Tarboro Brings Home The Bacon

Way back when SouthWest Edgecombe and Tarboro played each other Raymond Cobb made the prediction to his team that they had beaten the team that was going to win the 2-A state championship. Mr Cobb you were correct Sir as tonight Tarboro in front of close to 10,000 Tarboro backers beats Mountain Hertitage 28-3.

I was told this morning by a big backer of Viking football that as of the end of school Thursday Tarboro had sold 8,500 tickets. That tells me that the entire county backed the Vikings and were there to see it tonight.

Trailing 3-0 Tarboro scored twice in the second quarter to lead 14-3 at the half. The added an offensive touchdown and the defense got in the act in the second half returning a interception for a score.

How appropriate that the defense failed to give up a touchdown as the improved defense this year is the difference between winning this year and giving up 50 in the title game last year against Newton-Conover.

Join us Sunday night at 8.00pm as Jeff Craddock and some of the Vikings will appear on the "Stretchlon Sports Show" live at 8.00pm on WHIG-TV.

This is the first state title for Tarboro since Jim Brett's Tarboro Viking won it all in 1984. It is hard to believe that has been 25 years.

Tonight I was at Faith Christian covering Faith and Falls Road. The girls game was a disaster for Falls Road but the boys game went to the wire before Faith won by two.

There are times when you are at a place that you wind up saying to yourself that you are glad you went to a place. Tonight for me was one of those nights. Faith Christian had their Toys for Tots night tonight and presented the Marine Corp a load of presents.

One of the players for Faith Matt Cash read about a two minute history of how the Toys for Tots got started way back around World War II. It took him a couple of minutes to read it and when he got through Jimmy Hendricks the athletic director at Faith took the mircophone and told the crowd for those that didn't know it that Matt's father had died in Iraq while serving in the Marine reserves in 2004.

Sometimes while covering ball games they are worth being there even before the ball game. Tonight was one of those special moments that I was glad I was there.