Track And Field Friday

The State Championship in track and field in 3-A gets underway Friday at North Carolina A&T.  Rocky Mount's Paul Lilly who has a chance to get points in four events  and just might win a couple of events has an outside shot at being MVP of the meet if he does well.

Hunt is in the third round of the Baseball playoffs and meet South Brunswick Friday night at Brunswick.

Faith Christian School goes after a shot at the State Independent School baseball title when they meet Lawrence Academy at 1pm Friday at Fleming Stadium in Wilson.  The winner of that game will take on the Greenfield Wayne Country Day winner which is also being played at Fleming.  The two winners collide for the title Saturday.

Tonight North Carolina State beat Florida State 10-5 as the last weekend of the regular season of college baseball is here.  Carlos Rodan who is State's sensational freshman walked nine batters in six innings but gave up only three hits to pick up his ninth win of the year.   State trailed 4-1 when Ryan Matthews belted two home runs to give the Pack the win.  The win clinches at least third place in next week's ACC baseball Tournament for the Wolfpack.  Carolina will be second if they win two of their games this weekend against Virginia Tech.  .

Next Thursday May 24th is the Rocky Mount High School Athletic banquet for all athletes in the 11/12 school year.  The high light of the evening will be the basketball team receiving their State Championship basketball Rings.

Understand Gryphon football player Damien Smith will play football at Campbell.

Finally tonight I can't get over this world we live in these days.  Both the Miami Heat and the L A Lakers are in real trouble and both teams lost Tuesday and Wednesday night in the last seconds when team mates missed shots.  Kobe Bryant and Lebron James  are being labeled for either passing up shots to feed a team mate or just for not getting open.

It is almost like everyone thinks that every shot at the end of the game is suppose to go in and only the superstars are suppose to shoot them.  Both cases the final shots were taken by players wide open and the shots just did not go in.  The media is making out as if James is scare to take the big shot  and Kobe is getting old because he can't get open any more.  Neither one of those players hits 50% of his shot for the season but the media thinks because it seemed Michael Jordan made every shot at the end of games they will make all their shots.  First off Jordan didn't make every shot he took at the end and Steve Kerr and John Paxton  were hero's in many games from their game winning shots.