TAKING NO CHANCES: Impending rain heading our way for Thursday and Friday morning Friday night's Northern Nash -Rocky Mount baseball and softball games have been moved to 4:30 today. The soccer match will be at 5:00pm
Rocky Mount held true to their Big East season tonight at Southern Nash. Blake Helms drove in three runs and Josh Carter collect three hits as Rocky Mount beats Southern Nash 6-0. He not only hit the ball but Blake Helms was a big man on the mount tonight as he has numbers pitching that you have to go back to Benton Moss days at Rocky Mount to see these type numbers.
Helms pitches a complete game shutout gives up only one hit walks only two batters but on this night struck out 15. The Gryphon defense only had to make six outs as Helms took care of the rest as the Gryphons go to 5-4 while Southern Nash drops to 2-7.
The first game of great interest to Rocky Mount was at Nash Central where Hunt was tied with Rocky Mount for third and Nash Central was tied with Southern Nash for last at 2-6. Tonight Nash Central breaks a six game losing streak in the Big East knocking Hunt to fourth Place beating the Warriors 6-2. Hunt falls to 4-5 while Nash Central ups their record to 3-6.
The final game of the night was at Fike where Fike with a victory would claim the Big East regular season championship and Fike held serve winning at home 5-3 over Northern Nash. The victory gets Fike to 8-1 while Northern Nash falls to 5-4 setting a showdown game at Rocky Mount Friday for the number two seed and a bye in next week's Big East Tournament.
The lost Friday for either RM/NN could fall into a tie with Hunt who must beat Fike Friday to force a tie between RM/NN loser. The Rocky Mount /Northern Nash winner will be guaranteed a playoff spot where the loser will get third and has to hope for nobody behind them in the standings win the tournament knocking out the third seed.
Fike 8-1
Northern 5-4
Rocky Mount. 5-4
Hunt 4-5
Nash Central. 3-6
Southern 2-7
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Jaguar /Knight Becoming a Scarlett Knight
Former Northern Nash and Rocky Mount Prep basketball player Deshawn Freeman who for the past two years has played at Hutchinson Junior College and this past season led Hutchinson to the final eight in JUCO basketball has signed a letter of intent to play his junior and senior years of college at Rutgers University in Piscataway NJ.
Freeman's good fortune comes after a Rutgers player transferred opening up a scholarship for Freeman. This past season Hutchinson went 26-8 while Freeman averaged 19.2 points and 9.5 rebounds. Freeman as a senior at Rocky Mount Prep led the Jags to the 1-A state championship game in 2013.
The weather forecast is for warmer weather and sunny skies this week as Big East Baseball heads into the last week. Only three teams are guaranteed spots in the state playoffs and depending where you are in the standings what your objectives will be this week. Next week there will be a Big East tournament and like basketball that third spot is in jeopardy because as many one runs games in this league this year fifth place could win the tournament and knock third out of the playoffs.
Fike 7-1: Both games this week are with a top four teams but all they need to do is win one to finish first in the regular season. Two losses could drop them in a tie for first but regardless this week they get a bye in the first round of the conference tournament. Tuesday they host Northern Nash 5-3. This is for the conference championship. A Fike win and Friday against Hunt 4-4 is meaningless to Fike other than it is their top rival.
Northern Nash: 5-3: Tuesday game is a must if the Knights want to repeat as conference regular season champs and even then must beat Rocky Mount and get help from Hunt. A loss and then their Friday game at Rocky Mount will be a battle to stay in top three. So the Knights are the only team that can still finish first besides Fike but they must win both games this week and get help from Hunt.
Hunt 4-4: Starts the week off at Nash Central on Tuesday and finish off the regular season hosting rival Fike on Friday. Like Rocky Mount two losses could still fall to 6th and two wins could climb to 2nd and get a bye in next week's conference tournament. Second through sixth still up in the air before this week starts.
Rocky Mount 4-4: Tuesday a trip to Southern Nash a team the first time around went 12 innings with before winning. Finishing top three is about as good as it will get for the Gryphons and beating Southern is a must if third is a possibility. Good chance the Gryphons face Overman the Firebird's best pitcher and Derrick Carter Friday. If a 4-4 record is true of Rocky Mount then they will get shutout once this week and win one.
Southern Nash 2-6: Host Rocky Mount on Tuesday and travel to Nash Central on Friday. They could finish last and if all the needs to happen happens they could jump into a 4 way tie or to some degree tie for third. Whole lot has to fall Southern's way and most of it is out of their control except their two games.
Nash Central 2-6: they have lost six straight games in conference and have been in all six right down to the end. Host Hunt Tuesday and Host Southern Nash on Friday. Like Southern still have a shot at third place if all the pieces to the puzzle fall their way by winning both games this week and getting help from others.
Freeman's good fortune comes after a Rutgers player transferred opening up a scholarship for Freeman. This past season Hutchinson went 26-8 while Freeman averaged 19.2 points and 9.5 rebounds. Freeman as a senior at Rocky Mount Prep led the Jags to the 1-A state championship game in 2013.
The weather forecast is for warmer weather and sunny skies this week as Big East Baseball heads into the last week. Only three teams are guaranteed spots in the state playoffs and depending where you are in the standings what your objectives will be this week. Next week there will be a Big East tournament and like basketball that third spot is in jeopardy because as many one runs games in this league this year fifth place could win the tournament and knock third out of the playoffs.
Fike 7-1: Both games this week are with a top four teams but all they need to do is win one to finish first in the regular season. Two losses could drop them in a tie for first but regardless this week they get a bye in the first round of the conference tournament. Tuesday they host Northern Nash 5-3. This is for the conference championship. A Fike win and Friday against Hunt 4-4 is meaningless to Fike other than it is their top rival.
Northern Nash: 5-3: Tuesday game is a must if the Knights want to repeat as conference regular season champs and even then must beat Rocky Mount and get help from Hunt. A loss and then their Friday game at Rocky Mount will be a battle to stay in top three. So the Knights are the only team that can still finish first besides Fike but they must win both games this week and get help from Hunt.
Hunt 4-4: Starts the week off at Nash Central on Tuesday and finish off the regular season hosting rival Fike on Friday. Like Rocky Mount two losses could still fall to 6th and two wins could climb to 2nd and get a bye in next week's conference tournament. Second through sixth still up in the air before this week starts.
Rocky Mount 4-4: Tuesday a trip to Southern Nash a team the first time around went 12 innings with before winning. Finishing top three is about as good as it will get for the Gryphons and beating Southern is a must if third is a possibility. Good chance the Gryphons face Overman the Firebird's best pitcher and Derrick Carter Friday. If a 4-4 record is true of Rocky Mount then they will get shutout once this week and win one.
Southern Nash 2-6: Host Rocky Mount on Tuesday and travel to Nash Central on Friday. They could finish last and if all the needs to happen happens they could jump into a 4 way tie or to some degree tie for third. Whole lot has to fall Southern's way and most of it is out of their control except their two games.
Nash Central 2-6: they have lost six straight games in conference and have been in all six right down to the end. Host Hunt Tuesday and Host Southern Nash on Friday. Like Southern still have a shot at third place if all the pieces to the puzzle fall their way by winning both games this week and getting help from others.
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