Twin Lakes at LCC

[Tippy]

This Friday Twin Lakes will come to LCC.  Twin Lakes is much better than last year.  LCC beat Twin Lakes last year 43-0 and 49-7 the year before.  In 2015 LCC beat Twin Lakes 65-2.  But in the 1980's Twin Lakes had some really good teams.  On September 17, 1982, LCC played at Twin Lakes in a persistent rain.  There were 2000 people at the game.  Twin Lakes beat LCC on that night 54-0.  LCC turned the ball over 8 times and only had 4 first downs in the game.  For the final 15 minutes of the game, the clocked stopped only when the ball went out of bounds.  LCC had minus 15 yards rushing.   The LCC coach said the Knights stunk the place up.  When LCC beats Twin Lakes this Friday, the Twin Lakes fans can think about 1982.  It must have been a long trip back to Lafayette that night.

TW  14-21-19-0

LCC  0-0-0-0

[BendNotBreak]

Yeah... Lcc has taken their fair share of beatings.. 😁  Hopefully its a good game vrs their former Coach....

[Tippy]

6 hours ago, BendNotBreak said:

Yeah... Lcc has taken their fair share of beatings.. 😁  Hopefully its a good game vrs their former Coach....

Twin Lakes lost 2 games in 1982, and both of them were to McCutcheon.  Kevin O'Shea was the QB for McCutcheon in 1982.  McCutcheon beat Twin Lakes 16-13 at Twin Lakes for the Regional Championship, and went on to the state championship game.

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1 hour ago, Tippy said:

Twin Lakes lost 2 games in 1982, and both of them were to McCutcheon.  Kevin O'Shea was the QB for McCutcheon in 1982.  McCutcheon beat Twin Lakes 16-13 at Twin Lakes for the Regional Championship, and went on to the state championship game.

O'Shea's 3-0 when Twin Lakes visits LaRocca.  Unfortunately for Twin Lakes, that's when O'Shea was coaching LCC.

Lord, I apologize for that there.

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12 hours ago, foxbat said:

O'Shea's 3-0 when Twin Lakes visits LaRocca.  Unfortunately for Twin Lakes, that's when O'Shea was coaching LCC.

Lord, I apologize for that there.

With Lcc wearing the #1 ranking in 2A... for 1 week anyway.... Lord i apologize for dat.... 😊

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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.