{"id":7906,"date":"2023-10-08T21:20:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T01:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=7906"},"modified":"2023-10-09T05:41:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T09:41:32","slug":"3a-sectional-spreads-local-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/08\/3a-sectional-spreads-local-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"3A sectional spreads local teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When the IHSAA held the draw for the 3A Sectional 27 bracket, the ping pong balls ended up placing all the schools in Z-Land in different directions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Woodlan and Heritage will meet for a second time this season after the two ACAC teams were drawn againsat each other for the opening round of the IHSAA football sectional. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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In the top half of the bracket, it will be a rematch of week 2, but this time Norwell (2-6) will play host to Delta (5-3). The Knights lost that matchup 34-16, which is the only time the two schools have faced off since 1994. The other first round game in the top half is 4-4 Yorktown traveling up to the Summit City to take on Concordia (0-8). The Cadets won the only other previous meeting over the Tigers 54-14 in 2016, en route to winning their last state title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the bottom half of the bracket, both of the area teams will be boarding buses for their first round matchups. Bellmont (0-8) will have the longer drive, as they will take on Garrett (3-5). They have faced each other three times in the postseason, with the home squad winning on each occasion. Most recently, Garrett won last year 38-14. Bellmont won in 2018 at home 16-6, while the Railroaders took the first matchup 34-12 in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The other half of the bracket will see familiar conference foes face off, as 7-1 Heritage will make the short trek up to Woodburn to take on 2-6 Woodlan. The Patriots won the Week 3 regular season matchup 26-0 on their home field. The last time they faced each other in the postseason, Heritage won 26-7 in 2004, and also won 28-27 back in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the first round matchups will take place on Oct. 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When the IHSAA held the draw for the 3A Sectional 27 bracket, the ping pong balls ended up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,15,54,51,46,26],"class_list":["post-7906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bellmont","tag-featured","tag-football","tag-heritage","tag-norwell","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/football-generic.jpg?fit=300%2C168&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}