Rained out Again

Tonight's game with Fike at Fike has been postponed until Wednesday night.

The Northern Nash At Nash Central game has also been rained out and they will also play Wednesday night.  Instead of playing at Nash Central they are switching to Northern Nash.  There is a track meet at Nash Central Wednesday so the switch is being made to play at Northern for baseball.  The second time around Northern will travel to Nash Central.

The weather and Easter are really taking a toll on spring sports  this year and most teams are to the point that they need to make any rain out up as soon as possible.

Last Night Northern Nash girls beat Rocky Mount in soccer 2-1 in overtime.You know that had to be a great game.

Lady Gryphon softball took another hit on the chin last night as they fell to Roanoke Rapids.  They only have one more non-conference game left on May the 4th against Louisburg a team that beat Rocky Mount 7-4 a month ago.  That Louisburg game  they still may be looking for their first victory of the season and it is at home.

The national championship game in college basketball was a real stinker.  It was the lowest scoring final game since 1949.  I am really having a hard time saying that athletes are better today than in years past.  The Kentucky Game last Saturday when they called time out with ten seconds to play trailing by two points and never once even tried to go inside but took a wild three point shot tells me that today's player is more worried about being the hero instead of doing what is best for his team.  Kentucky had no hero's Saturday.

This weekend is my favorite of all in every year.  The Masters is up front this weekend in sports.  I doesn't matter how bad the winter has been but the Masters is like the Groundhog and the official announcement of spring is here.  When Arnold Palmer or Jack Nicklaus hits that first ball off the tee Thursday morning spring is here.

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North Carolina State has announced a 5.00pm news conference where they will name Mark Gottfried as the new Wolfpack Basketball coach.  Gottfried comes from Alabama where he was fired in 2009.  Gottfried has been a TV analyst since Alabama.

 Gottfried took Alabama to the NCAA tournament half of his years in Tuscaloosa.  You also have to remember if there is one football school in this country it would be Alabama.  So taking any teams to the NCAA is hugh in Alabama.  I can't say this is a home run but it is not even close to being a disaster that all the national media was spinning.

UpDate On College Baseball Players

Former Gryphon Ben Fish is hot right now for the Fighting Camels of Campbell.  Ben has started 18 games and played in 26 altogether and and his batting average is up to 373.  He has collected 22 hits in 59 plate appearances and has driven in 12 runs.

Brian Goodwin at Miami Dade Junior College is batting at a 369 clip.   He has 38 hit in 103 at bats and those 38 hits have produced 27 rbi.  I don't think at this point Brian has done anything to not make him a first round draft pick in the June MLB Draft.

Hobbs Johnson got into his first ACC  baseball conference game on Friday  night.  It was brief as he faced only one batter and gave up a hit.  He has now made three appearances on the year for the Tar Heels and pitch 1.2 innings striking out four batters and his ERA is a sparkling 0.00.


Collins Cuthrell playing his freshman season at Barton college has started 31 of the 33 games that Barton has played .  He is hitting 245 on 27 hits in 110 at bats with nine RBIs.


Chad Womble is 0-2 while pitching for North Carolina Wesleyan.  He has appeared in eight games for Charlie Long.

Jim Leggett has pitch three times for Pitt C C.  He has given up three runs in two innings of work.

We have spoken about Dillon Cockrell who is playing on the North Carolina Club baseball team.  I hear over the weekend Dillon had a walk off  Grand slam home run for the club team to win a game for the Club Tar Heels

Debbie Yow said back during the press conference that she had a list of coaches that she would like to be the Wolfpack basketball coach.  Shaka Smart today signed a eight year 1.2 million dollar a year deal to stay at VCU.  I wonder if it hadn't been for the VCU's run during the NCAA tournament would Smart have been on any body's list.  There is a whole lot of chatter that State is going to make an announcement Wednesday.  But, there has plenty of chatter  that has lead to nothing the last three weeks.

The Carolina Hurricanes lost Sunday night in overtime to be 1 point out of the playoffs.  Tonight the team that they are chasing the New York Rangers over came a 0-3 deficient to beat the Boston Bruins 5-3.  This puts the Canes three points down with three games to play this week.  The Rangers have two games left.  All the Rangers need is three points  and out right win and a tie and one loss by the Hurricanes and the Canes are out.  Should the Hurricanes manage to get it to a tie they are in by the tie breaker.  They are surely a long shot now.

Gryphon baseball and softball head to Wilson Tuesday to take on Fike.  I will be at Nash Central doing the Knights and Bulldog baseball game.