Thursday, March 20, 2014

Battle Lands On All District Team

The North Carolina High Schools coaches  Association named their all districts teams and Dante Battle of  Rocky Mount has made the first team in this district.  Battle who's four year varsity career includes the MVP award in the 2012 state championship game averaged 16 points and eleven rebound per game.  Joining Battle on the first team is Hunt's guard Quan Kent lead Hunt in scoring and almost helped the Warriors win the 3-A basketball title last Saturday.

Four Big East players made the second team.  Aaron Spivey of Nash Central who scored at an 18.4 clip.  Justin Jefferson of Hunt scoring at 14.5.  Trevan Virgil of Fike who lead the Golden Demons at 16.5 points per game.  Rocky Mount's Immanual King is the final Big East member  who averaged 13 points per ball game.

Three Big East members are on the third team.  Isaiah Alston of Rocky Mount, Myquan Gooding  of Fike and Marquise Wright of Southern Nash.

The Lady Knights of Northern Nash finished fifth in the final poll of the basketball season.

High schools across North Carolina lost another day of sports activities Wednesday.  Rocky Mount has a scheduled home game today but unless some hot sun an a steady breeze blows it will be a miracle if they play today. The field is simply too saturated at the moment and needs some heat to evaporate.  The Gryphons play at Tarboro Friday just let's hope so.

Today is the first day of the real NCAA tournament and I hope you have your bracket filled out and that you win some money.  Hope you finish second right behind me.  I have a couple of brackets and I think Florida will be a hard team to beat.  I filled out so many brackets that I have one that has Villanova and another with Michigan State.

N C State didn't find out until 6:21 Sunday night that they were even in the Big Dance.  Flew out Monday morning to Dayton Ohio .  Immediately after their victory Tuesday climbed on a plane
 and headed to Orlando Florida where  they landed at 5:30 in the morning.  They  play tonight on TNT in their second game at just after 7pm before any of the other three triangle teams even hit the court for the first time. University of St Louis is their next game and we will see how it goes from here.  In my brackets I have the Wolfpack winning tonight.

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