Nash County Football Front And Center

Rocky Mount High School played host to six other teams tonight and for many it is their last chance to face a different colored uniform until the big night next Friday when the high school football season begins.

D H Conley dropped out of the four visiting teams so instead of all four Nash County squads getting four different teams to face it left them with only three while Southeast Halifax, Bertie and Knightdale got four Nash County squads to face.

I suspect by the end of the night the teams  glad to go home were Bertie and Southeast Halifax as each got four sessions on the field all against larger Nash County schools both in team size and school size.  Knightdale the only 4-A school held their own in both those categories.

As far as who looked the best it is hard to say but of the four Nash County schools  Northern Nash  defense was stout. Southern Nash was right on their heels and Rocky Mount held their own. Nash Central's defense did well.

The jamboree each team ran 20 plays that they started at the forty yard line and not many sustain drives were put together to get the ball in the enzone.  Each team got ten plays from the ten yard line and Northern, Rocky Mount and Southern all scored multiple times.  Nash Central struggled to move the football regardless of where the ball was.

My impression is Southern was the best Nash County team overall.  Northern struggled moving the ball during the twenty plays from 40.  Rocky Mount looked slow in the offensive line but running the spread showed team speed.

The varsity teams all played in the football stadium while the JV's were on the practice field.  If you could put all the crowd that were at both fields it was well attended but being spread out hard to see a crowd.

Found out tonight Brian Goodwin has hurt his non throwing shoulder sliding into a base and is on the injured list for the Syracuse Chiefs.  This will surely be a setback for Brian in his  quest to be the starting center fielder for the Washington National in 2015.