Decision Week

You would think that if you can beat the two teams tied for first in one week you should be able to handle the bottom team an another tied for fourth in the final week of the regular season.  Rocky Mount winners of four straight conference games find themselves alone in third but both Southern Nash and Northern Nash trail by one game. Should at weeks end they find themselves tied with Northern they will get a higher seed in the tournament  since they swept the Knights this season.  If they tied Southern it most likely would be that Southern beats them Thursday then Southern would get the higher seed since they would have swept the series this year.

First place is on the line and the two square off this week as Hunt will play Nash Central for the top seed and the Bulldogs will play without head coach Jeff Mizzelle who is out for the remainder of the year after being suspended.  Assistant coach Buck Edmonson guided the Bulldogs last Thursday in the 10-0 whitewash of the Golden Demons.

The Gryphons have started to come together in the last three weeks as those five sophomores in the starting lineup look more comfortable at the plate.  They still are  not knocking the cover off the ball but have found a way to get the big hit when it is needed.  Those early season defensive lapses have been replaced by solid defense.  They have even been able to display game saving plays in the field as they seemed to come up with in both the Bulldog upset and Hunt shutout.

All of a sudden the Gryphon starting pitching has been solid all year but when you play the likes of people like Greenville Rose who has lost only one game all year it is hard to tell when you are getting pounded.  The pitching for the most part has been reliable all year it you just can't tell how good it is when you don't score runs which lately the offense is doing.

I would think for the Gryphons the most important game all season is Tuesday at Fike.  It will show with a victory that yes this team has turned the corner but a loss like coach Kent Cox said " will have wasted beating the top two teams last week".


Senior night is Thursday and what could possible be the last home game for Rocky Mount High School at Gryphon Stadium.  Should they get third or fourth spot for the tournament they will get a home game next Monday.which in all likely hood would be the last  high school game ever at Gryphon Stadium.