They tied during the regular season at 9-1 and beat each other on the other's home court. Tonight in the semi finals of the Big East Tournament at Hunt High, Hunt and Rocky Mount took care of business and will square off for the top spot for the Big East Winner. With an over all record now of 21-2 Rocky Mount just might get the top seed in the east with a victory. But in order to do that they must beat Hunt twice in one season at Hunt. A victory Friday will give Hunt with four losses a top five seed which will insure a home game in the opening round.
Southern Nash Jumped on the Warrior early and lead 17-6 in the first half but the wheels came off for the Firebirds and Hunt outscored Southern 28-2 for the remainder of the half. The 34-19 half time score never got much closer as the Final is Hunt 59 Southern Nash 47. Losing tonight ends the Firebirds season as Northern will retain the #4 Seed.
Rocky Mount started with six turnovers the first four minutes of the game but once they figure out which players played for the Gryphons shot away for a 22-10 first quarter score and never looked back. Rocky Mount and Nash central have played four times this season and the Bulldogs have never been within ten and tonight it is a 73-52 final.
Donte Battle lead the way with 18 but he had plenty of help from Michael Hines 13, Broderick Caudle 12, M J Gainey 10 points. Immanuel King hauled down 12 boards to lead the Gryphons who won the board battle 37-25.
The Gryphons lead 35-26 at the half but the Gryphon defense forced 10 turnovers in the third quarter and the lead ballooned to 25 before the bench was cleared. Jaquan Wilkins lead the Bulldogs with 15 followed by Cole Smith 12 and Wendell Hunter 10. Nate Pittman grabed the most rebounds for Nash Central getting 8.
Tuesday's girls Big East Tournament upset of Hunt by Fike has given Hunt fourth place when the 3-A playoffs begin Feb 25th. That is of course if Fike does not win the tournament. If they do Hunt is out of the playoffs. What having Hunt dropped from the fray for second is there is no chance now to have to have a play in game on Friday for second place playoff spot.
The Rocky Mount Nash -Central semi final game will solve the problem of second place as the winner Thursday gets second and the loser third spot. Northern has the #1 spot as regular season champs regardless of them winning the tournament or not. If Fike upsets the field and wins the tournament the best they can get is 2nd seeding in the playoffs.
Baseball tryouts started today and will continue through Friday at Rocky Mount High. You know what that means is that baseball season is just around the corner.
The Rocky Mount High school Key Club is having a Fried Chicken plate sale. The date is Thursday Feb. 21st. You can pick up your plates any time between 4-6 pm and the price per plate is $7.
Congratulation to Rocky Mount High Principal Leon Farrow. He has been named the winner as Principal of the year in the Northeast district. This puts puts him in elite company with eight others who are all in the running for North Carolina Principal of the year.
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
What A Difference A Week Makes
Tonight in the opening round of the Big East Girls basketball Tournament the Lady Gryphons stifled the Lady Firebirds of Southern Nash in the opening game of tonight's action at Hunt High school. Last week Southern had knocked off the Lady Gryphons on their home court facing an injury riddle Gryphon team but tonight no home court and a Lady Gryphon team ready to exact revenge. The Lady Gryphons win 49-23.
The win moves the Gryphons on to the Semi final action where they will meet Nash Central Thursday night another team that has been able to beat the Gryphons since the injury to J'Kyra Brown occurred. The victory was the 14th for the Ladies on the season.
Tonight the Gryphon wrestling team traveled to C B Aycock High school where they took part in the opening round of the State Dual wrestling championships and the Gryphons knocked off the home team Aycock 43-36. The same time that the Gryphons were winning Jacksonville beat Currituck and the two teams played for the right to head to the Dual Regional Thursday and in a close match the Gryphons fall 37-33. The team finishes with a trememdous team record of 34-7. Next week the wrestling will turn to the individual competition.
Southern Nash won their opening match and at this writing there was no score on their second round match. They were involved in a four team match with Cleveland on their home mat and won 39-37. As we write they are taking on either West Carteret (17-9)or Washington(17-12) and the Firebirds at 28-7 will be favored against either.
I don't know if you have been paying attention or not to the Carolina Hurricanes so far this year because of the strike but you had better. This team has some goal scorers. Many times in the past they have relied on defense to try to win 2-1 games but since their first two games of the season they have really been putting the puck in the net. Tonight they have finished up a six game road trip where they won four games and got and over time point in another.
Their first line of Eric Staal, Jiri Tlusy and Alexander Semin have no fear in shooting the puck. If you shoot it enough some will go in and this team is scoring. The first couple of games Cam Ward looked as if he had never been in a net before but the last two weeks he is playing Cam Ward defense in net for the Canes. If you have been upset with the Canes because of the lockout, check'em out. This team is fun to watch.
The win moves the Gryphons on to the Semi final action where they will meet Nash Central Thursday night another team that has been able to beat the Gryphons since the injury to J'Kyra Brown occurred. The victory was the 14th for the Ladies on the season.
Tonight the Gryphon wrestling team traveled to C B Aycock High school where they took part in the opening round of the State Dual wrestling championships and the Gryphons knocked off the home team Aycock 43-36. The same time that the Gryphons were winning Jacksonville beat Currituck and the two teams played for the right to head to the Dual Regional Thursday and in a close match the Gryphons fall 37-33. The team finishes with a trememdous team record of 34-7. Next week the wrestling will turn to the individual competition.
Southern Nash won their opening match and at this writing there was no score on their second round match. They were involved in a four team match with Cleveland on their home mat and won 39-37. As we write they are taking on either West Carteret (17-9)or Washington(17-12) and the Firebirds at 28-7 will be favored against either.
I don't know if you have been paying attention or not to the Carolina Hurricanes so far this year because of the strike but you had better. This team has some goal scorers. Many times in the past they have relied on defense to try to win 2-1 games but since their first two games of the season they have really been putting the puck in the net. Tonight they have finished up a six game road trip where they won four games and got and over time point in another.
Their first line of Eric Staal, Jiri Tlusy and Alexander Semin have no fear in shooting the puck. If you shoot it enough some will go in and this team is scoring. The first couple of games Cam Ward looked as if he had never been in a net before but the last two weeks he is playing Cam Ward defense in net for the Canes. If you have been upset with the Canes because of the lockout, check'em out. This team is fun to watch.
Richwalski Steps Down
Today will be the last day that Dan Richwalski is the athletic director at Northern Nash. Dan had a health issue during the Christmas break and in order to take care of his health he is stepping down as AD. I do a lot of talking with AD's preparing to do broadcast. Despite the benefits that athletes receive either being on TV or heard on the radio the broadcast business can be a pain to the athletic director. High schools don't have someone else in the office to turn it over to somebody else they have to do what is needed themselves.
It has been a joy working with Dan at Northern whenever we have been there to do games. He has helped in any way he could to make sure Northern's athletes got the proper exposure that broadcast can give them. Dan will remain as a class room teacher until he decides it's time to retire when ever that might be. Patricia Haggerty who coaches just about everything either varsity of jv's for Northern will be the acting AD for the remainder of the school year. Northern will announce a new AD later.
Saturday during the North Carolina Football Coaches Association winter meetings two local veteran coaches were elected as Honorary coaches. An Honorary coach can be any coach in North Carolina who has coached and been a member of the association 30 years or more and is no longer and active coach.
Those two locals were B W Holt who spent six years at Rocky Mount on the way to winning well over 300 games in his public high school career and Raymond Cobb who spent his entire coaching career in Edgecombe county at North Edgecombe and SouthWest Edgecombe. The NCFSA has been selecting Honorary coaches since 1990 and have average about three coaches a year joining the elite selection as Honorary coach of the North Carolina Football Coaches Association.
Nash Central has moved on to the semi finals of the Big East boys basketball tournament. Monday they dumped Fike 63-43 to end Fike's basketball season. The Bulldogs as the #3 seed will play Rocky Mount the #2 Wednesday night at 7.30pm. Southern Nash as the #5 seed has beaten Northern Nash 50-38. Northern now must cross their fingers that someone will beat SN either Wednesday (Hunt) or Friday in the finals. Should Southern win the tournament this week they would knock Northern out of the playoffs and Southern would be in.
Girls swing into action tonight at Hunt high as the Big East Tournament. Rocky Mount plays Southern Nash at 6pm and Hunt plays Fike at 7.30. Hunt and Rocky Mount need victories if one loses and not the other tonight then the loser will be seeded fourth in the State playoffs from the Big East.
During a telephone conversation tonight with Wes Bradshaw he made me aware that the state basketball playoffs do not start until Feb. 25th which will put the playoff teams in the Big East off for a week. I don't know if this is the reason but I know coaches don't like the idea of winning the conference tournament on a Friday night and starting the playoffs the following Monday. I need to find out why they are doing it this year that way.
It has been a joy working with Dan at Northern whenever we have been there to do games. He has helped in any way he could to make sure Northern's athletes got the proper exposure that broadcast can give them. Dan will remain as a class room teacher until he decides it's time to retire when ever that might be. Patricia Haggerty who coaches just about everything either varsity of jv's for Northern will be the acting AD for the remainder of the school year. Northern will announce a new AD later.
Saturday during the North Carolina Football Coaches Association winter meetings two local veteran coaches were elected as Honorary coaches. An Honorary coach can be any coach in North Carolina who has coached and been a member of the association 30 years or more and is no longer and active coach.
Those two locals were B W Holt who spent six years at Rocky Mount on the way to winning well over 300 games in his public high school career and Raymond Cobb who spent his entire coaching career in Edgecombe county at North Edgecombe and SouthWest Edgecombe. The NCFSA has been selecting Honorary coaches since 1990 and have average about three coaches a year joining the elite selection as Honorary coach of the North Carolina Football Coaches Association.
Nash Central has moved on to the semi finals of the Big East boys basketball tournament. Monday they dumped Fike 63-43 to end Fike's basketball season. The Bulldogs as the #3 seed will play Rocky Mount the #2 Wednesday night at 7.30pm. Southern Nash as the #5 seed has beaten Northern Nash 50-38. Northern now must cross their fingers that someone will beat SN either Wednesday (Hunt) or Friday in the finals. Should Southern win the tournament this week they would knock Northern out of the playoffs and Southern would be in.
Girls swing into action tonight at Hunt high as the Big East Tournament. Rocky Mount plays Southern Nash at 6pm and Hunt plays Fike at 7.30. Hunt and Rocky Mount need victories if one loses and not the other tonight then the loser will be seeded fourth in the State playoffs from the Big East.
During a telephone conversation tonight with Wes Bradshaw he made me aware that the state basketball playoffs do not start until Feb. 25th which will put the playoff teams in the Big East off for a week. I don't know if this is the reason but I know coaches don't like the idea of winning the conference tournament on a Friday night and starting the playoffs the following Monday. I need to find out why they are doing it this year that way.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Road to Reynolds Starts Tonight
This year the 3-A State Championship will be held in Reynold's Coliseum at N C State. Tonight high schools around the area begin what four boys and four girls teams will result in championships in their classification. Rocky Mount hopes to make their fourth straight trip to the Regional and if it happens they will find the usual suspects there as their main obstacles.. Who are the main suspects who might win the East.
J F Webb -Oxford. They are second in the latest N C Preps poll and are lead by UNC recruit Isaiah Hicks at six feet nine inches. Webb is in a dog fight with conference foe Chapel Hill in their league. Webb and Chapel Hill have split during the regular season. Heading to this week Webb is 17-3.
Westover-Fayetteville. Seems every year Westover is playing in the Regional and they have a good shot again this year. They stand 16-4 but three losses have come at the hands of 4-A schools. Ranked eighth in latest poll.
Chapel Hill-Chapel Hill. Rocky Mount beat Chapel Hill at Thanksgiving by 14. Seems as if Thanksgiving was last century. Ranked 11th in latest poll.
Triton-Ervin. 12th in polls. This season 16-3. Sure would like to try Rocky Mount out again this year
Hunt-Wilson 15th in latest poll. Good combination of size up front and quick back court. How far either Rocky Mount or Hunt can go in playoff could be determined this week in which one wins Big East Tournament.
Rocky Mount- Rocky Mount. Winning two titles in three years everyone looks to see if they are in same bracket as the Gryphons. Third in last poll 20-2 over all. Have just as good of a chance as anybody to head to Raleigh.
Northern Nash Girls-Rocky Mount #1 latest poll 20-0. Have every thing needed to win it all. Should get all home games to Regional.
Chapel Hill-Chapel Hill. #2 only loss to Northern at Northern. Will probably be in different bracket than Northern until Regional. Would like to play Northern on neutral floor.
Eastern Wayne-Goldsboro. 20-1 Could be sleeper in the East
South Central- Winterville 18-2 Tall and quick. Beat Rocky Mount in Rocky Mount before Christmas. Been there before will be tough out.
Three weeks from tonight four of these teams could be heading to Fayetteville to East Regional. Will an unknown find the magic and knock some of these king pins out?
J F Webb -Oxford. They are second in the latest N C Preps poll and are lead by UNC recruit Isaiah Hicks at six feet nine inches. Webb is in a dog fight with conference foe Chapel Hill in their league. Webb and Chapel Hill have split during the regular season. Heading to this week Webb is 17-3.
Westover-Fayetteville. Seems every year Westover is playing in the Regional and they have a good shot again this year. They stand 16-4 but three losses have come at the hands of 4-A schools. Ranked eighth in latest poll.
Chapel Hill-Chapel Hill. Rocky Mount beat Chapel Hill at Thanksgiving by 14. Seems as if Thanksgiving was last century. Ranked 11th in latest poll.
Triton-Ervin. 12th in polls. This season 16-3. Sure would like to try Rocky Mount out again this year
Hunt-Wilson 15th in latest poll. Good combination of size up front and quick back court. How far either Rocky Mount or Hunt can go in playoff could be determined this week in which one wins Big East Tournament.
Rocky Mount- Rocky Mount. Winning two titles in three years everyone looks to see if they are in same bracket as the Gryphons. Third in last poll 20-2 over all. Have just as good of a chance as anybody to head to Raleigh.
Northern Nash Girls-Rocky Mount #1 latest poll 20-0. Have every thing needed to win it all. Should get all home games to Regional.
Chapel Hill-Chapel Hill. #2 only loss to Northern at Northern. Will probably be in different bracket than Northern until Regional. Would like to play Northern on neutral floor.
Eastern Wayne-Goldsboro. 20-1 Could be sleeper in the East
South Central- Winterville 18-2 Tall and quick. Beat Rocky Mount in Rocky Mount before Christmas. Been there before will be tough out.
Three weeks from tonight four of these teams could be heading to Fayetteville to East Regional. Will an unknown find the magic and knock some of these king pins out?
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Thinking Out Loud
Sorry to see this morning in the Rocky Mount Telegram of the death of Chuck Hinton. Growing up I had more than 4,000 baseball cards that I kept in the bottom of my closet in Maola five gallon Ice Cream tubs. I use to keep rubber bands around players that I had more than one of. I think I had 27 of Mickey Mantle and I had one of Chuck Hinton. After I had gone to work in life and moved from home I came home one weekend to find my mother had given my collection to one of my cousins.
Chuck was a lifetime 264 hitter mostly with the Washington Senators. He twice in his career had hitting streaks of more than 15 games. He played big league ball for 11 years and I can almost remember looking at his stats on the back of that baseball card and remember it saying Home Rocky Mount NC. Hinton was 78 years old. Sadly he died almost two weeks ago but just hearing of his death now.
The Nash County Board Of Education made a truly rather large mistake when they chose not to built a gym at Rocky Mount High School that would hold 2,000 or more people. They made the same mistake when Nash Central was built.
I bet 3,000 or more would have bought tickets Friday night but you couldn't even find a parking space on pavement on the school grounds. I am a person who likes to count. If I go to any building that has seats I like to count just how many the place will hold. From press row I counted the first row across the way had 50 people from one end to the other. There are 12 rows high and the top row of course doesn't have the isle dividers so there were 612 people sitting on the far side. If the near side had the same then about 1225 people were sitting in the stands. A throng of people never got in. Even more people we sitting in folding chairs with the cheer leaders under each basket. even more were standing.
Here we are the City of Rocky Mount the so called "City On The Rise" and there is not a meeting place in the entire city limits that a group of 5,000 can meet inside out of the weather. Rocky Mount needs a building for inside sports at least the size of Williams Arena at ECU. If we had something that size all of the big time high school games could be played there instead of a gym where people can't even get to go to the game. Who knows if there was a palace with plenty of parking there might have been 8,000 there Friday night.
If Rocky Mount had such a place they could try to get the East Regional here. Maybe even other State Championships. Lord knows some music star might be able to perform here that you have heard of before other than some singer hoping to make it big one day.
Other Thoughts: I wish Northern Nash girls had a little more speed in the line up. The playoffs are all about match ups. If the Lady Knights don't win it all they will lose to a tall quick team.
If Rocky Mount boys don't win it all they will lose to a quick team. A team like last year's Hickory team was. This year's squad doesn't handle the ball as well as last year and have had trouble against the really quick teams. They must shoot well from the outside too.
If Hunt doesn't win it all it will be because they are tall but soft inside. Some where they will meet up with a team that will pound the ball inside and their outside shots will not fall.
Rocky Mount High mopped up in the Wrestling championships Saturday. They won more than half of all the weight classes. J J Jones has got something going on the mats at RMHS.
Congrats to Casey Cooke for becoming the first Lady Gryphon to receive a Division 1 scholarship in soccer. Cullowee is a beautiful place.
Chuck was a lifetime 264 hitter mostly with the Washington Senators. He twice in his career had hitting streaks of more than 15 games. He played big league ball for 11 years and I can almost remember looking at his stats on the back of that baseball card and remember it saying Home Rocky Mount NC. Hinton was 78 years old. Sadly he died almost two weeks ago but just hearing of his death now.
The Nash County Board Of Education made a truly rather large mistake when they chose not to built a gym at Rocky Mount High School that would hold 2,000 or more people. They made the same mistake when Nash Central was built.
I bet 3,000 or more would have bought tickets Friday night but you couldn't even find a parking space on pavement on the school grounds. I am a person who likes to count. If I go to any building that has seats I like to count just how many the place will hold. From press row I counted the first row across the way had 50 people from one end to the other. There are 12 rows high and the top row of course doesn't have the isle dividers so there were 612 people sitting on the far side. If the near side had the same then about 1225 people were sitting in the stands. A throng of people never got in. Even more people we sitting in folding chairs with the cheer leaders under each basket. even more were standing.
Here we are the City of Rocky Mount the so called "City On The Rise" and there is not a meeting place in the entire city limits that a group of 5,000 can meet inside out of the weather. Rocky Mount needs a building for inside sports at least the size of Williams Arena at ECU. If we had something that size all of the big time high school games could be played there instead of a gym where people can't even get to go to the game. Who knows if there was a palace with plenty of parking there might have been 8,000 there Friday night.
If Rocky Mount had such a place they could try to get the East Regional here. Maybe even other State Championships. Lord knows some music star might be able to perform here that you have heard of before other than some singer hoping to make it big one day.
Other Thoughts: I wish Northern Nash girls had a little more speed in the line up. The playoffs are all about match ups. If the Lady Knights don't win it all they will lose to a tall quick team.
If Rocky Mount boys don't win it all they will lose to a quick team. A team like last year's Hickory team was. This year's squad doesn't handle the ball as well as last year and have had trouble against the really quick teams. They must shoot well from the outside too.
If Hunt doesn't win it all it will be because they are tall but soft inside. Some where they will meet up with a team that will pound the ball inside and their outside shots will not fall.
Rocky Mount High mopped up in the Wrestling championships Saturday. They won more than half of all the weight classes. J J Jones has got something going on the mats at RMHS.
Congrats to Casey Cooke for becoming the first Lady Gryphon to receive a Division 1 scholarship in soccer. Cullowee is a beautiful place.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Big East Tournament Seeds Set
The 2013 Big East Basketball Tournament starts Monday night at Hunt High School in Wilson. Monday belongs to the boys and Tuesday the girls get their first taste of the 2013 Playoffs. Hunt drew the #1 seed on the boys side leaving Rocky Mount as the #2 seed. The seeding for the state playoff will rest on which of those two schools either wins the Tournament or goes further in the tournament than the other.
Monday will begin at 6PM with the 4/5 game featuring Northern Nash and Southern Nash. Northern won both encounters during the regular season. The 7:30 game is #3 Nash Central and #6 Fike. The 4/5 winner plays Hunt at 6PM Wednesday in the semi's while the 3/6 Winner will have Rocky Mount on the radar.
Tuesday begins with the 4/5 girls game which will be Hunt/ Fike and the 7:30 game is the 3/6 match up of Rocky Mount against Southern Nash. Southern is on a two game conference winning streak and Rocky Mount was a victim in one of those two games. Thursday night's semi final action will send the top seed and undefeated Lady Knights Of Northern Nash to meet the 4/5 winner and Nash Central will hook up against the 3/6 winner.
Friday night is the championship in both tournaments with the girls taking the floor at six followed by the surviving boys game. WHIG-TV has plans to tape both of the championship games and I will be doing the girls game while Wes Bradshaw will cover the boys. Whatever the outcome of the tournament will determine how the brackets will unfold in the state playoffs as next Saturday night at 6pm we should know where all four of the top four teams from the Big East will play and where.
The boys top fours seeds are Hunt, Rocky Mount, Nash Central and Northern Nash. The girls are Northern Nash, Nash Central, Rocky Mount and Hunt. The only way these four seeds in both boys and girls don't make the playoffs is if a five or six seed pulls off the major upset and wins the tournament knocking the fourth seed out. So Northern's boys and since there is a three way tie for second among the girls Nash Central, Rocky Mount and Hunt one of those could get knocked out if either Southern Nash or Fike win the tournament.
This years playoffs will be seeded by over all which means the Big East winner could be any where from 1-5 seed with every conference champion, Then the #2 seeds and depending on whether you are a top eight seed in the seeding process the #2 might not even get a home game and yes there is a chance that a #4 from Big East could be matched with #1 in the first game. It will totally be where you are in the seedings.
We hope it doesn't come down to the way if fell out last year with Rocky Mount girls and Northern Nash girls meeting in the sectional finals. Should any Big East teams make it to the sectional finals we hope they are in different sectionals and would not meet until the Regional. Four weeks from today their will be state championship day for high school basketball.
Monday will begin at 6PM with the 4/5 game featuring Northern Nash and Southern Nash. Northern won both encounters during the regular season. The 7:30 game is #3 Nash Central and #6 Fike. The 4/5 winner plays Hunt at 6PM Wednesday in the semi's while the 3/6 Winner will have Rocky Mount on the radar.
Tuesday begins with the 4/5 girls game which will be Hunt/ Fike and the 7:30 game is the 3/6 match up of Rocky Mount against Southern Nash. Southern is on a two game conference winning streak and Rocky Mount was a victim in one of those two games. Thursday night's semi final action will send the top seed and undefeated Lady Knights Of Northern Nash to meet the 4/5 winner and Nash Central will hook up against the 3/6 winner.
Friday night is the championship in both tournaments with the girls taking the floor at six followed by the surviving boys game. WHIG-TV has plans to tape both of the championship games and I will be doing the girls game while Wes Bradshaw will cover the boys. Whatever the outcome of the tournament will determine how the brackets will unfold in the state playoffs as next Saturday night at 6pm we should know where all four of the top four teams from the Big East will play and where.
The boys top fours seeds are Hunt, Rocky Mount, Nash Central and Northern Nash. The girls are Northern Nash, Nash Central, Rocky Mount and Hunt. The only way these four seeds in both boys and girls don't make the playoffs is if a five or six seed pulls off the major upset and wins the tournament knocking the fourth seed out. So Northern's boys and since there is a three way tie for second among the girls Nash Central, Rocky Mount and Hunt one of those could get knocked out if either Southern Nash or Fike win the tournament.
This years playoffs will be seeded by over all which means the Big East winner could be any where from 1-5 seed with every conference champion, Then the #2 seeds and depending on whether you are a top eight seed in the seeding process the #2 might not even get a home game and yes there is a chance that a #4 from Big East could be matched with #1 in the first game. It will totally be where you are in the seedings.
We hope it doesn't come down to the way if fell out last year with Rocky Mount girls and Northern Nash girls meeting in the sectional finals. Should any Big East teams make it to the sectional finals we hope they are in different sectionals and would not meet until the Regional. Four weeks from today their will be state championship day for high school basketball.
Friday, February 8, 2013
Lady Knights Are PERFECT
Tonight on the home floor of their biggest rival on their Senior night the Lady Knights of Northern Nash capped off the first undefeated regular season in the history of Northern girls basketball taking down Rocky Mount 47-39. The Lady Knights are 21-0 #1 seed in the Big East and will wait for a seeding in the playoffs late next week in hopes of possibly getting three home games in the districts and sectionals.
Alexus Hill and Quinesha Lynch both scored 13 points but Hill had 7 rebounds while Lynch could gather only 6 to lead the Lady Knights. Carmen Richardson lead Rocky Mount scoring 13. J'Kyra Brown possibly playing her last game at Rocky Mount gym could score but 8 points but she hauled down 10 rebounds. Rocky Mount out rebounded Northern 37-27 but the difference in the game was ball handling as Northern forced Rocky Mount to 26 turnovers while Rocky Mount could only cause 19 for the Knights.
The gym was standing room only at halftime of the boys JV game and many people had to wait until a few people left the JV game to get in the gym. I don't know how many got turned away but as I entered the gym at 5.30 there were 500 people standing in line waiting and hoping to get in.
Also in Big East girls basketball Friday night Southern Nash won their second conference game of the week beating Nash Central who had a chance to claim second all to themselves but the Lady Firebirds win 49-46. Hunt girls also beat Fike 64-58 which now creates a three way tie for second and a coin toss will be held at 10am Saturday to seed the girls for the Big East Conference tournament that starts for the girls Tuesday at Hunt.
Rocky Mount boys earned a tie for first place with a 71-47 victory over the Northern Knight boys. MJ Gainey lead the Gryphon attack with his last regular season game scoring 23 and Donte Battle lead the rebounding with 11. Isiah Alston tossed in 23 for Northern and he also had 9 bounds to lead the Knights there . Rocky Mount won the rebounding battle 43-30 and neither team can be proud of 23 turnovers for Rocky Mount and 29 for Northern.
Other Big East action Hunt beat Fike 72-48 so Rocky Mount and Hunt finish at 9-1 in conference play and there will be a meeting at 10am to decide who gets the #1 seed for the Big East Tournament only. The team that either wins the Big East Tournament or goes further will get the #1 seed in the playoffs.
The boys part in the Big East Tournament starts Monday night and Northern will see action then. Hunt and Rocky Mount have both earned byes and don't play until Wednesday. Nash Central, Southern Nash, and Fike will join Northern Monday.
Alexus Hill and Quinesha Lynch both scored 13 points but Hill had 7 rebounds while Lynch could gather only 6 to lead the Lady Knights. Carmen Richardson lead Rocky Mount scoring 13. J'Kyra Brown possibly playing her last game at Rocky Mount gym could score but 8 points but she hauled down 10 rebounds. Rocky Mount out rebounded Northern 37-27 but the difference in the game was ball handling as Northern forced Rocky Mount to 26 turnovers while Rocky Mount could only cause 19 for the Knights.
The gym was standing room only at halftime of the boys JV game and many people had to wait until a few people left the JV game to get in the gym. I don't know how many got turned away but as I entered the gym at 5.30 there were 500 people standing in line waiting and hoping to get in.
Also in Big East girls basketball Friday night Southern Nash won their second conference game of the week beating Nash Central who had a chance to claim second all to themselves but the Lady Firebirds win 49-46. Hunt girls also beat Fike 64-58 which now creates a three way tie for second and a coin toss will be held at 10am Saturday to seed the girls for the Big East Conference tournament that starts for the girls Tuesday at Hunt.
Rocky Mount boys earned a tie for first place with a 71-47 victory over the Northern Knight boys. MJ Gainey lead the Gryphon attack with his last regular season game scoring 23 and Donte Battle lead the rebounding with 11. Isiah Alston tossed in 23 for Northern and he also had 9 bounds to lead the Knights there . Rocky Mount won the rebounding battle 43-30 and neither team can be proud of 23 turnovers for Rocky Mount and 29 for Northern.
Other Big East action Hunt beat Fike 72-48 so Rocky Mount and Hunt finish at 9-1 in conference play and there will be a meeting at 10am to decide who gets the #1 seed for the Big East Tournament only. The team that either wins the Big East Tournament or goes further will get the #1 seed in the playoffs.
The boys part in the Big East Tournament starts Monday night and Northern will see action then. Hunt and Rocky Mount have both earned byes and don't play until Wednesday. Nash Central, Southern Nash, and Fike will join Northern Monday.
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