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
Friday, January 13, 2017
Another One Game Week
We are approaching the end of the second week of conference play in Big East basketball and to date only one game is in the books. This is not football where there should only be one game but all kinds of consequences have occurred keeping basketball off a two game a weeks schedule. The first week is always just one game because due to the fact that there is always a one game week with one game because of exams. That balances the schedule to finish the season on a Friday night. Exam weeks is always a Friday game only after Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday are exams.
Weather of course now that school has reopened has caused a second straight one game week and next week is exam week so this season starts out three straight weeks with only one per week. Look out for the week of January 23rd which the Big East will be in makeup mode having three games. This is of course is in play only if we don't have more interference with weather. Since we have pushed the games that should have been played this past Tuesday to January 23rd that puts us on game three of the master schedule tonight.
Boys:
The big game of the night will send Northern Nash 13-2 1-0 all the way across highway 64 to Nash Central 9-3 1-0. Since only one game in conference has been played to date this is the only matchup tonight of unbeaten teams in conference play. The Knights are the highest scoring team in the league burning the nets for 70 every night. The Bulldogs come in at 65. Should be a high scoring affair.
The other end of the spectrum two teams that lost their only conference games collide when Southern Nash 5-9 0-1 visits Hunt 3-11 0-1. Nobody wants to start out 0-2. The Firebirds score 58 every time out while Hunt pops in 55. If averages hold out should be a close one.
The middle game featuring a one time loser against the one time winner sends Rocky Mount 3-6 0-1 to Fike 11-3 1-0. A Fike win and they will be in a two way tie in first with either Northern or Nash Central while a Rocky Mount lost creates a two way tie in last. Rocky Mount has their work cut out for them.
Girls:
The big matchup sends Rocky Mount 8-2 1-0 over to Wilson to tangle with Fike 11-3 1-0. This is the only undefeated clash of the night on the girls side. Rocky Mount scores 56 while Fike 54 so look for this one to be close. The winner could have the outright lead after two games or tied with one other unbeaten.
The two teams that lost their openers meet as Northern Nash 5-8 0-1 takes on the Bulldogs of Nash Central 6-6 0-1. Northern has struggled to score this year getting 29 per night while Nash Central may have lost their top player but still get 42 per night. The winner is still in the race the loser a lot longer road to the top.
This game looks like the mismatch of the night. Southern Nash 3-9 0-1 at Hunt 13-1 1-0. Talk about a team that finds it hard to put points on the board but the Lady Birds get a scant 21 on any given night while Hunt is producing 51. This looks like one you need to wait to the fourth quarter if you are planning to watch the boys before you get to the game.
Saturday morning after the fog has lifted we will have a better picture in the Big East of who are the real teams.
Weather of course now that school has reopened has caused a second straight one game week and next week is exam week so this season starts out three straight weeks with only one per week. Look out for the week of January 23rd which the Big East will be in makeup mode having three games. This is of course is in play only if we don't have more interference with weather. Since we have pushed the games that should have been played this past Tuesday to January 23rd that puts us on game three of the master schedule tonight.
Boys:
The big game of the night will send Northern Nash 13-2 1-0 all the way across highway 64 to Nash Central 9-3 1-0. Since only one game in conference has been played to date this is the only matchup tonight of unbeaten teams in conference play. The Knights are the highest scoring team in the league burning the nets for 70 every night. The Bulldogs come in at 65. Should be a high scoring affair.
The other end of the spectrum two teams that lost their only conference games collide when Southern Nash 5-9 0-1 visits Hunt 3-11 0-1. Nobody wants to start out 0-2. The Firebirds score 58 every time out while Hunt pops in 55. If averages hold out should be a close one.
The middle game featuring a one time loser against the one time winner sends Rocky Mount 3-6 0-1 to Fike 11-3 1-0. A Fike win and they will be in a two way tie in first with either Northern or Nash Central while a Rocky Mount lost creates a two way tie in last. Rocky Mount has their work cut out for them.
Girls:
The big matchup sends Rocky Mount 8-2 1-0 over to Wilson to tangle with Fike 11-3 1-0. This is the only undefeated clash of the night on the girls side. Rocky Mount scores 56 while Fike 54 so look for this one to be close. The winner could have the outright lead after two games or tied with one other unbeaten.
The two teams that lost their openers meet as Northern Nash 5-8 0-1 takes on the Bulldogs of Nash Central 6-6 0-1. Northern has struggled to score this year getting 29 per night while Nash Central may have lost their top player but still get 42 per night. The winner is still in the race the loser a lot longer road to the top.
This game looks like the mismatch of the night. Southern Nash 3-9 0-1 at Hunt 13-1 1-0. Talk about a team that finds it hard to put points on the board but the Lady Birds get a scant 21 on any given night while Hunt is producing 51. This looks like one you need to wait to the fourth quarter if you are planning to watch the boys before you get to the game.
Saturday morning after the fog has lifted we will have a better picture in the Big East of who are the real teams.
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