Extra Effort

Yes Northern Nash's Alexus Hill was the "Extra Effort " award winner this week from Tom Suiter and WRAL TV.  Patricia Haggerty the athletic director at Northern who was Alexus coach during volleyball season said that in her 20 years at Northern that Alexus is probably the best girl athlete at Northern during that time. She should know she been there for all of the girls that have passed through Northern.  Alexus is about more than just an athlete.  Suiter did an excellent job on this story.

The Big East begins basketball conference play Friday with Rocky Mount traveling to Nash Central.  Hunt will host Northern Nash and Fike travels to Southern Nash.  After Friday Monday through Thursday is exams so the next basketball action in next Friday the 17th.

I don't know if you got the feeling I had during the BCS championship game that Brent Musburger wanted Auburn and the SEC to win.  How many times did he say Auburn was playing for the 4th quarter because Florida State didn't have  to play any conference game this year in the 4th.  Certainly he was implying the ACC wasn't good enough to prepare FSU for the 4th quarter quality of the SEC.  Did anybody notice The Seminoles won the 4th Quarter 21-10.  Just maybe the Auburn conference teams they played didn't prepare them for the ACC champs.

I am going to try to update you from here on out during basketball on local players playing in college.  
Today we are going to look at Nash Central's Trey Sumler the redshirt junior for Western Carolina. Trey started the season on suspension for an on campus incident but the 6'2" guard is averaging 19.8 points per game.  Those of you that saw Trey play for Nash Central might remember Trey could bomb it from anywhere on the court.  He is hitting 43 per cent of his threes and is averaging 4
rebounds and four assists.  Trey's game is an NBA style so as a redshirt junior Trey might draw interest and who knows he just might declare for the NBA this spring.  He started this season having scored 1439 points in his college career for the Catamounts.