Time To See What We Have Got.

Friday Night Rocky Mount travels to Ahoskie to play Hertford County. Rocky Mount comes in 2-0. Hertford County will be sitting in wait with a 3-0 record.

The overall series against HC, RM leads 5-0. You have to believe the Bears think this is their time to knock off Rocky Mount. The Bears have ruffed up 1-A Gates County, 2-A Bertie and smothered Nash Central last week. The Gryphons don't have much edge on the competition having beaten 4-A Northern Durham who is 0-3 and 1-A Northampton East. Both of these teams will have a better feel for where they are after Friday night.

Drew Pasteur has made the Gryphons and eleven point favorite. I think that may be way high for this one and if we walk off the field a winner, I'll take it.

Tonight the JV football Gryphons showed the good crowd on hand that they know how to move the football. The also played poor defense but won a basketball game 48-36 over the Bears JV's.

Gryphon soccer beat South Central today 9-1 after beating Webb last night 4-1. So far this year the soccer boys are 8-0-2.

Girls volley ball wins their second conference game beating Hunt tonight. They are now 7-1 overall and 2-0 in the Big East 3-A. JV Volley ball lost for the first time this year at Hunt to drop to 4-1 on the season.

Gryphon football has a test at Hertford County. Kickoff is set for 7.30. I know everyone thinks HC is in another state but the stadium is really easy to get to. Take 64 east until you get to Highway 11 turn left and follow highway 11 until 561 which is about 40 miles. Turn Right, the stadium is 1 mile on left.

I could tell you all the short cuts but I realize it will be dark and you might get lost and not make the kickoff.

This is a special game for me. From the day I graduated from Ahoskie High in 1971 until I moved in 1993, I was in the booth for 183 wins and saw only 68 losses in the twenty two years I covered Ahoskie and Hertford County. It is going to be difficult to pull against them in that stadium.

If you don't travel catch all the action on AM 1390. Pregame starts at 7.00 with the kickoff at 7.30. Join Wes and me for all the action.

Peppers Named Team Captain

Southern Nash's Julius Peppers has been named one of the team captains for this years Carolina Panthers football team. Peppers who during the off season stated that he wanted to be traded while contract negotiations were under way never did sign a contract so the Panthers put the franchise label on him which means he must be paid the average of the top five players at his position in the NFL. That works out to about 16 million plus that he will make this year.With every thing that goes on during the off season players don't care until it's time to bucket up the chin strap.

The last time the Lady Gryphons volley ball team played Roanoke Rapids the match went to the fifth set tie breaker before the Gryphons won. Last night the Lady Gryphons took down RR in in three straight sets to push their record to 6-1 on the season. They travel to Hunt today for a conference match. The JV volley ball team sent their record to 5-0 beating the Yellow Jackets two straight sets.

The injury bug continues to take it's toll on the Gryphon football team. Trevor Tucker will not play Friday night when the Gryphons travel to Hertford County. Trevor is expected back next week after sitting this week with a leg injury. Tucker joins Spencer Bell and Carter Varnell already on the sidelines with injuries.

Last night I had the pleasure to be on Gattis Hodges radio show on WDLZ in Murfreesboro. Gattis the play by play voice of the Hertford County Bears has a local radio program which airs on Thursday nights and heard by all Bear fans in the surrounding area.

Hodges is like so many of us old radio guys, found a real job before he ever got into radio. There are so many networks on tv now days that kids fresh out of college get play by play jobs that don't even know how to plug up the equipment. Gattis has done it all and if he had of been closer to a big market could have easily made it on any network.

Gattis is one of the really good guys in our business.

Tonight JV football is home to the HC Cubs. I'll be on PA tonight for the first time this year. Had to miss the first game due to those things that pop up on a daily basis being a parent.