Gryphons Fall In Wilson

Day three of the 1st annual Golden Leaf baseball Tournament came to a close today for the Rocky Mount Gryphons.  The first game of the day the Gryphons faced off against 4-A Ragsdale who coming into this week had lost only three times all year.  The Gryphons fail to score and lose 7-0.

The Gryphons drop to 5-10 on the season and now with only four games left in conference  their hopes for the playoffs now totally depend on as of now fifth place in the Big East they must win probably all four games to climb to third. They have Hunt, Southern Nash, Fike and Northern Nash left on their schedule.  The Southern game will be the only one they will be favored in.  However, the way this conference season has gone anything is possible.

UNC held their year end Rammy's  which is the all sports banquet. Gryphon Benton Moss who as a Morehead winner as well as varsity pitcher was voted the athlete most likely to become famous in something other than the sport he plays.

His career in Chapel Hill has produced 17 wins while losing 5 times.  There is the possibility that after his junior year he just might be drafted this year in the baseball draft.  As a Business Major and his high grade point average  any one who has been around him can see he has many talents other than baseball.  During this years Rammys Benton played his guitar and sang  as part of the student entertainment.

Brian Goodwin has started swinging a better bat after his first week where he was averaging 100.  He has worked his average up 229.    His rate of strikeouts per at bats his improved as he is making better contact and making contact with his speed means hits.

Hobbs Johnson's second start for Brevard Fl was no where near as good as his first start of the season.
Hobbs goes five innings giving up five runs and he takes the loss for the first time in the upper A ball.  His record now stands at 1-1 and his ERA ballooned to 4.77.

Former North Edgecombe basketball player Montrezl Harrell announced this week that he will return to Louisville to play his junior  year for Rick Pitino.  I surely believe that NBA teams have more money than they have basketball sense.  Throwing millions to players who hardly can make free throws and in some cases can't even play basketball all that well they are just big and tall.

Sports only last for some only to about the age of 35 and most who don't stick around to get a degree especially business degrees have a hard time holding on to their money and most is gone by the time they retire from basketball.  Harrell' decision to come back for his third year of college gets him that much closer to staying in school to get that degree.