Gryphons Play in Crown Arena

My blog earlier Monday I had asked the question about whether if Rocky Mount and Northern Nash girls made it to the championship games whether you would have to pay if you left one building and went to another.

I have failed to look at the bracket locations. Tuesday is the first day and the 3-A boys begin play in the Crown Arena while the 4-A girls will play in the big Coliseum. If you are planning to attend Tuesday night make sure you are in the right building.

Friday night when the 3-A girls play they will also be in the Arena so come 4.00pm Saturday should both Rocky Mount and Northern win their semi final games they would play back to back in the Arena Saturday afternoon so one ticket you could see both.

I don't think it will make much difference Tuesday whether Rocky Mount plays in the small building or larger one I doubt there will be that many making the trip on a Tuesday all the way to Fayetteville. Now Saturday is a different matter should the Gryphons win Tuesday night.

Rocky Mount plays South Central of Winterville in the 7.00pm game in the Crown Arena. Both schools will have a near two hour drive so their is no home team in this one so the crowd will not over flow the Arena. The second game Tuesday night in the Arena is Chapel Hill High going up against Southern Lee so Southern Lee is the closes team to Fayetteville and should have a nice crowd. I would say Southern Lee has a bout the same trip we had when we went to Greenville last year.

Remember Gryphons Play in the Arena. 7.00pm

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I think you will find that if you do travel this week to the East Basketball Regional that the Crown Coliseum and Arena are better equipped to handle the Regional over Greenville. Once you drive and park both the boys and girls will play without having to move to another location to see them play. The boys will play in the 10,000 seat Coliseum more than what Williams Arena at ECU has. The girls will play in the 6,000 seat Crown Arena which triples what Rose High School had. All you have to do is walk over to another building. I have no idea whether one ticket can get you in either place. I suspect your ticket is only good for the building that you are in.

I remember the year Tarboro girls played in the regional the same year Rocky Mount boys did. As soon as Rocky Mount game was over we drove to Rose where Tarboro had started just as Rocky Mount finished. By the time we found a place to park the girls were already in third quarter.

Yes, there is a major distance problem getting to Fayetteville over driving to ECU. Overall the Crown complex is better suited for the Regional. Since this is the first time hosting and Rocky Mount plays the very first game of the Regional I am sure problems will exist this year that will not next year. I suspect unless a major sponsor jumps up and ask it to be moved Fayetteville will get the Regional for a while now.

Tried to catch up on all our college baseball players over the weekend, here ‘s what I found.

ECU: Tyler Joyner (Northern Nash) Sitting out this year.

Wake Tech: Three players from area playing. Gabe Brown(Rocky Mount), Cameron Ramsey(Rocky Mount) and T J Taylor Nash Central

Pitt CC: Jim Leggett (Rocky Mount) and Mike Williams (Northern Nash)

Miami Dade College: Brian Goodwin (Rocky Mount)

North Carolina Wesleyan: Tyler Clark (Northern Nash) ,Daniel Moore( Northern Nash), Brian Allen (Southern Nash), Brett Allen (Southern Nash), Eric Mull (Faith Christian), Andrew Webb(Northern Nash) and Chad Womble (Rocky Mount).

North Carolina A&T: Xavier Macklin (Nash Central) Batting 389 7-18 3 homers and seven rbi

Campbell: Ben Fish( Rocky Mount) Batting 384. Started five of seven games.

UNC-Pembroke: Alex Pearce (Nash Central) started six games for the Braves.

Barton: Collins Cuthrell. Started every game this season hitting 222

If there are more send me a message. In some cases I haven’t seen a roster for a school so I can’t tell who we might have on their team.

Will not blog Tuesday until after the basketball game. Go Gryphons!