Temperatures soaring into the 60's the Rocky Mount Gryphons got Pitching, timely hitting especially from left fielder Ben Yates batting ninth in the lineup had two straight hits driving in four runs as the Gryphons beat Corinth Holders a team that beat the Gryphon opening day 7-2 but today the Gryphons win 5-1.
Cody Smith who all of a sudden is a dominate pitcher at home as in his last ten innings pitched at Gryphon Stadium has allowed only one run pitched four innings allowed two hits, walked six batters, but sent seven batters back to the dugout strike out victims. He gave way in the fifth to Sam Lilley who puts zeros on the board for the Pirates as he allowed only one hit, hit a batter and struck out three.
Two other Gryphons added two hits to their batting average as Logan Smith and Rashawn Harris leaving the Gryphons 7-8-9 hitters going 6-9 in the game. Forest Bell, Micah Varnell, Sam Lilley and Will Edwards collected base hits.
The Gryphons travel tomorrow to Tarboro and then starting Tuesday conference play starts with road games at Nash Central Tuesday and Hunt on Friday. Today's win is the Gryphon second on the season against four losses. Every team has this issue with the weather as the Gryphons will start conference play with only seven games under their belts as they have loss five games due to weather and now that conference is cranking up I doubt those five will be made up. No coach wants to play two conference games in a week and find space for a non conference affair. It depletes your pitching.
Most of the times games are lost and not won and I have just witnessed the Wolfpack miss 17 second half free throws and the are out of the NCAA. There is no clear cut dominate team in the tournament. Most years there are really only 8-12 teams that truly win it. This year since so many teams are about equal there is a chance that maybe 25 teams can win this thing
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Battle Lands On All District Team
The North Carolina High Schools coaches Association named their all districts teams and Dante Battle of Rocky Mount has made the first team in this district. Battle who's four year varsity career includes the MVP award in the 2012 state championship game averaged 16 points and eleven rebound per game. Joining Battle on the first team is Hunt's guard Quan Kent lead Hunt in scoring and almost helped the Warriors win the 3-A basketball title last Saturday.
Four Big East players made the second team. Aaron Spivey of Nash Central who scored at an 18.4 clip. Justin Jefferson of Hunt scoring at 14.5. Trevan Virgil of Fike who lead the Golden Demons at 16.5 points per game. Rocky Mount's Immanual King is the final Big East member who averaged 13 points per ball game.
Three Big East members are on the third team. Isaiah Alston of Rocky Mount, Myquan Gooding of Fike and Marquise Wright of Southern Nash.
The Lady Knights of Northern Nash finished fifth in the final poll of the basketball season.
High schools across North Carolina lost another day of sports activities Wednesday. Rocky Mount has a scheduled home game today but unless some hot sun an a steady breeze blows it will be a miracle if they play today. The field is simply too saturated at the moment and needs some heat to evaporate. The Gryphons play at Tarboro Friday just let's hope so.
Today is the first day of the real NCAA tournament and I hope you have your bracket filled out and that you win some money. Hope you finish second right behind me. I have a couple of brackets and I think Florida will be a hard team to beat. I filled out so many brackets that I have one that has Villanova and another with Michigan State.
N C State didn't find out until 6:21 Sunday night that they were even in the Big Dance. Flew out Monday morning to Dayton Ohio . Immediately after their victory Tuesday climbed on a plane
and headed to Orlando Florida where they landed at 5:30 in the morning. They play tonight on TNT in their second game at just after 7pm before any of the other three triangle teams even hit the court for the first time. University of St Louis is their next game and we will see how it goes from here. In my brackets I have the Wolfpack winning tonight.
Four Big East players made the second team. Aaron Spivey of Nash Central who scored at an 18.4 clip. Justin Jefferson of Hunt scoring at 14.5. Trevan Virgil of Fike who lead the Golden Demons at 16.5 points per game. Rocky Mount's Immanual King is the final Big East member who averaged 13 points per ball game.
Three Big East members are on the third team. Isaiah Alston of Rocky Mount, Myquan Gooding of Fike and Marquise Wright of Southern Nash.
The Lady Knights of Northern Nash finished fifth in the final poll of the basketball season.
High schools across North Carolina lost another day of sports activities Wednesday. Rocky Mount has a scheduled home game today but unless some hot sun an a steady breeze blows it will be a miracle if they play today. The field is simply too saturated at the moment and needs some heat to evaporate. The Gryphons play at Tarboro Friday just let's hope so.
Today is the first day of the real NCAA tournament and I hope you have your bracket filled out and that you win some money. Hope you finish second right behind me. I have a couple of brackets and I think Florida will be a hard team to beat. I filled out so many brackets that I have one that has Villanova and another with Michigan State.
N C State didn't find out until 6:21 Sunday night that they were even in the Big Dance. Flew out Monday morning to Dayton Ohio . Immediately after their victory Tuesday climbed on a plane
and headed to Orlando Florida where they landed at 5:30 in the morning. They play tonight on TNT in their second game at just after 7pm before any of the other three triangle teams even hit the court for the first time. University of St Louis is their next game and we will see how it goes from here. In my brackets I have the Wolfpack winning tonight.
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