Maturing Gryphons

Just a few weeks ago Kent Cox took his young Gryphon baseball team to Dudley to play Southern Wayne. The Gryphons play more like little leaguers than varsity players an in the end SW beat Rocky Mount 8-7.

Today sophomore Pitcher Jeremy Johnson took a no hitter into the 6th inning before allowing his first hit of the game and the Saints scratched across their only run of the game. The Gryphons got an RBi single from Matt Berry and a sac fly rbi from freshman Andy Morris in the bottom of the sixth and then turned the seventh over to Benton Moss who struck out the side in the seventh as the Gryphons win their sixth game in a row 2-1 over Southern Wayne.

Moss gets the save so he remains one win short of the all time tying record of 28 wins held by Jim Leggett. Rocky Mount has one more non-conference game Saturday against Bunn. Kent Cox has a major dilemma on his hands next week. Conference plays starts and Rocky Mount gets all three of the so called top teams.

Tuesday the Gryphons are home hosting Nash Central, then Thursday they host Hunt and turn around Friday and play Fike at home. This crazy schedule comes about do to the Easter break this year. Nash County schools are off the week of April 16th and Wilson County has their Easter break the week of the 23rd. After the Easter break the final week of the season will once again play three conference games the first full week of May.

It will not take long to find out how much pitching any team has this year.

Thursday night the Lady Gryphon softball team travels to Tarboro to meet the Lady Vikings. They will return home Friday to take on Tarboro at Mutt Wilson Field. I have been telling you all along this season that this softball team is much better than last season. Even though they have yet to win a game I feel it coming either Thursday or Friday if not both days.

We are taping the game Friday for the Stretchlon Sports Show but I hope they break the streak Thursday and are working on a winning streak by Friday.

Sunday night on the SSS Kenny Dickerson will be featured speaker talking with us about his up coming SEAM Trip and a fund raiser that is going to be held Monday night at the Pizza Inn.