Lady Gryphon softball lost again tonight to Farmville Central 14-3. I know you reading this are saying that they must really be an awful team. I think any one who has seen the Ladies play so far this year have to admit that they are not very good but much improved over last year.
Coach Tara McDonald probably has the most upbeat team you have ever seen considering they are 0-3 so far this year. They have more fun that anybody who has beaten them so far this year have had. They may not win many this year but one is coming soon. Tonight they gave up five in one inning and four in another other wise they played a fair brand of ball.
Right now their hitting is lacking and much more work needs to be done. One problem a team that doesn't have pitchers that are fire ball pitchers has that during batting practice you don't see the pitches that you see in games. Too many of the girls are way behind on their swings. They had several innings tonight that they displayed very good defense and the very next not so good.
Varsity baseball lost at Southern Wayne 8-7 to drop their record to 2-2. Wednesday they travel to Louisburg and Saturday morning they play in Cary at the USA baseball complex at 11.00am. There has been some flip flopping on where this game was going to be played at but I understand is has been switched back to the USA Baseball complex. They are playing one of the Forsyth County schools that is loaded with D-1 Pitchers.
Varsity girls soccer has a home match Wednesday against D H Conley. Last week at Conley the Lady Gryphons lost 5-0. So far this season the soccer team is not having the season that Rocky Mount had last year.
I have no score but I have heard the the track team beat Rose Monday afternoon at Rose.
Saturday South Central boys and girls basketball teams play for the State 3-A titles in Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh. If the amount of people who went from Rocky Mount to the Dean Smith Center is any indication with both of their teams playing there Saturday Reynolds should be sold out with only people from Greenville. That is of course assuming that Pitt county comes out in force like Nash county did last year supporting Rocky Mount in championship game.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Who's Your ACC Coach Of The Year
Today the ACC will announce the coach of the year. First glance there is only one choice and that would be Roy Williams. The Tar Heels went from a 500 team last year to ACC regular season champs almost over night.
Let‘s think about this for a minute and I have to ask a question. What did Roy do to deserve coach of the year? He took almost two thirds of the season before Roy inserted freshman Kendall Marshall into the lineup as the starting guard. The best thing to happen to Carolina all year was when Larry Drew quit the team. Who was responsible for that? Larry Drew’s mother not Roy Williams was the decision maker there. The best thing that happened all year to Carolina Roy Williams had no control of what so ever. Talk about dumb luck but I don’t begrudge the Tar Heels. Every team has luck along the way in order to be successful.
Three or four years ago Dick Vitale under went throat Cancer surgery and he has cut back his weekly games. The last couple of times I listen to any game he was covering I have come to the conclusion it is time for Vitale to retire.
During the early days of college basketball on ESPN Vitale was college basketball’s version of Chris Berman “Boomer” who use to give everyone a nickname on Sports Center. ESPN is grown up now and they no longer need a Vitale who never gives you X’s and O’s while doing color only glorified banter.
I know most folks in Raleigh hate him but as far as color the “G” Man Mike Giminski is the best color man there is anywhere. I think the job of the color man is to analyze the game and “The G man” is the best. I also liked Billy Packer and I don’t know many others who did. Now that the NCAA Tournament is around the corner I hope our teams get Gus Johnson for play by play. I think his enthusiasm is good for the game.
The Michigan High school team that had a player die last week after having a heart attack during the team celebrating of an undefeated season started their playoffs last night and won. The parents of the dead player were in the stands cheering.
There is always a question about when to honor someone. Should we play or mourn? I think part of the process of recovery from death is to get on with life. There is no way to fill the void left in your heart whenever a loved one passes. We must all move forward with life and that void gets smaller through time but will never completely go away.
The first week of the spring high school sports calendar is over and today Gryphon baseball travels to Southern Wayne. The Gryphons won two of three games last week, but I don’t know when the last time Rocky Mount was so young. Kent Cox used two freshman and a sophomore on the mound last week. Back in the golden Age of Major League Baseball the Milwaukee Braves use to have Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain. The Braves motto was Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.
This years Gryphons in order to compliment Benton Moss have to get some young arms to step forward quickly or this could be a long year. This will put pressure on the Gryphon offense to make sure they score enough runs not only to win every time Benton pitches but they can out score other teams when the young arms are throwing.
Girls softball is home today. JV girls start at 4.30 and the varsity quickly after that. The Lady Gryphons are trying to snap a losing streak that started at the end of the 09 season and continues after the first two games this year.
Let‘s think about this for a minute and I have to ask a question. What did Roy do to deserve coach of the year? He took almost two thirds of the season before Roy inserted freshman Kendall Marshall into the lineup as the starting guard. The best thing to happen to Carolina all year was when Larry Drew quit the team. Who was responsible for that? Larry Drew’s mother not Roy Williams was the decision maker there. The best thing that happened all year to Carolina Roy Williams had no control of what so ever. Talk about dumb luck but I don’t begrudge the Tar Heels. Every team has luck along the way in order to be successful.
Three or four years ago Dick Vitale under went throat Cancer surgery and he has cut back his weekly games. The last couple of times I listen to any game he was covering I have come to the conclusion it is time for Vitale to retire.
During the early days of college basketball on ESPN Vitale was college basketball’s version of Chris Berman “Boomer” who use to give everyone a nickname on Sports Center. ESPN is grown up now and they no longer need a Vitale who never gives you X’s and O’s while doing color only glorified banter.
I know most folks in Raleigh hate him but as far as color the “G” Man Mike Giminski is the best color man there is anywhere. I think the job of the color man is to analyze the game and “The G man” is the best. I also liked Billy Packer and I don’t know many others who did. Now that the NCAA Tournament is around the corner I hope our teams get Gus Johnson for play by play. I think his enthusiasm is good for the game.
The Michigan High school team that had a player die last week after having a heart attack during the team celebrating of an undefeated season started their playoffs last night and won. The parents of the dead player were in the stands cheering.
There is always a question about when to honor someone. Should we play or mourn? I think part of the process of recovery from death is to get on with life. There is no way to fill the void left in your heart whenever a loved one passes. We must all move forward with life and that void gets smaller through time but will never completely go away.
The first week of the spring high school sports calendar is over and today Gryphon baseball travels to Southern Wayne. The Gryphons won two of three games last week, but I don’t know when the last time Rocky Mount was so young. Kent Cox used two freshman and a sophomore on the mound last week. Back in the golden Age of Major League Baseball the Milwaukee Braves use to have Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain. The Braves motto was Spahn and Sain and pray for rain.
This years Gryphons in order to compliment Benton Moss have to get some young arms to step forward quickly or this could be a long year. This will put pressure on the Gryphon offense to make sure they score enough runs not only to win every time Benton pitches but they can out score other teams when the young arms are throwing.
Girls softball is home today. JV girls start at 4.30 and the varsity quickly after that. The Lady Gryphons are trying to snap a losing streak that started at the end of the 09 season and continues after the first two games this year.
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