Holly Strong

Tonight in the Black Box Auditorium of Rocky Mount High School the IB students of Rocky Mount High School put on their eight annual One Voice Talent Show.  This year's show was called Project Holly and the current IB students past and present and even the community of Rocky Mount came together to join the fight with Holly Fryer a former IB student who is fighting cancer.

They all did it for Holly and even little brother Ian delighted the crowd as MC.  The highlight of the night was a group from Englewood Baptist Church sang That's What Friends Are For and a penciled art work done by Tony Harrison of Holly. The night was topped off when Tyron Taylor had of dream of winning the National Spelling Bee and all he had to do is spell the word strong.  His spelling of strong was HOLLY.

Tonight's show raised over thirty two hundred dollars and now puts Project Holly to over eight thousand dollars raised.  Many times our community comes together to be one and tonight and over flow crowd were one.

The Lady Knights of Northern Nash had their hands full fot three quarters but the fourth was all Lady Knights as Northern Nash's final game if the regular season keeps them unbeaten as they beat Rocky Mount for the third time this year by double digits 57-45.  Alexus Hill playing her final regular season game scored  26 points to lead the Knights.

The high school  playoff seedings are one week from today and with a victory tonight I see no way Northern could possibly be seeded any lower than fourth in the seeding which would guarantee them home court advantage throughout their sectional.

Northern out rebounded Rocky Mount 34-26.  Northern's defense caused the Gryphons into 17 turnovers while only having 12 themselves.  Northern finished the season 21-1 while Rocky Mount finished 13-8

The Gryphon boys jumped out early on the Knights, lead by 11 at the half and beat The Knights 83-67.  Rocky Mount finishes 8-2 in conference and 14-7 overall.  They finish in the Big East in second and have a bye until Wednesday night's semi finals of The Big East Tournament.  Northern finishes 1-8 in the Big East and plays Monday night in Rocky Mount against Fike who is 16-6 on the year but only 4-6 in conference play.