Monday, September 1, 2014

NC Wesleyan Opens Saturday Night

NC Wesleyan College will open their 2014 football season Saturday night when they play the first night game ever as they host Stevenson University.  Coach Jeff Filkovski hopes to improve on last years 2-8 record  and hopes to have better results than last years 19-9 lost at Stevenson in Baltimore County Maryland.  The 7pm kickoff will be at Rocky Mount Sports Complex.

While we are speaking of Wesleyan this falls under the category of it is never too late.  John Bracket who has been at points in his life at Wesleyan has been the women's basketball and softball coach at the same time.  Bracket will be part of the 2014 NC Wesleyan Hall Of a Fame. Bracket is in the top forty of all time softball wins in D3 history. He also served for 20 years as the women's basketball coach.

Just last night I got to watch the replay of the Georgia-Clemson football game in which Tarboro 's Todd Gurley scored four touchdowns and rushed for 198 yards.  Didn't 't realize that Gurley 's kickoff return was 105 yards but the NCAA doesn't 't recognize anything beyond 100 yards.  Now as a junior Gurley will more than likely turn pro next season if Todd can stay healthy something  he could not do last year he has gotten off to the type of start that every Heisman voters will be watching every game he plays.  It would not hurt if Georgia could win enough games to make the football playoffs.

One good thing about the Labor Day holiday is the PGA tour finishes on Monday.

Tony Stewart returned to Nascar racing this weekend after sitting out three weeks since he was involved in an accident which resulted in the on track death of a local New York State  driver.  Didn't last long as Stewart crashed after a flat tire.  Sure do miss Nascar not running at Darlington on Labor day.