Playoff Brackets

Before we talk about seedings I think I need to explain how the seedings work to the Joe Friday fan. Each year the conferences are given a priority. The priority is different for every sport. Football the Big East may be ranked fourth on the priority list but first in soccer. That means when two teams with the same records meet in the playoffs the ties are broken on which conference has the top priority.

Rocky Mount has drawn the #eight seed and will have a home game against South Central. Rocky Mount is the is 6-4 while South Central is 8-3.

The only like opponents we have played are Rose and Northern Nash. South Central beat Northern in the fourth week of the season 13-7 while last Friday night we beat the Knights 15-12.

South Central lost at Rose 13-0 while Rose beat us 16-13. As you can see as a 8/9 seeding this is going to be a toss up game. The Fanstastic 50 has Rocky Mount rated as the 28th best team out of 96 in the 3-A ranks and South Central 31st.

Southern Nash is #11 seed visits Triton out of Dunn who is seeded sixth. SouthWest Edgecombe is the #two seed in 2-AA is facing West Stanley who is 5-5. Tarboro seeded sixth in the 2-A is seeded sixth and will host Croatan which has a record of 6-4. North Edgecombe is seeded #7 in 1-A is hosting Columbia in the opening round

Former Rocky Mount High School star Terrell Hudgins became the greatest receiver in college history today at Hudgins teamed up with team mate Scott Riddle on the opening play of the game and Riddle tossed Hudgins a 44 yard pass to break Jerry Rice's total yards receiving record in college history

Terrell finished with eight catches for 156 yards and with two regular season games to play is in reach of 5,000 yards for his career. He finish today with 4,815.

Soccer Advances: This afternoon the Rocky Mount high soccer team advanced to the third round of the state playoffs beat Washington 3-1.

Lee McAvoy score the Gryphons lone first half goal and at the half the number five seeded Washington Pam Pack was tied with the Gryphons.

Rocky Mount took the lead on a Justin Marsigili Shot that ricocheted to Tim Bishop and Bishop scored his third goal in the playoffs. Andrew Morales put the capper on the boards for the Gryphons to give them a two goal lead in the second half.

Unless another major upset occurs as the day goes on Rocky Mount will travel to Jacksonville Wednesday night and take on the Cardinals of Jacksonville who if they win today will be 25-0. This no doubt will be a major undertaking for the Gryphons.