Baseball Remains In Cellar

Tuesday night in eight innings the Rocky Mount Gryphons continue to leave runners on base and until they get a big hit will remain at the bottom of the Big East standings.  Southern Nash wins 2-1.  Rocky Mount had a chance in the top of the 7th with the bases loaded and only one out with the game tied at 1-1 but failed to score.  Jeremy Johnson went  the entire game on the mound for the Gryphons and comes up the loser.  The Gryphons drop to 0-4 in the Big East.

It looks like his decision to give up basketball to solely devote his senior year to tennis is paying off for Northern Knight's Michael Brackett.  Monday the Knights beat Rocky Mount 8-1 and so far this tennis season they have lost only one match.  That was to a top three team in the State and they only lost to then 5-4.  Looks like a good spring  for tennis at Northern Nash.

Monday  night just might have been the final basketball game for legendary Women's basketball coach Pat Summitt of the University of Tennessee who has coached this entire season in first stages of Dementia.  Summitt who has won more than 1,084 games since she became a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee in 1974.  The head coach suddenly resigned and the Grad assistant has been the  Tennessee coach  ever since. When asked about her health Pat Summitt's response,  We are not going to hold a pity party for me.


Former Gryphon and Barton College baseball player Collins Cuthrell is knocking the cover off of the  baseball this spring.   Cuthrell is batting 372 with five home runs.  Collins might better be remembered for one of the most controversial plays in Rocky Mount - Northern Nash Football history.  Did he score or didn't he.


The Final play of the final regular season game in 2009.  Rocky Mount has driven the ball to the Northern Nash four yard line down by less than a touchdown. Cuthrell as the Gryphon quarterback rolls right trying to throw on fourth down but finally keeps the ball and is hit at the two yard line and falls forward.  There is not a Knight's fan that was within two miles of the stadium that says he scored but the refs hands signal TOUCHDOWN.