Tarboro Does It Again

Tarboro will be heading to the State Championship 2-A football game for the fourth year in a row  as the Vikings did what they have done for the past three weeks waited to the last minute to win.  Todd Gurley scored with 53 seconds to play in the game  to give the Viking for their only lead of the night an victory 13-10 over the Stallions of South Columbus.

The Stallions shut out the  Vikings in the first half and used a blocked punt to set of their only touchdown of the game to give them a 7-0.  They added a field goal to lead 10-0 at the half.  The Viking defense shut the Stallions out in the second half forced  South Columbus to punt with around three minutes to play in the third quarter.  The snap forced the punter to go to one knee at the five yard line and being down Tarboro finally scored on a five yard drive.

Tarboro will try to sweep everyone of the Venues used by the NCHSAA  as the championship sites as they have won at UNC, Wake Forest and now will try Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh  as they will play Lincolnton a 26-0 winner over Thomasville.  Game time is 11am Saturday morning Dec 3rd.

Match ups are a big deal when you hit the playoffs.  I didn't feel like Hunt matched up very well with Northern Guilford and it came to pass  as the Nighthawks jumped to a 22-0 lead  and Hunt fought back to make it 22-13 but the Hawks added one more score to advance to the state finals 29-13 over the Hunt Warriors.  In any sport there are teams that  do things better than you do them and you hope that team is knocked out of the playoffs before you find yourself playing them.  The Warriors lose their first game of the year 29-13.

I don't know if this makes the North Edgecombe folks feel any better but Jones won tonight beating  Manteo and head to the 1-A finals.

Rocky Mount High school opened their 2011/2012 basketball season tonight in the Triangle Tip-off Tournament in Knightdale.  The Gryphons were suppose to be the Turkey dinner for the home standing 4-A Knights but the Gryphons had other ideas.  If you have seen any Gryphon team under Mike Gainey this one looks just like the rest. Runners and jumpers and tonight the Gryphons out jump and out run the Knights 83-70.

Terrell Hilliard lead the way scoring 16 followed by K J Peoples with 14.  Michael Hines added 10 then Lavon Brutus and Tabias Hilliard scored 9 a piece.The biggest lead of the game for Rocky Mount was 20 at 81-61 by then every member of the team saw action.  They play in the championship game against 4-A Millbrook Saturday night I think at 6.00pm.

If you have ever seen an old movie about castles and moats then you know unless the gate is down it is very hard to get into the castle with all that water around the moat.  Millbrook had tall trees  protecting their castle the goal and Rocky Mount was rejected time and time again trying to cross the Millbrook moat. 

Rocky Mount made only nine field goals  and was out rebounded 40-23 and were routed 59-39 in the girls portion  of the Tip-off Tournament.  They play in the first game Saturday afternoon against conference foe Fike who lost to Knightdale.

Junior J'Kyra lead the way for Rocky Mount scoring 17 and Tia Hudgins added 13.   The Lady Gryphons made 21-29 free throws to score as many as they did.  The Gryphons forced 22 Wildcat turnovers but Rocky Mount committed 18 themselves  as the rebounding height was too much for the Lady Gryphons.