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Congrats to the Titans! Go get that blue ribbon.

They are quicker than what they look on film, and on film they look really quick. Our D has been pretty good all year, and last week only gave up 7 to East Central, so them putting up 42 impressed (and depressed) the heck out of me. No question, both teams deserve to be there. I'm looking forward to seeing the matchup. Best of luck!

Interesting that Northridge has the lowest Sagarin number of any team playing at LOS and will likely be a 20+ point underdog vs Mt. Vernon. Two teams making their first appearances. I'll take Mt. Vernon 42-13.

Best of luck today Titans!

I wish we were going, but I'll just be watching on TV.

MD is peaking at the right time. I'll be looking forward to hearing about Andrean.

Congrats MD Wildcats!

Congrats to MV and best of luck next week. The Marauders are a heck of a team.

@FastpacedOI'm too old for those kinds of hijinks, but I have a pot of beef stew ready to go and am thinking hot cider might hit the spot for a cold tailgate!

Great article. To a certain extent, I think our local media has gotten spoiled with 3 teams advancing to Semi-State in football. Its nice to see coverage recognizing the achievement of winning 4 games in the post season as the Greenfield media has done. Enlow will be ready and rocking come game time. It is arguable, but I would rate our 2021 D as slightly better than 2019. Hopefully we can spring Brody and Tyler free on some runs and get them into space where they are dangerous. In 2019 it was 6-3 at the half, but Memorial took advantage of a few miscues and mental mistakes (including a MV player being ejected for punches) to extend the lead and close it out 28-3. Ironically, Memorial had defeated Mooresville the previous week by the same 17-14 score in the Regional as last week against East Central, so hopefully that brings some good karma, but I suspect this one will be a lot closer than 28-3. Safe travels to the Mt. Vernon team and their fans.

Pet peeve... Hand the ball to the official!!

They were definitely late. I remember watching them run from the busses to the locker room to get suited up. I believe they stopped at St. Meinrad for mass, which may have slowed them up too. Those monks can get long-winded.

4A PLAYOFFS Mt. Vernon (Fortville, IN) at Reitz Memorial (Evansville, IN), 7:00pm EST [projection: Mt. Vernon (Fortville, IN) 31-30] A prediction doesn't get much closer than that. For Memorial to have a chance the D is going to have to hold MV to less than 31 points. I think we can do that, but we'll need to tackle better than Roncalli did last week. Our D has been pretty stingy, so hopefully we can keep it close and work a little Enlow magic. MV is very impressive though.

It doesn't have anything to do with the year before as to any given team. It's a even/odd number thing.

Timing to what? I don't see that being any distraction whatsoever.

The fans that tailgate the hardest always win....

Don't you think Tri-West likely has pretty much every game film on GS, just like GS likely has all of them from Tri-West? In this day and age when sharing film is just a click away, I bet every team pretty well knows what its up against.

https://www.ihsaa.org/Portals/0/ihsaa/documents/about ihsaa/minutes/2021-22/110521.pdf Page 8, Section 7.

Was looking for something on the IHSAA website and happened to review the most recent meeting minutes. Apparently the IHSAA is trying to figure out the online ticket fees for the football finals. As it stands, the fees to purchase a $15 ticket will be over $10 per ticket. That might really hurt the gate for casual fans.

da dum cheee!

A very cool Evansville HS football tradition. This is the only "award" team voted on exclusively by the players, who cannot vote for their own teammate(s).

The atmosphere at Enlow Field is much better on a Friday night than Saturday afternoon.

There was no PF. The call was intentional grounding. And no personal foul. The only penalty on EC's final series was the grounding.

IHSAA isn't going to want to pay travel for all teams to go to a neutral site.

Intentional grounding against EC on 2nd down