This is only the third game all year That Rocky Mount has given up fifty points. They gave up 65 back in December to a 4-A school which was a loss. Their only other time to surrender fifty points was a Gryphons win 61-52 over Nash Central. So the Lady Bulldogs have scored 52 twice on the Gryphons. Rocky Mount will still be top seed from Big East and Nash Central second and both should draw home games when the state playoffs begin next week. Playoff seeding will be released sometime around 3 pm Saturday.
The Nash Central boys finish off a perfect night for Nash Central basketball as the Bulldogs take home the Big East Tournament title beating Rocky Mount 55-47. The Bulldogs will get the 2nd seed from the Big East and a real good chance of a girls/boys basketball playoff double header the opening night of the playoffs.
Rocky Mount quest to make the playoffs comes up one game short as pre playoff computer projections show that as Big East number 4 seed Rocky Mount's 11-13 will not get in. Projections show Rocky Mount, Nash Central, Fike and Hunt will get in for the girls while Northern Nash, Nash Central and Fike will get in for the boys
Saturday the NC Wesleyan basketball team has a home basketball game which is a must win if they are to make the year in tournament next week. Game time is 2pm.
The women open play in the women's tournament where they play William Peace at 4pm. Tournament is survive and advance or lose and go home.
Thursday an N C State treasure was lost. It had nothing to do with the firing of Mark Gottfried as basketball coach. The "Voice of the Wolfpack" in Reynolds Coliseum C A Dillon was the man behind the mic of every men's basketball game in Reynolds until the first two played in PNC Died.
If you have ever been in Reynolds and heard his voice he was part of the building. He started doing PA for the new coach in 1946 Everett Case because at the time Dillon was a student at State and Editor of the school newspaper "The Technician". The Grey Ghost Everett Case liked Dillon and ask him to do the PA in old Thompson gym. 1949 when Reynolds opened he was behind the mic for every Wolfpack game, every Dixie Classic and every NCAA playoff game played in the old barn. Almost 9 million people watch college basketball games in Reynolds over it's 50 year run and if you were there at any of them you heard C A. He missed two games in his fifty years in Reynolds. Once when he got married and the next 40 years later to attend his mother funeral. He was a fixture attached to the building.
Graduated and part of his family business Dillon Supply Company just down the street from campus Dillon had a voice made for the building. Having had season tickets to Wolfpack basketball games for many years I remember the day David Thompson crashed to the floor in an NCAA East Regional final game against Pittsburgh when everyone in the building thought David Thompson was dead. During the halftime he announced to the crowd that Thompson was ok and heading back to the gym from the hospital. I don't know if I ever heard the building any louder than the roar that Thompson was ok.
- Dillon chose to retire after those first two games at PNC because it just wasn't the same as the old barn. My memories of games started back in either 1959 or 1960 attending the old Dixie Classic. when I think back his voice was part of the show. I miss that now in PNC. A banner with a microphone hangs in the rafters at Reynolds honoring C A Dillon. He was 91 years old.
