The Guardian Angels Central Catholic Football Team blew out Thayer Central 48-14 at home in the first round of the playoffs Thursday night.
The Bluejays led 14-0 after one, and blanked the Titans 22-0 in the 2nd quarter to take a 36-0 halftime lead.
GACC shutout Thayer Central 12-0 in the 3rd quarter to go up 48-0 at the end of three.
The Titans blanked the Bluejays 14-0 in the 4th quarter.
Jared Minnick had 209 yards rushing on 24 carries, including three touchdowns.
Cody Steffen was 4-9 passing for 103 yards with a touchdown. Smeal caught all four passes for 103 yards and the touchdown.
Smeal made a team-high 10 tackles while Blake Pojar, Casey Doernemann, Steffen, Noah Hass, and Cash Meier notched 7 each.
GACC had 382 yards of total offense, including 279 on the ground.
The defense gave up 225 yards of total offense, 202 coming through the air.
Dominant win for the Bluejays as GACC really took it to the Titans the first three quarters.
The Bluejays (8-1) host Howells-Dodge (7-2) in the second round of the playoffs in a game that will be aired on 107.9 the Bull Wednesday night.
The Jaguars hammered Cross County 52-12 at home in the opening round of the playoffs on Thursday.
GACC beat Howells-Dodge 32-28 on the road in the regular season.
The Jaguars are without Kade Hegemann, or at least have been for much of the season, but Howells-Dodge's offensive and defensive lines really stepped up last week.
The Bluejays' line has to really step up their game this week as well.
These two teams are so good and dead even that it's hard to say who's going to win.
Both teams are similar and very good, physical, running football teams.
About all that separates the two in this one, in my opinion, is the fact that GACC has Smeal and the game is in Beemer.
Those are the two advantages I give the Bluejays in what otherwise is an even football game, in my opinion.
Minnick needs to go off and GACC has to be explosive on offense.
The Bluejays need big chunk plays and need to play physical and try and slow down the Jaguars' run game.
This game could come down to a final drive or play much like it did the first time these two teams met.
It's never easy to beat a team twice in a season, and so it will be interesting to see what happens Wednesday night.
The winner gets Exeter-Milligan/Friend or Fullerton in the Quarterfinals, and GACC hopes it's them that moves on.
It should be a great game....one of those games that you hate to see someone lose.
Unfortunately, there has to be a winner and a loser though so the Bluejays have to do everything they can to win.
Kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. in Beemer with pregame at 6:30 on the Bull.
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