Gryphon Football Moved To Saturday 6.00pm

Last year during the opening comments of the season on the radio a clap of thunder and a bolt of lightening struck Near Durham County Stadium and before our broadcast is off and running the game was moved to Saturday.

Fast forward to tonight at 5.30 the thunder and lightening starts and the game is moved even before I can get to the stadium. Are we going through with Northern Durham what we go through with SouthWest Edgecombe? We can only play ND on Saturday much like it seems we can only play SWE on Monday's. Last year the Monday streak was broken.

Remember 6.00pm Saturday night and yes this being one of only four home regular season games the Gryphons need every dollar that they can get into the gate.

Soccer has made up ground on their opening day lost that occurred to Roanoke Rapids. Earlier this week they got revenge on RR winning there 5-1 and last night they beat Knightdale 5-1. Saturday morning they take part in one of the best soccer events held in the state each year at Wilson in the Brittany. Jacksonville the team that knocked the Gryphons out of the third round of the playoffs last year will be their foe and this has the makings of an outstanding game.

Volley Ball beat RR last night 3-1 to go to 4-1 on the young season. Tennis has yet to lose in two matches and have won 16 of the 18 games played. I think it is too early to get too excited about how good tennis might be but they just might be real good. Cross Country runs Saturday morning in an event in Wendell.

The fallout that is happening at North Carolina over players having people write papers that they turn in gives me no excitement at all that Carolina will now go in the dumpster in football. I hope you don't think it doesn't go on every where and even at your school you support. In fact ECU baseball in the middle of the year last season lost several players over the same issue.

Our society is such that if there is a profit to be made then someone will, whether it's the person who sells the papers or the person who benefits from not having to spend time to write the paper.