MId-Week Already

I don't know how many of you have heard the commercial on ESPN radio about switching Mondays to make it part of the weekend, and making Thursday the last workday of the week.

After playing on Monday night, I felt like Tuesday was Saturday and it is already Wednesday. Where has this week gone?????

One of those games that I didn't think they would win, but they did. Hooray for the boys soccer team as they knocked off Fike in the semifinals of the NEW 6 tournament at Fike.

Having just lost at Fike last week and being the No. 2 seed meeting the No. 3 seed on its home field seemed daunting. But the Gryphons pulled it off on penalty shots.

I'm glad we won, but penalty shots in high school is a tough way to lose. I think they should just play an overtime period until one team scores.

I got my days wrong on the tournament finals. They are Thursday night instead of tonight and the Gryphons will play Northern Nash for the title.

Unfortunately, I will be on the PA at the JV football game and will not be doing TV.

You can about tell the quality of your league by how well conference members do in the first round of the playoffs.

In volleyball in the first round, the NEW 6 was 1-3. That left the Lady Gryphons to shoulder the burden for the conference.

In round two, they played host to South Central and the coaching career of Debbie Webb has ended for the Gryphons.

In 21 years as the Gryphons' coach, Webb won 304 games and loss just 140. Seventeen of those 21 years were when we were members of the Big East 4-A, and that works out to 15 wins a year and just nine losses.

Webb will leave some very large shoes to fill. Good luck with the grand kids, Debbie and Bert!

Getting back to how well the conference is doing, we turn to tennis where the girls tennis team won their round two match.

Kate Gray, Addie Keeter, Caroline Gray, Lindsey Thomas and Caroline Nelson won their singles matches over Southern Alamance.

Now it's on to the third round at NEW 6 foe Fike Tuesday. Fike won both matches during the regular season. Both matches were nail biters, despite their 7-2 and 6-3 scores.

Turning to football, we have over the last couple of games started a tendency of getting unsportsmanlike conduct penalties.

On Monday night, one flag was thrown 15 yards from the nearest Gryphon, so you know somebody's mouth was working overtime. Then we had one on what would have been a fourth-and-inches on our sideline, and we had to punt instead of going for it on fourth down.

Those type penalties will beat you somewhere down the road. We were part of six or seven of them against Northern Nash.

That trend has to stop!

Did everyone notice that every coaching staff in the conference, as well as other schools, were there to watch and scout Monday night? They all got an eye full of both teams.

The JVs will try to start on a new winning streak tomorrow night against Southern Nash.