Tarboro Has Taken On All Comers

During this historical run in which the Tarboro Vikings have won three straight 2-A football titles and finished second once they have taken on any and every body.  Case in point, during the last five years the Vikings will be playing in their 24rd playoff game.  Those 24 games  they will have played 16 different schools.  South Columbus is one of those teams that the Vikes play for the second time having beaten them on the road last year.  The other schools that they have met twice during this run of excellence is Roanoke Rapids, Pasquatank, Northside of Jacksonville,East Duplin, East Bladen and this Friday night South Columbus joins the twice list in Tarboro 24th playoff game.

South Columbus will be the second playoff team in a row that they will play who beat the team that had beat them during the regular season.  Last week Northeastern had lost during the season to Edenton but they won  at Edenton in the playoffs.  Last week South Columbus beat East Bladen who had beaten them 28-6 during the regular season at E Bladen.

South Columbus comes in with another loss at the hands of Hoggard 38-0 but for a 2-A school there in no shame in losing to Hoggard.  They have scored an average of 27 points a game and have surrendered just short of 15 per contest.  For the second year in a row South Columbus and Tarboro play for the East Region title except this season the game is in Tarboro.

If you are the Hunt Warriors fan then you need a 7-11 Big Gulp.  For the third year in a row the Warriors face North Guilford in the East 3-AA finals the first two at Hunt and Hunt could not get the job done in either.  This time they meet the Night Hawks again but this time in Greensboro.

The Hawks will be sitting in wait for the Warriors  as they have average  39 points per contest.  Here's the impressive number.  In their 13 games to date they have given up two scores only  twice and in both of those game 14 is all they gave up then.  Their defense is averaging 6 points per game.  The Warriors have got to find  a way to score points in this one.

The combined records of the four teams playing this weekend and two being either from our area or they are representing us from our conference the overall records of the four is 50-2.  Doesn't sound to me like anybody   lucked out to get to this point.  They all earned it..