Upset Special

Rocky Mount girls soccer team lost three times during the regular season to Hunt who in conference only lost two conference games and both of those loses were to powerhouse Fike.  Tonight Rocky Mount played Hunt  to a first half draw of 0-0 and then spotted the Lady  Warriors an early second half goal but The Lady Gryphons stick two goals in the net the last 15 minutes of the game to shock Hunt in the opening round of the State 3-A playoffs 2-1. They play the winner five seed Swansboro/Gray's Creek winner Saturday.

Big East top seed in soccer Fike wins by mercy rule 10-1 but the big news is they gave up a goal.  That's two games in a row that a team has scored on the Lady Golden Demons after going 17 games in a row winning by shutout. Northern Nash soccer went on the road as the lower seed and whips Eastern Wayne 4-3. They now travel to Jacksonville a 4-0 winner in round one.

Northern Nash softball has advanced to the second round winning at home tonight 6-2 over Eden Morehead and will play Northern Guilford who was a 7-2 winner over Swansboro.
Fike the top seed from the Big East in softball has been stunned by Orange 1-0 while Hunt fell 14-3 to West Craven

Big East baseball started in the afternoon as Hunt traveled to Cardinal Gibbons and lead early to get their hopes up but the number two seed Crusaders were too much and advances with a 10-4 win over Hunt.

Rocky Mount traveled to Lee County to play Southern Lee and Kent Cox sent Sophomore David Harrison and just like Northern yesterday the Gryphon pitching was good but not good enough as Rocky Mount is shutout of the playoffs losing 3-0 to Southern Lee.  SL only needed one run to win this one and it scored on a balk to give SL a 1-0 lead and that was plenty.

Fike is the only Big East baseball team still alive as they win another one run game 3-2 over Eastern Wayne.

Earlier in the week the only team left in tennis Fike lost in the third round 5-4 to Union Pines.

This area is very privileged to have the many athletes in this area that do great things on the athletic fields and advance on to college and in some cases into a pro sports athlete.  The very best athlete in the area very well be a player that doesn't get much coverage until it is time for the State Championships.

SouthWest Edgecombe's  Cole Jefferies has just won his second straight 2-A individual golf championship by a whomping 10 shots.  Sounds a lot like Tiger  Woods in his prime. Jefferies shot a two day total of 145.  I suspect we might hear more about him in the coming months.