Saturday, February 20, 2016

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Wilson Smith of Rocky Mount High School Wrestling team may have sealed the deal on being the greatest wrestler in the history of RMHS.  Tonight Smith wins the 126 pound weight class for the second year in a row by a score of 7-1.

Boys  high school basketball playoffs.

Rocky Mount 7-15 but for playoffs purposes 6-14 will host Cedar Ridge 16-6 in the first round. Cedar Ridge is out of Hillsbourgh.

The champions of the Big East Southern Nash 13-8 will host Western  Alamance 11-11.

Falling all the way to third in the seedings Nash Central 12-10 a 21 seed in the state brackets travels to Southern Lee 17-5 will hit the road the fifth seed
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Northern Nash draws the 21 seed and will travel to Jacksonville who carries a 10 seed and 18-2

Fike and Hunt both have made the playoffs so all six boys team have made playoffs and they are on the road. Rocky Mount and Southern are home everyone else hits the road.

Girls: Northern Nash girls are seeded 16th and will be home Hosting Swansboro.

Nash Central will be home hosting West Brunswick who is seeded 29th out of 32

Rocky Mount by winning the Big East tournament really put a kink in the seedings by jumping from fourth to second in Big East will be home hosting Lee County.  Look for a doubleheader Monday night at Rocky Mount with both Rocky Mount teams.

North Carolina Wesleyan closed out their regular season with a 91-84 victory Methodist.  They finish the season on a 10 game winning streak and will host the USA South Conference Tournament starting next Thursday..

The Battling Bishops will play the 8th seed Averett at 7pm.
The 5pm game 4/5 game is in same bracket as Battling Bishops is Lagrange/Ferrum
The 3/6 matchup will start the tournament at 1pm when Greensboro 3rd plays Piedmont
They will be in same bracket as 2nd seed Covenant and 7th seed William Peace at 3pm