Game time temperature was 64 degrees but a rugged breeze hardly never less than 10 miles per hour but every now and then it may have hit 30 with a few gusts that blew over empty folding chairs. By games end felt 45 degrees even though when I got to my car it was still 61.
Zack Patterson and David Harrison squared off in a game Nash Central needed badly to stay in the Big East race. Rocky Mount only a game short of first needed it to keep in a game of the lead. The wind maybe took both aces an inning to adjust but what those saw were two top class pitchers that both had to dig deep to keep their teams in The game.
Aided by a dropped ball in centerfield Nash Central scored one run in the third and a second run scored on an single by the Cameron Taylor. Rocky Mount responded getting one run back after Jamar Ellis opened the inning with a double. Logan Pearce drove home run number one with a sac fly to centerfield.
Nash Central scored again in the bottom of the fourth with hits by Drifton Padgett he scored after Chase Minchew singled to left and got by the left fielder.
Down 3-1 the Gryphons started the inning with a walk. A double off the wall by Zack Keeter put runners on second and third. Spencer Ramsey laced a single tying the game with two rbi. Ramsey would score after a Jamar Ellis single and an error brought home run number three in the fifth an a 4-3 Gryphons lead.
This pitch count rule is a major focus in the 6th inning. David Harrison has walked six batters his pitch count runs out with two out nobody on in the bottom of the sixth. Ben Seracki came on to pitch. He is greeted with a single by Colby Carter but ended the inning with a fly to right.
Patterson gets one out in the seventh before he is done in by the pitch count and a Jarmar Ellis single is the only harm for reliever Hunter Robinson. Ben Seracki strikes out the side in the seventh and the Gryphons win their 10th game of the season and their first come from behind win.
Rocky Mount is 5-1 in the Big East while The Bulldogs drop to 2-4. Rocky Mount heads to Hunt Tuesday with first place on the line.
Big East Action:
Southern Nash 4. Fike 2. Southern Nash 3-3. Fike 2-4
Hunt 4 Northern Nash 0. Hunt 6-0. Northern Nash 0-6
Thursday, April 6, 2017
The Lost Art
Now that I have had time to digest that awful refereed national championship game in which I don't think either team got hosed by the refs other than it is hard for a player to find the flow of a game which is being stopped every trip down the court by a whistle. Seemed the whistles were blowing when there were no fouls but did not blow when they were.
There has been no change in the rules any greater than the three point basket being instituted into the game of basketball. It has given the little guy a bigger say in where the points come from. When I think back as to why the whistles blew so much Monday night think with me. Two thirds of all fouls occurred on offensive players driving to the basket. Most of the time it was like they were plowing through a bank of snow to get to the basket.
What has this three point basket done to the sport. No longer can anyone pass the ball. I hate to watch a game and the big men underneath are working hard to establish position underneath. They have and arm outstretched asking for the ball. They have the defender sealed off I am open give me the ball and the point guard stands thirty feet away dribbling the ball with no idea how to get the big man the ball. He is open but the passer can't throw the ball inside to a wide open offensive guy.
So now that the ball can't get inside the only thing to do is for the guards to drive many times one against five. The defender has every right to hold his ground and when the guard who can't pass a lick gets into that congested area he fumbles the ball but fouls are being called against the defense. How many calls Monday night did plays like this happen. There was one in which Berry was called for a foul where the Zag guard bobbled the ball took five steps and Berry was backing up the entire lane and was called for a foul when contact did not occur until he had already walked five steps and they called the foul on Berry. Did you see a charge called all night?
Basketball was meant to be played with no contact. Perform a play the way it was designed. A bounce pass inside to an open big men. In a game where the refs are calling fouls before the play ever occurs they always call it on the defense.
Former Rocky Mount High football coach John Hammett has been named the new football coach at Northern Durham. I haven't seen next year's football schedule yet but I think I have heard the Gryphons have Northern on the schedule next season. Hammett coached at Rocky Mount from 1999-2002.
Back to the Big East Grind tonight. Baseball
Northern Nash 0-5 @ Hunt 5-0
Rocky Mount 4-1 @ Nash Central 2-3
Southern Nash 2/3 @ Fike 2-3
Softball:
Southern Nash 4-1 @ Fike 3-2
Northern Nash 2-3 @ Hunt 5-0
Rocky Mount 0-5 @ Nash Central 1-4
There has been no change in the rules any greater than the three point basket being instituted into the game of basketball. It has given the little guy a bigger say in where the points come from. When I think back as to why the whistles blew so much Monday night think with me. Two thirds of all fouls occurred on offensive players driving to the basket. Most of the time it was like they were plowing through a bank of snow to get to the basket.
What has this three point basket done to the sport. No longer can anyone pass the ball. I hate to watch a game and the big men underneath are working hard to establish position underneath. They have and arm outstretched asking for the ball. They have the defender sealed off I am open give me the ball and the point guard stands thirty feet away dribbling the ball with no idea how to get the big man the ball. He is open but the passer can't throw the ball inside to a wide open offensive guy.
So now that the ball can't get inside the only thing to do is for the guards to drive many times one against five. The defender has every right to hold his ground and when the guard who can't pass a lick gets into that congested area he fumbles the ball but fouls are being called against the defense. How many calls Monday night did plays like this happen. There was one in which Berry was called for a foul where the Zag guard bobbled the ball took five steps and Berry was backing up the entire lane and was called for a foul when contact did not occur until he had already walked five steps and they called the foul on Berry. Did you see a charge called all night?
Basketball was meant to be played with no contact. Perform a play the way it was designed. A bounce pass inside to an open big men. In a game where the refs are calling fouls before the play ever occurs they always call it on the defense.
Former Rocky Mount High football coach John Hammett has been named the new football coach at Northern Durham. I haven't seen next year's football schedule yet but I think I have heard the Gryphons have Northern on the schedule next season. Hammett coached at Rocky Mount from 1999-2002.
Back to the Big East Grind tonight. Baseball
Northern Nash 0-5 @ Hunt 5-0
Rocky Mount 4-1 @ Nash Central 2-3
Southern Nash 2/3 @ Fike 2-3
Softball:
Southern Nash 4-1 @ Fike 3-2
Northern Nash 2-3 @ Hunt 5-0
Rocky Mount 0-5 @ Nash Central 1-4
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