Mike McGraw
Hoosier Authority
Sectional play begins Tuesday evening and Hoosier Authority predicts the HCC will crown two Sectional Champions when the dust settles Saturday night. The league boasts four teams with 16 or more wins on the campaign this season.
Let’s start up north at the McCutcheon Sectional. Lafayette Jeff (16-4) is the clear favorite in this draw. The Bronchos begin play Tuesday evening versus Harrison. McCutcheon will play Kokomo in the short half of the draw. If there is a roadblock to Jeff taking the title, it is in the form of 17-4 Logansport. The Berries await the Bronchos in the semi-finals. Our prediction is that Jan Conner’s girls take care of business and cut down the nets Saturday night.
The Zionsville Sectional is both loaded with HCC teams and just plain loaded. Five Hoosier Crossroads teams are in the field, including four of the top five teams in the league. If that isn’t enough to perk your interest, throw in defending state champion Carmel and you have the toughest sectional in the state. Carmel and Fishers both drew the long way through this mine field. The Greyhounds will tangle with Noblesville in the first round. Westfield, a 16 game winner, waits in the semi-finals. Fishers has it a little tougher by most people’s view. The Tigers will open in the first round against host Zionsville. They should easily pass that test. However, 19-1 Hamilton Southeastern is lurking in the second round. The winner of that titanic struggle will then likely see Carmel in the final. We aren’t going out on too long a limb on this one. We will say that our vote goes to whichever HCC team comes out of that Fishers-HSE tussle on Friday.
That leaves Brownsburg and Avon. All these two clubs have to do to win a sectional title is take down the #1 team in America, the Ben Davis Giants on their home floor. Don’t look for it to come even close to happening. However, it is a safe bet that Avon will be the team to try in the finals.
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