Big East Baseball Starts Tuesday?

Has anybody noticed that this winter's weather has been in cycles. Seems every Wednesday we have had bad weather the a couple of shines days and then more bad weather.  The trees in my yard have bloomed twice since mid February.

Now the forecast is not good at all for Tuesday which is scheduled to be opening day for Big East conference baseball.  Rocky Mount is suppose to be at Nash Central while Northern and Hunt and Southern and Fike will meet each other.  The weather says there is a chance of snow maybe but for sure rain. So this season of already postponed and cancelled games seems as if we will delay conference play.  The rule says you are suppose to make up a conference game the first day available to both teams. That might mean Wednesday or Thursday but what happens if weather lingers?

Northern Nash which has solid pitching has the best overall pitching and if they are in a three conference game week they seem suited over everyone else to be competitive in all three.  With that in mind would seem to me every coach would want to get two games in this week even if they have to start Friday and play again Saturday.

Fike is next with the best overall record at 5-3.  Then Hunt and Rocky Mount are 3-4.  Nash Central is 2-3 while Southern Nash is 1-6.  The winter sports have to fight three times during the season having breaks in school.  Thanksgiving, Christmas and exams.  Easter is break time for baseball but looks as if might not have that break this year as school will be making up snow days.

News and notes:  I know if you have been watching the NCAA tournament that the Iowa team which played in one of the play in games that the Iowa coaches son was operated on Monday for a brain tumor.  If your dad is the coach the son will be part of the team like any player.  He will be at many practices and travel with the team.  Results from the operation were not good.  Our prayers should always intended to help others and it is indeed hard for parents to watch their children suffer in any way.

All of us in North Carolina know Coach K is one of the greatest coaches  of all times.  His demeanor at times can be distasteful.  But, did you know after the game in which Mercer beat his Duke Blue Devils Coach K went into the Mercer locker room to congratulate them on their effort and playing the game it is suppose to be played.  You know if I was a Mercer player that moment will probably live
with them longer than the actual victory.

So far the best moment of the tournament was at the end of the N C Central when coach Moton took two of his players and hugged them tightly in the waning seconds.  They held each other right up to the final second ticked off the clock.  I know he is a Central graduate and he loves Durham.  If I was an athletic director looking for a coach who can coach, recruit, and treats his players with tremendous respect.  You might not need to look any further than Durham.  HELLO Wake Forest.