Hill And Battle The Big East Best

Northern Nash's Alexus Hill and Rocky Mount's Dante Battle have been named the Big East players of the year in basketball.  Hill lead the Lady Knights to an undefeated conference season and winners of the conference tournament is headed next season to Gardner Webb to continue her basketball career.  Battle averaged 16 points and 11 rebounds has yet to make his announcement about his college future.

Joining Hill on the girls all conference team  are two team mates Kianna Thomas and Alexia  Hines.  Rocky mount is represented by Carmen Richardson and Keyanna Spivey.  Ni'ya Styles is the lone rep for Nash Central.  Southern Nash has Destiny Burgess while Fike's E J Proctor  is a member.  Hunt has two on the all conference team Brianna Anderson and  Alexus Williams.

State runner up Hunt places three players on the all conference team.  Quan  Kent, Justin Jefferson and Keenon Tabron.  Immanual King joins Battle from Rocky Mount while Fike places Myquan Gooding.  Northern has Darryl Prunty while Daniel Pittman is Nash Central's rep.  Immanual Meriweather is all conference from Southern Nash.

Hunt's Dwight Taylor who's Hunt Warriors won the Big East Regular season going undefeated won the conference tournament their sectional and Eastern Regional before losing the state championship game to Freedom High.  Until their last game loss Hunt had won 19 games in a row.

Northern's  Grover Battle who's team lost their first game of the season and did not lose again until a regional defeat was named co coach of the year with a Rocky Mount's Pam Gainey.  It is most unusual for the conference championship coach not to win it but I believe that the other coaches recognized that Gainey's Gryphons started three freshmen on the season and finishing second was a tremendous coaching job.

The recent regional just completed in Fayetteville was the fourth year  and as of this point  there is no contract in place saying that the Crown Coliseum Complex will host the Eastern Regional next year.  I know all of us in this area would love to see it return to Greenville but regardless of where it is held the is always a long ride for somebody to play there in the middle of the week.

If you don't realize it the NCHSAA is just like the NCAA and the money talks and nobody walks and if anybody wants to get it away from Fayetteville is the time to produce the facility and the money and you can host the Regional.