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Elwood Sectional Previews & Predictions with Michelle Garmon & Grant Shouse (2.188.4) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_06]: Welcome Central Indian sports fans to the Central Indian sports report for our L Wood Boys Basketball
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[SPEAKER_06]: a double header, it is tipped in against Taylor, and then rivals LaPelle, and Frankton may be the two favors in this section although there are four really good teams Michelle, who all think that they could probably win this sectional.
1:49
[SPEAKER_06]: Michelle, your thoughts on a pretty good field.
1:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I think it's, I think it's a great sectional.
1:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, no, I think it's funny when they kind of redid just to the alignments and they brought cranking in, which I thought.
2:02
[SPEAKER_00]: But then they also brought lapels too.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So they brought that rivalry from sectional 40 to sectional 39.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then they took the,
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[SPEAKER_00]: like the east brick black for rivalry and moved it from mass throw Madison Grant in there too and moved then to set from 39 to 40 so it's
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, four teams will start two of those teams play the second game on Tuesday night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is the arch rivals, backyard rivals, La Pelle and Franklin and same school corporation, all the kids know each other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They probably like each other, but they also love beating each other.
2:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the, they probably like each other and hang around with each other sometimes in the summer and everything.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's a friendly rivalry off the field.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Off the field, but you get on the court, you get on the field and no, it's not real friendly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The coaches have a lot, the kids have respect for each other, but it's like the kind of rivalry what you want.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You should not, you should not like your opponent the night you're playing them.
3:03
[SPEAKER_06]: Michelle, these coaches act like they like each other.
3:06
[SPEAKER_06]: I keep trying to get them to talk trash about the other.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They just will not do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, they said, I was at the sexual meaning.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They sat together.
3:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and they're stuck together and they just threw it.
3:17
[SPEAKER_00]: That's just, that's the respect that Britain can't have for each other.
3:21
[SPEAKER_00]: They both know they're two of my favorite.
3:23
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna lie there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There are two of the top coaches in this field.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Brent Robbson has been to the state final strike, and has a state championship.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's been to the semi state a couple other times along with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I mean, this guy knows how to have his team ready in March.
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[SPEAKER_06]: All right, Michelle, you and I and Grant are going to make our predictions coming up.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The first let's hear from Franklin head coach Brent Robbson and you and I have talked a little bit more.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then we'll hear from Willnell Head Coach, Kevin
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[SPEAKER_06]: first to everybody in the one for the no-let's the inverse situation.
4:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Ash is going to try to play.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see how he does.
4:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I definitely got a wrist injury, but we're going to take it up and go and go from there and then Nick has been day to day, so he's 50-50, so right now we're hopeful that both those guys will try to play and make that effort and just kind of see where they're at.
4:18
[SPEAKER_02]: You probably would prefer a fully healthy team against the team like the bell, right?
4:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, absolutely.
4:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's going to be a tough opponent, tough situation, but we just need to step up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we need to have some guts and show some determination, some heart.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Step up.
4:32
[SPEAKER_02]: If those kids have had some injury issues here with those two, if they can't play or they have to come out, then Isaac Fair played an excellent game, the other night force, a 10 points 11 assists.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He'll come in and play.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He'll be fine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's sure that he can perform in this in this situation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we feel like Kalaw's warms down the same thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The last game gets blue reverse his best game of the season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You'd definitely prove that he can be out there and help us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We have confidence in those guys.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we know that Eli Burch can start.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He started many games this year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So,
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're still confident, you know, that we've got guys that can come off the bench and and got guys that can help holdings and other kids that's played the four and five for.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we know he can as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we're hopeful those guys are healthy at the end of the day.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Like you said, LePels are very good team but so are way.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's two good teams going at each other.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And at the end of the day, you just got to go out there and battle and play with all the hard determination he can.
5:23
[SPEAKER_06]: Last time you played him was one of the craziest games I've ever seen.
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[SPEAKER_06]: What do you do this time to not allow them to get those kinds of runs?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think it was a weird game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They were really hot early, made several threes early in the game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Got a big lead early, then we came back, tied it up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Then we took a big lead, then they cut the lead back, tied it up, then we took a lead again by, and then they came back and won.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Very odd game you're right in all the years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I've coached was a lot of ups and downs in that game So I think you got to find some stability on the defensive end We've also got to take care of the basketball which we've prepared and prepared and prepared and prepared for in the last three weeks very well And I think that we can do a good job of that We need to be in a tack mode, so for us we got to be able to attack and get down hills.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well Coach has been too long since your last section.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I'll change up this team capable of doing it Yeah, absolutely
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're definitely capable to win it, but you just got to take a one game at a time and there's several teams in this section that are capable to win it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a tough, successful overall.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's at the end of the day, you're gonna have to beat good teams to win it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's always been the way it's been.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So ever since I've coached here, it's always been tough, our section also.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You just gonna try to go out there and do everything you can do to win the game.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Coach, thanks so much and we'll hear from you after the game on Tuesday night and good luck to you.
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[SPEAKER_06]: All right, Michelle, always good to hear from Coach Propson, who we've been working with all year on the Frank and Eagles report, but let's start Tuesday night with Taylor and Tipton and been a pretty down year for Tipton, but we knew all along the Peyton Aller had a bright future.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I kept saying last year and this year he's been really good and probably gives them a chance to beat Taylor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For tipped in this year, the one consistent has been paid no more.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm the kid plays hard, the whole game, and I passion it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Passion it, and he just, he attacks, and the great thing about paying no more is he likes to do on both ends of the floor.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he will get down and guard you, and then he, you know, he's explosive offensively.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Blue Devils don't have gritty carpenter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For they were four time sectional champions.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was a starting point guard four years road.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now don't give me one.
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[SPEAKER_06]: He was the common denominator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He was the common denominator.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And don't give me wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He had some great teammates and no one's wanted.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Those guys, but we saw him last year, Greg, just take over games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And he's, he's why the Blue Devils ended up winning that set, getting a four-peak.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And still doing what they're at grace.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He is, you know, they, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: They won the regular season and Grady has started every game for Graysyshire, so he doesn't have to score for them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so he doesn't, but he still runs the offense, runs flow, does a good job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Dish in the ball, he was playing like he wants to play in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a big loss.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, it is and that's the big reason the blue devil's will not five time sexual champions I picked in people may sit there and we have said that I say that, but my job is to be truthful That's right and that's the truth and not that they couldn't but they just did not get a draw that enabled them to set up very well
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[SPEAKER_00]: The past for the two teams in the championship game are basically the same as they were a year ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just the bottom half the bracket is just a little bit of a different order, but last year, Tipton had to beat Taylor, beat Sheer, and then beat Frankton.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Tipton trailed in both of those first two games, my double figures at some point, and even in the fourth quarter, and then Grady Carpenter just took over.
9:03
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they don't have that this year.
9:05
[SPEAKER_00]: Tipton's got some size in Grayson McFulls.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Tipton has been playing Dakota Garmin a little bit more and I think maybe because of his athleticism he's a junior and folks if you want know if he's related to me he is, but he is like a district cousin so a tipton also has a great shooter in freshman Kellon Williams who's Uncle Kelly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: played for the blue doubles back when they went to the semi-state and lost a cocomo in the one-class era with he was demies with Matt Modell and the first and everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So he's a freshman, but he cannot get down from lung range.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think for tips and really
9:46
[SPEAKER_00]: This is a learning year under a new coach and it had a learn a lot and they had to learn to rely on new players because only did they lose grade a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I sure they also lost them quickly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Who'd been a vital part of that team for three years?
10:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Taylor has three really good players who are also outstanding athletes in Harris, McClatchy, and Galaway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: At least two of those three scored a thousand points in their career.
10:15
[SPEAKER_06]: So they're in the same week.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, and they handle tipped in on Valentine's Day at tipped in and broke that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, snap to 31 game losing streak to the Blue Devils.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Blue Devils may be able to make it a little closer on Tuesday night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But Taylor was, I think he's going to win that coach.
10:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, don't spoil your predictions coming up Michelle.
10:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to do that.
10:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Coach Fonsor White has Taylor.
10:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I think playing more consistent this year and more discipline than maybe they have in the past.
10:48
[SPEAKER_00]: And if that's only a factor in the second one, yes, they can be a factor.
10:52
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they have a chance to win it if they can just be, you know, continue to be coachable.
10:57
[SPEAKER_06]: And then when I play Sheridan, I think Sheridan probably thinks they can win this too.
11:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm sure Sheridan has also had some really good, really good players and they play page and Devon Hamilton will be two of the best players in the second year.
11:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, and they beat Taylor earlier this year because Sheridan went undefeated in the who's your heart and conference to win it.
11:16
[SPEAKER_00]: And so that bracket is going to be interesting.
11:20
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, Michelle, the fan, the bleachers are probably going to fill up slowly during that game because the big one is coming up right after that, right in Frank and it lapels back yard at L would.
11:31
[SPEAKER_06]: The Eagles and Bulldogs, I want to say it's kind of a rubber match because Frank didn't want the sexual last year.
11:39
[SPEAKER_06]: lapel one a crazy game earlier this year, 60 to 59.
11:43
[SPEAKER_06]: So this is the rubber match.
11:44
[SPEAKER_06]: It's for the sectional.
11:45
[SPEAKER_06]: It's on a neutral court.
11:46
[SPEAKER_06]: It's exactly how you want it.
11:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I guess you say rubber match, although last year's scenario went lapel under in the regular season, Frank to beat him in the postseason and then we got lapel on the regular season.
11:57
[SPEAKER_00]: How does that second win go?
12:00
[SPEAKER_00]: two very good teams, two well coach teams.
12:04
[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about back here, rivals, may hang out, may date kids from other, that each other's school, their bands play together, although they won't be playing together tomorrow night.
12:16
[SPEAKER_00]: They're all Tuesday night, but...
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[SPEAKER_00]: But when they play each other, there's not a lot of love out there on the court and there should not be there's not a lot of love when I You know when you'd rather be on the court.
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[SPEAKER_06]: There shouldn't be no when you'd rather be right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think lapels in the good position.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They got two kids that were injured early and they've got them back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's kind of like they and Franklin have flip-flop because lapel played a long stretch without.
12:47
[SPEAKER_00]: Now they've got their two really important pieces to them back here as they head into the sectional.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If Franklin is looking into the sectional,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Ashley Brobson will play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's going to play.
13:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I know what Brett kind of said and his interview kid play four minutes the other night.
13:06
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't look bad.
13:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they wanted him to get out there and to see how much pain he was in when he was playing.
13:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Nick and played and he played just like blow like 40 30 40 seconds in the game, but he looked good on the cut.
13:22
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know both of those kids will suit up and Blake Nickham is a tough kid, and he's a senior.
13:29
[SPEAKER_00]: So he's not going to miss, but they're not 100%.
13:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I know Frightens got some young players and watch out folks, because I'm telling you why, Frightens doesn't win this section of this year.
13:41
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I mean, and I don't know, we're going to have realignment.
13:44
[SPEAKER_00]: We know at the end of this year, but they will be a favorite whatever sectional that are in the next two, three years.
13:50
[SPEAKER_06]: four or five six years may be all the way down to seventh grade all they did was win this year Michelle.
13:56
[SPEAKER_06]: All right well it's here for a mobile head coach Kevin Cherry.
14:01
[SPEAKER_06]: Then we will make our Tuesday night predictions and then our sectional championship predictions with grass house coming up.
14:13
[SPEAKER_06]: Well coach, you get the sexual draw, Frank Dend right off the bat, you're feeling about facing the Eagles here on Tuesday night.
14:22
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, you know Coach Propz and I joke, seems like we joke at the beginning of each year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, we'll see each other first round of sex, we'll see them and turn up that game true again this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But it's an exciting time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Both schools, I'm sure, are excited for the matchup or fans.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They love the rivalry and so I expect it to be a great game and a great environment Tuesday.
14:47
[SPEAKER_06]: and you want to wild when earlier this season but they won last year in the sectional so it's kind of a bit of a rubber match and it's on a neutral floor.
14:57
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah that was a great game it's a game where we got down 15 points in the second half the time we played them and we're very fortunate to win that game.
15:06
[SPEAKER_03]: I think this time around we had 19 turnover the first time we played them I really tried to stress to our team not just this week but
15:15
[SPEAKER_03]: The rest of that season, you know, after that game, we're not going to be able to win many games turning it over 19 times and that's going to be, I think, a very important piece of it tomorrow is if we can, if we can value the basketball and making sure we're getting great shots and not turning it over and giving them extra opportunities, that's going to be important for us to have a chance to win tomorrow.
15:38
[SPEAKER_06]: I think a couple of programs, if I'm being honest, great programs that we kind of thought lost some players that were going to be really hard to fill those shoes, but both programs have done a great job with 33, 34 combined wins between the two programs and Coach that was one of the wildest games I've ever seen.
15:58
[SPEAKER_06]: More runs than any high school game I can ever remember, what's it going to take to beat them again?
16:07
[SPEAKER_03]: you get into a sexual environment, a great atmosphere, I think whichever team can maybe settle down the quickest, get into what they're wanting to accomplish, will be critically important.
16:19
[SPEAKER_03]: But on the other hand, it's nice to know that if we were to get down, there's nothing to hit the panic button because we've been here before.
16:28
[SPEAKER_03]: It's another important method that you go along in the tournament to our team is the one thing certain is there's
16:35
[SPEAKER_03]: along the way, and it'll probably happen in game one, but you just stay together as a team for 32 minutes.
16:41
[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of times, it's not the best team that wins necessarily.
16:44
[SPEAKER_03]: A lot of times, it's the toughest team.
16:45
[SPEAKER_03]: And if you can stay together for 32 minutes on a nightly base, that's in the sectional tournament.
16:50
[SPEAKER_03]: I feel like you got a good chance to win, and I could say not necessarily does the best team win in a single elimination tournament.
16:58
[SPEAKER_03]: And that's another method that we've tried to stress as we prepare for the sectionals.
17:02
[SPEAKER_03]: It's trying to stay together for 32 minutes,
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[SPEAKER_03]: and play for each other.
17:07
[SPEAKER_03]: So it's a message that we've really done a good job of buying into this season.
17:11
[SPEAKER_03]: I think of the team and I don't expect anything different Tuesday night.
17:15
[SPEAKER_06]: Coach, that game was two months ago and as you know, no basketball team stays at the same over two months.
17:22
[SPEAKER_06]: So what's it been about your team that clearly has improved throughout the season?
17:30
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the first time we played
17:35
[SPEAKER_03]: that we didn't have Quinn Wilkins.
17:38
[SPEAKER_03]: He was out with the broken hand.
17:42
[SPEAKER_03]: And when we went through that sound, and of course Luke Jones goes down with the lower body and driven ankle, and fortunately both those kids are back, but the five guys that we had during that stretch, I really thought our chemistry was really good to start, but those five really took a sense of pride on, okay.
18:00
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we may be short-handed, but we're gonna play really hard,
18:05
[SPEAKER_03]: And that mentality, I think, has continued to get better each week of the season for us.
18:12
[SPEAKER_03]: And then you look at, you know, oh, and Garbra, I think his level play from the time the first time we play Frank then to now is only continued to get better.
18:21
[SPEAKER_03]: Liam Coe, the sophomore, you know, more reps, more experience, game experience.
18:26
[SPEAKER_03]: And his game is better now than the first time.
18:28
[SPEAKER_03]: And in our group of five seniors, they're anxious for this moment.
18:32
[SPEAKER_03]: It's always a bit of a sweet time of year that's going to be one team.
18:35
[SPEAKER_03]: the obviously wins or last game of the year.
18:37
[SPEAKER_03]: And I know those five seniors want to keep playing as long as they can.
18:40
[SPEAKER_03]: So, you know, their teams are saying though, they're going to be better, they're playing better, and Coach Brass will have them ready to play.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, I look forward to be a great game, and I'm anxious to play that, which it was too, the right now.
18:56
[SPEAKER_06]: Sorry about the audio issue there.
18:58
[SPEAKER_06]: I tried to fix it, tried everything I could think of and wasn't able to do it.
19:03
[SPEAKER_06]: At least with the time I had, I hope you enjoyed the interview with Coach Jerry and Luke.
19:10
[SPEAKER_06]: Alright guys, we heard from Brumbrowbson, we heard from Kevin Cherry.
19:16
[SPEAKER_06]: We did not talk much about the other game, Tiffton and Taylor, despite having Michelle Garman here.
19:21
[SPEAKER_06]: Not the big game of the night, of course that's Franklin and LaPelle.
19:26
[SPEAKER_06]: But we'll start with Tiffton and Taylor, and Grant, your pick.
19:30
[SPEAKER_01]: I know they play each other later in the season.
19:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to take Taylor, the athleticism they have.
19:35
[SPEAKER_01]: I saw them once this year against the East Brook back in January.
19:41
[SPEAKER_01]: The athleticism they have, what they play with, how they're coached.
19:44
[SPEAKER_01]: They play a different style, and again, Michelle probably knows a little more about this, but they're going to play probably a different style than Tipped and Plays, and they're going to want to run jump.
19:57
[SPEAKER_01]: be long, wanky athletic.
19:59
[SPEAKER_01]: I like Taylor to be tipped it on Tuesday night.
20:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, when Taylor won that Valentine's Day game, and I'm sure Blue Devil fans thought it was like the Valentine day master.
20:12
[SPEAKER_00]: That snapped the Titans 31 game losing streak to the Blue Devil.
20:17
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the longest winning streak tipped and had over an opponent.
20:22
[SPEAKER_00]: And I know it's hard to be the team twice and I might have said in the past no offense, but I like coach white and he's really brought some discipline and trying to teach basketball on this Taylor team and they've been up and down a little bit, but he's good coach they're going to be well coach and they do they have three outstanding athletes on that team and I think the blue devils there four year section rain comes to an end on Tuesday night.
20:53
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, it's Taylor.
20:55
[SPEAKER_06]: All right.
20:55
[SPEAKER_06]: We'll go in reverse order for the second game.
20:58
[SPEAKER_06]: And of course, that's the big game of the night.
21:00
[SPEAKER_06]: Frank didn't end Lapelle.
21:02
[SPEAKER_06]: And I think after what happened last year in the sectional, I felt all year that this is probably Lapelle's year.
21:08
[SPEAKER_06]: And I'm going to stick with that.
21:10
[SPEAKER_06]: Not only am I taking Lapelle's to win this game.
21:12
[SPEAKER_06]: I am taking Lapelle to win the entire sectional.
21:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I will, this is a tough one.
21:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Britain will have him ready.
21:21
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know that I've seen a coach that always has his team, tournament ready every year, year in and year out, like, Britain drops to and does, and it doesn't matter who they're playing.
21:36
[SPEAKER_00]: He always has a great game plan, and he can take things away from you and everything.
21:44
[SPEAKER_00]: this is a tough one for me because if lapel sitting threes frankly is going to have a really tough time but i also know that's such a huge rivalry it's a backyard rivalry and there's a lot of pride on that and it's hard for the one of those schools to sweep the other um but i will say this i will probably take lapel and i'm only going to take lapel because
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[SPEAKER_00]: full strength.
22:14
[SPEAKER_00]: And neither is Blake Mac and probably not though he doesn't really have he doesn't have swelling in that ankle and he said it really he didn't have a lot of pain with at the other night, which that's always a good thing.
22:25
[SPEAKER_00]: But Nick and his got to be a force.
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[SPEAKER_00]: problem with Franklin is they have some younger kids have come off, but Nick and an astronaut are just so critical to them rebounding wise defensively and handling that pressure and I'm going to get the slight edge to look out, but I will not be surprised if Franklin pulls it off.
22:49
[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think I need to say that caveat, but I won't be surprised either.
22:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Grant, you're big.
22:54
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of right where you guys stand on this as well.
22:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Franklin is a very well-coached team.
22:59
[SPEAKER_01]: It's one of the better coaching jobs every time they step on the floor out of any team in the state.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Lapella is the team that is also very well-coached.
23:10
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a backyard rivalry, rivalry like Michelle said, and it's one that both kids on both teams are going to get up for.
23:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Like I've been
23:25
[SPEAKER_01]: They play each other on Wednesday and it's kind of the same deal throw the records out when these two teams get together.
23:31
[SPEAKER_01]: The big key for me is you mentioned the health, the Blake Nickeman, Ashton Robtson who are not going to be at full strength on Tuesday.
23:38
[SPEAKER_01]: That kind of I think gives the advantage to lapel in a way.
23:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I like lapel to win this game.
23:46
[SPEAKER_01]: and probably win the sectional.
23:48
[SPEAKER_01]: I think whoever wins this game probably does win the sectional on Saturday night, but don't be surprised for a team like Taylor to knock someone off this week as well.
23:59
[SPEAKER_01]: Taylor's kind of my dark horse here, but I'm gonna pick Lappelle to win on Tuesday against Franklin and then end up winning the whole thing.
24:08
[SPEAKER_06]: It's a sweep.
24:09
[SPEAKER_06]: Everybody, thanks for listening.
24:10
[SPEAKER_06]: Please stay tuned for Elwood of Let It Director Ryan Ranskaya talking about host and the sectional.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Thanks, guys.
24:22
[SPEAKER_06]: Well, Coach, we will see you on Tuesday night after the first round, and we'll talk to you about your first round opponent then.
24:28
[SPEAKER_06]: Right now, we want to talk to you about hosting the sectional and first of all, anything that listeners may want to know.
24:36
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, just a few things.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Door 8 on the side of the high score, normal entrance.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That'll be the only entrance for things to arrive.
24:45
[SPEAKER_04]: Something different this year is the deer off from the all session past again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So that is $20 for the whole week.
24:52
[SPEAKER_04]: If you decide to do that, you have to buy that online.
24:55
[SPEAKER_04]: And then everything else is cash and credit at the door, $8 each night.
25:01
[SPEAKER_04]: So if you think your jeans don't be playing all three nights or going to events, it saves you about $4 in the long run to get to all session pass.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We are really excited to host unbelievable teams, coming in, some unbelievable players, outstanding coaches.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So we shall are very honored to have this section on to be able to have it at L Wood and we're going to do our best to make sure people feel welcome when they come and hopefully have a great week of basketball.
25:32
[SPEAKER_04]: Coach, is this the second time that we're toasted a sectional?
25:36
[SPEAKER_04]: They hosted it right before I came in, so it would have been 2,000, 19, maybe 2,000, right before COVID and that time for me.
25:44
[SPEAKER_04]: And so it's been a, it's been a little way since I've had one.
25:53
[SPEAKER_06]: And why is the L with the perfect place to host this sectional coach?
25:57
[SPEAKER_04]: You know, I think all of our schools and our sectionals are very deserving.
26:02
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know like we try to go above and beyond and make sure people feel welcome to come to Elwood.
26:07
[SPEAKER_04]: Elwood kind of gets a bad rap, but it's an unbelievable community, unbelievable people in it, that love sports, and we just want to make sure people feel welcome and want to come back to Elwood.
26:20
[SPEAKER_04]: That's my main thing.
26:21
[SPEAKER_04]: Any time we host any of our officials, our media, our fans,
26:26
[SPEAKER_04]: We want those people to be like, and I really enjoy coming out with I want to come back.
26:30
[SPEAKER_04]: So we try to do what we can to make people fill that way and try to go above and beyond the take care of people.
26:37
[SPEAKER_04]: And I feel like I do in those things, it allows for us to maybe host some bigger events, because people do like coming out with our coach.
26:50
[SPEAKER_06]: Thank you so much for your time and we will talk to you.
26:52
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll do that.
26:53
[SPEAKER_04]: Thanks for looking forward to having you and going to be fun so see you here in the last team standing.
27:03
[SPEAKER_06]: Thanks so much to Coach VanSky out Coach Sherry and Coach Propston for joining us tonight and to Michelle Garman and Grant Shows for Co-hosting and thank you for listening.
27:15
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27:22
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27:29
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