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Tournament Preview

Class 4A Championship Class 5A Championship
Lowell (13-1) vs. Carmel (13-1) vs.
Evansville Reitz (14-0), 3:30 p.m. (ET) Warren Central (12-2), 7:05 p.m. (ET)
A rematch of the 2007 Class 4A championship game at the More than familiar with one another, the top-ranked Carmel
RCA Dome, the Lowell Red Devils seek to avenge their Greyhounds and third-ranked Warren Central Warriors
33-14 loss to Evansville Reitz. Lowell won the 4A crown have battled to a virtual tie through their past 18 meetings,
in 2005 and will have to defeat its fifth top-10 team (No. 4 claiming nine wins each. With each storied program either
Plymouth, No. 10 South Bend Washington, No. 9 Hammond winning or sharing the Metropolitan Interscholastic Confer-
Morton, No. 2 Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger) to win its ence (MIC) championship the past six years, Carmel has
second all time. If victorious, Reitz will finish a perfect 15-0 held the recent edge, winning three straight regular-season
for the second time in three seasons. meetings since the two teams met for the 5A title at the
RCA Dome in 2006.
Fast Facts
• Lowell is making its third appearance in the state Fast Facts
finals in five years. • Warren Central and Carmel will meet in the Class 5A
• Evansville Reitz is making its second appearance in a title game for a second time in four years (2006).
Class 4A state title game in three seasons. • The Warriors won four straight Class 5A state titles
• The Lowell Red Devils are ranked seventh in both from 2003-06. In the past seven years, the Class
the Associated Press and Coaches polls. Evansville 5A championship game has involved either Warren
Reitz is ranked fourth in the AP poll and sixth in the Central or Carmel.
Coaches poll. • With a victory, Warren Central coach John Hart would
• Lowell’s victory over Fort Wayne Bishop Dwenger become the third coach in state history to win state
marked the teams’ third consecutive meeting for the championships at two different schools (Evansville
semi-state crown. Reitz, 2007), joining Mo Moriarity (Bloomington South/
• Quarterback Matt McIntosh is the younger brother Carmel) and Dick Dullaghan (Carmel/Ben Davis).
of Paul McIntosh, who led the Panthers to the Class • This is the 11th consecutive year a team from the MIC
4A state title two years ago against the Lowell Red has vied for the Class 5A state title. It will mark the
Devils. 9th consecutive year a team from the MIC will win the
5A championship.
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