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Speaker 4: Hello everybody, and welcome to the Friday Night Drive Western
Speaker 4: Suburb Suburbs Podcasts. I'm Josh Welge, joined here on a
Speaker 4: rainy Tuesday afternoon by Joe Bennett's Joel. How you doing today.
Speaker 4: I'm really hoping that the rain gets out of here
Speaker 4: before the weekend.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I mean it's I was actually spending most
Speaker 5: of the week down in Saint Charles, Missouri, where I've
Speaker 5: you know, grown up for most of my life, and
Speaker 5: it was filled with rain the entire time. So I'm
Speaker 5: also very much done with this weather and just hoping
Speaker 5: that it goes away before this weekend. Starts.
Speaker 4: It's funny. I was talking to one of the coaches
Speaker 4: or today and I said, you know, I felt like
Speaker 4: for a month and a half we didn't get any
Speaker 4: rain at all, and now they're just dumping it all
Speaker 4: on us. So we'll see what happens. You know, it's
Speaker 4: that time of year you're gonna get get at. But uh,
Speaker 4: but anyway, Uh, we're here to talk football and and
Speaker 4: saw some great games last week. You and I were at
Speaker 4: at a couple and you know, I got another good one,
Speaker 4: good one in this weekend. A lot of great games
Speaker 4: to look forward to. But but we'll start to the
Speaker 4: games that that we saw last weekend and start with
Speaker 4: the game that you were at, Joel and uh Batavia.
Speaker 4: Why they really they really brought their offense. You know,
Speaker 4: what do you say those guys. It looks like they
Speaker 4: had everything going for them offensively.
Speaker 5: I mean they really did. I mean forty seven points
Speaker 5: in just a half of play against Collinsville and it
Speaker 5: looked like everything was just going their way. And you know,
Speaker 5: great build is droughout the entire game whenever they got
Speaker 5: on the offense. Plus also the defense pretty much stning
Speaker 5: in Collinsville's offense. Throughout the entire time. Just led to
Speaker 5: the recipe for success for this potato or for the
Speaker 5: Batavia team. And you know, it looks like they are
Speaker 5: fully ready for these playoffs. And you know, they showed
Speaker 5: that no matter who they're going to face, they're going
Speaker 5: to give their all. I mean, the backfield duo of
Speaker 5: Nathan Whitwell and Grayson Kelly, you know, really showed up
Speaker 5: in that game. They ended up rolling out two different
Speaker 5: quarterbacks during their game. They had Body Anderson, who's been
Speaker 5: starting for them pretty much all season, and then they
Speaker 5: also put in Michael vander Lutgarden, who's a sophomore who
Speaker 5: saw some time against Glenbard North. They put them in
Speaker 5: as well. Both of them combined for four passing touchdowns.
Speaker 5: Like I mentioned, the defense, I think they limited them
Speaker 5: to I want to say, like forty yards of offense
Speaker 5: when they faced or when they played in the first half.
Speaker 5: So it was just overall very dominating victor for Davia
Speaker 5: and it looks like they're ready to make another deep
Speaker 5: playoff run this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, you know, one game and obviously that
Speaker 4: was that was a blowout where everything was going offensively,
Speaker 4: but it really sounds like it's a little bit more
Speaker 4: the Batavia that I'm a little bit familiar with defensively
Speaker 4: from the standpoint that obviously Nathan Witwell is there a
Speaker 4: guy that they go to, but getting other guys involved
Speaker 4: like Grayson Kelly. Isaiah Brown is a really talented receiver.
Speaker 4: Being able to unlock him and get in the ball
Speaker 4: and let him do what he does. He's a really
Speaker 4: good receiver for them. So you know, a really good
Speaker 4: sign for them going forward that they able to do
Speaker 4: kind of kind of that. And and again I think
Speaker 4: I said last week, I mean I don't bet against
Speaker 4: Batavia ever, and definitely not this time of year, because
Speaker 4: they've proven that when you know, they can really get
Speaker 4: going come playoff time. So really good first round seven
Speaker 4: a win for them in seven A bracket. Another team
Speaker 4: in the seven A bracket that I got to see
Speaker 4: on Friday night equally impressive with Downers Grows North. They
Speaker 4: handled Wheaton Warneville's out pretty pretty handily. Final score was
Speaker 4: thirty four to seven. You know, one of the stories
Speaker 4: in that game down as go Norse junior quarterback Owen
Speaker 4: Lanceu really impressive. I mean, he've looked every bit like
Speaker 4: one of the best quarterbacks in the state eighteen of
Speaker 4: twenty one, passing three incompletions and one of them was
Speaker 4: a drop. And you know, just a kid that you know,
Speaker 4: really fast release, very accurate, I mean, you know, takes
Speaker 4: with the defense gave him. They were giving him a
Speaker 4: lot of the short stuff. He took it and they
Speaker 4: just kind of marched down the field, you know, really impressive.
Speaker 4: Just just a kid that's just got all the physical
Speaker 4: tools and all the mental tools also as well, just
Speaker 4: kind of mature beyond his years. And then they got
Speaker 4: a great defense on top of it. They give up
Speaker 4: a touchdown to Wheaton Warneville South and Wheaton Wheaton's first drive,
Speaker 4: but they shut him out after that. They forced a
Speaker 4: couple of turnovers. Joe Edwards really good defensive lineman, had
Speaker 4: a couple of sacks for them. So similar to Batavia.
Speaker 4: They looked like a team that is poised for a
Speaker 4: deep playoff run. So very impressive first round win for
Speaker 4: down His Grove North. You know, those are two programs
Speaker 4: that have had some success lately. You know, a program
Speaker 4: that it's been a while in the playoffs, but they
Speaker 4: got a good win for them last week. Burlington Central,
Speaker 4: What do you think about them. I mean first playoff win.
Speaker 4: Was it eighteen years?
Speaker 5: Yeah, they went in eighteen years at first home playoff win,
Speaker 5: also since two thousand and six. I mean, just a
Speaker 5: really controlling victory over Grant forty two to fourteen. It
Speaker 5: looked like it they had been you know it. They
Speaker 5: didn't look like it was their first playoff game in
Speaker 5: eighteen years. Let's just say that. I mean, it was
Speaker 5: just a very dominant performance. Jackson Alcorn had four touchdowns.
Speaker 4: At the game.
Speaker 5: You know, we kind of mentioned it a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks ago when they got their win over Prairie Ridge.
Speaker 5: You know, Alcorn is one of the best quarterbacks in
Speaker 5: the league that nobody's talking about. And you know, he's
Speaker 5: proved time and time again since that game that you know,
Speaker 5: he deserves to be talked about and deserves to be
Speaker 5: up in that conversation. Thats one of the best, you
Speaker 5: know quarterbacks in the area, and he proved it once
Speaker 5: again in their first playoff game. And you know, it's
Speaker 5: really shown how much Burlington Central has grown over these
Speaker 5: past couple of years where they finished four and five
Speaker 5: and just missed out on the playoffs. You know, it's
Speaker 5: shown how much you know, they've grown as a program,
Speaker 5: and you know it's a really good sign for them,
Speaker 5: especially with a tough matchup in the second round. So
Speaker 5: you know, it's going to be really interesting to see
Speaker 5: how they face off against a duking conference opponent. And yeah, no,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be really exciting to see. They showed some
Speaker 5: great stuff in their Week one picture and they're not
Speaker 5: one their Week ten victory to say.
Speaker 4: Round one, Round one, Week ten, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: so yeah, really really uh really good win for Burlington Central.
Speaker 4: They're really on a nice, nice role lately with some
Speaker 4: good wins for them. You know. One of the storylines
Speaker 4: for me in a in the first on the playoffs
Speaker 4: the West Suburban Conference as a whole tremendous job, I mean,
Speaker 4: down to go North. As I mentioned before, no surprise there.
Speaker 4: You know, Lions Township stays undefeated, no surprise there. But
Speaker 4: there are some other wins in there that you know,
Speaker 4: maybe if not surprising. They were pretty impressive York playing Edwardsville.
Speaker 4: You know, I was talking to a friend of mine
Speaker 4: from downstate by Edwardsville during the week and he said,
Speaker 4: you know, Edwardsville, he felt that he had one of
Speaker 4: the best defense in the state and probably the number
Speaker 4: one player in the state. And I kind of texted
Speaker 4: him during the game, like what happened to that elite defense?
Speaker 4: York scored thirty seven points on him. Bruno Massel, their
Speaker 4: senior quarterback, ran for one hundred and seventy two yards,
Speaker 4: eleven for eleven passing, and York put up thirty seven
Speaker 4: points on again what I was led to believe was
Speaker 4: an elite Edwardsville defense. I mean that that was a
Speaker 4: pretty impressive win for York last Friday.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely shout out to Billy for the and the
Speaker 5: edwards Hill friend. Yeah, but yeah, no, I mean, obviously
Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago, you know, they held East
Speaker 5: Saint louis Is just fourteen points in their matchup against them,
Speaker 5: and you know, I was really interested to see how
Speaker 5: York was going to face off against the team like that.
Speaker 5: But I mean, as you mentioned, you know, York planned
Speaker 5: for that game extremely well to get those thirty seven points,
Speaker 5: and you know, I thought it was going to be
Speaker 5: a really close matchup. But they, I mean, they proved
Speaker 5: me wrong. They proved you wrong, They proved Realy wrong.
Speaker 5: It was just a really fun It was just a
Speaker 5: really fun game to kind of just track throughout during
Speaker 5: my game. And yeah, no, it's really interesting to see
Speaker 5: how this York team is going to match up later
Speaker 5: on the playoffs when they faced even more tough teams
Speaker 5: in the future.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt. I mean, I'll be the first one
Speaker 4: AD made. I was wrong about that one. I bought
Speaker 4: into the Edwardsville kol Aid and really kind of doubted York.
Speaker 4: They had a couple of late season losses they kind
Speaker 4: of made wonder but that was a very impressive win
Speaker 4: for the Dukes. Equally impressive and equally surprising. Willerbrook going
Speaker 4: on the road to Hananiga. Hananiga is a program from
Speaker 4: the Rockford area. They only had one loss during the
Speaker 4: regular season, and they actually had zero losses on the
Speaker 4: field because they took a four for loss for an
Speaker 4: ineligible player early in a year. But they're undefeated other
Speaker 4: than that. Willerbrook goes on the road and gets a win.
Speaker 4: Very impressive. I mean, Willobrook is a team that outside
Speaker 4: of the West Suburban Gold this year, they really kind
Speaker 4: of struggled earlier in the year, so I kind of
Speaker 4: wondered how they would do when they get out of
Speaker 4: the league. But man, I will say that willerbrook they've
Speaker 4: been a team that consistently, They've got to the playoffs
Speaker 4: every year for the last decade or so, and when
Speaker 4: they get to the playoffs, they usually do something in
Speaker 4: the playoffs. I mean they've been to the quarterfinals routinely
Speaker 4: the last several years. They got to the semifinals in
Speaker 4: twenty nineteen, I believe, so they do it again. I
Speaker 4: mean the shout out to Nick Hildrith and Willobrook a
Speaker 4: really good win beating Hot Andigo last week, and shout
Speaker 4: out to their other West Suburban Gold you know rival,
Speaker 4: I guess, so to speak, Downers Grow South first playoff wins.
Speaker 4: I believe twenty eleven winning a back and forth game
Speaker 4: over Plainfield South a really good win for downs Grow South.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I mean, both both of those programs, I mean,
Speaker 5: you know, they didn't have the best start of the season.
Speaker 5: I think both of them entered West Erba Gold play
Speaker 5: at one and two, and you know, they both played
Speaker 5: really well throughout conference play and they showed how good
Speaker 5: they were when it comes to the playoffs. And I
Speaker 5: mean you mentioned Willowbrooks always performing well in the playoffs
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, they've won sixth straight heading or
Speaker 5: they won five straight heading into the playoffs, and they
Speaker 5: just used that momentum to pull them forward. In same
Speaker 5: for Downs Show South, I mean six straight victories to
Speaker 5: end the season and then that big win against Playing
Speaker 5: Field South to get their first playoff victory. I mean,
Speaker 5: both of these teams are rolling throughout the playoffs and
Speaker 5: it's going to be interesting how they're going to move
Speaker 5: that momentum through to the next round.
Speaker 4: No doubt, both of them have very difficult Round two games.
Speaker 4: Wilderbrook host Saint Rita on Friday night. Down As Go
Speaker 4: South goes on a road to Wayan's township also on
Speaker 4: Friday night, and there's a lot of Saturday games, but
Speaker 4: those are two of the Friday ones, so kind of
Speaker 4: looking forward towards to that any other first round games
Speaker 4: or first round wins that kind of kind of struck
Speaker 4: you Before we.
Speaker 5: Go on around two, I just want to talk about
Speaker 5: the number of records or school records that were broken
Speaker 5: at that Saint Charles North game against Rolling Meadows. I
Speaker 5: mean there were there were three school records broken in
Speaker 5: that game. I mean Ethan Plumb through for seven touchdowns,
Speaker 5: that was a school record. Keaton Ranky two hundred and
Speaker 5: ten receiving yards, that was a school record, and then
Speaker 5: breaking also got over a thousand careers or not thousand careers,
Speaker 5: a thousand receiving yards in the season, first receiver to
Speaker 5: ever do that at Saint Charles North. And considering the
Speaker 5: amount of quality wide receivers that they've had in their
Speaker 5: program over the past couple of years, even including last
Speaker 5: year where they had three really talented ones, you know,
Speaker 5: for him to be the first, that's a proving statement
Speaker 5: for how good Keaton Rinky has been this year. And
Speaker 5: you know, I think you know they're kind of rolling
Speaker 5: heading throughout the playoffs, and you know, after that Week
Speaker 5: four loss to the Table or to Batavia, they've just
Speaker 5: kind of been rolling. And they proved how how good
Speaker 5: of a team they are in that first round game
Speaker 5: against Robbie Gould and Rolling Meadows.
Speaker 4: It was like every week Ethan Plumb is doing just
Speaker 4: crazy things, you know, throwing a football. He just had
Speaker 4: a whale of a year for St. Charles North and
Speaker 4: Keaton ranking. I mean, you wrote about him this week
Speaker 4: in your King County Notebook. A kid that I believed
Speaker 4: he didn't play too many games last year. But he's
Speaker 4: really come back gangbusters this year.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he is how I believe. He got
Speaker 5: injured in Week two and he was out for a
Speaker 5: majority of the season before they played Bradley bourbon As
Speaker 5: in the first round last year where they lost, and
Speaker 5: you know, after that loss, he kind of said it's like, hey,
Speaker 5: I'm kind of mad of how this season went. I
Speaker 5: need to prove myself next year. And he's definitely done
Speaker 5: that this season for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt about that. A lot of a lot
Speaker 4: of great stuff in Round one. But you know, let's
Speaker 4: let's get started. Let's let's get ahead to Round two,
Speaker 4: and you know a game I think both of you
Speaker 4: and I are going to be having an eye on
Speaker 4: Saturday night. Actually, Burlington Central going to Geneva, if I'm
Speaker 4: not mistaken. Matt Roodibald emailed this week it's the first
Speaker 4: time these programs have ever met.
Speaker 5: That's correct.
Speaker 4: That that's something else. Those two programs are not separated
Speaker 4: by a whole lot of real estate. So but but
Speaker 4: fun matchup. I mean, when you talk about the quarter
Speaker 4: starting with the quarterbacks with Jackson al Corn for Burlington Central,
Speaker 4: uh Tony Chahino for Geneva. The receivers, We've l J.
Speaker 4: Kerr for Boington Central, obviously Tallon Taylor and a whole
Speaker 4: crew of guys for Geneva. You know what are you
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Speaker 5: I think it's just gonna be a great battle of quarterbacks.
Speaker 5: I mean you kind of mentioned it. I kind of
Speaker 5: mentioned earlier. You know, Jackson Alcorn being you know quarterback
Speaker 5: that nobody's talking being the best quarterback, and nobody's talking
Speaker 5: about Toy Chahino is probably the best first year quarterback
Speaker 5: that everybody got to note throughout the entire season. I
Speaker 5: mean he's up to thirty nine passing touchdowns this season,
Speaker 5: only two interceptions that go along with it. I mean,
Speaker 5: he has then extremely good and you know, both of
Speaker 5: these quarterbacks, it's gonna be a fire or a fire
Speaker 5: battles throughout the entire game and it'll be which quarterback
Speaker 5: and out dual the other. And you know, I'm really
Speaker 5: interested to see how both of these teams match up.
Speaker 5: We talked about Burlington Central's when Geneva bounce back from
Speaker 5: the weeknd lost to Saint Charles North for the Big
Speaker 5: four nine seven victory over a Munson. I mean, our
Speaker 5: Talon Taylor has had three or five three touchdown games
Speaker 5: this season. I have not seen any of them, so oops.
Speaker 5: But no, it's you know, both these teams are extremely good.
Speaker 5: They're one of the big teams that we've been talking
Speaker 5: about all season long. And you know, it's a matchup
Speaker 5: that I'm really excited to, you know, kind of walk
Speaker 5: along with from where I'm going to be at Saturday night,
Speaker 5: and you know, I'm really excited to see how the
Speaker 5: game turns out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it should be fun. I mean, obviously Geneva they
Speaker 4: bring that Duquane Conference pedigree. They've had a great year
Speaker 4: for there, but man, I mean Bernton Central. They come
Speaker 4: from a conference that's no slouch itself, in the Fox
Speaker 4: Fight Conference. They got that really good win over Prairie
Speaker 4: Ridge a few weeks ago. The game the Jackson ol
Speaker 4: Corn threw for like four hundred yards and six touchdowns
Speaker 4: something crazy like that. So, you know, again I've been
Speaker 4: wrong before, but I do believe there will be points
Speaker 4: scored Saturday night in Geneva. Game that I'm gonna be
Speaker 4: at on Saturday afternoon at one o'clock. I really looking
Speaker 4: forward to this one. Byron playing at Montini. This is
Speaker 4: a rematch of last year's Class three A state semifinal.
Speaker 4: Byron won that game, I believe, twenty six to twenty one.
Speaker 4: They went on to win the Class three state championship.
Speaker 4: That was their toughest game along the way, you know,
Speaker 4: the whole way, and and and it's a game that Montini.
Speaker 4: They've had their that game circle under calendar, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: pretty much ever since that loss. Game is gonna be
Speaker 4: at Montini. So we'll see if that makes a difference
Speaker 4: or not. But uh, you know, really curious Mantini has
Speaker 4: been on quite a role playing at c C L
Speaker 4: E s c C. Their their sophomore quarterback is he
Speaker 4: Abraham since he's taken over. I said it last week
Speaker 4: in a podcast. I mean, they're their offense is really
Speaker 4: taken off since he's been the quarterback for them, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of a dual threat to Mension. But man on
Speaker 4: the other side, Byron, you know what they do, they
Speaker 4: just do so so well. And and they got they
Speaker 4: had that really tough week Gate game with Dixon where
Speaker 4: they're able to survive that. They got Kaden Conston and
Speaker 4: and who's a really talented fullback and middle linebacker. He
Speaker 4: was hurt for at least a portion of this year.
Speaker 4: He's back now. So that's a game that you know,
Speaker 4: you hate to say it's a Class three A state
Speaker 4: championship because it's only the second round, but it's gonna
Speaker 4: be one of the games that's going to decide to
Speaker 4: Class three A state championship of that of that I
Speaker 4: do know, so again, really looking forward to that one.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's definitely gonna be a fun matchup, especially for
Speaker 5: second round of the playoffs. And you know, you mentioned
Speaker 5: that both teams have been really good throughout you know,
Speaker 5: the entire season. I mean Byron is once again undefeated
Speaker 5: heading into the playoffs since their third time four years
Speaker 5: whereas that where that has happened, and you know, Mantiniez
Speaker 5: pulled off some pretty impressive wins, especially down the stretch,
Speaker 5: and you know, it's gonna be really exciting to see
Speaker 5: how these two teams match up. And yeah, once again
Speaker 5: we're gonna I'm gonna make the prediction points will be
Speaker 5: scored in that game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think points are gonna be scoring that game.
Speaker 4: I mean to be curious to see how many points
Speaker 4: because Byron is Byron can really score. But they're not
Speaker 4: like a quick strike type score type offense. They're a
Speaker 4: wing t you know, if it needs to be ten plays,
Speaker 4: if it needs to be twelve plays, if it needs
Speaker 4: to be twenty one plays, they will score eventually. It's
Speaker 4: just you know, they don't mind doing a third and three,
Speaker 4: fourth and one type thing. So you know, I'm interested,
Speaker 4: you know, see how many possessions there are in that
Speaker 4: game because they can play those long drives. But yeah,
Speaker 4: but yeah, it should be fun. I'm I'm definitely looking
Speaker 4: forward to that. Haven't got a chance to see Montini yet,
Speaker 4: really looking forward to seeing them. Have not seen Byron
Speaker 4: this year obviously, they're a little bit of drive from Rockford.
Speaker 4: But but yeah, that should should be a lot of
Speaker 4: fun on on Saturday afternoon. Another Saturday afternoon game. Gave me,
Speaker 4: you're gonna be at Saint Charles North going to Mount Carmel.
Speaker 4: Man two pretty good quarterbacks in that game with with
Speaker 4: with Ethan Plumb and and Mount Carmel's quarterback that's going
Speaker 4: to Vanderbilt El Jack Elliott. A little bit of a
Speaker 4: history there too. I mean Saint Charles North when they
Speaker 4: went to State a few years ago, they needed to
Speaker 4: beat Mount Carmel along the way they did beat them.
Speaker 4: I remember Tyler newban Uh basically put Saint Charles North
Speaker 4: on his back and they're able to beat them in
Speaker 4: a very memorable semifinal game, I believe. But man, really
Speaker 4: really curious to see that one. Obviously, Mount Carmel is
Speaker 4: in seventy one of the teams that all right, if
Speaker 4: you're gonna get to where you want to go, you
Speaker 4: got to go through these guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exacinitely. And I mean when on the day of
Speaker 5: the seating selection show, I was actually covering Saint Charles
Speaker 5: North boys soccer that day at the regional final and
Speaker 5: I got approached by a couple of Saint Charles North
Speaker 5: fans and their appletic director, Joe BINOI and asked me.
Speaker 5: It's like, hey, do you have any idea what the
Speaker 5: seating is going to be? Anything like that, And I
Speaker 5: literally just told him, I'm like, hey, Steve Sussie probably
Speaker 5: has it the most accurate right now, because I have
Speaker 5: no idea besides that. And as soon as I told
Speaker 5: him that, their faces dropped and they're like, you're telling
Speaker 5: me we're gonna have to face Mount Carmel in round
Speaker 5: two and I'm like, unfortunately, I'm pretty sure that's the case.
Speaker 5: So they've been dreading this matchup. But I don't see why.
Speaker 5: I think this is going to be a really great game.
Speaker 5: I mean, Saint Charles North kind of mentioned it before.
Speaker 5: They've been really good since their Week four loss to Batavia.
Speaker 5: And when I talked to Keaton Rinky this weekend, you know,
Speaker 5: he was talking about how important the practice is going
Speaker 5: to be for this game. It's got to be the
Speaker 5: best that they have ever had. And you know, he
Speaker 5: was talking about the prep that they did for Geneva
Speaker 5: in week nine and how well that panned out. And
Speaker 5: he's like, we got to do that again, but even
Speaker 5: better this time. And you know, I'm really excited to
Speaker 5: see how this team faces off against Mount Carmel. I mean,
Speaker 5: you mentioned it. Jack Elliott has been really good throughout
Speaker 5: this entire season. They've had a couple of bad losses
Speaker 5: this year, especially to Royola back in the Beek nine.
Speaker 5: But you know, I think it's gonna be a really
Speaker 5: good game either way. And I'm just really excited to
Speaker 5: see how both these teams, you know, play, and I
Speaker 5: think this is gonna be another game that they decide
Speaker 5: who potentially wins Class seven eight.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean that Loyola game for Mount Carmelo
Speaker 4: is sort of the outlier for them in that Jack
Speaker 4: Elliott was healthy for that game and they didn't score
Speaker 4: a ton of points. I mean even in the games
Speaker 4: where they've mean, I think it's only they've only lost
Speaker 4: two games with Jack Elliott's been healthy, and one of
Speaker 4: them was to that Hunt school from New Jersey in
Speaker 4: Week one. Even in that game, Mount Carmel put up
Speaker 4: a ton of points. They put up a ton of
Speaker 4: points against Nazareth when they beat them. So again, in
Speaker 4: a prediction that's sure to go wrong, I think there'll
Speaker 4: be a lot of points scored. Saturday, Carls North playing
Speaker 4: Mount Carmel because two really talented offenses earlier in the
Speaker 4: day on stardy afternoon game that I'm really interested to see.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna be there, but city to see what happens.
Speaker 4: Fenwick playing at downers Grove North again another seven in game.
Speaker 4: I'm interested from the standpoint of downers Grove North offense
Speaker 4: looks really good right now with Owen Lance who playing
Speaker 4: quarterback for them. Scott's a lot of good receivers, really
Speaker 4: balanced attack. But that Fenwick defense is pretty tough. I
Speaker 4: mean they they I believe they held Brother Rice to
Speaker 4: this seven points. Obviously, the headliner for Fenwick is Nate Marshall,
Speaker 4: defensive lineman going to Auburn, one of the best defensive
Speaker 4: linemen not only in the state but in the country.
Speaker 4: They have a lot of different guys defensively, and Fenwick
Speaker 4: is just I don't want to say quietly but maybe
Speaker 4: a little bit under the radar. Has just been a
Speaker 4: really solid team all year long. And that went over
Speaker 4: Brother Rice last week. That kind of opened my eyes
Speaker 4: a little bit that, you know, maybe I need to
Speaker 4: pay a little bit more attention to Fenwick, but you know,
Speaker 4: obviously now they go to Downards Grove North, it should
Speaker 4: be a really fun game.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. I mean Fwick tess group and throughout the
Speaker 5: entire season that they can either score points or they
Speaker 5: can grind down opponents, especially in you know, the clutch
Speaker 5: time throughout you know, the final six minutes of the game,
Speaker 5: and they can grind out wins through their rushing game.
Speaker 5: And you know, they did it against Montini earlier than
Speaker 5: the year. Looks like they did it again against Brother Rice.
Speaker 5: So I'm really interested to see how what approach they're
Speaker 5: going to take heading into this game. Are they going
Speaker 5: to trying to buy on their defensive stop alone Lansu
Speaker 5: and down and Scrup North, or are they going to
Speaker 5: try and score as many points as they can in
Speaker 5: order to make sure that they can keep up with
Speaker 5: that offense. So it's gonna be interesting what the game
Speaker 5: plan is going to be for that game, especially considering
Speaker 5: how talented down to Scrub North is on both sides
Speaker 5: of the ball. And yeah, I think it's gonna be
Speaker 5: a really interesting game throughout just the entire match.
Speaker 4: Yeah, another game this weekend involving a Westnburban Silver team again.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna be on Friday night. York is gonna be
Speaker 4: playing Uswego again. You know interesting one. I mean York.
Speaker 4: You know they're able to really do a number on
Speaker 4: a good defense last week with Edwardsville. Well guess what
Speaker 4: they're gonna get another really good defense this week going
Speaker 4: to Oswego. Oswego has only given up seventy points all
Speaker 4: year long. I think their first defense, first team defense
Speaker 4: has given up something crazy like five total touchdowns or
Speaker 4: something like that they beat with Bonzi last week. I
Speaker 4: will say the notable in that that game, they're they're
Speaker 4: really talented. Senior linebacker Carson Coney got going to Ioway.
Speaker 4: He left that game uh late in the game, was
Speaker 4: told like a like an ankle injury. Did not return,
Speaker 4: so I'm not sure about his status uh for this week.
Speaker 4: So so that's something to keep an eye on. But
Speaker 4: but again it should should be a fun game. I mean,
Speaker 4: both teams they really like to run the football, they
Speaker 4: both like to play really good defense. And Oswego, I
Speaker 4: mean they're undefeated, but I will say that I think
Speaker 4: this is definitely their toughest test since that Joyed Catholic
Speaker 4: win where they really they're their notable win of the
Speaker 4: season that that came in Week two. I don't think
Speaker 4: they've played a team uh that caliber since that time
Speaker 4: until this week. Uh, you know, your tough team man.
Speaker 4: You know they can again run the football. Bruno Massol
Speaker 4: is a good dual threat quarterback. I think Oswego their
Speaker 4: offense is gonna need to you know, kind of show
Speaker 4: out a little bit more this week. I mean, I
Speaker 4: think they've as weeks, really lean on that defense quite
Speaker 4: a bit this year. I think their offense is going
Speaker 4: to need to put up a few points because you know,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be tough to like ask them to shut
Speaker 4: out a team or or holding the ten points a
Speaker 4: team that just you know, dropped thirty seven points last week.
Speaker 4: So but but definitely a game that they may not
Speaker 4: be surprised if that one doesn't go down the wire.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, And I mean you mentioned it. Oswego has
Speaker 5: had a really good defense from showing throughout this entire
Speaker 5: year by me, you know, offensively, they have also shown
Speaker 5: that you know, they can play whatever it matters. I
Speaker 5: mean that Minuca game a couple of weeks ago where
Speaker 5: they scored forty two points off of them that basically
Speaker 5: decided the conference. I mean, you know, they've shown that
Speaker 5: they can put offense on the board, especially against talented teams,
Speaker 5: and they're gonna definitely need to do it again against
Speaker 5: a your team that is riding high after their big
Speaker 5: window after over Edwardsville. I mean, they're gonna need to
Speaker 5: show it again in order to make sure that they
Speaker 5: can make it as far as they can in this
Speaker 5: A day playoffs. So once again, it's gonna be really
Speaker 5: interesting to see if Ositgo can't live up to the
Speaker 5: challenge against York.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Fun to see a game like that where I
Speaker 4: mean there are two teams that I've seen both of
Speaker 4: them play, but they come to from two different leagues.
Speaker 4: They don't see each other. I don't know when the
Speaker 4: last time those two programs played each other. Maybe ever.
Speaker 4: I mean, they just don't run into each other. Uh
Speaker 4: So it should be a lot of fun to watch
Speaker 4: any other games that you're kind of keeping an eye
Speaker 4: on this weekend that you only kind of wonder what's
Speaker 4: gonna happen with that one.
Speaker 5: I'm keeping an eye on that Patavia Lincoln Way West game.
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously Patavia did show that they have the
Speaker 5: good potential in their win against Collinsville, but they're gonna
Speaker 5: need to do it again, especially it gets a tough
Speaker 5: Lincoln wait West team, and you know they pulled up nd.
Speaker 5: Waight West pulled up the upset victory last week over Peakin,
Speaker 5: and you know, they really showed out in that game.
Speaker 5: I believe in final score was like thirty four to
Speaker 5: ten or something like that. But they really pulled ahead
Speaker 5: early from the start. So you know, if potatas if
Speaker 5: Batata wants to get a winning that game, they're gonna
Speaker 5: need to pull out ahead early, just like they did
Speaker 5: against Collinsville. But you know, I'm really interested to see
Speaker 5: how the two teams match up this time around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I agree, I'm I'm curious on that one
Speaker 4: as well. And just throwing one more out. I mean,
Speaker 4: Saint Francis playing Prairie Rich. Saint Francis looked great last week,
Speaker 4: you know, really steamrolling Sterling. But but man, Prairi Ridge
Speaker 4: is a team that comes in with a they a
Speaker 4: lot of good playoff experience. They made some deep runs
Speaker 4: in the pass. They come from that Fox Valley conference.
Speaker 4: It's tough. They're gonna want to run the football at
Speaker 4: Saint Francis is gonna want to run and pass the
Speaker 4: football quite a bit. So that's another one that I'm
Speaker 4: kind of like, hmm, wonder what's gonna happen there. H
Speaker 4: two really good programs, a lot of great football this weekend.
Speaker 4: You're gonna be there out there on Saturday. I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be out there on Friday and Saturday. Uh, looking forward
Speaker 4: to it. Hopefully the rain the rain kind of gets
Speaker 4: through the area and we move on. Just want to
Speaker 4: point out people want to check out the other podcast
Speaker 4: that's out there right now, The South and West with JT.
Speaker 4: Penalty and Eddie Griffiel. I'll be back here tomorrow with
Speaker 4: Steve Susie as we look ahead to some of the
Speaker 4: great game state wide and looking forward to it.
Speaker 5: Rachel, Yeah, definitely, it's going to be a fun another
Speaker 5: week of playoff football, so it should be even more
Speaker 5: fun to summer around.
Speaker 4: No doubt about it. Well, anyway, for Joe Bennett's, this
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