Bulldogs Bite Aycock

It took two days to get it in because of weather but the third round of the 3-A tennis playoffs finished today at Nash Central was all Bulldogs.  Nash Central wins and advances to the East regional winning 6-0.  They meet the winner of the Union Pines 17-0 against Cardinal Gibbons 18-6 who are playing tonight as I write this.  So far in the three rounds of the team competition the Lady Bulldogs have lost only one game.

Over in Bailey the Firebirds the Big East Conference champions in Soccer got off on the right foot winning over Havelock 2-1.  They will now face the winner of the West Brunswick 11-5-1 and Southern Wayne 10-7-3 which was played tonight in West Brunswick.  The Firebirds are now 16-4-1 after their first round win.

The other two Big East teams playing in the soccer playoffs were play at 7pm tonight.  Hunt had to travel to Currituck while Fike was hosting West Carteret.

Last night Cardinal Gibbons beat D H Conley in volleyball to move on to the State Finals.  I heard this stat today on the radio and this will just absolutely shock you.  Since Cardinal Gibbons was brought on to play in the public school volleyball which I think 2006 was the year they joined the NCHSAA they have played in the volleyball finals every year since.  In fact they have play in every final they have been eligible to be in since 1998 which cover when they played in the private school  playoffs.

Don't forget the State Championship JV game at 6pm Thursday at RMA.

You may have heard that starting with this years freshman class in high school all athletes will have to have a grade point average at a certain level in order to meet new academic standards being implemented by the NCAA which will be required of all athletes as college freshmen in 2016. Listening to David Glenn's Statewide radio show during my lunch today he asked the question how was that going to effect State and Carolina during their future recruiting?

His answer may startle you.  He says they are already recruiting by theses standards and everyone else will now have to recruit the same way they do.  Just maybe that explains why they can't win consistantly in football   They do require more than others in order to play sports at our state institution.