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The Nash County 14U Babe Ruth team won their Thursday afternoon game over Union  County 12-5 to keep their hopes alive in their quest to make the top two in their bracket in order to try to win the Babe Ruth Southeast Regional in Newton NC.

The good news is Union County won their opener yesterday 21-0 so this is a big win in case it gets down to tie breakers to make the top two.  Nash County plays game three in their bracket of the four games they will play in their round Robin bracket Friday as they play at 7pm and play the team on the  losing end of that 0-21 game with Union County McLean-Great Falls VA

If you go by any high school just about any day since school ended in June except for last week when the coaches clinic was in session you will find some team working out waiting for August 1st to roll around and teams could actually say football practice is official.  Now that football practice will be underway for real Friday that doesn't leave much time before the Big East will have their media day which this year will be on August 11th at Fike High School.  Breakfast will be served and each coach will get a few minutes to speak to interested media from around the conference starting at 9am.

The coaches will take a vote among themselves to see who they think will win the football title and I think from what I  think everyone has coming back Fike will probably be the front runner.  We should have learned by now that Hunt regardless of how good they are will be hard to knock too far from the top.  Northern Nash would love to be at the top and there is plenty of talk from Rocky Mount that you had better look out for them.  How can you forget Southern Nash.  Sure does look like one loss on any week could drop any team from the top to near the bottom because as always it looks like the Big East is as always the Big East.  The only team not mentioned so far is Nash Central.  I don't see much difference there this year.  I know they would love to win a conference game this year and if they do they will really make the team they beat suffer in the standings.

Friday marks the beginning of year seven of this blog.  The late Charles Alston set me up and even after six years I only know how to get to the blank page to write what ever I write down.  I am of course of the age that I was past 40 before I ever sat down in front of a computer so I am not savy at all with  FaceBook, Twitter and the likes.  I do see that as a nation we are losing the personal contact with each other as people as people sit at dinner texting back and forth instead of having conversations eye to eye either each other.

Despite all the negatives of this instance world we live in I thank you for your efforts each day when you actually have to search to find me.  I can tell you when ever some sports team in the area is doing well readership picks up over a day when not much is happening or the results were bad and nobody wants to hear about the bad.  We hope that every sport that is in the future we have a team in the area doing well even deep in the playoffs.  You have shown you you want to hear that news.