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ON A MISSION: Gryphons hope to bring home school's fourth basketball state title

Telegram photo / Ben Goff

The Rocky Mount High boys’ basketball team will battle Concord at the 2010 NCHSAA 3-A state championship game tonight at the Dean Smith Center in Chapel Hill.

Rocky Mount High boys’ basketball team chaplain Ray Green stood in front of 14 young men seated at midcourt Tuesday in the school’s gym. Green spoke passionately of the past, present and future. Specifically, about tonight’s NCHSAA 3-A state championship matchup against Concord at 7:35 p.m. in Chapel Hill’s Dean Smith Center.

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