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According to the IHSAA rules, it looks like Jeff, being in a four-team section, will play both of its games on the road. It looks like Concord would play its sectional championship at home. Jeff, being non-host in the sectional championship and in an even-numbered sectional should get home field if they end up facing Concord. Of course, that depends on whether or not there's a white buffalo born between now and Halloween and, the more important sign from the gods, Purdue is able to score a TD in the first half of its game with Northwestern.

See below. Pretty much should be mainly tune-up through sectionals. Ended up with the easiest draw of the four teams in their sectional and Kokomo and McCutcheon, both beaten already by Jeff this season, will end up meeting each other in first round. McCutcheon lost to Kokomo earlier this season, in a road game, 28-20, so that should be a tough game for both teams while Jeff will be playing the 2-7 South Bend Eagles. McCutcheon played Jeff close this last weekend, losing 21-14 at home. Figure Jeff will likely face #1 5A Concord in regional ... will likely be like playing a state championship early in the season ... kind of like when #1 and #2 LCC and Pioneer would square off in sectionals or regionals. If they get past Concord, probably looking at facing Merrilville unless Michigan City, and maybe Valpo, get it together, by that point of the season.

Final blow was in the East end zone. Two-point conversion had that same spread setup they used against Lutheran in the state final I think, but they threw to the left side back flag instead of to the right. LCC definitely lived up to your moniker tonight in the second half. I think Guerin picked up only one first down in the second half that wasn't by penalty. LCC had two 4th down stops in a row on Guerin's last two drives. This worked out to be a perfect game for LCC to end the regular season on. Lots of adversity, overcoming the shooting themselves in the foot and the opponent capitalizing on it, outstanding second half adjustments, defense that rose to the occasion shutting down the opponent on critical 4th and 1 type plays and giving the ball back to the offense, and an offense that found its running game as something to lean on rather than as something to open up the passing game. Lots of tests tonight and LCC's got to be feeling good about this one and their performance ... outside of the three turnovers that all led to points.

LCC maintains a perfect regular season at 9-0 with a 22-21 comeback stunner against 3A Guerin after being down 21-0 at half.

LCC stops Guerin on 4th and 1. Knights just need to kill 1:42 after Guerin burns its last TO.

LCC on the ground most of this game. Scores a TD and goes for 2. SUCCESS! Leads Guerin for the first time tonight 22-21 with 3:00 left in game.

Guerin 4 and 1 from their own 24. Goes for it and comes up short. LCC with 3:48 to tie it up or go ahead.

Guerin makes a 4th and 6 stop at their own 15. Leads 21 14 with mins left in game.

LCC forces a three and out. Guerin looks confused and has to call timeout to get punter on the field. LCC returns punt to Guerin's 44.

LCC making a game of it with 5 yard TD pass. Pulls to within a score. Trails Guerin 21-14 after going 2 for 2 with two clock-eating drives. 9:41 left in game.

End of Q3. LCC driving after gutsy 4th and 3 pickup on Guerin's 45. 21 - 7 Guerin.

LCC with another stop. Forces a Guerin punt and takes over on their own 44. Guerin still up 21 - 7.

LCC forces a three and out. Looking like a different LCC team that emerged from the locker room

LCC makes a half-time adjustment. Comes out on first possession with a crisp sustained drive culminating in a 2-yard TD run. Guerin still leads 21-7 with 6:50 left in Q3.

LCC misses a field goal. Score remains 21-0 at half. Guerin concludes the half with an unsportsmanlike conduct call and personal foul. LCC will receive in the 2nd half.

Guerin now up 21-0 with 4:23 left in Q2. Guerin now three for three on TDs after LCC turnovers.

LCC gets down to Guerin's 3 and gives up another pick. Blown opportunities.

Two LCC turnovers and two Guerin scores. 14-0 with 3:36

LCC drives down to Guerin's 5 and Guerin gets an end zone pick. Still 7-0 Guerin with 4:26 in Q1.

Guerin capitalizes on LCC turnover. Leads 7-0 with 8:56 left in Q1.

LCC stops Guerdon on 4th down only to turn the ball over on the first snap. 0-0 early in Q1.

Is this what's refs refer to as, "Don't start no sh*t, won't be no sh*t?" 😃 Lord, I apologize for that there.

In some of those Texas districts, you can find yourself looking at next season by the time you get to this year's mid-season. Not a lot of fun.

My bad, Fair Oaks. Fair Oaks was my first introduction to the wonkiness of two time zones in Indiana as we had an event for a scout troop at Fair Oaks and left Lafayette in time to make the opening of Fair Oaks only to arrive and find out we were an hour early. The idea of that facility looks pretty cool. It'd be nice if it has turf baseball/softball fields too. Grand Park and Championship Park in Kokomo are nice, but it'd be nice having a place right up 65 from Lafayette that could host tournaments too.

This is pretty much the Texas model ... same sized schools all grouped together in a district. The all-in part wouldn't necessarily matter that much, but might actually cause some grief. The thing that makes Texas where folks don't really care about the conference stuff is because only the top four teams in a district advance to post-season, so the end-all and be-all is the district. Also, Texas is so large, that it's not necessarily an issue finding enough teams of the same class for a district. My old alma mater in Houston belongs to a school district that has 12 6A schools and, for a long time had a state district for football that was almost entirely comprised of a single school district. If you went to districts in Indiana, with an all-in, I'm not sure the district would get nearly the focus that it does in Texas; whereas, at least IMO, conferences seem to have focus/interest besides the post-season.