Monday, January 5, 2015

Who Can Knock Off Northern?

So far this season as we head to the start of conference basketball play Northern Nash is by far the cream of the crop in Big East girls basketball and the question is Who can beat them.  I would almost think the top priority for Grover Battle is to stay healthy as they already have  C C Harrison the other part of the tall tree tandem out for the year with a knee injury.  I don't know how they can be any better than 11-0 unless they beat everybody by 50 instead of 30.

Northern Nash:  11-0 Better than last year when they went 26-2.  A great tall player in the middle Kiana Thomas, a garbage player that will do what's needed in Susie Sykes and about eight more who could start for everybody else. Thomas 15.6 and 7.2 rebounds while Susie Sykes follows at 11.8.

Nash Central  9-2  the surprise team that is this good after losing their four year starting point guard.  Michaela Nelms  is the scoring punch leader at 17.3 and Myia Spivey at 14.1.  Caresha Leonard at 8.5 rebounds crashes the boards for the Lady Dogs.

Hunt  8-3  They are lead by Brionna Pate  who has been a one man wrecking crew so far 16.9 points and 7.8 points.  They have five other players scoring at least five per contest.

Rocky Mount   5-4.  Keyanna Spivey leads the way at 17.3 points per game and Tamara Harper the leading rebounder 6.9.  Lady Gryphons need much better ball handling heading to conference.

Fike  5-6  They are lead by Rebekah Langley 10.9 points and Deontra Jones-Keeper tops the rebound collector 5-4

Southern Nash  0-10  Please keep Destiny Burgess healthy.

So the Big East question is  can anybody knock off Northern ?

Northern Nash           10-0
Nash Central                7-3
Hunt                             6-4
Rocky Mount               4-6
Fike                              3-7
Southern Nash             0-10