Saturday, February 11, 2012

New sports show to debut on WHIG-TV 17 Sunday evening

Wes Bradshaw
Edward Greene
With the cancellation of the Strechlon Sports Show on WHIG-TV 17 comes the start of a brand new area sports show on the station - the All N.E.W. (Nash-Edgecombe-Wilson) Sports Show.

This new show will debut Sunday at 8 p.m. on WHIG-TV on Channel 17 on Suddenlink Cable in Nash and Edgecombe Counties and on Channel 414 on Greenlight Cable in Wilson County.

Area sports personalities Wes Bradshaw and Edward Greene will co-host the live hour-long show.

And they have a pretty well-known person as their first guest - Tarboro senior Todd Gurley, who recently garnered national attention with his announcement that he will be playing college football at Georgia.

Back in December, Gurley helped the Vikings claim their third straight NCHSAA 2-A state title. Gurley played on two of those championship teams.

Not only will Gurley be in the studio live, but the show will roll some of the announcement footage from Gurley's press conference held in Tarboro's gym last month.

It should prove to be a great opening episode to the show.

"What we aim to do is to continue to bring local sports to the community," said Bradshaw, who has been involved with covering local sports for the last decade. "We want to bring a current, fresh look to the area and do more live broadcasts. We will continue to go out and film sporting events with more emphasis on our expanded coverage area.

"We look forward to covering local athletes in the Nash, Edgecombe and Wilson Counties. Our local sports conferences dominate those areas and those are the faces people want to see."

Another local personality, Tony Doughtie, will also be contributing to the show.

The show can be seen online as well at whigtv.com and comments, questions and suggestions can be emailed to: AllNEWSportsShow@gmail.com.  You can also follow the show on Twitter at: @AllNEWSportShow.

Big East Conference Basketball Scoreboard - Feb. 11

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10
  
BOYS 

Rocky Mount 77, Northern Nash 54
Southern Nash 48, Nash Central 46
Wilson Fike 51, Wilson Hunt 49

GIRLS 

Rocky Mount 50, Northern Nash 43
Nash Central 51, Southern Nash 39
Wilson Hunt 54, Wilson Fike 49


FRIDAY'S TOP SCORERS 

J'Kyra Brown, Rocky Mount - 24 pts.
Lavon Brutus, Rocky Mount - 24 pts.
Ni'ya Styles, Nash Central - 21 pts.
Lorenzo Wilkins, Northern Nash - 18 pts.
Parker Lamm, Wilson Hunt - 16 pts.
Khadijah Manning, Southern Nash - 15 pts.
Jameka Ruffin, Wilson Fike - 15 pts.
Sam Ellis, Wilson Fike - 14 pts.
Quanisha Brown, Wilson Hunt - 14 pts.
Sam Ellis, Wilson Fike - 14 pts.
Nathaniel Pittman, Nash Central - 14 pts.
Josh King, Wilson Fike - 13 pts.
Jalen Hendricks, Nash Central - 12 pts.


STANDINGS

BOYS
School Conf.    Overall
Rocky Mount  10-0 19-3
Nash Central  7-3 14-6
Southern Nash  5-5 7-11
Wilson Hunt  4-6 11-12
Wilson Fike  4-6 5-15
Northern Nash  0-10 1-19























GIRLS



















SchoolConf.   Overall
Rocky Mount 10-0 20-2
Northern Nash 8-2 18-2
Wilson Hunt 4-6 12-11
Nash Central 4-6 12-8
Wilson Fike 2-8 7-13
Southern Nash 2-8 3-15












































NEXT WEEK'S SCHEDULE


BIG EAST BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT @ Northern Nash HS

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13 

BOYS

#5 Wilson Fike vs. #4 Wilson Hunt, 6 p.m.
#6 Northern Nash vs. # 3 Southern Nash, 7:30 p.m.