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Longer passes that is

Agreed, Word on the GID is the M-ville QB has a hard time hitting a barn on any loner passes, so hopefully that will work in Snider's favor.

Yep, but the Legends do a nice video.

Is it a surprise that a school such as Merrillville has yet to win a semi-state game? This may be a trick question. 😁

Exactly, they are loaded this year, maybe more than any other year.

Not to downplay the Homestead win, but I would throw that out. Snider was coming off the huge win against Carroll the previous week. They jumped out to 14-0 lead in first half, I think they fell asleep at the switch on that one after they went up early.

Not sure what to expect. I see Snider has a higher scoring O on average and looks like both D's give up about the same amount of points on average. As we see in most of these games, usually comes down to who has less penalties and turnovers, 3rd down conversions and special teams. Does M-ville have a good kicking game? That is huge key in deep playoff run. One concern I have is Snider's secondary now after Mishawaka passed for over 300 yards. Maybe that was a result of Cavemen's run game?? How good of a passing team are the Pirates? How does O & D line match up to Snider's?

Yea, I just looked at playoff games, the 21-9 seemed to be overall record. I just looked at Carmel seeing they were likely to offer the most data points

Went back and double checked, looks like they are 14-7, not 21-9. Maybe travel has a small role, seeing they would be around 7-2 at home against the "northern" teams

A quick look at Carmel, I came up with a 21-9 record since 1994 when traveling up to the US-30 corridor and north of. So I'm concluding that the road trip doesn't really matter. Well at least for Carmel it doesn't

Yep, IF Snider gets State title they will bump up to 6A. Anything else they stay in 5A.

I'm sure I was at that game, can't recall what happened. Please give me the run down.

You are correct, I went back to 1994, so you have info for last 20 years, my error on time snap shot Here is what I see on John Harrell site since 1994 2022 - L - Valpo 2015 - W - Kokomo 2014 - L - LaPorte 2012 - W - M-ville 2004 - W - Penn 2002 - W - Valpo 1997 - L - Penn

They are 4-3 in semi states when at home. in past 20 years. Doing deeper dive into overall home record during second season

I think their kicker hit one big/good kick, not sure about "kicks"??. Anyway, I wanted to make point that special teams play is huge in playoffs,

Always a tough game when you get this deep in second season. M-villie, I'm sure is a very good team, don't know their strengths or weaknesses, would be good to hear if anyone can provide insight. Not sure how to call this game yet,

Yea, I though so too. I live in area and kids went to Penn and I always followed them over the years for obvious reason.

I think special teams are a huge key to winning in post season. Mishawaka is fairly weak kicking FG's and XP's and that played into difference last night. Snider is usually has a good special teams and it should last night.

Yes, I thought it was a great game and the refs did a good job IMO too 🙂 A good balance of letting the kids play, yet controlling the game is always nice to see.

M-ville wins, holds Valpo out of end zone

Snider played a bad half last year, played a great second half last year. Snider moved ball between the 20 tonight but couldn't get the TD's. I think they played better game last year. Passing D got burned.

Mishawaka should have won that game, they out played Snider even with their RB 1 out 95%+ of game

Snider kicks 45 yard FG for walk off win

Kicking ball out of bounds was not a good move

Mishawaka QB has thrown for over 50% of his regular season total during this game I believe.