Gryphons Win At Southern

If there was ever a trap game tonight was it for the Rocky Mount Gryphons.  They have not played a game in two weeks, the two biggest games of the year are up and coming Thursday and Saturday so it could be real easy to forget about Southern Nash the only team left in the Big East that can not make the playoffs.

Tonight at Firebird Country the Gryphons have taken care of business and beaten Southern Nash by a score of 13-1 in five innings.  The question of when is Benton Moss going to pitch this week was answered as Jeremy Johnson started for the Gryphons and pitched the first three innings and gets credit for the win.  Freshman Sam Lilley pitched the last two.

Northern Nash on the road as well beat Fike by a 13-3.  Rocky Mount is now 5-2 in conference play while Northern is 5-3.  They meet Thursday night at Gryphon Stadium with second place on the line.  If the Gryphons win they would be 6-2 and Knights 5-4 and would only need one win in their two remaining games to clinch second. A Northern victory they would be 6-3 and RM 5-3.  If Northern wins that would give them any tie breaker over Rocky Mount since they would have swept the Gryphons this season.  The only way RM could finish second then would be beat NN by one game in the standings.

We understand that Hunt has beaten Nash Central  6-3 so Hunt is now 8-0 and Nash Central has fallen to 3-4.  Nash Central still has three games to play and all they need to clinch a playoff spot is one win.  They Play Southern Nash Thursday and Fike Friday and Finish up Monday with Northern Nash.

Hunt's victory tonight Eliminates Northern Nash from being able to win first place.  Rocky Mount is the only team left that can steal the first place away from Hunt,but if Hunt beats Fike Thursday they are the regular season champs

Up to the minute the Big East standings  Hunt 8-0-RM 5-2-NN 5-3-NC 3-4-Fike 1-6 and SN 1-8

Today started the NCHSAA 3-A Mens Tennis Duels or in other words the team competition.  The Big East gets only two teams in and they both dominate their matches.

Southern Nash the Big East #1 beat Williams High School of Burlington they were the #2 in the Mid State. The Firebirds win 6-0.  Fike at #2 in the Big East traveled to Currituck High school and if you are going to drive three hours you might as well make it a worth while trip and they did winning 9-0 over the #1 seed from the Northeastern/Coastal conference.

Ten Games To Go

A normal Big East baseball season consist of thirty games giving  two teams a total of thirty victories and thirty defeats.  Thursday is suppose to be the last day of the regular season when three games should wrap up the regular season.  Starting Tuesday there are still ten games to play which is 1/3 of the conference season is still left.

Only three games are possible Tuesday and three again on Thursday so that leaves four  more that need to be played by Saturday. Because three teams can't play each other at the same time two games will spill over to Monday.  The entire season in Big East Baseball could be upside down by the end of all games Monday May ninth assuming there are no rain outs that continue the season to next Tuesday.

What a mess Nash County being out of school the week before Easter and Wilson County the week after.  Not only is Nash and Wilson fighting over chickens but they don't even talk to each other when making school schedules.

Lady Gryphon softball has not played in two weeks and it showed tonight as Hunt wins 15-0 in three innings.

The One Voice Talent show that was postponed last Thursday due to school getting out early because of the severe weather has been moved to Friday the 13th.

The Big East girls soccer tournament started tonight with the semi finals Tuesday.  The two winners Tuesday  play for the title Thursday.

Russell Wilson has responded as if he is in shock that Tom O'Brien will not let him return to play football next fall after he spends his second summer playing baseball.  I am losing a lot of respect for Wilson now that he is showing that he is for himself and not for the team.

I don't blame O'Brien at all for telling Wilson it is either football or baseball but not both.  What is he suppose to do with Mike Glennon.  Tell him you can be the starter next year for your senior year after he has spent four years as backup to Wilson and has not said one word  when Wilson shows up in August  to take over after not being in spring practice but on the baseball field.

If Glennon flops everyone is going to say boy how dumb can the coach be, but in the long run O'Brien is thinking of the well being not only of this year's team but next year as well.  I hope Glennon does well just because he has been a team player.