I enjoy going on NCPreps.com and reading all of the junk that is written by people who think they know what they are talking about.
I don't respond, I just read and laugh at some of the comments.
The biggest question coming from the Webb fans was their quarterback faster than Brian Goodwin.
What the Webb Warriors forgot was that it didn't matter whether he was or not. Webb didn't have 21 other players faster than the starting lineup on both sides of the ball for Rocky Mount.
The Gryphons, in their usual fashion, showed the Warriors that if they want to stay in this game, they had better score every time they get the ball and they didn't.
Rocky Mount scored the first four times it had the ball while holding the Webb Warriors to a single score.
The only time Webb held the Gryphons in the first half, the best defensive player for Webb was the clock as the Gryphons were driving when the half ended with Gryphons leading 27-7.
Nick Hahula, Collins Cuthrell and L'Var Silver all had short touchdown runs and following the Warriors score in the first half, Jordan Ford, on the first play following their score, ran 71 yards following Keith Strickland's downfield block, which has to be the longest block in Gryphon history.
Strickland blocked his man for a good 25 yards and Ford stayed behind Strickland for most of it until he sprinted for the goal line.
In order to take any doubt whether this was going to be a game or not, the Gryphons took the second half kickoff and drove right down the field and Ford scored on a run straight up the middle without a hand being laid on him for 35 yards.
A bobbled snap from center by Collins Cuthrell and at the end of the half was the only time that the Warriors stopped the Gryphons through the first three quarter,s and then they scored two straight times in the fourth quarter before the benches cleared to finish the game.
Antwan Thorpe showed why everyone at Webb loves him as he took off on a 78-yard TD run in which the Gryphons had him boxed in only to see him jitterbug away for the touchdown.
To remind the Warriors that he could run too, junior Marquavis Alston went 74 yards on the longest of his two second-half scores.
To its credit, Webb collected 319 yards in the game as 151 came from the shoes of Thorpe in 19 carries, but the total was meager when compared to Alston's 197 yards on 12 totes and Ford's 158 on a mere seven carries.
In the last two weeks, Ford has 234 yards on nine carries.
The bottom line was this.: In the match up of speed, Goodwin did touch the ball one time for a 11-yard gain. We didn't need any more from him except his defensive play. Thorpe needed more than he got because what he got had no bearing on his team having any chance to win the game.
There will be football at the RMAC on THANKSGIVING Friday for the third time in the last five years. This is five years in a row the Gryphons have advanced to at least the third round.
Gryphons 48, Webb 14
SouthWest Edgecombe made the NEW 6 look good again as it will be playing on Thanksgiving Friday for the second time in the last three years after pounding Kinston 47-13.
The news is not good for Fike as it is drubbed at Dudley, 46-0
It has been awhile (1998), but Tarboro will be playing on Thanksgiving Friday as the Vikings slammed Franklinton 34-14.
I need to go to bed so I can be ready come high noon to watch the Pack take out the Heels!
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As impressive as RM was on offense it really made it frustrating to watch a long and drawn out game with all the unsportsmanlike conduct penalties. Offsetting penalties and coaches talking to the players obviously did not work as best I could count there were ten called during the game on both teams. I figured RM had learned from the Northern Nash game that it is not in their best interest to chance getting ejected and lose eligibility for the next game. In the play-offs a team is one and done and RM needs to keep its players eligible. Let's don't let stupid decisions spoil a chance to do something special like winning what has been an elusive state championship. As fast and elusive the Webb QB was it showed that one person can't beat a team of RM's caliber. RM has speed and talent too. Just more of it than Webb. Good luck Gryphs! Stay focused and let's beat Eastern Alamance!
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