NorthWood High School football coach Nate Andrews doesn’t mind dealing with a few dilemmas.

NAPPANEE — The Class 4A state runner-up NorthWood High School football team gathered this week to present special award winners.

INDIANAPOLIS — A common question among media covering NorthWood football for the first time during postseason was the one asking whether Brayton Yoder and Bronson Yoder are related.

INDIANAPOLIS — NorthWood senior Drew Minnich was proud to win the Phil N. Eskew Mental Attitude Award at the conclusion of the Class 4A title game.

NAPPANEE — Nate Andrews wouldn't mind if his NorthWood football players already owned a bit more acclimation to Lucas Oil Stadium — like, say, maybe as much as his 7-year-old daughter, Viviana — but he's hopeful they won't be too in awe of the venue and the circumstances for Friday's Class 4…

NAPPANEE — Although he graduated last spring, Tucker White is having an impact on the 2016 NorthWood football team's trip to the Class 4A state championship game.

LOWELL — Even by ordinary standards, and monstrously more so by their own, Trey Bilinski and Bronson Yoder put up some eerie-bad, seemingly flame-out numbers Friday at The Inferno.

LOWELL — “It’s the greatest feeling in the world. I don’t know how to describe it other than that,’’ NorthWood quarterback Trey Bilinski proclaimed after he and the Panthers escaped the windy Inferno with a chilling 21-14 victory over Lowell in Friday’s rugged semistate football championship.

NAPPANEE — Early in the 2015 high school football season, NorthWood quarterback Trey Bilinski got a double dose of reality when he was sidelined by a shoulder injury and watched then-freshman Bronson Yoder take control of the Panther offense.

NAPPANEE — Nate Andrews knows what to expect when his unbeaten and No. 2-ranked NorthWood football team travels to Lowell on Friday with a berth in the Class 4A state championship on the line.

NAPPANEE — Blessed with both size and athleticism, New Haven, according to NorthWood coach Nate Andrews, is a high school football team that can strike awe in an opponent.

NAPPANEE — As high school football programs go, NorthWood puts out an impressively thorough season statistical report each week, one that is typed, tabulated and includes five pages that detail the Panthers' offensive exploits, team-wise and individually.

NAPPANEE — Coaches love a sure thing, or at least a seemingly sure thing. Maybe that's why most of them opt to try for one point rather than two points on a conversion most of the time after their teams score a touchdown.

NorthWood football victories keep coming, and with them, those postgame on-field huddles that include players, parents, students, cheerleaders and other fans keep growing in numbers and revelry.

KENDALLVILLE — NorthWood's offense put on another show, and yet its defense somehow stole the show on a night the Panthers cracked 50 points for the seventh time this season.

As NorthWood football coach Nate Andrews answered a question moments after last week's sectional semifinal win over Northridge — that question regarding DeAndre Smart catching a whopping eight first-half passes for 113 yards — it became clear that even Andrews can't always keep full track wh…

NAPPANEE — Brayton Yoder ripped off NorthWood's longest offensive play of the night in a 44-13 Class 4A sectional semifinal win over Northridge on Friday at Andrews Field.

As NorthWood assistant coach Dave Wilson bellowed to all the gathered, kneeling, steadfastly listening Panthers, and many of their fans, moments after last Friday’s 61-24 vaporizing of the Warsaw Tigers at Andrews Field, the magic is always in the players.

NAPPANEE — To a man, NorthWood senior quarterback Trey Bilinski, senior two-way stud Drew Minnich and coach Nate Andrews said they couldn't have dreamed up what went down in the first half of their win over Warsaw.

Don’t feel bad if you didn’t even know they’d lost it  – they’re 7-0, after all  – but coach Nate Andrews says his NorthWood Panthers “need to get some of our swagger back.”