Error Prone

There are three parts to baseball, offense, pitching and defense and so far this season Rocky Mount has shown little offense, some rather decent pitching and very sloppy defense.  Today for the first time this year Rocky Mount got double digit hits 10 on the game while the pitching despite giving up 12 hits would have held Southern Wayne to zero runs if the Gryphons didn't give the Saints four and five outs on the innings when they scored.

Rocky Mount found themselves down 6-3 but scratched their way into position to tie in the bottom of the 7th inning with bases loaded with two outs and failed to get the winning run home.  On this windy blustery day both teams committed five errors each and both sides got better pitching than the score would indicate.

Will Edwards found himself in a 6-3 hole pitching the first five innings and he gave way to Josh Carter, Carter the junior who was making his first pitching performance in his high school career got through the sixth and seventh innings not allowing a run.  Once Rocky Mount failed to finish off the game in the seventh Carter gave up two runs on three hits, one hit was a line drive which would have been out number three lost in the sun with nothing scoring.

Bikembe Kearney got three Gryphons hits.  Micah Varnell collected two hits.  Andy Morris, Sam Lilley, Logan Smith, Rashawn Harris and Will Edwards each reach base with a single.  The Gryphons drop to 1-4 on the season and return to action Tuesday with a home game against Corinth Holders a team that beat the Gryphons opening day 7-2.

Sad to hear that Rick Ruffin has decided to retire as basketball coach at Northern.  You know Rick arrived at Northern because at that time Northern Coach Mike Moseley was heading  to the new Nash Central High.  The reshuffled school boundaries worked to Nash Central's advantage and since the Birth of Nash Central  the Knights went from a high school with 1700 students down to around 1250 and their athletics have suffered.  It will be interesting to see how over the next few years  with the new boundaries to see  how everyone's athletic teams fare.