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FRANKTON 60, WABASH 48: Recap with Michelle Garmon + Postgame Reaction with Brent Brobston (2.168.4) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to a special edition of the Frank Engels Report, a recap of Frank Den's seventh straight win, a 60 to 48 road victory at Wabash on Tuesday night.
• 0:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Greg Mengelt, coming up.
• 0:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: We will talk to Michelle Garmin of the Tipton Tribune and Elwood Collider who was able to stream the game.
• 0:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: has a recap for us.
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then I spoke with Frank and had coach Brent Robbs didn't for about five minutes to get his thoughts on what was an inconsistent game.
• 0:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's just say that.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: As I mentioned, the seventh win in a row for the Eagles six of those by double figures.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: As I said, Michelle will have the details for you coming up.
• 0:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: She had everything but the final statistics.
• 0:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I have those.
• 0:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Eagle Shop 56% from the field, 23, 4, 41, led by a 7 for 12 night by trade Bennett that are leading score with 21 points.
• 1:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Eagles attempt to just six three pointers on the night and made just one, Blake Nickham was one for two, and they were 12, 4, 18 from the free throw line.
• 1:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: That was mostly trade been it.
• 1:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: Who was seven for nine, Blake Nickham made both of his, no a Melvin made his only attempt.
• 1:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: Blake Nickham was probably the player of the night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He finished with 13 points.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Seven rebounds, six deals, three assists, and a couple of block shots, and made some really big plays down the stretch.
• 1:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Been at five rebounds at a couple of block shots to go along with his team leading 21 points.
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ethan Stan's Baron Eli Burch both scored eight points.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Stan's Barrier also had five steals four assists and a block shot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Burch also had three assists and three rebounds.
• 2:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: Melvin contributed five points, four rebounds and three assists.
• 2:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: and Ashton stands very four points, five rebounds, six assists, and a steel in the victory.
• 2:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: And here is Michelle Garmin of the Tipton Tribune, and Elwood Collider with Burrie Cap of the Frankenvictory.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, Michelle, we have the final numbers.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Tell us how it went down.
• 2:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'll tell you, you know,
• 2:35
  [SPEAKER_00]: A trip to Walbash, early in the week, when I was in high school, my artimes was put on Monday night, hated that trip, Tuesday night at the same thing.
• 2:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just a long road trip to have it at the beginning of the week.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think Rankton kind of came out flat a little bit and struggled and they were down.
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: There really, you know, early in the third quarter, they were down 12 points, and while bashed some key three pointers, wide open, uncontested three, but the big key, I thought was when Franklin went to its three-quarters court press, and it was, uh, ashton on top, you know, and then over and it kind of allowed, like, Nick and was one of the wings, and Blake Nick
• 3:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: been a game changer for the Eagles off in this year, and it was, I thought, again, tonight.
• 3:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: He had came up with some steals and deflections, which is easy layups.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: And while I truly also did not have an answer for trade been inside, when Franklin started getting the ball into him, he was very effective inside, either making shots or getting fouled and getting to go to the free throw line.
• 3:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: Franklin played pretty good.
• 3:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: They had some
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Brett will go over with the team when they watch film, little uncharacteristic, one of the open threes.
• 3:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: that Wal-Bash got in the third quarter after Franklin had cut the lead to four, there was a wide open three to go back up to seven.
• 4:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: It came because three, three Franklin players trapped at the ball on the sideline.
• 4:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: A fourth player was within eight feet, and the fifth player down there, they had no one opposite.
• 4:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: They just threw it over to Guy Drain, switched to three, it made it a seven point game.
• 4:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: Then Franklin went on a 14 to O-run,
• 4:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And to take a lead, and then Wabash added a free throw there at the end of the third quarter and actually Wabash got was in 48 to 44 in the quarter, but the Eagles just pushed him came up with a little run.
• 4:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: Frantan is, they're really training in the right direction right now, and if they can clean up some of those lapses, and I think it's lapses that create or causing some of their offensive turnovers now, and lapses sometimes on the defensive end, and those are more mental lapses than anything else.
• 5:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, Frank, one of the ways wall bash got back into the game is Frank did had, you know,
• 5:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think out of five or six possessions, they had three turnovers.
• 5:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: And part of it was coming over, eating across half-quart line.
• 5:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: And or if they didn't turn it over, Britain had to use like two timeouts, right there back to that.
• 5:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: Bringing the ball across to half-quart, one, two steps and picking it up.
• 5:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: Then that half-quart line becomes another defender.
• 5:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Those are just little lapses, but the great thing about that is those are the kind of things you can work on in practice.
• 5:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: and adjust and just keep getting better and at.
• 5:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I really like the way Frank did is playing right now.
• 5:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know they have a big conference game on Friday because they're gonna host Mrs. Sinnellal.
• 5:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know neither one of those teams is in the conference race but it's because they have a good shot at finishing five and two which would be, you know, really good for them.
• 6:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Mrs. Sinnellal though.
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not gonna give a good record, but that's a talented team.
• 6:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: Italian a team and they've got some athletes on you know on it that's the kind of team that some of those kind of teams if they get hot they have a hot hand shooting or one player gets on fire it can really it could spark you.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a team you definitely cannot over you can't look at their record and say oh we're going to win this one.
• 6:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: Correct.
• 6:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much to Michelle, she is the best.
• 6:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: She is on our weekly fee for report on Sundays, but she's on a lot of our reports.
• 6:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think she's been on every single one.
• 6:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: She can be on any podcast that she'd like.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Please stay tuned for Frank and Head Coach, Brent Propston.
• 7:00
  [SPEAKER_01]: Well coach, it definitely wasn't the prettiest game in the world, but it is seven wins in a row.
• 7:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we will, we'll take it and move forward and it's not a very good first half for us, but I like our third quarter effort, and the kids bought him to change you a little bit defensively and was able to, uh, tell some issues there for, for World Ocean, the third quarter, fourth quarter and, oh, we played a good second half.
• 7:29
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, really look like two different teams there.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I don't think we were, uh,
• 7:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: really getting off the bus fully prepared to play like we should have been and I think we got caught there with that and that's a credit to wall bash.
• 7:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: They played extremely hard and got after us and kind of what I thought they would do.
• 7:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: I saw that in their game at Tepton when they when they beat Tepton and I thought, you know, we're gonna have to go up here and play well to start the game and we really did not match their intensity level and they took advantage that early.
• 8:02
  [SPEAKER_01]: It felt like you really turned up the defense in the second half.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I think we did a good job defensively in the second half came agenda into some full court pressure defense, cause some turnovers, they could win the second half 44 24.
• 8:17
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it was kind of a different, you know, a little bit different energy and different mindset in the second half for us 14 steals and as usual, Blake is the front of that.
• 8:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he's been great defensively.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: And then when you get in the full court like that, impress situations, he's done a good job with that too.
• 8:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: So there's energy levels been great all year.
• 8:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'd trade too.
• 8:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: Just when he went to the basket, there was no one stopping him.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I thought we did a better job finding him in the second half with some high-low action.
• 8:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he was able to give some much needed baskets.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_02]: And he's been consistent with scoring the entire season.
• 9:01
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it was important to get him going in the second half, and I thought we did.
• 9:05
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought he liked Berge play the great game for us last night.
• 9:08
  [SPEAKER_02]: I thought he was really important.
• 9:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: He didn't get a good job coming off the bench and had eight points and caused some really good disruptions on our press defense.
• 9:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: did some good things offensively doing the fourth quarter when you were on your run.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, he had some nice baskets that he scored for us and Nalvin came back into the game.
• 9:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: He came out there early, third quarter for a couple of minutes came back and really cost some problems defensively as well and had a big three point play force.
• 9:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: He really kind of got to go and and then Birch obviously had the same thing.
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_02]: He was used instrumental in that run.
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: Birch has been consistent to like that all season playing hard.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_02]: No
• 9:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: uh... great second half force just first half was just uh... not very good execution not very good defensively and second half was much better coaches been uh... couple of weeks since your last c i c game clearly not in the race anymore considering uh... okill is unbeaten you've won three in a row would be really nice to close out the conference season
• 10:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: with five straight wins.
• 10:21
  [SPEAKER_01]: But this is a Mrs. Senawal team that is way better than their record win in the game.
• 10:27
  [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's going to be a very difficult game.
• 10:29
  [SPEAKER_02]: Josh is a good coach.
• 10:30
  [SPEAKER_02]: He's done a good job with that program.
• 10:31
  [SPEAKER_02]: And the record's no indication of where they're at.
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_02]: They went over to, you know, Alexander has got a good team too.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_02]: And they add Alec.
• 10:39
  [SPEAKER_02]: They've, I think, been lost by two.
• 10:41
  [SPEAKER_02]: So it's right.
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a tough game for us.
• 10:44
  [SPEAKER_02]: We've got to be prepared to play.
• 10:47
  [SPEAKER_02]: I've told our kids you know we've been winning and and with that comes teams want to come in a beach So you need to make sure you're ready to play from the beginning of the tough instead of you know not being there Not ready to go at the start of the game, so we just got to be ready to go from the beginning
• 11:06
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• 11:16
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• 11:56
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