There are two weeks left in the baseball regular season. Wilson County is out this week for Easter so there is no action going on this week in conference play between Nash and Wilson County schools except for Tuesday.
Rocky Mount and Fike had a Friday makeup game rained out a couple of weeks ago. They were not able to make it up any other time other than this Tuesday night. Both were off because of this crazy two week Easter break. This will be the only game this week for the Gryphons.
Expect to see the entire pitching staff get work in this one. Coach Kent Cox needs a win against Fike so I suspect Benton Moss will get the start. How far he goes will be determined by the score. If the Gryphons get control of this one early you may see several pitchers get an inning in order that they not be rusty when Rocky Mount starts the three game final week next week.
Northern has the better finishing schedule. They play twice this week against Southern Nash and Nash Central. The Thursday game with Nash Central will have plenty of seedings for the playoff implications. The top two in the Big East are guaranteed a first round playoff game while 3rd and 4th will be on the road during their entire run until the regional should anyone last that long.
Between Rocky Mount , Northern and Nash Central they should finish in some order 2/3/4 unless Hunt has a total collapse. That would mean only one of the Nash County schools would get a home game in the playoffs while the others would start out on the road.
This spring the spring sports have had to do what winter sports go through every year when school is out two weeks for Christmas Break. This spring break deal coming so close to the end of regular season it is not very good for any one wanting to have a rhythm going into the playoffs.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Sunday, April 24, 2011
"Telegram" Announces All Area Teams
This past week the Rocky Mount Telegram has been displaying the winter sports all area team . Since Wednesday they have covered swimming, wrestling and basketball.
One sport which is hard to follow is swimming. There are no rosters that when the swimmers steps up on the starting block you can look for his number. Just as soon as one event ends another starts and even doing it as fast as possible it take three hours for one afternoon.
This year Tarboro's Chandler Harris and Rocky Mount's Zach Vestal are the area's best swimmers
They say that football players wrestle in the winter to stay in shape for football. Being a senior he no longer needed to stay in shape.Northern Nash's T J Marshall was a little bit better than staying in shape. He went through the entire regular season and did not lose a match. He made it through the regional still undefeated. T J lost for the first time all year inthe state tournament. That is good enough to make any player the wrestler of the year and the Telegram has T J as Area Wrestler of the year.
Turning to basketball Rocky Mount's J'Kyra Brown was voted area girls player of the year. Brown just a sophomore will have scouts hounding her the next two seasons wanting her to come play for me. When she had to she could play all five positions for Rocky Mount but colleges will be looking at her for shooting guard.
There will not be a host of scouts showing up for every game at North Edgecombe next year as the Telegram boys player of the year has already declared for Virginia Tech. Junior Montrezl Harrell is six feet seven inches tall but his bulk makes him look bigger. You can bet there are not many teams at any level that want to play North Edgecombe next year.
This week we will be trying to line up Jesse Nunnery and the sports gang at the paper and will be shooting to have a live show on the Stretchlon Sports Show next Sunday night with the All Areateam .
Hope it happens!
One sport which is hard to follow is swimming. There are no rosters that when the swimmers steps up on the starting block you can look for his number. Just as soon as one event ends another starts and even doing it as fast as possible it take three hours for one afternoon.
This year Tarboro's Chandler Harris and Rocky Mount's Zach Vestal are the area's best swimmers
They say that football players wrestle in the winter to stay in shape for football. Being a senior he no longer needed to stay in shape.Northern Nash's T J Marshall was a little bit better than staying in shape. He went through the entire regular season and did not lose a match. He made it through the regional still undefeated. T J lost for the first time all year in
Turning to basketball Rocky Mount's J'Kyra Brown was voted area girls player of the year. Brown just a sophomore will have scouts hounding her the next two seasons wanting her to come play for me. When she had to she could play all five positions for Rocky Mount but colleges will be looking at her for shooting guard.
There will not be a host of scouts showing up for every game at North Edgecombe next year as the Telegram boys player of the year has already declared for Virginia Tech. Junior Montrezl Harrell is six feet seven inches tall but his bulk makes him look bigger. You can bet there are not many teams at any level that want to play North Edgecombe next year.
This week we will be trying to line up Jesse Nunnery and the sports gang at the paper and will be shooting to have a live show on the Stretchlon Sports Show next Sunday night with the All Area
Hope it happens!
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Replacing Woody Durham?
Those guys that work at the Network level do more work than just show up and analyze. The TV guys spent hours each week looking at film as if they are a coach looking for the way a player reacts to situations. They get one shot a week in front of a national audience. They had better look prepared or somebody will take there place in a minute.
The next level of sports announcers is the play by play guys for professional teams. These are the guys you hear or see practically everyday. They not only travel with the team but are used a MCs when ever the team holds a function for charities or dinners for special events. Because they become the voice of the team fans endear them as if they are a player. Fans become accustomed to hearing Sam Huff and Sonny Jergenson argue over a play between plays for say the Washington Redskins.
The next level is that of the college sports announcer. Most just do Football and basketball but a few do their college baseball also. Woody Durham has been heard for years as the "Voice Of The Tar Heels". I told you earlier this week that he went around and helped local stations sell Carolina on the radio to local affiliates. Since 1981 he has been the Executive Sports Director of Tar Heel Sports Marketing. Pretty much that means he in charge of all the Network and who can carry the Tar Heels and who can't.
To say that Woody Durham has lived for the Tar Heels would be an understatement. There is nothing like Woody's call when football scores "Touchdown Carolina". Regardless whether you pull for the Heels, Devils, Wolfpack or Pirates you get so use to hearing your guy sing out when the scores come.
Replacing Woody has already made it seem like they were replacing a coach. The top two on the wish list have already turned the Heels down. Woody's son Wes who has been the Voice of the Rambling Wreck Of Georgia Tech for several years and more recently the voice of the Atlanta Falcons both at the same time.
Mick Mixon who for 16 years was Woody's color man but now the Carolina Panthers Play by play guy has said he's not interested. Regardless of who follows Woody it will be as if he is following Dean Smith. The Legend never did any thing wrong and this new guy doesn't know what he is doing.
A Wolfpacker for life I still yearn for the Wally Ausley/ Gary Dornburg call on State Games. "The Glass Slipper Fits".
Who ever gets behind the mic for the Tar Heels will need to stay for life so people can die off who have only heard Woody's calls and a new generations can say 'Nobody does it better. A sports announcers legacy is much larger when he covers a winner.
The Tar Heels have been that the last forty years. Woody Durham has been there for every game.
The next level of sports announcers is the play by play guys for professional teams. These are the guys you hear or see practically everyday. They not only travel with the team but are used a MCs when ever the team holds a function for charities or dinners for special events. Because they become the voice of the team fans endear them as if they are a player. Fans become accustomed to hearing Sam Huff and Sonny Jergenson argue over a play between plays for say the Washington Redskins.
The next level is that of the college sports announcer. Most just do Football and basketball but a few do their college baseball also. Woody Durham has been heard for years as the "Voice Of The Tar Heels". I told you earlier this week that he went around and helped local stations sell Carolina on the radio to local affiliates. Since 1981 he has been the Executive Sports Director of Tar Heel Sports Marketing. Pretty much that means he in charge of all the Network and who can carry the Tar Heels and who can't.
To say that Woody Durham has lived for the Tar Heels would be an understatement. There is nothing like Woody's call when football scores "Touchdown Carolina". Regardless whether you pull for the Heels, Devils, Wolfpack or Pirates you get so use to hearing your guy sing out when the scores come.
Replacing Woody has already made it seem like they were replacing a coach. The top two on the wish list have already turned the Heels down. Woody's son Wes who has been the Voice of the Rambling Wreck Of Georgia Tech for several years and more recently the voice of the Atlanta Falcons both at the same time.
Mick Mixon who for 16 years was Woody's color man but now the Carolina Panthers Play by play guy has said he's not interested. Regardless of who follows Woody it will be as if he is following Dean Smith. The Legend never did any thing wrong and this new guy doesn't know what he is doing.
A Wolfpacker for life I still yearn for the Wally Ausley/ Gary Dornburg call on State Games. "The Glass Slipper Fits".
Who ever gets behind the mic for the Tar Heels will need to stay for life so people can die off who have only heard Woody's calls and a new generations can say 'Nobody does it better. A sports announcers legacy is much larger when he covers a winner.
The Tar Heels have been that the last forty years. Woody Durham has been there for every game.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Miami Hires B-Ball Coach
I find it funny that the national media has hardly said anything one way or the other about the basketball situation at THE U. While N C State was looking they were doing everything they could to discredit the search. Miami has quietly been going about the business of hiring a coach and they have hired Jim Larranaga the former head coach at George Mason.
Despite what the media sells when they do their spin the N C State job is a top 30 job and 40 years ago was a top 15 job. Frank Haith leaving Miami which at best might be considered top 60 can't even get the media to yawn.
Miami has trouble getting five thousand to a conference game so their ability to pay a coach a multi year million dollar deal is out the door. They get a sixty year old coach who knows how to win since he has proven he can coach ateam to the final four. I would not look for this to be a twenty year rein at Miami unless he can pull off a Joe Paterno .
Tonight will tell a lot about the Knicks and Celtic series. Boston has been lucky to win either game this week at home. The only reason they did is the Knicks are not ateam oriented and are easy to defense when it counts because you know who is going to get the ball, the ball hogs.
The Celtics sure do look old all of a sudden andMiami Heat just might be ready to pick the Celtics a part in round two. Chicago has surprised me and you had better look out for Oklahoma City and Chicago in the finals. The TV Networks will die if that happens but the two best players in the NBA might be in the finals. Kevin Durant and Derrick Rose.
We live in a dangerous world where it it getting to the point you can not go to a professional game with out risking your life against unruly fans. They say that sports is just a snapshot of society, but if this is what we have become as a society we should be ashamed.
Our country is on the verge of being bankrupt. In order to become solvent again we must cut government services. When we start doing that then robbery and theft will sky rocket. While all of this government cutting is going on we need to shake up the judicial system and start punishing criminals. As far as I am concern a good cut would be to cut off the air conditioning in prisons, TVs and stop paying those blue tractors you see on the highway cutting the grass. Let's put the inmates back out there working wishing they were home with their family instead of getting three squares a day at our expense.
Despite what the media sells when they do their spin the N C State job is a top 30 job and 40 years ago was a top 15 job. Frank Haith leaving Miami which at best might be considered top 60 can't even get the media to yawn.
Miami has trouble getting five thousand to a conference game so their ability to pay a coach a multi year million dollar deal is out the door. They get a sixty year old coach who knows how to win since he has proven he can coach a
Tonight will tell a lot about the Knicks and Celtic series. Boston has been lucky to win either game this week at home. The only reason they did is the Knicks are not a
The Celtics sure do look old all of a sudden and
We live in a dangerous world where it it getting to the point you can not go to a professional game with out risking your life against unruly fans. They say that sports is just a snapshot of society, but if this is what we have become as a society we should be ashamed.
Our country is on the verge of being bankrupt. In order to become solvent again we must cut government services. When we start doing that then robbery and theft will sky rocket. While all of this government cutting is going on we need to shake up the judicial system and start punishing criminals. As far as I am concern a good cut would be to cut off the air conditioning in prisons, TVs and stop paying those blue tractors you see on the highway cutting the grass. Let's put the inmates back out there working wishing they were home with their family instead of getting three squares a day at our expense.
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