Northern Goes For Both basketball Regular Season Titles

It has been many moons since Northern Nash High school won both the boys and girls basketball titles the same year.  It will happen if the Northern boys can come to Rocky Mount and do one simple thing and that is beat Rocky Mount in Rocky Mount which has not happened since 2009.  If you go back and look it up I was telling you here on this blog  in December that Northern's boys were better than record.

The completion of the Christmas Tournament I predicted that Nash Central didn't handle the ball well enough and thought they would finish last.  They had a spurt just like everyone has had and for a while looked like the surprise team in the league but the second time around they have struggled.  Southern Nash at one point looked like the best team in the league.  Ball handling too has seen their season crumble.  Rocky Mount has athletes like they always have but are not very tall.  This 22 point comeback at Southern in the fourth quarter just may be what the Gryphons need to get them jump started.

Hunt by far is the best looking team in the league when they have all players playing as a team.  They dominate everyone except Northern.  Fike has looked great at times but now hopes to finish no better than third.  Northern looks like everyone else, they have athletes, and jumpers but no height.  What they have is a bunch of seniors that they have pull almost every game out of the fire because of confidence.  Henry Drake is probably the coach of the year leading the Knight's turn a round.

We have come down to the final night of the regular where just two weeks ago last could still finish first and first could still finish last.  There are  only two teams that can win the top seed and as they say Northern Nash is theirs to win.  They beat the Gryphons and they are the top seed.  Hunt can still take the top spot but only with a Northern loss and a Hunt victory over Fike.  I am sure in Rocky Mount and Hunt the gyms will overflow Friday night.

Northern Nash 6-3  9-11 @ Rocky Mount 4-5  11-7:  Northern wins they win regular season.  If Hunt loses Northern  still gets top seed win or lose.  Sure sits better if they win going forth in next week's tournament or getting first losing to Rocky Mount and Hunt losing to Fike. .  Rocky Mount can still pull a third seed out in this one.  The first of the week they weren't sure they would even make the playoffs

Southern Nash 3-6  11-11 @ Nash Central 3-6:  What happened to Southern Nash?  They were 3-2 during the first round but have lost all four games so far in the second time around.  NC has a couple of outstanding players that are just as good as anybody else in the league but this game the loser may not make the playoffs.

There is still of course the chance if Fike beats Hunt, Rocky Mount beats Northern of a three way tie for the top and the way this season has been.  It is possible.

Northern Nash 9-0 20-0 girls go for an undefeated season regular season against Rocky Mount 5-4 10-8.  Wonder now that Fike at least stayed close if everyone will now try to hold the ball on Northern?

Southern Nash 0-9 0-22 have only two more chances to win a game this year.  Nash Central 2-7 11-12 which will be their best chance.  Next week in conference tournament at Fike they will get the three seed Rocky Mount who has beaten them three time by at least 17 each game.  Nash Central is Southern's shot to win one now.

Fike 4-5 9-12 @ Hunt 7-2 17-5:  Fike has fourth for next week and Hunt has second so the only thing being played for Friday is, it is Fike and Hunt "nough" said.