Monday, March 2, 2015

Harvey Reid Wins National Award 24 years After Death

He won 816 games while coaching at three different high schools during his lifetime.  He coached in Pinehurst, Elm City and Wilson.  His last day on this earth he was doing what he wanted to do coach high school kids in  basketball for Fike High in Fayetteville during a playoff game..  Today it was announced that Harvey Reid has won the 2015 Morgan Wooten Award for his Lifetime Achievement  in high school coaching.

 Reid won seven state championships and coached in five others during his 40 years of coaching mostly in Elm City and Fike.  His 816 victories are the most in North Carolina high School history.  The Morgan Wooten award is named after the famed DeMatha High school coach who dedicated his entire coaching life to high school coaching as did Reid.

Survive and Advance:  Tonight Northern Nash had all they could handle facing Walter Williams High .  Both teams had the look of no practice and having the other team being a quality  foe.  Tied at the half at 15 each,  Northern uses it's overall depth to advance to round three beating Williams 42-36.  The Lady Knights led by only one at the end of the 3rd quarter.

It was the second lowest scoring game of the year for the Lady Knights who scored only 35 in a game  against Fike when the Lady Demons held the ball as much as possible.  Round three the sectional finals will be play at 6pm Tuesday  at Northern Nash and they will face Rockingham County who is 23-3 and won tonight over Topsoil 59-31.  The winner Tuesday qualifies for the Regional Friday in Fayetteville.

The  basketball season is over for  Hunt girls as they have  been crushed by Chapel Hill 56-40.  The Northern Girls are the sole surviving Big East girls team.

The Big East boys still have the champs alive as Hunt has knocked of Northern Guilford 59-44 to advance to the sectional finals on Tuesday

I have made many decisions about how I wanted to present this blog to you on a daily basis.  I decided long ago that Twitter and Facebook was not for me so I have kept as they say  this old fashion blog where you have to input my address on your computer to find me.  I have had a following in recent months that consistently has been between 100 to 150 hits per day.  As far as I am concerned that keeps me going that we continue to inch forward. 

I don't know why but Friday was the biggest day ever for hits on this blog.  Our previous two high days before in some way were involved about something big going on like Rocky Mount playing in the state championship basketball game.  Friday there was nothing to speak of to tell me oh that's important to a lot of people.  We had almost 600 hits Friday which these days is about 400% increase for one day  WOW.  I am a person who is happy to serve a few so I have no intentions that one day I will see have a million hits a day.  Thank you those of you that hit this site on a daily basis or if you are one that only surfs ever so often.  It is good therapy for me!

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