Three weeks ago when Hunt beat the Gryphons in Rocky Mount I walked out of the gym saying that that was the best Hunt team I have seen in the more than 15 years that I have lived in the area. Since then they have proven that they are for real having only lost to Nash Central since the Rocky Mount victory. Every body else has done that too in the past three weeks.
Last night the Gryphons traveled to Hunt, for the Gryphons it was a fight for any hope of winning the conference regular season championship it was a must game. Two losses already and trailing both Hunt and Nash Central who have only one loss each another loss would just about cook the Gryphons of any championship aspirations.
When the dust had settled Hunt wins a physical match up with the Gryphons and stay equal with Nash Central while Rocky Mount loses their third conference game and now have three games left to play to hold on to third place.
The girls won again keeping their undefeated conference season intact and when you think about this the Lady Gryphons have lost to only one team this year and that is South Central. 59-52 at Rocky Mount and 59-55 at Central. Central is tall and quick. Their speed matched the Lady Gryphons and the difference in both games is the inside play by Central’s tall girls making it difficult to score inside late in games. Two of the last three conference games for the Ladies are against the second place Northern Nash and third place Fike teams. This Friday night the Ladies play Fike for the second time this week. Undefeated regular season is not a given as there are two really good road blocks standing in the way.
The Tar Heels of North Carolina made the folks who root for the Wolfpack take a step back last night and wonder. Were we that bad or is Carolina coming on? Last night the Tar heels beat Boston College in Boston by 32. Now that 20 point loss Saturday in Chapel Hill may not sting as much. Yes it does.
The Heels are charging right now and it looks like they are having fun which is something I don’t think they could say at all last year or the first month of the season this year. What a wonderful thing a point guard that can get the ball to the right people at the right time to score. Since Carolina put Marshall not only the starter but even more playing time Carolina has been a different team. The Duke-Carolina game this weekend isn’t a given to Duke any more.
The Super Bowl chit chat is in full swing as Tuesday was Media day and about a million people pretending to be “The Press’ converged on Dallas/Forth worth to pretend to act like they were covering the game for their company. The biggest complaint for the media was it was too cold to play golf with snow and sleet falling in the area.
Today is National Signing Day in football for high school football players fortunate enough to be able to get a free education playing football in college. I am sure the area will have some really good signings but the top signing this week is Andrew Morales signing with Duke in soccer. Go luck to everyone who has the privileged to sign any athletic scholarship
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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