It's Official

There is an old saying "Where there is smoke there is fire", rumors have been circulating for a couple of weeks now that Mickey Crouch had resigned as football coach at Northern Nash.  Today an advertisement for a head football coach is on the employment page at the Nash Rocky Mount web page. 

Don't know who will apply but in my opinion Chris Lee the former JV coach at Rocky Mount who is now at Louisburg would be high on my list if he applies.  As JV coach at Rocky Mount during the B W Holt era Lee lead the JV's to something like a 45-3 record and probably would have been the head coach at Rocky Mount had he not taken the Louisburg job in January before Holt left in June.

It's also official that J'Kyra Brown is a Pirate.  Yesterday was the day for athletes to have a signing day with their college of their choice and Brown  Rocky Mount's senior basketball player who has said all along she wanted to go to ECU and she will.

Oh by the way, Jacksonville who knocked Southern Nash out of the soccer playoffs beat Cardinal Gibbons 6-2 and will play for the state title Saturday.  Over the past five years or so Rocky Mount, Hunt and Southern Nash can all tell you about how good the soccer program is for the Jacksonville Cardinals.  They have all lost to them in the playoffs and in some cases more than once.

Hope you had a chance to see Tom Suitor and his "Extra Effort  Award.  Tarboro's Tyquan Lewis was the feature this week and Tom has been spending a lot of time in the area lately.  A couple of weeks ago he was at Hunt doing a feature on Josh Joyner.

There are only two teams left from the area as the third round of the football playoffs are upon us.  Hunt and Tarboro both get home games Friday night and they both will have their hands full.

Hunt will take on Cleveland  which I think is in their third year of existence and this is a dandy team.  Hunt for the second season in a row heads to the third round unbeaten.  Home field advantage will be key in both of these games.  Hunt  wins by a eye lash 28-24 over Cleveland and Tarboro will need more than forty to take down Northeastern 48-42.