November 28, 2025 • 46 mins
Mr. Leiser calls in to talk about the 1A State Championship between South Putnam vs Pioneer’s. He talks about how injuries played their role in this game and what that meant for BOTH teams. Starting off the 10 o’clock hour strong and they talk us through how Pioneer was able to get a healthy 55-29 win. Who is their standout player who is already getting looks already. A familiar voice, Kurt Darling calls in to talk some more 3A State Finals and touch on some 5A action. First, Cascade won in their first state finals.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
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Speaker 3 (00:48):
Coach, you are the best. Let's get right to it
with the fifth state championship for the New Palestine Dragons.
It is all over from Lucas Oil Stadium. On Day
one of the IHSA put Ball State Finals, New Palestine
takes care of Meryville thirty eight to seventeen, a ballgame
that had Maraville out in front first, but newpal answered
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with a touchdown score and then ten points in the second,
followed by an impeccable twenty one point fourth quarter by
the Dragons thirty eight to seventeen. New pal has gone
back to back. They won the four A state championship
last year, the five A state title this year, and
now five times they have won it twenty fourteen, twenty eighteen,
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twenty nineteen, twenty twenty four and now twenty twenty five.
New pal quarterback Jacob Davis rushed for one hundred and
twenty nine yards. Talented running back Cayden Jacobia how about
this twenty six carries one hundred and twenty five yards,
two touchdown scores. New Palestine once again the state champion.
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Earlier this morning into the afternoon, we started with the
Class A ball game that saw South Putnam defeat Pioneer
fifty five nine. South Putnam their first football state championship
since nineteen eighty six. The Mental Attitude Award winner from
Class A, by the way, was Pioneer quarterback Micah Rans.
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Congratulations to him. But again South Putnam and pressed their
talented junior running back Tied Benton. Nineteen carries one hundred
and forty yards and a touchdown score in the ballgame,
moving up to Class three A. In a really really
really fun ballgame. Cascade defeated Fort Wayne Bishop Lures twenty
nine to fourteen. Cascades first ever state title. Great story
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coming out of Clayton, Indiana, where the best finished to
a season prior to this year for Cascade was a
sectional championship in nineteen ninety two. They're now state champions
in twenty twenty five, and it was their quarterback Brady
Trembley named the three A Mental Attitude Award winner. We
still await the Mental Attitude Award winner, by the way,
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from Class US five A, So that takes us now
halfway through the state championship games Aaron twenty twenty five
and now heading into tomorrow. The two A ballgame begins
at eleven AM Andrayan versus Brownstown Central. Three of the
final four teams in Class two A were undefeated. Andrean's
got a chance to outlast all of them at twelve
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and one, Brownstown Central was fourteen and ozh. The four
A state title will begin at three pm. Fort Wayne
Bishop Dweger will face off against ron Kalli. Dwanger comes
in at twelve and two. Ron Khali is eleven and three. Lastly,
in the Battle of six A seven o'clock Westfield Brownsburg
the old rival rants the Rocks and the Bulldogs. Brownsburg
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the defending champion at a Class six A over to
the Pacers. Tonight, we're able to crush the Wizards one
hundred and nineteen to eighty six. Now, both the Wizards
and the Pacers only came in with two wins apiece. However,
the Pacers needed to see one go in and they did.
They got a great performance from Pascal Siakam with twenty four.
Ben Mathern chipped in with twenty. Over to the bucket.
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Game number two, Indiana has found their stroke thirty five
to three. The Hoosiers are crushing the Boilers five point
fifty six left in the third quarter. Now, Indiana struggled
out of the gate. Fernando Mendoza was just five out
of twelve throwing the ball in the first half with
forty two yards. He's now thrown a touchdown in the
second half. But has been the IU rushing attack that
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has really owned everything.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
IU has ran for two hundred and fifty one yards
to the Group four rushing scores. The Hoosiers final to
improved at twelve to zero and punched their ticket to
Indianapolis for the Big Ten title game College hoops tonight.
Number one Perdue is seven to oh they take care
of Eastern Illinois one hundred and nine to sixty two.
How about seven to four Center Daniel Jacobson coming out
party for him? Twenty four points, eight of eight from
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the field, nine rebounds, six blocks. El Corn State beat
Indiana State eighty one seventy four, Butler over Wright State
ninety four to sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Welcome back everyone. This is Network Indiana's Indiana Sports Tuck.
We are so glad you could join us. Great weekend,
holiday weekend. Everything's perfect down in downtown Indianapolis right now.
Two eight championship. Excuse me, one A championship. We started
out with one to three five, just wrapping up single
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A championship goes to South Putnam. They be pioneer tonight
or today fifty five twenty nine with me the man
who was the analyst for this expert X, this tremendous
display of football from the IHSA champions Radio Network, Jim Leisure. Jim,
thank you so much for the call. It's a very
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impressive win for South Putnham this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Well it really was Bob, and it started out, you know,
fairly even I was fourteen fourteen at half. Pioneer scored first,
took the opening kick down, got a penalty for an
illegal substitution that kept the drive alive, punched it in,
and then South Putt came back their first offensive play.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
They threw a fifty nine yard touchdown.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Pass that Blake Wentz from quarterback Drew Klein, and that
made it seven to seven at the end of one.
Pioneer then answered and on a Noah Van Meter one
yard run fourteen to seven Panthers. And then again like
I said earlier, South Putt answered with a twenty seven
yard pass from Klyining to Branson Hanley Inswer to make
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it fourteen fourteen into half. So we thought we were
going to have a really close ball game. But I
say South Putt just kind of you know, I don't
know that. You know, neither team had many players, and
so they had a lot of kids going both ways,
so it was going to be a battle of attrition,
and ultimately South Puttenham won that their kids were able
to score quite a few points, twenty points in the
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third quarter, which kind of effectively ended it. Two teams
traded touchdowns in the fourth quarter, got some JV kids
in the ball game, but a lot of neat stuff
happened in the ball game.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
A lot of these happened. I mean, you basically have
one of those games where you have two different halves.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You know it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So obviously a closely played game in that first half.
And then a South Puttingham team who has put up
a lot of points against a lot of people. Jim
showed you why they're able to do that well.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
And again, here's the best part if your coach Chuck
Sorel and the South Putnam folks, is that a lot
of juniors on the team. The quarterback Drew Bryant's coming
back to the running back Tyd Benton, who ran for
almost twenty five hundred yards and twenty six touchdowns coming
into the ballgame, is back, and Bob, they got a guy,
a linebacker defensive end by the name of Keenan Mawury
Shields who's a junior and is coming back. He's being
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looked at by MAX schools and some in schools, and
I'm here to tell you he is an absolute man.
Came into the game with the state leading two hundred
and twenty nine tackles. They played him at defensive end,
in linement both.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
He was everywhere. Now he was credited with.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Fourteen tackles, but it seemed like he got a lot
more than that. He was in on every will play
an absolute man. You know again, I look forward to
seeing this ball club next year hopefully, and I'm sure
coach Sorel will do his.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Best to keep them focused and in the weight room, because.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
The only thing better than winning one is went into
it and they got a shot to do it.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
The cool thing about him is that this is how
they've played this. This was not an aberration by any means.
This is what they've done. They've scored a lot of points.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
They are they are. They may handle people up front
on both sides of the ball. Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And I know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It's a single a and you know it's you have
low numbers of players, but this is a dedicated group
of guys who live in the weight room and have
done some impressive things.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, you know, and and some put Last year, I
believe lost to the eventual state champion, Providence, and coach
Sorel said, you know that he felt like they played
well enough to win that ball game. And you know
sometimes now, coach didn't say this, but but I said
it on the air because as a coach, and you've
probably been here too as a coach, they're probably a
year early. You know, if you'd ask in the preseason,
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they said, look, we're gonna have a great year and
we have a shot to get to Lucasol Stadium. But man,
next year, when all these kids are seniors, you know,
we're gonna be really hard to beat. Well, they arrived
a little bit early, and I tell you they are
a very impressive football team. They scored on a fumble
recovery pioneer. Honestly, Coach Adam Berry said, you know, we
made tunny mistakes and they did, you know, for a
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wing tea team, and they run it well. They have
four guys with one thousand yards rushing. They had a
young man today in Philip mcpatridge who was a sophomore,
needed sixty eight yards to get to be the fourth
guy with over a thousand and he got well over that,
something like one hundred and twenty. So four guys with
a thousand yards rushing. And he said, but you know,
we can't make mistakes. They fumbled the football four times,
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lost two of them. One of them was picked up
for a TD and after the game his comment was,
you know, we just made too many mistakes. We knew
coming in that we had to play well, and we
just didn't play well.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Jim Leisure from the ICHSA Champions Radio Network. You're working tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I Am got to get up early and do it
all over again. We have the two a game and drain.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And brown Oh, you're stuck with Brendan King. I forgot Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
No, I'll try to carry him through. My back's already
from carrying on the tally all night. But I will
tell you this, Bobby, if you get a chance, or
if anybody out there listening gets a chance, and by
all means I.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Want you to listen to me.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
But if you get a chance to watch it on
the Champions Network television, Brownstown runs a single wing right
out of the forties, baby right, complete with quarterbacks doing
three sixties spins, running back doing three sixties spins.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
It's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Jim Leisure, Great to talk to you, Jim. We'll talk
to you tomorrow night. Thank you, all right, Thanks coaching.
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Speaker 3 (11:12):
I'm Brendan Kang with this Network Indiana Scoreboard update. Here
on Indiana Sports Talk, we continue our coverage of Day
one of the IHSAA football State Finals. Hey, little nugget
coming from the Class A game we told you about,
South South Puttenham is feeding Pioneer fifty five. Twenty nine
seven different South Putnam players scored touchdowns in the game.
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And for the IHSAA, that is the most ever in
the fifty three years of football state championships in a
single game by one team. That's pretty incredible. And then
thanks to Kurt Darling who mentioned this little piece of
information to me a little bit earlier. Three counties sent
two teams each two state championships this year. Of course,
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it was Fort Wayne Lures and Fort Wayne Dwanger of
the two six, so Hendricks County had Cascade in Brownsburg
and then Merraville and Andrea and both coming down from
the region. That's only the third time that has ever happened.
Jason Willie from the IHSAA confirming that one it happened
in nineteen ninety two, twenty twenty two, and now twenty
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twenty five. So couple special notes on this IHSAA State
Finals Day one, with of course Day number two coming
up tomorrow eleven am start Andrean takes on Brownstown Central.
Gimblaser will have the call and the color commentary. I
will be his play by playman. Chris Lowery will join
us on the sidelines. Four A at three o'clock it's
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Fort Wayne Bishop Winger taking on Ron Klli and then
the six A game at seven o'clock as Westfield and Brownsburg.
By the way, your broadcast teams in that four A
game Gevin Redman, Matt Surface, and Nathaniel Finch. Sixth it'll
be jeff Ricord, Matt Surface and our very own mister Fitch.
I'm brendan kick.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Let's say Champions Network and Network Indiana and with us
now is the head coach for a Ron Collie that
is Sam Ottley. A big game against Bishop Dwanger and coach.
First of all, thank you for your time. It's been
a pretty special season here at Ron Callie. When you
joined the program last year you knew you were stepping
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into a team with a rich tradition, but to bring
them back to the title game just in your second
year is really special.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Absolutely, and it really is a testament to these guys,
the senior leadership that we have. I know, when we
started this journey in January, the guys were motivated, they
were working, you know, they were ready to work hard
in preparation for winning championships. And man, just since that time,
the bond, the brotherhood that they've developed, the work ethic,
their focus and preparation, you know, their discipline as a team.
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You know, it's just a testament to their character as
a team. And they're a joy to coach. I mean,
we challenge them week in and week out and they
continue to meet that. And again it's a group that
just again they're they're they're seeking you know that that
struggle if you will, to continue to improve, identify the
things that we need to get better at, and week
in and week out, just keep striving to be the
best team that we can be. So they're a joy
to coach and I'm just happy to be here.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Well, the season ends last year against a rival Shatar.
You find a way to beat them this year? Is
that extra motivation? And what's it like just to continue
to win and win and win And now now all
of a sudden you are Lucas Oil.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
Yeah, the winning builds confidence.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
But again that starts, you know, Monday through Thursday and practice,
and our guys are locked in on that mentality. They
know if we play the best football that we can
play offense, defense, special teams. You know, that confidence, you know,
just allows them to go take the field on Friday
and let it rip, you know, go have fun, play
fast and physical ron Coyllie football and continue to win.
But again that's that's the goal every time that we
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take you know, the field for practice is lock in,
identify the things that we need to do so that
we're prepared to win when we take the field on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
It's the head coach of the ron KLi Royals, Sam
Ali coach, a guy playing ron Calli football really well.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
For you right now?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Is calling ash I mean forty total touchdowns? What does
it mean to the team to have his dual threat
ability there?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Yeah, he is one heck of an athlete. But more
importantly than that, he's a great kid. He's a great leader,
So the guy's really a rally around him. He's just
a natural competitor, a fierce competitor, and really that attitude
has helped shape the team into you know those things
that we were talking about, just focus and practice, being
locked in to make sure that we're prepared and ready
to go. So he does a great job there leading
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the guys, and then as a as a quarterback, you know,
his ability to put our put us in positions to
be successful, get the ball where it needs to be.
He's just developed greatly as a quarterback and his ability
to do that. And then obviously you know he's got
the ability to be dynamic and make plays on the ground.
He's throwing the football well and when things are there,
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he's able to get out of the pocket and you know,
extend plays and do some things down field, which is
fun to watch. And then obviously in the run game
he's a threat there. So he just adds a lot
of you know, dynamic elements to the offense to get
you know, keep defenses on their toes, but then allow
us to get the ball where it needs to be
so that we can be effective.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
It's the head coach of the Ron Callie Royal sam
Atli coach. The Ron calling community really unique, really tighten it.
What would it mean to bring the eleventh state title
back to ron Callie.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It would mean a lot.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
It's you know, again, these guys appreciate the tradition that
they represent deeply. And you know, there is a whole
community of Ron Callie. You know, guys that played in
the past. You know, the young kids in the COO
program that just are supporting these guys and they understand
that who they represent. And again, a lot of what
makes our group so special is you know, doing it
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for the guy next to him, that that selfless desire
to go after it and you know, and watching them
do that special and I know, you know they're proud
and what they represent and they want go get it
done for all the guys who have given so much
to us as a football program in the past and
again continue to raise that standard of what Roun Collie
football is weekend and week out. And man, they've done
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a great job at doing that. So I'm excited for
him this week.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
It's the head coach of the Royal sam Al coach,
thank you for your time and good luck.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Ye thank you, Nathaniel Finch on this doing a great
job talking to our coaches that one obviously, Sam Otley
from Ron Calli, Ron Collie and Dwinger for the four
eight championship tomorrow Lucas Oil Stadium. Reminder, South Putnham wins
the single ad today they beat Pioneer fifty five nine Cascade.
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Great win for the cadets. How about that. I'm an
interscanny boy morning raised there. Happy for the cadets. They
beat Lures twenty nine to fourteen. It's a great story.
The five Brenden. We got a final on the five A.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
We sure do, coach, and it's New Palestine again thirty
eight seventeen. Newpal goes back to back four A last year,
five A this year, of course, very difficult to do
and then impressively so New pal runs for three hundred
and twelve on the ground to win it. So the
Dragons coach. That's number five since twenty fourteen. Pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
It is amazing. Kyle Ralph has literally created a dynasty.
You're looking at it and seeing the employee. That's impressive.
That's impressive. Tomorrow, Jim Leisure, we talked with him, you
too are hooked up on that and the two A
championship by andre And and Brownstown Central. Some good comments,
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like you're talking about watching this single wing attack with
Brownstown Central. I know you've gone back into the history,
the history of the of the single wing. You're all said,
are you not?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I feel like I'm good to go. I still got
a little more prep, one last bit of prep to
do before the night's over and then going into the morning.
But it's been interesting to learn about and look at
the history of football. You know, I'm somebody coach that
I never played the sport, so it's been fun to
learn about it, and also the analytics and the history
and who used it when they used it pretty cool.
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And then also watching it on film. You know, the
IHSAA provides us to our calling games the semi state
game tapes, so we're you're able to go back and
watch it. Just seeing how they all use it and
seeing it and ran from a Brownstown Central perspective, it's
it's pretty amazing. But here, I'll tell you one other
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thing about this. It's you would think Brownstown Central, since
they run that single wing, they rarely throw it, right,
that would be somebody's opinion. Well, Brownstown has more pass
attempts on the year than Andrean. So just when you
think that Brownstown Central might be a one trick pony,
you know, they're a team that has thrown it this year,
and they're a team that has revs up the score
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in all kinds of games. So again, just when you
think that all Brownstown can do is run it, they're
fourteen and oh for a reason making they could also
sling it a little bit when they need to.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I think what I've always found, you know, I used
to teach a history of sports class at i U Indy,
uh and it was always fun to you know, do
you sport? Football was was interesting because of how it
all got started. And now you look at football and
in basketball is the same way too. Uh, different offenses,
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different defenses, how the game has changed and you know
how you know fundamentally is still the same, but still
you know, different ways to approach it. Single wing is
a throwback, I mean literally a throwback some variations of it.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Uh know.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
When Eric Moore came into cinergirlf we brought in the
wing tea and there have been other guys who've brought
along those types of things, And I think there's something
to be said with the contrarian point in terms of
doing something that not a lot of other teams are doing,
and uh, you're going to see that tomorrow with the
single wing with Brownstown Central.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I'm excited to see it again. It's, you know, one
of those games where Brownstown Central they're going to try
and establish the run. But you know, if Andrean's able
to make it a shootout, you know this Brownstown team
can also throw it. So I think, coach, that are
all kinds of angles that this game can go Tomorrow.
I don't think necessarily it's going to be on the ground,
even though both teams do love to run. I mean, heck,
the last time coach that I had in Andrean State
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championship game, it was twenty twenty one and Drake Bowen
ran for over two hundred and fifty yards and pretty
much beat Evansville Modern Day by himself. So again, I
think this one is all kinds of storylines to it,
and we'll see how it plays out. It's gonna be
a good game.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
How about your Irish tomorrow? Notre Dame in action, Yeah tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, going to Stanford. It'll be officially Franke Reich's final
game as interim head coach at Stanford. Stanford did make
a decision today. Now they had always said that Frank
Reich was going to be just there for one year,
Frank helping out of course, GM Andrew Luck that's who
Andrew brought in to kind of reset that Stanford program.
And it'll be ta Vita Pritcher, the current quarterback coach
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at with the Washington Commanders taken over. Next year. However,
Frank Reich will coach his final game at Stanford, penning
bull eligibility and Notre Dame's going to Palo Alto, which
is historically a tough place to play. So the Irish
trying to continue to pump up those college football playoff rankings.
They took care of business last week against Syracuse, as
we referenced, with the most points goed by an Irish
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team since nineteen thirty two when the single wing was
being ran by the way. And you know they'll try
and do the same thing as Stanford.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
All right, what's up with the bucket game? We no
I U's up was all all I.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
U coach forty nine to three into three.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Forty three into three. Brendan King, we're back talking more
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Speaker 3 (23:20):
I'm Brendan Kang with this Network Indiana scoreboard update here
on Indiana Sports Talk. Check in from West Lafayette. It
is all Indiana, the number two Osiers crushing Purdue forty
nine to three. That was a seven to three game
after a quarter. But Indiana has rattled off back to
back twenty one point quarters in the second and the
third start of the fourth quarter right now from Ross
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Aids Stadium. And again it's the Indiana rushing attack that
has been the storyline. Indiana has carried the ball thirty times,
They've ran for three hundred and twenty nine yards, and
five touchdowns have been scored on the ground. Bernanda Mendoza
has thrown two touchdown passes, but a like day, passing
the ball just eight for fifteen for one hundred and
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seventeen yards, but again. I you getting it done with
boots on the ground, and it could be the first
time in Fernando Mendoza's time as a Hoosier and he
completes less than ten passes in a game, they can
it's still all Indiana at forty nine to three there
from Wes Lafayette. The Pacers tonight earn their third win
of the year, one hundred and nineteen to eighty six.
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They hammer the Washington Wizards twenty four points along with
eleven rebounds for Pascal si Yakam. In the game. Ben
Mathern added twenty on eight of sixteen shooting. The Pacers
will go right back to it, playing a back to
back tomorrow night against the Chicago Polls. That will be
a seven thirty tip time. College shops tonight number one
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Perdue hold Sport seven to oh. Now are the Boilers
one hundred and nine to sixty two Perdue brushes Eastern Illinois?
How about seven to four? Purdue center Daniel Jacobson coming
out party for him twenty four points, eight of eight shooting,
nine rebounds, six blocks in the game. Brendan King Network, Indiana.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Welcome back everyone. This is Indian Sports up brought to
you by Indiana Donor Network three A football championship goes
to the Cascade Cadets. They beat for win Bishop Lures
twenty nine to fourteen. With me from the IHSAA champions
Radio Network, Kurt Darling, Kurt, that's an impressive win for
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the Cadets this afternoon, coach.
Speaker 10 (25:39):
It was the first time that Cascade had ever been
in a state championships for a football in fact, and
not only that, they had also won twenty four of
their last twenty five games coming into this particular game,
and so there was certainly a lot riding with Cascade
going into this contest. Emotions were riding high. But when
you're going up against team like Fort Wayne Bishop Lewers,
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who have been here nineteen times before, you're certainly going
up against a lot of experience when you're talking about
the Fort Wayne Bishop Lewers Knights. But it was a
heck of a start for the Cascade Cadets. They got
the ball first and they were able to move it
all the way down the field seven plays, seventy five
yards and it was capped off by Dayton Mink, who
was able to get his first of two rushing touchdowns today.
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They missed the extra points, so it was six to nothing.
But then after forcing a punt in the first quarter,
they would get the ball back again and Dalton Howry
would get a nine yard pass completion to make it
thirteen to nothing midway through the first quarter. And that,
by the way, coach, that was Dalton Howry's first catch
of the season and it was on a touchdown pass
right here in the state finals, so certainly a heck
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of a time to get a first catch on the season. Still,
they would end up the Cascade defense would force yet
another punt as the Lures offense just had a really
tough time getting things going in the first quarter, and
so with that, Brady Trevlee would engineer another big druve
eight plays sixty five yards only a minute forty eight too.
They were moved it really really quick down the field, coach.
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At the end of the first quarter, Cascade led nineteen
to nothing on this game, and so it was certainly
looking like it was going to get out of hand. However,
coach Kyle lindsay of Lures, they've been in tough situations
having played in the Summit Conference, as you know, so
they lost five games coming into the seat into this ballgame,
and so they were able to regroup themselves and they
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finally got on the board midway through the second quarter
after TJ. Epperson was able to get it in from
three yards out. It was an eleven place seventy five
yard drive that Epperson and quarterback Tommy Reiker were able
to put together. It remained nineteen to seven, and then
it looked like coach that that would be the halftime
score going into the locker room, but Lucas Farmer Woult
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would get the connection from quarterback Brady Trebley on about
a fifty nine yard pass catch that would actually get
them into the red zone with hardly any time to
spare in the first half, and that ended up setting
up a broken Trump field goal from twenty yards out
to make it twenty two to seven at the halftime period.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
And then neither team scored in the third quarter.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
It was a defensive battle in the second in the
third quarter, and so it remained twenty two to seven
at that point in the ballgame. But then it would
really start picking back up in the fourth quarter. The
Knights were able to get back down the field again
midway through that fourth quarter, five plays seventy five yards
twenty two to fourteen was the score midway at that point,
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but Cascade was able to use their moxi in their
quickness and a little bit of special team's help as well.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
To get into the red zone. And then Dayton Mink
would get his.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Second touchdown of the day and he would finish with
one hundred and nineteen yards on twenty five carries. Coach,
he had a heck of a ballgame today. Final score
in this one twenty nine at to fourteen, and Cascade
are three A state champions for the first time in
school history.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm happy for him, honeyk you've heard this. You know,
I grew up in playing field that's in hinderscanny. It
is as this Cascade. We played him in their first
season of intercollegiate football. I was a junior or senior
one or the other. I remember playing them, and I
remember that we won big because we were pretty good.
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But I'm happy for them. That's that's a thrill. I mean,
it's just it's especially against one of the more storied
programs in the history of high school football in our state.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Yeah, Lows has certainly had a long history. They've won
twelve state championships for a reason, and they get back
here again after getting here last year, and and they
in two way and they just they couldn't really get
the job done then either. And so it's certainly been
a tough stretch in the postseason as well, not a
terribly tough stretch, but when you get down to the post,
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to the final, in the into the championship game and
you come up short twice in a row, that's certainly
no knock on the fact that you're able to get
to this point. But you're running against up against a
really a couple of really big opponents, and Cascade was
certainly one that came out of the woodwork over the
last couple of years. Keep in mind, Connor Simmons he
had this team only winning three games when he took
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the job in twenty twenty. Well six years later, they
won now twenty five of their last twenty six games
going back to last season. So it's certainly been a
really big buy in for Cascade to finally get over
that hump and become more of a you know, a
of a respected football program, not just in Hendrix County
but in the state as well.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
And so You're still certainly going to be looking at them.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Have a lot of talent coming back next year, and
it should it should be interesting to see how this
develops for Cascade going into future seasons.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Well, since you worked very busy today, you called the
you know, you called that championship, you called the Cascade
Championship in three A, and then hey, you know what,
why not why not just go ahead and stay out
on the field, go over and do some sideline work
on the five A Championship newpal Meryllville, thirty eight seventeen.
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You've had a very busy.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
Day and this is only the middle part of the
game of the weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Coach.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
I'm going to be in Oxford, Ohio tomorrow for Ball
State when they take on Miami of Ohio to close
out MAC play as well, So it's certainly going to
be It's certainly been a busy weekend, as you know,
but it's Thanksgiving. But yeah, New Palestine was really given
a tough test today in Meryllville. In fact, this game
was tied at the end of the first quarter. Rather,
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it was tied midway through the first quarter. It was
ten to seven to New Palestine at the end of
the first quarter, but it was a back and forth
battle midway through and then finally Merylville was able to
tie this game seventeen to seventeen with three to eleven
left to play in the third quarter. But that fourth quarter,
that fourth quarter mentality that New Palestine was able to
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bring in with this one, ironically enough, after many of
these players had not played many fourth quarters in this
season because they've been able to score so many points
on each of their opponents this year, but they were
able to really put together a good performance and they
scored fourteen unanswered points in the fourth quarter to make
it a thirty eight to seventeen win, and coach Kyle
ral finally goes back to back. He gets a state
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championship in four A last year, he gets one in
five A this year, and that's now five state championships
in his thirteen seasons now at New Palestine. It's certainly
been really impressive to see what they've been able to accomplish,
and hats.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
Off to Merylville, though they got over that.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Semi state hump, so to speak, and they called it
quite literally a curse over the last ten years, they
hadn't been able.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
To get to the State finals.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
But they get here. But unfortunately, when you're going up
against a tough team like New Palace, certainly a tall task.
But either way, Merrillville played their lights out in this ballgame.
Coach Brad See said so in our postgame interview. And
either way, New Palestine State champions once again here in
the state of Indiana.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Kert Darling, it's great to talk to you from the
ITHSA champions Radio Network on the three A and five
A Championship games. Three A Ghost to Cascade twenty nine
to fourteen over Bishop Leures, five A Ghost to New
Palace sine thirty eight seventeen over Mirraville. As always, Kurt,
thanks so much for the call. Call me tomorrow. Let's
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just spend more time. How's that.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
That's if I'm not stuck on the side of the
road somewhere, coach supposed to.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Tomorrow, so we'll see this could yeah, this could get interesting.
That's absolutely right. Thank you, Kirk, Thanks so much. Be
safe tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
Thank you, we'll do coach, Thank you, Thank.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You for a championship coming up tomorrow. With the man
who's going to be on top of it. That's a
dwinger and Ron Colley but Jevin Redmond from the HSA
champions Radio Network will have that call. Do you haven't,
Thanks so much for the call. You got yourself. A
pretty good ballgame coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
I mean, it's two teams that are very similar and
more ways than one, and you know it's it's the
bit ironic.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
They open up the season week one against each other.
Speaker 11 (34:00):
Three nothing finish wrong Polly one thanks to field goal
in the fourth quarter. Don't anticipate that being the final
score tomorrow, but certainly expect to be a very competitive game.
And you know that both coaches and their kind of
pregame quotes that they've used the terms say we're cousins
in faith and really cousins in more ways than one
with how we run our programs. So these two teams
coming in, they combined for fifteen state championships and expect
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to thrower tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So they play literally they play similar styles. It's in
many ways I suppose mirror images of one another.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
Yeah, they really do.
Speaker 11 (34:35):
I would say, you know, Ron Colly, I would say
Ron Colly probably poses more of a passing threat than
than fort Wayne Bishop does.
Speaker 9 (34:43):
But so both offense are very balanced.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
They're strong, and the running game fort Wayne Bishop Dwinger
with seven different running back threats and Ron Collie's quarterback
is a dual threat passing and running. So yeah, very
balanced tack offensively and Ron Klli would have their hands
full as Dwanger's defense is number.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
Three in all the states.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Gevin, hang on, hang on through this creak. We'll come back.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Okay, yep, comes good.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
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Hey, what's going on? I'm Brendan King with this network
Indiana scoreboard update here on Indiana Sports Talk check in
from West Lafayette. It continues to be a beatdown in
the bucket game number two. Indiana is on their way
to the Big Ten Championship, crushing Perdue. It's a fifty
six to three ball game. Seven to three was the
score after a quarter, but Indiana roundled up twenty one
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point quarters in both the second and the third, and
the scoring has not stopped. Alberno Mendoz is now into
the game for Fernando and it's going to be the
first time in Mendoza, that's Fernando's Indiana career that he's
going to be held under ten pass completions. But it
doesn't matter because IU has scored five rushing touchdowns in
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the game. They've ran for three hundred and thirty eight
yards in the contest. Still with that, two of the
completions for Mendoza out of those eight we're touchdown passes.
That's the kind of night it has been for Indiana
and again they are heading to the Big ten championship game.
You can say that they've had as much success on
the ground that New Palestine did in the five A
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state title game thirty eight to seventeen. New Palestine has
gone back to back, beating Meyville this year. In the
five A state title game four A champs a year ago,
newpal ran for three hundred and twelve yards in the ground,
one hundred and twenty nine of those their quarterback Jacob Davis.
Earlier in the Day three A title, Cascade took down
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Fort Wayne Bishop Lewards final of twenty nine to fourteen.
First ever football state championship for Cascade, and again their
prior best finish in a football and was the sectional
championship in nineteen ninety two. Last week last a South
Putnam Rocks Pioneer fifty five twenty nine seven different South
Putnham players with touchdowns, the state record.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Welcome back everyone. We're talking to High School Football Championships
tomorrow for a championship between fron Calli and Dwinger. Great matchup.
Before the break, we were talking with David Redmond, who
will have this call on the HSA champions Radio network.
Hard two teams play very similarly, So something's got to
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give in this game tomorrow. What do you think it is?
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Yeah, well that's a good question.
Speaker 11 (37:46):
I played in Week one and then I mentioned before
the break it was a three nothing win for Ron
Colley at home, and it was a very evenly matched
game in terms of stats. Both quarterbacks three for less
than hundred yards and both teams barely rush for over
hundred yards. Now, like both these teams probably feel like
they're in a better situation, obviously.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
More experienced and then Week one, but you know.
Speaker 11 (38:06):
I look at it, it's going to be a tough
task for Ron Colliery're going up against the third best
defense in the state.
Speaker 9 (38:13):
No matter of the class.
Speaker 11 (38:14):
Fort Wayne number one in Class four eight in terms
of Lotties eight points per game. But I mentioned for
the break their senior quarterback is Colin Ashey is a
dual threat quarterback. He comes in over eight hundred yards
passing over a thousand yards rushing, and he's combined for
forty touchdowns through the air.
Speaker 9 (38:29):
And on the ground.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
So it kind of comes down to how Colin ash
plays tomorrow for Ron KLi. As far as Fort Wayne
Bishop Dwinger goes, they're more balanced in terms of the contributions.
They get still a very good running team about one
hundred and sixty yards per game on the ground and
Detroit combination of two guys on the ground, aj Shefferlely
and Houston Ell and you're both seenor running backs in
both standopland defense out of.
Speaker 9 (38:50):
The ball as well for the Saints.
Speaker 11 (38:51):
So yeah, it's a very evenly matched game.
Speaker 9 (38:54):
And Bob, this is the third time that.
Speaker 11 (38:56):
These two teams have faced each other in Stage finals
and both times they played it has been three points
or fewer than the final outcome, most recently in twenty.
Speaker 9 (39:04):
Twenty two and that in four A.
Speaker 11 (39:05):
Ron Colly won twenty four to twenty one. So I
don't expect the game to be three nothing tomorrow, but
I expect it to be a one possession game more
than likely.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Keevin Redman, you're gonna catch him on the IHSA champions
Radio Network and hopefully you'll be with us tomorrow night.
We're a post game, Kevin, thank you so much. Have
fun tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (39:25):
Yep, tons good, Thanks, Bob.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Thank you. The ubiquitous Greg Rigstrom, the best at what
he does, joins US four A excuse me, three A
five eight championship games, is that correct? But he starts
his day at Henklefield ass with the Bulldogs of the
ninety four sixty nine went over Wright State. Greg, thank
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you for taking time to call. It's not like you
haven't had anything to do today.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
Well, I my goal in life is to have show
content for you every Friday night.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I appreciate it you listen. In the stage of my career,
I need all the help I can get.
Speaker 8 (40:02):
I'll call a D one game in Marion County at
two in a state final at Lucas Oil at seven,
and given the weather forecast tomorrow, I feel confident about
my ability to get from the jungle on the campus
of IU Indy, ten blocks away to get to Lucas
Oil Stadium. I think I can make it there in
a three hour span despite the impending snowpocalypse. So I
like my chance to pull this off again tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I do like your chances. I'm sorry you're I'm not
joining you. I'll be there in spirit, but it'll it'll
be uh. I think it'll be an impressive game for
the Jags taking on an Eastern excuse me, a morehead
state team. They need a w I think they're prime
for it, and I think it'll be a fun game.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
I certinly hope, So you know, I thought there was
a five game stretch where the Jags were facing kind
of similar competition. But I'm watching They're one and four
in that stretch of Charleston Southern of Air Force of
Alabama State mixing with an other game that was a
loss for IU Indy as well. So hopefully they can
kind of get this one turn, knowing that they pick
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up a little bit more importance because they start having
conference games coming up as of midweek, so in one sense,
it kind of reset your record, But hopefully the Jacks
are going to get back on the front foot as
they return to action tomorrow against Morehead State.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
All Right, I need you to hang on through this
short break. We'll come back and talk about the Butler Bulldogs. Dogs,
as I mentioned with the w over Wright State and
in an impressive win. It was kind of a you know,
maybe a tailored two half's type of game. So Greg
Gray Straw and I will come back and talk more basketball.
(41:41):
And he had the five, three, eight, and five eight
championships tonight, so we may squeeze a couple of minutes
out of that short break. This is Indiana Sports took.
(42:20):
Welcome back, everybody. Great race. Daw rejoins us on the
call today of Butler's win ninety four or sixty nine
of Rice State men's basketball. Very impressive win for the Dogs.
A crazy game that kind of struggled maybe in that
first half, but second half they owned everything correct.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
And again gotta like the five a football game. The
final score not indicative of the way the game was
actually played. This is a twelve or fourteenth point came
with three laf minutes left to go and Butler's kind
of took off to kind of finish the game. And
again Butler was the better team, making a mistake about it.
But Bob, they didn't have a lead until early in
the second half. They were down third twenty nine at halftime,
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quickly kind of got up to ten and kept it
there for most of the second half. I think Butler's
pretty good basketball team, and clearly better than they have then.
You know, it's crazy to say they are now in
an eight year drought of not making the NCAAA field.
You know, there's kind of an asters there. We had
a tournament in twenty twenty, they would have made it.
They would have been good enough, but even that would
have been six nights. But led by Findley Bizjack and
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Michael Lejai that both had twenty points in today's game,
Butler is now six and one. They're four and zero
at home. Uh. And again, they're a good basketball team.
Were they twenty five points better than Right State today?
Probably not? But were they the better team than Right
State today? They absolutely were to get to their six
winn of the season.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
All right, tell me about your games today. Cascade Meeting
lures twenty nine to fourteen, New pal thirty eight seventeen
winners over Maryville. You sold four really good football teams
and you know this newpal team just continues to look
because they bumped up to six A, they'd win six
A the way they are now.
Speaker 8 (44:06):
Listen, I am I'm pretty good at being in multiple
places during the course.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
Of a day.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Five.
Speaker 8 (44:11):
Sorry, I was only there for the five A games,
so I saw the unbier game to say and congratulations
the Cascade getting fifteen to zero and winning their first
football state championship. But my broadcast day at the Dome
or at the Lucas Oastinum was limited to the five
A game, and Bob in this one. I'm not sure
I have seen a physical toll extracted in a state
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championship game the way I did in that one. New
Palace quarterback exited new injuries twice came back. Maryville's quarterback
exited due to a shoulder injury and did not come back.
On the drive that Meryville for Hill first got injured.
DJ Bowles comes in and throws a touchdown pass, his
second of the season. He's the backup quarterback that had
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been moved to wide receiver. So the fact that Maryville
got this to seventeen all going to the the fourth
quarter was tremendous, but the irony that wasn't lost on me, Bob,
as the team that rarely had to play a competitive
fourth quarter all year, when they had to, they did,
and they won that one twenty one to nothing and
won the game thirty eight to seventeen. The story for
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New Palace in the fact they ran the ball fifty
five times for three hundred and twenty one yards as
they win a fifth state championship in the last twelve years.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Greg Regstraw has been everywhere today and he's gonna be
everywhere tomorrow. Greg, I know you're working the championships tomorrow.
Thanks so much for your time. Good luck to our
Jags tomorrow in their matchup with whoever it is the
other guy, Greg Greg Straw at State Yeah, hosted it
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up Morehead State. Greg, thank you. I'll talk to you
tomorrow night. Thanks to the call.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Hey, coach,
Good India, everybody, and welcome to Network Indiana's Indiana Sports
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Coach, you are the best. Let's get right to it
with the fifth state championship for the New Palestine Dragons.
It is all over from Lucas Oil Stadium. On Day
one of the IHSA put Ball State Finals, New Palestine
takes care of Meryville thirty eight to seventeen, a ballgame
that had Maraville out in front first, but newpal answered
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with a touchdown score and then ten points in the second,
followed by an impeccable twenty one point fourth quarter by
the Dragons thirty eight to seventeen. New pal has gone
back to back. They won the four A state championship
last year, the five A state title this year, and
now five times they have won it twenty fourteen, twenty eighteen,
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twenty nineteen, twenty twenty four and now twenty twenty five.
New pal quarterback Jacob Davis rushed for one hundred and
twenty nine yards. Talented running back Cayden Jacobia how about
this twenty six carries one hundred and twenty five yards,
two touchdown scores. New Palestine once again the state champion.
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Earlier this morning into the afternoon, we started with the
Class A ball game that saw South Putnam defeat Pioneer
fifty five nine. South Putnam their first football state championship
since nineteen eighty six. The Mental Attitude Award winner from
Class A, by the way, was Pioneer quarterback Micah Rans.
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Congratulations to him. But again South Putnam and pressed their
talented junior running back Tied Benton. Nineteen carries one hundred
and forty yards and a touchdown score in the ballgame,
moving up to Class three A. In a really really
really fun ballgame. Cascade defeated Fort Wayne Bishop Lures twenty
nine to fourteen. Cascades first ever state title. Great story
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coming out of Clayton, Indiana, where the best finished to
a season prior to this year for Cascade was a
sectional championship in nineteen ninety two. They're now state champions
in twenty twenty five, and it was their quarterback Brady
Trembley named the three A Mental Attitude Award winner. We
still await the Mental Attitude Award winner, by the way,
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from Class US five A, So that takes us now
halfway through the state championship games Aaron twenty twenty five
and now heading into tomorrow. The two A ballgame begins
at eleven AM Andrayan versus Brownstown Central. Three of the
final four teams in Class two A were undefeated. Andrean's
got a chance to outlast all of them at twelve
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and one, Brownstown Central was fourteen and ozh. The four
A state title will begin at three pm. Fort Wayne
Bishop Dweger will face off against ron Kalli. Dwanger comes
in at twelve and two. Ron Khali is eleven and three. Lastly,
in the Battle of six A seven o'clock Westfield Brownsburg
the old rival rants the Rocks and the Bulldogs. Brownsburg
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the defending champion at a Class six A over to
the Pacers. Tonight, we're able to crush the Wizards one
hundred and nineteen to eighty six. Now, both the Wizards
and the Pacers only came in with two wins apiece. However,
the Pacers needed to see one go in and they did.
They got a great performance from Pascal Siakam with twenty four.
Ben Mathern chipped in with twenty. Over to the bucket.
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Game number two, Indiana has found their stroke thirty five
to three. The Hoosiers are crushing the Boilers five point
fifty six left in the third quarter. Now, Indiana struggled
out of the gate. Fernando Mendoza was just five out
of twelve throwing the ball in the first half with
forty two yards. He's now thrown a touchdown in the
second half. But has been the IU rushing attack that
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has really owned everything.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Tonight.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
IU has ran for two hundred and fifty one yards
to the Group four rushing scores. The Hoosiers final to
improved at twelve to zero and punched their ticket to
Indianapolis for the Big Ten title game College hoops tonight.
Number one Perdue is seven to oh they take care
of Eastern Illinois one hundred and nine to sixty two.
How about seven to four Center Daniel Jacobson coming out
party for him? Twenty four points, eight of eight from
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the field, nine rebounds, six blocks. El Corn State beat
Indiana State eighty one seventy four, Butler over Wright State
ninety four to sixty nine.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Welcome back everyone. This is Network Indiana's Indiana Sports Tuck.
We are so glad you could join us. Great weekend,
holiday weekend. Everything's perfect down in downtown Indianapolis right now.
Two eight championship. Excuse me, one A championship. We started
out with one to three five, just wrapping up single
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A championship goes to South Putnam. They be pioneer tonight
or today fifty five twenty nine with me the man
who was the analyst for this expert X, this tremendous
display of football from the IHSA champions Radio Network, Jim Leisure. Jim,
thank you so much for the call. It's a very
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impressive win for South Putnham this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Well it really was Bob, and it started out, you know,
fairly even I was fourteen fourteen at half. Pioneer scored first,
took the opening kick down, got a penalty for an
illegal substitution that kept the drive alive, punched it in,
and then South Putt came back their first offensive play.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
They threw a fifty nine yard touchdown.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Pass that Blake Wentz from quarterback Drew Klein, and that
made it seven to seven at the end of one.
Pioneer then answered and on a Noah Van Meter one
yard run fourteen to seven Panthers. And then again like
I said earlier, South Putt answered with a twenty seven
yard pass from Klyining to Branson Hanley Inswer to make
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it fourteen fourteen into half. So we thought we were
going to have a really close ball game. But I
say South Putt just kind of you know, I don't
know that. You know, neither team had many players, and
so they had a lot of kids going both ways,
so it was going to be a battle of attrition,
and ultimately South Puttenham won that their kids were able
to score quite a few points, twenty points in the
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third quarter, which kind of effectively ended it. Two teams
traded touchdowns in the fourth quarter, got some JV kids
in the ball game, but a lot of neat stuff
happened in the ball game.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
A lot of these happened. I mean, you basically have
one of those games where you have two different halves.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
You know it.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
So obviously a closely played game in that first half.
And then a South Puttingham team who has put up
a lot of points against a lot of people. Jim
showed you why they're able to do that well.
Speaker 5 (07:17):
And again, here's the best part if your coach Chuck
Sorel and the South Putnam folks, is that a lot
of juniors on the team. The quarterback Drew Bryant's coming
back to the running back Tyd Benton, who ran for
almost twenty five hundred yards and twenty six touchdowns coming
into the ballgame, is back, and Bob, they got a guy,
a linebacker defensive end by the name of Keenan Mawury
Shields who's a junior and is coming back. He's being
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looked at by MAX schools and some in schools, and
I'm here to tell you he is an absolute man.
Came into the game with the state leading two hundred
and twenty nine tackles. They played him at defensive end,
in linement both.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
He was everywhere. Now he was credited with.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Fourteen tackles, but it seemed like he got a lot
more than that. He was in on every will play
an absolute man. You know again, I look forward to
seeing this ball club next year hopefully, and I'm sure
coach Sorel will do his.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Best to keep them focused and in the weight room, because.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
The only thing better than winning one is went into
it and they got a shot to do it.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
You know.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
The cool thing about him is that this is how
they've played this. This was not an aberration by any means.
This is what they've done. They've scored a lot of points.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
They are they are. They may handle people up front
on both sides of the ball. Uh.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
And I know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It's a single a and you know it's you have
low numbers of players, but this is a dedicated group
of guys who live in the weight room and have
done some impressive things.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah, you know, and and some put Last year, I
believe lost to the eventual state champion, Providence, and coach
Sorel said, you know that he felt like they played
well enough to win that ball game. And you know
sometimes now, coach didn't say this, but but I said
it on the air because as a coach, and you've
probably been here too as a coach, they're probably a
year early. You know, if you'd ask in the preseason,
(09:05):
they said, look, we're gonna have a great year and
we have a shot to get to Lucasol Stadium. But man,
next year, when all these kids are seniors, you know,
we're gonna be really hard to beat. Well, they arrived
a little bit early, and I tell you they are
a very impressive football team. They scored on a fumble
recovery pioneer. Honestly, Coach Adam Berry said, you know, we
made tunny mistakes and they did, you know, for a
(09:29):
wing tea team, and they run it well. They have
four guys with one thousand yards rushing. They had a
young man today in Philip mcpatridge who was a sophomore,
needed sixty eight yards to get to be the fourth
guy with over a thousand and he got well over that,
something like one hundred and twenty. So four guys with
a thousand yards rushing. And he said, but you know,
we can't make mistakes. They fumbled the football four times,
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lost two of them. One of them was picked up
for a TD and after the game his comment was,
you know, we just made too many mistakes. We knew
coming in that we had to play well, and we
just didn't play well.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Jim Leisure from the ICHSA Champions Radio Network. You're working tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I Am got to get up early and do it
all over again. We have the two a game and drain.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And brown Oh, you're stuck with Brendan King. I forgot Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
No, I'll try to carry him through. My back's already
from carrying on the tally all night. But I will
tell you this, Bobby, if you get a chance, or
if anybody out there listening gets a chance, and by
all means I.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
Want you to listen to me.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
But if you get a chance to watch it on
the Champions Network television, Brownstown runs a single wing right
out of the forties, baby right, complete with quarterbacks doing
three sixties spins, running back doing three sixties spins.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
It's pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Jim Leisure, Great to talk to you, Jim. We'll talk
to you tomorrow night. Thank you, all right, Thanks coaching.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
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I'm Brendan Kang with this Network Indiana Scoreboard update. Here
on Indiana Sports Talk, we continue our coverage of Day
one of the IHSAA football State Finals. Hey, little nugget
coming from the Class A game we told you about,
South South Puttenham is feeding Pioneer fifty five. Twenty nine
seven different South Putnam players scored touchdowns in the game.
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And for the IHSAA, that is the most ever in
the fifty three years of football state championships in a
single game by one team. That's pretty incredible. And then
thanks to Kurt Darling who mentioned this little piece of
information to me a little bit earlier. Three counties sent
two teams each two state championships this year. Of course,
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it was Fort Wayne Lures and Fort Wayne Dwanger of
the two six, so Hendricks County had Cascade in Brownsburg
and then Merraville and Andrea and both coming down from
the region. That's only the third time that has ever happened.
Jason Willie from the IHSAA confirming that one it happened
in nineteen ninety two, twenty twenty two, and now twenty
(12:18):
twenty five. So couple special notes on this IHSAA State
Finals Day one, with of course Day number two coming
up tomorrow eleven am start Andrean takes on Brownstown Central.
Gimblaser will have the call and the color commentary. I
will be his play by playman. Chris Lowery will join
us on the sidelines. Four A at three o'clock it's
(12:40):
Fort Wayne Bishop Winger taking on Ron Klli and then
the six A game at seven o'clock as Westfield and Brownsburg.
By the way, your broadcast teams in that four A
game Gevin Redman, Matt Surface, and Nathaniel Finch. Sixth it'll
be jeff Ricord, Matt Surface and our very own mister Fitch.
I'm brendan kick.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Let's say Champions Network and Network Indiana and with us
now is the head coach for a Ron Collie that
is Sam Ottley. A big game against Bishop Dwanger and coach.
First of all, thank you for your time. It's been
a pretty special season here at Ron Callie. When you
joined the program last year you knew you were stepping
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into a team with a rich tradition, but to bring
them back to the title game just in your second
year is really special.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Absolutely, and it really is a testament to these guys,
the senior leadership that we have. I know, when we
started this journey in January, the guys were motivated, they
were working, you know, they were ready to work hard
in preparation for winning championships. And man, just since that time,
the bond, the brotherhood that they've developed, the work ethic,
their focus and preparation, you know, their discipline as a team.
(13:58):
You know, it's just a testament to their character as
a team. And they're a joy to coach. I mean,
we challenge them week in and week out and they
continue to meet that. And again it's a group that
just again they're they're they're seeking you know that that
struggle if you will, to continue to improve, identify the
things that we need to get better at, and week
in and week out, just keep striving to be the
best team that we can be. So they're a joy
to coach and I'm just happy to be here.
Speaker 7 (14:20):
Well, the season ends last year against a rival Shatar.
You find a way to beat them this year? Is
that extra motivation? And what's it like just to continue
to win and win and win And now now all
of a sudden you are Lucas Oil.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
Yeah, the winning builds confidence.
Speaker 6 (14:33):
But again that starts, you know, Monday through Thursday and practice,
and our guys are locked in on that mentality. They
know if we play the best football that we can
play offense, defense, special teams. You know, that confidence, you know,
just allows them to go take the field on Friday
and let it rip, you know, go have fun, play
fast and physical ron Coyllie football and continue to win.
But again that's that's the goal every time that we
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take you know, the field for practice is lock in,
identify the things that we need to do so that
we're prepared to win when we take the field on Saturday.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
It's the head coach of the ron KLi Royals, Sam
Ali coach, a guy playing ron Calli football really well.
Speaker 9 (15:06):
For you right now?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Is calling ash I mean forty total touchdowns? What does
it mean to the team to have his dual threat
ability there?
Speaker 6 (15:14):
Yeah, he is one heck of an athlete. But more
importantly than that, he's a great kid. He's a great leader,
So the guy's really a rally around him. He's just
a natural competitor, a fierce competitor, and really that attitude
has helped shape the team into you know those things
that we were talking about, just focus and practice, being
locked in to make sure that we're prepared and ready
to go. So he does a great job there leading
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the guys, and then as a as a quarterback, you know,
his ability to put our put us in positions to
be successful, get the ball where it needs to be.
He's just developed greatly as a quarterback and his ability
to do that. And then obviously you know he's got
the ability to be dynamic and make plays on the ground.
He's throwing the football well and when things are there,
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he's able to get out of the pocket and you know,
extend plays and do some things down field, which is
fun to watch. And then obviously in the run game
he's a threat there. So he just adds a lot
of you know, dynamic elements to the offense to get
you know, keep defenses on their toes, but then allow
us to get the ball where it needs to be
so that we can be effective.
Speaker 7 (16:15):
It's the head coach of the Ron Callie Royal sam
Atli coach. The Ron calling community really unique, really tighten it.
What would it mean to bring the eleventh state title
back to ron Callie.
Speaker 1 (16:26):
It would mean a lot.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
It's you know, again, these guys appreciate the tradition that
they represent deeply. And you know, there is a whole
community of Ron Callie. You know, guys that played in
the past. You know, the young kids in the COO
program that just are supporting these guys and they understand
that who they represent. And again, a lot of what
makes our group so special is you know, doing it
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for the guy next to him, that that selfless desire
to go after it and you know, and watching them
do that special and I know, you know they're proud
and what they represent and they want go get it
done for all the guys who have given so much
to us as a football program in the past and
again continue to raise that standard of what Roun Collie
football is weekend and week out. And man, they've done
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a great job at doing that. So I'm excited for
him this week.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
It's the head coach of the Royal sam Al coach,
thank you for your time and good luck.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
Ye thank you, Nathaniel Finch on this doing a great
job talking to our coaches that one obviously, Sam Otley
from Ron Calli, Ron Collie and Dwinger for the four
eight championship tomorrow Lucas Oil Stadium. Reminder, South Putnham wins
the single ad today they beat Pioneer fifty five nine Cascade.
(17:40):
Great win for the cadets. How about that. I'm an
interscanny boy morning raised there. Happy for the cadets. They
beat Lures twenty nine to fourteen. It's a great story.
The five Brenden. We got a final on the five A.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
We sure do, coach, and it's New Palestine again thirty
eight seventeen. Newpal goes back to back four A last year,
five A this year, of course, very difficult to do
and then impressively so New pal runs for three hundred
and twelve on the ground to win it. So the
Dragons coach. That's number five since twenty fourteen. Pretty amazing.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
It is amazing. Kyle Ralph has literally created a dynasty.
You're looking at it and seeing the employee. That's impressive.
That's impressive. Tomorrow, Jim Leisure, we talked with him, you
too are hooked up on that and the two A
championship by andre And and Brownstown Central. Some good comments,
(18:38):
like you're talking about watching this single wing attack with
Brownstown Central. I know you've gone back into the history,
the history of the of the single wing. You're all said,
are you not?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
I feel like I'm good to go. I still got
a little more prep, one last bit of prep to
do before the night's over and then going into the morning.
But it's been interesting to learn about and look at
the history of football. You know, I'm somebody coach that
I never played the sport, so it's been fun to
learn about it, and also the analytics and the history
and who used it when they used it pretty cool.
(19:14):
And then also watching it on film. You know, the
IHSAA provides us to our calling games the semi state
game tapes, so we're you're able to go back and
watch it. Just seeing how they all use it and
seeing it and ran from a Brownstown Central perspective, it's
it's pretty amazing. But here, I'll tell you one other
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thing about this. It's you would think Brownstown Central, since
they run that single wing, they rarely throw it, right,
that would be somebody's opinion. Well, Brownstown has more pass
attempts on the year than Andrean. So just when you
think that Brownstown Central might be a one trick pony,
you know, they're a team that has thrown it this year,
and they're a team that has revs up the score
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in all kinds of games. So again, just when you
think that all Brownstown can do is run it, they're
fourteen and oh for a reason making they could also
sling it a little bit when they need to.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I think what I've always found, you know, I used
to teach a history of sports class at i U Indy,
uh and it was always fun to you know, do
you sport? Football was was interesting because of how it
all got started. And now you look at football and
in basketball is the same way too. Uh, different offenses,
(20:25):
different defenses, how the game has changed and you know
how you know fundamentally is still the same, but still
you know, different ways to approach it. Single wing is
a throwback, I mean literally a throwback some variations of it.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Uh know.
Speaker 1 (20:41):
When Eric Moore came into cinergirlf we brought in the
wing tea and there have been other guys who've brought
along those types of things, And I think there's something
to be said with the contrarian point in terms of
doing something that not a lot of other teams are doing,
and uh, you're going to see that tomorrow with the
single wing with Brownstown Central.
Speaker 3 (21:02):
I'm excited to see it again. It's, you know, one
of those games where Brownstown Central they're going to try
and establish the run. But you know, if Andrean's able
to make it a shootout, you know this Brownstown team
can also throw it. So I think, coach, that are
all kinds of angles that this game can go Tomorrow.
I don't think necessarily it's going to be on the ground,
even though both teams do love to run. I mean, heck,
the last time coach that I had in Andrean State
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championship game, it was twenty twenty one and Drake Bowen
ran for over two hundred and fifty yards and pretty
much beat Evansville Modern Day by himself. So again, I
think this one is all kinds of storylines to it,
and we'll see how it plays out. It's gonna be
a good game.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
How about your Irish tomorrow? Notre Dame in action, Yeah tomorrow.
Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, going to Stanford. It'll be officially Franke Reich's final
game as interim head coach at Stanford. Stanford did make
a decision today. Now they had always said that Frank
Reich was going to be just there for one year,
Frank helping out of course, GM Andrew Luck that's who
Andrew brought in to kind of reset that Stanford program.
And it'll be ta Vita Pritcher, the current quarterback coach
(22:03):
at with the Washington Commanders taken over. Next year. However,
Frank Reich will coach his final game at Stanford, penning
bull eligibility and Notre Dame's going to Palo Alto, which
is historically a tough place to play. So the Irish
trying to continue to pump up those college football playoff rankings.
They took care of business last week against Syracuse, as
we referenced, with the most points goed by an Irish
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team since nineteen thirty two when the single wing was
being ran by the way. And you know they'll try
and do the same thing as Stanford.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
All right, what's up with the bucket game? We no
I U's up was all all I.
Speaker 3 (22:38):
U coach forty nine to three into three.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
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football on Network Indiana's Indiana Sports Sun. You got money,
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I'm Brendan Kang with this Network Indiana scoreboard update here
on Indiana Sports Talk. Check in from West Lafayette. It
is all Indiana, the number two Osiers crushing Purdue forty
nine to three. That was a seven to three game
after a quarter. But Indiana has rattled off back to
back twenty one point quarters in the second and the
third start of the fourth quarter right now from Ross
(23:42):
Aids Stadium. And again it's the Indiana rushing attack that
has been the storyline. Indiana has carried the ball thirty times,
They've ran for three hundred and twenty nine yards, and
five touchdowns have been scored on the ground. Bernanda Mendoza
has thrown two touchdown passes, but a like day, passing
the ball just eight for fifteen for one hundred and
(24:03):
seventeen yards, but again. I you getting it done with
boots on the ground, and it could be the first
time in Fernando Mendoza's time as a Hoosier and he
completes less than ten passes in a game, they can
it's still all Indiana at forty nine to three there
from Wes Lafayette. The Pacers tonight earn their third win
of the year, one hundred and nineteen to eighty six.
(24:25):
They hammer the Washington Wizards twenty four points along with
eleven rebounds for Pascal si Yakam. In the game. Ben
Mathern added twenty on eight of sixteen shooting. The Pacers
will go right back to it, playing a back to
back tomorrow night against the Chicago Polls. That will be
a seven thirty tip time. College shops tonight number one
(24:45):
Perdue hold Sport seven to oh. Now are the Boilers
one hundred and nine to sixty two Perdue brushes Eastern Illinois?
How about seven to four? Purdue center Daniel Jacobson coming
out party for him twenty four points, eight of eight shooting,
nine rebounds, six blocks in the game. Brendan King Network, Indiana.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Welcome back everyone. This is Indian Sports up brought to
you by Indiana Donor Network three A football championship goes
to the Cascade Cadets. They beat for win Bishop Lures
twenty nine to fourteen. With me from the IHSAA champions
Radio Network, Kurt Darling, Kurt, that's an impressive win for
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the Cadets this afternoon, coach.
Speaker 10 (25:39):
It was the first time that Cascade had ever been
in a state championships for a football in fact, and
not only that, they had also won twenty four of
their last twenty five games coming into this particular game,
and so there was certainly a lot riding with Cascade
going into this contest. Emotions were riding high. But when
you're going up against team like Fort Wayne Bishop Lewers,
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who have been here nineteen times before, you're certainly going
up against a lot of experience when you're talking about
the Fort Wayne Bishop Lewers Knights. But it was a
heck of a start for the Cascade Cadets. They got
the ball first and they were able to move it
all the way down the field seven plays, seventy five
yards and it was capped off by Dayton Mink, who
was able to get his first of two rushing touchdowns today.
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They missed the extra points, so it was six to nothing.
But then after forcing a punt in the first quarter,
they would get the ball back again and Dalton Howry
would get a nine yard pass completion to make it
thirteen to nothing midway through the first quarter. And that,
by the way, coach, that was Dalton Howry's first catch
of the season and it was on a touchdown pass
right here in the state finals, so certainly a heck
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of a time to get a first catch on the season. Still,
they would end up the Cascade defense would force yet
another punt as the Lures offense just had a really
tough time getting things going in the first quarter, and
so with that, Brady Trevlee would engineer another big druve
eight plays sixty five yards only a minute forty eight too.
They were moved it really really quick down the field, coach.
(27:06):
At the end of the first quarter, Cascade led nineteen
to nothing on this game, and so it was certainly
looking like it was going to get out of hand. However,
coach Kyle lindsay of Lures, they've been in tough situations
having played in the Summit Conference, as you know, so
they lost five games coming into the seat into this ballgame,
and so they were able to regroup themselves and they
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finally got on the board midway through the second quarter
after TJ. Epperson was able to get it in from
three yards out. It was an eleven place seventy five
yard drive that Epperson and quarterback Tommy Reiker were able
to put together. It remained nineteen to seven, and then
it looked like coach that that would be the halftime
score going into the locker room, but Lucas Farmer Woult
(27:49):
would get the connection from quarterback Brady Trebley on about
a fifty nine yard pass catch that would actually get
them into the red zone with hardly any time to
spare in the first half, and that ended up setting
up a broken Trump field goal from twenty yards out
to make it twenty two to seven at the halftime period.
Speaker 8 (28:07):
And then neither team scored in the third quarter.
Speaker 10 (28:10):
It was a defensive battle in the second in the
third quarter, and so it remained twenty two to seven
at that point in the ballgame. But then it would
really start picking back up in the fourth quarter. The
Knights were able to get back down the field again
midway through that fourth quarter, five plays seventy five yards
twenty two to fourteen was the score midway at that point,
(28:30):
but Cascade was able to use their moxi in their
quickness and a little bit of special team's help as well.
Speaker 8 (28:37):
To get into the red zone. And then Dayton Mink
would get his.
Speaker 10 (28:40):
Second touchdown of the day and he would finish with
one hundred and nineteen yards on twenty five carries. Coach,
he had a heck of a ballgame today. Final score
in this one twenty nine at to fourteen, and Cascade
are three A state champions for the first time in
school history.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
I'm happy for him, honeyk you've heard this. You know,
I grew up in playing field that's in hinderscanny. It
is as this Cascade. We played him in their first
season of intercollegiate football. I was a junior or senior
one or the other. I remember playing them, and I
remember that we won big because we were pretty good.
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But I'm happy for them. That's that's a thrill. I mean,
it's just it's especially against one of the more storied
programs in the history of high school football in our state.
Speaker 10 (29:27):
Yeah, Lows has certainly had a long history. They've won
twelve state championships for a reason, and they get back
here again after getting here last year, and and they
in two way and they just they couldn't really get
the job done then either. And so it's certainly been
a tough stretch in the postseason as well, not a
terribly tough stretch, but when you get down to the post,
(29:47):
to the final, in the into the championship game and
you come up short twice in a row, that's certainly
no knock on the fact that you're able to get
to this point. But you're running against up against a
really a couple of really big opponents, and Cascade was
certainly one that came out of the woodwork over the
last couple of years. Keep in mind, Connor Simmons he
had this team only winning three games when he took
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the job in twenty twenty. Well six years later, they
won now twenty five of their last twenty six games
going back to last season. So it's certainly been a
really big buy in for Cascade to finally get over
that hump and become more of a you know, a
of a respected football program, not just in Hendrix County
but in the state as well.
Speaker 8 (30:29):
And so You're still certainly going to be looking at them.
Speaker 10 (30:32):
Have a lot of talent coming back next year, and
it should it should be interesting to see how this
develops for Cascade going into future seasons.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
Well, since you worked very busy today, you called the
you know, you called that championship, you called the Cascade
Championship in three A, and then hey, you know what,
why not why not just go ahead and stay out
on the field, go over and do some sideline work
on the five A Championship newpal Meryllville, thirty eight seventeen.
(31:01):
You've had a very busy.
Speaker 8 (31:02):
Day and this is only the middle part of the
game of the weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Coach.
Speaker 10 (31:07):
I'm going to be in Oxford, Ohio tomorrow for Ball
State when they take on Miami of Ohio to close
out MAC play as well, So it's certainly going to
be It's certainly been a busy weekend, as you know,
but it's Thanksgiving. But yeah, New Palestine was really given
a tough test today in Meryllville. In fact, this game
was tied at the end of the first quarter. Rather,
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it was tied midway through the first quarter. It was
ten to seven to New Palestine at the end of
the first quarter, but it was a back and forth
battle midway through and then finally Merylville was able to
tie this game seventeen to seventeen with three to eleven
left to play in the third quarter. But that fourth quarter,
that fourth quarter mentality that New Palestine was able to
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bring in with this one, ironically enough, after many of
these players had not played many fourth quarters in this
season because they've been able to score so many points
on each of their opponents this year, but they were
able to really put together a good performance and they
scored fourteen unanswered points in the fourth quarter to make
it a thirty eight to seventeen win, and coach Kyle
ral finally goes back to back. He gets a state
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championship in four A last year, he gets one in
five A this year, and that's now five state championships
in his thirteen seasons now at New Palestine. It's certainly
been really impressive to see what they've been able to accomplish,
and hats.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
Off to Merylville, though they got over that.
Speaker 10 (32:29):
Semi state hump, so to speak, and they called it
quite literally a curse over the last ten years, they
hadn't been able.
Speaker 9 (32:35):
To get to the State finals.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
But they get here. But unfortunately, when you're going up
against a tough team like New Palace, certainly a tall task.
But either way, Merrillville played their lights out in this ballgame.
Coach Brad See said so in our postgame interview. And
either way, New Palestine State champions once again here in
the state of Indiana.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Kert Darling, it's great to talk to you from the
ITHSA champions Radio Network on the three A and five
A Championship games. Three A Ghost to Cascade twenty nine
to fourteen over Bishop Leures, five A Ghost to New
Palace sine thirty eight seventeen over Mirraville. As always, Kurt,
thanks so much for the call. Call me tomorrow. Let's
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just spend more time. How's that.
Speaker 10 (33:18):
That's if I'm not stuck on the side of the
road somewhere, coach supposed to.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Tomorrow, so we'll see this could yeah, this could get interesting.
That's absolutely right. Thank you, Kirk, Thanks so much. Be
safe tomorrow.
Speaker 8 (33:30):
Thank you, we'll do coach, Thank you, Thank.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
You for a championship coming up tomorrow. With the man
who's going to be on top of it. That's a
dwinger and Ron Colley but Jevin Redmond from the HSA
champions Radio Network will have that call. Do you haven't,
Thanks so much for the call. You got yourself. A
pretty good ballgame coming up tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (33:51):
Yeah, I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 11 (33:52):
I mean, it's two teams that are very similar and
more ways than one, and you know it's it's the
bit ironic.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
They open up the season week one against each other.
Speaker 11 (34:00):
Three nothing finish wrong Polly one thanks to field goal
in the fourth quarter. Don't anticipate that being the final
score tomorrow, but certainly expect to be a very competitive game.
And you know that both coaches and their kind of
pregame quotes that they've used the terms say we're cousins
in faith and really cousins in more ways than one
with how we run our programs. So these two teams
coming in, they combined for fifteen state championships and expect
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to thrower tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
So they play literally they play similar styles. It's in
many ways I suppose mirror images of one another.
Speaker 9 (34:33):
Yeah, they really do.
Speaker 11 (34:35):
I would say, you know, Ron Colly, I would say
Ron Colly probably poses more of a passing threat than
than fort Wayne Bishop does.
Speaker 9 (34:43):
But so both offense are very balanced.
Speaker 11 (34:45):
They're strong, and the running game fort Wayne Bishop Dwinger
with seven different running back threats and Ron Collie's quarterback
is a dual threat passing and running. So yeah, very
balanced tack offensively and Ron Klli would have their hands
full as Dwanger's defense is number.
Speaker 9 (34:59):
Three in all the states.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
Gevin, hang on, hang on through this creak. We'll come back.
Speaker 9 (35:05):
Okay, yep, comes good.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
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Speaker 3 (35:22):
Hey, what's going on? I'm Brendan King with this network
Indiana scoreboard update here on Indiana Sports Talk check in
from West Lafayette. It continues to be a beatdown in
the bucket game number two. Indiana is on their way
to the Big Ten Championship, crushing Perdue. It's a fifty
six to three ball game. Seven to three was the
score after a quarter, but Indiana roundled up twenty one
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point quarters in both the second and the third, and
the scoring has not stopped. Alberno Mendoz is now into
the game for Fernando and it's going to be the
first time in Mendoza, that's Fernando's Indiana career that he's
going to be held under ten pass completions. But it
doesn't matter because IU has scored five rushing touchdowns in
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the game. They've ran for three hundred and thirty eight
yards in the contest. Still with that, two of the
completions for Mendoza out of those eight we're touchdown passes.
That's the kind of night it has been for Indiana
and again they are heading to the Big ten championship game.
You can say that they've had as much success on
the ground that New Palestine did in the five A
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state title game thirty eight to seventeen. New Palestine has
gone back to back, beating Meyville this year. In the
five A state title game four A champs a year ago,
newpal ran for three hundred and twelve yards in the ground,
one hundred and twenty nine of those their quarterback Jacob Davis.
Earlier in the Day three A title, Cascade took down
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Fort Wayne Bishop Lewards final of twenty nine to fourteen.
First ever football state championship for Cascade, and again their
prior best finish in a football and was the sectional
championship in nineteen ninety two. Last week last a South
Putnam Rocks Pioneer fifty five twenty nine seven different South
Putnham players with touchdowns, the state record.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
Welcome back everyone. We're talking to High School Football Championships
tomorrow for a championship between fron Calli and Dwinger. Great matchup.
Before the break, we were talking with David Redmond, who
will have this call on the HSA champions Radio network.
Hard two teams play very similarly, So something's got to
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give in this game tomorrow. What do you think it is?
Speaker 9 (37:45):
Yeah, well that's a good question.
Speaker 11 (37:46):
I played in Week one and then I mentioned before
the break it was a three nothing win for Ron
Colley at home, and it was a very evenly matched
game in terms of stats. Both quarterbacks three for less
than hundred yards and both teams barely rush for over
hundred yards. Now, like both these teams probably feel like
they're in a better situation, obviously.
Speaker 9 (38:03):
More experienced and then Week one, but you know.
Speaker 11 (38:06):
I look at it, it's going to be a tough
task for Ron Colliery're going up against the third best
defense in the state.
Speaker 9 (38:13):
No matter of the class.
Speaker 11 (38:14):
Fort Wayne number one in Class four eight in terms
of Lotties eight points per game. But I mentioned for
the break their senior quarterback is Colin Ashey is a
dual threat quarterback. He comes in over eight hundred yards
passing over a thousand yards rushing, and he's combined for
forty touchdowns through the air.
Speaker 9 (38:29):
And on the ground.
Speaker 11 (38:30):
So it kind of comes down to how Colin ash
plays tomorrow for Ron KLi. As far as Fort Wayne
Bishop Dwinger goes, they're more balanced in terms of the contributions.
They get still a very good running team about one
hundred and sixty yards per game on the ground and
Detroit combination of two guys on the ground, aj Shefferlely
and Houston Ell and you're both seenor running backs in
both standopland defense out of.
Speaker 9 (38:50):
The ball as well for the Saints.
Speaker 11 (38:51):
So yeah, it's a very evenly matched game.
Speaker 9 (38:54):
And Bob, this is the third time that.
Speaker 11 (38:56):
These two teams have faced each other in Stage finals
and both times they played it has been three points
or fewer than the final outcome, most recently in twenty.
Speaker 9 (39:04):
Twenty two and that in four A.
Speaker 11 (39:05):
Ron Colly won twenty four to twenty one. So I
don't expect the game to be three nothing tomorrow, but
I expect it to be a one possession game more
than likely.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Keevin Redman, you're gonna catch him on the IHSA champions
Radio Network and hopefully you'll be with us tomorrow night.
We're a post game, Kevin, thank you so much. Have
fun tomorrow.
Speaker 9 (39:25):
Yep, tons good, Thanks, Bob.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Thank you. The ubiquitous Greg Rigstrom, the best at what
he does, joins US four A excuse me, three A
five eight championship games, is that correct? But he starts
his day at Henklefield ass with the Bulldogs of the
ninety four sixty nine went over Wright State. Greg, thank
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you for taking time to call. It's not like you
haven't had anything to do today.
Speaker 8 (39:52):
Well, I my goal in life is to have show
content for you every Friday night.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
I appreciate it you listen. In the stage of my career,
I need all the help I can get.
Speaker 8 (40:02):
I'll call a D one game in Marion County at
two in a state final at Lucas Oil at seven,
and given the weather forecast tomorrow, I feel confident about
my ability to get from the jungle on the campus
of IU Indy, ten blocks away to get to Lucas
Oil Stadium. I think I can make it there in
a three hour span despite the impending snowpocalypse. So I
like my chance to pull this off again tomorrow as well.
Speaker 1 (40:24):
I do like your chances. I'm sorry you're I'm not
joining you. I'll be there in spirit, but it'll it'll
be uh. I think it'll be an impressive game for
the Jags taking on an Eastern excuse me, a morehead
state team. They need a w I think they're prime
for it, and I think it'll be a fun game.
Speaker 8 (40:46):
I certinly hope, So you know, I thought there was
a five game stretch where the Jags were facing kind
of similar competition. But I'm watching They're one and four
in that stretch of Charleston Southern of Air Force of
Alabama State mixing with an other game that was a
loss for IU Indy as well. So hopefully they can
kind of get this one turn, knowing that they pick
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up a little bit more importance because they start having
conference games coming up as of midweek, so in one sense,
it kind of reset your record, But hopefully the Jacks
are going to get back on the front foot as
they return to action tomorrow against Morehead State.
Speaker 1 (41:21):
All Right, I need you to hang on through this
short break. We'll come back and talk about the Butler Bulldogs. Dogs,
as I mentioned with the w over Wright State and
in an impressive win. It was kind of a you know,
maybe a tailored two half's type of game. So Greg
Gray Straw and I will come back and talk more basketball.
(41:41):
And he had the five, three, eight, and five eight
championships tonight, so we may squeeze a couple of minutes
out of that short break. This is Indiana Sports took.
(42:20):
Welcome back, everybody. Great race. Daw rejoins us on the
call today of Butler's win ninety four or sixty nine
of Rice State men's basketball. Very impressive win for the Dogs.
A crazy game that kind of struggled maybe in that
first half, but second half they owned everything correct.
Speaker 8 (42:40):
And again gotta like the five a football game. The
final score not indicative of the way the game was
actually played. This is a twelve or fourteenth point came
with three laf minutes left to go and Butler's kind
of took off to kind of finish the game. And
again Butler was the better team, making a mistake about it.
But Bob, they didn't have a lead until early in
the second half. They were down third twenty nine at halftime,
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quickly kind of got up to ten and kept it
there for most of the second half. I think Butler's
pretty good basketball team, and clearly better than they have then.
You know, it's crazy to say they are now in
an eight year drought of not making the NCAAA field.
You know, there's kind of an asters there. We had
a tournament in twenty twenty, they would have made it.
They would have been good enough, but even that would
have been six nights. But led by Findley Bizjack and
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Michael Lejai that both had twenty points in today's game,
Butler is now six and one. They're four and zero
at home. Uh. And again, they're a good basketball team.
Were they twenty five points better than Right State today?
Probably not? But were they the better team than Right
State today? They absolutely were to get to their six
winn of the season.
Speaker 1 (43:46):
All right, tell me about your games today. Cascade Meeting
lures twenty nine to fourteen, New pal thirty eight seventeen
winners over Maryville. You sold four really good football teams
and you know this newpal team just continues to look
because they bumped up to six A, they'd win six
A the way they are now.
Speaker 8 (44:06):
Listen, I am I'm pretty good at being in multiple
places during the course.
Speaker 4 (44:10):
Of a day.
Speaker 1 (44:11):
Five.
Speaker 8 (44:11):
Sorry, I was only there for the five A games,
so I saw the unbier game to say and congratulations
the Cascade getting fifteen to zero and winning their first
football state championship. But my broadcast day at the Dome
or at the Lucas Oastinum was limited to the five
A game, and Bob in this one. I'm not sure
I have seen a physical toll extracted in a state
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championship game the way I did in that one. New
Palace quarterback exited new injuries twice came back. Maryville's quarterback
exited due to a shoulder injury and did not come back.
On the drive that Meryville for Hill first got injured.
DJ Bowles comes in and throws a touchdown pass, his
second of the season. He's the backup quarterback that had
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been moved to wide receiver. So the fact that Maryville
got this to seventeen all going to the the fourth
quarter was tremendous, but the irony that wasn't lost on me, Bob,
as the team that rarely had to play a competitive
fourth quarter all year, when they had to, they did,
and they won that one twenty one to nothing and
won the game thirty eight to seventeen. The story for
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New Palace in the fact they ran the ball fifty
five times for three hundred and twenty one yards as
they win a fifth state championship in the last twelve years.
Speaker 1 (45:26):
Greg Regstraw has been everywhere today and he's gonna be
everywhere tomorrow. Greg, I know you're working the championships tomorrow.
Thanks so much for your time. Good luck to our
Jags tomorrow in their matchup with whoever it is the
other guy, Greg Greg Straw at State Yeah, hosted it
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up Morehead State. Greg, thank you. I'll talk to you
tomorrow night. Thanks to the call.
Speaker 4 (45:52):
Hey, coach,
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