Up And Out Of The Coffin

Ten days into the Big East Conference season Rocky Mount stood 0-3 and tied for last with Southern Nash. Tonight Rocky Mount travels to Fike and the last time these two met it went extra innings before Fike applied one of those first  three losses.  Rocky Mount scores four in the first two innings and never trails as they Knock Fike out of a tie with Northern Nash winning at Fike  11-6

Tuesday the Gryphons knocked off Hunt who had beaten the Gryphons the first time around and tonight's win get the a Gryphons to 4-4 while it knocks Fike down to 5-3.  The Big East games Tuesday saw Fike beat Nash Central 10-3 and Northern got by Southern 5-3.  As of tonight Northern Nash is in first with a 5-2 record, Fike is 5-3, Hunt is 4-3, Nash  Central stands 4-3 Rocky Mount 4-4 and Southern is 0-7.

Friday night Nash Central travels to Northern and the Bulldogs will be in a must win situation as they trail Northern by one game with three to play and a loss to Northern  would put them down two with two to play.  Hunt plays Southern Friday and you would figure this is a must win for Hunt. The second time around the Firebirds are playing everyone much better than during the first cycle.

Rocky Mount having won four of their last five have played themselves right into the playoff picture. How close is Big East baseball this year? Five teams have won at least half of their games and only Southern has a losing record.

Dante Battle has announced that he has signed with Wallace State in Alabama and will play Junior College Basketball his first two seasons. This will leave him options to play D1 basketball after Juco.

Looked on the ECU Women's basketball web page today that J''Kyra Brown after averaging 5.8 points per game was named The Lady Pirates offensive player of the year.  Then this afternoon saw on J's twitter account that she has asked for and has been given her release from the basketball team at ECU.  Boy talk about a shocker.  Way back even as a sophomore at Rocky Mount J pretty much told all the recruiters that she was going to ECU no need to try to recruit her.

Saw on FaceBook earlier this week that Tia Hudgins has a leg problem  and will no longer play basketball for Queens University. Tia had a really nice freshman year having to learn the guard position after playing small forward at Rocky Mount.

Finally tonight looked up the Lander Division 2 baseball page and former Gryphon Thomas Berry leads the nation in walks on the season in D2 having walked 45 times in 46 games.  He is also hitting 331 on the year for the Bearcats.  You also might remember that Baseball Britt Johnson is the assistant  for Lander and they stand 40-6 on the season and are ranked 2nd in the nation.  Wouldn't 't be great if Lander makes it to the D2 World Series in Cary.