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They haven't postponed the Bloom. South/Martinsville game yet, but as of 9:35, the weather is getting worse with thunderstorms pounding the area.

Bloomington North 45 Bedford NL 0 (final)

The Floyd Central at Terre Haute South game has also been postponed.

It's turned into a full blown thunderstorm now.

Yeah, I saw that. I believe the new clock on the delay started at 9:05 per Gordillo tweet.

Bloomington North 38 Bedford NL 0 (end of 3rd) North tacked on another score before the end of the 3rd to start the running clock.

Bloomington North 31 Bedford NL 0 (5:19, 3rd) The Cougars returned a fumble for a score to add to their lead.

Perry Meridian 42 Southport 0 (half) Running clock to start the 2nd half. PM hasn't been very good over the past few seasons, but they really have the Cards number.

There's a lightning delay to the start of the 2nd half in the Martinsville/Bloom. South game. South will bet the ball when the 2nd half resumes. The pick that the Arties got near the end of the half was actually ruled a catch and then a fumble when the receiver had the ball stolen from him.

Bloomington North 24 Bedford NL 0 (half) Columbus North 21 Columbus East 0 (late 2nd) Decatur Central 21 New Pal 21 (half)

No replay on it so I don't know about the calls. They started keying on Townsend after he ran the ball down their throats in the 1st so they slowed him down, plus it pretty hot on the field. Their QB looked pretty sharp in scoring at the end, but the secondary played a big part in that. They need to open up the throwing attack with the Arties keying on the running game. Johnson can't be happy with the penalties and punt protection.

Martinsville 27 Bloomington South 14 (half) South was driving into Arties territory with time running down in the half when the Arties stole the ball out of a receiver's hands for a pick. They picked up big yardage through the air with poor Panthers secondary coverage to tack on a TD with 10 seconds left in the half. The Panthers youth and inexperience really showed itself in a disastrous 2nd qtr.

Martinsville 20 Bloomington South 14 (3:20, 2nd) Martinsville scored on a 65-yard drive to take the lead. While turnovers have hurt the Arties, major penalties have been a big problem for South along with poor punt protection. The Arties have played a much cleaner game when it comes to penalties.

Bloomington South 14 Martinsville 13 (early 2nd) The Arties blocked a Panthers punt and recovered it in the end zone for a TD to pull within one at 14-13. Bloomington North 14 BNL 0 (3:35, 1st)

Bloomington South 14 Martinsville 6 (end of 1st) The Panthers picked the Arties just before the end of the 1st, taking the ball to the Arties 3-yard line. QB Duncan Combs scored on a QB keeper.

Bloomington South 7 Martinsville 6 (3:36, 1st) South was their worst own enemy on the Arties score picking up two facemasks penalties for 30 yards on the Arties drive which was a QB keeper. Two-point conversion failed.

Bloomington South 7 Martinsville 0 (7:21, 1st) Martinsville opened the game with the ball, but punted after a big sack by South. South, on their first possession picked up big yardage by RB Braylen Townsend with Townsend going 55 yards for the TD. It was 93 degrees 45 minutes before the opening kickoff.

Week 2 in CI: Bloomington South and North are both on the road for a 2nd straight week, with Southport the only other team on the "road" although their game with Perry Meridian will be at Southport with the Cards the visiting team. On paper, three teams (Bloom. South, Terre Haute South, and Southport) seem to be in competitive games, while the other three are in games that promise to be blowouts or close to it. Bloomington North (0-1) @ BNL (0-1): BNL got blasted on their home field by Martinsville, 50-7, last week and they will be facing an angry Cougar team after they played a miserable first qtr against Mooresville last week and played catch-up the rest of the game, falling short. I expect this game to have the mercy rule being in effect at some point with BNL getting blown out again. JH's prediction (North 49 BNL 14) Columbus East (0-1) @ Columbus North (1-0): The Bull Dogs steamrolled preseason 5A No. 1 Decatur Central on the road, 41-15, while Columbus East stayed within striking distance of Bloom. South at home until the 3rd qtr when South started taking control with their running game. The Olympians had a 4th and goal at the South five-yard line early in the 3rd, but failed to convert and that seemed to take the air out of East as South controlled the game from that point on in a 27-6 win. This is a crosstown rivalry, and East might stay close for a while, but like with South, will probably run out of gas as the game progresses. This game may be a blowout. JH's prediction: (North 45 East 3) Bloomington South (1-0) @ Martinsville (1-0): The Panthers go on the road for the second straight week and face a pretty good Artesian team in a game that promises to be close. In their season opening game on the road, the Arties ran all over BNL with senior QB A J Reynolds and senior RB Austin Pryor having big games, while in their game with Col. East, South was led on offense by soph QB Duncan Combs and junior RB Braylen Townsend having big games. This game will be a better judge of where both teams stand going forward. If it comes down to the kicking game -- advantage South. JH's prediction: (South 31 Martinsville 17) Floyd Central (0-1) @ Terre Haute South (0-1): Floyd Central makes the long trip to Terre Haute after losing their season opener at home to Kentucky powerhouse, Louisville St. X, 56-14. Despite the loss, the Highlanders are expected to be among the top teams in the HHC this season. Terre Haute South opened their season at Plainfield and lost 31-27. The Braves had a big statistical advantage over the Quakers and doubled the total offensive yards over the Quakers, but they threw three picks in the game which was the difference in winning and losing that game. I see this game being a close, competitive game. JH's prediction: (Floyd Central 38 TH South 35) Southport (0-1) @ Perry Meridian (0-1): PM is the host team on Southport's field. Both teams are coming off poor seasons last year with PM going 2-8 and Southport going 2-9. In their head-to-head matchup last season, Perry Meridan blasted Southport, 40-10. Both teams lost big in their season opener, so this is a big chance for one of them to get an early win in a season where wins will in all likelihood, be few and far apart for both teams. Despite PM's blowout win over the Cards last season, I think this game will be both close and competitive. JH's prediction: (Perry Meridian 45 Southport 17) Mooresville (1-0) @ Terre Haute North (0-1): There's not much you can say about this game since on paper it looks like a blowout win coming for the Pioneers. Mooresville got a big opening season win at home against a favored Bloomington North, 30-27, while TH North lost on the road to Northview, 34-20. The Patriots have lost 14 games in a row, and it looks like they are headed for 15 games in row after this Friday. This game may start the 2nd half with the mercy rule in effect. JH's prediction: (Mooresville 59 Terre Haute North 0)

While it's not what you would call an "Oh My" score, I would like to congratulate Brown County on their season opening win at Owen Valley, 30-21. Owen Valley had blasted the Eagles the past two seasons, 60-0 and 77-7, and BC had lost by some totally out of control scores in those two seasons despite the mercy rule, like 84-0 to Greencastle last season. They have a first-year coach in Tony Bell who seems to have turned around the attitude surrounding the program. The program had been a real mess for a few seasons.

I saw a tweet (X) that Cruz was hurt late in the game. There was no follow-up post on that, so I don't know if it was minor or something a little worse. @JimGordillo · Aug 23 Two stops for North. 3rd down at the 1 with QB Connor Cruz hurt. 4:57 left

I don't know anything about the expectations at BNL but as you indicated the Arties really took it to them, 50-7. Frozen Tundra at the Hoosier Hills Conference thread, put BNL at next to last in his conference preseason prediction with Jeff in last place. Here are some Arties stats from that game in which the Arties led 29-0 at the half and BNL's only score came in the 4th qtr. Arties senior QB A J Reynolds was 15 of 19 for 229 yards and 4 TDs with one pick. Arties senior RB Austin Pryor picked up 187 rushing yards on 18 carries and one TD. The Arties ran 52 plays to 35 for BNL, and had 27 1st downs to just 7 for BNL.

It wasn't a great start to the season for CI teams with the conference going 2-4 on opening night. There were a couple of big surprises though. Bloomington North at Mooresville - Anthony Lindsey's head coaching debut at North got off to a really rough start in their 30-27 loss to the Pioneers. North's experienced squad look more like an inexperienced JV team in the first half with fundamentals lacking, and especially in the first qtr where they found themselves in a 20-3 hole right out of the gate. Turnovers and numerous penalties got them behind the 8-ball and they never could quite dig themselves out of the hole. Columbus North at Decatur Central - The Bull Dogs were extremely impressive in huge road victory over Decatur Central which was in the 5A state finals last season. I don't know the specifics of the game, but once CN took an early lead in the 1st, they never looked back, and DC never really challenged after the Bull Dogs scored first. Bloomington South at Columbus East - With 17 new starters and opening the season on the road, Coach Gabe Johnson had to be pleased with the 27-6 win although there are still quite a few wrinkles to be ironed out. Soph QB Duncan Combs and junior RB Braylen Townsend were the offensive leaders of last season's unbeaten JV team, and they picked up where they left off in their first varsity starts with Combs going (unofficially) 15 for 23 for 130 yards and two TDs with one pick, while Townsend rushed for 192 yards on 25 carries. As expected, South's kicking game was superb with kickoffs going into or out of the end zone, and Bryce Taylor was 2 for 2 on FGs with a 53-yarder. Terre Haute South at Plainfield - The Braves opened last season with a 32-13 loss to Plainfield at home and started this season with another loss to Plainfield on the road although the game was more competitive, losing 31-27. THS had a huge advantage in the stats with 432 total yards in the game while Plainfield had 220 total yards, but three picks by the Braves did them in. Roncalli at Southport - The Cardinals were the only CI team to open at home but it made no difference as they fell to Roncalli 37-13. The Cardinals fell to Roncalli by a similar score last season so the outcome of this game was not unexpected. Terre Haute North @ Northview - As they did last season, the Patriots opened the season against Northview and it still ended up with a similar result, losing 34-20, although the score was a little closer this time around. The Patriots have now lost 14 games in a row dating back to the 2022 season.

Mooresville 30 Bloomington North 27 (final) North stumbled their way through the first half with turnovers and penalties and it bit them on the butt at the end.

Yes. I saw where they converted on a 4th and 10 and I thought they still had the ball. North has the ball now with 20 seconds left and need a prayer to pull it out.

The Olympians did not have an answer for Braylen Townsend in the 3rd and 4th and he ate up quite a bit of clock. Bryce Taylor had an outstanding kicking game with kickoffs in the end zone and two FGs with one for 53 yards. Both teams certainly have a lot of things to work on.