Gardner Jr is only a sophomore but I think he is a Division 1 kid. Their athletic bigger guy is a Division 1 football player who is going to Stanford. The Kirby kid who is their sixth man is going to Miami of Ohio. They are just a well run team who plays together. They seem very well coached.
Was 27-25 at half. Now Manchester up 6 headed to the 4th
Manchester hit a a three with 8.6 seconds left to basically win it.
When did that change occur? I remember there being sectionals, regionals, semi-state, and state forever, but I haven't lived in Indiana for a while.
I saw Manchester won by a point. But they have to play tonight as well to go to State. Was that 3 hit by the little point guard named Hedricks or Hendricks?
Don't know the last name, but yes, he was 5'8. Good shooter.
It's dumb to make the kids play a game, then wait around for 5 or 6 hours, then play a second. Just play two on Friday night and one on Saturday.
Still is. I think they just switched up the number of games at each. Regionals is only one game now, while semistate is 3.
It was sectional, regional, semi-state and state in the 70s. The four semi-states had four teams each with one winner of each going to state.
Proud MHS grad here, good to hear they are going to State😀
Fans were great. Talked to a guy who played for them on their team in 68. His nephew was 6'6" best player for Manchester.
13-0 my senior year and you guys ended the streak. It was always a battle that we came up short in.
I've been through North Manchester. It really is a charming town. I ate a breaded tenderloin at Daves. Congrats to them. I've also had a chance to see this Gavin Bettin. He is a pretty good player who I heard is going to Grace College. I will have to get over there sometime to see a game.
It’s all been dumb since 1998. Do you want a one game regional or a one game semi-state? Another thing the woe, is me crowd has ruined….all because they wanted to hand out more trophies
Brings back great memories growing up there. The gym has stadium seats on one side. Kind of a “Hoosiers” type of feeling town😀
I don’t live there currently but get back occasionally. Dave’s is a great, used to be a drive in restaurant. If you like a good tenderloin, go to “the inn”, they are awesome!
Yeah, I guess in my mind I’ve written off single class bball for a long time. It was quite a thing though. Man, winning a sectional was a big f$cking deal. And you couldn’t replicate the energy in the sectional host gym. So many fans from so many teams. Sad it’s all gone.
I went to Jimtown. Game was in Michigan City, so not too far away, and my dad wanted me to come over.
Seems like your dad might have been one of these guys.
Looks like we got ourselves a real Jimmie here boys. Real blue flame special.
He'd be fun if he wasn't my dad.
My dad gets so pissed off watching my nephew. I laugh about it, but my mom is over it.
Yep, I believe all of those were yelled out to maximum effect yesterday.
I get all of the nostalgia for the good ol' days, Sparty, but the complaining about the current format sounds pretty "woe is me". We should all just stipulate that things will never be as good as those glory days when any person in the world was young.
My buddy who moved to Texas played D1 and his kid was a good player playing at one of the big Houston clubs. A few years back I flew down to visit. He had a game the next morning we were going to and i started to head up into the bleachers and he goes no no we have to watch over there. About ten yards from the corner flag on the opposite end of the stands was a lined box that could fit two people. As a compromise for his behavior he brokered a deal that he could still go to games but that’s where he had to stand. He stands all by himself in that box with the entire bleachers staring across the field at him.
My brother has a 12x18 plaque hanging in his shop: You can't hurt my feelings. My dad drove me home from all my games.
My dad wrestled. Always better if the kid plays a different sport. He never really knew what was going on at soccer games.
And my loud obnoxious uncles all played football. To this day they as a group think soccer is easily in the top 3 gayest things ever created.
I've always felt a kindred spirit with wrestlers...
I spent some time around rugby guys at IU and they were always in the same orbit as wrestlers. Parties were nuts and I'd always leave early. Even the playful drunken ass kickings were still ass kickings.
Exactly!!! The rugby guys were just crazy as hell. The wrestlers knew moves tho
