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Gallo with a 40-yd field goal. Knights up 10-0 with 9:29 left in 2Q.

After a slow start, LCC 7-0 over Clinton Central with 5:25 left in 1Q.

Great weather at LCC.

I just filled in the scenario so that someone else didn't have to do the game scenarios.

Yep ... those two districts produced the 6A Division I and Division II champs back in 2017. My wife's from that District 11 group that produced the 6A Division II champs last year. Mart's a tough opponent ... won 2A the last two year's in a row.

My alma mater is in 6A District 17 and I also lived in that 6A District 9 grouping before moving here to the Midwest.

Texas is tough. In some cases and some districts, your season is pretty close to done after Week 3, even if you are only dropping games by a field goal and are ranked.

LCC-TPC as an LCC home game, should it happen, would depend upon the winner of the 7-2 Frontier vs. 5-4 Clinton Prairie game. If Frontier wins, then LCC travels to Chalmers in Sectional Week 2 to play the Falcons. TPC is on the road for Sectional Week 1 and would be at home for Sectional Week 2 regardless of opponent ... assuming that they win their Sectional Week 1 game with 1-8 Tri-County. With this scenario, and a Frontier win, LCC and TPC would have one away and one home and LCC, as bottom-bracket inhabitant, gets home field for Sectional Championships. Should Clinton Prairie beat Frontier, LCC would stay at home for a second week in a row in Sectional Week #2 and that would give TPC the edge to host the Sectional Championship.

Yes, Sheridan went four in a row, but dropped that last time to Ritter by a TD in 2008. Edit: Oooops, just saw @miner_35's response.

I'm interested in seeing TPC in person against the Knights should that come to fruition. Hopefully it would work out to be a home game for the Knights if it happens.

It's there!

I always thought this was one of the coolest stats that you can surmise in the State Championship program on Thanksgiving weekend. You get to see all of the other stats like yards, points, etc., but I always thought this was the coolest. Not sure of the details surrounding that season for Northwood, but it seems to be one of those storylines that should continually get a nod right about this time, start of sectionals, each year.

RCHS in 2014 rolls the Hoosier Conference and then takes semi-state, by a field goal, in a rematch en route to a decisive LOS blue ring over Mater Dei. @Coach Nowlin will need to fill in the gaps, but I think there might have been a record or two set in that LOS game for rushes, rushing yards, and first downs ... at least in 2A.

Not because I said so, but because of your "tack-on." Completely agree with the items in bold. Your "tack-on" was a diminishing item, not a recognizing another. Your post would have accomplished the item in bold above without the added sentence. BTW, New Pal looks a lot like LCC in demographics with the exception of disability percentage:

Of course there's disrespect.

LCC 4-peats LOS ... 2009-2012.

Carrying it in games in his Yeti and telling the gate guys it's tea?

Last year at 1-9 would have have been on DT's contraction hit list ... this year at 4-4 ...

Depends on homefield sprinklers at Andrean. 😄 Lord, I apologize for that.

West Lafayette makes it past rounds one and two in the sectional, but the ghost of the Kings may be in the back of their minds come that Sectional Championship with Chatard. Pioneer trades LCC for Cass in the ping pong ball melee. The question is whether it looks like the last three years or the previous four. Given last week for Cass, I think it looks like the previous four for the Panthers. Cass takes their sectional. Despite prognostications about Boone Grove in another thread, I'm thinking this sectional comes down to RCHS and Andrean who are on opposite sides of the bracket. I think that comes down to a toss-up game. The Knights will get an opportunity to test out Traders Point, or possibly even a resurgent North White, in the Sectional Championship, but make no mistake, the Knights are interested in more than just a rebuilding year. Knights take their sectional. Twin Lakes has a tough sectional with the likes of Calumet and Knox and even Hanover Central looming there. If they get past Know in the sectional semi, they could likely pull off a surprise pick-up of their sectional. I think you are right that Eastbrook proves to be a bit too much for Tipton who bows out of the sectionals after Week 2. Roncalli has the edge over Western in this sectional although I think Western's got a puncher's chance. Not only was the LCC-Western game a good tune-up for LCC, I think it also helps Western too. Benton Central likely bows out in their first sectional game to River Forest. If not, Calumet likely waits in the wings to pull the plug. Heights draws the short straw against West Lafayette this week ... for the second time this season ala the Kings. This one's not likely to end like that second meeting. Northwestern flies under the radar screen this week against Heritage and emerges in the sectional second round ... only to likely meet up with Oak Hill to finish the season.

Haven't you watched the Final Destination movies ... or Meatballs? Once the juju's been cast, there's no stopping it. It just doesn't matter.

Didn't realize CJB was an Aggie. That explains a lot! Whoop!

"The purpose of the IHSAA is to encourage and direct wholesome amateur athletics in the high schools of Indiana." https://ihsaa.org/About-IHSAA/Current-Information/Purpose

What'd you do? Get lost in 2A? 😄

If we're talking improvements, the big old elephant in the room is that two weeks after getting beat by over five touchdowns by West Lafayette, at home, Cass went to West Lafayette and hung a loss on a highly-ranked West Lafayette on their home field a week before the tourney starts. Might be pure luck and adrenaline or maybe West Lafayette's just been "fronting" the whole season long, but if I'm a betting man, I'm going to go with plain old improvement and adjustment.