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of these news and notes. Lane Train, how theck are
you buddy?
Speaker 4: Doing good? Man?
Speaker 5: I'm doing so good, just enjoying my my Friday afternoon here.
Speaker 3: Love it man. Well, some cougar fans are not enjoying
their afternoon. Why you may act because tickets have been
taken away from them.
Speaker 1: I asked this question yesterday.
Speaker 3: Who amongst you Cougarnation have been impacted by the season
tickets selection process over the last two years. Please tell
me your stories below. I got about like almost eleven
thousand interactions on this. I got a ton of stories
over like almost fifty comments of different stories being told.
Speaker 1: Have you been impacted by it? What have you seen? Lane?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 4: It wasn't this year. It was.
Speaker 5: I can't remember if it was. I think it was
twenty twenty three. That was the year that we joined
the Big twelve, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so twenty three was year one.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So by the time it was my pick, they
were all gone.
Speaker 5: And it's it's tough, right, Like I would have loved
to have gone to that, you know, to some of
those games, but it.
Speaker 4: Wasn't in the cards for me unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough, man.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of there's a lot of weeping, waving
and national teeth them onto Cougarnation. They feel like the loyal,
strong and true fans are being kicked out by corporate
sponsorships and big wig donors that don't really truly care
much about the team, and they may be fair weather fans.
They may not show up when boy's losing. They may
not show up when it's rain or snow. They get
a little cold, They're feet and hands aren't perfectly cozy
and warm, they have to sit out, and they don't
like the rise and shout either. They feel like they're
being ousted for the lesser fan, just with the lesser
fan that has filthy lucre.
Speaker 4: What say you, I totally get that sentiment.
Speaker 5: I mean, especially I'm not in the same position as
everyone else. Like I've been going to games on and
off for you know, the past two decades, but I'm
not the guy who's had season tickets for thirty years.
So to those people, I totally feel for them. I
get it, like that was a big part of your
fall Saturdays, and I totally understand. I will say this
to me, it boils down to what we value. Right
when we joined the Big Twelve. We did not join
the Big Twelve to just be mediocre, right. We didn't
join to to you know, go five hundred or anything
like that. We came to to win, right, and the unfortunate.
Truth about that is if we are going to win,
we have to have money, right, And so I think
I don't want to speak on anyone's behalf or anything
like that, but like, the reason these tickets are not
available is because because of the money situation they are.
They are far more expensive than they once were, and
people people are willing to pay a lot more money
for those tickets now, whether that's through the coopar, the
Cougar Club, through sponsorships and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So you have to ask yourself, do you.
Speaker 5: Value BUYU winning and being a national topic or do
you value being able to go to the game in
the answer can't.
Speaker 1: Be boths can't be both.
Speaker 3: Let's talk some camp killani Cougar football as well.
Speaker 1: In this segment.
Speaker 3: I've been evaluating this Cougar football team, right, and it
looks good. This is a good football team, a lot
of talent, a lot of NFL talent. We've got some
good depth coming off two back to back double digit
win seasons eleven to two, twelve and two returning production
this year. You get some strategic acquisitions via the portal,
et cetera, but returning production seventy percent of your returning
production coming back, and that's impressive. That puts me on
your eighteenth in college football, which you know you imagine
returning production, you have returning coaching staff for the most part,
expectations are gonna be pretty high. Can they get to
double digit wins once again.
Speaker 1: In year three?
Speaker 3: Now I've seen this story, I've seen this song and
dance before. Though BYU in twenty twenty and twenty twenty
one had an eleven to one season and a ten
three seasons, two double digit win seasons, two top twenty
five finishes, and going into twenty twenty two, I kid
you not, they had They were ranked number two per
ESPN's s P plus metric of returning production. They had
like ninety percent of their returning production coming back for
twenty twenty two, but they wet the bed.
Speaker 1: They ended up eighting five.
Speaker 3: What makes you believe that that BYU will have another
double digit win season and not fall prey to maybe
the Pride cycle and a single digit win season going
like eight and five, which would be an average to
slightly maybe above average season for BYU in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 5: Okay, you're testing my knowledge here. But twenty twenty two
So that was our eight and five season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we ended up playevent and five on the season,
we lost or we beat SMU, but we had lost
to Notre Dame.
Speaker 1: Remember we lost another Dame in Vegas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, and we were right there, We were right
there knocked another We had, like I said, we had
plenty of talent. We had some injuries. Obviously, Chris Brooks
was the running back. You had started. Pukaaku was on
that team. Pooka was on the team. You had beaten
us up, you had beaten Baylor in that DOUBLET game.
You lost to Oregon by like twenty one. You beat
Wyoming thirty eight twenty four, then Utah State thirty eight
twenty six. Baalil Romney replaced I think Jared Hall in
that game and got injured, and then it was like this,
we were up in the air. Jaren Hall or Jacob
connoveror Jacob Jaren Hall ended up starting that Notre Dame game.
Then you lost to Arkansas home fifty two to thirty five.
You lost to Liberty. That one really hurt. Shot through
the hardest. G Man likes to say he's a big
fan of John bon Jovi. Shot through our forty one
to fourteen, You lost the Liberty and then you lost
the ECU at home twenty four to twenty seven on
a game winning field goal. Luckily, you beat Boise of State,
you beat you tah Tech, you beat Stanford to kind
of finish off the regular season. Then you beat SMU
in the bowl game to save it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: So I mean, if you look at I mean, what
it boils down to me is like when we have
solid quarterback play, uh, we do pretty well. So I
think we can attribute the volatility in that season of
just quarterback play to why we didn't end the way
that we wanted to, which is a bummer because twenty
twenty two you said that was the year that or
one of the years Jared started.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jaron was the starting quarterback. Yeah, you Blake Free
on that team, was on that team. Chris Brooks was
on that team. You have some dudes, You have some guys.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you had some guys that were that played really well.
But you know, I think with with bar coming back
for a second season, having a full off season to
prepare for for this year, I feel confident going in.
You know, it's not just I think overall the level
of skill at BYU. Just the average is higher than
it has been maybe maybe ever. Right, we have some
really talented players. So I think that a double digit
season is in the cards for us once again.
Speaker 4: I think that we've proven it over and over. The
one caveat to that if there's anything that.
Speaker 5: Potentially might derail that is just the continuity of this defense. Right,
So changing up a big portion of the coaching staff
and stuff like that, can we install a defense that's
going to have immediate success or is it going to
take a little bit of time to ramp up. You're
hoping that because we didn't bring someone in from completely
outside of the program as DC, that we can have
some continuity that it's not.
Speaker 4: You know, it doesn't look too different than it has
and in the most recent years.
Speaker 5: But I think that a double digit season is not
something that's out of out of reach for us.
Speaker 1: Love it.
Speaker 3: I love the optimism. I too believe that b way
you can get to double digit wins again, But it
is off based off quarterback play most likely, right and
health quarterbacks? Do you trust what's behind Bear Bachmeier tracing
Borgae and Enick Watson? You know, because you had to
get down to QB three in that twenty twenty two season,
and instead of going with QB three, they ended up
just starting the injured Jared Hall. We don't even know
what percentage she was at. He could have been at
seventy percent. They chose to go with the seventy percent
seventy five percent healthy quarterback, you'r QB one instead of
going with QB three.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't know what to think about the
quarterback situation. So hopefully knock On wood Bear stays healthy, right,
I mean he stayed relatively healthy throughout the majority of
last year.
Speaker 4: Obviously in that Bowl game he.
Speaker 5: Wasn't on he wasn't full health with with his lower externities.
To think it was like an ankle or something like that.
So hopefully we can stay healthy. Enick Watson, he's he
got home from his mission, what with past six months
to a year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's been home, I want to say since
like October.
Speaker 5: So yeah, so I mean, like who knows where he's
at and in terms of just shaking off the mission rust.
But you hear great things about him. I think he's
one of those quarterbacks and you're starting to hear a
little bit more of it because people see him now,
but he was one of those quarterbacks that there were
a lot shinier, brighter quarterbacks that have been part of
recruiting classes in the past couple of years, and so
we oftentimes forget about some of these guys like Enich,
but you hear great things coming out of camp about him.
Trayson Boorgiae is a guy that's probably pretty serviceable. I mean,
we heard good things last year when it was the
battle between Bear him and McKay and so, I mean
there was points where were like, who's it going to be?
Speaker 4: It's a toss up. But this is also a guy.
Speaker 5: That's now been in the program for a number of years.
So if his number is called, is he someone that
can go in there? No know the plays, understand what
we're trying to accomplish, you know, do we have the
running back room that can you know, carry him a
little bit?
Speaker 4: So I don't know, because we haven't seen it.
Speaker 5: In gameplay with with UH, with Trason or with with Enich. However,
I want to I want to stay optimistic and hopefully
we don't even have to find out right.
Speaker 3: Let us pray on the basketball side of things, UH,
the only team still playing basketball right now is BYU
women's basketball. Shout out to Lee Kamard, the finding Lee
Camars right now, these lady coups. They got the win
over Stanford last night at the Marriott Center. Boom Shaka Laka,
Delaney Gibb and Brittley Cannon combined for forty two points.
Is pulled away from Stanford seventy six sixty one on
Thursday night at the Marriott Center.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And now Lee, in his first season as the head
coach of BYU surpasses jud Jeff Judkins uh for the
most wins in a first season as a head.
Speaker 1: Coach for BYU women's bat basketball. Uh.
Speaker 3: Pretty cool to see this, Uh, and see what this
women's team is doing in the wb I t They
should have made it to the NCAA tournament. Let's be honest.
They should have been attorney team. They didn't get there.
It is what it is. No advocates for Brigham sometimes
in the tournament committees. But how about them lady Kougs,
And how about Lee camarda former BYU great on the
men's team, international superstar comes back and now is leading
the ladies to Glorian victory.
Speaker 4: No, that's awesome.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'll be honest, I I can't remember was
it was lee early two thousands for basketball, so.
Speaker 3: He was you know, i'd say like mid to late
two thousands is when he was playing at by US
kind of he was a he was a contemporary of
of myself. He was a he was a colleague, if
you will. At the same time. Let's see here what
years was he there?
Speaker 1: Uh? He was.
Speaker 5: I think I was on a mission. Honestly, I think
I was on a mission. Like like I'm I'm super
familiar with him.
Speaker 4: I remember when he was on.
Speaker 1: Nine.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's why I missed the majority of his career,
to be completely honest.
Speaker 4: But what he's done has been awesome.
Speaker 5: I mean one thing that I'm I'm sure people are
talking about it, but we had some players leave this
women's basketball team that could have helped out pretty significantly, right,
So what these what these women are doing right now
is pretty phenomenal. And I know, I know they felt
like they got snubbed for the tournament. But anytime that
you're playing, you know, after the regular season, and you're
playing these other teams that had you know, quite a
bit of success during the season, it's a it's quite
the accomplishment. So it's awesome to see that he's having
some success, especially in his first year.
Speaker 4: Right, Like, it'd be great if.
Speaker 5: We could have both a men's and women's team that
are having a certain amount of success moving.
Speaker 3: Forward, talking men's basketball, now, the transfer portal is alive
and well, and there's a ton of play that have
connectivity to either the State of Utah BYU or are
members of the church at Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints,
and they all played pretty well at their respective schools.
Guys like Jake Wallen about Jackson Holcombe of Utah Valley University,
Carson Templan of Utah State. My question to use this
lane train from game day, what is it then BYU
basketball needs. What is it that they need from a
skill set standpoint going forward via the portal?
Speaker 5: I think for me, when I think about like where
we're at as a team, one of the things is
we need players that we can bring up through the system. Obviously,
obviously transfers are gonna happen. There's gonna be some guys
that just don't work out, But I think we need
a solid group of guys that we can get. As
you know underclassmen and develop through the program, Guys like
Richie Saunders, guys like Trevin Nell and I don't know it,
like these these are like historically like BYU guys right
and I'm not sure how many of those types of
people we have right now. I know that we have
some that are in like the recruiting ranks and stuff
like that, but I want to see that, like in
addition to these superstars that we're bringing in, like the ajs,
like the Rob Wrights and stuff, I feel like we
need a solid group of guys that are like BYU
core guys.
Speaker 4: Who understand their role, who can play that role. What
is that role? I think?
Speaker 5: I mean, I think every team's looking for this, but
we were. We were really struggled with defense. I think
we thought with Canard Davis, and I know that he
was off and on throughout the season, but I think
we thought we were getting like kind of like a
Mwatt mag type player.
Speaker 4: And at times we had that, at times we didn't.
Speaker 5: But I think we need more players like that who
just play their hearts out.
Speaker 4: On defense.
Speaker 5: And some guys who've been knocked down some shots. Because
we really felt that as soon as Richie was gone.
Like our three point ability just to spread the floor
was hurt pretty significantly. We had some guys that we
brought in then thought we're gonna have a bigger impact
in that regard, and they.
Speaker 4: Just they didn't quite have that full effect.
Speaker 5: So but there are some there are some bright spots
on that roster from this past year as well that
you know, we hope to see continue to develop and
stuff like that.
Speaker 4: So I think more.
Speaker 5: Than anything, we're not having an issue bringing in these superstars.
It's now about finding the right role players and then
more than anything, it's just like keeping those guys healthy.
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Speaker 1: We got Cam Clark on the like cam.
Speaker 4: How you living doing pretty good?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 1: How about you doing good?
Speaker 3: Man appreciate you hopping on to talking Cougar women's basketball.
They got a dub. They beat up on them Stamford Cardinals.
I love that always. Delenny Gibb and Brindley Cannon combined
for forty two points and they pulled away from Stamford
seventy six sixty one Thursday night at the Mary Center
to punch their ticket to the.
Speaker 1: Wb IT Final four.
Speaker 3: In that game that stayed tight through three quarters, the
Cougar slipped the script in the fourth, erupting for twenty
six points to turn a one point lead into a
double digit win. Tell me a little bit about this
women's team. Do you feel like they were seeing everything
that they've done in the wbad Do you feel like
they were slide? Did they deserve an NCAA tournament big
dance bid one dred.
Speaker 6: You look at the team, especially how they've played as
of late. You know, in the tournament, you want to
have the best, not only just the best teams, but
the best teams as of late. You don't want to
take a team that's lost, you know, seven of their
last eight games into the tournament, with the one exception
maybe being how well Texas has played and the men's
side this year, they lost seven of eight going into
March Madison.
Speaker 4: They nearly admit it to the Elite eight last night.
Speaker 6: But with BYU women's basketball, they're they're playing their best
basketball that they've been playing all year right now. One
of their best wins of the year last night against Stanford,
And talking with coach Kamard, He's talked about how you know,
these girls.
Speaker 4: Aren't ready to be done yet. You know, they want
to keep playing, They want to keep going.
Speaker 6: They've got real chemistry between them and it's producing some
big wins.
Speaker 1: No doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Leak Kamar doing something that no other coach has done,
winning this many games as a first year coach. He's
been around the program for a long time. He's been
around BAU basketball for a long time. But the victory
over Stanford makes him the winning his first year coach
in program history, surpassing Jeff judkins twenty four win mark
during the two thousand and two two thousand and three season.
What does that mean for Lee Kamar's future at BYU, Well,
I think.
Speaker 6: Lee Kamar, you know, he was one of the last hires.
If I'm not mistaken that Tom Holmo may before he retired.
But I think that's been one of the most influential
hires that BYU has had in recent years. You know,
you pair it with Kevin Young probably in the impact
that he's had on the men's side, what Lee Kamart
has done for the women's side, especially bringing somebody up.
I remember when they were in the search for a
new head coach. I was really hoping that it was
gonna be Lee Kamar. I've got a cousin that played
basketball at Gonzaga and she, you know, played against BYU.
Always loved watching her play there, but her her mom
my aunt, follows the team closely, and she was really
hoping for Leagu Kamar, just the relationship.
Speaker 4: He has with the players.
Speaker 6: I had a class with one of the players on
the team a couple semesters ago, and she was talking
about how big of a role we played. This was
when he was still in his role as the associate
head coach, the assistant for the team. But he's the
main recruiter. He was the one that got Dwayne Gibb.
He was the one that got you know, my friend
in that class to come to BYU. And so what
we've done with this program is he's completely turned it around.
You've gotten from a team that barely even won ten
games last year to now a team that's won twenty
five on their way to the semi finals of the
WBIT and having a chance to take some revenge and
take it out on Kansas.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm excited for this squad. I love what they've
become this season. You know, they they weren't able to
get over the hump though, right We've talked about Quad
one Quad two opportunities. Obviously the Quad twos were very heavy,
they were amazing. Those Quad one opportunity not as good,
But the way that they're playing right now, I feel
like they could compete with many of those Quad one
teams they made it into the NCAA.
Speaker 1: They're playing like an NCAA tournament team right now.
Speaker 3: They're gonna get a true test with in Whichita Kayns
is to face the number two seed Kansas Jayhawks in
this wb I t Final four on Monday afternoon. Uh
And I don't know if the tip off time has
been announced yet, but do you think they they make
it to the championship game? Is this a championship team?
Speaker 4: So tip time three o'clock on.
Speaker 6: Monday, so right at Smack Middle today right during our show.
But they got They've got the girls to do it.
Watching Delany give play these last couple of games, she's
obviously leads the w.
Speaker 4: VI in scoring.
Speaker 6: She's scored twenty plus points in each of these games
so far, and you know, twenty nine on Monday twenty
seven last night. She's carried this team and she just
plays a different game in basketball than the rest of them.
Speaker 4: Her vision.
Speaker 6: She's not only scoring, but she's dishing out assists, she's
grabbing rebounds.
Speaker 4: I had seven rebounds last night. Back to back games with.
Speaker 6: Over seven boards, a couple near triple double performances for Delaney,
and she's really the heart and soul of this team.
If she's going, the rest of the team is going
to be able to rally around her to score. But
really it's been aside from Delaney, you've seen a lot
coming from just some of the role players for BYU.
That first game against Alabama A and M, you saw
Sidney Binali score eighteen. Last time out, it was Cambrian
Barber who had a double double against Missouri, and then
this most recent game, it was Brittany Cannon who scored
fifteen points, including a crucial three to start BYU on
the run that led them to eventually, you know, taking
the lead. But they've just they've got all the right pieces.
I loved the big play from Lada Rocal and Bully
Usuff when one of them scores at least ten points.
BYU is now seventeen and oh on the year, and
so everything's gelling, everything's working, and if they're playing as
they have of late, I think there's no doubt that
they can make it to the.
Speaker 1: Finals as far as ten years concerned.
Speaker 3: Like, let's project for a moment, how much of this
team returns next season.
Speaker 6: So you look at three seniors on the team, so
a lot of Rocal and then two just bench players
who don't get in a whole lot kind of more
of a glue guide type role, kind of Jared McGregor,
where the whole team loves them, rallies around them.
Speaker 4: They don't get as.
Speaker 6: Much playing time in Heather Hampson and Pattie Ogden. But
really you look at the team, so Olivia Hamlin, Sidney Manali,
both freshmen, Bully Yusuf freshman, Bradon Gunlock, who's kind of
been the ninth rotation player coming off the bend.
Speaker 4: You don't see her.
Speaker 6: A lot, but she can get in enough or she's
a crucial part of the team. Those are the four freshmen,
they're all going to be coming back, and then you've
got the sophomores. You've got Delaney Gave, Brinley Cannon, Cambry Barber,
and just watching them play by just got such a
young core that here in the next couple of years,
especially with the pieces that they're able to bring in
Kaylie Wilson coming off a mission. She was the best
three point shooter in the entire nation before she left
to her mission in Baltimore. But they got all the
right pieces, not only to be successful this year and
make the WBIIT Finals like we were just talking about,
but to be successful in years to come.
Speaker 4: This is going to be a really, really good.
Speaker 6: Basketball team, not only next year, but two years from
now when Delaney, Cambriy, and Brinley Cannon are seniors.
Speaker 4: They're going to be a team to watch out for.
Speaker 3: Cam I got Ronald of the three man weaver by
my shot. He's got a few questions for you as well.
What was it like from your vantage point? Cam, the
game was tight going into the fourth court. I think
it was fifty three fifty two, and then Delaney hit
back to back three, He's got a time out and Ba,
you just opened it up up until that point, I mean,
it was even and then they outscored him in the
fourth to put it away twenty six to twelve if
I'm correct.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Lee Kamar, when we were talking with him before
the game, just you know, talking about the Missouri game,
you just said, you know, it was so much fun,
just have the crowd, the energy there, and I think
in that fourth quarter you saw a similar amount of
energy and a similar.
Speaker 4: Amount of just joy come out of the team.
Speaker 6: You know, the rock was rocket with a J and
Rob and you know, the almost the entire men's basketball
team came out and supported the women's team.
Speaker 4: And then you.
Speaker 6: Saw just another thing that Lee said. He said that
Delaney makes one play a game where he just sits
there and smiles, and right after the second of the
back to back threes, he just immediately stuck three three
fingers in the air, smiling big and time mound ended
up being called by Kate pay on Stanford. But this
team's just playing fun, and like you said, it was
kind of They were kind of playing tight up until
that moment, and then as soon as Delaney hit two three,
you knew it was over. They were having fun, they
were rolling, and they didn't look back.
Speaker 7: What challenge does obviously, Kansas now presented this team earlier
matchup in the season a big twelve fold they know him.
But when they were planning most different time of the
season as the BYU's one what nine of their last
ten now.
Speaker 6: Yep, so Kansas, they ended up losing that one. You know,
BYU ended up losing that one at Kansas by twenty one.
That's been the only game this year where they've had
four players in double figures that they have lost the game.
Speaker 4: So Kansas.
Speaker 6: You know their defense, they can allow you to score.
But Kansas put up eighty one on BYU, which is
something that you don't see a lot of Not many
teams have been able to put up that much on
the Cougars. Only Vanderbilt and West Virginia have put up more.
And so Kansas is a high powered offense. They've got
a great freshman Jalen I believe her name is Jay
excuse me, Jaalia Davis. She's the freshman of the Year
in the Big twelve unanimous. She won Freshman the Year
like nine times in a row. It's like Freshman of
the Week nine times in a row to end the year.
So yeah, it's delany, But Davis is She's six to two,
averaging almost twenty a game everything six and a half rebounds.
Speaker 4: She's going to be the biggest challenge.
Speaker 6: You'll probably see either Cambry Barber, Brittley Cannon, or a
lot of rocal get stuck on her. But I would
love to see a matchup with Cambry Barber, one of
the Cooper's best defensive players. Since she's been inserted in
the starting lineup, Cooper are seven and one since then,
so you'll see a different starting lineup coming against this
Jayhawks team. It's just unfortunate for the Cougars that the
semis and the finals happen to be in Wichita, Kansas,
only a three hour drive from Lawrence.
Speaker 3: I know I'm in that forecasting mood. We've been talking
BWU men's basketball and what they need in the portal
in order for this team to be a n CAA
tournament team next year. Right, and you know how many
get how many these ladies are going to be leaving.
What do they need to go out and find in
the mortal in order to make your steam a more
you know, more talented, more well rounded, and to be
able to make a run in the NCAA tournament next year.
Speaker 6: So I think at the guard position, they're said, they
don't need, you know, many more guards, but what they
need is the bigs. Losing Heather Hampson who would occasionally
come in at the end of games as kind of
third big, and then you'll lose a lot of rocal
your starting center. Those are going to be two pieces
that you know you're gonna want back, especially a lot
of but bullet Yusuff freshman this year, six', four.
Speaker 4: Six,' three maybe the very beginning of, the year it.
Speaker 6: Was rough to. Watch her we told, us that, you
know you couldn't go an hour seeing her in practice
without her committing, a foul and so she.
Speaker 4: Was raw but she's.
Speaker 6: Improved tremendously throughout, the year and so she's gonna be
really fun to watch this she can sneak her way
into that. Starting Job but i'd love to see them
go out in the portal get some big see what centers,
are available because that's really what this team was able
to grab this last year a lot of rocal it
worked out well, for them so they're probably just gonna
rinse and repeat for the.
Speaker 3: Same Year Cam Clark College Basketball Women's COLLEGE basketball byu
inside or here On YOUR Utah Espn. Radio network, cam
hopefully hopefully b what you continues to survive in advance
and they get to that championship game with an opportunity
to really have a CRESCENDO a a an awesome, you
know climax to. This season can't wait to see what they.
Can do thanks for hopping on to give us a
little update on the women's.
Speaker 1: Basketball team, of course look forward.
Speaker 4: To it thanks for.
Speaker 1: The opportunity always.
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THE By. U batcats they are winning a lot of games.
Right now billia ULTIMATELY defeated osu six to five on
a walk off home run in the, Tenth Inning oklahoma
state falling To the batcats OF b yu and the
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Speaker 1: Baseball diamond.
Speaker 3: Let's go after trailing three to zero early on in
this game byu rallied back To Defeat oklahoma state six
to five on that tenth inning walk off home Run By,
easton jones Going yard baby gripping. And Ripping trent pratt,
said this it was a really good night. For us
from top. To bottom. Everyone Contributed garrison sumner was great
and it's always good to come from behind and win
a one. Run game BYU's currently twelve and twelve on
the season three and Four and big. Twelve played they
scored six runs on, ten hits Led By tyler Lawe
for wolfgraham who went three for four with a pair
of RBIs and his first career home run As. A
Cougar oklahoma state who's sixteen and ten on the year
two and Five and big twelve play played a five
runs on eight hits in.
Speaker 1: The loss with, the Win the cougars moved a five
and one.
Speaker 3: In one run games this season as they Defeat the
cowboys in their first ever Game. In, provo WOLFGREAN as,
i mentioned was three or four with a home run in.
Two RBIs breiker herdsman was two for four WITH an
rbi in. A Run luke anderson was one for four
WITH an rbi and a and a in. A Walk
easton jones one, of five but that binger got us
over the hum and got us to WIN one rbi
one run And then ezra mcnonten one.
Speaker 1: Of five WITH nrb i Getting.
Speaker 3: Them ribby's so shout out TO this ba men's baseball
team finding A, way okay the. WIN games blei continues
a three game Series With oklahoma State on Friday And.
Miller park come, On out, Show up, show out with
the first pitch schedule for Six pm. Mountain time the
game will be BROADCAST On espn plus and will also
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Speaker 1: Au radio so check.
Speaker 3: That out ronald, three man we were your thoughts on
The bad cats right now And this cougar men's.
Speaker 7: Baseball, Team Yeah, wolf Graham, actually ben he was the
one that saved the game for Baun, beating utah beating
the rival.
Speaker 8: Up north the ball was taken to. The gap he chased,
it down.
Speaker 7: CAUGHT it i saw that you retweeted it was, hero
baby honestly because of the Ball. Falls utah when was
the game that's in, The gap they're gonna score to
and walk. It off and the best part about that
was after he catches, the ball he throws the BALL
and i can't remember his teammate. Behind me he's just
like This krub chest just has the fun they're, doing
that and the best part. About, IT look i Played.
Against utah you Played. Against utah it's funn that we
get to.
Speaker 8: Say that you know what. He did after he, did
it he's.
Speaker 7: Walking back what'scept that breaks it over, his knee walks
Back and utah.
Speaker 8: Was heartbroken the hitter was like this it's had. For,
him yeah he.
Speaker 7: Was dumbfounded the video picked it. The ball he was,
so sad but it propelled you to, another victory that.
Walk Off BEN and i don't want to nerd out
too MUCH because i know the listeners they like, the football,
you know, offseason Talk but i'm a nerd out.
Speaker 8: On, baseball well you know it's gone when you flip.
Speaker 7: The bat he caught all, Of, it ben and he flipped.
Speaker 8: THE bat i wish you.
Speaker 7: Know what as a matter, of fact let's let's SEE
if i can find the sound clip for.
Speaker 3: The people, oh yeah. Let's go so while you're, DOING
that i do want to give some love to the.
Pitching Game garrison sumner number thirty seven right had. A
pitcher this is fit three senior Out Of, Eel Mountain
Utah Salt Lake. Community college shout out. To him he
had a. Good night he WAS A Juco Honorable Mentioned
all american back in twenty twenty four There At Salt Lake.
Community college so doing great things right now FOR The
bwayu cougar men's.
Speaker 1: Baseball team shout Out To.
Speaker 3: Garrison sumner, come out come on out and SUPPORT this
bayu men's baseball team as they Take On oklahoma. State
tonight BUT also i got to give A big cougar
to krue. Mc chesney in the top of The Six
oklahoma state extended its lead five, to THREE but byu
quickly responded to the bottom half of the thing with
herdsman single to left field to drive in krou McChesney from,
second base nearing the score to five.
Speaker 1: To four so you.
Speaker 3: Gotta it takes, the, village right he takes everybody playing
their part in order to get, these wins these close one.
Speaker 1: Run wins now be you five.
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easton jones tenthening walk off Home run.
Speaker 1: Jones the. Left fail they got a lot, of it
didn't get enough. Of it he got all. Of it
it's a walkoff.
Speaker 3: Home run.
Speaker 1: Well that says it.
Speaker 5: All.
Speaker 9: Right there you see the, lights blinking you see the,
crowd standing you see the flags.
Speaker 1: Waiting in you had all the cougar's waiting at.
Speaker 9: Home Run and jones hits a walkoff home run that
was never, a doubt way way out of left, center
field about a four hundred twenty five foot Shot Water
paul game wan, to win to win it for by
you And For. Oklahoma state this is a. Tough loss
great job of pitching. By both Those pictures, london wreck
but For, b white.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 1: The, dinger baby it's.
Speaker 7: Funny Day be kin said he didn't, get Enough and, i'm,
like oh he got plenty.
Speaker 1: Of it for.
Speaker 8: Twenty five it went over.
Speaker 7: The trees like the left Fielder, looked ben he like
turned to step turns and then, he's like actually that's not,
that's gone and he just looks up and he just
starts running in. There's nothing there's no greater feeling than
hitting the walk off home run ben in, your uh
in your, own town especially in A conference flan we asked.
Speaker 8: THIS question i remember.
Speaker 7: We Had, Uh man i'm forgetting the assistant coach that
we had on in the off season. Last year it's hurting.
My heart, oh, GOODNESS gracious i need to. Figure Out I'm.
TRUMP pratt i, mean No Not, trump pratt the assistant.
We had he had the deep. Blue, video man this
is gonna. KILL me i just need to look it
up right now and not, Have.
Speaker 1: No no, you're good just ponder.
Speaker 7: About It, Uh no but we had and he said
they were like what five to seven games out of
where they would have made. THE tournament, i think, you
know they wouldn't have connected. On it so when you look,
AT that i think that's the biggest thing is they're
turning around. This year And like darnelle said a couple of,
weeks ago it's. THE pitching i think that's the biggest
thing is in order to win games in college or
even if you look, at this look At The, world
series why Did the? Dodgers win yamamoto went crazy For,
The dodgers so you have to be able to have
the pitch and to Go With, adam law that's what.
We Have adam law came on and said they were
just a few games off. Of that so it seems
like they're turning. The ship they're doing things the, right
way so hopefully they can keep.
Speaker 8: It UP but i Love. THE batcats i always Love,
the batcats.
Speaker 3: YOU know i love this bad catch team because They
beat utah that it really comes down. To it if
you're not going to win, the conference you beat your
rival and just be above. Five HUNDRED and i do
want to shout out TO b yu forgetting that when
they got that One one, ron win one run Win
versus utah six, to five, same score Same run hello
led right Led By ryder robinson's four for four performance
at the play deal to BED you TuS six to
five in a midweek non Conference game. Tuesday night this
was earlier this Week At America first Ballpark In Salt,
lake city and so you got to give A big.
Cougar Roar trent pratt said this about. The victory it
was a complete team. VICTORY tonight i thought everyone did
something to help. US win i thought we, pitched well
played great defense and got some clutch Hitting From. Ryder,
robinson robinson The Reigning Brooks Wallace Award national player Of,
the week reached safely in all five, played appearances scored
twice and drove in two runs to secure prats one
hundredth career win as head COACH.
Speaker 1: At byu so that was very.
Speaker 3: Well Done easton jones in that game had a nice performance,
as well two, for four two rugby ribbys and. A
walk kerw McChesney was one for five with, a ribby
one run and, a double And then wolfgraham was one
of three with.
Speaker 1: A run he had a double and a base.
Speaker 3: On ball so shout out to this men's baseball team
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