LMCU HS Football Game of the Week | D1 State Championship | Hudsonville vs. Detroit Cass Tech

Detroit Cass Tech 42 | Hudsonville 20

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, West Michigan. It's game night and the lights are on.
Staff a good but hold us down, kick us out
the way, It's got plenty of legs. The dribe to
Ford Field is on with the MHSAA High School Football
Playoffs presented by vander Lawn Home Improvement.

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That's God, what second? Remaining the thirty eight yard field goal.

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game is Fritz Pakita and Buck Gino and good Saturday

(01:18):
even everyone, and welcome live to Ford Field, the heart
of the Motor City, where tonight we're proud to bring
you the Division one MAHSA Football Final between the twelve
and one Eagles of Hudsonville and the eleven and two
just down the road Technicians of Detroit Cast Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Hello everyone, Happy Holidays.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Is our championship weekend coverage continues tonight, brought to you
by Vandalion Home Improvement and Lake Michigan Credit Union as
along with Buck Gino, I'm Brett Pakita, Joe Eric back
with us, the third member of our crew. He's back
at the Kelzy Warm ninety six one the game studios.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
They've got a lot of snow.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Over the last forty eight hours in West Michigan. We've
been down to the Motor City. But we are set
to go, and so is Joe as our instudio host
and executive producer as the final game but Gino, good
to have you back in the broadcast booth of the
eight over this championship weekend about to kick off tonight,
Let's recap what happened earlier today though in Division seven.
To start your day, remember North Muskigan they lost last

(02:15):
week in a tough one Delancing Eastern to Millington, and
congratulations to North Muskeigan, a great season. But if they
watched that game today, Millington took it to Moron Saint
Mary Catholic Central twenty four to zhing first time ever
in the finals for the Cardinals.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
And they win it all.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
And people that we talked to around the state who
really follow Millington football said this was the year.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
They thought. You saw it with their signs if you
watched any of the game today on FanDuel Sports Network.
So congrats to them. It's always a great story. But
that tells you North Muskingon was right there knocking on
the door.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Well, I mean, I'm not gonna too, Yes, I will
to my own horn. I had Millington and Beal City
making it to the D seven y eight finals. I
said that in August, and they helped me at least
rack up some wins, and then Piney and Prep here
in the game we'll get to talk about.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
But Millington very impressive.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
I saw them, and I have some folks that I
work with that are from that area, and they were
talking about the same thing. They said, this was gonna
be the year for Millington football. A senior laden group.
They had been to the semi finals three of the
last four years. They had lost heartbreakers, they had injuries
that had sidelined them.

Speaker 4 (03:22):
They played really good teams.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Remember they lost to Reed City that one year, right
and that really bad weather weekend a couple of years ago,
and they thought that was going to be a team
that could get here. But this team that won here
this morning and from Millington, they were on a mission.
And they beat a very good North Moskeigan team in
the semifinals.

Speaker 4 (03:40):
In a very good game.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
North Viskeigon just made too many mistakes and a good
team will make you pay, and that's what Millington did.
And then they came here and just punched the Shamrocks
in the mouth. And I don't think that Monroe St.
Mary's Catholic Central was ready for that. They expected a battle,
but we saw that in both the D seven and
the D eight games. You saw that yesterday with Bill City.
They came out here playing Gable Richard and it's pretty

(04:03):
early in the morning to get hit the face that hard,
but beal City and Milliington both did that, attacked and
were able to win that football game, respectively to bring
home state championships to their schools.

Speaker 4 (04:14):
It's so great.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Those are the stories that I love, Brett about high
school football. Yes, I love all of our West Michigan teams,
including Hudsonville down here to our right, but when you
get to those small school divisions, I mean, it's so
satisfying for teams like that. I mean, that's the whole town.
If you wanted to buy gas and Millington est year,
you probably were out a lot because there weren't nobody
up there. They were all down here. So just hats

(04:38):
off to the Cardinals and also to the eggs of
beal City, the D seven and D eight champions. Great
job by them, terrific programs. They're they're running the correct way,
and they're they're very well deserving. I'm glad they got
to take the title home.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
And we're happy to report some hardware coming back to
West Mischkin already this afternoon. Envision three, John Shillet on
the Ducks of Zealand West do it again. They beat
Detroit Martin Luther King forty two to twenty two. They
end the year thirteen and one. That's the fifth state
championship for Zealand West all under head coach John Stilatoe.
Remember started that program when they broke Zeland High School

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into Zealand East and Zealand West respectively.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
Now in his twentieth season, his forty first.

Speaker 1 (05:17):
Season as a head coach comstock Park, Muskegan, orchard View,
East Kentwood, he had taken those teams in Orchard View
and East Kentwood to state final games but could not
punch his dicket. But fifth state championship for him in
his twentieth season. What a job he's done with that
Zealand West program. And guys like Tray slowtok remember and
obviously Keaton Hendricks had a big game today we'll talk

(05:39):
about with Buck g You know what he accomplished never
done before in state final game history. But those were
seniors that last year lost to Forest Steels Central in
that semi final. As juniors chip on their shoulder all summer,
and that's a great story to see happen as well.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Well.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Hats off to John Schilito, truly a gentleman in the
coaching ranks, not only in West Michigan, but State lied
and yeah, fifth title overall for John. And you know,
we talked about the teams that it was this year
that was their year. This is another team in Zeland West.
We saw them last year. Now they had some dudes
that did graduate last year, but they were also ravaged

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with injuries. I mean, they were severely shorthanded when they
played that Forest Cvil Central team. Not to make excuses
because I'm sure as heck John didn't make any excuses
last year, but that team was decimated by substantial injuries
to starters. And then this year that was their thing
is they had Trace Lohat go down and if you're
John Showtell, you're thinking, oh, it's gonna happen again. We're

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gonna lose a player that we need to get to
Ford Field. Will Trace Lohack comes back after battling injury
in the Whitehall game and then missing the Unity game,
and then he comes back and they just go on
a tear.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
And that's what they had.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
They had senior leadership juniors last year that tasted it
and thought, man, we were that close. We can't leave
this school without at least giving it our best. And
they came up here and again, I mean they hit
a team in front of them that if you looked
on paper and said skill wise like mom, but they
probably have more skill guys or more speed.

Speaker 4 (07:12):
But Zealand West came out and just hit them.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Martin Luther King in the mouth, Luke, you think high
and Detroit King. You know, that's a team that's played
the Skegan in the past. That's a team that have
played other West Michigan teams and they have won those games,
but they haven't been challenged like they were against Zealand West.
Where you know, if you look at Zealand West, they

(07:35):
just hammered on them. And that's really what happened is
Zealand West just went to work on him and Keaton
Hendricks six touchdowns. That was it. That was what was
the offense. It was Keaton Hendricks, that was it. I Mean,
I don't know who got the two pointers. I'd have
to look at that, but six touchdowns for Keaton Hendricks
and man, it was just an impressive performance by them.

(07:56):
And it's good for West Michigan to get a trophy
to come home because that's one thing that you never
want to do, is you don't want to come here
if you're any of these teams can go over for
that side of the state. So youngraduation to John Schilito
and the Zealand West Ducks, and boy, it's just a
huge win for them, and I'm so happy for them
because as a team we really didn't get to cover

(08:18):
this year.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
I mean, how do you how do we miss that?

Speaker 5 (08:21):
Right?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
We had so many good teams in West Michigan, we
somehow missed Zealand West. But they proved a strong and
they got here and they did they did the job.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Six touchdowns that is an all time state record and
the High School Football Finals three rushing, three passing. Congratulations
senior fullback Keaton Hendrix. And also Brody Smyers, who was
injured when we covered him in the regional final in
that matchup in the rematch of FBHC did play today,
primarily on defense. They didn't know if he'd get him back,

(08:49):
but always nice to see a senior be able to
play his final high school game here at Ford Field.
And then with the outcome that they had a championship
for Zealand West.

Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah, I meanrushing touchdowns the previous high was five. There
have been six touchdowns in the final game, but never
on the rushing side, there's been receiving touchdowns. We were
here for Lucas Done when he had six passing touchdowns,
remember that Chelsea Unity Christian game where he tied or
he's got the record with six touchdown passes, but never

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had there been six rushing touchdowns.

Speaker 4 (09:21):
So congratulations to Keten Hendricks and the Ducks.

Speaker 1 (09:23):
And in Division five, just finishing up a few moments ago,
it was Pontiac Notre Dame Prep with a running clock
beating Franken Moo with forty two to seven the final.
Congratulations to them and Jase the book is in the
house and he texted me he said, how about this
for Unity Christian this year in Craig Tibby. I know
they got knocked out by South Christian in that playoff rematch,

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but they beat Pontiac Notre Dame at the end of
the regular season and then they also beat an Okay
Gold play and we talked about how good that division
was this year with a realignment obviously Zealand West in
the regular season. So they beat the Division three and
the Division five state chief yps this year.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
And they also, I mean they had if you lived
their conference games, and they had South Christian who was
a division for semi final rights Forrest Hill Central who
gave Zeland West that battle in the regional final. I mean,
it was just a loaded conference and you look at
the teams that they played weekend and week out. I
mean there was just no breaks in that division. So

(10:24):
just a tremendous I think I know that we got
the OK Red chams here, Brett. I hate to say it,
but I mean I think the OK Gold was probably
better than the Okay Red this year based on the
results that we've seen from top to bottom.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Well, and before we get into our coaches Corner interview,
they've moved back our kickoff. We just wanted to let
you know, so if you're looking right now, it's going
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from Brent Sandy, Head, coach of Hudsonville, joined me this

(10:57):
week in the Montel Construction Coaches Corner.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
But before we.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
Go to break and set that up for you, want
to just look at this matchup. Both teams are out
there warming up as we speak. Hudsonville comes in as
Buck metching outright. Okay, Red Jamps, that's saying something. When
you run the table at seven to zero, I don't
care if you think the conference is up or down.
East Kentvill was still there, Grandville was still there, Rockford
was still there. Eagles beat them all twelve and one
and some of them twice twelve and one overall. Coming in,

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they're riding a twelve game winning streak.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Folks.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
All they did is losing Week one to Howl twenty
to seventeen. They avenged that two weeks ago in the
regional final beating Howl thirty five to six. And after
they beat Grandville, coach Sandy was happy they were going
to face Howl because they had a couple of starters
didn't play in Week one. They really felt that they
should have won that game. They kind of gave away
some opportunities and so thirty five to six. They beat

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him in the rematch. And how at that point was
ranked number one. They had just beaten Belleville. Obviously with
Bryce Underwood, fantastic quarterback now going to the University of Michigan.

Speaker 2 (11:55):
So that's the story for the Eagles this year.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
And for Detroit cast Tech, well, they're riding at nine
winning streak themselves, coming in eleven and two overall. They
know the Detroit Public School League City champs. And you
look at their two losses. They lost in Week one
to Rockford. They were still kind of getting things figured
out because they will start a freshman quarterback tonight. That's
not making any excuses. That was a great win for
Rockford at home. And then they split with Detroit Martin

(12:18):
Luther King in the regular season.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
They meet them twice in the regular season.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
It's a regularly scheduled game because they're both Detroit Public
School League teams. And then, like I said, in the
City and championship game, that is when cast Tech got
their revenge and won that contest. And ever since then,
all they've beaten is Macomb Dakota, who is number five
of the state and Division one of the playoffs, and
then number two rank last week Detroit Catholic Central, who
might have been one of the best Detroit Catholic Central

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teams maybe they've had in a decade.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Impressive win. Yeah, and they.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Beat a Detroit Catholic Central team that ousted Belleville in
the regional final, and then you had them coming in
and you thought they were going to be the hot hand,
and it is a hotly contested game, great game by
both teams.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Really for cast Tech.

Speaker 3 (13:01):
The one thing we'll get to that in our Keys
of the game later, but just the speed and Brent
Sandys will talk about that as well. We're all going
to talk about the speed that they have. Guys like
Cassius Shivers, Alex Graham, Taber on the quarterback has speed,
Corey Sandler Junior, all those kids, man, they can fly.
And I think when you look at what they were

(13:22):
able to do against two teams, really, like you said,
getting revenge in the last regular season game and then
also beating Detroit Catholic Central and getting you know, this
is kind of a revenge tour for both teams, right,
That's kind of how you get here. And it's kind
of been a theme for a lot of teams this
year is getting revenge.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
On teams that you lost to in the regular season.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
And you know, I think that if you look at
cast Tech, it's just been a remarkable progression for them.
And when guys like Jay ru Campbell went through there,
you know, thirteen fifteen years ago, and they had that
run where they were really good and.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
All of a sudden they just kind of hit a
low little bit.

Speaker 3 (14:00):
This is the first time they've been in the finals
since two thousand and sixteen. But they're back and they've
got a lot of talent at their disposal, and Marvin
Rushing has done a tremendous job. They are twenty five
and nine and you look at the competition that they
played right year in and year out.

Speaker 2 (14:15):
It's no joke.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
So he's done a fantastic job and now trying to
culminate that with their first championship in quite a while.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
One of the things that stands out tonight the senior leadership,
like we talked about with Zealand West, like we talked
about with Byron Center, that great teams from West Michigan
have ridden that all the way here and played well
as a team to get to Ford Field.

Speaker 2 (14:35):
Different story for cast Tech. They are loaded with talent.

Speaker 1 (14:38):
Over a half dozen recruits Division one wise will be
on this roster at different stages in their high school career.
Though they've got two freshmen start, including the quarterback that
Buck mentioned. They've got a sophomore running back that's in
the mix. They got a lot of juniors, not a
lot of seniors for cast Tech. We'll see if that's
an advantage for the Eagles as we go through this contest. Tonight,

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State Final game in high school football here at Ford Field.
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to kickoff here the Division two state championship game coming
up at ford Field. Detroit cast Tech obviously a veteran
to the football finals in Hudsonville. It's been since two

(18:38):
thousand and five, but the Eagles certainly know what it's
like to get ready for a state championship game in
football and joining me right now. They're head coach in
the coaches Corner, brought to you by Montel Construction, Brent
Sandy and coach First and foremost, congratulations. All of Hudsonville
has to be going crazy as you guys built up
for this game tonight.

Speaker 9 (18:55):
Yeah, Brett it it's been incredible. We had incredible sundoff
this afternoon and leaving Hotville at pep rally the other
day at school and it's just been it's been a
lot of fun, just really enjoying it.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
Coach, we covered that Grandville playoff game and I still
tell people the crowd there that night, it was just amazing,
beautiful night for football. And as you know, you made
it through the Oka Red District gauntlet with East Kentwood
and Grandville, and you were excited to get how in
a rematch the only loss you had all season back
in week one. I know a couple of starters weren't
in that game for you a week one, so you

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were looking forward to the opportunity. Talk about from that
point on because once you got out of the area teams,
your team has been rolling.

Speaker 2 (19:35):
Right now.

Speaker 1 (19:36):
You went over Howell thirty five to six in that
rematch and then twenty seven to seven, as you know,
over a very good Rochester Adams team last Saturday.

Speaker 9 (19:44):
Yeah, I mean you said it. The Okay Red so tough,
and we've just been just really working our butt off
to try to represent it the way it is and
to show teams from you know, the middle of state
and the east out of state what the Okay Red
teams are incapable of, because we had a lot of
good teams there and playing those teams the second time
in Kentwood and Granville was really tough. And then fortunately

(20:06):
we were able to play Howl again to kind of
prove to you know, everybody in ourselves that you know,
we were capable of beating them. So but those those
games early on really helped get us ready for this
playoff run.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
You've talked about it coaching our conversations, but I really
think one, you're playing your best football right now, which
you want to peek at the end. But number two,
your senior leadership, the guys are hungry and you're playing
good complimentary football because all phases are really contributing.

Speaker 9 (20:33):
Yeah, I mean, you know, I cut that to a
number of things. You know, our our preparation. Our strength
program with coach Carbat has worked hard to keep kids fresh,
to keep kids healthy. We're as healthy right now as
we've been throughout the year, you know, most most seasons
it's not like that. And then our depth and our program,
you know, we've got a lot of kids out. We've

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got you know, more than one hundred kids you know
here this evening. But with having the number of kids
that we have, we can you know, really you know,
maximize offense, defense, and special teams and trying to play
up to each kid's skill set and abilities and get
them in the right spot. And that's helped all three
phases of the game for us.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
Last time Hutsonville had a twelve win season was two thousand.
You guys made it to the finals. You lose a
tough one there to Birmingham Brother Rice. I guess the
good news is this week you're not facing Birmingham Brother Rice, right,
because there's been a little history there with Hudsonville that
hasn't been in your favor. But before we get into
Detroit cast Tech, I want to talk about just the numbers.
I mean, twelve and one, riding a twelve game winning streak,

(21:32):
what do you guys talk about or do you talk
about that at all in the locker room or at practice?

Speaker 2 (21:35):
Each week?

Speaker 9 (21:36):
We don't talk about that brat we you know, it's
just about trying to get better. It's just the next week,
you know, and then not just a week, but every
day at practice and taking every every game the same.
I talked about somebody today, it's like, you know, what
did you do differently for the state champ And we're
not trying to not do anything different.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
You know.

Speaker 9 (21:54):
What we've been doing has been working, trying to stay
the course, you know, live in the moment, do the
best week, and you know, maybe when the season's over,
look back and try to appreciate the things that we've accomplished.
But right now, stay focused and try to get this
win tonight.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Lots of vill ed.

Speaker 1 (22:08):
Coach Brent Sandy joined us in the Montel Construction Coach's
Corner as we count you down to kickoff. Here Eagles
taking on Detroit Cast Tech, the technicians coming to eleven
and two, and coach take us through the film room
with these guys obviously a lot of talent. They lost
the very first game of the year, like you did.
But at Rockford thirty to twenty three kind of came
back in that game. The other losses to Detroit, Martha

(22:29):
the King, who is playing on championship weekend at Ford
Field and Division three. What do you see from the
technicians that stands out to you Guys that maybe have
to change or stop in this game tonight?

Speaker 9 (22:41):
Speed for one, speed in size. They've got some kids
that can fly, you know, and so that's hard to
simulate in practice, you know, because if our kids are
that fast, they'd be you know, on our first team,
not on our scout teams, right, So to be able
to stay with them to help to limit the explosive plays.
That's been a goal of ours all season is to

(23:03):
win the battle of explosive plays. So if we're able
to you know, keep keep the lit out of defense,
so to speak, and and to help prevent some of that,
that will be awesome. And then you know, offensively we
have an opportunity to finish an explosive play. We need
to do that. Their kids are very disciplined defensively, you know,
they they stand their keys really well. You know a

(23:24):
lot of teams have tried to do you know, a
lot of gadget stuff against them because you know, they
are very talented and they're a well coached team, and
of course they have a lot of really good athletes
there as well, So you know, we try to do
our best to you know, take advantage when we get
those opportunities and make account and then, like I said,
eliminate or limit those explosive players. And we're on defense

(23:45):
as well.

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It's interesting talking to high school coaches and you and
I were talking before we did this interview. Coach about
short week Thanksgiving. You got to worry about practice, got
to worry about weather. Do you go indoors because you're
going to be playing indoors or Ford field? What has
been the toughest part this week, this process, because it's
almost like you can't enjoy it, right.

Speaker 9 (24:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (24:04):
I mean no.

Speaker 9 (24:04):
Offense to you because it's cool and everything else, but
it's it's doing the interviews, it's talking to the media,
it's getting stuff ready for ford Field. Those are things
that you know, I'm you know, I'm like cash Tech.
You know, I've i haven't been here before as a coach.
Our program has been here a few times, so I've
leaned on a couple of guys on our staff that
and you're in our program for a little bit of
help with that. But it's just it at times overwhelming,

(24:27):
you know. And of course you know myself, I'm a
teacher at the high school, so you're trying to be
a teacher as well on top of all of that.
And you know, so it's it's fun, it's it's it's
a you know, an awesome opportunity, but it does it
does come with, you know, a decent of work that
maybe you don't have on you know, week three in
the regular season.

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Well, coach, what a season has been outright? Okay, red
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one Hudsonville coming in at twelve to one, Detroit cast
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Speaker 2 (34:39):
Playoff football at the lower ranks, and.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
Then of course high school football finals Day two culminating
with his Division I State championship game Hudsonville out of
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And let's take a look up front. Your two defensive ends,
Brian Stowell junior number sixteen and John Baker the fourth
number nine on the other side defensive tackles, and they're
tough down low, Dylan Pace and Gavin Fernandez. And then
the nose guard in the middle. Big number fifty six.
That is Logan Howell. He's a commit to Mayava, Ohio
to play for Chuck Martin and the RedHawks. Your linebacking

(35:42):
court number twenty, Marvin McCallum and Cameron summer Hour number two,
and then Marcus Jennings rounding out their three linebackers. And
then they go three deep. Alex Graham committed to Colorado.
This guy is they feel their next maybe Travis Hunter
because he will star both ways for Gas tonight and
this guy can make plays happen.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Number seven, listen for that name.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
Dereck Jackson the third to commit to Kent State number three,
and then Lamont Will Coxton rounds out the starting front
for Marvin Rushing twenty five and nine in his third
year coming in for Hudsonville. On the other side, offensively,
your starters. Ferris Eldred is the left tackle. Right tackle

(36:25):
is Aaron Hunt. Cooper Roberts number seventy your left guard,
and the Mason Cholik on the right side. Eli Rose
number sixty one is your center. Jack Wills is the
tight end. They will throw to him. Big target for
Griffin Baker, the senior quarterback back, a dual threat quarterback
running the football in passing. Carson Diister is his favorite target.
Bryce Fox is one of their leading rushers. Quinn Pole

(36:47):
is your full back slash eighth back. And then your
flanker is number eighteen, the junior Brayton van Lake. He
will be their quarterback most likely next year. And then
another guy who's almost like a starter you gotta throw
in there as Owen.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Harnsman, the junior.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
He is their home run hitter at the backfield, had
one that wins seventhy plus this year, and of course
always seems to.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
Rise to the occasion with big runs.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
We saw in the playoff game with Grandville, big one
with Rockford as well.

Speaker 3 (37:13):
Yeah, Owen Harzma and Grits Fox a terrific duo for
the Eagles, And I think that's gonna be one of
the keys that we get to here in our vandwin
keys to the contest for Hudsonville.

Speaker 4 (37:24):
They just Brent Saney.

Speaker 2 (37:25):
Talked about everybody's talking about it. Cast Tech has a
last week.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
You cannot let them get big plays and leverage the
athleticism to get out in front and really create havoc
with your defense. Offensively, they're gonna have to play ball control.
The best way to keep a good offense down is
to not let him on the field. So they're gonna
have to control the Lions scrimmage, get that running game going,
and control of the clock if you're cast tech. The

(37:49):
big thing for them is gonna be not turning the
football over. They lost to Rockford partly because they gave
up two defensive touchdowns. Rockford had two defensive touchdowns in
that game and also teams they had a punt return
called back by an illegal block in the back, So
that's a three score difference. That's a big difference between
losing thirty to twenty three and winning by a couple

(38:10):
of scores. So they just have to minimize the mistakes
and play their brand of football, because really, right now,
I think if they're gonna beat some if somebodys gonna beat,
it's gonna be themselves.

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Speaker 1 (40:06):
The game, All right, buck gin, Now we are just
about set for kickoff. Some guys to highlight, and you've
already talked about some of them, But how about freshman
Julie and Taylor as the running back. Fifty three carries
five hundred and twelve yards, he's got ten touchdowns. And
then sophomore if you can find it behind that big

(40:27):
offensive line. At five foot five, Demari Hendricks one hundred
and fifty two pounds, but he can scoot sixty eight
carries six hundred and twenty six yards and six touchdowns.
But as I say that, mind you, they can throw
the football and like to they're not afraid to Donald
Tabron the second a true freshman and he's six foot three.

(40:47):
He can spin it fourteen hundred and seventy five yards,
passing fourteen touchdowns to six nine. T's coming in and
he's got some experience. We talked about Alex Graham. But
on the other side, this kid is one of the
top ten recruits and the state of Michigan according to
Mick McCabe the De Trey free Press. We're talking about
Corey Sadler Tuner. He was honible mentioned All State of
year ago as a sophomore, thirty seven catches, seven out

(41:09):
of three onns and seven touchdowns. You've gotta lockdown of
that secondary number seven at number one.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
Well, the other think Brett is they can be dangerous
fromnywhere on the field. It's not just deep passes. It
can be a swing pass, a stream pass, anything.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
So just have to find a way to get them stopped.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
And that's gonna be the biggest challenge for Hudsonville today
is not only having to contend with the size that
the cast Tech has upfront, but also the terrific speed
that cast hech has in the perimeter, but a tough job.
They've had tough jobs before in this playoffs and they've
been able to rise to the occasion.

Speaker 4 (41:43):
Can they do it one more time?

Speaker 1 (41:44):
George Sanchez Marulo six foot one sixty and a senior
set to kickoff for cast Tech. They have their visiting
white uniformers, the green pants and the dark green caps
with the seat on the side.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
Kicks it away. Carson diykster fields.

Speaker 1 (41:59):
Are just inside his five of the fly across to
ten and then gonna be wrapped up in stop. Good
job on the pursuit quickly down there for cast Tech.
As he crossed the fifteen, they'll spot him down at
the seventeen yard line, so give him a return of
just twelve first and ten and that's where the Eagles
will set up shop. Griffin Baker, we talked about a
dual threat quarterback over eleven hundred yards passing, coming in

(42:20):
ten touchdowns at two ie T so pretty good ratio there,
but rushing the football dangerous as well. One hundred and
five carries, five hundred and fifty seven yards and another
thirteen touchdowns to his total. Number two is gonna have
to be special tonight in blue as they come out
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caps with the wing feathers on the side, Allah Oregon,

(42:41):
and then the yellow pants with the blue stripes down
the side. Glad to have you along on this Saturday
night from ford Field. Division one State title game just
started away. Griffin Baker over the right side, got a
little bit of a push for a yard and then
push back. And I tell you what the big ugly
is up front for cast Tech. You gotta watch out them.
I talked about the nose Logan Howell. He is a
load right over center with that first stop.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
Yeah, John Baker with the tackle, but you're right. I
mean Howell just takes up a lot of space up there.
And they tried quarterback lead on the first play. Gets
a generous yard at that, but they're gonna have to
find a way to excavate howl out of there.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
Titans stacked to the left side, They'll motion man from
right to left handoff Fox over the left side, slices
his through cross to twenty. They'll give him forward progress
to the twenty one, give him four to be third
and six.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
Now coming up.

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Give him three actually third and six four Huntsonville just underway.
No score, opening offensive possession of the game. Remember that
cast Tech won the toss defer to the second half,
so they want to go on defense. First, four town linemen,
four backers stacked a cross for the Technicians. Now they'll
throw a fifth down lineman as coming up on the

(43:56):
line of scrimmage, Marcus Jennings number six slot right.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Coach Sandy signaling in the play.

Speaker 1 (44:01):
They change at the line of scrimmats Fox to the
left of Baker, handoff, Fox left side to the right,
counteraction close to that first down marker.

Speaker 2 (44:09):
So they give them to him.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Yeah, good vision that time is he needed to get
across the twenty seven, and he did by the length
of the football.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
That's a great start. First in ten Eagles, Well.

Speaker 3 (44:19):
They played press on the outside coverage. So what that
does is it tells the offense that there's no help
up top they're coming downhill, or that they have helped
up top. So they're gonna be trying to come downhill
on that. And they change off to a running play
and they get the first down. Big pickup for the
Eagles on their first drive.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
Of the game.

Speaker 1 (44:38):
Derek Jackson, third and secondary spot making the stop that
time on Fox, but not before he got the first
down first and ten trips right handoff.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Here's Harsman's first.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Carry of the night and forward progress. Got his head
down and lean forward, keeps those feet short and across
the thirty. They'll give him short of the thirty one.
But a nice pickup there of nearly four yards to
stop that time for cast Tech.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Defensively, was Marv McCollum the linebacker.

Speaker 3 (45:07):
Well so early Hudsonville is showing a couple of different sets,
but it's still just running between the tackles, trying to
get that defensive backfield out of the box. Make sure
that they have to respect the perimeter. I'd expect a
short pass here shortly second and six Harsman. The Jets
sweep from right to left trying to get to the outside.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
Nothing doing. He's gonna lose some yardage.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Great job defensively, John Baker, the fourth with the pursuit
of the defensive endposition, couldn't get outside of him, and
they were generous to get back to the line of skippers.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
I thought he might have lost the yard buck.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
Yeah, Marcus Jennings out there as well, and they're trying
to stretch it to the wide side of the field,
but Baker just blows that up. He sheds his block,
and then there's just no secondary help there. So you
gotta find a way because Baker's been making himself a
present felt early. Gonna have to get an extra hat
on him and he moves around. They don't keep it static, Prett.

(45:57):
They're moving guys around that defensive lion, so to keep
the Eagles guessing offensively.

Speaker 1 (46:02):
Big third and six from the left hast Now those
swing guys over to the right side off balance line
there one wide receiver to the right back to passes.
Baker got time steps up in the pocket, now breaks
down and he's gonna be corralled for a short gain well.

Speaker 2 (46:16):
Short of the first down marker.

Speaker 1 (46:17):
They'll give him the thirty two before he snacked up there,
and now the punt team will have to come out
for Hutsonville. Good job defensively, especially for the coverage in
the secondary. Not many men out in the route for
Hutsonville that time.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Well, his primary receiver was out to his lefts and
that one was pretty well covered and by the time
he got to the progression. Will's the tight end was
covered well in the middle of the field, and Baker
did the best thing he could just to get a
yard but good coverage. Je I'm kind of surprised they
didn't spread the field out, Brett. Try to get the
guys out of the middle and try to get somebody

(46:49):
one on one, get some leverage. Instead, they go with
a tight formation.

Speaker 2 (46:52):
High snap.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
Van Lake one hands it, gets it under control and
then kicks it away end over end kick hits at
the thirty one.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
US gonna let it bounce.

Speaker 1 (47:01):
He's ever dangerous inside the twenty and then they'll donald
at the twenty nine yard line.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Nice job by Van Lake. That could have been over
his head.

Speaker 1 (47:08):
He had to elevate like a basketball player, grabbed it
with one hand.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
I mean, you actually have the luxury of the replay
here up in the booth that I don't. I mean, Brayden,
if he doesn't play basketball, he might be playing basketball
after this, because Will's just completely airmailed that one, and
Van Late did a great job to get that down
and then cast tech they broke out early. Brett, there
was nobody on that edge, and you saw Braiden think

(47:34):
about it for a little bit, but then decided just
to kick the ball away in nice punt there and
flips the field.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
So Donald.

Speaker 1 (47:42):
Tabron the second, the freshman coming in six ' three
one seventy two for Detroit cast Tech, obviously his first
state final. And I'm telling you, this kid is gonna
be special one to watch. On first and ten, they
worked from their nineteen trips to the right side. Now
the motion of man near sign, they're gonna swing it
out little bubble screen. Look, God, Graham pops the outside.

(48:03):
He's got speed across the thirty five, He's up across.

Speaker 2 (48:06):
The forty before he's knocked out a bounds.

Speaker 1 (48:08):
You can see why Dion Sanders and Kyle Ita love
this kid. And I was just gonna say, even though
he didn't touch it on that punt, buck, he's taking
two kickoffs back to the house and one punt return
on special teams this year. So this kid is really special.
And you saw it there, big play on first intent.

Speaker 3 (48:25):
Well, it's a simple screen there and there's one receiver,
but there's three defensive backs out there, and I think, boy,
they got this covered. But Alex Graham just turns on
the Jets gets around the only block, which is a
very good block, cuts it up the sideline.

Speaker 4 (48:39):
Big game.

Speaker 1 (48:39):
Tamari Hendricks at five foot five of the backfield for
Tapron sets fires. He got the snap complate at the
midfield stripe. Another first down for the Technicians, fighting for
extra yardage to the forty five and that's one of
their stars.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
Corey Sadler Junior with his first catch of the night.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
While you're gonna see a lot of respect and a
lot of cushion by the Hudsonville defensive backs and they
try to bracket him just a little bit too much
room there, and they're gonna have to find a way
to get pressure quick on Tabrein because he's got a
lot of time there.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
He's gonna find receivers.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
So again, a tough job for Hudsonville, a lot to
deal with, but they're gonna have to find a way.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
First down in ten already from the Eagles forty five slot.
Right now, they'll motion it on and right to left
handoff the smaller Hendrix and he scoots quickly.

Speaker 2 (49:24):
Through that right side of the offensive line.

Speaker 1 (49:26):
Hard to find it five five, one point fifty, but
find the bhe must say half of that offensive line
for cast Tech, those guys that go three hundred pounds,
but he's inside the forty to the thirty nine. Actually,
they'll get almost to thirty eight to a gain of
seven second in three after the sophomore Tamari Hendricks with
a nice run for cast Tech. I tell you what

(49:48):
you and I have seen Underwood throw when he was
a youngster for Belleville.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
This kid can spin at.

Speaker 1 (49:54):
Geddy as a freshman already Tabron second down and three
slot less one receiver right handoff Hendricks right side.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Good job of the Eagles defense.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
They're gonna stop and throwing back short of that first
down marker. They'll give him forward progress, but to the
thirty six. It's gonna be a yard short. Third down
coming up with the Technicians.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Well, it's gonna be two downs territory here. Good surge
there by Hudsonville. Good contact there. Looks like for the
Eagles that was Isaac Vandervene that stemmed the tide is
able to wrestle him back, but they give him forward
progress to make it third and shortened. Now, you gotta
be really careful here with two plays in your pocket, Brett,

(50:33):
if you're.

Speaker 4 (50:33):
Gonna go deep. This would be the down to do it.

Speaker 2 (50:36):
Cheer wide receivers to the wide side of the field.

Speaker 1 (50:39):
Left one to the right by himself is Corey Sadler junior.
Tabron out of the pistol formation, wing back sent to
the right side Hendricks the loan back of the backfield
handoff Hendricks no play action. Tabron under pressure and has
to throw it away. Good job defensively as coming in
there Haarsma along with for Hudsonville big number fifty three

(51:02):
and that is John Shippers.

Speaker 3 (51:04):
Well the freshman table and Harry kind of shows his
freshman ism. Freshman is I don't know what it is,
but that play action faked. I mean I knew it
was a pass. I mean he just didn't sell it
very well. In Hudsonville did a very good job of
recognizing it early and even if it was an accurate pass,
it was covered well.

Speaker 2 (51:24):
So now fourth down in one Hutsonville with a huge
crowd is expected on their feet right below us getting
loud fourth and one cast tac out of the shotgun.
No score here opening quarter.

Speaker 3 (51:35):
Handof and oh he just got it.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
Good penetration that time.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
But the freshman they go to Julian Taylor with his
first gear of the game, and he gets a first
down by about a yard inside the thirty five to
the thirty four.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
Our first contact was right at the line the game,
and good job there by Hudsonville to keep that one
to a short one.

Speaker 4 (51:56):
But a nice block.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
They had a wide receiver come around and actually pull
picked the linebacker off that was coming in because Hudsonville
called up a run blitz and they had somebody coming
in free. Just to really well designed played by Kastick.
It only picks up two, but it did the job.

Speaker 1 (52:12):
Jalen Hosting coming down from his defensive end outside linebacker
position to make the stop.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
First down to ten play action.

Speaker 1 (52:18):
Look out hit as he throws, but man out there
and complete.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
Did he get a foot down? He did inside the
tent of the seven yard line.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Waned over the shoulder throw that time and Will Sikes
hauls it in for cast Tech.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Well, there's a little bit of a miscommunication there because
Sikes is on the sideline and there are three Hudsonville
defenders but not any of them really close to where
Sykes was at, So a little bit of a miscommunication there.
The safety was very late getting over in Sikes. I
think that was his guy, because boy in the replay
he just got the left foot down. He did, He'd

(52:53):
barely get it down, but that's a heck of a
throw there by Tad running the face depression.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Freshman is impressive.

Speaker 1 (52:58):
Two wide receivers to the right, one to the left
by himself is Graham on the short side.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
First in goal.

Speaker 1 (53:05):
From the seven handoff left side. Good job by the
Hudsonville defense down to the five and that's about it.
On the stop that time is Isaac Vanderveen. You've talked
about him already, Buck Gino, I'm.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Gonna be talking about him a lot today fifty nine
for Hudsonville. One of the best players for the Eagles
on their defense up on the front and he's everywhere
that Granville game that you and I did, he was
always in the mix trying to stop Jaden, Tank Terry.
And now this is where you got to be careful.
If you're cast tech, you can't get two fancy. Just

(53:40):
go with what brung you here. Try to get it
into the end zone.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
Sikes and Sadler junior is Nott right extra defensive lineman
brought in Bryce swears handoff.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Left side touchdown cast.

Speaker 1 (53:51):
Tech as plowing in over the left side. That time
was Jalen Spates, the five eight senior running back, number
twenty seven, and it's six nothing cast Tech here.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
In the first well that one was supposed to go.

Speaker 3 (54:06):
It looked like initially over left guard, but just such
a big hole out past the tackle that good blocking
down and there's just not anybody there. Secondary or the
second year has to come up and the linebackers kind
of get caught in the wash there thinking it's gonna
be an inside run and states the skips outside.

Speaker 1 (54:28):
Extra point attempt is up and it is good by
Sanchez Barillo. And so with four oh seven left to
go in the opening quarter, cast Tech strikes first, and
this Division I High School football State Championship game, it's
a Technician seven Huntsonville nothing. We'll come back with more
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Speaker 2 (56:01):
Here on ninety six to one. The game.

Speaker 1 (56:07):
Back here in the Motor City Prep Pakid along with
Bungino so seven to nothing. Cast Tech gets a ton
over Hudsonville. Recap that scoring trial by the Technicians in
a minute. But how about that offensive line we raved
about him, Kalif Canty junior six ' five three o
eight in a junior highly recruited, He's one of the
top thirty players in the state of Michigan. And then
the opposite side, they've got a right guard in Josh

(56:30):
Parrimore and folks he goes six to three to two
ninety eight. Like Buckino's talk about those big hefties kind
of leaning on that defensive line for Hudsonville.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Well, the one thing that Hudsonville does not have is
somebody that size to put in the middle to try
to counteract that. And so we're seeing what cast Tech
Their game plan is early and it's go run the football. Yes,
Taban can throw, very impressive that he's able to do so,
but they're going to work up.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Front kicking it away.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Sanchez Morillo and it's taken at the one yard line
across to ten fifteen looking for a little daylight near
the twenty yard line, gets a forward surge and close
to it on the return that time for Hudsonville was
Ricky Browley number three. So back to work for Griffin

(57:19):
Baker and the Eagles down seven to nothing. And I
tell you what, Ta Bron was impressive in that drive.
Buktino for a freshman at six ' three with the composer,
felt the pressure that one time, but then came back
in that last row that set him up inside the
ten yard line. To Sykes, I mean that was well
thrown and he had some pressure in his face that time.

Speaker 3 (57:40):
I mean I'd be pretty calm too if I had
guys like Cory Sandler Junior and Alex Graham and williamle
Sykes and guys like that to throw too. But you're right,
just a really good pocket presence by Tabren got flags here.

Speaker 1 (57:53):
Some movement up front for Hudsonville on first to ten.
They were motioning Raylen Miller across from.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
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Not much doing over the right side of the offensive
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So second and fourteen coming up for the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (58:47):
What the one thing you can't do is you have
pre stat penalties, and that's exactly what happened there with
Hudsonville and now working behind the sticks, it's been tough
sweating up front. They've had one first down that they're
able to get, but it's going to be a long
game if they try to keep pounding between the tackles
because cast Tech is being very physical. They're going to
have to find a way to get guys out on

(59:09):
the perimeter.

Speaker 1 (59:10):
Corey Sadler Junior and coverage now with Harsma who they'll
rotate kind of wide motion behind Baker. On second and long,
Baker designed quarterback keeper over the left side, hit and dropped.
He was hit hard. Shy of the twentieth to nineteen.
Still yet get to get back to the original line
of scrimmage bucks So third and eleven give m a
gain of three coming up for Hudsondale.

Speaker 3 (59:31):
Well, they had a heavier set out there and now
bringing in guys like Cars and Dykstra and Braden van
Lake back in the ball game after they tried to
just run quarterback power there. Third down and eleven not
ideal for Hudsonville. Careful here, if you're cast attack and
a little inside screen.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
That's what Hudsonville likes to run on that perimeter. Now
once really got fann Lake here, Well, I guess they do.

Speaker 1 (59:57):
They they're going a deep third here as Baker back
to pass looking looking under Durest now tries to reverse
his field.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
Look, God, he's in a danger zone.

Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
He's gonna be dropped back inside the five at the
four yard line.

Speaker 1 (01:00:10):
Too much pressure that time from cast Tick that coralled
him in Milling Griggs. Milon Griggs was in there along
with big number fifty six. That's logan howl the nose gore.

Speaker 3 (01:00:20):
If you're gripping Baker there, you just you can't hold
onto the football that long. Yes, the pressure got to
him early, but he tried to make a lot out
of nothing there that one. Either you got to try
to deal it away or you got to try to
find a way to run. I mean, there was pretty
good coverage. You didn't have anywhere to throw it. I'm
not saying that he should have risked a bad throw
into the middle of the field, but the pressure came

(01:00:41):
quick and at that point you just got to try to,
you know, take what you can get, maybe try to
run it up the middle instead takes a big loss.

Speaker 1 (01:00:48):
Brayton van Lake from the back of his en so
on a punt away and that's one off the side
of his foot, wobbly spiral hits of the twenty one.
Graham thought about coming up and field that after a hop,
but it's.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Gonna be down for the Eagles inside.

Speaker 1 (01:01:02):
They're twenty at the nineteen, so only a net of
fifteen yards that time, and talk about up against it.
Cast Tech will get unbelievable field position here. But I
tell you what I've noticed too, is the pressure that
we've seen too.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
John Baker the fourth has really.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Been a presence coming from the outside of that defensive
end position.

Speaker 3 (01:01:22):
You're right, and there's other guys coming in from the
pressure side as well. John Baker the fourth obviously the
most present and the most available or the most visual,
But I mean Nylon Griggs comes in there.

Speaker 4 (01:01:35):
He came in for a spell and defense.

Speaker 3 (01:01:37):
He was part of that pressure on that third down
against Griffin Baker and Pass Tech. Is they're just gonna
start putting their ears back, right, Hudsonville's gonna have to
go to the.

Speaker 4 (01:01:46):
Drawing board a little bit.

Speaker 3 (01:01:47):
And Van Lake, after a great play and a great
punt on the first one, I think he just rushes
this one. He's at the back of the end zone, right,
and I think he felt that he needed to get
that one off quick and instead.

Speaker 2 (01:01:58):
Just kind of.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
Chunks it a little bit and goes straight into the air. So,
like you said, they're up against it here cast Tech
on a short field with the momentum, and if you're Hudsonville,
you gotta find a way to make it, make a
big play on defense, get a turnover, get a negative play,
get something, because that's what's got to turn it around.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
If you're the Eagles. TV timeout.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
We kept it right here one thirty eight left to
go in the opening quarter seven to nothing cast Tech,
but after a tough punt by Hutsonville and they were
backed up in the back of their own end zone
to kick it away with Van Lake.

Speaker 2 (01:02:30):
Cast Tech has it now.

Speaker 1 (01:02:31):
First in ten and they're gonna market basically at the
eighteen yard line of Hudsonville for a golden opportunity. They're
gonna start this drive in the red zone for the Technicians.

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Speaker 1 (01:03:17):
Brett Pickata along with Buck Gino live high above the
plane surface here at Ford Field Refreshman Tapron back in
their handoff right side. They'll rot in a lot of
different backs in and that time on the carry was
Carson Lovett, six and a junior, his first carry tonight.
Good job of the Hudsonville defense after a short game.
They'll mark him to the sixteen. Started this drive at

(01:03:38):
the eighteen, so it gained him to second and Eats
coming up for cast Tech.

Speaker 3 (01:03:43):
Well, if you're the defense for Hudsonville, you're thinking, hey,
we got to get those dbs active in the run
support and really trying to make it a team effort.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Well, when you're.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
Covering guys like Graham and Sykes and Sadler Junior out there,
there's not a lot of run support that you can
give because you gotta make sure those guys are covered.
So that's the tall task for Hudsonville. They're gonna have
to make do with five, six, seven guys in the box.

Speaker 1 (01:04:08):
Sykes and Sadler, you're gonna slot right, Tabron looking their way,
sets fires Ktchoy.

Speaker 2 (01:04:12):
Saddler touchdown cast Tech from.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Sixteen yards out, his fifteenth passing touchdown of the season.
How about that strike on just a postman and across
the middle of the field, Donald T.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Brown the second.

Speaker 4 (01:04:30):
Well that one.

Speaker 3 (01:04:31):
You know, they just play a really soft coverage. It's
like it's Cover two in the back there, and I mean,
Sandler's just gonna eat that alive.

Speaker 4 (01:04:40):
I mean, you just cannot give it.

Speaker 3 (01:04:41):
If you're gonna play that type of coverage, you're gonna
have to come up and jam him at the line
or do something because those safeties have no chance with
him bearing down.

Speaker 1 (01:04:49):
Sanchez Morillo trying to teck on the extra point snap
is a good wind, hold is now, kick is up
and he drills it right between the uprights and buck
out of the pistol. For many I love the timing
as we look at the replay on the jumbo tron here,
I mean that was a two step drop out of
the pistol formation boom set fire off your back foot,
and that was a strike to Saddler right between the defenders.

Speaker 3 (01:05:10):
Yeah, and he didn't have to wait long. Sandler just
a really easy skinny post there. And like I said,
just you're playing ten yards off the ball, which is
great if you're at midfield, but I mean in the
red zone, that's gotta be somebody hands on him. And
it's okay if he gets past you, because that's what
the safety's job is. Instead, they play off and you
just let Sandler do what he did there. That's really

(01:05:31):
tough on the back safeties.

Speaker 1 (01:05:33):
Corey Sadler, junior only a junior who mentioned animal mentioned
All State a year ago. Thirty seven catches for seven
out of three yards, seven touchdowns coming in, so it
was eight touchdown of the season. Congrats to him. And
I tell you he was playing a little bit of
quarterback early on as they figured things out. They knew
they had the freshman coming on. It's an explosive team

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and even in that game in Week one at rock
remember Rockford kind of jumped out early. Think get with
a beneficiary of a couple of six is there with
some tough passes. Give the Rams credit, but with teams
like Martin Luther King. We saw it last night with
arch of Lake Saint Mary's in cast Tech. You always
want to face them, but you know early in the
season that's where it seems like they get their losses.

Speaker 2 (01:06:14):
Well because they're figuring things out right.

Speaker 3 (01:06:16):
I mean, they had a freshman that they didn't really
know if they wanted to play him at quarterback, and
well they found out and it's game fourteen and they
really know they want him.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
There Santas Morillo doing it, Jace Chopp of kicking it
back to the one yard line. I mean it really
sets the kick return team back. And I tell you what,
get a number on that truck that just hits Ricky Browley.
Didn't see him coming and he's drilled and dropped right
at the twenty yard line.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Dremiah Taylor, a number twenty eight for the Technicians, just
introduced himself and coming down full speed and right there
you're seeing it on the big screen here. You won't
be able to see it, but we have the luxury
of it as he just piles in and levels Bromley
right at the twenty.

Speaker 1 (01:06:55):
I tell you what Ricky Browley might start to think
about with those kicks, just let it go into the.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
I'm standing right by the goal.

Speaker 3 (01:07:01):
I'm standing by the goal line, you know, the twenty.
I'm not getting past the twenty. I might as well
just save myself the hassle and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Take it there. Well, that's just it. I mean, that's
a luxury.

Speaker 1 (01:07:11):
He's nailed it twice now inside the two yard line
where they fielded on the fly and either way. Positive
play for cast Tech. First down in ten, one receiver
each way. A little counteraction dumping out in the flats
got him in at the twenty five, complete across the
thirty and still running across the thirty five.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
He's got a Hudsonville first down and more that was
cast ten haveve the senior running back.

Speaker 1 (01:07:37):
Nice job, Griffin Baker finding play action rolling to his right.
He throws better, I think on the run, felt the
pressure and dumped in the flats.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
Nice pick up there for the Eagles.

Speaker 3 (01:07:46):
Well, they're gonna have to mix in some play actions
and screens, anything to keep that pressure off from Cast Tech.
I mean John Baker was in the backfield again, but
Baker was able to deliver the football before he got there.

Speaker 2 (01:07:57):
H Pac set to the right side.

Speaker 1 (01:07:58):
Haarsma on the handoff that way with the lead blocker
and fights his way for extra cottage. Boy, they didn't
give him a four of these shure up to the
thirty nine gate of three second and seven, and that
will be the final play of the opening quarter. So
twelve minutes of the books in this Division one State
Title Game.

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Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
And now Braydon Van Lake.

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
As the ball pop loose on the little rivers and
I think cast Tech has it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:38):
They do.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Van Lake took a shot at time as he turned
the corner at the forty ball pop loose and cast
Tech comes up with a recovery.

Speaker 3 (01:11:48):
Well, they ran that reverse and it looked like actually
cast Tech almost felt like it was coming towards him
because Van Lake ran back into the bulk of the defensive.
They just kept it on the outside. There might have
been somebody that had a chance to break it out.
I didn't see who made the handoff there, but boy,
he hit a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Of rooms he did.

Speaker 1 (01:12:09):
And Logan Howel, the noseguard, the big fella, came up
with the fumble recovery as the ball pomp loose right
at the thirty nine yard line of Hudsonvale.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
That just goes from bad to worst.

Speaker 3 (01:12:20):
And now if you're Hudsonville, gotta find a way to
make that happen for you. I know it's tough, but
you've got to figure it out. And playing a team
right now, that's hot, got all the momentum. Now they've
got that fumble recovery.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
To see who it was number three who just hit
the football, coming in flying and making a play with
Derek Jackson, the third and the secondary.

Speaker 2 (01:12:46):
Nice tackle on the edge.

Speaker 1 (01:12:48):
Ball popped out and then right there Johnny on the
spot was Logan Howl.

Speaker 3 (01:12:52):
Just puts his helmet right on the tip of the
football and wasn't a vicious head, just popped the ball
right out of Van Lakes are too wads receivers each
way and they keep it on the ground out of
the pistil formation.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
Hand off to Tamari Hendricks, the little one, and he
stacked up at the line of scrimmage.

Speaker 2 (01:13:09):
Great job by the Hudsonville defense.

Speaker 1 (01:13:12):
Give me those starters up front, Jalen Osten on the
one side, defensive end Ryan Akhming on the other side.
Your tackles Luke broughd Nicki, and also Isaac Vanderveen. As
Buck mentioned, he has already called his name a couple
of times already tonight. John Shepper's number fifty three is
the nose guard Ethan Carter.

Speaker 2 (01:13:28):
One of their leading tackles.

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
Number twenty the linebacker along with Connor Brentnall, and then
ty Aikawa leading that secondary second down in ten trips
right one receiver left back to pass. Tabron sets fires
wide open Graham inside the thirty, making a man.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
Missed him boxing the outside. This guy's got all kinds of.

Speaker 1 (01:13:47):
Moves up the sideline, but he was knocked out of
bounds and stepped out of bounds inside the twenty at
the seventeen yard line.

Speaker 3 (01:13:55):
Boy, I tell you what that guy is electric. I
can see why they like him in Colorado.

Speaker 2 (01:14:00):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
I mean, you're playing a fifteen yard cushion, so you
know he's gonna be able to get open. But that's
the trick is not only is he gonna be able
to get open, but he's gonna have a lot of
room to decide where to run and makes a great move.
They're shakes and bakes. Johnny Carson has him dead to rights.
He just can't make the tackle because Graham is so
elusive and gets to the outside and picks up the

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first down.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:23):
I love the fundamentals and the footwork of Donald Tabron,
the second at quarterback, sets really plants his back foot
and throws strikes just all over the field.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
And when we have talented receivers like that's easy to
get lazy.

Speaker 4 (01:14:35):
As we got a flag or maybe a timeout.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
They took too much time.

Speaker 1 (01:14:43):
Well, Tabron came all the way over to the sideline
then ran back to get the play.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
Just a lot of time, and he's doing it again.
To set it up.

Speaker 1 (01:14:50):
They're going trips left side, one receiver to the right,
and now I think they're saying, just run the same play.

Speaker 3 (01:14:56):
Coach Rushing, Marvin Rushing is like, you remember the one,
We were gonna run that one again, because that's I'm
not gonna make.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
You come all the way over here.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
Eleven zero three left to go here just underway, second quarter,
fourteen to nothing. Cast deck now trying to add to
their lead after the fumble recovery moments ago. First in
fifteen after the penalty, Tabron the second sets Fire's right
side to the short side. Graham has it dropped right there.
Good open field tackle on the stop for Huntsonville that
time was ty Iikima, one of the senior secondary man

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we mentioned back there, along with Trenton Knobber, Johnny Carston
and Keaton Olbert.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
Well, now he's starting to see some guys cycle in defensively,
Bryce Swearest Pain now comes into play nose guard, so
they're trying to get some guys in there that can
help anchor that defensive front. Good play there by Iikeim,
I mean, that's probably the best coverage they've had on
Graham all day.

Speaker 1 (01:15:50):
Sykes and Sadler junior wide left to the wan side
of the field, Graham by himself to the right fake
the handoff.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Tabron calls his own number and probably wished he.

Speaker 1 (01:15:59):
Didn't because he made one man miss in the back field,
but then the second one came and cleaned him up
for no gain.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
At the thirteen, Well we talked about you said something
about Bryce Underwood and spinning the ball on Tabor and
looking very impressive. I think that's probably the difference right
now between the two at this stage of their career.
Tabran clearly not the runner that Bryce Underwood has been
in his high school career, but man, he throws a
great football and also kind of reminds his coach of

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why they might not run that play as much because
he just wasn't able to turn the corner.

Speaker 1 (01:16:33):
So fourteen nothing, big third down and a long six
coming up for cast Tech in the rent zone inside
the Hutchmoll. Fifteen Here comes to Presser throwing out to
the left side. What a catch did he make it? Yes,
feet and bounds and he's got a first down.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
What to grab that time? By Will Sykes?

Speaker 3 (01:16:54):
I mean there's an unblocked blitzer just coming right up
the middle. It's number twenty or throw Ethan Carter twenty
just coming right at you. And just a brilliant throw there, Sykes.
And that's good coverage on the outside by Olburn. That's
what I'm man as a freshman.

Speaker 23 (01:17:11):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
That's not bad coverage?

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
And Sykes makes a great athletic catch, but Tabron just
puts it right in.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Right in the bulls eye.

Speaker 3 (01:17:21):
I mean, there's just nowhere else that ball can be
for it to be complete, and Tabran puts it right there.

Speaker 1 (01:17:27):
First in goal from the seven yard line. What a
throw by the freshman Donald Tabra. In the second one
back of the backfield, each side hand off from right
to left out of the five yard line. That's Carson Lovett,
the junior. He's worked his weigh in their rotation. With
a couple of carries second and goal coming up. They'll

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give him to the six gain of just one. See
if the Eagles can try to hold him to a
field goal. Here clock continues to.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
Wind towards nine minutes left to go.

Speaker 1 (01:17:58):
First half fourteen cast tech with the football inside the
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Speaker 4 (01:18:13):
Errand Ram single coverage again out.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
There one back of the backfield each side, Taboran played
fake throwing, almost intercepted. He threw behind Corey Sadler junior,
and great coverage that time by the Eagles and almost
able to pick that one off was Johnny Carston, the
senior defensive back.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
That probably it's gonna sound weird, and that one who.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
Gets tipped that looks like action.

Speaker 3 (01:18:38):
That was probably the worst throw he has had, But
I don't think that was all his fault. Ryan Auckman
got his hands up in the passing lane because that
ball coming out of his hand, I mean didn't look
like it should be that far off target.

Speaker 4 (01:18:50):
And now we see why with the replay.

Speaker 3 (01:18:53):
Aucaman was in the passing wine and I couldn't tell
if Taborn tried to grip it and hold it back
or if Aucuman got it, but the way that ball
showing on the replay, he definitely got a piece of
it with something arm hand whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:19:04):
Good recognition by the near side defensive end and Ockaman
And now time out going to be called, and I
think that Marvin Rushing wants to talk things over.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
Time out of the field will step aside as well.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Fourteen to nothing cast take over Hudsonville eight thirty eight
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Repikita buck Gino back here at Ford Field, third and
goal throwing up to the court of the enzone.

Speaker 3 (01:20:35):
Corey Sandler Junior cuts touchdown.

Speaker 1 (01:20:39):
Wow, wanna throw that time by Tabran to the court
of the end zone honor suppression. But Corey Sandler Junior
went up over the Hudspital defender and.

Speaker 3 (01:20:50):
Somehow filling his back and got his feet down. I'm
surprised that he got the feet down again. Just good
coverage there. He always stuck the left one down. I mean,
ty Aikman is doing everything he can. How about the
back of the foot throw that time by Tabor it
I'm mad. I mean a perfectly placed ball in Sandlor
high points it and from our vantage point, I couldn't

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tell that sailor got the left down. But boy, terrific
call there by the official. They're gonna confirm it on
the replay, but we could see it here. He I mean,
it wasn't much, but he got it just enough. And
that's I mean, what are you gonna do?

Speaker 2 (01:21:25):
And I want That's why I was just gonna say.

Speaker 1 (01:21:27):
The reason I wanted to bring it up and be
so descriptive with that is the Hutsonville defendant was right there,
I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:21:32):
Engaged physically. Great job.

Speaker 1 (01:21:36):
As the extra point attempt on the way up and
good once again by Sanchez Morillo but folks, I mean,
these are just unbelievable athletic plays that are being made,
and you got to give credit to the players that
are making it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:50):
But it's not because of Hutsonville not being in position.

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
It's just a better offensive play that time than the
defensive player. As cast Tech now goes up to twenty
one to nothing over Hudsonville, time out of the field
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ninety six one the game, so twenty one nothing now
Detroit cast Tech extending their lead over Huntsonville with eight
to thirty three left to go and Buck Gino, let's
recap that technician scoring drive capped off of that unbelievable
catch and he got a foot down by the junior

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wide receiver Corey Sadler junior for cast Tech.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
And not a very long drive.

Speaker 3 (01:22:53):
It was a thirty nine yard drive, but really impressive
there by them. And you look at the play the
drive chart capping off with that Sadler touchdown eight eight
plays thirty nine yards after the fumble by Van Lake,
capped off by the Corey Sandler Junior touchdown from Tabran,

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and it is twenty one nothing Technicians.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
That's the second time Tabran and Sadler Junior have hooked
up in the air with touchdowns for cast Tech so
far this evening. Take it on the fly at the
five look out across the twenty, got a head of
speed and he's across.

Speaker 2 (01:23:29):
The twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:23:30):
Best return of the night for number three Ricky Browley
for Hudsonville.

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
He's a speedster, and so the Eagles will start this
tribe just short of their own thirty at the twenty nine.

Speaker 3 (01:23:40):
I mean that time he didn't take it to the one,
so he actually had a little bit of room there
to run and got a good head of steam in
the the LaMarcus Army for cast Tech came in and
that's what you see the speed.

Speaker 4 (01:23:52):
It's just it's all phases, Brad.

Speaker 3 (01:23:53):
I mean cast Tech getting down on kick coverage a
lot faster than probably Hutchings Villes used to and kids
just flying. I mean, if that was Brownly with that lane,
he thought, man, there's a lot of room to run there,
and all of a sudden it gets shut off, just
like that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
See if Griffin Baker and the Eagles can get something
going here, get some points on the board, they shift
over to the left side from the rights, quick hand
off right over center. Brice Fox fighting for extra yards
is not gonna be thrown back. It's big number nine,
John Baker the fourth and he just roams that line
of scrimmage. But forward progress out to the thirty three,

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so give him a little more than three second to
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Speaker 3 (01:24:50):
Quick hand off, Haarsma, because we got we got a
dead ball foul off side. You know t people are
talking about John Baker and with the great things he
been doing on defense.

Speaker 4 (01:25:01):
Uh, he's a Toledo commit, yep. So I was just
looking that up.

Speaker 3 (01:25:05):
I was like, I don't know if people I mean,
he kind of hard to miss him. But it's like, man,
I really haven't heard too much maleage of him, because
you know, Corey Sandler committing to State and Graham going
to Colorado. People talk about that a lot more. But
I mean, good Baker is a terrific football player and
he's going to Toledo. Jason Kantle's got a good one.

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
Oh yeah, and he's been recruiting well in this state.
As they keep it on the ground, Haarsma short of
the first down marker on second.

Speaker 2 (01:25:32):
In short, it's gonna be third and less than a.

Speaker 1 (01:25:34):
Yard now, Markum just across the thirty nine has to
get across the forty to pick it up on that point.
You know, you're pretty good for cast tech books, you know,
if you're a starter both ways. He's also the tight
end for this technician's offense in John Baker. The fourth
quick here Baker is gonna follow Haarsma and gets the
first down out to the forty two yard line. Nice

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job by the senior quarterback Griffin Baker.

Speaker 4 (01:25:56):
I mean if he hands out, I mean Harrisman's.

Speaker 3 (01:25:58):
Out there to midfield trying Leah block. It's like, boy,
we couldn't just get in the ball there. Then it's
we're again running lead there. But picking up the first
down they went with a little tempo there, didn't let
Castech get set. Good job by the center Eli Rose.
He had power right up against him and he was
or howl against him and he was able to push
him a.

Speaker 1 (01:26:18):
Hide wing backstack to the left side or h back
if you want to and Quinn Pole they run that
way out to the forty four yard line. But to
go back to your point with John Baker the fourth
and again, even when you watch on TV, I was
talking to people last night about the size of orchs
Lake Saint Mary's against Byron Center, it just doesn't put
in perspective unless you think about it. And then you know,

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watching players like you did today maybe for the Michigan
Ohio State game or Misign State game. John Baker the
fourth bino six five two seventeen as a defensive end
in high school and a tight end that's a nice
target all the way around.

Speaker 2 (01:26:54):
And as you mentioned, Toledo get another.

Speaker 3 (01:26:56):
Good well and also you know, looking at the speed,
I mean, there's no reason he can't stand up right
and oh absolutely bit of an outside linebacker.

Speaker 1 (01:27:03):
Absolutely, Griffin Baker fakes the jet sweep to Harsma right side,
that runs back over the left and plows forward following
his offensive line to the forty seven yard line. So
positive play here for Griffin Baker, but a positive drive
for Hudsonville as we will into the halfway point of
the second quarter.

Speaker 2 (01:27:22):
But as I say that, these.

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
Big third down conversions coming up, third and four for
the Eagle, and this one's tough because third and four,
you're not gonna try to go too far down field,
can't really spread out the defense that way, so you're
gonna have to.

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
Find a little crease, little soft spot here, try to
get that first down, get across the midfield.

Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Van Lake has been quiet and no ahead to fumble
on the reverse last series, Harsma left side hit and
nice job keeping the feat turning, trying to get close
to that first down market before he's thrown back. Corey
Sadler Junior over there, along with the linebacker Marvin McCallum.
They stack him up in the midfield stripe. So fourth
and two right at the midfield strike four, Brents, Sandy

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and Hudsonville. I don't think any hesitation here. Down twenty
one nothing, you gotta go, Yeah, you do.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
And you're at midfield there and you're thinking, boy, you
know you're down twenty one nothing.

Speaker 4 (01:28:11):
Well, that's that's just it.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
You're down twenty one to nothing, and cast Tech gets
the ball to start the second half. So if you're
gonna do anything here, it's gotta be make the first
down or maybe trying to drum offside, and Marvin's rushing
is gonna call another time out. They shifted into that
yeah four power look that we saw against Grandville earlier
and now today once and the defense shifted around a

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little bit and Marvin rushing won to make sure that
they had all their ducks in their own four to forty.

Speaker 2 (01:28:38):
Nine left to go here, time out of the field.

Speaker 1 (01:28:39):
We'll keep it right here, twenty one nothing, cast Tech
leading over Hudsonville and the technicians taking a time out.
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West out of the OK Gold Remember they finished second
in that division, and I agree with you, Buck Gino.
By the way we're talking about earlier, that was the
toughest division the OK Conference. No disrespect to the Red
but you just look at what came out all that division.

Speaker 2 (01:29:15):
Unbelievable.

Speaker 1 (01:29:16):
And they went over Detroit Martin Luther King this afternoon
forty two to twenty two to finish the year at
thirteen to one. Fifth state championship for the Ducks. This
program is only twenty years old and they've only had
one head coach in John Still Attell every four years.

Speaker 2 (01:29:30):
Not bad for a stat championship, Buck, No, And you
look at.

Speaker 3 (01:29:33):
Some of the teams that didn't make it there with
the talent that John has had. So it hats off
to him and the Ducks for bringing at least one
trophy home to West Michigan. Great job representing the West
Side and the Ducks just very very battle tested, you know,
like you said, the conference, but also last year playing
in the semifinals of the Division three bracket and really,

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you know, being leveled by injuries and still almost pull
that one out.

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
Hutsonville changing the play at the line of scrimmage, they
go with Griffin Baker not gonna get there.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
They tried to just go quarterback student body left.

Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
They had blockers that way, but it was read by
Detroit Cast Tech and they stopped for no gain, short
by a couple of yards. It'll be first in ten
turnover on downs by Detroit Cast Tech. And I tell
you one of the guys leading the charge and he's
played a whale of a first half, Derrick Jackson the
second coming up from the secondary.

Speaker 3 (01:30:28):
Yeah, and there was a missed block there. You're talking
about Jackson coming up, but one of the linebackers for
cast Tech, somebody just passed them over. It's Colin Sumptery
comes up and runs support and somebody gets a hat
on him. Probably make the Baker's probably got the first
down instead. Somebody misses one there and he was able

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to stuff Baker for no gain.

Speaker 2 (01:30:51):
Gotta be careful here.

Speaker 1 (01:30:53):
They might take a shot first and ten from the
midfield stripe trips left, one receiver right, tip mc graham's
got it, good folk at the forty five of the
Eagles for a gain of five before he shoved back there.

Speaker 2 (01:31:04):
Actually, they're only gonna give him three because he was
able to.

Speaker 1 (01:31:06):
Recover Connor Brittenall on the tackle. Yeah, so they're only
gonna give him three. That's a pretty good job there
by Hudsonville.

Speaker 3 (01:31:13):
Again, one thing that has happened is they've gotten pretty
active on the defensive line, trying to do anything they
can to disrupt Tabran's throws. Another one that gets tipped,
but Graham with the great athletic ability to pull that
one down and pick up a couple.

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
Tabran's been on fire, not much as rattle this kid
only a freshman.

Speaker 2 (01:31:33):
You're right.

Speaker 1 (01:31:33):
They'll gain of three as they spot it at the
forty seven of Hudsonville.

Speaker 2 (01:31:37):
Three wide receivers left. They want to swing it the way.

Speaker 1 (01:31:39):
Ball tipped again, but Corey Sadlett Junior comes back to
get it, and he's.

Speaker 2 (01:31:43):
Gonna lose yardage.

Speaker 1 (01:31:44):
Though great pursuit that time, the tip threw off the
timing and Hudsonville was able to with their down linemen
get over there and make the play on the backside.

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
And pursuit looked really good.

Speaker 3 (01:31:54):
And that was because again just getting gotta be active,
kind of find a ways to disrupt the play if
you're not getting to the quarterback. And that one, I
think it was tipped by Jalen osting and then good
rally to the ball there by the rest of the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (01:32:11):
Brod Nicky came down the line and make the tackle.
But also Tournament was printing, all yep.

Speaker 4 (01:32:16):
Great job there. Now third down and.

Speaker 1 (01:32:18):
Long, see if the Eagles can get off the field here,
three wide receivers the wide side right for Tabrian hand
off and upended after a short game. Good job of
the defense. Jalen spates that time on the carry. He
has a touchdown earlier in this one. Give him just
one and fourth and long coming up for the technicians.

(01:32:40):
Looks like the punt team's coming out. But you know,
great job of the Hutsonville defense.

Speaker 3 (01:32:43):
Well, Hudsonville calls a time out here to preserve the
clock that they have three h nine to go in
this second quarter, and like I said, cast that getting
the ball to start the second half, you want to
make sure you get that last possession by Marvin rushing
here only one nothing lead, fourth down in eight inside
their territory. You gotta wonder if he was just gonna

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send the punt team out there, Brett. But now with
the time out, does he really feel like gambling because
his defense has played a solid, spectacular first half. Do
you feel like, hey, even if we don't make it,
we have the confidence in our defense to get another stop.

Speaker 1 (01:33:22):
Boy, I don't want to give Hudsonville any momentum though
they have played a whale of the first half.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
As far as cast Tech, we'll see what they decide.

Speaker 1 (01:33:28):
Rapid Radios scoreboard update from earlier today with Championship Saturday,
Division seven. It was Millington over Monroe Saint Mary Catholic
Central in the first game of the day twenty four
to nothing. And then Zeland West got a donevant Detroit
Mart at the King of Division three forty two to
twenty two. And just before our game at Division five,
congratulations Pontiac Notre Dame Prep.

Speaker 2 (01:33:49):
What a powerhouse.

Speaker 1 (01:33:50):
In a running clock, they beat Frankenmooth forty two to seven.
It was Frankiemuth who knocked out Grand app It's Catholic
Central Division five. So the punt team out for cast Tech,
I snap has to go back and get it, gets
it off. Good job that time line drive kick. This
one returnable bill at the fifteen, starts right at the
twenty at that old man just nothing but white Jersey's

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ballpop loser the twenty five, and I think he's forward progress.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
He was was down that time.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
Down by a lot, and his forward progress had stopped,
so even if he was not down by contact, the
progress would have canceled that when anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:34:23):
Look who was down there though, John Baker, the fourth
quickly down there on the stop and he was the
one that laid a lick on him after the punt
by Sanchez Morillo. So TV time, I'm going to be
taken here will step aside as well. Two fifty seven
left to go, first half cash Tech twenty one Hutsonville.
Nothing but the Eagles get a stop and get the
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Speaker 1 (01:37:08):
Ford Field, so ten have on a little counteraction, got
a nice pickup of eight yards on first down for
Huntsville and then on second and short Griffin Baker tried
to go with trips to the left to the Wine
side of the field, and guests who number seven we
talked about. Alex Graham steps in front with the interception
and takes it just inside the Eagles twenty So knocking

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on the door cast tech here again with two sixteen
left to go in the first half and not really
clear where he was looking.

Speaker 3 (01:37:37):
Either threw it too tall for the slant that was
coming underneath, or he threw it just a little late
for the deep corner and Graham smelled it out and
jumped it picks it off.

Speaker 1 (01:37:49):
I tell you what what an athlete six ' three
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Speaker 2 (01:37:56):
Now over the top. Speaking of talented.

Speaker 1 (01:37:58):
How about once again again coming through that time was
tabran over the top and to number five Will Sikes.

Speaker 2 (01:38:07):
For the touchdown.

Speaker 3 (01:38:09):
Again busted coverage up top. He was wide and wide open.
It's single coverage out there, there's no safety help and
they run just a little smash concept that Sikes on
the inside slot, but then he runs to the outside.
They clear it out and then just confusion. Yeah, in
the Hudsonville backfield. I mean it's it's single coverage. They

(01:38:32):
have to pass off the receiver to each one that
has that responsibility, and nobody covered the fire.

Speaker 1 (01:38:38):
Boundary nineteen yards over the top in the end zone.
Tapran to Will Sikes and that's Tapron's third touchdown pass
in this contest. And it's two ten left to go
in the first half, now twenty seven to nothing with
the extra board upcoming. Well, I tell you what the
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(01:39:02):
playing their best football, peaking at the right time, coming
in Well.

Speaker 3 (01:39:05):
Giving them short fields is doing yourself no favors, And
unfortunately Hudsonville has given them a few of those.

Speaker 1 (01:39:13):
Sanchez Maillo high snap trying to get it down and
now he's just gonna have to run for it.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
Might have been able to get that off and he's
not gonna get there.

Speaker 3 (01:39:20):
A great job of the Hudsonville defense the whole of
that time seth Century, the backup quarterback couldn't quite feel
that high snap and get it down and so the
score remains twenty seven and nothing cast tech over Hudsonville.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
We'll keep it right here. Two ten left to go.
First half.

Speaker 1 (01:39:38):
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Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
Should have some really good teams again this year.

Speaker 1 (01:40:36):
Buck, You know, I'm excited about it, especially I think
we're going to be very deep on the boys side.

Speaker 2 (01:40:40):
When it comes to West Michigan.

Speaker 3 (01:40:42):
Well, it's been time for the girls the last couple
of years, and I don't think that's gonna change. It'll
be some terrific girls teams out there. Obviously Rockford always
top of the heap, and some pretty good ones.

Speaker 4 (01:40:53):
West Cathock should be good again, but I think the.

Speaker 3 (01:40:55):
Boys after a couple of years, have kind of gotten
back to momentum.

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
That's some pretty good team as well.

Speaker 1 (01:41:00):
Fielded again at the one, nice job and cross the
twenty out across the twenty five and spun around and
drop near the twenty seven yard line. Ricky Browley on
the return of the Sanchez Morillo kickoff. And on that note,
David Cool, athletic director at South Christian, I had a
chance to sit down with him this week. They have
a special night coming up and it's going to really

(01:41:21):
tip off their high school boys and girls basketball season
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(01:41:44):
and they had a student athlete go down from an
arber skyline in that more on that. After this play
on first down and ten, griffind Baker get to keep
it on the ground on a ton of running over,
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(01:42:07):
seconds because the Kent County Sheriff's office right near there
off of Byron Township, right around the corner, and they
got there and with the use of utilizing the AED
they saved the young man's life.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
It's a great story.

Speaker 1 (01:42:21):
And so they're having a life saving night in that
big game and gonna honor at halftime of the boys game,
Sheriff Eric Windsor and Sheriff Jeff Whaley, and we just
want to say thank you so much to all of
our first responders out there, especially this holiday season that
keep us safe and save lives literally, folks. Ballpop loose

(01:42:43):
after they swung it out in the right flats and
did Castech come up with another one?

Speaker 4 (01:42:47):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:42:48):
Did the ball get out of bounds or are they
saying that they recovered it did in bounds? I think
they're gonna say it went out of bounds?

Speaker 1 (01:42:56):
No, or are they I was gonna say the offense
looks like it's coming out.

Speaker 3 (01:43:01):
Yeah, they did give it to him. Ball popped out
right there. We see it on the traff Baker picked
it right up. Oh yeah, number nine, Johnny have the
spottani John Baker.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
The fourth has played a heck of a football game already.

Speaker 3 (01:43:13):
Just the play was moving away from us, so we
really couldn't tell exactly what was going on. We couldn't
tell if he was trying to scoop it up and
then got pushed out of bounds. But indeed he just
picks it right up and then he just gets tackled.
That's why that happens.

Speaker 1 (01:43:28):
How about him going to Toledo, As you mentioned, we
talked about Alex Graham going to.

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
Colorado the noseguard.

Speaker 1 (01:43:34):
Let's play a whel of a game tonight, Logan Howell
going to Mayava, Ohio. Talent all over the place, Tabra
and speaking of talent over the top, and that one
too far. He was looking down the sideline for Graham.
We'd beating his man.

Speaker 3 (01:43:45):
Yeah, I had bracket there, but the safety coming over late.
But Tabrian with one of the few misses of the day,
just airmails that one.

Speaker 4 (01:43:54):
A little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
Clock stops with one oh four left to go.

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
First half twenty seven nothing cast Techo for Hudsonville. It's
been all technicians in this one, led by their freshman
quarterback number nineteen. And trust me, like Buck's alluded to,
he's had a ton of talent around him too. But
Donald Tabern Junior has been one to watch three touchdown
passes already this first half, two of them to Corey
Sadler Junior. And the scary thing Buck is. We talked

(01:44:19):
about how young this football team is. Hand off to
sophomore running back trying to find a crease.

Speaker 2 (01:44:25):
Unable to do so was Tamari Hendricks.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
A lot of Michigan High School Athletic Association football teams
are gonna be real glad because John Baker is a
senior and you don't have to block that guy anymore.
He's gonna graduate this year.

Speaker 2 (01:44:39):
But Graham is a senior.

Speaker 4 (01:44:40):
Graham is a senior.

Speaker 3 (01:44:41):
But you know, like you said, there are other players
and it's not like it's just the starters. I mean
they have brought in reserves that have been just as good.

Speaker 1 (01:44:49):
Now he spends three sixty dumps off to Saddler for
the timing on the little bubble screen. Coming back to
the football, Sadler Junior dancing inside the thirty down to
the twenty eight yard line.

Speaker 2 (01:45:00):
Stop there.

Speaker 3 (01:45:01):
Cast Tech's gonna spend their last time out with twenty
nine seconds. It's fourth down and five, and so now
they're gonna have to if they can get a first down.

Speaker 4 (01:45:10):
They'll stop the clock just enough to reset the chains.

Speaker 3 (01:45:13):
And they'll give them probably one or two cracks at
the end zone if they can get the first down.

Speaker 2 (01:45:18):
Here, we do have to bring this up.

Speaker 1 (01:45:19):
But because we saw it in the last game, we've
unfortunately seen it a few times this weekend.

Speaker 2 (01:45:25):
The rule is still in play.

Speaker 1 (01:45:26):
Like you see in the regular season, it is for
the playoffs. If you're wondering a thirty five point lead
or more in the second half, even to start the
second half can be a running clock situation, so we'll
be keeping our eye on that as we move.

Speaker 2 (01:45:40):
Through the second half.

Speaker 1 (01:45:41):
It's an eight point differential right now for cast Tech
because of the missed extra point, but twenty seven to
nothing cast Tech over Hutsonville. And like you said, fourth
and five coming up here at the Eagles twenty eight
yard line, it seems like they've lived on Hutsonville side
of the fifty or this first time.

Speaker 3 (01:45:59):
It started off with the Lake shanked punt or popped
up punt wherever you want to call it, and then
a couple of turnovers in their own end, and then
I mean, just really, like you said, it seems like
it because they have been Yeah, I don't think they've
started well.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
Two fumble recoveries right in the I.

Speaker 3 (01:46:15):
N T yep, the i NC have to look at
the old drive chart here. I mean, they have not
started a possession. There comes all up Blitz. Look out,
they got Tabron.

Speaker 1 (01:46:27):
He goes down back at the thirty seven yard line. Boy,
they sent the house that time Watsonville and they got
the freshman quarterback for a turnover on downs.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
Good job of the Hudsonville defense. I apologize.

Speaker 3 (01:46:40):
They started one territory in their own in their own
side of the fifty, and that was the first punt
by Van Lake where he boomed it after getting the snap.
Everything else has been from midfield in so I mean,
if you're looking for one thing, if you're Brent, Sandy
and Staff, I mean, first thing is make sure they
start on their side of the field, right, That would help,
But I.

Speaker 4 (01:46:58):
Mean there's just so much talent on that sideline.

Speaker 3 (01:47:01):
Now with twenty five seconds left to get a big
play is sack Taborn on fourth down? Ball out near midfield?
You got a couple of timeouts here. If you can
protect Baker, just let them try to work the ball
downfield and get something, even to just throw something into
the end zone to make something happen.

Speaker 4 (01:47:17):
But you gotta get down there first.

Speaker 1 (01:47:18):
How about this, Bucks, you know, don't turn the ball
over and try to get them to start out their out.

Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
It sounds easy. We got we're gonna have time out.

Speaker 4 (01:47:33):
Hudsonville.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
Interesting to take the time out there. Maybe saw a
different look first down in ten after the turnover on
downs twenty five.

Speaker 2 (01:47:45):
Seconds left to go first half.

Speaker 1 (01:47:46):
Stay with us, and while we have a moment, I
want to say thank you so much to our friends
at Lake Michigan Credit Union, our partnership again this year
for the third straight year touchdowns for kids with our
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Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
We had one hundred and twenty eight.

Speaker 1 (01:47:59):
Total touchdown on scored in the nine week regular season.
When you count our touchdowns and our game of the
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Speaker 2 (01:48:10):
And folks, you do the math.

Speaker 1 (01:48:12):
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Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
Sixty four hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:48:19):
Dollars to add to the total now for three seasons
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Speaker 3 (01:48:31):
Credit and fifty dollars a basket, is it no? Oh good,
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Speaker 1 (01:48:36):
Griffin Baker, by the way, trying to scramble forward for
some positive, Yonnits gets to the forty well gain of
a couple second and eight.

Speaker 2 (01:48:46):
Yeah, three pointers they can I'm talking about everybody. It
was just three points. Oh yeah, yeah, three pointers.

Speaker 4 (01:48:51):
I'm sorry. I thought it was like have like everyone.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
No, but we've had some games where they can ring
them up, trust me. Oh yeah. There's some teams that
shoot the deep.

Speaker 1 (01:48:59):
One well, second down at eight, So Huntsonville gonna burn
their final time out here, two seconds left to go.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
See Griffin Baker trying to make a play. The last
couple of.

Speaker 4 (01:49:07):
Years of those Northview teams, they like to shoot him from deep.

Speaker 2 (01:49:10):
I tell you what.

Speaker 1 (01:49:11):
The Rockford girls team as well as West Catholic, Yeah,
put up some big numbers. It's gonna be a lot
of fun. We're looking forward to it. December twentieth. It's
one of the kickoff games for the Cornerstone High School
Holiday Tournament. And tell you what, Aaron Sagraves and the
crew have put together a huge field of teams. I
think it's forty plus teams this year. Boys and girls

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gonna be represented. And it's basically from December twentieth. I
think the thing ends like a few days into January
and we'll have the tournament's schedule.

Speaker 4 (01:49:41):
Up for you.

Speaker 1 (01:49:42):
We've got three different games we'll be broadcasting from boys
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Speaker 1 (01:49:55):
Final play the half here, two seconds left, Baker takes
a snap, jumps it out in the flat trying to
make man miss, and drop right there across the forty
the forty three yard line. They just dumped it out
to poll and that's the way the first half will end.

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we do as a radio station is we tell the
athletic directors if you've got a story to tell, or
a theme night or whatever, please share it with us.
We'd love to tell everyone about it so people can
be a part of it if they choose to. And
this is something that needs to have attention around it

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because we know everything when you go back to even
Wes Leonard and I remember living that as a broadcaster
and actually the reaction of the Fenville community after that happened.
And David Coole has an interesting story that he wants
to share with us and how South Christian is going
to celebrate that coming up with their basketball matchup with
Grand Rits Christian for both the boys and girls this

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Tuesday night.

Speaker 2 (01:54:41):
David, thank you so much for the time.

Speaker 1 (01:54:42):
I know it's busy Thanksgiving weekend, but this goes back
to something that happened on your campus in October with
the state tennis tournament for boys in Division one.

Speaker 28 (01:54:52):
Yeah, yep, hey, thanks for having me, Brett.

Speaker 21 (01:54:54):
I appreciate getting the word out on this, but yeah,
it was we were hosting the Division one State tw
this finals on Friday acts over eighteen, so a bit
a bit while ago, but again so just hosting it.

Speaker 28 (01:55:05):
But we got a frantic phone call and frantic people
nearby that were trying to get into our school building
and we were all wondering what was going on. Uh,
And it turned out that a sixteen year old male
who was playing in the state tennis finals from inn
Arbur Skyline had collapsed right at the end of his
match and just just went down and nobody knew what

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was going on. So it was a very very scary
situation and one that it was, you know, just a
kind of a rental situation for us, so we didn't
have a trainer out there for us per se, but
there are many people out there that responded to it,
including a team doctor from in ourburs skyline uh.

Speaker 21 (01:55:45):
And they also had a team opgu I M that
was on.

Speaker 28 (01:55:48):
Hand, and all of those people were acted to the
situation and uh, you know, combined to save this young
man's life. But the one of the coolest parts for
us was we have a we have a police station
that's about four hundred yards away from our campus and
they were summoned with the nine one one call that
happened right away too, and they ended up coming within

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three minutes from their station to bring the AED and
get right on right on our first court there at
South Christian, and they shocked the young man. You're on
five leve instructions on a brand.

Speaker 21 (01:56:22):
New ad which time was ever used, which is pretty
crazy too, and brought the man back to brought the
young man back to life, and it was just an
awesome experience after that.

Speaker 1 (01:56:29):
That's Deputy Eric Windsor and Deputy Jeff Whalen from the
Kent County Sheriff's Office. And it's right there on eighty
four Street on the corner with Kalamazoo Avenue, so right
around the corner as David mentioned, and they as deservedly
so got recognition in a letter from Sergeant Tim Potts
for their outstanding exemple. Were working job to save this

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young man's life. And now you guys are going to
bring it full circle because it was right there on
your campus and honor them in front of the South
Christian community at this basketball game on Tuesday night, all
of us, all.

Speaker 21 (01:57:01):
Of us involved, and you know, even I wasn't even
on campus because I was while watching our boys tennis
team playing out on the east side of the state,
which was funny too, but all of us involved felt
like it was, you know, the right thing to do,
just trying to figure out what to do, like how.

Speaker 28 (01:57:14):
To hunter the two deputies and the others that steps
into save this young man's life, and we felt like,
you know, a big crowd will probably be on hand
on Tuesday night when we host grand up as Christian
and Boys Andrels varsity basketball.

Speaker 9 (01:57:26):
So we're really excited for that.

Speaker 21 (01:57:28):
I got in touch with with the deputies that just kind.

Speaker 28 (01:57:30):
Of shared our passion for getting the story out there
and they felt really, you know, really blessed to be
able to be able to do that too, So they're
gonna be on hand, which is going to be great.
We're also going to have some of the other you know,
first responders on hand too, just to make sure everybody
knows how much this was appreciated it and obviously the
young man's family who doesn't want to you know, be
involved too much, that might provide.

Speaker 21 (01:57:51):
A statement for us, which would be cool too.

Speaker 28 (01:57:52):
And he's doing well, so we're really excited about that.
We're gonna bring him out at halftime. Off the boys
game and read read a nice little letter and kind
of describe the situation like you did so nicely. But
everybody involved, but I'm not sure you know everybody who's
heard this.

Speaker 21 (01:58:07):
And just like you said, get the word out on
how important you.

Speaker 28 (01:58:09):
Know, having an ad nearby, having CPR and game getting
right on these things. The emergency action plan was followed perfectly,
and I think it's really important to get those words out.

Speaker 2 (01:58:18):
Love to have everyone go out and support.

Speaker 1 (01:58:20):
I'm going to try to get out there myself on
Tuesday night Sailor Gymnasium girls varsity game at six o'clock
with growing up as Christian a big rival and then
seven point thirty approximate tip for the boys game. And
can they get their tickets early, David or do you
recommend game of the door And I just say that
because I know without all of this happening, this rivalry
game is a big one.

Speaker 28 (01:58:37):
Anyways, Yeah, yeah, No, I would just say come to
the door, come early.

Speaker 21 (01:58:42):
You know, we said twenty three hundred people, but I
would say come early and we'll do everything we can
to get everybody in there. But we're not going to
pre sell tickets or anything like that, but we look
forward to seeing as many people that can make it
just you know, not only watch great basketball and opening
nights for both of our schools and there's two great communities,
but more importantly on the work of the first responders,
and just continue to keep this conversation going on how.

Speaker 1 (01:59:04):
To survive life saving night at South Christian this Tuesday
night with girls and boys varsity basketball. Their athletic director
David Coole joined us during halftime. David, thank you so
much and enjoy the rest of your holiday weekend. We
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the big scoreboard it's Detroit Castech twenty seven and nothing
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Speaker 3 (02:07:05):
It was a lot of Technicians scoring drives and they
weren't very long, but they did make them count. Early on,
after Hudsonville got the ball went three and out, a
booming punt by Brandon Van Lake send them back to
their own nineteen yard line and all they did from
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capped it off with their first touchdown of the game
Jalen Spaces from five yards out seven to nothing Technicians
and later in the quarter Corey Sandler Junior sixteen yard
pass from Tabron. After that it was fourteen to nothing
and that really ended the first quarter. And Brady Van
Lake had a.

Speaker 2 (02:07:44):
Punt that was I don't know if it's the shank,
if it's a.

Speaker 3 (02:07:47):
Hit at fat, whatever you want to call it, but
a short punt started that drive on the Hudsonville eighteen.
So he was punting from his own end zone net
thirteen yard punt, not good, and that's what create the
short field and the Sailor touchdown. And then Corey Sandler
Junior his second touchdown on fourth down as an eight
play thirty nine yard drive. After a fumble by the

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Eagles in their own territory, tabor And on fourth down
threw a pass to the back of the end zone
and ty Eichba, the defensive back for Hudsonville, did everything
but I mean hit him over the head with the
two by four. I mean he really couldn't do anything
else to Corey Sandler Junior. And somehow, Corey Sandler Junior,
he still gets his foot down into the end zone.

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Touchdown Technicians twenty one and nothing, and then Will Sykes
ending the.

Speaker 4 (02:08:35):
Scoring for the Technicians.

Speaker 3 (02:08:36):
After another turnover by Hudsonville in their own territory, they
had a one play nineteen yard drive that was Will
Sykes after John Baker's fumble recovery goes to the en zone.
They missed an extra point on a bad snap, but
cast Tech out in front.

Speaker 2 (02:08:54):
And with a commanding twenty seven to nothing lead to halftime.

Speaker 1 (02:08:57):
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Speaker 2 (02:09:03):
Let's start with that coach Brent Sandy and the Eagles first.

Speaker 3 (02:09:06):
Well, I mean, journey of a thousand miles begins with
a single step right and I think if your Hudsonville,
the first thing you gotta do is you gotta be
cast Tech in their own territory.

Speaker 2 (02:09:15):
They're a tremendously talented team.

Speaker 3 (02:09:18):
They may be better than you today, but what you're
doing is you're not helping yourself by giving them such
short fields. You're really not giving your defensive fighting chance.
What you've got to do, if you're not gonna put
points on the board, you know, at least get a
drive going where you can flip the field and make
them make plays. I mean, if you make a high
school play as a team, especially a guy with a

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freshman quarterback, sometimes they make mistakes and the more plays
that you make them run, the more chances that can happen.
So just gotta get better field position, flip the field,
can't turn the ball over, can't have bad puns. Just
have to keep cast Tech at least starting in their
own end. If you're cast Tech. I mean, we've seen
them dominate today so far at twenty seven and nothing,

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but again benefiting from the things I've talked about. What
they've got to do is they've just got to make
sure that they play this game like they know they
have twenty four minutes to.

Speaker 2 (02:10:10):
Get to a state championship.

Speaker 3 (02:10:11):
Can't get ahead there, know that they still have some
work to do before they are able to raise that trophy.

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Now remember Detroit Cast Tech deferring to the second half.
So they will get the football already up twenty seven

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to nothing, as Ian Jenkins, the senior kicker number seventeen,
set to kick it away for the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (02:11:16):
It all starts with a defensive stop here for Hudsonville.

Speaker 1 (02:11:19):
If they can get a short, high end over and
squib kick taken at the thirty three and no need
for a fair catch is trying to bounce it outside
and make a play. Cash Is Shivers six one eighty
two and a senior, and I tell you he's one
of the top ranked players in the state of Michigan.

Speaker 2 (02:11:38):
He's been quiet here tonight.

Speaker 1 (02:11:40):
We'll see if they get number four going wide receiver
and strong safety for the technicians. But there's so many
other guys on this team that obviously all have had
big nights, like we talked about with Corey Sandler junior
number one, Alex Graham number seven, freshman quarterback, and Tabron
And like you said.

Speaker 3 (02:11:57):
Brad me, yes, there are guys like John Baker who
are going to grab trade. But Sadler Junior is a junior.
Shivers also, I mean Taberan is a freshman, and I
mean they have so many weapons that are gonna come
back next year.

Speaker 4 (02:12:12):
So team is beware, it's not just gonna be a
one year run.

Speaker 2 (02:12:17):
Three passing touchdowns for the freshman.

Speaker 1 (02:12:18):
Tabron the second here, and he'll start the offense first
and ten from their own twenty nine handoff right side,
trying to bounce it outside.

Speaker 2 (02:12:26):
He's got the speed to do so.

Speaker 1 (02:12:27):
Turns the corner at the forty, got a first down
and more and then finally shoved out of bounds. Auckaman
was over there, but not before he got to the
forty six yard line. We're talking about another one of
those youngsters to keep an eye on to Mari Hendrix,
the sophomore, And.

Speaker 3 (02:12:41):
Like you said, he's kind of he kind of gets
lost out there. Only five foot five, boy, he's got
some speed. Turns into the outside, does a great job
there of being patient to reading the blocks, seeing where
it's going. Didn't just jump into where the point of
attack is supposed to be designed to go. Stretches that
out and does a great job getting to the corner
using his speed.

Speaker 1 (02:13:01):
I was thinking to you, but you know, and all
the Michigan fans out there after their big win over
Ohio State, who does he remind you of first down
and ten. We'll tell you after this play baked to Hendrix.
Now coming around the corner, Graham breaks and tackle. Look out,
he's off to the race. Since on the forty thirty
twenty five twenty ten five touchdown, Alex Graham on the
river first put up six more for Detroit Castech Wow

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Elector flying is number seven. He's got the flash to
fit in at the Buffaloes.

Speaker 3 (02:13:34):
Let me tell you, well, you take a reverse there
and there's just so many bodies on the other side,
and when you got a kid like Alex Graham that
has got that speed to burn on the outside, you
can't over commit. A great play call there by Marvin
Rushing gets that defense flowing to the fire side, and
then Graham on the reverse comes to the near side

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and is able to turn on.

Speaker 1 (02:13:57):
The Jets boy speed to burn there for Alex Graham
counteraction reverse and now the swinging gate and they're gonna
snap it. Sadler gonna throw for the end zone to
Graham at a penalty flag.

Speaker 2 (02:14:09):
Gonna come out. There's gonna be interference against Hudsonville.

Speaker 1 (02:14:12):
So Sadler Junior, who does play quarterback, was set up
as the quarterback in the swinging gate of the extra
point attempt.

Speaker 3 (02:14:22):
And they ran just an ISO for Graham to the
back pylon. They're gonna call interference there. I don't know
if I really liked that one, because I think Graham
was also fighting for a position. I think what happened
there is iikm had just got the last push and
the pass was thrown inside and it was I think

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it looks worse than what it really was. But you know,
when you're down thirty three nothing, it's probably feels a
lot more frustrating than it really is.

Speaker 1 (02:14:50):
So ty Aikama got the call on the interference, and
now they'll bring the offense back out there half the
distance to the goal from a yard and a half
handoff left side and falling into the end zone. Carson
Lovett was hit at the one penalty flag comes out late.

Speaker 3 (02:15:08):
Let's see what we got here. Yeah, now, it depends
on when it happened. I think it's gonna be after
the play. We'll find out.

Speaker 1 (02:15:21):
So the point after we'll stand on the run in
by love It. By the way, speaking of cast Tech,
Donovan Peoples Jones, former Lions wide receiver who attended cast Tech,
of course, played at the University of Michigan in the house.
They're interviewing him. He's up on the big jumbo tron,
and so two point conversion is good. That makes it

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thirty five nothing, and thus we will have a running
clock as we keep it right here, eleven h nine
left to go in the third quarter. But Buck Gino,
I wanted to go back to what I was asking
you in the audience. So Demari Hendrix at five five,
So he's a little smaller than the UH player that

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I'm referencing here, But who else used to get I
guess I would say lost behind a big offensive line
that started the University of Missions.

Speaker 3 (02:16:10):
Well, I'm really old, so you're probably thinking about Jamie
Moore's five foot six and that was when he had
his cleats on and standing on.

Speaker 2 (02:16:17):
Some so behind three that were like six ' five.

Speaker 3 (02:16:21):
Yeah, the guy behind guys like John John Elliott, John
Jumbo Elliott.

Speaker 2 (02:16:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (02:16:26):
I mean, that's what he kind of reminds you of,
is it's that low center of gravity, but also just
great speed and great awareness.

Speaker 4 (02:16:33):
Because when you're that when you're that small, right.

Speaker 3 (02:16:35):
And I don't mean it to meet him and he's five,
but five, when you're that size, I mean you.

Speaker 4 (02:16:40):
Gotta have some survival instincts.

Speaker 3 (02:16:42):
You gotta have some awareness because it doesn't take too
long before you get wiped out. So does a really
good job. And like you said, Brett, not only he
kind of gets lost back there, but he was so
patient on that long run, just letting things welpons, just
diving in there. And that's what you gotta do when
you when you don't have the size the craft in there,
you gotta make it count.

Speaker 2 (02:17:01):
And he's able to get to the outside, has that
great speed, and.

Speaker 1 (02:17:04):
I think the offensive lineman Michigan offensive linemen included and
some of those that you named off as a high
short kick to take away the return feeled.

Speaker 2 (02:17:14):
By one of the upman for Hutsonville. It does a
nice job.

Speaker 1 (02:17:15):
Is just getting north and south to get what he
can across the forty five. They're gonna have good field
position to start this drive out near the forty eight
yard line.

Speaker 2 (02:17:24):
It was pull on the return that time. They kind
of went with that pooch kick that Hudsonville just tried.

Speaker 1 (02:17:32):
My point being Buck, you know, was the fact that
I think as an offensive lineman, you love to run
behind those guys.

Speaker 2 (02:17:40):
Well, you know, I mean you love to block.

Speaker 3 (02:17:42):
Those guys too, because I think when you just need
a crease, yeah, you don't really have to, you know.
I mean, you should still want to knock people over,
but I mean there's just that much of a crease
that he needs and he's able to fit in there.
So it's just fun to block for somebody that has
that speed and also.

Speaker 1 (02:17:57):
That that awareness, and you're not gonna bring him down
with an arm. Let me tell you what that low
center of gravity as harzmo over the right side on
first in ten crosses the midfield stripe. Good positive run
to the forty seven yard line of cast Tech. Let's
see if Hutsonville can answer here. Remember running clock now
thirty five nothing Detroit cast Tech. So to try to
get it back to a normal game, Hutsonville's got to

(02:18:18):
put some points on the board here.

Speaker 3 (02:18:20):
I mean, this is the first time they've been across
midfield bright so already a better start to their half.

Speaker 1 (02:18:26):
Offensively, Braydon Van Lake split wide left the playmaker only
a junior 's see if they can get the ball
in his hands in space. Now they motion a man
over from right to left that has ten haven or
ten have excuse me, Baker wants to throw right hitching
ladder that time, nicely executed, and they've got a first
down and out penalty flag as a late hit comes out.

Speaker 3 (02:18:49):
Yeah, they're gonna they're gonna throw the flag there because
it wasn't really a dirty hit, but it's unnecessary and
he's already going out of bounds and then he just
kind of rides the defender, rides him past, you know,
all the way into the dotted line.

Speaker 2 (02:19:04):
And that's why they're gonna throw the flag.

Speaker 1 (02:19:06):
And how about this lined up as a tight end
that time, and he got the pitch nicely done from
Dykes thro his big number seventy seven, and that's Aaron Hunt,
the senior offensive lineman.

Speaker 3 (02:19:17):
Well, he gets some yardage because what happens on those
plays is their initial receiver gets credit to where he
catches it yep, and then the lateral part of it.
So Hunt gets all those yards and he makes afterwards
and then they get the penalty tack don So Hudsonville
easily with their farthest advance in two cast tech territory.

Speaker 1 (02:19:34):
In business here after the fifteen yards marked off, it's
gonna be first and ten Hudsonville at the twenty three
yard line.

Speaker 2 (02:19:41):
Whistle here and coach Rushing is calling a time out.

Speaker 1 (02:19:46):
Yeah, he's not happy with what just happened there the
sequence of events with his defense. I think he's gonna
let him know and that will be a TV timeout,
So we'll step aside as well.

Speaker 2 (02:19:55):
I think they already do know, but they're gonna hear
it anyway.

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(02:21:51):
put some points on the board and stop the running clock.
Here nine to twenty four left to go.

Speaker 2 (02:21:55):
At everybody moved, Yeah, who moved first? To point the
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Speaker 4 (02:22:09):
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Harsman now around the left end. Nice job of cutting
it up at the twenty five gets back to the
original line of scrimmage bucket. The twenty three so gain
of five.

Speaker 2 (02:22:50):
It's going to be second down in ten. Now clock
continues to wind un in nine minutes left to go
third quarter, and really.

Speaker 4 (02:22:56):
The running clock doesn't.

Speaker 3 (02:22:59):
Because apparent or you don't really feel it until there's
a stoppage in play that would be normal, would be normal.

Speaker 2 (02:23:06):
I can he complete passed or something else like that.

Speaker 1 (02:23:08):
So tight coverage on the outside both ways. They hand
off to Van Lakes, throw back to Griffin.

Speaker 2 (02:23:14):
Baker and he's got running rope. He's fifteen ten five.
Oh hit and drop just side the goal. Oh man,
I thought he was gonna go airborne.

Speaker 3 (02:23:24):
Well, there was a cast tech defender I think it
was number two Cameron Summer. They got knocked down in
the back corner of the end zone. If we saw
the replay here, he was all the way in the
back of the end zone.

Speaker 4 (02:23:35):
No, it wasn't it was.

Speaker 2 (02:23:38):
I can't tell who that was. Wow, Graham was coming over.

Speaker 3 (02:23:41):
But that defender that made the tackle was all the
way in the back of the end zone on his
all fours three extra.

Speaker 4 (02:23:51):
Well, now we got a penalty.

Speaker 1 (02:23:52):
Hears on the right side, and now off side's gonna
be called I should say defense.

Speaker 2 (02:23:57):
Yeah, I mean if you're gonna take encroachment, might as
well take it out the one yard line right half.

Speaker 1 (02:24:02):
The distance, half the distance which well designed throwback. Van
Lake is the backup quarterback. He'll be the quarterback of
the future next year when Griffin Baker graduates.

Speaker 2 (02:24:14):
So Van Lake back to Baker. I'm a little flea flicker.

Speaker 1 (02:24:18):
Gets it down to the one yard line now with
the penalty half yard line and they got a lot
of extra line at Griffin Baker trying to run that way.
Now another penalty flag.

Speaker 3 (02:24:25):
I think it's gonna be off side again. I think
somebody from cast Tech is jumping the snap tower. And again,
I mean, if you're gonna do it so that one
was a that was a foot and a half, this
one's gonna be a nine inch penalty.

Speaker 1 (02:24:39):
And by the way, these do stop the clock, they
don't run. Yeah, oh yeah, I could see that with
Corey Sadler. You and here, my goodness, I.

Speaker 2 (02:24:46):
Mean, he he was he could almost have taken the
snap from center himself.

Speaker 4 (02:24:50):
He was breathing.

Speaker 3 (02:24:51):
I mean, look at that Griffin Baker before he even
got the ball, and now stacked up and it's got
a touchdown.

Speaker 1 (02:24:58):
Griffin Baker from less than the yard out with the
quarterback keeper and Huntsonville on the board, the shutout is
no more with seven forty four.

Speaker 2 (02:25:08):
Left to go in the third well, the one.

Speaker 3 (02:25:11):
Thing that they got was after the touchdown the personal
foul penalty. Cast Tech then pooches it and they give
Hudsonville a short field and the Eagles pull out some
tricks and they're able to move down the field with
the help of cast Tech on some penalties and they're
finally able to cash one in.

Speaker 2 (02:25:30):
Good to see in Jenkins.

Speaker 1 (02:25:31):
Now we'll try to tack on the extra point out
of the hold of Sam Radosa, the sophomore.

Speaker 2 (02:25:38):
Check that Johnny Carston, the senior defensive back.

Speaker 1 (02:25:41):
We got a lot of double numbers because of how
deep the roster is with all the underclassmen brought up
for the playoffs. Takes the snap, Carston gets a down,
kick is drilled up and good into the back of
the net here at Ford Field. Something to build on
for Hundsonville as they get on the board. Seven forty
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Eagles got it at the midfield stripe. Well done that

(02:28:22):
time by Ian Jenkins. I think it went right through
the wickets. One of the up guys for cast Tech,
and I think coming on the backside of that was
Carsondikster with a recovery.

Speaker 4 (02:28:31):
I believe it was him that ended up getting the ball.

Speaker 3 (02:28:34):
Now that's regular putt or regular putt, regular kick return
for cast Tech.

Speaker 4 (02:28:38):
They did not see that one coming.

Speaker 3 (02:28:41):
It's not a hands team up there, and so you
have a guy that's not used to fielding the football,
and indeed it is Dykester that comes up with the football.

Speaker 4 (02:28:50):
A gutsy call.

Speaker 3 (02:28:51):
There down thirty five to seven, knowing if you don't
get it right, you're keeping it the short field again.
But yeah, you love that for Hudsonville got it empty
the clip here and that's what they're trying to do.

Speaker 1 (02:29:02):
Darius Summers, the third out of chance that it will
right through his hands and through his legs, and it
was Dikes around the other side. Now hand off Fox
fighting for extra Yanity's inside the forty five. Nice effort
to the forty four gain of six. Little momentum shift here.
I realize it's thirty five to seven, But eagles are
kind of flying here.

Speaker 2 (02:29:20):
Let's see if they get their feet underneath them.

Speaker 3 (02:29:24):
I mean Bryce Fox was running away and then he
got into the gravitational pull of Logan Howl.

Speaker 2 (02:29:30):
Then immediately stopped. Move Babe.

Speaker 4 (02:29:32):
That guy's all load up there.

Speaker 3 (02:29:34):
Second down and four handoff Fox hit and dropped. Wow,
what a tat too that time by Alex Graham. But
Fox close to that first down marker forty one.

Speaker 1 (02:29:44):
And the reason I bring that up, book Geno, is
because the Hudsonville community knows what I'm talking about. Well,
we've been here before for Chelsea and Unity Christian in
Hudsonville and that comeback.

Speaker 2 (02:29:55):
So I've learned to never say never when it comes
to high school football finals.

Speaker 1 (02:29:58):
With this much time left, I mean we're still over
the halfway point of the third quarter. Play action Baker Row,
which is right sets his feet fires, Oh through it
a double coverage intercepted, and now on the return coming
back and he's got some blockers in front, up the
far sideline and finally run out of the mountains the
forty seven.

Speaker 2 (02:30:16):
Now a late penalty flag.

Speaker 3 (02:30:17):
Comes out on the interception that time was number three
Derek Jackson the third for cast Tech, and.

Speaker 2 (02:30:27):
We're gonna have an I legal block in the back
I believe.

Speaker 1 (02:30:30):
On the return after the I int by cast Tech,
but that one Griffin Baker just didn't see him right
in front throw in a double coverage looking for his
tighten will.

Speaker 4 (02:30:41):
And again we see another This is the second interception.

Speaker 2 (02:30:44):
I think this is the second time.

Speaker 3 (02:30:46):
Where is that the route that he's going because Quinn
Pole was downfield running an out route and his back
is to Griffin Baker and you were thinking, boy, is
that who was supposed to go to? Because that throw
was not close to the other receiver in the pattern,
so you're wondering if his Pole running their round route,
is he rushing it. I mean, there's a lot of

(02:31:07):
things that go in there, but just a tough way
to go after the big momentum swing. By getting the
inside kick, you give it right back to cast Tech.

Speaker 1 (02:31:17):
So the whold one against cast Tech on the return,
it's gonna move am back and they'll start this drive
after the I n T by Derek Jackson a third
at their own thirty seven yard line first and ten
technicians Hutsonville bouncing around, not showing their front of what
they want. Look out under some terrest ros it out
and almost caught it behind his back as taking a shot.

(02:31:40):
Was the freshman Tabron trying to get it out of
the flats that time to Carson Love and who could
make the catch.

Speaker 3 (02:31:46):
Well, what they're doing up front, they that's Dick Lebou
you know for Lions fans, if you remember who that was,
the old dependsive coordinator for the Steelers. Hester it's called radars.
So what they're doing is they just have six or
seven guys up front. They're not going down to two
point stances or three or four point stances. They're just
staying up and moving around and like you said, not
giving Castec a clean look at really what that alignment

(02:32:09):
and what that those fits are gonna be. Yeah, Well,
and they threw a screen there and really they got
a head start because of that standing up. They get
right off the ball plus you can see obviously standing
up into the backfield.

Speaker 2 (02:32:22):
What's going on?

Speaker 1 (02:32:23):
Freshman fires complete on the out route to Sadler Junior
near that first down mark or across to forty five
to the cast deec forty six, he'll be about a
yard short. Good delivery that time, coming back with Tabron
for the completion at.

Speaker 2 (02:32:38):
That time, had.

Speaker 3 (02:32:41):
A good pocket, clean pocket throws it outside the Saddler
Junior and still Hudsonville defensive backs given a lot of cushion.
And I know why because those guys have speed to burn.
But it's just very tough to give talented players like
that so much room on the outside.

Speaker 1 (02:32:59):
I want to get back to something on Tabron. After
this ball, ball pop loose, I'm throwing in short huts.
Bills got the fumble recovery. I think it was Akaman
coming up with it was I don't know who got
the ball out, but Aukaman is the one that comes out.
I don't know if he got it clean on the handoff.
It looked like to me buck Gino. But I want
to go back to Tabron. Aren't you impressed with as

(02:33:21):
a freshman? How sharp piece men tonight? I mean even
the ones he threw.

Speaker 2 (02:33:25):
One purposely away, right, yeah, because of the pressure, and
the last one love it should have had it. I mean,
he hasn't been off target too much that I can remember.

Speaker 3 (02:33:33):
No, I mean the other one was, you know, the
other one that I remember was because of pressure.

Speaker 2 (02:33:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:33:37):
See he never got it clean as we see it
right here, ball loose and it was handed off to
fellow freshman Julian Taylor.

Speaker 3 (02:33:44):
And that's again they're running a little bit of a
fake pass action there, and you're right, he just doesn't
really get a good handle on it.

Speaker 4 (02:33:52):
Aukaman with the recovery.

Speaker 3 (02:33:54):
I mean Tabron's thirteen of seventeen, and I gotta tell
you probably you mentioned too of him and maybe even
three that haven't really been his fault.

Speaker 2 (02:34:03):
Right, And like I said, one he was just trying
to get rid of.

Speaker 1 (02:34:06):
As Van Lake now on the carry in there at
the quarterback position now runs a wildcat with him.

Speaker 3 (02:34:12):
Well, I mean he is going to be potentially or
most ensuredly the quarterback next year what we've heard.

Speaker 4 (02:34:18):
So, I mean he's not unfamiliar with it.

Speaker 3 (02:34:21):
He knows what's going on, and like you said, you've
got to throw the kitchen sink at and give him
every sort of look you can to try to get
some momentum and try to crawl back into this game.

Speaker 1 (02:34:31):
So first and ten, nice gain of four second and
six Van Lake in there now handoff left side Fox
and Fox whipped down but forward and he's got a
first down inside the thirty five, running hard down to
the thirty two yard line. Now we'll keep an eye on.
I don't think Griffin Baker has shook up at all. No,

(02:34:51):
he's standing on the sideline right behind the coaching staff.

Speaker 3 (02:34:54):
So just going for a little change of pace me
maybe in Griffin Baker with those two I and T's.

Speaker 2 (02:35:00):
Well on both of the interceptions that he've thrown.

Speaker 3 (02:35:02):
Like I said, it's I don't know if it's miscommunication
or what, but they haven't been fairly very accurate.

Speaker 2 (02:35:08):
Harsman.

Speaker 3 (02:35:08):
Now the handoff, going around the edge, up the sideline
and finally knocked out a bounce, but running hard.

Speaker 2 (02:35:14):
The junior on Harsma. He'll be part of that Eagles
future as well.

Speaker 1 (02:35:17):
He's inside the fifteen and they'll spot him out near
the fourteen yard lines.

Speaker 3 (02:35:22):
Well, Graham was the last line of defense. Harzman gets
to the numbers, they run it to the near side.
They outnumber cast Tech out by their grid blocking down
field and a mistackle Harswall. You can't tackle him from
the side. I mean you got a square up on
him at that time. Is he able to get outside
and get down?

Speaker 1 (02:35:42):
Bryce Fox cut back in the ten inside the five,
fighting for the goal line.

Speaker 3 (02:35:46):
Touchdown Bryce Fox, Great and Van Lake and they're at quarterback.

Speaker 1 (02:35:52):
Hands off the Fox just kind of weaseled his way
through there, and he's in for six more in Hudsonville
with five oh seven left to go.

Speaker 2 (02:36:00):
Makes it a thirty five to thirteen gate.

Speaker 4 (02:36:02):
Oh they're gonna go for two here.

Speaker 2 (02:36:06):
With the momentum that they have.

Speaker 4 (02:36:07):
I mean, you're down. I mean it's three scores either way,
So I'm okay with this here.

Speaker 1 (02:36:13):
But look at this fourteen yard run by Bryce Fox.
Started left, cup back right, stayed on his steet, saddler
didn't wrap up.

Speaker 3 (02:36:20):
Mean Saander just bumped into him like he's at the
mall at Black Friday. Oh excuse me, no, you gotta
tackle him.

Speaker 2 (02:36:24):
Hand off Fox in a two point conversion and nothing doing.

Speaker 1 (02:36:28):
Yeah, they went to it a little bit too much there.
Cast Tech shuts it down and so the score will
remain thirty five thirteen, but.

Speaker 3 (02:36:38):
A little life by the Eagles here in the third
quarter with five h seven left to go, and again.

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Speaker 3 (02:37:23):
I mean that's just like a bitching wood from the
the high school, the freshman campus exactly.

Speaker 9 (02:37:29):
Yes, that far?

Speaker 2 (02:37:32):
So you're a student, No, I mean, I don't make
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Speaker 3 (02:37:38):
I don't think the freshman can stray too far. I
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I mean they changed now they're all combined though.

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Speaker 1 (02:37:54):
Ian Jenkins to kick it off for Hudsonville, I can't.
Still plenty of time in this football game and thirty
five thirty but five h seven left.

Speaker 2 (02:38:02):
The last two scores on the board have been the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (02:38:05):
Jenkins gonna go with the on side kick again, this
time hands team out there and fielding it and doing
a good job getting right down at the forty nine
yard line.

Speaker 2 (02:38:14):
His own forty nine fore cast tech was Marvin mckellum.

Speaker 3 (02:38:18):
Yeah, he's probably looking at that one and thinking, boy
might have been able to do something a little different there.
I mean that he kicked it right at him and
didn't get a big hop there. What you gotta do is,
if you're gonna you gotta make him move a little
bit right. I mean, he kicked it right into him
and that allows him just to kind of fall on it.

Speaker 4 (02:38:36):
The other one was perfect.

Speaker 3 (02:38:38):
Not only did they not expect it, but it was
right at the guy that was the tallest guy he
wasn't expecting it, didn't bend over and pick it up.

Speaker 2 (02:38:45):
And that one they kind of were on guard and
hit it right at him.

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Don't we to stay with us once we are done
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off the edge, they pitched it and tried to go
wide side, blowing that one up for Hudsonville defensively was
number forty three. That's Tyler Strick, the sophomore. As they

(02:39:10):
tried to pitch it to Hendrix and he had nowhere
to run. He's gonna lose yardage back inside the.

Speaker 2 (02:39:14):
Forty five to the forty four.

Speaker 3 (02:39:16):
Well and cast tech here, I mean coming out in
the after they got to the thirty five point lead,
and you know that coach Rushing is trying to tell
his guys this is not over. But you can definitely
tell a little bit of a dip there. And now
with Hudsonville getting the momentum, cast texts, gotta find it,
gotta find what they had in that first half.

Speaker 4 (02:39:35):
Get it back.

Speaker 2 (02:39:36):
Now they're come with pressure again. Pump fake going over
the top.

Speaker 1 (02:39:39):
Corey Sadler Junior Canna drop it in the bucket oh off,
his fingertips couldn't haul it in inside the twenty had
a couple of steps that time on the defender.

Speaker 3 (02:39:48):
He tried to make a one handed catch there, and
he's actually hobbled a little bit coming back. I don't
know if he he couldn't get both hands on it,
just because the way it was thrown.

Speaker 2 (02:39:58):
But then he came up a little bit awkwardly.

Speaker 3 (02:40:00):
I don't know if he strained a hammy or something,
because he's not moving very fast coming back and he
hasn't come to the sideline yet, but it looks like
he's going to jog over there. So hopefully the young
man's okay, but he might have tweaked something there.

Speaker 1 (02:40:15):
Naber was late coming over the safety help and Ikmug
was beat by a couple of few strides.

Speaker 4 (02:40:20):
Well, I mean the pump big got it.

Speaker 3 (02:40:21):
Yep, it's a great move by Tabron, but Sandler, I
don't know if he got it, if he tweaked it
before they.

Speaker 1 (02:40:29):
Right here third and fifteen lookout pressure Rea foids it
throws out in the flats. Diving catch made short of
the first town marker, though at the Hudsonville forty six.

Speaker 2 (02:40:38):
Boy laying out like Superman was will Sikes that time.
Bout what that does?

Speaker 3 (02:40:42):
The pressure forced him to throw it short instead of
going over the sticks because they had Graham deep down
that same side single coverage. But Tabron was flushed from
the pocket. Good rush there by twenty one. That's William
Zeidervin coming in hot and Tabron just had to throw
it to the nearest available receiver and that was Pikes.

Speaker 4 (02:41:03):
And that's gonna set up a punt.

Speaker 2 (02:41:04):
Yeah, look at this. I was just gonna say, punt
team coming.

Speaker 3 (02:41:07):
Out on fourth and four from the Hudsonville forty five.
You gotta be careful here for the Eagles. I mean
the other thing too, is if you're cast tech, yes,
you don't have a lot of momentum going for right now,
but if you just play field.

Speaker 4 (02:41:17):
Position, it's probably the safest play.

Speaker 3 (02:41:19):
How about a return, If it's a low line driving kick,
now it's gonna be delay a game.

Speaker 22 (02:41:24):
You know what.

Speaker 2 (02:41:24):
I love the Eagles doing there on that last set.

Speaker 1 (02:41:26):
Defensively, not only do they have the guys standing up
that we talked about buck Gino defensively on the line,
but bringing.

Speaker 2 (02:41:34):
Guys off the edge well, you got different sides. Yeah,
you gotta bring them from different angles.

Speaker 4 (02:41:38):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (02:41:39):
You just got to really make that offensive line work.
And clearly cast Tech is having some trouble with that
style of defense.

Speaker 1 (02:41:49):
Sanchez Morillo back to punted away from his own thirty
six after the penalty delay of game.

Speaker 2 (02:41:55):
Puts it back in the big stripe and now.

Speaker 4 (02:41:59):
Offside.

Speaker 2 (02:42:00):
Oh, Hudsonville was offside, so I guess just put it
back where it was.

Speaker 3 (02:42:03):
You know what, never mind, we'll we'll just the umpire's like,
you know, I had it here a couple of seconds ago.

Speaker 2 (02:42:11):
Back to the forty five.

Speaker 3 (02:42:12):
So fou then four if that brings probably a fake
back in play now to nine, you're probably not doing it.

Speaker 1 (02:42:17):
Fourth and four, you can think about it. The territory
and they got Julian Taylor as the upman. He's a
running back for cast Tech. They do snap it back
and get away some pressure. Oh they bumped him, but
no call. Fair catch called for and made inside the
twenty to about the eighteen yard line by Hudsonville's Braylan Miller.

Speaker 2 (02:42:36):
And you're right they did run. I mean, it's gonna
sound bad. They ran into the kicker.

Speaker 3 (02:42:40):
But it's not a penalty because I mean, clearly they
didn't knock him over, it didn't affect the kick. It's
just they couldn't stop their momentums. So I like them
keeping the flag in their pocket there. Don't want to
get a cheap call that really swings the tide. And
now Hudsonville will go back on offense. Boy, it's been
a big third quarter for the Eagles after cast Tech

(02:43:02):
went right down and scored and made it thirty five
to nothing.

Speaker 1 (02:43:06):
Griffin Baker coming back out at the quarterback position. I
want to say this too. We have great officials, and
the officiating crews this weekend have done a fabulous job.
When they're not memorable as far as part of the game,
they're doing their job and calling the penalties they need to.
Like you just said, there didn't need to call that one,
and they didn't handoff. Now, Carsman, it was.

Speaker 3 (02:43:26):
Harsmont kind of the counter at that time from all
the way on the other side of the formation and
behind the quarterback. Yeah, our sweep there and then he
just tries to cut it inside a little bit and
gets driven back.

Speaker 1 (02:43:39):
Gets to the twenty ford progress. So a gain of
two a lot of guys roteating in and out. Second
and eight clock continues to move to fifty one and
takeing left to go this third quarter for the sake
of Huntsonville, it's been forever and they put thirteen points up.

Speaker 2 (02:43:54):
Of the board.

Speaker 3 (02:43:55):
Yeah, well in down three score as time does become
your enemy a little bit.

Speaker 2 (02:44:00):
Now Van Lake and there play fake. It's the outside.

Speaker 1 (02:44:02):
You can see the jet speed and cut down as
he got to the.

Speaker 2 (02:44:06):
Twenty five yard line.

Speaker 1 (02:44:07):
Guess who Derek Jackson iid I tell you what this
future Kent State Golden Flash has played well tonight in
that secondary for cast Tech. He's making a case to
be our defensive player of the game, brought to you
by Montel Construction.

Speaker 3 (02:44:25):
On the offense with Van Lake back, they're just a
different element. They've done it a little bit, but not
to this extent, so cast Tech doesn't have a lot
of great film on it.

Speaker 1 (02:44:34):
Third and three, Van Lake fakes the pitch, runs back
the other way, gets a push and he's close to
that first job marker.

Speaker 2 (02:44:40):
You might have got it.

Speaker 3 (02:44:41):
The near side official has them a little bit short,
maybe a halfy yard.

Speaker 2 (02:44:48):
And they're going to go for it here.

Speaker 1 (02:44:49):
So they're rotating in Griffin Baker he's gonna come back in,
and Braden van Lake, depending on what package they want.
Oh boy, he did not You're right, get good spot.
I thought he got out more trims of twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (02:45:03):
Kind of tough to that big pile. And Brent Standy
thought that was a bad spot. So I'm gonna say
about what.

Speaker 2 (02:45:10):
He's saying right now, Bryce Fox in there, Look at everyone.

Speaker 1 (02:45:14):
They've got three guys stacked over the offensive line right side.
They're just gonna run that way. It's sort of like
the Philadelphia Eagles. I don't know, Griffin Baker, they gave
it to him now the second push. Yeah, this near
side official though, is not giving him a kind spot
in this head Well, they say, there we go, first town.

Speaker 2 (02:45:29):
They don't even look at it. Four than one, they
get it, keep the drive alive.

Speaker 4 (02:45:34):
Yeah, they were out ahead. They needed to get past
the twenty eight.

Speaker 3 (02:45:37):
And then the one thing that people don't understand is
all the officials are wired with a headset that is
wire less and so they can talk to each other.
So he might have just said, hey, he got it, yep,
all right, first down. So that's why they didn't need
to look at it.

Speaker 1 (02:45:53):
Van Lake back in there at quarterback, Baker goes out
motion man Harsman gets to carry from right to left.

Speaker 2 (02:45:59):
Nice cutback.

Speaker 1 (02:46:00):
You might have been better off just continuing out that
way as he crosses the thirty after the thirty four
yard line.

Speaker 3 (02:46:06):
Just so much speed right outside if yours, well, but you're.

Speaker 1 (02:46:10):
Kind of cutting it back into the crane and they're coming.
I know what you're saying, though, partner. Nice gain of
six second and four is now one of the offensive linemen.
We'll try to get a number on that hobbled off
there for Hudsonville. I think that was Mason Cholick, number
fifty six from the left hash Hutsonville'll still drive it here.

(02:46:34):
Final play property of the third quarters were down to
fourteen seconds in ticking. They'll motion a man from right
to left, Dan Lake knowing to fake it to even
though he did show fake it aked it.

Speaker 2 (02:46:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (02:46:45):
Anyway, Well there's nobody back there with you cross the
thirty five to the thirty six or to the first down.

Speaker 2 (02:46:51):
Only a couple they sent that time ten haven motion
and that'll do it for the third quarter.

Speaker 1 (02:46:57):
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Speaker 2 (02:48:50):
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We'll announce our Wing Doozy Fan of the game the
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to Wing Doozy coming up in our discount or postgame show. Well,
buck gino after three, and this has kind of been
the storyline. It was fourteen to nothing cast Tech after one,
then twenty seven to nothing cast.

Speaker 2 (02:49:32):
Tech at the half.

Speaker 1 (02:49:34):
Then they scored the first touchdown and out of the
two point conversion to get us to thirty five nothing
early the third quarter, and we're thinking, okay, running clock,
this one's gonna be done quickly in the second half.

Speaker 2 (02:49:45):
But credit Brent Sandy and Hudsonville.

Speaker 1 (02:49:47):
They come back now and score back to back touchdowns
to make it thirty five thirteen, and they've got a
big third down coming up here.

Speaker 3 (02:49:56):
To start this fourth quarter. Well, they've got to try
pick this up here, and this is two plays. I mean,
it's four down territory. You're you're gonna have to go
for it if you don't get it here. And so
now if you're Hudsonville, just that Wildcat offense has been
clicking with Van Lake. They do bring in back in

(02:50:17):
Griffin Baker to start this one off. So I watched
with a quarterback run here, Let's see if they have
a pass play out of this. I'm curious as they
bunch all up with three guys in the backfield that
they do coming back to the way.

Speaker 2 (02:50:28):
Harsmon on the counter gets the first.

Speaker 3 (02:50:30):
Town rips out of a tackle, still pushing forward, gets
help from a teammate needs across the forty five to
the forty six.

Speaker 1 (02:50:39):
Nice pick up there of eleven yards. Owen Harsma on
a little trickery there. As they bunched up on the
right side came back.

Speaker 3 (02:50:47):
To the left, they run a little bit of a
different variation. Harsma just coming on really just it's a
kind of a modified jet sweep. They load to all
one side and there's only a couple of defenders. Just
gotta get hat on hat and they do. And then
Harrizman running hard, gets a couple extra boy. He does
run hard.

Speaker 1 (02:51:03):
He's got speed to burn when he gets out in
green space as Griffin Baker over the left side quarterback
keeper to the midfield stripe. Game of four second and
six just starting the fourth quarter thirty five thirteen cast Tech.
But the last two scores on the board have been
the Eagles of Hudsonville and driving right now out to

(02:51:23):
the midfield strike.

Speaker 2 (02:51:26):
And coming up the discount door.

Speaker 1 (02:51:28):
Post game show, we'll select tonight's uptown cheapskate offensive player
of the game, our Montel Construction Defensive Player of the game,
Aris Harsball with a jet sweep around cuts back to
the way it's on the forty thirty five thirty twenty five.

Speaker 2 (02:51:38):
Twenty oh just caught from behind, but not.

Speaker 1 (02:51:41):
Before he's inside the fifteen and down to the thirteen
yard line of cast Tech.

Speaker 2 (02:51:47):
Who caught him? Alex Graham?

Speaker 3 (02:51:48):
Yeah, I mean, if there's one guy out there that's
gonna be able to catch you from behind, it's gonna
be Alex Graham turning on that speed. But Harzwood is
breaking through and very very little resistance at the second level.
As Harrisman gets passed the line of scrimmage. Now Griffin
Baker right side, trying to bounce.

Speaker 1 (02:52:06):
Outside cuts back inside the ten and nifty running by
the senior quarterback down to the six yard line.

Speaker 3 (02:52:12):
I feel very cognizant of protecting that football. You can
see Griffin wrapping it up with both hands. Doesn't want
turn over here, to turn the momentum. How about the
offensive line.

Speaker 2 (02:52:22):
Two wills to tight end Hunt, Cholick who came out,
Eli Rows, Roberts, eldredn Nice job here. Van Lake now
back in taking the snaps, and it looks like Cholick
is back in at right guard.

Speaker 1 (02:52:33):
He's got the left leg taped up. Van Lake now
hand off left side. Nothing doing on that counteraction.

Speaker 2 (02:52:40):
I'm gonna let you guess.

Speaker 1 (02:52:41):
Yeah, number nine, I tell you what. He's been a
man tonight against Bryce Fox.

Speaker 3 (02:52:45):
I mean, you're trying to give me all these guys
for defensive Player of the game, and yeah, I haven't
come off of nine.

Speaker 2 (02:52:51):
I was just gonna say, Fuck, I gotta be honest
with you. I'm the guy who awards it. I'm afraid
not to give it to him. What's gonna happen to me?

Speaker 4 (02:52:58):
Wake it up here?

Speaker 2 (02:52:59):
I know. I'll tell you he's like wait a minute,
number nine right here, third down and five, Haarsma going
wide left. Ooh, hit and still on his feet fighting
for exter yardage.

Speaker 1 (02:53:11):
Finally wrestled down from the backside by Marcus Jennings, but
hitting him first was Graham and also in there was
number thirteen Mile and Griggs.

Speaker 3 (02:53:20):
Well, now they're going to bring in Griffin Baker back
for the fourth down play.

Speaker 2 (02:53:24):
Now they can make a first down. They got to
get inside the three. But this is fourth down here,
this is you gotta get it here fourth and with
the four or five?

Speaker 4 (02:53:32):
What are they going to market here at the seven?

Speaker 2 (02:53:34):
So obviously field goal? Does you know?

Speaker 4 (02:53:36):
Good? Gotta go for it here?

Speaker 1 (02:53:38):
So fourth and four from inside the cast Tech ten
yard line, Well, polls out.

Speaker 4 (02:53:43):
There with one defender.

Speaker 3 (02:53:48):
You've also got Harzo split wide un single coverage, but
he's got Graham over the top.

Speaker 1 (02:53:52):
Baker changed the play, and now coach Sandy wants to
time out and he's gonna get it. Look at him
run down there, nice staff coach, all the way down
to the goal line. He ran through the play as
the teach, as a coach. I've never seen that he
ran through the play as a timeout. He went past
the official to make sure he saw him. We'll keep
it right here, and now the TV timeout is coming out.

(02:54:16):
Let's do this though, Let's keep it right here. Eight
forty six left to go. It's a big play coming up.
So fourth and four ball is at the cast Tech seven.
If you're just tuning in Detroit. Cast Tech leads at
thirty five to thirteen. But it was all Hudsonville really
in that third quarter. I know cast Tech got the
first score, the two point conversion, but since early in
the third quarter, the momentum has swung in favor of Hudsonville.

(02:54:39):
And if they get a score here, they can make
this a two score game and still plenty of time left.

Speaker 3 (02:54:46):
Yeah, and you're talking about Hudsonville just fighting their way
to get this appointment. There's a lot of guys right
if you're looking down at the sideline that are you know,
are in street clothes or I mean, you got it.
It's a testament to how fire they've gotten because they've
lost some great players, you know, during and before the season.

(02:55:06):
I'm just gonna read through some numbers here to get
them on because they're not gonna get a chance to
get on the field tonight. But Drew McLeese is number one,
a junior linebacker. Noah Denoff a senior offensive lineman. That's
the two that I saw. There's a couple other ones
down there at twenty four and that's Max and Height Skill,
sophomore defensive pack.

Speaker 2 (02:55:28):
Number seven Cole Williams a senior.

Speaker 3 (02:55:30):
So you know, those seniors that get hurt made you
just feel so bad for them because their teammates out
there fighting for a state championship and you want to
be out there.

Speaker 1 (02:55:39):
But I see number sixty seven to Levi Wujas, he's
got the knee cart Yep, you're absolutely right, Buck Geno,
and I'm glad you did that. And doesn't this remind
you of last night's game for Byron sent These two
teams were fabulous this year and it was because of this.
They never quit senior leadership and they fight you right

(02:55:59):
to the end and make things happen. Griffin Baker play action,
Oh hit is he through and didn't get intercepted.

Speaker 3 (02:56:07):
It was just a mosh pit. I mean, boy turned
over either way. I think I think how Old just
wants the interception. Yeah, the big felt like I got it.
He grabbed it. But Griffin Baker hit does he try
to throw ball? Drops incomplete? But a turnover on downs
on fourth down. Let's see who came up with the pressure.
I think it's Jenning's oh yeah, right there on the backside.

(02:56:27):
And they tried to run a little bit of a
fake there with Harris by jet action and Jennys just
did say, yeah, I know that's not happening.

Speaker 2 (02:56:35):
Yeah, I mean it was still.

Speaker 3 (02:56:36):
Pretty well covered in the back of the end zone
there looked like maybe trying to go to Will de
Young who was an extra tight end and there he
was open.

Speaker 4 (02:56:44):
But Baker, just like you said, hit is he threw
and didn't have a chance there.

Speaker 3 (02:56:48):
And that's one where you look at it and you think, man,
if we just could have got one block there, maybe
we get it.

Speaker 2 (02:56:54):
But instead cast tech turns him over on down.

Speaker 4 (02:56:57):
But they've got a long way to go.

Speaker 1 (02:56:59):
Good drive there by Hudsonville tough to not come up
with any points. Now back to the ground game cast Tech,
they're going to go to work on it. Ooh, and
a hit driving him forward at the end of that
to the fifteen yard line on the carry that time
was Jalen Spates. The senior running back for cast Tech
gain of eight second and two. Don't forget live coverage

(02:57:20):
from Ford Field coming up later tonight Fox seventeen News.
You check it out online Fox seventeen on line dot com,
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with the coverage of this Hudsonville Division one State Championship final.
Of course, Thomas Cook and the rest of our crew
were down here earlier today for Zeeland West. Second in

(02:57:42):
short hand off spates and flying through that time Horsbal
with a tackle maybe a half yard, that's about it.

Speaker 4 (02:57:51):
Ritt also in there coming in and that that defensive
front that.

Speaker 3 (02:57:57):
This kind of like you said, they're all bouncing around
and it's kind of like the popcorn and the poppery.
You just you don't know where they're gonna end up,
and it's really hampered cast Tech offensively in this half.

Speaker 1 (02:58:11):
We'll announce our wing Tusey fan of the game coming
up after this play. Third and about a yard for
cast Tech from their own sixteen yard line, trying to
keep this drive alive out of the pistol formation tabron
the second the freshman, they'll set a man in motion
left right play. Actually look out under duress, dumps it
out in the flats, got the first down to cross
the twenty out to the twenty five yard line.

Speaker 3 (02:58:33):
One a shot by Tabron. Man he has endured some punishment.
The other thing that I will tip the cap to
that kid all night line. I mean, he's had some
throws where he knows he's just gonna get tattooed, and
that's one of them right there where he knows he's
got to stick in there. And Achaman just comes in
and almost gets a hand down. Yeah, and then just

(02:58:55):
delivers the blow to Tabron, and you know it didn't
feel great, but he makes the play.

Speaker 4 (02:59:00):
They pick up the first down.

Speaker 2 (02:59:01):
Brian Stovell Junior.

Speaker 1 (02:59:02):
The h BAC that they motion from right to left
was a guy in the flats and good recognition by
Tabron to get rid of that one in a hurry
and get the first down first and ten spates big
hole over the.

Speaker 2 (02:59:12):
Left side, trying to bounce the outside.

Speaker 1 (02:59:13):
He's tough, keeps those feet churning across the thirty out
to the thirty two yard line. He hit a touchdown
run earlier in this one for cast Tech. As the
clock continues to wind.

Speaker 3 (02:59:24):
And if that's your cast tack, now you have to
use the clock as your friend. Up three scores, you
just want to try to get as much time off
the scoreboard as you can, and so you gotta be
a little bit more methodical in your play calling, and
you're getting to the line, and that's what they're.

Speaker 1 (02:59:41):
Gonna do here calling Number six was our wing tuosy
fan of the game, Michael Hankinson listening from Hudsonville. Congratulations Michael,
and get a twenty five dollars gift car to our friends.

Speaker 2 (02:59:50):
At wing Twosy Spates big.

Speaker 1 (02:59:52):
Hole over the right side, breaks the tackle, stiff farm
and caught from behind, but not before he crosses the
forty five out near the midfield stripe and they'll mark
him in Eagles territory at the forty nine.

Speaker 3 (03:00:03):
Nice run that time he was almost gone. Jalen Spates
and now cycling in some more players. Bridon Nicky back
in for the Eagles. Also at nose, Bryce swears pain
those defensive linemen, man, they've been going to battle all game.

Speaker 2 (03:00:19):
Starts to get tiring. And did you just then see
what I saw on that kickout? Black Khalif Canny Junior
at three oh six or three o eight, just I mean.

Speaker 4 (03:00:28):
Absorbed whoever that was?

Speaker 9 (03:00:30):
That was?

Speaker 2 (03:00:30):
That was Brenton All, Who's like, what truck hit me?
Anyone see that?

Speaker 1 (03:00:35):
I mean they when you're pulling guys that size, Yeah,
it's impressive and it's down in dead.

Speaker 3 (03:00:41):
And it's impressive because Candy, I mean he got out there,
got some speed.

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Paramore just did the opposite right there, the right guard
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down in ten Hutsonville, one time out remaining cast tech
with two five point fifteen left to go on this one.
Technicians just trying to ice this thing away. Spates big

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olver the right side bounce to the outside, gets a
block from the edge and hit from the side. As
he crossed the thirty, Graham is trying to spring him.
He's down to the twenty five yard line. It'll be
first in ten there running hard. The senior Jalen Spates.

Speaker 3 (03:03:40):
Britain will coming all the way from the far side
of the field. Finally he was able to knock Spates down.
But good blocking up front, and I feel like Castech
got away up from that a little.

Speaker 4 (03:03:49):
Bit there in the third quarter where they weren't as physical.

Speaker 3 (03:03:52):
Well, they're definitely being much more physical now and they
can taste it too. With under five minutes to go, Bret,
they know they can just finish this off get the trophy.

Speaker 1 (03:04:01):
I just watched Khalif Canty junior the left tack over
cast Tack. We were raving about the division recruit. He
lost a shoe and it looked like he had a
ski that he was carrying with him over the right side.
Spates inside the twenty five. Good job by Huntsonville to
form a wall there and push him back for a
game of just one of the twenty four. I don't

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know what size shoes he has, but they stand out
because they're yellow and black, so you can't miss them.
But he had to quick put that back on. I'm
like that might take a while. He is a big individual.
Second down and nine coming up for cast Tech. Clock

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continues to wind. What a season for all of our
West Michigan teams that made it. It's just saying something
to make it to Ford Field to play for a
state championship in Byron Center, Hutsonville and Zealand West. And
it looks like West Michigan's going to be one and
two for championship weekend.

Speaker 3 (03:04:57):
Oh nice job on the cutout side inside the ten
five I've and into the end zone. Runs to Mauri Hendricks.
He was gonna run off left tackle.

Speaker 1 (03:05:06):
It was blocked up there but Gino and then he
kicked into another gal and went outside and there was
no one home in that Hudsonville defense.

Speaker 3 (03:05:13):
Well he gets to the second level, You're you're really
selling out on that run.

Speaker 4 (03:05:17):
But just the awareness and the.

Speaker 2 (03:05:21):
Speed of Hendrix, he just gets again so patient.

Speaker 3 (03:05:26):
Yeah, looking at it and you think, man, there's that
a whole lot there, and then he just bounced it
outside outside, and you know that's waits for the play
to develop. And then just turns it up and that's
a great run there by Hendricks. I know it's blocked well,
and then the offensive ND did a great job at
hendricks Is.

Speaker 4 (03:05:43):
He's such a smart runner.

Speaker 2 (03:05:46):
Fun to watch.

Speaker 1 (03:05:46):
Twenty four yard touchdown run, tack on the extra point
by Sancho's Marillo. And I know he's only five five
folks by telling you he's gonna be playing somewhere once
his career is done.

Speaker 2 (03:05:56):
He's only a sophomore. As far as college football as concern.
We'll keep it right here.

Speaker 1 (03:06:02):
Three forty four and left to go on this one
forty two thirteen now cast Tech puts it back out
to a twenty nine point lead, And I wanted to
talk about the area of teams Brent Sandy and Hudsonville outright, Okay,
Red Champs, what a year they have had, looking like
it's gonna finish the twelve and two. Same faith for

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Byron Center. But what a year for Mark Cisco and
the Bulldogs and both of them outstanding senior classes well.

Speaker 3 (03:06:28):
And Byron Center their first appearance in a state finally,
I mean, they had made passed the regional round until
this year. So hats off to coach Mark Cisco and
the buyer in your your Brat bakeetas Bryer and Center Bulldogs.
Of course, Brent Sandy, congratulations he and the Hudsonville egals
for making it this far playing a terrific team in

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cast Tech and then also Zealand West John Schilitou and
his team the Ducks bringing home the hardware for West
Michigan against Detroit King. Hats off to John again, just
a true gentleman among in the coaching professions.

Speaker 4 (03:07:05):
So it's a fantastic win for he and his program.

Speaker 1 (03:07:08):
I go back to the old professor we like to
call him Dave Durham, and what a job this Hutsonville
program has done over the years. This is going to
be unfortunately their fourth runner up trophy, but four times
to get to a state championship game. He go all
the way back to nineteen ninety eight, that's when it
started in Class single A there with the runner up,
and then in two thousand and Division two, two thousand
and five A Division two, and.

Speaker 2 (03:07:28):
Now the first time for them in Division one.

Speaker 1 (03:07:31):
Obviously with it booming out there with the enrollment in Hudsonville,
but kudos to them. I mean when you're going up
and down divisions. We saw that and talked about with
Zealand West. I mean, that's impressive to get back here
taking on the fly at the five of the kickoff,
cross to ten, fifteen twenty, still on his feet, and
nice return again out to the twenty seven yard line.

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On the return that time was Ricky Browley, number three.
He's been the go to guy on the kick return
team and he comes up a little bit limping.

Speaker 4 (03:08:00):
It's that time of year, Brett.

Speaker 3 (03:08:01):
I mean, obviously the last game not only of the
weekend here, but also this is the last high school
football game of the year, and so there's guys with bumps,
bruises and worse, but they're out there giving it all.

Speaker 4 (03:08:14):
Some of them are gonna give it all for the
last time.

Speaker 1 (03:08:16):
And you know what's crazy, Buck, is for the first
time that I can remember, with Thanksgiving being so late,
we actually had high school boys basketball game.

Speaker 2 (03:08:24):
Yeah, last week.

Speaker 1 (03:08:25):
I know your some plays hockey that's underway, but yeah,
I don't remember basketball tipping off Because a lot of
the coaches who have teams that make it and they've
got basketball players on the football team are always dreading
this time of year and usually don't schedule games for
another couple of weeks.

Speaker 3 (03:08:38):
So I mean Ice Sun's team had to reschedule with
Byron Center rights because I mean Luke Glaska starting one
of the starting running backs of that team, also a
member of the hockey team. Of course he hasn't been
playing yet. And they're even talking about moving that schedule
next year Brett a week earlier so they might start earlier. Wow,

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So that's crazy. It's you know, that's the thing with sports.
Nothing's nothing, you don't get a break. I feel like now,
these kids, you know, work real hard, not only on
the field, but you know they go to plaints like
power Strength for a little plug for Jay there, and
they just work hard all year. Hand off Van Lake

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over the top. They got him out there all just
off the fingertips. They were looking for Carson dykestru I mean,
they totally had cast tech fool. There was nobody out
there in the same zip code as Carson Dyster and
Van Lake just couldn't drop it in the bucket.

Speaker 2 (03:09:34):
Hand off from.

Speaker 1 (03:09:35):
Baker to Van Lake rolling to his right, sets his
feet and this one, oh man.

Speaker 2 (03:09:39):
Yeah, I think I think he throws it a little
early as Dykester just got.

Speaker 4 (03:09:44):
Past the defender.

Speaker 3 (03:09:45):
I think Van Lake just got a little excited because
he knew once he got past the defensive.

Speaker 2 (03:09:49):
Back there wasn't anything there and that was gonna be
a touchdown. Coach Marvin Rushing is gonna call a time
out here.

Speaker 1 (03:10:01):
Three thirty one left, so cast Tech has one left,
Huntsonville has one left. We mentioned stay with us with
a discount door postgame show.

Speaker 3 (03:10:09):
I mean, as a Bears fan, what I really don't
want any teams to do is leave any time out available.

Speaker 2 (03:10:17):
Good grief, oh man, And that was right here on
this field. You know, I got to remind you. I know,
but you know what that was the bad part of
your Turkey weekend. It's getting better now, got better, Yes,
it was.

Speaker 4 (03:10:30):
See the what you gotta do is you gotta start
with a low bar.

Speaker 2 (03:10:33):
All right, Well that was bad.

Speaker 3 (03:10:34):
It could only get better from here. We had a
good dinner at home. Hopefully you your family enjoyed things
getting wherever that was.

Speaker 4 (03:10:41):
And it just it's been. It's that's right.

Speaker 3 (03:10:43):
We started low and we're gonna finish high tonight with
the last football game of the twenty twenty four campaign
and you know, I don't get to say this a lot,
but you know, I just appreciate doing this with you,
Brett and Jason and Tom and absolute Joe and John
and Rick everybody that does. Because the thing about Rick
and Joe and all those guys that work hard is

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it's not about just these games, right, It's about the people,
about the kids.

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It's about telling their stories. That's what I love most.

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And our staff brings the passion, There's no doubt about it.
They love this job.

Speaker 1 (03:11:16):
As Van Lake thought he got held on that one
Griffin Baker trying to go over the top quarterback to
quarterback there, Brian Thomas. I want to thank kimm He's
been with us for a lot of years and both
Joe and Brian going through some system changes which are
never easy as far as trying to bring you these
broadcasts with all of our commercials and all of our
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us yes week after weeks.

Speaker 2 (03:11:39):
That's hard enough. Brian Thomas.

Speaker 1 (03:11:40):
By the way, our Lake Shore Game of the Week
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Speaker 2 (03:11:47):
Love you guys and we yeah, wouldn't want to do
it without you, Griffin Baker home run ball. That one's
well overthrown Penley's flight coming out.

Speaker 3 (03:11:55):
We're gonna have a defensive holding or something else down
the field. Because Brady van Lake was he was like, well,
I kind of got held on that one. So he
made it really apparent. Yeah, that play, and again Griffin
Baker knew he had him sprung and they.

Speaker 2 (03:12:11):
Just kind of wait a little bit there.

Speaker 3 (03:12:14):
Just got a hold onto that ball, young man, because
once he gets past there, nobody behind him and just
gotta let him kind of get under that ball. But
they're gonna get the free first down anyway, I believe. Yeah,
he was looking for Dykstra, another one of the seniors.
Oh and that's the thing too, is I mean it
is even though the game's out of reach, you still
want to try to put one on the board and

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get on the sheet. And absolutely getting a little ahead
of themselves there first.

Speaker 1 (03:12:40):
Down and ten after the whole freshet of downs, they
worked from their own forty three Baker back to pass
and there's some pressure looking like you now, penalty flag
got to come out as a Castec defender went down
Baker running for his life and still on his feet
and nice run, almost got a first down across the midfield.

Speaker 2 (03:12:55):
But this one is coming back. Yeah. I think they
would have gave.

Speaker 3 (03:12:58):
It to him there, but unfortunately it's gonna come all
the way back. I did like the two point takedown
there though, by the linement, I mean that was pretty
technically sound. I don't know if he wrestles, he should
with that form and technique.

Speaker 1 (03:13:11):
Well, and again they're told to at all costs protective quarterback,
and he certainly did.

Speaker 2 (03:13:16):
Yeah, I mean it was coming.

Speaker 3 (03:13:18):
The alternative is letting him get a free shot on
your quarterback, and that's not what you want to happen.

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Speaker 2 (03:14:11):
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Two wide receivers to the right, two to the left,
one back of the backfield for Baker out of the
shotgun takes this snap looking left, looking wants the sideline
route over the top.

Speaker 2 (03:14:50):
And drops into the bucket.

Speaker 3 (03:14:51):
What a grab inside the cast deck twenty and they're
gonna give him, say state and bounds all the way
down to the twelve yard line. Carson dykes Rup, I
think that I think his flag fell out. There was
a flag down on the field or no, maybe it
was a bound or something. I think it's a Hudsonville. Yeah,
I don't know what penalty there.

Speaker 2 (03:15:13):
You know what it was.

Speaker 1 (03:15:14):
It might have been a flag, I mean, not a
flag of towel on the back of Carson Dykestruck the
face mask.

Speaker 2 (03:15:19):
But great play there, good throw by Baker, drops it
right in. Baker sets firing for the far corner. Dykestra.
Did he make the cats? Yes, touchdown?

Speaker 3 (03:15:29):
What a diving grab it What a series for Baker
to dykestruck a couple of seniors. Well, and they're gonna
end it on a high note. I'm clearly you know
the game is pretty well decided. But good for them.
Good for the Eagles is they're gonna send out Jenkins
for an extra point here. And it's a pretty good

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throw there by absolutely from Baker. Car Dykstra getting to
the outside and getting good leverage on the defensive back.
And that's a pretty good throw there by Griffin Baker,
and good for them they get they get her on
the board and.

Speaker 2 (03:16:07):
No quit this Eagles squad. Is Jenkins now to tack
on one more and he does so. Forty two twenty.

Speaker 1 (03:16:14):
Our score reads with two nineteen left to go, time
out of the field. We'll take our final time out
and come back and conclude this one in regulation. As
you're listening to Championship Weekend live from Ford Field with
the MHSA Football Finals here run ninety six to one
the game mh on side kick as we welcome back

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to Ford Field. And who else This guy's been all
over the place? John Baker, the fourth.

Speaker 4 (03:17:49):
If here's one guy I don't want to kick to,
I know it's John Baker.

Speaker 1 (03:17:52):
You received that like a shortstop right down, Well, he
might pick it up and just run over me.

Speaker 4 (03:17:57):
That's probably why I don't want to kick it to him.

Speaker 1 (03:17:58):
He's the hands guy on the kick return team. He's
a tight end, he's a defensive end. He basically does
whatever he wanted to do. And he's gonna be a
heck of a player for the Toledo Rockets. I think
in the future so stay tuned for the rest of
his career as he moves on to college next year.

Speaker 2 (03:18:18):
Well, you mentioned, you know, the recruiting that Taleda does.

Speaker 3 (03:18:20):
I mean, it's not that long with a drive no
Toledo from here, so still kind of gets to stay home.
But boy, Jason kandle in the Rockets, Well, if you've
been doing a good job up here, recruiting is just recruit.

Speaker 1 (03:18:31):
The Detroit area. Yea, let alone Ohio, which you're already
in Ohio. You can see why Toledo was one of
the top programs in the Mid America Conference.

Speaker 4 (03:18:41):
Gonna have Seth Sendry now, we talked about him.

Speaker 3 (03:18:43):
He was the guy that was the holder in that
ill feated snap and cast T's going to call a
time out here.

Speaker 4 (03:18:50):
Will keep it?

Speaker 2 (03:18:53):
Hey, you can't.

Speaker 4 (03:18:54):
Hey, I'm glad that everybody's calling all their times. They
don't have anymore.

Speaker 3 (03:19:00):
Yeah, twenty, but Seth Hendry's going to come into play
and quarterback.

Speaker 1 (03:19:05):
And I realize they're doing it a lot to put
different players in and get everyone in the game if
they can.

Speaker 2 (03:19:11):
Good to see that.

Speaker 3 (03:19:13):
Yeah, I mean they're not trying to like run in no, no,
just and the other thing too. Is they don't want
a kid to get hurt because somebody got the row.
You know, they rushing them in or something else.

Speaker 20 (03:19:21):
So I get it.

Speaker 3 (03:19:22):
And you know they're excited and they're about to win
a state title. Everybody's running around and trying to get
players in, and so is Hudsonville. I mean they're trying
to get guys cycled in and out to eighteen to
go here in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 2 (03:19:36):
So Detroit cast Tec gonna finish on a ten game
winning streak at twelve and two.

Speaker 3 (03:19:41):
I mean that's for the season. I mean talk about impressive.
Now again, the competition they play. I mean they started
out ohen too and people are like, oh boy, what's
going on here?

Speaker 1 (03:19:50):
Handoff? Now they'll keep it on the ground. Sentry on
the handoff. And I believe is that Julian Taylor, the freshman, Yeah,
back in there, positive inside the forty five to the
forty four.

Speaker 2 (03:20:02):
If you look at.

Speaker 3 (03:20:03):
Week one, Brett and Rockford beats cast Tech at home
thirty to twenty three. But he pointed to that matchup
in Marquee matchup, and if you would have taken the
straw poll after that, you would have thought Rockford would
be here instead of Hudsonville. Right, cast Tech probably wouldn't
have been, but that's how it goes.

Speaker 2 (03:20:22):
It's high school football. Things change.

Speaker 3 (03:20:24):
And Hudsonville running through the OKA at after a one
point lost to howl in week one and they got
all the way back to here.

Speaker 1 (03:20:31):
Yeah, Rockford started off the gangbuster start, remember they went
cast Tech.

Speaker 2 (03:20:36):
Will finish the start after this play Muskegan.

Speaker 1 (03:20:38):
Then also we were there for Granville for the Okay
Red Conference opener YEP.

Speaker 2 (03:20:42):
Always a big game, rivalry games for them.

Speaker 1 (03:20:44):
And they were down at half and came back in
that game. And then the Bulldogs nipped him in the playoffs.

Speaker 2 (03:20:51):
As Taylor, they keep it on the ground on the
handoff to the forty two yardling and they only have
to snap him maybe one more time because with the
play clock being where it's at, they can run.

Speaker 1 (03:21:04):
Alroy cast Tech and celebrated Division one state championship in
high school football for twenty twenty four.

Speaker 3 (03:21:10):
Deservely so boy, so much tailand out there, and congratulations
to coach Mervin Rushing.

Speaker 4 (03:21:18):
Done a great job there in his three years.

Speaker 1 (03:21:20):
Yeah, only his third season hand off right side, I
believe it'll be his first state championship for cast Tech speates.
I think Air as their head coach, nice tackle defensively
for Hudsonville, and that should do it. I don't think
cast Tech will have to take another snap of the football.
They're going to ice this one away. And now you

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start to hear the faithful coming to their feet. Forty
two to twenty Detroit cast Tech gonna be your Division
one state champions.

Speaker 2 (03:21:51):
Congratulations to them.

Speaker 1 (03:21:52):
As I mentioned, they'll finish the year at twelve and two,
as will Hudsonville, and for Hudsonville, Byron Center and Zealand
will last.

Speaker 2 (03:22:00):
We finished one and two on championship weekend.

Speaker 1 (03:22:02):
But congratulations to all three of those teams and those
programs and their head coaches.

Speaker 3 (03:22:07):
I'm telling you the two on that side played some
really darn good football teams and lost of them. Absolute fortune,
Lake Saint Mary's and cast Tech. I mean, if you're
gonna lose the teams, you're gonna want to do it
to teams like that who've got a lot of weaponry
and got a lot of talent. Still, I mean, it's
it's gonna feel bad for a while, but you know,
when these kids think about it, you know, getting just

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just getting to Ford Field. Absolutely the huge accomplishment, especially
in the higher divisions when you're playing some of these
teams like Rochester Adams that that they had to face howl.

Speaker 2 (03:22:37):
I mean, they're they've beat some pretty good teams to
get here.

Speaker 3 (03:22:40):
Brett So again, congratulations coach Sandy twelve and two, their
first finals trip since two thousand and five.

Speaker 4 (03:22:46):
Didn't know how they wanted it to.

Speaker 3 (03:22:48):
But boy, Hudsonville, even though they're gonna lose some great seniors,
does have some kids coming back, and I don't expect
it they'll be a big drop off next season for
the Eagles.

Speaker 2 (03:22:57):
So forty two twenty the final, This one in the books.

Speaker 1 (03:23:00):
Detroit cast Tech defeats Hudsonville in the Division one State
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To remember at one point it was thirty five nothing
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Speaker 3 (03:27:11):
Yeah, castec racing out to a twenty seven tohing halftime
lead currency of Jalen Spades, Corey Sandler, and Will Sykes
all getting to the end zone, Sandler twice in the
end zone. But then the third quarter Alex Graham on
the reverse fifty four yards the two point conversion was
good and it was thirty five to nothing into a
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mailed it in at that point and said that was
a good season, but no, they keep fighting hard. Griffon
Baker caps off at five, played fifty eight yard drive
with a one yard touchdown run, and then Bright's Fox
with a fourteen yard touchdown run. The two point conversion
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and then there was no scoring until later. Cast Tech
Damari Hendricks really the bagger that sealed the deal twenty
four yards out, capping a nine played, ninety three yard
drive that covered four minutes and fifty seven seconds forecast
Tech and then Carson Dykstra on the last drive for
the Eagles catching a fifteen yard touchdown pass from Griffin

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Baker Jenkins and the extra point to bring the final
score or cast Tech forty two and Hudsonville.

Speaker 1 (03:28:22):
Twenty and you hear the trophy presentations down below. Congratulations
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Speaker 2 (03:28:44):
Well played, well officiated.

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Speaker 3 (03:33:07):
Well, if you have a lot of great weapons, he
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by the name of Donald Tabron the Second. It was
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game right because they didn't really know what they had
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those were throwing the ball away right or tipped. I mean, so,
I don't want to say not his fault. I mean
it wasn't like he was thrown to I mean he
wasn't inaccurate at all. And another one was a drop
down here if you remember. So I mean really just
a superlative performance by Tabron. One hundred and seventy six yards,
three touchdowns, no interceptions, And we talked about all the

(03:33:50):
great athletes that cast Tech has, you know, Graham and Spates,
all those guys, you know, Sykes, Sadler.

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Speaker 3 (03:34:04):
To do it accurately and efficiently, and Donald Tabron did
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send him a hearty congratulations in a nice letter, because boy,
he is going to be really special for cast Tech

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the next three years.

Speaker 1 (03:34:25):
Yeah, and that's just a thing, a freshman doing this,
and there's not like a red shirt process when it
comes to high school. And like I said, the best
that I've seen slinging around is going to be head
of the University of Michigan next year. In Bryce Underwood,
just how smooth he was, and you brought up a
great point. He is an athletic quarterback who can get
out of the pocket and beat with his legs. That
might be something that Tabron has to develop. I don't

(03:34:45):
see that yet. But again he's only a freshman. Is
he fourteen years old? Is he fifteen years old? But
I will tell you this, just like we saw with
Bryce Underwood. I know they fell short this year, but
they lost to I think Detroit Catholic Central and had
a tough road to Hoe. They were always in the
conversation to get back to ford Field. And I think
he won two state championships at a young age. This

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kid just started the track as a freshman and he's
got a lot of guys coming back next year.

Speaker 3 (03:35:11):
Well, and when you talk about the running aspect of
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are we going to ask the freshman quarterback to run?

Speaker 2 (03:35:17):
Right?

Speaker 3 (03:35:18):
Why should we make him do that? They tried it
one time. It didn't go well, and they said, you know,
let's just give the ball to our other guys who
are probably going to go D one and that should
work just out fine, And that's what it did, So
you're right. He maybe he develops that in the future,
but right now, with so many weapons at his.

Speaker 4 (03:35:33):
Disposal, just let him distribute.

Speaker 2 (03:35:35):
The ball, and boy, he was great.

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And how he only had four tackles, I mean we
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third quarters.

Speaker 2 (03:36:42):
I mean he was just everywhere.

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So for him to only have four tackles, boy, but
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Speaker 4 (03:36:49):
He's going to go to Toledo and be hopefully.

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Be great down there for Jason kandle but man, he
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How about Corey Sadler with this unbelievable catch, third and
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With J and H Family Stores well as we wrap
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we know you appreciate the game broadcast. To our crew
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of our game reporters, Brian Thomas, Colebania, the list goes
on and on. We couldn't do it without you guys.
We love working with you, and we close out another
high school football season on a high note with three
teams from the Westmiscon area that we cover. Getting to
Ford Field special thanks to the MHSA crew, John Ross
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here at ford Field. Buck Gino, always a pleasure and
looking forward to working with you and Jason for the
basketball season.

Speaker 4 (03:38:54):
This is always a tough time of year, Brett. You
know we think about this.

Speaker 3 (03:38:57):
You know you're gonna get calls from me in about
February about the games that I want to do and
we're still in basketball and you always want are still
in basketball season. I can't think about football, but you
know we think it takes too long to get here,
and then all of a sudden, in the blink of
an eye, we've done fourteen weeks of football and it's over.

Speaker 2 (03:39:17):
And that's kind of how I feel.

Speaker 3 (03:39:18):
And you know you're a parent of a high school
or so am I now, and I think we're a
little bit more in tune with how that feels, not
only for the athletes but as the families, because it
just it goes by so quickly, and it's always great
to end it here at Ford Field, but just such
a tremendous effort by everybody and our crew, and like

(03:39:39):
I said earlier in the broadcast, is why I love
doing this. It's great to see all these I mean,
Hudsonville West Mischkin always shows out. Hudsonville showed up to
support their guys, and even though they fell short. That's
what high school football is all about, having playing on
Ford Field in front of all your friends and family,
and man, it's just a great experience.

Speaker 2 (03:40:01):
And we're gonna get to get to do it again.

Speaker 3 (03:40:03):
I didn't count the days yet, but I know it's
it's I think it's like two hundred and eighty six
or something like that. Before we start in the next
football season, and I'm already starting to count down because
even though it feels like it takes forever and sometimes
it's a long haul, it's always worth it to end
it here. And I just want to thank everybody for
listening and being with us all these weeks of.

Speaker 2 (03:40:24):
High school football.

Speaker 1 (03:40:25):
We'll see you with the high school basketball tip off
December twentieth, and we'll do it again next year for
high school football.

Speaker 2 (03:40:31):
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Speaker 1 (03:40:33):
Great job Joe buck Gino with his broadcast with my
color analyst tonight. My name is Prep Pakitta. As we're
saying so long once again from Thanksgiving to weekend. Here
our final score in the final game of the high
school football season Division one State Championship game Detroit cast
Tech forty two Hudsonville twenty. Thanks for listening, Stay tuned
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