Real Basketball Starts Friday

Big East conference basketball starts Friday and to this point half of the boys teams have lost more than they have won. Southern Nash who at 4-9 will host the only undefeated team in the Big East Fike  who stands 12-0 but 11 of those wins have been  to 1-A and 2-A schools.  They did beat Hunt in a Holiday Tournament last week by two so to this point Fike remains untested.  They sure are putting up numbers in Wilson with the football team going 10-1 in the regular season and now 12-0 in basketball.

Northern Nash 6-7 travels to Hunt 6-3.  Northern May have lost Paul Cherry with a knee injury last week and the Knights are holding their breath waiting on the results of an upcoming MRI. Hunt's three losses have come to some good teams.

Rocky Mount 6-4 travels to Nash Central 4-8 Friday.  These two have already played each other in the Nash County Chrismas Tournament with the Gryphons winning by 12.

There is only one girls team with a losing record Southern Nash 5-6 as they will host Fike 7-5 on Friday.   Northern Nash 9-1 will open at Hunt 5-3.  This week senior Alexus Hill went over 1000 points for the Lady Knights and she received  a plaque honoring her before their game Friday against
Southern Vance.  Rocky Mount 6-4 travels to Nash Central 8-3.  One of those losses on the Bulldogs occurred in the Christmas Tournament but this one is on the Bulldogs home floor.

This Saturday Northern Nash will be hosting a baseball clinic that starts at 9:30 and will go until 3:30.  The cost is $40 which includes lunch.  There will be 12 instructors and the guest speaker will be Jerry Sands a Smithfield Selma High school graduate who last year played AAA baseball in Indianapolis in the Pittsburgh Pirate Organization.  Just the day before Christmas he was picked up by the Tampa Bay Rays.

Sands 26 years old is a 276 hitter career hitter in the minors and has played all three outfield positions plus first base. Sands played his college base at Catawba College and was drafted by the LA Dodgers and has played in the Red Sox,Pirates and now Tampa. Should be a fun day.