Turkey Day And Football Practice

There is nothing better than a high school football game on the Friday night after Thanksgiving.  Tarboro and Hunt still enjoy the thrill and excitement of the anticipation of what just might be yet to come.  To have made it this far is reward enough but for these two teams even more accolades could come next week.

Tarboro is at home playing South Columbus a team that held the Vikings to their lowest point totals (13) in quite a while.  The main question for S Columbus can they hold down the Vikings to even anything close to that this year.  I think the answer to that question is no but I do think Tarboro could hold them to close to the 10 SC got last year. Tarboro wins their fifth straight Eastern 2-A regional 35-14 over South Columbus..Winston Salem here we come again.

There is no doubt that in the last five years in eastern 3-A football there has not been a more consistent team that the Hunt Warriors.  If you look at their regular season records and then at their playoffs there is only one team that keeps stepping on Hunts toes.  That's the NightHawks of North Guilford.  Why is it that teams can dominate every one but there is always somebody out there who is better.  Mohammad Ali had trouble with Joe Frazier.  Rocky Mount couldn't beat Western Alamance and Big East boys soccer can beat everybody but Jacksonville who by the way won the state title.

Hunt will try again to beat the Night Hawks and once again I hate to say it they will come up short.  I don't know what it is about that I-85 corridor that our area has so much trouble with but guess where N. Guilford lives.  N Guilford 32 Hunt 20.  Hunt  and Randy Raper deserve better but I don't see them getting the job done.

138 points scored by one player in a game.  I think this would be a great accomplishment if the score of the game had of been close but winning by 75 179-104 what in the world is this coach thinking.  The young man took 108 shots.  He had to shoot as soon as the ball was in  bounded or about every twenty seconds.  I wonder did the other team ever think about slowing down themselves since they got 104 points.  But I guess  when you are only down by 50 with three minutes to play they had to feel they still had a chance.

If you want to see a good Thanksgiving story go on line to WRAL.COM and look at the story of the National Guard unit just returning from Afghanistan.  The story features two small girls an their mother waiting for their daddy who arrived home yesterday.   The officer Ty Mullen wife is Leigh Mullen who was the volleyball coach at Campbell but recently resigned to be a stay at home mom and follow her husband who recently received a promotion.  It does something to your heart when you know something about the people who serve our country both at home and abroad.  Our Marine Jarrod will be with us this Thanksgiving but last year he was in Afghanistan.  Those that serve in war have a job to do while everyone else stays home to worry and keep life going.

 Have a Happy Thansgiving.  Don't eat too many collards and turkey.