Baseball-Softball-Soccer Seedings Are Up

All five Big East baseball teams that have winning overall records have made the state playoffs.  The question I had yesterday could we move past Hunt in the seedings process the answer is no  because all teams have been seeded by their regular season record.  Conference tournament records have not been included.

Hunt 15-7 the regular season champion has a 4th seeding and they will open at home in the first round where they will host Gray's Creek 10-9 13th seed.

Rocky Mount 6th seed 14-6 will host Douglas Byrd 11th seed 12-10 on the year. This game will be played Tuesday night at 6:30 at Rocky Mount High.  Should the Gryphons win they are in the same bracket with Northwood 19-3 3 seed hosting South Brunswick 13-9.  Unless Northwood would lose the Gryphons travel in round two should they win Tuesday night.

Southern Nash 13-9 12 seed  will travel Wednesday to Rockingham County 19-3..   Nash Central 15-7 10 seed will travel 7 seed Cedar Ridge. 16-6.  Fike 12-10 16th seed will travel to top seed in east Northern Guilford 20-2

Gryphon playoff baseball Tuesday night 6:30

Softball playoffs:  Three Big East softball teams have made the playoffs.  Hunt 11-6 draws the five seed and will open at home against Walter Williams 10-9. Fike with a 14-5 record will travel as they are a nine seed because Hunt won the conference .  As a nine seed they travel to 8th seed Northwood 17-5.  Southern Nash 12th seed 12-8 will travel to five seed Grays Creek 16-3.

Soccer Playoffs:  Big East Top seed Rocky Mount 12-4-1 the 2nd seed in the east will host Eastern Alamance 7-8-1 Tuesday afternoon at 5pm.  EA is the 15 seed.

Four other teams from a big East are in. Fike 12+6-2  Big East number two is 7th seed will host 10th seed Walter Williams 8-5-1.  Nash Central 12-7 the 8th seed will host 9th seed Union Pines11-5-1.

Hunt is the nine seed 9-7-2 is on the road at Northwood 8th seed in Midwest 13-5.  Northern Nash is the fifth Big East team in soccer.  The Knights 8-8-1 are traveling a 12 seed to Western Alamance 5th seed in Midwest 11-3-1.

The Gryphons boys Tennis team has a second round home match at 4pm Tuesday against Western Alamance.  A busy day on the campus Tuesday tennis playoffs at 4pm, soccer at 5pm and baseball at 6:30.

He was disappointed when he didn't stay with the Washington Nationals out of spring training but today Brian Goodwin who is on a hot streak the last couple of weeks got the call back to Washington today.  As I write this he is not in the lineup I can See him on the bench As the Nats are in Baltimore.

Busy Week Ahead

I been trying to figure out how these baseball and softball seedings will fall out now that Rocky Mount's upset Hunt who won the Big East regular season championship beating Rocky Mount twice during the regular season but the Gryphons won the tournament.

Winning the tournament Rocky Mount joins all the other east region conference winners plus any other conference tournament upsets last week.  The Gryphons have earned a high seeding and the question now is how high.  If Rocky Mount is now in that same pool  as Hunt and Rocky Mount has a better overall 16-6 to Hunt's 16-8 will they get a higher seed than Hunt?

The seedings for softball and baseball will should be released before 6pm tonight.  The official starting date is set for Wednesday but if weather forecast looks gloomy might get pushed up to Tuesday.  The second round is set for Saturday.  Rumors abound that Max preps will not release the seedings before Tuesday.  If that is the Case how can the first round start Wednesday?

The track and field Regional will be held this weekend at Swansboro High.

Tuesday Rocky Mount Tennis team has their second round duel match hosting Western Alamance.  Friday and Saturday the Eastern Regional Doubles champions George Shannon and Landon Norwood head to Burlington for the state doubles championships.

George who has teamed with Tyler Brice for most of the season and
And he and Landon won the doubles.  Tyler Brice who finished second in the regional singles could not do both so Landon Norwood has filled in nicely.  Brice qualified finishing runner up in the singles regional.

What kind of future do these three have.  Shannon, Brice are sophomores and Norwood is a freshman.

The big news last week from the NCHSAA is the new format for playoffs for all four divisions starting in the fall.  They went to 20% 4A, 30% 3A, 30% 2A and 20 % 1A schools they have reduced the number of  4A and 1A playoff teams from 64 to 48.

This will require first round byes the first week for the higher seeded teams will be a step in the right direction to cut back on five playoff games at least for the 4A and 1A.  It will  still takes five weekends of playoffs complete.