Carter Pitches NO HITTER

Northern Nash senior pitcher Derek Carter pitching in Wilson during one of the many baseball games being played during the Easter school break shutout Eastern Wayne 1-0 and to boot did not allow a hit in going all the way for the Knights as the Knights win their second game in Wilson after having pounded Southern Wayne on Saturday 15-2.  So the Knights pitching has been the star of the show for them.

Southern Nash pick up a victory with a 9-6 win over Oakwood.  Nash Central fell to Parrott Academy 4-1 and Rocky Mount was shutout by Person 4-0.

Our weekly Collins Cuthrell update as reported midweek last week Cuthrell play the DH spot  this weekend instead of third base protecting a slight hamstring issue.  He was 1/8 with no home runs and his batting averaged dipped to 453 which is still top 10 in the country in DII baseball.  I wish I could have hit 453 in little league.

Another former Gryphon is having a great year at Lander in first baseman Thomas Berry.  Berry's problem is nobody else for Lander is having the years they had last season getting them all the way to the DII World Series in Cary.  Lander in is doubt whether they will make their conference tournament which by the way  is  the Peach Belt the same conference as Pembroke.  Berry is hitting 317 on the season which is really good at any level.

The national championship may have been without Kentucky which started the weekend trying to have and undefeated season but what the world got were the two best team in this year's tournament.  Saturday the seventy some thousand mostly wore Kentucky blue but we're replaced by Wisconsin red as the whole stadium on those long end zone shots gave.

You would hope with a university that has 43,000 students and  not that far from campus to Indy they would be whole hog crazy about  their first national championship game in 74 years.  Duke of course the rich kids university with less than 15,000 students.  Are they rich at Duke?  Wisconsin has endowments of 2.2 billion while Duke a slight sum of 7 billion.

You couldn't ask for a better first half as both sides exchanged the lead 15 times with Duke sitting Okafer and Winslow the last few minutes to protect fouls.  The tie score 31-31 was exactly how the half had played out dead even.

The Badgers charged out to a nine point lead and Duke continued to pound the ball inside with their guards.  I thought they would do that once the Badgers had to guard the three point shot but Duke didn't try any and still drove with their guards.

Boy did this game come down to great plays on both sides.  Just five years ago Duke beat Butler in a low sixties scoring game this one was much more exciting than that one.  In the in Duke had K.