Round three of the State 2-A playoffs continue Friday night as the homeless Vikings of Tarboro High will make their third road game of the playoffs. They head east Down highway 64 then north on US 17 until they hit the beautiful town of Edenton. The place of the first tea party well before the one that is famous in Boston.
The Vikes will face an Aces team that is the champion of the Northeastern Coastal Conference who beat everyone in their conference both 3-A and 2-A. The Aces are six times state champions but that all came before 1970. This years squad is one of their best in quite a while since the mid 80's.
If Tarboro can find a way to win again they will head in a different direction next week as they will be on the road at either East Bladen who calls E-Town home ( Elizabethtown). You know E-Town has road signs telling you how far it is to South Carolina. Their other choice is even worse as East Bladen is playing South Columbus which is located in Tabor City and when you drive through Tabor City the south side of town you can see South Carolina. East Bladen is 10-2 and South Columbus is 9-3 and both are higher seeds than Tarboro. Looks like as close as Tarboro will be to home is if they make the State Championship game in Raleigh on December 3rd.
North Edgecombe will be hosting Jones County who will visit Leggett with a 8-4 record and 2-0 in the Tar Roanoke league as they have taken down two teams from the TR in the playoffs. If North Edgecombe can survive they head east next week either to Plymouth or even further to Manteo. Whatever happened to playing teams in you area?
Hunt who so far this fall looks as if they will be leading the Wells Fargo standings from the the Big East when we hear for the first time the standings after football is over will be playing the team that will be leading the state in the Wells Fargo Cup. So far Cardinal Gibbons has won every State title that the NCHSAA offers in the fall and Hunt gets the pleasure of hosting them in football.
All three of our local teams left from the area have their work cut out for them Friday night.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
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