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.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Puppy Love?
I heard this headline last night about the Manti Te'o story. It was one of those 7pm Hollywood shows that I don't watch but it came on before I could click off of it to change the channel. The sports story that everybody is talking about. First thing I thought about was "Is everybody talking about this or is it the media with nothing else to talk about?"
We have fallen in love with instant media. There was a while that blogging on the Internet was access to the world. Along comes U Tube and Face book and everything you do is now out there for the world to see for those who have the time to watch. Now this thing called Tweeter where you instant thoughts can be sent to anyone who wants to hear what you say can be sent to them.
Is this a kid who loves notoriety and when it came up about a girl friend embellish to make it seem more than it actually was or is he a Lance Armstrong of Tweeter? Now we have to remember that this kid is 22 or less and as a major college football player has plenty of pressure from the media. I can tell you as a 17 and 18 year old I laid across my bed many a night staring at a telephone wanting to call a girl for a date but not in some cases having the courage to do so. Now many years later I chuckle remembering how hard it was to call girls now that I have become the sex symbol that I am.
We all I think have gone through wishing to speak to a girl and once she looked your way fell in love whether she spoke to you or not. If this girl did exist and they were pen pals(boy that's old time) talking on line he just may felt something for her and never had seen her. So he considered her a girl friend even though they had never met. Then there is the Lance Armstrong Effect. He may have made all of this up.
Social pressure for a college kid who didn't have a girl friend and a media star to boot may have been thinking I need to invent a girl and kill her off to take this girl friend pressure off me. If this is what happened he is a Lance Armstrong waiting to happen. then the other option is he just might have been Catfished? That is another one of this modern media world lingo that a prank has been pulled on him by somebody on social media.
Evidence seems to be telling us that he knew that stories were untrue and did nothing to quiet the false statements. Teammates have come forward and are telling just about everyone on the team knew there was no girl.. Manti Te'o is waiting for the April NFL draft. If all of this proves out to be false I don't see how any NFL team could gamble on such a person. His performance in the National Championship game has hurt his NFL status a lot already before all of this surfaced. We have all seen professional team look first to talent potential and talent over rides problems. We have seen many instances where after the fact many NFL teams wish they had passed on players and the opposite has happened that teams pass on players that blossom as they grow up.
If all of this pans out that this is a classic Catfish that he was duped 100% then he is clean and we all can feel sorry for him. Where this story stands now I don't see where he will be exonerated. Hope he is. This new world of instant fame carries pressure that young kids don't see until they are buried in the avalanche that follows stupidity in this instant world of fame.
We have fallen in love with instant media. There was a while that blogging on the Internet was access to the world. Along comes U Tube and Face book and everything you do is now out there for the world to see for those who have the time to watch. Now this thing called Tweeter where you instant thoughts can be sent to anyone who wants to hear what you say can be sent to them.
Is this a kid who loves notoriety and when it came up about a girl friend embellish to make it seem more than it actually was or is he a Lance Armstrong of Tweeter? Now we have to remember that this kid is 22 or less and as a major college football player has plenty of pressure from the media. I can tell you as a 17 and 18 year old I laid across my bed many a night staring at a telephone wanting to call a girl for a date but not in some cases having the courage to do so. Now many years later I chuckle remembering how hard it was to call girls now that I have become the sex symbol that I am.
We all I think have gone through wishing to speak to a girl and once she looked your way fell in love whether she spoke to you or not. If this girl did exist and they were pen pals(boy that's old time) talking on line he just may felt something for her and never had seen her. So he considered her a girl friend even though they had never met. Then there is the Lance Armstrong Effect. He may have made all of this up.
Social pressure for a college kid who didn't have a girl friend and a media star to boot may have been thinking I need to invent a girl and kill her off to take this girl friend pressure off me. If this is what happened he is a Lance Armstrong waiting to happen. then the other option is he just might have been Catfished? That is another one of this modern media world lingo that a prank has been pulled on him by somebody on social media.
Evidence seems to be telling us that he knew that stories were untrue and did nothing to quiet the false statements. Teammates have come forward and are telling just about everyone on the team knew there was no girl.. Manti Te'o is waiting for the April NFL draft. If all of this proves out to be false I don't see how any NFL team could gamble on such a person. His performance in the National Championship game has hurt his NFL status a lot already before all of this surfaced. We have all seen professional team look first to talent potential and talent over rides problems. We have seen many instances where after the fact many NFL teams wish they had passed on players and the opposite has happened that teams pass on players that blossom as they grow up.
If all of this pans out that this is a classic Catfish that he was duped 100% then he is clean and we all can feel sorry for him. Where this story stands now I don't see where he will be exonerated. Hope he is. This new world of instant fame carries pressure that young kids don't see until they are buried in the avalanche that follows stupidity in this instant world of fame.
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