Same Old Two At The Top

All after school school activities have been cancelled for Nash County school for this afternoon and night pending the potential snow storm approaching.  This means all sporting events are postponed for tonight.



Tonight game three in the ten game Big East girls basketball schedule.  There are two tied at the top and if you go by the past you would say. "What's new".  Northern  Nash 13-1 2-0 stands tied with Rocky Mount 8-4 2-0.  There is no surprise that Northern is there but I don't think they were going to be quite  this good.  After losing J'Kyra Brown to ECU and with no returning height at all Rocky Mount seemed doomed to rebuilding but lo and behold their young freshman are much better than anyone other than Pam Gainey could ask for.

Northern gets the tough assignment tonight as they play Nash Central 12-4 1-1.  Central  who owns the second best record overall could cause trouble for Northern.  Northern has not really been pushed at all so far in the two conference games to date.  The Bulldogs lost a close one to Rocky Mount and in order to stay in the running they need a big win.

Fike 7-6  0-2 will host Rocky Mount.  Fike is in need of a conference win and a victory over Rocky Mount would be a big step.  Rocky Mount's two conference wins have been close ones and a road game at Fike will probably be another close one.  I would suspect if the Gryphons want to stay with Northern they will need to win all their  games against everyone else.

Hunt 8-7 0-2 travels to Southern Nash 7-7 1-1.  Southern will have their hands full with Hunt due to their extreme size.  Rocky Mount was able to negate the Hunt size by defensive pressure making Hunt's big girls play the whole court.  Southern will need the same thing with pressure and they will need to make outside shots.

Tomorrow we will have some what clear idea of  where the Big East Girls are headed. Will it be Northern and Rocky Mount or will Nash Central become a player.  After all the non conference action is over there is no girls team at this point below 500.

It will be a while before I pick the Super Bowl but after Sunday's NFL playoff games I stand at 8-2.  Anybody notice that I picked the Bronco's by ten and I picked the Seahawks 23-17.  This is my Richard Sherman pat myself on the back move of the week.