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The counting rule is: the IHSAA's year-by-year list governs; a school's or a newspaper's count is a snapshot as of its own date, and prints with that date. Read first-hand on the association's "Football All-Time Sectional Championships" page, LaVille's line stands: 7 sectional championships — 1982 (1A), 2002 (1A), 2003 (1A), 2017 (1A), 2021 (2A), 2023 (2A), 2025 (1A). Against that line, the carried tellings each prove true at their dates, and the quarrel dissolves into the calendar: the school's November 2023 gameday account ("LaVille is 5-8 all-time in sectional championship games; the last sectional title came in 2021") was written before the 2023 final — five titles then stood (1982, 2002, 2003, 2017, 2021), and the Lancers won the sixth the week it was published; the school's August 2025 preview ("three sectional titles before 2012" — 1982, 2002, 2003, exact — "and three since 2013") was written before the 2025 tournament, when the since-2013 titles stood at three (2017, 2021, 2023); the Tribune's February 2026 count of four since 2013 is the post-2025 figure, and the IHSAA line confirms it. The culture file's unreconciled printing is therefore superseded by this settlement, offered as a conform candidate at assembly: the counts were never in conflict as facts, only as dates. Two limbs stay open at their named strength: the boys' basketball sectional list (five titles held by 2015 on the culture file's carrier; the full year list a named gap, settler the IHSAA boys' basketball records book read year by year), and the inductee/scholarship distinction in the civic file, which is a classification rule, not a count, and stands as banked.
Principal sources: IHSAA, "Football All-Time Sectional Championships" (ihsaa.org), LaVille row read first-hand 11 November 2026; LaVille Jr/Sr High School athletics site (lavillelancers.com), Scot Shearer's gameday account of 3 November 2023 and football preview of 22 August 2025; the Indianapolis Colts / Indiana Football Digest Insider sectional-finals recap, 11 November 2026 (LaVille at 7 in its all-time list, corroborating); the banked Culture lk-cul-lancers and this history lk-civ-halls.