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Segwaying into, well, somebody a little bit more local, you might say.

Joel, what's going on here this morning?

Well, we got one of the artists who's going to be in town this weekend at Prentiss Progress Days.

Nice enough to join us from somewhere in the country.

Hailey James.

Hailey, how you doing?

Good, how are you?

Fantastic.

Thanks for taking time to join us.

We're going to get to know you a little bit here this morning.

So the folks who are making their way to apprentice progress days can get a good connection already before you even hit the stage here.

So Haley, tell us a little bit about yourself where you grew up and kind of your music journey leading up to this moment.

Yeah, so I grew up in Cottage Grove, Minnesota.

I spent most of my childhood growing up there.

I started playing my very first shows in Heastings, Minnesota, just down the road from Cottage Grove.

And that's kind of where I started my journey, just playing open mics.

And I was playing open mics around the cities, around Heastings.

And then my first gig I got was in Heastings, Minnesota.

And from there, I actually, my first gig got a weekly gig all summer long.

And that really just boosted my confidence on stage.

And I really got people

hear me and that very first year I started pursuing

performing I released my first single live your life and I was 14 years old when I wrote it I was 15 when I released it and yeah I started at 14 so it's been quite a journey I turned 23 in a week so it's been almost like between like eight nine years that I've been pursuing music and I've gotten to do such such incredible things and open for idols of mine sing with idols of mine it's it's been an awesome

journey.

connection already because my dad who passed away a few years ago, uh, graduate of Hastings High School.

So I have a lot of relatives over in that Hastings area.

Yeah.

I've been there many, many times to Hastings, uh, in cool little town right on the, right on the river there.

So a beautiful, yeah, beautiful area.

Uh, so, uh, tell us about, uh, let's talk more recently about this summer and you mentioned being able to take the stage with, uh, some big name artists and stuff like that.

So tell us a little bit about your, uh, about yourself.

summer and how's that going for you?

Yeah, honestly, it's been amazing.

I had a really cool moment happen this past summer.

A lot of people know me because I had a video go viral back in 2021.

I got pulled on stage to sing with Dustin Lynch, and that was in Cadot, Wisconsin at what was called Country Fest.

It's now called Huffbeat.

But I was pulled on stage.

The video went super viral.

And actually this summer, I got to reunite with Dustin at his show in Welch, Minnesota.

And I kind of honestly snuck into his meet and greet, not literally.

I didn't sneak in, but I got into his meet and greet and I was just like, Hey, do you remember me?

And he remembered me.

He's like, you have been literally the one person he brought up that entire summer.

Um, cause he brought up a bunch of people that same summer.

You were the one person that went viral.

You were still going viral to this day.

People know me because of it.

Still goes viral.

And he had me sing on stage with him again and joined him again.

And I feel like it's just been.

thing because last summer I got to get on stage with Riley Greene and sing with him.

And that was also at Countryfest Huffbeat.

So that has just been a really cool place that has just offered me so many cool opportunities, things that people know me for.

And yeah, I've gotten to open for just idols of mine, like even just this past year in Good Andress.

And yeah, Carrie Underwood, all the people that I just absolutely love.

So yeah, it's been

amazing.

Imagine Dustin Lynch, Gray pulls a young lady like Haley up on stage thinking, you know, she's gonna just sing and it's gonna be just okay.

And all of a sudden, bam, Haley, I mean, you probably belted out a note and Dustin was like, whoa, hello.

I'm sure that's part of the reason why I went viral, right?

Honestly, it was so funny to see the video.

I feel like everyone needs to watch that video.

If you just search up Haley James and Dustin Lynch, I'm sure it will come up.

But truly, if you watch his reaction, I even was, I was 17 at the time.

I felt like such a baby.

I felt like I was just brand new into all of this and even him just bowing down.

I was very much in my element.

I was feeling very good.

I was very excited.

It was such a fun opportunity.

Yeah.

Just to get to rubbish.

Oh, you mentioned Carrie Underwood.

like that.

That's such a great opportunity.

That's what's unique about country music, isn't it, Hailey?

Is all these country music festivals we have and artists like you getting an opportunity to really showcase what you can do and meet the people who influenced you.

That's kind of unique when you talk about music formats.

Country has that going for it, doesn't it?

Yes.

No, I truly...

The country music scene also in the Midwest is very much here.

I feel like a lot of people go to Nashville for the music scene and the country music scene specifically, but I think there's such a beautiful thing happening up here in the Midwest and there's just so many concerts happening, so many country artists tour through Minnesota, Wisconsin for a reason because.

This is just where so many country music fans live.

And I have seen that with the love that I've been given over the years.

And I've just built a really great, great fan base truly that just show up and love my music, which is all I could ask for.

Yeah.

And an artist, I mean, they have a, you have decisions to make.

We talked to Chris Cruz a couple of years ago and he talked about the fact that he didn't want to move to Nashville.

He didn't want to go there, but.

He does pretty well for himself.

So there is, you mentioned country music being so big in the Midwest and Wisconsin to that.

Um, yeah, I mean, going to Nashville has its ends possibly, but you can still make a goal of it, right?

Around here.

I mean, you stay busy, you make enough money to make it worthwhile.

There's still a way to make it work, right?

Right.

And yeah, actually I am friends with Chris Krusey too and just seeing the grind that he's on.

I mean, it's so possible to make music your full-time job and not move to Nashville.

It definitely can be a different experience if you go to Nashville, I would definitely say.

And there's so many advantages to Nashville, but I would say too that it is just very beneficial to, you know, not be scared to start a career in music up here because there are a lot of really great opportunities happening up here.

that you don't even really know about till you get into it.

Yeah,

I mean, Gray, you've experienced it with your brother as big dipper.

They bring in music all over the place and you've seen the talent that's around.

I mean, yeah,

no, I'll I'll say it often and loudly for a small town area.

We've got a weird level, a super high degree of musical talent and a super high number of people with that kind of talent.

So it I mean, well, it's awesome to see.

It's it's hardly a surprise at this point to hear that, you know, and there's there's a Haley James out there.

somewhere, you know, sitting there just playing guitar on her back porch.

Hailey, does

this, was there, how long ago did what you're, at a certain point, excuse me, at a certain moment in your life, I imagine what you're going through right now felt like it would never come.

And I bet that wasn't all that long ago.

It seems like things are happening pretty quick for you.

Yeah, honestly, when I, when I started, like I said, I started at 14.

I really honestly, when I say I started at 14 is really when I started writing songs, I started performing.

started playing guitar i pretty much just picked up the guitar and forced myself to learn it and i had been singing ever since but you know i started going into this whole thing as a hobby i had no idea that it could be a real career for me until i mean even the first single i released i got it played on a major radio station of the twin cities and i got an interview on the news station out of the twin cities and right then and there i felt like

That was just telling me that this is where I'm meant to be.

This is the path and the journey that I'm meant to be on.

And truly, I think when you put hard work into something that you love and you really just pour your heart into it, you will find that that is where you're meant to be.

That is the journey that you're meant to be on and there will be signs.

So it's been a beautiful journey for me.

And from the start, like you said, I feel like things have just been really working out for me, but I feel like again, that happens when you're just

putting your whole heart and soul into it and working hard.

I want to highlight something you said there because the two things, in fact, just now you said it feels like things have just been working out for you.

But just before that, you mentioned how you sat down and you forced yourself to learn guitar.

That's one of those things that a lot of people own guitars.

I happen to know a guy really well who owns a guitar that he's never played.

Not going to name names or admit anything here, but that ability to sit down and

put yourself through something like that that other people might not be able to.

I mean, it sounds like self-discipline by another description.

It sounds like you might, the hard work you've done, I mean, do you agree with the statement opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them?

Is that something that lines

up with what you've been?

Yeah, yeah.

that's that's something that's blown my mind too is just hey say yes to the thing and who knows where you're going to end up on the side of it.

I mean it would be pretty easy to ask you what the most surprising aspect has been but somebody who's been pulled up on stage with Dustin Lynch and Carrie Underwood it might not be too hard to guess.

My question is how many times can you be pulled up on stage randomly before people recognize you before you start singing.

I think you've got a limited number of surprise

stage

appearances.

You know actually that's funny you say that because like I said I got pulled up on stage by Dustin Lynch.

country fest, which is now called country fest.

It ju last couple years.

But no, when I was going there this I just went to go because my family's gone forever.

I was there when I got pulled

I got so many people stopping me.

I swear every like five minutes I had someone stop me.

I wasn't even playing the festival and they were like, you're Haley James.

Can I take a picture with you?

And so that to me is so.

cool.

It is showing the impact and clearly that place holds a lot of memories and a lot of the big memories that I have, so it makes sense.

But it's very cool to be recognized.

I mean, I've even been recognized in like, you know, in a quick trip by the cashier, like, hey, I know who you are.

It's so funny.

I just love it so much.

It shows how much of an impact that I'm making.

And that's so cool.

Haley James will be at Prentice Progress Day Saturday night at six o'clock.

We're going to play a clip of her song, Lemonade, standing just a little bit, a new song she has out.

But I always want to ask this to artists like yourself, whether you've been in it for a few years or we've interviewed legendary artists too.

Because I've been in radio a long time and I've had a couple of moments in my career where I just, I literally like pinch myself.

It's like, how, how am I here with this person?

How am I here in this moment?

So give me that.

You're young yet, Haley, but give me that moment.

What stands out as number one when you were like on stage or you're like standing next to someone and you're like,

How am I here with this person talking to them?

What's your moment?

Honestly.

like most recent was when I got to sing with Dustin Lynch this summer because just being pulled on stage and being up there and even having fans at his concert being like, I know her.

That was like a moment where I had to pinch myself of like, this is so cool.

I'm singing with Dustin Lynch, somebody I've looked up for two for years and years and years, somebody who has truly changed my life and didn't even

didn't even try.

I mean, he pulled me up not knowing who I was.

And it was just a moment that just happened out of

out of circumstance.

And that was a moment for me recently that I just felt so cool.

My mom was standing on the like side of the stage recording me.

And I was just like, this is so cool to have my family even be side next to me, like watching me grow.

My mom, my dad, my sister, and like even my fiance, it's just so cool to like have them watch these things happen for me too, because having my core people

to like be there with me is also so special.

So that was just such a fun, cool moment.

Yeah.

And it's so much, I love it.

I'm old enough Haley where I grew, I grew up without the internet.

But what I see as an older person in the internet is it gives opportunities for artists like you and people who are so talented that maybe in another generation would never have been able to do some of the things you do because you can get yourself out.

You don't

Yes, Nashville is nice, but you don't need Nashville.

You got social media, you got other outlets, and that's got to be so much fun for you and to run into people in your industry that have succeeded through that avenue.

Yeah, it's very exciting because there always seemed like there was this one right path But the more people I meet the more they say you know what no there are so many paths that you could take there are people being signed by record labels that blow up on tiktok and that's like their thing and you don't have to be living in Nashville to blow up on tiktok you could be living anywhere so really honestly disguised the limit these days with what you know The online and social media is offered.

Yeah, exactly

All right, well, Hayley, Saturday night, are we doing a band acoustic?

What can people expect Saturday night for you?

Yes, I'm so excited.

I'm bringing the full band.

We are so excited to come to Prentice.

I tell you, we are just so excited.

We have some new things we're going to try out.

And we just love having fun.

We love rocking out.

And it's a little bit of country pop, a little bit of.

soft rock influence like even songs that aren't necessarily rock we bring those electric guitars out and we hit them hard like we love it it's so fun energy's high the whole time and I will be giving out free lemonade per my lemonade

So you're going to get free lemonade if you come to my shop.

All right.

So, uh, we're going to play a clip of that.

Give us, uh, give us the inspiration behind lemonade stand.

I saw a little bit of the promo video, but this does take me back to the old days and even, even in small town America here, I'll drive by a house and see a 10 year old girl out there with a lemonade stand.

I'm just like, I gotta stop and get a glass.

Is that kind of where it goes back for

you?

like I still see little girls little boys all around my town having lemonade stands and it makes me so happy that that's still a tradition because I did that and me and my sister would sit at the end of our driveway and sell lemonade and those are just core childhood memories, you know, even chasing after the ice cream truck when it's coming down the road and it just is a song that encompasses everything about my childhood.

It's a song that truly tells you why I am the way I am and

highlights that sisterhood as well.

And my sister's in a lot of the promo you can see.

And it's funny the joke is she's not blonde, but I wrote it with another blue eyed blonde Maddie Taylor.

So that was the inspo, but it is very much inspired by my big sister, Carly.

So in our childhood growing

up.

All right, where can they find your music?

Where's a good place for them to go online, Hailey?

Yeah, you can go to haleyjamesmusic.com.

You can find literally everything there, socials, music, my bio, where I'm playing to your day, it's everything.

haleyjamesmusic.com and go to YouTube and check out the Haley James Dustin Lynch.

If you haven't seen that too, I gotta go do that.

All right.

Well, Haley, safe travels to you.

Thank you so much for taking time to join us.

It's always fun to get to know artists because, you know, I've been, I've been doing radio for 40 years and I'm, I don't, I don't want to set a precedent here, Haley.

But I have a little bit of a history of interviewing people and then they kind of go big.

Jake Owen, I did that right one-eight second ride came out.

Scottie McCreary.

Matthew Ramsey, I interviewed him before he even ever became a star.

So Haley, don't forget the

little

people, okay?

I'm going

to take that role.

I'm going to take it and roll with

it.

All right.

Haley, we'll see you in Prentice on Saturday.

Thank you so much for taking time to join us.

Thank you so much.

You bet.

Hailey James, she'll be at Prentice, Progress Days, Saturday night, six o'clock, and here's a little snippet of her new song called Lemonade

Stand.

You

can go to YouTube.

There's a promo video for that.

That's pretty cool that she did with her sister.

Just lemonade stand Hailey James, H-A-I-L-E-Y Hailey James.

Very nice young lady.

I hope she does well.

Prentice Progress days at 6pm, like she said, with the full band.

But we're going to be digging into YouTube.

I need to see those Dustin Lynch clips

real quick.

Yeah,

exactly.

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We're at Longer's camp here tonight in Phillips, Wisconsin.

It is...

the Phillips loggers hosting the Hurley North Stars in eight man football action conference match up here tonight.

And a lot of people are talking about this one as this is a conference here.

I think we're going to have something to say about that as well.

It's going to be a good matchup.

They look like some big, strong kids.

We're going to see how the Phillips loggers are able to hold up against right there.

That's a big part.

If you can get way better the ball here tonight with a little bit ahead of Steen, the other team is going to be in trouble, waits a tough guy to bring down here.

But they just went through the starting lineups, national anthems, and they must have done the tip or the coin flip here.

And I believe

is that the loggers are going to be back to receive.

So the loggers are going to receive the kick here to start out and it's way better back deep for the Phillips loggers.

And he's going to start loggers going to start things out here tonight.

It's a I want to say it's a beautiful night.

It feels nice and temperature wise.

It's kind of calm, but we got storms coming that they're talking about.

So we're keeping an eye on that.

Hopefully it misses us somehow or holds off or no lightning so that we can play through this here right now.

But it's going to be the Hurley North Stars.

kicking off from right to left in front of us here in their white uniforms orange tops not used to seeing that the loggers all in black looking sharp looking scary here's the kick a little pooch over the top Kenny Drexler is gonna let this one go out of bounds the flag goes down and they're gonna get it I think they have a few options I forget what it is here but they're gonna be able to take it at the 35 or 10 yards up I don't know Mick what is the rule we'll find out in a minute or a re-kick that's the other option as well that's right

So it's going to be loggers football to start out here nonetheless as it went out at about the 25 yard line, I believe.

35.

And the loggers are going to take it from there at the 35 yard line.

So it's their own 35 yard line.

Loggers working from left to right in front of us here.

And it is going to be Kenny Drexler in the backfield by himself.

He's got Trace Calhoun to his right.

Wade Vetter in motion.

They're going to give it a Wade on this right side.

Wade Dodge is a guy, but Hurley has a couple.

Defenders right there Wade doing a nice job jumping over the first defender.

He's tackled look for maybe a yard He picked up gonna bring up a second down and nine here from the loggers own 36 yard line and Back up to the line of scrimmage.

They go who's that center out there Nate?

And it's gonna be a snap to Calhoun Calhoun

Almost breaks through.

Everybody gets a nice ten yard run, picks up the first down.

Trace Calhoun getting a full head of steam and picking up that first down.

Loggers got some nice junior running backs out there.

Trace Calhoun, Wade Vetter, along with the senior Kenny Drexler.

Kenny playing the quarterback position.

Think it's Henry.

Yeah, I think you're right.

Stepping up to the line.

It is.

The center for the Loggers.

It's going to be Vetter in the background.

It's going to be a direct snap to Wade Wade.

And he's going to work left side.

Wade gets a couple yards.

Hurdles over a few guys still on his feet.

He's picked up a loss of ball and I think Hurley might have jumped on it.

Hurley got it.

And who are they going to give it to?

We'll

see who they haven't announced who it's going to go to.

I thought Hurley jumped on it.

Wade looks a little

shaky.

They still haven't said who it goes to.

It must be the loggers ball yet.

Somehow the logger's got it.

Yeah, Wade shook up a little bit.

He's kind of limping off of there.

Wade worked really hard for those nine yards.

And did they pick up a first down on that?

And no they didn't.

Okay, so it's gonna be not a first down.

It's gonna be what a third down.

Second and two, I think it

is.

Third and two it would be.

Second and two, you're right.

Second down and two coming up here.

Maybe three.

And all the way into the...

Hurley, North Star's territory at the 46 yard line.

It'll log us up to the line of scrimmage here.

Drexler from the shotgun.

Got Calhoun to the left.

And it's gonna be Drex snapped.

Calhoun, Calhoun.

Up the middle, he's hit by a storm of Hurley defenders.

The North Star is attacking as well.

Five defenders on him.

Blew through that line of scrimmage, got the tackle.

It's going to be a no game, maybe a loss of a half yard, third down in three coming up here, 10 minutes, 22 seconds to go here, first half.

And it feels like this game is already going faster that last game in three lakes in eight.

That was about the slowest game.

Maybe we are past the ball a lot, a lot of incompletions in that game here.

Here the loggers running the ball, a steep pre-course staple, and it's going to be a fumble.

Down on the field Cal who dives on it.

Oh in the water They go from a second down and two off that nice run all the way back It's going to be a fourth down in about 15 now off of a fumble and the fumble was off of the direct snap third down Third down okay third down No fourth down eight up it was All right, so back in their own territory here now way back in their own territory Fourth and 13 will call it fourth and 14

Loggers they're gonna go for it Drexler all alone in the backfields.

They got that long distance play they need And it's called give it to Wade Wade better right side gets around the corner cuts back in he's tackled after about a pickup of maybe three four yards We'll give him four yards on that one and the north stars get the tackle.

It's gonna be a turnover on downs It's gonna be Hurley north star football here coming up 914 to go here in this first quarter zero to zero is the score and

It's a game of the year so far for both teams.

The North Stars, they're going to get the ball starting out here first and 10 at the Loggers 46 yard line.

So good.

Starting possession here for the North Stars.

They got a receiver wide to the left.

Nate can have to help me give some of these names here.

Quarterback we've got here and direct snap to him.

He picks it up up the middle.

He goes and he's met right away.

Derek Pisco diesel.

He tackles them.

No gain.

And that's Max Coodle Coodle cuddle cuddle cuddle cuddle.

We're probably getting wrong.

Sorry Max 9 minutes to go under 9 minutes to go clock is ticking a second down and 10 coming up here maybe a 9 From about the 46 yard line 45 and a half yard line from the shotgun.

Here's Hurley

and direct snap to the back here up the middle.

He goes in a nice 11-yard pickup.

That's Charlie Han, Hanon.

Charlie Hanon.

And that was a nice run for

Hanon.

That was

a

quickness, showcase in his athleticism there.

The North Stars, it looks like they're going to have quite a few athletes to attack the loggers defense here.

And it's going to be a first in 10-year from the 35-yard line, early driving.

Max Cuddle from the shotgun and it's going to be a direct snap to Gilbertson.

Gilbertson, he pushes ahead for a couple, maybe not a couple, maybe one.

It's going to be second nine, we'll call it maybe second ten.

He didn't pick up too much on that.

And we're going to be right at about the 35 yard line.

Up to the line of scrimmage they come.

This rain holding off.

You can see the clouds here, Nate.

And direct snap.

Looks like kind of a broken play.

But nonetheless, Hurley going up that right side down the sideline.

Looks like they pick up about seven, eight yards.

And I think that was Charlie Hennan.

Hennan again.

And he's got some speed out there.

I remember him from last year, Nate.

And it's going to bring up a third down.

We'll give it a third and two here.

all the way down at about the 26 yard line of the loggers.

Seven minutes, 20 seconds to go here, all tied up at zero, no score yet, first quarter.

And the North Star step up to the line of scrimmage.

And it's Kudle from the shotgun.

He's going to keep it himself, goes up the middle, met right away and tackled by a couple of linemen there.

And in the middle, that one Kenny Drexler, the quarterback getting his nose dirty.

Kenny Drexler, the senior, it's time to shine.

Ankle looks good, huh?

Ankle's feeling better.

Kenny, my ankle is fine, Drexler.

It's good enough to play football.

All right.

Once in a while, got to take off day work, though.

All right, here's Hurley, first in 10.

And it's going to be handoff right side, finding a hole and picking up maybe seven with Gilbertson.

And we're seeing a few backs here getting a lot of the handles here Gilbertson, Hannon, Caudill.

And it's going to be about a second and five now from the 20 yard line for the Hurley North Stars.

Six minutes, 20 seconds to go here first quarter.

Zero to zero is the score early.

Up to the line of scrimmage.

Look like the Cleveland Browns out there and a handoff up the middle looks like a Steve pre-core type of an auction offense We're gonna get a flag on the play and the flag was a little bit late so a little interested to see what this one's gonna be

and Please

man to get a face mask on the defense almost was thinking it was something on the defense how it was thrown out there So it's gonna move them back probably about half the distance

as they were at the 15 yard line.

So it's going to bring up a first in 10 here for the Hurley North Stars.

I think they're going to be at what, the 7 yard line?

We'll see where they spot it.

Looks like the 10.

I don't know how that worked.

Maybe they were at the 20.

OK, so from the 10, the North Stars up to the line of scrimmage.

And it's going to be Hanon gets it, cuts to the middle, tries cutting back the right side and can't get through the arms of Kenny Drexler.

Kenny.

Getting his hands he's always been a good defender a sure tackler and Kenny gets the stop after a pick up about three yards second and Gosh it they can get a first down at the looks like the one yard line So it's a second and seven coming up here From their own or from the loggers 19 yard line Gilbertson Cottle in the backfield

Cattle gets it.

He's going to keep it himself.

Go left side trying to get around the corner.

He does get to the corner of the end zone.

Touchdown.

Hurley North Stars, they get on the board first six to nothing.

504 to go here in this first quarter.

And the Hurley North Stars look pretty sharp on the offense here in this first drive.

And they're going to go for the two point conversion likely because that's what we see.

All the time, unless you're playing, who was that team?

Was that Gilman was putting up some field goals?

Three likes, two?

I guess they got nothing better to do than Gilman, so kick field goals.

All right, here we go.

Going for the two-point conversion.

And it's going to be a handoff right side up the middle, I should say, and gets in for the two-point conversion that was Boyd Bodin, Gilbertson.

Bodine, B-O-D-Y-N.

What's his name?

I don't know.

Alright, touchdown.

Extra points good.

It's 8-0 and Hurley leading the loggers.

You're 5-0-4 to go.

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Jeff Hakin and Nathan Pondell up here at Lagerkamp in Phillips, Wisconsin.

Eight man varsity football action.

Five minutes to go here in this first quarter.

It's the Hurley North Stars with an eight nothing lead over the Phillips loggers.

And we just had a Kenny Drexler kick return.

Brought it back.

Nice little return from Kenny up to about the 43 yard line.

And the loggers gonna start out their offense.

Kenny Drexler in the backfield all by himself.

He's got better to the left in motion.

Fakes it.

He's going to keep it himself better up the middle better.

I should say Drexler up the middle picks up for nice little run there.

Kenny Drexler.

And it was the.

The fake handoff to better who you really got to keep your eyes on.

And Kenny kept it himself.

Can he get some play here from coach pre-core.

And come in breaking the huddle up to the line of scrimmage.

They go.

And Kenny Drexler in the backfield by himself.

He's got Vetter and Calhoun to his left.

Kenny going to keep it himself up the middle left side.

He goes, there's a flag.

Kenny gets the first down and some more chugging along.

Oh, there's probably going to be a call.

Not so good for the loggers.

So flag, what's it going to be holding?

Of course.

And it's going to back the loggers up.

A nice run for Kenny.

Negated.

It's going backwards.

They're going to be back at right around probably the 37 yard line, I'm guessing.

We'll see how far they bring them back.

They're right there.

37 yard line, we'll say.

And the loggers bite themselves in the ankle here and move themselves back, second down, coming up here, second to about 15.

And loggers are going to need to make up half of this right here.

Give me four.

Give me four.

We need at least four.

Wade Vedder says, I'll go the whole way.

Here we are.

Drexler from the shotgun.

Gonna give it to Calhoun left side.

Calhoun spins around.

He's tackled.

No gain.

Maybe he lost.

Oh, you lost.

It's gonna be a third and 17.

Going the

wrong way.

Calhoun was wrapped up there.

It's hardly plain tough.

Your first quarters belong into them.

337 to go.

And it's an eight to nothing lead.

for the Hurley North Stars over the Phillips loggers.

A season losing, losing a lot of guys.

JJ Hakin, Aron DeLaschi, Sawyer, you know, it's, it's a bit of a younger team here.

Ben Verna, Gallon Chuzzle, Kyle Seidenbender.

There was a lot of them and a lot of guys with first time playing experience out here are very limited.

So they're doing a good job considering and they are going to, Kenny Drexler is going to air it out.

He goes way

back, makes the cap, down the sideline.

He goes 15, 10, 5, getting the edge on Wade.

He does.

Wow Wade that was a big boy play right there Wade got under it Kenny Drexler aired it out and Wade

runs down the field.

And you don't know how tough that was for Wade to get in the end zone.

They caught him from behind.

He had to stiff arm a guy and stomp in the corner of the end zone.

And he did it in a pretty special way, looked pretty confident the way he stomped his foot.

Two point conversion coming here.

Calhoun keeps it himself.

He is tackled right away.

Lawyers get on the board.

Those six to eight is the score here.

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Three minutes to go here in this first quarter, the Lager's getting back into this ball game.

Big touchdown pass from Kenny Drexler to Wade Vetter.

But what was that?

It had to have been 60 yards.

I'm not really sure.

Either way, they're at the 35.

They're 35, so 65 yarder for the Lagers or for Wade Vetter on that reception.

And it's going to be Lager's football here at the 51 yard line.

Finally been waiting for that one here early at their own 51 yard line and it's going to be direct snap and going up right side is Gilbertson and Hurley's got three big running backs powerful running backs able to do the job and Loggers do as well.

These ones are strong big guys and They're attacking the whole hard here picked up five yards on that one

And it's going to be a second down and five from the 46 yard line of the loggers.

Hurley driving from right to left in front of us.

Hurley in their orange helmets, white uniforms looking a lot like the Cleveland Browns of old.

And it's left side and there's Hannon down the sidelines, got the corner and stepped out of bounds.

And I was almost gone for the touchdown.

And he's showing himself as the fastest guy out on the field here when the Hurley offense is out there.

And he can really fly.

And he got around that corner.

I was looking for Trayvon, giving a nice shove out of bounds there.

And he got that corner, though.

Hannon.

Doing his job.

They got to find a way to stop him, Nate.

We're going to see if they can.

Two minutes, 13 seconds to go here.

First and 10 coming up here.

From the 25?

About the 25 yard line.

Early.

with the balls.

Gilbertson right side trying to push through the line.

He's wrapped up, tackled, picks up maybe four.

It's going to be a second down and seven from the 22 yard line.

Two minutes to go here now, first quarter.

And incoming is the young Dylan Seidenbender.

Just a freshman.

We're going to be hearing his name a lot.

Big brother Kyle's graduated last year.

And

see if Dylan can get his nose in there.

Get a stop.

You see him do have a nice game against three lakes.

Getting his nose in there.

Here's Hurley.

And up the middle he goes.

And just when I set it there, he goes.

Dylan, the Sidon Bender.

He heard me.

He heard me down there.

Dylan, getting his nose in there, doing Dylan Sidon Bender things.

And Dylan gets in there.

Wraps him up gets the tackle for a loss Give me some refreshment out there minute 12 to go 8 to 6 is the score Loggers trying to get a stop here on Hurley.

They're gonna have to do two more times here They're down coming up from the 27 yard line When the shotgun they're gonna give it to Gilbertson up the middle he chugs and he's wrapped up picks up a couple only

Logger's doing a nice job.

It's going to bring up a fourth and ten here.

Hurley not scared of this situation at all.

44 seconds and counting.

They'll get one more playoff.

And at the end of this corner here, we'll be sending it back.

But a nice first quarter here by both teams.

We talked about it at the start.

Some people talking about this.

This is a game with the Wins Conference right here.

I said Riv Lake.

They're going to have something to say about it too, but we'll see.

And they're playing it's like a heavyweight fight out here hurly up to the line of scrimmage 20 seconds to go The three backs in the backfield Gilbertson Hannon Cotto and What happened there a timeout maybe?

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Jeff Hakin and Nathan Padawals here in Phillips, Wisconsin.

And here is Hurley trying to get a touchdown pass on the last play and broken up over there.

And that was junior Kennedy breaking up the pass play right there.

And Hurley was going for it.

They had, they had to

get 10

yards.

Turn over on Darnes.

They had to get 10 yards on that play.

And you know, to them, they're like, Hey, an interception is just the same as, uh,

You know, a little punt there, so they weren't afraid to throw it.

Smart play there by Hurley.

It was incomplete.

It's going to be Lager's football here.

Two seconds to go in this first quarter, and they're going to be starting out from about the 26 yard line, 25 yard line.

And Drexler in the backfield for the Lagers all by himself.

Got veteran Calhoun back there.

Drexler going to keep it himself up the middle.

He goes, picks up maybe one and brought down by a handful of North Star defenders, and that's going to be the end of the first quarter.

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Jeff Haken and Nathan Padawals here in Phillips, Wisconsin.

Just getting a few sprinkles.

We're seeing the umbrellas come out here.

No big deal so far here, but second quarter underway shortly here.

It is the Hurley North Stars with an eight to six lead over the Phillips loggers.

And it's going to be loggers football here coming up, switching sides of the field.

So it's loggers working from right to left in their black uniforms, black helmets.

Early North Stars in their white uniforms, black letters, orange helmets.

Here's Drexler, direct hand out there, gonna give it to the counter, to Valor.

Left side, know that Calhoun, Calhoun, up his left side, the 30, the 30 tackles from behind at about the 36 yard, 26 yard line.

Trace Calhoun, got on his horse, down that left side, and a big play there for the Loggers.

11-50 to go here, second quarter, and Calhoun with a big run.

Trace's biggest run of the season here so far for him And he blasted through there that counter play always works so well For the loggers has for years.

I remember it was will knack way back when and all the way down every year There seems to be someone new for it.

Here's Drexler.

He's gonna keep it up the middle But that defensive line got through and tackled him for a no game And it's gonna be a second down coming up second down and ten

From about the 27 yard line 27 yard line of the North Stars Loggers in their huddle here Big play capability from both teams.

We've seen it and that's really what you get in eight man football a lot of fun about it You see a lot of big touchdown runs and play McCoy DeLaskey reminds me of Mike Webster going up to that line of scrimmage every time

Old heads know who that is here.

Go Kenny left side trying to get around the corner.

He's wrapped up Maybe gets back to the line of scrimmage right in front of kick coach pre-core And it's gonna bring up a third down and probably ten Coming up here after that big run from Calhoun Loggers Stumped a couple plays in a row here.

So third and ten coming up.

No way the veteran field has been off for this series.

Oh interesting.

Okay.

Yeah, I see Wade there

Wade looks fine.

He's moving around here.

So see why coach has him out No, it's Wade better could be anything Wade a super athlete freakish at the freakish athlete.

Absolutely Really fun watching him this year Drexler could be a direct snap left side and oh and a loss on that one And who was that one right there running that one 18 so that was Matthew Novak Novak

Getting a run here and now it looks like Vedder is going to go back in.

So Novak giving Vedder a break on that play and fourth and long coming up here.

And there's one play for this situation here right here.

Give it to Wade.

Give it to Wade is exactly right.

That's what I would do.

Say Wade.

Go make a Wade-Vedder type of a play.

945 to go here.

Eight to six is a score.

Hurley leading.

Drexler in the backfield.

All alone and a whistle was blown.

Delay of game on the loggers.

Going to back him up.

Ouch, that hurts.

Back him up five yards.

Going to make it a fourth and right around 20.

Maybe fourth and 19 officially.

Nine minutes, 30 seconds to go.

Clock is ticking.

Drexler All by himself gonna throw it right side.

It's gonna be a trick play better on that right side trying to come back left side He's wrapped up can't get out of the flag down though a flag there probably gonna be a holding We'll see what the flag is So those yellow shoes I see out there always look like a flag to me as well And it's gonna be a penalty decline it was on the loggers

And it's going to be a turnover on downs.

It's going to be North Star's football here at their own 35-yard line.

Nine minutes, 13 seconds to go here.

Second quarter, eight to six.

A few sprinkles.

It looks like a few sprinkles sitting in the booth here.

They might say it differently out there.

It's not bad.

It's not bad we hear.

It's not bad.

Says the gal in the umbrella.

9.13 to go.

And here we go.

And it is a pass play that slipped out of the hands and a nice pass there from the quarterback Max Cottle and slipped out of the hands of the receiver.

I don't know who that might have been, Schilling West Schilling.

It was.

It was.

And one of the Schilling boys out there and Cully plays basketball with a younger sister of West.

And it's going to bring up a second down.

And hey, that then went.

The wet here is going to affect in this game a little bit with that passing game.

Harder to catch the ball, harder to throw the ball, harder to hold on to the ball as well.

9-0-9 to go here.

Here is Hurley, hand off, left side handed.

He's going to come back right side.

Or if he would have gotten loose out of that tackle, a shoestring tackle there by Calhoun probably saved a touchdown because Hanon, he can go the distance at any moment.

And it's going to bring up a third and seven.

Coming up here for the North Stars 847 to go in this second quarter Early coming out of the huddle working from left to right in front of us here It's a beautiful sight if you're in the bush or in the booth with the rain coming down the lights are out The North Stars in them you want to see those white jerseys dirty as can be they're gonna throw it again and a little over the head of Hannon and it's gonna bring up a fourth and seven coming up here

Hurley taking some shots here in the rain.

Interesting strategy.

Eight and a half minutes to go.

And Hurley leading by two.

Okay, with me, I mean.

Hurley, they're going to come up here again.

A fourth down coming up here.

See if they've got a play in check here.

They've got athletes to do a lot here.

It looks like they're kind of in pun formation.

I don't believe them.

Can he get up there?

Can he back deep?

to receive for the loggers.

And it's gonna be Hanan.

And he is gonna punt it.

Punt this one deep.

Drexler, he's way back.

Can he cause the fair catch?

Off his chest and caught by Hurley.

And can he watch that one back?

But bounced off his chest is this rain.

Probably play or taking a tour.

But that one bounced off his chest and it's gonna be a huge play.

For Hurley, Hurley North Stars, they're going to start out here first in 10 from about their own.

Are they at the 25 yard line?

I'm thinking, I think that is maybe 26.

25.

We're

going to say 26 yard line.

First in 10 coming up for them.

Gilbertson, Hannon, Connell in the backfield for the North Stars.

It's going to be a handoff.

to Gilbertson tries chugging up field he's wrapped up but he picks up a few maybe four we'll give him four on that one it's going to be a second six coming up here from the 23-ish eight minutes to go here second quarter six or eight to six the north stars are leading the Phillips loggers

every time the loggers get something going they do something to shoot

themselves in

the foot

yeah Wade had that fumble early on

Kenny's got this fumble

Kenny's got this fumble right here

Whether maybe play a factor now what kind of bounce stuff is just so And here we go all three but in the backfield for the north starts going to be handing the direct snap He keeps it left side.

He said Kenny says he didn't like that play where he turned it over there a nice tackle nice hit Kenny Drexler Kenny he's going to be a leader in tackles in the conference here by the end of the season one of the leaders He's got his nose in on everything

Kenny, my ankle is fine today.

Drexler.

He gave him some grief about that at work.

He's never going to live that one down with you.

No, he's not going to call in about an ankle injury no more.

Here we go.

Seven minutes to go here.

Hurley with the ball.

Drex snap and it's going to be Gilbert said he tried getting a full head of steam.

He took like a couple steps back and then ran it ahead and picked up a few yards here.

and we have that right it's going to be a fourth down coming up here

fourth and about two

fourth and about two big play coming up here for both teams and so deep in loggers territory they're down at about the 15 or what do they have the 18 yard line about the 18 yard line so it's a really deep in loggers territory and all three backs in the backfield for

The North Stars and it's gonna be Gilbertson that ends up getting it.

I don't know if he got it all he did Looks like he did get the first down.

It's hard to tell from up here, but looks like he got it And a big play there for Gilbertson and this Hurley North Stars offense six minutes 14 seconds to go in the second quarter Hurley has that two-point lead and Running some time off of the clock here and trying to get into the end zone.

It's gonna be a big possession here for the North Stars

Six minutes to go Here's Cottle gets a snap.

There's a flag That stops the play before it starts a full start on the on the offense.

So Hurley gonna be backed up five yards In penalties are so huge It's gonna be a first in 15 coming up for the North Stars on the full start Five fifty three to go clock is ticking

8 to 6 is that score.

A nice attendance here.

Hurley, you know they're going to travel well.

A football tradition over there.

They're going to support their football team.

Phillips, you don't have to go far to travel here, but you know, a nice crowd here tonight.

It's got a football atmosphere.

Nate, we always talk about his cheerleaders over on the other side.

We like seeing that

bringing

the energy.

And what happened?

I was talking there, Nate.

Another another false start on Hurley, so they're going to be moved back five more yards.

And do we have a first and 20 coming up?

So I think

it is.

Yeah, we were able to hit the concessions here.

Hey, we had a lot going on.

Volleyball was going on.

We got to go watch my daughter Cully and the Phillips did very well against Rib Lake earlier today here in middle school.

Volleyball, that was fun to watch.

And then we come over here.

for some football action here.

Lots of sports going on here tonight in Phillips.

517 to go.

Here is the North Stars with the ball.

And I thought that was a pick play over there.

They got away with

it.

They're going to get a

touchdown on this one.

And it was a pick and a hold should have been.

North Stars, they get the touchdown.

Landon Christopherson.

Yep.

Christopherson with the touchdown.

And early going to go ahead here 14 to 6 or 12 to 6.

No.

Sorry.

14-6 should be the score.

And they're going to be going for two points here.

Early gets the touchdown.

I'm going to call that a cheat play.

And nonetheless, they capitalize.

Here we go.

And a direct snap and taken down and tackled hard over there on that left side was McCoy-Dalasky.

Sure looked like McCoy.

It was McCoy-Dalasky.

a big tackle from the big McCoy-Dalasky, the real McCoy-Dalasky.

And with 502 to go, it's 14 to 6.

I don't think it should be.

I think Hurley got those points, whatever.

All right, we're going to send it back to 98Q Country and on the Civic Media app for one minute.

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It's the Hurley North Stars with a 14 to six lead over the Phillips loggers.

Four minutes, 40 seconds to go here in the second quarter and the game's still going on here.

We may or may not have seen a lightning strike, but we're going to keep this game going four and a half minutes to go.

And it's going to be a reverse here on the know.

It's a keeper up the middle and Calhoun is going to hold on to the ball.

And he was wrapped up.

It's going to be like a four yard loss on that.

Trace Calhoun had nowhere to go.

He was wrapped up tight.

Four minutes, 19 seconds to go.

Drexler back onto the field.

and bringing the play in here.

Four minutes to go.

Little more.

We're going to keep a blind eye to them.

Bright lights in the sky here and Drexler back the pass.

Get this one deep.

I added a pack and tackled.

Nice job there for the longest completion major.

That's Mark Hoagland.

Mark Hoagland's made some nice catches here.

And 351 to go.

14 to 6.

Is the score the loggers getting a nice first down completion there Mark Hogan ahead of the pack gets it all the way down to the 40 yard line 40 yard line of The Hurley North Stars and Drexler again with Calhoun to his right better to his left And it's gonna be a direct snap to Calhoun Calhoun chugs ahead picks up maybe a couple It's gonna be a second eight now from about the 38 yard line 319 to go

Loggers And the score here.

Yeah, he got a score really really got a score.