WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.120 Schwiker, Gannison, Krizak Rundio proudly sponsors to Friday Night Drive. I'm Mike 2 00:00:04.160 --> 00:00:07.240 Krazak. If you've been injured, we are ready to take on the insurance 3 00:00:07.240 --> 00:00:10.480 company and get you to the end zone. We've recovered hundreds of millions of 4 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:23.320 dollars for our clients. Visit GA nassi n dot com. What's up everyone, 5 00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:27.399 and welcome back to the Friday Night Drive Podcast. I am Kyle Neighbors 6 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:32.960 along with Steve Susy here to get you caught up on everything that happened over 7 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:36.600 the weekend. In the state quarterfinals were down to thirty two teams left in 8 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:41.159 the state after a fun week in a football across the state and in some 9 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:47.000 places a very snowy Saturday of quarterfinal football which didn't really expect to see that 10 00:00:47.039 --> 00:00:51.039 one come in sus But overall a good week into football. Man. Yeah, 11 00:00:51.119 --> 00:00:53.280 it seemed like there were a lot of games, like we were talking 12 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:57.200 about last week, that that we're coming down to the wire close to it 13 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.119 before they were cemented in the book. There were a lot of games that 14 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:06.560 just became complete runaways from the get go, and the few that were a 15 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.439 couple of them were pretty surprising to me that they were maybe not in the 16 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:12.519 outcome, but the fact that they did turn into runaways. So overall, 17 00:01:12.560 --> 00:01:15.480 like you said, pretty good week of pretty good week of quarterfinal football. 18 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:19.200 Yeah, I mean, you know, you look across the board, a 19 00:01:19.319 --> 00:01:23.560 game from top to bottom, had different games across different classes that had a 20 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:26.879 lot of fun. I mean, you look at and we'll get into this 21 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:29.799 stuff, but like Tyler Vacy up at Prairie Ridge said, in these states 22 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:34.799 all time scoring record I'm sorry, rushing record for a single season and a 23 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:41.680 win for pr You look at Icy Catholic beating Princeton in overtime and Byron and 24 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:49.480 Recuster playing yet another terrific quarterfinal game, another postseason game, just a fun 25 00:01:49.560 --> 00:01:53.879 week into football. So we're gonna go ahead and stick to the usual format 26 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.560 here. We'll work our way up from one, A, two eight, 27 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:00.920 a kind of look through the results top what we found interested this week. 28 00:02:00.120 --> 00:02:02.519 But before we do, of course, want to go ahead and get the 29 00:02:02.599 --> 00:02:07.120 introduction out of the way. You can follow all of our content or you 30 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:10.159 can find all of our content at Friday Night Drive dot com. Make sure 31 00:02:10.199 --> 00:02:14.120 you follow us on Twitter at f and Drive. You can follow US as 32 00:02:14.120 --> 00:02:16.719 well on Facebook and Instagram by searching for Friday Night Drive. You can follow 33 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:22.319 myself on Twitter at Kyle Neighbors, and you can follow SEUs on Twitter at 34 00:02:22.479 --> 00:02:28.000 the SEUs and SEUs. You know, starting in Class one A here you 35 00:02:28.159 --> 00:02:34.080 look at these games. I don't know this, starting at the top in 36 00:02:34.120 --> 00:02:38.120 the North bracket, Lena Winslow a fifty two fourteen winner over Fulton and then 37 00:02:38.199 --> 00:02:42.879 forced in a twenty to eight winner over Dakota. I was looking at the 38 00:02:42.919 --> 00:02:46.159 game story for Lena Winslow, like I said, fifty two fourteen over Fulton, 39 00:02:47.120 --> 00:02:52.159 and the thing that stuck out to me reading that was that the Panthers 40 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.879 had six plays go for more than forty yards in the game. You know, 41 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:01.120 when you're already when you're Fulton and you're already facing a top uphill battle 42 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:06.439 against Leonel Winslow, you can't have those big chunk plays. But that's kind 43 00:03:06.439 --> 00:03:09.199 of what the Pathers do, sir. Yeah. I was having a really 44 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:14.599 frustrating afternoon on Saturday with Twitter. It was not working very well for me. 45 00:03:15.319 --> 00:03:19.759 So I was getting maybe a half an hour breaks between when when my 46 00:03:19.879 --> 00:03:24.159 Twitter feed would update, and I went from basically kickoff time until maybe a 47 00:03:24.240 --> 00:03:30.080 half an hour into the games, where I didn't have any updates, which 48 00:03:30.120 --> 00:03:32.879 was driving me a little nuts. But once I did finally get through, 49 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:37.639 one of the first things I noticed was it didn't take long for Fulton to 50 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:39.520 get to the point where they were. They were there as well. They 51 00:03:39.680 --> 00:03:44.800 already seemed to have that in hand by the first update when I had caught 52 00:03:44.960 --> 00:03:47.000 up to scores, so granted that had been about a half an hour, 53 00:03:47.120 --> 00:03:51.400 but they were just explosive out of the gates. They have been the entire 54 00:03:51.439 --> 00:03:55.759 playoffs, you know, I just I don't know if anybody can play in 55 00:03:55.919 --> 00:04:00.759 one an can compete with them. I mean, just being completely honesty, 56 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:04.599 they seem to be, especially since the playoffs on a whole other level than 57 00:04:04.680 --> 00:04:09.280 everyone else. Yeah, Lena playing really strong football right now. They're going 58 00:04:09.319 --> 00:04:13.639 to get a matchup, a semifinal matchup with a very familiar foe Forrest, 59 00:04:13.719 --> 00:04:16.000 and obviously a conference made but all four of those teams in the North bracket 60 00:04:16.079 --> 00:04:20.399 were from the NUIC to begin with, But this is the third time they've 61 00:04:20.480 --> 00:04:25.839 met in the semifinals since or since two thy seventeen. I believe we will 62 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:30.560 preview that game later in the week when we record our semifinal preview podcasts. 63 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:35.879 But on the South bracket you had Ridgeview when forty one to six over Tescola, 64 00:04:36.199 --> 00:04:41.160 and Camp Point Central a twenty four to twelve winner over Greenfield. Both 65 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:44.879 games went the way we went. I guess I was a bit surprised with 66 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:49.839 the margin in which Ridgeview dispatched Tescola. You know, I I'm not sure 67 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:54.199 I was. I mean, when you look at what Tescola had done in 68 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:58.600 the previous two rounds, they'd kind of eked out a couple of wins over 69 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:01.759 you know, teams that I thought they would handle a little bit better than 70 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:06.560 that. And while Ridgeview has just been laying points on people, I don't 71 00:05:06.600 --> 00:05:10.519 know if I would have expected, maybe saying closing it on a running clock. 72 00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:13.439 But the fact that the gap was pretty wide didn't really surprise me all 73 00:05:13.480 --> 00:05:18.240 that much. Okay, uh yeah, I mean overall, one about is 74 00:05:18.360 --> 00:05:21.920 as close to as what we projected as as possible. Like I said, 75 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:26.000 I did think post goal it would be a little closer, or I should 76 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.839 say a little. I thought that game would be more competitive. But let's 77 00:05:28.879 --> 00:05:32.079 go ahead and go to Class two A. Here where on the top the 78 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:35.040 north side of the bracket, you had morea of foresight. The top seed 79 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:41.000 a twenty one seven winner over rock Ridge and Tri Valley a forty six twenty 80 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:44.920 two winner over Knockville Suits. What stood out in those games, well, 81 00:05:44.959 --> 00:05:47.279 I think for me it was that that try Valley was able to handle that 82 00:05:47.399 --> 00:05:51.040 game as comfortably as they did. I mean, I think the gap was 83 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:56.720 even wider earlier in the game and got a little bit closer near the end. 84 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.839 Try Valley just came out and really, you know, the wood there. 85 00:06:00.920 --> 00:06:03.000 I when I had seen them, you know, beat Wilmington in the 86 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:08.040 previous week, I know, Wilmington had taken some things away from them. 87 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:12.680 It looked like Knoxville was unable to do anything like that against them. They 88 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:16.279 had all components of their offense doing a really nice job. So I think 89 00:06:16.319 --> 00:06:19.680 that bodes well for them heading into this week, the fact that they were 90 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:25.120 able to kind of get everything clicking again. You know, I know when 91 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:30.759 we did our preview, our post seeds in preview episode, I'm probably going 92 00:06:30.839 --> 00:06:32.920 all the way back to the beginning of the season. You know, you 93 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:38.920 and I both felt moreau foresight than Saint Teresa. Very strong teams uh, 94 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.439 you know, didn't expect them to end up on the opposite side of the 95 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:46.399 bracket here. But Saint Teresa a thirty seven twelve winner in the South bracket 96 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.439 over Panna in the quarterfinal round in Johnson City, the number two seed of 97 00:06:49.560 --> 00:06:54.920 forty two thirty two winner over Belleville alt off. And I don't want to 98 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:58.399 get ahead of myself. I do want to discuss as Belleville Johnson City game 99 00:06:58.399 --> 00:07:00.959 a little bit, but it just feels like, sus we really are on 100 00:07:01.079 --> 00:07:08.240 that collision course for a morole of force I Saint Teresa championship game, it 101 00:07:08.360 --> 00:07:10.959 really does look like that way. I mean, I think in the Saint 102 00:07:11.120 --> 00:07:15.160 Teresa game specifically, you know, I expected Saint Teresa to maybe win by 103 00:07:15.199 --> 00:07:17.360 that margin. I expected the score to be a little bit higher. To 104 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:20.160 be completely honest with you, I thought Paina would put up a few more 105 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:25.759 points in the game against them, because Saint Teresa's had a propensity to get 106 00:07:25.800 --> 00:07:30.639 into some of those games where maybe they drop sixty but they allow twenty eight 107 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:33.759 thirty something like that. So I thought it would be a little bit more 108 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:38.040 high scoring than it was. But the margin was about where I thought it 109 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:41.560 would be. At the end of the game. Now, as I said, 110 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:44.720 I wanted to talk about you and I both thought ALTOF would win the 111 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:53.199 game against Johnson City. If you know what, if you had told me 112 00:07:53.279 --> 00:07:57.199 Build the ALTOF was going to score thirty two points in this game against Johnson 113 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:00.839 City, I actually would have guessed that they won the game. Yeah, 114 00:08:01.040 --> 00:08:03.639 I think so too. I think what this really came down to for me 115 00:08:03.879 --> 00:08:09.519 was I did a little facting on Saturday night after I saw the final score 116 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:13.040 of this game because I think I was really steeped in one of my own 117 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:18.920 personal biases that is kind of based on history, and I wanted to confirm 118 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:24.240 that history, which is as much as I think the Black Diamond Conference typically 119 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:31.199 has pretty good football teams, as far as really deep postseason advancement, it 120 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:35.639 doesn't happen very often for the members of that league. So I went and 121 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:39.679 looked it up. And now Johnston City in the semifinals with another win, 122 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:45.879 would be the first team that is that is in the Black Diamond to make 123 00:08:45.919 --> 00:08:52.320 the championship game since nineteen eighty two. And that's I mean, that's that 124 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:56.960 was a school that technically not even not even at a free standing football school 125 00:08:56.960 --> 00:09:00.919 anymore. That's Ziegler Royalton, who is now in a cooperative even with Christopher. 126 00:09:01.480 --> 00:09:05.360 So that's that's how far you have to go back, and even then 127 00:09:05.519 --> 00:09:07.440 you can't get a resource for that. So I think that was kind of 128 00:09:07.559 --> 00:09:15.120 based in what I was thinking there was Johnston City isn't rarefied air right now, 129 00:09:15.360 --> 00:09:18.159 and they're now moving into extremely rarefied air for teams of that conference. 130 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.279 So yeah, it's kind of where I was sitting with why I felt like 131 00:09:22.399 --> 00:09:24.679 Belvio altof was was the favorite in that game, and I was a little 132 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:28.639 surprised that they lost. Yeah, I mean we talked about it when we 133 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:31.759 were previewing it. Just the fact that Johnson City was going to be seen, 134 00:09:33.039 --> 00:09:35.120 you know, a type of two a team that they're not used to 135 00:09:35.200 --> 00:09:39.480 seeing, both in the trenches and outlied. So, you know, a 136 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:43.399 hell of a win for Johnson City. I did not see that coming. 137 00:09:43.480 --> 00:09:48.480 So a tough match up here against Saint Theresa this week, but a quality 138 00:09:48.519 --> 00:09:52.360 win for that program. But okay, let's let's go ahead and move on 139 00:09:52.600 --> 00:09:54.879 to Class three A. Here, SU's where in the north bracket. You 140 00:09:54.960 --> 00:09:58.799 had two of the best game we've seen all postseason, you have icy Ca 141 00:10:00.159 --> 00:10:03.559 like a twenty seven twenty winner over Princeton and overtime, and then Byron for 142 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:09.159 the second year in a row, scoring in the closing moments to beat Red 143 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:13.360 Custer thirty two to twenty seven. Sus. Yeah, that was one of 144 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:16.000 those situations where all those games were kind of converging at the same time when 145 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:20.080 they were getting done and right around the time but the game that I was 146 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.080 covering was finishing up. These two games were kind of reaching their apex, 147 00:10:24.200 --> 00:10:28.000 so I kind of had the split vision going on. I was doing some 148 00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:31.879 talking to some people after the game and kind of keeping my left eye a 149 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:33.799 little bit on my Twitter scital. They're trying to figure out what would happen 150 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:39.600 because once again, I mean a really heartbreaking loss for Red Custer to Byron. 151 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.399 I mean they got they got the go ahead score with a little over 152 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:48.440 a minute left. Byron didn't have any time outs left. It was almost 153 00:10:48.519 --> 00:10:54.080 the same situation that happened to them the previous year. I think they I 154 00:10:54.200 --> 00:10:58.799 think there might have been like less than ten seconds difference to what had happened 155 00:10:58.080 --> 00:11:03.480 to them the previous time. So just you know, a really, really 156 00:11:03.559 --> 00:11:07.879 disappointing way for read customer season to end in that situation. But I have 157 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.200 to admit when I saw that tweet come out that said that they had no 158 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:13.399 timeouts left in a minute left, my first thought in the back of my 159 00:11:13.519 --> 00:11:20.639 head was they gave them too much time that It's like, that sounds ridiculous. 160 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.039 I mean, I didn't know where the ball was on the field, 161 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:26.240 but even then, I was like, that's too much time. I mean, 162 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:28.960 they do what they do, and they do it so well, and 163 00:11:30.080 --> 00:11:33.279 it's just I mean, I feel like I'm tipping my cap to that program 164 00:11:33.440 --> 00:11:37.440 often because they just they know how to get it done this time of year. 165 00:11:37.559 --> 00:11:41.600 So that was really something else. Now, as for the other game 166 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:45.080 in that semi final pot, I'll be honest, I did not expect it 167 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:50.799 to be as close as it was, And I was almost floored because Princeton 168 00:11:50.919 --> 00:11:54.639 had a two touchdown lead into the second half in this game, and I 169 00:11:54.759 --> 00:12:01.000 see Catholic had to pull back a thunderous rally to get it into overtime and 170 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:05.519 then once they did to capture the win. There, so a little bit 171 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:09.960 of a surprising outcome there for me. I was of the opinion that that 172 00:12:09.279 --> 00:12:15.360 Icy Catholic was was a little a little bit better. Uh, you know, 173 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.440 the gap was wider between those two teams than it turned out to be. 174 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:22.440 Yeah, I mean I I was right there with you. I see 175 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:24.440 Catholic was down twenty to seven at the half. As you said, I 176 00:12:24.519 --> 00:12:28.200 was able to come back and win that game. I'll tell you what, 177 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:33.159 though, I thought it was less you know, I was looking through stuff 178 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:37.519 after the game, and uh, Kevin Haronmus covered that game for us over 179 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:41.080 at Friday Night Drive, and you know, you look at it, and 180 00:12:41.200 --> 00:12:43.679 I think it was less about Ice Catholic. Honestly, the way that game 181 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.639 was played, I think Princeton just played a hell of a game, man 182 00:12:46.840 --> 00:12:50.960 Like, I think they just they had a game plan in place. The 183 00:12:50.080 --> 00:12:54.559 problem is when you're trying to stop a team like Ice Catholic, it just 184 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:58.360 it just grinds you down throughout that game. And Ice Catholic just kept coming 185 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:01.480 at him, kept coming at him, and eventually was able to stick a 186 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:03.879 couple in the end zone there to pull it out. But hell of an 187 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:09.600 I effort from Princeton. Yeah, I mean, definitely, I don't dispute 188 00:13:09.639 --> 00:13:13.080 that at all. I mean it's one of those situations when you look at 189 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:15.879 it and you see what's going on and maybe you're a little bit surprised by 190 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:18.399 it, but sometimes you just have to tip your cap through a team in 191 00:13:18.480 --> 00:13:22.960 that situation when it when I think everybody, everybody who has been watching this 192 00:13:24.080 --> 00:13:26.879 for a while probably considered Princeton to be a pretty significant underdog in this game. 193 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:30.840 So for them to come out with the confidence that they did execute the 194 00:13:30.879 --> 00:13:35.039 way that they did, you know, an Unford another ununfortunate end for you 195 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:37.879 know, it's one of these situations. I think this was something we kind 196 00:13:37.919 --> 00:13:41.720 of predicted we were going to get to this stage of the playoffs and there 197 00:13:41.759 --> 00:13:45.519 were going to be two teams that didn't feel like deserve to go home prior 198 00:13:45.639 --> 00:13:48.639 to the semifinals that we're going to leave at this stage because and that's the 199 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.519 way I feel now. I feel like both of those two teams are definitely 200 00:13:54.080 --> 00:13:56.600 semifinal worthy, if not more so. So. That's you know, it's 201 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:01.480 just kind of the way that the bracket broke. And I'm not meaning to 202 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:03.600 decry the teams in the Southern bracket, but boy, I would have loved 203 00:14:03.600 --> 00:14:07.600 to have seen this bracket in one to thirty two I mean, that's just 204 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:09.720 really what it comes down to right now, because I'm looking at it now 205 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:15.440 and I feel like that those two teams that were eliminated this week would have 206 00:14:16.320 --> 00:14:20.279 a very good chance if they were placed in the Southern bracket of not only 207 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:24.120 still being alive, but maybe being the qualifier round of that side. Yeah, 208 00:14:24.279 --> 00:14:26.600 I absolutely agree. I mean, you look at the Southern bracket here, 209 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:31.440 you had tolon A Unity the four seed takedown Perie Central the top seed 210 00:14:31.519 --> 00:14:37.200 fourteen zero, and then Williamsville no issues of the william Fille the three seed 211 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:41.639 taking down Olympia forty one twenty one in that game. Listen, and these 212 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:48.080 are two programs seeing to Lona Unity in Williamsville playing in a state semifinal is 213 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:54.600 not exactly uncharted territory for us here sives not a big stretch now. I 214 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:58.559 mean, if you if you looked at this for as long as I've looked 215 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:01.960 at this, I probably should have known better than picking against Tolona Unity last 216 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:05.679 week. Yeah. It's just it's one of those things, and these are 217 00:15:05.759 --> 00:15:09.399 games that they just don't lose. I mean, now, I'm not going 218 00:15:09.480 --> 00:15:11.960 to get into what tends to happen to them when they get farther down the 219 00:15:13.000 --> 00:15:15.799 line. I'm sure they don't want to hear about that right now. But 220 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:20.639 in terms of these games, these are games that I just they so infrequently 221 00:15:20.759 --> 00:15:24.879 lose. I mean, that's that. I mean I probably should have sniffed 222 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:28.200 that one out. I really didn't, But that's I really liked where Pray 223 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:33.080 Central was at. But they obviously didn't have their best game, and Tolono 224 00:15:33.240 --> 00:15:37.639 just kind of took the knowledge of the first meeting and and and planted a 225 00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:39.960 planet to seed and let that tree grow because they really took care of it. 226 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:43.399 Um. That was a that's a that's a quality win for them that 227 00:15:43.480 --> 00:15:46.240 there's no doubt about that. UM. As far as the other one, 228 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.840 the Williams Viille Olympia game had prayed out pretty much exactly how I thought it 229 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:56.799 would. Yeah, another rematch meeting where it just, let I mean being 230 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:00.360 frank, they were the gap is pretty wide, talent wide between those two 231 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.720 teams. Yeah, I agree, all right. In Class four A here 232 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:10.919 you had oh well, I don't want to say one of the more surprising 233 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:15.679 results, but maybe the fashion in which it played all was surprising to me. 234 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:19.360 So you had providence a thirteen seed taking down number one Richmond Burden thirty 235 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:25.120 one to fourteen in that game. And as I said, I wouldn't have 236 00:16:25.399 --> 00:16:30.600 been completely shocked or floored with Providence winning this game, but it was the 237 00:16:30.679 --> 00:16:36.440 fact that throughout it it really felt like the Celtics were in control. Joe 238 00:16:36.480 --> 00:16:38.759 Stevenson was covering that game down for us in New Lennox, and you know, 239 00:16:38.879 --> 00:16:42.399 he was messaging and saying the same thing. It's it's been very rare 240 00:16:42.600 --> 00:16:48.200 during the Michineal era at Richmond Burden to see the Rockets behind in the game 241 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:52.159 and really having to play catch up. Well, the whole thing was just 242 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:56.960 kind of bizarre to me because I was covering a game at Lincoln Way East 243 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:00.960 at one pm on Saturday afternoon. For those that don't know, you can 244 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:06.559 get from link and Way East to Providence in about fifteen minutes just by bouncing 245 00:17:06.599 --> 00:17:11.240 across on thirty and the link Away East game started an hour before the Providence 246 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:14.680 game, And I'm thinking the entire time in the back of my mind, 247 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:18.640 if my game gets done fairly quickly, I'm going to go catch the second 248 00:17:18.680 --> 00:17:22.000 half of the Providence Richmond Burton game because I want to see that, so 249 00:17:22.519 --> 00:17:26.720 my game went at a relatively decent pace, nothing crazy fast or crazy slow. 250 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:30.400 I did my postgame interviews, got out of there pretty quickly, turned 251 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:34.200 down the radio and tuned in the game, and discovered that my plan was 252 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:40.119 not going to work because that game was pacing along at a very fast clip. 253 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:44.599 But I did it anyway. I drove over there and pulled it into 254 00:17:44.640 --> 00:17:48.680 the parking lot right as the game ended. So a brisk game where like 255 00:17:48.799 --> 00:17:52.759 it felt like just from what I was able to follow on that is, 256 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:57.160 you know, Providence just keeps doing this to people. They just they go 257 00:17:57.400 --> 00:18:03.440 in, they make absolutely no mistakes. They take care of all the little 258 00:18:03.920 --> 00:18:07.319 any small edge that they can gain, They're gonna take it. They're gonna 259 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:11.920 even if it doesn't seem like it matters all that much at the time, 260 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:15.000 They're gonna use that small edge later in the game. And it's just it's 261 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:21.400 been impressive to watch because, like you keep everybody at this point gets to 262 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:26.640 where they talk about like individual players, who's the guy that's gonna like that's 263 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:29.839 gonna break this game open for you. I mean, we're now we'reth the 264 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:36.559 semi final round. And when I talk about Providence I need a dartboard because 265 00:18:36.599 --> 00:18:41.079 I can't have one guy. It's I know that the potential of who it 266 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:47.160 could be is I'm not joking. It literally a list of twenty names of 267 00:18:47.640 --> 00:18:52.160 kids that might be able to be that guy. And I think that's by 268 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:56.839 design. I don't think they're trying to cultivate a situation where they have the 269 00:18:57.039 --> 00:19:00.279 dude. I think they're saying, hey, you can all be dudes. 270 00:19:00.359 --> 00:19:04.319 Let's go do this. I mean, it's it's really it's really been something 271 00:19:04.440 --> 00:19:11.200 that's been fascinating to watch. Yeah, it's been a great effort by the 272 00:19:11.279 --> 00:19:18.720 Celtics this year. Just Yeah, Tyler Plants taking over that program in his 273 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:22.519 first season just has everything working really well over there, just well oiled machine. 274 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:26.319 And they're gonna get a semifinal matchup with Saint Francis, the number three 275 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:32.440 seed, a thirty five sixteen winner over Richelle, no issues for the Spartan 276 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:33.920 in the quarterfinal round. And then on the south side of the bracket, 277 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:38.480 the matchup that we've all anticipated, we've all been looking forward to. If 278 00:19:38.480 --> 00:19:41.920 it came to fruition, we did get it. Rochester a forty one twenty 279 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:47.880 eight twenty eight winner over Carterville and Sacred Heart Griffin a fifty one thirteen winner 280 00:19:47.920 --> 00:19:51.799 over Murphy's Borough, which means we get a Friday night, a rare Friday 281 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:56.799 nights state semifinal game. We get the Leonard Bowl one final time with Rochester 282 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.279 and Sacred Heart Griffin matching up suits. There's really funny to watch that kind 283 00:20:00.319 --> 00:20:04.960 of develop on Saturday afternoon, I was hearing that this game was going to 284 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.480 be Friday at seven o'clock before either one of those two games were concluded. 285 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:15.519 You think they had talked a little bit about it. Yeah, obviously there 286 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:19.559 had been some inter family conversations had prior to this game about the scenario that 287 00:20:21.480 --> 00:20:26.160 may play out. Not actually surprised to see this happen. This was the 288 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:30.000 same situation that we went through last year when we were in the semifinals once 289 00:20:30.039 --> 00:20:34.519 again and they elected to play on Friday night again, so kind of breaking 290 00:20:34.599 --> 00:20:38.119 the traditional mold of once you get to Saturday, you don't go back to 291 00:20:38.240 --> 00:20:41.920 Friday. I love it and I'm hoping to I'm hoping to make the trip 292 00:20:42.000 --> 00:20:45.160 down there for the last Leonard Bawl on Friday night. And makes all the 293 00:20:45.240 --> 00:20:48.599 sense in the world too. When you're talking about two teams that you know, 294 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:53.039 or whoever wins that game is going to be playing on Friday night at 295 00:20:53.079 --> 00:20:57.920 seven pm and Champagne anyway, So it makes all the sense in the world. 296 00:20:59.680 --> 00:21:02.799 Yeah, it does. And it's just one of those things when you 297 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:06.480 look at it. Um, I don't know why, especially in the smaller 298 00:21:06.519 --> 00:21:11.039 classifications, schools move off of it so quickly, because if you do advance 299 00:21:11.119 --> 00:21:15.039 deep into the playoffs, the most important week of the season, you're going 300 00:21:15.119 --> 00:21:18.160 to be playing on a short week. Like so I'm I'm always like until 301 00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:22.599 you have to stay on Friday. I mean, it's just it makes more 302 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:27.599 sense from especially if you have state championship aspirations and you're in one to four 303 00:21:27.680 --> 00:21:32.759 A, because you know, the it's a it's already a short week because 304 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:37.319 of Thanksgiving, and then you're shortening yourself down even farther by, you know, 305 00:21:37.599 --> 00:21:41.319 by not having the knowledge of whether or not you're going to state taken 306 00:21:41.359 --> 00:21:45.519 care of until Saturday night. I mean, that's I've never understood that logic. 307 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:48.960 Yeah, it's just kind of always been that way. Um. I 308 00:21:49.079 --> 00:21:55.000 get it for travel purposes and for trying to get the biggest crowd out Saturday 309 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:59.680 afternoon makes more sense. But um, I'm sure, um, I'm sure 310 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:02.839 there are some coaches out there that would prefer to have that game still on 311 00:22:02.920 --> 00:22:04.920 Friday night. But all right, we're gonna take a quick commercial break and 312 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:11.640 then come back and look at Class five A through A A Schweiker Gannison Krizak 313 00:22:11.720 --> 00:22:15.519 Rundio proudly sponsors to Friday Night Drive. I'm Mike Krazak. If you've been 314 00:22:15.559 --> 00:22:18.480 injured, we are ready to take on the insurance company and get you to 315 00:22:18.599 --> 00:22:22.839 the end zone. We've recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for our clients. 316 00:22:22.119 --> 00:22:30.640 Visit ga nassi n dot com. Thank you once again to sgk R for 317 00:22:30.759 --> 00:22:34.759 sponsoring Friday Night Drive. Now we're gonna go ahead and jump into Class five 318 00:22:34.839 --> 00:22:37.359 A. Where in the north brackets, who's you had two games up? 319 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:41.880 Honestly, we're really one sided. I mean you had Sycamore a twenty eight 320 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:51.720 to zero winner over Sterling. Really dominated that game throughout the spartans our Sycamore. 321 00:22:51.759 --> 00:22:56.039 It's just playing really well on defense right now and then on the other 322 00:22:56.119 --> 00:22:59.480 side or I'm sorry, in the other game in the North bracket yet number 323 00:22:59.480 --> 00:23:04.079 eleven now a twenty nine zero over Morgan Park Suits just two games that really 324 00:23:04.160 --> 00:23:07.640 from start to finish, were dominated by one side. Yeah, I made 325 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:11.400 the mistake of believing that I thought both of these games would be a little 326 00:23:11.400 --> 00:23:15.079 bit more competitive than they were. You know, both these teams defenses obviously 327 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:21.759 doing a really nice job. Sycamore, like I've already admitted several times, 328 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:26.839 continues to exceed the expectation that I had for them, and now going on 329 00:23:26.960 --> 00:23:29.960 back to back shutouts as they had into the semi finals, it's obviously a 330 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:33.559 football team that's playing really, really well. And you know, Nazareth, 331 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:38.200 you know, I think they've had a fairly fortunate bracket right now for an 332 00:23:38.240 --> 00:23:42.960 eleven seed, but you can only beat who they put in front of you, 333 00:23:44.880 --> 00:23:47.960 and that's what you know, Nazareth continues to do. And now, 334 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:52.200 you know, as positioned themselves as you know, one of two teams that 335 00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:56.319 had four regular season losses that are actually three teams that are still alive at 336 00:23:56.359 --> 00:24:00.720 this stage. So credit to them for you know, really putting the pedal 337 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:03.480 to the metal when their backs were against the wall. On the south side 338 00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:08.720 of the bracket. Morris was a thirty five fourteen winner. Morris number four 339 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:12.440 the four seed in the South bracket taking down the number one seed. And 340 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:17.480 to me, this was one of the more impressive wins of the quarterfinal round 341 00:24:17.559 --> 00:24:21.759 sues because Morris really I like this Muhammad Sea More team. I like the 342 00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:27.079 way it was playing, and Morris really really dismantled it. It just felt 343 00:24:27.160 --> 00:24:30.799 like they were in control throughout. Yeah, a couple of things here. 344 00:24:30.880 --> 00:24:34.839 I mean, when when anyone has had success against Morris, they've been able 345 00:24:34.880 --> 00:24:41.039 to either limit or counter an early punch from Morris, because they liked to 346 00:24:41.119 --> 00:24:45.640 put the pedal down right away, get a couple of scores on the board, 347 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:48.039 and make you put you in a catch up mode. And that's what 348 00:24:48.200 --> 00:24:52.160 Morris was able to do here. And then when you compound that with the 349 00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:56.880 fact that they've been without their leading rusher for the entire postseason, they were 350 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:00.480 without him again in this loss to Morris. I mean, yeah, you 351 00:25:00.599 --> 00:25:06.160 can't put it all on one player, but certainly his presence would have contributed 352 00:25:06.160 --> 00:25:10.160 to Muhammad Seymour being able to be a little bit more balanced on offense and 353 00:25:10.359 --> 00:25:14.599 not quite so reliant on going to the air. So it would have been 354 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:18.480 interesting to see how, maybe how his presence would have changed this outcome, 355 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:22.720 but he wasn't there, so Morris Morris was able to take advantage of that 356 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:26.759 fact execute and get themselves into the semifinals. And the other game in the 357 00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:30.039 South bracket you had Peoria a thirty six twenty one winner over Mascuda Suits. 358 00:25:30.079 --> 00:25:33.079 I don't know if you saw this on Twitter, like, so there was 359 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:36.000 anyone who was out at a game on Saturday, you know, like there 360 00:25:36.119 --> 00:25:42.039 was snow showers around and stuff. But I would have expected, you know, 361 00:25:42.079 --> 00:25:45.119 if you had shown me, like a county or an area up near 362 00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:48.519 the Wisconsin border to have several inches of snow on the ground. I was 363 00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:52.880 a bit surprised though, when I looked at masscutas a Twitter account on Saturday 364 00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:56.480 morning and saw them put it out a call to come clear off the field. 365 00:25:56.519 --> 00:25:59.400 And it wasn't like an enter too of snow on there like they It 366 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:02.680 looked like they had like four or five six inches of snow out of nowhere 367 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:04.519 they were trying to get to get pushed off. Did you see that? 368 00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:08.039 Yeah? I saw it. A friend of mine down there actually sent me 369 00:26:08.119 --> 00:26:14.799 a short video clip via text, and it was someone pushing a snow shovel 370 00:26:14.880 --> 00:26:18.200 down the goal line. Yeah, So I was like, what is going 371 00:26:18.240 --> 00:26:22.240 on? Where are you? Yeah, I'm like, what are you doing? 372 00:26:22.400 --> 00:26:23.559 I'm like, I don't understand. So I was like I was all 373 00:26:23.640 --> 00:26:27.839 confused because, like, like I it was fairly early in the morning and 374 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:32.039 I was just getting functional for the day. I'm like, I don't understand 375 00:26:32.079 --> 00:26:34.359 what is happening here. So it got explained to me later on. But 376 00:26:36.119 --> 00:26:38.480 as far as that football game went, it looked like Mascott did a nice 377 00:26:38.559 --> 00:26:44.839 job staying in early, but Peoria eventually tries to wear you down by just 378 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:47.519 being relentless on you, and they really kind of got at him in the 379 00:26:47.599 --> 00:26:52.000 second half. So that's going to be an interesting matchup between two teams that 380 00:26:52.440 --> 00:26:57.279 don't have any problems pushing the tempo this week. Yeah, Peoria pulled away 381 00:26:57.319 --> 00:27:02.559 in that game in the second half, and it's that that was a good 382 00:27:02.640 --> 00:27:06.640 reminder. Sometimes I think it's easy to forget how big of a state we 383 00:27:06.759 --> 00:27:08.519 live in, particularly like I'm all the way up here in mckenry County is 384 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:12.440 a very northern part of the state, and I mean Mascot does five hours 385 00:27:12.440 --> 00:27:17.279 away from me, if not more, And I like, I'll pe you 386 00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:19.839 looking out my window, Like, where the hell did all this snow come 387 00:27:19.920 --> 00:27:26.079 from down there? So yeah, always fun when you get postseason games in 388 00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:27.960 the snow. I enjoy that. Don't get enough of that in high school 389 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:32.400 football. I'd much rather have snow like that than like a cold rain at 390 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:37.440 thirty eight degrees SEUs. Yeah, all right, let's go ahead and get 391 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.160 over to Class six, say, and starting in the matchup between number four 392 00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:45.720 Saint Ignatius a winner thirty one to six over Niles Notre Dame. Again, 393 00:27:45.799 --> 00:27:51.039 this is a matchup here. Um, I expected the wolf Pack to win 394 00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:55.680 this thing get to their first U State semi final appearance. They did a 395 00:27:55.799 --> 00:27:59.400 really good job taking care of Niles Notre Dame, though, Yeah, I 396 00:27:59.680 --> 00:28:03.359 mean it was one of those things where like I didn't see what was going 397 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:07.839 on in that game in stream, all I saw was a final and it 398 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:12.039 was basically the reaction of wow, that's that's something else. And my dogs 399 00:28:12.079 --> 00:28:15.720 apparently have an opinion about this as well. So, uh, you know, 400 00:28:15.880 --> 00:28:18.720 this is basically one of those situations when you looked at the finals, 401 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:23.240 saw the score, didn't really know the context of it was. I was 402 00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:29.640 surprised at the relative ease that they put they put on Nile's notre game in 403 00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:33.480 a winning that game, and they set up a really interesting semifinal matchup with 404 00:28:33.640 --> 00:28:37.799 Prairie Rich because we're used to PRU getting into a matchup. And we'll hit 405 00:28:37.880 --> 00:28:41.440 on this more later in the week, but quickly, I just want to 406 00:28:41.480 --> 00:28:44.279 say that, like PR runs a triple option offense, We're used to seeing 407 00:28:44.359 --> 00:28:47.400 teams in the semifinals that don't have a lot of experience. I get that, 408 00:28:47.440 --> 00:28:49.839 but say Ignatius runs the triple option itself, so, um, it 409 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:56.079 sets up to be an interesting an interesting matchup here. Yeah, it does, 410 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.000 and it should be a fun situation for those two teams to kind of 411 00:29:00.039 --> 00:29:04.079 look at mirror images of themselves and you know, obviously slight variances between what 412 00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:10.240 the two programs do, but uh yeah, definitely definitely kind of a neat 413 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:15.359 way that this is played out in six A. So they, like I 414 00:29:15.359 --> 00:29:17.839 said, they get a match up with Prairie Ridge, which was a sixty 415 00:29:17.920 --> 00:29:22.119 nine twenty eight winner over Harlem on Saturday. I think pretty much anyone that 416 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:27.119 follows high school football had heard of Tyler vacpr's quarterback at this point, had 417 00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:33.519 was closing in on the state record and it becomes so ridiculous. The statue 418 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.200 was putting up coming to this game, and just to give you a little 419 00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:40.759 he had more than fourteen hundred rushing yards and just his last four games coming 420 00:29:40.880 --> 00:29:47.279 into Saturday's game against Harlem Prairie, Tyler Vacy goes out and puts up four 421 00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:52.079 hundred and eighty one yards and eight more touchdowns up against Harlem last week, 422 00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:57.759 goes flying past I'm blas from Lexington. What's his name, TJ Stint, 423 00:29:57.960 --> 00:30:03.279 Yeah, goes blowing path TJ Ston's state record set back in two thousand and 424 00:30:03.400 --> 00:30:11.039 nine. And I had said about the potential of Tyler Basy potentially moving towards 425 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:15.559 four thousand rushing yards and he's certainly hump paced for that, sus. Yeah. 426 00:30:15.799 --> 00:30:19.559 I mean it was funny because after my game was over, I had 427 00:30:19.640 --> 00:30:23.960 met up with Joe Stevenson and we were sitting at a Panera Bread in Lockport 428 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:30.759 as we wrote our stories, and both of us are continually expressing phrases of 429 00:30:30.920 --> 00:30:33.319 geez, oh, my gosh, and we weren't talking with one another, 430 00:30:33.640 --> 00:30:38.480 we were just refreshing our Twitter feeds and just it seemed like every other minute 431 00:30:40.279 --> 00:30:41.960 either one of us was seeing something for the first time, or we both 432 00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:45.200 saw it at the same time, and it was all about what he was 433 00:30:45.319 --> 00:30:49.799 doing in that game. Props to him, but I mean it was at 434 00:30:49.839 --> 00:30:53.680 one point I was like, oh my gosh, when we when is enough 435 00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:59.160 enough? Guys? Come on, let's let's stop this nonsense. I mean, 436 00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:02.279 we're we're going to the semifinals. I mean, I know where, 437 00:31:02.720 --> 00:31:06.519 I know we're we're looking at the stats here, but at some point enough 438 00:31:06.640 --> 00:31:11.039 is enough? Uh yeah, So he enters. Tyler Vasi enters the semifinals 439 00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:15.240 with three thousand, six hundred and nine rushing yard. Alex Kentucky covered that 440 00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:19.119 game for US and uh, harlem coach Bob, I apologize Monahan, is 441 00:31:19.119 --> 00:31:23.480 how I believe you say, Mighty Moynihan. I apologize Bob if I butchered 442 00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:30.359 that. Um. But he had a simple quote really in Alex's story, 443 00:31:30.960 --> 00:31:34.279 but it just kind of summed up and it was just I've never seen a 444 00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:37.079 kid like that, and really, what else can you say, Like when 445 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:42.079 when he's just stepping out of tackles, he's so strong where if you don't 446 00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:45.799 wrap him up, get multiple helmets to him, he's gonna step out of 447 00:31:45.799 --> 00:31:49.720 a tackle and just keep going right, Yeah, And it was like for 448 00:31:49.920 --> 00:31:55.079 me, I've only you know, I've seen so few games of that magnitude 449 00:31:55.240 --> 00:31:57.920 rushing the football. Um. The only other one that even comes in that 450 00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:04.000 neighborhood is is Taie Isaac's performance for Jolia Catholic in the state final game against 451 00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:08.920 Montini in the way Back Machine. But but yeah, he's one of those 452 00:32:09.039 --> 00:32:15.079 He's one of those special athletes that obviously knows how to maximize what he has 453 00:32:15.160 --> 00:32:20.279 ability wise, and then has that extra gear and that competitiveness that keeps him 454 00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:24.480 going for some of these ridiculous numbers that he's been posting on the south side 455 00:32:24.519 --> 00:32:28.119 of the bracket. In six, say you had a Lamount with a workman 456 00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:32.119 like effort taking down and shutting out Kenwood fourteen to zero, and then East 457 00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:37.400 Saint Louis a forty five zero winner over Creepmoni And frankly, there I got 458 00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:40.839 that one not wrong, because I expected He's Saint Louis to win the game 459 00:32:40.880 --> 00:32:45.480 and win it, you know, fairly easily. But given Creepmone's pedigree as 460 00:32:45.480 --> 00:32:49.480 a program, what they had done in the first round of the postseason, 461 00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:52.559 I thought they might be able to at least keep that game like where you'd 462 00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:54.279 go into the second half like, well, he's Saint Louis. Can't take 463 00:32:54.359 --> 00:32:58.200 their foot off the gas otherwise, Creepmonie is gonna stick in this game. 464 00:32:58.319 --> 00:33:00.960 But really, from the start finished the Flyers, it was all all e 465 00:33:01.079 --> 00:33:05.920 Saint Louis in that one. Yeah, I mean, I did not expect 466 00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:07.839 it to be this wide of an outcome either, but I mean they did 467 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:13.200 it so quickly too. It was it was more of a we're gonna get 468 00:33:13.240 --> 00:33:15.880 to halftime, We're gonna be up comfortably, We're going to coast home. 469 00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:19.519 I mean, and that's obviously what they've done to everybody in the playoffs. 470 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.119 But I thought Crete would at least at least throw a few punches in this 471 00:33:22.279 --> 00:33:25.480 game, and it doesn't look like they were able to do that. I'm 472 00:33:25.599 --> 00:33:30.319 not I've been talking myself out of this after the first two losses of the 473 00:33:30.359 --> 00:33:36.000 season. I started the season with them at number one, and I think 474 00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:39.839 that that maybe they should still be there. I think they might be the 475 00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:44.039 best team in the state right now. You're saying for the power rankings, 476 00:33:44.319 --> 00:33:49.720 Yes, yeah, and I mean that's that's I completely understand where you're coming 477 00:33:49.759 --> 00:33:52.799 from with that. And that's pretty incredible to think about considering everything Mount Carmel 478 00:33:52.839 --> 00:33:57.920 has done this season. Yeah, it is, but I just I I 479 00:33:58.200 --> 00:34:00.880 know that, like when I look at a Creetmoney team, I know they're 480 00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:05.960 a good football team. And the way that East Saint Louis just completely took 481 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:09.920 them apart and did it in such a fast and quick fashion, it is. 482 00:34:10.400 --> 00:34:15.599 It's something to behold. And speaking of Mount Carmel in the Class seven 483 00:34:15.679 --> 00:34:20.800 eight field um really a statement win against brother Ry forty eight to twelve. 484 00:34:20.840 --> 00:34:25.320 They dominated that game throughout the caravan, playing extremely good football right now, 485 00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:30.039 just really humming along. They're gonna get a semi final matchup like it's a 486 00:34:30.079 --> 00:34:35.639 familiar foe in Saint Rita. Saint Rita a twenties eight to seven winner over 487 00:34:35.719 --> 00:34:39.599 Saint Charles North Um. This kind of ties into the Providence to the same 488 00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:45.519 thing as Providence earlier, where Saint Rita there's not a lot of of like 489 00:34:45.679 --> 00:34:52.239 standouts like there's and I don't mean that like there's obviously it's it's a historic 490 00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:54.840 Catholic league program. There there are standout kids, but like there's not that 491 00:34:55.039 --> 00:34:58.840 kid that makes you think they're going to take over the game. But Saint 492 00:34:58.920 --> 00:35:04.360 Rita is just another example of a very very well rounded team. Yeah, 493 00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:07.960 and I mean that's that's really what it comes down to. I think at 494 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.280 this point. Sometimes that can get you a really really long way in the 495 00:35:10.320 --> 00:35:15.320 playoff situation, and sometimes it can be a real advantage. Uh. You 496 00:35:15.400 --> 00:35:20.760 know, if you don't have that that one stand out that that opponents can 497 00:35:20.880 --> 00:35:23.880 scheme for, it just makes the concept of, you know, how you're 498 00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:28.920 going to defend somebody that much more difficult to I mean, yeah, does 499 00:35:29.000 --> 00:35:32.480 anybody want to play an elite player? Probably not, But sometimes it can 500 00:35:32.559 --> 00:35:36.559 be it can be an advantage for the team that doesn't have one. If 501 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:38.679 if you have a variant of weapons that you can use at any time, 502 00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:43.199 well, they're just they're just so solid all the way across the board. 503 00:35:43.239 --> 00:35:45.239 I mean, like even you talk about special teams. You know, Michael 504 00:35:45.280 --> 00:35:49.800 grojac covered that game for US against St'm sorry, Jake Barleston covered that game 505 00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:54.440 for US against Saint Charles North and UM. Saint Rita block two punts and 506 00:35:54.559 --> 00:35:59.159 they were both returned for a touchdown. UM, they blocked a field goal 507 00:35:59.159 --> 00:36:05.079 attempt, they forced three turnovers. They just do everything. They just do 508 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:09.320 enough in all phases of the game that it just makes it really difficult. 509 00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:14.480 You have to be really on your game to compete. Yeah, I mean, 510 00:36:14.559 --> 00:36:16.519 and that's that's that's what it really comes down to. And I mean, 511 00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:21.960 when you look at what they've the Saint Reads just quietly put together a 512 00:36:22.119 --> 00:36:25.440 really really nice resume for themselves. The two losses or two you know, 513 00:36:25.719 --> 00:36:30.599 arguably two of the top three teams in the state. Um, they did 514 00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.280 those early in the year, and ever since they've just kind of been a 515 00:36:34.519 --> 00:36:37.320 very low key wrecking ball, if that makes any sense, where they just 516 00:36:37.559 --> 00:36:42.480 kind of just steamroll their way through you. And that's just been a really 517 00:36:42.599 --> 00:36:46.039 really a credit to their organization and how they do things in that program. 518 00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:53.039 Batavia was a seventeen to six winner over Yorkville. That was a game where 519 00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:59.440 it really played out almost exactly like I expected. Like this Yorkville team all 520 00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:05.280 season, I really like where they were defensively. I always worried that eventually 521 00:37:05.280 --> 00:37:07.800 they were going to run into a team like Batavia that was just as strong 522 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.119 defensively. I just didn't know if the Foxes weren't going to be able to 523 00:37:12.159 --> 00:37:15.800 put enough points on the board, and that kind of I shouldn't say kind 524 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:19.320 of that that that is how this game played out. Yeah, And I 525 00:37:19.400 --> 00:37:22.360 mean it's funny to look at this now, and I mean, obviously this 526 00:37:22.480 --> 00:37:25.079 is an hindsight, but I even remember back when the pairings came out, 527 00:37:25.800 --> 00:37:29.760 you know, and Batavia is up on the board as an eighteen seed. 528 00:37:29.880 --> 00:37:34.800 I'm like, I just got this funny feeling we're gonna see Batavia really really 529 00:37:34.880 --> 00:37:37.719 deep in this bracket, and now we're one step away from them being in 530 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:42.760 Champagne. And I'm not the least bit surprised. I mean, just that's 531 00:37:42.840 --> 00:37:45.599 where I was at with it. I mean, i mean, they've they've 532 00:37:45.719 --> 00:37:50.239 been the lower seed now in all three of their playoff games. I've picked 533 00:37:50.280 --> 00:37:53.679 them to win all three of those games. It's it's just that's just where 534 00:37:53.719 --> 00:37:58.719 we're at right now, what this program is. And I just have this 535 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:01.800 overwhelming sense it's a playoff game. Batavia is going to figure it out, 536 00:38:02.559 --> 00:38:06.639 and they're gonna get a match up against number eleven lake Zurich, which was 537 00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:09.519 a twenty nine twenty seven winner over Peak. And lake Zurich is a team 538 00:38:09.559 --> 00:38:15.039 that kind of been under the under the radar, is kind of floating on 539 00:38:15.119 --> 00:38:19.519 the periphery, I guess because like they had a win against Warren that turned 540 00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:23.920 your attention to them, But like there just hasn't been anything really um that 541 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:28.679 stood out about the Bears, to be completely honest with you, and my 542 00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:31.199 biggest concerned with Lake Zurich was kind of the same thing with Yorkville, where 543 00:38:31.199 --> 00:38:35.960 it was I was concerned that if they got into a matchup where they had 544 00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:38.000 to score, I wasn't sure Elz was going to be able to do it. 545 00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:45.119 But really twenty nine twenty seven win over Peakin a really quality win for 546 00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:49.440 lake Zurich. Yeah, I mean that's a team that Pegan's just kind of 547 00:38:49.480 --> 00:38:52.239 been, you know, the energizer Bunny over the last couple of weeks. 548 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:57.440 Just keep going and going and going and hope that whatever they're doing is going 549 00:38:57.480 --> 00:39:01.960 to be just enough to get them into next round. A great team, 550 00:39:02.079 --> 00:39:06.639 a great effort from them this season, especially with this Lake zero team. 551 00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:09.599 But lake Zerius done a really nice job of kind of like morphing to the 552 00:39:09.679 --> 00:39:13.920 situation this year. If it has to be a defensive struggle, they can 553 00:39:14.000 --> 00:39:16.000 make it a defensive struggle. If it has to be a situation where maybe 554 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:17.960 they got to put up twenty eight they figure out a way to do that. 555 00:39:19.880 --> 00:39:24.199 It's there. They're a really good team in that sense, which makes 556 00:39:24.280 --> 00:39:29.199 Batavia a really interesting challenge in the semifinals, and we'll get to that later 557 00:39:29.280 --> 00:39:34.440 this week. But not all that surprised to see them here either. I 558 00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:37.360 mean, you know, that's I kind of felt like the second round win 559 00:39:37.440 --> 00:39:42.239 over Wheaton North was kind of a real nice signature win for them and definitely 560 00:39:42.280 --> 00:39:44.840 proved that they could capable, they could get to the stage. Yeah, 561 00:39:44.840 --> 00:39:46.840 I completely agree with you there. That was the win that really kind of 562 00:39:46.880 --> 00:39:52.840 put them back on the radar and solidified them as a contender in seven A. 563 00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:54.880 But all right, let's go over to Class eight A and finish this 564 00:39:55.000 --> 00:39:59.239 up. Suits. You got to see lincoln Way Yet win thirty five to 565 00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:01.320 fourteen over Warren. What do you think of that one? You know, 566 00:40:02.039 --> 00:40:07.320 I think I'm just used to it at this point, so I think that 567 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:10.920 causes me to undersell what lincoln Way East is because I see them do this, 568 00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:15.480 and I see them do this so often. It just feels like, 569 00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:20.719 you know, whenever you look around the field at them, they don't have 570 00:40:21.039 --> 00:40:22.800 this year. They don't have anyone that is going to make you go, 571 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:29.119 you know that guy, that guy's a dominant force. But they don't have 572 00:40:29.559 --> 00:40:32.559 They also don't have anyone in the field that makes you go that might be 573 00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:39.159 a problem for them. They're just so solid and fundamental in everything that they 574 00:40:39.280 --> 00:40:43.000 do. You know, you look at the fact that I mean, this 575 00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:45.920 game ended up thirty five to fourteen. The only reason that Warren got fourteen 576 00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:51.480 points in the game was because Lincolnway East had two punts blocked at the end 577 00:40:51.519 --> 00:40:54.440 of the game. Without their first string special teams units on the field. 578 00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:59.920 Other than that, Warren could do anything. I mean that they were. 579 00:41:00.199 --> 00:41:04.639 They were stymied at every turn. They they barely I think they may have 580 00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:08.000 had three plays all game long they went for longer than six yards um. 581 00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:15.800 It just they're just so technically sound. They do exactly what they intend to 582 00:41:15.920 --> 00:41:19.440 do when they get there, and they just don't make a lot of mistakes. 583 00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:22.599 And and even if they do make mistakes, you're usually so frazzled by 584 00:41:22.639 --> 00:41:25.840 something else they're doing that you can't take advantage of it. So, I 585 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:30.760 mean, it's it's just a really really sound of football team. And I 586 00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:36.079 don't think I give them enough credit for that. Yeah, they just they 587 00:41:36.159 --> 00:41:38.079 just keep doing it, and you are right, like, it's it's to 588 00:41:38.199 --> 00:41:45.280 the point now where it's almost overlooked because it's it's just so consistent. Um, 589 00:41:45.400 --> 00:41:47.920 But the Griffins just keep getting it done. But they're gonna get a 590 00:41:47.960 --> 00:41:53.000 matchup this week against Glenbard West. Glenbard West and Main South played maybe, 591 00:41:54.199 --> 00:41:57.920 I mean they're they're several contenders, but they are in the on the short 592 00:41:58.000 --> 00:42:01.280 list of best game in the quarterfinal A thirty seven thirty four win for Glenn 593 00:42:01.280 --> 00:42:10.639 Bar was in this game. They had the Hilltoppers. They successfully executed two 594 00:42:10.800 --> 00:42:15.360 on side kicks in the second quarter, were able to build a ten point 595 00:42:15.440 --> 00:42:17.519 lead at twenty four to fourteen, and then took that lead into the half 596 00:42:17.599 --> 00:42:22.360 at thirty one twenty one. Didn't have a lot of scoring in the second 597 00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:25.280 half there, but we're able to hold out for a three point when a 598 00:42:25.559 --> 00:42:30.159 really really solid high school football game. Sus Yeah, I was torn. 599 00:42:30.280 --> 00:42:34.760 I was actually considering hopping in my car and going up and seeing this one 600 00:42:34.800 --> 00:42:37.880 on Saturday night, but I ended up not doing it, you know, 601 00:42:37.960 --> 00:42:42.400 because I actually you might even hear it in my voice today, I kind 602 00:42:42.440 --> 00:42:44.840 of feel a cold coming on. So I thought it might not be in 603 00:42:44.920 --> 00:42:47.119 my best interest to go stand around in you know, thirty degree temperature for 604 00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:52.679 several more hours, so I didn't go, but I wish I had. 605 00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:55.480 It definitely looked like it was a kind of a chess match there at the 606 00:42:55.559 --> 00:42:59.280 end of the game, and I really, I really enjoy those kinds of 607 00:42:59.360 --> 00:43:01.239 mastinations at the end of the game. So, uh, you know, 608 00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:06.519 Main South had some opportunities Glenbard West, you know, pulling out a couple 609 00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:10.719 of on side kicks because they they actually feared giving Main South more cracks at 610 00:43:10.920 --> 00:43:15.360 uh at offense in the game, which is something I'm just not accustomed to 611 00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:21.159 seeing from Glenbard West, who usually hangs its head on a hat on being 612 00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:24.559 an extraordinary defensive team. And I was looking at that game story after the 613 00:43:24.639 --> 00:43:29.639 fact, and I wonder how many other times as Glenbard West has given up 614 00:43:29.679 --> 00:43:31.880 over four hundred yards through the air, because I bet you that list is 615 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:37.440 really really short, so um, you know, to to uh you know, 616 00:43:37.639 --> 00:43:39.639 to take that a new account, and that they still managed to come 617 00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:44.280 out of there with a victory says a lot about what they're what they're capable 618 00:43:44.320 --> 00:43:47.519 of. Yeah, four hundred and twenty six yards through the air from Maine 619 00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:52.119 South. We're able to get that within a touchdown or I'm sorry, within 620 00:43:52.280 --> 00:43:58.280 three points with a minute left there. Um, and uh, you know 621 00:43:58.679 --> 00:44:02.440 it's a really good high school football game. But all right, got two 622 00:44:02.519 --> 00:44:07.519 games left here. You had York a twenty four ten win over Palatine and 623 00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:14.039 Loyola a thirty to seventeen win over Lions Township, two games that went pretty 624 00:44:14.119 --> 00:44:20.360 much to script sus. Maybe Lions kept that game against Loyola closer than I 625 00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:24.960 anticipated, but overall kind of what I expected. Yeah, I think so 626 00:44:25.159 --> 00:44:30.079 too. You know, it took York a little while while to get away 627 00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:34.199 from Palatine in that game. I thought that Palatine team, though I thought 628 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.000 both teams maybe would score a little bit more. That would be really the 629 00:44:37.119 --> 00:44:42.199 only thing that really surprised me about that. But yeah, kind of what 630 00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:44.599 you're saying there, I think that both of them, you know, obviously 631 00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:47.119 the results were kind of what I expected, you know, the margins, 632 00:44:47.440 --> 00:44:51.679 especially in the Lions Loyola game. I thought Loyola might have a little bit 633 00:44:51.840 --> 00:44:53.960 easier at a time in that game. But I think once you get to 634 00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:58.599 this stage, especially in something like like eight A. You don't get worried 635 00:44:58.599 --> 00:45:01.280 about the margins too much. Am playing next week? That's the primary questions. 636 00:45:01.360 --> 00:45:07.800 So you know, survive in advance kind of becomes a really really prominent 637 00:45:07.880 --> 00:45:10.280 factor here in the eight eight A at this stage of the tournament. Yeah, 638 00:45:10.280 --> 00:45:13.079 it's a very fair point, all right. See, So you got 639 00:45:13.119 --> 00:45:15.320 any final word before we wrap this up. You know, pretty good quarterfinal 640 00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:19.719 week overall. I mean, it was a lot of it played out pretty 641 00:45:19.800 --> 00:45:22.360 much the way that I expected. I was surprised to learn when I looked 642 00:45:22.400 --> 00:45:25.320 at looked at it after the fact, to I went twenty nine and three 643 00:45:25.480 --> 00:45:30.039 and picking games last week and and looking at the three that I lost, 644 00:45:30.119 --> 00:45:35.639 I kind of understand why I lost them. So I kind of went to 645 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:38.360 the way that I expected it to go. So that that can be a 646 00:45:38.400 --> 00:45:40.760 good thing, that can be a bad thing at times, hopefully, you 647 00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:45.559 know, I always hope for a little bit more chaos, but there were 648 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.119 still some very good games this week. Yeah, not a lot of chaos 649 00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:51.920 at all this season. I mean we've talked about that going way back into 650 00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:54.519 the regular season, about things playing out really across the board most of the 651 00:45:54.599 --> 00:45:58.679 time. How we expected this year to play out doesn't happen all the time. 652 00:45:58.800 --> 00:46:01.719 We're certainly certainly not the smartest guys in the room most in most cases 653 00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:05.760 here, we just got lucky this year. SEUs. Yep, that's what 654 00:46:05.880 --> 00:46:08.639 it appears. Definitely definitely agreeing with you. Not the smartest guys point. 655 00:46:09.239 --> 00:46:13.679 All right, well let's get out of here. For everyone who listened, 656 00:46:13.719 --> 00:46:15.599 oh we appreciate it. Make sure you do follow us on Twitter at f 657 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:20.559 and Drive. 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