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Martinsville 27 Bloomington South 14 (final) Well deserved win for the Arties. Martinsville was more fundamentally sound and more disciplined than South in this game, especially in the first half, and didn't turn the ball over in the game although South had a couple of chances on picks but couldn't pull them in. South just kept hurting themselves on major penalties and on a couple of ill-timed picks. The Panthers played better in the second half outscoring the Arties 7-6 in that half, but they had to do better than that to pull this game out. The Arties QB Adkins was the better of the two QBs used by South and was more efficient in the passing game. South's running back Gavin Adams, who had a big game last week running the ball against New Albany, also had a big game and was well over 100 yards in this game, but most of his yardage came between the 20-yard lines.

That was Bloomington North 35 Bedford NL 14 on that score.

Bloomington North 35 Bedford NL (7:10, 4th) BNL scores on a sustained drive. North had already started bringing in some of the 2nd teamers at this point.

Martinsville 27 Bloomington South 14 (7:10, 4th) South is going to have to get a couple of 3 and outs to pull this game out considering the time left. South had a scoring drive negated deep into Arties territory early in the 4th when a pass was tipped at the line of scrimmage and picked by the Arties.

Martinsville 27 Bloomington South 7 (end of 3rd) South is just outside the Arties red zone to start the 4th.

Bloomington North 35 Bedford NL 7 (4:20, 3rd)

Martinsville 27 Bloomington South 7 (4:30, 3rd) Martinsville scores on about a 59 yard drive. (PAT no good)

Martinsville 21 Bloomington South 7 (very early 3rd) After picking up several major penalties in the first half, South received the opening kickoff of the 3rd qtr and after picking up a big gain on first down they were hit with two major penalties on the play on a block to the back and a personal foul. I guess they didn't learn anything from the locker room talk at the half.

Bloomington North 28 Bedford NL 7 (half) North had 225 yards of total offense in the half, while BNL had 95 yards of total offense. North is playing without their top running back in Codu Mickulich who hurt his shoulder in the the 1st qtr of their game against Moorseville last week.

That's a halftime score. South scored on the last play of the half to cut into a 21-0 lead the Arties had. The Arties outplayed South from a fundamental standpoint as South kept stubbing their feet with major mistakes such as several penalties of the 10 to 15 yard variety that contributed to Artie drives. South also threw a pick that brought about the Arties 2nd TD. In another mental mistake, South's defense dropped what looked like a pick 6 on a drive that the Arties eventually scored on. It was just a pretty bad first half for South and you have to give Martinsville a lot of credit for outplaying them so far.

Bloomington North 28 Bedford NL 7 (3:51, 2nd)

Bloomington North 21 Bedford NL 7 (7:53, 2nd)

Bloomington North 14 Bedford NL 7 (11:08, 2nd)

Bloomington North 7 Bedford NL 7 (5:41, 1st)

Martinsville 14 Bloomington South 0 (1:54, 1st) The Arties score again a pass play after South threw a pick. Both teams have made mistakes early on, but the Panther mistakes have hurt them more.

Bloomington North 7 Bedford NL 0 (8:38, 1st)

Martinsville 7 Bloomington South 0 (mid 1st) Martinsville scores first on a short pass play on their second possession of the game.

For the most part, Bloom. South controlled both lines in last Friday's game and South had to replace four of five starters in the o-line. New Albany had to rebuild their offense and had just one sustained drive against Bloom. South for a TD, so their inexperience showed. The Bulldogs returned eight starters on defense and also had two transfers on the defensive side from the Louisville side of the river with one being a 4-star recruit, but South was able to move the ball on them and had two 100+ rushers and their QB threw for two scores. That's my FWIW comments. It's one game and they like to say that the biggest improvement with a team is from game one to game two, so we will see.

In what is their annual game, Bloomington South is at Martinsville.

Edgewood 38 Mitchell 16 (final)

Bloomington South 34 New Albany 14 (final) South's coaching staff has to feel pretty good about this win considering it was the season opener on the road and they pretty much controlled both lines of scrimmage for most of the game. The Bulldog's had just one TD on a sustained drive, a 60-yard drive, with the other TD coming after a pass deep in the New Albany red zone was tipped and picked and returned deep into South territory. We'll see how things go next week against Martinsville in another road game, and the Artesians are probably a better team than New Albany. New Albany had a lot of new faces on offense and it showed in this game, but they had eight defensive starters returning from last season, but South was still able to move the ball on them, so they have some things to work on.

Edgewood 38 Mitchell 16 (3:25, 4th)

Mooresville 38 Bloomington North 13 (final)

Bloomington South 34 New Albany 14 (late 4th) South moved quickly down the field after the Bulldog TD and scored on a 15-yard run.

Bloomington South 27 New Albany 14 (6:44, 4th) New Albany pretty much had a score handed to them when South was driving down inside the Bulldog 15 yard line and had a pass tipped and intercepted and returned to the South 26-yard line. The Bulldogs scored two plays later.