Ooh Sooo Close

Never in the history of Rocky Mount Volleyball have they made it to the third round of the state playoffs. Tonight the Lady Gryphon can not create new history as they fall in five games to West Carteret 3-2.

Trailing 23-21 in game four and down two games to one the lady Gryphons fought back to take game four 25-23. The deciding fifth game the Lady Gryphons surge to a 14-12 lead in the game and serving for the match only to have three straight points ( hard fought all three ) go to The Patriots. Now trailing 15-14 a miss play on the return serve never crossed the net and the Patriots win the deciding fifth game 16-14 and move on to the third round.

Volley ball ends it's season at 18-5.

Soccer tonight has moved to the finals of the Big East Soccer Tournament beating Northern Nash 5-1. Justin Marsigli got a hat trick to lead the way for the Gryphons. They will play Wednesday for the tournament title at Hunt. At this writing we think they will play Hunt again but that game has not finished.

Tennis got washed out tonight in their second round match against against Union Pines. Talked with coach Barry Nethercutt at the volley ball game and Union Pines was scheduled to leave to make the trip to Rocky Mount at 11.00am. During the playoffs all travel is paid for from playoff monies and you certainly don't want to come all the way from Union Pines and have to come again tomorrow because of rain.

The decision was made at 11.00 to postpone when unfortunately as the day went by the match could have been played. They will try again tomorrow at Sunset park at 4.00pm

Saw ECU playing on ESPN Two tonight in football and reminded me that I need to pass this along to all Gryphon supporters of all former Rocky Mount players. Jacobi Jenkins made his first career catch for ECU in their game ten days ago. The red shirt freshman has appeared in three games so far for the Pirates. I will finish watching to see if he gets any more tonight.

I would like to pass along some very good comments I heard from Tarboro fans Friday night. I was told it was the best officiated game that they had ever been to at Southwest Edgecombe. They were all talking about Raymond Cobb who was the guess on Brian Bailey's "Coaches Corner: Segment . Cobb praised the Vikings on TV and predicted that Tarboro would make it back to the 2-A finals again this year. There is no doubt about it raymond Cobb is a class act as coach at SouthWest Edgecombe.