Early Season Basketball Trends

Just a little more than a week into the high school basketball seasons for the four high schools in Nash County trends are developing into what we might see as this season unfolds.  Northern Nash girls who are the preseason  favorites in the Big East with about the whole team returning except the Big East Player of the year Alexus Hill is off to an undefeated  start so far including a couple of wins over 4-A schools.   The other end of the spectrum the Northern boys had yet to win .

Southern Nash boys who were small but athletic last year are off to a good start as they have yet to lose but the competition so far has not been to the Northern Nash level. In reverse from Northern the Southern  girls have yet to win.

The fall did not treat Nash Central very well in any sport but so far both the boys and girls have yet to  lose in this first week of play in basketball.

Both of the Rocky Mount teams are 2-1 and I think most would tell you that the boys are very competitive with the 4-A schools played so far and the girls considering that this has been a very tough emotional month are pleased to be 2-1.

I don't know now  that all of our schools in the area are through with football whether you noticed the Eastern Wayne-Southern Guilford score last Saturday or not.  The game was postponed because of wets grounds on Friday but they sure played a hum  dinger on Saturday.  Eastern Wayne beat Southern the team that knocked Rocky Mount out 56-55 in over time.  EW plays Havelock in the Eastern Final tonight.

A little follow up on the Dudley High forfeit of their final game for using JV players which kept them out of the state playoffs. Investigations of all Guilford  County High schools results in finding out other schools were doing the same thing as Dudley  and some schools had to forfeits some games. Dudley was found to have used JV players in every game and had to forfeit the entire season.

Just a couple of weeks ago Cardinal Gibbons who I know was feeling pressure for their domination of 3-A  state championships ask for and have been granted permission to join the 4-A with the Durham and Chapel Hill schools next season.  This is of course  not the normal course of action taken because we are in mid cycle of the four year realignment that takes place. 

Not only was Gibbons under fire but the NCHSAA was taking plenty of heat for letting Cardinal Gibbons remain in the public school playoffs and winning 90% of all of the 3-A playoffs.  This move avoids and action by the members of the NCHSAA to vote Gibbons out at least until they start winning 90% of all 4-A playoffs and then if that does ever happen be when Cardinal Gibbons might get voted out.

 I think we all hope this levels the playing field but what happens if Gibbons has  three thousand  students in the future and they win everything in the 4-A playoffs.  Least you will not have to hear me holler about how unfair it is Cardinal Gibbons is winning all the 3-A titles with student from all over the Triangle.  I'll let the Wake, Durham and Orange County teams worry about that now.