Red Tornadoes finished 6th in last Regular season State Poll -Rocky Mount 2nd
Hickory Red Tornadoes 28-3 - Beat Concord In Greensboro in West Regional 81-75 ot. Rocky Mount Gryphons 26-3- beat Triton Saturday in Fayetteville for East Regional 82-67.
This will be Hickory's third trip to State Championship game 0-2 Rocky Mount 7th 4-2
Head Coach Hickory Shawn Johnson 8th year- Rocky Mount Mike Gainey 15 year.
Top Players: Hickory Jordan Walls-Davis, Zack Jarrett, Rocky Mount Terrill Hilliard, Levon Brutus
Hickory has won 11 in a Row. Rocky Mount 18 in a row.
Hickory has 40,010 Population. Rocky Mount 57,477
Lenoir Rhyne University is in Hickory. North Carolina Wesyelan College in Rocky Mount.
Notable citizens: Hickory Dale Jarrett Nascar Champion and TV Nascar announcer and the father of Red Tornadoe player Zack Jarrett. Rocky Mount Buck Leonard Baseball hall Of fame.
Hickory is located in in Catawba County. Rocky Mount in Nash-Edgecombe
Game Time 7.30pm March 10th 2012 at the Dean Smith Center on the Campus of UNC-Chapel Hill.
The 3-A final is the 4th game of the day. Noon Southside vs Bishop McGuiness 1-A Girls
Plymouth vs Winston Salem Prep 1-A boys game at 2.30pm
Burlington Williams vs Charlotte Harding 3-A girls championship 5pm
