The Big East #1 Fike will host the Volleyball Tournament championship match against County rival Hunt Thursday night at 7pm. Fike the regular season champion will head into the state playoffs as the Big East #1 regardless of the out come on Thursday.
Before the championship match at 4.30pm Northern Nash and Rocky Mount will square off in a game to determine the playoff seeding. RM and NN both won on the others home court during the regular season. A coin flip was held last weekend and for this week's conference tournament Rocky Mount was seeded third. Both won their first round tournament games and both lost semi finals matches to Hunt and Fike. So to this point neither has an edge to the 3rd seed.
I have been on the NCHSAA web site tonight and looked up we seedings for the state playoffs. What are these two rivals playing for Thursday. The loser will be the #4 seed and travel to the #1 seed in the Cape Fear Valley. The #3 travels to Big East #2.. That of course will be Hunt. Taking on a #1 is a lot harder than taking on Hunt who both Northern and Rocky Mount have been competitive with this year.
We all know that historically the Big East is not a very strong VB conference as all four teams lost last year in the opening round. We can't of course judge anybody from their past but from what I have seen this year this league will truly be lucky if anyone is standing heading into round three.
Haven't heard any results but the Big East tennis started today after the Tuesday rain. The top two teams heading into the team playoffs next week are Nash Central and Rocky Mount. I don' t understand why Rocky Mount as a #2 starts the playoffs at a conference #1. I think that is how the playoffs should be but if it is good for Tennis it ought to be good for Volleyball or football. I really would like to see all playoffs in all sports go back to only the top two teams in each league and if after doing that there are three slots left to make a 16 team bracket fill in with the best three #3's that are left. There are simply too many meaningless
games in the playoffs.
I told you earlier this week that my son Brook's N C State boys Tri Club team qualified for the National Championships this weekend in Maryland. They finished third and the top ten teams all go to the Nationals in April. Come to find out the State Girls team finished 7th and they are in too. It is the first time in the history of the N C State Tri team that both the boys and girls will go to the Nationals... Must be they got a great coach?
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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