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Cathedral 42, Decatur Central 7

Cathedral 42, Decatur Central 7. Cathedral wins sectional 13 and will play Whiteland next week in the regional.

It's almost time to leave for the game. Another fine autumn evening for football!

Congratulations to Nate McCahill and all those named to the All City Team: https://www.indystar.com/story/sports/high-school/2020/11/05/ihsaa-football-cathedral-qb-nathan-mccahill-named-indianapolis-player-year-2020/6171484002/

Not much chatter here for this game. I hope the Irish pay attention and advance. And of course I hope they advance injury free.

I grew up, well sort of, 3 blocks west of Tech on 9th St. I attended many Tech football games when I was young, found a way under the fence, and that stadium was always full and lively. Of course Tech had 5,000 students then too. Now they still have about 2500 enrollment and it seems like their athletics have hit the bottom. It's difficult to get young men to play football at smaller schools but there should be 100 or so willing to play football out of an enrollment that large. And it's not just their football program that's lacking participation. A couple of year back their JV basketball team had 6 players and the varsity had 8 players. That's well before the COVID era. I don't know what the answer is and apparently Tech doesn't know either. It's sad to watch.

This is where you hope to take home some hardware. Both teams need to stay focused. BTW, we have located tickets for this game. ☺️

Terre Haute newspaper article: https://www.tribstar.com/sports/local_high_school_sports/braves-bounced-from-class-5a-sectional-by-no-1-cathedral/article_3f6a3ab6-908a-545e-94d5-c4b0150a4ac0.html

It'll be Decatur Central vs. Cathedral at Arlington Middle School for the sectional championship.

Cathedral 57, Terre Haute South 18 final

Cathedral 57, Terre Haute South 18 Nice crisp playoff evening! Back home before 11PM.

Time to head west! GO IRISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have located tickets and will be on the road tomorrow night! 😊

If you really want to attend a game and your school doesn't have extra tickets, get in touch with the home team's Athletic Department and see if they have any for sale. It has worked for us a couple of times this season, in fact we purchased tickets from the Center Grove AD. Sometime you have to wait until the end of the week to get 'em, but they'd rather sell them to you than just eat 'em.

I like the idea of moving the game along with the running clock, but it so doesn't allow the bench players much time on the field. I enjoy hearing the cheers from player's families whose young men don't get much playing time. I don't like the idea of running up the score!

Thanks for that information. I've been in touch with the Terre Haute South AD and he may have some tickets left Friday. He won't know until then. It's nice to have a link to watch but there's nothing like being there! GO IRISH!!!!!!!

We are some old fans who would like to go to TH South to support the Irish. Does anyone have any information concerning tickets for this game or any playoff game? Is the IHSAA distributing tickets for the playoffs? We are not getting a response from school yet so we'd appreciate any ticket information.

I did it again! I need a new calendar or some new glasses!😟 And I went to parochial school!

Well the dates are wrong. My bad! 11-30 - Plainfield at Decatur Central, and Cathedral at Terre Haute South. 12-6 - Sectional championship game

We have someone helping with the field maintenance. Some Cathedral grads have a lawn care business and the turf has been pretty good this year mainly because there hasn't been much wet weather. Also the field is not used except for our games. There's no band practice or anything else, that I'm aware of, on the field. The facility is still quite nice. I don't know what the financial arrangement with Arlington or IPS. Someone who hangs out here may know more about that.

Yep! And some would say they just love "grass" fields. Notre Dame Stadium was terrible until they installed Field Turf.

Do they bother to paint it green like a lot of schools do? It must be tough enough playing on dirt, let along painted dirt.

Best game of the year for the Irish. Pitt isn't great but the Irish were strong in all three phases and won easily. Maybe they just needed to get out of South Bend for a game.☺️

Great win for the Hoosiers! I'm really happy for Tom Allen!