The Only One Left

The Firebirds of Southern Nash are the only Nash County school still playing in any playoff still going on.  The soccer team has advanced to the third round of the soccer playoffs and Wednesday is the next day for a game  with the Firbirds the top seeded team and if they win Wednesday they would host the fourth round Saturday.

 Standing in their way is Cleveland the #1 seed from the Eastern Carolina and they have a 19-6 record.  The Firebirds not to shabby themselves at 17-4-1.  Should the Firebirds advance to Saturday  them could meet conference foe Hunt who is playing Jacksonville  at Jacksonville Wednesday.  In the past few years Jax has proven to be a worthy foe for anybody in the Big East .  They knocked both Rocky Mount and Hunt out last year in back to back games.

Round two of the football playoffs will go on without a Nash County team as Hunt the only Big East team left travels to Cardinal Gibbons.  This is a rematch game from last year and I suspect  it will be another tight game.  CG gave up 52 points last Friday and still won. I  Don't believe Hunt will let them get 57 like they did last Friday.

Talk about a crazy world but the 1-A playoffs in this area's POD has the #4 seeded North Edgecombe Warriors as the highest seeded team left and by that happening they will get home games for at least the next two weeks if they win Friday against Princeton who upset the #1 seed.  Even after winning Friday Princeton is only 3-8.  The other game of interest for North Edgecombe has #6 Rosewood playing #7 Jones County.

Old Raymond Cobb wants another week of being the old Football Coach as SouthWest Edgecombe survives and travels to Bunn.  This will be a game of Athletes in Bunn going up against power in SWE.  They may only be 6-5 but when you have losses to Hunt, Tarboro, Southern Nash and Rocky Mount  who had a combined 36-4 regular season record Bunn should not scare SWE.  If nothing else their non conference games prepared them for the playoffs.

Tarboro will try to win another conference game as they host Kinston the one team this season in their conference that gave them their toughest test all year.  I think the score was 34-27.  You know Tarboro question all season was their defense and that has come around in the last three weeks giving up 0-0-13.  We can count on at least 34 or more from the Vikings of Tarboro, in order to beat  them the Vikings of Kinston will have to score 35.  Nobody has done that to the Tarboro Vikings this year.

Last night helped out Wes Bradshaw on the All NEW Sports Show.  With my obligations to volleyball this fall at Campbell University there hasn't been many opportunities to be at or do a football game on the radio this year.