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It's official now that four HC teams will be playing for sectional titles this Friday. Of interest is that three of four teams are playing p/p schools with 9-2 RCHS playing 8-3 Andrean, 9-2 West Lafayette playing 10-1 Chatard, and 8-3 LCC playing 10-1 Traders Point Christian. 10-1 Cass rounds things out against 9-2 LaVille. While the semi-conventional wisdom has been that LCC would walk through sectionals, of note is that Traders Point Christian has only dropped a single game to #1 1A Indy Lutheran 63-27. The question at hand ends up being how much that encounter with Lutheran readied them, since the rest of the schedule was fairly light, compared to LCC's prep of playing the Hoosier Conference schedule. In honesty, I'm not seeing any of the four teams as having a sectional title cleanly in hand, although if I were a betting man, I'd say that the odds are that Cass likely has a clearer path to their title than the other three right now.

LCC's looking at a 45-mile trek south down I-65 toward Whitestown to play 10-1 Traders Point Christian whose single loss has come via #1 1A, Indy Lutheran.

LCC 45 Clinton Prairie 14 Final

LCC 42 Clinton Prairie 6 End of 3Q ... Running clock

After a 50 minute quarter LCC 35 Clinton Prairie 6 Half

LCC 14 Clinton Prairie 0 End of 1Q

I'm not sure that Andrean knocking off Boone Grove would be specifically be considered an upset, but I think the way they did it does qualify as surprising ... especially as a shutout.

HC dropped three last night including Western's squeaker to Lebanon. Three are still in it with a fourth pending tonight's outcome between LCC and Clinton Prairie. Not too bad a place to be with four teams possibly playing for a sectional title next week. And the good news is there will be no need for HC-on-HC violence to possibly pull four sectional titles. Also, still a chance for the HC to put up three classes' worth of representation at LOS Thanksgiving weekend.

Merriville 27 Jeff 20 8 mins left

Merriville 20 Jeff 14 about 6 mins to go

West Lafayette 34 Guerin Catholic 31 Final

Traders Point will meet the winner of tomorrow's LCC and Clinton Prairie game having beat North White 51-6.

Guerin Catholic 31 West Lafayette 31 5 1/2 mins to go

Mccutcheon up 30-7 over Kokomo in mid 4Q. Likely to be the second Lafayette-area school to advance to sectional title game next week.

Knox 36 Twin Lakes 7 Final West Lafayette 31 Guerin Catholic 24 7 and change to go

Chatard 49 North Montgomery 12 Final

Guerin Catholic ties it up at 24 with West Lafayette. 8 mins left to play.

Harrison 35 Anderson 0 Final First Lafayette-area school makes it to sectional championship.

West Lafayette 24 Guerin Catholic 16 late in 3Q

West Lafayette 17 Guerin Catholic 10 in 3Q

Chatard 42 North Montgomery 6 at half

West Lafayette 14 Guerin Catholic 10 at half

Merriville 7 Jeff 0 with about 4 mins to go in 1Q

In other futbol news ... LCC girls' soccer finishes as Class A runner-up dropping championship game tonight to Class A champs Park Tudor 2-1.

Knox up 14-0 on Twin Lakes toward end of 1Q