Article: Coaches' sons set for state matchup.(Sports)(4A football: Floyd Halvorsen brings Sunset to town to face Marty Johnson's Sheldon Irish.)

Byline: STEVE MIMS The Register-Guard

It's a coaching matchup of Johnson versus Halvorsen once again.

Fourteen years after their fathers last coached against each other, Marty Johnson and Floyd Halvorsen will lead their teams against each other in the second round of the Class 4A football playoffs tonight. Johnson's Sheldon Irish will host Halvorsen's Sunset Apollos at 7 p.m.

Halvorsen's father, Floyd, won 176 games and 10 Midwestern League championships at Churchill from 1972-96.

Halvorsen Jr. played for his father and was a first-team all-league defensive back as a senior in 1982. He went on to play football at Linfield and has been ...

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