Pork Chop Day at Northern

The Northern Nash football team will be selling pork chop plates today at the school from 10:30 until 2:pm.  Pork chops  green beans and potatoes  will be the food of the day and the cost will be $7per plate.  You can pick up your orders in front of the school

Latest update on players of interest.  Former Gryphon Sonny Wooten's son John who played at Eastern Wayne and ECU is playing in Potomac Md for the Nationals A team.  Just this week they were playing the Mudcats and John hit his third homer of the season in front of family and friends.  He's batting 251 playing 1st base.

Another former Gryphons son Whit Merrifield  is playing for AAA Omaha  for the Kansas City Royals  is batting 289 and playing left field.  Merrifield's dad is Bill who went to Wake Forest after Rocky Mount High and played baseball for the Demon Deacs.  Whit was a member of the South Carolina  Gamecocks National baseball champions just a few years back.

Brian Goodwin  is struggling in Harrisburg Pa for the AA Nationals.  His average has dipped to 206.  Those kind of numbers can't last long if he wants to make it back to AAA Syracuse or even to the big club in DC.

Hobbs Johnson has lost two straight games in Buloxi Ms.  His record is now 3-3 and Era is still a respectable 3.36.  Hobbs is pitching in AA for the Milwaukee Brewers.

There are just some players that draw attention and the Chicago White Sox sure look as if they have a gem of a pitcher in Holly Springs  pitcher Carlos Rodon.  His last four starts he has pitched 24 innings and allowed just three runs.  He is 2-0 and his ERA has dropped to 2.66. He has pitch a total of 40 innings striking out 40.

Two players from Nash County High schools without a Legion team in Rocky Mount have joined Wilson Post 13.  Northern Nash Pitcher Derrick Carter who last season played Travel Ball  is 1-0 so far for this year's Wilson club who has started 6-1 on the season.  Rocky Mount grad Blake Helms who was outstanding last season for Post 58 in Rocky Mount is also 1-0 pitching in Wilson.  RMA 2014 graduate MJ Jones who also played in Rocky Mount last summer and has one year under his belt at Catawba College is also on the Roster this season in Wilson.