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All high school football rescheduled

By JOSH HUMPHRIES
The Daily Reflector

Monday, September 01, 2008

The threat of tropical storm Hanna has prompted all Pitt County's high schools to reschedule their varsity football games. There will be no games this Friday night.

The new schedule for games is:

• 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4 — Ayden-Grifton High School at North Pitt High School

• 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 4 — South Central High School at Eastern Wayne High School

• 7:30 p.m. Thursday Sept. 4 — J.H. Rose High School at New Hanover High School.

• 7 p.m. Monday, Sept. 8 — Farmville Central High School at Southern Wayne High School

D.H. Conley was not playing this weekend.

Bob Dailey, director of athletics at Pitt County Schools, said the teams began discussing schedule changes earlier this week.

"We started discussing this amongst ourselves as early as Tuesday, and some of our teams jumped on it right away given the weather reports," Dailey said.

"We decided that Thursday would be the safest day, given that it looks like that the weather could be severe late Friday and Saturday."

Freeboot still set outside, for now

Freeboot Friday, Uptown Greenville’s free, live-music event, is going ahead as scheduled, said Tracy Fisher, an intern at Uptown Greenville.

This Friday's will be the first event of the year. The event is scheduled for the first four home East Carolina University football game weekends.

But there is a plan if Hanna brings rain. The event, which will feature children’s activities, food sampling and a beer and wine garden, will be moved to Ham’s Brew House if it is raining Friday.

For now, the event is scheduled from 5-8 p.m. at the corner of Fourth Street and Cotanche Street.

“We are hoping for the best,” Fisher said.

“In the case of a severe hurricane, we will just send everyone home and cancel it.”

Fisher said to check uptowngreenville.com at noon on Friday to find out if the event will be moved to the rain location.