11-6-25 Roundtable Show with Greg Shoemaker

Greg breaks down the biggest high school football playoff matchups in the tri-state.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Let's talk to high school football. Our next guest is
all over it for the high school Football Tonight show
trysdayfootball dot Com. It's the sectional finals in Indiana, the
first round of the playoffs in Kentucky, in round two
of the postseason in Ohio. Our next guest is all
over all of it. That big Greg Shoemaker. How are you?

Speaker 2 (01:03):
I'm wonderful man, how are you this evening, we.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Are well knee deep into it and we are ready
to get to it. I have strategically set this up
so rock against ask the sat next question, and that
includes him being the leadoff in or Rose.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
So we'll start with the number five Clinton Massy at
number four Taft. Now this has to be a typeo
Greg uh. Taft has seven consecutive shutouts that have outscored
their victims, I mean opponents three hundred and fifty to zero.
Is that true?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
That is true. It is something else that to have.
Ta looks to defend its regional title and they've been
fantastic all season long. And you know, the one thing
you got to say about this team is they do
it on all phases of the game. The quarterback Montsanna
tour but grow through seventeen hundred yards. He's got coin

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six touch Yeah, yeah, you think three fifty to nothing zero.
We'll perp some that intel into injury. And he has
thrown Torbert has thrown twenty six touchdowns this year, zero interceptions.
And you know, we talked about that the great defense.
But this is a great Senators team and they do
one thing very very well, and that is they can

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put the ball in the end zone on special teams
and on on defenses. Likewise, that they'd have five hunt
returns for touchdowns this year, four interception returns for touchdowns,
do Fumbel recoveries for touchdowns, and a kickoff returns twelve
total return touchdowns this season. So Clinton Mass have its

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work cut out for it down at Stargells Stadium in
the city. But you know this is these are two
teams are so different. Clinton Massive loves to run the football.
They've averaged three hundred and twenty four yards a game
on the ground. Christian Trampler the senior there, he's got
over thirteen hundred yards and twenty touchdowns rushing. They've got
six guys with over two hundred yards rushing on the year.

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So they spread the well. They come at you droves,
and it could be interested and tomorrow night in a
game where you know weather plays a part in it.
I like the way Clinton Maski runs. The one thing
about Clinton Massy though, that's really interesting too. It you know,
this game's got all kinds of great little nuances to it.
Clinton Maskiw has completed just twenty four passes this year,

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but for six hundred and forty one yards and that
is comes out to twenty six yards per catch, and
they have ten touchdowns on those twenty four receptions. So
they're not just a wing key offense man. They can
do a lot of different things, and it's not just
like you know a lot of winging wing t teams.

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You'll see their quarterbacks with double digit touchdowns, low interceptions,
but usually most of those touchdown receptions or passes are
in the red zone. That's not the case here. Andrew
Smith has seventeen of those receptions, twenty four receptions for
four hundred and ninety seven yards twenty nine point two
yards per catch, and nine of those two touchdown, So

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he's had at least one thirty yard catch in eight
o their ten games this season. And Clinton Massey, like Calf,
both of these teams have been up so much by
halftime they've been on running clocks in the second half.
And it'll be interesting to see how these teams fare
in a fourth quarter in a knockdown, drag out battle

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for sure.

Speaker 1 (04:23):
All Right, the Harrison Wildcats, Kings Knights, get the scoreboard ready,
make sure the lights are in working order because it
may be an active night on the scoreboard shootout wise, it.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Seems yeah that both teams are averaging thirty two plus
points a game. And now the cool thing about that
is Harrison's never given up more than thirty two in
a game and Kings has only done it once this
year and that was against Anderson. So I expect both
these teams to put some numbers up. You know. Here's
here's the thing. Anderson sitting at eight and three, they

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are two two point losses and a one point loss
away from being eleven and zero. Those three losses they
have are the teams who are currently a combined twenty
five and five. So even though that Wildcats are sitting
at number seven and their seed and they're at number two,
Kings in this division to Region eight battle, it's going

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to be much closer than you think. I think it
could be in a really good night. King's quarterback Grant Murray.
He's got twenty seven touchdowns, he's a dual Brett Strow
for more than twenty two hundred yards, but he's got
sixteen touchdown passes and only three picks. The cool thing
about Harrison is they have nineteen interceptions on the season.
Then Mark Carrion has six and Jack Dernier has seven.

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So if this game gets into a shootout or tries
to get into a shootout and they get the ball
thrown up in the air a little bit, you know,
Harrison might have that one pick six or that one
pick that changes this whole game into their favor.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Interesting, all right, let's go on to this one number six.
The Cody East had number three Xavier Gon a little
drors crag. The Bombers have been off for two weeks.
That's a long time. So their final regular season opponent
just scraped the game. They canceled the game and then
they had a first round by two weeks of not playing,

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not hitting, are they gonna be in sync? And I
know Lakota East has one heck of a running back
in Rider Hooks. How do you see this one?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
So you're right, will they come out floodlish or will
they come out sharp? But I think that's the big question.
You know, they're picking on a Lakota East team taking
on the Lakota East team has won four straight and
they're averaging forty six points in that span. You know,
the best ball that they played in John Kittinger era
for sure, and you know two of the bigger storylines

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in this game. He talked about Ryder Hooks. How will
Ryder Hooks be versus the Saint Davis defense. Cooks has
nineteen hundred yards rushing in nineteen touchdowns, but he's more
than that. I mean, he's got twenty six doll purpose
yard twenty two receptions for four hundred and three yards,
So he has a way he has a way up

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a knack of getting yards put on the board. Now,
the other cool thing about Rter Hooks is how will
Rider Hooks go against the Saint Davis defense. Hooks has
started during this four game winning streak, he started to
play a lot more defense. He's got thirty four tackles season. Yeah,
he's got one force fumble, one fumble recovery, and three

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interceptions in the last four weeks as well. Two of
those are picked sixes, and he's got one hundred and
seventy five interception return yards. So he's going to be
able to key on Jackson Fry and uh, you know, somebody,
for ex is going to have to be on him,
but like they're gonna have it, has a trailer on
him on both sides of the ball, I feel. But
the kid's been fantastic. We had all district voting today

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and he got my vote for Ohio mister football. That's
that's just my nomination I should say for Ohio mister football,
because he's had one heck of a season there. And Rocky.
I mean, the other thing is, I don't know how
evil fair going into RDII Stadium, because the first time
you go in there as a team, it's a totally

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different vibe. It's an intimidating, it's sort of all striking
experience for high school players. So if they can get
through that first quarter in good shape, buddy say next
to have their hands full for sure.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
All right, how about Winton Woods in Princeton, And boy,
you talk about a spotlight on a talent level, a
Division one college football talent level. This matchup has them
all over the plays.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, there's gonna be fifteen to twenty Division one college
players in this game, and with offers or signed somewhere.
Mostly of these guys are on defense. But you know,
I've seen both of these teams this year and they
both tag tag teams go on defense and they fly
to the football. They're both very fun to watch. Do

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you think this will be a low scoring affair like
Saint X. Priston had a buy in the first round
of the playoffs last week, but they lost the regular
season finale to Middletown. So I really want to see
how they come out in this game. Whether they answered
the call, whether it was a good week of practice, that's,
you know, still to be determined. But well, I'll tell

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you what. Like like, you know, they got to come
out hot because wint Woods right now, they've been playing well.
They've held ten of their eleven posts seventeen points or less.
They're only allowing eleven points a game. Princeton gives up
just thirteen point eighty games. Key factor in this game.
I do have a feeling, especially if the weather plays
a factor. Winton Woods running back Isaiah Garrett returned to

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the lineup three years ago. He's a He had one
thousand yards rushing as a sophomore last year. He's been
out for the first eight weeks he returns. He has
He's averaged one hundred and ten yards of game rushing
in his three games, with five rushing touchdowns, and he
had one hundred and seventy six on the ground last week.
He's a difference maker in the game like this, if

(10:05):
he breaks one or two, it could be I mean,
that's about all you would need to put it in
the bag and right at home with a victory for sure.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
All right, Greg, look ahead at tomorrow night, give us
a preview of the show.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, we are on high school football tonight on Fox
Sports thirteen fifty and ESPN fifteen thirty. I have the
pregame show and I will have on Ryan Langferman, head
coach of myl In high school. If they are playing
for their second straight sectional title against North to Cato.
Those two teams have met and knocked each other out

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of the playoffs in each of the last seven or
eight years. Mike Orlando has surprising mc Nicholas Rockets is
on with me as well, and Gamick Surley, the head
coach of the Clinton Matthew Falcons, will also join me.
He has some great stuff on that game and matchup
with taff And then after the Saint Xavier game, which
will follow the pregame portion of high school Tonight to

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puan alb and I will be back in the studio
until eleven o'clock giving you all the scores and highlights.
To me, you can check out the Tri State Football
score the Underground Sports Shops scoreboard on Tri Statefootball dot Com.
THO scores from all the playoffs games will be updated
all night long on Tri State Football dot Com as well.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Big Night, Big Night. Hey, I know it's an incredibly
busy day for you. Appreciate you making time Tonight is
always a look forward to talking next week.

Speaker 2 (11:27):
Yeah, sounds good. It's gonna be a good one next
week for sure.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
Can't wait. Thanks Greg.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
All right, see you guys.

Speaker 1 (11:34):
All right, there you go, Grand Shoemaker, Tri State Footballtnight
dot Com, The high School Football Tonight Show