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The Elwood Panthers Report ... with Ryan VanSkyock (2.162.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: you are listening to the Elwood Panthers report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every Wednesday on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 0:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, Elwood Panthers fans.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And welcome to the Elwood Panthers report are weekly catch up with the Elwood Panthers boys basketball team and head coach Ryan Manzka.
• 0:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's been a busy week with girls basketball sectionals getting underway.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Tuesday's night's big win over Hamilton with Coach Vanski-Ox weekly interview where we look back and look ahead at the Panther season.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: The 20-25-26 season started very well for Elwood, the Panther started three and one and four and four.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Since the calendar turned, Elwood had won just one game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In 2026, before Tuesday night, they got a 43-31 win at Hamilton.
• 1:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bryce Schueler led the Panthers with 13 points, but it was a pretty rough offensive night for Elwood.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They overcame it with good defense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, Coach Vanskyak will have all of scoring coming up, and just a minute when I talk with him on our weekly conversation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, the Panthers currently stand at 7 and 8.
• 1:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ben's Skyox second team in 2023-24-18 games that's his best year so far with the Panthers.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact that was their best year since 2013-14 when they went 12 and 10, their last winning season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But here they are through 15 games of the season, they got a real shot.
• 1:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: Panthers will look to improve to 8-8-8 on Thursday night against a pretty good try central team.
• 1:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Trojans are 5 and 12 but I'm dealing with injuries throughout the year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They actually started the season 4 and 5, but have lost 6 of 7 cents.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The game is Thursday night with JV Tip Off scheduled 4-6.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then VanSkyox squad has back to back road games after 5 days off.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They go to Pinedo to face 2 and 20 Southern Wells shot out to my guy, Reggie Hayes, then they are an Indianapolis next Thursday against winless GEO next generation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Those are the first two of four games in five days for the Panthers Blue River Valley Visits town on the 13th and then on the 14th.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then another trip to Indianapolis to take on
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  [SPEAKER_00]: eight and nine Providence, Christo, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We will have a reaction from Coach Vanskayak on Thursday night after the game against dry central.
• 2:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll also hear from the Frankton Tri game on Thursday night as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back Coach Vanskack to the Central Indiana Sports Report.
• 3:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: Coach I covered the girl's game tonight at LePel, so I don't know much except for that you won tonight, so let's go through it a little bit.
• 3:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Tell us what was the difference tonight between tonight and the three game losing streak.
• 4:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought our kids played really good defensively.
• 4:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: We got a lot of stills, got out in trance, score some easy buckets, but still we want to so bad for the kids, but the ball is just not falling in the hole for him.
• 4:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: We had 52 missed shots tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's really unbelievable when you think about it.
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would say probably I'll do the official stats tonight But it's probably 25 26.
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm where layups again in a win and a win.
• 4:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So Like we told the kids It was ugly, but we'll take it But we understand we got to get the ball going in the hole coming up these next few games a lot of win-able games But try Central's really good
• 4:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... seven wells uh... keeps battling so for for us to be successful uh... i thought we we did really good job defensively tonight without the ball falling in the hole in get some easy lay ups and trance uh... but we know coming down the road i mean we're on to get some shots i bet for you uh... just been able to win after what you guys have been through
• 5:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: just getting a win had to be it had to be important.
• 5:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, most definitely we're dealing with a lot of in-house stuff and most people don't know about it's been a rough couple weeks.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: Credit to our kids.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they keep coming in, they keep battling to try to get better, we played three really good teams and we felt like those good teams prepared us.
• 5:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: For where we need to be and to try to get us ready to go try to win a sectional game and see what happens from there.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we just got to keep battling We've had almost a different lineup.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: We've had kids leave kids quit So it's just been a rough three weeks and we're going to just continue to keep working with the kids that we have here and see what happens
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, because she said you couldn't make shots, it seems like the pace was pretty good if you missed 52.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: Why did you do well as a team that made you able to come out with the win?
• 6:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought our help side defense was really well.
• 6:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Every time they drove in, we were able to get out in those gaps and get some stills and deflections.
• 6:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: I would say probably this is probably one of the most deflections we've had in our game.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd say we're close to probably up to 30 of those deflections.
• 6:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: and probably one of our, again, I have official stats tonight after we're going home and do them, but I would think this is probably our leading game and stills as well.
• 6:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So for us, we've been waiting.
• 6:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: We felt like we played pretty good defensively on Frank Den.
• 6:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: We couldn't score the basketball on them.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: We eventually fell apart.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Miss Central.
• 6:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: We felt like we didn't show up at all.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, Alexandria.
• 6:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we played great defense for the first half and then fell apart.
• 6:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it was good for us.
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: We felt like we played a good defense again for 32 minutes tonight.
• 7:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's one of the first times that we could really say that all year.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: who played well for you.
• 7:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Bryce Schiller had a really good game.
• 7:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: He led us in scoring with 13.
• 7:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: And he did, even as you're leaving score the other night, too.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, in Franklin.
• 7:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we, uh, we told him in practice last week of like, you got to have a scores mentality now.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: You got to be able to put the ball in the hole.
• 7:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's a very passive kid tries to get others open, but we also knew him score the basketball.
• 7:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's been great to see Blaze Jones and Ethan Cases both had 11, so that was really good to see.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, our three guards with between Bryce Blaze and Ethan all in double digits.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then Corbin had five, he got a three, the second quarter, and scored a basket in the first.
• 7:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Had a lot of good looks, the shot's just been fall from him.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's a really good shooter.
• 7:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he's two, 13 to a 14 this game.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: So again, we need him in double digits as well.
• 8:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to be successful.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then Conner Wooten had three for us.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's one area that we really need more production out of Connor and Braden at just saying, Jake Bell, when it gets in, kicking down the poor, we need some offensive rebounding and we need some paint scores from our post players and we just are not getting it right now.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: With a couple of players departed, anybody in particular getting new minutes and anything stand out to you as far as that goes.
• 8:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we've we've up the minutes a little bit for Bryce and Ethan and Blaze, they hardly come off the floor.
• 8:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Jake Bell got extra minutes tonight and I thought he did a really good job of battling in the post and giving Connor some breaks.
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Connor Wootens moved in our starting lineup.
• 8:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: We have high hopes for him.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Really strong physical kid and we just need him to score the basketball a little bit.
• 9:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I thought he did a very good job playing defense on Bennett and Frank Dan and then he played really good defensively to nine.
• 9:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's got to play great on Thursday against their big kid because he's outstanding.
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: his minutes has went up.
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nolan Robbins and we put him in a little bit tonight, he's our JV point guard just to try to get some experience and he came in and did some great things off the bench as well.
• 9:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of those kids, the minutes just kind of ramped up a little bit more than what they usually play, but we do have some of those other key guys stepping up and it's good to see.
• 9:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you're not to have a discussion with your athletic director about schedule and a game that far away on a school night.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: What were you thinking?
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the good thing for us is tomorrow's parent teacher conference.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: So our kids don't have to give them all.
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: So they get asleep in a little bit tonight.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: It does help.
• 9:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: We usually play this game on Black Friday and Hamilton's kids want to...
• 9:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: travel out of town.
• 9:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: So we ended up moving it to this day and one of the reasons why I picked this day because we had that day off.
• 10:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Luckily for our kids, but it's one of the long trip.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Long trip.
• 10:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a really unique place, a really cool gym.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Out in the middle of nowhere.
• 10:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: And my next question was, do you feel more patriotic after you leave that gym?
• 10:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, definitely.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just a cool little place.
• 10:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's 10 minutes in the lakes right there and then go and it's just a beautiful little area of the town.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's really neat to this for us and our kids
• 10:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Mike, my coaching years are probably coming to an end, saying with my kid moving up, so it's just been neat to go some different places with the last couple of years and see new gym.
• 10:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's one of the things our kids really like is the long bus rides are not very fun, but they got a good dinner tonight out of we went took on the raising chains, but also just experiencing some of those different schools and atmospheres was kind of neat for them.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: cover Hamilton when I was the new new Sentinel in four ways.
• 11:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I am familiar with the Marines.
• 11:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright next just a couple days till you take on tries and for all the team that's
• 11:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: had some losses lately, but they're getting healthy and look like the last couple of games might be a dangerous team.
• 11:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're big kids, uh, really skilled, unbelievable, uh, heat for us up in the summer, um, he had a 16 or 18 against Frank then, uh, very, just very skilled.
• 11:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if we don't have a good job of getting the ball of his hands, I mean, he's just gonna kill us inside the paint.
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, we're got the game playing tomorrow.
• 11:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: Not much turn around time, but
• 11:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: We got to come up with a game plan to try to keep the ball from going into him deep.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: and then they got capable shooters on the outside of the Arnold kid hit three threes against Frank then the other night so they have capable shooters so we feel like we got to take away the center if we take away the center and I have to double down where you can kick through these shooters I think it's going to be very beneficial for us so we've not played at home game in a while so it's going to be nice to be on our home floor on Thursday
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, everybody get out here.
• 12:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a team that's think about just a couple of years ago, one win, five wins in three years and now a chance.
• 12:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, you're looking at a chance to get to 500 or better and that's a real opportunity for your team.
• 12:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they're doing some remarkable things.
• 12:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: Like if you go to maybe any other community, it's like, you know, there's still below 500.
• 12:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: They got seven wins right now.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: They're seven and eight.
• 12:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: For our kids, it's a big thing right now and credit to them.
• 12:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we've worked really hard since I've been here, like we wanted to turn this thing around.
• 12:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: They've put in a lot of effort, a lot of time.
• 12:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... last year was kind of a learning experience you want eight the first one uh... eight the second one then we want five last year kind of dipped a little bit
• 13:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... and those kids came in and worked hard in the summer they want to be successful uh... were able to be seven and eight right now we feel like we can have a winning season this year so uh... we got to do some things better uh... but i'm proud of where we're at i'm proud of how hard our kids battle uh... one thing i'll say about our kids is a lot of kids cannot come here and suffer the losing some of these kids have
• 13:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: and stick with it.
• 13:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of kids may be talking down about our school, community, our kids, our teams.
• 13:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm telling you not a lot of people can do what they do.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of people already would have given up.
• 13:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: These kids don't, they fight, they battle us, what a love about them.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to continue to keep doing that.
• 13:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we hopefully, they have the first one you see since 2012, I think, in that time frame.
• 13:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's been a long time ago.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Last question, coach, tough loss for your girls team tonight over time against Frank and on Thursday, though, they ended along losing streak to them, double digit wins again this season, a player, Breel and Norris had her thousands point this year.
• 14:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Talk about what that program is doing as well, and Athletics here at L Wood overall.
• 14:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, she's the first off I'm proud of all our girls.
• 14:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, people on our side have much hurt me today, not being there.
• 14:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... that's a miss happened my end of anything about the section on the uh... schedule these games a year ago uh... but that really hurt not being there for that uh... but i'm just proud of our girls
• 14:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: When I first got the job, there were coming off and only having five girls on their team.
• 14:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, went maybe 26, 28 games, losing streak, and I can't remember how many of them have been more than that.
• 14:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, we hired a court need to come in.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, we struggled the first year a little bit with three wins and she built it to winning season last year.
• 15:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: another double-digit win season this year.
• 15:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: So credit goes to her and her staff and the kids most importantly.
• 15:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they put in a lot of work.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... they're outstanding kids uh... breathing noras uh... is a is a starter at any other school around here she's decided to stay here uh... and makes me proud for her because she's gonna put her names in the record books here uh... and she does understand by staying here and being the team player and wanting outwards to succeed while she's done for our community or athletic program
• 15:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: hats off to her.
• 15:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I said the same thing about jade and moans like like not a lot of kids able to stay here.
• 15:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: They would have transferred and want to have a chance to win.
• 15:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe have sectional and she's feels like she can win one here.
• 15:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: So she's got another year.
• 15:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: We lose one senior or two seniors and so most of the cores come in back.
• 15:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's going to be exciting to see what they can do.
• 16:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: The summer has to be big and critical for them.
• 16:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's one area that we've
• 16:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: is on the girl side not much participation in the summer.
• 16:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I thank for them to take to the next level.
• 16:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: We need to get that buy and commitment from them to be here to continue to keep working hard because I think they have a chance to do some damage next year.
• 16:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, all those girls are going to be seniors.
• 16:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: They got a highly talented eighth grade group.
• 16:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be freshman.
• 16:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we're excited to see where the girls program goes so a lot of good things are happening I mean you when you really look back at it
• 16:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: like you said boys basketball one maybe three games in the five years before I got here girls basketball really struggled before I got here football didn't win a game for two or three years so all those programs are turning around it might not be as fast as people want but people understand like when we were at the bottom of the bottom and that's no knock on anybody but we were at the very bottom when I got here four years ago to see where we're at now but we're not going to
• 17:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's year four, I truly think the Bota program and Coach Brobson says this all the time is probably seven eight years of how far we were to continue to keep building it.
• 17:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: We just got continue to keep working with our youth, keep in our kids' body and to buy into the system and our system is we're probably not going to be more athletic in some of the schools around us, but
• 17:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: the elwood way is we're going to outwork us people and give us an opportunity to win.
• 17:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm just proud of all of our kids, all of our sports credit goes to all of them.
• 17:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Since we're talking about it, it's talk about you have a couple of wrestlers in the regional this weekend as well.
• 17:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I really excited for those kids.
• 17:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Myles, a lot might be one of my favorite kids that have ever been around.
• 17:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's just super respectful, Abe Glejo's, Casey McCray,
• 17:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: What I can say about those kids is they are fighters and they never give up they have a bright future They're very young as well and some of our programs But there's nothing more than I want to see those kids succeed and I think we'll get a few out to semi-state I've been hoping and praying that we get one to state and all those kids are deserving of it and And what I like about those kids is they come and work hard every single day for coach crews and
• 18:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: just super respectful kids.
• 18:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've been around a lot of wrestling programs and I tell you, I mean, hats off the coach crews and a staff, but our kids are always super respectful, always supportive of the other athletes.
• 18:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: They do things the right way.
• 18:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited for Saturday at Peno de Hites for what they can bring.
• 18:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Swimming starts their sectional on Thursday.
• 18:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Those kids have been working really hard.
• 18:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: So a lot of really important things coming up and can be more proud of our kids in
• 18:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks Coach.
• 18:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks buddy.
• 18:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: Appreciate it.
• 18:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much once again to Coach Vanskaya for giving us access to his team and his thoughts.
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