Rocky Mount (9-1, 4-0) will go for its third NEW 6 Conference football title in four years tonight when the Gryphons host longtime rival Wilson Fike (8-2, 3-1) in the year's regular season finale.
Fike was Rocky Mount's traditional regular season-ending opponent for decades, but the two haven't faced one another in a regular season finale since 1988. Both were 4-A schools back then. Fike. Fike went to the 3-A ranks in 1993.
Before the start of the game, senior athletes in volleyball, cross country, girls tennis, boys soccer and football, along with their parents, will be honored.
Game time is 7:30 p.m.
In Gryphon personnel news, junior back Marquavis Alston and senior offensive lineman Torey Lee have received medical clearances and will both play in tonight's game.
Wilson Fike is Rocky Mount's oldest rival - having played it every year but one (1999 - cancelled due to Hurricane Floyd) since 1957.
The two schools will play for the 51st time Friday with RMHS leading the series 27-21-2. The Gryphons have won the last six contests in the series.
Here are those scores:
2007 - RM wins 16-13
2006 - RM wins 61-0
2005 - RM wins 41-8
2004 - RM wins 31-14
2003 - RM wins 36-15
2002 - RM wins 34-14
Rocky Mount's last loss to Fike was a 21-12 defeat in 2001.
