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Back-to-Back in Indiana: Penn Outlasts Lawrence North 34-28 to Repeat as State Champions
The rematch lived up to the billing. Penn defeated Lawrence North 34-28 on Saturday, October 17, at Grand Park Sports Campus in Westfield to win Indiana’s second-ever high school girls flag football state championship — the same matchup, and the same winner, as last year’s inaugural final.
Head coach Jerimiah Maggart’s Kingsmen finished the season 18-0, and the title game turned into a showcase for senior quarterback Quinn Driscoll, who threw five touchdown passes. Alivia Dawson caught three of them and Lexi Werner hauled in two as Penn’s offense, which averaged more than 34 points per game while allowing just eight, did enough to hold off a Lawrence North team that pushed the champions to the final whistle.
Penn’s road to the crown ran through a 33-27 semifinal win over Fort Wayne Snider, sealed by a late touchdown reception from Makenzie Juszczak. Lawrence North beat Terre Haute South 33-26 in the other semifinal to earn its return trip to the final. Lawrence North was the lone Indianapolis team to reach the state tournament, and its only regular-season loss all year also came by six points, 34-28, to Warren Central.
The individual seasons behind Penn’s repeat were record-breaking. Dawson set a school record with 16 receiving touchdowns this fall, and Driscoll eclipsed the 1,000-yard rushing mark while piling up school records of her own as a senior. The Kingsmen will be honored at the Colts’ home game against the Miami Dolphins on November 15.
Indiana’s growth story is just as impressive as its champion. Fall 2026 was the second season of girls flag football as an emerging sport in the state, with 108 teams and about 2,700 players representing more than 50 Hoosier cities and towns, and 88 teams competing in the postseason. The tournament is organized by the Indiana Flag Football Coaches Association with the Indianapolis Colts, whose girls flag program is fueled by Gatorade. The IHSAA may vote to fully sanction the sport as early as May 2027.
If that vote passes, Penn’s back-to-back titles will stand as the standard the sanctioned era has to chase.
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We Speak Flag / 7v7 Football
Revenge on Senior Night: Hewitt-Trussville Rides a Roller-Coaster Season Into the 6A Playoffs
Few teams in Alabama have lived a season like Hewitt-Trussville’s — and few finished the regular season with a better story.
The Huskies closed their home schedule on Senior Night with a 25-15 win over Oxford, avenging a Week 2 loss to the Yellow Jackets and sending off a six-player senior class the right way. It was the last turn of a roller coaster that never really leveled out.
Hewitt-Trussville’s fall, as chronicled game by game on the team’s own feed, went like this: a 15-6 region win over Thompson in which the Huskies held the Warriors scoreless for the entire second half. A 35-0 road rout of 5A McAdory, done in three quarters, for a fourth straight win. A region win at Hoover so chaotic that, in the team’s words, no one could tell the time or the score because the scoreboard did not work. A 38-19 region-finale loss to No. 9 Prattville — followed immediately by a bounce-back win, because that is what this team does.
The Huskies play in Class 6A, Region 3, the deepest neighborhood in Alabama flag football, alongside unbeaten-in-region Spain Park, Vestavia Hills, Prattville, Hoover and Thompson. Surviving it earned Hewitt-Trussville a first-round date with James Clemens when the AHSAA 6A playoffs open Nov. 2-5.
The photo above — the whole program packed into a team dinner at Walk-On’s — is the other half of the scouting report. The Huskies are close, they are loose, and they have already proven they can beat region heavyweights and answer bad weeks with good ones.
James Clemens gets the next test. After the season Hewitt-Trussville just lived, there is not much the playoffs can show the Huskies that they have not already seen.
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