Sectional 36

[First_Backer_Inside]

Figured I'd get this one started before the games tonight. Probably the only sectional in the North that doesn't have a clear favorite. I could see four teams coming away with this one. Love to hear other people's opinions on the sectional as a whole as well as who ya got for the matchups tonight.

Alexandria [6-3] at Wabash [2-7] - Wabash finished the season with two more wins than I thought they would have. Season comes to an end tonight. Alexandria with a running clock at some point in this game.

Eastbrook [4-5] at Tipton [5-4] - Game of the night in the sectional. Watching a few games of Tipton they don't really have that dude they have had in years past when they are extremely tough to beat, but they just always seem to hang around in games. Very disciplined, look well coached. Eastbrook has looked like a tough out for everybody in 2A at times and other times they've laid an egg. Will be interesting to see which team shows up tonight, but I'm going to take Tipton with the home field advantage in this one. 

Elwood [1-8] at Rochester [7-2] - Hopefully a running clock at some point in the game for the Zebras.

Blackford [2-7] at Eastern (Greentown) [5-4] - Eastern gets the job done tonight. Too many athletes for Blackford to handle. 

[Lemmy]

Alex at Wabash- Alex by a lot

Eastbrook at Tipton- Interesting game, noticed for 2A sagarin ratings Tipton, Eastbrook, and Eastern are the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd ranked teams in the class.  Both are solid programs and don't really have any great wins or bad losses for the season.  My guess is that Tipton edges out the victory at home on their new turf field. 

Elwood at Rochester- Rochester, hopefully the Panthers can get back to competetive. 

Blackford at Eastern- Barring silly mistakes, Eastern should get the job done here. 

[First_Backer_Inside]

Tipton at Alexandria - Haven't seen either of these two teams play. Common opponent has been Eastbrook. Tipton was able to beat them last week while Alexandria lost by one point. I expect it to be a good game. I'll take Tipton just based off of the Eastbrook scores as well as Tipton's ability to stop teams from scoring very many points all year. Should be a good one tho.

Rochester at Eastern - Eastern is very athletic. Can strike at any point with the type of offense they have. Rochester likes to grind out yards and clock. Both teams have to take advantage of every possession they have. Hopefully Rochester learned a thing or two from playing Maconaquah going up against the spread. I think Rochester wins this one.