All three public high schools that have a Rocky Mount address take it on the chin Friday night as Rocky Mount is Rocked at home while Northern Nash and Nash Central get pulverized on the road.
Rocky Mount still remembers the five touchdown night put on them by former Rampant Andre Brown who now plays for the New York Giants laid on them several years ago. Professional football might need to save a spot for Marquis Gorham as Gorham scores on two touchdown passes covering 42 and 47 yards. He adds rushing touchdowns of 6 and 7 yards and to tried to act like Andre Brown he took a kickoff to the house of 75 yards to lead Rose to 49-20 victory over the Gryphons.
Gorham is actually responsible for six touchdowns but one was for Rocky Mount. His first carry of the night the Gryphons hit him in the backfield at the 19 yard line and he fumbled the ball and after the chase Nah' Graves recovered the fumble in the enzone to give RM a 6-0 lead. I think Gorham made up for that score rushing for forty yards and caught passes for 192 yards.
It took a 42-6 lead before RM scored on a Mason Hines and Tyrell Williams runs. Christian Grant came in the game to go 2-2 on extra point for the Gryphons their first kicking extra point attempts of the year.
Let me give you the good news for the Bulldogs of Nash Central as Jalen Hendricks did not play as the Bulldog coaches thought it best for Hendricks to spend more time on the sidelines following his sprain ankle last week. Down 22-0 at the half the Bulldogs got as close as 22-13 before the bottom fell out and the Bears of New Bern added 28 more points in the second half to down the Bulldogs 50-13.
Northern Nash not only had a long ride to the home of Michael Jordan Laney High but they were taking on a team scoring more than 50 per game. The really good news is the Knights held them 10 points under their average. The bad news they were shutout. Laney 42- Northern Nash 0. All three public high schools in Rocky Mount lose by a combined 141-33.
Southern Nash is the only county school that wins as they beat North Granville 42-20. Tarboro travels to North Pitt and gets a scare 32-21 over NP. Rocky Mount Academy lost to Cary Christian 50-0 to add to the Rocky Mount schools misery. Kinston beat SouthWest Edgecombe 40-12 as they also opened conference play.
Most every body gets off next week except for Tarboro and Northern Nash when they make up the Hurricane game. I will be there filling in for Wes Bradshaw on the WHIG-TV game of the week.
Friday, September 16, 2011
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 theteam 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.
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
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.
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