Another Rainout

The rains were over by noon and many teams in the area were able to play baseball by late afternoon. That was not the case at Rocky Mount where another game was lost due to the weather as the field was soaked.   Rocky Mount High is towards the end of their third year in the new building and the building is magnificent.

However, that is not exactly what you can say about any of the athletic fields.  The old Memorial Stadium and later Gryphon Stadium was one of the most emaculate high school baseball fields in North Carolina.  It could rain heavy for several minutes and be ready to play within an hour because the field was made to drain. The  new field has no drainage at all.  Not one dime of the millions to build the school was given to help the fields drain.

So Big East conference baseball begins Tuesday night when the Gryphons host Nash Central.  The Gryphons have played only four games.  Coach Kent Cox hasn't had much chance to play his roster to see who is going to be his lineup once Tuesday arrives.  Every other team has had the same problem and there is a real good chance that who ever starts out the best may not be the best team the second time around when every team finally figures out their team.

The ACC is 6-0 after their first games in the NCAA tournament.  How small is margin of error in the tournament.  Carolina won by one and had to wait two see if Harvard's last shot would go in or not.  State had to score with one second to play to win.  Notre Dame won by four.  Louisville won by one, Virginia won by a dozen and Duke won by more than two dozen.  The ACC could easily be 2-4.

State plays at 7:10 Saturday night against Nova.  I told you yesterday that in one of my brackets I had picked State and the other LSU.  In both those brackets I picked both LSU and State to win over Nova tonight.

Carolina plays at 8:40.  That could bring on a real conflict of trying to watch two games at once should the State/Nova game goes to the wire.  I have Carolina losing in the Sweet 16 in one bracket and the Elite Eight in the other.  This game with Arkansas just might be a dilly.

Should all three teams make it to the Sweet Sixteen this part of the State will go crazy!