Old Friend Named To Another Hall Of Fame

Those of you who have followed this blog know that from 1981 through 1993 I did Chowan College basketball on the radio.  That happened to be part of the years that Bob Burke was the coach at Chowan and at the time became a national power in Junior College Basketball.  Burke is already in the Chowan Hall Of Fame and I told you just a year ago at this time I returned one Saturday afternoon to Chowan when the basketball court at Chowan was named Bob Burke Court.

I am please to hear that Bob will be joining his alma mater Campbell into their Hall of Fame.  Burke spent 22 years at Chowan winning 419 games a few after the school changed to Division three from Junior College.  He coach high school at Wallace Rose Hill,  in College and spent his last coaching days as assistant coach for Nate McMillan a Bob Burke player at Chowan as an assistant on the Portland Trail Blazers.  Few coaches have ever coached high school, junior college, college and pros.

Northern Nash is half way home and 5-0 in conference play but tonight they got all they could handle from Rocky Mount.  The Gryphons trailed by seven after the first.  They were down six at the half,three after three.  When the buzzer sounded Northern survived 72-71.

Rocky Mount Lady Gryphons hit the halfway point in the conference season 5-0 after a trip to Northern Nash and the Gryphons stifle an already struggling offense eight points below their average and win 46-21.

Tonight at Southern Nash Nash Central handled the Firebirds 65-34.  The Bulldogs finish the first cycle 4-1.  Southern Nash lose their ninth straight basketball game and all five conference games. Girls action the Lady Bulldogs beat the Lady Birds 50-20

Wilson County clash of Hunt and Fike is all Fike as the Fike Girls give Hunt their third straight lost after opening the season 14-1.  Lady Demons win 53-49.  The Boys of Fike take down Hunt 63-58 to finish out the first half of conference play.

Have you heard of the start of the Hunt-Rocky Mount girls basketball game Monday night?  Hunt received a technical before the game started because the score keeper was not present before the scheduled time of 6pm.  Apparently the score keeper was doing the score book in the auxiliary gym of a jv game

So Rocky Mount  gets two free throws making one.  When Rocky Mount came out a player wearing a white tee shirt which matched the home jersey but on the collar was the name brand of the tee shirt which is not high school rules. Hunt got two free throws making one so even before the tip off the game started out 1-1.