Battling Bishops Rolling

North Carolina Wesleyan won their third game in a row Saturday beating La Grange 48-21.  Battling Bishop quarterback Dustin Midgett set a school record tossing six touchdown passes which also tied the USA South record.  Midgett a sophomore from Currituck High school has helped the Battling Bishops to a 3-1 conference record and 4-2 over all record.  Wouldn't you know it,  now that they have won three games in a row and are hot.  They have an off week coming up.

The first week of the conference football races are in the books and Southern Nash's victory over Fike came as a surprise to many but talking with Firebird fans most of the injuries they have had so far this year are over as just about everyone is healthy.  Really good time to be healthy.

Hunt beat Northern in Randy Raper's first return.  Most of the way Hunt goes about their business is a carry over from the 22 years Raper was the head coach.  Why change a winning way?  Now at Northern Raper is trying to get Northern to play that same way that is good for Hunt.  Two teams squared off Friday night and looked the same.  Northern is up and coming.  Under Randy Raper Northern Nash is future is very bright.

Fike  found out Friday night there is no team in the Big East scare of any body else.  I think their losing will probably mean the conference winner may have one loss by the end of the first week in November.  That will not get who ever is number one a very high seed in the playoffs  but in two or three cases this year in the Big East it doesn't matter where they play.

Rocky Mount had little trouble with Nash Central.  I will tell you this one of the best football players in the Big East is Rashawn Harris.  He returned another punt for a touchdown and had a int.  Rocky Mount is a rather good team with him in the lineup. 

Thursday I help Bobby English and the chain crew at Rocky Mount during the JV football game between the Bulldogs and Gryphons.  The chain crew is on the visitors sidelines and you can hear the coaches calling plays.  You should hear some of the calls.  Sounds like CIA Encrypted code.  Noticed every player both Thursday night and Friday for Nash Central as they leave the huddle look at their play sheets as each one had on  their wrist.  This is not the NFL where players watch film six hours a day and go practice for an hour and a half.  They have time to learn all that double  talk where high school kids are suppose to go home and study homework not decode what I'm suppose to do on Bronco right,  zip left, uncle Larry blue  tango.

My old  high school coach Al Vaughn told us his objective every play was make 4 yards.  Any thing more than that was gravy.  I heard this more than once after a five or six yard run.  He would holler out run the same play.  He use to say that one of the most demoralizing things that happens to any team is they can't stop it when they know it's coming.  In Nash Central's case it's hard to make four yards when your players leave the huddle looking at their play sheet.