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Rocky Mount High … Dominant … Again
Rocky Mount players and coaches tell me often that the team works extremely hard during the week. I’ve always believed them, but I’m starting to think that their practices are more competitive than the games. That’s the case of late. Rocky Mount has won their last three games by a combined 111 points. Some teams haven’t scored 111 points this season.
Friday night’s 63-6 victory over Southern Wayne was so easy that the Gryphons’ first team offense and defense spent the entire second half watching from the sideline. I asked coach Rocky Mount coach B.W. Holt during the second half why he decided to take his headset off. I knew the 49-6 halftime score had a lot to do with that, but he said he wanted to allow his assistants to have the freedom to call the shots.
Marquavis Alston’s performance was one of the better brief outings I’ve seen at the high school level. He scored all four times he touched the ball in the first half, finishing with 141 yards. I told him that if he carried the ball in the second half that he was going to ruin his average. He mentioned that he would have taken it to the house again if given the chance. I don’t doubt him the way he carried the ball Friday night.
I had to laugh when an official ran over toward a couple of Rocky Mount High players during the second half on what was an uncrowded portion of the sideline and told the two to back up behind the line. Really? I guess this official didn’t have anything better to do. The players toes were literally a few inches over the line. Southern Wayne didn’t make it around a corner of the Rocky Mount defense all night, so I don’t think the players were in harm’s way. Maybe the official was bored and felt the need to officiate.
Rocky Mount’s halftime output (49 points) was the most for the program in the first half since it led Wilson Fike, 48-0 in 1978. The Gryphons probably would have set a new scoring mark ff not for a running second-half clock. The program scored 75 points against Norfolk (Va.) Catholic in 1961.
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