County rivalry to be renewed in Sectional
By John J. Dunn Contributing sportswriter

Pairings are out for the 98th Annual IHSAA Boys' Basketball State Tournament for 389 participating teams throughout the state and for the first time since 1991 and the days of the old Lafayette Jefferson Sectional, Delphi and Carroll find themselves as opponents in the same sectional.

The county rivals will square off in the Class 2A Sectional at Fountain Central in the 6 p.m. game next Friday, Feb. 29, followed at 8 p.m. by Seeger and the winner of the Fountain Central Clinton Central game played in the tourney opener on Tuesday night.

The sectional championship game, featuring the semi-final winners, will be March 1 at 7:30 p.m.

The Carroll-Delphi game will be a rematch of the contest played Feb. 1 at Carroll, which was narrowly won by the Oracles 67-65 in a game that went down to the final buzzer.

Seeger will enter Sectional 37 play with the only winning record, currently 15-3 at press time, followed by Carroll (8-11), Clinton Central (7-11), and Delphi and the host team at 6-13.

The winner of the Fountain Central Sectional will advance to the Tipton Regional on March 8 and face the winner from the Cass Sectional.

Carroll moved up to Class 2A in basketball based on the most recent IHSAA classification enrollment figures released last spring.

This match-up will mark the first time that both Delphi and Carroll have played in the same basketball Sectional since the Oracles were reassigned from the Jeff Sectional for one at Twin Lakes in 1992. The Cougars and Oracles played the first round game, with Carroll winning the contest 83-73.