Shake-Rattle-Roll

You are probably like me and yesterday was my first experience with an Earthquake.  I must confess when the rattling of the walls started I didn't think a thing of it.

I am the new employee trainer on my job and yesterday I was in our training room training a new employee.  My office is in a warehouse so we have fork-lifts running about all the time and tractor trailer trucks entering our yard making all kinds of noises all the time.  When the shaking started I thought someone on our fork-lifts must have hit something  so I didn't think anything else about it.  My boss calls and wants to know if everything is alright  and I said sure why do you ask.  he says "Didn't you feel that earthquake we just had?"  Shucks  my first earthquake and I didn't even get a chance to enjoy it.  But I will be ready next time.

Now let's move over to Hurricane Irene.  The Rocky Mount-Bertie football has been moved from Friday to Thursday night at 7.30 at Bertie.  That pushes the JV game to tonight at 7.00pm which is at home.  I am sure others will move to Thursday to be safe and as we find out about them I will pass those games along to you.

Tuesday morning quarterbacks.  I told you last week I did not see why everyone was saying Nash Central was going to finish fourth in the league. Quite frankly they may have the best over all athlete in the conference in Jalen Hendricks and maybe even the second best in sophomore Kalil Macklin.  The Bulldog fans had every reason to smile after the whopping they put on Tarboro.

The opposite has happened at Northern Nash as no touchdown from the offense makes Knights fans expectations subside as their inexperienced line gains playing time.  The Knights defense played well but got no help from the offense which sounds a lot like what Rocky Mount was last year.

Another team with a broad smile is Southern Nash as they embarrassed SouthWest Edgecombe.  Rocky Mount looked great on defense but we need to see the offense some more before we can say the Gryphons are title contenders.

Everyone must remember that this is only the first game and until we see what SouthWest Edgecombe, Tarboro, Bunn and even Beddingfield  does from here on out.  It  will tell whether any one had a big night opening night or not.  If Beddingfield winds up winning their conference maybe Northern's loss wasn't all that bad.  If Nash Central wins the Big East just maybe Tarboro's thumping last night wasn't as bad as it appeared. Time will tell all.