Too Much To Cover

There has been so much high school basketball to cover over the last three weeks or so it leaves little time to comment or other items worth talking about.  Since we have an open page let's catch up on some stuff.

I don't know whether there has ever been a better Carolina -State game than the one last week. T J Warren and Marcus Paige's duel was one of the best see if you can match this games of all time.  In any game that goes over time and the final score is not decided until the last second there is plenty of chances for ref calls to effect the outcome.  Tell me a game now-a-days that everyone isn't upset one way or the other after a game these days.

Saturday former Gryphon Benton Moss pitched the first complete game of his career as Benton won his first game of the year 5-1 over North Florida.  He allowed one run on six hits going the distance.  It also was win number 700 for Mike Fox.  Isn't it ironic that the major milestone in Fox's coaching career would be delivered by a player from the Rocky Mount area when Fox spent time while at North Carolina Wesleyan.

I want to congratulate Justin Hite and Nick Petrowicz of the Rocky Mount Telegram in their recent awards they receved concerning covering sports in this area.  I know as a one man operation  I can only obtain information that is at my finger tips.

The sports department at the Telegram is a three man operation which has one college NC Wesleyan to cover plus about ten high school in their coverage area and that doesn't include any other sports event that might pop up in the area.

We all like to open up the paper each day and see what every team in the area did last night which is physically impossible for Justin, Nick and sports Editor Jesse Nunnery to do.  So little time and so much to cover.  Keep up the good work guys you are all joys to work with.

We way this basketball season has unfolded what else could put a capper on the season other than Northern Nash's regional semi final game getting pushed back a day because of bad weather.  Northern has had the ability through out the weather distress to be able to keep on winning despite the lack of practice time.  West Craven is by far the best team Northern has played this year and we hope later tonight that Northern over came another adversity and has another game to play Saturday.