Five Teams Big East Are In

Hunt will be the only Big East football team staying home and if they have any basketball players they can join the basketball team come Monday.  Every other team still has that gleam in their eye of doing what Rocky Mount did last season and win the state championship.  You would think as much as the NCHSAA changes the system every year they would finally come up with some way or other to keep conference foes from meeting each other in the first round and of course they have done it again to the Big East.

Southern Nash 10-0 is seeded as the number one seed in the Mideast after West Craven gets the top seed in the east.  Southern Nash will play the eight seed in the east Northern Nash 5-5 after the two just clashed last Thursday night with Southern winning at Northern 28-11.  As the top seed Southern will host.

Nash Central 7-3 returns to the playoffs as the 5th seed in the east and they hit the road traveling to 4th seed in the Mideast Eastern Alamance 8-2  This is a tough opening round game for the Bulldogs but winnable.  This is also the same  Eastern Alamance Rocky Mount played the Eastern Finals last season.

Orange County 10-0 the second seed in the Mideast will host Fike 6-4 the seven seed in the east.  You must remember when you look at each teams overall record the NCHSAA only goes by a ten game schedule and if you played an approved endowment game can drop a loss from your record for playoff purposes.

Rocky Mount 9-1 is seeded 4th in the east and will host the 5th seed Southern Lee 8-2.  This bracket has floated back and forth all morning.  This is certainly a tougher game that it could have been the other way.  The winner draws Southern/Northern Nash winner and this is no guarantee it will be the Gryphons.

The 2A playoffs will feature maybe the hottest team in the area SouthWest Edgecombe the champs of the Eastern Plains 5-5 and seeded 4th in the east hosting South Granville 5th seed from Mideast. Rocky Mount open their season with South Granville so the Cougars should have some film on SG.

1AA finds Tarboro 9-1 as three seed in the east hosting six seed James Kenan 4-6.  I know everybody has questions what determines east and Mideast and that is a good question.

1A  playoffs will feature North Edgecombe 9-1 number two in the Mideast hosting Columbia 3-7 seven seed  in east.

Rocky Mount Prep 3-7 is in as they travel as a 7th seed in the Mideast to the 2nd seed in east Northside -Pinetown 7-3

Around 3pm Friday afternoon I received a call from a gentleman in charge of the Internet broadcasting of the Conference Carolina's volleyball tournament being played at Barton College Saturday and Sunday.  They asked if needed would I fill in and help get the semifinal doubleheader coverage on the air Saturday afternoon at 5 and 7:30.  This morning at 11:00 they finally decided they needed my help and I made it to Barton expecting yo do color commentary but instead did play by play of Erskine College defeat of Belmont Abbey and the nightcap was Barton defeating in five sets Kings College.

The Battling Bishops of North Carolina Wesleyan go out on a winning note on the arm of quarterback Nathan Gardner and the catch and running ability of Malik Adams three touchdown catches as the Bishops finish the season 5-4 after a 27-13 victory over Ferrum in Virginia.

One more note, John Carroll defeated Mt Union today 31-28 snapping a 112 game regular season winning streak..  Mt Union opened the season in Rocky Mount beating Wesleyan.