Weird, Just Plain Weird

Back in the late 80's Jack Buck did the call of the the home run by Kirk Gibson of the LA Dodgers who hit the pitch hit home run to beat the A's in the World Series. "I can't believe what I just saw" was the call and tonight I have just watched a JV game that everyone went home saying to themselves I can't believe what I just saw.

Rocky Mount JV's beat Broughton in triple overtime as J T Smith threw a pass to Chi-Ali Bunn and then added on the two point conversion and held off Broughton who's two point conversion fell harmlessly to the ground.

Michael Hines intercepted a pass eight yards deep in the enzone and everyone hollering for him to down the ball, Hines avoided a tackle at the one and broke another at the three and preceded to rumble 108 yards for a score to put Rocky Mount up 7-0. The very next drive Broughton punted and Mark Shaw pick up the pigskin and rambled 60 yards and the Gryphons lead 14-0.

Ahead 22-14 at the half the only second half score for Rocky Mount was a J T Smith hooked up with Chi-Ali Bunn on a 85 yard pass . Broughton scored with eight seconds left but the winning extra point hit the right upright after a high snap from center and the triple overtime started tied 28-28.

The first overtime Rocky Mount lost ten yards and then Broughton did no better. Each team was stopped on the one on their second try before both teams scored and Broughton missed the two point attempt just to try to get it to a fourth overtime.

Take away the three big plays and Broughton dominates this one but every play counts and the Baby Gryphons steal one at home 36-34

The reason this game was played on Wednesday is East Duplin does not have a jv team so the Gryphons played the Broughton jv's because the Broughton varsity is playing Thursday this week because of the holiday weekend.

Yes, as of this hour Thursday looks worse for the game with East Duplin so the game is still on for Friday night at 7.30. If we are lucky Hurricane Earl it will be long gone by Friday night.

Lady Gryphon Volleyball beat Southern Vance 3-0. 25-14,25-22 and 25-22 tonight at the gym. Thursday they travel to South Johnston and Friday they go to Southern Vance. Volly Ball is now 5-1 on the season.

Girls tennis lost their first match of the season Wednesday losing to Eastern Wayne 6-3.

Here Comes Another Hurricane

Two years ago the warning signs were issued of an impending hurricane and the folks at Northern Vance decided to wait until the last minute and at the last minute had to postpone our game at their place until later in September.

Once again this Friday the Gryphons are scheduled to play a non-conference game on the road and warnings are every where of impending bad weather for Friday. Let's hope the game is moved to Thursday to prevent another such fiasco. Our biggest problem with this game is it is in Duplin County, on the coast and they may get rain out of this storm even if it stays off the coast while we might not get any rain at all in Nash County.

Right now Thursday may not even be available depending on how far ahead of the storm the rains are. I am not sure of why but the JV home opener is tonight. Playing on Wednesday has nothing to do with the storm as this game was changed last week before any one knew anything about this storm.

The soccer team seems to have recovered from their opening day loss at home to Roanoke Rapids. Tuesday the soccer team beat D H Conley in Greenville 4-3. Matt Williams scored twice along with a goal each from Andrew Morales and Lee McAvoy. The Gryphons are now 3-1-1 on the season.

Volley Ball has a home match tonight against Southern Vance. JV's play at 4.30 and the varsity pretty quickly after that.

I really like the idea of the NFL dropping two pre seasons games and adding two regular season games. The only problem I have is 18 games just does not work as well as 16 in scheduling.

The way it is now all teams play every one in their division twice for six of their games. They also play another division in their conference which adds four more. They play another division in in the other conference. Then you play the other teams in your conference that you tied with last year. In other words since you already play one division in you conference every team in that division you play the teams you are tied with in the other divisions. All third place teams play each other.

Under this format I could count on the Carolina Panthers playing their Southern division teams Atlanta, New Orleans and Tampa every year. Every three years they would play every other team in their conference and every four years play every division in the AFC.

When they go to 18, how are they going to divide it up where everyone is playing the same teams. As it is now all teams in a division play the same others teams in other conferences and divisions.

Look what money does to the world.