Wrap It Up Thursday

Normally Thursday is high school football prediction day but it is moved up a day this week with the action switching to Thursday to wrap up the 2016 high school football season six days late.  Games are finishing on Thursday due to schools being  out Friday for Veterans Day. Had bad week going 4-4 dropping my season score to 66-24.  Maybe I'll do better this week.

Rocky Mount Prep 3-7 0-4 @ Tarboro 8-2 4-4:  This is a classic example of why I am against seeding teams in the playoffs base on overall record.  Are you going to try to tell me with two losses to Both Southern and Northern Nash three A schools Tarboro is not a top five 1A school in North Carolina?  The clock will run in the second half if coach Craddock wants it.  49-0 Vikings.

Here we go again with a seedings game.  SouthWest Edgecombe 4-6 3-1 @ Washington 3-7 3-1 play for the Eastern Plains championship.  If you look at their overall record both are borderline even making the playoffs.  Washington started out with losses to Havelock one loss. DH Conley averaging 60 points per game in 3A/4A league in league games.  SWE just as tough of non conference slate.  One will win the conference while the other will probably play the number one seed in the east in round one.  Washington 33 SWE 28

Riverside 8-2 3-1 @ North Edgecombe 8-1 3-1.  Hurricane Matthew did the Warriors no favors forcing North Edgecombe to play three games in eight days the third game being Tarboro and a week later Riverside.  Let's compare, a Riverside lost  to Tarboro 52-7 and North Edgecombe 48-6.  This is a tossup.  I have to give North Edgecombe the edge playing at home and their game with Tarboro the third game of eight days.  Warriors 26 Riverside 24

Rocky Mount 8-2 3-2 @ Hunt 3-7 0-4:  Been a long year for Hunt and a long two weeks for the Rocky Mount offense.  Good news for the Gryphons is that Hunt's defense is not quite to the Firebirds and Knights level but almost.  Hunt has struggled all year on offense which the Gryphon D should handle.  It is important the Gryphons find some  flow on offense.  Rocky Mount 26 Hunt 6

Southern Nash 10-0 4-0 @ Northern Nash 5-5 1-3:  The first seed wrapped up but not the outright Big East championship so the Firebirds have plenty to play for.  Can Northern muster enough offense and the defense only allow 14 or less and make this a dogfight?  For this one to be an upset the Firebirds will need to put it on the ground several times.  The Knights defense is capable of causing that to happen. Southern 21 Northern 7

The biggest game of the night has no ramifications of championships but who is third best in Big East. Nash Central 6-4 2-2 @ Fike 5-5 2-2.  Both have taken different paths and are both standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona. I doubt the victor gets a home first round game but the loser could fall to that dreaded 25th seed area which will be close to getting a conference champ in the first round.  If we just look at how both fared against both Southern and Rocky Mount Nash Central stacks up better.  Bulldogs 35 Golden Demons 31

A ball players dream will come true today for David Harrison Pitcher for the Rocky Mount Gryphons.  1:30 this afternoon in the gym at Rocky Mount High School David will sign his letter of intent to play baseball at North Carolina State.