ECU CIT Champs

If you failed to watch the Championship game of the CIT basketball Tournament last night you really missed a wild win for ECU.  The Pirates had traveled to Ogden Utah the home of Weber State and the game was nip and tuck throughout.  Under two minutes to play the Pirates trailed by four at 72-68 and The Wildcats did the Pirates a favor and missed five of six free throws and the game was tied at 74 as ECU had 17 seconds to win.

The most unlikely of hero's for the Pirates as Akeem Richmond who had only made four of his last twenty three three pointers put up a I had better shoot or the clock is going to hit zero and drained a three pointer and the Pirates are the CIT Champs 77-74.  It is the best season in the history of ECU basketball to say the least Jeff Lebo has done a nice job this year getting the Pirates to 23-12 on the season.

Rocky Mount High school baseball played a double header yesterday in Greenville in the Pitt County Easter Tournament.  This was not on the schedule but was put together Monday night when Riverside High and Rocky Mount both found themselves finished with their games and both having been rained out on Monday played Tuesday.  Riverside won 5-1 so Rocky Mount's record is now 7-6 as they will now have a week off before getting back into Big East Baseball.

Many thanks to everyone that have sent along to me that Alvin Battle of Northern Nash was on the 1983 team with George McClain and that Julius Peppers of Southern Nash was a member of the Final Four team at Carolina in 2000.  How easy it is to forget.

College basketball season is officially over for every team in North Carolina as for the fourth year Duke's women lost in the Final Eight game.  They led at the half but Notre Dame manhandled them in the second half.