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Monday, October 29, 2007
North Edgecombe Observations
The final score of Monday night’s North Edgecombe football game was slightly deceiving. Sure, the Warriors came away with a 26-22 victory, but North Edgecombe fumbled the ball four times ending key drives in the game. The score could have been much worse.
Sixteen seniors were honored for Senior Night, and it was those players who led the charge for North Edgecombe. Seniors Daryl Daniels and Donee Bradley both rushed for more than 100 yards, and linebacker Jonathan Carnegie led the team defensively. Quincy Dickens even found the end zone on a 30-yard fumble recovery. This year’s North Edgecombe squad is finding ways to win.
-Trevor Seibert
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SouthWest Edgecombe-Southern Nash observations
- The Firebirds hung in just as long as they could. When you have that many guys playing both ways, and on special teams, it’s going to be difficult to stand up against a SouthWest Edgecombe team that has a two-platoon system.
- Monday night football = yawn. The fields were bad Friday, but the crowds are always lackluster on Mondays.
- Jesse Mercer left Monday’s game early with an ankle injury, and coach Brian Foster expressed doubt that he would be back next week. A hard, tough thing for a good kid who means a lot as a player and leader.
- The Cougars needed this win. A loss Monday would have put SouthWest Edgecombe in a tie for fourth place in the NEW 6, with Southern Nash holding the tie-breaker. Suddenly a team that did not lose in non-conference is potentially needing a win to get in.
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Northern Nash-Nash Central observations
Nash Central wrapped up second place in the NEW 6 Conference with a 41-18 home win Monday night over Northern Nash. Because the Bulldogs lost earlier this month at Rocky Mount High, they cannot win the conference. But, because they beat both SouthWest Edgecombe and Wilson Fike, they cannot finish in third. Not bad.
Nash Central quarterback Cameron Holloway is, without any doubts, one of the more explosive players in the Twin Counties. Holloway rushed 11 times Monday night for 161 yards (14.64 yards per carry) and a career-best four touchdowns. (Holloway is at 929 yards rushing this season and will likely eclipse 1,000 yards on Friday at Southern Nash.) If he is able to connect with the Nash Central receivers more often during the playoffs, the Bulldogs might be able to mount a run deep into the postseason.
Northern Nash has sustained long drives at stretches during each of its last two games and, proverbially speaking, appears poised to put everything together on at least one side of the football next season. The Knights strung together a 15-play, 91-yard drive during the second quarter that resulted in their first touchdown of the night. That drive consumed 7 minutes, 31 seconds of the second quarter, and proved the Knights are able to play ball-control offense.
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