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Touchdown Giants on a 48-yd run by Alijah Price. Ben Davis leads 24-17 over Cathedral 2:51 to play in the 3rd.

Tied up. Irish with 10 unanswered.

Ben Davis 17, Cathedral 17 with 8:01 to play in the 3rd.

Ben Davis 17, Cathedral 10 9:21 to play in the 3rd. 

Cathedral goes for and recovers an onside kick. Missed FG for the Giants early...now a converted onside kick for the Irish.

Center Grove up 14-0 with 4:02 to play in the 3rd over Warren.

Center Grove 7, Warren 0 10:00 3rd

4 minutes ago, Footballking16 said:

Huge break. Far-side line judge is having a terrible night.

See, I got called a "huge homer" here this week. I call it fair.

HSE up 14-10 on Westfield at the half per the X machine

Halftime-Ben Davis 17, Cathedral 7

Huge score by the Giants before the half. Tommy Gotkowski tossed it up for grabs in the end zone from 13 yards out, and Nate Williams caught it in traffic. Giants also got a break on a 4th down conversion during the drive. Irish ball to start the second half. 

17 minutes ago, Warren05 said:

Wow. Go Warren

They could host the Semi-State with a W

Ben Davis 17, Cathedral 7 (:36 2nd qtr)

Just now, BDGiant93 said:

Ben Davis 17, Cathedral 7 (:36 2nd qtr)

Cathedral ball to start the 2nd Half

Half-Center Grove 0, Warren Central 0

Ben Davis 10, Cathedral 7 (3:31 2nd)

Warren 0, Center Grove 0 2nd Qtr.

Ben Davis 10, Cathedral 0 End 1st

5 hours ago, WestfieldRocks said:

Some would call The Villages the Disney World for retired people....LOL

That's exactly what Coach Dullaghan calls it.

19 hours ago, SIR IRISH said:

BD barely beat LC and Warren. 

Warren/Ben Davis is always going to be close. That's a rivalry game. BD came off the loss to IMG that week and didn't get fully reengaged per Coach Mann. He said they really learned from that situation.

I can't fully explain why the Giants had trouble with the Bears. It was their senior night, and LC seems to know how to play the Giants (up 28-0 in 2022 before losing 29-28). The Giants did not have Nylan Brown that night and were missing a couple of receivers. Gotkowski got hurt as well during the game, but the Giants, for some reason, could get into the red zone but couldn't make 3's turn into 7's. It was a weird game.

Like they have most of the year, BD performed well in the clutch though and LC scored a TD right before the end of the game to make it 26-23. Outside of the IMG game (where they also had opportunities against a really good opponent), that was probably the worst performance of the year.

2 hours ago, FastpacedO said:

BD dropping 62 on LN was definitely eyebrow raising. The Wildcats threw 5 Int's and had a fumble in that game something that was detrimental to them, you can't give BD that many possessions or a short field.

 

That was a very surprising game. I think everything snowballed on LN quickly. Never expected the Giants to be up 55-14 at the half.

13 hours ago, Rodney said:

Didn't someone recently write a three-quarter guide on how to stop Ben Davis' offense.

Ben Davis stopped themselves a lot in that game with drops. Finally, Gotkowski and MZ IV just put the game on their backs and legs and took over where they could. Nylan Brown, Drew Evans and the D stopped Sherrell a lot except for the big plays.

14 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

Fair enough.  I got the stat from a bio which appears to be from a retirement community, lol.

https://www.thevillages.com/life/villager-backstory-meet-dick-dullaghan

That's a great article. I have read it. 

1 minute ago, FastpacedO said:

The Giants have an excellent QB as well.

Offensively Ben Davis is averaging 42 PPG Cathedral 36.36

Defensively Ben Davis is allowing 16.82 PPG and Cathedral 17.27

They do. Tommy doesn't get enough credit for how good he's been this year. Wherever this ends for the Giants this year, this week, next week or on November 26th, it's going to be tough to replace this senior group and these guys. 

Only three Ben Davis teams have averaged more points (42) than this year's Giants...

2017 (47.4)

1991 (46.5)

2001 (43.3)

I think the Giants have executed well to this point with an excellent QB, too. 

12 minutes ago, FastpacedO said:

Think of Warren Central and Ben Davis similar to Carroll and Homestead. Homestead and Carroll are not part of Fort Wayne Public Schools just like Warren Central, Pike, North Central, Lawrence North, Lawrence Central, Southport, Perry Meridian, Speedway, Franklin Central, and Ben Davis are not part of IPS. The Private/Parochial schools have been around (earliest 1918 Cathedral) even during the hayday when Arsenal Tech, Howe, Washington, etc. were doing very good.

The decline of IPS was a direct result of busing and it has never recovered. From 1973 to 1998 IPS student enrollment plummeted by 64,000 students. It had zero to do with recruiting.

Some PP Catholic schools are tied to specific parishes. Ritter, Roncalli, Chatard, Scecina for ex. are tied to parishes. Cathedral and Brebeuf Jesuit are not. 

31 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

It coincided with the arrival of Mr. Dick Dullaghan. One of the finest men I have met in my lifetime. He treated the janitor the same as he did the Superintendent. Before he was hired at Ben Davis they had only had 10 winning seasons in 46 years.

It's 11 by my count.

1940, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1958, 1964, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979

In addition, they were .500 in 1947, 1949 and 1953.

So, all totaled up, the program had 11 winning and a total of 14 non-losing seasons between 1937 and 1983. 

1 hour ago, FastpacedO said:

Ben Davis's State and National prominence was there long before Washington High School closed the first time in 1995. Their National Title came in 1991 Dick Dullaghan started coaching at BD in 1984 and that is when they really began to take off.

Busing though really was the start of the death nail to IPS schools.

I agree with much of this. Ben Davis had always been pretty good in basketball, but the football team largely struggled between 1937 and 1983.

Bob Wilbur did a fine job at BD in the 70's, but the big jump came from the hiring of Dick Dullaghan. Coach D arrived on campus with a program that had a record of 155-265-12. When he retired, BD was 368-307-12. I attribute the biggest jump in hiring Coach D and Coach Kevin Vanderbush.

Judge Dillon's deseg order bussed students from IPS into the townships, and that went into effect in 1981. Washington closed in 1995. 

For a real primer, you might pick up Steve Witty's book "I Remember When The Game Had No Class" because he covers it from the basketball side.

1 hour ago, Impartial_Observer said:

I will just say this, Ben Davis’s rise to state and national prominence seemed to coincide with Washington HS closing. But I’m getting old and my memory ain’t what it once was. 

At the risk of being corrected by Temptation, you are not correct.

Giants 31-24

HSE 28-24

Center Grove 35-7

6 minutes ago, Muda69 said:

Well now FHS will get a nice, fancy, professionally built press box with A/C, an elevator, and probably a mini-bar.  It will match their fancy-dancy LED field lights that they flash in blue and white whenever the Hot Dogs score.  Of course they don't get used much.......................

 

 

Those LED lights are far more efficient and less costly over time.

Flory seems like an amazing guy. I am really glad he landed at Kokomo. It seems like he is embraced by the community.

18 hours ago, PHJIrish said:

He should have the stadium or the field named after him.  I would imagine that will happen some day.

As long a Ray Skillman keeps signing the checks, that part is taken. The field would be a great touch.