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Week 8 Recap: Boone County Recap + Sectional Draw Reaction with Will Willems (The HS Football Report, 3.77.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to the Central Indiana Sports Reports week eight recap of the high school football season in Central Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Boone County edition with the Lebanon Reporters Sports Editor Will Willows.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome high school football fans to the central Indian sports report for this week's week eight high school football recap.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our recap of central Indian high school football here on the high school football report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host, Greg Mengal, and in this segment, I'm joined by Will Williams of the Lebanon reporter who's going to talk some Western boon, Zion'sville, and Lebanon football.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Before we get to that, let me tell you what else we have going on, on the high school football report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have podcasts already out on Delaware County football, including Yorktown's emotional night at Pendleton, Muncie Central's upcoming showdown with Lafayette Jeff,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: for the NCC and West Del remaining unbeaten.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I talked to Michelle Garmin of the Tipton Tribune and Elwood Collider who covered Elwood Frankton and has some thoughts on Tipton West Lafayette and the sexual draw for those teams.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'd spoke to Grant Shouse of the Action Sports Network.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who talked about McConaughey winning the three Revers Conference, Mrs. Sinowall, taking the CIC and a classic between East Brook
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and coming up later Tuesday or probably most likely early Wednesday are complete week eight recap every game in Central Indiana with stats and highlights.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Also we have our week eight honors are play player coach win and teams of the week plus are week eight powerful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Will Williams of the 11 and a recorder for joining me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here is our conversation on Week 8 in Boone County.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Three and out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome high school football fans to the Central Indian Esports Report for our week eight recap with Will Williams of the Lebanon reporter, who's
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  [SPEAKER_00]: teams are playing really well, exciting times over in Boone County and high school football, Zion'sville, huge 33-13 win over Avan, Western Boone, Beat Norse Platinum to set up a big showdown with Cascade for the conference championship on Friday, Lebanon won easily there playing well, heading into the postseason well, and things like things are going well with your programs right now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: really good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's always a good thing when all three of your county teams that you cover are victorious on Friday night that makes a lot of happy kids and a lot of happy coaches.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, there are some exciting things going on as we hit the final week of the regular season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think you had to say Zyansville came into the game against Aivan is probably the underdog.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were at lock four years in a row to Aivan and Aivan considered one of the top 10 teams in the state and Zyansville had no problem.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Aivan said their number over the last several seasons.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think this was only Zyansville's second win.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It may be the last eight or nine games against Aivan.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: not been very victorious in that matchup.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But I mean, they were a really confident coming in.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They had only lost a Westfield and Brownsburg who are probably the two top teams in the state of Indiana this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And a Zionist will felt like they were the third best team in the conference.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And they were kind of ready to show it on Friday night a really strong game from Finn Giles who has really gotten better throughout the entire season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: really moving the ball around to all of his receivers.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think Friday night was probably his best performance to date.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, they rolled in the first half, build a big lead and then let Avon back into it in the second half.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about the sectional draws coming up here in a minute, but Zion's will.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: got the best team in the entire state, but it looks like they could if they hold serve on Friday night go into the sexual at seven to their best record a long time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And let's not forget most of this team, particularly the skill players are under classmen.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, already the six wins that they have in the regular season is their most regular
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're just looking to add on to that if they can get a seventh win against fishers on Friday night, who while winless has a lot has a really good passing attack led by a freshman quarterback who's really talented in a Roman whistle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So they'll have to be ready for that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's kind of that weird week where Zion Jills on winter or a fall break.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So not many students
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  [SPEAKER_01]: kind of thing, but yeah, they're looking to get some momentum heading into the section hole and hoping to end the regular season out on the right foot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And they open the sectional against Brownsburg in a few weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's the bad news.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The good news is if you can find a way to beat Brownsburg, you're suddenly the favorites to win that sectional.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And all honesty, I mean, in a six A sectional where there's only four teams in it, like you're going to, you knew that you were going to have to play Brownsburg sooner rather
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  [SPEAKER_01]: At some point in the next the first two weeks of the sectional play in order, they was just going to happen.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So you might as well play them first, just kind of get it over with and just kind of see where you stack up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They played them a couple weeks ago, didn't go their way.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Brownsburg showed by their number one team in the state with a 38 to 3 win.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But now they have some film on it and they'll kind of work to see what they can.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: correct, and if they can get any better, and weird things have always happened in the postseason, so yeah, it'll be an underdog going into that Brownsburg game, but strange are things have happened.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And you talked about Finn Giles, CEO shot, of course, as good as any tie to it, and there is in Indiana, and Nick Hoggs has been really been playing well of late, and they're getting some good production out of their running game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Another potential division one player.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's that kind of talent.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And he's really come along really well over these last few next head to really nice game against Avon, really coming through.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And there are other titans that have been playing well as well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously teams are going to really kind of try to focus on stopping Theo shot in the passing game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And to see does have that name recognition.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And he has been producing all year long.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're finding ways to contribute and Spencer Choi.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's been kind of an up and down year for him at running back a production wise, but he has a nice game on Friday and he's very capable running back to two.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So if they can get somewhere around 70, 80 yards rushing from him and then their path in attack has been really good, like that's gonna kind of their recipe for success.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: six wins in a row just like last year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I talked to you earlier in the year and you said your expectations would they would be oh and two and then win six games in a row and set up a conference championship with cascade that's exactly what's happened.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this year will Western boons and a lot better shape to be competitive with cascade if not win this one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They feel a lot better about how they kind of match up with cascade compared to last year
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  [SPEAKER_01]: of the cascade still a very good team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're running a tech with Timothy Turner and Lucas Farmer.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're both averaging about 100 yards.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think they've only lost one game this regular season to an undefeated Danville team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're obviously still very talented, but they don't have quite as many weapons as they have did have last year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And Western Boons playing better.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They had a lot of underclassmen last year
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  [SPEAKER_01]: varsity football, and they've done a really good job this year of kind of taking that next step.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They've, Westerners kind of figured out their quarterback rotation with Quidd and Lester Feld and Carson nicely.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They both still play, but they have, they both are feeling a little bit better about their roles, kind of in that combo, quarterback room.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Jack Mallory is one of the better running small school running backs in central Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's having a fantastic year, and he's putting up really good numbers for, especially given
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  [SPEAKER_01]: he hasn't played in the second half of a lot of these conference games because Western booners kind of really built leads and gotten some running clocks so they haven't been playing as much in the second half.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And their passing attack is really common along to Nate Thompson, both Sawyer, Alex Villascaz.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're kind of showing that they have some big play capability and they don't throw it often, but they're throwing it in an authentic, they where teams can't just hone in on the run,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: last year, and that's one Western Booth's offense is the most effective when they can throw it, maybe 11, anywhere between 10 and 15 times a game, and you could hit some 20 to 30 yard chunks in those passing plays.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to open up everything for you, and the running attack has been really the benefit of that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, when you watch their games, you can tell how much better they are than last year, and then you look at the results.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They lost last year
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They struggled it late in the season to beat North Putnam this year, 10, 10, and 35 points in a row, no comparison the last year's team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Last Friday's game against North Putnam was one of those kind of like crazy high school games where it was really competitive for into the third quarter, Western Boona shot themselves in the foot a couple times in the first half and probably felt like they should be up by a little bit more, but
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're only up 10, 7 at half time and then North Putnam kicks a field goal to tie it to 10, 10.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then all of a sudden, there was one of those things that it's 10, 10 next time you look up at the scoreboard, it's 45 to 10, where they right after West North Putnam tied it, Western Boom, scored 40 seconds later on the 50 yard, touchdown run, got a 3 and out, another quick scoring drive, and then their defense score two touchdowns within the next
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's blowout territory.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So they're playing really good complimentary football.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The defense was maybe the biggest question mark early in the season for Western boom.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And they've really kind of gained some momentum here at the tail end of the year and granted Frank Frankfurt and South Monarch, the most difficult teams that you're going to be playing all year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But there's still finding ways to shut them out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the most impressive thing is that they were up big and half time in those games.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: defense playing against the starting offenses of those teams and they kept the shut out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that really boads well for just kind of the culture of the team and how they're playing for one another, really building off that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And it should be a fun night on Friday, down at Cascade, playing for the Mone On Athletic Conference title and really kind of give Western Boona good measuring stick of where they really are heading into the 3A sectional.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And unlike Zion'sville, Western Moon got a really good sectional draw.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have to be the favorite to come out of the top half of their sectional with seven and one Purdue Polly, who's a decent first round opponent, but they should win that one.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then Washington and North Montgomery should win that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then of course you would most likely match up with Tri West again and get a chance to avenge one of your two losses.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Purdue Polymatch is going to be a really interesting one that first week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not, I mean, obviously not a team that Wester Moon has ever played before.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And they don't really play very many common opponents.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's kind of, and I looking last night after the drop, Purdue Polymatch doesn't even have stats on Mac for ups or anything like that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it'll be an interesting test next week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just trying to figure that out what Purdue Polymatch does as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I do know they're called the techies.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I do know that I did see that and obviously you see the results and they've had some really good results this year, beating some good team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So that's the game that Western Boom can't overlook them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They would be the favorite then against North Montgomery or George Washington.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, I think they always knew that at some point in the sectional, if they were going to win a sectional title, they were going to have to be tri West.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And they did some good things the first week of the year against them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: at some things that they definitely needed to correct and the one thing about Western Boone is they usually improve as the season has gone on so they're going to be a different football team than they were a week one and they're just hoping that they can stay healthy going into that and give it their best shot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then 11 in Limba and Anna little here had three losses before beating a bad
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have a game at Harrison on Friday, a game they should win, and then they open with Danville, a team that beat them a couple weeks ago, but that game was competitive until the end.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, there was a big win for them on Friday, just they hadn't necessarily played poorly in their three losses, especially the last two against McCutcheon and Terrahot South.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They just really kind of shot themselves in the sweat, and they were their own worst
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  [SPEAKER_01]: in those games.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So they really need to come out on seeing your night and get away.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And they did, they blitz, Tara Houghton, or got up 35, nothing early in the third quarter of the way that they should.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we're able to kind of cruise from there, Paris, and on paper, it's a six-day opponent.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's, and you know, that they're going to be a tough test to just kind of some matchup white.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But they've been struggling this year and on paper, I think Levin
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think, yeah, it wasn't the easiest draw for them in a really competitive section.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But they at least give up to a familiar opponent and Danville.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So they know what Danville is going to do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Danville will know what they're going to do.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And yeah, they had some opportunities in that game, in the regular season about a month ago, that they could have done some things a little bit better.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But Danville really controlled the line of scrimmage on that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: night and that really had some methodical drives that they cashed off with touch gowns and so big key for Lebanon going into that game is they're going to have to get Danville's offense off the field.
• 15:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: They can't give up these 12, 15 play drives that does bleed a lot of clock because Lebanon's more of a fast strike offense and it's going to be a long night if they you keep the Lebanon offense off the field.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we'll join me later on in the year to talk about some postseason, and, but well, football is not the only thing going on in your world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I remember being a sports editor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This was a really busy time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What's going on at the Levin and reporter sports section?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Or slowly kind of winding down some things in this box.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We had a champion in Zion,
• 16:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can really make much make the case and I don't know if anyone could really have a case against it that they are the best team ever to come girls golf team ever to come through Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No doubt.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That's a really a dominant year where in the postseason they average an under par score as a team and Taylor snively your three time individual medalist at state average a 68 for the year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: with more around 66 and lower than in the 70s this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So just a phenomenal golf team and really enjoyed covering that over the last couple of months.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And unfortunately, saw all six of our soccer teams get eliminated in sectional play last week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Some really good seasons there, but now kind of getting ready for some cross on tree sectionals on Saturday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a really good draw for the volleyball teams coming through none of them are quite going to be the favorites but really the team that I'm kind of looking forward to seeing on Saturday night is Levin and they're going for going to be going for their first volleyball sectional title ever and they get a rematch with the very talented Tri West team who beat them in the regular season but Levin and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: won the first two sets and had three match points in the third set for the regular season that got reversed.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So they've kind of had that circled on their calendars since that match.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They've been playing really well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're a very senior laid-in group who's kind of ready to take that next step and it should be a fun night on Saturday night watching those teams go and compete against each other at Crawford Hill.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Will Willems, let everybody know how they can find your work at the 11th or 14th.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, our website is reporter.net where we post stories and kind of info every single day on there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can follow me at Will Under Score, Willems on X and Will Dove 88 on Instagram.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're going to start trying to post some more more stuff on there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So this season goes along.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Always appreciate it, Greg.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And thanks for all you do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you, and also let's not forget, girls basketball season is just around the corner.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's started trying to look at that calendar a little bit, but I'm just trying to get through this fall first before I be taking it once forward at a time right now, but yeah, it's, uh, I know what gosh, you know, probably the first official week of practice isn't really that far away, and I know they start games in early November.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it's just one season on to the next.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much to Will.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for listening the high school football report and the central Indian sports report are products of ITG media.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I love Susie.