Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Gryphons featured in Nashville Graphic Football Tab

Check out the Rocky Mount Gryphons as well as all the Nash County high school football teams in the 2011 Pigskin Preview Football Tabloid published by the Nashville Graphic.

To read the tabloid, click on the following link: http://www.nashvillegraphic.com/photos/File129.pdf (give it a minute or two to download) and enlarge the page to about 125 percent so you can read the text. The tabloid is in a pdf file. 

This year, North Carolina Wesleyan's football team is also featured. The Battling Bishops, the defending USA South Conference champs, will be playing all their home games at Death Valley at Northern Nash High School. 

The Wilson Times has also published its annual football tab, which covers Southern Nash, all the Wilson County schools (Fike, Hunt, Beddingfield), Greene Central, North Johnston, C.B. Aycock and SouthWest Edgecombe.

To read its gridiron publication, click here!

Hurricane Irene forces football games to be moved up

The JV and varsity football games with Bertie High, scheduled for Thursday and Friday this week, respectively, have been moved up a day to avoid any conflict with impending weather from Hurricane Irene.

The JV contest was played Wednesday evening at the Rocky Mount Athletic Complex (RMHS won 26-0). 

The varsity game will be played Thursday at the Roy Bond Stadium at Bertie High in Windsor for the second year in a row. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m,

For those who can't make the trip, listen to WZAX 99.3 FM for all the action. It will be a part of the station's "Game of the Week" coverage. The broadcast will start at 7 p.m. 

Also, you can listen to the game online - just click here!