The Tarboro Vikings with stood an offensive explosion from the Wolfpack of East Bladen but when they needed defense the Vikings pitched a shutout in the second half and the Tarboro Vikings win the 2-A Eastern Finals beating East Bladen 28-22.
Tarboro found themselves down 22-21 at the half. They advance to the finals in Chapel Hill for the second year in a row. They will play Mountain Heritage who won 51-13 in the west tonight. Mt Heritage is out of Burnsville North Carolina.The 2-A finals will again be played Friday night in Kenan Stadium at UNC.
The fourth time in five years a Nash County school played in the Eastern finals and for the four time in a row heart break. Last year Rocky Mount led late in the fourth quarter and was running out the clock and fumbled and West Craven drove down the field to win late. Southern Nash was in command leading 20-17 and had South Johnston out of time outs and fumbled and SJ managed to drive the field and kick a field goal to tie.
It took three over times as neither team could score a touchdown in the first two and settled for field goals and a 26-26 score. Southern took one play to score but missed the extra point. South Johnston responded to score a touchdown and did not miss the extra point to beat Southern Nash 33-32.
Southern lead 20-10 with six minutes to play in the game and managed to lose.
The news is not good at all for North Edgecombe as their trip to Teachey to play Wallace Rose Hill turn into a night mare as WRH trips North Edgecombe 46-14.
Tarboro will try to make up for last years final game. Southern Nash finishes the season 11-4 which now turns out to be their most successful season since 1991. North Edgecombe has their first winning season since Raymond Cobb took off to the other side of the county and SouthWest.
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