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Frontier @ Benton Central Central Catholic @ West Lafayette Rensselaer @ Tipton Twin Lakes @ Logansport Western @ Hamilton Heights Taylor @ Clinton Central McCutcheon @ Harrison North Vermillion @ Riverton Parke South Central @ Caston Bowman Academy @ Lake Station

They had the perfect point differential. Right at the +35 mark, nicely done.

The only opponent they share is Harrison I believe and that was a scrimmage for LCC. Anyone know how LCC looked against Harrison in that scrimmage? Looks like West Lafayette played them tough till the end. One was a scrimmage and one was a week 1 opponent. Both teams probably look totally different from then to now. Should be a good one.

We were up 30-0, so what Muda thinks we should do is get down to the 10, kick a field goal, and then every time we get the ball back, try to punt it down to the 1 on first down every time to work towards a safety. This of course would mean we keep our number 1 defense on the field and continue to physically beat up the other team, rather than score a touchdown, get the running clock, and put 2's in to show the mercy he wants everyone to show. We did not do what Muda would have wanted and we scored the touchdown to get the running clock and get our varsity off the field.

This made me think of Harding and the teams coach Haydock had back in the day. I was just a young kid at the time and could still tell "man they got some freakin dudes"

Watched their game against Valpo. Was not impressed with either team to be completely honest with you. A lot of penalties on Valpo benefited Andrean greatly. Andrean's defense is solid. Great athletes all over the field. Offense just looks out of sync a lot of the time. These next few games will tell us more about how for real Andrean really is this year.

I apologize, I always assume a Mac person rooting against Rochester is due to hoping we fall out of conference contention before we get to them. It would be really cool if both teams could run the table to the end, and have the matchup be for a conference title, but time will tell. Still a lot of teams on both schedules that can play spoiler. Cass and Northwestern are still just as much in contention as Mac and Rochester. Can't count out Peru quite yet either. Being a Cass grad, I would be very upset if Northwestern pulls off conference champs first year in the league. Especially, with Rochester not getting a chance to play them.

LOL, Why don't we both keep winning, so we get an undefeated conference championship showdown in the final week!

Friday, Sep. 13 Cass at Northwestern ©, 7 pm Maconaquah at Whitko ©, 7 pm Peru at Wabash ©, 7 pm Rochester at Manchester ©, 7 pm Southwood at Northfield ©, 7 pm Who ya got?!

Kind of off topic, but I forgot this was becoming a thing. I have a feeling it won't have an impact on baseball, but there are a few schools hurting for guys coming out for track. My guess is there will be even fewer guys wanting to run track with the integration of this. A lot of football coaches encourage track for their players to get them faster while still competing in sports. I'm not saying being able to jump high and slap balls down really hard can't help in football, but I'll take a lot of speed on my team over everything else any day. Speed Kills, some might say its a State Law!

Hamilton Heights @ Danville Logansport @ Benton Central Twin Lakes @ Central Catholic West Lafayette @ Rensselaer Western @ Tipton South Newton @ North Newton Carroll @ Delphi South Vermillion @ North Vermillion Park Heritage @ Attica Brebeuf Jesuit @ Guerin Catholic

I agree. When you can run the ball like that, who cares what you do through the air. This was exactly how the Vikings beat Rochester. By running it right at them. What makes the INSC a juggernaut? Three teams are under .500, one is right at .500, one above .500 and the only one that is undefeated, you are bashing on for being soft. So far, I would say the INSC is very average to start the season, not really a juggernaut.

Will be interesting to see what the Southwood/Northwestern game ends up looking like. Northwestern 2-0 to start and some tough first two games for Southwood coming out of the gate. Pulling for Cass to get it done against Peru, but I'm not sure if it will happen or not.

If Andrean can make it out of their own sectional. I wouldn't sleep on Bremen this year. A lot of good players returned for them, and they play good defense. A lot of question marks in the North. I would say LCC is the favorite right now with what they returned on the offensive side of the ball, but anything can happen in November. A lot of football left to be played until then like someone pointed out.

Just glad Rochester doesn't have to be apart of it this year.

Hamilton Heights @ McCutcheon Benton Central @ South Newton Central Catholic @ Logansport Linton @ Western Lowell @ West Lafayette Rensselaer @ Woodstock Tipton @ Twin Lakes Lake Station @ North Newton Clinton Central @ Clinton Prairie North Vermillion @ Covington

Depends on what your definition of success is. WL versus other publics, very successful. WL versus privates the same size as them....ehhh

Forgot to do this week 1. Better late than never. Who ya got this week. Friday, Aug. 30 Bluffton at Manchester, 7 pm Shortridge at Maconaquah, 7 pm Cass at Northfield ©, 7 pm Northwestern at Eastern, 7 pm Oak Hill at Southwood, 7 pm Peru at Whitko ©, 7 pm Rochester at Tippecanoe Valley, 7 pm Wabash at Alexandria, 7 pm

I don't know about the other games in the conference, but a big rivalry game this week between Rochester and Valley for the Bell. Always a really cool atmosphere for this game every year. Hopefully, it will be a little bit closer than it was last year. Both teams played pretty one sided games last week, so I look at this game as a way to see how both teams seasons are going to play out. Good luck to the rest of this conference this week. Its going to be a hot one Friday night!

LCC over Ritter

Eastern Hancock's win is that impressive? I would agree that Triton Central's loss should push them back a little more, but people seem to be high on Batesville.

Hearing the lamentations of their women probably would get my players to play a little harder to be honest.

So if we take three knees and punt the ball down to the 1, and the other team snaps it over the QB's head for a safety, is this still bad sportsmanship?

So do you think that teams should get up 35 and purposefully stop scoring? I understand running up the score past 50 points is not cool, but it does happen sometimes unintentionally. It was the first game of the year and you want to get your guys reps for the next week. In Rochester's case, we were up 42-0 at half. Unfortunately, the running clock can't start until the second half. We started the second half with nothing but Sophomores and Freshman and still almost scored on Wabash's ones.

1 POINT GAMES North Newton @ Rensselaer Delphi @ Twin Lakes Logansport @ Adams Seeger @ Benton Central Tipton @ Elwood 2 Point Games West Lafayette @ McCutcheon Western @ Western Boone Winamac @ Frontier South Vermillion @ Sullivan Pioneer @ Knox Triton Central @ Hamilton Heights