Before we talk about seedings I think I need to explain how the seedings work to the Joe Friday fan. Each year the conferences are given a priority. The priority is different for every sport. Football the Big East may be ranked fourth on the priority list but first in soccer. That means when two teams with the same records meet in the playoffs the ties are broken on which conference has the top priority.
Rocky Mount has drawn the #eight seed and will have a home game against South Central. Rocky Mount is the is 6-4 while South Central is 8-3.
The only like opponents we have played are Rose and Northern Nash. South Central beat Northern in the fourth week of the season 13-7 while last Friday night we beat the Knights 15-12.
South Central lost at Rose 13-0 while Rose beat us 16-13. As you can see as a 8/9 seeding this is going to be a toss up game. The Fanstastic 50 has Rocky Mount rated as the 28th best team out of 96 in the 3-A ranks and South Central 31st.
Southern Nash is #11 seed visits Triton out of Dunn who is seeded sixth. SouthWest Edgecombe is the #two seed in 2-AA is facing West Stanley who is 5-5. Tarboro seeded sixth in the 2-A is seeded sixth and will host Croatan which has a record of 6-4. North Edgecombe is seeded #7 in 1-A is hosting Columbia in the opening round
Former Rocky Mount High School star Terrell Hudgins became the greatest receiver in college history today at Hudgins teamed up with team mate Scott Riddle on the opening play of the game and Riddle tossed Hudgins a 44 yard pass to break Jerry Rice's total yards receiving record in college history
Terrell finished with eight catches for 156 yards and with two regular season games to play is in reach of 5,000 yards for his career. He finish today with 4,815.
Soccer Advances: This afternoon the Rocky Mount high soccer team advanced to the third round of the state playoffs beat Washington 3-1.
Lee McAvoy score the Gryphons lone first half goal and at the half the number five seeded Washington Pam Pack was tied with the Gryphons.
Rocky Mount took the lead on a Justin Marsigili Shot that ricocheted to Tim Bishop and Bishop scored his third goal in the playoffs. Andrew Morales put the capper on the boards for the Gryphons to give them a two goal lead in the second half.
Unless another major upset occurs as the day goes on Rocky Mount will travel to Jacksonville Wednesday night and take on the Cardinals of Jacksonville who if they win today will be 25-0. This no doubt will be a major undertaking for the Gryphons.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
The Aftermath
The last two weeks the Rocky Mount Gryphon football team has looked squarely into the eyes of defeat and grabbed victory.
Every game played you can look back and say, boy why did they run that or only if we had of done this.
Rocky Mount twice got inside the five yard line, once they fumbled and once the Knight's defense held.
Four minutes to play on a fourth down from the Rocky Mount twenty five yard line, it looked as if Northern was trying to get Rocky Mount to jump off sides like they had pulled off earlier in the game. Instead they try a quarterback sneak and Rocky Mount holds. Northern was six inches short of the first down. If they had of got the first down there the Gryphons may never get the ball back.
Maybe the play of the night happened in front of the Gryphon fans as Collins Cuthrell rolled out to pass only to be smothered by a Northern defender. From the press box it looked as if Collins was almost on the ground and flung the ball about five yards in front of him into the waiting arms of Marquavis Alston who motored for a Gryphon first down. The drive remained alive.
There is a least one more week of football in the first decade of the 21st century. Depending on how this team finishes the playoffs, it looks as if we will say this is the 8th best team this decade. This team might be down the list on best teams but they will be #1 in last second thrillers.
Collins Cuthrell touchdown with 2.3 seconds to play cut the heart right out of a gritty Northern Nash Football seeking to regain respect in the football community. Their defense gets my respect as they may have the best defense in the league.
Terrell Hudgins can capture the last of the major career stats in college football receiving today as Elon plays Western Carolina. Terrell needs 35 yards to become the all time leader in yards receiving. Earlier this year he broke college football's most catches and most 100 yard games in a career records.
Soccer is home this afternoon against Washington in the second round of the state playoffs. they will play on campus instead of the RMSC.
Bad News to report: Lauren Doughtie failed to qualify for the Futures tour shooting a 75 and 80 the last two rounds. She finished 32nd in a field of 276 players. If she does play this year on the Futures, she will have to qualify every Monday. All is not lost however, in three weeks she will return to Daytona Florida to go through another five day LPGA qualifying school. If she was to qualify for the LPGA tour, she would be in the big leagues of women's golf.
Later this evening when the brackets for football are released I'll let you know.
Every game played you can look back and say, boy why did they run that or only if we had of done this.
Rocky Mount twice got inside the five yard line, once they fumbled and once the Knight's defense held.
Four minutes to play on a fourth down from the Rocky Mount twenty five yard line, it looked as if Northern was trying to get Rocky Mount to jump off sides like they had pulled off earlier in the game. Instead they try a quarterback sneak and Rocky Mount holds. Northern was six inches short of the first down. If they had of got the first down there the Gryphons may never get the ball back.
Maybe the play of the night happened in front of the Gryphon fans as Collins Cuthrell rolled out to pass only to be smothered by a Northern defender. From the press box it looked as if Collins was almost on the ground and flung the ball about five yards in front of him into the waiting arms of Marquavis Alston who motored for a Gryphon first down. The drive remained alive.
There is a least one more week of football in the first decade of the 21st century. Depending on how this team finishes the playoffs, it looks as if we will say this is the 8th best team this decade. This team might be down the list on best teams but they will be #1 in last second thrillers.
Collins Cuthrell touchdown with 2.3 seconds to play cut the heart right out of a gritty Northern Nash Football seeking to regain respect in the football community. Their defense gets my respect as they may have the best defense in the league.
Terrell Hudgins can capture the last of the major career stats in college football receiving today as Elon plays Western Carolina. Terrell needs 35 yards to become the all time leader in yards receiving. Earlier this year he broke college football's most catches and most 100 yard games in a career records.
Soccer is home this afternoon against Washington in the second round of the state playoffs. they will play on campus instead of the RMSC.
Bad News to report: Lauren Doughtie failed to qualify for the Futures tour shooting a 75 and 80 the last two rounds. She finished 32nd in a field of 276 players. If she does play this year on the Futures, she will have to qualify every Monday. All is not lost however, in three weeks she will return to Daytona Florida to go through another five day LPGA qualifying school. If she was to qualify for the LPGA tour, she would be in the big leagues of women's golf.
Later this evening when the brackets for football are released I'll let you know.
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