only force nine on Hertford County. Rocky Mount won the rebounding battle 33-30 with Cooper pulling down 10 boards.
The Lady Bears of Herford County are historically bad but the team that showed up in Rocky Mount tonight was one of the best girls teams I have ever seen from Ahoskie. Combine a Good Hertford County team and the fact the the Lady Gryphons played the first three quarters like they needed WD 40 to get going they had their hands full tonight.
Thank Goodness it is a four quarter game as Hertford County lead until early into the fourth quarter before the Lady Gryphons moving parts stopped sweaking and they win at home 59-50 over Hertford County.
Hertford County had no answer for Tia Hudgins in the fourth quarter as the Lady Gryphon defense took its toll on the Bears. Hudgins finished with 22 while J'Kyra Brown added 14 and Timisha Walker supplied ten points.
The Gryphons Host Nash Central Friday night as Big East conference play gets started. The Lady Gryphons will head in with a 12-2 record while the boys stumble in at 10-4
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Goodwin Transfers from Carolina
The Daily Tar Heel reported Monday night that former Rocky Mount High school athlete Brian Goodwin has transferred from Carolina to Miami Dade community college in Miami Florida.
Goodwin who in the fall had been ruled ineligible to play for North Carolina’s Baseball team this spring can now play for Miami Dade this spring and weight his options after spring as to transferring back to a Division One school or applying for the major League Baseball draft.
Gryphon basketball begins the second season tonight after the Christmas break as they Host Hertford County. Both varsity squads beat HC in mid December in rather close games in Ahoskie. Friday night the conference play starts before the exam break hits. Winter sports program have a hard time getting momentum going with all the breaks taken for holidays and exams.
I don’t know how many people watched the Duke women last night with their game hosting Kentucky. The Duke women are ranked #3 in the latest women’s college basketball poll and now that U Conn's long winning streak is over all women’s team have optimism that it is no longer U Conn for the title and everyone else running for second.
Kentucky has never had a women’s team worth much except this year. Last night Duke started out the second half making only one of their first 18 shots. The game was tied at 48 with a minute to play and a Duke pass was deflected and bounced off the backboard into the goal to give Duke the lead that they would not give back as they win 53-48. Sometimes lady luck is better than talent.
This week begins in full force the college basketball conference schedule. There has been so much talk of how poor the ACC is this year that Carolina and State just might get top four positions by seasons end. Both still have major flaws but looking at everyone else except for Duke all the other ACC schools seems to be just as bad. Sidney Lowe had better get his best ACC finish ever this year or look for an NBA job. If he can’t win in this league as bad as it seems to be this year he never will in Raleigh.
I was on a personal mission of not watching the Sugar Bowl last night after what the NCAA has done with the Ohio State five players who were caught for the most part doing the same thing the Carolina football players who were not allowed to play this year for doing. Four of the five played significant roles in Ohio State's win over Arkansas last night of 31-26 victory.
It might be time for the BCS schools to break from the NCAA and form their own association. The NCAA is like our federal government and has gotten to large to protect those that it is supposed to serve. Especially when it ignores the rules that itself has created and does not apply justice in equal manner.
Like everything else money rules.
Goodwin who in the fall had been ruled ineligible to play for North Carolina’s Baseball team this spring can now play for Miami Dade this spring and weight his options after spring as to transferring back to a Division One school or applying for the major League Baseball draft.
Gryphon basketball begins the second season tonight after the Christmas break as they Host Hertford County. Both varsity squads beat HC in mid December in rather close games in Ahoskie. Friday night the conference play starts before the exam break hits. Winter sports program have a hard time getting momentum going with all the breaks taken for holidays and exams.
I don’t know how many people watched the Duke women last night with their game hosting Kentucky. The Duke women are ranked #3 in the latest women’s college basketball poll and now that U Conn's long winning streak is over all women’s team have optimism that it is no longer U Conn for the title and everyone else running for second.
Kentucky has never had a women’s team worth much except this year. Last night Duke started out the second half making only one of their first 18 shots. The game was tied at 48 with a minute to play and a Duke pass was deflected and bounced off the backboard into the goal to give Duke the lead that they would not give back as they win 53-48. Sometimes lady luck is better than talent.
This week begins in full force the college basketball conference schedule. There has been so much talk of how poor the ACC is this year that Carolina and State just might get top four positions by seasons end. Both still have major flaws but looking at everyone else except for Duke all the other ACC schools seems to be just as bad. Sidney Lowe had better get his best ACC finish ever this year or look for an NBA job. If he can’t win in this league as bad as it seems to be this year he never will in Raleigh.
I was on a personal mission of not watching the Sugar Bowl last night after what the NCAA has done with the Ohio State five players who were caught for the most part doing the same thing the Carolina football players who were not allowed to play this year for doing. Four of the five played significant roles in Ohio State's win over Arkansas last night of 31-26 victory.
It might be time for the BCS schools to break from the NCAA and form their own association. The NCAA is like our federal government and has gotten to large to protect those that it is supposed to serve. Especially when it ignores the rules that itself has created and does not apply justice in equal manner.
Like everything else money rules.
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