Thursday, May 31, 2007

Gryphons find a place to play!

Rocky Mount senior football players Demetric Marshall, Jason Tyler and C.J. Ford will be heading west to pursue their college football careers.

All three will be attending West Hills Community College in California. They should be signing with the school sometime next week.

Senior pitcher Chad Womble hopes to keep his baseball career going at Florence-Darlington Technical College - a JUCO where the baseball program has had great success in just three seasons of play. Womble is expected to sign with the Tech Stingers sometime in the next couple of weeks.

Look for info on all these upcoming signings on Rocky Mount's iHigh.com site .....

New coaches to face Gryphs

There was one - and after next week, there will be two. Two what? Two of the Gryphons' football opponents this season will have new head coaches.

Goldsboro, RMHS' endowment game opponent the next two seasons, saw head coach Maurice Jackson step down not long after Christmas. Eric Reid is the Cougars' new head coach and he will bring his squad to Rocky Mount twice the next couple of seasons. The Cougars have agreed to play both endowment contests at Rocky Mount.

The second new head coach is part of breaking news. Hertford County, where the Gryphons will head on Sept. 14, will see its very successful coach Greg Watford leave for Northampton-East as its new football coach and athletic director. That move will be announced officially on Monday. No word on who will replace Watford ...