There is one thing about loser bracket games is there is no longer a big trophy waiting to win when the tournament is over. About the only thing coaches can look forward too is the playing time their teams need to develop as it is still December and plenty of basketball ahead. The one thing any team wants is not to get embarrassed when they are on display in a tournament like the High School OT. Today Rocky Mount may have pulled off the biggest comeback in school history. Now that Charles Alston is no longer here to look up such stats we can only assume.
Down 45-25 with two minutes left in the third quarter playing East Wake at Cary Academy Rocky Mount came all the way back and had a foul shot with 6.5 seconds left in regulation that could have won the game but in this case in over time will do. The Lady Gryphons beat East Wake 61-58 in over time and now play in the fifth place game Friday at 12.30 at Cary Academy.
J'Kyra Brown scored 9 of the Gryphon 11 points the Gryphons scored in over time 32 for the game to seal the deal. Carmen Richardson scored 13 points and today help came in the form of Kelsy Daniels who had 12 points most on rebound put backs.
Lady Gryphons are now 7-3 on the season. The news is not good from Durham. The Rocky Mount Gryphon boys have lost their first basketball game in 2012. During the 2011/12 season they did not lose after the New Year in fact finished the 2012 season winning 20 in a row. They had begun the 2012/13 season winning their first eight but tonight Northside Christian Academy from Charlotte had beaten the Gryphons 70-56 snapping the Gryphons 28 games winning streak. They are now 8-1 on this season.
I have just pulled for DUKE football about as hard as I ever have tonight in the Belk Bowl in Charlotte. Duke fumbles twice inside the five yard line, the last one occurring with 1:15 to play and then gives up and 83 yard pass play with 44 seconds to play. Cincy then returns a pass int for a TD and highly favored Cincinnati beats Duke 48-34. Cincy finishes 10-3 and Duke 6-7.
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Lady Gryphons Fall
There are so many brackets in the High School OT Invitational Tournament is is hard to keep up with who is playing who. This year the Rocky Mount High School Lady Gryphons are in the Mix 101.5 Bracket which has eight teams.
Wednesday night the Lady Gryphons matched up with Dudley High from Greensboro. It is apparent in this one that it will be height against speed as Dudley has a six five center. The Gryphon speed worked in the first half but by the time the final horn had sounded the Lady Gryphons need more than two players to score as Dudley whips Rocky Mount 60-54. J'Kyra Brown lead Rocky Mount dropping in 31 and Sophomore Carmen Richardson added 17. This gives these two players 48 of the 54 points scored by the Lady Gryphons. Moriah Davis lead Dudley with 17.
Now in the losers bracket the Lady Gryphons play at noon time on Thursday and they will face off against East Wake who was a 60-55 loser to Myers Park High School from Charlotte. The best the Gryphons can finish now is fifth as there will be another game on Friday.
The Boys hit the floor at Riverside High at 5:30pm today in the Tobacco Road Holiday Invitational Tournament. They will be playing Northside Christian Academy from Charlotte. This tournament is also an eight team affair and there will be three games played by the Gryphons.
Tonight Duke plays it it's first Bowl game since 1994. They are in Charlotte for the Belk Bowl which starts at the odd hour of 6.30pm. Since ESPN has control of all of these minor bowl games and they are trying to provide coverage of about 35 games air times of some of these games is ridiculous. Has any body noticed several of the games so far had more people working for ESPN that people in the stands.
That Hawaii Bowl the other night had maybe 1,500 people in view of the camera. Teams are required to buy so many tickets and I am sure that the teams in Hawaii lost money big time to be on national TV. Speaking of ticket sales, I understand State sold 8,200 of their 10,000 for the Music City Bowl game in Nashville against the home team Vanderbilt. I bet Vandy nearly sells the place out being right down the street.
Wednesday night the Lady Gryphons matched up with Dudley High from Greensboro. It is apparent in this one that it will be height against speed as Dudley has a six five center. The Gryphon speed worked in the first half but by the time the final horn had sounded the Lady Gryphons need more than two players to score as Dudley whips Rocky Mount 60-54. J'Kyra Brown lead Rocky Mount dropping in 31 and Sophomore Carmen Richardson added 17. This gives these two players 48 of the 54 points scored by the Lady Gryphons. Moriah Davis lead Dudley with 17.
Now in the losers bracket the Lady Gryphons play at noon time on Thursday and they will face off against East Wake who was a 60-55 loser to Myers Park High School from Charlotte. The best the Gryphons can finish now is fifth as there will be another game on Friday.
The Boys hit the floor at Riverside High at 5:30pm today in the Tobacco Road Holiday Invitational Tournament. They will be playing Northside Christian Academy from Charlotte. This tournament is also an eight team affair and there will be three games played by the Gryphons.
Tonight Duke plays it it's first Bowl game since 1994. They are in Charlotte for the Belk Bowl which starts at the odd hour of 6.30pm. Since ESPN has control of all of these minor bowl games and they are trying to provide coverage of about 35 games air times of some of these games is ridiculous. Has any body noticed several of the games so far had more people working for ESPN that people in the stands.
That Hawaii Bowl the other night had maybe 1,500 people in view of the camera. Teams are required to buy so many tickets and I am sure that the teams in Hawaii lost money big time to be on national TV. Speaking of ticket sales, I understand State sold 8,200 of their 10,000 for the Music City Bowl game in Nashville against the home team Vanderbilt. I bet Vandy nearly sells the place out being right down the street.
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