Latest / Gateway Sports Venue Show / WEEK 8 REVIEW: CBC routs SLUH, Ritter tops DeSmet in a Shootout, Kirkwood overpowers Ladue, GAC/Suburban/618 Scores
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- 0:14Speaker 1: Welcome back to the gate Way Sportscava Show. Thank you
- 0:16Speaker 1: all for joining us. It's John and Roman talking to
- 0:18Speaker 1: you guys. As always.
- 0:20Speaker 2: It is post week eight.
- 0:23Speaker 1: Roman, We're almost there. We're almost to the playoffs and
- 0:26Speaker 1: we got through a week with a lot of big
- 0:29Speaker 1: time headline grabbing games. We're about to talk to you
- 0:34Speaker 1: at agnauseum about CBC versus Sloop. But first off, in general,
- 0:39Speaker 1: how are you with this season so far? It's been
- 0:42Speaker 1: a pretty fun one.
- 0:43Speaker 2: It's been great.
- 0:43Speaker 3: The season has been giving us a lot of exciting games,
- 0:46Speaker 3: a lot of talented players showing us their best in
- 0:50Speaker 3: the field, and it's given us a lot of exciting
- 0:55Speaker 3: not just scores, but storyline is going.
- 0:57Speaker 2: Into the playoffs.
- 0:59Speaker 3: Some players coming back from injury now late in the
- 1:02Speaker 3: season should shake things up a little bit going into
- 1:04Speaker 3: the playoffs. But yeah, we reread a very exciting game
- 1:07Speaker 3: on Friday. I don't know if you want to give
- 1:09Speaker 3: a little intro to.
- 1:10Speaker 1: It, but so it's a one hundred plus year rivalry game.
- 1:15Speaker 1: CBC versus Slow is the biggest rivalry in the MCC
- 1:18Speaker 1: because it's the two oldest teams, two oldest schools, and
- 1:23Speaker 1: just the history of it between both schools is pretty
- 1:27Speaker 1: good overall, obviously been dominated by CBC, especially over the
- 1:32Speaker 1: last twenty years twenty five years really in the football
- 1:36Speaker 1: sphere of the rivalry between both schools. And yet again
- 1:41Speaker 1: it was the Cadets with a dominating thirty seven to
- 1:44Speaker 1: nothing victory. We tweeted out that, I mean, if you're
- 1:49Speaker 1: not convinced by now about this team being the number
- 1:52Speaker 1: one team in the state, I don't know what else
- 1:54Speaker 1: is going to convince you. I mean, credit to SLEW
- 1:58Speaker 1: for being only the second team season the hold CBC
- 2:02Speaker 1: under fifty points, the other being Corner Ritter for forty points.
- 2:06Speaker 1: But every other game CBC is played, they've scored over
- 2:09Speaker 1: fifty points. And they finally it took it took basically
- 2:15Speaker 1: a full quarter for the Cadets to get rolling, but
- 2:17Speaker 1: once they did, they could not be stopped. It was
- 2:20Speaker 1: a big second quarter that really uh changed the tide
- 2:24Speaker 1: of the game and really kind of decided it there.
- 2:28Speaker 1: And we both of us were there, so we got
- 2:30Speaker 1: a lot of insight into this game.
- 2:33Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna do my best to not talk about
- 2:36Speaker 3: this game for forty five minutes to an hour because
- 2:38Speaker 3: I feel like that's how that's how much I could
- 2:40Speaker 3: say about just this game in the environment, and CBC
- 2:44Speaker 3: is slew and just each of these teams, not just
- 2:47Speaker 3: this game but the season as a whole.
- 2:49Speaker 2: But I mean, the first thing I'll.
- 2:51Speaker 3: Say is, man, CBC's talent at every position is unmatched
- 2:59Speaker 3: in this state and.
- 3:02Speaker 2: You can look at pretty much any.
- 3:04Speaker 3: Position on the field and like you know, walking in
- 3:08Speaker 3: seeing because it's the first time i've this is the
- 3:10Speaker 3: first time I've seen CBC in person this season, and
- 3:16Speaker 3: the first thing I noticed is that their offensive line
- 3:18Speaker 3: isn't you know, the hulking Like It's not like every
- 3:25Speaker 3: single guy is six six, three hundred. It's not like
- 3:27Speaker 3: it's some sort of sec offensive line. But man, they
- 3:31Speaker 3: are elite and they are their offensive line is and
- 3:37Speaker 3: I'm talking about their O line right now because we've
- 3:39Speaker 3: been talking adnoledgement about their usual suspects like McClellan, Williams, Gauge.
- 3:45Speaker 3: But I do want to shout out there O line
- 3:46Speaker 3: real quick, because while they're not the biggest CBC O
- 3:49Speaker 3: line ever, they're very fast off the ball and they are.
- 3:53Speaker 2: Extremely good at sustaining their blocks.
- 3:56Speaker 3: And one thing I noticed is that whenever CBC, whenever
- 4:00Speaker 3: their line were able to get to the second level,
- 4:03Speaker 3: they would be able to give Vic Williams enough room
- 4:08Speaker 3: to where his yards after contact must have been ninety
- 4:14Speaker 3: percent of his yards where he would maybe get he
- 4:17Speaker 3: maybe had to brush past somebody at the offense at
- 4:19Speaker 3: the at the front of the offensive line, but then
- 4:22Speaker 3: once he's passed Boon was twenty yards like againstantly because
- 4:25Speaker 3: he just already has so much room to work with
- 4:27Speaker 3: in the second level. And that's and it's also the
- 4:29Speaker 3: fact that Vic Williams is unbelievably shifting and fast and
- 4:33Speaker 3: Nick McClellan as well. Yeah, and I'll talk about him
- 4:35Speaker 3: and him more in a bit. But while the like,
- 4:39Speaker 3: while the size of the CVC offensive line isn't as
- 4:43Speaker 3: oh my gosh, I'm scared of this team as it
- 4:45Speaker 3: has been in like in previous dominant CBC years, they're
- 4:49Speaker 3: elite and they need to. They deserve some credits. That's
- 4:52Speaker 3: why I'm giving that plaim right now. But not just
- 4:55Speaker 3: the offensive line, but literally every other aspect of this
- 4:59Speaker 3: CVS team is near perfect for a high school football team.
- 5:06Speaker 3: I mean, Nick McClellan is unbelievable. He's completely unbelievable. He
- 5:12Speaker 3: it's almost impossible to sack him. Slu Hide was able
- 5:15Speaker 3: to do it a couple of times because lou Hyde
- 5:16Speaker 3: has a completely elite defense. And I'll talk about them
- 5:20Speaker 3: more in a bit, but I do want to talk
- 5:21Speaker 3: about CBC to start, because CBC deserves it.
- 5:26Speaker 2: Nick McClellan is.
- 5:27Speaker 3: So shifty in the pocket it is so hard to
- 5:30Speaker 3: take him down. He's so his straight line speed is
- 5:34Speaker 3: incredible too. And if you're not sending five guys in
- 5:39Speaker 3: a pass rush where the edges are sealed off and
- 5:43Speaker 3: the interior also is closed up, the threat of McClellan
- 5:48Speaker 3: escaping for a fifteen yard scramble is very real every
- 5:51Speaker 3: single play. And that doesn't even include the fact that
- 5:56Speaker 3: he is a great arm I mean, the kid can
- 5:58Speaker 3: chuck the ball. I mean there were several times there was.
- 6:00Speaker 3: I believe it was in the It was in the
- 6:03Speaker 3: later part of the first quarter where he was scrambling
- 6:07Speaker 3: out to his right, and I mean this ball had
- 6:10Speaker 3: to have been sixty plus miles an hour. It was
- 6:13Speaker 3: over the guy's head the back of the end zone barely,
- 6:15Speaker 3: but I mean the kid can absolutely truck the football.
- 6:19Speaker 3: His arm track is unbelievable. The decision making is really
- 6:22Speaker 3: good too. He had no turnovers, he didn't really force anything,
- 6:26Speaker 3: and really good at keeping plays alive. No, no play
- 6:30Speaker 3: is ever dead when the ball is in his hands.
- 6:32Speaker 3: It's honestly insane. And that's just offensively. He plays safety
- 6:37Speaker 3: as well, and he's really.
- 6:38Speaker 2: Good at safety.
- 6:39Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 6:40Speaker 3: His his ball recognition is amazing. He was he was
- 6:43Speaker 3: able to read when mccleoon was playing safety. He was
- 6:46Speaker 3: able to read Kyrin Elby's eyes really well, really really well,
- 6:50Speaker 3: really able to I mean, and it is somewhat easier
- 6:54Speaker 3: to do when slew High only has two different guys
- 6:56Speaker 3: catch a pass, so you kind of know what's coming.
- 6:59Speaker 3: But to to anticipate that well and get to the
- 7:02Speaker 3: ball and get this pass breakups is very difficult to do.
- 7:06Speaker 3: So I want to get credit to him for that
- 7:07Speaker 3: as well, and assuming he keeps playing the way he
- 7:12Speaker 3: is throughout the playoffs, I don't see how you can't
- 7:17Speaker 3: give him Classics Player of the Year or in Saint
- 7:20Speaker 3: Louis Metro Player of the Year.
- 7:21Speaker 2: I just don't understand.
- 7:23Speaker 1: I think he's definitely the Metro Player of the Year
- 7:25Speaker 1: at this point. I don't he has I can see
- 7:27Speaker 1: how anybody else gets in front of him. And that's
- 7:30Speaker 1: just how good he's been. And there's there's other pretty
- 7:32Speaker 1: good players out here, but he's just been far and
- 7:35Speaker 1: away the MVP of the season.
- 7:37Speaker 3: It's it's it's which is which is insane because he
- 7:42Speaker 3: is by far the most valuable player in the state
- 7:46Speaker 3: just what he does on both sides of the ball.
- 7:49Speaker 3: But in a in any normal year, Corday Gage would
- 7:53Speaker 3: also be up in the in the conversation. Yeah, doesn't
- 7:56Speaker 3: put up the craziest offensive stats, but he's he's a
- 8:01Speaker 3: threat on the perimeter receiving the ball.
- 8:04Speaker 2: He had sixty one receiving yards this.
- 8:05Speaker 1: Game with a touch twenty nine yard touch maw he
- 8:08Speaker 1: g had.
- 8:09Speaker 3: A touchdown the second quarter. And he's one of the
- 8:11Speaker 3: best kickers in the state as well. He has and
- 8:13Speaker 3: he's one of the best punters in the state as well.
- 8:15Speaker 3: I don't know he's a great punt return I don't.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Know about punters in the state that we saw. He
- 8:19Speaker 1: had one really nice punt and they probably he probably
- 8:22Speaker 1: hasn't got a whole lot of opportunities to punt the season.
- 8:23Speaker 3: He doesn't have to pump when he does he's amazing
- 8:25Speaker 3: at it. Yeah, because I mean because the kid, I
- 8:28Speaker 3: mean I was able to I was actually fortunate enough
- 8:30Speaker 3: to meet him earlier to see this season and talked
- 8:32Speaker 3: to him for talk to some of his former coaches
- 8:34Speaker 3: as well. He plays so many different sports. He baseball players,
- 8:38Speaker 3: soccer growing up as well. He's an amazing baseball player.
- 8:41Speaker 3: The kid is just an unbelievable athlete. And just for
- 8:45Speaker 3: CBC to have a guy like McClellan, and then it's
- 8:49Speaker 3: court a gauge to the PA announcer who was mispronouncing
- 8:52Speaker 3: his name.
- 8:53Speaker 1: I definitely have mispronounced his name of the past as well,
- 8:55Speaker 1: but yeah, finally caught on.
- 8:58Speaker 2: But I mean just for CBC. And then also Jake
- 9:02Speaker 2: Plumber first and Jayden Reid.
- 9:04Speaker 3: They didn't have the best stat line, but they are
- 9:08Speaker 3: very tall, very fast receivers on the outside that are
- 9:11Speaker 3: very hard to cover.
- 9:13Speaker 1: Jayden's pretty Jayden's not really tall, but he's just really shift.
- 9:15Speaker 1: He's really good receivers.
- 9:16Speaker 3: And if you to at lead and honestly, if you
- 9:21Speaker 3: look at this, just the stats of this game, CBC
- 9:23Speaker 3: was able to put up.
- 9:26Speaker 1: What is this four.
- 9:27Speaker 3: Hundred twenty three yards I think twenty four to twenty
- 9:30Speaker 3: four yards.
- 9:30Speaker 2: It looks like just well my quick math.
- 9:34Speaker 1: It's it's over four hundred. Yeah.
- 9:35Speaker 3: They offensively, they had an amazing game. They had no turnovers,
- 9:38Speaker 3: They scored almost every day. They had a few three
- 9:41Speaker 3: nowns in the first half, but after that they are
- 9:44Speaker 3: really able to get it going. This CBC offense is
- 9:46Speaker 3: the best in the Midwest, and until someone shows me otherwise,
- 9:49Speaker 3: I will firmly believe that.
- 9:52Speaker 2: So congratates CBC on the win.
- 9:53Speaker 3: I would talk about it more, but I've already come
- 9:56Speaker 3: on a bit about them. They're easy the Class six
- 10:01Speaker 3: state title favorite right now. I do not understand how
- 10:04Speaker 3: they couldn't be. I mean, yeah, have Blue Springs South's
- 10:06Speaker 3: having a great year. Nick is having a great year.
- 10:09Speaker 3: But with the schedule CBC has played so far and
- 10:11Speaker 3: the way they've been able to win the games they have,
- 10:14Speaker 3: they they are the heavy heavy favorites to win. And
- 10:21Speaker 3: now that don't talk about CBC, I would love to
- 10:22Speaker 3: talk about Slough for a bit.
- 10:24Speaker 1: I want to say the biggest, sorry, the biggest play
- 10:27Speaker 1: in the game was a fourth and two in the
- 10:30Speaker 1: second quarter. It was one of those wildcats where Kean
- 10:36Speaker 1: Harris is in and Sleive's been really good all year
- 10:39Speaker 1: when he's in when they're in that position and they
- 10:41Speaker 1: just need a few yards to get a first down.
- 10:44Speaker 1: But they didn't get it. However, though we were told
- 10:48Speaker 1: that that was a play where they weren't supposed.
- 10:50Speaker 2: To go, so just just the premise real quick.
- 10:52Speaker 3: So it was it was CDC was up three to zero.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Was in the second it was this was in the
- 10:56Speaker 2: second quarter.
- 10:57Speaker 3: It's slew high ball at their own I think it
- 11:00Speaker 3: was their own forty yard line.
- 11:02Speaker 1: They were on their own half of the field.
- 11:04Speaker 3: And it was a fourth and two and they lined
- 11:08Speaker 3: up in their wildcat on balance, which they had some
- 11:09Speaker 3: decent success with earlier in the game, in all season really,
- 11:14Speaker 3: and it was supposed to be a no play, like
- 11:16Speaker 3: they were supposed to not snap the ball. They were
- 11:18Speaker 3: supposed to just attempt to draw the music off side
- 11:21Speaker 3: and then either take the lay of game for whatever
- 11:24Speaker 3: five yard penalty or call timeout. Yeah, they were not
- 11:27Speaker 3: supposed to snap the ball, and they did. They got
- 11:30Speaker 3: stopped and that was that was pretty brutal. And then
- 11:33Speaker 3: going into the game, that was the biggest play of
- 11:34Speaker 3: the game because of the moment.
- 11:37Speaker 2: I would disagree.
- 11:38Speaker 3: I would say the dropped pass on Slew High's first
- 11:42Speaker 3: drive of the game. That was the biggest play of
- 11:44Speaker 3: the game because if they catch that that that that
- 11:48Speaker 3: would have gone for twenty yards and that would have
- 11:50Speaker 3: got them out of the shadow of their own ends
- 11:51Speaker 3: one that would have totally flipped the field position battle.
- 11:54Speaker 3: That would have changed the momentum early. I think that
- 11:57Speaker 3: I firmly believe that if if that ball gets caught
- 12:01Speaker 3: and gets to their own thirty yard line they get
- 12:04Speaker 3: stuff going, that that changes a lot a lot.
- 12:08Speaker 1: I disagree because the way the game kind of played out,
- 12:10Speaker 1: they had had a lot of trouble moving the football.
- 12:13Speaker 1: I just I think you just don't know after that.
- 12:15Speaker 1: And sure, yeah, we don't know what happens if Slewed
- 12:18Speaker 1: if they just punt right there, but their defense had
- 12:21Speaker 1: been really good up to that point, and so to
- 12:23Speaker 1: give CBC a short field to work with. That's why,
- 12:27Speaker 1: in my opinion, it was a big momentum shift because
- 12:30Speaker 1: Slew that's like, oh, we don't need to drive here, really,
- 12:34Speaker 1: I mean, they were almost already in fieldal position at
- 12:36Speaker 1: that point where they were. But I just think if
- 12:40Speaker 1: momentum was a real thing right there, and you know,
- 12:43Speaker 1: to for CBC to stuff Slew short on that run
- 12:48Speaker 1: because I didn't think as and as it turns out,
- 12:51Speaker 1: I mean, Slew didn't even want to run a play
- 12:53Speaker 1: right there at least in that in that type of fashion,
- 12:56Speaker 1: and they accidentally snapped it. So yeah, I just I
- 13:01Speaker 1: just think that's like that. At the time, I thought
- 13:03Speaker 1: that's just a big, huge, that's a big player there
- 13:06Speaker 1: and it could be the biggest play of the game.
- 13:07Speaker 1: Or just because CBC is a team that once they
- 13:10Speaker 1: get one touchdown they can just kind of run away
- 13:13Speaker 1: with it pretty quickly, and that's that's what happened.
- 13:17Speaker 2: So with Slew, this this sounds crazy for me to say.
- 13:24Speaker 3: Even with CBC getting over four hundred yards of offense,
- 13:28Speaker 3: I still think Sleu High has a top three defense
- 13:31Speaker 3: in the state. Agreed because one cave yat to CBC's
- 13:36Speaker 3: offense this game, they did not have And I haven't
- 13:39Speaker 3: looked at the exact drive chart, but to my memory
- 13:43Speaker 3: from watching this whole game on the sideline, I don't
- 13:47Speaker 3: think there was one drive.
- 13:49Speaker 2: Where CBC.
- 13:51Speaker 3: Had to drive across midfield and score a touchdown. I
- 13:56Speaker 3: believe all their touchdowns came because they scored CBC scored
- 13:59Speaker 3: four touchdowns this game, one of which was off of
- 14:03Speaker 3: a fumble recovery at slew High's thirty. One was off
- 14:08Speaker 3: a great punt return by Cordie Gay she got the
- 14:10Speaker 3: ball to s through High thirty five. Another one was
- 14:14Speaker 3: off of sleugh High fourth down that they didn't get
- 14:17Speaker 3: at their own forty.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
- 14:22Speaker 3: Every time CBC had the ball in their own territory,
- 14:26Speaker 3: slew High kept them out of the end zone, which
- 14:27Speaker 3: I think is extremely impressive.
- 14:29Speaker 1: I think I think the Vic Williams run in the
- 14:32Speaker 1: fourth quarter, I think that might have started on CBC's
- 14:36Speaker 1: half of the field. I think that maybe. But but
- 14:43Speaker 1: your point is that I think your point's pretty valid though,
- 14:45Speaker 1: because you're making a good example that basically essentially every
- 14:49Speaker 1: time that CBC started on their half of the field,
- 14:51Speaker 1: they didn't score touchdowns.
- 14:53Speaker 3: Slew High's defense is really good one time, and Keenan
- 14:57Speaker 3: Harris is probably the best pass rusher in the state.
- 15:01Speaker 3: He wasn't able to get sacked this game, but he
- 15:04Speaker 3: was able to draw several holding penalties early in the
- 15:06Speaker 3: game that was really able to keep slough Hide in
- 15:08Speaker 3: the game.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Yeah, because CBC could.
- 15:10Speaker 3: Not get drives going in the in the in the
- 15:12Speaker 3: first quarter because they kept committing penalties, because their tackles
- 15:16Speaker 3: kept holding Keen Harris because they had to. He kept
- 15:20Speaker 3: getting past them. And overall, I think the referees were
- 15:24Speaker 3: pretty good this game. I thought it was I think
- 15:26Speaker 3: that the crew did very good. I think the debacle
- 15:29Speaker 3: and at halftime with adding two seconds back onto the clock.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Point two seconds that was.
- 15:36Speaker 3: The junior Bills are not happy about that, which is fair.
- 15:40Speaker 1: That was really weird, really really weird.
- 15:42Speaker 3: But it ended up not mattering because there was a
- 15:44Speaker 3: thirty seven to zero game.
- 15:45Speaker 1: And it could have been the right call, but I
- 15:48Speaker 1: don't know, Like I wasn't watching the scoreboard and when
- 15:51Speaker 1: they went out of bounds because I thought I was like,
- 15:52Speaker 1: why is CBC throat? Like they don't have any time
- 15:54Speaker 1: to do anything else except kick it here? But yeah,
- 15:57Speaker 1: it was it was able to work out for them.
- 15:59Speaker 2: I do think slew Highs defense is is still very
- 16:02Speaker 2: very good.
- 16:04Speaker 3: They it was really it was really they They couldn't
- 16:08Speaker 3: get off the field. I mean, Sue hot the suet
- 16:11Speaker 3: had to have had five or six three and outs,
- 16:16Speaker 3: They had the interception, they had a fumble to start
- 16:19Speaker 3: the second half.
- 16:20Speaker 1: We were I would say, like highly critical of their offense,
- 16:24Speaker 1: but they just didn't give CBC a whole lot of looks.
- 16:29Speaker 1: Would that be fair?
- 16:30Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the.
- 16:31Speaker 3: Slue High running game showed flashes. I mean, Jordan Taylor
- 16:34Speaker 3: is a heck of an athlete. He had eighty six
- 16:36Speaker 3: rushing yards average almost five yards of carry. I think
- 16:39Speaker 3: this offensive line had an okay game, but.
- 16:45Speaker 1: They just had a really hard time passing the ball.
- 16:48Speaker 1: They when when you're.
- 16:50Speaker 3: Running, when you're running, concepts aren't that diverse and creative.
- 16:54Speaker 3: I mean they pretty much were just able to run
- 17:01Speaker 3: power U. They ran a few trap plays, they ran
- 17:06Speaker 3: a couple half back stretches on one plays.
- 17:10Speaker 1: That was really it.
- 17:11Speaker 3: There wasn't anything crazy going on intrough the Hoigh run game,
- 17:14Speaker 3: and it was productive. They really get a dec amount
- 17:15Speaker 3: of yardage out of it. But the blue that passing
- 17:19Speaker 3: game was totally it was It was.
- 17:21Speaker 2: Just wasn't there.
- 17:22Speaker 3: I mean, other than a few good Tyler kauz Mincy
- 17:26Speaker 3: catches and an incredible Zach Allen catch down the sideline
- 17:29Speaker 3: one handed, unbelievable catch by him, Kyron Lloby just couldn't
- 17:36Speaker 3: get the ball out of his hands.
- 17:37Speaker 2: He just couldn't there was seven. There were seven.
- 17:40Speaker 3: There were too many times where LB just couldn't get
- 17:43Speaker 3: rid of it, couldn't just get the pocket and just
- 17:46Speaker 3: had to eat a sack.
- 17:47Speaker 1: Probably, would you say those are a lot of those
- 17:49Speaker 1: were covered sacks?
- 17:53Speaker 3: Yes, and no. I need to watch more film of
- 17:58Speaker 3: this game because it's it's tough to see it from
- 18:01Speaker 3: field level if their coverage sacks. Because at least for me,
- 18:05Speaker 3: when I'm watching a big game like this, I like
- 18:07Speaker 3: to try and stand at the line of scrimmage because
- 18:11Speaker 3: you know, I'm an O line guy. That's where I
- 18:14Speaker 3: think games are won and lost as all the offensive line,
- 18:17Speaker 3: and I like to see how how your guards are doing,
- 18:21Speaker 3: how they were leasing to the second level. Well, can
- 18:23Speaker 3: yours center make the right line calls? So I'm trying
- 18:27Speaker 3: to see that first, and I'm trying. I'm kind of
- 18:29Speaker 3: focusing on that when I'm watching game in person. I mean,
- 18:33Speaker 3: CBC has an unbelievable defense, so I would assume that
- 18:37Speaker 3: they had I mean that they had great coverage all night.
- 18:39Speaker 3: I mean they forced only Zach Allen and Tyler Kasminski
- 18:42Speaker 3: to get catches this game. There were a couple of
- 18:44Speaker 3: times where CBC did blow their coverage, one of which
- 18:48Speaker 3: should have gone for a touchdown if it was a
- 18:50Speaker 3: good throw, and the wide open pass wasn't dropped. But
- 18:56Speaker 3: I think over allan CBC shot on a map mean
- 18:58Speaker 3: that you're never going to complain about a shutout. I
- 18:59Speaker 3: think defense did really good. I mean, perhaps the coach
- 19:03Speaker 3: Cruz for preparing his team well for this. I think
- 19:07Speaker 3: I think Slu High was prepared well for this game.
- 19:10Speaker 3: But the Junior Bills had to have played a darn
- 19:14Speaker 3: near perfect game to give themselves a chance here, and
- 19:18Speaker 3: they didn't. I think the fun the fumble on the
- 19:21Speaker 3: literal first play the second half was what killed him
- 19:24Speaker 3: because while it was was it like, what twenty to
- 19:27Speaker 3: zero going into the second half? I think, yeah, yeah,
- 19:29Speaker 3: it was twenty three zero going in the second half. Well, yeah,
- 19:32Speaker 3: that's that's a three score game. Like that doesn't feel
- 19:36Speaker 3: that out of reach, like you still have a lot
- 19:37Speaker 3: of games to be played. Slu High has shown some flashes.
- 19:42Speaker 3: There was just too many self influcted self inflicted wounds
- 19:45Speaker 3: for Slue High. And I mean, if these two teams
- 19:51Speaker 3: weren't stuck in the same district, I would pick Sue
- 19:53Speaker 3: High to be a quarter final or potential semi final
- 19:56Speaker 3: level team in Class six.
- 19:57Speaker 1: I think they are if you just put them who
- 19:59Speaker 1: they are are, not even look at districts. Yeah, I
- 20:02Speaker 1: think they definitely are at that caliber.
- 20:04Speaker 2: But I mean just thoughts for after the game. I mean, obviously,
- 20:10Speaker 2: congrats to CDC for winning this one.
- 20:12Speaker 3: They extend their win streak in this rivalry to I
- 20:15Speaker 3: think it's twenty one now. Yeah.
- 20:18Speaker 1: Huge.
- 20:19Speaker 3: It's gonna take a lot for SU High to end
- 20:22Speaker 3: that winning streak. It's gonna take a very very talented
- 20:27Speaker 3: roster like the one they have now. They have a
- 20:29Speaker 3: lot of talent on that team. It's gonna take. It's
- 20:34Speaker 3: gonna take a little bit more O line depth, and
- 20:37Speaker 3: it's gonna take better quarterback play.
- 20:41Speaker 2: That's it's gonna take.
- 20:43Speaker 3: And it's also gonna take a CDC down year, which
- 20:46Speaker 3: are pretty rare nowadays.
- 20:48Speaker 2: Yeah, I know they maybe they have to just wait
- 20:50Speaker 2: for coach Pele to retire.
- 20:52Speaker 1: I don't know, it might be what it might take,
- 20:54Speaker 1: because I mean, he's I don't believe he's ever He's
- 20:57Speaker 1: never lost the slop he has not.
- 21:00Speaker 3: That's also one thing I wanted, how these are two
- 21:02Speaker 3: of the best coaches in the state going at it.
- 21:04Speaker 3: I mean coach Pingle, I mean he's not the Hall
- 21:06Speaker 3: of Fame yet, but he will be very soon. I mean,
- 21:10Speaker 3: to to make CBC football what it is is. I mean, yes,
- 21:14Speaker 3: CBC obviously has, you know, some of the most resources
- 21:17Speaker 3: of any school in the state. But resources don't win
- 21:20Speaker 3: football games.
- 21:21Speaker 2: Good coaching and good players in football games, and coach
- 21:23Speaker 2: Pingle has done an unbelievable job at that so far.
- 21:26Speaker 1: It takes good coaches to use those resources in the
- 21:28Speaker 1: right way.
- 21:28Speaker 2: Exactly, and.
- 21:32Speaker 3: For for coach crews to come in and harness the talent.
- 21:36Speaker 1: And year four for him. But he's definitely made.
- 21:39Speaker 3: Uh. They they've made staffs every year.
- 21:41Speaker 1: Yeah, he's made especially this year.
- 21:43Speaker 2: Yes, And I think I think.
- 21:47Speaker 3: Slue High's staff is very robust. I think they're they're
- 21:52Speaker 3: very well coached. Defensively, I think their scheme, I mean
- 21:56Speaker 3: there's there's Slue High's scheme defensively was about as good
- 22:00Speaker 3: as a get from when you're playing CVC.
- 22:02Speaker 2: I mean, they.
- 22:02Speaker 3: Emphasized getting a good pass rush on the outside, which
- 22:07Speaker 3: you know with Kevian Harris is gonna be pretty easy
- 22:08Speaker 3: to do. But they effective but they did that very
- 22:10Speaker 3: effectively in the first half. So I think the coaching
- 22:13Speaker 3: on both sides was very good, and the environment was great.
- 22:17Speaker 3: I mean games it's too high, are a lot of fun, great,
- 22:19Speaker 3: great crowd. It's cool kind of you know, being in
- 22:22Speaker 3: the midtown, central west end part of the city, beautiful
- 22:27Speaker 3: campus obviously running to the Science Center, which is so
- 22:30Speaker 3: that's pretty cool. But yeah, so congrats the CVC. I've
- 22:35Speaker 3: we're going on twenty minutes talking about this game, but
- 22:38Speaker 3: I mean it was.
- 22:39Speaker 1: It's going to be probably a regular season wise, probably
- 22:43Speaker 1: the biggest game of the season as far as just
- 22:46Speaker 1: the build up to it. Yeah, and the game, unfortunately
- 22:49Speaker 1: kind of didn't live up to the build up.
- 22:51Speaker 3: The finals.
- 22:51Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't it wasn't.
- 22:54Speaker 3: Excuse me, it wasn't a close game at all when
- 22:56Speaker 3: I talk about final score. But they were a lot
- 23:00Speaker 3: of exciting plays. I'm definitely gladly went because there was.
- 23:04Speaker 3: It was a very entertaining game to watch. I mean, shoot,
- 23:09Speaker 3: after i mean six drives in, after each team had
- 23:12Speaker 3: the ball a few times, I thought it was gonna
- 23:14Speaker 3: be one more game. The end the game, i mean,
- 23:16Speaker 3: slew Hide hadn't pushed hadn't really broken the seal yet offensively,
- 23:20Speaker 3: but the way their defense is playing and the way
- 23:22Speaker 3: they weren't turning it over yet, maybe think, Okay, maybe.
- 23:26Speaker 2: They can keep themselves in this game.
- 23:27Speaker 3: Maybe they can you know, get a flue kicker turn
- 23:32Speaker 3: later in the game and make it easier on the offense.
- 23:35Speaker 3: But CBC has the talent edge, and they will have
- 23:38Speaker 3: the talent edge for every game they play the rest
- 23:39Speaker 3: of the season.
- 23:41Speaker 1: So yeah, I just thought personally, and this is it's
- 23:45Speaker 1: easy to say now, but I just I thought it
- 23:48Speaker 1: was always just gonna be a matter of time until
- 23:50Speaker 1: CBC took over. Yep. But which is why I think
- 23:53Speaker 1: you got to commend Slew a lot for that first
- 23:56Speaker 1: quarter mm hmm, keeping it you know, really close, holding
- 23:58Speaker 1: holding CBC to a field goal, and you know, if
- 24:01Speaker 1: they just executed a little bit better offensively, I think
- 24:04Speaker 1: it would have been you know, a lot tighter, even
- 24:08Speaker 1: you know, tighter at halftime right there. And but ultimately,
- 24:10Speaker 1: I mean CBC's talent won out, and you know, and
- 24:13Speaker 1: their execution was obviously really good too, and timely. So
- 24:17Speaker 1: second year in a row they've won the MCC and
- 24:21Speaker 1: besides two thousand and three, twenty three in twenty nineteen.
- 24:26Speaker 1: It's been a lot of other MCC championships mixed in
- 24:31Speaker 1: as well, so that's I don't know the I don't
- 24:33Speaker 1: know the math on that, but yeah, they've won a
- 24:35Speaker 1: lot of MCC titles in the last you know, fifteen
- 24:38Speaker 1: years or so.
- 24:39Speaker 3: Well, speaking of the MCC champions in twenty nineteen and
- 24:41Speaker 3: twenty twenty.
- 24:42Speaker 4: Three, the SeMet and Ritter gave us it was a
- 24:46Speaker 4: great week in the city of Saint Louis, a freaking
- 24:48Speaker 4: ridiculous game on Thursday, sixty six to forty seven finals
- 24:52Speaker 4: score in this one cardon Ritter defeats to Smet.
- 24:55Speaker 3: I mean the score was twenty two seventeen at the
- 24:57Speaker 3: end of the first quarter. Yes, it was forty two
- 25:00Speaker 3: to twenty at the end of the first half.
- 25:02Speaker 1: You knew it was gonna be crazy. After that first quarter,
- 25:04Speaker 1: I mean, what.
- 25:05Speaker 3: In the Manny Ellis had two seventy plus rushing touchdowns
- 25:10Speaker 3: in the first quarter alone.
- 25:12Speaker 1: I mean, what in the world they're doing too, It's ridiculous.
- 25:15Speaker 1: In his first three carries he had two touchdowns.
- 25:18Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this.
- 25:20Speaker 3: Smett had six hundred and eighty two yards of offense
- 25:22Speaker 3: and lost this game by nineteen points. How do you
- 25:27Speaker 3: it's very sad that Carden Rorder does not have their
- 25:29Speaker 3: stats in. You know what, they they might still be
- 25:32Speaker 3: putting their stats in. They might still be working, I'll
- 25:35Speaker 3: putting their stats in because it would probably take a
- 25:37Speaker 3: very long time given how much happened in this game.
- 25:39Speaker 1: Oh man, But I mean you were at this game, right,
- 25:42Speaker 1: I was. Yeah, it was those The smet's stats don't
- 25:45Speaker 1: really surprise me. Yeah. I mean, first of all, the
- 25:50Speaker 1: Sharp brothers, Cam and Rocky Sharp, they had an absolute
- 25:54Speaker 1: day rushing the football. Cam Sharp, it was a sophomore,
- 25:58Speaker 1: nineteen carries, one hundred and three yard yards, three scores
- 26:01Speaker 1: in the game, two rushing touchdowns, and then one of
- 26:05Speaker 1: them was I think the first Yeah, the first play
- 26:07Speaker 1: of the second half. He had took an eighty yard
- 26:11Speaker 1: swing pass to the house. And then Rocky Sharp came
- 26:15Speaker 1: into the game and he had a fifty eight yard
- 26:19Speaker 1: touchdown run and a few other big runs as well. So,
- 26:23Speaker 1: I mean, those two guys are going to be really,
- 26:26Speaker 1: really good players for the Spartans for years to come.
- 26:29Speaker 1: And then Gabbard Rigez arguably had his best game this season.
- 26:32Speaker 1: Given the opponent four hundred and fifty five passing yards,
- 26:35Speaker 1: three touchdowns, two interceptions, get a receiving touchdown as well,
- 26:38Speaker 1: and he did yeah a nice little trick play in
- 26:41Speaker 1: the in the in the red zone. So yeah, this
- 26:44Speaker 1: met They had a few nice little trick plays they
- 26:46Speaker 1: used throughout the game and even missed on a few,
- 26:51Speaker 1: like they had a few other opportunities. Just hit on
- 26:54Speaker 1: some big plays but just couldn't either quite catch them
- 26:57Speaker 1: or maybe that it's just a few slightly overthrown passes. Yeah,
- 27:01Speaker 1: but Ritter, well, Ritter hasn't really been statistically the most
- 27:05Speaker 1: overpowering offensive team this year, but it's kind of skewed
- 27:08Speaker 1: because they've played some really tough company. They've had three
- 27:10Speaker 1: really tough games, lost all three of them against Jackson,
- 27:15Speaker 1: Mas Salon and CBC.
- 27:17Speaker 3: I think Carter Ritter is getting just they're getting a
- 27:20Speaker 3: better idea every week. It's it's tough to say that
- 27:23Speaker 3: they're improving every week because look at their schedule. It's
- 27:26Speaker 3: it's it's a weird schedule. I mean, they had Jackson
- 27:28Speaker 3: and CBC. If you if they had to replay the
- 27:31Speaker 3: CE the Carter Ritter Jackson game right now, I would
- 27:34Speaker 3: pick Ritter because I think a lot of the questions
- 27:36Speaker 3: they had on offense are answered right now.
- 27:38Speaker 2: Yeah, and while Jackson is an amazing team, I think
- 27:41Speaker 2: that I.
- 27:42Speaker 3: Would also haven't improved as much as throughout the season
- 27:45Speaker 3: as Cardin Ritter has.
- 27:46Speaker 1: I'd also like to think that Jackson wud scored more
- 27:48Speaker 1: points too, they would.
- 27:50Speaker 3: Yeah, Like if I had to predict a current Ritter
- 27:53Speaker 3: versus Jackson game, I would say Ritter wins forty to
- 27:57Speaker 3: thirty five or something like that.
- 27:58Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 27:59Speaker 3: Maybe, But I mean, Manny Ellis is a problem if
- 28:02Speaker 3: you if you just look at so the only stats
- 28:05Speaker 3: we have for Ritter in this game where they're they're
- 28:07Speaker 3: scoring plays.
- 28:08Speaker 2: Yeah, and many Ellis.
- 28:11Speaker 3: I mean he had five rushing touchdowns and the yardage
- 28:15Speaker 3: off the touchdowns alone was two or twenty five rushing yards.
- 28:18Speaker 1: So he announcer actually lost track of how many touchdowns.
- 28:21Speaker 1: Yet he said he had six at the end of
- 28:22Speaker 1: the game, and then I looked back it was actually five.
- 28:25Speaker 2: But I mean, he an amazing game. Rather, Moore had
- 28:28Speaker 2: a great game.
- 28:30Speaker 1: I mean, the guys he's only a freshman, but he
- 28:32Speaker 1: looks he looks like he could be pretty easy. He
- 28:35Speaker 1: could be the real deal. I mean, he does not
- 28:36Speaker 1: look out of place when he's back there throwing passes.
- 28:40Speaker 1: He actually had an awesome sixty four yard touchdown pass
- 28:47Speaker 1: to Elijah Lucas near the end of the first half.
- 28:50Speaker 1: It was just a bomb down the field then caught.
- 28:54Speaker 1: I mean, maybe maybe there could have been some better
- 28:57Speaker 1: safety play on the cement right there, but it was
- 28:59Speaker 1: just that's that safety on the smith was kind of
- 29:02Speaker 1: on an island right there, and it was a perfect throw.
- 29:04Speaker 1: So that was just that was one of the cooler
- 29:07Speaker 1: plays in the game for me. And unfortunately I was
- 29:09Speaker 1: filming from behind the line of scrimmage and set it
- 29:11Speaker 1: in front of it because they just gotten an interception
- 29:14Speaker 1: right before that play, so I wasn't able to get
- 29:16Speaker 1: down the field in time for get in the front
- 29:18Speaker 1: of get in front of that. That's what kind of
- 29:21Speaker 1: game it was right there.
- 29:22Speaker 2: Yeah, this Ritter offense is a problem.
- 29:26Speaker 1: I met that.
- 29:27Speaker 3: It's so crazy how night and day the this met
- 29:29Speaker 3: defense is from last year.
- 29:30Speaker 1: I mean, we saw them and this is a defense
- 29:33Speaker 1: with Titan Davis in there at Michigan Committee. He actually
- 29:35Speaker 1: had a really nice strip sack in the third quarter,
- 29:39Speaker 1: a big play because it was it was a plumble
- 29:42Speaker 1: recovery by the cemet and they scored on it, So
- 29:44Speaker 1: that was one of their bigger plays of the game.
- 29:45Speaker 3: Football is the ulti team sport. I mean, just because
- 29:48Speaker 3: you have one of the best pass rushers in the
- 29:49Speaker 3: state on your team doesn't mean exactly defense is.
- 29:51Speaker 1: Going to be elite exactly.
- 29:52Speaker 2: I mean, it's just weird. It's just it's tough seeing
- 29:55Speaker 2: a team that.
- 29:57Speaker 3: Just last season was able to completely stifle Nixon's offense
- 30:00Speaker 3: in the second half.
- 30:01Speaker 1: They lost I think eight of those starters, and.
- 30:06Speaker 2: Here we are, and it's for the smell.
- 30:09Speaker 3: I mean, at least playoff wise, you can't expect them
- 30:12Speaker 3: to do anything crazy.
- 30:13Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're in the same district of CBC
- 30:16Speaker 1: Lafayette and Slough. Yeah, it's which is and they're.
- 30:19Speaker 3: Probably are the toughest district in the state.
- 30:21Speaker 1: And there they should. Assuming Slow wins their game and
- 30:25Speaker 1: stay in first place, they would most likely get play
- 30:29Speaker 1: the five. They would most likely play.
- 30:32Speaker 2: In the first place.
- 30:33Speaker 1: Yeah, in the first place, but then.
- 30:35Speaker 3: Like find second place, and then with the second, second.
- 30:37Speaker 1: Place and then the smet and fourth and they would
- 30:40Speaker 1: play Marquette in the four or five play in game
- 30:43Speaker 1: and then the winner of that place CBC. Well, we'll
- 30:48Speaker 1: talk about district seating district standings in a little while
- 30:51Speaker 1: right now, maybe maybe.
- 30:54Speaker 2: Quickly, I'll quickly touch on real quick.
- 30:56Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in the next episode.
- 30:59Speaker 2: I like where they're at for the playoffs. I mean,
- 31:01Speaker 2: then they've got a rider very Yes.
- 31:03Speaker 1: Ye.
- 31:04Speaker 3: District it's competitive, but it's a pretty area winnable for
- 31:08Speaker 3: the Rider is definitely the most talented team.
- 31:10Speaker 1: And yeah, it's a pretty competitive district across the board,
- 31:13Speaker 1: but for how talented and frankly the ceiling that Ritter has, yeah,
- 31:18Speaker 1: they should win.
- 31:19Speaker 3: I think.
- 31:19Speaker 1: I mean, you could say that about whatever district they're in. Really,
- 31:22Speaker 1: if you could even say that, if you put them
- 31:24Speaker 1: in District two with Kirkwood and Eureka and some it
- 31:29Speaker 1: in there too, I'd say the same thing.
- 31:31Speaker 3: Speaking of a Class five District three. It was a
- 31:34Speaker 3: game you're watching on your phone a bit during the
- 31:36Speaker 3: YEA High game. That was the LaDue Kirkwood game, and
- 31:41Speaker 3: Kirkwood just flutch their muscles against the Rams and they wint.
- 31:45Speaker 1: That was a lot like that was honestly a lot
- 31:48Speaker 1: like the Slue CBC game where it was I think
- 31:51Speaker 1: it was.
- 31:51Speaker 3: It took the Pioneers a bit to get it going
- 31:53Speaker 3: with zero.
- 31:54Speaker 1: I think at the end of the first quarter is yeah,
- 31:57Speaker 1: and then they just pedaled to the medal and that.
- 32:00Speaker 3: Creeper Owens pulled out Man twenty twenty four, three hundred
- 32:03Speaker 3: and five yards, four touchdowns, zero interceptions. I mean him,
- 32:08Speaker 3: Jacob Eberhard, Travis Shores, junior Jumior, Sloan, they were able
- 32:12Speaker 3: to do pretty much whatever they wanted to do against
- 32:14Speaker 3: against this LEDU secondary. Yeah, and it's just it's another
- 32:18Speaker 3: one of these teams that has a great QB and
- 32:20Speaker 3: great receiving corps. I mean, Eberhart, Shores and Sloan are
- 32:25Speaker 3: all would all be wide receiver wrote ones at almost
- 32:29Speaker 3: any high school in the state. Yeah, and I guess
- 32:32Speaker 3: you would maybe consider Eberhart the wide receiver one even
- 32:35Speaker 3: though he is even though Sloan had more receiving yards
- 32:38Speaker 3: that they all get a lot of targets for good reason.
- 32:41Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's impossible to cover all three of
- 32:44Speaker 3: them very well.
- 32:45Speaker 1: And that's really just a typical Kirkwood receiving corps A
- 32:49Speaker 1: year after year, Honestly, they always have three at least
- 32:52Speaker 1: at least two but typically three quality receivers that any
- 32:57Speaker 1: team would like to have.
- 32:58Speaker 3: And Eberhart also had a sack in this game. So
- 33:00Speaker 3: he's putting in great work on defense as well as
- 33:02Speaker 3: a safety.
- 33:02Speaker 1: Well that's why he's getting recruited Illinois as a safety.
- 33:05Speaker 3: Yeah, And it's that Kirkwood's a very talented team and
- 33:10Speaker 3: we knew this wing of the game that.
- 33:13Speaker 2: Favor Oh yeah, I like that Kirkwood was the favorite
- 33:16Speaker 2: for a reason. I mean, they had the.
- 33:17Speaker 3: Talent edge and the question was can they because last
- 33:23Speaker 3: week against Marquette they had a few hiccups. I mean
- 33:25Speaker 3: they were losing.
- 33:26Speaker 1: That was just I think just a little bit of
- 33:28Speaker 1: a bad start to the game, and then they seems
- 33:30Speaker 1: like they quickly recovered.
- 33:31Speaker 3: Kirk Kirkwood's goals every year at a compete first a
- 33:34Speaker 3: title and if they want to do that in Class
- 33:37Speaker 3: five this year, they can't afford to come out.
- 33:40Speaker 2: And make mistakes.
- 33:42Speaker 3: And while they didn't come out firing on all cylinders,
- 33:46Speaker 3: you know up twenty one zero, you know the first quarter,
- 33:49Speaker 3: they didn't dig themselves any kind of hole, which is
- 33:51Speaker 3: good if LaDue is an okay team this year, and
- 33:54Speaker 3: I feel like if Kirkwood would have given them a
- 33:56Speaker 3: touchdown or and or turned it over in the first quarter,
- 33:59Speaker 3: then that would allow the Rams to hang around for
- 34:02Speaker 3: a bit longer, I would but Kirkwood was able to
- 34:04Speaker 3: really shut it down in the second quarter.
- 34:05Speaker 1: And I would say, it's like, I think it is
- 34:09Speaker 1: better than an ok team, but like in this was
- 34:12Speaker 1: Kirkwood's most complete game of the season, Yeah, I would imagine.
- 34:15Speaker 3: So, yeah, I agree, Like offensively and two begains, Pattentvill
- 34:19Speaker 3: was pretty good, but I would say.
- 34:21Speaker 1: This was this is yeah, this is better. He was
- 34:23Speaker 1: probably better than Pattonville, So yeah, maybe they were. Yeah,
- 34:27Speaker 1: we'll see. But uh, and then so this is a
- 34:30Speaker 1: really complete game by Kirkwood. Do Sophomore Trevor Walker had
- 34:34Speaker 1: a really nice seventy nine yard touchdown reception from Jack
- 34:39Speaker 1: Kens League. I just want to mention it because it
- 34:41Speaker 1: was he caught it in double coverage and broke a tackle,
- 34:44Speaker 1: made another move and went to the end zone. So
- 34:46Speaker 1: he's he's just he's going to be a really good
- 34:48Speaker 1: receiver when it's all said and done. So I had
- 34:50Speaker 1: to shout that out. But overall, I think, uh, yeah,
- 34:54Speaker 1: I mean, this is a game that I don't think
- 34:56Speaker 1: anybody really gave to do a chance, and especially before
- 34:58Speaker 1: the season started. So to be six and two at
- 35:00Speaker 1: this point for the Rams, I mean they got nothing
- 35:02Speaker 1: to be you know, worried about, really, and in fact,
- 35:06Speaker 1: they were due for a pretty tough challenge, especially offensively,
- 35:10Speaker 1: and I still think their defense is pretty good. It
- 35:13Speaker 1: was just a really tough game. It's really hard to
- 35:16Speaker 1: beat Kirkwood at their place, and then they got a
- 35:19Speaker 1: really good offense and just all around, just not a
- 35:23Speaker 1: good game from the Rams all all. So, like I said,
- 35:26Speaker 1: I think they're in good shape and they got a
- 35:28Speaker 1: good chance to go beat Fox and be the Outrex
- 35:31Speaker 1: Suburban Red Conference champions next week, and you know, hopefully
- 35:34Speaker 1: for their sake, get a favorable result from Parkway West
- 35:39Speaker 1: over Hazewood East and get the two seed in the
- 35:41Speaker 1: district and maybe for their sake and win two playoff
- 35:45Speaker 1: games and have a nice little season for them.
- 35:50Speaker 3: It's go ahead and shift gears over to the Metro East.
- 35:52Speaker 3: The Battle of Belville was pretty interesting this year. The
- 35:55Speaker 3: Leanswers of Bell East come out on top of this
- 35:57Speaker 3: one twenty seven to fourteen New York Team stats un unfortunately,
- 36:01Speaker 3: but Bubble East moves on to six and two, so
- 36:04Speaker 3: they clinched the spot in the playoffs and this I
- 36:08Speaker 3: believe is their thirds oh either there's one, two, three, four, five, six,
- 36:13Speaker 3: seventh straight win in the rivalry game, and it effectively
- 36:17Speaker 3: knocks Bubble West out of the playoffs because the Bubble
- 36:19Speaker 3: West falls to three and five now. And I was
- 36:26Speaker 3: trying to track this game on Twitter on It's always
- 36:30Speaker 3: tough when you're at a game. You're trying to run
- 36:32Speaker 3: the Twitter at the same time because you're trying to
- 36:34Speaker 3: welcome You're trying to watch the game and also welcome
- 36:38Speaker 3: to my world, trying to tweet out as much as
- 36:40Speaker 3: you can.
- 36:42Speaker 1: But it was a pretty close game. It was actually
- 36:45Speaker 1: I like how it was close. I mean that's what rivalry,
- 36:47Speaker 1: especially crosstown rivalry games are supposed to be like. So
- 36:51Speaker 1: that was nice.
- 36:51Speaker 3: Cayden would just looking at Twitter right now. Cayden Wood
- 36:54Speaker 3: was able to have four patch touchdowns on the game.
- 36:57Speaker 3: He's been, I mean, he's been a really really good
- 37:01Speaker 3: QB for the Lancers so far this year, and I
- 37:07Speaker 3: mean defensively, to hold the caden Wood led Maroons to.
- 37:13Speaker 2: Fourteen, I think it's pretty impressive.
- 37:15Speaker 3: I mean, they've had kind of a stingy offense all
- 37:17Speaker 3: year Bubble West has so for East.
- 37:20Speaker 2: Just to physically control Bubble West.
- 37:22Speaker 3: I think it's pretty good and should give them give
- 37:25Speaker 3: the momentum going into what should be a tough Week
- 37:27Speaker 3: nine game against Capital City, a game they should win,
- 37:29Speaker 3: though very probably interesting interesting matchup there. I would not
- 37:34Speaker 3: I would not expect a Jeff City team to head
- 37:38Speaker 3: over to the Metro East, but here we are kind
- 37:40Speaker 3: of gives us flashes of the war to end all
- 37:45Speaker 3: wars between jeff City and.
- 37:48Speaker 1: The Day. Don't even go there, don't How dare you
- 37:51Speaker 1: compare that?
- 37:53Speaker 3: No? Not, just thinking the last time a Jeff City
- 37:55Speaker 3: team has played a Metro East team?
- 37:56Speaker 1: Okay, well maybe no, I don't on that. You're gonna
- 38:00Speaker 1: have to talk. It's a lot of schedules right there. Yeah,
- 38:05Speaker 1: but yeah, no, So that game against Capitol City is
- 38:08Speaker 1: gonna be huge for bever Leaves just for seeding purposes
- 38:10Speaker 1: and potentially just to get a to get a home
- 38:12Speaker 1: game in the first round or to not get one.
- 38:14Speaker 1: So that'll be interesting. But that's what that's what makes
- 38:19Speaker 1: Illini High school football kind of fun. Where at this
- 38:23Speaker 1: point for Beverlease they're fighting for a home game. So
- 38:26Speaker 1: that's pretty cool, all right, plenty of other games to
- 38:31Speaker 1: get to here. Let's stay in Illinois. Bree Central with
- 38:36Speaker 1: a convincing win forty one to six over Columbia, and
- 38:41Speaker 1: I think that clinches the Kohokia, Mississippi for bree Central
- 38:45Speaker 1: for the second year in a row.
- 38:47Speaker 3: Does they finished five and zero in conference. They win
- 38:49Speaker 3: this one forty one six. A bit of a slow
- 38:52Speaker 3: first quarter for the Cougars, but they really exploded in
- 38:56Speaker 3: the second quarter. Bryce Weeder had an amazing game. I mean,
- 39:00Speaker 3: the own carrab Bryce Weeder connection was really really good.
- 39:03Speaker 3: Cara had two pass touchdowns in the game. The Cougars
- 39:05Speaker 3: don't have their stats in, but you know, it appears that,
- 39:11Speaker 3: you know, the combo of Cole Davis are running back
- 39:13Speaker 3: leader a receiver, then Carre at QB was incredible for him,
- 39:17Speaker 3: and then defensively the other than a long Xavier vogeleader
- 39:22Speaker 3: Ricky Prater passing touchdown. Other than that, Columbia couldn't really
- 39:28Speaker 3: do anything.
- 39:29Speaker 2: And that that's kind of what the case.
- 39:31Speaker 3: Has been for pree Central so far this year. Has
- 39:33Speaker 3: been just an amazing defense. I mean, they held lot
- 39:38Speaker 3: of day the milk Bowl to the zero points they
- 39:39Speaker 3: shut out.
- 39:40Speaker 2: They shut out a pretty good Freeburg team. They was
- 39:45Speaker 2: just slapped a bug away.
- 39:46Speaker 1: What was that?
- 39:50Speaker 3: They held a solid Rocky and A team to twenty points.
- 39:53Speaker 3: I mean, this defense has been really good all year and.
- 39:58Speaker 2: You know they got some doses over there.
- 39:59Speaker 3: I mean Jason camp Jackson, Jackson Jackson, excuse me, Jackson
- 40:02Speaker 3: camp Ward has been great. Lead are also plays out
- 40:05Speaker 3: of defense for him as well. Ayden Hugans got three
- 40:07Speaker 3: picks for him. So yeah, congrats tore Central for a
- 40:11Speaker 3: win of their conference pretty convincingly.
- 40:12Speaker 2: I mean they really didn't.
- 40:13Speaker 3: Their closest game in conference was against Rock Shane a
- 40:16Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago, and.
- 40:17Speaker 1: Other than that they were able to they were still
- 40:19Speaker 1: the win by eleven.
- 40:20Speaker 2: Yeah, so they got Harron this week.
- 40:23Speaker 3: I don't really know much about Haron.
- 40:25Speaker 1: They should win winless.
- 40:27Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so pre Central should go into the playoffs
- 40:30Speaker 3: at eight and one.
- 40:30Speaker 2: I should have given them a pretty good seed, probably
- 40:32Speaker 2: a playoff home playoff.
- 40:33Speaker 1: Game, potentially to playoff games. I mean, who knows how
- 40:36Speaker 1: what's gonna happen after the first week, but yeah, definitely
- 40:39Speaker 1: a home game sealed up in the first round and
- 40:43Speaker 1: they have been really really good at home in the playoffs,
- 40:45Speaker 1: so over these last five seasons now since they've been
- 40:51Speaker 1: on this really particularly really good run under coach Short
- 40:54Speaker 1: and staff. So great win for the Cougars there. Looking
- 41:01Speaker 1: at some other games, let's just knock out Illinois, Let's
- 41:05Speaker 1: let's talk about the last two games. Well, there's technical
- 41:08Speaker 1: there's seven more o versus Ersville, but we're going to
- 41:11Speaker 1: talk about Tryad and Waterloo and then Highland Mosquito the
- 41:15Speaker 1: last ever week in the Missouri Valley Conference and Missisippi
- 41:19Speaker 1: Valley Misissippi Valley Conference.
- 41:21Speaker 2: Not that I've made the mistake as well.
- 41:23Speaker 1: Yeah, Highland with a somewhat of a surprising victory over Moscuita,
- 41:31Speaker 1: final score thirteen to.
- 41:32Speaker 2: Ten, gritty ones. This kind of messes thing, munths things
- 41:38Speaker 2: up in the Missippi Valley.
- 41:39Speaker 3: So Waterloo and Moscuita finished tied for the conference the championship. Here.
- 41:44Speaker 3: Both teams finished four and one in conference, and I
- 41:48Speaker 3: mean this is a huge win for Highland. This excuse me,
- 41:51Speaker 3: a huge win for Highland. I mean, just to be
- 41:54Speaker 3: able to hold Moscuita's completely contain mascuoas passing attack I
- 41:58Speaker 3: think was pretty huge in.
- 41:59Speaker 2: This one, and they didn't enough.
- 42:03Speaker 3: I mean, Blake Jelly was able to punch on the
- 42:05Speaker 3: end zone a couple of times, which ended up being
- 42:08Speaker 3: all they needed to get, and.
- 42:11Speaker 2: I don't know if there was.
- 42:15Speaker 3: I don't think they were returnovers in this game, which
- 42:18Speaker 3: honestly kind of makes even more impressive than Highland.
- 42:20Speaker 2: Was just able to force.
- 42:21Speaker 1: I'm currently a Fortunately we had someone from Ascoota offering
- 42:25Speaker 1: film the game for us, so we appreciate them for that,
- 42:27Speaker 1: and I'm not all the way done with it, but
- 42:30Speaker 1: so far I have not seen any turnovers in the
- 42:33Speaker 1: footage I have seen, so yeah, it seems like a
- 42:37Speaker 1: pretty clean game overall. Just Biscuita has been a pretty defensive,
- 42:42Speaker 1: reliable team all season for the most part, but it
- 42:45Speaker 1: was particularly good of Highland because they kind of weren't
- 42:49Speaker 1: for the most part. I mean, going into the game,
- 42:52Speaker 1: I think their defense was allowing a lot of points,
- 42:55Speaker 1: like Dard near thirty points a game. But yeah, one
- 43:00Speaker 1: of the biggest games of the season for Highland, they
- 43:03Speaker 1: their defense stepped it up and only allowed ten points
- 43:06Speaker 1: and for that they were able to I think, if
- 43:11Speaker 1: I'm not mistake, they don't clinch to share it because
- 43:14Speaker 1: that they they're finished. I think they're gonna finish in
- 43:17Speaker 1: like third place or something like that.
- 43:18Speaker 2: But yeah, Highland gets third.
- 43:19Speaker 1: Place Moscuita and I think Waterloo.
- 43:24Speaker 2: And Waterloo tie for first.
- 43:25Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, and Waterloo that game was pretty wild between
- 43:30Speaker 1: them and Triad.
- 43:31Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 43:31Speaker 3: Waterloo wins this one against Triad twenty one to fourteen,
- 43:34Speaker 3: a comeback victory. Yeah.
- 43:37Speaker 2: Waterloo's defense I think is the name of the game.
- 43:39Speaker 3: They're able to whole tryad at just two hundred and
- 43:40Speaker 3: fifty yards of offense, which I think is pretty good,
- 43:43Speaker 3: but really just to hold to keep John Holloway and
- 43:47Speaker 3: Jacob Oiti somewhat contained. I think was really good for Waterloo.
- 43:51Speaker 3: And even though Durez Sales really didn't have that good
- 43:56Speaker 3: of a game own, knee Brookie stepped up. He had
- 44:00Speaker 3: the best game of his career fifteen carries for one
- 44:03Speaker 3: hundred and eighty three yards, three rushing touchdowns. I mean,
- 44:07Speaker 3: I believe red Sales is still I think top five
- 44:09Speaker 3: in the area and points scored, but it looks like
- 44:12Speaker 3: they got another top ten running back in the area
- 44:15Speaker 3: on their team as well. They got two I wouldn't
- 44:18Speaker 3: say top ten, but had a really good game. Yeah,
- 44:20Speaker 3: I mean like for Waterloo to have both these got
- 44:23Speaker 3: at the back heeld, I think is a really dangerous combo.
- 44:26Speaker 1: Yeah, it was nine touchdowns on the c and Oenebrie does.
- 44:30Speaker 2: Is it knee broogie?
- 44:31Speaker 3: That's what it's okay, Yeah, interesting last name, but I mean, yeah,
- 44:37Speaker 3: just just for Waterloo to to continue to establish the
- 44:41Speaker 3: run really well, I think is really impressive. And you know,
- 44:44Speaker 3: they were down fourteen to seven going into the fourth quarter,
- 44:46Speaker 3: but two kneeburgay touchdowns with the difference in this one.
- 44:51Speaker 3: Congrats to the Bulldogs for clinching another conference title or
- 44:55Speaker 3: I guess a share of one.
- 44:57Speaker 1: And what's also pretty cool is that we could have
- 45:00Speaker 1: feasibly so mascuita water well Waterloo, they punch their ticket,
- 45:09Speaker 1: officially punched their ticket for a playoff bid. Moscuit is
- 45:12Speaker 1: still five and three, but they should win. Next week
- 45:15Speaker 1: Highland plays Olden, so they should win. Island should and
- 45:18Speaker 1: they're five. I think five and four should get them in.
- 45:21Speaker 1: I mean, with the schedules they've had, I think is
- 45:23Speaker 1: good enough. Tryad with the loss to Waterloo, they have
- 45:28Speaker 1: to beat Collinsville to get them some chance. Yeah, five
- 45:32Speaker 1: and four and Console's three and five. So what I
- 45:35Speaker 1: want to say to Collinsville is, hey, we want to
- 45:39Speaker 1: have as much Metro Week representation as possible. So if
- 45:42Speaker 1: you guys can just step aside, we don't want.
- 45:46Speaker 2: To, we don't want to.
- 45:48Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know, I'm just kidding. Yeah,
- 45:53Speaker 1: that would be That'll be a interesting, interesting game between
- 45:55Speaker 1: Tried and Coninsole. And they've actually had some pretty good
- 45:57Speaker 1: games the last few seasons, so that should be good.
- 45:59Speaker 1: But as far as like, let's just say, let's just
- 46:04Speaker 1: we root for good games, I'll just let's just say that.
- 46:06Speaker 2: But it's pretty cool one a conference.
- 46:08Speaker 1: It would be pretty cool if the MVC can have
- 46:12Speaker 1: in their last year have four teams qualified for the playoffs,
- 46:14Speaker 1: and that'd be great. It's happened a few times recently,
- 46:17Speaker 1: but it's been a few years since the last time
- 46:20Speaker 1: that's happened, So that'd be pretty cool for that to happen.
- 46:23Speaker 1: And all right, let's go back over to Missouri where
- 46:26Speaker 1: we can talk about zoom all North again with another
- 46:29Speaker 1: dominating victory over this time North Point to wrap up
- 46:33Speaker 1: the GAC Central Conference Championship.
- 46:35Speaker 3: You know, the Panthers win the j C Central yet again,
- 46:39Speaker 3: I mean, just an utterly dominating conference slate for them.
- 46:42Speaker 2: I mean, I'll just go through the final scores of.
- 46:44Speaker 3: Zoom All North's conference games forty eight zero win against Washington,
- 46:48Speaker 3: twenty five zero win against Livery forty nine to six winnings,
- 46:52Speaker 3: zum all the East forty two to six winningas them
- 46:54Speaker 3: all South forty three to zero winnings North Point. I mean,
- 46:58Speaker 3: the only other teams to have won their conference so
- 47:01Speaker 3: easily this season are CBC in East St.
- 47:04Speaker 2: Louis. I mean, I'm definitely not gonna put them on
- 47:07Speaker 2: North on the level of those the.
- 47:09Speaker 3: Level of those teams.
- 47:12Speaker 2: The fastest. Yes, I know they won their conference.
- 47:15Speaker 1: But they won it pretty convincingly.
- 47:19Speaker 2: They won it.
- 47:20Speaker 3: Convincingly, but not as not as as big of a
- 47:23Speaker 3: margin as Zumal North did this. Jayden Burlson is back
- 47:27Speaker 3: in full form for the Panthers, which I think is
- 47:30Speaker 3: so huge for them.
- 47:30Speaker 2: He's one of the best athletes in the state.
- 47:34Speaker 3: Their their rushing attack was pretty good, as always, three
- 47:38Speaker 3: hundred and three rushing yards as a team over ten
- 47:40Speaker 3: yards for carry. Burlson had nine carries for one hundred
- 47:43Speaker 3: and fifty seven yards, averaging over seventeen yards for carry.
- 47:47Speaker 2: And super weird scoring in this game.
- 47:52Speaker 3: So Zumull North missed the pat after their first touchdown
- 47:55Speaker 3: and then decided to go for two for almost the
- 47:57Speaker 3: rest of the game. And at a point, Zumalt North
- 48:02Speaker 3: had thirty points off of five touchdowns, which means they
- 48:06Speaker 3: had yeah off of five touch no, they had thirty
- 48:11Speaker 3: six points off six touchdowns, and they had missed five
- 48:15Speaker 3: two point conversions, which is so funny honestly that they
- 48:18Speaker 3: were able to pretty much drive the ball up up
- 48:21Speaker 3: and down the field that will, but for whatever reason
- 48:24Speaker 3: for the two point conversions, they just couldn't figure it out.
- 48:26Speaker 3: But that ended up not mattering at all. I mean, defensively,
- 48:28Speaker 3: they just completely shut down Tavern Williams and the North
- 48:32Speaker 3: Point Grizzlies. They held North Point to one hundred and
- 48:35Speaker 3: thirty five yards of total offense, shut them out, I mean,
- 48:40Speaker 3: held North Point to less than three yards per carry.
- 48:44Speaker 3: Just a completely dominated win. And it's a huge one
- 48:47Speaker 3: for Zoomalt North because we had at least we had thought.
- 48:50Speaker 3: I mean, the way that Dumalt North played Howell was
- 48:54Speaker 3: one of their messiest games, not just this season but
- 48:56Speaker 3: in recent memory. Honestly, so after that game and the
- 49:01Speaker 3: way North Point was able to scrap one out, it's liberty.
- 49:03Speaker 3: We had thought that, okay, this could be an interesting
- 49:05Speaker 3: game in the week eight potentially the GC Central Conference championship.
- 49:09Speaker 2: Game, and it wasn't even close.
- 49:12Speaker 3: North North was zumull North was in control the entire time,
- 49:16Speaker 3: and they got some great momentum going into week nine
- 49:18Speaker 3: in the playoffs. They should take care of business against
- 49:21Speaker 3: Timberland and that puts them in a good spot in
- 49:24Speaker 3: Class five District District four because really the next threat
- 49:30Speaker 3: in Class five District four is Parkway West, and then
- 49:33Speaker 3: the third best team there is North Point, and now
- 49:37Speaker 3: Zumuell North.
- 49:38Speaker 2: Has the type.
- 49:39Speaker 3: I mean, it's not gonna come down to it, but
- 49:41Speaker 3: if they beat Timberland, they will have already beaten five
- 49:45Speaker 3: other teams in their district.
- 49:47Speaker 1: Wow, it's four of the teams.
- 49:49Speaker 3: Sorry, because the seven team district this ism North North
- 49:53Speaker 3: Point in moult South, Timberland's one of the East, Parker West.
- 49:55Speaker 2: And Parkway Central. So maybe if in a few weeks
- 49:58Speaker 2: we can get an interesting well North Parkway West District
- 50:01Speaker 2: CHAMPIONI game.
- 50:02Speaker 1: But you mentioned Parkway West right there.
- 50:05Speaker 2: They had I think I think they had a very
- 50:07Speaker 2: impressive win. Honestly, they had.
- 50:09Speaker 1: It was a come from behind victory. They were losing
- 50:11Speaker 1: twenty three to seven in the second half. We don't
- 50:17Speaker 1: have their scores in this game. Pattonville has all their
- 50:19Speaker 1: stuff logged in, although we do have West stats though,
- 50:22Speaker 1: which is better, probably better than that the other way around. Jacob,
- 50:27Speaker 1: I'm Jacob Brett. Ottensmeier had probably his best stat line
- 50:31Speaker 1: of the season, thirty twenty five of thirty six for
- 50:33Speaker 1: three hundred and forty yards, five touchdowns, two interceptions. Big
- 50:39Speaker 1: Caleb Irvin he had a big game as well, twelve
- 50:41Speaker 1: rushes for one hundred yards. That was a It's important
- 50:44Speaker 1: for them to you know, we know that West is
- 50:47Speaker 1: going to be a they're more of a passing team,
- 50:50Speaker 1: but it's important for them that they can have some
- 50:52Speaker 1: good uh you know, spot hint spot outens Meyer with
- 50:55Speaker 1: some decent rushing yards and they were able to get it.
- 50:57Speaker 1: They were able to get hint Irvin and Deshaun Hodskin's
- 50:59Speaker 1: act you combine for one hundred and forty seven yards, and.
- 51:02Speaker 2: That's huge for them. That's so huge for Parkley West because, especially.
- 51:07Speaker 3: Late in the season, if you get in the spot
- 51:10Speaker 3: of a game where you need to control the clock,
- 51:12Speaker 3: you have to be able to run the ball. And
- 51:15Speaker 3: hopefully for them, they can keep this up because if
- 51:18Speaker 3: we saw against Parkway North, they couldn't run the ball
- 51:20Speaker 3: to save their lives, and that's that's that's what ended
- 51:23Speaker 3: up burning them in the end of that game.
- 51:25Speaker 1: But I would imagine the passon probably helped set up
- 51:27Speaker 1: the run though.
- 51:29Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it depends. I mean, if you can
- 51:33Speaker 3: I mean, shoot, if you can afford to just hold
- 51:35Speaker 3: five guys to the boxings Parkway West just to hold
- 51:38Speaker 3: their running game and check you'll do that and just
- 51:42Speaker 3: sit and cover three the whole game and have your
- 51:46Speaker 3: outside backers potentially read pass first on the strong side.
- 51:51Speaker 3: But yeah, Parkery West needs to continue to improve the
- 51:54Speaker 3: rushing game if they want to, because that would be
- 51:59Speaker 3: that would be a class A pole or opposite offensive styles.
- 52:02Speaker 3: If Parkway West does end up mashing up against HIMLT
- 52:04Speaker 3: North in the playoffs, it'll be a very interesting game
- 52:07Speaker 3: to watch.
- 52:08Speaker 1: Yeah for sure.
- 52:09Speaker 3: But yeah, congrats the Longhorns and a good win against
- 52:11Speaker 3: a solid Patentville team.
- 52:14Speaker 1: Yeah, they're four and four, but their record is they're
- 52:18Speaker 1: they're they're better than a five hundred team, though we.
- 52:21Speaker 3: Shot they have one of the hardest schedules in the area.
- 52:23Speaker 3: I mean they've had to play Zimull North, Kirkwood, Rittner
- 52:26Speaker 3: has been a solid team this year. Lafayette segment has
- 52:30Speaker 3: been pretty good. Parklay West. I mean there's really only
- 52:33Speaker 3: been two easy games in the schedule, and it doesn't
- 52:36Speaker 3: get any easier because they play herecan next week.
- 52:38Speaker 1: Yeah, late news. By the way, he had thirteen receptions
- 52:41Speaker 1: for one hundred and eighty two yards. Don't know how
- 52:43Speaker 1: many touchdowns because they don't have that and logged in
- 52:46Speaker 1: would assume one or two at least. Yes, Yes, definitely.
- 52:50Speaker 1: West outscored Pattonville thirty four to six in the second half,
- 52:57Speaker 1: and there you go. What else is there? There's plenty
- 53:02Speaker 1: of else, plenty else.
- 53:04Speaker 3: Saint Mary's shut down All to Off. That was honestly
- 53:07Speaker 3: one of the It wasn't surprised.
- 53:09Speaker 1: I wasn't.
- 53:09Speaker 3: I was surprised that they won, but yeah, it was
- 53:11Speaker 3: a statement wins just just just to shut up, to
- 53:14Speaker 3: shut out all to Off the way they did.
- 53:15Speaker 2: I mean they held all tof to one hundred and
- 53:17Speaker 2: forty eight yards of total offense. Alf couldn't get anything
- 53:21Speaker 2: going in the entire game.
- 53:23Speaker 1: That's still a little surprising they got shut out because
- 53:25Speaker 1: all toss offense has been fairly good all season. Yeah,
- 53:29Speaker 1: it was a good shutout like that.
- 53:31Speaker 2: Stats unfortunate.
- 53:33Speaker 1: But and Saint Mary's and they're a good team. I
- 53:35Speaker 1: mean there's six and two now six and two, they're
- 53:38Speaker 1: only and they're only there are two losses where the
- 53:40Speaker 1: ic Catholic, who's really good in Illinois from Elmhurst in
- 53:42Speaker 1: Chicago area, and then the Bradley bourbon A. I don't
- 53:45Speaker 1: know their record. Actually we do know their record. They're
- 53:48Speaker 1: seven and one, So that's that's Those are two Illinois teams,
- 53:54Speaker 1: weirdly against two Illinois teams. By the way they've played,
- 53:59Speaker 1: they've played four Illinois teams now Saint Mary's, so that's funny. Yeah,
- 54:04Speaker 1: and so it's funny what that's worked out. Yeah, they're
- 54:07Speaker 1: six and two and got a probably the toughest game
- 54:10Speaker 1: they could play.
- 54:11Speaker 3: Against each game they could possibly play.
- 54:13Speaker 1: At CBC next week. So you know, I think Saint
- 54:16Speaker 1: Mary's they're a sneaky good team in Class four.
- 54:19Speaker 3: Mm. Yeah, they're They're definitely not the the juggernaut that
- 54:23Speaker 3: everyone had to watch out for in previous years when
- 54:25Speaker 3: they had Kevin Coleman and Jamal Roberts. Jamal Roberts. But
- 54:30Speaker 3: they're they're a good team. They're they're a solid team
- 54:32Speaker 3: that's hanging in there. And that could I mean just
- 54:35Speaker 3: look at their district.
- 54:36Speaker 1: They they.
- 54:38Speaker 3: It's gonna be tough because they got Jennings and Lutheran
- 54:41Speaker 3: North in there, you know, and I gay you gotta
- 54:45Speaker 3: mention them.
- 54:46Speaker 1: But that's a fun district. Actually, if you.
- 54:49Speaker 2: Picked Saint Mary's to win, I wouldn't that would be
- 54:52Speaker 2: a decent pick. I really wouldn't argue that too much.
- 54:57Speaker 3: I mean, Looke, it's tough.
- 54:59Speaker 2: It's been tough to get lup and North because they've
- 55:00Speaker 2: only played six games so.
- 55:02Speaker 1: Far and it played good competition. It's been a weird
- 55:07Speaker 1: year for.
- 55:07Speaker 2: The Crusaders because they've had a couple of bye weeks and.
- 55:11Speaker 3: They had to travel to Maryville played a really good
- 55:14Speaker 3: Spoof Founce team and with the North plays Rigor this week,
- 55:17Speaker 3: so that'll reveal a lot.
- 55:19Speaker 1: But let's talk about one game that unfortunately cannot be played,
- 55:23Speaker 1: and that's the Saint Dominic versus m I CDs.
- 55:26Speaker 2: They are playing.
- 55:27Speaker 3: So we were recording this on Sunday. So I actually
- 55:30Speaker 3: was coaching in a game yesterday. Shout out to my
- 55:34Speaker 3: VCA Eagles and beat Malden. Heck, yeah, Tel Black and White,
- 55:37Speaker 3: let's go about to win. But there were several other
- 55:41Speaker 3: games that were at least attempted to be played yesterday.
- 55:44Speaker 1: Eureka and McClure was one of that.
- 55:46Speaker 2: I had to be called early.
- 55:48Speaker 3: So there was not a single game yesterday that was
- 55:51Speaker 3: started and completed at its schedule time because a bunch
- 55:57Speaker 3: of especially a pretty much a majority of the storms
- 56:01Speaker 3: kind of just ran from the southwest up northeast kind
- 56:05Speaker 3: of along I forty four, and that was a big
- 56:09Speaker 3: detour for a lot of games. So definitely a mess.
- 56:14Speaker 3: I know that m I CDs and Saint Dominic tried
- 56:16Speaker 3: to originally played at ms CDs during the day and
- 56:20Speaker 3: then they had to reschedule it for nighttime at Kirkwood,
- 56:25Speaker 3: and they ended up they ended up changing that, so
- 56:27Speaker 3: they're gonna play it tomorrow afternoon at three.
- 56:29Speaker 2: O'clock, which.
- 56:33Speaker 3: Time in my memory that we've had a varsity game
- 56:35Speaker 3: being played on a Monday.
- 56:37Speaker 2: That's gonna be really weird and it's gonna be really tough.
- 56:40Speaker 3: That's That is honestly an extremely tough break for both
- 56:42Speaker 3: of those teams because now they've got a really short
- 56:45Speaker 3: week going into week nine. I mean, my CDs plays
- 56:48Speaker 3: Mexico week nine, they probably should win that game. Mexico
- 56:53Speaker 3: is okay, so I don't know. But and then well
- 56:57Speaker 3: then St. Dominic they got Westminster week nine. Again they
- 57:00Speaker 3: should win. So both teams have games they should win
- 57:02Speaker 3: in week nine. But it's like in the NFL when
- 57:05Speaker 3: a team plays on Sunday then a Thursday night game.
- 57:07Speaker 3: I mean, the coach is always complain about it because
- 57:09Speaker 3: it's super short rest. You don't have enough time to
- 57:11Speaker 3: really prepare. So it's gonna be interesting to see how
- 57:14Speaker 3: those two teams handle it.
- 57:15Speaker 1: Yeah, i'd well, I guess we might as well talk
- 57:19Speaker 1: about it, because I guess we might as well. Maybe
- 57:21Speaker 1: well we didn't.
- 57:22Speaker 2: We are kind of preview that a little bit, but
- 57:24Speaker 2: we did. I mean I picked Saint Domnic to win. Yeah,
- 57:26Speaker 2: nothing changes, Yeah nothing, I would assume nothing changes.
- 57:30Speaker 1: I still have I predict Saint Dominic to win as well.
- 57:33Speaker 1: But yeah, it was. Yeah, Saturday was kind of a
- 57:37Speaker 1: dreary day. But by the way, Eureka did end up
- 57:40Speaker 1: beating mccluar twenty eight nothing before the game was called
- 57:43Speaker 1: in the second quarter, and it sucks for you know.
- 57:46Speaker 1: I bet there's some kids on the on Eureka who
- 57:48Speaker 1: probably were looking forward to, you know, batting their stats
- 57:50Speaker 1: a little bit. But they still won by thirteen points,
- 57:54Speaker 1: and so they collected all their district points. So it's
- 57:57Speaker 1: team wise, it's all good. So it's all that matters
- 58:00Speaker 1: right there. Crazy game that we have not talked about
- 58:04Speaker 1: yet Farmington.
- 58:05Speaker 3: Yes, Festest comes back and defeats Farmington forty one to
- 58:09Speaker 3: thirty six. It's too bad they don't have the quarter
- 58:12Speaker 3: by quarter scoring on here, because I believe Farmington was
- 58:15Speaker 3: up twenty one. I think I think it was twenty
- 58:18Speaker 3: eight seven.
- 58:19Speaker 2: I believe it was twenty to seven at one point
- 58:21Speaker 2: in the first half.
- 58:22Speaker 3: Yes, and Festus stormed back under a great second half
- 58:26Speaker 3: performance by Parker Perry. He had two to fifty four
- 58:29Speaker 3: passing yards his game for five touchdowns win reception. Leontay
- 58:32Speaker 3: Williams had a great game as well. Holy crap, one, two, three, four, five, six,
- 58:38Speaker 3: eight guys were Festest caught a past this game and
- 58:44Speaker 3: just a crazy game for the Tigers. I'm gonna try
- 58:46Speaker 3: and sift through Twitter to find the game updates on
- 58:51Speaker 3: this one.
- 58:53Speaker 1: It's it might be while right there, but yeah, just
- 58:58Speaker 1: keyword in Festus farming ting and you should get the
- 59:00Speaker 1: game score right there. But I think the game even
- 59:03Speaker 1: came down to a final play where Farmington I think
- 59:05Speaker 1: had a decent chance of hauling in a touchdown pass,
- 59:08Speaker 1: but it just I was dropped or they just weren't
- 59:12Speaker 1: able to complete it. So it was it had an
- 59:14Speaker 1: epic conclusion to the game. Oh here it is.
- 59:19Speaker 3: This is from the at live STREAMSSTL account.
- 59:22Speaker 1: Seven Perry looking downfield now flush steps up pass caught
- 59:28Speaker 1: touchdown fifty two point three seconds to play.
- 59:33Speaker 3: It's Jackson Frank.
- 59:36Speaker 1: Pretty cool.
- 59:37Speaker 3: They were down by So Festus was down by one
- 59:40Speaker 3: at that point with about a minute left.
- 59:43Speaker 1: And who was that too, Jackson Frank.
- 59:46Speaker 3: Jackson Frank. Yes, Parker Perry connected with Jackson Frank to
- 59:50Speaker 3: take the lead. Huge play for them. That that takes
- 59:55Speaker 3: a fight, man, I mean just just to be down
- 59:57Speaker 3: three scores in the beginning of the game against a
- 59:59Speaker 3: good Farmington team to fight back like that is.
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: Really really impressive.
- 1:00:03Speaker 3: Shows that those Festus boys have great confidence in each
- 1:00:07Speaker 3: other to stick with it and that's huge. The Tigers
- 1:00:11Speaker 3: are our seven to one, and they got an even
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: tougher game coming up as they host Jackson, which I
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: think should prepare them for the playoffs pretty well.
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: Honestly, Yeah, these will. I like how they schedule Festus.
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: These they like. Their last three games of the season
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: are really tough to smat Farmington and then Jackson. Not
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: as tough as last year for you know some team.
- 1:00:31Speaker 1: Well Dept's obviously not as good as last year, but
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: Jackson's pretty good. Farmington Farmingtons they're at their best they've
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: been in a long.
- 1:00:38Speaker 2: Time actually, yep.
- 1:00:40Speaker 3: So yeah, congrats. The fests is a huge clutch win there.
- 1:00:45Speaker 3: Orchard Farm wins the GC North after they have a
- 1:00:49Speaker 3: very convincing win against Lunch In the final score that's
- 1:00:51Speaker 3: when was forty nine to twenty seven.
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: Their offense has not I mean, they've kind of laid
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: everybody that wastes the season.
- 1:00:58Speaker 2: Orchard Farm will line up and run the ball down
- 1:01:01Speaker 2: your throat.
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: Colin Sereno and Colin Sinclair, the double Colin attack for
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: the Eagles, has been a great form so far this year.
- 1:01:08Speaker 3: Colin Sinclair had another great game six of eight throwing
- 1:01:11Speaker 3: the ball sixty five yards two touchdowns. He also had
- 1:01:13Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty yards on the ground. Colin Serenoh
- 1:01:16Speaker 3: had one hundred and twenty nine yards in the ground. Yeah,
- 1:01:20Speaker 3: this one, it was somewhat close in the first half,
- 1:01:25Speaker 3: and then Orchard Farm was able to defensively shut Warranton
- 1:01:28Speaker 3: down in the second half, able to force couple key
- 1:01:30Speaker 3: turnovers there. Colin's brother Max was actually able to have
- 1:01:34Speaker 3: two sacks in the game as well. So the Sereno
- 1:01:36Speaker 3: brothers are putting in some great work for Eagles so far.
- 1:01:40Speaker 3: And Orchard Farm now eight no going into their contest
- 1:01:43Speaker 3: against Moberley in the week nine. Moberley not doing two
- 1:01:46Speaker 3: goods so far, so Orchard Farm should finish the year
- 1:01:49Speaker 3: at nine to zero, which is huge for them.
- 1:01:52Speaker 2: Congrats to coach Lindolph on an amazing.
- 1:01:54Speaker 3: Year so far. And yeah, they've got a their They're
- 1:02:00Speaker 3: in a tough district. I mean they've got Parkway North
- 1:02:03Speaker 3: and U City in the district.
- 1:02:04Speaker 2: So that's going to be.
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: I think right now, I think if you're ready, but
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: Parkway North, if they went out again, if then they
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: would be the one seed so and then Orchard Farm
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: would most likely have to play U City in the
- 1:02:17Speaker 1: semi finals of that. But that'll be That'll be a
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: lot of fun though, and I'm looking forward to like
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: when that happens.
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Doug Martin has died.
- 1:02:26Speaker 3: Former Buccaneers ringing back it's thirty six.
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: Too bad. Yeah, that's really sad.
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: That's too bad.
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: Yeah, sorry to damp in the mood.
- 1:02:34Speaker 3: Guys, too young, Yeah sorry, anyways, any other.
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: To pick your guys up. We had a really interesting
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: game for a while for three quarters between Francis.
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yeah, this was Francis Howe has been.
- 1:02:51Speaker 3: They've been weird so far this year, like they, I mean,
- 1:02:54Speaker 3: the win gets well North is an amazing win, and
- 1:02:58Speaker 3: they got boat raced by cardinald Ritter. They had a
- 1:03:02Speaker 3: great winning at Zimo West and then they just get
- 1:03:05Speaker 3: ran over by Troy and then.
- 1:03:08Speaker 2: They were tied for a while against how I believe
- 1:03:11Speaker 2: the game was tied at.
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: Halftime fourteen to fourteen. There was a pick six the
- 1:03:16Speaker 3: second quarter by Brandon Brinkman that was able to really
- 1:03:19Speaker 3: shit the ties of this one. But I honestly this
- 1:03:25Speaker 3: we kind of saw this coming, like we had I
- 1:03:29Speaker 3: picked how to win this by I think like twenty.
- 1:03:33Speaker 3: So even after it was tied at halftime, Howell had
- 1:03:36Speaker 3: the talent edge, so they it was good that they came.
- 1:03:39Speaker 2: It was really they just they tied enough.
- 1:03:41Speaker 3: On the turnovers.
- 1:03:42Speaker 2: But yeah, they had they threw three picks in this game.
- 1:03:44Speaker 1: A big, yeah, big reason that Captel Central in this
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: game was hal had four turnovers.
- 1:03:49Speaker 3: And I mean, shoot that that's that's a huge red
- 1:03:53Speaker 3: flag for Howell because you can't just lean on Jalen
- 1:03:58Speaker 3: Ballen and expect to go anywhere in the Classics play offs.
- 1:04:01Speaker 3: I mean, if you're if you if you can't help
- 1:04:03Speaker 3: but turn the ball over when you go to your
- 1:04:04Speaker 3: passing game, you're gonna have a hard time when we
- 1:04:07Speaker 3: playoff games. And I mean, of course they've got small
- 1:04:12Speaker 3: West and Shroy in their district, two teams have already seen.
- 1:04:14Speaker 3: And then they also got a decent Liberty team and
- 1:04:17Speaker 3: then a pretty good Saint Donald team in that district.
- 1:04:19Speaker 3: So that's gonna this is gonna be a very intering
- 1:04:21Speaker 3: district to watch the next few weeks. But for how
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: they got rock Ridge this week and rock Bridge is
- 1:04:27Speaker 3: coming off. I know a lot of us don't pay
- 1:04:30Speaker 3: too much attention to the Columbia teams, but rock Bridge
- 1:04:33Speaker 3: has been better in previous years and Hickman has gotten
- 1:04:37Speaker 3: a lot better, which is honestly very good because that rivalry.
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: Is renewed again, and that is.
- 1:04:43Speaker 3: Those two schools do not like each other, rock Bridge
- 1:04:46Speaker 3: and Hickman in Columbia.
- 1:04:48Speaker 1: Yeah, well, they've been playing each other. Those schools have
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: been around for a long time, but I think they
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: started playing each other routinely since the eighties.
- 1:04:54Speaker 2: Yeah, and that was a close game.
- 1:04:58Speaker 3: So rock Bridge is gonna be hungry for a win
- 1:05:00Speaker 3: to finish the season above five hundred.
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: And not expect them to be fighting for a five
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: hundred record after the last few years they've had. Yeah.
- 1:05:08Speaker 3: Well, Bridge had a tough schedule in the Edeway park
- 1:05:11Speaker 3: Hill Week one a good KC team, Capital City, they
- 1:05:13Speaker 3: had to play them week four, Capital Halias, one of
- 1:05:17Speaker 3: the best teams in the state. They had. They only
- 1:05:19Speaker 3: lost them by ten Week five, and then I think
- 1:05:23Speaker 3: one final game at.
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: Least fourth mentioning Lift for Life.
- 1:05:28Speaker 3: Cape Central comes through and defeats Lift for Life seventeen
- 1:05:30Speaker 3: to sixteen. Nego team has their stats in Lift for
- 1:05:35Speaker 3: Life Tough one, they.
- 1:05:37Speaker 2: Fall to five and three. They got Halias this week.
- 1:05:40Speaker 2: That's going to be an even tougher game.
- 1:05:43Speaker 3: But Lift for Life is going to have by far
- 1:05:47Speaker 3: the most difficult schedule of any team in their district
- 1:05:50Speaker 3: and then includes Valley Catholic at Saint Genevieve, two really
- 1:05:53Speaker 3: good teams from Saint Genevieve obviously, So it's going to
- 1:05:57Speaker 3: be interesting to see how lif for Life can respond
- 1:06:00Speaker 3: going to the playoffs and.
- 1:06:03Speaker 2: Hopefully improved public performance.
- 1:06:05Speaker 3: And we'll see how coach Wulfulk and his boys back
- 1:06:10Speaker 3: on track ever since.
- 1:06:11Speaker 1: The Slew game, because they were looking pretty good after that,
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: I mean, only losing thirteen twelve to them, but like
- 1:06:15Speaker 1: they've had three games that have just been like with
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: scores that have just been kind of erratic a little bit.
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: I mean, they're two and one. I mean I think
- 1:06:24Speaker 1: they're they're okay with that, but then again, knowingly for
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: that they probably wish, I mean, they expected probably went
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: out after that Slew game. But yeah, some interesting it's
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: definitely interesting scores right there, but they're still overall in
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: a good place and that they got Halias next week,
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: and I don't really I don't expect them to win
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: that game at this point because the lives. They've just
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: been they've been there undefeated and they are in Class six,
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: but they are, but they were Class five finalists last year,
- 1:06:54Speaker 1: so they certainly play at a high level. And yeah,
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: we don't have a whole lot to go off of
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: the Game Central game even though, but all we know
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: is that Cape Central wanted a really really close game
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: right there. And this podcast has been pretty long. We've
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: taken up a lot of your time with this one.
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it was a pretty fun week, Lott.
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: Let's talk about Yeah, most teams have clenched championships and
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: conference championships that is, and but by next week we'll
- 1:07:24Speaker 1: know who all will have definitely clinched their conference like
- 1:07:27Speaker 1: outright or shares. So well, WEEKNNED is always a lot
- 1:07:32Speaker 1: and it's a lot of fun. So just for you know,
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: playoff implications on for Elton, Missouri and Illinois and the
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: Metro East. And then I always like to put it
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: out there who all won their conference championships because I
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: think that's important and and then you know district parables too,
- 1:07:49Speaker 1: so all looking forward to find out all that and
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: then also the Saint Dominique my CDs game on Monday. Okay,
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: very pact is always so thank you guys for listening.
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: As always, we'll see you. We'll see you guys very soon.
- 1:08:04Speaker 2: Peace,