re: LHSAA playoffs round 2… the playoffs REALLY start

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Franklin beats Dequincy on a blocked punt for a td with 5 seconds left and wins it 22-19.

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That’s got to be tough for the coach of Dequincy.

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First time since 1988 Bunkie plays in the quarters

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Wow!!! Not that it’s been that long, but I just looked up that playoff run.

Bunkie won that quarterfinal game by nearly twenty points to advance to play defending champion Jonesboro-Hodge in the semis. J-H would go on to win two more titles for a 3-peat, However, Bunkie had them on the ropes that night until….
Wow

Were you around then? What was the reaction in town?


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After traiing at half, Bunkie was moving up and down the field in the second half, and running for chunks of yardage on every play. J-H couldn’t stop them. Bunkie’s wishbone attack was on fire.

Bunkie led by three with under a minute left. J-H was deep in Bunkie’s territory facing a 4th and short. J-H coaches are debating whether to try a tying FG or go for it, and they get hit with a delay of game while making a decision.

Now it’s too far to go for it, but the penalty also pushes the yardage outside of their kicker’s range. So, Jonesboro pulls a guy off the bench with a stronger leg, but hasn’t attempted a single FG all season. He barely makes it with a few seconds on the clock. Headed to OT…

…except Bunkie still had 15 seconds. Instead of taking a knee, they throw a screen pass. Incomplete, but it was nearly intercepted, and it would have been a pick-6. Bunkie was a wishbone team, not a passing team.

Bunkie barely avoided catastrophe, so surely they would take a knee on the next snap. Nope, they attempt another short pass to a RB. This time a J-H player reads the play, breaks on the ball, and time expires as he’s racing untouched for a walk-off pick-6.

You were right. See y’all next Friday

Yes I was in the press box. All we had to do was kneel the ball and go to OT. JH players were exhausted. No way they win in OT. We got greedy. The call was actually a hook and lateral and they jumped the route. Rumor has it that after the first incompletion that the OC yelled run it again.


On a side note Bunkie dropped an INT in the end zone before the tying field goal.

No one truly wants to play at NSU

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That’s the end of my older boys football career. It honestly happened in the blink of an eye. My younger boy is only 4th grade so we got a ways to go for him to play.


It does go by quicker than we would have ever thought it would. Our oldest is about to be 22, our youngest is 11. Hopefully he makes the 7th grade team at the end of this school year.

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yep nobody can prepare us for that.

How well do you guys expect the LCA fans to travel the day after Thanksgiving to Baton Rouge?

Dunham parent here helping to plan logistics of feeding the crowd.

The same thing was said last year when Opelousas was taking on North Desoto. I think Cecilia pulls it off 42-35

I’ve beeen saying it. Opelousas is a tough out. Their game is sound, physical and simple. They do what they do. Watched Neville, Ruston, West Monroe and Opelousas plays a more repeatable physical brand of football than either Ruston or Neville. West Monroe played us similarly

They can take away what you wanna do. Last night ASH ran basically two plays all night. Evangel was helpless. You can’t do that against Opelousas. Yes they had some early losses. But I like their game

I thought we had a good crew last night. I did think they missed an illegal forward pass but if that’s your only complaint (I may have been wrong) you better be happy.