Today's Sports

WILMINGTON—The most important game of the West Brunswick High School football season comes one week after probably the most disappointing loss of the season.

When the Trojans play Jacksonville on homecoming Friday night, the Mideastern Conference 3-A title will be at stake. That should be enough motivation for the Trojans to bounce back from the 30-13 loss Friday at Laney.

Were it not for a letter, Thomas Poole would have quit racing.

Poole—who last month won his second straight Street Stock championship at Myrtle Beach Speedway—took a long time to become a championship driver. He first raced in 1999 and ran a full season in 2000.

“I struggled big-time for five years,” he said. “I told my wife I was giving it up. I ain’t going back. It’s frustrating. Second. Second. A million seconds.”

Track announcer Bobby Summers wouldn’t allow that to happen.

South Brunswick’s Summer Phillips won the singles title and Kelley Presson and Katie Soden the doubles title in the Waccamaw Conference championship tennis tournament Oct. 7 at South.

Phillips, a freshman, had a bye in the first round and beat South Columbus’ Kelly McPherson 6-0, 6-0 in the second round. In a semifinal, Phillips beat Whiteville’s Brooke Palmer 6-2, 6-3. Phillips, the top seed, then won the championship by routing East Columbus’ Valerie Edwards 6-0, 6-0.

Mother Nature has a way of keeping a level playing field. Obviously in fishing, the weather is the key factor in determining whether you can even go fish and then whether you’ll have success or not.

I’ve been around fishing for years, and I remember cursing the weather and its bad timing and unpredictability. The weather is favorite morning fodder for fishermen sitting around the coffee pot. However, after analyzing it for many years, I believe the one pattern that is most reliable is the weather will be just as good as it is bad.