AHOSKIE – One game short of perfection.

Simpson Holloman of Ahoskie lost only one game in last week’s Roanoke-Chowan Football Contest and collected the $50 prize money in the process.

Holloman’s lone loss was Jacksonville, who dropped a surprising 21-0 home setback vs. the Houston Texans. She was correct on the remaining 12 games.

Finishing in a tie for second place, each with two losses, were Levern Terry of Millennium, Hunter Joyner of Ahoskie, Ed Courtright of Murfreesboro, Dwayne Gilliam of Windsor, Ronnie Hux of Seaboard and Ronnie Allen of Aulander.

The Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald’s Football Contest will run throughout the NFL’s regular season. This week is the final week.

An official entry blank and the pairings for the upcoming weekend games will appear in each Tuesday’s edition. Official game pieces are also available at the Ahoskie office of the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald.

Contestants are required to fill in the blanks with their choice of corresponding teams beside the names of each of the 14 participating Football Contest advertisers. The entry with the most correct choices will be awarded the weekly cash prize of $50. In the event of a tie, one game will be pre-selected as the tiebreaker. There, each contestant is asked to predict what they think will be the combined score between those two teams. The contestant closest to that score will earn the tiebreaker and the prize money. In the event that two or more contestants predict the same correct or closest to score, the prize money will be equally divided.

Weekly winners will be notified by phone on where to collect their prize money.

The contest is open to anyone over the age of 18, with the exception of Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald employees and their immediate families.

All entries will become eligible for the grand prize drawing of $250 in cash. That drawing will be held one week prior to the Super Bowl.

Weekly entries can be dropped off at the Ahoskie office (corner of Main St. and Catherine Creek Rd.) of the R-C News-Herald by 5 p.m. on each Friday. Entry forms can also be mailed (postmarked by 5 p.m. on Fridays) to: Football Contest, R-C News-Herald, PO Box 1325, Ahoskie, NC, 27910.

Local merchants joining the R-C News-Herald in sponsoring this year’s Football Contest are Furniture Galleries, Dixon Cleaners, Quick Lane, Hall Auto, Piggly Wiggly, H&N Mobile Home Supply, Jernigan Oil, Pizza Inn, The Athlete’s Foot, Movie Time, Colonial House, Terry’s Used Cars and Jernigan Cleaners.