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IHSAA football sectionals roundup: Scores, highlights, stats as playoffs kicked off

We made it.

It's the best time of year: The Indiana high school football state tournament. Sectionals got underway on Friday night, and boy did they deliver.

Here's everything you might have missed, from highlights to stats to photos:

New Palestine 35, Mt. Vernon 24

Play of the game

New Palestine, which trailed for the first time all season, grabbed the lead back, 28-24, on a 10-yard run by Grayson Thomas on the first play of the fourth quarter. On the next Mt. Vernon drive, Blaine Nunnally jumped a route, intercepted a pass and returned it 41 yards to the Mt.