Fun Race

This past Friday night while High school football played in front a crowds of people, cross country teams from around the area met at Gillette Field in Wilson and Fike hosted the event and 15 teams from around the state including Northern, Nash Central and Rocky Mount took part.

Five runners from each team ran 2,500 meters or about 1.6 mile per runner each and it was run in relay style so only 15 runners were  running at any one time.  Rocky Mount finished 6th overall after posting a 45:15 time.  I guess this has happened before but I like the idea of a relay.  It truly make cross country a team sport.

The big question is how do to set up your runners?  Dee Davis ran her #1 runner in the first leg and Mason Holt had the gryphons in the lead when he handed off the second leg.  Do you save the best for last or what.  All together all five runners from each team ran about 8 miles and I like this idea.

There were several races including girls and other races.  The A and B field in which the three boys teams from Nash county ran in didn't even start until 9.30 Friday night and they had started all  the races at 6.00pm.  Interesting.

Northern Nash's Volleyball team will be trying to repeat as regular season Big East champs again this year. Last week they beat Bunn in five sets and on Friday turned around and took Conley to five sets.  The Bunn five set match was not a good outing for the Lady Knights as Bunn is normally not that strong in VB.  How ever the five set match with Conley shows you what the Lady Knights are capable of this year.  There are not many teams in the Big East that can win a set against Conley and the Lady Knights took them to the wire.  Tells me when Northern shows up ready to play they will be good again this year.

Rocky Mount will get their shot at Conley Friday as they travel to Greenville.  This will be a good compare match with how Northern went five sets can the Lady Gryphon's get it into five sets?  Will not be going to a football game Friday as Campbell VB team opens it's season Friday night at 7pm at ECU.  The Doughtie's will be there.

You know it is funny how we feel about people until you get to know them.  Morgan has met the Conley Libero who is also a freshman at Campbell and they have become buddies.  We feel the way we do about people until we meet them  and then we find out they are not what we thought they were.  In most of our lives that is true in most cases until we actually know someone.

Cousin Lauren did not make the cut in last weekends Futures Tour Event and she has fallen to 17th in the money list.  They are down to four tournaments to go  and she needs another top five finished to get back into the top ten.