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Class 4A Sectional 20 Championship Preview: Lebanon vs. Logansport (2.78.7) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to a special edition of the Central Indian Sports Report, our preview of the Class 4A sexual 20 championship game between the Lebanon Tigers and the Logan's port berries, with special guest Will Willems of the Lebanon Reporter.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to this special edition of the Central Indian Sports Report with myself, your
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and Tipton Tribune and Elwood Colleader Sports Editor Michelle Garmin, our Class 5A sectional 20 Preview between the 11 and Tigers and the Logan's Board Baries.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Coming up, we'll be joined by 11 and a reporter sports editor Will Willems to discuss Friday's sectional championship game at Logan's port.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then Michelle and I will make our game predictions.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Before we get all of that, I just want to let you know what's going on at the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Please go check out one of the other ones after you finish listening to this one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Those will all be released early Friday morning.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Also on Thursday, we released our preview and prediction show for every sectional and central Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: On Friday evening, we will have our sectional championship scoreboard show with scores and highlights from across Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Let's look at the Tigers and the Barry starting with Logan's port.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Logan's port enters the sectional at 8am 3.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They started the season 5 and 0 and have been
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  [SPEAKER_01]: just 500 since going 3 and 3, but the first loss was 22 to 14 at Hamilton Heights, the next two were both by one point on the road, one of those in over time, and they've bounced back with wins over defending sectional champion Huntington North 15 to 12, and upstart Muncie Central 31 to 24 to reach the championship game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Logan's poor has four strong running
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  [SPEAKER_01]: has exactly 1,000 yards on the year in a scored 14 times.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: With another couple games, he might be joined in the 1,000 yard club by sophomore Elliott Baldini.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He has also scored 14 touchdowns.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Almost 75% of the berries offensive production comes on the ground.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Logan's defense is loaded with talent, including Junior Lauren Taylor, who has 41 tackles 11 quarterback sack, 16 more tackles for loss, and has blocked three kicks this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Senior Caden Walker, who has 559 rushing yards, is third in the state with eight interceptions, and also has a fumble recovery.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Logan hasn't been able to win a sectional championships since 2020, 22 to 14 over Culver Academy when they went north for their sectionals.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That was the Barry's first sectional crown in 16 years before that it had been 16 years since the previous one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Lebanon lost its season opener 22 to 14 at Pittleton Heights.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Little did we know that both teams were about to have huge seasons.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Both teams have lost just once since, the Tigers 26 to 7 against Harrison and the regular season finale.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Since then, they won a Culver Academy 39 to 19 and be winless Frankfurt at home 48 to 6 to advance to the sectional championship.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Under first year head coach Josh Yoda, the Tigers offense has been explosive at 33 points per game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're led by a junior Chris Hill who's thrown for 1555 yards and 15 touchdowns and run for another 548 yards and 5 more scores.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Health's favorite target is Junior Tana Mondon who's got 46 of his passes for 617 yards and 9 touchdowns.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Seedier Josh Parks went over a thousand yards rushing last week and also leads the Tigers with 12 touchdowns.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Lebanon defense is led by senior Caden Gates who has 85 tackles and six tackles for loss.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If we stay tuned for Will Williams, then Michelle and I will be back at the end of the podcast to make our predictions.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We continue our preview of sectional 20, and we're joined.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: With Leviton reporters, sports editor Will Williams, who is here to preview the sectional 20 championship between Lebinon and Logan Sport and Will, should be a good one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's been a long time coming for Lebinon.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: These two teams met last year and it was a really close competitive game, Lebinon, each doubt a seven point win, but obviously the stakes are a little bit higher.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: It's one week later in the year.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, it's been a long time, almost 30 years for Levin in the last time.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They won a sectional was the only time.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They won a sectional in 1997.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: So they're hoping that the trip up to Logan's port on Friday night is pretty fruitful for them.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Is Levin pretty healthy and everything you get a good sense that they're healthy and locked in for Friday night's game?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They got the benefit of playing a Frankfurt team last week, who's been struggling a little bit or struggling a little bit this year.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: So they were, their starters only played about a quarter on last Friday night.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They got them out of there.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They have their kind of normal bumps and bruises that you would expect 11 games into a season.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They're pretty healthy and ready to go.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: First year under head coach Josh Yoder, what do you think he's brought to this program that's made this year so successful?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: He's not a really good job of just kind of installing like a Discipline and work ethic within the group.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: It was there before, but they always were just kind of missing that
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  [SPEAKER_04]: little edge that kind of put them over the edge and it was one of those things that in a close game more times than not they would find a way to not pull it out.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: This year it's been the opposite.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: When they get in these close games they find ways to make plays.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They believe that they're going to win.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And that really just comes down.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I think the coaching and just kind of changing that mindset a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Um, he was a longtime assistant at Brownsburg and kind of saw that program rise to know whether one of the top programs in the state was the defensive coordinator at Lebanon last year.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And then took over the head jobs of the kids were very familiar with him.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And he's done a really good job of getting the kids to buy into what what they want to do as a program and they're executing it on the field.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: match up.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: What areas do you think Levin and has an advantage in when they face off on the party?
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I think kind of looking at schedule wise, they've, Levin has played a competitive schedule, and I think that they have played some big teams that have kind of gotten them ready for what Logan's port can can bring up.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They're expecting a really close competitive game.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They know that Logan's port is extremely talented, especially with the way they run the ball.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Levinon players and coaches this week kind of compared them to Danville where they saw them up, saw about a month ago and have battled with for years and they were able to pull out close game there.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I think it really comes down to Levinon's offense has been clicking really well.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They do a good job of mixing up, run and pass and kind of keeping teams off balance and are able to kind of utilize weapons on both of those aspects of their offense.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: When they're needed, the big key for them is with a team like Logan's part that can run for nearly 300 yards a game, they're going to have to get stops.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: If Logan's part goes on some of those long drives where they're just on the field for 10 to 15 plays and kind of keeps 11 and offence off the field.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: That's not going to be the kind of game that Lebanon wants, they're going to have to get stops.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They're going to have to really kind of focus on the key there and then kind of get their offense on the field.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Looking sport, you say they like to get one of their gains between the tackles or do, they like to get wide.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I haven't really studied them that much to kind of know about Logan's part.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I was looking at the stats today where they have four guys who rush for over 400 yards, two over 600 yards.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They do a, from what I've been able to hear from Levin in coach, they do kind of a lot of misdirection, quick,
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  [SPEAKER_04]: kind of hitter things, kind of counteraction, they try to do things, and then they said their offensive line is pretty good as as well, they have good size.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: So I think Levin is just very happy really aware of just that there's several different weapons in the Russian game that Logan's port can utilize, and you can't just key on one of it are running back, because they got multiple guys that can hurt you.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Of course, the best defense sometimes is just controlling the ball offensively
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Right.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: And I think that's what Logan's port does a pretty good job of when you can, I mean, I'm looking at their stats today.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I think their cornerbacks only thrown about 110 passes on the entire year, about like 10, 11 a game.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: So they're just pounding the ball with a running game.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: One thing that I think could help Lebanon to is they've been, they've had a knack for forcing
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Statistically, it looks like Logan's parts fumbled 20 times this year in 11 games, which will happen when you run the ball a lot, but if Lebanon can get a couple of turnovers, maybe get some short fields, I think that if they can get into a game where they can get up a few points early and force Logan's port out of their comfort zone where they're going to have to throw the ball a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: That would be a very advantageous for Lebanon.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So it's been.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Well, a long, long time since Levin and one, a sectional team at 27.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Okay, I think 92 when they had Craig Terrell on the team, who went on to start at Purdue and with the Seattle Seahawks.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: So these guys, they've been close.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They really haven't had much postseason success as a program, even since 97.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They've for a long time, we're in that sectional with a
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  [SPEAKER_04]: either run colleague or cathedral or bishops or tard when they bumped up.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: So this will actually only be Lebanon's fourth appearance and a sectional title game since 1997.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They've lost obviously the previous three.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: So yeah, they're hoping for good things.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: They have a team that they believe could can get it done and they but they also know that they're going to have to play their game in execute because it's not going to be easy come Friday night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Williams of the 11 and reporter tell everybody how you can they can find your work.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, we're at reporter.net is our website.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: We'll have a
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  [SPEAKER_04]: put up this some kind of stat kind of breakdowns of the game today and we'll have a feature coming up within the next couple of days on running back Josh Parks from Levin and who's really done a fantastic job this year.
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  [SPEAKER_04]: I'm also on X at Will underscore Willems and we'll be updating from Logan's port on Friday night with hopefully for the Tigers what is a victorious night.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: All right, Michelle, we heard from Will Williams about the sectional 20 championship game between the Levin and Tigers and the Logan sport Barry should be a very good one for it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And for each other ever one of these teams wins, it'll be a big, big deal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Michelle Levin and at Logan sport, are you taking a win that one?
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I'm taking Lebanon.
• 12:43
  [SPEAKER_02]: They've played the schedule, but a tougher schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I know Logan's ports part of the who's your conference, but the who's your conference has some good teams, but kind of overall, not maybe as strong West Lafayette was down this year.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: So I think Lebanon has been tested.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I got a really good quarterback and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Logan's port, by the way, has a ton of really good players, a lot of them are younger that's a program seriously on the rise, they're going to win their championship side believe, but I don't think it's going to be this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned Levin and his quarterback Chris Hill moving from Shattard is made a huge difference at Levin and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And first time since 1997, I believe as well that the Lebanon Tigers are going to be your sectional 20 champions.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for your time, Michelle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And thank you for listening.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Please share this podcast with the high school football fan in your life and go check out one of our other sectional previews.
• 13:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: We did eight of them this week.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And also Michelle and I picked all the sectional championship games in Central Indiana.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can go find that one too.
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