11-20-25 Roundtable Show with Greg Shoemaker

Greg previews the biggest regional finals matchups in the tri-state.

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Seven hundred WLW Cincinnati Tax Resolution powered by Tope Showdon
Roundtable Show where long Necks in Hebren presented by Postman Law. Hey,
it's brought to you in Purpie ever dry waterproofing. It's
not dry till let's ever dry. Let's talk high school football. Man,
We've got so much to get to, no time to waste.
You hear our next guest on Friday Nights with the
award winning High School Football Tonight Show on ESPN and

(00:24):
Fox Sports thirteen sixty. You read him, his content manager
tri statefootball dot Com. Let's see I'm gonna do. I'm
gonna take Indiana with him. You're gonna take Kentucky with him.
Then we're gonna share the Ohio games with him. So
let's welcome in, Greg Shoemaker. How are you guys? What
a great week this is?

Speaker 2 (00:42):
I mean history and numbers and stats all over the place.
This is a fun, fun week. I'm great. How are
you guys doing?

Speaker 1 (00:51):
We are right, brother, great and ready to go. So
let me let me take Indiana first. Let's go Class one,
a semi state in mylin is looking to make some
Hickory history and football explained.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, how about the Malond Indians, right you know, you
know the story newser is all about Mylon Yicky. Mylon's
sitting at seven and four right now. They just knocked
off reigning state champion Providence down at Providence twenty two
to seven, and it's Mylin's just their second regional championship
in school history. The cool thing about this is head

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coach Ryan Langerman was a player on that ninety sixteen.
Now he has two sons on this team. Grant is
the junior east, the leader of the defense, and Beckett's
a freshman who just went over a thousand yards rushing
last week. So really good stuff. Man, I'm still rooting
for this. One of the feel good stories of the
year for sure. Mylond Man seven and four. Now they

(01:49):
host South Putnam, who's eleven and two. So U but
I think I think they're rolling. Then we talked to
coach Langerman two weeks ago and he he was like,
you know what, we're healthy on defense. Boys showed last
week with a twenty two to seven win a Providence.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
Very good. I agree. We got what seven local teams
left in the playoffs in Kentucky. Give us a brief
synopsis of the Kentucky Action.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah. So here in Class one A Rocky, we have
Newport Central Catholic and they are going down to Campbellsville.
Third straight year that in this round of the tournament,
NEWCAP has gone down to Campbellsville. Campbellsville's won those two
games by three and five points. I liked them there.
But the other game in Newport's playing at Kentucky Country Day.

(02:37):
The Bearcats at Kentucky Country Day are very very good.
If by somehow NEWCAF win these games on the road,
they will face each other for a chance to go
to the state championship game. The bad part about this
for I'll be both these teams is Kentucky Country Days
only lost to Campbellsville. Both of those teams are sitting
at ten and one now. In Class two A in

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Kentucky Beachwood, they're going to host Preston Burg Prestonburg twelve
and oh but Beachwood sitting at ten and one. They're
averaging fifty points seven points per game. They are the
running Class U A state championship or champions. I look
for them to have another big game in this one.
I don't think Preston I know they're twelve and oh,
but I don't think prestonburg Hanks with its potent beachwood

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tiger offense. In Class three A in Kentucky, Lloyd is
twelve and oh for the first time since nineteen ninety five,
and they are hosting Russell Russell Red Devils and they're
sitting at ten and two. This is up, big game, guys.
If you want to go somewhere tomorrow and see a game,
go over to Erlanger and the new stadium that they

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just redid over there at Lloyd two years ago. Fantastic
place to see a game. One special and like I said,
nineteen ninety five their last done or last time they
were twelve and oh. I think those were the Chad
Grendel years. So maybe you'll bring some luck to them again.
The pretty good stuff there, guys. In Class four A
in contraction, check this out. Last week. Cub CAP went

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down to Johnson City last Friday. They won that game
in Johnson City thirty six to twenty nine. This is
the group. When we were talking about great stats. Johnson
City ran seventy eight plays. Last week, CUBCAF ran just
nineteen and they went billion and out on their first
two series. I mean, it's just crazy. This is the

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craziest stats, right. So after that they ended up running
for three hundred and five yards on thirteen carries. Cash
Horney had eight of those periods for one hundred and
sixty one yards, had two touchdowns. Feeling Guyser had five
piers for one hundred and fourteen and three touchdowns. So
after those two first two three and outs, they ran

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six sure the thirteen plays the rest of the game,
five of them for touchdowns. In fact, the last after
those two three and outs, they ran for touchdowns on
their next three plays, So crazy night for them. Now
they're going to Boyle County where they beat Boyle County
last year thirty one to twenty eight. If they win
that game, they could play Highlands again for a state

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a chance to go to state championship. Highland's host is
Corbin on or tomorrow night at Highlands over there in
Fort Thomas, and then Ryle in Class six A they're
down at Frederick Douglass. The common denominator between Ryley and
Frederick Douglass is that Highlands has wins over both of
those teams. Douglas by one and four over Ryle, so

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it's kind of interesting. Yeah, these two teams are playing
for the Class six A state or semini finals, and
yet here's Highlands at four A as wins over both
of those teams. Crazy stats there again.

Speaker 1 (05:45):
All right, we've got Ohio and we've got four matchups
to talk about. Let's go Division four Region sixteen one
versus two one Indian Hill to Valleybue, Indian Hill trying
to move to thirteen to zero.

Speaker 2 (05:59):
I was out at Indian Hill. They played Calf last week.
Both teams were undefeated. Crazy game with some crazy things
that went on there not during the game, and there
was a play just so we remember, we talked about
tast the last couple of weeks, Calf had outscored their opponents.
I think it was like three hundred and ninety four
to seven in the last eight week. Something ridiculous. First

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first series of the game, Indian Hill goes down and
kicks a forty four yard field goal. Pretty good field
goal with windy conditions on a high school field. Excellent.
They go three to nothing. Calf comes back, they're scoring,
they're on the way to score, they're inside the red
zone and the inside the five and they fumbled the ball.
Kid from Indian Hill picks the ball up, takes it

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all the way back. He's on his way to score
a touchdown, and his knee pops and he bumbles the football.
He's an agony in pain. The ball ends up on
the two yard line. Next play, Taft comes down and
scores on it, ninety eight yard touchdown. Run the other way,
and it was it looks like it was gonna be defeating.
But yet Indian Hill showed some really good moxie senior leadership.

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They weren't they weren't in awe of any of that,
and didn't you know, they handled it like like really good,
like a really good team would. And so and now
they got value viewed values one eleven in a row
after losing their opener to uh cold Water forty nine
of forty eight. So two really really good teams. Andan
Hill's never won a regional championship. So this is this

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is big for that school, all right.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
And here we go another big, big time high school game.
Trotwood Madison at Anderson. You know, I love that coach
over there at Anderson, Evan Dryer, talk about this one here.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Yeah, So Trywood and Madison, they're loaded with uh, Division
one talent. They This game's loaded on both sides of
the fall. Defensively, Anderson has four players between fifty three
and sixty six catches on the year. Fifty three and
sixty six. That's that's crazy. And then here's the here's
the here's another great stat tonight, and Anderson's punted the

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ball six times this season. But they've also returned six
punts for touchdowns this year. So if they put the ball,
kids are they're going to return to punt for a
touchdown at one point. So it's just you can't make
this stuff up. It's so fun there. So that one's
really that's a good game. That's going to be interest.
A game loaded with defensive talent and Division one talent.

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If you want to go see a game tomorrow Lakota West,
that one will be fun to see for sure.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Okay, two more to squeeze in. Let's go Wayne Warriors
in Middletown and Middletown trying to do something they've never done.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
Yeah again, another team trying to win their first ever
regional title. Middletown. They have four shutouts in their last
nine games. They're only giving up seven points six points
per game. The last of the GMC teams remaining is Middletown.
Out of all this year, it's crazy to think about.
Wayne was in the finals of the regional finals last
year and lost to Centerville. Centerville will go on the
next week to lose the print to are at Princeton.

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But Way's been there. That's said. I don't know if
they're good enough to beat Middletown. This team is really
good defensively. It's gonna be a fun night there at
that one's actually at Trotlin Madison High School for sure.

Speaker 3 (09:15):
Okay, here we go, rock you ready, I'm ready, all right,
let's get it. Xavier nine and two. They've won the
last what five straight at twelve Elder twelve and oh
for the first time in school history at pay Course Stadium.
But it was there. Seventeen thousand, seven hundred fans have

(09:36):
gotten tickets so far. Should be much more. What are
you seen in this one?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
Greg? How about this Rock? Were you won the last time?
The last time these two teams met in a regional
championship was two thousand and one. Are you a little
bit before that one?

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (09:51):
My last football season was ninety.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Seven, ninety seven, Okay, so two thousand and one really
started what has become a gcl out run in the
twenty first century to just excellence and in Division one football.
The last two times these teams met again in the
regional championship was two thousand and one Saint They won

(10:14):
that game twenty four to twenty one. Now, Elders won
three out the last four in this series, and they
played in twenty twenty, twenty twenty, and twenty twenty one,
and Elder came away with the victory in twenty nineteen.
I'm sorry, Saint X's won the last two in twenty
twenty and twenty twenty one, and then like you said,
Saint X's won five in a row. They have not

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given up more than fourteen points in any of their
nine victories this year. And Daniel Bulmer, their fine linebacker
slash running back who's going to Vanderbilt, has averaged two
hundred and twenty nine all purpose yards in three games
in his career against the Elder, I expect more of
the same thing. He'll return kicks, he'll return punts, he
will punt, he will play linebacker, he will do it

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all for them. And Elder again, first time they've been
twelve to zero school history twelve wins. This is this
is why Elder's so impressive this year. Other twelve wins
Bevin and Ben against teams that have won nine games
or more. They have another win against a team with
eight victories, another one against a team with seven wins,
and two against teams that finished the year at six

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and six. They're winning. I mean, they just know how
to win. It's a it's gonna it's gonna be a
low scoring affair. I think the twenty seventeen sort of
scores what you're looking for. And I'm not gonna predict
which one's gonna win, but uh, it's it's gonna come
down to the last the last couple of series, for sure.
It always does in a game like this.

Speaker 1 (11:36):
I got less than a minute or show. Give us
a preview of Tomorrow Night.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Yeah, Tomorrow Night high school Football. Tonight got Tom Gamble
along with us talking about pay Corps Stadium in the
history of high school football. There really great interview with him.
John Rodenberg from Indian Hill joins us, and Eddie Eviston
from toub Cafe joins us too, and then Sefuan Alvin
and myself Will be on in the post game show
after the Saint Xavier Elder game right there on Fox

(12:03):
Sports thirteen sixty n, ESPN fifteen thirty. Great stuff, guys,
and try everything you're on. Try State football dot Com
is up there. You don't miss any of it. And
if you go to ats PS football you can find
that gamble interview. I put it up a little bit
early because it's fantastic, excellent.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well, Happy Thanksgiving to you. Enjoy the football, and happy
Thanksgiving to you and your family.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Hey, you two guys, have a great weekend.