Nash County Tournament This week

Starting Tuesday the 2013 addition of the Nash County Christmas tournament will be held at Northern Nash High School. The past few years it has been a three day tournament over four games in two days. The opening game will feature the Lady Gryphons going up against The Lady Bulldogs of Nash Central. Rocky Mount 4-2 VS Nash Central 6-0. Coach Terry Cash could not ask for a much better start to the 2013-14 season than what has taken place so far. Heading into Saturday night's game the Lady Bulldogs were undefeated with a senior laden team which has grown up together since freshman year. Rocky Mount is some what better than expected standing at 4-2. They are better inside than anyone knew about and as always the Lady Gryphons feast on a nervous point guard. They won't find that in veteran Niya Styles running the show for for the Bulldogs. This is a really good game to kickoff the 2013 tournament at 5pm Tuesday. Southern Nash 4-3 VS Northern Nash 5-1. Coach Wayne Bryant's squad gets the pleasure of taking on the host team in the first round. Northern's lone loss was on the road. I would suspect the Lady Firebirds need to be able to play even on the boards and stop Alexis Hill. Sounds easy on paper but it will be a challenge for Firebirds to shutdown the best all round basketball player in the Big East. This game follows the first game on Tuesday. The final game on Tuesday the Northern Nash Boys 3-4 will host Nash Central 1-5. Nash Central can claim to be the youngest team in the Big East this year. Most of the time that will lead to losses and to this point that is what has happen to the Bulldogs. The good news is the Bulldogs have been in every game but in the key moments have made inexperienced mistakes. Northern is riding the roller coaster of win one game lose the next but to this point are better than anyone expected this season. Wednesday's 6pm game will be the consolation game of the two losing teams in the girls bracket from Tuesday. Then the final game of the night will have Rocky Mount 4-2 taking on Southern Nash 3-4. Southern like almost everyone will have to contend with a wall ten feet from the basket call Battle-King and Bryant the Gryphons tall rebound line. Southern must either out run Rocky Mount or be hot from the outside. the two Gryphon losses have come against hot shooting 3's. Right now that is where the Gryphons must improve exterior defense. Thursday lineup will start at 5pm with the boys consolation game followed by the girls championship and then followed by the boys championship tussle.