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Central Indiana Sports Central (Aug. 24, 2025; Podcast 2.7.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_05]: You are listening to Central Indian Sports Central.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Your daily update on the Pacers, Colts, IU Purdue, Indicard, the fever, Ball State, Butler, and, of course, the best high school sports coverage in Central Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the Central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Midgowns.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Good morning, good afternoon, or good evening, central Indiana sports fans and welcome to the central Indiana sports reports central Indiana sports central where we go over the days news in central Indiana.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Today is Sunday, August, twenty fourth twenty twenty five and I'm your host Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Coming up, we have report from Elijah Poe, from Saturdays qualifying, and a preview of Sunday's race in Milwaukee.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And well, Rothford's reaction to the cults whenever the Bengals in there, preseason finale, time to mostly just talk about the cult and the expectation for the season.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Then we will hear from Rob Hunt on the Madison County Girls Golf Tournament dominated by Lapelle, actually a meat record.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Scott of the Marion Chronicle will have a report from a Marion Oak Hill Girls Boys Doubleheader in soccer.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I also spoke with Elwood Girls Flag Football Head Coach Zach Gerald about the Panthers
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[SPEAKER_05]: program debut on Saturday eight a shutout win over Ritter.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Then we'll be joined by our IU guy Grant Shows who talked about the start of the college football season actually got underway Saturday with a with a matchup of couple of ranked teams in Dublin, Ireland, but mostly we talked about you football.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I should mention that the fever also play on Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They play the Minnesota links and we will have a fever report after the game ends.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Sometime before midnight.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Your central Indiana Sports Center update begins now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was joined by our indie car guy Elijah Poe earlier Saturday to talk about qualifying at the Milwaukee Mile and quick to preview some days race.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Where Alex below will go for his record time tenth victory.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Following as a clip from Saturday's indie car report with Elijah Poe, he's gonna check that out.
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[SPEAKER_01]: it's great to see any car back in Milwaukee get this short oval going and in the car we said it all year they just look great on these ovals and especially watching qualifying today I think myself in the in the car fans and finally finally except that Alex flow has figured out ovals because oh my goodness what a performance by him today in qualifying it's a bit of a surprise that he won the poll but nothing he's doing anymore is a surprise Elijah he's just the best there is
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well for me, it's so shocking that he got that pull by, you know, seven tens of a mile an hour.
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[SPEAKER_00]: More than that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: as a very significant gap to second place and you know they've been Lucas had a very quick car and we saw some lap times come in but when he hit that lap time I think he was in the one sixty three's one sixty four's that's just incredible it's the first one to do and of course he's the last driver rolling off to for qualifying and a who else but Alex blow in the year he's having and the records he is chasing it's incredible
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we saw some pace out of all these drivers today, but we didn't see that pace.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Literally until the very final run went out to flow around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think his first lap was in that one sixty three maybe low one sixty four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it was a one sixty three point nine maybe, but it was just so high.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it was the first and in the one sixty three.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think all day just to see him come out and perform on an oval should be pretty scary for the rest of the handicap.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's obviously proven himself a winner on these ovals, obviously having one adorable earlier in the year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Milwaukee's a little bit different where at banking on the track is very, very minimal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll be interested to see how he's able to run that race smart because we always see a lot of passes that Milwaukee, so he's really going to have to hold his own.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Also earlier Saturday I spoke with Will Rutherford from strictly bias with Will Rutherford, the twice weekly show.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Mostly about the NFL, but about other things as well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's filling in as our part-time cults guy as well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And we talked about the cults, forty-one, fourteen, win over the Cincinnati Bengals in their preseason finale.
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[SPEAKER_05]: in a reaction podcast that we aired on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But mostly we talked about the expectations or lack of them.
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[SPEAKER_05]: For the colds heading into the regular season two weeks from today.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I expect that this team is constructed in a way that they're probably going to win at least six games just simply on the fact that it is good enough to do so.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They're good enough to win nine games probably ten games as I think they're sealing.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Somewhere in that ballpark.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The issue isn't that Daniel Jones takes that much of a step back as far as Richardson, but you're just, you've lose the, the awesome plays.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You lose the five star plays that Richardson's able to make that, that maybe another, only another quarterback on the entire plan is able to make what Daniel Jones gives you.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's going to be conservative if he's not elevating anything.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to keep that, that's at the same level that it was before.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And there's no elevation.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The ceiling is pretty good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: His ceiling is okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: On the on a school of quarterbacks is okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Maybe okay.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Pretty good isn't.
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[SPEAKER_05]: What's his ceiling?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, it's his ceiling.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, you and I are going to be talking this week on strictly bias with Will Rutherford and the culture report more about the quotes right now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The question I want to have is I want to ask you is what are you looking for out to most about week one and finding out about this team?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I want to see what the NFL record is for most field goals made because I think Spencer Schreiner might break NFL record week one because I see this offense is being good enough to get you in field goal range and not not good enough to finish the job.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, that's my next question.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This Tyler Warren changed that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that collectively as an offense, I think that they have good pieces.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that they struggle for everything Michael Pittman is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He struggles to get the ball in the end zone for whatever reason, whether that's his doing, whether the scheme, the quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The other one has never had an issue getting the end zone.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Not that this is at the heart level, but.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that that's true.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just fear that there's going to be opportunities to get means and that will be missed because of Daniel Jones.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's here that there will be an overthrow or an under throw and neither warrants wide open down the same for a walk and touchdown on third and six and Daniel Jones misses it and we have to settle for a field goal.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's what I fear.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think you know how far the quarterback's going to take this team.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's can the collective group around him just be really, really good and play after their potential.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and provide him with the run after catch opportunity.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Are they able to effectively establish a run game to make the play action game work a little better?
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[SPEAKER_03]: They have to be perfect on offense.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think to be good.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think that's something that I worry about because it's really hard to expect another people to be perfect.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Joining the central Indiana Sports Report now is Rob Hunt of the Harold Bulletin who had the honor of covering Madison County Gulf today and watching the lapel pole dogs continue to make history.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No surprise that they were going to win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they were there a far and away.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The best team to stay earned the county, the right fifteen to stay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But there was a lot of drama with a break of their county record with how much would they win by what was the race for second going to be like?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And those kinds of things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it really didn't disappoint.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There was a lot of stuff going on today.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Well, let's start with Armington Marshall and Federally, because that is a pretty special trio.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And of course, I'm a house in Philadelphia, and I'm pretty darn good too.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One of the things I mentioned to Dylan, across the little bell coach afterwards is, I mean, you're going to put Claire.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we know about those top three, but I mean, but I'm going to put Claire Hummer or cows up against anybody else's number four.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe anywhere.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she's really solid.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, she struggled for the first nine of that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was kind of the thing for these girls today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They all overcame something and it was different.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, for Humbercouse, it was a tough first nine holes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Makes she went out in forty seven, but came in in forty to finish on the set and then Armyton Bracer driver shaft on the front hole.
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[SPEAKER_02]: team off right after a tough bogey that she so she was she was in a bad metal state.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't ever come now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She ends up being metalist the third time she's a county champion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Marshall has a great front nine and then goes on the back nine pulls off a you know snowman on ten gets one back with a birdy but then double bogey's one of the parfies which you think that Marshall would just eat up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, comes back from that with a birdie on the par five of a second, par five, and then six about a fifteen-foot eagle pipe on a par four, sixteen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So she came back strong and there was just a lot I got all the time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, she said or lay, she bogies the first five holes she plays, then really settled in and played the rest of the rest of the match even par.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there was a lot of
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[SPEAKER_02]: I guess mental gymnastics these kids had to do to, you know, kind of write the ship.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But for all of them, I mean, for all anyone who's born the round could have completely out of our world, if they wanted something I started to get to them and, you know, again, the day they're sitting there with the Madison County record.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Yeah, it was just about to go over some scores real fast.
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[SPEAKER_05]: LePelle, six, sixteen, which is a county record, Franklin, three, eighty two for runner up in Anderson, three, eighty, six to finish third, really good days for Franklin and Anderson as well.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It was in Kyla and Attie and before we get to them, LePelle, we assume right now that they are the third team in the sectional, they're not in a conference, but are they good enough to maybe even be the second team in the sectional?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Here's the thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I have so many things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, it's quick time.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Nobles will on HSC are really, really good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe they're both right at the top five, top ten of the state.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So for Malta, go down there and beat either of those teams, particularly the nobles will.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's their home course of Harvard trees.
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[SPEAKER_02]: assuming they get through as the third team that make it to regional.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Now they're hosting regional, could they maybe move up into the top two and make it to state.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's more that would be more feasible.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I love you can finish third and that section.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You can finish certainly finish in the top three in that region.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would a hundred percent agree.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's, you know, the Harvard Trees is by far the deepest and most talented sectional that feeds on that regional.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like that's four team and that's, that's sexual as tip.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And probably not going to be deep enough to get out as a team, but they're probably going to talk to both get out as individuals.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So just, just some really good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Both have in the past already.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Rob, big fan of Kyla Bias.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Love her, love her personality, and man does she work at her game and it is showing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, especially when you figure she's only been playing for two years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, and here she is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and she, you know, one of the things she talked about was two days ago on the, you know, same course she goes out there and shoots a forty, forty eight, I think.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The front nine, today she shoots thirty nine on the front nine.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and finishes with an eighty two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She was a fourth place, I believe, and you know, just to really saw all, all county day for her.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, you, you talked about her personality, just to delight the beer around.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's here.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's so outgoing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She's, she's engaging, you know, she's funny.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, she talked about that the last time she played and she said, here I was just going to shake, shake, shake.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just like, well, if you think I'm not using that quote, the story, you're out of your mouth.
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[SPEAKER_02]: All right, no good.
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[SPEAKER_05]: She's a quote machine.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's something about the Frank and girls over there because they got some quote machines, don't they?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and you know, and some of the stuff was going like, I got Kinsey Blackford, they actually just playing the three spot today for Frank that she finished with a birdie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She drove the green on the par four or sixteen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, got it close with her first but then, you know, you love tapping birdies, right?
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, yeah, the, the Frank that girls, they were quite a good source of very well today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean,
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[SPEAKER_02]: everybody do the lapel was was going to be tough to catch and you know they went by sixty six shots that's an unreal margin really and so the problem was that race for second we figures would be frank in an Anderson that's what I know they're not contending for championship but this Anderson girls golf story continues to be a really good one
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been a lot of fun to follow these girls around the last couple of years and to see them really improve.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They take a lot of pride in what they're doing because Anderson has a phenomenal tradition of golf.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You may not know it over the last ten years, but you know, you go back to they've won some state championships.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Morgan Madeline was one of the great golfers ever come out of Madison County.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there's a lot of there's a lot of tradition there.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it kind of went away.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There was some years where they just had one or two players that the couple years ago didn't have anybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then these five freshmen show up last year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're competing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We're battling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And then this year they come out and they shoot three eighty six.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They finish third of the county.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They improve routine score by forty three shots from a year ago.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's just, that's just phenomenal, that's crazy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And Adam's going, who is very much in that same old as Kyla, by us just very outgoing, very friendly, loves this game, loves what she does, representing the school.
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[SPEAKER_02]: She improved her school, I believe, by seventeen shots today from last year to, uh, to earn that all, I'll count it and spot the first Anderson Girls player to earn all counting since, uh, two thousand eighteen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: As a matter of fact, I believe that was Alexa, not a lot more good younger sister.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just a great job by Jeff Bates and Frank and Hosting in our grandbius to the third year in a row.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Actually, it's been a grandbue out of an odd quirk of things.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Alexandria is hosting one year because because they were transitioning from you to Alexandria golf club, they held the grandbue.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And last year was Anderson Hosting at Granville and now Franklin no longer playing at Battlebrook, they're not around you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it'll be different next year to get it over to Edgewood, we're at Lafell Hosting, but great job I get paid to Franklin and for the Granville for Hosting at that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Next up is Scott Hunt of the Marion Chronicle who had a boys girl soccer double header.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Marion at Oak Hill, which was split.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The Oak Hill girls dominating eight to nothing, man, or they're gonna have a great season.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And Marion's boys getting a bit of an upset win, too, to nothing though, over the Golden Eagles.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome back to the Central Indiana Sports Report Scott Hunt.
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[SPEAKER_05]: After a late Friday night of football coverage, Scott recovered and got out to watch some soccer, a double header between Marion and Oak Hill.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oak Hill's girls dominated Marion's boys one a good one Scott tells about it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I don't know that I'm even recovered from last night yet, but we're trying.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it was, it was a good night of soccer, you know, this so-kill girl's team is, is a really good, one of the best players in class two A and Landry Hardman and a lot of town around them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They took care of,
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[SPEAKER_04]: A young, pretty unique experience, Marianne team, eight nothing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There are brighter days ahead for Marianne.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's a couple of really good players for the Giants have right now, and there's a really, really good class of freshmen that are eighth graders right now that will be here next year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But right now, just okay,
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[SPEAKER_04]: The class of the CIC for sure, and they've won the last two, their last two sectionals as well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They just have got us all by.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We ended up being in the state run up in Leo two years ago in the region alone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Elkill has a special class of girls in there.
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[SPEAKER_04]: of mostly underclassments.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Right now, the junior classes really, really good to see the Landry Hardman, who I mentioned earlier, had four goals for the Golden Eagles that I think that gives her
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[SPEAKER_04]: Eight and three matches this season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: She had won against East Brook the first match and then scored all three of their goals in a three-o win over Cocoa-Mo Wednesday night.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And now she had four more against Marion Corp on who's a junior in the air community house.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Had a goal.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're both junior in any hills.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Also a junior I believe.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then that senior male and chief had
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[SPEAKER_04]: at a goal for Oak Hill tonight.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's a really, really good junior class.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're going to go into the basketball season with high expectations as well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They should be a good test for them.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Like it was last year with the sectional.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They'll have another strong Lewis Casting who would be Tim in the section last year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Returns a lot.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Looking ahead, we don't want to get it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to get too deep in the past.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's right.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Conversation right now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But we're going to be innocent.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's always going to go that way.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that is what it is.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But that is the OCO.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's that junior class of the OCO that we're talking about.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's right.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was talking about this American boy soccer.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, George Barry has been at Marion Soccer Coach for, he couldn't tell me for sure, but it's either nineteen or twenty years and he just made it public to his team tonight.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He told me over the summer and I've kind of kept it under my hat and waited till he told his team, this will be his final team or his final season as the Soccer Coach at Marion.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They are off to a two and a star for George's big win over O'Kill tonight.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's their first win.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm looking now.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm max prepped their first win over O'Kill since I want to say the twenty eighteen season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: the whole lifetime of twenty seventeen season actually that they did after after twenty twenty they didn't play again till twenty twenty four those three three years that they didn't play and but O'Kill hadn't there been two ties of three O'Kill won three and they tied last year and
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[SPEAKER_04]: They were heading down the road for a tie.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There was no scoring in the first half tonight.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And then just just under fifteen minutes into the second half, a couple are really talented on the classroom for Marion Houghton, a beautifully played corner kick by freshman Jamie on Davis that was mid-air by a talented sophomore, Keegan Cook who knocked the Paso kills
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[SPEAKER_04]: goalie for the first goal of the game, and then with about six, just under seven minutes to play, Ethan Fain, who is the defensive defense of back-to-man.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And also has done a nice job last night for the Giants, as the kicker.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He hit a laser from about twenty-five yards out to the right side of it, to the left of the goalie at a pretty tough angle.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And not just past him and gave the Giants a big insurance goal.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They'd be a pretty good Fort Wayne Snider team to open the season Tuesday night.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're defense.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That was a fourth game tonight.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They kept seeing you go out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Come on, clean.
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[SPEAKER_04]: really did a much better job than it was it was interesting.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I guess Snyder that Mary and team scored first only seven minutes into the game and then ninety seconds after they scored they were down to one and then
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[SPEAKER_04]: It ended up being down three, one-and-a-half time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And since then, they've got to carry stuff more than a junior playing in the defensive end of the field.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And since then, they've really played well.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I've done a good job.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They did a nice job.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is comparatively speaking for O'Kill, especially for the last two or three years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is a very young O'Kill team, I think.
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[SPEAKER_04]: only four seniors and they did a nice job protecting homo homo did a nice job when when he was faced with with some pressure of cleaning the cleaning it up and your marrying was able to to get their first win over Oak Hills since August thirty of the twenty seventeen so pretty good nine soccer.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks so much got appreciated as always.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Oh, it started a girl's flag football program this year and the first season opened on Saturday and the Panthers beat Ritter eighteen to nothing.
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[SPEAKER_05]: It's great to beat an Lwood Panther anyway.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I spoke with Lwood Head Coach Zach D'Rill after the win.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I am joined now in the central Indiana Sports Report by Elwood Girls' Flood Football Coach Zach Gerald.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The program had an historic day, the first official game under the Cult Initiative.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The Elwood Panthers took advantage of that.
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[SPEAKER_05]: They started their season today against a winner with an eight team to nothing victory in coach.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Nice to get a game in.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's been ups and downs.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean all the way through.
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[SPEAKER_07]: just with nerves mainly between us coaches, we were nervous, the girls were nervous, getting out there and actually being able to play really calm, calmed a lot of us down, it never get rolling.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So you know, you go through practice, go leading up to the season.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Did you have any idea whether your team was good or bad, had you played other teams?
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[SPEAKER_05]: Did you have any gauge of what you would expect?
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[SPEAKER_07]: No, not really.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We didn't have a chance to play scrimmage or anything like that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They had a scrimmage at once and no worked July, nineteenth.
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[SPEAKER_07]: If we just weren't ready to play in that and plus it's a lot of bigger schools.
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[SPEAKER_07]: But we did take the girls down there and kind of saw them play and saw where we were at and stuff like that.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Compared to them, they were excited when they saw them play.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So I knew they were, they weren't a good headspace.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Tell me about your girls, how many do you have out, who have really taken to the sport and what's the personality of the team?
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[SPEAKER_07]: So we've had thirteen girls now.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How many are on the field of ones?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Seven.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Seven at one time.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We've only had eleven today through two, you know, physicals getting practices and, you know, for the IHSA rules, but we roll with eleven today.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Everyone, everyone got
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[SPEAKER_07]: good playing time, as far as the team, the girls, they're so trying to find our work giddy.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They're happy about everything.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I mean, we had to practice a couple weeks ago where, you know, it's the end of practice on my guard, this last play, and then your last play, another play, another play, another play.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And I mean, they feed on it, they love the sport.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Well, it helps.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Which, oh, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We are
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[SPEAKER_07]: consistent.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We're very young team.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I think nine out of our thirteen are freshmen.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Wow.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So we're a young team.
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[SPEAKER_07]: So we've definitely got a future look forward to that's why coming out today and actually getting the win was super positive.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Before years to watch this team grow, that's pretty exciting.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm super excited.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I know Ryan's super excited.
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[SPEAKER_07]: The fan base, they were super excited today.
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's going to be
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[SPEAKER_07]: It's gonna be some great years for girls flexible ball here, and I would.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Tell me who's on your team coach.
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[SPEAKER_07]: All right, so we'll start with our senior Olivia Rexford.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She's one of our team captain.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She is super, super smart girl.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She plays middle line back across and she can check defensive calls, no matter what they line up in.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She can check what we need to.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Yeah, so we've got our junior, Tensie Garrison had.
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[SPEAKER_07]: a hundred and thirteen Russian yards, two touchdowns, MN interception, soft moors, we've got Michaela Wiggum and Grace Kaeland.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Their superstars on team, Grace also was part of the first ever girls wrestling team in over the last year.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She's a history maker.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She is.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She wants to do that in there.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Our freshman, we have laundry lists.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We have
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[SPEAKER_07]: Louis Fuller, Journey Noon, Savannah, Schueler.
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[SPEAKER_07]: And then we have Alaina, Diego, and Jasmine, Diego, they're twins.
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[SPEAKER_07]: We have Jady Halt, Maggie Miller, and then Sam Peterson, and Jada Cameron.
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[SPEAKER_05]: The name noon is very familiar with Elwood football fans, of course, one of the greatest.
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[SPEAKER_05]: All-time greatest football players in Elwood history is Chris noon, I assume.
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[SPEAKER_05]: There's a relation because they're all over Elwood now.
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[SPEAKER_07]: They are all.
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[SPEAKER_07]: I'm not sure if there is any relation, but let me tell you, she's actually the quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She has all the fight in the world.
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[SPEAKER_07]: No matter what happens, she's not getting down on herself.
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[SPEAKER_07]: playing of times today where we called past plays and she was getting blitz and she take off.
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[SPEAKER_07]: She finished with really fifty five yards today in the touchdown.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Nice.
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[SPEAKER_05]: All right, Coach, so the L Wood Panthers girls flag football team has never lost the game.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Nope.
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[SPEAKER_07]: Hey, we're undefeated.
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[SPEAKER_05]: undefeated in the history of the program.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We're going to enjoy that as long as we can.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And my last question, coaches, is it great to be an Elwood Panther?
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[SPEAKER_07]: Oh, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_07]: There's nothing better.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I cannot hide my bias about the Elwood Panthers.
29:08
[SPEAKER_05]: All right, you got Grant Shows is excited that the college football season is back.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Welcome now Grant Shouse of the Action Sports Network and our IU guy on the IU report every week on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This week grant we have a special coming up Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Best case and worst case scenarios for IU football for every game and it was a lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And the college football season has begun and officially began Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_05]: I was fake twenty four Kansas twenty one in Dublin outside of our area that has officially begun.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's something that you've been looking forward to for months.
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[SPEAKER_06]: It's hard to believe that it's bad to be honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We were watching the national championship game not not too long ago watching Ohio State be another game.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And then the next thing we're all right through the off season and it's finally back.
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[SPEAKER_06]: There's a good game today with Kansas State and Iowa State.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Some other good games here tonight as we're talking right now, Stanford and Hawaii or battling going in.
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[SPEAKER_06]: going into the fourth quarter out in Hawaii and might as well call them the stand for Colts now because they got Andrew luck as their GM and Frank Reich is their head coach.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think that, you know, this season's going to be really fun to watch.
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[SPEAKER_06]: If today was any indicator, it, you know, it really was, you know.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So Saturday, UNL VB to Idaho State, thirty eight to thirty one Kansas beat Fresno State.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thirty one to seven and Western Kentucky is about to close out Sam Houston.
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[SPEAKER_05]: So, like you said, not a lot of interesting games, but Thursday we have one coming up.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Boys in state, is it South Florida?
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[SPEAKER_05]: It really gets going on Saturday.
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[SPEAKER_05]: How excited are you for the losers?
30:52
[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, you know, really excited.
30:53
[SPEAKER_06]: I'll be at the game next Saturday, consultant minion.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Need that place, essentially sold out and rocked.
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[SPEAKER_06]: We talked about that on the IE report.
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[SPEAKER_06]: People will hear it about how important it is to sell that game out.
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[SPEAKER_06]: As of right now, there's still tickets available.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Get tickets people if you're interested.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Get tickets even if it's on a secondary market.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Get tickets be there.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Support these guys.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think it's going to be a good day.
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[SPEAKER_06]: You know, you have college game day being in Columbus.
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[SPEAKER_06]: They're last game with Lee Corso for he goes into retirement.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And, you know, that's a special thing.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I watched a tribute video for him.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And a special that they ran last on Friday night on the SDN.
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[SPEAKER_06]: And getting through that, it wasn't that video, it was an emotional video.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Seeing Kirk Herb Street, all emotional and teared up about it as someone who was a father figure for him.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The premier matchup, of course, being Texas, Ohio State, Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Quite literally, that could be the preview to the National Championship.
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[SPEAKER_06]: How unbelievable is that that we get that
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[SPEAKER_06]: the very like first game of the Saturday slate.
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[SPEAKER_06]: The matchups are going to be big week ones always find week ones honestly my favorite week.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I think you find that alone.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That's for sure.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_05]: We have Texas Ohio State Alabama Florida State LSU Clemson.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And of course, the one that everybody's going to be watching.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Winkers right in the Illinois State Redbirds going into Norman to upset the Oklahoma Seniors.
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[SPEAKER_05]: You would have, man.
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[SPEAKER_05]: But not me, something.
32:37
[SPEAKER_05]: You can't wait to see what are you able to do our nephew.
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[SPEAKER_05]: He's been trophy candidate.
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[SPEAKER_05]: That's what we're saying.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Sure.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Thanks so much Grant for your time.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Always appreciated and can't wait for college football to get started.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Yep, thanks, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Thanks for having me and be talking about it all season long.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Can't wait.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Everybody check out Grant and Mike Hutzl on the IU report coming out Sunday.
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[SPEAKER_05]: Their best case and worst case scenario for every game and man, Mike Hutzl was a hoot.
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[SPEAKER_06]: Oh, he was great, Lightning.
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[SPEAKER_06]: I have to get him more involved.
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[SPEAKER_06]: That'd be awesome.
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[SPEAKER_05]: This central Indian esports report is a product of ITG media.
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[SPEAKER_05]: And I love Susie.