Gryphons will be in Wake Forest on Aug. 10
- Gryphon junior offensive lineman Whit Barnes
Rocky Mount's football team will have just one chance for an official
scrimmage this coming season.
The Gryphons will attend the second Friday Night Pigskin Preview on
Friday, Aug. 10 at Wake Forest-Rolesville High's Trentini Stadium.
Rocky Mount played in the event last season as well.
RMHS will play in the 6 p.m. rotation against Durham Jordan, Broughton
and East Wake. The other rotations are: 4 p.m.: Bunn, Green Hope,
Louisburg and Millbrook; and at 8 p.m.: Clayton, Wake
Forest-Rolesville, Garner and Northern Durham.
With the help of a solid offensive line, led by junior Whit Barnes,
RMHS hopes to top the record 5,509 total yards it set in 2006.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Gryphon coaching numbers
I was just digging through some files and saw some Gryphon coaching
stats that I needed to update.
Below are the up-to-date coaching stats for B.W. Holt (football), Pam
Gainey (girls basketball) and Mike Gainey (boys basketball).
Hopefully, sometime in late September, we all will be celebrating
Holt's 300th career victory!
B.W. HOLT
43-10 - @ Rocky Mount
@ West Montgomery
19-14 - @ Bristol (Tn.) Tennessee,
174-46-1 @ Starmount,
49-21-1 @ Franklinton,
@ SW Randolph
294-109-2 career record, .730 winning percentage (37 seasons)
PAM GAINEY
2006-07 - 16-11, playoffs
2005-06 - 8-18, playoffs
2004-05 - 17-8, Big East champs, playoffs
2003-04 - 23-5, Big East champs, tourney champs, playoffs
2002-03 - 22-3, Big East champs, tourney champs, playoffs
2001-02 - 20-3, Big East champs, tourney champs, playoffs
2000-01 - 24-3, Big East champs, tourney champs, playoffs
1999-00 - 20-5, Big East champs, tourney champs, playoffs
1998-99 - 20-6, playoffs
1997-98 - 12-12, playoffs
1996-97 - 12-13, playoffs
1995-96 - 14-10, playoffs
1994-95 - 15-10, playoffs
1993-94 - 10-14
Career - 233-121, .658 winning percentage (14 seasons)
MIKE GAINEY
2006-07 - 14-14, playoffs
2005-06 - 16-12, NEW 6 champs, tourney champs, sectional champs
2004-05 - 17-9, playoffs
2003-04 - 22-7, playoffs
2002-03 - 25-2, Big East champs, tourney champs, sectional champs
2001-02 - 19-2, Big East champs, tourney champs, playoffs
2000-01 - 13-11, playoffs
1999-00 - 12-12, playoffs
1998-99 - 16-10, Big East tourney champs, playoffs
1997-98 - 17-6, playoffs
Career - 171-85, .668 winning percentage (10 seasons)
Going back to football, in case you are wondering, SouthWest
Edgecombe's Raymond Cobb topped the 200-win mark last season - thanks
to his Cougars' sparkling 12-1 record. Holt and Cobb are the only
active members of the 200-win club in the Twin Counties area.
Here's the breakdown on Cobb's record:
RAYMOND COBB
174-48 @ North Edgecombe; 29-9 @ SW Edgecombe
Career - 203-57, .781 winning percentage (19 seasons)
Jim Brett, who retired from teaching this past spring at Northern Nash
but stopped coaching in 2003, also has 200-plus wins.
JIM BRETT
172-67 @ Tarboro (both stints); 47-24 @ Northern Nash (both stints);
25-6 @ West Brunswick; 3-7 @ West Carteret
Career - 247-104, .704 winning percentage (28 seasons)
Posted by Charles Alston 0 Any comments?
Former Gryphon calling games abroad
Kenny Dickerson (RMHS Class of '70), who area high school sports fans
may know of as a fine volleyball, basketball and baseball official, is
calling baseball this summer - but he's doing it far away from his
native Nash County.
He's in Israel calling games in the Israel Baseball League, a
professional league that has just been formed there. Dickerson is one
of six American umpires working in the league.
The six-team league has some star names guiding some of its teams. Ken
Holtzman, Ron Blomberg and Art Shamsky are among those managing teams
Tel Aviv, Bet Shemish, Modi'in, Ra'anana, Netanya and Petach Tikva.
Former Boston Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette is the director of
baseball operations.
The IBL will have no official relationship with Major League Baseball,
but it is getting a hand from MLB. MLB.com will carry coverage of
Israel's games.
Dickerson will be umpiring for eight weeks this summer in the league.
Another note about Dickerson, FYI Gryphons fans. As a junior at was
then-called Rocky Mount Senior High, Dickerson was on the student
committee that came up with one of the state's most distinctive team
nicknames - Gryphon!
Posted by Charles Alston 0 Any comments?
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Former Gryphon head coach takes West Brunswick High principal job
George Kelley, who for the last eight years has served as principal at
Bunn High School, has been selected to be the new principal at West
Brunswick High in Shallotte.
Before going to Bunn, Kelley served as an assistant principal and
athletic director at RMHS. And before that, Kelley was an English
teacher and head football coach for the Gryphons.
Kelley's teams won two Big East 4-A Conference titles and went to the
playoffs three times. Over 10 seasons, Kelley's squads posted 63 wins
(63-41,.606) - the second highest total by any coach in RMHS' history.
Kelley was head coach from 1983 to 1992.
He was also head baseball coach for the Gryphons when they won the
NCHSAA 4-A state championship in 1980.
Kelley's children also played a part in Gryphon sports. Son Roman was
the starting quarterback for the Gryphons for two seasons (2,110 yds.,
27 TDs), while daughter Kristen played volleyball and basketball for
RMHS.
Kelley and his wife will be leaving the Rocky Mount area for the first
time since coming here in the summer of 1976.
Posted by Charles Alston 0 Any comments?
Monday, July 2, 2007
Hahula having a ball!
Rising Rocky Mount junior Nick Hahula takes a whack at a football
during the Appalachian State Prep Kicking Camp last week in Boone.
Hahula will continue to be a vital part of the Gryphons' offense this
coming season as he adds to his career kicking records. Hahula has
scored 108 points in just two seasons with 81 PATs and nine field
goals.
Barrett Bodiford (1995-97) held the record of 104 points until Hahula
topped him with seven points (four PATs, one FG) against Western
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