After all this time, we're starting to get together.

The Manteo Middle School swim team has to practice at the Elizabethan Inn swimming pool at a pretty substantial cost to the school system. Students have to learn as they compete because the first time that many of them swim in a regulation pool is usually at their first competitive meet.

This is just one part of a much larger scheme.

It's disappointing. I was trying to keep my end up as long as I could and at the same time play my natural game, which they didn't make too easy. We didn't get enough partnerships together, like they did in their first innings.

The wand is mighter then the sword.

This is our second time to beat a number one seed. We did it against Pickens (in the Region 7-AAA tournament) just to get here, and now we did it in Franklin County.