By CLIFF BRUNT ISL Editor INDIANAPOLIS — Cathedral’s Terry McLaurin did just about everything in the Class 5A final. The senior caught six passes for 91 yards and a touchdown, ran three times for 79 yards and two scores, had 25 kickoff return yards, intercepted a pass on defense and had four solo tackles to […]
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By CLIFF BRUNT and CRAIG DRAGASH ISL Staff ISL’s Cliff Brunt and Craig Dragash come to you one final time this season with picks for the IHSAA state football finals. Six championship games will be played — three on Friday, three on Saturday — at Lucas Oil Stadium in downtown Indianapolis. 6A: Carmel (10-3) vs. […]
By RYAN NAYLOR ISL Correspondent WESTFIELD, Ind. — Westfield dominated Concord from the opening snap in route to a 35-3 victory on Friday night and a berth in the Class 5A state finals next Friday at Lucas Oil Stadium. The top-ranked Shamrocks picked off Concord’s Trevor Wilmore on the very first pass from scrimmage, leading […]
By CLIFF BRUNT and CRAIG DRAGASH ISL Staff This week, we decided to make picks for all 10 IHSAA semistate games. Here’s how we performed in the nine that were played Friday: 5A: Terre Haute North (10-2) vs. Indianapolis Cathedral (8-5), Arsenal Tech Brunt: Cathedral 42, Terre Haute North 28 Dragash: Cathedral 28, Terre Haute […]
By CLIFF BRUNT and CRAIG DRAGASH ISL Staff This week, we have decided to make picks for all 10 IHSAA semistate games. Enjoy the breakdown! 5A: Terre Haute North (10-2) vs. Indianapolis Cathedral (8-5), Arsenal Tech Cathedral hasn’t really needed Terry McLaurin much during this run through the playoffs, aside from the first game when […]
By ROSS WEBER ISL Correspondent WHITELAND, Ind. — Since the IHSAA football playoffs started, Cathedral has played in, and won, three games in which senior quarterback Collin Barthel has only thrown the ball an average of 11 times a game, for less than 100 yards per contest. The Irish running game had been dominating, rushing […]
By CRAIG DRAGASH and CLIFF BRUNT ISL Staff There will be an interesting contrast between the two IHSAA Class 6A semistate football contests on Friday. One will feature two very familiar foes in Warren Central and Center Grove, and the other match two teams that don’t play on a yearly basis in Carmel and Penn. […]
By ROSS WEBER ISL Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS — It was business as usual for the Cathedral Fighting Irish as they defeated Anderson 56-13 for their Class 5A sectional title on Friday night. Cathedral has had three players splitting carries; junior Caleb Cross, sophomore Evan Christopher and senior Terry McLaurin. Against Decatur Central in the opening sectional […]
By ROSS WEBER ISL Correspondent When Zionsville quarterback Joshua Hinkle went down in the first quarter against Indianapolis Cathedral, the whole stadium at Arsenal Tech High School fell silent. The ambulance was called onto the field, and there was a delay of almost twenty minutes before play resumed. When backup quarterback sophomore Trevor Liechty stepped […]
By ROSS WEBER ISL Correspondent On a cold October night seemingly perfect for high school football, the largest student section at Decatur Central rained down chants of “Mr. Football! Mr. Football!” early in the first half of the Sectional game between the Decatur Central Hawks and the Fighting Irish of Cathedral. The surprising thing was, […]
By CLIFF BRUNT and CRAIG DRAGASH ISL Staff Here is our final look at The Associated Press’ Indiana prep football poll heading into sectionals. In 6A, Penn holds onto the No. 1 spot, but it’s not as strong a grip as it once was after No. 2 Ben Davis rallied from 24-0 down last Friday […]
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