Weather At It Again

Since about the middle of January I don't think we have had a week that the weather hasn't help postpone, delay or in some cases cancel games all together.  Hunt and Southern Nash didn't play but once in basketball during the regular season.  Even a big gate game like Nash Central at Northern Nash was lost the last week of basketball season because they ran out of days before the conference tournament started.

Gates receipts are the life blood of high school athletic and crowds have been down in basketball because of the weather and even now cold weather and rain has caused all the teams of the Big East base base to lose several games already during the non-conference.  Just ten more days before conference starts and these non conference games is when you give everyone a shot to see if they can get playing time  because you want by the first conference game have a lineup established.

So far Northern Nash at 4-2 has the best overall record.  Fike stands 4-3 and both NN And Fike are the only two teams with winning records. Hunt is 2-4, Nash Central 1-3, Rocky Mount 1-4 and Southern Nash 1-5.

Have some very sad news to pass along as long time athletic trainer at Nash Central Mike Caffey has died. I think Mike came to the Bulldogs the very first year of the school and he retired last year.  You know the press box at the football stadium and at the baseball field is a rather heafty long walk up hill both ways and Mike many times gave me a ride on his golf cart.  His funeral will be Thursday night at 7pm at Northside Community Church.

Great start for the ACC in all the  playoffs.  Pack cruises against Xavier and gets ACC off to a 1-0 start in the NCAA tournament winning 74-59.  Florida State and Clemson win in the NIT.  Davidson led most of their NIT game at Missouri but lost a close one.  ECU trying to repeat in the tournament they won last year lost to Wright ST 74-59 so they will not repeat.