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Harrison 27 - McCutcheon 14 with 9:45 left in the game. LCC takes opening drive of 2nd half in for a scores. PAT fails. Leads West Lafayette 9-0 with 8 minutes left in Q3.

Harrison up over McCutcheon now 27-7 with 2:43 left in Q3.

LCC 3 West Lafayette 0 at half.

LCC up 3-0 on West Lafayette with 11 minutes left in Q2.

LCC and West Lafayette tied at 0-0. End of Q1.

Harrison over McCutcheon 21 - 0 at the half.

Since when have rules been a concern? You don't get "negative 10 million status" following the rules. 😃

Frontiers was average although it had a couple of good songs on it. Better albums by them were Infinity, Evolution, and Escape. Frontiers was a pretty big drop off from the preceding albums. It was also Vallory's last album and the last tour before Smith dropped out for a while. The album that followed it, Raised on Radio, was actually a good album, but that's about where things really start falling off for them. Saw them on the Frontiers tour, but much of what they played was the old stuff, so it was worth it. Had to endure Bryan Adams as an opening act, which would have been fine if he'd performed It's Only Love and Tina Turner had showed up, but it'd be another couple of years before they hooked up for that song.

You missed McCutcheon @ Harrison.

2 Point Games Frontier @ Benton Central Central Catholic @ West Lafayette Rensselaer @ Tipton Twin Lakes @ Logansport Western @ Hamilton Heights Taylor @ Clinton Central McCutcheon @ Harrison North Vermillion @ Riverton Parke South Central @ Caston Bowman Academy @ Lake Station

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There's a decent amount of folks on that LCC team that aren't seniors too. Meister's a junior. Wyatt Williams is a sophomore. Thompson's a freshman. Baker's a junior. Boutelle's a junior. Eversman is a junior. Joey Metzger's a sophomore. One thing that I noticed with LCC is that most of their offensive possessions are relatively short. They have a no-huddle offense which slices time off the possessions and they tend to grab chunks of yards at a time. They basically have offensive drives that last about 3 minutes or less on average, at best, whether they score or turn the ball over. They had a 94-yard drive that took around 3 minutes or so and a 64-yard drive that went four plays in under a minute. In the second half, LCC received the ball, fumbled it away, defense stalled Twin Lakes, and LCC scored and there was still 9:03 left in the 3rd quarter ... less than 3 minutes INCLUDING Twin Lakes' time. They then turned around, forced a 3 and out and then scored again leaving 5:31 on the clock in 3rd quarter ... basically 3 1/2 minutes to score, again INCLUDING Twin Lakes' time. That was a 9-play, 40-yard drive for LCC. About the only thing I think LCC can do at this point is, perhaps, still go no-huddle, but still burn the play clock for the full 40 seconds. A 40-yard, nine play drive would then take about 6 minutes off of the clock as opposed to under 3 minutes. With that said, I'm not sure that would work for LCC because that tempo is just built in to everything they do on offense and I suspect that bleeding the clock in a no-huddle might actually throw off their rhythm.

LCC's passing the ball around to other folks in his absence. LCC's averaging a bit over 20 receptions per game with almost 1,000 yards total and 10 receiving TDs across three games. Getting in passing to the other receivers will payoff for LCC more at the time that Clayton returns to play.

Not married? Lord, I apologize for that there.

Hearsay as I didn't attend the scrimmage this year, but a couple folks I talked to in the stands Friday said that, as much as you can get from a scrimmage, LCC easily held their own against Harrison. Given what I saw in the scrimmage in 2023, that sounds similar.

LCC looked better-tuned in the Twin Lakes game save for the second quarter. LCC won the game 56-21 and shut out Twin Lakes in all but the second quarter when it seemed that Twin Lakes would make it a game. LCC went 2-2 in their first half possessions with their very familiar quickstrike offense. Mind you, yes, some of their scores came on one-play or two-play drives, but they also had nine-play drives that took under three minutes with the no-huddle offense shaving seconds that turn into minutes off of their possession time. This is what was missing from the Logansport game where LCC would let the Berries hold the ball for 7-8 minutes, stop them, then give the ball back in 2 minutes without a score. I'd be surprised if LCC had 6 minutes of possession time, in just two possessions, in that first quarter and yet came out of it 14-0 to end Q1. Not sure what was going on in the second half as Twin Lakes outscored LCC 21-7 to bring the half to a close with a tie. The LCC defense allowed a couple of quick scores while the offense did not reciprocate in their short 2nd quarter possessions. Given Coach O'Shea's reputation at LaRocca for second half adjustments, I think the Knights might have been sweating a bit heading to the locker room. Instead, a renewed defense came back from the Knights' locker room along with a fired offense that saw Metzger scramble out of the pocket at opportune times which kept drives alive and added to his air stats of over 350 yards passing with over a 70% completion rate. Toss in Meister, who gave a master class on running the ball with a total of almost 140 yards on the ground and four TDs for the night and the Knights' offense looked like its old self putting up 35 points in the second, again on limited possession time. Toss in a receiving corps with 20+ receptions for 300+ yards and it looked like old times. Outside of the 2nd quarter, the defense has to be feeling really good. They found a way to be in Twin Lakes' backfield several times during the night. When they weren't in the backfield, Twin Lakes had their share of incomplete passes coming at the hands of the secondary and backers making hits that jarred the ball loose at the catch. The defense also showed off that bend-not-break component a couple of times in the game, including a situation where Twin Lakes got down to LCC's 1, was charged with a motion penalty, and saw that drive die at LCC's 6 only to have LCC turn right back around and take it 94 yards in the other direction for a score. Without the 2nd quarter, I'd give the Knights an A+ rating for the game, but that 2nd quarter gave reminiscence of the Logansport game. With that 2nd half, against Twin Lakes, I'd give them a B+ overall score for the game ... again, taking into account the wonky 2nd quarter. That kind of play will be OK for the middle teams of the HC, but it can't be repeated against WL or that game will be over by the half ... similarly in later-round post-season games against teams like Lutheran, AC, etc. Nonetheless, it looks like the Knights are going in the right direction to getting the kinks out. Last week, the consistency was an issue from drive to drive and defensive stand to defensive stand throughout the game. this week, it was kind of bottled into a single quarter. Overall, good progress.

In true LCC fashion, I coached a lot of those guys sons. BTW, this last Friday's game was Youth Night at LCC where they introduced the junior high players and cheerleaders and also introduce the youth players, 3rd - 6th grade. There's an Anthrop in that group along with other names from the folks that were in the four-peat group.

LCC over Twin Lakes 56 - 21. Final.

LCC shutting out Twin Lakes in the 2nd half. Meister with his fourth TD tonight has put on a running clinic between the tackles. LCC 56 - 21. Running clock with 3 minutes left.

Twin Lakes with a grounding call on 4th resulting in roughly 20 yard loss. LCC takes just one play to score on pass play. 49 - 21 with 10:52 left Q4.

LCC squeezes in another score before the end of the quarter. Pulling away from Twin Lakes now 42 - 21 with 41 seconds left in Q3.

LCC forces a 3 and out and Twin Lakes nets about 9 on the punt. LCC has a 40 yard drive in 9 plays to start separating from Twin Lakes 35 - 21 with 5:31 left in Q3.

LCC fumbles first possession of half, gets it back, and scores on 36 yard run. Leads Twin Lakes 28-7 with 9:03 left in Q3.

LCC and Twin Lakes tied at 21 at the half. LCC will receive in the 2nd half.

And just like that LCC strikes back with a 64 yard TD drive in four plays in less than a minute. LCC retakes the lead over Twin Lakes 21 - 7. About 3:30 left in first half. Twin Lakes with a 66 yard TD pass and it's tied up again 21 - 21.