Also elected were former N C State baseball coach Sam Esposito, Carolina Basketball All American Lenny Rosenbluth, Kristi Overton Johnson, Former High Point College and
The eighth member of the Hall of Fame is Jerry McGee former football coach and Athletic Director at Elizabeth City and Northeastern High School. While doing play by play for Ahoskie have had many pleasant talks with Jerry in the press box of the many games. Jerry's brother is Mike MeGee who played football at Duke played pro football and for a time was the head coach at ECU and was the coach at ECU when the Fatal Marshall University plane crash occurred after taking off from Kinston in 1970.
Speaking of ECU they Named Brian Overton of Ahoskie Thursday as Director of Football Operations and Personnel. Brian was still in school at Hertford County High School when Pat and I moved from Ahoskie but his mom and dad Johnny and Shirley were very good friends with us. Johnny was in the press box every Friday night and those of you old Planters Bank folks might remember Johnny as he worked for Planters and then Centura in Ahoskie. In fact Johnny was the only Ahoskie player on the 1963 legion team that won the league Championship when I was the bat boy.
The Big East has decided to dump the idea of playing the JV basketball games at one site and the varsity games at another the same night. Tuesday was the only night it has been used for conference games and I think two issues prevailed. It was very costly having to man the gates and security at two different locations at the same time and attendance. When all the games are at one site there are those that will show up for the JV games and stay and watch the Varsity games and that means buying popcorn and a sandwich.
Rocky Mount travels to Nash Central Friday and the JV girls begin play at 4.00pm. The Varsity boys game is a battle for a share of first place while the girls game is a position game to stay close to Northern Nash in the standings.
