I know I'm late...but was without internet until late yesterday afternoon. Here are the consensus rankings:

Parkland @ West Forsyth (Thursday)
Davie @ East Forsyth (Thursday)
Mt. Tabor @ RJ Reynolds (Monday)
Reagan @ Glenn (Saturday 2:00pm) Toss-Up

It's pretty much chalk this weekend with the favorites..... Reagan & Glenn will probably be the best/closest game.
It really doesn't matter what day they play it's going to be raining but field conditions will decline each passing day.

With half of the season in the books, here are the teams that I think are at the top of the east.

Northeastern 5-0
Farmville Central 6-0
James Kenan 5-0
Southeast Alamance 5-0
Whiteville 4-1
Wallace Rose Hill 4-2
Southwest Edgecombe 4-2

Ok who is missing?

Week 6

Picks in by Thursday at 5:00pm!!

1. Southern Nash at Roanoke Rapids
2. East Lincoln at Statesville
3. Marvin Ridge at Sun Valley
4. Gray's Creek at 71st
5. North Stanly at Forest Hills
6. Hough at Chambers
7. AL Brown at Lake Norman
8. Havelock at Tarboro
9. Erwin at Asheville
10. Mount Airy at Starmount

BONUS: Westside SC at Weddington (2 points)

This should be a real interesting game .

Wanted to start a thread and get some opinions on this game from people closer to these teams than I am. Let me hear your thoughts

Thanks!!!

Mister Simmons has Eastern Randolph a twenty one point favorite. Will Central's ball control game stall Eastern Randolph's lightening fast squad or will Eastern Randolph go into blowout mode ? I'll say Eastern wins, but Central covers the spread. Thoughts, inner visions, or prognostications ...

Wanted some input on best players you’ve ever seen at your schools. Not who necessarily went on to have the most collegiate or NFL success, but the best players when they were playing in your team’s colors in high school. A few for me PERSONALLY in no particular order.

Albemarle- TA Mclendon. The best player I have ever seen, and arguably the greatest NC HS football player ever, up there with Chris Leak. Numbers speak for themselves. Guy was an absolute machine.

Thomasville- EJ Abrams-Ward. One of the freakiest athletes I’ve seen at the 1A level. Kid had a cannon, could run, play defense, would light you up. Just one hell of an athlete.

East Surry- Chris Griggs. One of the smoothest runners I have ever seen in 1A, smooth as butter on toast. Could make you miss, but could also put one foot in the ground and take off. Great player.

Elkin- Terry Adams. An absolute force off of the end and pretty much unblockable. Kid had power but an incredible first step and made so many plays in the backfield.

Robbinsville- Cuttler Adams. Holding a SMC record is something in its own right, and this kid was the definition of consistency. Vision, speed, power. A great kid by all accounts, and a great player.

Murphy- Carl Pickens. Another candidate for best 1A player ever. Played WR at the next level, but may have been an even better DB. Truly special and generational athlete.

I know I have left too many players out, but this is just some of my list. Would love to hear some opinions on these players or others I haven’t mentioned. Sorry for the long post.

Asheboro at Southwestern Randolph
Everyone else BYE

Aboro travels to Tabernacle, or so my family always called it, to face a 2-2 SWR team that lost to the Albemarle team Aboro whipped the first week of the season.

Personally I don't believe in comparing scores, but I do believe Aboro has the advantage in athleticism and that should help a great deal. SWR is kind of like South Davidson... they mean well but except on rare occasions they never seem to have the horses. Their wins are against North Moore and Mcmichael... I may actually go to this game if I can, otherwise I'll be keeping track of it however I can.

Everybody else gets a much needed week off to re-examine and retool themselves before conference starts... that will feature:

Oak Grove at Asheboro
North Davidson at Montgomery Central
Central Davidson at Ledford

End of 1st North Iredell 0 St Stephens 0
2nd East Lincoln 7 Statesville 6

Why is Dudley schedule so weak?

I’m thinking this game might turn out to be a good one. Any thoughts.

Garinger Head Coach Suspended

Anybody have any background on this? Just seems to be going from bad to worse. Given that beating East Meck is about the only thing stopping them from hitting the state losing streak record, it's just brutal.

Deana King - gatarams@yahoo.com

This should be very good ballgame. I think 1 or 2 scores could decide this game.

Erwin @ Asheville

Asheville is coming off a big win over a quality team from Tennessee. Erwin easily beat Enka. This game will go a long way in determining who finishes in the top 2/3.

Erwin 35
Asheville 28

Reynolds @ Enka

Another tune-up game for the Rockets. Bigger games lie ahead.

Reynolds 56
Enka 7

Roberson @ North Buncombe

Robersons triple option offense is hard to stop. North Buncombe will have trouble with it and TC wins easily.

Roberson 50
North Buncombe 14

McDowell-BYE

AC Reynolds @ Enka has already been moved to Thursday @ 7pm. JV’s will play on Wednesday @ ACR following the middle school game (around 6pm or so).

Post any JV scores. I believe Statesville beat East Lincoln 28-7

A lot games were moved to Thursday, night check out this week edition of the Grit and Grind.

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Games were played on Thursday night, check out the this week episode from yesterday.

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With a tropical event coming to the coast again, some games in the east will be moved to Thursday. SWE at Greene Central has already been moved. Post others here for everyone.

North Stanly (3-1) @ *Forest Hills (2-2)
Central (S.C.) (3-1) @ *Anson Co. (2-2)
*Parkwood (1-3) @ Eastern Randolph (4-0)
*Monroe (4-0) Bye Week
*Piedmont (2-3) Bye Week
*West Stanly (0-5) Bye Week

Standings:
2A Monroe (4-0)
2A Forest Hills (2-2)
2A Anson Co. (2-2)
3A Piedmont (2-3)
3A Parkwood (1-3)
2A West Stanly (0-5)

West Stokes at Morehead


Last week proved to be a very bi polar outing to what I was expecting from WS and HPA. Andrews did manage to keep it close for a little over a quarter and a half, but West just managed to shut them down at all ends and had a killer 2nd quarter before having fun and doing what they needed to do in the 2nd half to a ball control shutout. Honestly a disappointing outing for HPA, I expected a closer game, but experience and size matters and HPA just doesn’t have it yet.

This week’s not gonna be worth much of a write up, I expect another nice win for the Wildcats here as Morehead hosts them on their land. Morehead plays one of the more courageous non conference schedules out of anyone in our 3 conferences, but they just haven’t done enough to either be respectable or impressive. 2 bad losses to NE Guilford and WIlliams, and they let a winnable game slide vs a not so hot Rockingham County team. Unless Morehead’s a team we aren’t expecting then West should have another solid night here.




McMichael at North Forsyth


North Forsyth's having a decent year despite their offensive woes, they can't get much going on that side of the ball but their defense is very athletic and well coached. They held Reidsville to under 40 last week which was a win for them. This week they have a very rough McMichael team who's struggling to produce points. They had to fight for their one win over South Stokes, and they are struggling to find a working O. I seen film of them vs Forbush with them in a version of the Wisbone.. they are that desperate. Time will tell if they get there, but I just don't see it. NF badly needs a win and I think they will get it tonight.