J'Kyra Wins MVP

J'Kyra Brown has been Rocky Mount's girls basketball go to player for her three varsity years.  She is the all time leading scorer in Rocky Mount history.  We all can see that if she can stay healthy she still has a lot of basketball left in her life as long as those knees hold up.  Last night Brown showed that even in a group of all stars that she will stand out.  J'Kyra score 16 of her 19 points in the second half last night to lead the North Carolina All Stars to a 76-67 victory over South Carolina in the Carolina Classic basketball game played in Myrtle Beach South Carolina.  The game was tied and went overtime before North Carolina out scored South Carolina 9-0 in the extra session.

The North Carolina baseball team is living up to the high expectations of a team that was rated #1 in the preseason.  Yesterday the Heels won a double header from Boston College and ran their overall record to 21-1.  Former Gryphon Benton Moss continues to lead the ACC in wins as he pitched seven inning allowing just one earned run as Carolina won the second game 5-2.  Moss is now 6-0 on the season.  Not bad at all for the all times wins leader in Rocky Mount history.

Both of the Triangle teams left in the NCAA Tournament play today.  Carolina and Roy Williams tangle with Kansas at 5pm. That game will be on ch 5 at 5pm.  Duke does not play until 9.30pm on TNT and they will take on Creighton.  Miami is also in action today as the ACC has all three of their teams left in action trying to make the Sweet 16.

I realize that when I say this that I am a Wolf Pack fan but if you have missed the ESPN 30-30 program  Survive and Advance this week about the 1983 teams winning of the NCAA Tournament you have missed one of the really good 30-30 that ESPN has done.  It entails Jim Valvano's rise to fame being such a dynamic motivational speaker and how all of his motivation helped carry the team to victory.

How his speaking helped bring him down as coach and how his speaking helped start the V Foundation.  One of the players said it best.  In order for the V Foundation to start Valvano had to become  a world wide celebrity. Winning the NCAA in 83 brought him that.  Then he had to get cancer because he had started being an annalist for ESPN.  "Wouldn't it be something that one day that the discovery of how to cure cancer is made at Duke hospital where Valvano died.  The Lord works in mysterious ways"