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)

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!