Volleyball Streak Is History

The Lady Gryphon unbeaten steak of not having lost a conference game during the regular season in Big East play ended tonight at the hands of the one team that has come the closes several times in the past three years of knocking them off.  Hunt has beaten the Lady Gryphons in the conference tournament but not in the regular season.

What would you expect when Hunt and Rocky Mount play volleyball but a five set match in which Hunt won the fifth set 15-11.The Lady Gryphons are still in first but their path to a regular season title just may end up facing Northern Nash with either winning out right or tying for the crown the last game of the season  next Thursday.  The streaks ends at 26 straight games.

Lost during the shuffle of the Tarboro- Northern Nash game was the fact that SouthWest Edgecombe won their first game of the season  Monday night 43-14 over Farmville Central.  That was the battle of the win less teams as Farmville  still is looking for their first win.  The win puts the Cougars in a tie for 3rd in the Eastern Plains and their hopes of making the playoffs are alive and well.

I told you this morning about the Rocky Mount -Fike tie in soccer.  Find out this morning that Nash Central and Northern Nash played to a two overtime tie also.  Hard to believe that playing twenty minutes extra that there would be a tie in any game and find out there are two the same night.  The Gryphon/Golden Demon match played two overtimes and did not score while Nash Central took the lead in their match only to see Northern tie the game by the end of the first overtime.

This Friday night Nash Central travels to Rocky Mount to open conference play in football.  The Bulldog football players will enter the stadium locking their arms together and they will follow the Bulldog cheerleaders who will be carrying John Stanley's number 12.  Should be a very emotional scene when they enter the stadium to start the game.  There is only two possible outcomes of this game.  Nash Central will play out of their minds and win by 50 or they will fumble and bumble and Rocky Mount wins 13-7.  which one do you think it will be?

I have been thinking all season that Nash Central was a third round playoff team this year.  Now with the death of a teammate this may unite them to play for all the marbles by mid December.

Knights Give Vikes All They Can Handle

Two years in a row Northern Nash has taken the Tarboro Viking to the limit and did every thing they could but win the game.  Finally after getting the rain out makeup rained out Tarboro finally host Northern Nash at Tarboro and the Vikings win 12-7.

Tarboro returns to Eastern Plains conference play Friday hosting Greene Central  who has a 1-1 record while Tarboro is 1-0.  Northern begins Big East Conference play hosting Hunt who to this point in the season not only was voted by the coaches as the preseason favorites but they have played like the favorites in their non conference games.

Monday night I was at Nash Central covering the SouthWest Edgecombe- Nash Central non conference Volley ball game.  Earlier in the year Nash Central won in four games  in Pinetops but Monday SWE wins in three games 26-24, 25-22 and 25-21.

The road to recovery is underway at Nash Central .  Friday night starts conference play as the Bulldogs come to Rocky Mount.  The team practiced for the first time today since the death of John Stanley.  I hear the team will not practice the day of Stanley's funeral regardless of what day it is and the team will attend his funeral.  I hope Rocky Mount has a moment of silence or a moment to pay tribute Friday what ever they deem appropriate.  I am sure they would discuss that with Nash Central.

While I was at the Volleyball game my Text went off from Scoretrax.com telling me the Rocky Mount-Fike soccer game went to over time tied 2-2.  If I read the scoretrax later they played two overtimes and were still tied.  By the time I received that last score it was dark so I guess the game will be a tie. Must have been a fantastic game.