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Elwood Sectional Championship Recap with Michelle Garmon (2.193.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to a special edition of the Central Indiana Sports Report, a recap of the Class 2A sectional championship game at Elwood, one by the lapel Bulldogs.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: 77-50-4 over the Sheridan Blackhawks for the program's first sectional championship, since 2018 and the first under Ed Coach Kevin Cherry.
• 0:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: who will be joining me in just a moment with his thoughts on the sectional championship.
• 0:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: After, I speak with Tippedon Tribune and Elwood Colleter Sports Editor, Michelle Garmin, who was at the sectional on Tuesday and Friday and watched the sectional championship game and followed along on Saturday night get her thoughts on the lapel championship and look ahead to the regional against Blackford.
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Michelle this weekend was all about the Bulldogs beat three opponents by a hundred and seven points.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, the the applause just dominant in that section.
• 1:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: We saw all three nights.
• 1:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, granted, I know Frank's injury played into their 30 point loss, but I mean, it might have made that score closer, but I don't think Lapella's going to be beaten in that sectional this year, not the way they came in and not the way they played all three games.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, I'm a friend and grad, I completely agree with you.
• 1:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: This was all about Lepel this week.
• 1:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: It really was.
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_02]: Cal just has so many weapons.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: See, we talked about that before.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: They always have five scores on the floor.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And just threats.
• 1:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: And that means defensively, they could stretch you.
• 1:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they get you overstressed or closing you out too hard.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then that cut you to the basket.
• 1:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're great in transition.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: They apply good pressure defensively they're good.
• 1:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you have the link, then you have the size and athletes to understand that little one three one that they run that one three one can be a really hard decent to solve if you have the link and the athletes and That's kind of what lapel does it'll be interesting because a team like oh kill that has More than one or two guards
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: will make that challenging, um, the know how to handle the ball.
• 2:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, that's that's a ways away if they were to match up.
• 2:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was just still impressed with Lepel.
• 2:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: I was impressed with their balance, but I was really impressed by Owen Garber.
• 2:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we talked about it on Friday night with Coach Sherry that team really is it's about balance and depth and teamwork and team first, but there's no doubt Owen Garber's become in the go-to guy for that team.
• 2:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah, 30 points in Saturday's championship.
• 2:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: None, you know, he'd make a three point shot that game.
• 2:54
  [SPEAKER_02]: Only, and only shot five, three throws I think.
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he was four or five with the line.
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that means 26 of his points came on baskets inside the arc.
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_02]: And some of more layups, I know a couple more on the saw, but that's the mid-range jumper.
• 3:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: Garber has a complete game.
• 3:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think which is what makes him
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: So tough to guard.
• 3:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then you just surround him by guys that really can knock down threes like Devon Craig quarterback on their regional championship football team.
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Um, the cash kid.
• 3:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they got lived Jones and I mean, I think he comes off the bench because he was injured a lot, but he's got slides and he can step out and knock down threes and they just have just so many weapons.
• 3:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, even with Garber at 30 points, they had four guys in double
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, you had cash, had 15 points, Craig had 11, I forgot Liam Cole, it was the guy that got him off to such a great start in 1st quarter of that Franklin game.
• 4:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: Michelle for Sheridan, it was a really good week, had a
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: nice overtime win over Taylor and then really competitive early in the game against lapel but then when lapel exerted its will it was all bulldox.
• 4:15
  [SPEAKER_02]: Chairman, they're win on Friday night was the first time in five years that they'd won a a sectional game.
• 4:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: So that was a big win for them and to get that in overtime.
• 4:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then Saturday, they came out and they were knocking down three's early in that first quarter and we're hanging right with LePel, but then as LePel has done that entire tournament, they just kick it up a notch and once they kick it up a notch, they get past you.
• 4:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean,
• 4:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: give shared and credit because they played even with shared or with lapel in the second quarries team scoring nine points, but after half time, the game totally belonged to lapel, but you got Billy Keller's grandson.
• 4:59
  [SPEAKER_02]: uh... trapege had a really nice game he led the black hogs with twenty three points yet a really nice section on he'll be back next year and then right behind him was uh... and Hamilton read twelve points and then jack's pyramid also was a double figures with ten i
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think after that first quarter for the most part lapel that especially in the second half did a nice job of making it hard for page to get clean looks what they did was they also did a nice job of not letting the Hamilton get hot.
• 5:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought in that Taylor game there was a stretch there where Taylor could have really.
• 5:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: And when they were up like 10, the second quarter, they could have really opened it up, hadn't Hamilton, not gotten loose because Art, gotten loose and hit some critical shots for them.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, I said, Sheridan had finished off for a tremendous season, but Lapelle is moving on.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_02]: Like you said, they're gonna get blackford in the regional.
• 6:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: They're gonna be played on Bulldog's home court.
• 6:04
  [SPEAKER_02]: Blackford has a sensational guard and leg it.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then a late addition to give them some size in the petro kid and don't forget about Jacob Dylan he's a rebounding machine.
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: So don't forget about him.
• 6:20
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think he's got to be a rebounding machine because I think the key to beating the pile is keeping them off offensive for the boards.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then and you being good on offensive for it so they can't get those rebounds and just get out and run.
• 6:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: They like to get out and move the ball down the court.
• 6:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's like, say, there's a big challenge for Blackford.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think for Blackford, they can use it.
• 6:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it'll be tremendous experience for the Luget kid.
• 6:49
  [SPEAKER_02]: If you turn it into play with that level.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that Pele is definitely the favorite heading into this game, but I can see a path for Blackford to win this for sure, and they'll probably have the best player before, and anytime you have the best player, you have a chance, and I'd probably put it 55-45 lapel.
• 7:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you probably have a higher than that, wouldn't you?
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_02]: I do, I think Black for maybe able to slow it down for just a bit.
• 7:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think they can, they're not going to be able to play at the pace like they did against Wapa Haunting for a complete game against Lepel.
• 7:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, I'll tell you, and like it can, but I'm telling you, I, Garbore just keep some pressing me more and more.
• 7:32
  [SPEAKER_02]: This kid is just getting better and better and, um,
• 7:37
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's just everything he does.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: He does.
• 7:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's not just the scoring.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's the other stuff he does, too.
• 7:42
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's he's really gets a lot of deflections.
• 7:45
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's just stepped up.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Garbers probably their best, but Craig's also had a game where he hit 10 three pointers this year.
• 7:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
• 7:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: So you know, there's just.
• 7:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if no one on the starting five is hot, you go to the bench and you can probably find someone there who can go hot.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's where lapel is kind of coming from.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: The public probably has a little bit more depth than Blackford.
• 8:09
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think they're a legit, seven-deep.
• 8:13
  [SPEAKER_02]: And you know, that's a great rotation when you get to the tournament.
• 8:16
  [SPEAKER_02]: And I think, sophomore lefty that came off and hit some shots.
• 8:21
  [SPEAKER_02]: I think it pressed into a couple minutes in the game.
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_02]: He could handle that.
• 8:25
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it'll be an interesting matchup.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Michelle, can't wait for Saturday night.
• 8:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And for now, here is Lafell had coach Kevin Sherry with his thoughts on the Bulldog Sectional Championship.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much, Michelle.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you, Greg.
• 8:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, coach, you came into this sectional as the favorites.
• 8:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think everybody fell on our preview of the Everybody Pickle Appell.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: But you still had to go out there and win the games.
• 8:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was not an easy path.
• 8:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think your team probably could have played much better this week.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: We turned in three solid performances and coming into that sectional, and one and done environment.
• 9:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: There is a little more pressure, I guess, in that you make a mistake or an injury or multiple injuries or foul trouble shots don't go on any given night.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Never know what can happen in the sectional environment and they call it marks madness for a reason.
• 9:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: But I really felt coming into this thing that if we could play the way we're capable of and put three games together, we would have a great chance of winning that.
• 9:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: really proud of our guys for doing that.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Coach, I know you're super excited for your players and for your coaches in your town.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: I actually this the other night because I was there last year when you'd lost.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: How much of it is really if and how much of it is joy?
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: At the tremendous amount of joy.
• 9:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's joy and relief.
• 9:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's relief in our guys have worked so hard.
• 9:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm happy for them that they get the reward
• 9:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: You know, success isn't a guarantee.
• 10:01
  [SPEAKER_01]: You can work as hard as you possibly can work.
• 10:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: And that that still doesn't guarantee success.
• 10:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: And for our guys to put in the work that they have and to get the payoff in success in that, in this way it's measured by winning a sexual championship, really grateful and happy for our guys.
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: But along those same lines and not to get too deep, but we don't, we talk about as a team or as a program
• 10:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: And we don't ever want to be just about wins and losses.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think if you approach it that way, sometimes you miss the bigger picture, what you're trying to accomplish, we want to stay processed driven, data driven, being great teammates, being on selfish, all those things, and then the Lyme uses the scoreboard will reward maturity.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: And fortunately, that happened three times this week.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: When you saw the draw, it was Franklin immediately probably throughout the year, the second best team in the sectional.
• 10:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: As it turned out, that might have been a good thing, getting some confidence, beating your rivals like that, kind of look like it propelled you forward.
• 11:06
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Franklin lapel arrival radius is certainly one of those that value produced Duke North Carolina.
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's UCLA, you see, you throw all the records out when those kind of games come along and you expect a great
• 11:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: As I mentioned earlier, Brent does a really good job in an outstanding program, a coach that's one of the state championship, one of a ton of games, and unfortunately for them, the injury bug hit them late in the season, and you know, I have to think that played into a little bit, but at the same time I don't want to take anything away from our guys because I thought we played really well in that game too, despite them being banged up a little bit, I think on that specific night, you know, it's a game that
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: We still put ourselves in a great chance to win all thing out.
• 11:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Everything else being equal.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think one of the most impressive things was as a coach you saw some what you felt slow starts, but your team just kind of took it to the other team and imposed your will each night.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: That was probably the most impressive part.
• 12:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that was for I agree with you on that.
• 12:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: The actually to start at the LW game, I thought LW did as good a job as controlling the first three or four minutes of that game with the
• 12:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: and slow it down and really minimize possessions, but ultimately we were able to speed them up and get that taken care of.
• 12:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, you're right.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the start of each one of those games for the most part was really good.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: We had some turnovers in that frankden, leaving the lapel and then was shared in last night.
• 12:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: A few turnovers early that I think we just being in that moment and being 16, 17, 18 years old and that kind of atmosphere
• 12:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Some of that is to be expected.
• 12:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: But once we settled down and each one of those games, I thought we did a good job of taking care of the basketball.
• 12:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought we did a good job of really staying in the moment and not going to head of ourselves.
• 12:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: Team and nature are guys new that we're probably the favorite coming into that thing.
• 13:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: But human nature sometimes get back and that could be a curse in some ways.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I thought our guys did a really good job of stepping up and meeting that challenge each and every night last week.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll coach on Friday night.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: We talked about Owen Garber kind of becoming your go-to score, even though you pride yourself on balance and team and left night he really showed that.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Owen's playing really well, really high level and he has for most of the season, really all season and he does, he does some, he moves without the basketball as well as anybody I've coached, he seems to always be in the right spot the right time, he anticipates.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: He rebounds that he just has a knack of reading that ball and kind of get an idea where's going to come off the room Really happy with with the way he's played and he does it all within I'm going to say within the game what I mean is it's not like he's pressing or he's trying to go out and get 30 shots So he can score four you know score 25 points.
• 13:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's he's very efficient And he's he'll score in transition, but he also was shooting a three at a pretty decent level the section where he could has done so all year So happy with with his play for sure right now
• 14:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Coach, I hope to talk to you later in the week for a regional preview, but your thoughts on Blackford and playing a home will happen to be playing at home.
• 14:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: At this morning, we went to breakfast, we did church, and then this afternoon, I'm going to be watching film and getting ready on Blackford.
• 14:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know they obviously have a really good talent in the sophomore, a really good record.
• 14:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: We have some common opponents, so that'll give us an idea of, you know, just score wise,
• 14:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Fortunately, we're hosting that, so I think that's a nice thing to have, but again, at this point in the season, all the teams are worthy of being there, all the teams are playing well, and we'll have to play play great to be able to advance in this tournament coming next Saturday.
• 14:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: LePel had coach Kevin Cherry, thank you so much for your time, look forward to talking to you later in the week.
• 15:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks again to Coach Cherry and Michelle for joining me all week had a lot of fun watching basketball with her throughout the week and thanks so much to Elwood and Head Coach and Athletic Director Ryan VanSkyak for being so welcoming and to Frankton Head Coach and Athletic Director Brent Robston for both of them for all they've done all year.
• 15:24
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• 15:27
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• 15:31
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• 15:46
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