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Anderson goes for it on 4th from their own 32, but doesn't get. Harrison makes them pay with a short scoring drive. Now leads 37-7 with about 7 minutes left in Q3.

Harrison returns opening kickoff of second half for a TD. Anderson has too many on the field for PAT. Harrison goes for 2 and gets it. Now leads Anderson 30-7 with just under 12 minutes in Q3.

Harrison picks up another TD. Anderson jumps on PAT, so Harrison goes for 2 and makes it. Leads Anderson 22-7 with a bit over 2 minutes left in Q2.

Harrison strikes back with a 40-yard passing TD. Up 14-7 over Anderson. Start of Q2.

Anderson ties it up. 7-7. 2:30 left in Q1.

Anderson inside Harrison's 5, but Harrison strips the ball and returns it for a TD. Harrison leads 7-0 with 5 minutes left in Q1.

A very under-/unappreciated aspect of field prep!

Remember the collective team groan on morning practice days during warm-ups when after toe-touches, coach would yell, "On your butts" ... or something more colorful if our previous game performance was lacking somehow ... to do butterflies?

Outside of feet feeling like they are on fire during the summer and sliding out into left-center on a slide into second on wet days, my boys love playing on turf for baseball. If you know your physics you know the bounce and if you can sneak a hot hit on the line you can get it to roll into the next county or even into tomorrow. As you mentioned though, it severely cuts down on rainouts. Last season, we didn't have a single rainout on turf ... that wasn't the case with grass/dirt ... had one tournament where we played three innings of pool play and were seeded from that due to rain.

Typically, when you see Ursuline for high schools, the top sport at the school is field hockey.

Did an e-commerce consulting job for an oil field supply company down in Texas once. One of the items that could be bought out of their catalog, in addition to everything you'd expect on a land drilling site, were goats. Apparently they used them to keep the grass levels low around the building and outside material holding areas. Apparently they were great at getting at the grass between pipes that were laid on the ground among other things.

Yeah, that thing seemed to stay hidden in plain sight for a long time there. Kind of like the Ohio State stuff that's been alleged.

MSU had an issue where it lost the dean of the business school recently over failure to report sexual misconduct of a professor although there's now accusations that his ousting was tied to a power struggle over the president's office.

2 Point Games Benton Central @ Twin Lakes Blackhawk @ Northwestern Hamilton Heights @ Western Rensselaer @ West Lafayette Tipton @ Central Catholic Glenn @ Knox Carroll @ Eastern Tri-Central @ Delphi Clinton Prairie @ Sheridan Bowman Academy @ Lake Station

The group of guys that were part of the four-peat teams have kids that are getting old enough to play youth ball. My wife ran in to a family the other day that's transferring into the parish from one of the other area parishes and recognized the name as a kid that I coached in youth ball back in 2002. One of the other kids from that same group just had his 4th kid last season. Not sure about the Anthrops, but there's definitely names on that squad who had family members whose names also echoed on Friday night ... and probably some coming up the ranks.

Sounds like something he might have grabbed from Coach Gaines after Lee beat Permian in '88 ... see Friday Night Lights ... and forced the coin flip to break the three-way tie.

Not unless you're a ref when the field goal team is warming up.

That is a one-sided advantage item. The defense makes the kicker think more about it and hopefully that makes them miss. As to why coaches do it? They have an extra time out that they don't get to save for next week and don't get to exchange it for a free order of fries at McDonalds after the game if they don't use them all. It costs them nothing at all to use it. The same way that it costs nothing for everyone on the defense to put their hands up, nor for everyone behind the goal post to sway. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. Most of the time, if it works, it's on longer kicks which are going to be lower percentage anyway. In either case, it's a one-sided "disadvantage" at a specific time. For said analogy to be similarly applicable, the act of playing on the next day would have had to mess with Cathedral's COLLECTIVE team psyche and done so for two quarters, with a lead, as opposed to a single play, one a single player, with the whole game resting on a single play and coming from behind. I could see the argument if postponement affects Cathedral because they don't play well in the morning and Chatard plays great in mornings, but I doubt that's the case here. It could certainly be an issue if Cathedral plays well in the rain and the postponement moved to a day where the ground was now dry and the sun was out with a slight breeze. Now you could argue that they are at a disadvantage. Could certainly get on board with that. Could be that the postponement forced the game to be played at one of the school's home field instead of a neutral location? That could certainly have an impact. But I'm just not seeing the detriment to Cathedral for anything that would be a one-sided detriment. As @Footballking16 said, "One team showed up to play Saturday morning while the other team was still in bed" and this wasn't a case of Elaine's wake-up service failing Jean-Paul/Cathedral or Kramer giving them hot tea to pour on themselves. Perhaps, let's take this from a different angle. Specifically what impacted Cathedral negatively? If Cathedral was the dominant team, then it really doesn't matter if they played on split days. If they weren't the dominant team, then maybe you could argue that they had "the luck of the Irish" on that one Friday night and were going to stun Goliath. Possibly, but I don't think luck ever has much to do with Cathedral's, or Chatard's for that matter, performance. There are times where a postponement CAN have an impact on a game, but I'm just not seeing it in this particular game. I could be missing something specific here, but I haven't seen anyone mention something specific to this particular game.

I understand that when something out of the ordinary happens, general human tendency is to wonder about its impact. If it was something that happened to one side and not the other, I'd be more inclined to consider that. For example, if Cathedral's bus broke down on the way to the game the second day and the team had to push the bus five miles to a gas station before the game, then I'd say that perhaps one team "benefited" from the unusual circumstance or if Cathedral had to play the remainder of the game without their starting QB because his big brother was getting married that Saturday and he was the best man so he couldn't attend. In this case, however, both teams had to come back the next day, facing the same/similar hardships, etc. I'm not sure that either team had an advantage or disadvantage based on the postponement; especially given that Chatard was putting up points in the second quarter and Cathedral wasn't.

Apparently the Sectional of Death will be hosted by the Grim Reaper this season.

Respectable so far.

Harrison with 50+ yard run by Knoy. Popp with his second 2-point conversion of the night. Harrison leads 30-13 over McCutcheon at half.

McCutcheon with TD on ricochet. Trails Harrison 22-13. About 4 minutes left in first half.

McCutcheon with 80 yard TD pass on first play of 2Q. PAT bounces off left upright. Harrison 22 - McCutcheon 6 with 11:48 in 2Q.

Knoy with a 55-yard run. Harrison leads 22-0 over McCutcheon with 33 seconds left in Q1.