Let's Play Ball

Easter break is over and high schools make their their final run until graduation.  Sports have about a month to go until the playoffs so we get back into conference games this week.  Rocky Mount Softball will travel to Farmville Central today before they have two conference games on Tuesday and Friday.

The two teams tied at the top in Big East baseball collide Tuesday at Fike. Both Rocky Mount and Fike play for the second time and at this moment are 2-1 in the Big East.  Rocky Mount won the first meeting. Five of the Big East teams have one loss so the loser of this one could fall to the second division while the winner stays on top.

Rocky Mount's second game of the week will be against Southern Nash.  Tuesday also has Northern and Nash Central meeting up and Southern and Hunt in action against each other.  Most years somebody comes out of the pack to take control of the conference so by week's end we will see if there is one that looks the part.

Over the weekend the Rocky Mount Telegram finished up their series on the All Telegram teams from winter sports.  Sunday Deshawn Freeman from Rocky Mount Prep took the top honor on the boys side.  If you remember as a sophomore while at Northern Nash Freeman was outstanding then and after he departed for Prep Northern has struggled to be average.  Saturday Rocky Mount's J'Kyra Brown won the girls honor.  Kind of an odd fact is that both Freeman and Brown have had major knee injuries in their careers and both made full recoveries.

Louisville plays Michigan for the national championship in college basketball tonight.  Louisville is  on their way to the ACC in two years.  Syracuse the team knocked off by Michigan will join the ACC this summer along with Pitt.  Oh yea Notre Dame is not far from joining either.  The SEC can claim it is the top football conference but the ACC will claim the top basketball conference again.  Somebody in the ACC will have to play North Carolina , Duke, Louisville and Syracuse back to back somewhere in the future.

Finally today, if you haven't seen it please find it the clip of the Nebraska Spring football game this past Saturday.  We complain all the time about how we in life put tooo much into sports.  Saturday the University of Nebraska put a seven year old boy Jack Hoffman dying with cancer into the game and he preceeds to run 69 yards for a touchdown with the entire stadium cheering him and all the players urging him on.  Such a small act but in a life where a child will never see his own graduation from high school it is the moment of his life.

Sometimes as a human race we are compassionate people for others.  It's just most of the time you would never know it.