The Lady Gryphons of Rocky Mount met The Golden Demons of Fike tonight in what was suppose to be the high light game of the night in Big East Girls play. Rocky Mount 8-2 and Fike 11-3 was suppose to be the clash of two of the three 1-0 records and two of the best overall records in the league. It was not to be.
Between the Gryphons defense smothering the Fike offense and Fike having no defensive answer for senior Keyanna Spivey the Lady Gryphons led by 27 at the half 45-18 cruise with ease to a 75-48 victory over the Golden Demons. Rocky Mount 2-0 in the Big East are tied with Hunt for first. The Hunt game was the game missed this past week when the Tuesday night league game was iced out.
High school sports teams are to a certain degree are at the mercy of the players that live in their district and injuries. There is no red shirts for lost games lost from injury. Those games lost forever. The Lady Knights of Northern Nash just a year ago had a 33 game conference winning streak snapped and this year they are struggling to be able to score.
Tonight Nash Central a team with a tremendous injury allows Northern Nash 7 points only in the first quarter and it will be the biggest quarter of the night for the Lady Knights at The Lady Bulldogs roll Northern Nash 48-18.
Opposite of the Lady Knights a team that has suffered the last few years have been the Knight boys. They are on the upswing and tonight over at Nash Central where they took on the Bulldogs one of the teams that had the 1-0 record after the first night of the conference play last week.
The Knights won the first quarter by a 19-17 score but slowly added to the lead every quarter. They up the lead nine 28-19 up to 15 by the end of the third and by 18 at the final horn.. The Knights of Northern Nash up their conference record to 2-0 after a 72-54 victory over the Bulldogs. The Dogs drop to 1-1.
Any coach looks for consistency. Tonight Fike scores 20
points in the first, 22 in the second, 18 in the third and they added another 20 in the fourth. Rocky Mount scored 24 in the second, 18 in the third quarter and 20 in the final stanza.
The last three quarters the Gryphons out scored the Golden Demons 62-60 but where victory came Fike's way was the the Gryphons had a slow start scoring only 10 in the opening quarter which led to a 80-72 defeat for the Gryphons who drop to 0-2 while Fike ties for first with Northern.
Hunt hosted Southern Nash and win their first conference game 69-54 over Southern Nash and in the girls action Hunt won their 14th game in 15 tries beating Southern Nash Lady Birds 59-23
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