Tonight five Northern Nash girls basketball players will play their last regular season game in high school. None of the five played every game as a freshman in fact some were on the JV team but these five will have to go down in the history of Northern Nash girls basketball for their part in the best four years in Northern Girls history despite having a state championship team in the 90's.
Mary Evans, Susie Sykes, Alexia Hines, Kiana Thomas and Jarnese Flowers are part of a basketball program that in the last four years has won 88 games and lost but 8 times. That 22 wins a season and only two losses per.
Their worse of the four years was the freshman year of 2012 when they managed only 20 wins. It is also the year that their most hated rival, beat them four times which were the only losses they suffered the entire season. Just a review Northern beat Rocky Mount in the Christmas Tournament in 2011 but Rocky Mount gave Northern their first loss of the season in January. Then the last games of the season, the next Friday of the conference tournament and the sectional finals on three straight Fridays all went the Gryphons way.
Now sophomore years the Lady Knights run the table and go undefeated in the regular season and they beat those Gryphons three times. Northern will lose their first game of the year in the conference finals in overtime once again to Rocky Mount. Now memory lane Northern and Rocky Mount both win opening sectional games and are scheduled to play each other on a Wednesday at Northern Nash. The Rocky Mount boys have a Wednesday second round game start in Rocky Mount at six and after a victory load up to travel to Northern where the Lady Gryphons do it to the Knights again. 22 wins and 2 losses. Two losses and Rocky Mount wins for a total of all six Northern Nash losses in two years.
Enough is enough. Northern starts the opening game of 2013 losing to Southern Wayne. They would not lose again until the playoffs and that would include beating Rocky Mount four times. They would go unbeaten in conference, conference Tournament and sectionals and make it to Fayetteville where they would run into a West Craven team with a major division one recruit and finish 26-2.
Heading into tonight's game Northern has beaten Rocky Mount twice and stand at 20-0. They have beaten Rocky Mount six straight times. Six of the eight losses the Knights have suffered in the last four years have come from those Gryphons.
The Lady Knights have lost three regular season games in the last four years. They have lost three in the State Playoffs and twice in the conference tournament. This team has gotten better each year and there seems to be only one team in the east that might stop them from heading to Raleigh and the state championship. Eastern wayne is the only other unbeaten in Eastern North Carolina. Tonight their biggest nemisis once again stands in their way for an unbeaten season. Can Rocky Mount give Northern their first loss of the season for the third time in four years?? Will the Lady Knights Stand undefeated in their arch rivals gym?? Game time is 6pm at Rocky Mount.
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