Hudgins Signs With Queens

Tia Hudgins who just in May was named the top female athlete at Rocky Mount High School signed  with Queens College in Charlotte on Monday to continue to play basketball.  She will join former Gryphon team mate Dyonna Battle.

Hudgins who played four years of varsity basketball for Pam Gainey who at only five feet seven  will probably have a new role once she hits the college hardwood.  Tia only and average outside shooter will probably have to play guard in college and while playing for the Gryphons used her jumping ability to secure rebounds and put rebounds back in the basket.

Her four years of playing Rocky Mount basketball the Gryphons won 85% of their games. She scored over 1,250 points and she is probably a better volleyball player  at 5'7" her game at the net with her jumping ability made her one of the best VB players at Rocky Mount in the last ten years but at the college level that's no where near tall enough.   If you never saw her play and only looked at her stats you would assume she is at least six feet tall  but those that did know she has the heart of a champion.

I hear that Khalil Macklin did not make the U18 USA baseball team.  You know Khalil is probably the youngest player invited to the Baseball USA Complex in Cary and he did so well he has already been invited back to try out next year.  Even then Macklin will be one of the youngest players as he is only a rising Junior at Nash Central.  Most of the team members picked graduated high school  this spring.  Getting this much attention this early by the time he graduates in two years he will have a real chance to be a top ten pick in the MLB baseball draft of 2014.  Thank Goodness he will be back in uniform soon for Coleman Pitt Post 58.

Post 58 will be in action tonight at they play Johnston County  at Smithfield Selma High School.  This game had been scheduled for the second game of the season but got shifted to tonight along the way.  P58  record has jumped to 13-4 but these next two games Wednesday  at home to Johnston County don't mean half as much as the game Friday at Wilson.  I doubt if any pitcher  pitches more than a couple of inning in each of the next two.

It's update time for Brian Goodwin as he continues to play for Hagerstown Md in A ball for the Washington Nationals.  Brian missed almost a month when he pulled a groin about a week into the season and the Nationals because they prize Brian so highly kept him on the side lines well after he was healed just to make sure he had no lingering effects from the injury.

Brian is hitting 316 in 37 games played of the 70 that Hagerstown has played.  He has hit 6 home runs and driven in 30 runs in 37 games.  Stolen 11 bases  and has ten doubles.  He is listed on the Washington Nationals website as their 7th top prospect in the minors.  Remember now he is 7th and playing A ball.  Doubt he will stay in Hagerstown much longer.