Change Of Plan

Heading home from work Thursday I am trying to focus on the upcoming Faith Christian/Greenfield Volley ball game that I will be doing in a couple of hours.  The way we do sports around here is we all go to work do our every day job and then play sports caster after hours.  You show up an hour before the game and get the line ups and go.

This is not the NFL game of the week where the announcers study game film to prepare all week long but the bottom of the barrel broadcasting .  My cell phone rings and Sandra at the TV station wants me to help do the Football game of the week Fike at Hunt Thursday night.  The Faith Game would be on the Stretchlon Sports Show and football is on twice  at 11am Saturday and 9pm Sunday.  As they say in the business Faith got preempted.  We already have a game in the can for the Stretchlon Sports Show.

I joined Wes Bradshaw as we covered the Fike - Hunt non conference game in which Hunt wins 21-0.  Josh Joyner ran  for over 200 yards to lead the way for Hunt including a 91 yard third quarter score which proved to be the last points of the game.  Hunt is solid again this year.  Their quarterback committed to the United State Military Academy this week where he plans on playing football and baseball.  He can pass when needed.  You know Randy Raper isn't going to chunk it all that much but any time they need it they can.

You had better be ready to play Fike.  This is the best they have looked since the team that went to the State Finals.  Don't expect them to go winless in league play.  They moved the ball on Hunt until the 25 yard line all night. They had a chance to get the lead in the first half but threw an interception in the enzone.  You will never see this in the record book but Hunt returned another interception in the enzone and returned it 109 yards for a touchdown but a block in the back killed the play.

Thursday Rocky Mount Volley ball swept Southern Nash to start out conference play at 4-0.  This sets up a Tuesday match with Northern Nash for the outright lead.

RM tennis beat Southern Wayne 7-2.  Rose JV's beat RM 28-14.  Northern Nash JV's hosted Laney High school.  The game was suppose to start at 6pm in order to give Laney a early start to get back to Wilmington on a school night.  Laney coaches forgot about the early start and didn't arrive until after six at Northern.

You may ask why did Fike-Hunt played on Thursday.  Knowing that this game would draw big crowds the game was moved to Thursday to beat the rain scheduled for Friday night late.  Somebody at Hunt forgot to check the Thursday night Forecast as it rained off and on most of the game but they still had a nice crowd.  The bottom fell out about 20 minutes after the game was over.