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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports ... Co-Host: Michelle Garmon (2.225.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:04
  [UNKNOWN]: Thank you.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Central Indiana Sports Fans to the Central Indiana Sports Report for my new podcast Greg and his friends talk sports.
• 0:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Greg Mengal and every week afternoon, my friends and I are talking about whatever Central Indiana Sports fans are talking about.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Coming up today, Wednesday, April 8, 2026, I'm joined here momentarily by Tipton Tribunal with Colleaders Sports Editor Michelle Garment.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Reds win again in dramatic fashion in Miami.
• 0:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Feaver have made their intentions clear as far as Kelsey Mitchell and Lexi Hulgo and IU Baseball Heatball State.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Before we get to all of that, when I let you know what's going on at the Central Indiana Sport Group port, we released an IU report with my Cutsal and Grant Shows Lake Tuesday night discussing the transfer portal and, of course, some spring football.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If we will also have a Purdue report with Jake Dunn, later today discussing the thing,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We also had a fever report with John Robertson and my upcoming guest in show, Darmin, on Sunday and a paces with report with my Gritch on Monday, I will do that all again this weekend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for joining us, don't forget my friends and I will be back tomorrow.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Michelle.
• 1:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, hello to you too.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh well let's get to it Michelle the uh Minnesota timber wolves clinched a playoff worth Tuesday night with a 1-24-104 winning Indianapolis and with the Jazz and Kings both losing the Pacers match the numbers now one to clinch a bottom three spot for the best odds that's 14% to get the top spot 52.1% to get a top four pick
• 1:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: along with the wizards, and that's in the June 25th.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ethan Thompson scored 17 and Jaris Walker at 11.63 bounds five assists and three steals, but Michelle, everyone just wants this to end, right?
• 2:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think probably some of the best highlights from last night or were the clips of Halibut and taking Middredge up shots before the game.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They had a full house last night, which I just think that's great.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think it's because people understand
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that the Pacers, their record this year doesn't really mean squat, and at this point time, I think if they may actually be going and hoping they're losing you because I think most Pacer fans want to see the Pacers finally get a number one draft pick.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It would be incredible, it would change the future of this franchise for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Pacer's head coach Rick Carl while announced after the game that he will not be in attendance for the next two Pacer's game and Brooklyn on Thursday at home against Philadelphia on Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He'll return for the regular season finale at home against Detroit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He'll be attending an event for his daughter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Lloyd Pierce will act his head coach and he can't do much better for an assistant coach than that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The college basketball transfer portal has gone insane.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Just side miles, Josh Harris, Josh Drake, and Alexa Ristish, all leaving IU.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Cocomot's floored, but Dunga is leaving Kansas, Carmel Sam, Orme, will leave Belmont, Fisher's Jalen Harrison, and Penn's Marcus Burton, are both leaving Notre Dame and Jeffersonville's Tracingleton and Ben Davis's KJ Windham.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: both exiting a Northwestern former IU target John Blackwell is leaving Wisconsin and speaking of IU Michelle Rumors have daring to raise and the Hoosier showing interested in Duke plans for Darren Harris and Wake Forest transferred Jucares, Burton and Harrelson as well along the South Alabama as Adam Olson and apparently a priority walk on Erin Fine will return to
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No other Purdue news so far, the best player I've seen so far in the portal is Oregon's Jackson Shell State and Michelle, this is just crazy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's getting crazier by the year, I saw somewhere where like over half of the men's college basketball, there are like 5,000 and some players eligible to return next year and over 2,000.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: have already put their names in the portal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's got to be stopped.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think you have, you have too many parents and too many coolest agents all out there, their green, they just want to see what their kid can get instead of thinking about long-term future.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're still about an education.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We can make some good money in your three, four years in college, but if you don't have that education, you're also going to be, you might not, that money might not last the long time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: right.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I use them produce women's rosters where completely wrecked by a portal day.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Hoosiers lost two seniors and six players to the portal, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For those, portal transfers were expected.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Noyan and Kathy are the real surprises and assaults week from Sidney Parrish.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And she said, don't let him fool you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's all about the money.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I, you also picked up a player from Iowa State.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Iowa State had like nine players in the portal, including Audit Croix, who's now a rumor do be going headed to Oklahoma.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I think that's a good pickup,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: she is, she's a backup and that I use, that's what she's going to be used for with the talented freshman they have coming in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I look for Terry to pick up one or two more portal players.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Kathy really surprised me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I really thought noyan because she came on at the end.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And some big news at the NAIA level, Warsaw Star, Jocelyn Bricker has changed her commitment from Butler to Indiana Wesleyan, so the Wildcat's future very bright on the women's side and the men's side to be honest with you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We may see more players do what Ricker is doing, start at the NAIA because it is go play.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you do it right, you can go play three years, get a degree, and then if you want, get that experience and plan experience, and you could always transfer if you want to play season of D1.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Instead of
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  [SPEAKER_00]: maybe not languishing on the bench, but Dean Lone or whatever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She wants an education.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think that Warsaw Team was tight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She wants a tight team for college, too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think you'll see some more players do that.
• 6:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: The RedScore twice in the night in Miami on the sacrifice fly by South Stewart and incredible base running by Ellie Daila Cruz.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Daila Cruz took third on South Stewart's fly ball that scored Matt McLean, then scored on Anthony Bender's wild pitch that got about two feet away from the catcher, still scored.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The send the game into extra innings, then in the 10th of RedScore four times for their sixth straight win Michelle, they're now eight and three, their best start since 2011, they're now five and oh on the road.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And for four endings, they could not solve Sandy Alcantre who might be the best picture in baseball right now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And through Abba and the bullpen kept them within striking distance, Abba allowed two runs on six hits and five and a third's innings.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then the bullpen gave up just one hit in four and two third's innings.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Emilio Pagon, who already has four saves this year, got to win Michelle, you believe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I do believe I've watched the 9th and the 10th innings and this red steam is just they're finding ways they're confident right now by winning and if they can stay healthy I really think they can make some noise especially if their arms can stay healthy because they're going to get too back when Lodolo comes back who's just doing a blister.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That'll bolster the staff and then 100g comes back this summer and hopefully he has a strong fresh arm for down the stretch which would be really great for the reds.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're pitching.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The bullpen I think is what's really surprised me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We knew they had good set up and closer but these middle guys have been.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Franco has been really good for them.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I had no idea Ashcraft could grow like this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The best thing they did I think
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Was make him a reliever?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's got clothes or stuff for sure.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Game three of the series is this evening at 640 with the series finale Thursday at noon before the angels come to town for a weekend series.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A VR Assad allowed just one hit in five and two thursdays and helped the cubs beat Tampa nine to two.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We say ballasteros and Pete Croarm strong both homer to end the win.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Paul schemes pitched the pirates to a 7-1 win over San Diego and the Cardinals beat the national set.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: And Milwaukee lost and Boston putting the reds and brewers at top of the division at 8-and-3.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Michelle only the 8-and-2 Yankees and 9-and-2 Dodgers who've taken the first two games of the World Series Rematch in Toronto have better records than the red so far.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's crazy to think, isn't it?
• 9:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think Tito is a good manager and I know a lot of Reds fans out of Fire Tito last year because they expected more.
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: They had a lot of youth last year and then they had guys coming off injuries and guys on injuries.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Too many people are too impatient today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I thought, hey, he got him to the playoffs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, without any hitting last year, the hitting was so bad they still got there.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: I thought he did a great job.
• 9:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Indiana fever extended a core qualifying offer to 2025 MVP finalist Kelsey Mitchell and extended a qualifying offer to restricted free agent Lexi Hall, both are expected to stay in Indy long term training camp opens a week from Sunday, the WMBA draft is this Monday and Michelle and I will be joined by John Robertson for a fever report this weekend.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We also broke down the expansion draft on the fever report last Sunday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Go check that out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: expected but good moves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I think they were going to core Kelsey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think they also want to reward her for her loyalty.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so by coreing her, she's available for that supermax contract, for at least one year, but they also don't have to do it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They can also negotiate a multi-year contract.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But I do really think they want to give Kelsey some love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe when they negotiate, they'll sign up for supermax and then they'll work on a multi-year deal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's almost like Kelsey, Alia, and Caitlyn are going to have to kind of come together and decide, are they willing to take less to win than everybody gets super max deals?
• 10:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think Caitlyn will be because the money she makes off the basketball court is more than she makes on the basketball court.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think she's fine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think Alia will also take
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  [SPEAKER_00]: less to be better because she's also got some outside interest and outside income.
• 11:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: Are you baseball overcame a four nothing deficit after the half inning to beat ball state six to four Tuesday, the Hoosier scored four times in the bottom of the first tie the game, then no more runs until the seventh when Jake Hanley scored on an air and will more drove in land and fry with the go ahead runs.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Are you now 13 and 19 and goes to Maryland to face the Terrapins Friday Saturday and Sunday, ball state 15 and 16 and host Manchester at four today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good win for IU, I know IU, a lot of fans are upset because I think they've not played as well and probably not.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: They developed good hitters, but I was having a discussion with another IU alum and somebody that follows them a lot and a lot of things and we were also talking about the NIM and IU, their spring sports are good softball and baseball, but there's not big time in IL money there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that draws in pitching.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, good wind for you last night, uh, all right, Michelle some local news and notes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The indie stars named Mount Vernon's Lucurtle, Lawrence, Norse Burn and Miller, Northridge's Brady Shoal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Crown points to Kim Bay Shaw and Plainfields know a Smith, the finalist for 2026 Indiana, Mr. Basketball and Michelle, it's going to be this gonna be Lucurtle.
• 12:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: I set up a four of the season I said during the season, I'm gonna say it again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Lucurtle is gonna be Mr. Basketball.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the kid just he just wins.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I love his demeanor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's focused on the game, but he's just so even killed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Which makes him great with his teeth, which makes him great.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As I think that's why his teammates really love him so much.
• 12:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: Matt Painters got himself a gem coming to Purdue next fall.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's kind of like a Braggingsmith and a Fletcher lawyer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's a kid that will stay at Purdue for four years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Unless something would happen in painer would move on.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't you dare say that, wow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, or something would happen and you'd have to quit or something.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You'd have to resign or something.
• 13:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, guys, I think hurdles before you're player for Purdue.
• 13:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Bethel's men's basketball head coach Steve Draben will be the new head coach at Mariam and Brownsburg star Brandon Sharp probably the best wide receiver in Indiana about to be a senior as narrowed his college list to Indiana Purdue Cincinnati and Vanderbilt according to Kyle Nettenrit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sharp has been making some unofficial visits down that Bloomington and you'll be making an unofficial win.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: getting those four schools and I'm sure that uh it's always nice when you have uh you see the two to the state schools in the near and Purdue on that final four list out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, I'm biased that I think if I'm looking at a school I don't know why I would not if Coach Agnetti's going off from me I do not know why I would not want to go play it in the near.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He could go to Purdue and play right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And he could lose every game or lose.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, stop it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Our only win for each time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a kid who's used to winning and winning championships.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's probably not going to happen if we're due for a while.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So next year, Michelle, here's what's coming up Wednesday, April 8th, 2026, the Cubs and Rays at 410, the Reds and Marlins at 640.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And McKinna Alexander and the Butler Bulldogs are at IU for a 6pm softball game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, McKinna Alexander, a Frinkton star, off to an incredible star.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, she's still batting over 500 on the season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And she's got a lot of teammates that are doing well too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is going to be an interesting matchup.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I went there two years ago when McKinna was a freshman up Butler to watch IU at Butler.
• 14:59
  [SPEAKER_00]: Game in opportunity to take some photos, watch McKinna, and it gave me an opportunity to see the Hoosiers in person,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're really good softball players and, you know, every Parker did a nice job.
• 15:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: I believe every Parker and McKinna Alexander have been travel ball teammates before, so they're both having sensational years for their teams.
• 15:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Every Parker is a catcher from Westfield High School that is a senior at IU, so
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Being a, it should be a good gate.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Butler will get an opportunity to see kind of where they are.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And when it comes to, you know, the big yeast doesn't have powerhouse softball teams.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So the big tear has a good soft conference.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just, you know, not quite as good as the sea, but good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So this will be a good test for Butler.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much, Michelle, always appreciated.
• 15:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope you'll join me tomorrow and talk about Butler I use softball, and I believe we will have a master's preview for you, we're working on it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that sounds good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: the Central Indian Esports Report is a product of ITG media, and I love Susie.