The Show Down Is Set

Tonight Fike High finished a week in which they started tied with Rocky Mount and North Nash Girls for first place and played both this week with a chance to move up in the world of Big East girls basketball.  Instead, Fike loses at Home to Rocky Mount Wednesday by 20 and tonight at Northern start out the game down 11-0 before they blink and lose by 21  72-51.  What that does is sets up Rocky Mount and Northern for their seventh meeting in the past 13 months and  their second this season.

Northern coasting for the rest of the game after jumping to the 11-0 start and 24-8 first quarter lead.  They had four player hit double digit points lead by Camille Branch who had 15.  Quinesha Lynch 13, Deja Lewis 10, Khadijarh Richardson 10.  They had two others with 8 or more Alexus Hill 9 and Jordan Oldham 8.

Fike was lead by the trio of E J Proctor 14, Jameka Ruffin 13 and Shatera Black 12.  Once Fike  got use to the Northern pressure defense Fike played even for all of the second half but by that time Northern consistantly lead by 20 or more for most of the second , third and fourth quarters.  Northern won their 14th game without a loss and they stand 4-0 on the Big East.  Fike drops to 10-3 and 2-2 in the Big East.

 You can see this game on WHIG-TV Sunday night at 8pm  as the TV cameras were in the house for this Big East game.  

Over in Rocky Mount the Lady Gryphons held Southern Nash to 8 points in the first half and they too coasted home to beat the Lady Firebirds  54-40.  J'Kyra Brown was unstoppable  as she scored 33 of the Rocky Mount 54 points.  Carmen Richardson and Kelsey Daniels both had 5 points for the Gryphons.  Kedijah Manning lead Southern with 17 points.

Rocky Mount heads to Northern Tuesday night 4-0 in the Big East and 12-4 over all.  One piece of concern for Northern as Alexus Hill went down early in the 4th quarter on a knee that she hurt last season.  One of the reasons Rocky Mount was able to defeat Northern four straight times last year was Hill hurt her knee in the second meeting with Rocky Mount and never was quite the same for rest of the season.  Her health for Tuesday's game will be a major concern for Grover Battle heading into the the battle for first place.

Northern Nash Boys built up a big lead on Fike and had to hold on for dear life but in doing so the Knights won their first conference game in almost two years. Correction!  Northern beat Southern Nash Last week and this is their second conference win of the season The final Northern Nash 58- Fike 55.

The Rocky Mount boys  were too tall and too quick for Southern Nash as Mike Gainey's squad earned their 14th win of the year beating Southern 76-38.  They lead throughout and by 20 at the half.  Donte Battle lead the way with 20.  M J Gainey chipped in 13 while  the only other double digit scorer was Michael Hines with ten.  Eight other player got in the scoring book for the Gryphons.

Chi-Ali Bunn lead the Firebirds  with 11.  Rocky Mount is 3-1 in the Big East and 14-2 over all heading to Northern Tuesday night.