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Chesterton 7 Michigan City 7 End of 1Q. City with a 4th and 9 from about the Trojan 40 to start the second quarter.

I’m still skeptical about LC. They’ve beaten a downright atrocious Munster team (a game which was 0-0 at half) and a bad Morton team without their best player and only offensive threat. We’ll see how the blue Indians fair in DAC play. As for the Governors, I’ll repeat what I said all off season: you can’t combine a mediocre team with a bad team and expect to have a good team after. Their losses to DAC bottom feeders have proven this true. Feel bad for the kids having to play a schedule that’s clearly out of their league. Will they get to 4 wins? I’m not sure.

Valpo beat Hammond Central today 71-6

Recap of some Region football scores: Andrean 21 - Crown Point 7 Lowell 26 - Portage 21 Lake Central 42 - Morton 0 Chesterton 42 - TF South (IL) 0 Michigan City 35 - Warsaw 16 Merrillville 41 - Hobart 14 LaPorte 21 - Penn 14 (OT) Highland 41 - Whiting 7 Griffith 48 - South Central 18 Rensselaer 35 - North Newton 8 KV 27 - Wheeler 7 Hanover Central 35 - Munster 6 Calumet 19 - West Side 0

LaPorte 21-14 over Penn. Wow.

Chesterton vs TF South is another interesting game in the northern half of the state. Always cool to see how Indiana stacks up vs other states.

Didn’t see the game. I’ve seen Valpo in scrimmages and they’re good but I think Penn must be bad

Valpo 35-7 over Penn final

Pirates block a punt leading to a short field and easy td. 27-21 Merrillville over Andrean with just under 8 min left in the 3Q

Andrean 21 Merrillville 20 Half. Pirates getting ball to start second half

Morton at Hobart

None that I’ve heard so far

Andrean picked up Culver Academy to replace LC

Saw that the Andrean/LC scrimmage got cancelled. Not sure why, no reason given.

Really was hoping we were done with this stuff. Glad it’s only week one. Hopefully this will be the only time we see this happen this season, but I’m skeptical…

Gary West Side @ Valpo, 7pm Friday

You won’t be.

They bring back starting QB Giovani Laurent, IFCA Jr All-State DB Kennan Tucker Jr, and 2x IFCA All-State Edge Cornell Branch IV, among others. I think they’ll be a solid team that could potentially make a run in 5A north.

Hammond Schools make no sense for DAC membership. Wouldn’t be able to field required teams and add basically nothing to the conference except more dead weight. Hammond Central had less than 10 kids at their recent football call out meeting. Morton also doesn’t want to leave their current conference because they believe they’re a “football powerhouse” in it (how a team can consider themselves to be a “powerhouse” with one regional title in their school’s history is anyone’s guess). Penn and Elkhart make a lot of sense though.

Lol yeah I’m sure the “Andrean Twitter kid” will be alright. Knowing him, he was probably working out while some pathetic grown man was trying to hate on him anonymously on the internet. Probably why he’s going to be playing major power 5 football and you’ll still be here whining and griping. It takes a special sort of loser to hate on a kid chasing his dream. The only scrub here is YOU.

All the kids who transferred to Merrillville are graduating, so Morton won’t be getting any of them back. Morton has always made its living getting transfers from Gary or out of district in general so maybe if they get some studs that way they’ll be decent. But if they’re just putting together the Morton and Gavit teams from last year, no way they’ll be able to play with Valpo. Maybe whoever made their schedule knows something I don’t, but those games against Elkhart and especially Cathedral are going to get ugly unless some new transfer studs are coming to Morton. It’s one thing to give yourself a hard schedule, and an entirely different thing to schedule teams that are truthfully way out of your league.

Michigan City is a better pick imo.

Andrean is traveling up to Grand Rapids to play Catholic Central in Week 3. Will be the second time these schools have met, with the first being a 28-0 Andrean victory in 2014. CC just came off a state championship this year. Should be a big test for the Niners.

As much I loved seeing WRs chopping down DBs in Paul Johnson’s offense, there’s no way this will happen (I believe it’s also been banned in the NCAA too). However, I do think the rules on legal cut blocks have become too restrictive. RBs should be able to cut in pass pro, TE/H-Backs on Slice blocks, and OL on LBs. But I must admit I’m heavily biased in this regard as a former OLinemen and heavy proponent of zone blocking.

Heard some rumors about this, thought they seemed a little too outlandish to be true. Seems they actually might be.