Official Quarterfinal Pairings

[LukeFeddersen]

Post your predictions now!

HLV (Victor) at Central (Elkader)

Lamoni at Fremont-Mills (Tabor)

MMC (Marcus) at West Bend-Mallard

Newell-Fonda at Don Bosco (Gilbertville)

 

[B2B 14]

Can't wait! Love this time of year. Some great games, would love to be at the Lamoni/FM game! Also MMC/WBM could be interesting. Really all the games will be good, but as always I'll be at the Bosco game! Good luck to all!

 

[285statechamp]

I think the DB NF game is the most intriguing. Going to be interesting to see how Don Bosco responds playing a tough opponent in Newell Fonda, who is playing their best football of the season right now. Will be interesting to see, It's either going to be a blowout win for DB or a close win for NF.

 

[knights_1246]

It's going to quite a drive on Friday! I'm two hours west of Newell and am going to make the trip to Don Bosco. Looking forward to one heck of a game. It's going to be a great night of football!

 

[Ron Burkley]

Does anyone else think the HLV is Capable of beating Central?

 

[Scobelicious]

I do...I have not seen Elkader play, but I have seen HLV. They have some talented football players, and Strudthof is an explosive back...but...they'll need him to be healthy for this one.

 

[tm33_08]

Yeah, if Strudthoff is healthy, I definitely think they've got a shot to take down Central.

 

[Ron Burkley]

yes if he is healthy i believe that they will come out on top.

 

[putt4dough]

at this point any team I believe is capable of winning. I do believe it will also be very hard to run on the Warriors.

 

[notlongago]

Having seen both HLV and Elkader, I don't think HLV keeps it within 2 scores.

 

[hsmanhunt15]

Would be very surprised if Fremont-Mills didn't handle Lamoni by 20+.

 

[high90school]

I agree with that. I was at the Lamoni/Exira game last night and walked away very unimpressed by either of those teams. Exira had a chance late to tie it late with the ball inside the 10 with under a minute and couldn't get it in on 3 plays and on 4th down their QB spiked it not knowing what down it was when they were inside the Lamoni 1 yard line with roughly 10 seconds left. One thing I will give Lamoni credit for, they did dominate the line of scimmage last night with a lot of movement on the defensive side and it looked to really caused some fits for the Exira-EHK line to figure out. When they did have the ball they were very methodical going down the field. They ran the option very well and didn't make any mistakes that beat themselves. Just dont think they can handle the size of Fremont Mills at all.

 

[tm33_08]

Originally posted by high90school:

I agree with that. I was at the Lamoni/Exira game last night and walked away very unimpressed by either of those teams. Exira had a chance late to tie it late with the ball inside the 10 with under a minute and couldn't get it in on 3 plays and on 4th down their QB spiked it not knowing what down it was when they were inside the Lamoni 1 yard line with roughly 10 seconds left. One thing I will give Lamoni credit for, they did dominate the line of scimmage last night with a lot of movement on the defensive side and it looked to really caused some fits for the Exira-EHK line to figure out. When they did have the ball they were very methodical going down the field. They ran the option very well and didn't make any mistakes that beat themselves. Just dont think they can handle the size of Fremont Mills at all.

Lucky. I sure hope you happened to run into the game's biggest attraction while you were there. Mike Trout (yes, THAT Mike Trout) was at the Lamoni game last night, as well. He's a fan of a game preserve near Lamoni and is spending some of his offseason in southern Iowa for deer season. He's given a shout out or two to Lamoni on his official Facebook page this season, too.

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