He won 816 games while coaching at three different high schools during his lifetime. He coached in Pinehurst, Elm City and Wilson. His last day on this earth he was doing what he wanted to do coach high school kids in basketball for Fike High in Fayetteville during a playoff game.. Today it was announced that Harvey Reid has won the 2015 Morgan Wooten Award for his Lifetime Achievement in high school coaching.
Reid won seven state championships and coached in five others during his 40 years of coaching mostly in Elm City and Fike. His 816 victories are the most in North Carolina high School history. The Morgan Wooten award is named after the famed DeMatha High school coach who dedicated his entire coaching life to high school coaching as did Reid.
Survive and Advance: Tonight Northern Nash had all they could handle facing Walter Williams High . Both teams had the look of no practice and having the other team being a quality foe. Tied at the half at 15 each, Northern uses it's overall depth to advance to round three beating Williams 42-36. The Lady Knights led by only one at the end of the 3rd quarter.
It was the second lowest scoring game of the year for the Lady Knights who scored only 35 in a game against Fike when the Lady Demons held the ball as much as possible. Round three the sectional finals will be play at 6pm Tuesday at Northern Nash and they will face Rockingham County who is 23-3 and won tonight over Topsoil 59-31. The winner Tuesday qualifies for the Regional Friday in Fayetteville.
The basketball season is over for Hunt girls as they have been crushed by Chapel Hill 56-40. The Northern Girls are the sole surviving Big East girls team.
The Big East boys still have the champs alive as Hunt has knocked of Northern Guilford 59-44 to advance to the sectional finals on Tuesday
I have made many decisions about how I wanted to present this blog to you on a daily basis. I decided long ago that Twitter and Facebook was not for me so I have kept as they say this old fashion blog where you have to input my address on your computer to find me. I have had a following in recent months that consistently has been between 100 to 150 hits per day. As far as I am concerned that keeps me going that we continue to inch forward.
I don't know why but Friday was the biggest day ever for hits on this blog. Our previous two high days before in some way were involved about something big going on like Rocky Mount playing in the state championship basketball game. Friday there was nothing to speak of to tell me oh that's important to a lot of people. We had almost 600 hits Friday which these days is about 400% increase for one day WOW. I am a person who is happy to serve a few so I have no intentions that one day I will see have a million hits a day. Thank you those of you that hit this site on a daily basis or if you are one that only surfs ever so often. It is good therapy for me!
Monday, March 2, 2015
Another Basketball Playoff Crisis
I know there are several Big East teams that now that their basketball seasons are over wish that they could have somehow or other managed to get their games played on Sunday. Guess what? Those teams in Wake County that decided to wait till Sunday got a big surprise Sunday morning. Ice cover roads force postponements of several games which has the 4-A basketball bracket in shambles heading to Monday's second round.
Now that the state has committed to playing second round games on Monday those that still have 1st round games to finish will need to play Monday pushing some second round games to Tuesday and anyone needing to play Wednesday will just have to miss the News conferences in Fayetteville on Wednesday. As I write this Sunday night there has been no word from the NCHSAA as to what they can do. What can they do other than play the remaining first round games on Monday?
Nash County's four high school boys were 0-4 in the opening round while the girls were 1-2. The only team left standing from Nash County is the undefeated Lady Knights of Northern Nash 22-0 and they will host Williams high who stands 20-4 so this is not an easy second round game for the Lady Knights. Game time is 6pm Monday at Northern.
The weather has already played havoc for high school baseball and the season starts officially on Tuesday for most. Rocky Mount Gryphon's home opener was scheduled for Thursday but Kent Cox and Ron Vincent have already decided to dangerous to put pitchers and batters and fielders on a baseball field when they haven't had any on field practice at all this year so far. No word as of yet when the makeup will be. Unless the schedule changes between now and then the Gryphon home opener is now set for Tuesday March 10th at 4pm against SouthWest Edgecombe.
You have probably heard that the Big Ten is trying to start to make all freshman athletes in all sports ineligible in order to give freshman a full year of college before putting them on the athletic fields. I doubt that will ever get off the ground. Seems funny to me that the power Five conferences were in such a rush to break away from rest of the NCAA in order to try to get all the TV money for themselves.
Do you suppose now what was have Texas A&M playing Kentucky in the SEC, Miami playing Notre Dame and Penn State having to travel to Nebraska for conference play that the conferences are too big an area or that this new pay the players deal is going to cost way more for each school than income from the Power Five deal. The Power Fives just maybe in their rush for greed priced themselves right into losing money instead of making more.
Now that the state has committed to playing second round games on Monday those that still have 1st round games to finish will need to play Monday pushing some second round games to Tuesday and anyone needing to play Wednesday will just have to miss the News conferences in Fayetteville on Wednesday. As I write this Sunday night there has been no word from the NCHSAA as to what they can do. What can they do other than play the remaining first round games on Monday?
Nash County's four high school boys were 0-4 in the opening round while the girls were 1-2. The only team left standing from Nash County is the undefeated Lady Knights of Northern Nash 22-0 and they will host Williams high who stands 20-4 so this is not an easy second round game for the Lady Knights. Game time is 6pm Monday at Northern.
The weather has already played havoc for high school baseball and the season starts officially on Tuesday for most. Rocky Mount Gryphon's home opener was scheduled for Thursday but Kent Cox and Ron Vincent have already decided to dangerous to put pitchers and batters and fielders on a baseball field when they haven't had any on field practice at all this year so far. No word as of yet when the makeup will be. Unless the schedule changes between now and then the Gryphon home opener is now set for Tuesday March 10th at 4pm against SouthWest Edgecombe.
You have probably heard that the Big Ten is trying to start to make all freshman athletes in all sports ineligible in order to give freshman a full year of college before putting them on the athletic fields. I doubt that will ever get off the ground. Seems funny to me that the power Five conferences were in such a rush to break away from rest of the NCAA in order to try to get all the TV money for themselves.
Do you suppose now what was have Texas A&M playing Kentucky in the SEC, Miami playing Notre Dame and Penn State having to travel to Nebraska for conference play that the conferences are too big an area or that this new pay the players deal is going to cost way more for each school than income from the Power Five deal. The Power Fives just maybe in their rush for greed priced themselves right into losing money instead of making more.
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