Final Week Countdown

The Big East football championship will be decided Friday night at Fike High as the two Big East football teams who are 8-0 in the Big East between them collide for the title. It will be the wide open Fike offense against the Hunt power game. Northern will host Rocky Mount still with their playoff life on the line. If they finish with just four wins and do make playoffs they would be a very low seed having probably a conference champion in the open round. A victory would at least move they higher in the seedlings. Rocky Mount has the reverse problem a lost would lower their seeding while a win might get them a first round home game. Should they get a home game this year I can assure you it will not be against a low low seed but somebody in the middle seeding range. Southern Nash can probably start the JV's Friday against Nash Central and try to heal up several players that might be 100 per cent in two weeks. Surprise, Surprise Rocky Mount Academy gets a home game Friday after Hobgood who was in the Eagles bracket lose Friday. The Eagles will now play St David a team they have already rolled once this year. Should the Eagles win their semi final match the eight man State Championship game will be played at the Rocky Mount Sports complex regardless of who is in game. Northern Nash boys and Rocky Mount girls get 14th and 15th in the state cross country championship this past Saturday. One major problem eastern North Carolina runners always have during the state championship is the event is always on a hilly course and it is hard to prepared in the flatlands of eastern North Carolina. Rocky Mount former baseball star Brian Godwin made the Arizona Fall League all star team for the second year in a row. The top prospect of the Washington National is hitting 304 in Mesa Arizona. His team lost the all start game Saturday night.