Wrestling Champs

The Rocky Mount Gryphon Wrestling Team won the team title in Big East Wrestling Saturday on their home floor.  Wrestling is like Tennis and there is a team portion and individual.  Saturday's conference championship is the team title.  They wrestled five matches and won five times beating Northern Nash in the final match to win the title.

Thursday night at Chic-Fil-A at Cobbs Corner the Gryphon Baseball team will have a fund raiser.  You need to get a coupon from any Gryphon coach or baseball players in order for the proceeds of your purchase  to come the the baseball team.  The time is from 5-8pm.  This season the Gryphons will be extremely young but surprisingly pitching depth will be much better than last year when it was Moss and Johnson and pray for rain.  No, they don't have any one to replace Benton Moss but the #4 and 5 pitchers will be much better than last season.  The question on offense is who will replace the Berry Twins hits in the lineup.

Tonight Hunt come to Rocky Mount for conference basketball.  Hunt boys needs a win to keep their hopes a live of finishing second and getting a home game in the opening round of the sectionals in the boys game.  They are tied with Nash Central at 4-2 in the conference but they still have RM Tonight and Nash Central to play.  Rocky Mount won by four points at Hunt so this will be a game that the Gryphons will have to play well to win.  Should they do so they have three games left an and they would be against the #4-5-6 teams in the conference race.

The girls must keep winning in order to stay a shoulder  length in front of Northern Nash.  Regardless of even if they are 9-0 heading into the last game with Northern if the Lady Knights keep winning the last game of the season at Northern would determine the #1 seed.  Everyone else in conference is beating up themselves.  Hunt, Southern Nash  and Fike are all 2-4 and Nash Central 1-5 in conference play so it's down to a two horse race with four games to go.

This years Conference tournament is at Northern Nash and that will be in progress in two weeks.  The Lady Gryphons to win the title and Tournament would have to beat Northern twice in seven days at Northern to win the regular season and tournament title.