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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to the Friday Night Drive Western
Speaker 2: Suburbs Podcast. This is Joshua Welgi. I'm joined here by
Speaker 2: Joel Bennett's We're here taping on Tuesday afternoon, coming off
Speaker 2: another very exciting high school football Friday Week two. Joe,
Speaker 2: how are you feeling today? And Jane for Good.
Speaker 5: I'm excited for Week three. Obviously, this week marks start
Speaker 5: of some conference play across the Western Suburbs area, and
Speaker 5: I'm really excited to see how some of these teams
Speaker 5: play against conference rivals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, some of the some of the really
Speaker 2: power conferences like the DU Cane Conference, the West Suburban Conference.
Speaker 2: They're starting to enter in conference play this week, so
Speaker 2: a lot of fun matchups that will dive into later
Speaker 2: in the podcast. But before we get into that, I
Speaker 2: wanted to, you know, kind of review week two because
Speaker 2: there's a lot of great games that we wanted UH
Speaker 2: to talk about. You know, as we're taking here on Tuesday,
Speaker 2: want to run everybody of some of the content that
Speaker 2: we have on on Friday Night Drive. We have, namely
Speaker 2: Steve Seuss here at least are updated Friday Night Drive
Speaker 2: Power rankings, so you know, everybody want to check that out.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow Steve will be dropping is updated playoff productions. So
Speaker 2: a lot of good stuff out there right now. You know,
Speaker 2: when I looked at Seave's power rankings, one of the
Speaker 2: things that jumped out a new entry that you want
Speaker 2: to see is as we Go. Aswego coming off of,
Speaker 2: for my money, maybe the most notable win in the
Speaker 2: Western Suburbs last Friday, they beat joy a Catholic seventeen
Speaker 2: to nothing. It's a man that Joe. When I saw
Speaker 2: it came out in the summer, I'm like, WHOA, that's
Speaker 2: kind of an interesting one. I've those two teams don't
Speaker 2: match up in a while. Well, they hadn't metched up
Speaker 2: in a while, and it had actually been thirty five
Speaker 2: years since they had seen each other in the football field.
Speaker 2: The last time they had played they were in the
Speaker 2: Class four A playoffs. That was when there was six
Speaker 2: classes in Illinois. Now there's course the was eight classes.
Speaker 2: So it been in quite a while, and I was
Speaker 2: just kind of wondering how how Oswego can match up
Speaker 2: with Joey Katholic. I know Oswego has a really good program,
Speaker 2: they have a really good team, but I mean, man,
Speaker 2: Joey kathlick is, they're They're one of the blue bloods
Speaker 2: in high school football and also of course the defending
Speaker 2: five A state runner up. But man Oswego really took
Speaker 2: it to him. Aiden Via ran for over one hundred yards,
Speaker 2: ran for a big sixty four yard touchdown run. A
Speaker 2: Swego got off to a good start. I think they'd
Speaker 2: led seventeen to nothing at halftime in that game, and
Speaker 2: the defense did the rest, because the defense usually does
Speaker 2: the rest for us Weego. They have a tremendous defense,
Speaker 2: led by their three linebackers. Senior Carson Cooney going to
Speaker 2: Iowa Mikey Claycomb, another senior in Easton Ruby. It's funny
Speaker 2: they wear numbers four, five, and six. So you know,
Speaker 2: I'm kind of doing my notebook on those guys this
Speaker 2: week for the Kenno County Kennon County record, but just
Speaker 2: kind of want to get a little bit more background
Speaker 2: on that. But so you can't miss those guys in
Speaker 2: the field and they lead them. They It all starts
Speaker 2: with that defense. It's a defense that only gave up
Speaker 2: seventy points in the regular season last year. It's a
Speaker 2: defense that held n Equal Valley to seven points in
Speaker 2: Week one, but then they take it to another level,
Speaker 2: I think, to be able to shut out Joey Kathley.
Speaker 2: That was That was a very impressive and frankly an
Speaker 2: eye opening win for US week going week week two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, certainly seems like I mean, obviously I'm not, you know,
Speaker 5: really well known around you know, the blue bloods in
Speaker 5: the Illinois area, but especially when you knock off a
Speaker 5: team that's considered a blue blood early on in the season,
Speaker 5: it's going to be a confidence booster heading into the
Speaker 5: ladder half of the season.
Speaker 2: No doubt. I mean, it sets us as we go up. Well,
Speaker 2: I think, you know, not to get ahead of ourselves,
Speaker 2: but they're going to be favored in pretty much every
Speaker 2: game from here on out. You know, they're looking at
Speaker 2: the potential nine to zero record and a really good
Speaker 2: sea going into playoffs. But again get ahead of ourselves there.
Speaker 2: But a great win for them last Friday beating Joid Catholic.
Speaker 2: We mentioned some of the conferences that start conference play
Speaker 2: this week, the Duke Cane Conference. Notably, I looked before
Speaker 2: that we jumped on six out of their eight teams
Speaker 2: or two and zero through two weeks. You got to
Speaker 2: see one of them last Friday. Batavia very impressive win
Speaker 2: over South Elgin.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely a big win. I mean it's gonna be
Speaker 5: It was the first time that they were facing that
Speaker 5: they were facing the Storm since their last season in
Speaker 5: the Upstate Eight back in twenty seventeen. That matchup been
Speaker 5: into being a ten to seven victory for Batavia, but
Speaker 5: it was surely different turnout this time around. Talk to
Speaker 5: Tody Anderson after the game and he was talking about
Speaker 5: how much of a learning game this game against South
Speaker 5: Elgin was supposed to be, and boy didn't look like
Speaker 5: he learned a lot I mean he started off the
Speaker 5: game a little bit shaky, but after he found Isaiah
Speaker 5: Brown for a fifty seven yard touchdown, I mean, he
Speaker 5: just looked a lot more confident in the pocket. He
Speaker 5: ended up finishing with ten of fourteen with one hundred
Speaker 5: and fifty five yards and three touchdowns, and it was
Speaker 5: just an offensive explosion for Batavia, you know, something that
Speaker 5: was a little bit lacking in that week one matchup
Speaker 5: against Glen Pard West. They just kind of laid it
Speaker 5: out on South Elgin and they were that starters were
Speaker 5: all out by that by the second half. So it
Speaker 5: was another blowout win that I got to saw in person.
Speaker 5: And I've only seen three quarters of starters so far
Speaker 5: in my first two games of Illinois football, so it's
Speaker 5: definitely been It was definitely great to see, and it
Speaker 5: was great to be around with the Tavia.
Speaker 2: Atmosphere for the first time.
Speaker 5: That obviously had heard a whole lot about it, but
Speaker 5: the scene in person, it was definitely interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Tava is one of those towns that really get
Speaker 2: behind their football team. I Mean, I know they're in
Speaker 2: the suburbs, but sometimes I feel like I get sort
Speaker 2: of a small town feel when I'm at a Batavia
Speaker 2: football game, because the whole community just really comes out
Speaker 2: and rallies around their their football program and it's a
Speaker 2: great football crime program. So, you know, good win for Batavia.
Speaker 2: Their their neighbor rival Geneva, they were able to roll
Speaker 2: as well, so they're two and zero. Another conference rival
Speaker 2: that's two and oh as well but pretty tight games
Speaker 2: is Wheat North. I mean Wheat North. Week one, they
Speaker 2: beat Providence on the last play of the game, and
Speaker 2: then last Friday they beat Lockport twenty two to twenty one.
Speaker 2: Shane Direcks caught a two point conversion from their quarterback
Speaker 2: Nick Johnson. Uh Shane Dereks also scored the winning touchdown
Speaker 2: in week one. He's a he's a two way player.
Speaker 2: He plays defense as well. So you know, Wheat North,
Speaker 2: I mean, on the one day, they could easily be
Speaker 2: going too but but but being too one, or being
Speaker 2: two and zero and beating two very quality non conference
Speaker 2: opponents and Providence and Lockboard, they gotta feel pretty feeling
Speaker 2: pretty good about pretty good about themselves.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I mean Weed North was one of those
Speaker 5: teams where you know, everybody was questioning how they were
Speaker 5: gonna look after last season. I mean, they lost Max
Speaker 5: Howser their starting quarterback, Walter Owens at running back, and
Speaker 5: then of course Maccuzage at wide receiver. You know, three
Speaker 5: great players for them that led them consistently, and you know,
Speaker 5: to see that they are able to pull out some
Speaker 5: come behind from behind wins both in Week one and
Speaker 5: Week two certainly got to be a big confidence booster
Speaker 5: heading into du Ka Conference play with a two and
Speaker 5: zero record, especially considering the doubts that some people have had,
Speaker 5: you know, with them prior to the season. I mean,
Speaker 5: Steve Sussy had them projected not to make it into
Speaker 5: the playoffs. But you know, it's looking like a good
Speaker 5: sign for the Falcons heaving to gain conference play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt. I mean you mentioned teams that people
Speaker 2: maybe wondered about, maybe some doubts about going in. I
Speaker 2: look at Kaitlin. I really didn't know what to expect
Speaker 2: about Kaitlin losing a four year starting quarterback and losing
Speaker 2: a four year wide receiver. They're two and ozer and
Speaker 2: also Marmee with a new head coach, Adam Garah, they're
Speaker 2: two and o as well. I mean, Kaitlin Marmy have
Speaker 2: to be feeling pretty good about themselves right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, I mean, uh, for Caitlin, it's mainly been
Speaker 5: thanks to you know, the leg that they have behind
Speaker 5: them and Sam Bruno I need you know. Last week
Speaker 5: against u Wakanda, it was you know, they scored on
Speaker 5: the first drive to play our first drive of the game,
Speaker 5: and then they didn't score besides all of the kicks
Speaker 5: from Bruno. Yeah, I mean he had three field goals
Speaker 5: all were within thirty yards of each other. But you
Speaker 5: know that ended up being the difference for them in
Speaker 5: winning that game, and it and you know, whichever way
Speaker 5: gets in the win, surely it helps with them. And
Speaker 5: then in Marmion's case, you know, had a very similar
Speaker 5: situation from Batavia or a very similar situation like Batavia.
Speaker 5: In week one against Oak Forest, they scored twenty one
Speaker 5: points unanswered in the third quarter to secure a twenty
Speaker 5: one to fifteen victory. And then in week two against
Speaker 5: the Noble Academy, you know, fifty six nothing win. I mean,
Speaker 5: pretty much dominant from the start. So it's pretty great
Speaker 5: to see that the Cadets are looking pretty well under
Speaker 5: or under Gara after losing Dan Thorpe, who is of
Speaker 5: course the head coach there for the past nineteen seasons.
Speaker 5: So they're looking pretty solid so far, and it's heavily
Speaker 5: thanks to a lot of senior leadership from what Gara
Speaker 5: has told me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Marmion and Caitlin for that matter, doing a good
Speaker 2: job of stacking two wins back to back in the
Speaker 2: first two weeks because they're both gonna need it because
Speaker 2: Marmion going to go into CCL E SEC play and
Speaker 2: that's just going to be a dogfight week in and week
Speaker 2: out just to get a win every week. And Kitlin,
Speaker 2: I mean, the inter State eight is no joke too
Speaker 2: when you're talking about you know, the likes of Morris
Speaker 2: and Sycamore and teams like that. So but nevertheless, very
Speaker 2: good starts for both those programs. They have to be
Speaker 2: feeling pretty good about themselves right now. Another program that
Speaker 2: has to been feeling pretty up themselves. I got to
Speaker 2: see for their first time last Friday was York York
Speaker 2: with a with a new head coach, Don Galcemino, who
Speaker 2: was their defense coordinator for the last four years and
Speaker 2: did a great job there. You know, they're off to
Speaker 2: a really nice start to and zero. They beat Playing
Speaker 2: Field North last Friday, thirty five to thirteen. Really a
Speaker 2: game that that final score doesn't really do a justice
Speaker 2: because because York they scored thirty five points and a half,
Speaker 2: and then they pulled their starting quarterback, senior Brunham Massil
Speaker 2: in the second half, and you know, I kind of
Speaker 2: feel like it is one of those games where they're like,
Speaker 2: all right, we're up, we're at big, We're just gonna
Speaker 2: kind of coast there. Not that they wanted to, but
Speaker 2: you know, when you take out your starting quarterback, things
Speaker 2: kind of change a little bit. But but Bruno Masso
Speaker 2: was very impressive. He was a kid that last year
Speaker 2: was more of a running quarterback as a backup. They
Speaker 2: brought him in as you know, one of those guys
Speaker 2: that bring him in for certain packages, uh, for running
Speaker 2: plays and things like that. He actually ran for four
Speaker 2: touchdowns as a backup to Sean Winton last year. And
Speaker 2: then he was a really good track kid as well.
Speaker 2: He's a kid that was was on a medalist four
Speaker 2: by one relay three tame state qualifier. He's been a
Speaker 2: qualifier in one hundred meter dash. I think he runs
Speaker 2: one hundred and like ten eight seven, which Joe, I
Speaker 2: think that's pretty good. Right, you're you're a track guy.
Speaker 2: I think I think that's pretty solid.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So, I mean he's he's known as a runner, but
Speaker 2: he he really you know, he could put it on
Speaker 2: there with with the passes on Friday, he had some
Speaker 2: really big third down conversions, which I thought was very impressive.
Speaker 2: They have a six foot seven junior tight end, Hunter
Speaker 2: Stepanitch that people are gonna want to keep an eye on.
Speaker 2: He's a kid to watch not only this year but
Speaker 2: next but uh. And then addition to that, they have
Speaker 2: a great defense. I mean Don Gelsimino, their coach, was
Speaker 2: their defense Cordner before that, so they really hang their
Speaker 2: head on defense. Joe Rife, their defensive linemen, is going
Speaker 2: to Notre Dame. He plays an offense as well. They
Speaker 2: have some good linebrackers as well. You know, Henry Duda,
Speaker 2: their running back, ran for one hundred and sixty nine
Speaker 2: yards in a couple of touchdowns. So a very impressive
Speaker 2: week to win for York and feel pretty good about
Speaker 2: themselves going into conference play. You know, maybe not this week.
Speaker 2: I think next week they start West Suburban Silver plays.
Speaker 2: So so you're a good win last Friday, and you
Speaker 2: know that one of their conference rivals. Lions Township got
Speaker 2: a very nice win going into Wheaton South and beating
Speaker 2: Wheaton Wornville South Lions. Township's head coach John Butcher, of course,
Speaker 2: was a great player for Wheaton South quarterback back in
Speaker 2: the late nineties. This is first time coaching back in
Speaker 2: Wheaton as a head coach for Lyons and a good
Speaker 2: win for them. Notably, Travis Stam their senior wide receiver
Speaker 2: going to Illinois State. He set the career receptions record
Speaker 2: for Lion snatch him in that game. So he's he's
Speaker 2: had a great year. I believe he's a four year
Speaker 2: varsity player. He's definitely three year of varsity. But he's
Speaker 2: been a very good player for them, you know, the
Speaker 2: last few years. Uh. But uh a good win for
Speaker 2: Lions and then Acrosstown uh uh Nazareth. You know, I
Speaker 2: was kind of wondering how they do against Kenwood after
Speaker 2: a really close game against kan Key. I thought he
Speaker 2: was going to be a really close game. And it
Speaker 2: was definitely not a close game because they they they
Speaker 2: they were up by the forty point rule early in
Speaker 2: the second half. Logan Malichick, they're a really good quarterback.
Speaker 2: He threw for six touchdowns in the first half, which
Speaker 2: that's a pretty good game. That's a pretty good few games.
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Speaker 2: They have it all. Anything else for Week two that
Speaker 2: jump out to you.
Speaker 5: I think it was just overall a pretty interesting week
Speaker 5: just across the games that you know were covered on
Speaker 5: my end. I mean, you know, he had some games
Speaker 5: that kind of followed the similar rule from week one. Obviously,
Speaker 5: teams like Geneva kind of blowing out their opponents once again.
Speaker 5: But you also had a couple of turnarounds on some
Speaker 5: of these teams. I mean, Sat Charles North got a
Speaker 5: good win against Cretemanay. I think the final score was
Speaker 5: like fifty two to thirty or something like that. Something
Speaker 5: pretty big and pretty notable. Good offensive that lots of
Speaker 5: good offensive. It's on my end, that's one big thing
Speaker 5: that I realized from week two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would agree with that. So so yeah's
Speaker 2: let's jump into week three, shall we. We mentioned earlier
Speaker 2: that conference play starts this week for some of these leagues,
Speaker 2: namely the Ducaine Conference game you're gonna be on Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm interested to see that one when Warneville South and Geneva.
Speaker 2: Wheaton South coming off of a close loss against Lion Township.
Speaker 2: Geneva of courses two and zero haven't really been tested
Speaker 2: so far. I think they're gonna get tested Friday at
Speaker 2: Wheton South. What do you think about that one?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's definitely gonna be a big test
Speaker 5: for Geneva, the first true test I believe for them
Speaker 5: this year. I mean you kind of mentioned it there.
Speaker 5: Wheaton Warnville South is obviously, you know, a very tough opponent.
Speaker 5: They have one of the only three losses that Dukine
Speaker 5: Conference teams have heading into conference play overall thirteen to
Speaker 5: three record, which is I think the best record they've
Speaker 5: had since twenty twenty one. What Wheaton War or when
Speaker 5: Wheaton North actually went on to win the state championship,
Speaker 5: the only team from the t King Conference to win
Speaker 5: the state championship. But no, I think it's obvious it's
Speaker 5: obviously gonna be a big game overall. Obviously, Wheaton one
Speaker 5: Bow South's loss last week, you know, it was against
Speaker 5: a quality opponent, which I mean, all three losses were
Speaker 5: against quality opponents. But I mean they showed in week
Speaker 5: one that they are able to play up to competition
Speaker 5: with their win against Glen part South. So it'll be
Speaker 5: interesting to see if they can do it again against
Speaker 5: a team like Geneva who have obviously, you know, shown
Speaker 5: out in the past game. I mean, you know, Tony
Speaker 5: Chichino has nine touchdowns already so far this season in
Speaker 5: five quarters of play. Talent Taylor is already over two
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty reception yards and five touchdowns. It's obviously
Speaker 5: it's just gonna be a really good batchup and the
Speaker 5: next I'm excited to see how both teams play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, some really good receivers in that game. Talent Tylor obviously,
Speaker 2: but I'm Ray Williams for Wheaton South. He's a he's
Speaker 2: a track guy. I'm not he's going somewhere for for
Speaker 2: for football, I believe. I'm not quite certain, but I
Speaker 2: do know that he's a very good track guy as well.
Speaker 5: In Illinois.
Speaker 2: The ranked Yeah, film that this week especially, Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 2: going to n i U again. He I think you
Speaker 2: were there for track. He was. He met he medals
Speaker 2: pretty high, if not win state last spring, if I'm
Speaker 2: not mistaken state three.
Speaker 5: Hundred meter hurdles last week or not last week, last
Speaker 5: summer or last spring. So he's definitely a fast kid.
Speaker 2: A couple of really good receivers in that game, between
Speaker 2: Talent Taylor and Amara Williams. It should be a fun one.
Speaker 2: Another fun one obviously. St. Charles North, Wheaton North, Wheaton North. Again,
Speaker 2: they've had a couple of really close ones. Uh, that
Speaker 2: match between those two teams have been really good the
Speaker 2: last few years. Uh, you know, what do you think
Speaker 2: about that one as you look at those two teams.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's gonna be another close matchup this
Speaker 5: year around I mean, if anything, or if you know
Speaker 5: these past couple of weeks or Saint Charles North has
Speaker 5: said anything, it's that they're a very similar team to
Speaker 5: what they were last year. I mean a close win
Speaker 5: against Talent Time and then a pretty more resounding win
Speaker 5: against Crete Money. I mean, that's happened in each of
Speaker 5: the past two seasons. But obviously this is going to
Speaker 5: be a big test for Wheaton North's new new team
Speaker 5: that obviously has some players that are you know, not
Speaker 5: just or not as much of a new face on
Speaker 5: the roster as they were when they started in Week one.
Speaker 5: But this is going to be their first, like really
Speaker 5: true test, I believe for them. So I believe this
Speaker 5: is going to be another really close game between the
Speaker 5: two between the two teams, and I'm really interested to
Speaker 5: see how that plays out.
Speaker 2: So maybe the Marquee matchup in certainly in the western suburbs,
Speaker 2: maybe in the state on Friday, Nazareth defending five A
Speaker 2: stage champion going to Mount Carmel defending seven A state champion.
Speaker 2: Uh man, I'm excited just thinking about that that matchup.
Speaker 2: Will Jack, our colleague is going to be there for
Speaker 2: Friday night Drive. It's a matchup that, if I'm not mistaken,
Speaker 2: I believe the last time they face each other, uh
Speaker 2: was was? I believe it was J. J. McCarthy's last
Speaker 2: game as a Nazareth quarterback, uh his junior year. But uh,
Speaker 2: but but man, I mean when you're we're when you're
Speaker 2: talking about some of the talent, you know, just a
Speaker 2: quarterback of those two teams between Mount Carmel's quarterback, who
Speaker 2: and drawing a blank on but he's a very talented kid.
Speaker 2: And then Logan Malichick as well. So yeah, that that
Speaker 2: should be man, that that's gonna be one on a
Speaker 2: Friday night. I'm just kind of following all on to see,
Speaker 2: you know, what's going on, and certainly it's the the
Speaker 2: big matchup. I thinking the Catholic Is League as well.
Speaker 2: Do you do you have any kind of thoughts from
Speaker 2: a distance on that one.
Speaker 5: I think it's just gonna be a really good matchup.
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously you mentioned that this is going to
Speaker 5: be a matchup between two you know, state champions from
Speaker 5: a year ago, and I mean even though Mount Carmel
Speaker 5: is coming in at one and one, their one loss
Speaker 5: was a very high quality loss against the quality team. Great,
Speaker 5: but no, it's obviously going to be a really good
Speaker 5: matchup between these two teams.
Speaker 2: So your dog agrees, I think anybody agrees. I think
Speaker 2: any person agree, any dog would agree, any cat would agree.
Speaker 2: So it's it's gonna be a fun one on Friday,
Speaker 2: Nazareth playing Mount Carmel. You mentioned Mount Carmel is a loss,
Speaker 2: but that Hunt School was basically you're talking about almost
Speaker 2: like a junior college that they're playing uh uh with
Speaker 2: with the Hunt Schools, So uh yeah, that that that
Speaker 2: should be a good one, good good kind of measuring
Speaker 2: stick about where Nazareth is at. I mean, they they
Speaker 2: had a nice win over kanka Kee, they blew out Kenwood.
Speaker 2: But but Mount Carmel, that's gonna be that's that's that's
Speaker 2: gonna be a test on Friday, going going to their place.
Speaker 2: Another game, the game that I'm gonna be on a Friday,
Speaker 2: uh playing at Sandwich. For people that don't know about
Speaker 2: the rivalry, well they've they've only been playing Joel since
Speaker 2: eighteen ninety seven. This is gonna be the one hundred
Speaker 2: and thirteenth matchup between the rivals. They called, you know,
Speaker 2: the war on thirty four Route thirty four. I'm speaking
Speaker 2: of again. This will be the one hundred and thirteenth
Speaker 2: meeting between the rivals. Sandwich currently holds a fifty six
Speaker 2: to fifty two advantage. There's been four ties. Sandwich last
Speaker 2: year beat them twenty to seven to seven. Sandwich of
Speaker 2: course went all the way on to the Class four
Speaker 2: A quarterfinals and in a really great season for Sandwich,
Speaker 2: one of the better stories in the area, Sandwich, you know,
Speaker 2: getting back to the playoffs. Sandwich is zero to two
Speaker 2: though this year, and probably a little bit of a
Speaker 2: sensor urgency on their side, because I will say that
Speaker 2: they had a very difficult first two weeks. They lost
Speaker 2: to Mantino in week one, coincidentally playing a loss to
Speaker 2: Mantino in week two, and then Sandwich lost to Wilmington,
Speaker 2: defending two A state champion in week two. So again
Speaker 2: a little bit of a sense of urgency on the
Speaker 2: on the plane outside matchup like this old rivalry, there's
Speaker 2: always a sense of urgency. I mean, this is a
Speaker 2: this is the kind of game that both towns come out.
Speaker 2: You know, everybody's talking about They've probably been talking about
Speaker 2: it all the way growing up, and they're gonna be
Speaker 2: talking about it when they're forty or fifty years old
Speaker 2: about you know, remember remember when that twenty twenty four game,
Speaker 2: and remember when that happened, and you know stuff like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, this is this is a matchup that that
Speaker 2: everybody talks about around the community, and we'll see I
Speaker 2: I don't really know what to make of this, especially
Speaker 2: with Sandwich being zero and two Sandwich. I do know
Speaker 2: that they're really good running backs Simy and Harris, who
Speaker 2: ran for over fourteen hundred yards last year. He's had
Speaker 2: a tough start. I think he only he's been in Singer.
Speaker 2: He has not been over one hundred yards in either
Speaker 2: of the two games and really has been held down
Speaker 2: and they've really struggled. They really get him going. I
Speaker 2: will say that two of their starting offensive line might
Speaker 2: believe a hurt right now. They're also they're two top
Speaker 2: tackles from last year year. They both were injured during
Speaker 2: the offseason and I don't know if either of them
Speaker 2: are going to be back this season. So that's been
Speaker 2: a big loss, uh for Sandwich, losing both of those guys.
Speaker 2: On the Plano side. Their new head coach, Kyle Tutt.
Speaker 2: He came from Streeter, which they have a really long
Speaker 2: standing rivalry as well. Streeter plays Ottawa, so this will
Speaker 2: be his first taste of Plano Sandwich. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: really looking forward to it should be a fun one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, obviously, you know, a rivalry game is
Speaker 5: always a very important one, and it's always gonna be circled,
Speaker 5: especially if it's you know, as long standing as you know,
Speaker 5: you kind of mentioned since eighteen ninety seven. So who knows,
Speaker 5: this could be the game, or this could be you know,
Speaker 5: a really close game, or it could finally be a
Speaker 5: game for one of these players to kind of you know,
Speaker 5: burst onto the seed and you know, finally make that
Speaker 5: jump that they always wanted.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it should be. It should be going in
Speaker 2: and frankly, it's an important one. I mean, they're one
Speaker 2: of them's going to the other ones one and one
Speaker 2: to get some tough Ischwaukee River Conference games ahead against
Speaker 2: teams like Meranguo and Richard Burtons, so they really needed,
Speaker 2: i mean, both of them really need a win, and
Speaker 2: particularly Sandwich being oh and two. So we'll see. It
Speaker 2: should be a should be a fun one. Friday, another
Speaker 2: conference rivalry game, Uh, Glenbard West is playing at Downers
Speaker 2: Grove North on Friday, Glenbard West. Of course they are.
Speaker 2: They're oh and two now. Losses to Batavian Loyola no
Speaker 2: shame on either of those losses, but nonetheless they're oh
Speaker 2: and two and also notably their their star running back
Speaker 2: Tayan Oriento, who who heard his hand week one. He
Speaker 2: did not play in week two. Uh don't know the
Speaker 2: status of how long he might be out, but it
Speaker 2: sure looks like an injury that he might be out
Speaker 2: for a little bit. I mean his hand was bandaged
Speaker 2: up pretty good on the sidelines, uh last week. But
Speaker 2: they go to Downers North and Downers North is rolling.
Speaker 2: They're they're two and oh right now. They they've had
Speaker 2: two very big wins over over a found and Downers
Speaker 2: Grow South have their great quarterback Owen Lance, who is
Speaker 2: going to Minnesota. They have a great defense as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know they've allowed to pull in two games.
Speaker 2: They only allowed four first either four or five first
Speaker 2: down against Downards go South either way, very few first downs,
Speaker 2: let's put it that way. But but I mean downds
Speaker 2: go south or downs go North. Last year they beat
Speaker 2: Glenbard West for the first time since two thousand and six.
Speaker 2: I believe that was a kind of a watershed win
Speaker 2: for that that program and that team and kind of
Speaker 2: boosted them and then of course they got all the
Speaker 2: way to the Class seven A state championship game. But
Speaker 2: it was kind of a surprise when they beat Glenbard
Speaker 2: West last year. I'm not gonna be surprised if they
Speaker 2: win Friday night because it's at their place. I think
Speaker 2: Glenbard West is a little bit wounded right now. You know,
Speaker 2: down down their running back and Downers North is feeling
Speaker 2: good about themselves. But nonetheless, you know Glenbard West sometimes
Speaker 2: when the team's zero to two and they're struggling, that's
Speaker 2: when they get a little dangerous because because they know
Speaker 2: the significance of things. But anyway, it should be a
Speaker 2: very good game on Friday night.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we had a touchdown over these past
Speaker 5: couple of weeks. I mean, Glenbard West's first three games
Speaker 5: are pretty much a gauntlet over or against, Like you
Speaker 5: mentioned three teams that are within the top ten of
Speaker 5: our rankings. I mean, obviously Batavia is at number eight,
Speaker 5: North is at number seven, and Loyal is at number three,
Speaker 5: I believe now, but you know, obviously this is going
Speaker 5: to be a really important game for them and also
Speaker 5: for Donerscrope North because like you kind of mentioned, you know,
Speaker 5: last year was the last or was the first time
Speaker 5: they defeated Glenn Pard West since two thousand and six.
Speaker 5: So now with the momentum rolling a little bit, it
Speaker 5: may be time that they're thinking, maybe it's our time
Speaker 5: to you know, start our own little streak against them. So,
Speaker 5: you know, definitely going to be really interesting to see
Speaker 5: how both teams play.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and down as North, I think they're definitely one
Speaker 2: of the favorites in that conference. I mean, some might
Speaker 2: call them the favorite in a conference with some of
Speaker 2: the kids coming back, but you know, win over Glenbard
Speaker 2: West would be a great way to start a conference play,
Speaker 2: U Joe, get out of here. Any other games this
Speaker 2: Friday that you look forward to, Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think there's one other game that I believe from
Speaker 5: dw K conference that's gonna be really interesting. Obviously kind
Speaker 5: of mentioned how there were six teams that are heading
Speaker 5: into conference play at two and oh.
Speaker 2: We mentioned one of.
Speaker 5: The two and that are one of the battles between
Speaker 5: two and O teams in Saint Charles North and in
Speaker 5: Wheaton North. Another one that I think is going to
Speaker 5: be shocking and also a really good game Batavian Lake Park.
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously Batavia, you know, kind of coming behind
Speaker 5: with the losses of you know, Ryan bow, Luke Alwyn
Speaker 5: and Charles well Play. You know, they've been playing really
Speaker 5: well at their first two games. Lake Park has been
Speaker 5: playing really well as well. I mean, their big get,
Speaker 5: their big strength, has been the running game. In their
Speaker 5: first two games, they're averaging over they're averaging two hundred
Speaker 5: and sixty eight rushing yards a game in their first
Speaker 5: two games. I need, they have basically a dual headed
Speaker 5: dragon and Anthony Aristano and Robert or Munoco in the backfield,
Speaker 5: and it's been working really well for them. They have
Speaker 5: seventy two points under their name right now. And you know,
Speaker 5: it's one of those teams that I kind of suspected
Speaker 5: could be a shock in the Dukne Conference this year
Speaker 5: and they've been proven it so far. So it'll be
Speaker 5: interesting you see how build or how they'll face off
Speaker 5: against a Patavia defense that has proven that they can
Speaker 5: go against the run. I mean you kind of mentioned it,
Speaker 5: you know, in their Week one game against Glenbard West
Speaker 5: where they faced a really talented running back in terry
Speaker 5: On Oriental they've limited into under sixty yards, So it'll
Speaker 5: be interesting to see how build face off against not
Speaker 5: just one, but two high quality quarter or high quality
Speaker 5: running backs in their first game at Dukinge Conference play
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lake Park was a team that they got really
Speaker 2: close to the playoffs last year. They were four and five,
Speaker 2: they did not qualify. But yeah, I mean they're two
Speaker 2: and all two pretty impressive, went two very one side
Speaker 2: of ones, let's put it that way. They beat Cone,
Speaker 2: they beat Bartlett. But let's just say that they're going
Speaker 2: to step up in class just a little bit the
Speaker 2: next two weeks when they played Batavia and Geneva back
Speaker 2: to back. But you can't take away from what they've
Speaker 2: been able to accomplish so far. And when you play
Speaker 2: in a team like in a league light the Ducane,
Speaker 2: you really need to kind of stack those wins when
Speaker 2: you can, and they've been able to stack them. And
Speaker 2: now we're going to see how they can stack up
Speaker 2: against some really good teams. But but yeah, that will
Speaker 2: be a game I'm kind of interested to watch, not
Speaker 2: only about who wins, because they think Batavia win, but
Speaker 2: just how close can Lake Park play the I mean,
Speaker 2: can they have they got a little bit better to
Speaker 2: where they can hang in there or are they still
Speaker 2: you know, definitely way down on the pecking order in
Speaker 2: New Cane. No that should be should be interested to watch.
Speaker 2: I mean a lot of interesting two and oh teams.
Speaker 2: Gwenmarin North is to and oh as well in the
Speaker 2: Catholic League. Montini is two and oh. Sint Francis is
Speaker 2: two and oh. They both have two very difficult road
Speaker 2: games this week. Montini is going to Marit. Saint Francis
Speaker 2: is going to Loyola, a game being played on Friday night.
Speaker 2: Loyola just got lights. This will be their first Friday
Speaker 2: night game at Loyola's, so kind of a notable matchup there.
Speaker 2: Saint Francis playing at Loyola. A lot of good stuff
Speaker 2: this coming weekend, a lot of good stuff on Friday
Speaker 2: Night Drive. You want to tune in. I'm going to
Speaker 2: be back here tomorrow on Wednesday with Steve Susie as
Speaker 2: we look ahead some of the top Week three games
Speaker 2: in the state. We will have all of our previews
Speaker 2: coming in in every market that Shaw Local covers, and
Speaker 2: then of course Friday night, we'll be back at it
Speaker 2: covering a ton of games. I will be in Sandwich
Speaker 2: or Plane or rather covering Sandwich and Planol. Joel will
Speaker 2: be covering Wheaton Warneville South in Geneva, but we'll be
Speaker 2: covering a lot more. Of course, what we'll be able
Speaker 2: to having our live stream as well. From nine point
Speaker 2: thirty to eleven, you're gonna want to join Steve Susie
Speaker 2: and Matt Rotowald as a breakdown all the matchups around
Speaker 2: the state and what it means. So before we get
Speaker 2: out of here, Joel, anything else you want to talk about.
Speaker 5: Man is really excited to see how these teams play
Speaker 5: in conference play. I mean obviously heard so much about
Speaker 5: it heading into you know, with this job basically, so
Speaker 5: it'll be really interesting to see you with my own
Speaker 5: eyes this week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be a lot of fun. Thanks again
Speaker 2: for everybody for joining us again. This is Josh Weggy
Speaker 2: along with Joel Bennett's have a good Tuesday.
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