Stopping Sully Buttes 48-8 in a non-conference high school football clash last Friday in Ipswich, the Ipswich/Edmunds Central Tigers improved their season record to 6-2 and secured a home-field location in Ipswich for the first round of the 9A high school football playoffs, scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 22. That was a big sentence but it was an even bigger win.

The Tigers will host Britton-Hecla, 4-4, a team that had handled Ipswich/EC fairly easily a year ago in the opening round of the 9A play-offs in Britton. So the Tigers are hoping to be in the hunt this year starting at 7 p.m. on Thur...