Tonight in the opening round of the Big East Girls basketball Tournament the Lady Gryphons stifled the Lady Firebirds of Southern Nash in the opening game of tonight's action at Hunt High school. Last week Southern had knocked off the Lady Gryphons on their home court facing an injury riddle Gryphon team but tonight no home court and a Lady Gryphon team ready to exact revenge. The Lady Gryphons win 49-23.
The win moves the Gryphons on to the Semi final action where they will meet Nash Central Thursday night another team that has been able to beat the Gryphons since the injury to J'Kyra Brown occurred. The victory was the 14th for the Ladies on the season.
Tonight the Gryphon wrestling team traveled to C B Aycock High school where they took part in the opening round of the State Dual wrestling championships and the Gryphons knocked off the home team Aycock 43-36. The same time that the Gryphons were winning Jacksonville beat Currituck and the two teams played for the right to head to the Dual Regional Thursday and in a close match the Gryphons fall 37-33. The team finishes with a trememdous team record of 34-7. Next week the wrestling will turn to the individual competition.
Southern Nash won their opening match and at this writing there was no score on their second round match. They were involved in a four team match with Cleveland on their home mat and won 39-37. As we write they are taking on either West Carteret (17-9)or Washington(17-12) and the Firebirds at 28-7 will be favored against either.
I don't know if you have been paying attention or not to the Carolina Hurricanes so far this year because of the strike but you had better. This team has some goal scorers. Many times in the past they have relied on defense to try to win 2-1 games but since their first two games of the season they have really been putting the puck in the net. Tonight they have finished up a six game road trip where they won four games and got and over time point in another.
Their first line of Eric Staal, Jiri Tlusy and Alexander Semin have no fear in shooting the puck. If you shoot it enough some will go in and this team is scoring. The first couple of games Cam Ward looked as if he had never been in a net before but the last two weeks he is playing Cam Ward defense in net for the Canes. If you have been upset with the Canes because of the lockout, check'em out. This team is fun to watch.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Richwalski Steps Down
Today will be the last day that Dan Richwalski is the athletic director at Northern Nash. Dan had a health issue during the Christmas break and in order to take care of his health he is stepping down as AD. I do a lot of talking with AD's preparing to do broadcast. Despite the benefits that athletes receive either being on TV or heard on the radio the broadcast business can be a pain to the athletic director. High schools don't have someone else in the office to turn it over to somebody else they have to do what is needed themselves.
It has been a joy working with Dan at Northern whenever we have been there to do games. He has helped in any way he could to make sure Northern's athletes got the proper exposure that broadcast can give them. Dan will remain as a class room teacher until he decides it's time to retire when ever that might be. Patricia Haggerty who coaches just about everything either varsity of jv's for Northern will be the acting AD for the remainder of the school year. Northern will announce a new AD later.
Saturday during the North Carolina Football Coaches Association winter meetings two local veteran coaches were elected as Honorary coaches. An Honorary coach can be any coach in North Carolina who has coached and been a member of the association 30 years or more and is no longer and active coach.
Those two locals were B W Holt who spent six years at Rocky Mount on the way to winning well over 300 games in his public high school career and Raymond Cobb who spent his entire coaching career in Edgecombe county at North Edgecombe and SouthWest Edgecombe. The NCFSA has been selecting Honorary coaches since 1990 and have average about three coaches a year joining the elite selection as Honorary coach of the North Carolina Football Coaches Association.
Nash Central has moved on to the semi finals of the Big East boys basketball tournament. Monday they dumped Fike 63-43 to end Fike's basketball season. The Bulldogs as the #3 seed will play Rocky Mount the #2 Wednesday night at 7.30pm. Southern Nash as the #5 seed has beaten Northern Nash 50-38. Northern now must cross their fingers that someone will beat SN either Wednesday (Hunt) or Friday in the finals. Should Southern win the tournament this week they would knock Northern out of the playoffs and Southern would be in.
Girls swing into action tonight at Hunt high as the Big East Tournament. Rocky Mount plays Southern Nash at 6pm and Hunt plays Fike at 7.30. Hunt and Rocky Mount need victories if one loses and not the other tonight then the loser will be seeded fourth in the State playoffs from the Big East.
During a telephone conversation tonight with Wes Bradshaw he made me aware that the state basketball playoffs do not start until Feb. 25th which will put the playoff teams in the Big East off for a week. I don't know if this is the reason but I know coaches don't like the idea of winning the conference tournament on a Friday night and starting the playoffs the following Monday. I need to find out why they are doing it this year that way.
It has been a joy working with Dan at Northern whenever we have been there to do games. He has helped in any way he could to make sure Northern's athletes got the proper exposure that broadcast can give them. Dan will remain as a class room teacher until he decides it's time to retire when ever that might be. Patricia Haggerty who coaches just about everything either varsity of jv's for Northern will be the acting AD for the remainder of the school year. Northern will announce a new AD later.
Saturday during the North Carolina Football Coaches Association winter meetings two local veteran coaches were elected as Honorary coaches. An Honorary coach can be any coach in North Carolina who has coached and been a member of the association 30 years or more and is no longer and active coach.
Those two locals were B W Holt who spent six years at Rocky Mount on the way to winning well over 300 games in his public high school career and Raymond Cobb who spent his entire coaching career in Edgecombe county at North Edgecombe and SouthWest Edgecombe. The NCFSA has been selecting Honorary coaches since 1990 and have average about three coaches a year joining the elite selection as Honorary coach of the North Carolina Football Coaches Association.
Nash Central has moved on to the semi finals of the Big East boys basketball tournament. Monday they dumped Fike 63-43 to end Fike's basketball season. The Bulldogs as the #3 seed will play Rocky Mount the #2 Wednesday night at 7.30pm. Southern Nash as the #5 seed has beaten Northern Nash 50-38. Northern now must cross their fingers that someone will beat SN either Wednesday (Hunt) or Friday in the finals. Should Southern win the tournament this week they would knock Northern out of the playoffs and Southern would be in.
Girls swing into action tonight at Hunt high as the Big East Tournament. Rocky Mount plays Southern Nash at 6pm and Hunt plays Fike at 7.30. Hunt and Rocky Mount need victories if one loses and not the other tonight then the loser will be seeded fourth in the State playoffs from the Big East.
During a telephone conversation tonight with Wes Bradshaw he made me aware that the state basketball playoffs do not start until Feb. 25th which will put the playoff teams in the Big East off for a week. I don't know if this is the reason but I know coaches don't like the idea of winning the conference tournament on a Friday night and starting the playoffs the following Monday. I need to find out why they are doing it this year that way.
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