Gryphon Boys Stand a Top OF Big East

Tonight the Rocky Mount Gryphons coming off exams  which finished today played their only game of the week  and for the boys it was a big one playing Hunt for first place.  Once again tonight Hunt proves to be  a strong adversary but Rocky Mount ends a two game losing streak to the Warriors winning at Hunt by four  points 61-57.  Only three games into the conference season and Rocky Mount is the only team to yet taste defeat in conference.

The girls side of the ledger the Lady Gryphons found the going against the Lady Warriors easy as they win big 66-40.  They keep pace with Northern who beat Southern Nash by 23 so both Northern and Rocky Mount are still undefeated in conference and Northern remains undefeated on the season.  Next week is another single game week as the Gryphons travel to Southern Nash as next week is end of the semester break.

Tarboro High Schools Todd Gurley made his announcement in on where he planned to spend the next four or five years of his life and the answer is Athens Georgia.  Today in the gym Todd chose the Bulldogs over Clemson and N C State.  Surprisingly Todd did admit that Carolina was his top choice last year but with everything that has come down in Chapel Hill the past year he passed on  them.

Tonight in Goldsboro three people with local ties to  Rocky Mount were inducted into the George Whitfield Hall Of Fame. Carol Carson now in her 25th year serving North Carolina Wesleyan College as its  head trainer was among the inductees.  The 1983 graduate of ECU also serves  as Senior Woman Administrator at the college.

Former Fike High School football coach and now an assistant coach at Northern Nash Richie Pridgen joins the long list of honorees over the years.  Richie who retired at Fike a couple of years ago has spent the last couple of years on the football staff at Northern Nash.

Ron Fly long time Rocky Mount resident who now calls Goldsboro home was inductee as a basketball and baseball official.  I wonder in the forty years Ron has been a ref how many miles  he has run and how many foul balls has he taken while behind the plate. Even today when I see one or the other of the Fly brothers I have to act like I know who I'm talking to when I really don't.  I wonder sometimes when they look in the mirror to shave if the other brother(Don) isn't looking back in the mirror.

The NFL playoffs will be underway before you see me again.   New Orleans travels to the up start San Francisco Forty Niners.  This is not  a guarantee for the Saints.  It would not shock me at all if the Niners win but I think in the long run the Niners can't score enough.  Saints 24- Niners 16

Denver at New England.  I know I missed the Broncos last week but not this week.  34-14 Patroits.

I don't think this is a lock but I don't think Houston will run up and down the field like they did last week.  Baltimore is getting old but they will play again next week.  Ravens  20 Houston 13


New York at Green Bay.  Here again this is not a lock for the Packers. 27-21 Green Bay.