North Carolina Football Association (NCFA)

The Franklin County Tobs slipped to 2-9 with a 17-10 loss to the 6-5
Caswell County Bulls. The Tobs spurted to a 7-0 lead when S1 Doug Null returned
an interception 61 yards for a score on the game's opening possession.
Null made a second interception in the fourth quarter, with the score tied
at 10, but Franklin County's offense failed to convert the opportunity. After
the Tobs fell behind 17-10, S2 Jeff Price returned a kickoff 41 yards-but,
again, the Tobs' offense fizzled.

The NCFA2 season has uncovered no slam-dunk NCFA prospects among Coach
Anthony Mitkiff's squad.

Denver Bowman, the quarterback seeded from parent Wilson, was NCFA2's
worst-rated starting quarterback when he was benched after four games.
Terry Johnson failed to deliver an improvement (51.0 rating in two starts),
and, while Stephen Caufield recorded a passable 78.0 rating in his four
starts, he also made the crucible-moment mistakes that marred the veteran's
NCFA career. Bowman returned to the starting lineup for the last two games.
While he failed to throw a touchdown pass or engineer a victory, Bowman has
boosted his season passing rating to 63.2 by completing 36 of 60 passes
for 291 yards and no interceptions.

Seeded HB1 Gary Crossland has run for 599 yards, on an average of 3.4
yards per carry, and fumbled only twice in a full season of starting. The
rugged, second-year runner might have a future as a role player in Wilson.

Kirk Davis caught the attention of the NCFA Tobs with his previous
performances in NCFA2, and, again, the speedy WR1 had his moments with
Franklin County (13.8 yards per catch). WR2 Joel Sanders, though,
emerged as the more dangerous deep threat (16.8 yards per). The top Tob target,
TE1 Arthur Duncan, caught 83 balls-second-highest total in the league-but
he seemed to consistently come up short on third-down routes averaged only
7.7 yards per catch and caught only two touchdown passes.

Seeded C1 Frank Stone, G1 Clinton Boyington, G2 Kennedy Cherry, T1
McClendon and T2 Crabtree allowed 10 sacks in the season's first two games.
Mitkiff overhauled the unit, and C1 Ed Moran, Gs Alden Van Houten and Dan
Schreiber and Ts Eduardo Patterson and Oliver Brooks allowed only 19 over the
next nine games.

The defense has always seemed this season to be too spread out to stop
the run and too slow to the spot of the ball to successfully defend the
pass. DT1 Quinn Agee, seeing action only in the season's second half, has
amassed 11 sacks. The leading tacklers are Price (68) and Null (60), but, of
course, it's never good if your last line of defense makes so many stops. CB1
Tim Coryatt, a seed, has 49 tackles and an interception. Mitkiff tried to
find three or four capable linebackers among Sammy Barnwell, Jeff Pike, Kurt
Altenhoff, Tony Russell, Derek Covington and Abel Waymer but uncovered
none.

K1 Benjamin Miller has missed two of his five field-goal attempts
inside the 30, and P1 Rodney Fultz is rated last in gross punting average (41.4)
and second-to-last in net (34.9). Price has averaged 11.4 yards per punt
return and 23.3 per kick return.