Conference Play Starts

Tuesday the Volley ball team opened their conference season with a victory at Nash Central. The score was 3-1 Lady Gryphons. Today at 5.30pm they are home to Roanoke Rapids and Thursday they travel to Hunt for their second conference match of the season.

Volley ball is now 5-1 overall and 1-0 in conference action. The JV's also won to go to 4-0 on the season.

Girls Tennis begins their conference campaign today as they travel to Nash Central. They will enter conference play at 5-2. Boys Soccer pending the outcome of their match Tuesday night is off to an excellent start 6-0-2.

JV Football is home Thursday night to the little cubs of Hertford County. The Varsity football team has their first stiff test of the season as they travel Friday to Ahoskie and play Hertford County.

Hertford County is 3-0 while the Gryphons sport a 2-0 record. Regardless of whether the Gryphons win or lose they need to come out of a game without losing any more players as they have lost one each game. Injuries play a major role in who wins and who loses. I bet if you look back over the history of the Super Bowl, 90% of the time the healthiest team wins.

The NFL football season starts Thursday night. Pittsburgh will try to become the first back to back champion of this century.

Now that the dust has settled of the first week of college football the only ACC team that lost in a non-conference games but was a good lost was Duke. Yes, Duke, You have to remember Duke was playing the defending FCS defending champions in Richmond. Of course the worse lost was Virginia who lost to William and Mary.

Luckily for ECU's Skip Holtz they survived Appalachian State, who will be no pushover for any body. I hate to tell ECU fans this but this is Skip's last year in Greenville. If Notre Dame keeps Weis after this year then Holtz will likely call Charlottesville Virginia home next year.

The saga of the Oakland Raiders continues. I think every NFL fans was shocked to hear New England trade Richard Seymour to the Raiders. Boy I think this is a good trade for the Raiders if they get Seymour in to camp. Oakland has a Monday night opener against San Diego and even though Oakland has not beaten the Chargers during the Philip Rivers era in San Diego, Oakland has held Rivers in check better than any other team.

Oakland is a long way from being good on offense but with Seymour joining the defense they could win a few with defense.