Rumors Revealed

The Rocky Mount scholastic baseball team had a game Tuesday and the final game of the summer was set for Thursday with both games against Hunt.  Instead they played a double header on Tuesday so the scholastic season is over and after the games Tuesday night Kent Cox the baseball coach at Rocky Mount told his players he was leaving Rocky Mount High and heading to Nash Central to be the assistant football coach for the Bulldogs.

Ever since late January rumors were in the air that Chris Lee the new football coach at Nash Central had asked Cox to join him as his defensive coach.  If you are unfamiliar With the situation Lee and Cox had teamed together as jv coaches under B W Holt  during Holt's tenure in Rocky Mount.  The six years that Lee was the offensive coach and Cox headed up the defense Rocky Mount jv's were 48-3.

Now if you are Chris Lee who would be the first person you would call when you become the head football coach of the Bulldogs.  Now if Cox is doing football in the fall will he be the baseball coach and of course would Tony Guzzo return as baseball coach at Nash Central and the answer is yes. Guzzo is staying so  in  the spring Cox will be the Bulldogs tennis coach.

So there is only one rumor left open.  Who will be the new baseball coach at Rocky Mount.  If you go to any baseball game of the varsity or this summer during the scholastic season speculation is running wild as if and when Cox left.  We will know soon if those rumors become as true as the Cox rumor going to Nash Central.

Starting last weekend the Rocky Mount Parks and Rec 11/12 year old little league all stars have been in Greenville playing in the district four tournament with the winner heading to the little league state championship.

Thursday the National Allstars lost their first game to North State 12-3.  Friday the American Allstars beat North State 7-4.  Sunday TarHeel an all star team from Greenville beat the Americans 10-9.  Monday the American team beat the Nationals 4-2 eliminating the National team.  Tuesday now in the championship against Tarheel the Americans beat TarHeel 9-8 setting up tonight's winner take all.

Tarheel the host team beat RM American 16-1 eliminating our boys.  Greenville has long been entrenched in the Williamsport Little  League and it has not been that long ago they made it to Williamsport and the Little League World Series.  This district win for TarHeel is the 28th time Greenville is sending a team to the state championships.

Wilson Post 13 has won game two over Wayne County and now has a 2-0 lead  after a 5-3 win tonight in Wilson.  They are one game away from the Area One title.  Reference to a statement about Post 13 never having played in a state championship series up until the year 2013 when they hosted the state tournament.  They finished second in 1942.