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STATE SEMIFINAL REVIEW: St. Louis goes 0-for-6 in Classes 4-6, Lift For Life & St. Pius X Statebound, IHSA Classes 5-8 Titles Snowed In · Gateway Sports Venue Show

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back after a week's absence of the Gateway Sports
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Venue show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm John Huff joined by Roman Bishop.
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  Speaker 1: Good to be back talking high school sports with you
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  Speaker 1: here as we review the semi final games in the
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  Speaker 1: entire area, and notice we did not include any state games,
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  Speaker 1: which we will talk about on the Illinois side. We
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  Speaker 1: were able to see get all of our semi final
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  Speaker 1: games on the Missouri side out of the way on
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  Speaker 1: schedule as those teams will prepare for the state championships
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  Speaker 1: next week at Saint Joseph Missouri Western University. And we
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  Speaker 1: had some pretty good games this week, Roman, but ultimately
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  Speaker 1: fairly disappointing as far as the certain teams who won
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  Speaker 1: and the lack of representation we're.
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  Speaker 2: Going to get in the state championship. So sometimes that's
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  Speaker 2: how things fall.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get into it. I want to apologize for
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  Speaker 3: being out of town. I was on vacation last week,
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  Speaker 3: and of course we can go on vacation. Happens to
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: be the most exciting weekend of football we have so
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  Speaker 3: far in the season, with the huge Jackson over CBC upset,
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  Speaker 3: the Big least somewhat over Liberty upset, Nick to Be
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  Speaker 3: Hailias and then pat Lib being Zumot West. Those were
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  Speaker 3: in Class six, and then the Kirk would shoot out
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  Speaker 3: against Farmington Ritter beating Zumalt North. So there were several
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  Speaker 3: games that we were unable to go over, which you know,
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  Speaker 3: that's all me.
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  Speaker 4: I'll take the all on that one. I was out
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  Speaker 4: of town.
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  Speaker 3: We tried to figure something out, but I didn't get
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  Speaker 3: back in town until Tuesday afternoon. By that time, I
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  Speaker 3: was just too busy with work and it was tough.
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  Speaker 3: So we apologize for not getting an episode out last week.
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  Speaker 3: But sometimes things just get in the way and that's
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  Speaker 3: just how it is.
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  Speaker 1: So just imagine the hundreds, if not thousands, of adults
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  Speaker 1: and players who were looking forward to hearing us talk
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  Speaker 1: about their team winning last week.
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  Speaker 2: Just Roman because of you. You broke some hearts.
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  Speaker 1: From like Pattonville, and I know, I know, I can't
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  Speaker 1: wait to hear this what they have to say about
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  Speaker 1: our game on the Gateway Sports Venue podcast.
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  Speaker 2: But it nope, it is what it is, and we
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  Speaker 2: had to go out of town.
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  Speaker 4: I did you know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, not sorry. I enjoy my vacations. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna apologize about that, but I will apologize for misking
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  Speaker 3: a podcast. I wish there was a way we could
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  Speaker 3: figure that out about that.
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  Speaker 1: Was trying to get one last like you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this we're gonna go down and don't I don't know what.
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  Speaker 2: You were doing, but I know you went down south,
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  Speaker 2: so maybe you're just trying.
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  Speaker 1: To avoid the the the winner cold front coming.
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  Speaker 4: In kind of. Yeah, it was a bit of a
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  Speaker 4: golf trip down in the Tampa area. That's about. It's
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  Speaker 4: a good time, all right, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 3: The game we were at on Friday, Platte County defeats
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  Speaker 3: Kirkwood by a final score of sixty four to thirty five.
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  Speaker 3: And this was kind of back and forth in the
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  Speaker 3: first half, but Platt County was in control really.
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  Speaker 4: The entire game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was really from the start. They came out
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  Speaker 1: with a nice defensive stand.
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  Speaker 4: Early on course to three and out was a big that.
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  Speaker 1: Was and then another a big play. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if it affected the game too much, but Jacob Eebert
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  Speaker 1: got an apparent shoulder injury. He played for pretty much
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the game. He only took a few
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  Speaker 1: plays off, but he definitely did not look a hundred.
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  Speaker 4: Which which was really too bad.
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  Speaker 3: You seeing that happen so quickly was so unfortunate because
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  Speaker 3: you could tell he was he was very hurt, but
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  Speaker 3: also trying to get back in the game because he's
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  Speaker 3: just he's a fighter and that's who he is. He's
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  Speaker 3: gonna fight for his team until the wheels fall off.
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  Speaker 3: And he came back in. But and on defense, I
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  Speaker 3: think he played fine even after the injury. But offensively,
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  Speaker 3: he just it appeared to be his left shoulder, I
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  Speaker 3: think is what it was, his right shoulders, right shoulder.
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  Speaker 3: He just he just couldn't he couldn't position himself to
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  Speaker 3: make it make catches properly, which is tough to do
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  Speaker 3: when your shoulders shot. So there was a there was
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  Speaker 3: actually a pretty open touchdown in the end zone that
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  Speaker 3: he should have caught, but he didn't catch. At that point,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, man, you can't really blame him because his
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  Speaker 3: arm's not working.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he just doesn't. But Jacob doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: He's never really had any drops like that his career,
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  Speaker 1: which is why when that happened, it was excruciating for
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  Speaker 1: a play.
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  Speaker 2: But they were actually they scored on the very next play.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah they did.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, before we talk about kirkle I do
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  Speaker 3: want to give credit to Platte County. They were a
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  Speaker 3: heck of a team and they really attacked this game
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  Speaker 3: unlike how I thought they would, you know, I thought
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  Speaker 3: they would come into this game with Roco Marriott just
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  Speaker 3: lighted it up the passing game to his two main targets,
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  Speaker 3: which are both tight ends Brooks.
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  Speaker 4: Hall and Jack Utz.
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  Speaker 3: But I think combined Hall and Utz had like maybe
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  Speaker 3: two catches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were crazy. I think they were.
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  Speaker 1: Probably their biggest contributions were blocking for Adam Gissler.
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  Speaker 3: Adam Gissler had an insane game the senior running back
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  Speaker 3: for Platte County. His final stat line was unbelievable. He
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  Speaker 3: had twenty three carries for two hundred and thirty three
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  Speaker 3: yards and five touchdowns. Such a completely insane stat line
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  Speaker 3: for the plat County running back. And he's not really
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  Speaker 3: like a bruiser running back or he'll just seek out contact.
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  Speaker 3: He just he's so good at reaching his top speed
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  Speaker 3: so fast. His acceleration is very impressive, and his O
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  Speaker 3: line does a really good job getting the second level and making.
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  Speaker 4: Give locks from them downfield.
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  Speaker 3: And the main target for the Pirates in the air
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  Speaker 3: was Braiden Stevens and Braiden. Stevens had two touchdowns in
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  Speaker 3: the game, and I think he had I think it
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  Speaker 3: was like over one hundred fifty yards or it was
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  Speaker 3: pretty impressive.
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  Speaker 1: He had some other big catches and he's I believe
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  Speaker 1: he's a D one prospect as well. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is a plat count team that's littered with D one
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  Speaker 1: and D two prospects kind of all over the field
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  Speaker 1: for them, especially on the offensive side and you know, defense,
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  Speaker 1: I think they got a handful of guys who are
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  Speaker 1: going to play college football as well, and they they
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of depth. I think they had very
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  Speaker 1: maybe one or two guys who played both ways for them,
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  Speaker 1: so they're they were able to have, you know, keep
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  Speaker 1: their offense fresh and same way for their defense, and
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  Speaker 1: it's it's always gonna be it's always gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: big problem when you ever come up against a team
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  Speaker 1: like a Platte County who really you know, overall, their
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  Speaker 1: defense wasn't the best ever, and I think that also
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  Speaker 1: says a lot about Kirkwood's offense.
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  Speaker 2: But offensively, they were able.
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  Speaker 1: To do whatever they kind of wanted to do and
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  Speaker 1: they were really a buzz saw there in that regard.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Platte County was they were kind of a somewhat
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  Speaker 3: of a confusing team to watch because they committed a
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  Speaker 3: lot of penalties that game. Both teams committed a lot
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  Speaker 3: of penalties, and I think it was a pretty I
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  Speaker 3: think it was a pretty well officiated game.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people do not agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: I just well, I understand that, I understand that.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the there was there was there was one
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  Speaker 3: call where, uh, Platt County had the ball and it
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  Speaker 3: was a deep pass to Stevens and he called it
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  Speaker 3: like the crick with eight yard line and it actually
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  Speaker 3: was a drop. He the way he called it as
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  Speaker 3: he came down to which was it was a I
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  Speaker 3: could see it from my angle, but the back judge,
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  Speaker 3: who was the only referee that was, you know, there
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  Speaker 3: to make the call, his point of view was blocked
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  Speaker 3: by the Kirkwood defender. So you know, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 3: say it was the right call because it wasn't the
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  Speaker 3: right call. But that's a very difficult call to make,
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  Speaker 3: So I'm not going to necessarily get angry at the
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  Speaker 3: referee because that's you know, and you could make the
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  Speaker 3: argument that Stevens had controls.
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  Speaker 4: Even if it hit the ground, he's still control so
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  Speaker 4: it's a little catch.
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  Speaker 3: But either way, that was just one play and that
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  Speaker 3: didn't really affect the outcome of the game.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, No, I don't think.
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  Speaker 4: So, I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, people who are complaining about the officiating, I
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  Speaker 3: think have their hearts in the wrong place because there's
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  Speaker 3: other things to complain about.
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  Speaker 4: And especially like if there's a reason that Kirk would
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  Speaker 4: lost his.
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  Speaker 3: Game is because their linebackers just couldn't fill the run
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  Speaker 3: gas fast enough.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of Platte County people and that like
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  Speaker 1: we're not happy at all about the officiating, and particularly
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  Speaker 1: one drive where I think there were multiple pass interferences
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  Speaker 1: against Platte County and then there was that roughing the
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  Speaker 1: passer call that brought back an interception.
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  Speaker 2: Now I don't know if you remember that.
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  Speaker 1: So there's I think three or four penalties on Platte
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  Speaker 1: County on that one drive that really had them upset,
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  Speaker 1: but ultimately it didn't it didn't dictate the outcome.
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  Speaker 2: Of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And there is also that one drive. It was actually
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  Speaker 1: the same drive where they had that that catch that
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about that probably was incomplete. They had
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  Speaker 1: two touchdowns on that drive that were called back for
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  Speaker 1: penalties and then they still ended up scoring, which that
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  Speaker 1: right there, to me was like, Okay, how many other
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  Speaker 1: teams in the state are able to overcome two penalties
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  Speaker 1: that wipe out two touchdowns and are still able to
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  Speaker 1: end up scoring.
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  Speaker 2: Not many.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's it's weird because it seemed like Platte
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  Speaker 3: County's only miscues were those penalties.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't see too many.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really see many drops, didn't see any miss blocks,
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  Speaker 3: didn't see any.
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  Speaker 4: Forced throws by Marriott.
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  Speaker 3: So really those only big miscues were the penalties, and
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  Speaker 3: if they can cut down on that, they're they're getting
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  Speaker 3: pretty close to bulletproof that the pirates are now for
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  Speaker 3: Kirkwood Cooper. Owens had a pretty insane game to end
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  Speaker 3: his career, twenty five to thirty three, three and eighteen
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  Speaker 3: passing yards, four touchdowns to one reception. He ends this
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  Speaker 3: season with a pretty ridiculous touchdown in t Ratio. I
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  Speaker 3: think it was like three to two. Yeah, that's that's
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  Speaker 3: pretty insane.
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  Speaker 1: Forty three passing yards, completed sixty nine point ninety one
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  Speaker 1: percent of his passes.
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  Speaker 3: And we talked about this mid game and we were
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  Speaker 3: saying how Jamiir Sloan was probably the best wide receiver
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  Speaker 3: three of any team in the state this year, and
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  Speaker 3: the fact that he was He's been kind of the
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  Speaker 3: third target for the Pioneers all year shows how good
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: their receiving corps is. Because Eberhart was the number one guy,
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  Speaker 3: he gets hurt and then Travis Shores Junior I think
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  Speaker 3: has the most receiving yards on the year for them.
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  Speaker 3: He has been incredible so far.
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  Speaker 2: Ib he had the most catches, Eberhart had more receiving yards.
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  Speaker 4: But Jamiir Sloan was the guy today for the Pioneers.
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  Speaker 3: He had six catches for one hundred and thirty five
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  Speaker 3: yards and two touchdowns, and he was he was fantastic
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  Speaker 3: for them all game.
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  Speaker 4: And it just shows how deep.
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  Speaker 3: That receiving I mean, I now speaking the past tens
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  Speaker 3: because their seasons over Kirkwood.
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  Speaker 1: Kirkwood's always got a deep receiving corps. Yeah, I can't
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  Speaker 1: remember the last time where they've really been struggling on.
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  Speaker 2: That end of the of the ball right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they had BiDi Mansweld as well, who made
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  Speaker 3: some really good catches. So some a lot of athletes
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  Speaker 3: up and down the field for the Pioneers, and we'll
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  Speaker 3: see how they can reload next year.
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  Speaker 4: It will be tough.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be just fine at receiver and
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  Speaker 1: running back, but yeah, it's gonna be tough to replace
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  Speaker 1: Owens and and they've they've and the their offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they just got to do a better job.
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  Speaker 1: I think of running the.
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  Speaker 3: They can't run the ball, that they could not establish
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  Speaker 3: run games. They kind of had to abandon the run
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  Speaker 3: game midway to the second quarter because they just couldn't
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  Speaker 3: run the ball and it was when you cannot control
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  Speaker 3: drives by being able to run the ball, you're gonna
• 10:12
  Speaker 3: have a hard time winning football games, especially late in
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  Speaker 3: the year like this, and you're gonna have to just
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  Speaker 3: rely on your QB just finding zones in the defense
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  Speaker 3: to pick apart and it allows the linebackers the other
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  Speaker 3: team to just wait for a pass.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been Yeah, they're just you know, they're they're
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  Speaker 1: they're lineman Kirk was Honestly, they've had a problem with
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  Speaker 1: this for the last three years where they've just had a.
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  Speaker 2: Really tough time establishing a good rushing attack. And I
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  Speaker 2: think Colin Griffin is is a pretty good running back.
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  Speaker 4: He is. No, it's nothing against Griffin.
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  Speaker 1: No, it's it's just it's just that I just don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the type of blocking teams or whatever they do.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna try to explain this in the kindest way.
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  Speaker 4: I can't.
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  Speaker 3: It's nothing against Griffin because Griffin, I think is really
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  Speaker 3: good balance in the States on his feet really well.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: It's it's so it is on the offensive line, but
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  Speaker 3: the old line is pretty good in pass protection, and
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to run blocking, I think they just
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  Speaker 3: they don't pull that well. I guess they're they're there.
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  Speaker 3: Their speed as linemen to get downfield, to get to
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  Speaker 3: get latter with their polls just isn't where it should be.
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  Speaker 3: Because you know, I do not want to dig on
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  Speaker 3: the crpet line too much, because the Cirkkeld Lion has
• 11:18
  Speaker 3: been great in pass protection all year. Sure, and then
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  Speaker 3: I think there's a ton of credit. So it's not
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  Speaker 3: like this is a terrible offensive line, because it's not.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, for for getting second level on run blocks,
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  Speaker 3: something they had struggled with all year, and it came
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  Speaker 3: through this game and unfortunately, unfortunately kind of bit them.
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  Speaker 4: The button, you know, it allowed.
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  Speaker 3: And also the missing fourth downs I think was huge
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  Speaker 3: in this game because there were a couple of times
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  Speaker 3: where Kirkwood could have pund it away they chose not
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  Speaker 3: to and they missed the fourth down and they gave
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  Speaker 3: Plaid County a short field and that would that definitely
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  Speaker 3: did not help them out the end.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Kirkwuld was definitely aggressive all game on fourth downs.
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  Speaker 1: You know sometimes actually probably more times than not, it
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  Speaker 1: bit them in in the rear end.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know if it all if ultimately it would have
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  Speaker 1: mattered so much because Platte County's offense was just that
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  Speaker 1: good and no matter where they started they started their drives,
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  Speaker 1: they ended up usually scoring. And it's just for me,
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  Speaker 1: it just felt like nine times out of ten Platte
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  Speaker 1: County wins that football game.
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  Speaker 4: Did platt score on every drive? I think in my
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  Speaker 4: have they did not?
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  Speaker 2: They didn't.
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  Speaker 5: Was there one interception? Yeah, the one and then there
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  Speaker 5: was one interception, and there was there was they didn't score.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't an interception, but I remember they punted and
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  Speaker 5: they were they covered the ball.
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  Speaker 4: At the one yard line.
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  Speaker 1: The other time was they just really the one I
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  Speaker 1: think the two bad the two bad throws Mayor had
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  Speaker 1: was that interception and then the other one was just
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  Speaker 1: a high pass to uh A receiver on a third
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  Speaker 1: and six, and then they were elected the punt after that,
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  Speaker 1: so really so yeah, I think they punted two times
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  Speaker 1: and then that they had the interception and other than that,
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  Speaker 1: that was it.
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  Speaker 2: They they were scoring.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: So congratulations the Pirates are moving on, and congratulations to
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  Speaker 3: Criklee on a very good season.
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  Speaker 4: They finished the year eleven and two really really good year.
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  Speaker 4: I mean only two losses to two elite.
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  Speaker 1: Teams and back to back seasons where they got to
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  Speaker 1: the final four.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very very impressive, very hard to do, especially
• 13:16
  Speaker 3: in classes five and six. And you know, took my
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: cap to coach Macklin. The rest of that coaching staff
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  Speaker 3: are getting it done.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, so we'll move on.
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: Do you want to go see the I mean you
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: were there like an hour ago, so we're talk about
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  Speaker 3: the Hannibal Saint Mary's game. This is this was a
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: the weirdest game all weekend when it comes to off
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: the field issues, how it was moved from Saint Mary's
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  Speaker 3: to MOBAP and then from BAP to Herman and it
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: was just a really, really weird matchup.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: So I don't have all the information on how Basically,
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: Hannibal filed a complaint and said that Saint Mary's is
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: stadium seating isn't enough to commodate their fans basically, and
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: Hannibal travels very well. They are one of the better
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: traveling fan bases throughout the whole stay. They had very
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  Speaker 1: close to a thousand fans today in Herman, And for
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: what it's worth, I thought Saint Mary's had a good
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: crowd too. You know, they were small school, but I
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: thought they traveled well considering the circumstances. And it's you know,
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: it's a big game for them, big game for everybody involved.
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: But I was actually looking forward to covering the game
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: today on Sunday at Missouri Baptists, where it was moved to, because,
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: first of all, I live about ten minutes away from
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: MOBAP and it's an alright menu. I'm not saying it's
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: the greatest, but it would have been very accommodating and
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: it would have been really convenient for a lot of
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: people involved. But for whatever reason, the game was not
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: what was moved from there because apparently the field was
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: not playable, which to me says that they just did
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: not do a good enough job. Saint Mary's or MOBAP
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: or maybe both did not do a good enough job
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: of cleaning the field off with the snow.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know why they wouldn't do that, because they
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: knew it was gonna snow, and so for whatever reason,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: it just wasn't. It wasn't able to work that way there.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: And I don't know how they landed on it Herman
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: to host it, but they did, and so I think
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: at nine o'clock in the morning they announced it the
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: game had been moved to Herman and moved the game
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: up an hour, I think, just to accommodate people. And yeah,
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I was able to get there about ten minutes before
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: kickoff and we were greeted to an opening touchdown kickoff
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: return by the Hannibal Pirates and that was the first
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: of many scores for them, and just absolutely dominating game
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: by the Pirates, winning forty one to nothing a turbo
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: clock in the semi finals against Saint Mary's. And this
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: is a Hannibal team that I talked to Chris dor there,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: who's a part of Money Sports and he's he is
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: a longtime Hannibal follower because he's been covering you know,
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: the Tri States area for a long time, so he
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: knows what he's talking about. And he told me this
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: is probably the best, arguably the best, most all round
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: best Hannibal team he's ever covered, and that includes the
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: teams that Anias Williams was on. Those teams were better
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: offensively with him there, but they just didn't have a
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: defense as good as what Hannibal has this season. And yeah,
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: for them to shut out Saint Mary's and look, I
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: saw Saint Mary's in the quarterfinals. Their offense is really
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: not special outside of Kingston Miles.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: They kind of they're.
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Kind of a one dimensional offense with Kingston Miles there,
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: but Hannibal's able to shut him down, and speaking you know,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: kind of comparatively so to Kirkwood's offensive line. Saint Mary's
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: offensive line could not get to the next level at
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: all and block Hannibal's linebackers.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: And that was a big warning sign.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Against Parkway North last week, and just the floodgates bursted
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: on Saint Mary's point of view, and in that perspective
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: right there, they just could not get a run game
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: going at all and that that's their offense, and they
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: were in trouble.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, these Hannibal linebackers and their defense as a whole
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: have been just on fire this whole playoffs. I mean,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: their first game of the playoffs they shut out in Mexico.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: In the district championship game, they hold a was a
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: nine to one Odessa.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Team to thirteen points.
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: The next round they hold West Plains the quarterfinals was
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: just twelve points, and then the final four they shut
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: out Saint Mary's. Yeah, this Pirate defense is the real deal.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: In easily one of the best in Class four, right, Yeah.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: I mean the only teams they've had trouble with all season.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: They lost thirty one to twenty eight of Zumwalt West
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: and then they gave up twenty six points to Troy Buchanan,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: but they scored fifty four on them.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: And then they lost twenty three to twenty to Halaia.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: So that's a very battle tested Hannibal team, especially when
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: we're talking about Class four teams as goo, that's a
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: really battle tested team. And then you know, offensively, Cad
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Hoskins had a really good game.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: He had I believe one touchdown.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Run and then he also had an interception on defense
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: as well. And then I don't have their entire roster
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: right here, but Hannibal's quarterback. He threw for a touchdown
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: pass and I believe he also ran for one. He
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: also had an interception on defense as well, So he
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: had a really good all round game. And the Pirates
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: were able to sustain their their triple option rushing attack,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: and you know, they were able to just kind of.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Beat up Saint Mary's a little bit upfront.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I mean, I thought Saint Mary's did an okay job
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: their defense did as far as just not giving up
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: giving up any big plays. But Hannibal was able to
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: sustain some drives and just able to you know, milk
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: the milk the clock off the scoreboard right there and
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: then I don't think it would have mattered that much,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: but Hannibal had a really good goal line stand right
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: at the end of the first half, where Saint Mary's
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: elected to instead of kicking a field goal, which was
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: probably the right call, honestly.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, it would have been twenty eight to three
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: if they kicked that field goal.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Might as well just go for you know, make it
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: a twenty eight seven game, and they had a decent play,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: got the ball down and we're tackled the one yard
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: line by Hannibal and then you know, the Pirates ended
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: up scoring thirteen more points in the second half and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: that was it. So definitely, if you're Saint Mary's, you expected,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I think a better performance right there.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: He didn't probably expect to get, you know, lose forty
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: one to.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Nothing right there. But this is a pretty good Hannibal team.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And I really think that Saint Mary's just their offense
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: just got, you know, a little bit more exposed each
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: game they're going through the playoffs, and then it just
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: ran into a really good defensive team who can run
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the football effectively.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and speaking of great defense, is Carthage totally shuts
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: down Cordiner Ritter in the Class five semi finals final
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: score of twenty to eight. And you know, those who
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: had the Carthage defense the special teams on their fancy
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: teams this week, congratulations to you because they put up
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I'm assuming twenty plus points based off fantasy points.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Because Carthage opened up the.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Game with the kicker turn touchdown by Land and West
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: ninety five yards to the house and then Cardin.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Rider gets the ball back.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: On Ridders' fifth play, they fumbled it away Carthurg's guess
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: possession and the Ridder defense did great this game too.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: But this Tigers defense was really incredible. I mean they
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: completely shut down the Manny Ella and Cardinal Ritter led
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: rushing attack. And on Ridder's second possession they threw a
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: pick and then Ridder's first and only score of the
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: game was in their third possession of the game.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: It was near the end of the first quarter.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Kenneth Robinson had a forty yard rushing touchdown and they
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: took the lead eight to seven. Cardla Ritter did as
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: the first quarter was expiring. But then about six minutes
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: left in the first half, they had an eighty yard
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: eighty yard scoring drive where QB Zane Browning had a
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: couple of big runs and they had a nine yard
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: touchdown pass to Tiger receiver Braden Odell, and they made
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: it thirteen to eighth after a failed two pointer, and
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: yeah that After that, it was just a bunch of
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: defensive back and forth stops and punts and three and outs,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: and Carthage did score later in the game. I think
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: there was about two minutes left to kind of steal
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: the deal there.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I think they took advantage of a count on Ritter,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and yeah, it just probably it sounds like maybe the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: most undisciplined game Rader played as far as his turnovers
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: go this season, because usually they're pretty good at that
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: at you know keeping usually they end up on the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: plus side of the turnover battle in any game.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: But yeah, they it was a tough go about it today.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: I had I had heard some rumors that the the
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Cardinal Ritter coaches were trying to make sure that the
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: kids didn't come into this game, you know, thinking that
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: it would be a free win, because I had heard
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: I had heard some rumors from from just from other
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: people in the media that some of the Ridder players
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: thought that, oh, Carthage is just somehow cat bumping team,
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: which is a very very silly thing to think.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: It's just I just I hate how players in general
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: just you wouldn't believe just it's easy for kids to
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: just overlook their opponent.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Well, and the coaches knew, the coaches knew the car
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: of a team.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: You just coaches just got They got to be an
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: adult to just say, like you guys, just you really,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: this is going to be a really tough team.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: And it was a fight.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: It was a battle, was a defensive war, and Carthage
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: won the game. And you know, web City has kind
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: of fallen off a bit, but and you know, Carthage
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: definitely isn't as good as what web City's dynasty was,
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: but Carthadge is still an amazing team and an amazing program.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: In the Southwest Missouri teams, you know that includes Nixa, Carthage,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Web City, Joplin, Seneca. Especially right now in the public,
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: you could put Republic in there. They haven't quite you know, they've.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Been in state no, but they've been really good these
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: last three or four years now.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: And Lamar isn't in that direct area, but Lamal Lamar
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: is Southwest Missouri and they've been rennial state title winners.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: So anytime that you see a Southwest Missouri team lay
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs, you need you need to know what's coming.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: And I feel like that would be very physical. That
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: would be helpful for players.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm not I'm not saying these players should
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: you know, research Missouri high football like we do.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying like it would be nice if our.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Players knew just a general overview of the state and
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: how some of these programs operating, Like, Okay, just because
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: it's you know, Carthage, Missouri, and not many people there,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: like they have an amazing program, And just because there's
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: a lot less people there, it does not me they're
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: not as go.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: As you football, because they're better than you and they will.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Beat you, and they're an extremely strong, tough, physical discipline
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: team that will shut down your rushing attack.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: And I wouldn't defense was the real deal.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, I wouldn't be surprised that that was the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: hardest hitting team Riderds faced all season. And also because
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I said this before the game actually on the radio,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: that I felt, you know, I thought, Ridder is a
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: team that Carthage hasn't like as a type of team
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: they haven't faced all season.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: And on the flip side, Riddard probably hadn't seen a
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: team like Carthage all season too.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: So these are two teams who are both kind of
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: playing unique opponents right here.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And it certainly was a.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Game where it felt like, yeah, there was a lot
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: of it was a defensive battle for the most part,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: it just seemed like it came down to turnovers and
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: special teams and that's where Carthage won that battle and
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: that was the difference.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, tough, tough way to go out for Cardon Rider,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: but crants to them on a solid season. Definitely has
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: some downs, but you know, finish with a pretty solid
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: nine and four record, some really good wins like win
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: over wins over f z N Ladu Luthan North was
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: a big one. The De Smet win was a big one.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: The France Howell drubbing in the League three was huge.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: So solid year for Ritter and they bring back a
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: ton next year, they bring back both their qbs.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: That'll be interesting.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: So yeah, they go about that anything else. Really ended
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: up being a special running back for them, so very special.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I think him graduating that's that, that's good. I do
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: know they got two good young running backs who are
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: both freshmen, but you know, I don't know.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: If they're gonna be you know, there's still gonna be sophomores.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: And you're talking about, you know, having to replace a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: really good senior running back right there. And I think
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: they graduate some linemen and they lose they graduate two
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: of their three best receivers. But Ryan Richmond McDavis is
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: a really good sophomore receiver that they have, and I think,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I think, just like Kirkwood, Ritter is always going to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: have athletes, They're always going to have good receivers, and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have a good passing game. And
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I know Marshaun Ivy is a really good linebacker for them.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: He's a three star. They're gonna be all right, you know.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I just uh, it'll just be interesting to see like eventually, you.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Know, really, I guess the next time we'll see them
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: is in June basically as a as a group, so
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see how they look there. And
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: some people were saying this was an upset. I really
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: don't think so at all. I think Carthage was. I mean,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Carthur's is number two ranked in the state and Ridder's
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: number three, so whoever, you know, whoever won that game,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't have been an upset.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, I think.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Rider probably had a lot more plaut its compared to
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: compare this, you.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Know, Carthage was just with their recent history. But I
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: mean it would have been it would have been.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: A great victory for Rider had they got you know,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: won that having to go all the way down to
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Carthage and you know, ultimately beating them. But it was
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the Tigers who came up with the victory, and well
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: deserved victory.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Hard fought one.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: For sure, all right. Next up, NIXA defeats Pattonville. This
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: one wasn't even close.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: It wins mix. It wins forty five zero after a
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: snow delayed game.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: That the game was delayed, I believe about an hour
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: so the crews could plow some the snow off the field.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: The Eagles offense just did whatever they wanted to behind
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: familiar face Jaden mccastor, who had one hundred and seventy
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: six rushing yards and three touchdowns, averaging eight yards per carry.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Junior QB for Nixon, Adam mcnight also had a really
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: good game. I believe he had eighty nine rushing yards.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: And the big thing for the Eagles here was their defense.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Jax Adams and White Isaacson combined have four sacks this game, and.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: They had two safeties.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, two safeties which in an interception deepened deep in
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Pattonville territory.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's completely dominating. And one of the safeties
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: was a bad snap. I think it was over the
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Padville QB's head into the end zone for immediate safety.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: It was the first play on offense for them, if
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken this.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so this game was unfortunately kind of over before
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: it even started, which I hate to say, but like
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: you know, we kind of saw this coming and you know,
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Padvill is a solid team this year, but Nick says,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: just on a whole different level. And for Pattonville, you know,
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: definitely a tough way to end it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: You know, seven to six is a weird to have,
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: but you.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Say, a tough way to end it, I think there is.
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: They're happy to be there. Yeah, they're happy to be there.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: The win last week ind Zoomalt West was so huge
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: for them. Just to win a quarterfinal game in Class
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: six and make it the Class six final four. That's
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: something you can keep on. That's something I mean, that's
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: something that a lot of teams hang banners for is
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: final fours, which I think is fair they should, like
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: if for teams that you know, you know, if you're
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Web City or Lamar, you're not going to hang final
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: four banners, But for for a lot of for a
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: lot of programs, you know, getting to the final four
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: is a very huge thing. I think it is a
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: huge huge for patten Voalming to beat Rittner in the
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: close hard fallt rivalry game of the playoffs and then
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: to beat a really to put up fifty six points
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: in a really good Tomot West defense that was really impressive.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: So to get there, I think is huge. So congratsm
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: the Pirates in a really good season.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I don't think obviously we can talk about while they
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: were in the easiest district ever, and you know that
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't necessarily have they have the hardest
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: plaff route, but they still got there.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: I thought what West would beat them. I was shocked
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: by that was an upset win. So we got to
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: give them credit for that, No, I do.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: And I guarantee you.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: You know, anybody in District four who come out of that,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you they are all looking their chops. I'm
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: like saying, like, hey, if we get out of this,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: we're probably gonna play.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Writtener and in Pattonville, and we really like our chances.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I guarantee you.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: But yeah, they weren't able to what West was not
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: able to beat Pattonville and Pattonville they have a really
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they have a pretty good offense when they have the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: right guys, and I'm really excited to see what they
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: can do if Trevor beckhaman there at quarterback.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: As you know, he'll be a junior next year.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: And uh, I don't know who all else they have
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: coming back, but as long as he's back, that's a
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: huge that's great for them, and they'll have a good
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the coming for the near future.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: Absolutely all right.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: And next we've got Carne defeating Festus by a final
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: score fifty two to twenty four. And the Tigers came
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: out hot here I believe Parker Perry connected with was
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: it was it Braden Wilkes.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: I think it was like the one of their.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: First play, like less than a minute end of the game,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Festest scored a touchdown. It starting hot and then the
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: fastest offense was really good in the first half, I
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: believe the So the halftime score Carney had twenty three,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: Festest scored sevent. Team So this is a pretty back
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: and forth game in the first half.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, this was the most trouble that Festus has
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: really seen since maybe Grain Valley back in Week six,
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: or maybe even North Kansas City the week before that.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: So yeah, but after those games, Carney's.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Defense has not been troubled all season until Festest, but
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: that you'd expect something like that in a semi final
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: game that you're finally got to face some some some
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: adversity defensively.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, the Carney defense really locked down
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: in the second half. And Carter Temple, the running back
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: for Karnie, had a fantastic game, especially in the second half.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: He had running back quarterback I should say, sorry, Carney quarterback,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Carter Temple. He had two rush touchdowns in the game
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: and well over one hundred yards rushing. And you know,
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: it's a Carney team that you know can make adjustments
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: on the fly very very well. And we forget how
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: this is a this is a really good Fastest team
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: that they just beat. This is a Fastest team that
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: you know last year made the state championship game. In
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: this year, I mean they Festest came into this game
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: ten and two with you know, a turbo clock win
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: over a solid Sullivan team.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: They beat Farmington earlier in the year, which is a
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: huge win.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: And you know, this is a really good Tigers team
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: with a really good passing attack, and for Carnie is
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: just completely shut him out in the second half. I
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: believe they should out in the second half. Was very
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: very impressive, very impressive. Yea, Carney has been a favorite
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: class for.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Like almost the whole year they have that they have been.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: They've been ranked number one all season and they have
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: lived up to it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: They're undefeated. I mean they've only cheeze.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I mean I think they've only lost like once in
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: the last like how many, like thirty games or so.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: So they're thirteen to oer this year.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: They were twelve and one last year, with their one
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: loss being in the final four to eventual state champion
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Lutheran North, and twenty twenty three they were thirteen and two.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: So their last that.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Was too and that was a team where they were
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: banged up.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, their last regular season loss was two years ago
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: in Week three against Smithville.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't have their starting quarterback in that game.
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: How do you know that?
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I talked to I talked to a few Carneer people.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I have some Kansas City contacts. Yeah, because that was
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: we all kind of knew like, hey, if Carney's healthy,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: like they should win state and.
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: So there you go.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, this should be surprised by this, this, this
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: should be This should be a very interesting matchup and
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: we'll get into the next episode between Carne and Hannibal.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: This is going to be a freaking a dog fight.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: Really proud football communities.
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Absolutely so congrats to Karney for moving on and also
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Congressifestus on another solid season.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Two straight years making the final four. It's very hard
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: to do.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's great for you know there.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I think they're the they're the biggest shining star in
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Jefferson County as far as football goes. And and they
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: got some pretty good players coming back, including Parker Perry
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: who had a really, really good season at quarterback for them,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: And so whenever you get your quarterback coming back, that's
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: that's always very helpful for them.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: And you know, they always seem to have good athletes
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: a j o'faddal. He's done a fantastic job of building
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: that program.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't know, I mean, he probably
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know what to say about their their their
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: team next year, but I feel like they're in a
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: really good spot and I think there's a really good
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: chance they have they have a good shot of getting
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: back here next.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: Year, all right, moving on down to Class three Live
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: for Life roles over Saint Michael Archangel. Forty eight twenty
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: eight was the final score on this one, but it's
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: worth noting Live for Life they were in control the
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: entire time. There was a point in this game where
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: they were up forty to nothing, and this is a
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: legacy game for Achilian Hunderson. He had two touchdowns on
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: this game, both of which were very long receiving touchdowns
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: from Phoenix Isaiah Phoenix Isaiah with one of his more
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: funky stat lines of the year. He was six of
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: twelve throwing the ball for one hundred and thirty seven
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: yards and two touchdowns, so averaging well over twenty two
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: yards per completion. And Henderson finished the game with three
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: catches for one hundred and six yards and two touchdowns,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: so kind of like that. Randy Moss on Thanksgiving stat
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: line was at twenty twenty or so years ago, five
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: wars ago years ago. Yeah, so that was a pretty
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: funny thing to see. But this Lift Life defense was
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: absolutely incredible this game. Dan Barber, Malachai Johnson, Reggie Murphy
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: led the way in sacks.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Strawn Strickland as well, so Liftlaf's.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Got some dogs all over the field, and jay bion
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: Scott also had a fantastic game. Four carries for one
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: hundred and forty nine yards and two touchdowns.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: There's a Randy Moss stat line for receiver. Who would
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: that be? Four carries for one hundred and forty ninety's.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I don't know's that's crazy to only have four carries,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: but pushing one to fifty that's insane. Yeah, so, you know,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: it wasn't like it was, you know, twenty eight zero
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: at the end of the first quarter. But this is
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: definitely a dominant performance. But I Lived for Life, which
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: you know, we kind of expected. You know, they're they're
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: they're one of the more talented teams in the state,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: regardless of class, much less to be in Class three.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: So they climbed to ten and four so far in
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: the year.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: And they will play Seneca in the Class three of
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: tight championship game and that will be a massive test.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: And well the game I'm looking most forward to.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: We'll briefly go over the Seneca game here in a bit.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: But for Lift for Life, I mean, this is what
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: they expected. This is this is their first state title
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: appearance in school history. But this is what they expected,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: I mean, after what they did last.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Year with all they brought back.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that you know in the off season and
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: in a few weeks leading to the regular season that
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: their coach were preaching like, hey, we expect to be
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: in Saint Joe's later later in the year.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, more or less state.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: And I think it was also a really big point
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: of that ith'sis for them to kind of win and
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: stuff and not have the sweat it out like they
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: had to do against Dexter and Valley Catholic and Saint
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Genevieve and I mean those I expected a game like
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: that against Valley Catholic, but they've been in a lot
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: of games this season where they've it's i in my opinion.
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Been unnecessarily close.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think it was really good of them
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: to get out to a forty plus point lead again
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: in the semi finals against a good opponent in Saint
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Michael the Archangel, And so the fact that they're finally
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: able to do that is a really good sign for
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: them going forward. But they definitely have their biggest probably
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: their I would say their second biggest test of the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: season against Seneca, besides having to play Baylor from Tennessee
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: in Week three, so it's gonna be a great opponent
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna be facing a Seneca team who's in
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: the state championship for the third consecutive season in a row.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: So it's that that's a team that's an opponent who
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: knows all about being in the playoffs and or being
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: in the state championship game.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: I should say, yeah, Seneca has a couple of Saint
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: titles with the name, but it's been a while they've
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: won it. I think it was in the mid nineties
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: last time they won state, and they've gotten second a
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: lot these past few years. Seneca is definitely looking to
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: break that streak. And we're going to move on to
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: what I think was the most exciting game in the
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: state this past weekend where Saint Pius continues their Cinderella
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: run and they defeat Monroe's City by a final score.
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: I believe it was forty to thirty six was the
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: final score in this one, that's correct. And this was
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: such a back and forth game. And I mean, this
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: is Saint Pias team that starts the year zero to three.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: They find their.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Way down at nine and five. They've beaten three really
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: solid teams in a row. Creutersville, Montgomery County, and the Monroe.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: City started the postseason at four and five.
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: And another really solid game for Cody Shaver running back
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: for the Lancers, but Evan Ekrich had the best game
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: of his career fourteen of twenty one throwing the ball
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: two and forty passing yards, three passing touchdowns.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Harrison Ray was the recipient of most of those yards.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: He had six catch just for one hundred twenty four yards,
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: averaging over twenty yards for reception. And thankfully Paul Halfacre
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: was tweeting out some of the updates in this one
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: to keep us updated. And this is a really really
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: exciting one when Monroe City actually started the game up
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: fourteen to zero, but Cody Shaver got a touchdown and
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: make the score fourteen to seven, and then Saint Pie
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: is kind of picked six to make it fourteen thirteen,
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: and then Cody Shaver out in the en zone again
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: and make it nineteen fourteen. So they go down fourteen
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: zero and then score nineteen unanswered at halftime. The Monroe
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Thity scores again make it twenty two nineteen. They go
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: back and forth a bit, and apparently Monroe City is
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: running back Quincy Mayfield got well over two hundred rushing
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: yards on the year on the game.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: Excuse me, And.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so this was just an extremely back and forth
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: game and roast like you know, Monroe takes the lead.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: St. Pius takes the lead, but no scores again and
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: they take the lead. Saint Piez takes the lead.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: And the score was thirty six thirty three, about forty
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: two seconds left in regulation. And this is this is
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: a hilarious tweet from from Paul. He says, the most
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: busted player I've ever seen in Pious' is Ekach fines
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Coons for the one yard touchdown strike Pious up forty
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: to thirty six or ten seconds set in regulation.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Just a hilarious tweet.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: So I guess there must have been some broken play
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: that Sat Pias finds their winning.
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: The end zone.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: And wow, whether you like it or not, the glass
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: slipper fits and Cinderella story rides on and Saint Pias,
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: coming into the postseason with a losing record, has now
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: won four in a row.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: For just an extreme five in a row.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Excuse me for an extremely improbable state championship run, and
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: you know, this is their first appearance in the state
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: title game ever ever, So just an amazing way to
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: rally around on that, for that community to rally around
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: the team and get to state, it's just unbelievable.
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: This is a team that, you know, I'm not gonna lie.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Earlier in the season, I had just been going through
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: scores and I just seen that, like I obviously heard of,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: you know, you know, Saint Pias, you know. Just then
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: I think them just being in Jeffco kind of just
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: keeps them out of the spotlight a bit, especially when
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: it comes to private.
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: Schools and being not a very big private school.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: We already have a lot of private schools here.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: We lived on a private schools, you know.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: For them to start, they started the year one and
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: three with their only win being as the Roosevelt team,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: who doesn't even have a team anymore. Yeah, and they
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: had some losses to They lost to Zumal East, who
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: is just not a good team this year.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: I was like, okay, like I guess Sat. Pias is
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: not gonna be very good this year. And then.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know what it was, but Week nine, when
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: they played Valley Catholic and they lost fourteen to seven.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: That was when it was like, okay, that's interesting.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: They very almost be Valley Catholic, very weird, and they
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: just turned it on. I don't know if they had
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: a bunch of injuries in the regular season. They just
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: got guys back in the postseason. But you know, offensively,
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: they've been fantastic so far this postseason and they've been
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: finding a way to get it done. So congratulations of
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: the Lancers from moving on such an exciting story. I mean,
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: I hope that I wish we had a camera there
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: a highlights because this was just an insane game, which
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: is an insane place. So fortunately, very fun stuff.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Fortunately we'll have a camera at their state championship game
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: since I will be there.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And by the way, fun fact, Saint Pius X
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: is the only private school at the state championships next week.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: Are you going to consider a lift for life private school?
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't the same thing.
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: So they're not really they're a public school technically, but
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: they're also and.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Does give them a success factor because I think they
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: are a charter school.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: They're really interesting.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, so but yeah, it's not the same, not the
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: exact same thing as a non boundary school, I guess so.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: But yeah, by that that technicality, Sat Pius X, you
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: are the only private school at the stage chance.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: That's insane. Yes, that's insane. That's great, and that's very cool.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: So grast to them. Next up, this was by far
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: the biggest upset of the week Least Summit. I mean
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: so so Saint Pius has had an incredible Cinderella Store,
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: but I would say this Least Summit team is the
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: Cinderella Store of the stay.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know if i'd call it that big of
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: an upset. I gotta be honest with you.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Roman dude, this is an upset.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Jackson to beat me see the way they did last week,
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: and then to be up.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: The way they were.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: I think the score was what fourteen? It was twenty fourteen.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: I knew, I thought Jackson it away. I thought Jackson
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: was gonna win.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: But I knew it was gonna be really hard for
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: them to win this game because I really like them
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: the moment, the momentum. At Least Summit's been on this
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: playoffs and just ever since they start. They started the
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: season out zero to four, But I had these guys
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: as a number eighth best team preseason my preseason top
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: twenty five rankings. So they've had this within them all
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: season and I don't know if they had injuries or not,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: but they've always been playing at a good level and
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: they've been playing at an elite level since midway through
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: the regular season.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: Man, it's showing.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: And Preston Hatfield for the Tigers had just an unbelievable game.
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: He had two hundred and fifty nine rushing yards and
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: four touchdowns and least some as a team in three
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: hundred and eighteen rushing yards. So the least some rushing
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: offense has been just unbelievable against what was a pretty
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: solid Jackson defense. Yeah, and you know, the least the
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: least of a defense also came up huge in the
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: second half, especially, they had five sacks this game. Mason
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: Kennan and ConA noticed Steyne I think is how you
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: pronounce his last name.
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: But yeah, this least some of a team.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: You know, the slow stars of the year have been
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: on a tear of these past nine weeks and they've
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: gotten revenge on several teams, and it's just it's it's
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: a it's a run that I had never expected, and
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: it gives us a very very cool Class sixs matchup
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: with two teams that have never won state going at
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: it all.
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: Would you like to see that that I.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Think is the ideal matchup when it's two teams that
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: have never won, because as everything is on the line,
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: both teams have a lot to lose, because you mean,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: when it comes, you know, Nicks especially is you know,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: especially in recent years, has really arisen into the spotlight
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: of southwest Missouri to become one of the perennial powerhouse
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: programs down there. So you know, I would trust NIXA
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: to reload while they have some key players leaving after
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: this season like Jackson can't.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Well, I would trust a program like next that to reload.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: But with with state title runs like this, you never
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: know what's gonna happen again. Just because you have a
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: really good team and a really good program, it's never
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: guaranteed you get back any time.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: And seemingly a really good pipeline of players too. That's
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I think the most important part.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So it's getting to State is extremely difficult. You
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: cannot take that for granted. And when there's two teams
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: that get there that have never won state. Everything is
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: on the line, and especially for a team like Least Summit,
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: who has had a team forever, I have never won state.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: This is all the all the pressures on Least Smmit,
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: but there's also a.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Ton of pressure on next ups because last year Nixo
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: was it would be the favorite. Yeah, and they come
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: into they come into a championship game against the smett
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: You picked NIXA, I picked the smet to win.
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: I have no idea who to pick now.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: And this should be a heck of a game and
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: this should be an insane matchup. You can grasp the
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: lease summer for winning. But before we before we move on,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: I want to briefly mention Seneca continues to roll.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Oh hold on, I want to say, real quick, you
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: feel I think it's a feel good story for Least
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Summit because for a long time they've been in the
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: shadow of Lisam at West and Lisa at North, like
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: in the two thousands and then in the like you know,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: twenty tens, when you thought of Least Summit like school district,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: you thought of Least sum at West football, and then
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: and now the last few years, Lisa at North they
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: were a big thing and they got really really close
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: to winning state a few times, thwarted by CBC both
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: years in twenty one and twenty two. And they've been
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: on really good runs now because they're you know, head
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: coach left. They've had two head coaching departures in the
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: last few.
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  Speaker 2: Seasons now.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: At least some has quietly built up a pretty good program,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: a good team these last two seasons, and now here
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  Speaker 1: they are on the cusp of their first ever I
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: believe it's their first It would be their first ever
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: state championship. Yeah, yeah, it is their first ever state
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: championship potentially if they can, if they can beat Nixus,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: So I think that's a nice little field.
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  Speaker 2: Good story there for sure.
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: So last game to go over, Seneca defeats Saint Clair
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: by a final score of fifty seven to twenty.
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: Seneca has yet to have a close game this playoffs.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, their only close game of the year, you
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: could say, was the one point loss to Lamar in
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Week nine, and I think they had in Week one
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: they beat Castelow by six.
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: I think they had a few key players injured in
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: that game too.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: By the way, and for Seneca, this is a team
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: that was the class three favorite going into the season,
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: you know, and for good reason.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: I mean they have that.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Their guy is running back Roman Miller, who he had
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: four touchdowns this game against Saint Clair. He has forty
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: two touchdowns this year, which is their program record. Forty
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: two and one year is unbelievable. And his career total
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: is at seventy five touchdowns, which is their school record,
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: which is pretty insane. And you know, this is a
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: pretty solid Saint Claire team coming into the game. But
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: this the Seneca defense has athletes all over the field.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: And this is yet another team from southwest Missouri that
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: just finds a way to transform these kids coming in
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: as as their freshmen into elite athletes and with a
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: great scheme, great coaching just to they become an elite program.
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: And they have I believe they have two state titles
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: for their program's name. But they've been to the state
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: title I think seven times. And you know, this is
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: a team that you know, being a very small school
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: that's darned near in Oklahoma, they're so far down there,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: and they they've they've found their way into the Saint
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: Louis media spotlight as we talk about them right now.
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: So the Indians continue to roll.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: And yeah, so Roumyan Miller had he finished his game
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: with one hundred and seventy seven yards on nineteen carries,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: and yeah, so it's very very impressive stuff from Seneca.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: And yeah so the Seneca head coach Cody Hilburn, he
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: was actually asked about how they're gonna play Lift for
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Life this weekend, and coach Shilburn said, Lift for Life
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: is a tremendous football team with tremendous athletes. We were
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: fortunate to get them at home last year and we
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: kind of jumped on them and turn them over. They're
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: gonna show up, We're gonna play on Friday. We're gonna
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: have to bring our best. So thanks to Ozark Sports
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: Zone for their story and stats and getting that out
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: there and appreciate that being able to use their info.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: So Roman Miller right now would be top twenty all
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: time in state history according to the website with.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: Your career career touchdowns.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, career rushing touchdowns.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's not entirely accurate because Tony van
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Zandt had ninety one touchdowns and he's not on this list.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: And like there's there's a few people about six players
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: that don't have ninety on that list. So I don't
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: know who have the fact checked that or not, but
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: that that just that's just what I saw here. But
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: grats on rollman. I mean, that's top twenty all times.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: Is amazing, unbelievable. So they'll do it for our week
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: fourteen review. Now you may be thinking, oh, well, you're
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: missing a game. We are not missing a game because
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: East St. Louis did not play Femwick this weekend.
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: The weather.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: To say the weather through a wrench in ishsa's weekend
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: would be an understatement in.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Fact and precedented.
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: So the ISSA was actually able to play the Class
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: one through four state championship games on Friday as schedule,
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: and then because of the weather forecasted on Friday evening
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: at around I think it was three point thirty four
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: o'clock ish, they decided to move the games from Hancock Stadium.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: They had to move them from Saturday to Monday. For
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: a second, they were thinking about moving the games to
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: Soldier Field.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: I think they weren't able to do that.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: I think it was only a rumor.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: They were trying to figure out what to do, and
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: that was ultimately just a rumor. And so now the
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: ISSA State championship games for classes five and six are
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: gonna be at Hancock Stadium, which is where they were
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: going to be held. But those two games are gonna
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: be played on Tuesday, December third. Class five is gonna
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: be at three pm. Class six, which is the East
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: Louis Fenwick game, that's gonna be at six pm.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: And then the Class is seven and eight championship games.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: Those are actually gonna be on Wednesday at Northern Illinois
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: Husky Stadium up into.
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: Calb That makes because those the four teams in they're.
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: All from Chicago.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so that that that is that that doesn't make
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: sense because that would have been I'm sure the East
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Louis crowd would not have liked to go up to n.
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: I U on a big day.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I don't think that was the that was never the
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: plan for those teams.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that was just for those strictly those seven
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: and eight eight teams because they're all from the Chicago area.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean it's it's really hard for what
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: I just say had to do right there. What's crazy
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Roman is that I I finally kind of figured found
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: its out. It's like there are there are no dome
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: stadiums in Illinois.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: That's crazy.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for how cold it can get, especially, there are
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: no dome football fields.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: That's insane.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's insane.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: We we only have one here in Missouri. That's the.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Formerly Edward Jones Dome, formerly Transworld Dome, currently.
• 50:14
  Speaker 2: The t w A Dome.
• 50:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: I have We can do a podcast episode on that
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: dome alone, just our thoughts on it, just the history
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: of it.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: But you know, maybe maybe maybe MISSOO should invest in
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: a not a dome stadium for their football team, you know,
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: like just like a five thousand seat you know, stadium
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: with a roof, not even saying a dome, just.
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: Put a roof over.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: Maybe renovate their practice facility they're indoor practice facility or
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: something like.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: That that's not very big. I don't even know if
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: that's a full field, so they would be able to
• 50:51
  Speaker 4: do that. Yeah, but yeah, so you Saint Lewis.
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: They will play this upcoming Tuesday at Illinois State against
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: Fenwick out of oak Park, Illinois. That one should be interest.
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: We'll cover that next episode. But yeah, yeah, any final
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: thoughts on Week fourteen.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I think we're going to remember this postseason is one
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: of the more crazier ones ever, just the fact that,
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: you know, we had a game that like was played
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: in Herman, Missouri between two teams who are not from
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: there at all. Saint Mary's a Hannibal like that happened. Yeah,
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: you know, Jackson beating CBC, which is crazy. Then like
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: the Cinderella run that Saint Pius X is having right
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: now and all that, and there's I mean, it's still
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: not over yet, by the way.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: We could still have some other pretty crazy things going on.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: So really looking forward to this.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: I mean, this has been an awesome season, and I
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm always I can't wait to like kind
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: of soak it all in and Friday and Saturday and
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: Saint Joseph, and knowing how the season's gone, I wouldn't
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: be surprised if something crazy happens up there too, for
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: whatever reason, but I'm prepared for it.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: I mean it, Shoot, if Saint Pias or least Summit win,
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: that would be that they had a case for the
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: greatest Cinderella story of Missouri high school sports in quite
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: a long time.
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: If either of those two teams, much of us have
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: both both of those teams.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: I can think of the one that comes off the
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: mind for me as twenty sixteen.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: No, not really, Well, that was a good one.
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: I thought, I need to do my research because I
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: need to figure out we'll come back next episode. With
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: thought the last time that a five lost team made
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: the state championship, we will come back with you.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: But we knew like next year.
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: Everybody knew at the time, like, Okay, they got some
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: great players here at Vianni and they're really battle tested.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: It was that game against Staley.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: That kind of cemented it, because like they were trailing
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: by fourteen points numerous times in the game and still
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: came back to win.
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: But I think nineteen eighty eight Webster.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: Groves, they started the season out one to three and
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: then they ultimately ended up winning the state championship and
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: had a mat like sixteen point come from behind victory
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: over Sumner, and Sumner was probably the most talented team
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: in Class four in the state and they were able.
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: To come back and beat them on the road in
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: a mud bowl.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: By the way, Yeah, so probably probably that Webster Groves
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: team and you have satis X was gonna win it,
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: then that'd be huge, and least Summit I think least summit.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I don't have this, but I can look it up.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: If they win this game, they might have they might
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: set the record for the most amount of losses that
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: a state title team has had.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: That is one, like five. They have five losses losses,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: right right, so sorry, four losses.
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: So if they with five losses.
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they're class five, I'm talking class six.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah sorry, So so for Class six, I could set
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: the record for.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: State championship team with the most losses. So that'd be interesting.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: We will see, yes, all right, that's all I got.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: All right, so thank you guys for the listening as always,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: and we'll see you soon.
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: Peace.