Will Bass Sets Meet Records

Nash Central's Senior Will Bass is having a senior season to remember this year as today during the Elon Phoenix High School Classic set the meet record in the mile run at 4 minutes and twenty seconds. Bass already has won a Indoor season state championship will be the odds on favorite this spring to win another state title.

If setting one meet record wasn't enough Bass preceded to win the two mile in record time running it in a time nine minutes and twenty five seconds. You know we have special athletes in different sports and Will Bass just may be the greatest long distance high school runner ever from this area.

One thousand six hundred athletes took part in today's meet at Elon College and several local athletes either with their time or effort automatically quality for the regional later this spring. Bass certainly has qualified but he was joined by team mate Tevin Richardson who won the 800 meter event in a time of 1 minute and fifty seven seconds.

Rocky Mount's Paul Lilley ran a two minute and three seconds half mile which is a good enough effort to qualify for the regional. Lilley qualified for the regional in another event as he ran a four minute and thirty four second mile.

Rocky Mount's Donte Harrison has qualified for the regional with a high jump of six feet two inches. I think if I remember correctly back when I was in junior high school they had what they called the President's Council for physical fitness where they tested you in track and field events and I think I cleared three feet three inches in the high jump.

Two of Rocky Mount's relay teams qualified as the 4x800 ran an eight minute and thirty four seconds and the 4 x100 relays team finished second but their time is good enough.

We will continue our look at our local college ball players and their seasons as they unfold. Jim Leggett has never quite comeback from the surgery that he has had following Rocky Mount's State Championship in 2008. Leggett has pitched two innings going into this week for Pitt C C

T J Taylor is playing for Wake Tech. The former Bulldog of Nash Central was three for three in a game this year but Wake does not post team stats and I can't tell how his season is going.

Southern Nash's Brian Allen playing his senior season at NC Wesleyan is batting 259.

Up until just a second ago or so I was having a great day in the NCAA basketball action until former Michigan basketball player Chris Webber showed up disguised as a Pitt Panther and pulled the bone head play of this years tournament and my first final four team is out.

Carolina And Duke Advance

I don't know whether they have played in the same building back to back since 1979 there have been too many NCAA games to remember where they were played but Carolina and Duke play back to back Sunday in Charlotte. I don't know whether that has happened since the infamous Black Sunday Blue Monday in 1979 when both Duke and Carolina lost one point games in Reynolds Coliseum In Raleigh and then the following Monday all three ACC teams who were playing in the NIT all lost.

Kyrie is back for Duke and Coach K could not have asked for a better game plan in order to get Irving playing time, a runaway from the opening whistle. Irving got better as the game wore on but I tell you what I see about this Duke team now is their big men are now a part of the offense so they don't have to live for the 3. This victory was #899 for Coach K and if the Devils win Sunday he would be only the second D-1 coach to ever win 900 in a career.

Carolina could not have gotten better play from their big three as Carolina went over 100. Despite dominating inside Carolina gave up close to 90 points which to me is a major concern. Carolina kicks off the Sunday action at 12.15 Sunday on CBS and Duke will be on CBS twenty five minutes after the Carolina Game. No need for the remote tomorrow.

I like the new TV format with four different networks handling the games. In the past if you were watching Carolina leading by 30 they would switch to another game which I wanted to see all the Carolina game. This format I can do the switching when I want to. The only thing I haven't liked is Charles Barkley. Just like Sidney Lowe is a pro coach Barkley is a pro commentator and his style is not very good for college basketball. Kenny Smith has been very good between games but not Barkley.

Despite having four different games going they all seemed to be in commercials at the same time which was very annoying.

I am 24-8 in my best bracket after the second round. I still have 15 of 16 in my sweet 16 and that one I don't have winning next week so I feel like a miler running a race. I'm lagging behind waiting to pounce the closer the finish line comes.