Head Knocking Time

Jason Battle put his second edition of the Rocky Mount Gryphons on display for the first time tonight at Rocky Mount High school as former Gryphon JV coach Chris Lee brought his Louisburg team to Rocky Mount for a scrimmage.  Those familiar with the old B W Holt Double wing offense thought that the old Gryphons were playing the new Gryphons as Lee who use to be the head JV coach when at Rocky Mount took the Holt offense with him to Louisburg.

The results for Gryphon fans was mixed  as the Gryphons introduced a pistol  offense some of the time to go along with the offense from a year ago.  There is plenty to be pleased about and plenty left to work on.  Today during the Media day held at Rocky Mount it was learned that most of the teams that have been invited to the Jamboree Thursday at Nash Central to scrimmage the four Nash County schools have backed out leaving only the four Nash County schools to scrimmage each other.  Don't think there is a coach in the county that likes that idea and unless some replacements can be found in a hurry the Jamboree Thursday is in trouble.  More later this week.

Today the Big East Conference coaches voted Hunt to repeat as conference champions. After an undefeated season and coach Raper departing for Northern Nash the other coaches still feel there are enough weapons left in Wilson to pick Hunt. Southern Nash was picked second and Rocky Mount Third, Nash Central fourth, Fike fifth and Northern Nash last.

You have to think that Randy Raper has plenty of bulletin board material for his Knights being picked last. I don't think in the last ten years at Hunt they have loss four games in a season much and Raper being the coach he is will not allow Northern to Finish last.  Northern had a very good jamboree last week and finishing last is not in their vocabulary this season. All thought that last year right down to the last week the conference was even and that might be even more so this year.

Tonight Wilmington Post 10 has won the American Legion South East Regional and have earned the right to head to the American Legion World Series next  week in Shelby. Post 10 lost one game during the regular season and so far during the playoff they are 16-1.  Randolph County who was the host team for the Regional proved to be a bad host. They were the losing team tonight losing 7-0 but during the Regional they went 4-2 only losing to Wilmington twice.