The Indiana High School Athletic Association announced the pairings for the Sixth Annual Unified Flag Football State Tournament Series via livestream at IHSAAtv.org.
Unified Sports enables persons with and without intellectual disabilities to participate on the same team for sports training and competition as part of the “Champions Together” partnership between the IHSAA and Special Olympics Indiana. Unified Flag Football, which began in 2018, is one of 22 sports sponsored by the IHSAA and one of two co-ed sports along with Unified Track & Field which debuted in 2014.
Forty-four teams have entered this year’s state tournament and are spread across eight sectionals to be played on Saturday, Sept. 30. The eight teams that emerge as sectional champions will move on to one of two regionals on Saturday, Oct. 7 with the two remaining teams advancing to the state championship game on Saturday, Oct. 14 at the Grand Park Sports Event Center in Westfield.
Last year’s state champion, the Brownsburg Bulldogs, will host Zionsville in the opening game of Sectional 6 while 2022 state runnerup, the DeKalb Barons will face NorthWood in its first round game in Sectional 2 played at Central Noble.
Tippecanoe Valley will play in the Warsaw Sectional.
3. Warsaw
G1: Warsaw vs. New Haven
G2: Homestead vs. Manchester
G3: Carroll (Fort Wayne) vs. Fort Wayne North Side
G4: Tippecanoe Valley vs. G1 winner
G5: G2 winner vs. G3 winner
Championship: G4 winner vs. G5 winner
Tippecanoe Valley reached the state championship in the 201-19 season in a loss to Bedford North Lawrence.
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