In football, the team that wins the turnover battle most of the time wins the game.
When you have six turnovers and you don't create any yourself, most of the time you don't have a chance. Today, Carolina didn't have a chance.
I can hear it now, all the Carolina faithful will say we didn't have any life. It didn't look like we wanted to play.
That's what happens when you turn the ball over. It takes away MOmentum. In Carolina's, case today six times when it had the ball it gave the ball to N.C. State who from those turnovers got Big MOmentum and steamed rolled Carolina 41-10.
Tidbits from Friday's results:
I hear Hertford County lost its quarterback during the first series of the game and he never returned. They lost 15-13 to Eastern Alamance
I don't know whether either or both teams will make it to the eastern Finals, but if Rocky Mount faces SouthWest Edgecombe on Dec. 5, they will need to bring in extra bleachers much like they do for the Down East Viking classic.
I can see 10,000 fans showing up for that game.
That's still a long way off.
Wonder how strong of a schedule Rocky Mount played this year?
East Forsyth, Northern Vance, and SouthWest Edgecombe will be playing next weekend along with the Gryphons. The Gryphons won those three games by a combined score of 76-24.
Biggest surprise to me was Bunn losing to Goldsboro by 20. Tarboro is next for Goldsboro.
Three No. 1 seeds fell last night - Hoggard, Harnett Central and Mount Tabor. Being a No. 1 seed is not an automatic invite to the state championship.
Did we find out what we wanted to know? Dudley stuffed Fike 46-0. Rocky Mount handled Fike 52-7. What have we learned? Dudley and Rocky Mount would be some game.
Those of you that stayed home last night you missed a treat in the quarterback for Webb Antwan Thorpe.
I wish you could watch the film. On one play, there was five Gryphons who had a chance for a sack and no one got one. But the pressure did cause an incomplete pass.
On his 78-yard touchdown run I think all 11 Gryphons thought they had him.
This to me is the most special week of the high school football season. There will be 32 North Carolina High school teams hoping still to win the state championship.
Coach Holt has always tried to get a player from the past to come talk to the team after their practice on Thanksgiving morning, like a Rocky Mount legend Danny Talbott.
This will be the fifth year in a row that Rocky Mount has had a practice on Thanksgiving.
We should all give thanks because you never know when you will practice on Thanksgiving again. Prior to 2004, RMHS hadn't since 1977!
Saturday, November 22, 2008
A Blowout In Round Two
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!
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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