Injury List

There is good news on the injury front for the Gryphon football team. Carter Varnell who went down in the first half of the Northampton East football is going to be out hopefully no more than two games.

Varnell made a visit to Doctor Greg Nelson's office on Friday and it is believed that Carter suffered an hyper extended knee. For those of you who have never suffered a knee injury that means Carter stretched every thing to the limit but nothing tore. That is great news for the Gryphon defense which will now only be without Varnell for maybe no more than two games. That would be Hertford County and Southwest Edgecombe. The week after SWE we have an open date which gives Varnell an extra week to start getting back in shape again before the Rose game. He should be back and ready to go by first conference game for sure.

The Gryphon defense will be given a great test Friday night. Hertford county's spread will pressure the scoreboard early. The Gryphons have continued so far this year of not giving up any points in the first quarter.

A major concern to me is in two games we have not made a turnover yet. The good news there is the offense has only had one turnover themselves so we are only negative one so far this year.

The Gryphon offense has been very consistant so far. We have scored 19 in the first quarter,13 in the second, 12 in the third and 25 in the fourth quarter. We are also pitching a shutout in the fourth quarter on defense. There have been a lot of second teamers in both games in the fourth quarter.

The rush defense is giving up less than three yards per run. If we catch a team running three straight plays that brings up a fourth and one.

Our trip to Hertford County Friday begins a two game stretch against powerhouse football teams. We are 5-0 against Hertford County all time but they have scored in the twenties against us in every game.

In the past four years , Does Rocky Mount have a better opponent than SWE. We have played them five times and the scores were 21-7,14-7,16-20,15-12 and 7-0. You can expect a full house for that one.