Brice Sister Make Final Four In Tennis

The Rocky Mount High sister team of Chandler (Sophomore) and Tanner (Senior) have advanced to the semi finals of the state doubles tennis championships in Burlington. They beat a team from East Gaston 6-4-6-3 to advance to the quarter finals beating a team from Terry Sanford 7-1 retired. They start in the semi's at 10am this morning having to play a team from Cardinal Gibbons who you know from the past I am against Gibbons being allowed to play in public school championships. The Gryphon team of Fike/Thompson lost in the opening match of the doubles competition. Kaley Price of Nash Central was knocked out of the fray in her opening singles match while Hunt's Taylor Love won her opening match but did not survive the afternoon match. This morning ar Red Oak Middle school the Regional 3-A Cross Country championships will be held with several local teams and indivuals hoping for spots at next week's state championship. Fike and Hunt have seperated themselves from the pack with big wins last night in Big East football and by doing so in two weeks the winner of the Hunt-Fike game will win the Big East title. Fike clubbed Rocky Mount 37-13 while Hunt took care of business against Southern Nash 23-13. Fike and Hunt are the only unbeaten teams in the conference while Northern, Southern and Rocky Mount all have two conference losses and can't catch both by the end of the season. Rocky Mount found themselves down 14-0 in the first quarter and 24-0 at the half and never recovered against the Golden Demons. Since Halftime of the Hunt game last week in six quarters Rocky Mount has given up 71 points. Hunt found themselves trailing early but played Hunt football and pulled away from Southern Nash. In order for Hunt and Fike to head into the final game of the season unbeaten in conference they have Northern Nash and Nash Central to contend with next week. Northern Nash dominated Nash Central in picking up their first conference win of the season 21-0 at Nash Central. Nothing seems to be working for the Bulldogs but Northern sits in a position to grab third by seasons end but they have Fike and Rocky Mount to end the regular season. Tarboro got probably their toughest conference test of the season last night and the final was 48-0 Vikings. North Edgecombe was plastered by Northampton County 52-14 while SouthWest Edgecombe knew going into last night's game that they were playing a resurgent Farmville Central team. Farmville took the Cougars hope of winning the conference title away beating the Cougars 21-7. Rocky Mount Academy ended their regular season last night pounding Cary Academy 52-6. Seedings for the private school playoffs could be known today.