Semistate Championship scores......

[gonzoron]

Just now, Lysander said:

Westfield 41

Merrillville 16

11:52 left in 4th

Don't know if you've been watching much of this, but Webster for Westfield is a beast.

[BTF]

1 minute ago, Lysander said:

Westfield 41

Merrillville 16

11:52 left in 4th

Another embarrassing night for the north. 

[psaboy]

2 minutes ago, Frozen Tundra said:

Zionsville won 27-9

Pretty nice to be able to play all your postseason games on your home field. 

[foxbat]

SouthAdams 42 - LCC 3.  3:23 left in Q3.

 

[psaboy]

Just now, gonzoron said:

Don't know if you've been watching much of this, but Webster for Westfield is a beast.

Is he a D1'er??

[Lysander]

2 minutes ago, gonzoron said:

Don't know if you've been watching much of this, but Webster for Westfield is a beast.

Yep.  Been watching since late 3rd Q. Westfield is just dominating now.

Edited November 21, 2020 by Lysander

[SAC_Coach]

Just now, psaboy said:

Pretty nice to be able to play all your postseason games on your home field. 

Don’t forget the forfeit for sectional championship 

[oldtimeqb]

2 minutes ago, crimsonace1 said:

You kick so the best they can do is tie with the 2-pointer. They'd have to score a TD, 2PC AND then score again in OT (and likely convert another 2PC) to beat you. 

Consider me 100% in the Kick camp.  I've just known some coaches who might go for the jugular then but was curious what others think.

Glad my thinking isn't off base!

  

[Coach Nowlin]

How has the Houser kid played RB for West field 

[Frozen Tundra]

3 minutes ago, psaboy said:

Pretty nice to be able to play all your postseason games on your home field. 

You won’t hear an argument from me. I thought it was lame as well.

[gonzoron]

Just now, Coach Nowlin said:

How has the Houser kid played RB for West field 

Don't really know for sure. Every time I clicked over there it was all Webster.

[Lysander]

13 minutes ago, oldtimeqb said:

I thought Chatard/Marian was going to be the finish of the night. 

It was a nail-biter. 

[Coach Nowlin]

4th Q 90 sec left.   4th down and Pioneer may have just been stopped

[Staxawax]

4 minutes ago, psaboy said:

Pretty nice to be able to play all your postseason games on your home field. 

That’s on the IHSAA. ZERO blame on Zionsville. They played where they were told.

[Coach Nowlin]

yes,  Pioneer stopped 4th and shot with 112 left 

Luers ball.  Game over 

[TigerFan20]

Cathedral off to State

[Frozen Tundra]

2 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:

yes,  Pioneer stopped 4th and shot with 112 left 

Luers ball.  Game over 

What a comeback. Thought they were dead in the water.

[Staxawax]

3 minutes ago, Coach Nowlin said:

yes,  Pioneer stopped 4th and shot with 112 left 

Luers ball.  Game over 

Unfortunately Royal Center will never forget this game.

[CathdralNation]

Irish run out clock. Game ends.

Final score Cathedral 32 - Castle 7 (apologies for an incorrect score earlier, Castle did convert the PAT)

Good luck to the Irish as they face the Zionsville Eagles at Lucas Oil next week for the state championship!

[crimsonace1]

6A: Westfield vs. Center Grove
5A: Zionsville vs. Cathedral
4A: Hobart vs. Roncalli
3A: Chatard vs. Danville
2A: FW Luers vs. Western Boone
1A: South Adams vs. Covenant Christian

9 of the 12 state finalists from Central Indiana. 

Given this is the first time the IHSAA has not used pre-determined State Finals matchups, my guess is 3A/1A/5A on Friday (1A in the middle of the day so South Adams has more time to arrive) ... then 2A/4A/6A on Saturday, which also gets your two biggest classes in primetime (but also Indy-area teams so they have the shortest drives home after the late games). 

[psaboy]

4 minutes ago, Staxawax said:

That’s on the IHSAA. ZERO blame on Zionsville. They played where they were told.

Yeah, I know that Zionsville doesn't determine that. Maybe there needs to be some form of "zionsville" rule in future???

[Staxawax]

Center Grove/Westfield 

Cathedral/Zionsville

Roncalli/Hobart

Chatard/Danville 

Western Boone/F W Luers

Covenant Christian/South Adams

 

 

[oldtimeqb]

Tough turn of events there for Pioneer.

Not sure I understand the last timeout though.  Tackled the player on 2nd down with 1:00 left. But then the timeout doesn't come until :43 seconds left?  No chance of a 4th down play losing those 17 seconds. 

Although it's easy to sit here and say that.  I've been guilty of some bad timeouts in the heat of the moment myself, so I'm in a glass house for sure. Just curious if anyone else caught that. 

[GC42]

1 minute ago, oldtimeqb said:

Tough turn of events there for Pioneer.

Not sure I understand the last timeout though.  Tackled the player on 2nd down with 1:00 left. But then the timeout doesn't come until :43 seconds left?  No chance of a 4th down play losing those 17 seconds. 

Although it's easy to sit here and say that.  I've been guilty of some bad timeouts in the heat of the moment myself, so I'm in a glass house for sure. Just curious if anyone else caught that. 

I agree. I thought they would have told the ref they wanted a time out at the end of the play.

[crimsonace1]

2 minutes ago, psaboy said:

Yeah, I know that Zionsville doesn't determine that. Maybe there needs to be some form of "zionsville" rule in future???

It's set up to try to prevent teams from hosting multiple rounds in a row, but it does happen occasionally because both teams were home in the previous round and one team has the northernmost sectional and southernmost regional in the pairing (or vice-versa). The one stipulation put in is a team that was on the road for both the sectional final and the regional hosts the semistate (unless both teams were on the road for those two rounds).