Brown/Hilliard Go Off

The Rocky Mount Gryphons have played two games this week in preparation for their clash Friday night with Nash Central.  Having  won their bracket last week in the Holiday Tournament in Raleigh the Lady Gryphons are playing at a much higher level than before Christmas.  Tonight they declaw the Bears of Hertford County 78-41.  On the other end of the spectrum the boys were embarrassed in losing a 16 point lead to Clayton and both games this week they have been on a mission to have fun and tonight they lay a hurting on Hertford County 98-53.

J'Kyra Brown had the three ball working, and by nights end poured in 35 for the Lady Gryphons.  Help came from Tia Hudgins 13 points 9 rebounds and Carmen Richardson with 11 points.  The Lady Gryphons suffocated the Lady Bears into 39 turnovers  while committing only 20 themselves.  They also out rebounded the Bear 38-28.  Amani Kipp pulled down 8 rebounds.  The negative of the night is TyAis Cooper went down with an ankle injury and looks like she will not be available for the big one Friday night at Nash Central.

The Lady Bulldogs need this one Friday night badly as they lost by double digits again to Northern on Tuesday.  If they want to have a say in the conference race they can't afford to lose twice the first week on conference play.  Rocky Mount will head to the Pound with an 11-2 record.

Gene Hackman in the movie Hoosiers requires his team to make four passes before they shoot.  If I was Mike Gainey I would require that Terrill Hilliard touch the ball on every trip down court as tonight Hilliard is a half a assist short of a triple double.  Hilliard Drops 23 points 10 rebounds and with 2.58 to play feed Jaquel Bryant who put up a layup that was half way down in the basket and spun out and that would have been assist #10 for Hilliard.

Between getting eight rebounds Donte Battle was one of the recipients of Terrill's assist as he had a career high 20 points and K J Peoples scored 12 points and got two slams from Hilliard.  Tevin Taylor had three bombs from the outside  score 11 on the night.

Rocky Mount out rebounded HC 44 to 27.  Rocky Mount had 15 turnovers while HC had only 13 but the Bears found that the only shots they could get were from 25 feet and when you don't make many of them the Gryphons will wipe the floor with you.

Rocky Mount wins their 10th game of the year and head to the big battle Friday at Nash Central with a 10-3 record.