The Lady Gryphons of Rocky Mount will have to play the entire playoffs without one of their top three players in senior Lauren Smith who injured her knee in practice. Even without a triple threat the double threat of Sydney Browder and Casey Cooke was enough to be a part of six goals as Rocky Mount advances to the second round of the 3-A soccer playoffs with a 6-1 victory over Eastern Wayne.
The Lady Gryphons were sluggish for the first 17 minutes until Browder took the ball and weaved through more than half the field and hit a cutting Cooke who found the net at 22.09 of the first. Browder next scored with 16.23 to play in the half and Cooke followed with her second goal at 10.15 of the half. Browder and Cooke both scored goals in the second half and with 10.05 to play Browder broke free with teammate Elizabeth Thompson on her right and after the goalie committed to Browder fed Thompson for the sixth goal of the game. Rocky Mount dominate play with the ball as Eastern Wayne only had three shots on goal.
Rocky Mount will host White Oak of Jacksonville Thursday at 5PM.
As I am doing this blog tonight I guess with all the Boys tennis and girls soccer scores coming in the brackets are jammed up and I have not been able to find out any other scores for Tennis and Soccer.
Yesterday SouthWest Edgecombe boys won the the 2-A Regional golf championship. In 3-A West Carteret won the boys followed by Fike and Southern Nash. The golf State Championships are Monday and Tuesday.
Today at the softball field at Rocky Mount Academy the coaching career of Andy Jackson came to an end for the Eagles. Jackson who has coached both football and baseball took the girls softball team after Pat Smith was hired to coach baseball this year. This is the first time ever that RMA girls qualified for the playoffs but can not take part due to the fact they have sixth graders playing on the varsity and they are not eligible for the playoffs. Thanks to Andy for his service to RMA.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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