WestfieldRocks

Regarding Providence, is the geographic location a factor in their athletic success? They are only short distance away from that big city across the river. I know when Westfield played and lost there in the 2A semi state in the 90's, there were cars with Kentucky license plates in the parking lot. Just wondering how many kids cross the border to attend Providence. Looking at the public school, Clarksville, which was 0-10 and blown out in almost all of their games, including against Providence, that's a huge difference in success.

Just rulers? Back in my day, the nuns each had a paddle in their classrooms, displayed so that every kid would see it. The sight of it scared the you know what out of most of us. Believe me, they were not afraid to use them.

Nah, the fighting with Carmel over land ended when Westfield became a city in 2008. That shut Carmel out as far as their aggressive goal of annexing land in Washington Township, which is the township where Westfield is located.

I agree on that game last year. It seemed it took Westfield a half to shake off the long bus ride. Last night, CP never was able to shake it off. As for the end of the game, yea, Kendall Garnett was practically unstoppable late in that game. Should have went for 2 with him running the football. CP did not have to worry about him last night, as over the summer, he did what Temp called the High School Portal transfer to Warren Central. Also, last night, Westfield did not have their top receiver, Gabe Armaboles, who was injured after a 49 yard pass reception against Zionsville three games ago. What they did have was his younger brother, Alex, who was all over the field from his defensive end position.He had three sacks and forced a fumble.

It was trending towards that way before they booted out CG and Carmel. The HCC schools kept growing and adding better facilities, and their level of play also kept growing. No doubt it's now the best conference in the state when you add in all sports, boys and girls.

True, especially on a night that had off and on light rain/snow as well as the cold wind. There is a brew pub within walking distance of the stadium that was having a game watch party. I heard it was full. Next week should be different. If like the other four trips that Westfield has made to LOS, the lower bowl will be full on both sides.

For the first time since Class 6A was formed, the HCC will be guaranteed of a championship, as Brownsburg took care of Center Grove, and Crown Point was no match for Westfield. This will be a rematch of an HCC game at Brownsburg, where Brownsburg won 17-13 on a kickoff return for a TD, and Westfield's QB Carsen Melvin did not play after getting injured in the third quarter. Should be one great game!

Agree. Very few penalties. I didn't see anyone one on either team jawing at the other team. They had a good turnout, but there were plenty of empty seats on the visitors side.

Yea, no 5A schools, just 9 games against 6A competition.

But all we up here heard was how dominating Crown Point was on both sides of the ball :)

Maybe those chartered busses could have stopped the onslaught that awaited them in Hamilton County :)

I don't know of a field in central Indiana that still plays on grass, at least among the schools that are still playing.

I live a short distance from the school. I drove by late yesterday afternoon when the team was practicing outdoors in the snow. Now win tonight, and they will have the luxury of practicing next week inside at nearby Grand Park. I haven't been by there yet today, but the yards and rooftops are cleared of snow. The wind is still blowing out of the west, so with that large press box, it's a good direction for us on the Westfield side. The wide open visitor side, well, dress warm :)

I've heard the same about both the HSE school corporation and Westfield. I'd say most here don't want a second high school. There were stories about how it divided the Fishers community after Fishers HS opened. That second middle school is overdue, except their sports domination in Hamilton County will probably come to a close :)

This would be my ideal 6A title game. A rematch of Westfield's only loss, 17-13, where they twice had the ball iinside the Brownsburg 5 yard line and did not score. The second of those was late 3rd quarter, when the QB Carsen Melvin was knocked out of the game and did not return. It would assure that the HCC finally gets their first 6A title, although they have had quite a few in the lower classes, with Zionsville, HSE, Franklin Central, and Brownsburg all winning titles before the HCC existed, and Westfield and Fishers both winning 5A titles while HCC members.

Not only are HSE and Fishers both 6A now, but both have over 3.000 students. They would be largest school in the state if they did like Carmel, and just keep adding on capacity instead of splitting into two high schools. Fishers won Class 5A in just their 5th year of existence in 2010. HSE actually won the 1A title in 1981. They have been runnerup in 1A, 4A, and 5A.

So HSE winning at Carroll 45-21 was not manhandling them, but CP winning at home over Carroll by 38-21 is manhandling them?

That is true. Those upper sections run on either side of the press box, which is two stories.

The first player listed, Deacon King, also is their #1 running back with 1208 rushing yards. He was the top rusher in the HCC and #2 in class 6A. He rushed for 220 yards and a TD, also caught a TD pass, in last Friday's win at Fishers. It was the second time he ran for over 200 yards against Fishers this season.

That is what is listed as total capacity. Seats run end zone to end zone on the home side, and between the 20's on the visitor side.

Agree

Riverview Stadium has a capacity of 5,000. Probably 3,500-4,000 are on the home side. Even with the weather forecast, I'll predict that the home side will be packed.

Not sure about that. This happened in one of the college games yesterday, and the color commentator said that he didn't think it was a horse collar, but even if it was, the QB was in the pocket, thus no horse collar could be called.

Much better game than the one at Fishers a month ago. Fishers was the beneficary of not one, but two passes that were deflected right to one of their receivers for TDs. For Westfield, it was the Deacon King and Carson Melvin show. They were a huge % of the Westfield offense tonight. Cato June (yep, the former Colt's son) added another score with a kickoff return for a TD. Right now, it looks like a Westfield/Crown Point rematch, except this time it will be at Westfield.

You are spot on about HCC schools being very good in almost all sports, especially non football/basketball. One of the individual sports that they are very good at is cross country. 5 of the 25 teams that qualified for the Girls State Finals were HCC teams. 6 of the 8 HCC boys teams qualified for the 25 state finals spots, with Noblesville (2), Brownsburg (3), and Fishers (5) all finishing top 5. Ben Davis was the lone MIC school in the boys race, and no MIC schools were in the girls race. HCC teams took the top 4 sports in this fall's girls state golf championships (Z'ville, Noblesville, HSE, and Westfield). No MIC schools were in either of these state finals events.