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Indeed. Congrats Titans!

Cool, my wife and I have good friends that are there, all the way from Pennsylvania, to watch him.

No excuses. I know you're not talking to me, but those PAM - PNG games were all pretty good games, even the '22 game, and in each one the best team won, IMO. As far as last night, the best team won, period. PNG missed Bailey for sure, but I don't believe the game would have gone the other way. The offense wasn't clicking, and there's been too many dropped passes all season, regardless of the scores. Still, it was a good season, and to be ranked 3rd in the state ain't too shabby. As far as the player kicking, I didn't see it but I heard about it. I guarantee when Coach J. sees it if he didn't already, there'll be a price to pay for that.

Not a bit. That team is stacked. PNG really missed Bailey, but still, did any other 5a team keep it that close for 3 qtrs this season?

Long passes started already.

Good luck Newton!

Good luck Mustangs, for the win!

Back in the 60s, '67 maybe, my folks recorded the radio play-by-play of the PNG - Ned game on a reel-to-reel tape recorder of some sort, and sent it to my older brother who was on a Navy destroyer in Viet Nam. He later said that it was a huge hit on board the ship. I guess it must have been a close game that year.

Except that PNG has some key injuries, a Soph QB (although very talented, apparently), and SOC is stacked. I do believe that PNG will hold their own better than last season; and who knows, anything can happen. Anyway, tomorrow is game time, so we will all see. Today the special teams for both are probably getting some extra work, and the receivers are running routes.

What a classy thread. Classy.

Define "hype".

True, dat. I grew up in a pretty rough section of Groves.

Edit: 28 - 24 PAM, just to make it a closer game. It's hard to beat the same team twice, when it's two good teams playing, or else the score is typically closer the second time around. PAM will have to get the first game out of their heads, and it'll be the opposite for BH.

WOS

28 - 17, PAM.

Sure it could be a similar score, but I don't think it will be a similar game.

It's a very tough row to hoe for any "regular" 5aDII team to beat SOC. Randle perhaps can beat them again. PNG I think can hold their own if things don't get out of hand, and they do everything right, and the refs don't get intimidated and do their job and throw flags.

I agree. But tonight NFHS camera work was very slightly better I think, for the PNG - MH game, than TL. The camera work for TL rrreeaallly needs some work. They zoom in on field goals and passes so that you don't see the play(s) at all. Sometimes the camera isn't on the game at all. Recently was watching a game (Barber's Hill game, maybe?), and the announcing crew was really ragging on their camera guy ... "for the love of Mike, raise the camera!", one announcer said at one point. Sometimes it's actually humorous how the camera will zoom in on the ball and pan as the ball flies through the air, completely missing the play. Mostly though, it's very frustrating.

Yes. Congrats Hardin. Tough game tonight, but a great season all the same.

Who is playing QB for PNG?

Scalp 'em Indians!

Good luck BC!

Good luck PAM, pulling for you! Safe travels everyone.

Have a blessed day everyone.

Yoakum seems to always be tough in football. I haven't looked for data, but I am somewhat, actually more than a little, surprised that Hardin and Yoakum are in the same classification; Yoakum being quite a bit larger area and enrollment. Obviously they are, of course, but I've been through Yoakum and it's a fair sized town, compared to Hardin. Anyway, I guess all of this is meaningless on the football field, and I'm going with Hardin. This team will take it to anybody.