Rained Three's and Slam Dunks

Tonight I was at Rocky Mount Prep doing a TV game for the "All New Sports Show" with camera man Edward Green and did the Prepsters put on a show or what.  3-A Southern Vance was in town and at 6-8 are not one of the top teams in 3-A basketball but average at best.  This was an opportunity for Prep to see how they would stand up should they make the 1-A playoffs.

The Jags shot three's and slammed dunks all night long in taking out the Raiders 105-61.  Do the Jaguars of Don Reams have a really good squad?  They sure do and  were lead by Jacob Barrett who on the night had 22 points.  He was not alone how ever as DeShaun Freeman added 17 most of his points were on dunks.  Gary Smith tossed in 14 along with another 13 from  007 James Bond.  We are not through yet as Donte Samuels garnered another 10 Keneen DeBerry 9, Trilnyal Sumler8, Aaron Oats 6, Mark Pittman 6.  That's a total of 9 players who had at least 6 points.

Rocky Mount High school has gotten great news on the condition of J'Kyra Brown injured knee.  There is no tear so for the protection of her future endeavors on the basketball court at ECU and beyond J'Kyra Brown sat out tonight as Rocky traveled to Nash Central  in the make up game of the makeup game.  The makeup game is from last Friday's game moved to Wednesday  because of the ice and last night moved  because of the weather warnings postponed to tonight and Nash Central took advantage of a Brown less Gryphon team and beat the Lady Gryphons 67-53.  Niya Styles lead the way for the Lady Bulldogs.

Rocky Mount boys stayed even with Hunt as they took care of business beating Nash Central for the third time this year by a 73-53 score.  Rocky Mount is home Friday night as they host Fike High.

I hope you have seen the Thursday addition of the Rocky Mount Telegram as there is a story on former Gryphon football player Brandon Jones who once he graduated from Rocky Mount found his way to Santa Rosa Junior College and this week Brandon has signed  to play division one football at Texas State University in San Marcos Texas.  You say you have never heard of Texas State.  They have 34,000 students which is about the size of N C State University which is the largest school in North Carolina .  Their football stadium where Brandon will be playing is also where the TV show Friday Night lights was filmed.  I work with his proud Mama Fredonna at GSM/Celadon and we are all proud of Brandon!