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Greg & His Friends Talk Sports ... with Elijah Poe (2.234.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:07
  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Central Indiana Sports fans to my new podcast greatness for Instalk Sports.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's actually the last edition of Greg and his friend's talk sports.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Starting Saturday, the new Daily Show will be seven days a week and it will be called the Central Indiana Daily Sports Report unless I come up with something better between now and then.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: This is the podcast I planned on doing a couple of years.
• 0:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I can't believe we're already at the two-year mark of this podcast, but I haven't really been able to figure it out, and I think we're almost there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm your host Greg Mengell.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Please join me and my friends every day for updates on what's happening in the Central Indiana Sports World and around the country with the focus on the Pacer's fever cults IU Purdue indie car local high schools.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Colleges and National Sports coming up today Friday April 17, 2026.
• 0:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be joined by my friend and our indie car guy Elijah Poe to preview the indie car weekend at Long Beach Please stay tuned for him after the Daily Central Indiana Sports Report
• 1:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: We recently released our weekly fever, pacer's IU Purdue and Indicara reports.
• 1:13
  [SPEAKER_01]: Please go check those out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Also earlier this morning, our newest edition of Greg versus Will versus the world.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's a debate and prediction podcast and a lot of fun.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Will and I go head to head every week, making predictions about what's gonna happen.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we put points on the line right now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Will's head three to nothing and I don't like that.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Plus we had a special IU report that we released earlier this morning.
• 1:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: We had our regular IU report on Tuesday, but so much has happened since then that we decided to do a special podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks so much for joining us, my friends, and I will be back tomorrow.
• 1:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: And your 10-minute update begins now.
• 1:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a slow, slow Thursday, except for on high school fields, tracks, courts, and courses.
• 2:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: But we started the Indiana Pacers.
• 2:05
  [SPEAKER_01]: The NBA announced on Thursday that the Pacers will play the Denver Duggets in Mexico City in a regular season game on November 7th, game will be aired on ESPN and the nuggets will be the home team.
• 2:17
  [SPEAKER_01]: Mount Vernon State Champion, Mr. Basketball, and future Purdue Boilermaker Luke Erdogan leads the list of the APs Indiana 1st team all state performers for the 25, 26 season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's joined on the 1st team by the Kim Bay Shaw of Crown Point, Noah Smith of Plainfield, Brady Schull of Northridge, and Silver Creek's day in Caldwell.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and all of them are seniors.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Lawrence Norstkey McGrew Cathedral's Keaton Aldridge Fisher's Cooper Zachary, Gary 21st Terence Haynes Jr. and Lawrence Norst, Brendan Miller are the second team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Zachary is a junior of the rest, our seniors.
• 2:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: And the third team is Mack Welker of Homestead, Dizjon Hall of Attics, South Bend St. Joseph's Nick Schruzbury, Bloomfield's Blake Neal and Penn's Caleb Coleman.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Local players receiving high honourable mention were Fisher's Jason Gardner, Mount Vernon's back vise.
• 3:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: Noblesville's Baron Walker, Cocomos, Corbin, Hamill, Javion Harris of Taylor, Anderson's Don Bowing, Colton Lindsay of Eastern and Blackford's Mari Leggett.
• 3:24
  [SPEAKER_01]: It'll be Pendleton vs. Alexander for the Madison County Girl's Tennis Championship later today after Pendleton Heights flipped Elwood and the Tigers meet Franklin 4-1.
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Elwood and Franklin will play for third place and on Thursday Madison Grant, and it be Anderson 3-2 in the constellation bracket.
• 3:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: In softball, number two Alexander had picked up a big seven to two win over, number four lapel.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ridley Humphrey's allowed just one earned run and struck out 12 for the 6-0 Tigers.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: O'Kill is 6-0 after a 14-2 win over McConaugle, Yorktown beat Frankton 9-1, Blackford got its first win of the year 13-11 over eastern behind four hits each.
• 4:03
  [SPEAKER_01]: From Braille and Wilson and Riley Heizer, Icer Homerd and Drone in four.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Northfield beat Madison Grants.
• 4:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hamilton Heights topped Arrival Sheridan, 21 to 2, and tried central one of the unofficial tipten county championship by beating Kippton 13 to 10.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Tinsley Orm's had three hits including a double, and Emily Marzuski drove in three runs for the four two Trojans.
• 4:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: In baseball, East Brookbeat Northfield proved to 7 or 1.
• 4:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Elwood won its fourth straight 23-2 over Burris, after scoring 13 runs in the first inning.
• 4:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Sobsoff Moore's Zane Rye and Liam Cannon went 6-7 with 8 runs and 6 RBIs combined, or 4-3 Elwood.
• 4:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: Blackford won its second game of the year 14-4 over Muncie Central behind 5 strong endings on the mound from Sophmore, Owen Norton.
• 4:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: Frankton is 0-4 after 7-1 loss at Taylor and Cathedral Beatle.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If he draw beat Lapelle 13-6, O'Kill beat Northwestern 10-6, and Tipton fell 10-8 at Eastern, despite a three-for-four-two run outing from Junior Pierce and Nasser.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the Madison County Track Me is tonight at Madison Grant, Pinnleton Heights is the favorite on the boys' annual side.
• 5:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a little tired of talking about the transfer portal, but here's your daily update.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Note a name added former pinstar Ethan Roberts.
• 5:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Roberts averaged 17 points a game for the Quakers last year, and former IU Women's Star Adessa Noyan, is chosen to brasska as her next college stop.
• 5:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: In the majors, the reds lost three to nothing to the Giants managing just a single hit, a P.J.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Higgins single.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And a game that saw a hit-batter high-tensions and a kerf-fluffle at the end of the game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Pirates also lost 8-7 to the national, so the top 14s in the central.
• 5:55
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Reds and Pirates are 11 and 8, and the Cardinals and Brewers are 10 and 8.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Cubs are just a game in half behind at 9 and 9.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Their series with the Metset, regularly gets underway at 220, the Reds play 3, and Minnesota starting the night at 8.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Cardinals are Houston.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Pirates host AL East Leading Tampa, and the Brewers AirR, and Miami to face the Marlins.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A couple of quick and local news and notes, Brownsburg wide receiver Brandon Sharp tweeted that he had a great day visiting Alabama on Thursday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's also an IU Purdue and Notre Dame target.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: In the car announced a test of the Speedway April 28 and 29, the southeast of Vista will be open for public viewing, and the Big 10 volleyball tournament will be played at the
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  [SPEAKER_01]: the Big Ten Networks, Emily Ame.
• 6:44
  [SPEAKER_01]: And my friend Rob Hunt of the Harold Bolton received the Double Eye Trouple A Distinguished Service Award for Media, selected by the state's athletic directors, congrats, and welcome to the exclusive club, Rob.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Here's what's happening on Friday, April 17, 2026.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The final NBA playoff teams will be determined Friday night with the Hornets in Orlando and the Warriors in Phoenix.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The Magic Hornets winner gets each top seed Detroit in the opening round of the East playoffs starting Sunday at 630 on NBC.
• 7:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: The Warriors and Sons winner will try to throw him the NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder that series begins Sunday at 330 on ABC.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: A full playoff schedule for you on Saturday's Daily Show, first thing Saturday morning.
• 7:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: IU Baseball starts a three-game series at home with Abley and Christian and Purdue hosts Ohio State for three big 10 games.
• 7:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Both series start Friday with six clock first pitches.
• 7:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: Ball State is at Ohio to face Kit for three this weekend, and also starts at 6 o'clock Friday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And in college softball, IU play 3 and I was starting in a few minutes here at 2.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Purdue is at Rutgers starting at 6 and Ball State is at Miami for a max series for the first pitch for that when it's Friday at 3.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The indie ignite of Women's Major League volleyball or Grand Rapids tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: That game can be seen on YouTube.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The ignite are 18 and 4.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll talk to my friend and their PA guy, Aaron Pippman, on Sunday morning's Daily Show to discuss the ignite.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And Indy Car, we can get underway Friday with a 6pm practice session at Long Beach, qualifying a 630 Saturday with a rare Sunday evening race at 530 on Sunday.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And racer magazine is reporting the India's looking to add a race at Watkins Glen in New York.
• 8:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: That would be fantastic.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Please stay tuned for my friend Elijah Poe with a preview of the Indy Car weekend
• 8:48
  [SPEAKER_01]: Elijah, thanks so much for joining me and it's Long Beach and not probably one of the most competitive races year to year, but one of the most important anyway.
• 8:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's been one of the longest races on the Indie car calendar here, other than the 500 and maybe a few others.
• 9:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: But we talk about some races that really embrace a whole city.
• 9:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: The perfect example is Long Beach, just such a great event.
• 9:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like you said, the racing might not be the best, but Long Beach isn't Indie car staple.
• 9:17
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's only been a couple weekends since they ran, but man, it's glad to have them back.
• 9:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: really need an oval road course street course triple crown or throw short oval in there make it a grand slam and because long beach would definitely be the street course grand slam, but I digress Elijah water some of the story lines you're going to be looking at going into this weekend at Long Beach.
• 9:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: No, we, we had taught been obvious that and journeys had dominance at Long Beach and with that being said you have Kyle Kirkwood who's leading the indie car championship right now by Alex blow by a couple points and it's going to be another big week for him.
• 9:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think when you look at season outlook, he's definitely somebody that's been really big and he needs to deliver here as well in Long Beach and then maybe another secondary storyline.
• 10:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's going to be paddle award who's had a really really bad race out at barber.
• 10:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: and really needs to re-coup some points here before again to the month of man in eNapolis.
• 10:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm just not sure that the McLaren teams fast enough right now.
• 10:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think there is a chance with Long Beach can really get risky in some certain sections, but I think the McLaren teams kind of need to take what they can get out of this weekend and then full force into Indy where they're usually always competitive even on the road and street.
• 10:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no question.
• 10:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: So Kirkwood, pillow, one, two, and the standings.
• 10:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: We expect him to be one, two this weekend, but it's probably a bigger weekend for Kirkwood than pillow, right?
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would say so, you know, Kirkwood's been good around this course before at Long Beach, and Dready's been dominant here for years.
• 11:00
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you look at the schedule, that's got coming up.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We know Alex Plows good at Indy.
• 11:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: We know he's good at Detroit.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We know he's good at St. Louis.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we're getting into this part of the schedule, where Alex Plows really tends to dominate.
• 11:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if Kerber would want to have anything to say about the championship, he's going to need to lock down as many points as he can get before he get into a real stretch where Alex Plows tends to be the best driver.
• 11:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: Please check out our full Long Beach preview that we've released on Thursday morning.
• 11:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: And come back on Saturday morning for the next edition.
• 11:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not even sure what to call it anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: For the Central Indiana Sports Report daily update.
• 11:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Tomorrow Saturday morning first thing.
• 12:45
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