Sweet Revenge

Tonight I was at RMA as I joined Wes Bradshaw and Edward Green for the high school game of the week. Word of God is coming off two straight years in the 2-a private school championship but this team is clearly a young squad with no seniors on the team. RMA took advantage of second year coach B w Holt growing knowledge of 8 man football concepts and a stone wall defense as RMA runs past WOG 57-6. WOG only score came on a 102 yard int returned for a touchdown on the last play of the first half with RMA driving to score already leading 28-0. Chris Jenkins was a man among boys as as he had two first quarter scores of 52 and 33 yards. Doesn't matter how down WOG might be this is a big win for RMA as they avenge two losses last year to WOG including a first round playoff loss. Rocky mount went to the spread offense against SouthWest Edgecombe after both teams had the ball just once in the first quarter with ball control offenses. The Gryphons score twice in the second quarter and added another in the third quarter to lead 21-0. SWE found. A soft Gryphon secondary and with less than two minutes to go SWE is trying an onside kick trailing 24-22. the Gryphons recovered the onside kick and managed to run the clock down to SWE NLT had one play from their own 35 to end the game. Northern Nash won it's home opener tonight 28-13 over Southern Vance. Beddingfield broke a 7-7 first half tie and scored three times to beat winless Nash Central 28-7. Fike pitches a shut out on Smithfield Selma 38-0. Hunt's second long trip to northeastern North Carolina and they come home with a 33-25 win over Currituck. North Edgecombe whips Weldon 28-6. aNd Tarboro dumps Roanoke Rapids 56-19. After tonight the big East teams have one more week of non conference and a week off before the conference play starts and at this point every team looks to have a chance for the playoffs except Nash Central who continues to struggle to score"

Full Moon Was Out

THe full moon was at full tilt and the PACK had Clemsom right where they wanted them , until a ref rules Brian Underwood step out of bounds on a play that would have given the Pack the lead in third quarter. Big Mo went right straight to the Tigers even after ESPN ran 15 replays and could never find where Underwood stepped out. Even while game was close never thought Pack was going to win. If Clemson is good enough to win national championship I like what I saw in the Pack. Last week I was a plain lousy going 3-3 making predictions. Makes me 14-4 so far on this season. North Carolina gave up 68 points last year at home to Georgia Tech. If Tech only gets half that will still be enough to handle the Heels Tech 34 Carolina 24. The death march of Jim Grobe continues as the Deacs travel to one of the neat football places on any Saturday afternoon. Not such a neat place when you lose. USMA. 24 Wake 21. Wake really needs this one. Duke and Pitt during the Duke glory days use to be a real big inter sectional game. Pitts first ACC game will be a win. PITT. 35 Duke. 21. We are Marshall travels to Blacksburg to take on the Hokies after they survived ECU last week. Marshall makes a game of it Tech 31 Marsall 17. A game that I don't know that anybody cares about Tulane travels to Syracuse. The Orange beats the Greenwave. The KEYDETS of VMI travel to Thomas Jefferson's house to play Virginia. Jefferson's boys 36 VMI 6 . I would like to know whether Vegas even has this game on their betting board. Bethune-Cookman travels across state to play Florida State. I think they should just stay home and get Florida STATE to send them a check. FSU 63 B-C 13 . Savannah State travels to Miami and this one will not be as bad as Florida St game. Miami 36 SS 14. Have a good friday and support your local high school football team.