J'Kyra Brown NCBCA Player Of The Year

Rocky Mount High's J'Kyra Brown has been named the player of the year  by the North Carolina Basketball Coaches Association.  This honor comes as all four levels of high school are on this team.  This is not just a 3-A honor but all levels.  The ECU recruit is the all time leading scorer in Rocky Mount girls history and averaged 27 points per game this season.

Jamie Cherry of West Craven, Briana Day and Ryan Flowers of Millbrook along with Kea Paris of Page are the first team all state.  The only local player with any boys connections is Donte Battle of Rocky Mount whio made the third team all state.

Rocky Mount high got shutout pitching from Jeremy Johnson as the Gryphons win today at Guy Smith Stadium  8-0 over Greene Central in the Pitt County Easter Tournament.  The Gryphons are now winners of three in a row and have upped their record to 7-5.  The game yesterday against West Craven  in the Easter Tournament will not be made up.  Gryphons win both of their games in the Pitt County Tournament.

Hobbs Johnson just can not catch a break on the mound for the UNC Tar Heels.  Last night on ESPNU Johnson pitched into the 6th inning left the game with the lead but Carolina managed to lose their second game of the season before the night was over.  Johnson who has started six times this  spring for Mike Fox has yet to get a win or loss in his six starts.  He had an injury early on and there has been a couple of starts  where he was on a pitch count and did not get enough innings in the game to win.

I don't know about how your NCAA brackets are but I still have one team alive an that is Louisville.  My only problem is everyone still ahead of me in their bracket also have Louisville too so I am out of the running regardless of who wins this weekend.

Rodney Purvis announced that he is transferring from N C State. I can tell you I am from the old school that once you decide this is where I am going you need to accept you were not as good as you thought you were and get better at the place you decided to go.  I can't figure any player feels sitting out a year when they think they are the best player on the team can be good for that player.

Thanks for the help in reminding me that Alvin Battle of Northern Nash was also a member of the State 1983 Final Four team.  We were talking about the last players from the Twin Counties to play in a final four like Montrezl Harrell will be doing this year.