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Same here. A Shamrock Silver Pass

Your correct, my error. It was two picks each. Webster did come back into the game. Ballard remained on a training table until the end of the game. They were working on his right knee. Both teams had the usual first game mistakes. A simple false start cost Westfield a TD, which would have made it 14-7 with plenty of the 4th quarter left. Those things will get cleaned up. And the beat goes on, except for last year. Westfield won both of these games on their way to both undefeated JV and Freshman team seasons.

Really! I have no idea why Cathedral doesn't want play up to 6A for the tournament. They will again roll over 5A opponents come tournament time. They they will have no choice next year, as the success factor will bump them up to 6A.

Westfield also was without QB Maximus Webster for a lot of the second and third quarter, after taking a hit early second quarter. Backup Cole Ballard (Colt's GM's son) threw three of the four pics, the last two when Westfield was knocking on the door to score. Westfield also had a TD taken away via a penalty after Ballard ran it in. The next play he was knocked out with a knee injury, and Webster came back in. Westfield had no answer for that huge, quick Cathedral defense. They almost totally shut down the run game and were in the QBs face almost all game. Credit Westfield's defense, down their best player, but still held the Irish to 14 poinits, and if not for two very costly Ballard errant throws deep in Irish territory, could have actually won this game.

I remember back in the early 2000's asking one of the higher ups (not in the athletic dept.) in the Carmel Clay school system if they would ever split into two high schools. This was around the time that the HSE district decided to split and build Fishers High School. He kinda looked at me like that was a stupid question, then said there was no way Carmel would ever split, and said flat out that sports was the primary reason. If the HSE district had not split, HSE would now be close to 7,000 students. I know here in Westfield, there have been parents move a few miles up 31 from Carmel just so their kids have more of a chance to play than they do in Carmel, although that may change with Westfield's enrollment calculated to soon reach close to 3,000.

A P/P sweep of the lower five classes, and 8 of them overall would not set well with some people.

The NCAA changed the automatic ejection rule for a player penalized for targeting. I did not know this until seeing a Purdue player penalized for this last week. It was mentioned then that he didn't have to do what they called "the walk of shame" to the locker room. The player did remain on the sideline.

So what's up with LC. Same district as LN, but on opposite ends of the football spectrum.

Ok I had forgotten that Z'ville was in 6A last year. Maybe if the IHSAA wants the north represented by someone other than Carmel every year, they may keep Carmel south.

i'm wondering why you think Carmel will be moved back north? With Zionsville up to 6A, wouldn't they be the choice to replace Merrillville? Two northern teams moving down to 5A, but Zionsville and the Hammond consolidation up to 6A, to me it seems logical that those two new 6A teams will be placed north, with Carmel staying put in the south. Unless I'm missing something here.

Against the mighty Wood Woodchucks...LOL I'm old enough to remember that tie game. It kept Cathedral from winning the then mythical, voted on, state title. Lose to Wood, you don't put that team in your top three.

I agree. I was at that Z'ville/Westfield game. It was 42-0 at halftime. Webster was still a game removed from becoming the starting QB. Irish will name their score tonight.

Agree to a point. The schools you mentioned hung around until CG decided to destroy them. CG did this to Westfield almost from the get go. Westfield did run for 136 yards. Micha Hauser, running on a bad ankle, ran for 118 yards in only 11 carries. Did CG allow another 100 yard rusher this season? CG only gave up an average of 38 yards per game. Westfield "won" the second half 7-0. As you said, CG did not let off of the gas. They didn't pull their starters until almost the final minute of the game, after Westfield had already pulled their starters. Westfield's defense really cranked it up the second half, especially Popeye Williams, who's being recruited by many of the top D1 schools. That pick by Kyle Pape made #1 on ESPN's Top Play Of The Day. As sort of a consolation, Westfield's Benji Welch was awarded the Mental Attitude Award.

JV and freshmen were undefeated, playing the same schedule as the varsity. Yes, that means both beat Cathedral. Eight grade team was also undefeated. As for the rapidly growing community, as a family moving into a district with athletes, you always look at the school's facilities. Some have said Riverview Health Stadium is the best in Indiana.

Westfield's size didn't matter to them at all except for the two losses. Come on, CG has lineman as large as some that play in the NFL. Not only that, but speed all over the place. There's a reason why the ones in the know practically gave them the 6A trophy prior to the start of the season. They made just about everyone they played in the mighty MIC look bad.

However, growing rapidly, due to many people moving into the Whitestown area, where Amazon is now a fixture, along with other businesses that have located there in recent years.

I won't post since it's against the rules. This article was in The Star several days ago. Kyle's Twitter account also had the link to the article, and drew a LOT of comments, mostly saying that the P/P schools have an unfair advantage.

I ran this back and took this photo a split second before the receiver goes out of bounds. He did NOT run out prior to contact. As you can see here, the defender was in contact with the receiver. It was the correct call.

Since when is a defender contacting the receiver and knocking him off his route not defense pass interference?

Replay clearly showed that the defender's contact caused the receiver to go out of bounds. Remember, there was also that not too smart interference with a fair catch penalty. Take that away, and Webo would not have been in FG range.

Westfield gets their one LOS practice later today, although they've already have indoor practices two miles away this week at the Event Center at Grand Park. That's a nice amenity to have this time of the year.

Thanks! I had already saved it as a pdf file, but never saw the "choose files" link in the reply section. Duh! Here it is: State-Finals-Ticket-Purchase-Registration.pdf

I thought that the weekly announcement on which counties were what color was made on Wednesday afternoon? Westfield sold to parents only starting today (Tuesday) from 5-7 pm, then 7-9 pm to anyone in the community. Then tomorrow, Wednesday, sales for the community from 8-10 am. If the below, which is copied from the state Covid website, is true, then you'd have a lot of people who had already purchased tickets and could not be allowed inside, depending on the downsized number of tickets allowed per school. Would refunds have to be given, and how do they decide which ticket holders are not allowed to attend? Hopefully Marion Co stays orange, and the above is a mute point. "The weekly county status scores and maps are updated once a week on Wednesdays at 12 p.m. The weekly update reflects data from the previous Monday through Sunday."

Westfield has a map of the west side of LOS, which will be their side of the stadium. I can't figure out how to copy it here. However, it shows seats in the entire first two levels, plus some in the third level. Seats go half way into each end zone, with one end zone having seats in both the lower and second levels.

From Indy Star's Kyle NeddenRiep's Twitter account. So 7,000 fans max. I don't thing that is too bad, all things considered: From state football finals meeting today on attendance (as it stands now): each of 12 schools will receive 3,500 tickets. Tickets that go unsold by schools will go on sale an hour before kickoff for each game of state finals on Fri., Sat. Stadium will be cleared after each game. Should add, this is pending if Marion County stays in orange zone. If red, attendance would be scaled back.