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WEEK 10 PREVIEW: Top 15 1st Round Playoff games and Predictions · Gateway Sports Venue Show

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  Speaker 1: Alrighty, So before we get into our top fifteen games
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  Speaker 1: the week for me ten, we're going to do a
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  Speaker 1: Missouri Playoff district's deep dive. So just a brief overview
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  Speaker 1: for the system we got this year. That's the same
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  Speaker 1: system we've had for well over a decade now, since
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  Speaker 1: twenty twelve, yep, and this year. The districts on the
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  Speaker 1: left side of the bracket are districts one, two, seven, eight,
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  Speaker 1: and eight, and that applies to all classes one through six,
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  Speaker 1: and then the right side districts are classes three, four, five,
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  Speaker 1: and six. So typically the Saint Louis Area teams consist
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  Speaker 1: some District one, but mostly districts two, three, four, sometimes five,
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  Speaker 1: So we kind of got to split on the bracket
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  Speaker 1: for Saint Louis Area team and some on the left side,
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  Speaker 1: some of the right side. But first going into Classics,
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  Speaker 1: District one, Jackson finishes at nine to zero, they will
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  Speaker 1: be the one seed they get to buy uh and
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  Speaker 1: then Seconment is the two seed, Northwest is the three seed,
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  Speaker 1: Oakville is the four seed. They're all at seven to two.
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  Speaker 2: And that being a pretty good district.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the weird case where the automatic switch
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  Speaker 1: rule comes into play for the Missia playoff seedings. So
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  Speaker 1: even though Northwest had more playoff points and then Secman,
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  Speaker 1: Northwest had thirty nine point five to two points, Secondment
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  Speaker 1: had thirty nine point one to seven points. Because Secman
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  Speaker 1: beat Northwest head to head, they flipped with them, so
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  Speaker 1: Second got it is a good rule. So Secman goes
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  Speaker 1: to the two seed, Northwest goes to the three seed.
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  Speaker 1: And so now, okay, yeah, Jackson to one, Secment two,
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  Speaker 1: Northwest of three, Oakville at four. Well, wait, Oakville just
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  Speaker 1: beat Northwest this past Friday. According to the MISHA rules,
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  Speaker 1: once a team gets switched, they cannot get switched again.
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  Speaker 1: So because and the switching goes from top to bottom,
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  Speaker 1: so it doesn't go oh Oakville. And even if it
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  Speaker 1: did go from bottom top, it wouldn't matter because Oakville
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  Speaker 1: didn't beat second. But just a weird case here where
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  Speaker 1: even though Oakville beat Northwest not even three days ago,
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  Speaker 1: they have to play a week one against Limburg, which
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  Speaker 1: is not again. I mean, Lindbergh's been you know, definitely
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  Speaker 1: a down year for the Flyers, but they can they
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  Speaker 1: might catch you the wrong way and beat you. So
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  Speaker 1: Oakville's got to take it seriously.
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  Speaker 3: And then I think that'll be a better game than
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  Speaker 3: the first time they played each other Oakville versus Limburg.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully. I just sighed in despair looking at Class six
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  Speaker 1: District two because.
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  Speaker 2: I just spare District three more than District two. Though, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk about.
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  Speaker 1: It, I can talk about I'm really sad because CBC
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  Speaker 1: is the one seed of nine to zero.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody, nobody's feeling sorry for.
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  Speaker 1: No one's debating that that's fine. Lafayette is the two seed.
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  Speaker 1: They're also nine to zero. Slue High is the three seed,
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  Speaker 1: dis matched, the four seed, Mark Cuts the five seed.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that Lafayette got stuck with CBC is so, so,
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  Speaker 1: so unfortunate for the Lancers. I mean, I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to totally count them out. I think Lafayette is a
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  Speaker 1: heck of a team. They're undefeated for a reason. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they've beat a great Kirkwood team, they beat a great
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  Speaker 1: Eureka team this year. The Lancers are a fantastic year.
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  Speaker 1: But to get stuck with the best team in Missouri
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  Speaker 1: and CBC in your district is brutal. And even slew
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  Speaker 1: High as well. I mean, slu High is definitely not
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  Speaker 1: a gimmea game. Slu High has one of the best
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  Speaker 1: defenses in the state. But we'll see how the Junior
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  Speaker 1: Bills offense can.
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  Speaker 2: It seems like they've kind of been found out a
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  Speaker 2: little bit these last few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Though they have. And then the Smith has Marquette in
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  Speaker 1: the first round. Again the Spartans should win, but tough
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  Speaker 1: draw off for Lafayette. Now we get to the district
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  Speaker 1: that really annoys us, Class six District three. So just
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  Speaker 1: okay before we show you, before we show you Class
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  Speaker 1: six District three, remember we've just had Class six District
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  Speaker 1: two undefeated CBC undefeated Lafayette, both in the same district.
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  Speaker 1: Now we go to Class six District three. Pattonville is
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  Speaker 1: the one seed. They are at four and five this year,
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  Speaker 1: Writtener at the two seed. Haswood Central is a three seed,
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  Speaker 1: Hazel West the four seed, Franceill Norris the five seed.
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  Speaker 1: We got a four and five team, at five and
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  Speaker 1: four team, a two and seven team, and two oh
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  Speaker 1: to nine teams in the same district. Even though Rittner
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  Speaker 1: has more playoff points on Pattonville, Pattinvill beat them earlier
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  Speaker 1: this season, so they get the automatic switch rule to
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  Speaker 1: come in so Pattinville gets the one seed and we
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  Speaker 1: get winless hazwelod West blessed with the ability to host
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game, got a level that happened.
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  Speaker 2: How many times has that happened?
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  Speaker 1: It actually so it happened I know at least twice
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  Speaker 1: last year across the state. Happens again this year. I
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  Speaker 1: believe in Class one somewhere, I forgot exactly who it was.
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  Speaker 1: But just that's just silly. I mean, that's just I
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  Speaker 1: understand how the map works and how you kind of
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  Speaker 1: what Misha does. They start in the boot heel, that's
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  Speaker 1: District one, and they kind of move up the eastern
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  Speaker 1: side of the state. So the Districts two and three
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  Speaker 1: usually include the Saint Louis area teams and the Northeast
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  Speaker 1: Missouri teams, and they kind of move across the central
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  Speaker 1: to southwestern part of the state and then you go
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  Speaker 1: back up northwest. So usually the Class eight or not
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  Speaker 1: the Districts seven and eight teams are usually the KC teams,
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  Speaker 1: the Northwest Missouri teams. But I feel like there's I
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  Speaker 1: feel like Mishif should have found a way to just
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  Speaker 1: switch written or in Lafayette or switch patent on Lafayette
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  Speaker 1: because the fact that either Lafayette or Slussy we're even slow.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we'll s in the city that have been
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  Speaker 1: kind of weird.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but a little more sense to just kind of
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  Speaker 3: configure something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, just the fact that Lafayette or CBC is not
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  Speaker 1: going to win a district championship this year is criminal.
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  Speaker 2: War won one.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I mean, I had those a decent team, Wrinners,
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  Speaker 1: a decent team.
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  Speaker 2: But.
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  Speaker 1: It's just heartbreaking.
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  Speaker 3: I should be happy that a suburban team is going
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  Speaker 3: to win a district Class six, which rarely happens. Kirkwood
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  Speaker 3: buck the trend last year, and maybe if who knows,
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  Speaker 3: if Lafayette plays an A plus game and CVC.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, if CBC loses a suburban team the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs again, that would be I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean that as a suburban guy, that'd be pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 3: But I would look incredibly bad because I've said that
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  Speaker 3: CBC is the best team in the Midwest.
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  Speaker 1: They happened. The CBC has an incredible season so far. Yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we have a lot more so, I got it.
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  Speaker 3: I would have to swallow a lot of pride for
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  Speaker 3: my ego order for that to happen, but that would
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  Speaker 3: be that'd be crazy either way though, and we do
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  Speaker 3: kind of root for craziness at times.
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  Speaker 1: We do. So heading over to Classics District four, another
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  Speaker 1: very interesting district here.
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  Speaker 2: This is kind of a fun district.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very fun district. This is probably I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm the GAC guy. Of course I love
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  Speaker 1: this one, but this one should be a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: Sat Donald they'd go nine and oh they clinch the
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  Speaker 1: one seed at Liberty, solid season from them. They go
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  Speaker 1: seven to two. They clinched the two seed and then
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  Speaker 1: we get another automatic switch Torul come into play. So
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  Speaker 1: Troy was the original three seed. They went seven to two.
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  Speaker 1: Zamall West was the original four seed, they went six
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  Speaker 1: to three, and then Francis Howell they were the original
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  Speaker 1: five seed. They go five and four. So you got
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  Speaker 1: Troy at three, Zumot West at four, France Salad five. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: going from top to bottom. Saint Dominic didn't play Liberty,
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  Speaker 1: Liary didn't play Troy. Troy played Zumalt West and they lost.
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  Speaker 1: So Zumwalt West and Troy flip. So West now gets
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  Speaker 1: a three seed, Troy gets the four seed and Francis
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  Speaker 1: Howell gets the short end of the stick because they've
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  Speaker 1: played troll and they lost to Troy, and even though
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  Speaker 1: Troy already got switched, that would get switched again. But
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  Speaker 1: Francis Howell beats him all West, So even though they
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  Speaker 1: were next to each other in the original points, if
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  Speaker 1: you just look at the points on the far right column.
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  Speaker 2: This actually works out. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Even though Francis Howell, you know, initially should have jumped
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  Speaker 1: West in the vacuum, they can't because West got out
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  Speaker 1: of dodge and jumped Troy so that it couldn't be
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  Speaker 1: jumped by Francis Howells and France House get stuck at
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  Speaker 1: the fire.
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  Speaker 3: I'm really sorry to cut you off on merit right now.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like that that makes a lot of sense
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  Speaker 3: that Zuomo West is the three seed.
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  Speaker 2: It does, I mean, francis just purely a power ranking.
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  Speaker 1: Sense, yeah, I mean Francis Howell's schedule has their seasons
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  Speaker 1: has been really weird so far. I mean, they beat
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  Speaker 1: they they defensively completely suffocated Zoom on North back in
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  Speaker 1: week two, so that was very impressive, but then then
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  Speaker 1: they've just it's had a weird year. I mean, Jalen
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  Speaker 1: bowerd Jayon Bower has been unbelievable all year for France Howell,
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  Speaker 1: but they've they've they then got crushed by Cardinal Ritter,
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  Speaker 1: they lost to Troy and it's been a weird year
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  Speaker 1: for them so far. And then Franceise Central the sixth seed.
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  Speaker 1: So this weekend we got West hosting Francisse Central and
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  Speaker 1: then Troy hosting Howell. And the Troy Howell game is
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, so that should be a very interesting game.
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  Speaker 2: I will be there to film that game, by the way, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then I'll briefly go over some of the other threatening
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  Speaker 1: teams in Class six. Knicks is the one seed in
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  Speaker 1: Class six District five. They're nine to zero. They're one
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  Speaker 1: of the best teams in Class six. They made the
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  Speaker 1: Classic State championship game last season. District six, there are
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  Speaker 1: two undefeated teams. You have Blue Springs South. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are ranking them as the number two team
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  Speaker 1: Class six.
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  Speaker 3: As six, some people, I think mainly from Kansas City,
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  Speaker 3: think they're the number one team, but I think Blue
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  Speaker 3: Springs South kind of walks that district.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh Hallaias you know, they're also undefeated. They're nine
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  Speaker 1: to zero. And then you got a solid Hickman team
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  Speaker 1: there at seven and two, a solid Blue Springs scene
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  Speaker 1: there at six and three, and the Rock Bridges are
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  Speaker 1: at five and four, So top to bottom you could
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  Speaker 1: say that's the best district in class six, but two
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  Speaker 1: undefeated teams, and then the lowest seed is five and four,
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  Speaker 1: so straight up top the bottom you can say that's
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  Speaker 1: the best team in class six. And then District seven
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  Speaker 1: North k C is the one seed seven and two.
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  Speaker 1: Decent team, but nothing crazy. In the District eight, Liberty
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  Speaker 1: Liberty they're the one seed, Liberty KC. They're eight and one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, somewhat threatening, but probably not going to be
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  Speaker 1: a state title threat. Heading down to class five, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a few Saint Louis area teams and District one
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  Speaker 1: Farmington they're the one seed there at seven and two.
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  Speaker 1: Cape Central they're two seed at six and three. Webster
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  Speaker 1: Groves there are the three seed at three and five.
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  Speaker 1: Fox Warriors are the four seed at two and seven,
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  Speaker 1: and then pop up left of the five at three
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  Speaker 1: and six, and then Miller Career who is co opting
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  Speaker 1: on summer in Vashan there six seed there at three
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  Speaker 1: and six, and then Melville's the seventh seed. District two,
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  Speaker 1: we got Kirkwood's the one seed. There's seven and one.
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  Speaker 1: Eureka is the two seed. They're seven and two. Rockwood
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  Speaker 1: Summit they're the three. They're also at seven and two,
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  Speaker 1: and then Urala Washington and Parkway South at four, five
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  Speaker 1: and six. You know, we could see a very interesting
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  Speaker 1: Eureka Summit second round matchup. And then Eureka Kirkwood gave
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  Speaker 1: us a very exciting game earlier this year.
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  Speaker 3: That's been a great game for like the last five
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  Speaker 3: years longer, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: It has, so hopef we can get another super exciting
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  Speaker 1: matchup between those two in a few weeks. Heading over
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  Speaker 1: to the other side of the bracket and District three,
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  Speaker 1: we got Hayzwood East as the one seed there at
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  Speaker 1: seven and two and Class five District three Cardinal Ritter
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  Speaker 1: they're at five and three. There the two seed, Shaman
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  Speaker 1: I they are also at five and three. They're the
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  Speaker 1: three seed. LDU and m I CDs are the four
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  Speaker 1: and five. The two Wharson Roads schools they will play
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  Speaker 1: each other this Saturday. They were they were not even
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  Speaker 1: a point separated from each other in the standing. So
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  Speaker 1: LaDue gets at home field by zero point eighty six
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  Speaker 1: mission points and then you got Riverviewed and McClure at
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  Speaker 1: six and seven, and then the winner of that district
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  Speaker 1: will play the winner of District four in class five
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  Speaker 1: Small North of the one seed at eight and one,
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  Speaker 1: and then Parkway West they're the two seeds at seven
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  Speaker 1: and two North points to three seed they're also seven
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  Speaker 1: and two, and then Timberland at Zimald East, Zimaal South
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  Speaker 1: and Parkway Central are at five or four, five, six
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  Speaker 1: and seven. This is along with District three, is seventeen districts,
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  Speaker 1: so only the ones seed gets to buy. This is
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  Speaker 1: one North gets to buy a week.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to say real quick with it.
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  Speaker 3: What's what's so intricate and interesting with the points system
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  Speaker 3: is the reason why LaDou is ahead of MI CDs
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  Speaker 3: at by those points is essentially because LaDou was able
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  Speaker 3: to get down and score a touchdown with like I think,
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  Speaker 3: three minutes to play in the game against Fox and
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  Speaker 3: for point differential purposes, that's essentially why they're barely ahead
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  Speaker 3: of MI I CDs. So, I mean everything, it comes
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  Speaker 3: down to the most minute details this, which is actually
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  Speaker 3: kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: One very interesting matchup though, So the first in the
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  Speaker 1: first round. In Class five District four, North points to
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  Speaker 1: three and Mold South is the six. So North Point
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  Speaker 1: hosts zum Alt South. And this is a game that
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  Speaker 1: North Point totally gave away in the regular season they
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  Speaker 1: lost as one of the bulldogs. So if they can
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  Speaker 1: keep the turnovers down, they should be able to win.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll see. Being great season so far for North
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  Speaker 1: Point are at seven to two, but they got to
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  Speaker 1: tighten up let's turnovers to get some of the playoff
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  Speaker 1: run going. But I'd like to.
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  Speaker 3: See West versus North Point just because that would be
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  Speaker 3: a funky game.
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  Speaker 1: It would be it would be very interesting. Briefly, going
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  Speaker 1: over the rest of Class five District five, leveand onto
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  Speaker 1: the one seed. They're at five and four, And I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 3: This is another district where it's which is wrong with
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  Speaker 3: the Misha's system.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would. I wouldn't assume any of.
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  Speaker 2: Those teams are that in District one as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Class five District six, Carthage Perennial, very good team
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  Speaker 1: down there in southwest Missouri. They were eight and one,
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  Speaker 1: they're the one seed. Republic they're the two seed. They're
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  Speaker 1: at seven and two. Really good season for the Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: Web City they're at six and three. They're the three seed.
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  Speaker 1: Branson really good year for them. They're seven and two,
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  Speaker 1: they're the four seed. So some of the usual suspect
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  Speaker 1: down there in southwest Missouri. It's so weird seeing web
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  Speaker 1: City at six and three.
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  Speaker 2: I know they were last I mean last year or
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  Speaker 2: two years ago they were even like I know, I
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  Speaker 2: think there were four and five.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of years ago, which is just crazy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's about to happen, you know, coach Rogerick retiring, but.
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  Speaker 3: That's still crazy to see they well they still won
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  Speaker 3: their district last year too, despite having a losing record.
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  Speaker 3: In entering the playoffs with the losing records, so it
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  Speaker 3: just seems different though this year because you know, they
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  Speaker 3: lost the Carthage, they lost the Republic. But I mean
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  Speaker 3: those are two pretty close games against web City, so
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  Speaker 3: that's uh, those are gonna be really it's just interesting
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  Speaker 3: if if they can get their website, they should beat Parkview.
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  Speaker 3: But but yeah, after that, it's gonna be pretty interesting for.
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  Speaker 1: The small handful of our viewers that are wondering why
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  Speaker 1: we're going in depth about web City. Web City is
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  Speaker 1: arguably the best public school football program in the state.
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  Speaker 2: They they are so not even arguable they are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll give them a little bit more attention because
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  Speaker 1: they've kind of warranted that. And then then back over
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  Speaker 1: the left side of the bracket and Class five, Grand
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  Speaker 1: Valley is the one seed in District seven. They're at
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  Speaker 1: six and three, so nothing crazy over there, but a
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  Speaker 1: district date in class five the Pirates of Platte County
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  Speaker 1: they're the one seed there at nine to zero. And
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  Speaker 1: then Rockhurst the Halklits we just talked about earlier and
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  Speaker 1: defeating Slue High there at seven and two. So pretty
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  Speaker 1: good schedule over there, a pretty good district over there
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  Speaker 1: in class five District eight. And then in class.
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  Speaker 2: Four, Platte County is the favorite. I would say, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In class five, I would say it's in I would
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  Speaker 1: say it's Platte County, and then they.
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  Speaker 3: Will get most likely yeah, probably, Well, I would say Kirkwood.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, woods Up, I would probably go.
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  Speaker 2: Out of our area would be Kirkwood.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, I don't know, I picked against Carter
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  Speaker 1: Or this year and they really burned me for it.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, well that was so that was That was
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  Speaker 2: a one off against.
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  Speaker 1: Your g A C.
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  Speaker 3: Bias gotten away with how with that one? But it happens.
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  Speaker 3: I would say Kirkwood right now, they've been really.
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  Speaker 1: Side County, Kirkwood, Cardinal, Ritter, Eureka, Carthage, Carthage, Dumont North
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  Speaker 1: those are the the threatening teams.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then and the Rockers. Did you say Rockers?
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: I would I'd throw them in there too.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: So yeah, back to so we got Class four District
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: one Festus. They're the one seed there at seven and two.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I have to really solid season for the Tigers. Pereville
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: is the two seed. De Soto's the three seed. Hillsboro
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: is the four seed, so you know, Phillsborough could beat
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Sixon round one. We could see a potential rivalry matchup
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: in the second round of the playoffs in North County
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: down on jeff Co. There uh the sixth.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Seed district who is pretty crazy.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: The District two the three and six Viannie Golden Griffins
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: or the one seed good for them. Sullivant is the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: two seed at six and three, Union of the three seed.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Westminster is the four Pacific as the five afinite six
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: based seven. I think Vianni wins this one. The Sam
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Dean led Golden Griffins. I think definitely have the talent edge.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: And actually they just had Karen Williams' jersey retirement ceremony
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: last Friday. That was very cool to see him come
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: back home.
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's safe to say he's the
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: greatest ever football player.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Oh for sure.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I know Trent Green went there.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: He did, great quarterback.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: But yeah, world champion Trent Green, because he did he
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: did win a Super Bowl at Rams, even though he
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: didn't play that year because he got hurt. Yeah, but yeah,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: what Karen Williams did, like when win two state titles
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: for them, it was a great running back at Notre
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Dame and obvious and then he's doing stuff.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: With the Rams.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And then to District three, the undefeated Jaguars of Gateway
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Stem they're at nine and zero or the one seed.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Saint Mary's the two seed. There are six and three,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: the seven and one Jennings Warriors they are the three seed,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: luffand North are the four seed at four and three,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: and then McClure North is the five seed. So this
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: is a really good district. Is a really good district,
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I mean I think, I mean you know Gateway Stem.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I think this is their second straight year going undefeating
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: them of your season. Yeah, so huge props to the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Jaguars and their coaching staff, their players, Congrats to them.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Saint Mary's are talented, you know, not the juggernaut level
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: they were back in the Kevin Coleman Jamal Roberts days,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: but you know, still still still a decent team. And
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: then Jennings, you know, they're solid, they're they're threatening, and
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: then Lufan North is always gonna be sitting there ready
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to ruin whoever season they go up against. I mean,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: even though they're at four and three, that's still a
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: very talented team.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Ooh.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: So there's I know there's some assistant coaches at Saint
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Mary's who were on the coaching staff at Luther North
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: last year. So I think there's a pretty good chance
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: they play in the district championship.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Hm.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: That'll be a very potentially spicy matchup there.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Well, I don't know how spicy it would be, but
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: it would just it's it's interesting right there. And because
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I think right now Luther North they I would assume
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: they beat McLure North, and then I would think Luther
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: North beats Gateway Stem, and then I would think Saint
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Mary's beats Jennings. Saint Mary's just way more battle tested
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: than Jennings. So I'm going off of that and i'd
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: pick I'd probably I don't know, I'm not saying they
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: would win right now, but it would probably come down
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: to Saint Mary's and Luther North in that district.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Well, the winner of that district will play the winner
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: of District four where Parkway North they're the one seed
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: at eight and one, Orchard Farm or the two seed
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: they are also eight and one. Youth City is the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: three seed, they are also eight and one, Holts the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: four seed there at four and five, and then you
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: got Brentwin, Clayton muth In, Saint Charles and Saint Charles
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: at five, six and seven.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: We gotta, okay, we gotta, we gotta give our picks
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: right here, or just who thinks we gotta win?
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: Who thinks we can win?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: This is the toughest one so far, I mean, this
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: is I'm going with the Parkway North. I will pick
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Parkway North. You know, my man coach O doing great
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: work over there on Fife. But Richard Farmer, they're a
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: good team. But that lost and not good.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Maybe they needed that.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe they did. Maybe they did, but hey, U City,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: they're hanging around, man. They they they are a very
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: talented team. We talked about them and their game against
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Jennings and how Sophmore running back. I already forgot his name.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I'm terrible for that, unfortunately, But I mean they're a threat.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I mean they're they're eight one with not the best schedule,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: but I mean, I think a lot is pretty good.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It is pretty good, and I think the early season
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: loss of Saint Jennevieve kind of got their head straight.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: It's like, you know what, we're a talented team, but
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: we're not world beaters. So as long as we just
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: stay honest and keep working, we can get better. And
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: they've gotten better week by a week. Travis Allen after
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: University say, that's what That's what I was thinking of.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, that'uld be interesting. I'll pick Parkway North, but
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: it'll be tough. It'll be a tough road.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: You know, Holt they can't.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm assuming Holt's gonna beat Clayton and Parkway
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: North can't overlook Holt there, but I would imagine they win.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: North's been really good at winning close games this season.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: I mean they their best win is beating Hazlewood East
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: in overtime and coming back from an eighteen point deficits.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: So they've been pretty solid this season.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Then District five Hannibal at number one, Odessa eight and one,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Warrington at six and three, Mexico at five and four,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Kirksville Ford five, and Marshall three.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And this is interesting thing. You know, Dessa in Class four.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I feel like they were in Class two for a
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: little while there.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: They were in Class three last year.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: And I guess they've kept increasing in class Odessa one
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: state they had fifteen the season back in twenty nineteen.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: They incredible team over there, and I guess they're the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: an exurb of case. You'll you kind of pass Odessa
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: when you're on I seven you go in to Kansas
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: City from Saint Louis. Really good program over there in
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: western Missouri. And then District six.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Hannibal to win that district.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: By the way, District District six West Plains, they're usually
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: a decent team, but they're always a team that notoriously
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: flames out when they get to the quarter finals. District seven,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Warrensburger is the one seeds.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: They're a good team.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Carl Junction, they're all right, but yeah they're they're right.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: They're right next to web City by the way, Carl Junction.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Nothing crazy. District seven Warrensburg six and three, solid team,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Nevada six and three, Harrisonville six and three, Lincoln College
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Prep six and three. Well round the district there. I
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: guess District eight just a Class five. How District eight
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: has that sneaky team, well not sneaky team, but for
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the Saint Louis folks that don't go all the way
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: to the end of the districts to look at the teams.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: This is the Class four favorite. Karne is in district
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: date there at nine to no.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Savannah is right behind Karney two is being a favorite too.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: And so yeah, Savannah is a heck of a team.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So the fact that these two teams got stuck in
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the same district is also kind of a travesty.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: Obviously, Smithville's is always solid. Another seven to two season
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: for them, So you got like you got three state
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: ranked teams in.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: The same district, and that's really brutal.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: That's just and in Class four which is already pretty
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: lean as far as like overall top end talent goes.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: You know you're gonna have two teams that are gonna
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: be you know, burnt off after you know, the first
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: few rounds.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that'll do. For Class four, I guess the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: favorites overall would have to.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Be Carney Savannah and Parkway North probably potentially fastest.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Parkway North. I mean, it feels weird.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't count on handible completely. I mean, they're right
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: there too, They're hanging in there.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Luther North, I wouldn't say they're strong like I would.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: I don't think Saint Mary's and and or Luther North
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: are strong favorites right now, but I think bet they
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: can definitely play spoilers, you know, especially if it's their
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: day and it's not the day of someone else. So
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: I mean they have both teams have a lot of talent.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Yep. Now go down to Class three, starting get a
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: lot less St. Louis area teams. We get at the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: smaller classes, so we'll kind of briefly go through these.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: District one Dexter, they're eight and one. They're the one
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: seed park Hill Central State champions from a couple of
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: years ago. They're at five and four.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I actually got park Hill Central winning that district should
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: be an interesting one to watch.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: District two, Valley Catholic they're the one seed, Lift for
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Life they're the two seed St. Genevieve they're the three
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: seed because Lift Life schedule is so difficult. Even though
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: they're five and four, they are seated above eating one
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Saint Genevieve, which I think is pretty fair.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I like how these districts actually kind of round for
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: I don't like the how they are These teams are
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: placed with the classifications in the assignments, but for what
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: they are in the districts, these typically ended up being
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: seated pretty good.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And then Herculaneum they're at five and fourth or
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the four seed. John Burrow was also five and four.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Through the five seed Normandy and Lutheran South round it out.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: I would pick Valley Catholic. You have to it this, wow,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: but I think it's between I think Lift because Lyftalaf
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: is gonna play Saint Genevieve in the second round, So
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: that's gonna be a that's gonna be a heck of
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: a ball game. That's gonna be a really, really good game.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: So the winner of that most likely gonna play Valley Catholic.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: And now that would be kind of cool to see
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the Saint Genevieve rivalry in a district championship format. That
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: would be pretty cool. But I would personally like to
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: see Lift Life win the district. But for now, I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: guess I'll pick Valley Catholic.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Vallet Catholic.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I don't think they've ever They've never gotten out of
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: a district in Class three in the years that they.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Have in the newer format with the success factor because
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: because Valid Catholic was their Class one and wrong Valid
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Clack Catholic was running a Class one for the better
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: part of a decade and they they.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Won. They didn't win class to last year. No, they didn't.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: On a double check, I think they No, they didn't
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: make it.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: No, they didn't make it the state last year, but
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: two years ago they.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Got second state.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Two years ago they lost a heartbreaking game in state
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: two years ago.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: That's right, because they had Valid Catholic made the state
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: championship game in Class two every year from two thousand
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: and nine to twenty fifteen, and then they made it
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: again in twenty seventeen. Twenty nineteen, twenty twenty three, so
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: perennial powerhouse down there in Saint Genevieve. Anyway, moving on
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: to District three, we got Borgias the one seed there
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: at five and four. Claire they're at six and three,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: they're the two seed. St. Charles West three and six,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: they're the three seed. Wright City is six and three,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: they're the four seed, and then Principia, Winfield and Owensville
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: are at five, six and seven. I mean, I guess
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I picked Borgia, but Right City has been solid this year,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: so it could be the Wildcats.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: We'll see St. Charles West sneaks into the three seed
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: with three wins.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, and Borgia they've been they haven't been on
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: good form of the last you know, half of their season.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I don't really know.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: I don't really know enough about the rest of the
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: district though to really pick a conclusive have a conclusive
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: answer though, So yeah, i'd be it should be a
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: tight one again, and kind of it's a funky district
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: right there, yep.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: And then we'll just briefly go over some of the
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: other threats in Class three or young Class three stage.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: To come out of District four at seven and two,
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: and yeah, they beat They actually beat Borgia thirteen to twelve.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: This this past week.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: You got Mountain Grove and District five or eight and one,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: and then Seneca. They are the they They've been the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: favorites to win Class three all season.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: They got a tough They're gonna have a tough game
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: if they play Castville. Castville is a really battle tested
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: team for Class three standards, and they got some pretty
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: good wins.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Seneca actually just lost by one to Lamar in
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: an unbelievable game in Week nine. That was that was
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the best game in Missouri. This past week. Lamar are
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: defeating Seneca by one. That was a crazy, crazy game.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Two great programs going at it down there in the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: southeast southwest part of the state. But that should be
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a very intertring district between between Seneca and Castville. I
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: would pick Seneca for now.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: Seneca is dealing with some injuries as well, but I
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: heard they're supposed to be back for the playoffs.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And then District seven nob Noster they're the one seed
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: at eight and one. I guess Booneville and Clinton looked
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: pretty solid too, and then District eight Maryville.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: I'd pick Booneville to win that district, though.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Maryville the team that we talked about a bit a
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: couple weeks ago because they defeated a lose for North
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: There are seven to two the spoof mounts, one of
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: the better mascots in the state.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: In a state that lacks creative mascot names for.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: The most part. Yeah, and then Richmond there at seven
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: to two as well. I guess my picks, my picks
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: right now to beat to make this a championshi game.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: In Class three, I will go with Maryville and Seneca.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty good. It's hard to argue with that.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: But but Class three is you can't you can't. I mean,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Valley Catholic is going to be a favorite if they
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: get whoever. I mean, Valley Catholic can live for life.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Are going to be big favorites because I think I
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: think whoever wins District two will win beat whoever it
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: comes out of District one.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yeah, So Class three.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Should be very interesting to watch this year. I'm very
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: very interesting.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll be keeping our eyes on that more closely
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: than usual.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Class two, very few SINGLEWIS teams left District one.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Kruthersville seven, to two. Jefferson from jeff go there four
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and five. They're the four seed, and then another team
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: from Saint Pias. They're a two seed of four and
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: five and then so another case of the automatic switch rule.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: So even though Saint Pius had more playoff points, they
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: actually lost to Cruthersville earlier this year. So they go
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: down to the two seed. District two Montgomery County. They're
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the one at seven and two, and then the two
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: seeds Bowling Green at three and six. Bowling Green had
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: an amazing year last year. I think they lost. They
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: barely lost to Lamar in the final four, and I
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: think Bowling Green was like twelve Ton other going into
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: that game and they lost to Lamar. And then Bowling Green,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I guess graduated a bunch of seniors and now there
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: three and six. That's not too bad to see. But Priory,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: the Ravens, the Rebels, some of the ogs might say,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: they're the three seed at two and seven, and then
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Herman one in eight, Cuba two and seven, Duchen one
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: eight in District two, District three, Mountain View from the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: other Liberty the third Liberty Review. Yes, they're at seven
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and two. Springfield Catholic seven and two.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: But fair Grove who went to state last year. They're
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: five and four in Class two.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: And the team they played in state last year, Lamar.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: They lead District four. Right now, Lamar is six and
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: three right now.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: They finished sixth and three last year.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: No, I think they finished five and four last year
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: and then one state they did.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about we talked about webs City
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: as one of the best public school teams in the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: state historically. Lamar has very quickly over the past ten
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: years put themselves in the conversation as well. I mean
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: they they since twenty eleven, they have ten state championships
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and they're a very small public school in a very
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: small town in southwest Missouri. That is actually where former
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: President Harry Truman was born. It was in Lamar and Missouri. Yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: and Lamar after a ton of injuries to do with
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: last year, they won state last year again that we
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: were at that was an incredibly exciting game. But yeah,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: La Mar Tigers are one of the best programs in
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: the state. You talk about just consistent success.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: And really one of the best, one of the best
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: small school programs in the small school public school programs
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: in the entire country really, oh for sure, over these
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: last fifteen years.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: I mean that that whole community has just completely bought
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: into their football program. It's paid them so many dividends.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: I mean they they Lamar doesn't do anything crazy. I
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: mean they all they do is just lift their tails
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: off the second. I think it's I'm not sure exactly
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it's what their program is, but I think it's when
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: their boys hit seventh grade, they start lifting a lot.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: It might be sixth grade, but once. I mean they
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: they physically do not look like a Class two team
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: because they're always very very strong, fire offoot ball very well,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and are very well disciplined. So six and three this year,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: but you can't count out because they're alway going to be. Yeah,
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, they just be one of the best teams
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: in Class three, So gonna be a heck of a team,
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: heck of a run. District five. Blair Oaks the one seed.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: They're nine to zero. They I think they're the favorite
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: right now to win Class two. They they were in
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Class three for a while there because of enrollment. Yeah,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and you know, Blair Oaks has been talking about good
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: public school programs. They have been fantastic this past decade.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I mean they've got six state titles, three of four
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: of which in the past seven years alone. They they've
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: been unbelievable nine and oh so far this year if
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: thirteen to one state champions last year. I mean you
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: look at their points per game and opponents points per game.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: They're just rolling through their schedule and they crushed Maryville
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: week one, one of the best teams in Class three.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: They crushed Lutheran North, of the best teams in Class four,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Week two, they crushed o Sage, one of the better
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: teams in Class.
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Three in week three, and then they they'rushed everybody.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I know. They have just completely laid waste their schedule,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: so they have to be the favorite. Class two.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Luther North game is a little closer than what that
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: final score communicated. But yeah, they still put up they
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: they still forty.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's insane. Unfortunately, they would they're on the same
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: side of the bracket as them are, so they would
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: play in the in the semi finals. I believe it
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: would be. But in District five you got Blair Oaks
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: to nine and oh, Centraili Other eight and one war
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: saw As nine and oh they're the three seed North
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Callaway they're eight and one. They're the four seed. So
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: more of this and and and I'll just go straight
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: to District six. District six the one seed is three
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and six. So in District five, the four seed is
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: eight and one, and in District six the one seed
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: is three and six. How does this happen? How does
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: this happen?
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: When you don't see the reasons? This is what happens.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is so unfortunate. You got teams like
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Warsaw and North Callaway having all time seasons. I mean,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: like I don't know much about Warsaw, but you know
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: last year. Last year they had a really good year
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: at ten and one, so they undefeated. They did the
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: regular season, they did, but in twenty fifth Warsaw they
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: are they had They did not win a game for
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: two years from twenty fifteen to twenty sixteens. This is
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a program that historically they they've won state twice, but
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: there was a very long time ago, I believe, back
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: in the eighties, so in the recent memory they had
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: been terrible. They're kind of back at the top, and
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: now they get stuck in the same district as Blair Oaks.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: So it's like what the heck. Wow, that's just brutal
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: to see.
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: Warsaw's strength of schedule is probably not the greatest because
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: like they've been their points per game and you know,
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: their you know, opponent points per game is really really good.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: But they're only They're still only the three seeds, so
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna imagine their schedules. Strength of schedule kind of
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: comes into play right there. Yeah, yeah, compared to Centralia.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: But yeah, and then District seven and eight, Monroe c too,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: either eight and one. District seven Mid Buchanan A nine
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: to Zerine District eight could be a threat. But for now,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: it's Blair Oaks versus the field. Well, I guess it's
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Blair Oaks versus Lamar versus the field.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Blair Oaks is Lamar is probably the
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: best team from the field.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but Blair Oaks is unbelievable so far this year,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the Falcons are insane. I guess we'll briefly go over
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Class one I think one, or we have a handful
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: of teams from the Saint Louis area in Class one
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: District one. We got Charles or there's a two I
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: should say Class one District one Charlestone to the one
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: seed five and four.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Saxony and Lutheran has been great this year for like,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: how this is their first year.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: This is so Yeah, this is Saxony Lutheran's first season
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: as a program for a varsity season. They're a private
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: down there in the Jackson keep Gerardo area there at
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: four and four. That's incredible to have a full varsity
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: schedule and then your first year go four and four
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: for a very small school. Shout out to their coaching
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: staff doing a great job so far.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: And I mean they're in the they're in the Jackson,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: they're located in the Jackson School district. So like it's
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: maybe not all that shocking that, you know, they get
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: some pretty decent football players and some good coaching because
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: that just that area is just amazing for football.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah it is. And then District two we got three
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Saint Louis area teams. They get to be the map
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: pulled up right there with hey, Ti Porgeville, Malden kind
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: of down there on the boot heel, and then Charleston
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: down there, uh and then in kind of by New
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Madrid and then Saxon Luthman up there in Jackson and
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: then the Class one District two. We got Grand View
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: in Hillsboro having a really good year so far. The
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: six and three they're the one seed, Van far up
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: there in Vandalia there five and four, Crystal City down
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: their next to Festus there three and six. So far
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: they are the three seed and then VCA the very
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Christian Academy Eagles there at three and three, and then
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Louisiana is the five seed. So just like last year,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: VCA we get to host Louisian in the first round. Yea,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: hopefully we can win. That should be interesting.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: But that's great though, But it's like you're not that's
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: you're moving up, like you're there's there's progress.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: No I I I could not, I can. I cannot
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: overstate the amount of progress we have made since last year.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, three and three may not look crazy, but
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I can I can promise you we have made such
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: a big strides from last year. And I know, me
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: and the rest of the coach are so proud of
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: our boys and what we've done so far. And you know,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: it's it's day by day. It's come in, put good
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: work in. Fall in love with the process has kind
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: of been one of our mantras for this year, and
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: you know, like we we know that we're not going
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: to be you know, Class one champions our second year
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: as a varsity program again. But it's just building, building
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the good programs we're trying to emphasize and it's just
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: coming in and getting good work. Come to the weight room,
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: lifting hard, watching paying attention while watching film is a
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: big part of what we do. And great season so far.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Hopefully we can when when this week in Louisiana, that
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: would be so huge because that would be our first
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: playoff win and shoot five six years, I think, so
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: that would be so so huge.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: If you don't mind me asking, what do you think
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: has been the biggest difference that the kids have made
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: in your opinion?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I just think physically our boy, Like last year, our
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: senior class wasn't that big, like our current junior class
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: is where I think a lot of our talent is.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: And so last year they were sophomores and it was
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: their first year with the VRC season and at least
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: everyone that was their first year playing varsity competition. So
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: that was that was a big wake up call. I
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: was like, okay, this this is this is a different
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: speed to football compared to what we're used to and
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: for a lot of the guys it was their first
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: year ever playing football last year. So just to get
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: you know, as a team, our football IQ isn't insane,
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: like it's not like it's you know, you know, classify
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: le the football IQ. But I think the boys generally
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: understand the game a lot better. I think just this
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the senior leadership this year has been very good, very
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: very good, just kind of making sure everyone's shown up
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: on time, paying attention to details, getting the little things right.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: But it's been great this year so far. It's been
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: really good if you include because we've played kind of
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: a hybrid schedule so far, two JV games and the
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: rest are of varsity games. So if you include the
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: JV games were five and three, which is huge because
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: you know that seems that seems cheesy to include your
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: JV games, and it kind of is. But you know,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: we're we're still in the very earliest stages of rebuilding
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: this program, so we're gonna appreciate and build on every
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: win we can get. Yeah, it's been a great year
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: so far, so hopefully we can hopefully we can shock
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: the world and win the district. So we'll say this
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: is this is the only this is the only time
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I will outright route for a team to win the
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: district as VCA. But yeah, so go Eagles. Hopefully we
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: can come through and win some games and playoffs. But yeah,
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: and the rest of Class one, you got some solid teams,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: you know they or Marionville, Tipton winsor Salisbury they're nine
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: and oh put them counted their nine and oh yeah,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: so it should be fun. Any other district points you
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: want to make before we move on to week ten games.
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: A week Yeah, I don't think I didn't.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: I didn't really give out my Class five predictions in six,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: but I'll just go through. So Class five, I think
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Farmington's gonna win that district.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: They've been really good.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, their offenses under coach Acually has been pretty fantastic.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: Whenever they you know, not just run into some really
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: good teams and they're a little unfortunate to lose the
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: fastest they that was their only other loss besides losing
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: the Jackson. I think Kirkwood's gonna win District two. They've
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: been rock solid. But you can't count out Eureka. Count
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: you can't count out Eureka, and you also can't count
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: out Rockwood Summit, But I just think Kirkwood overall is
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: just more talented and their defense has been really good
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: all season. District three, I think it's gonna be Cardinal Ritter,
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: even though they're not the one seed. I think they're
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: just gonna they really could beat everybody by a twenty points.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: I think that's just how good they are and what
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: they can be. They can be a little weird at times,
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: but for the most part, they've I mean, they've won
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: every game that they're supposed to win and have done
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: so in flying colors as well. So I'm gonna go
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: with the Lions there. District four should probably will come
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: down to Zumalt North in Parkway West, but gonna go
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: with the Panthers in this one. You know, Parkway West
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: if they do, if they can get to that game,
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: it's probably a bad matchup for them because they do
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: struggle against run teams and Zumalt North can particularly be
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: really hard play against if he struggled to top the run,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: especially with you know, the spread offense, spread option offense
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: they have, and Jayden Burlson has been a big difference
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: maker since he's come back.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: We've got to mention that he is back.
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So now that they're they're really at full strength
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: and they're I don't know how many entries they have,
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: if they still have any, but they pretty much got all.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: The aver Jackson's back as well.
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they pretty much have all their important players
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: back and healthy as far as far as we know.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: So that's absolutely huge for the Panthers there. And yeah,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: but if they played Cardinal Ritter, I would still a
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: favorite Ritter in that game too, just for just so talented.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: But I think that'd be definitely more competitive game than
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: it was two years ago when they played when it
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: was an absolute blowout when for Cardinal Ritter and then
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: Kirkwood would would play Farmington and I'm still going with
• 43:48
  Speaker 3: the Pioneers in that one. So I think Kirkwood will
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: get back to the Final four for the second season
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: in a row, and not gonna go, you know, but
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: ultimately I do have Platte County favored to win Class
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: five there, so that's as far as I'll go there.
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: And Class six Jackson should win District one, and I
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: don't know how many consecutive I think they've won, Like
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: I think eight, sorry, eight consecutive districts.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: If I'm not a stake I will double check that
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: real quick.
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: I can't remember the last time they have not won
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: a district. Maybe in twenty twenty two they didn't win one,
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: because that's been there kind of their.
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Last two Yeah, yeah, okay.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: They've won their district every year, just twenty eighteen except
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty two.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, So then if they if CBC wins District two,
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: then they'll play Jackson and then they would play them.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: They would play them. It's an odd.
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: Numbered years, so they would just CBC would have to
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: go down to the pit to play Jackson.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: That'll be a great game, that would be.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: It'll be a rematch.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: It'll be a rematch of two years ago when CBC
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: went down to the pit and one quite convincingly. Not
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: counting out Lafayet because I do think Lafayette will beat
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: SLU and uh, that Lafayette CBC game I think will
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: be pretty good, pretty pretty good one right there. Pattonville
• 45:06
  Speaker 3: against Writtener. I honestly could not predict that game wholeheartedly,
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: but I'm gonna have to go with Pattonville in that game.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: If just you can't really trust Writtener in close games
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: at this point. And Writtener they were beating Pattonville. They
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: had a thirteen point lead when they played them earlier
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: in the season, but Pattville came back to win, and
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: I guess I'm just gonna.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: Go with Patville by the fall.
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: But like I, if Writtener showed that they were able
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: to win close games more consistently, I would pick them,
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: But I just at this point got to go. Got
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: to pick the Pirates District four. This is really fun
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: and pretty tough, but I'm gonna go zoom A West.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: What they I think them beating Hannibal is a big
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: statement win, I think, and same Domini's been great, but
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: they just they're not so quite battle tested and they
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: they may not win a game. I mean, if they
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: play Troy, that's gonna be a tough game. And even
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: if they play how that'll also be tough.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: So they very well may beat those teams, but it's
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: gonna be pretty close.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be close. Run and Liberty. I think they
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: should win their first game. Well, actually they get a bye,
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: I believe or no, yes, okay they do. Yeah, so
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: they get a bye, and I don't think. I think
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: West will beat them, and then I think West ultimately
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: wins that district, and then.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: I think Nix to wins. They should probably walk District five.
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: And then same thing with Blue Springs, although wholes will
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: be tough, and then yeah, that's that's all I got there, all.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Right now into our top fifteen games a week for
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Week ten. So bear with us here because Week ten
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: is always funky because there's a lot of teams bye
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: weeks on the Missouri side and then a lot of
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: other four and five games that just yeah, not good matchups.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of Illinois games to cover, and
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of out of area Illinois teams we're
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: gonna have to hit games about. And I don't know
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: about you, but me personally, I don't follow Chicago area
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: football very much or Springfield area, so you don't Illinois
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: football that much, not really, sorry, not sorry. So I'll
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: hopefully be picking some of these games correctly.
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: We'll see I do follow Illinois football quite a bit,
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: so I'll have a better idea of what to expect
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: in some of these games hopefully.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: But first game we'll talk about on the Missouri side,
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: in Class five. This is District four, I believe, yes,
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: it is Zmult South. Is that North Point? The Grizzlies
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: are favored by three and a half points the over
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: runners at forty eight and a half. Earlier this year,
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: these two teams played Dumult South one in a stunning.
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: I believe it was a one point game night victory.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was after North Point I think had
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: like five turnovers. So as long as Tavern Green can
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: just take care of the football, I like north Tevin
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: william Sorry, so Tavern Green.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: I remember I showed you the score of that game
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: and like you were just shocked. Yeah, I remember where
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: we were when that happened. That was that was a
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: funny raw reaction from you.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Tavern Williams just got to take care of
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: the football. And if they can get Anthony, I don't
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: know how you pronounced last name is a Balker Baffer
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: he pronounced his last name. But the running back for
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: North Point, they can get him going, they'll be huge,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: but cut down on the turnovers, and I like north Point. Here,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: I will go with north Point to cover and I
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: will go with the over.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: This is a it's such a weird I wouldn't say
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: Zumal South is kind of a weird team because usually
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: they're kind of like kind of you get what you
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: see from them.
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Zumalt South started out three and zero and since then
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: this is their only win since Week three over North Point.
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: They've definitely gotten to the harder part of their schedule,
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: like had the players a Mount North and Liberty and
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: then actually gave a decent game to warrant him but
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: lost thirteen nothing. But yeah, they they lost his zumal
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: to East and Washington's Moth South, and so it's just
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: really hard to trust them at four and five and
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: North Point even though they're.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: There's six, they're actually seven to two. Yeah, they're only law.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think at the beginning of the
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: season we would have been that surprised had they been
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: seven and two, because they did beat Liberty, which is
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: by far and away their best win of the season.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: But yeah, them losing to the Zoom at South was
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: kind of a surprise, big surprise actually at the time
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: when that happened. So I think I'll still go with
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: North Point to cover, but I think this will be
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: a close game. And sorry, let's see that spread real quick,
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: so we got a forty eight and a half over under.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: I'll take that over So I do agree with you, all.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Right, sticking the Missouri side until we get to Illinois.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: We got Lindberg at Oakville. This is in Class six
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: District two, right.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: Uh, Class six District one one Classic District one first
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: round matchup.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: We've got Oakville figured by nine and a half points.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: The over runs at forty four and a half. These
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: two teams have not played yet this actually, yes, they
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: had Week one, that's right, Week one I did play.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: That was this is the first game where we felt like,
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know if like like, wow, Oakville is really
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: they look different this year, and they are. And then
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: we're also like it was Limberg that bad? We don't know,
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: but yeah, it's not been a good season for Limberg.
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: They're three and six. They did have they've been battling
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: with some injuries, like but they do have their running back,
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Kevin Fisher back. He missed a decent amount of games
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: this UH season, so it's good to happen back, and
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: it looks like they've kind of found some answers to
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: their offense, which really struggled at the beginning of the season,
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: so that that's good for them. I think this is
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: a better Limberg team than this is actually definitely a
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: better Limberg team than when they first saw Oakville because
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: they changed They changed their offensive scheme after this game.
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: They had a different offense after that game, So yeah,
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: they're doing They're running a lot of pistol plays and
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: that went nowhere. So there's still a spread team, but
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: they running little things some things differently there. But oak
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: pills seven to two. They've been pretty solid this season.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Oakvill's defense has shined. I mean, yeah kidding up. I
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: had four sacks last game. Gavin Anderson not only is
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: he they're mere running back, he's also in credible on defense.
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: He's got five Thunberl coveries this year, fifty one tackles.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Lucas Scanner is also really good in their defensive back
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: He's got four interceptions. So the Oakville defense has been
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: really good all year. And even though the Limberg offense
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: is trending in the right direction, I like Oakville's defense
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: in the spot. So I'm gonna go with Oakfield to
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: cover and I'm gonna go with the under.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: So Limberg has something's got it well, something doesn't have
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: to give. It's not like Ofiel's done something a lot,
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: but the.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Little trajectory here. But Limberg, they have not won a
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: game on the road this season.
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: But the players are. Playoffs are where trends usually typically break.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: I do actually have Limberg covering. I will take the
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: under as well. I don't know if I have an
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: exact pick yet, but I might have. I think Limberg's
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: a better team this year and not this year I meant,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: but like recently, and if their defense can can lock
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: in and their offense is given, you know, a few
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: teams and problems might.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Have Limberg winning this game out right.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: But Oakville they've done a They've been pretty solid this year,
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: and so I'm going to.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: Give them the benefit of the doubt for now. But
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: I do have Limberg covering.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: All right. Next up, I know what to own one
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: we get in the Class one playoffs. Salt Fork at
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: Dupo Dupeau is here by six and a half points,
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: the overs at fifty four and a half. So some
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: brief info on Salt Fork. They are five and four.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: They are scoring by twenty eight points per game and
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: allowing twenty two points per game. For Dupo. They're aid
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: one so far, incredible year for them. Deacan Frater's been
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: a great QB over eighteen hundred passing yards, twenty four touchdowns,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: seven interceptions. Brady portel is it thins pounces first name,
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: ten ten ten stags, Brandon Estland all have been all
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: have been great receivers, all of which have five and
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: more receiving yards, and then she owns being Jacob Duncan
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: have been amazing on defense. Both have seven and more sacks.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: So incredible year for the Tigers eight and one, with
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: their only loss being by one point to a really
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: good Chester.
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: Team on a two point conversion they could not convert
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: at the end of the game.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so great stuff from Dupo. I don't know too
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: much about Salt Fork. I guess they're okay, But Dupo
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Dupo is the sixth seed in the South bracket. Salt
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Fork is the eleven seed. I'm going to go with
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Dupo to cover here, and I'm going to go with
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: the under.
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: So South Fork is from Catland, Illinois. They are five yeah. Yeah,
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: as you mentioned, they're five and four. They were five
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: and two at one point in the season, but there
• 53:51
  Speaker 3: since then they are on a two game losing streak
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: to with three score losses to fifteen Oakwood and Clifton Central.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: They have not beaten a team with a winning record
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: this season, so that's that does help Dupo, although Dupo
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: has not had exactly a strong strength of schedule as well,
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: so I think this game might be closer than what
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: people think. I mean, I guess maybe Dupo's best win.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: They did beat Westland, who are in the playoffs. They
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: beat them twenty to three, and they had a decent
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: victory over Principia fifty to twenty eight. And that that
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Chester game, even though they lost, that was I liked
• 54:31
  Speaker 3: how that it was a really close back and forth game.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: And Dupo there they do a pretty good job of
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: putting up points. Like you said, Prager, He's got eighteen
• 54:39
  Speaker 3: hundred passing yards, twenty four touchdowns, seven interceptions. They have
• 54:42
  Speaker 3: three receivers, Brady portel ting Sacks and Brandon ester Line
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: with over five hundred receiving yards, and each of them
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: have at least six touchdowns. Shot Owens b seven sacks,
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: Jacob Duncan has eight sacks. Zach kostemyers a year four
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: here at Duke Bony's done a fantastic job of turning
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: the program around. I mean, this is year four and
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: they're in the playoffs for those third time in four years,
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: second year in a row. Here, I'm gonna you know,
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: in Dupos they're averaging forty two points a game. Both
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: these defenses are averaging over twenty points a game allowed.
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: I'm Dupo twenty four and sought for twenty one. But
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: I do have Dupo winning the game. I'll take the
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: over and I will have them covering, all right. I
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: think he'll probably I would like I think he'll probably
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: be like a two score game or so. But they
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: think Dupo would do enough to win, and it'd be
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: cool to see that. They have them have a home game,
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: Next up, number twelve matchup of the week, we got
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: how Central ads in All West. This is the first
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: round of the Class six District four playoffs in Missouri.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: The Jags are faired by twenty six and a half,
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: the over runners at fifty and a half. We talked
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: a lot about Zamo West, how they've had great form
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: over the past four weeks, the great winning its handbal
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: in week nine, How Central kind of stumbling into the playoffs.
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, they they not been.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: It's just it's I think they unfortunately, they've regressed this season.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because as.
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: Far as their record goes, I'm not saying regress as
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: a program, but yeah, their record is. I really thought
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: they would have a better record at this point of
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: the season, just where they left off last year.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the Vianni win is their only good
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: win of the year so far, which is honestly a
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: good win. I mean, Yanni is a decent team this year,
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: but two and seven is definitely disappointing for the Spartans.
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: And I think West is to momentum right now, a
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: ton of momentum right now. So I'm gonna go with
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: Jack to cover. I'm gonna go with the over.
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. West.
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: They previously beat the Spartans thirty five nine in Week
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: four of the season, and you're right, West, They've got
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: a lot of momentum going forward. I mean we were
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: there was a lot of, you know, criticism about their
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: their lack of a run game and they couldn't run
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: the football. But I don't know but they've exactly done
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: to fix that. But their offense has certainly gotten better,
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: certainly after the Francis Howell game where they only scored
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: nineteen points there, so they've They've made some good adjustments
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: and this is a game they should be winning.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: So I have them.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: That's a big spread actually, but I'll still have them
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: taking that spread though, So I have them covering and
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: I'll take the over.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: So we agree, all right.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: Next up, heading back over the Illinois side for eleven
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: number eleven game of the week, we got Rock Sanna
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: at West Frankfurt West Frankfurt for by four and a
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: half points over Runners at forty three and a half.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: This is in the Class three brack of the Illinois playoffs.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: Roxanne well both teams actually at six and three. So far,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Roxanna defensively has been great this year, averaging fifteen points allowed.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Makai Shor has been a great running back over eleven
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: hundre rushing yard and thirteen touchdowns. Mason Crump also a
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: great year for him for the Sholls either ninety three
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: rushing yard thirteen touchdowns for him. They're not a very
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: they are definitely a run heavy team, but whenever they
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: need to throw, the Conen Dougan usually usually does a
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: pretty good job. Six and ten passing yard and seven
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: touchdowns zero interceptions, which is huge for him. And then defensively,
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Thies, Max Austry and Brandon Green are the main guys,
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: the main tackle getters.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: For the Shells.
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: West Frankfurt six and three team against a decent schedule.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: This is the eleven versus six game where Roxane is
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: the eleven seed, West Frankfurt is the sixth seed. So uh, yeah,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know too much about West Frankfurt, but it
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: looks it looks like they beat Chester. That's a pretty
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: good win.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they beat him thirty three to twenty nine.
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: But yeah, sorry, I was trying to think of it
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: the other way, but yeah, that's it's it's a good win.
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: You're good.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: I simply just don't know enough about West Frankfurt to
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: give too big of a review here, but I'm just
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: gonna go with the Shells to cover and win here.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: Over because why not.
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: West Frankfurt is home to arguably the best high school
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: basketball gymnasium in the state of Illinois. Really really yes, wow,
• 59:06
  Speaker 3: we talked about this at one point, but at one
• 59:10
  Speaker 3: point yeah, yeah, but uh, anyway, but their their football
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: team is obviously decent this season.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't have yeah chess.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: It was just the Is this the team that was
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: down south on fifty seven? Yeah, okay, yeah yeah yeah.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: Now I remember go go go look it up West
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Frankfurt basketball.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Now I remember go google image. Is that that's it's
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: pretty great? Yeah.
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: Chester is their only victory over a winning opponent. They
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: did have a pretty nice fifty to twenty victory over
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: Massa County who was barely missed on the playoffs four
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: and five, and they put up they they've sixty balled
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: their last two opponents, where they be Anna Jones Bro
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: sixty one to twenty two and then Sparta sixty six
• 59:51
  Speaker 3: to forty one. I'm gonna go with the I'm gonna
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: go with rox Sanda though in this one. I think
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: their schedule is a little bit better. They've played I mean,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Roxanna played Pree Central fairly close, and the Brie Central
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: is a four seed in Class four. And you know,
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: rox Sanna, they have a they have an identity, they
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: have a I think they have a pretty decent offense
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 3: where they're you know, a triple option team. And they
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: lost to like Roxanne lost to Freeberg twenty nine to
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: twenty one nineteen, and then Columbia thirty four to twenty nine.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: So all three of their losses have been decided by
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: less than eleven points, and two of them by one scores.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: And besides that, they've blown out just about everybody else.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, they did have a.
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 3: Twelve point win over Jerseyville, so and they did beat
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: Alton Marquek forty one to six, who's in Class four
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: as well.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: The who's the fifteen seed.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go with the Shells to win this
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: game here, and I'll have them cover and I'll take
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: the over as well, because you know West Frankfurt. They
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: they've been they've been giving up a lot of points
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: as well, so I think it could be a fairly
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: high school game because it looks like they're able to
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: put up a lot of points too.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: But I'm going with the Shells.
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: Sticking in the Illinois playoffs, heading over to the Class
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: six bracket, we got Plainfield East at East St. Louis,
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Holy Cow Eas St. Louis Is vared by forty and
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: a half points. Here the over ins ft three and
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: a half. I don't know why I'm surprised. I mean
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: East St. Louis is a machine and they're really only
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: seated at eight because they have three losses. That's just
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: the way it is. I mean, I don't know. I mean,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: it's even though they had the most difficult schedule of
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: literally any team in the entire state of Illinois, because
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: they had three losses, They're gonna get stuck at the
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: eight seed and then for Plainfield East. So if you
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: if you go to the IHSA website for those who
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: are keeping track at home, the actually say website is
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: actually really awesome and it gives great info on each
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: playoff team. So in the Class six part of the
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: you know team info, Oh, play Plainfield East.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: This is their Bengals.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: This is their fifth appearance in the playoffs ever, and
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: it's the first appearance is twenty twenty one, and they
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: have yet to win a playoff game in their school's history.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: And it's it's unfortunately going to stay that way.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: It will continue. I'm gonna put the Flyers to cover
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 1: here easily and I'll go with the over I mean,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: come on, Easting Lewis. When was the last time Easting
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: Lewis lost a first round playoff game?
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: Ever, I don't know if they ever have.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: I mean seriously, that's they always find their way to
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: at least make.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: The final four at least so uh, you know, you
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 3: don't have to go back to the nineties in the
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: eighties for that. In the seventies, because I think they
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: started the playoffs since nineteen seventy five in Illinois Eas
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: Saint Louis was and they made it to the playoffs.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: In seventy five they didn't, and they made it to
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: the championship. They didn't lose, by the way, that game
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: is on YouTube if you want to watch it. So obviously,
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: like the I think statistically the third or second most state.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: I think that they're the third most state championships in
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: the state history of Illinois, and I think their second
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: all time ever think anybody in the entire country wins third.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: I think they're third in state championships if we can
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: right too.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: H Joliette and Catholic and the Mount Mount Carmel I think,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: not Mount.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: Carmel the city, but like Mount Carmel in Chicago, Yes,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: the Caravan, because I think both those teams have sixteen.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: I think Mount Carmel has sixteen, then JCA has fourteen
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: fifteen ish and East Lewis has eleven state championships and
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: five runner up finishes. But if you if you go
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: on the ISOSA website and look at the because it'll
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: give you. Okay, JC is fifteen state championships. So they
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: are also in the Classics playoffs this year.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 3: And by the way, there's a chance that they could
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 3: meet East Lewis and j C because JACA plays Chadam Glenwood,
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 3: who's the one seed. But they got in as the
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 3: sixteen seeds, so that's good. And JCA is really battle tested, so.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: That Glenwood has such a brutal draw. They got JCA
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: first round and then they'll have East Louis second round.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: And then whoever you play after that is tough.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you can.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: Get through JCA and eat Saint Louis, you're probably gonna
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: win state.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: You're going to win state if that happens.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: But that's not gonna happen. H Yeah.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: Well, anyway, Plainfield they plainfieldies. I should say they're six
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: and three, but their opponent schedule is pretty bad, like
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: they've like they're they're twenty four and fifty seven opponent
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 3: records and they're six and three. Like you would think
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: that would be like a nine to oh team with
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: that type of schedule, but they're not there six and three,
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: so not that it was gonna matter that much anyway.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm going with the Flyers to cover and
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: hit the over.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: I guess we agree on that. Yeah, staying in one,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: but now heading up to the Class eight bracket, we
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: got Beville East at West Aurora west Wards fitted by
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: seven and a half points. Here the over runs at
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 1: forty five and a half. Aurora is on the western
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: side of the Chicago suburbs, and they are both teams
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: actually are seven and two. Level East offensively better than
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: West Aurora, but West Aurora that better offensively than Beville East.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: So far, the Lancers seven to two with a pretty
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: tough schedule. I mean, they beat Peak in week two,
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: which is a nice win. They barely lost to Edwardsville,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: which I'm sure is a game they want to have back.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: Well, that's a game where they probably should have lost
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: for most for the most part, but then the fact
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: that they came back and took the lead with a
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: minute under ment left, they should have probably won that.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they beat their in town rivals Bubble West
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: in week seven, and then.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 2: Get all to so they won their the King of
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: bell the Kings of Belleville for now.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then they beat a pretty scrappy Capital City
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: team in week nine, twenty seven to ten, and West Aurora.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: They're they're okay, and it looks like they're seven and two,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: so they're a good team.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: They're they beat a pretty good glen Bard East team
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: who's eight and one, thirty five thirty two. They beat
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: Elgin who's in the playoffs, forty nine to sixteen.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: They had a.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 3: Close loss to South Elgion who's six and who's seven
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: and two. They lost to them forty two to thirty five.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: And maybe but they crushed Bartlett forty nine to twenty one.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: And Bartlett's they finished four and five, so they were
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: short of playoffs and they've played five playoff teams and
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: are sorry, no, they have not.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: Played five playoff teams.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: That's my bad. I read that wrong. But uh yeah,
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 3: they got it. They got a decent schedule, they're in
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: a good conference. They're they're really they're only lopsided loss.
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: Both these teams like have they're both seven and two
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 3: and both have one of two one lopsided loss each
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: and then two really close loss and then another.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: Really close loss.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think I'm gonna go with Western Rora
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: uh in this one. Yeah, I mean both they're pretty
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: similarly in Roor put their their score average thirty five
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: a game, bever Least averages twenty nine and then yeah,
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: so pretty similar teams and uh yeah, I'm.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: Just gonna go with Western Roor.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 3: I mean it's a it's a long drive up there
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 3: for bever Least, and I'm assuming it's a Friday game
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 3: and I'll take the over.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I got wester Roarer covering.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: I'll go with West Roarer and the under alright. Number
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: eight game of the week, We've got Waterloo out at
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: Mount Zion. Mountain Zion Braves are favored by twenty and
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: a half. The over runs at forty eight and a half.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: This is another game in the Class four bracket of
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: the Illinois Playoffs. Waterloo comes into six and three. Mount
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: Zion comes into this game at seven to two. Mount
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Zion is the only team to have knocked off pre
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: Central so far this year. And this is this is
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: honestly a big game in the Class four bracket because
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: if it's if they play this the winner plays Rochester
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: the Rockets and that'll be a really tough one.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: And Mount Zion they barely lost the Rochester.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: So even though the Rochester are the three seed, you know,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: really good year coming into this. It's it's a it's
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: a winnable part of the bracket, honestly, and you know,
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: I guess they're not in They're not in the top
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: fifteen games league. But I do want to shout out
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: Alton Marquette Owen nine last year and now they're in
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah, that is huge. Congratt of the Explorers
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: five and four this year. That's huge just to get
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: into playoffs, improved by five wins in a year, that's
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: huge to congrats to them. Anyway, back to Mountain Zion
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: and Waterloo. Waterloo decent season for the Bulldogs and you know,
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: kind of a rough way to end it against Rochelle.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: They lost to twenty seven to six, but that's a
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: pretty solid Rochelle team and you know, run heavy team
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: for Waterloo. Duress Sales has been great, but Owen Nibrogi
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: has also had a great last few games of the
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: season as well. Both those guys are really quick and
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: really good in open space. I just think Mountain Zion's
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: a heck of a team and they've they've been really
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: good in the playoffs as of late.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they went to the they went to
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: the championship game last year.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a consistently really good playoff program. So unfortunately,
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to pick mott Zion to cover here,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna go with the over. Yeah.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: They got the Braves have a really good quarterback play,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: and they got J. C. Anderson who's a four star
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: recruit headed to Ole, Miss so and he's a pretty good,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 3: pretty good defensive end as well. He kind of can
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: do it always six to seven, really good, really really
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: good football player for reason.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: There's a reason why he's a four star. Yeah.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: This is offense who's averaging forty one zero point four
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: points a game and their defense is pretty good two
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: only allowing twelve point four. Yeah, I mean, I mean,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: I'm just debating on like can they cover that spread?
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 3: And yeah, Waterloo they had a lost twenty seven and
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: six loss to Rochelle and they're co co champions of
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: the Mississippi Valley Conference with Moscuita, and they lost to
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: Columbian Moscuita both close.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: Games, but.
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: I think Mount Zion's probably the toughest team they've seen
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: so far this season. So yeah, I'm gonna have Mountain
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 3: Zion cover and I'll I'll take. I hate to do this,
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 3: I hate to think about this on live. I think
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: this deeply about it. Over under, I'll take the over
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: all right. I think Waterloo can put up a few points,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: but yeah, Mount Zion's offense is pretty good.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: All right. Heading over to the Class seven bracket of
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: the Illinois playoffs, we got Edwardsville at Richards High School
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: in Oaklawn, Illinois. Richard's served by thirty two and a
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: half points and the over runners at fifty six and
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: a half. East I keep seeing, I keep saying East
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: Edwardsville in a game that we thought ended their playoff hopes.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: We were wrong, and they sneak into the playoffs at
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: four and five because they're they used up all the
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: five and so all the teams that were five and
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: four or better in Class seven gotten the playoffs for Illinois.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's crazy.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: So they how did you go to the They had
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: to find the best four and five team and you
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: know what tigers, you guys are in why not? So
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: even though defensively, I think if you just look at
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: the yardage they gave up to De Smet, they gave
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: him a lot of arts to Smet, but they held
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 1: him to thirty points. So, you know, not terrible. I mean,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: is we were healthy and back?
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 3: I mean I've tried to talk to people and they say, like,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 3: edwards Hill's not saying anything, and he was. I do
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 3: know he was on crutches after the East Saint Louis
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 3: game when he got hurt.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: So that's not a good sign.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: That's not a good sign.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: I don't think he probably is because I think if
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 3: he's in that game against De Smet, I think they
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 3: scored more than fifteen points.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: So I just I don't think he's in there. Yeah,
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: and they're not putting their stats into so.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, we could watch the highlights of the game,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 3: but we just didn't have time to do that.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Richards to cover running over the under,
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, Edwardsville's.
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing though, here is the thing Oaklawn. Richards.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: I'm looking at the uh, they.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: Shouldn't be the one seed I'm at.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the rankings for Class seven despite being
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: I don't know, Richards.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 2: Is not in the top ten rankings.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: Richards is eight and one.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: Oh they're eight and one, but they're still not in it. Sorry. Sorry,
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 2: they're actually funny enough.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: There are zero nine to oho teams in Class Sevenoi.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very interesting.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: So I don't think Edwardsill is gonna win, but I
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 3: actually I have them covering that spread because I I mean,
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: sometimes you can get I'm not saying Richards is a
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 3: fraudulent team, but sometimes you can Like a few years ago,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: I think it was three years ago, Collinsville played Maine South. Yeah,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 3: they played Maine South and they were undefeated, and then
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: Collinsville beat that.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: That's right, remember that game.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 2: It was like that, but like you knew that was
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: a fraudulent Maine West Maine South team because like their
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: opponent record was just awful and they were in a
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: lot they won a lot of close games, and so yeah,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: we were.
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 3: Able to kind of tell like, Okay, this isn't that
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 3: that great of a team here. But uh so I
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 3: still think Richards wins the game, and and they actually
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 3: don't look that bad. I mean, they're actually their opponent
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 3: schedule win record is forty four and thirty seven. They
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 3: average forty three points a game. They give up twenty
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 3: one a game, though, which is interesting. And yeah, their
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: only loss was to Sandberg, which is in Orland Park
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 3: in the Chicago area, and uh yeah, but it doesn't
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 3: look like they I don't think they've played any ranked
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 3: opponents this season, and they've been in some games they've
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 3: put up they've given up over there's been I think,
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: you know, more than half of their games they've given
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: up over twenty points. And man if Yale Weaver was
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: healthy in this game, I would give more than a
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 3: punter's chance in this one.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: But I don't think he is.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: So still gonna go with Richards to win this game,
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: but I do have Edwardsville covering and I will take
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: the over all.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: Right. Next up, heading over the classifive bracket, Illinois. We
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 1: got a mascuita at Bloomington. Bloomington faired by sixteen and
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: a half. The overruns at forty seven and a half.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: Some quick info on Bloomington's are there and Bloomington Illinois. Obviously,
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: both teams are at six and three, Bloomington averaging thirty
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: three points per game and allowing twenty three points per game.
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: So you know, solid team from central Illinois, Southern and
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: central Illinois.
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: No, it's just central Illinois, not even southern.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I never know how Illinois folks to find.
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: No, they're just there in Illinois. There's really no northern
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 3: or southern Central. It's just all central until like you
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: get to basically until you kind of get past Bloomington.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 3: It's that's where it's kind of northn Illinois, like like Bloomington.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: They're north of Springfield. Oh okay, yeah, and even north
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 3: of I think geographically they're north of Champagne too.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, decent team. This is actually their twenty
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: eighth consecutive your making the playoffs. So really good program
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: over there and from a scuota, we've talked a bit
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: this year about them. How Sean Murphy's been great out
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: of the backfield over eleven hundred rushing yard thirteen rushing touchdowns.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: I believe he's hurt though.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 1: Ooh, they had a well, they had a nice win
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: against Carbondale in week nine. Did he play Come on
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: Stat's load please? Of course. My computer's being slow right now,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: the one time I really need it I mean if
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: he can't play, then that's rough for the Indians. I
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: mean that's he did not play, Okay, I mean Nigel
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: Bowers is pretty good too, So it was Cameron Reid.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: They have decent guys and Noa Collins was their main back.
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: Now I guess, yeah, but that's tough loss. That's a
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: really tough loss for the Indians. So I guess I'll
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: go with Bloomington to cover, and I will go with.
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 3: The under Bloomington. They did a good offense, but they've
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: given up. They have allowed twenty three points a game
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 3: and they are.
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: One.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 3: They are one in three in their last four games.
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 3: So they started out five and zero. But then they
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 3: lost actually not a bad loss, fifty six to forty
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 3: two against Normal Community who's ranked in the Class five rankings.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 3: And then they lost Peori Notre Dame who's seven to two,
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 3: and then lost forty two to fourteen to Peori High School.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: And then they beat a decent Centennial team who's five
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 3: and four thirty thirty seven to six, and they got
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: a nice victory over a Normal West who's seven and two.
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm gonna go with this Bloomington team. Yeah,
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: they do have a proficiency to give up some points.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 3: But this Mosquito offense has not been an offense that's been.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: They're not gonna beat you by putting up lots of
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: points offensively for the most part. So yeah, I'm gonna
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 3: go with the Purple Raiders. By the way, great name,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: nice love it. Yeah, I'm gonna go with them. I'm
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 3: gonna have them covering and I think I'll take the
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 3: under as well.
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: All right, I guess we agree on that. Next up, know,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: to the Class four bracket. We've got two Metro East
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: teams playing each other. We got Highland at Freeburg, the
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: Midgets favored by five and a half points, the over
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 1: Runners at forty three and a half. Uh you know,
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: get another Class four match. We've got a ton of
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: Class four games the.
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: Only weeks five Uh yeah.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Coochias and Tralia, Waterloo, Mounasion, Highland, Freeburg, Columbia Pre Central
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: and oltmar kit Cardival.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 1: Five games on the Class four bracket to track for
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: Metro East teams. A ton of Metro East teams made
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: it this year. Love was really cool to love seeing it.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: I mean I thought I thought we lost Edwardsil, but
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: they still made it.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: I know that that was funny. That was so funny
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: to see them making it.
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 3: In and then and then all tough, they couldn't make it.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 3: They were four and four, but they couldn't make it.
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that was kind of like the one out
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 3: of all the games that like like they were the
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: only one who didn't make it in I think at
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: like four and four.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: So yeah, well for Freeburg having a great year eight
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: and one so far, only lost to a really good
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: pre Central team. I think the way that their defense
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: stepped up in the Colombian Rock Sanna game was huge.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: Those are two teams they won the ball pretty effectively,
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: So for Freeburg to tighten up there and and really
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: just defensively shut those teams down is really huge. And
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: you know that they got they got several guys liking
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: the ball off to the Cooper Kissigin is the main
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: guy for the midgets and you know he kids can
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: actually also lead the team and tackles as well. So
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: Cooper kisgen is the guy over there for Freeburg. And
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: then for Highland h they're six and three. You know,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: nothing crazy for the Bulldogs, but a good year.
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 3: Typically if Hiland were to play Freeburg. You would always
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: pick Highland, but this is different this year.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and Highland's win against Mesquit a couple of years
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: ago I think was huge, but a couple of weeks ago,
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: weeks ago.
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: Sorry, yeah, yeah, but Sean Murphy wasn't playing that game though.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: And to only be Alton by ten, I think is
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: a little concerning. Yeah, So I'm gonna go with Freeberg
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: to cover and I'm gonna go with the over.
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 3: It would make a lot of sense if like Highland
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: finally clutched up and and like and one out of nowhere.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 3: But it's just it's hard to trust them, and I
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 3: think every time I've picked them to win this season,
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 3: they've lost, which is pretty damning. So I'm gonna have
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 3: to go with Freeburg in this one. It's it's gonna
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: be a huge game for them. A five seed in
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: Class four is pretty it's pretty big deal for for
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: Freeburg there, So I'm gonna have to I'll have them
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: cover and I'll take the over. I mean, it feels
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 3: like every game, well Highland and Moscuito, that game definitely
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 3: hit the under because it was only twenty six combined points.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: But Freeburg can score Highland can score. It's just I
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: think the difference is just Highland defense. It's just not
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 3: really been able to step up to the plate this season,
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: besides the Mascuity game, but that was because they their
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: their best running back didn't play. So I'm gonna go
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: with the midgets in this one.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: All right, heading over to Well staying in the Class
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: four bracket for Illinois.
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: We're gonna stay there for another few games too.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Another a matchup of two Metro East teams. We
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: got Colombia at pree Central pri Central fear by twenty
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: eight and a half points, the over runs at forty
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: seven and a half. These two teams actually played each
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: other earlier this year, and it was two weeks ago.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not not exactly earlier this year.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: Well, and pre Central one pretty comfortably by final score
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: forty one to six. I mean, the pre Central defense
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: just completely shut down Columbia offensively. Pre Central just didn't
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: need to do anything flashy. They kind of just stuck
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: with their Brentan Butter just you know, off the Cole
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: Davis and Cameron Biggs let good things happen own. Cara
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: had a decent game a couple weeks ago, but the
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: big thing for them was just being They were able
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: to force two turnovers, which was nice, and they forced
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: a ton of three downs as well. I mean they
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: held Columbia just to two hundred and twenty nine total
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: yards of offense and less than three yards per carry,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: And usually Columbia wants to run the ball a lot,
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: and when you hold them less than three yards of carry,
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna the Columbia's gonna have a hard time win
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: of those games. And I don't think much changes here.
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: I'd a free big spread, so I'll pick Columbia to cover,
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: but I will go with pre Central to win comfortably,
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: and I will go with the under.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, I think it's gonna be
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 3: hard to beat a team by like more than twenty
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 3: eight points twice, and Colombia is a well coached team,
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: so I don't think that they're gonna lose by that much.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 3: And yes, but I still have Central winning still fairly
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 3: comfortably too. And uh, you know, these are two well
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 3: coached teams here, and then the winner of this game
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: will play the winner of Freeberg Highland, so it's very
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 3: feasible that pre Central could well, I'm assuming let's say
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 3: it's let's assume it's pre Central here. Central could be
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 3: Columbia and then take on Freeberg in back to back
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 3: weeks in the playoffs, so it could happen.
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: And then and then there's a chance that well.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: Are they gonna play where I think they're gonna play
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: in the quarter finals?
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 3: Cahokiae not Zion. No, No, that would not be Okay,
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 3: lay them in the court.
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: I don't want to play. They probably do want to
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: play on Zion to avenge their loss, but Mount Zion
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: has had their number in previous years.
• 1:22:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and then if not Mountain Zion, then so
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 3: then probably then it could That bottom half of the
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 3: of the South bracket's pretty tough because you got you
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 3: got Springfield, you got Sacred Heart Griffin versus a Quincy
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame. So it's a that's the two big Catholic
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: schools in Central Illinois. Quincy, I mean they're Western Illinois,
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 3: but you can also categories them in central Illinois too.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 3: The winner of that game will probably be favorite to beat.
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 3: I'm assuming Carterville over all Marquette. And then you got
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 3: Rochester probably being Taylorville. Rochester's gonna be Taylorville. I'm just
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 3: gonna say right now.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 1: Rockets are a really good program.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then because the history between Rochester and Taylorville
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 3: is completely lopsided with Rochester, and then Rochester versus Mount Zion,
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 3: that could be that's that's would be a great rematch,
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: and then we could have a Rochester versus s s
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 3: HG in the quarterfinals for Romans, so for Central Illinois.
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: People, because Rochester's Springfield, right.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: And they're big rivals.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 3: Because for a long time, Ken Leonard, who's the one
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: all time winning this head coach at Illinois, he was
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: the head coach at SAHG. His son Derek Leonard played
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: for him at SAHG but then ended up coaching Rochester
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 3: and turned them into a powerhouse in Illinois. And those
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 3: teams played every year for a long time for over
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 3: a decade between the father and son coaches right there.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: So that's awesome.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So Derek Leonard is still at Rochester and then
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 3: and I believe Rochester beats SAHG this season. I think
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 3: I think this past week actually, So that would be
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 3: insane if that that got a quarterfinal rematch right there,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 3: and then you could have a quarterfinal game potentially between
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 3: bre Central and Kahokia if Coka can take care business
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 3: against some pretty good teams.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, anyway, heading back over to Metro East
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: Games number three game of the week, we got Kahokia
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: at Centralia. Kahokia is twenty and a half the over
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: warmers at forty nine and a half. This is a
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: weird quirk in the racket. These two teams literally played
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: three weeks ago at Kahokia won forty to eight. But
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they have Centralia as the higher seed.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: They have Centralia as the eight seed and Kahokia is
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: the nine seed, which might actually help Khokia because they
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: got to go on the road and they should win
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: this game. But then wouldn't they host? They would round two,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: they would host even though they.
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 2: Get the maybe they're not, they don't have to complain
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 2: that much.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, even though they got the worst seeding for a
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: weird reason. I don't know. I don't why I got
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: the worst seating me it was just based off opponent wins.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: I do think it'll be a closer game this time, though.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: It should be. I mean, Cohochia great season so far,
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: seven to two, best wins I would say are against
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: Marion and then Collins will they had to have the
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: toughest of schedules, but they're definitely taking care of business
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: when this area.
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, I wouldn't say it's a tough schedule. It's
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 3: like the toughest schedule, but it's not a soft schedule.
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 3: Like and by the way, Brie Central is number eight
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 3: and in class four, and then we talked about Manzie
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 3: and they're they're branked fourth and there were six seeds,
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 3: so sometimes it can be weird like that. Cohokia and
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 3: Centralia are unranked for the Commissions.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: I do want to shout out Malik Mazion real quick
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: lead the team with a one hundred and thirty six tackles
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: so far, nine sacks, two fumble recoveries, So incredible year
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: so far for him in the on the Commands's defense.
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: And tough loss to Sycamore this past week. Funny enough Sycamore.
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: That that got them into the playoffs.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: It did.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really weird and that was a home game too,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 2: really really weird loss there.
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, hopefully Cohochia can you know, get
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: it right, big spread, but I still think Hokia can
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: cover here, and I'm gonna go with the under.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 3: I will go with Centralia to cover and I will
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 3: take the over. Yeah, Cohokia may have potentially gotten a
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 3: break because like, hey, like, if you win this game,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: you get a home game over. Presumably, Uh do they
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 3: play Carterville.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: It's oh no, No, it would be either Richland County
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: or Jacksonville.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 3: Only they would be only and let's only should win
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: that game. Yeah, there against Villa Grove, but or no,
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at the wrong one. I'm sorry that was
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 3: hard in Calhoun versus Villa Grove.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: We have so many metro teams south part of the
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: Class War bracket. I would I want one of these
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: teams to mike State please please?
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 2: Only would play so the only plays they play Jacksonville
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 2: in the one versus sixteen game, and I would assume
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: only beats Jacksonville and.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 3: Sokhokey, would they would? If they can beat Centralia, then
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 3: they would have a second round home game, which is
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 3: always huge to have. So we're guaranteed to have we
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 3: are guaranteed to have a two. So no, we're guaranteed
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 3: to have someone in the quarterfinals in Class four from
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: our area. And that's because Bresentral plays Columbia and Freeberg
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 3: plays Highland and then the win that game will play Yeah,
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 3: right there, so that's awesome.
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 3: And then and then somehow potentially if Gohokia can take
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 3: care of business, yeah, potentially, then make it a guaranteed
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 3: a final four.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 2: Game for a Class four team here.
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: That would be huge.
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 3: Last year we had Brief Central and Gohokia in two
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 3: different quarter final games and.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: They both lost.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: That was brutal.
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 3: That was so sad that that Central loss to Mountain
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 3: Sign was that was that was really tough.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: That was Brief Central's best year in schoolistry last year
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: and that was a tough.
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 2: Way to go out. It was it was at home especially. Yeah.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: Anyways, that does it for our Illinois games. You got
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: two more games you go over real quick though, the
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: first of which, oh gosh, the war on Warson returns
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: m I CDs at LaDue. The Rams of m MY
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: CDs are favored by seven and a half points, the
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: over runners at forty and a half. M I CDs
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: took care of business yesterday against Mexico. They won threety
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: five thirteen. They're five and four so far in the area.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: But with a pre tough schedule. I mean they at
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: a five point loss to Lift for Life week one,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: lost it to Smet in Week two, six point loss to
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 1: a good Lutheran North team in Week six, and then
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 1: once seven point loss to Saint Dominic on a Monday
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: game a couple weeks ago, which is a really really
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: really weird weather delayed game.
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 2: But it's not like those teams they'd be.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 3: I mean they're good, but like the Smets fav and
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 3: four for last five and four, Luther North's four and three.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 3: So but yeah, it's still still tough, tough games and
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 3: all fairly close.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want to say for the Rams, but
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: I can't say that.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 2: Because it's a school name basis for right.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben Peterson has been an amazing from my CDs
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: so far. Eight sacks, prety five tackles, one of their
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: might their best line man.
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 3: He might be their all time sack leader in school history.
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 3: I'm not an m CDs historian, but he's had a
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 3: He's definitely has I think over twenty career sacks as Wow.
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we need one of our ms CDs fans to
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: double chuck us on that.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 3: Because that's a program with a lot of hundred years
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 3: of history history.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're also playing a team that also has
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: a great history in Lado. And we talked a lot
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: about Thettle Do Fox game and how Fox just showed
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: up and physically beat La Doo, and l Doo ends
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: their season on a really sour note with that loss,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna have to get right for ms CDs
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: because well, my CDs isn't as run heavy. They're just
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: as physical as Foxes and.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 3: They're not as They're not gonna, I think, bully their
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 3: way like how Fox did against La Doo. But uh
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 3: they m I c S definitely brings more to the tables, uh,
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 3: scheme wise, because they can pass and yeah, they can run.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 3: I mean they got Justin Bishop is a pretty shifty
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: junior running back for them, and he had a he
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 3: had a pretty big game against Mexico. I saw them
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 3: get kind of bullied up front against Saint Dominic, but
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 3: that's is not going to do that to them. So
• 1:29:57
  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a pretty good game both.
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, Vudu's well, I've been saying all season like
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 3: ldoo On for the most part, has played pretty well defensively.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 3: I mean the reason they've won most of their games,
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 3: but obviously these last two games, their defense has not
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 3: really shown up. So yeah, that I mean that kind
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 3: of inclines me to favor m I CDs going into
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: this one.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, even though ldiu's got the home field advantage,
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: but there's I think it's gonna be both teams are
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 2: going to be pretty I think, equally represented by both
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: of their by both of their schools and communities in
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: this one, and I would imagine it's going to be
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 2: a I hope it's going to be a pack crowd.
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's no reason it shouldn't be.
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 3: And this is actually going to be historically a very
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 3: uh normal time of game for both teams because it's
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 3: going to be played on an afternoon on a Saturday.
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 3: But it feels incredibly weird now that LaDou with Lights
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 3: is playing an afternoon game at home, because that's not
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 3: happened in six.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: Just a yeah, like at least six years. I think.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 3: I think since twenty fifteen, they've lost had a home
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 3: game before they remodeled the Brams Stadium, so it's gonna
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 3: feel really weird in that new stadium watching an afternoon game,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 3: even for so many years, going to many afternoon games
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 3: at Du High School.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 2: So I think, well, Ruman, what do you think I'm.
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: Gonna pick MI CDs to cover. I'm gonna go with
• 1:31:23
  Speaker 1: the over. This Letdu offense is a little too shaky
• 1:31:26
  Speaker 1: for me to trust right now. I don't think they've
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: found their identity yet and it's week ten, so it's
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: just I don't know what their I don't know what
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: their plan is. I hope they can figure it out,
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: but I don't know. I mean, and can Ladue's linebackers
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: shed blocks better than the better than they did last week?
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: Because Fox is offensive guards at a really good job
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: of getting second level and getting good blocks and want
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: to dose linebackers, And if MI cds's guards can do that,
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: then le' do is kind of cooked. So I'm gonna
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: go with m i CS to cover here, and I'm
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: gonna go with the over.
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think m I CS is gonna be
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 2: as good as what Fox was able to do upfront,
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 2: because Fox has got a really physical front, you know,
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 2: offensive line, and they do things kind of differently.
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 3: But you know, it's it's it's gonna be it's gonna
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 3: be difficult. I think for LaDue to cover M I
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: cds's receivers or just about I think the difference of
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 3: the game though, is it it's gonna rely on Ladue's offense,
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 3: like can they get stuff going, and really all season
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 3: they haven't really, And I think, you know, I hate
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 3: to say this, but I really think if du can,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 3: if they go with them at McIntosh what he was
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 3: able to do to do at the end of the game,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 3: if they can just try to bottle that and go
• 1:32:44
  Speaker 3: with him and just try to do something different, I
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 3: think that's probably their best way to win the game.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 3: And I'm not saying they're a little because I think
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 3: M I CDs does win the game. I will say
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be close, so I thinks go
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 3: to cover that seven and a half spread, But I
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 3: do it's it's it's just hard for me to pickly
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: do in this game after what happened against Fox and
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 3: just kind of what's been going on for the whole season.
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 3: So I do think their their defense can lock in,
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 3: but ultimately it's gonna be on their offense if they
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 3: can make a difference, because I They're gonna need to
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 3: score more than seventeen points to win this game, because
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 3: I think my cds's offense is going to do a
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 3: little bit more than that in order to make it happen.
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 3: But I CDs games can get pretty crazy. Twenty sixteen
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 3: is the best case example for that, and then twenty
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 3: eleven was another example of that where it was a
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 3: crazy game.
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: You can look it up if you want.
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 3: But I'm just it's it's pretty cool that both these
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 3: two teams are playing, and.
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: It should play every year. My opinion, that'd be good.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: That'd be great.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 3: That'd be great if they could play every year because
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 3: both both communities would get really into it, and the
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: thet DO community would get into it obviously because it
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 3: consists of a lot of both of those a lot
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 3: of of those families there. So it's gonna be I
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 3: think it'll be a great environment for LaDue on an
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: afternoon game.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 2: It's I will say this, it's it's really really tough
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: to beat an afternoon football game in Ladu, Missouri. It's
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 2: it's like, I think they do it better than just
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 2: about anybody as far as you know.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 3: Saturday afternoons go there. It's really pleasant. So but I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna go with I have a bold pick here. I
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 3: think the Rams are going to win this game anyway,
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 3: just stunned.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to react to that.
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  Speaker 2: I think m CS is gonna win the game.
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  Speaker 1: Is the duke covering though?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think I did have him covering?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: All right, I think it'll be I think it'll be
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  Speaker 2: a tight game, but then I see.
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  Speaker 1: This wins alright. Now on for our number one game
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  Speaker 1: of the week, we got Howell at Troy. This game
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: is gonna be on a Thursday. Troy is payed by
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 1: five and a half points, the over runs at forty
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  Speaker 1: seven and a half points. Troy was able to get
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  Speaker 1: the upper hand in this one back in Week six
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  Speaker 1: with the forty three twenty seven victory and because if
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: Troy's lost to ZUMO West, they got bumped down the
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: district standings and now they play Howl Week one. Troy
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  Speaker 1: has had pretty easy last two games. And I know
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: Carter Dowell with his recent touchdowns against Battle, he now
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: is the all time leader in touchdowns for Troy Buchanan,
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: so congrats to him. He's been doing great this year,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: unsurprisingly eighteen touchdowns for him. Chris Winger has kind of
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 1: also been the other main running back stepping in for
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: in that run heavy offense. He has fifteen touchdowns as well,
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  Speaker 1: so and I think both those guys are up there
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  Speaker 1: in the area total points leaders, and you know, defensively,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: they've definitely gotten some stuff together. Talon Rowland unsurprisingly having
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: a great year four year starter for the Trojans, ninety
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: eight tackles, four sacks, and you know it's it's gonna
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: be as I mean, it's what's been the case for
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  Speaker 1: Howl all year. I mean, it's been a funky year
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 1: for Howel or five and four. They they had a
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: tough loss of Rob Bridges past weekend where you know
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: the stats aren't in for that game, but really all year,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: the Francis Howell passing attack has been mostly kept in
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: check and they've been just hoping that Jalen Ballad can
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: build them out of any situation they put themselves into,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: which he kind of hash for the most part. He's
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: still averaging over eight yards for carry, He's got over
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: a thousand yards and sixteen touchdowns, so he's been great
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 1: for them. But the one dimensionality is gonna be tough.
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  Speaker 1: We we watched these two teams play an incredible game
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: last year in the regular season and hopefully they can
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: be just as exciting this year. It's on a Thursday.
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: I don't why they're playing on Thursday. I mean, I
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: don't think there should be a rough shortage. I mean
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: because there's not too many games going on. Maybe they're
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: trying to just trying to avoid Halloween, which if so,
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: is kind of silly. I mean, come on, But.
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  Speaker 2: Works out for us though, because at least we can
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: be there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always I always like it when they can
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: stretch it out from like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, just so
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 3: we can just be there.
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  Speaker 2: And simply film the games and put more content out there.
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: Well for Troy, I mean, they've since the Hunter Humphrey injury,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 1: they've been mostly okay, but they have shown some hiccups.
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: Like the offensive output against them All West was horrible.
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: I mean the only got seven points. Yes, it's a
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: great small West defense. But we'll see if they can
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 1: kind of eliminate the hiccups and mistakes there, which I
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: think they can. So I'm gonna go with Troy to
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: cover here, and I'm gonna go with the over.
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  Speaker 2: Huge game.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this was this is a rematch essentially of
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 3: the twenty twenty two game one game yeah where Troy,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 3: where they got that last second touchdown over Francis Hell,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 3: which is one of the better games that we've ever covered.
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 3: And so I think there's gonna be a lot of
• 1:37:52
  Speaker 3: fanfare involved in that and it'd be great, be a
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 3: fun time there, you know. I like how we got
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 3: these two games, like m I c yes, we'll do
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 3: how Troy, you know, two great games to kick off
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 3: the playoffs, at least on the Missouri side, there's a few,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 3: but then it's kind of few and.
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 2: Far between besides those games.
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's nice that we at least got those two.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah Troy, I mean they won fairly convincingly the last
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 3: time they played. And I don't know, I just how's
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 3: been just up and down this season, Like they they've
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 3: not been bad, but they've at times like I thought
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 3: they've I didn't think they would allow thirty eight points
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 3: to rock Bridge and but they did. So Yeah, they've
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 3: they played a really tough schedule too, but uh, they
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 3: had no answer for Carter Dell and Chris Wender the
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 3: last time they played. And it's it's the run game,
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 3: and so maybe they'll do a little bit better there.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 3: But yeah, I'm gonna have to go to the Trojan
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  Speaker 3: in this one, and I'll agree with what you say.
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  Speaker 3: I think they cover and they'll take the over.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's gonna be hard and How's How's.
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 3: Defense is just kind of been inconsistent over the kind
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: of the course of the season, so hard to tell
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 3: what you're gonna get from them, but ultimately gonna stick
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 3: with the Trojans.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, Well, it does it for our top fifteen games
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 1: of the week. It's now officially the most wonderful time
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: of the year. The playoffs for high schoo football in
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: Missouri and Illinois. It's so much fun every year there
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: there's always exciting finishes, upsets, close games, crazy stat lines,
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: there's always crazy fun games to watch, to go to.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to It's gonna be a great next
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: few weeks. It's gonna be awesome.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be great, you know.
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 3: And it's also we got a few, you know, rivalry
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: games or somewhat rivalry games where teams are very familiar
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 3: with each other, and it's really cool to see that
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs, you know, with you know, Columbia and
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 3: bree Central playing each other. And then you know, I'm
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 3: sure there's players on Linburg and Oakville who know each
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 3: other pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: How Central and.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 3: Zumut West and then definitely m I c us at
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 3: le do Is, Like I know there's players and would
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 3: have gone to Ladu if they went to their public school.
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 3: And then so I just know those teams have been
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 3: once they knew they were in the same district, they
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 3: were pretty excited they could play against each other. And
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 3: it's low and behold, that's happened. So you're gonna get
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 3: So I think we're gonna have some pretty good games
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: right there. And you know, it's one of the things
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 3: that's what playffs all about, just the great competition and
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 3: you know, promoting the game and all that. So and
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 3: hopefully we get some memorable games because that's the best
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 3: part of it right there.
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: For sure. Well, well that isn't for me. Any final
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: thoughts on your end.
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 2: Just enjoy football. This has been awesome.
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 3: It's been a great season and really just looking we
• 1:40:35
  Speaker 3: just can't wait for Thursday when it all starts and
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 3: kicks off. It's it's it's November madness, and no, there's
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: no sleep in November right now, that's for sure.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: Facts. Yeah, even we're still in October, but it will
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: be a November very starting Saturday. Yeah yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 2: So thank you guys very much for we don't know
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  Speaker 2: who's all watching right now, we don't have that in
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  Speaker 2: front of us right here, but thank you all for
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 2: tuning in and listening to afterwards as well. When you
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: guys is tune in and to see this really long show,
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: it feels like awesome, great show. It feels like it too,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 2: all right, Thank you guys.
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: Peace,