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Saturday, December 1, 2007
Rocky Mount High observations
The Rocky Mount High Gryphons finished off a tremendous season Friday night with a 50-36 loss to Western Alamance in the 3-A Eastern Regional Final.
Apparently, some at Western Alamance have been reading the Telegram all week and did not like the coverage. Not so fast, my friend. The Telegram appreciates your readership, but the coverage is for a Rocky Mount audience. And the Gryphons came into the game fully expecting to win. To treat them as the underdog and Western Alamance as a steep favorite (neither of which were really all that true) would have been unfair and dishonest. And the comment about quarterback Donald Britt that had some rattled? Sarcasm, my friend. Sarcasm. It’s a literary technique. Get used to it. I doubt the Warriors truly needed a newspaper article to get fired up for the game. They’ve been here before, and they know what it is about. Bulletin board material gets you fired up for about 15 minutes, but reliance on it usually ends in defeat.
Back on the Rocky Mount end of things, a full round of kudos for Nick Hahula. When looking for reasons that the Gryphons pulled out of a 21-6 hole, look first at No. 44. His 83-yard run set up a score, he made a 35-yard extra point (a 15-yard penalty was assessed before the kick), and a 38-yard field goal that gave Rocky Mount the lead. Oh, how far this kid has come from the undersized freshman asked to just not mess it up during the 2005 season.
Rocky Mount had a difficult proposition defensively. Jacobi Jenkins, committed to ECU, could only guard one Warrior, after all. Putting him against 5-foot-8 Levon Curtis was the right choice, but it left 6-foot-4 receiver Kenneth Lindsay open. It’s just hard for the Gryphons to replicate a team like Western Alamance, since so few teams in Eastern North Carolina do throw the ball with regularity. The one that the Gryphons did play, Wilson Hunt, did not have nearly the same type of personel that Western Alamance did.
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