Here's something that's kind of cool, if you like inspirational sports stories.
The smallest of Indiana's 317 football-playing high schools is the Indiana School for the Deaf. With only 97 students in grades 9-12, including 55 boys (according to the IHSAA's most recent numbers), Indiana Deaf typically faces an uphill battle on the field of play.
Indiana Deaf usually schedules a mix of deaf schools from other states and smaller, independent high schools from both inside and outside of Indiana that sometimes need a game to fill out their schedule, and have tasted little gridiron success in the past, mustering no better than a handful of 4-6 seasons over the last 12 years. While they typically acquitted themselves well against other deaf schools, wins against other "hearing" high schools (for lack of a better term) have been few and far between (going 8-44 against those schools since 1995).
Until this season.
The Deaf Hoosiers find themselves in rarefied air these days, having built a 9-2 record this season. They avenged one of their two regular-season losses this evening, destroying Indianapolis Lutheran by 33 points.
Next Friday, they play Class A's #9 Indianapolis Ritter, which is the second-largest school in Class A. A win would bring the Deaf Hoosiers their first sectional championship (consider that, before this season, they had exactly one postseason win in their history).
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