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The interception at the end of the first half was a huge play! Also a holding penalty on a late game drive hurt the Irish. These are things that can be cleaned up in the future. Yes, the Irish are young but there's enough talent to make a deep run in the playoffs. We have to remember this is high school football and not the NFL. These are young men learning to how to play the game and learning how to win. You really can't fault the effort and effort is big at the high school level, imo. Also the Irish have as much speed as they've had in many years, and speed can help you win a lot of games (just see last week's game). The St. X fans I talked to on the way out of the stadium were really impressed with the Irish. Overall it was a fun night of football, but it'll be good to be playing the rest of the regular season closer to home. We've had enough of Cincinnati!

Outstanding and fun high school football game. A couple of turnovers were the difference in this one. You can't give a great team like St. X short fields because they know what to do with 'em. Disappoint with the Cathedral crowd tonight. I guess some just didn't want to make the trip to Cincinnati a third time. Oh, and no hazmat accidents on I74 tonight! More tomorrow.

The game time has been changed to 7PM. Evidently the Indy Star was not notified of the change.

Cathedral was reclassified during the summer, have been placed in a sectional with Terre Haute North and Terre Haute South and New Pal was moved to the south, where they belonged all the time, and will play the sectional 13 winner in the regional! Now, how's that for a conspiracy?

Thanks!

Cathedral won today's freshman game 19-0 against Bishop Chatard. Again this week no score reported for the JV game.

No off week for Cathedral this week for sure. St. X whipped up on Penn last night and are their normal high powered team. The Irish will have to have a higher level of intensity for the Bombers too. The effort level was not at peak value last night. Chatard had a lot to do with that.

One of the officials forgot to pick up his flag after a late game call and one of the players had to hand it to him. I sure hope they had plenty of Oxi-Clean at home to clean up that laundry.😄

I should add that it was really nice to be back at Arlington tonight! The field held up quite well. I've been told that this could be the start of more games at this venue.

It was a gift from God for the Irish tonight. Except for a about 3 minutes of the 2nd half, Chatard seemed to control the line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball. It took a couple of long plays from the Irish to pull this one out. IMO, Bishop Chatard solidified their place as the #1 team in 3A. They played a very good Irish team toe to toe BTW, Cathedral won the game 31-21. The officiating in the game was, well strange! That's the only word that comes to mind. They turned this game into a 3 hour affair with they multiple conferences and a flag on just about every other play. I'm not sure that either team had an advantage, although Trojan fans may disagree. The game is being replayed on Channel 40 now and they are just starting the 2nd half.

That's an old tune! 🤣

That doesn't look too bad. It looks better than the last time the Irish played there, that's for sure.

I'm not saying that Chatard didn't have a great game last year but Cathedral showed less spunk than in any game all of last season, imho. Chatard took the Irish to the woodshed in every way possible.

It's gameday and this one is always special. I'm really tired of the trip to Cincinnati too. We get to make that trip again next week but first things first. One thing I'm sure of, the Irish players will give a better effort this year. You can count on that!

You know I'll be there for the tailgate! It was good to see locals, Terry and Nick, have a big week.. Both are very deserving!

A whole day without any conversation about this game? That's unusual. Can't wait to see what has been done to Arlington's field!

That's possible it went OOB on the one, but from our vantage point it appeared to hit the pylon straight on, but we were across the field from the play. Anyway, the short punt gave Elder the ball at the 6 and a pretty easy score.

I'll be there early as usual!

I knew the score was 28-27. I just must've had fat fingers when posting.

Elder won the freshman game yesterday 28-17. Cathedral went for two late in the game and were unsuccessful. I have no information on the JV game. If anyone has the score please pass that along.

This one is scheduled to be played at Arlington and will bring back a lot of memories, some good some not so good, to both sides. It should be a good one!

It was nice to meet you Friday night! Hope to see you at the tailgate this upcoming Friday.

The game next week against Bishop Chatard will also be played at Arlington. I was told by a member of the Athletic Staff that work has been ongoing there for quite awhile and it will be playable next week.

Stats are quite even: https://twitter.com/CathedralFBall/status/1170160098569871360/photo/1

There's just no room for a tailgate the way the Irish do it . There's barely enough room to park cars.