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Sectional Recap & Reaction with Greg Mengelt & Matt Schultz-Finkler (The High School Football Report, 3.136) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

0:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome my school football fans to the Central Indian Esports Report for a bit of a delayed recap and reaction show for last Friday's sectional championships and we're down to eight teams in each class so we're gonna go through every sectional in the entire state and then talk about some local wins in particular, especially new palka-thedral in class 5A that Matt attended.
0:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Matt I think that's probably the right approach now is to kind of talk about every game.
0:38
[SPEAKER_00]: pretty much.
0:39
[SPEAKER_00]: And we start in Class 6A, sectional 1.
0:43
[SPEAKER_00]: It was number 5, Crown Point 57 to 27, over Lake Central.
0:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Lake Central led after the first quarter, 14 to 7, then Crown Point scored 28 on answered points.
0:54
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bulldogs third sectional in four years, and they will go to Penn for the Regional Championship.
1:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Pin 11 and O be L-Cart, 48 to 7, so that sets everybody really good regional and Matt.
1:07
[SPEAKER_00]: I think every team in the North has a chance to advance to the state championship.
1:13
[SPEAKER_02]: I do too, but there's only a certain other bulldog that's right down there.
1:20
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe some others too, I think the three best teams are in the South.
1:25
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I do too.
1:28
[SPEAKER_00]: And we moved down to the local sectional sectional three.
1:31
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is where Carmel be Hamilton's out these during 17 to 14.
1:35
[SPEAKER_00]: The Greyhound's now seven and four on the year Hamilton's out these term finishes at five and six.
1:40
[SPEAKER_00]: It is Carmel's 33rd sectional championship, but it's first since 2020.
1:46
[SPEAKER_00]: The Greyhound's lead, 17 to 7 at the half, and held on, Hamilton's Southeastern's Gord in the final three minutes, but Carmel recovered the on-side kick.
1:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Carmel's Josiah Gowmore and Michael Lewis each had touchdown runs.
2:00
[SPEAKER_00]: Lewis also finished with 60 yards on three carries.
2:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Like the fifth Michael Lewis I've ever seen in my lifetime, that is a very common name.
2:09
[SPEAKER_02]: That is a common name.
2:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Carmel's got to like its chances of getting to the state championship after upsetting Westfield last week, they're going to have to get past Carroll in Fort Wayne on Friday.
2:23
[SPEAKER_00]: The Chargers now 10 and 1 after beating homestead 56th and nothing.
2:27
[SPEAKER_00]: There are third straight sectional championship and fifth in the last six years.
2:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Carmel led 42 to nothing at the half in this one.
2:35
[SPEAKER_00]: So again, number 10, Carmel at number 8, Carroll this week.
2:39
[SPEAKER_00]: That should be a really good one.
2:40
[SPEAKER_02]: I agree, and I think John Harold has two concerns he's picking Carol.
2:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm probably going to be picking Carol as well.
2:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I probably will too, my gut is screaming to pick.
2:50
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they have the best quarterback outside of Indianapolis and probably the best watch receiver as well.
2:56
[SPEAKER_00]: If I had to pick a team to come out of the North and again, I think it's probably pretty close to 25 percent, 25 percent, 25 percent, but if I had to pick one, it's probably Carol.
3:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the South, you mentioned those bulldogs.
3:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, Brownsburg is 11 and 0 after beating Ben Davis 42 to 7.
3:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Brownsburg beat him 42 to 7.
3:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they were necessarily at their best either.
3:19
[SPEAKER_00]: at 379 total yards Oscar for I-13 for 16, 179 yards and three touchdowns.
3:26
[SPEAKER_00]: And Brandon Sharp should be Mr. Football.
3:28
[SPEAKER_00]: He had eight catches 125 yards and two touchdowns Brady Lewis had two touchdowns on the ground as well.
3:36
[SPEAKER_00]: And Brownsburg will play Lawrence North for the second time this year.
3:39
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going too Lawrence North.
3:42
[SPEAKER_00]: For the regional after the Wildcats
3:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Lawrence North actually trailed 13 to 10 at the half and then Xavier Moore the star running back from Lawrence North.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He should also be considered from Mr. Football and a great second half and The Wildcats blew out Norse Central Outscoring them 34 to nothing in the second half
4:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, Brownsburg won the season opener at Lawrence North, 48 to 25, but Lawrence North led that one a half time, so we'll see what happens this time around.
4:15
[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of power for talent is playing in that game, so that's one that not only is fun to watch online, but really fun to watch in person, so it's a candidate of which game I'll go to this week, but it's probably sliding to Brownsburg, he's just that good.
4:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I hear you.
4:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I think you're probably right.
4:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I just feel like it's going to be that way until someone proves it's wrong.
4:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think that could be in the semi state if anybody can because that's where it's gonna be Warren Central and Senator Grove who are probably the second and third best teams in the state.
4:57
[SPEAKER_00]: Warren Central number two, unbeaten be Franklin Central 49 to 20.
5:02
[SPEAKER_00]: The Warriors were up 35 to six.
5:04
[SPEAKER_00]: The half time I was completely wrong.
5:08
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, Senator Grove 45 to nothing over Columbus North.
5:11
[SPEAKER_00]: I was right about that when I said it would not be a game.
5:14
[SPEAKER_00]: It was not a game.
5:16
[SPEAKER_00]: It was 24 to nothing at halftime.
5:17
[SPEAKER_00]: Senator Grove did whatever it wanted on the ground 231 yards, led by Jaden Bigger Stass 155 yards, and two touchdowns.
5:26
[SPEAKER_00]: Oscar Sloan, their young quarterback, who's headed to Purdue, had a 107 yards on nine of 12 passing, but they barely needed to throw the ball.
5:35
[SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be number seven.
5:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Center Grove at number two Warren Central, a rematch of the season opener that Warren Central won 20 to 14 at Center Grove scoring late in the game.
5:48
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't remember if they scored later, held them off, but I know it came down to the last seconds.
5:53
[SPEAKER_00]: And we've been saying all along that it'll probably be the semi-state.
5:56
[SPEAKER_02]: And Lawrence North in Brownsburg was a candidate for which game I wanted to go to this week because they more got to be really fun to watch in person.
6:08
[SPEAKER_02]: not only D1 Town on North is D1 Town on Brownsburg, but it's just so much more for Brownsburg that I am shifting to the other game in 6a as a candidates of D1 Town versus D1 Town.
6:22
[SPEAKER_02]: D1 quarterback on Senator Grove D1 running back, big 10 running back, big 10 quarterback on the ad.
6:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, many youngs with team one offers, so it's a lot of talent on each side of the ball.
6:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Zechariah Wallace, the widersiever for Warren is doing the Western Michigan.
6:42
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, a lot of talent, no matter which one you choose between those two.
6:46
[SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to get to the game you went to this week very soon, but we are in the north of class 5A now where sectional 9, Chesterton beat monster 27 to 7, sectional 10, Concord beat LePort 38 to 14, really looks like 6 and 5 Concord is the favorite to come out of that regional.
7:08
[SPEAKER_00]: 6 and 5 is a favorite.
7:11
[SPEAKER_02]: crazy and they are a rank 11 they are a good team and then game we're about to talk about next is also 6 and 5 favorite.
7:20
[SPEAKER_00]: And section 11, probably the favor in the North is number 4 Warsaw, they're 10 and 1, they beat Fort Wayne Snyder 14 to 3, and Lafayette Jeff 44 to 6 over, hunting to North, the Broncos ranked 7th in Vikings, ranked 14th, the 3rd straight sectional, championship 4 Lafayette Jeff, who led 24 to nothing a half, I picked hunting to North and I feel stupid.
7:45
[SPEAKER_00]: And Lafayette Jeff dominate.
7:47
[SPEAKER_00]: And what was your reason?
7:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought they played a better schedule.
7:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't impressed with Jeff the games that they lost.
7:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought they weren't very good.
7:57
[SPEAKER_00]: And I thought Huntington North had the best playmakers, and I was just wrong.
8:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Lafayette Jeff had 567 yards of offense, and on defense had 12 tackles for loss and four sacks complete domination.
8:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think that this schedule thing is a bit overrated.
8:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I liked I think to North and I was just wrong.
8:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Tristan Thomas Barrett, 254 yards passing and two touchdowns, Doronte Harris, 197 yards and a touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Dale and Mealy almost had 100 yards and he also scored two touchdowns.
8:30
[SPEAKER_00]: So it was whatever Jeff wanted to do in this one.
8:33
[SPEAKER_00]: And now we move to the game that Matt attended on Friday night.
8:36
[SPEAKER_00]: That was number one cathedral 24 to 21 over number two new pal And Matt it looked like it was gonna be all cathedral and then new pal as they do showed some character and made it a game
8:50
[SPEAKER_02]: pretty much the entire first half was dominated by cathedral.
8:53
[SPEAKER_02]: It really, it really was, the scoreboard doesn't even say how much that is being nominated.
9:00
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, Miss Field goal, bumble out the two, it really could have been in 27 nothing at the half.
9:06
[SPEAKER_02]: A new pal would have to just chuck it around with how bad it was going.
9:10
[SPEAKER_02]: They couldn't pass, they couldn't run consistently.
9:12
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's a great defense if you draw this.
9:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the cathedral defense was definitely for real and it was very impressive early on.
9:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Honestly, that is kind of the expectation of cathedral and this is their, you have down that it's the first section of tile at Cathedral since 2023.
9:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I understand that they're in six A and they're in the prime new pal and last year but go with three straight years without a sectional championship is kind of a fireable offense at a place like cathedral.
9:47
[SPEAKER_00]: And Matt's gonna have a lot more to say about that one here coming up.
9:50
[SPEAKER_00]: One of mentioned that it was kind of the reversal of last year's 20 to 15 win by new pal, that was a game that could have gone either way, but new pal kind of dominated that one.
10:01
[SPEAKER_00]: And the score actually made it look closer than it actually was, and then new pal went on to win the state championship probably cathedral the favorite to do that.
10:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, although I think they're gonna have a tough one in the next round.
10:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Number 8 playing field 9 and 2 after a 43 to 8 win over Tarot South.
10:16
[SPEAKER_00]: I've liked this playing field team all year.
10:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Their first section on Championship since 2022.
10:23
[SPEAKER_00]: They led this one 36 to nothing at the half and then, toe and Vanderbosch returned the second half.
10:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Kick off for a touchdown.
10:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Brycee Bank ran for a touchdown and threw for 2 in the second quarter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and he had a 30-yard touchdown pass to Ethan Ellis and a 36-yard touchdown pass to Zayne your madam.
10:42
[SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be number one cathedral eight and three at number eight playing field nine and two in the regional.
10:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Sectional 15, it was number 3, Bloomington, South 40, did nothing over Bloomington, North, their second win over the Cougars this year.
10:58
[SPEAKER_00]: South's sixth rate, sectional championship, and they were up 26 to nothing at the half.
11:03
[SPEAKER_00]: And in sectional 16, it was number 10, Castle 28 to 14 over number 13, Evansville, North.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Castle's second win over North this year, and this one, they led 21 to nothing at the half.
11:15
[SPEAKER_00]: So, to be number 10, Castle.
11:17
[SPEAKER_00]: at number three, Bloomington's house, and that when I think Bloomington's house pretty darn good too.
11:22
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there's a team I picked to win at all in class five, they have got one of those guys, they're, they're like, I picked them to win at all.
11:30
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's, so like, once the tournament is still going and going and they're still around, it's like I can't pick against them now.
11:38
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, no, you have to take the evidence from week to week and kind of determine from week to week, because that's what I do.
11:45
[SPEAKER_00]: I switched mine for example, I think Evansville Memorial is now the favorite in 4A.
11:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't believe that coming into the season.
11:54
[SPEAKER_00]: For example, I didn't think Evansville Memorial was the favorite coming in to the post season.
12:00
[SPEAKER_00]: But there are two weeks.
12:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I definitely think they're the favorite.
12:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I do too, but it's like, and it's hard to make, it's hard to know what to make of Shattard.
12:12
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we thought, all they're banged up, they haven't played very well here in the postseason, and then they just wipe out Danville, which was kind of a surprise.
12:20
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why I feel like I can't ever pick against Chattard on what you know what this program is.
12:26
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
12:27
[SPEAKER_00]: And we moved to Class 4A in the North, Class 17, Exodus, Class 17.
12:33
[SPEAKER_00]: Sectional 17, it was,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hobart 44 to 21 over Ham and Morton, sectional 18, it was number six Northridge 43 to 21 over Northwood, so it'll be nine and three Hobart at number six Northridge, which is unbeaten, and looks like the favorite to advance to the semi-state.
12:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Think Northridge's loop, Luke, and Stutz has had the best coaching job out of anybody in the state this year, and there's been a lot of good coaching jobs.
13:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I covered him when he was in high school mat.
13:07
[SPEAKER_00]: the late 90s.
13:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I wouldn't boring yet.
13:10
[SPEAKER_02]: So I want to really rub in how old you see.
13:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Sectional 19, it was number one, Gwinger.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 35 to 14 over number five is Noble.
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[SPEAKER_00]: He's Noble's first loss of the year, and Gwinger's 30th overall sectional championship, and Matt, I know you watched this when you asked some things to say on this one, right?
13:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, East Noble had four turnovers, including two picks, sixes, a drive that started at the 14, jumped off sides at the four, and was stopped at the two yard line as time expired.
13:43
[SPEAKER_02]: So this game was absolutely nothing like what the score says it was.
13:47
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, when you're low is now one went away from five A.
13:52
[SPEAKER_02]: So their game against a monthly central might be an exception of me rooting for a private school, but I might
14:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, Mutsi Central.
14:05
[SPEAKER_00]: If it was Logan's morgue, Yorktown doing it was going to win that game too.
14:08
[SPEAKER_02]: But I would have probably read it for Logan's Fortress because they're more local to where I live.
14:15
[SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of which, one of the best games of the night and in parts, three of this podcast Kate Hampton of the Muncie Star Press will tell, his story of covering the game on Friday night it was Muncie Central 31 to 27 over number 10 Logan's port.
14:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Muncie Central got six turnovers and dominated the fourth quarter to kind of steal this win away from Logan's port.
14:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll save what I got to say on it for part two because I got a lot, but I'll just leave it with this.
14:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the real reason that Logan Sport choked is because of how caught off guard they were, of how horrible, monthly, central to logo is.
14:57
[SPEAKER_02]: It is.
15:03
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... it's classic man it goes all the way back they're never gonna change it but it's close he is now taken you're probably like kids these days they should never change it back oh god one of those i understand if there's a lot of history tradition i mean it's a basket but it's gracious it's hard to look at
15:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Logan Sport led 27 to 19 after Elliott Baldini, 77 yard touchdown run, make a Mason Ferguson through a 32 yard touchdown past Carlos Eccles to get within 2 points and then Rex Vargas, the go ahead touchdown with 10, 28 left in the fourth and then monthsy central defense just completely took over that game, including two interceptions and Montgomery's second one of the game of 16 seconds left.
16:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Their skill position player is very, very impressive.
16:06
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
16:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And sectional 21 down in the south, it was Chattard 41 to 9 over previously on Beatmen 7th, Ranked Annville.
16:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I expected it to start to win.
16:18
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't expect them to be up 24 to nothing at the end of the third quarter.
16:22
[SPEAKER_00]: And in sexual 22 is number two, Ron, Kali 55 to 19 over Moore's will.
16:26
[SPEAKER_00]: We did expect that on Kali was up 35 to nothing at the half and Alex Jarvis at 137 yards and two rushing touchdowns that could have done whatever he wanted.
16:37
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the end, as everyone expected in the regional number three,
16:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I had mentioned that Shattard is my pick to win it all in class 4A, but even when I sent in my weekly pick-ups that I do every week, I still was like, oh, I don't feel good about this when they go against Danville and but I still went with Shattard because never, I just, I don't ever want to doubt them unless they play a cathedral, maybe
17:13
[SPEAKER_00]: or Ron Colley, like last year, when Ron Colley beat him after shittard blew him out in the regular season.
17:19
[SPEAKER_00]: So, should be interesting what happens if that?
17:22
[SPEAKER_00]: They do have Ron Colley number two and number three, which I don't get, because shittard, I'd no problem with Ron Colley at Ron Colley early in the year.
17:32
[SPEAKER_00]: But they had the same record.
17:34
[SPEAKER_00]: They have the same record.
17:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they both play really tough schedules.
17:37
[SPEAKER_00]: They're both really good.
17:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I just thought all year that Chotard was a little bit better than Ron Colley, and that's what I expect to happen on Friday night, but after what happened last year, it's just... You just don't know.
17:49
[SPEAKER_00]: You never know.
17:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Especially when these two go against each other.
17:55
[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't wild stuff always happen.
17:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Always.
17:59
[SPEAKER_00]: can't wait to watch that one.
18:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Sectional 23, it was number 40 Central 63 to 30 over Columbus East and in Sectional 24, number 11 Heritage Hills 34 to 13 over Evansville Harrison Heritage Hills 4th Street Sectional Championship 2 of those in Class 3A 2 of those in Class 4, I saw it'll be number 4, East Central at number 11 Heritage Hills, both 10 and 2.
18:26
[SPEAKER_00]: That would be really good too.
18:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I think all four of these teams are capable of what in this.
18:30
[SPEAKER_02]: So my whole site says that the essential heritage skills game will be played on Saturday at four.
18:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh nice.
18:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Well how long does it of a drive is that?
18:40
[SPEAKER_00]: A long, long, long drive.
18:42
[SPEAKER_00]: It is basically from Cincinnati to the Western part of Kentucky.
18:48
[SPEAKER_00]: It's basically what you're looking at.
18:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I may go to that because that's the same time as the Michigan game, and that's more pleasant than watching the Michigan offense.
18:58
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the Santa Claus in the am I've been there all the day world.
19:05
[SPEAKER_00]: In Class 3A, sectional 25 is Andre and 38 to 7 over 20 lakes and in sectional 26 Angola 14 to 10 over number 13 West Noble, so to be number 2 and Andre and Ade Angola, that should be all and Andre and but I love the Hornets.
19:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I thought it was crazy that Angola was the favorite according to John Harold and then may go out and win.
19:35
[SPEAKER_02]: But John Harrell always does that.
19:41
[SPEAKER_00]: He does.
19:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Section 27, it was...
19:45
[SPEAKER_00]: 7th ranked unbeaten Bluffton 25 to 7 over Heritage.
19:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Their second win over the Patriots this year, their third sectional championship in five years, the other two were in class two a.
19:57
[SPEAKER_00]: And in sectional 28, it was Hamilton Heights 34 to 28 over West Lafayette.
20:03
[SPEAKER_00]: I really sweating that one out after saying that this game wouldn't be close.
20:07
[SPEAKER_00]: It definitely was close.
20:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Hamilton Heights, first sectional championships since 2012 after Caleb's ball came in.
20:14
[SPEAKER_00]: to go with this program.
20:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Bomb the Hamilton Heights West Laupia game.
20:19
[SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't find anywhere online.
20:21
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, me too.
20:23
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how that happens anymore.
20:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm right there with you.
20:28
[SPEAKER_02]: That's really, really good.
20:29
[SPEAKER_02]: It would pass if passing efficiency by Lucas Wittaker 22 of 27 or 250 yards.
20:36
[SPEAKER_02]: 108 yards on the ground, two touchdowns.
20:39
[SPEAKER_02]: You still have to be player the week
20:44
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's just name and player the week right now.
20:46
[SPEAKER_00]: By the way, Matt, I'm not even sure he's had his 15th birthday yet.
20:49
[SPEAKER_00]: He still looks 13 out there.
20:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Last I heard he was 14 as a sophomore and he does not look like it.
20:57
[SPEAKER_00]: That is for sure.
20:59
[SPEAKER_00]: AJ Flanagan, who's dad played on my youth football team at 166 yards and a touchdown and also at a 15-yard touchdown pass to bring in Heckman.
21:09
[SPEAKER_00]: Jack myself, nine catches, 103 yards and a touchdown, will just to Fano, had five catches for 95 yards and as well as his 20 carries Flanagan also had three catches for 25 yards.
21:21
[SPEAKER_00]: So, it'll be number seven, Bluffton, unbeaten at nine and three Hamiltonites, which is one nine games in a row.
21:27
[SPEAKER_00]: That should be a good one.
21:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Jackson, Mike, so it is one player that deserves a lot more credit than he really gets.
21:34
[SPEAKER_02]: He's a thousand yard receiver, I believe, pretty nice basketball player too, so good out there.
21:40
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't wait for basketball season, although I bet Hamilton Heights can wait for basketball season.
21:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Sure can.
21:48
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the south, it was number 10 tri West 35 to 7 over a western boon.
21:54
[SPEAKER_00]: The second win for the Bruins over the Stars this year and their third sectional championship in the last four years.
22:01
[SPEAKER_00]: It was only 7 and nothing at the half and it was 14 to 7 in the third quarter and then all of a sudden tri West scored three straight touchdowns.
22:08
[SPEAKER_00]: It finished with 252 yards on the ground 365 yards.
22:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Total Jack Sword D7 for 12, 113 yards.
22:18
[SPEAKER_00]: He did most of his damage with his feet.
22:20
[SPEAKER_00]: He was really good running the ball.
22:22
[SPEAKER_00]: As was once and all, he had 111 yards.
22:24
[SPEAKER_00]: And it touched down on 10 carries.
22:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Surprise the player, the quality of Jack Sword D only has 12 passing yards, but if he can loot the ball with his feet, then.
22:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
22:36
[SPEAKER_02]: It's what, but it's like,
22:39
[SPEAKER_02]: My point is it was kind of a close game and he is a big ten quarterback, so that's the surprisingly a bit.
22:48
[SPEAKER_02]: He's really done a lot of damage with his legs here in the last few weeks.
22:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's something that the Tri-West coaching staff has tried to implement more of that.
22:58
[SPEAKER_00]: It sure looks like it.
23:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I am only watching Highlights most of the time, but it sure looks like it.
23:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Most of the highlights are of his running long touchdown, so.
23:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Sectional 30, it was number five Lawrenceburg who I picked when the state championship hoop, but I'm changing that to Evansville Memorial.
23:17
[SPEAKER_00]: 28 to 14 over Batesville, Tigers now 11 and one on the year.
23:22
[SPEAKER_00]: They're six sectional championship in the last eight years.
23:25
[SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be number 10, try West at number five Lawrenceburg, try West 10 and two Lawrenceburg, 11 and one.
23:32
[SPEAKER_00]: That should be a really good one.
23:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Try West and Lawrenceburg.
23:36
[SPEAKER_02]: If it wasn't so freaking far away,
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[SPEAKER_02]: I consider going to that one.
23:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Sectional 31, it was number four Indian Creek 37 to 7 over Sullivan Indian Creek led 34 to nothing after three quarters.
23:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Jackson Green had an interception returned and that was followed by Evan Clark's 64-yard touchdown pass to Mesa Wookie.
24:00
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Eli West had a 35-yard fumble return for a touchdown and Jacob Gummerson hit three field goals for the Braves.
24:09
[SPEAKER_00]: And his sectional 32, number 1, Evansville Memorial, 28 to 7 over, number 8, Evansville Modern Day, their first sectional championship since 2023, but their 7th and the last 11 years.
24:22
[SPEAKER_00]: There will be number 4, Indian Creek at, number 1, Evansville Memorial, both unbeaten.
24:28
[SPEAKER_02]: If there's anybody that's going to take down Memorial, I believe it's got to be Indian Creek.
24:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I saw that I know the Western wasn't very good to start the season, but I saw Indian Creek on film against Western, and it... Western shouldn't just cancel the game, that's how it got.
24:49
[SPEAKER_00]: And in class 2A in the North, sectional 33, Wheeler won.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's first sectional championship since 2011, where they 57 to 8 win over Knox.
24:58
[SPEAKER_00]: It was 35 to 8 at halftime.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and then Wheeler scored the first 15 points of the third quarter.
25:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Sectional 34 was number four, Eastside 42 to nothing over Rochester, Eastside's first sectional championship.
25:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Since 2021 and the Blazers led 28 to nothing, at halftime after making a really nice defense of standard early in the game, it looked like Rochester might be competitive early.
25:21
[SPEAKER_00]: They were not.
25:23
[SPEAKER_00]: So to be number 11 Wheeler at number four, Eastside Wheeler 11 and one, Eastside 11 and O.
25:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember before a season began, I saw, I can't remember who, but somebody posted that there were the top 25 teams in class 2A, and they had a W with an orange W. I had a tipped, and I'm like, there's no way somebody is ranking Wabash over tipped in.
25:55
[SPEAKER_02]: And then somebody was like, no, it's actually really, they just had the same logo.
25:59
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I, you know, okay, so I look them up.
26:02
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, they're actually a nice program.
26:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we have to make a sense.
26:06
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I just see that they win every week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to be Wheeler, not Wabash at Eastside on Friday night.
26:16
[SPEAKER_00]: It still throws me off every time I shoot their logo.
26:19
[SPEAKER_00]: And locally, it was O'Kill 49 to 33 over Lewis Cash, somebody on our panel was the only one to pick O'Kill to win that one.
26:29
[SPEAKER_00]: The Golden Eagles first sectional championship since 2013 that really surprised me.
26:34
[SPEAKER_00]: They are now 7 and 5 and it was.
26:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Jet A to Rocky Johnson's go ahead 50 yard touchdown, gave Oak Hill a 15 to 14 lead, then they went up 28 to 15, led 42 to 27 through 3 quarters.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jet A to rushing touchdowns, 3 for Dylan Archer,
26:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Archer's runs were of two, three, and four yards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lewis Cass, Conner Mac, and Zine Grogg had two rushing touchdowns a piece.
27:03
[SPEAKER_00]: And Matt, you're gonna have a lot to say that in the next segment, aren't you?
27:06
[SPEAKER_02]: I sure do.
27:07
[SPEAKER_02]: So for now, I just wanna ask the question, but Austin has been there for 28 years.
27:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Why doesn't he have more than two sectionals that I can't figure it out?
27:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Always had some tough sectional fields and some bad luck is my guess.
27:23
[SPEAKER_02]: That surprises me as well.
27:25
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I need to meet somebody that knows a lot more about Oak, the history of Oak Hill, and you and I do.
27:31
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I can put you in touch with some people.
27:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Section 136, it was number 6, LePel, 48 to nothing.
27:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Over previously unbeaten Hager's town.
27:42
[SPEAKER_00]: LePel led this when 42 to nothing at half, and they did whatever they wanted.
27:46
[SPEAKER_00]: They defends spent the entire game in Hager's town's backfield.
27:50
[SPEAKER_00]: The offense spent the entire game scoring whenever they wanted to finish with 277 passing yards 224 rushing yards and five tackles for loss.
28:01
[SPEAKER_00]: It goes down just 73 yards of rushing and six yards of passing complete lapel domination.
28:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Jack Miller is back and looks great.
28:12
[SPEAKER_00]: 122 yards and two touchdowns max lock cart 257 yards passing
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[SPEAKER_00]: Liam Co 8 catches for 90 yards and a touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Jackson Cripe had 68 yards and two touchdowns, Reed Hamilton, 46 yards and a touchdown.
28:27
[SPEAKER_00]: And their freshman running back, Crasion Riggs who's going to be a great win 42 yards on five curries and the final touchdown.
28:34
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be 11 in one lapel, number six at Oak Hill in the regional on Friday.
28:41
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like that game is probably going to be even worse than the lapel Hager's town game.
28:47
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I love you, O'Kill, but I think you're probably right.
28:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Sectional 35, it was number five Eastern Hancock.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 39 to six over number three Lutheran.
28:58
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the game I was watching on Friday night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Eastern Hancock's first sectional championship since 2023, ending Lutheran's five year sectional championship.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and it was the only game in Indiana featuring two unbeaten teams on Friday night, and it was all Eastern Hancock starting from about middle of the second quarter.
29:19
[SPEAKER_00]: It looked like, I think I texted at one time, this is going to be a great game, both teams look really good, and then Eastern Hancock went up 20 to 6 at half time, and then just completely put the hammer down on Lutheran.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Blake Whittington at 169 yards and three rushing touchdowns had three touchdown passes to Luke Manchip.
29:40
[SPEAKER_00]: You just throw the ball up to Luke Manchip.
29:42
[SPEAKER_00]: He goes up and gets it up with 10 for 21 to 157 yards and three touchdowns, also at 35 yards rushing.
29:49
[SPEAKER_00]: He's very effective with his legs and Hayden Jackson had a punt return for a touchdown.
29:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Eastern Hancock, very impressive.
29:58
[SPEAKER_00]: They'll take on number two, South Putnam, which beat Monroevia 40, 9-18.
30:04
[SPEAKER_00]: More trouble than I expected for them to pull, in pulling away from Monroevia, but in the end, they're 20th win and a row.
30:12
[SPEAKER_00]: And their third straight, sectional championship the Chuck wagon just keeps on rolling, and Ty Benton, three more touchdown runs.
30:19
[SPEAKER_00]: So, this is what I've been trying to get to Matt on Friday night.
30:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Number five, Eastern Hancock, 12-0, at number two, South Putnam, 12-0, I can't wait.
30:32
[SPEAKER_02]: You should go to that one.
30:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I am definitely thinking about going to that one.
30:41
[SPEAKER_00]: If I don't, though, the following week, whoever wins, I will definitely go to that one when they take on Brown's Town Central.
30:48
[SPEAKER_00]: The Braves now, 12-0, they beat Switzerland County 63 to nothing, they're third straight sectional championship, and I think read May's 480th section, I'm not sure, something to be like that.
31:00
[SPEAKER_00]: They will take on number 9 North Posey in the regional North Posey beat Litton Stockton 56 to 26.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Their first sectional championship since 2023 and it was a close game until late in the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was actually 28 to 20 at the half and Cade Mach for North Posey at 5 rushing touchdowns.
31:22
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be number 1, Browns Town, 12-0 at number 9, North Posey at 11 and 1, and that
31:29
[SPEAKER_00]: How comfortable are you about Brownstown winning this one?
31:34
[SPEAKER_00]: Barry, it's the next one I'm not comfortable at all.
31:37
[SPEAKER_00]: I think South Putnam and Eastern Hancock might be the best two teams in the state.
31:41
[SPEAKER_02]: I think Reed May is to you with Alex toered his to me.
31:46
[SPEAKER_00]: I think so, he's my, if not my all-time favorite top five for sure, and all of coaching.
31:55
[SPEAKER_00]: Great guy, and great coach.
31:59
[SPEAKER_00]: And in class A in the North, 11 and 1 and 4th rank North, Judson, no problem with 13 to rank West Central 40 to 8.
32:08
[SPEAKER_00]: And Clinton Perry, it's first ever, sectional championship with a 27-21 upset of Central Catholic.
32:16
[SPEAKER_00]: The govers did you watch this one, Matt?
32:19
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I did, I've got a lot more to say in part two.
32:21
[SPEAKER_00]: A couple of incredible plays in the second half to overcome Andrew Stapleton's three touchdown passes.
32:28
[SPEAKER_00]: So, it'll be number four north, judge an act, Clinton Prairie in the regional.
32:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Only thing I'll add for now so I can save it all for part two.
32:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Can we call Clinton Prairie Cinderella?
32:40
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, we can.
32:45
[SPEAKER_00]: The Clinton plurary Cinderella's.
32:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Section 143, it was Pioneer 21 to 14 over, cast and you told me you were, you thought cast and might win this when they almost did.
32:57
[SPEAKER_00]: The 14th, Sectional Championship for Pioneer.
33:02
[SPEAKER_00]: And they will be at South Adams in the regional after the stars.
33:08
[SPEAKER_00]: Star fires be number 15, free mop 42 to 15.
33:11
[SPEAKER_00]: It was 7 to 7 after the first quarter and then South Adams were 35 on the answered points.
33:18
[SPEAKER_00]: So it'll be number 1, 12 and 0 pioneer at 10 and 2 and 5th ranked South Adams in that regional.
33:26
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I met.
33:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Pioneer coach Adam Barry at the North Suffle star game in July and asked him about cast and then he said they would be Up and coming and boy who has he right this game would have been over time at Shiloh Rind and call game all by himself Breaking six tackles in one play wow and great season for the comments and the reason I I sent that that was is it was seven nothing
33:55
[SPEAKER_02]: and it just gave me flashbacks to two years ago during the sexual championship when Pioneer played Taylor and Pioneer just they didn't finish drives and they let Taylor hang around it was six nothing at half time and it's like they were having a good year like nobody thought Taylor had a chance so nope you're letting them hang around that's not a good idea so I just felt like considering Pioneer had already beaten
34:25
[SPEAKER_02]: pioneers learned from that though.
34:28
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they look good.
34:29
[SPEAKER_00]: And they think we'll probably be a slight favorite over South Adams in the regional that should be a good one.
34:37
[SPEAKER_02]: Very good.
34:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not going to go there in person, but man, I can't wait to watch that online.
34:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Section 145 was number 10
34:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Knights town, what are they?
34:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Nightmare, not the.
34:54
[SPEAKER_00]: Knights town's first sectional championship since 2009.
34:59
[SPEAKER_00]: That game was tied six, six early on, but the Knights town blew them out in the second half.
35:05
[SPEAKER_00]: And in sectional 46, it was Milen, 27 to 16 over North Decatur, the Indians, third straight sectional championship.
35:13
[SPEAKER_00]: It'll be number 10, Knights town at number eight, Milen in the regional, that should be a good one.
35:20
[SPEAKER_02]: prior Carmichael 24 for 33 for 310 yards, a touchdown pass and touchdown run.
35:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Very efficient.
35:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Can it translate to a superior opponent in myelin?
35:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I think he needs a game like that in order to stand chance.
35:40
[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be really tough against this myelin team that I think the computers, the
35:47
[SPEAKER_00]: believes will be the team that comes out of the South.
35:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Sager and really likes Mile and I noticed.
35:53
[SPEAKER_00]: Sectional 47, it was number two, Riverton Park, 49 to 21 over Cloverdale, Riverton Park, surprisingly.
36:00
[SPEAKER_00]: The team I picked to win it all last year, their first sectional championship since 2005, only their second overall.
36:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it was number three, North Davies, 35 to seven over the Forest Park Rangers.
36:13
[SPEAKER_00]: or Davies for a sectional championship since 1993.
36:17
[SPEAKER_00]: So in the south, we have number 10, nightstown, number eight, mile in and in the furthest south regional, number three north Davies against number two, river to park two unbeaten teams.
36:30
[SPEAKER_02]: River to park rush for nearly 400 yards.
36:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Hard to do.
36:36
[SPEAKER_00]: That is hard to do.
36:38
[SPEAKER_00]: I was surprised that it kind of took them a while to pull away from Cloverdale and it surprised me a little bit.
36:44
[SPEAKER_00]: At the team, my definitely thing has a chance to win this whole thing.
36:47
[SPEAKER_00]: And they, uh, I was a little worried there for a little while, but they ended up pulling away with no problem.
36:56
[SPEAKER_00]: You ever been to Riverton Park that area is beautiful?
36:59
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think so.
37:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe.
37:03
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
37:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a quick break.
37:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Come right back with your thoughts on what you saw on Friday night.
37:08
[SPEAKER_00]: And on film, not just that game, a bunch of games.
37:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Both of us, I think we've watched about half the games in the state, both of us.
37:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Check out our regional preview and prediction show with Frank Shows, Kevin Helfer, and Michelle Garmin coming up later this week, probably Thursday afternoon.
37:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Matt, tell me your impressions of what you saw at Tech on Friday night.
37:46
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, in part one, I mentioned how in the first half who was all cathedral and really easily could have been 27 nothing but with it only being 17 nothing and getting it all in the second half.
38:00
[SPEAKER_02]: The new foul coaching staff made adjustments that involve the run game and doing a lot of trap and counter, and they got more push up front for the second half.
38:09
[SPEAKER_02]: It also set up the passing game right away, start up as in the third quarter, a re-ragan hit, wide receiver, kale, butler, who I really like for a 65 yard touchdown.
38:22
[SPEAKER_02]: This is when Nupau had a spark and the dragons were able to get more push on the defensive line as well.
38:28
[SPEAKER_02]: And we really got to see the best player on the field and the nose tackles, say him Hershey.
38:34
[SPEAKER_02]: He absolutely deserves the rating of a four star.
38:38
[SPEAKER_02]: It's pretty good offensive lineman too.
38:40
[SPEAKER_02]: They have Matt left tackle.
38:43
[SPEAKER_02]: New power got a stop and a good ground game with multiple D1 linemen on the offensive line and scores to make it 17 to 14 before the end of the third quarter.
38:55
[SPEAKER_02]: The cathedral receiver Evan Johnson then took over.
38:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Ooh, big good.
39:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
39:03
[SPEAKER_02]: he is a big third-down conversion and then another where on man coverage the corner missed the tackle at a safety slit and he was gone so a cathedral response and it's 24-14 after three.
39:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Now some questionable coaching to place, Kyle Ralph called a timeout on fourth and two from the
39:29
[SPEAKER_02]: the deepest they could decision.
39:32
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I could.
39:34
[SPEAKER_02]: And you see college coaches do that all the time too.
39:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, I don't understand it.
39:39
[SPEAKER_02]: It's weird.
39:41
[SPEAKER_00]: You're saving five yards.
39:44
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just not that big of a deal.
39:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Timeouts are way more valuable than five yards, especially in one score two score game.
39:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
39:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
39:52
[SPEAKER_00]: The game wasn't.
39:53
[SPEAKER_00]: It ended up not mattering in the end, but
39:57
[SPEAKER_02]: The defense makes a stop, and on the next drive, penalties made the play third and 24, and Nukeau runs the ball.
40:06
[SPEAKER_02]: They get seven, and obviously on a, what a convert on 4th and 17.
40:12
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's like the defense played whites out that second half, and they got to stop again, they played well all and all the offense in the first half, just kept putting them in bad spots.
40:23
[SPEAKER_02]: A cathedral kept playing deep, the whole drive,
40:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, a on new pal the last drive the whole time.
40:30
[SPEAKER_02]: It get new powder score was 16 seconds slash because of the time.
40:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Now earlier when it could have been, but 55 seconds.
40:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it wouldn't have mattered though because they would have the onsite kick to the drill on 24 or 21.
40:47
[SPEAKER_00]: And to me, this looks like a cathedral team that definitely could be a state champion, but also not one of those cathedral teams that's unbeatable like some of the teams they've had in the past.
40:58
[SPEAKER_02]: I got the newspaper Digest magazine every year and this year, I read the one for cathedral and Bill Peoples had said they were young, so they're expected to
41:12
[SPEAKER_02]: return a lot of this production for next year or so is long as they get to the state championship I'd feel like they can easily win it all in class five a but if not it's a there's just another contender in four a and we've had this conversation four a is so much better than five a this year and the two best teams in five a have four a enrollment
41:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, although it is going to be a difficult task for them to go through playing field emblem to South.
41:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are two really good team.
41:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
41:53
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think the last comment I have on this game really is, I would have liked to see more Mason Owls be, he would really only used on hit routes and RPOs when the cathedral defense was giving it to him.
42:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I understand that an athlete like that is going to get a lot of attention from opposing defenses, but I believe they could have done more with him, especially when they were on their last drive.
42:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they try to sneak in runs.
42:21
[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, there just needs to be more urgency this 17-play drive down 10 points in limited time outs.
42:35
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's a team that's going to be good again next year too.
42:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think Olesby is there only like big time player that's graduating.
42:43
[SPEAKER_02]: So new pal is going to be a contender in 5A again next year.
42:47
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'd probably be the favorite, even though I'll get like a just said 4A enrollment.
42:52
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
42:54
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
42:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Really settled in after a rough start.
42:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
42:59
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, before we move on to some other sections we want to talk about.
43:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I do what and it give my comments on six a little bit.
43:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I really first of all Hamilton's out these turn is going to be very good next year.
43:12
[SPEAKER_00]: That's going to be a program to watch out for.
43:15
[SPEAKER_00]: They might be a top 10 team next year and they are coming.
43:18
[SPEAKER_00]: But the South is just loaded.
43:21
[SPEAKER_00]: It's number one, two, four and seven.
43:23
[SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, Senator Grover would probably be in the top five if they didn't have a game where they were missing a bunch of players.
43:30
[SPEAKER_00]: And they probably nothing against Lawrence North.
43:33
[SPEAKER_00]: They probably would be ranked in the top five if they'd been healthy in the Lawrence North game, they ended up losing that when 28 to 20 without their quarterback.
43:44
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... i think that we're talking about probably the four best teams remaining are in the south i'm not sure about lords north i thought they look really really shaky in the first half on friday and i've had a man for a zavian more they might have lost that game because he was just that good and he is just that good and any time you're feeding him the ball you got a chance so i'm not gonna say they don't have any chance against brownsburg but brownsburg is just so good and i don't know where you stand on my
44:12
[SPEAKER_00]: declaration that Brandon Sharpe is the is Mr. Football.
44:17
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really think about that until.
44:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, like it's usually kind of obvious, like last year Mr. Football was obvious and that I've just never really won.
44:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Explore that conversation.
44:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm kind of like that with Heisman and MVP as well.
44:33
[SPEAKER_00]: I understand.
44:34
[SPEAKER_00]: But I think we're at that point where we need to be talking about it, and there are three or four really good candidates, most of them are in Indianapolis.
44:42
[SPEAKER_00]: You're right.
44:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Ty Benton from South Putton would be the one who's not in Indianapolis, I think the only one.
44:49
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
44:49
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's move to 4A.
44:50
[SPEAKER_00]: And you have thoughts on Dwinger, East Noble, and Muncie Central Logan sport, right?
44:55
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, pretty much said all I had on East Noble, what's the other thing that I'm
45:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we love Alex Stewart on this podcast, that's all.
45:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, boy, we should have fun.
45:07
[SPEAKER_02]: We will, very soon.
45:09
[SPEAKER_02]: You mentioned earlier, just six turnovers and they are all costly, but I think the one that really will make Troy Hudson, Lucie is the fumble at the three yard line.
45:20
[SPEAKER_02]: And also, the bus should cut a bridge for Muntie's first score in the second half on the blown assignments.
45:27
[SPEAKER_02]: The trick play.
45:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
45:31
[SPEAKER_02]: And that was set up by a lost swamble.
45:33
[SPEAKER_02]: So at the end of the day, loans for just did not play winning football.
45:38
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I went and looked at all the yards and monthly central had to go for their scores.
45:44
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was 66 yards all in one play by Kai-Hai at 71 yards, which 46 of them, those that gave up on our screen, 42 yards after losing a fumble, 29 yards after a kicker turn,
46:00
[SPEAKER_02]: So I really feel like it was just a total team failure.
46:04
[SPEAKER_02]: The defense did play pretty well all in all, even without Carson Jackson.
46:09
[SPEAKER_01]: And I know he's also a really good running back.
46:11
[SPEAKER_02]: But because of the defense and the total team meltdown all in all, I just think you can't go away and just say, well, they had Carson, they would have won.
46:21
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the chances would certainly go up a lot.
46:23
[SPEAKER_02]: But there was no reason Logan's court should have won this game without him.
46:30
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
46:31
[SPEAKER_00]: I was stunned by the way it happened, um, the fumbles.
46:36
[SPEAKER_00]: They were just careless with the ball.
46:38
[SPEAKER_00]: A couple of the interceptions, we were careless.
46:41
[SPEAKER_00]: I just didn't expect it.
46:43
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought this was a Logan sport team that had never shown signs of any of that.
46:48
[SPEAKER_00]: Also, monthsy centrals way better than I thought.
46:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that they were a level below Yorktown and Logan sport.
47:00
[SPEAKER_02]: They've got dudes, Dimash on Clemens was an absolute force on the defensive line.
47:05
[SPEAKER_02]: Elliott Baudini and the lowest sport offensive line couldn't get the push they wanted inside.
47:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Clemens was a big part of that.
47:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I really thought Kai-hai had an outstanding first half keeping them so good.
47:18
[SPEAKER_02]: He had a previously mentioned 66-yard run on an outside zone that
47:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Outside of an outstanding block by Rex Vargas was all-hand, and then Carlos Eccles took over the second half on offense defense and special teams.
47:33
[SPEAKER_02]: So good.
47:34
[SPEAKER_02]: He had that huge play on a screen the first half had set the score, but in the second half the lowest court kicked it away from Eccles, and after faking your turn they literally threw a lateral across the field back to Eccles, I was like, oh my goodness he's fast.
47:51
[SPEAKER_02]: And he returned inside the 30, which of course, set up a fourth and long barricast score to where Mason Ferguson found echoes on the post-row.
48:01
[SPEAKER_00]: The way I see Class 4A at this point is Dwinger is a pretty heavy favorite in the north.
48:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Man, they are just so good on defense.
48:11
[SPEAKER_00]: You may have seen something differently than I did, but, and then the South just so freaking wide open.
48:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I really think East Central could be the team that comes out of that.
48:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Wouldn't stun me if Heritage Hills did.
48:23
[SPEAKER_00]: They're probably the fourth of the four teams, but man, the South has loaded.
48:27
[SPEAKER_00]: It looks like Dwinger in the North and a wide open South.
48:31
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just deep.
48:32
[SPEAKER_02]: And in Logus Hort should be among them.
48:36
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, they should.
48:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think this game takes away from how good low and sport is or exposes them.
48:43
[SPEAKER_02]: I think what happened in some ways was kind of like low and sport fell into the track that Carol did a couple years ago when they got blown out in sectionals by pioneer.
48:53
[SPEAKER_02]: You remember during the 2024 regular season Carol was just so much better than everyone else.
49:05
[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't that they didn't play any one.
49:06
[SPEAKER_02]: They played sectional champion Taylor, sectional champion Eastern, sectional champion Sheridan, sectional Europe, Riverton Park.
49:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Carol was just that good and they never really got punched in the mouth of the first time Pioneer struck first.
49:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Carol got struck.
49:22
[SPEAKER_02]: Pioneer struck again and they just didn't know it to you from there.
49:26
[SPEAKER_02]: And then since Logan sport played, sectional champion Hamilton Heights, sectional runner up LCC, sectional runner up West Lafayette, sectional runner up twin links.
49:36
[SPEAKER_02]: They smoked everyone.
49:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
49:40
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they triodet at all in the season in a little month's season last touchdown.
49:45
[SPEAKER_00]: It's making it all in 2007.
49:48
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a but definitely not in the second half.
49:50
[SPEAKER_00]: They definitely didn't trail.
49:51
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if they trail early in a game.
49:53
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not that I remember,
49:56
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they just were completely dominant in every game this year, that wouldn't surprise me as much as any game I can remember.
50:02
[SPEAKER_02]: But like I said, they did this to themselves and it's a lost I should haunt for a long time, but it would have been avoided.
50:10
[SPEAKER_02]: Wither without Carson Jackson.
50:13
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're going to lose an awful lot of talent, Mr. Yeah, like one of them is Quincy Jackson, who is somebody I really want to love.
50:21
[SPEAKER_00]: Team one lineman, they've got Elliott Baldini and it was rough.
50:27
[SPEAKER_00]: I had a hard time watching that.
50:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I love Muncie Central, but just knowing how good that Logan's 14 was all year and it just kind of felt like they're destiny and just to watch it.
50:37
[SPEAKER_00]: Fall apart was rough.
50:40
[SPEAKER_02]: like like a Quincy Jackson average is more than 10 yards per carry but for whatever reason only averages about five or six carries a game and so and what the suspension of his brother remained him in my opinion a bigger necessity on offense and he was still able to make an impact and limited offense of touchdowns I mean he had a 67 yard touchdown along he does that every game
51:08
[SPEAKER_02]: My last note on this game is Kyle Brech definitely deserves his flowers.
51:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes, he does.
51:15
[SPEAKER_02]: And he'll get them, but I think prior coach Kyle Padgette deserves an assist.
51:20
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's for Brech, even though I had said Padgette had elevated them.
51:24
[SPEAKER_02]: It's still felt like a weird move at the time to lead Mrs. Sinoa, especially because he left him like April or May.
51:32
[SPEAKER_02]: So he took over a rebuild without a full season.
51:35
[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously not too crazy anymore, but it would be cool to see him at a greater indie school in 5A or 6A.
51:42
[SPEAKER_02]: You had the rest of me for it, and he especially does now.
51:46
[SPEAKER_00]: And he does.
51:47
[SPEAKER_00]: And you're not the only one who's going to mention that on this show.
51:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I got Mutsi Star Press, Sports Editor, Kate Hampton coming up, and he mentioned Coach Paget as well.
51:56
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, big day for Mutsi Central.
51:59
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a big deal for them.
52:00
[SPEAKER_00]: I doubt that their basketball season has ever been delayed by their football season.
52:06
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think a lot of the time people will point to the said coach that gets it done, but a lot of the time it's the one before that sets it out.
52:21
[SPEAKER_00]: And moved to class 3A, you Hamilton Heights, unfortunately, was not online that we could find, but.
52:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I believe it's high now.
52:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Hard to believe it's their first section on championship since 2012.
52:35
[SPEAKER_00]: And Caleb Small came in and did it right away?
52:39
[SPEAKER_00]: That's a football school, right?
52:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
52:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it is.
52:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I get that they're kind of close to Indie.
52:49
[SPEAKER_02]: So a lot of the times they have had shares
52:55
[SPEAKER_02]: It's surprising, a problem with the tradition and passion that Hamilton Heights does has been been able to get there until this year.
53:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And in class 2A before you talk about Oak Hill, I want to talk a little bit about the two games I watched Lapella hold you down and he's turned Noble Lutheran and
53:17
[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of said as a joke in our sectional preview that, uh, lapel Eastern Hancock would be a fun state championship game and now I actually believe it could happen.
53:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I do too.
53:30
[SPEAKER_02]: I still, I still want to see South button, um, get punched.
53:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Monroe via gave them all they could, but I really want to see South button, um, like shook
53:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I pick against them.
53:47
[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't think you're that bad.
53:49
[SPEAKER_02]: But it would be really fun to see that rematch.
53:51
[SPEAKER_02]: I really like rematches for some reason.
53:54
[SPEAKER_00]: I hear that, but Lutheran was running third right behind South Putnam and Eastern Hancock just put their foot on their throats and stomped and it was ugly in the second half.
54:06
[SPEAKER_00]: They did whatever they wanted against an unbeaten team.
54:09
[SPEAKER_02]: And the bad part about that is Lutheran is now going to go down to
54:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, it's a, in central Catholics on their way back up too.
54:23
[SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to be interesting to see what happens.
54:25
[SPEAKER_00]: There were those programs.
54:27
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I, that's probably going to be the state championship next year or two years.
54:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
54:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I can't imagine anyone in the North Beaton lapel, but maybe each side is that good?
54:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
54:40
[SPEAKER_00]: It was hard to tell against Rochester.
54:43
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really know anything about East Side, just that they beat Adam Central before I found out that Adam Central was down this year.
54:50
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they do have a small roster as far as numbers, but man, they have some big kids, and they have some really good athletes.
54:59
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't see anybody beating Lapelle until the championship game, but I do think South, those teams in the South, man, that's gonna be one hell of a championship game, no matter who it is.
55:10
[SPEAKER_00]: in this fun.
55:12
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it is.
55:14
[SPEAKER_00]: Tell me your thoughts on Oak Hill.
55:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, not able to watch the film of this game, but following the x-thread of the Coca-Cola Trubines Elijah Poe, it seems that it really came down to outstanding offensive game plan, play calling, and execution by Bite Osmond.
55:31
[SPEAKER_02]: They were
55:37
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it makes sense to pass when they have more of a pocket passing quarterback and jet, he's a pretty good one at that, not say he can't run the Ysneaky mobile, but six complete numbers for 113 yards.
55:52
[SPEAKER_02]: But shout out to the O kill offensive line because not only could opt pass efficiently, but Dylan Archer wouldn't have all these stats every week.
56:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean,
56:07
[SPEAKER_02]: as the underdogs go and do it as the underdogs ask for cash their defense hit up over 500 yards of offense like just mentioned was down essentially the entire game they still had 47 carries to five pass attempts just running the clock out is for them because they refused to adjust the times it
56:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they were eight and four last year brought back almost everyone plays a ton of seniors goes eight and four again with those championships like He just need to be better than this especially because they already had Eastern Antipton's fall on their face when it mattered the most for them So
56:47
[SPEAKER_00]: I did pick O'Kill to win that game.
56:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, I'd seen Lewis Cass, I'd seen that defense.
56:53
[SPEAKER_00]: It just wasn't good enough.
56:55
[SPEAKER_00]: And O'Kill's, not a great team, but they're a good team who can do things against you when your defense isn't good enough.
57:05
[SPEAKER_00]: And now you're genius.
57:07
[SPEAKER_00]: And now I'm a genius, although I also made a couple of picks that were really bad, so.
57:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we all.
57:18
[SPEAKER_00]: Alright, so we moved to class A, and I think the story there is Cinderella Clinton Prairie, and man, what a wild game.
57:28
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, Central Catholic got the ball first, went down and scored in about two minutes, then Prairie scored after converting on a couple of fourth and longs, capped off by Gage Kuzmix hitting Jackson Price in the corner of the end zone on fourth and goal.
57:49
[SPEAKER_02]: But that's why they call it a game of inches, right?
57:51
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
57:53
[SPEAKER_02]: LCC then went down and scored again who were getting an intersection on the ensuing drive.
57:59
[SPEAKER_02]: That touched down by Prairie.
58:00
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel is going to be rather over-looked by the inevitable play of the week contender coming up.
58:07
[SPEAKER_02]: And it should have a bigger emphasis considering the deficit at this point.
58:14
[SPEAKER_02]: late in the second quarter, the nights were moving for Andrew Staples and was stripped by Carson Neil and Ryder Mitchell returned 55 yards for a touchdown, 20 to 14 Clinton Prairie was up and half.
58:29
[SPEAKER_02]: After a stop, LCC drove the length of the field and then Jackson Price takes an intersection back for a 99 yard touchdowns for what I'll go on a win
58:43
[SPEAKER_02]: and the history of Quentin Perry football.
58:45
[SPEAKER_02]: It's got to be the biggest, right?
58:47
[SPEAKER_02]: It has to be, yeah.
58:52
[SPEAKER_02]: So, forever go for a war.
58:54
[SPEAKER_02]: The nights don't panic, they go down and score, get a stop.
58:57
[SPEAKER_02]: But in Quentin Perry makes a winning play by punching it, 62 yards.
59:04
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
59:05
[SPEAKER_02]: You know who Quentin Perry's punter is?
59:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't.
59:11
[SPEAKER_02]: Nice and he puns left footed, but his right hand in quarterback to leave it or not.
59:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, God.
59:19
[SPEAKER_02]: And well, yes, central calf like move the ball most of the field.
59:24
[SPEAKER_02]: It's kind of hard to score on a defense like this when you got to go 80 to yards.
59:29
[SPEAKER_02]: So following a pick LCC fumbles it inside the 30 else you get to sack that would have made it.
59:34
[SPEAKER_02]: 326, but then gets called for a
59:39
[SPEAKER_02]: and on sportsmen like on coach Brian Ney, the defense makes it third and long again and Brian Ney gets called for another on sportsmen like on duck hating them another first down which gets him ejected and hands suspended the start next season, even though they were still in this game and Prairie was just able to keep away of the rest of them, they were able to play keep away of the rest of the game.
1:00:05
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like logos for it.
1:00:07
[SPEAKER_02]: They beat themselves and they cost themselves a championship.
1:00:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was a fun fun when to watch those fun watching Clinton burry do that.
1:00:16
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it really was.
1:00:18
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, first for a lot with this lost, a lot of it, so it's a little cappicle officially be anyway with when these sophomores are seniors.
1:00:27
[SPEAKER_02]: So if they don't want to stay championship in the next two years, it should be like a fire
1:00:36
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the expectation at Central Catholic.
1:00:38
[SPEAKER_02]: They expect state championships.
1:00:41
[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't think anyone expected it this year, but I think next year that's the expectation and two years from now, that's definitely the expectation.
1:00:50
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, if they don't, in the next two years, it's a fire in the coach type of things though.
1:00:56
[SPEAKER_01]: The features still bright at Central Catholic, even with Brian Nays suspended to start next season, and they have a lost actor motivate them
1:01:05
[SPEAKER_02]: And as for Clinton Prairie, yeah, they are, this year's, I would say, Cinderella, when to say yeah, can they beat North Judson?
1:01:15
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they might be able to.
1:01:17
[SPEAKER_00]: The way they play, they can probably stay in a game against anybody.
1:01:23
[SPEAKER_00]: North Judson certainly isn't unbeatable after we saw what happened against Pioneer.
1:01:28
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm probably not going to
1:01:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I feel like all their kids brains are a whirlwind because that's their first in school history right now.
1:01:41
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
1:01:43
[SPEAKER_02]: And like I said, it was so kind of out of nowhere.
1:01:46
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, last year that was in Gola.
1:01:49
[SPEAKER_02]: The year before I would argue Taylor, but most would probably say Southmont because they benched as semi-state.
1:01:55
[SPEAKER_02]: If I remember correctly.
1:01:56
[SPEAKER_00]: But Taylor was a big surprise.
1:01:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, I could tell.
1:02:00
[SPEAKER_02]: That, I can tell you all about how that happened, but that's a story for another time.
1:02:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'll tell you the number one reason I happened is like two or three incredible athletes.
1:02:11
[SPEAKER_00]: Incredible athletes.
1:02:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I reminisce all the time.
1:02:15
[SPEAKER_02]: A bet.
1:02:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Gage, queues, mixing, Jackson, Price, will certainly be forever highlighted.
1:02:21
[SPEAKER_02]: But one guy I think I was a huge part in the wind that won't be
1:02:26
[SPEAKER_02]: get talked about and much is Mason Ingraham.
1:02:30
[SPEAKER_02]: He was good at right tackle, but he was particularly good at defensive end.
1:02:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you remember, but there was that one drive where he ended pretty much on his own.
1:02:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
1:02:39
[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't that the tackle for central Catholicers didn't do anything rotten or bad.
1:02:43
[SPEAKER_02]: He was just that much of a force.
1:02:47
[SPEAKER_02]: And this also was the year that if prayer
1:02:53
[SPEAKER_02]: because they've got a big senior clash, so it was kind of like now or never.
1:03:01
[SPEAKER_00]: Matt, thank you so much.
1:03:02
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of fun.
1:03:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's do it again next week.
1:03:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
1:03:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Incredible athletes.
1:03:08
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, I reminisce all the time.
1:03:12
[SPEAKER_02]: I bet.
1:03:13
[SPEAKER_02]: Gage, queues, victims, and Jackson Price will certainly be forever highlighted, but one guy I think
1:03:22
[SPEAKER_02]: get talked about and much is Mason Ingraham.
1:03:26
[SPEAKER_02]: He was good at right tackle, but he was particularly good at defensive end.
1:03:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you remember, but there was that one drive where he ended pretty much on his own.
1:03:34
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
1:03:35
[SPEAKER_02]: It wasn't that the tackle for Central Catholic didn't do anything rotten or bad.
1:03:40
[SPEAKER_02]: He was just that much of a force.
1:03:43
[SPEAKER_02]: And this also was the year that if prayer
1:03:49
[SPEAKER_02]: because they've got a big senior class so it was kind of like, now we're never.
1:03:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Matt, thank you so much.
1:03:58
[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of fun.
1:03:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's do it again next week.
1:04:00
[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
1:04:02
[SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much to Matt.
1:04:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Please stay tuned for Monsi Star Press Sports Editor Kate Hampton.
1:04:07
[SPEAKER_00]: Talking about that Monsi Central Logan sport, thriller on Friday night.
1:04:13
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, Kate Hampton, Star Press Sports Editor, and now with me, and Kate, that was his wild and emotional as it gets.
1:04:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, musky central takes down Yorktown and then Logan's port probably the two favorites to win the sexual and they actually really took it to Logan's port, particularly late in that game.
1:04:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I thought that was one of the most emotional and gritty wins I've seen in a long time for a sexual championship.
1:04:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely agree with you on that front.
1:04:45
[SPEAKER_01]: The grit and the heart that that monthly central team showed and that in both of those games really, the Yorktown game and the sectional championship, I mean, you can tell just how badly those kids wanted that and wanted to make some history with monthly centrals for sectional title in 20 years and they, you know, they sure did it.
1:05:04
[SPEAKER_01]: They pulled off two great wins, you know, things didn't always go their way.
1:05:12
[SPEAKER_01]: made their fair share of, you know, not so great plays, but at the end of the day, you know, big-time players make big-time plays.
1:05:19
[SPEAKER_01]: And Mussy Central has a lot of big-time players.
1:05:22
[SPEAKER_01]: And they made enough big-time plays to kind of overcome those setbacks they had and pull off both of those wins and really thrilling, dramatic fashion.
1:05:31
[SPEAKER_01]: And then just the release after they got that game-clinching interception and started celebrating on the field was unlike anything I've ever seen.
1:05:42
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was particularly on defense.
1:05:44
[SPEAKER_00]: I was at six, six takeaways, including the game, clinching play.
1:05:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they had six total takeaways, three fumble recoveries and three interceptions.
1:05:53
[SPEAKER_01]: It was a very, very big time for the defense to get some of those takeaways because Logan Sports got a pretty tough defense in their own right.
1:06:01
[SPEAKER_01]: They forced some takeaways.
1:06:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they had two of their own, had a couple of fourth-down stops as well.
1:06:08
[SPEAKER_01]: and for months either just continue recovering fumbles i think i want to say two of the fumbles were stripped and one of them was just a bad hand off on Logan sports part but either way for them to just keep giving the offense chance after chance by force in those turnovers and it was a huge part of that game and a huge reason why they want a huge reason why they were able to to recapture the momentum so many times because there were several times throughout that game it really felt like things were shortened to lean and Logan sports favor
1:06:35
[SPEAKER_01]: And every single time that happened, Munsey Central just came up with another turnover, somebody got another pick and it was like, you know, they're right back in it.
1:06:43
[SPEAKER_01]: And then they were able to capitalize on it every time for the most part.
1:06:48
[SPEAKER_01]: So very, very impressive performance by that defense.
1:06:52
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we knew Kyle Burrish at Mr. Settowall that he was a good coach, but you could watch the game film the last couple weeks and see this team get better and better throughout games.
1:07:01
[SPEAKER_00]: of course the sign of a good coach.
1:07:03
[SPEAKER_00]: Also the sign of players who are willing to listen as well.
1:07:07
[SPEAKER_00]: We've been saying on our show that Monty Central with Kyle Burst, probably a team of 2027, that they probably weren't quite as good as your talent Logan's port that probably next year, but here they are, sectional champions a year ahead of schedule, I think.
1:07:21
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
1:07:22
[SPEAKER_01]: And it certainly was, you know, I mean, even if you look at early in the season, they played Moncie's, or they played Yorktown, and that was a 24 to seven game in Yorktown's favor.
1:07:31
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the second half, that one really got away from Moncie Central.
1:07:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Yorktown's a team that they've had trouble with a big time over the last decade, really.
1:07:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, and obviously, Muncie Central has gotten so much better the last two years, but then they were in the previous decade.
1:07:47
[SPEAKER_01]: But even these last two years when they have shown improvement, they just haven't been able to quite get over that Yorktown hump until last week.
1:07:55
[SPEAKER_01]: So for them to pull that game off in the fashion that they did, another just absolute thriller was a big time for them,
1:08:02
[SPEAKER_01]: Logan's port was a team that beat him in the sectional champ and in the sectional tournament last year.
1:08:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I believe it was the the semi finals.
1:08:09
[SPEAKER_01]: So two teams that were having great seasons that the barricades had been unable to beat in the past and you know, they were certainly I think the underdog mentality certainly played a role.
1:08:22
[SPEAKER_01]: and how they performed, and they were able to kind of capitalize on that, and yeah, just you know, prove everybody wrong and go in both of those games, and it was certainly like I said very impressive how they did it.
1:08:35
[SPEAKER_00]: And they're definitely going to have to prove people wrong this week, because doing or probably the favorite to win the whole thing.
1:08:41
[SPEAKER_01]: very, very tough draw in the in the regional round against the, you know, number one team in, in, for a and the rating state champions.
1:08:49
[SPEAKER_01]: So they certainly have some some postseason experience there that Moncie Central doesn't quite have, but hey, like I said, Moncie Central, they just they've got some big time players you got.
1:09:00
[SPEAKER_01]: Mason Ferguson at quarterback, you've got a really great receiving trio with Kai Hayet, Carlos Eccles Jr. and Doron Montgomery out there and those same guys are some of the biggest playmakers on defense.
1:09:12
[SPEAKER_01]: Montgomery had two of the picks and Eccles had the other pick and one of the four stumbles on defense and Hayet, I don't know these at number, but it's one of the higher interception totals in the area around here as well.
1:09:25
[SPEAKER_01]: Those guys are all three playmakers on that defense as well and you've got Rex Vargas making plays at running back and
1:09:32
[SPEAKER_01]: at linebacker forum and then on that defensive line, I got to shout out Isaiah Amerson and D. Marshall and Climans at the defensive end spots.
1:09:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Those two are just absolute monsters.
1:09:43
[SPEAKER_01]: They're massive human beings there and can really get after the quarterback and one thing they're both really good at is getting their hands up in the air and just swatting passes down.
1:09:52
[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, just so many great playmakers at Muncie Central has and
1:09:58
[SPEAKER_01]: They're all going to have to make some really big plays and be at their best to shock the world and be doing it, though.
1:10:04
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, a couple of years ago, we started talking about the Monty Central Football program was on the way up, even before Coach Burrish showed up.
1:10:13
[SPEAKER_00]: And you could see it, Carlos Ackels was a freshman, you could see they were coming, but to be able to get Coach Burrish into that program was just a home run for them.
1:10:23
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
1:10:23
[SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of the, the cultural shift at, with monthsy central football that really got the program heading in the right direction and some of the, some of the off-field aspects.
1:10:33
[SPEAKER_01]: I think that really started with Kyle Paget.
1:10:36
[SPEAKER_01]: for his three seasons there.
1:10:37
[SPEAKER_01]: And the work he was able to do, you know, yeah, just having the kids head on straight building kind of a culture and making sure they're taking care of business in the classroom as well, things of that nature.
1:10:49
[SPEAKER_01]: But I think with with Boresch coming in, having his proven track record of,
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[SPEAKER_01]: of success at Mr. Sinoa and kind of coming over and really improving things in the exes and owes aspects of the game and making the most of the talent that he has, you know, putting his great playmakers all those guys I mentioned and the best possible position for them to succeed.
1:11:10
[SPEAKER_01]: So it certainly has been a, you know, in my album, they've been here for three years, but when I first got here,
1:11:17
[SPEAKER_01]: the reputation amongst the central football was, you know, not great when I first got here and that was just, you know, just over two years ago.
1:11:25
[SPEAKER_01]: But now it's like to see that turn around to see that ascension happen so quickly.
1:11:29
[SPEAKER_01]: It's been, uh, it's been very, very fun to watch.
1:11:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
1:11:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Can we do me a favor?
1:11:36
[SPEAKER_00]: Come back tomorrow and tell me what you witnessed tonight with the Ball State Cardinals.
1:11:41
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
1:11:42
[SPEAKER_01]: I should have some time for that.
1:11:44
[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, well, it's my first chance to see them in game action.
1:11:47
[SPEAKER_01]: I've watched a little bit here and there.
1:11:48
[SPEAKER_01]: Watch a couple highlights and whatnot, but you know, they're
1:11:53
[SPEAKER_01]: opener.
1:11:53
[SPEAKER_01]: I was covering the women's game here at home and then their home opener was the same night as Moncie Central versus Logan's for it.
1:12:00
[SPEAKER_01]: So, could make it to that, couldn't really watch, but definitely excited to see what they have in store tonight as Coach Capcogo's first career win.
1:12:08
[SPEAKER_00]: And really looking forward to talking about the Ball State women as well should be a good year for them.
1:12:15
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, absolutely tough on for them against a high point this this past Saturday, but they certainly are expected to be one of the top teams in the match once again, and they, you know, have a lot of good returning talent to do it, and as long as Brady saw Lee and his coaching staff are running the show, then I feel pretty good about their chances to compete in that conference for sure.
1:12:35
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much, Kate.
1:12:36
[SPEAKER_00]: I always appreciate it.
1:12:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, Greg.
1:12:38
[SPEAKER_01]: Thanks for having me, man.
1:12:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I appreciate it.
1:12:43
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