WestfieldRocks

I wasn't going to use his name, but yea. And it was early 80's.

Yea, I remember even in the late 80's, CG was still thought of as a "country school". I worked with a guy whose kid was a QB back then. The dad was not pleased with the coaching, so "transferred" him to Lawrence N.

Assuming that they win another road game, this time at Noblesville, Westfield gets the winner of Fishers vs HSE. Since Westfield is in the bottom half of this sectional's bracket, that would give them a home game, regardless of who wins Fishers vs HSE, since Westfield would have already played two sectional road games. Westfield beat both during the regular season. Both of those teams will be tough outs. Westfield was all but beaten at HSE, but came up with a hook and lateral play that went for big yardage, and set up the winning TD with no time left on the clock. So it's going to be a battle, again, assuming they can get by Noblesville on Friday.

I heard after I posted the above that the game is at Westfield. SInce both teams were visitors last night, I assumed that the team in the bottom of the bracket was the home team. That would be Noblesville. But you are right, it's just a bit longer than to Carmel, but 32 is still a mess around the hospital.

They should be. They outplayed BD for the majority of that game. That pick 6 was the turning point. Not sure why you throw it there when you've got one of the best running backs in the state. I was surprised Avon lost to Pike. They had played better as of late. FC losing was not a surprise, and someone had to lose between Z'Ville and Noblesville. HSE and Fishers basically had scrimmages. I wasn't surprised Westfield beat Carmel for the second year in a row. I was surprised at how easy it was. It was 37-7 early in the 4th when Gilbert called off the dogs and played reserves the rest of the way. If they had not fumbled on Carmel's 3 yd line on their opening drive, it would have been a running clock the entire second half.

Carmel grandstands just prior to kickoff. And people talk about some of the other mega schools in the area!

It looked on TV that Brownsburg had a larger turnout of fans than BD. I would have thought that BD would have packed their side.

Westfield 37 Carmel 21 Rocks totall domination tonight, leading 28-0 at halftime. It would have been 35-0 and a running clock the entire second half if they had not fumbled at the Carmel 3 on their first possession. It was 37-7 until Carmel scored two touchdowns in the last half of the 4th quarter. Westfield travels again next week, this time to Noblesville

Big time comeback. Trailing 25-7, BD scored with about 6 minutes to go. Then shortly after the kickoff, BD has a pick six to get right back in the game. Brownsburg appeared rattled the remainder of the game. BD scored the winning TD with about 2 minutes to go. Brownsburg did nothing on their last offensive possession.

I also saw this. Maybe Carmel is so large that they have two teams playing in different sectionals :)

When Westfield rolled over Carmel at Carmel in the opening game of this sectional last year, it was Westfield's first win since the mid 50's. Now you might say that they took a break from Carmel in football, because they did not play them often if any at all after that until they drew each other in a 5A sectional in 2010 before there was 6A. During that time, Carmel took off in size while Westfield was fairly stagnant until around a dozen years ago. The two schools did not compete in much of anything as far as athletics unless matched up in a tournament. They next played in the 2018 6A sectional, Carmel winning 28-7. Carmel would go on to be 6A runnerup to Warren Central.

Ha! We use to say that when my son ran track and CC. We were always in the same invitationals, sectional, regional, and semi-state (now no longer), so we ran against them quite often. Back then we'd have maybe 15 boys and a few more than that on the girls team, Carmel would roll out almost 100 kids for a CC meet. Since only 7 run varsity, that left about 90 kids running the open JV race at every meet. I'd think it would have been frustrating to be able to run less than a 16 minute 5K and never make the varsity, whereas on our boy's team, those kids would have been the top runners.

Almost happened to Brownsburg after blowing out most everyone their schedule for the first 7 games, including FW Dwenger on the road. They go to Noblesville (1-6 in the HCC) and almost lose.

They won't be in 3A after this season, correct? Success factored up to 4A

I looked at the "travel issue" for this weeks games. There are a few tonight just in 1A that have quite a bit of travel. Sheridan/Hagerstown - One and a half hour drive Next week: Either Monroe Central or Union City/Sheridan (assuming Sheridan wins) Either 1 hour and a half or an hour and 50 minutes. Indy Luthern/N. Central Farmersburg or S. Putnam - An hour and 50 minutes or an hour and 10 minutes Providence/E. Greene - One hour 10 minutes I didn't look at the other 5 classes, but one can see that even at the sectional level, not seeded, travel can be an issue.

I would say that this is the easiest to predict the winner, except for the sectional that Chatard has to go through.

Or maybe Lutheran is the easiest of the 6 classes to predict. (RE my comment on your 4A picks ) :)

EC may be the easiest prediction of the 6 classes

They should instead of by the luck of the bracket. If I read Westfield's sectional correctly, they are at Carmel. Win, and if Noblesville wins at Zionsville, Westfield goes to Noblesville. That would be three straight on the road, with 7 of their 11 games away from home. With seeding, they would play both sectional games at home, regardless of the sectional opponent.

This was also Coach Gilbert's 100th win at Westfield.

Westfield 28 Franklin Central 19 Rock were down 12-0 late in the first half, but a touchdown before halftime made it 12-7. Westfield was pretty much in control the rest of the way. They scored less than a minute into the second half on a long TD pass to make it 14-12. Another long TD pass made it 21-12. FC did score to close it to 21-19, but Westfield promptly threw another bomb to make it 28-19. Rocks tried a late field goal but missed, thus the final score. FC hurt by four turnovers. Next week a bye, then the Rocks once again will travel the 5 miles down 31 to play at Carmel in the opening game of their sectional.

;That would have been before my time in Westfield. I don't remember the press box and home stands being on the south side. They were playing on that old field up until 2016. Now the current stadium can go up against almost any other as far as size and so on. Bud Wright was and probably still is a cantankerous coach. I remember the last time they played, I believe it was 1999, before Westfield left the old Range Line Conference to join the then new Hoosier Crossroads Conference. He was big time PO'd with that move. At that time Sherican vs. Westfield was the second oldest continuing series in the state. He showed no mercy in that last game. I can't find the score, but it was something line 51-14. There were almost always issues between the two schools about various things. Kids would transfer from one to the other, since the schools aren't that far apart. Back in 1904, the first year of ISHAA of which Westfield was a founding member, there were accusations from Westfield about two players from Sheridan, one being that one of their players was 21 years old. The other player had been found to be playing in his 5th year of high school. The first was found to be true. The second, well the kid enrolled in the high school, dropped back to 8th grade, them moved back to the high school. So he was ruled eligible his senior season. I remember when not only Penn, but Hobart were the beasts in that part of the state.

It was for the first few years, then slowly went downhill.

Our daughter went there when it was a 2A school. The only football success then was in 1992, when they went to the Semi State in Tell City, which was undefeated and I believe the defending 2A champs. The locals down there were shocked when the then unknown Westfield team shut them out. Of course, next week, Westfield was shut out by FW Luers. By the time our son graduated, Westfield had moved up to 4A. Only 5 classes then, so a quick jump. It took them awhile to get competitive with the larger schools in the then new HCC.