During yesterday's blog after having been to several games over the years at Southern Nash I didn't think the field would drain for a Wednesday game. I was correct but what I didn't think is that every baseball field in the conference is in jeopardy for any Wednesday games.
Every game schedule for Thursday will still be the games played. Every game rained out Tuesday will play Friday. No team has any advantage as all will have to play two conference games back to back and all will have pitch count issues Thursday as to how many pitchers needed to complete Thursday's game and still have enough to play Friday.
Last night former Northern Nash graduate Elliott Avent the baseball coach at NC State won his 1000th game as a college Baseball coach. In his 20th year in Raleigh the win over NCA&T was his 682nd win while losing 421. Avent's first coaching stint was right here in Rocky Mount in 1981 and 82 as an assistant coach at NC Wesleyan
NC Wesleyan might be called the cradle of baseball coaches having a former assistant Avent with 1000 wins and former head coach Mike Fox the head coach at Carolina with over 1330 college victories.
One of the greatest pleasures of any high school coach is to see one of their athletes move on to college to play at the next level. Tara McDonald the head girls volleyball coach at Rocky Mount will get to see that happen. Ashley Hatfield a member of the volleyball squad will attend John Wesley university in High Point and will play volleyball.
Good news for North Carolina Basketball as Joel Berry II has decided or has has received word that he will not be a high pick in this years NBA draft so he is returning to Chapel Hill to play his senior year for the Tar Heels.
It is a shame that college basketball has to worry every year whether they will have any players returning each year because the NBA could draft any player after any season.
The NBA should do like major league baseball and either draft a
Player right out of high school of wait after their third year out of high school.
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
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