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Hello everyone and welcome to Calumet.
In this week's 3MHSA matchup we'll see them take on the Nagani minors.
Both teams 2-0 a very high stakes game to start here as something pretty special.
For a high school football game, happens off to my right, a military helicopter landing just outside the field here in Calumet.
Michigan Army National Guard going to have a couple of helicopters flying in as part of a military service appreciation night here.
And a big game could not have picked a better time to do it, as these two teams, both with perfect starts this regular season, are looking to fight to lock up some early playoff spots in their respective high school divisions.
Jake Condit here in Calumet, wishing and welcoming you to this week's high school football game of the week.
And boy, it's going to be a good one.
Two coaches taking over for pretty legendary coaches in their staff.
Josh Franti starting in 2022.
Head coach for the Bagani Miners, Jeff Neme starting just last year in 2025, but they have not stopped with the success of either of these locals.
Most of them longtime assistants at their respective programs.
And now both of them in charge.
Again, fairly new coaches, but ready to throw themselves.
Once again, into 48 minutes of high school football action to see who comes out on top.
We're gonna have pre-game show interviews coming up in just a moment.
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And the crowd here already packed.
There's been quite a lot of noise about the military service appreciation night coming in here.
Hearing about the military helicopters that are going to be flying over, I believe, at the National Anthem.
And on top of all that, the Calumet Copper Kings will also be inducting their class of 2026 into the School Hall of Fame.
Six players from the past in Calumet High School history going to be inducted at halftime.
So we're covering that for you as well here today.
Thank you all so much for tuning in.
We're going to have three game show interviews coming up for you here in just a minute on Nix93.
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back everybody pre game show here on mix 93 brought to you by superior service Our first coaches interview is gonna be Calumet Copper Kings head coach Josh Franti coach Franti Thank you so much for your time.
Yeah, I appreciate you guys.
All right Looking at your season so far.
You started the year two and oh, you'll beat Houghton 14 to seven here in your home opener and then beat ishman westwood 27 to 8 on your first road game of the year
What are the big things that you've seen out of your team so far that helped you win those games?
And are there any standout issues that you want to see improve over the next few weeks?
Yeah, I mean, early in the season, you're always looking to improve, right?
You never know what you got coming into game one.
And obviously, you know, there's going to be things to fix.
But I thought the guys battled well, dealt with some adversity early that we haven't had the last few seasons.
So I thought that was a good lesson for them to learn and then to be able to go down on the road and play a solid Westwood team and kind of
start out with the battle and just kept chipping away.
So from week one to week two, it was good to see the improvement, but we still got a long way to go.
All right.
Are there any key players
that you think will be standout performers in your matchup this week against Nagani or any players that you expect to see an increased role compared to weeks one and two?
Yeah, you know, our backfield's been been pretty dynamic the last two years.
Those guys got a lot of experience, a lot of games under their belt.
So then just kind of controlling the ball and doing their jobs and and
At the end of the day, it all starts up front.
So our guys up front have been working hard communicating and making sure we're on the same page together.
So our offense can run knowing Nagani has a very good football team coming up.
So we got to be solid up front.
All right.
And you started as head coach
here in Calumet in 2022.
Since then, you've only missed the playoffs one time.
That was in 2023.
You've had some really good playoff runs in the recent past here at Calumet as well.
The Copper Kings feel like they really have a winning culture going into the season that's been very long established.
How does that feel different as a coach when you know you're coming in and often winning is the expectation for your
team?
I think it's the fun thing, right?
You want to build that winning culture and you expect certain things.
And that's always one of our goals is trying to get as much football on as we can together.
Because at the end of the day, the seasons are short.
These guys only have nine guaranteed games.
And if you can extend that season and get a few more extra weeks of the guys, it's just even more added fun.
All right.
And Nagani's also coming into this game 2-0.
Last season, when the two of you matched up, you actually beat them 33 to 18 at Nagani.
So what are you expecting from this team?
And as I'm sure they're riled up getting ready for what's a very big game on their schedule as well How are you hoping to stand out and beat them in this week three matchup?
Yeah, they're very well coached team They're very solid very sound they got big big guys up front They run the ball very well, and then they got a dynamic athlete and
Evan Delangelo, who can go over the top on teams.
So just making sure our guys are squared away with their jobs.
And when all 11 guys are doing their jobs, we're pretty tough.
But we know we got a big challenge coming in.
Alright, and finally it's gonna be a pretty special
game here in Calumet.
It's gonna be a Veterans night.
They're gonna have a flyover for the National Anthem and also they are going to be inducting the Hall of Fame class for the class of 2026.
If you have anybody on the Hall of Fame class that you want to shout out or any veterans that you want to mention before we wrap up our interview here.
Yeah, it's gonna be a great night.
We got to fly over obviously with some helicopters which doesn't happen.
I think it happened once when I was at Tech, but I know for high school, I can't remember in the UP it happening, so it's going to be very cool.
I expect a huge crowd and then with the Hall of Fame crew coming in.
I know Andy Storm, one of my relatives, absolutely loves Copper King football and played it back in the day and played at Michigan Tech.
And so I know he'll be fired up to see a good football game.
All right, Coach Franti, thank you so much for your time.
Good luck in this week's matchup.
Appreciate it.
Thank you.
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Pre-game show on MIX 93.
Our second coaches interview brought to you by Superior Service tonight is the Nagani minors head coach Jeff Nimi.
Coach Nimi, thank you for your time.
Thank you.
Starting off, you had a 2-0 start to your season.
You were able to take down Marquette 30 to 28 and a 42 to 6 win over Gladstone.
What are the big things that you saw from your team in those games that you think you did really effectively and what do you think needs work going into this match against Calumet?
You know, I mean, the things that we did well, block, tackle, the things that we're kind of built on in our town and in our program and we're going to have to continue to do that against the very tough Calumet team that is kind of based on those same things.
A lot of similarities between the programs and I think whoever does those two things the best is going to come out ahead tonight.
Evan DeLangelo was a player that we heard a lot about in our work in our pre-game show interview with the other teams head coach here.
On top of his work as a dynamic player for you, are there any other players that you want to shout out in particular that you think will be really impactful in today's game?
Sure, you know, I mean, there's a lot of names.
We're running back by committee.
We've got, you know, hopefully two or three kids playing at fullback, two or three kids playing at tailback.
We've also got some guys that...
are also able to catch and run with the ball as far as wide receivers go, but it all kind of goes with our quarterback number four Kyle Waterman.
He gets him the ball.
He's also an able and capable runner for us, too.
So he would be a player that has a good game today.
We should be in good shape.
This is your second year as head coach for the Nagani Miners.
You've been an assistant since 1997, I believe.
In the past year, you were able to make it to the playoffs despite being bumped up to Division 5.
So I'm just asking you, how do you try to continue growing and developing as a head coach while also getting off to a very solid start?
you know just I mean putting in the work every day we as a coaches we spend some time in the summer doing a lot of different things and you know trying to find new ways and better ways to do things and just just keep preaching at the things we do well though too right like sometimes you can get a little too cute and forget about blocking and tackling and that's really the crust of the game so we're that you know that's kind of our focus and if we
can continue to get better every day at that.
We feel like we can get better as a team.
All right.
And the miners have had a lot of success in recent years.
You made it all the way to the state championship back in 2022.
You've made the playoffs every year since 2019.
And one of the consistent things that you've been running into in that time is that Calumet has usually been right up there with you contending for playoff spots, making big pushes.
Is this game starting to feel like it has more meaning to you week to week?
And also, what are you expecting from
Calumet in today's matchup?
You know, it's not starting to, it just does.
It's been that way for a while.
I mean, like I said, very similar programs.
You know, Coach Jake for us and Coach Crosy for Cali way back, you know.
Up until a couple years ago those two guys were two very successful head coaches that ran similar programs and you know Josh and I now are kind of taking on that challenge of filling their shoes and doing doing similar things so It's it's really it's always great to come up here and play or host you guys because it's just It's usually a really good football game.
They're going it's minor.
They're going to minors head coach Jeff Nemi.
Thank you so much for your time.
Good luck in tonight's match.
Thank you very much
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to Agassiz Field here in Calumet, Michigan pre-game show continuing here brought to you by Houghton Building Supply.
The Calumet High School Band is out on the field and we have some I believe local service members who are holding a large American flag out in the opposing end zone right now.
So the national anthem should be starting here pretty shortly.
Before we get to that, we'll take a look at the game day forecast brought to you by Bucco's party store right here in Calumet.
Right now, 76 degrees and cloudy here in Calumet, Michigan.
It looks like it'll stay mostly overcast.
We are seeing some sky peek through over the field right now, but I think we're going to have a pretty significant cloud cover after that for most of this game.
Looks like we shouldn't have any worries about rain.
It'll only get a little bit cooler over the next couple of hours, getting down to about 72 degrees by the time this game will wrap up.
So it should be a
Wonderful night of September football here in Calumet, and we are looking forward to seeing how this game goes here.
We'll have featured players of the game coming up after the national anthem here shortly, but frankly this is a national anthem that we don't want to miss, folks, and we're going to make sure we have this one ready for you here on MIX 93.
Again, for those of you just joining us, Calumet Copper Kings versus Nagani Miners, both teams 2 and 0 to start their season.
Both looking to make an impact, stay undefeated, and frankly, with a win here,
likely securing a playoff spot in either the Division V playoffs for Nagani or Division VI for Calumet.
But both schools a storied history of success both looking to extend that further into the 2026 season and we will see how that begins in just a few minutes time.
National Anthem again coming up here pretty shortly.
It is an absolutely packed crowd here in Calumet tonight as the Copper Kings take the field getting ready for the National Anthem.
Exciting crowd here.
Ready for this one.
Apologies if there were any audio issues there for a moment.
Looks like we may have had an issue with our board.
But things looking better now.
But the crowd here, the stands mostly full in front of us here.
The visitors stands also largely full here.
I'd say there are about 70% at capacity a few minutes before the game begins here.
And also hundreds of people out on the lawn on the opposing side of the stadium here in Calumet.
Still waiting for the game to begin here.
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Nagani miners have now taken the field as well.
They've got their cheer staff over there as well and National Anthem should be coming up here in just a moment.
Still a moment here, apologies folks.
They want to make sure everything is ready to go here.
I believe about 50 or 60 former service members, maybe a couple active as well.
holding up the American flag in the, I believe that is the western end zone and the Calumet band off to the east.
What a great crowd here today for a high school football match absolutely ready to get this one going.
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Additionally, 2026 Hall of Fame class for Calumet High School will be introduced at the field at halftime.
We'll make sure to have coverage of that for you here on MIX 93.
High school football game of the week, Nagani at Calumet.
One of the big ticket matchups of the year for both of these teams.
Very competitive rivalry recently and both teams very much in competition for the playoffs coming into this season.
A long story of success for both over the previous years.
In the year 2022, Nagani actually reached the state championship.
So they have reached near the heights of high school football success very recently.
I believe there's still a short delay here.
It's a bit of an elaborate setup, more than the usual for a national anthem.
So understandable that there's a bit of a delay here as things get set up.
We'll start talking about our featured players of the game brought to you by Kiwanaw Automotive while we have a moment to talk here.
Both teams running back by committee, they have a three running back set each for Calumet, Oscar Locus, Keith Coyvisto, and Trent Anderson.
Usually the impact players in the backfield.
The quarterback there, Tyler Halonen, number 16, er, sorry.
Sorry, I got my rosters mixed up there.
For Calumet, we have Tyler Howlin in the quarterback, Oscar Locus, Keith Coisisto in Trent Anderson.
For Nagani, we have the quarterback, number four, Kyle Waterman, and another three running backs set in Mason Swenor, Evan Azekainen, and Waylon Harvilla.
A lot of backfields there, a lot of energy coming from a bunch of players, ready to get going out of the backfield.
A very good wide receiver core as well for Nagani.
You heard Evan Delangelo mentioned in the pregame show, seen by both coaching staffs as an impact player.
And still a moment here waiting for the anthem to begin.
The pregame clock has hit zero and now the Calumet ban takes the field.
So I believe we'll be going here in just a second.
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Welcome back everybody kickoff show here on mix 93 The service members active duty and veterans and first responders along with the color guard I believe Calumet J ROTC Currently leaving the field the national anthem just resolved Still carrying an American flag across the field
Again, many, many service members, first responders, and I believe veterans all carrying the flag out to midfield tonight.
A beautiful sight tonight as a salute to service along with remembrance of the September 11th attacks 25 years ago
today.
Fans still
here we go And the crowd erupts getting ready for tonight's game Apologies for any mixing issues tonight folks.
We're gonna be
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Want to make sure everybody's able to listen all right.
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Shortly
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The
entire stadium still on their feet, clapping along to the fight song and hundreds more on the lawn on the opposite side of the field.
Visitors stands now nearly full.
It is an absolutely packed house here at Agassiz Field in Calumet, Michigan, and we are going to have a
Fantastic game in our hands here.
Nagani ready to take the field.
The Calumet band actually still out there.
Now heading back to their sideline, getting ready for tonight's matchup as well.
And it is going to be an absolute blast to go through this one tonight, folks.
Both teams on the field now.
Nagani special teams unit now able to get set.
Nagani will be kicking off to the Copper Kings.
And there are two returners back there for Calumet.
I believe that is number 25, Keith Coyvisto.
And number 16, Tyler Halonen, I believe?
No.
That's number... I believe number 12, Osterker Locus.
Kickoff team ready.
Waiting for the signal.
Here we go.
And football underway here in Calumet.
It's a squib kick down.
Recovered by one of the returners.
That's 25, Coy Visto, who will be tackled and brought down at the 29-yard line.
The Copper Kings will start...
with their first drive in their own territory, pretty close to a touch back.
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And folks, I don't want to insinuate that the crowds were small by any means for our first two weeks, Lake Lindenhubble and Ishpeming and Hancock and West Iron County, but this is a different animal.
This place is absolutely packed tonight.
First and 10.
It's a handoff up the middle, and there's going to be maybe a gain of a yard there.
The quarterback, Tyler Halonen, lined up under center and handed it off.
I believe it was Oscar Locas who received the first handoff of the game.
And it will be a run for no gain, so it'll be second down and 10 here for the Copper Kings.
Second down to 10, ball the 29 yard line very early still here in this first quarter.
Allen takes the snap right up the middle.
It's Coy Visto who gains a few yards.
He'll be brought down after a gain of five.
It'll be third down and about five yards to go here.
Copper Kings looking to establish the run.
In our pregame show coaches interview, you heard Nagani head coach Jeff Neeming praising his team setting the fundamentals as the key thing that he thinks will win the minors this football game.
They're tackling skills.
Halonen hands it off once again.
Fakes the handoff.
Halonen breaks loose.
Able to get the first down.
He'll gain about 10 yards there.
And a nice, I believe that was a read option.
Looked like he'd handed it off to Coy Visto in the fullback position.
Kept it himself, snuck outside to his left, gained about six yards.
And it'll be first down in 10 at the Copper King 42 yard line.
10, 47 and ticking on the clock in this first quarter.
Copper Kings quick to the line.
Howlin' under center, three running backs behind him.
Hand off, will gain about two yards.
And that's number 36 Trent Anderson, his first carry of the game.
Copper Kings getting all three of their big running backs the ball here.
Tyler Hallen and also with the carry.
Everybody in that backfield getting involved so far.
No activity from wide receivers yet, and it looks like they're going to keep that three running back crew all out there, all lined up behind Hallen and takes a snap, hands it off.
And that'll be Oscar Locas, who gains about eight yards on that handoff, or about seven yards.
Excuse me, it's going to be third down and about a yard.
Yeah, he'll be marked just short of the first down.
It's going to be third and one coming up.
Copper King so far doing a good job of establishing the run.
Again, Copper King's quick to the line.
Nagani Miners rushing to get set to match.
Hallinan takes the snap, hands it off, and that'll be enough for a first down.
It's going to be number 36, Trent Anderson once again.
Trying to dominate the trenches so far in this game.
It's been a run on every single play call so far for Calumet, and it looks like the exact same formation will remain on the field.
Again, the Copper Kings head right to the line, ready to go, trying to get Nagani out of position.
Halonen takes the snap, hands it off.
Keith Quivisto, gonna get about six yards, be brought down, it'll be second down in about four yards.
Tackled there by number five, David Euchemish.
And Nagani hasn't let one break free yet, but they've allowed a few runs to go for somewhere between 5 and 10 yards.
And that's been enough for the Copper Kings to not worry about adjusting their play call.
Same three back set.
Allen and hands it off.
Trent Anderson shakes through the defensive line, but is brought down.
And I believe he will be marked just short of the first down here.
It's going to be third down in about half a yard.
I could be wrong, but I believe number 34, Talon Parkinson.
The 11th grader for Nagani will be credited with the tackle there.
Heller Allen, doing a good job managing the tackle so far, had to keep her earlier.
You know, keep it here.
Tries to sneak through the line, rolls out of the tackle, but is brought down quickly by a second Nagani minor.
And I believe that'll be a gain of about a yard.
It's gonna be fourth down and about two here.
And for the moment, the offense is gonna stay out on the field.
Looks like they're gonna go for this one.
Little bit closer than I thought to the first down marker actually they may bring out the chain gang for this.
Let's see And they won't have to they're gonna say fourth down in about half a yard Real close to that first down marker there.
Halonen with the quarterback keeper Able to shake the first hit but quickly brought down the Nagati defense doing a good job of not letting any big plays break loose so far fourth down and short Halonen under center takes the snap hands it off
Breaks free and that'll be a first down for Oscar Locas Not a massive game there, but just enough to move the chains it'll be about three yards on a little run to the outside on the right side of that offensive line Calumet still moving the ball well 743 on the clock and Now once again rolling after the ball is placed at the line of scrimmage first and 10 here It's on the 32 yard line of Nagani
This drive started, I believe, at the 29 of Calumet, so they've done a good job of moving the ball downfield so far.
Same three back set, Halledon under center.
All three running backs just lined up in a horizontal line behind.
Takes the snap, hands it off, and that's going to be Trent Anderson, who's brought it down.
Looked like he may have taken a tackle for loss for a moment, but shakes his first tackler.
And I believe that'll be a run for no gain, maybe half a yard there.
But now closer to the left side hash, they had mostly been sticking to the right side of the field, so far in this game.
Not a couple runs for no gain, but when we get past that offensive line for the minor, we're able to pick up a few yards to the chains.
Allenen takes the snap, rolls out to his right quarterback keeper where he's going to slip and fall.
Maybe he can get a yard or two before being patted down.
That's number five.
Once again, Javid Jusimic.
Alton bringing play back to the sideline.
Copper Kings in a third down and nine now.
That's the 31 of Nagani.
Alton takes the snap, hands it off, takes the hand off, quarterback Keeper may have gained a couple yards there, but now we're here to the first down.
It's gonna be four, it's about six.
Four of the Copper Kings sitting near the red zone, ball places a 26 yard line.
That'll be a fourth down and four.
And now what do you do here if you're Calumet?
All offense remains on the field.
Tyler Halonen has a play call, bringing it back to his line.
5-43, I'm thinking they have successfully gotten rid of half of the first quarter on this drive so far.
And now fourth down, a few yards to gain here.
Halonen under center, that same three back set.
Motion.
A direct snap.
To Locus, Locus rolls out to his right.
He's going to break for it.
Goes inside.
I think he's going to be tackled.
Oh, that's close, folks.
We'll see if that's ruled the first down or not.
Waiting for a spot from the official crew.
Hallen and shifted over.
Locus took a direct snap, and that's going to be ruled the first down.
The chain will move for the Copperkicks.
Nice play there by Calium at a little bit of trickery.
Shifting the quarterback over.
And the fake hand, er, not the fake hand off, excuse me, the direct step to number 12, Tyler Locus.
Results in a first down, now at the 22-yard line, under the gawney miners with a fresh set of downs.
Seven minutes gone in this first quarter on a single drive.
Calumet looking to burn the clock down early here.
Howlin' and lined up under center, same three back step.
No motion.
Howlin' takes a snap, hands it off, it's Keith Coyvisto.
And he will be met as a lost scrimmage by the end of the yard before being brought down by that Nagani defensive line.
Number 10, Braden Gleeson in on the tackle.
And they're gonna say no game, second down and 10, still at the 22 yard line from Nagani.
Nothing, nothing score.
4-28 remaining in the first quarter here.
Calumet has had the ball the entirety of the game so far.
A fun play on every single play.
and they are more than happy to let the clock run down as they try to set up a dominating run game.
Same set, Allen in three backs.
Allen takes the snap, holds on to it, he's gonna go up the middle, and the offensive line can't hold long enough for him to get outside that he will be met in the backfield and brought down.
Number four, Kyle... Yeah, number four, Kyle Waterman, the quarterback on offense for Nagani, involved in the tackle there.
I believe he plays mostly linebacker or safety for Nagani, although it's been a pretty close the tackle box game so far.
Again, every single play so far in this game has been a run.
And I would not expect that to change any time soon.
Thurred down on 11 yards ago, now that'll go down after it was a tackle for loss.
Outline double.
Keep out wide at number 20.
Andrew on the left.
And Allen has taken it out to the right on his own, Prince of Tackle.
And he's going to have enough of a first down, still on his feet.
And he'll finally be brought down at about the five-yard line.
What a rush there for Tyler Hannon.
The first time we've seen a different formation from Calum at all the game long, had a receiver out wide three players that were lying on the off-the-off to one shithead from left to right before that day.
Allen takes the snap and shot gun.
roughed out to right on the keeper, breaks a couple tackles, and that is a big first down to goal out of the Copper Caves.
And it's pretty high on third and left.
I think we've got to be out of about play in 15 or 14 minutes drive now.
We've got to take the inverse order.
Time has cut the ball the entire
time.
And the Calumet Copper Kings are on the board for 6-0 in favor of Calumet.
Flags waving in the stands, the Calumet band now line up in the section in front of the press box.
And Agus' heel is come to life.
Extra point, he's out.
It's going to be number 12 for the Copper Kings.
That's Ock, your locust, the running back, out to kick.
Kick is up, and it's good.
Make it 7-0 Copper Kings.
Go on and get with the chance to respond.
We'll be back in just a moment here on Nix93.
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Number 12, it's Locus again, apologies.
I thought it was number 22.
And that ball is caught by the Nagani Miners return, that's number 22.
Evan S. Canaan, who goes up to his left, has room to break.
And he's going to be forced out of bounds just barely at the 46 yard line.
A big return there.
That's a Canaan.
Look at that ball.
That landed on the near side of the field for us in the press box here.
Look all the way out to his left.
And just use that speed to turn up the field.
Neil got back to midfield.
And now he relates it to his scheme
7-10 here for Nagani.
A huge chunk of time off the clock here in Calumet.
7-0 Copper Kings.
The first opportunity on offense here for Nagani.
Waterman lined up in shotgun.
Takes the snap and a quarterback keeper goes up the middle.
He'll gain about 7 yards.
They're all being brought down.
Number 56 Dylan Hurkist.
A big factor in the tackle there.
We're back into the 29 yard line before being brought down.
Number two, Pygmy, they're two here.
I torqued there.
And the chains moving quickly here for Nagani, a complete change of tone, a fast moving offense here.
We'll see what these strategies work out so far.
Waterman, you wonder if he has number 11, that's even the last
line to his right.
Take the snap.
Hands it off!
And it bailed back right in front of the first of line, and he's brought down by the 80 yards and a half.
That number 25, that's Mason Swinger.
And he'll be credited with a gain of 2 yards of the second mate.
Now at the Calumet 28th yard line, again 7-0 Copper King so far.
This is the first drive of the game for Nagani, a minute and 5 seconds remaining in this first quarter.
Waterman under center.
Neeming his tweener in the backfield.
Delangelo out to the right.
Delangelo takes the wide receiver screen.
Plenty of room to work.
Distant coverage there.
And Delangelo is going to take advantage.
Going to gain about 15 yards.
Helmet nearly popped off.
And I believe he'll have to head back to the sideline for a play.
It's going to be a gain about 15 yards again.
It's going to be first down and 10 just barely.
Ten yard line in between the 10 and 11.
Not quite first goal.
But very close.
47 seconds and ticking here in the first quarter.
Nagani Miners did not have much time on the clock.
This first quarter got the ball, I believe, 232 on the clock.
And so far they've done a good job of moving downfield about 40 yards so far on this drive.
And it's Nimi and Sweener back in backfields again.
Number 10, Evan Gleason out to the right.
Waterman takes the snap, hands it off to Nimi.
who was in a fullback, he'll gain about four yards.
We'll call it second down and a long five.
And Glock was just going to wind all the way down here to end third quarter.
Again, a long, massive drive by the County McCoppes to begin this game.
And it looks like McGonny's going to have to try to finish this drive at the start of the second quarter.
We'll be right back with that here on mix 93.
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Seven-nothing the score right now Calumet in the lead, but Nagani with the ball in the red zone for Calumet Red zone plays brought to you by Gino's restaurant in Hancock in today's game And now it'll be second down in about six yards to go And it's number four Kyle Waterman who will be lining up at shotgun number three Waylon Harvilla to his right and three receivers that why
Absolutely thrown down to the ground.
Believe that's number 36 Trent Anderson for the Copper King on the stop there.
Wrapped him up and threw him to the ground.
Gained a couple yards on that play.
It's going to be third down in about four, now a five yard line.
And a minor to really want to convert this one to tie this game back up and touch down a piece.
Third down.
Flicit is third and five at the five, but it is not goal to go There's about two-thirds of a yard in between the first down pylon and the end zone pylon Waterman may have gotten enough for a first and goal, but definitely did not break the plane of the end zone and We'll look and see what the spot is here
I think this is going to be fourth and inches coming up.
Call it fourth down and eight inches here.
And it is going to be a fourth down.
You got to think the miners are going to go for this one here.
Can't think of a much of a better position to go for a first down.
And that is what they'll do.
Waterman going to line up under center.
It's Mimi and number 25 Swiener in the backfield, a receiver on each side, out to his right is number 11, Evan Delangelo.
Takes the snap, hands it off to number 25, Mason Swiener, and we're waiting for the call here.
And that'll be a touchdown for the Nagani Miners.
Mason Swiener takes the run up the middle there.
Fourth and goal from the one yard line, or fourth and inches, excuse me, from the one yard line.
And it'll be just enough to get into the end zone for a touchdown.
Currently seven to six.
And we'll see if this is a one-point or two-point try.
The teams we've seen in the first couple weeks here on MIX 93 and WMPL have been mostly like two-point conversions.
It looks like one point is going to stay out there in shotgun.
It's going to be a two-point try.
Takes a snap runs up to his right and I do this is gonna be close again folks that Calumet defensive line got real close today And they are gonna be ruled short that two-point try no good seven to six Calumet still with a one-point lead over the monitors and they'll give it all back to you in just a moment We'll see you in 30 seconds for the start of that drive here on mix 93
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2nd quarter here on MIX 93.
Currently a 7th is to spoil game between Calumet and Nagani.
Calumet due to receive the kickoff currently with that one point lead.
10 minutes 23 seconds to go in this 2nd quarter.
That's about as long as Calumet's touchdown drive took here at Agassiz Field in Calumet to start the game.
One drive up each for a piece for both teams both resulting in touchdowns But the two-point conversion try by the miners to take a one-point lead was no good Kickoff And it's gonna be Visto who returns
That's a little bit of room to work.
Gets around two tacklers.
The helmet comes off of an Agani player there.
Coyvisto gonna be down at the 36 yard line.
And it's number three, Waylon Harvilla, whose helmet comes off on the kick return.
Looks like he's okay, though.
Got up just fine.
I think it's just the cleat of Coyvisto.
Got underneath maybe the side of the helmet.
Put it off, but looks like he's okay.
Got the side of the helmet, no problem.
We're gonna keep an eye on that though.
And the Copper Kings offense comes back out, kept it on the ground the entire drive last time.
We'll see what they do now.
At least for the moment, number 16, Tyler Hallinan lined up in shotgun.
Players shift out to their right on the offensive line.
Hallinan takes the snap, quarterback keeper runs back up the middle and he'll gain about five yards before being brought down.
It's number 28 for Nagani.
Who I believe I do not have on my roster.
May have gotten the number wrong.
We'll see if we can get that right.
It could have been 25 Mason Swiener, and I just didn't see the the number correctly there.
I believe it is Mason Swiener after all.
All right, second down and three.
Allen and lined up in shotgun, a receiver on each side.
Takes the snap, hands it off.
That's gonna be Trent Anderson who gets tripped up just past the defensive line.
He'll gain a yard or two and be brought down.
And that'll make it third down in about two yards to go for Calumet.
A stop here would be huge for Nagani.
We'll see if they can get the job done.
right.
All in back out in shotgun.
It's been this formation now.
Mostly.
Allen on the keeper once again.
Nice run through the line, and he'll gain enough for the first down.
Pulling drop down.
Although the... Oh, this might be a tough spot for Copper Kings here.
Oh, he's gonna be real just short.
I thought he had gotten the ball past the line.
Oh, they put it at the first down marker, and they're gonna say move the change.
First and 10 now for the Copper Kings at their own 47 yards line.
Again, Calumet leading in this game right now, 7-6.
The missed two-point conversion try by the Gawney miners at the moment of coming back to haunt them.
If the Copper Kings can get on the board here and try to make it a two-score game, that would be pretty big for them.
Three back set once again.
Hallinan under center.
Takes the snap, hands it off.
And I believe that's Trent Anderson who took it.
Gains three or four yards on the play.
Excuse me, number 25, Keith Coyvisto.
He'll gain...
Three yards there.
Eight and a half.
And the second down eight at the 49 yard line.
Eight-twelve and ticking left in this first half.
All right.
And off to number 36, Trin Anderson going to be met quickly at the offensive line.
It'll be 3rd down and long for the Cup Kings.
They've been in this situation a couple of times now.
3rd down and 6th to go.
That same 3 back set, Halledon under center.
And he keeps it himself.
trying to get out to the left side and he will be brought down behind the line of scrimmage, the second tackle for loss on the quarterfinger keeper, like Alanon, and that'll be fourth down and I believe seven yards to go, now falling back into their own territory at the Calumet 49.
Fourth down.
and seven yards to go.
Copper Kings looking like they're going to go for it for now.
We'll see what Calumet head coach Josh Franti has here.
And it's going to be that quarterback, that quarterback move to play Tyler Logan now ready to take the snap at a timeout called by Calumet.
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Again, both teams 2-0 in this one.
6-31 on the clock.
Stopped during the timeout.
And it's gonna be a big 4-down coming up here for the Copper Kings.
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And this massive crowd here tonight trying to get everybody amped up here.
A big test, fourth down at seven at midfield.
Again, we have not seen a single pass attempt for the Copper Kings today.
Don't believe we saw any besides that receiver screen for Nagani either.
So no pass beyond the line of scrimmage in the first 17 and a half minutes of this game.
We'll look to see what the Copper King's play call is here.
Offense still looks like taking the field, Tyler Halonen.
Getting ready to relay the play call to his off into the line and get the position players.
Fourth and seven, ball placed between the 48 and 49 yard line.
Halonen lines up under center.
It's their three running back set.
We'll see if he shifts over like he did last time.
He does.
Tyler Locus now ready to receive the snap.
In shotgun, takes the snap, keeper rolls out to his right, screened back to Halonen who takes it, runs down, and he's going to be brought down.
Oh, that's going to be another close ruling, folks.
Copper King signaling that they have the first down.
There's a flag on the play, though.
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Waiting for the call on this penalty.
If it's against the Copper Kings, they are in big trouble here.
If it's against the Miners, this may be a fresh set of downs for Calumet.
And it's going to be a hold called on the Copper Kings.
That'll back them up.
And now replaying the down, it's going to be fourth and 17.
Or depending on the spot of the ball,
Miners head coach Jeff Nimi may choose to decline this play And it looks like it will be enforced so I'm guessing that means they did have the yards for a first down and Now the officiating crew is gonna back this play up And it's gonna be fourth in a mile Fourth down and 17 yards to go you gotta wonder if we're gonna see the first passing play from the Calumet Copper Kings here on this
It's going to be 4th down and 14th.
Ball placed, 33 yard line.
And now it's punt.
And then it's going to fly out of bounds around the 25 yard line.
It was number 16, it was Tyler Allen in the punt.
Number 11 for Nagani, it was Evan Delangelo, it was back on the return.
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But for now, 6-8 to go in this game quarter.
Kyle McComper, Kings with the lead, but Magani now with the ball, 7-6 game.
And it's going to be the quarterback Kyle Waterman in shotgun with a running back to his right and three receivers out wide.
wide open on a crossing, not across the middle of the field, not able to keep his hands on it.
That would have been a gain of 20 easily if he had brought that one down.
But the ball drops harmlessly to the ground instead.
It'll be second down in 10.
Nagani still at their own 32.
Waterman once again under center or in shotgun, excuse me Motion across takes the snap waterman looking for his man throws it middle of the field caught by Evan Delangelo And he will be brought down around midfield for a gain of about 15 yards that'll move the chains for the miners 607 to go in this second quarter Ball placed at the Calumet 49
A one-point game here, Nagani playing from behind.
Six minutes to go in this first half.
They are due to receive the second half kickoff, so a 14-point swing.
Possible here for Nagani if they play their cards right.
Waterman, under center, takes the snap, hands it off, and that's gonna be... Number 25, Mason Sweener, who's met at the defensive line and brought down, maybe gained about a yard.
And that will be second down and nine.
Nagani Miners doing a good job of moving the ball downfield so far on this drive.
We'll see if they can keep it up here.
And I believe Oscar Locust the one receiving the play from Nagani head coach Jeff Nimi there.
And it'll be Waterman in shotgun with Ty Nimi to his left.
Delangelo motion right.
Waterman takes the snap looking for a wide receiver screen.
Tries to pass it out about seven yards downfield to Evan Delangelo with the pass batted away by a Calumet defender.
It'll be third down and nine for the Miners.
Ball at the Calumet 48.
Still a one point game here.
Under five minutes to go.
Clock is stopped.
The band here in Calumet trying to rev up their players.
Nagani cheer team behind the players on the opposing sideline trying to get their opposing fans line riled up.
Waterman in shotgun takes the snap.
Looking left.
Throws it over to Delangelo.
Ball is bobbled and tipped away by number 16 for Calumet.
That's Tyler Halliman.
The quarterback making a big play there on defense for the Copper Kings.
Delangelo likely would have had the first down without reception and now it's gonna be fourth down and nine and I would expect in this position.
Oh, we have a penalty coming up again Waiting for the call here flag right at midfield Might be looking at a hold here Still waiting for a call from the officiating crew here
Still no official word from the officiating crew now the far side official coming in to midfield And I believe we're gonna finally have a call now Know the crew chief heads back over to Calumet head coach Josh Franti still waiting for an official call here And it's gonna be a hold declined by Calumet that'll make it fourth down and nine So a hold up the offensive line
That the miners have committed Copper Kings though with the past deflection making it fourth down and long Choose to not allow the Copper Kings another down.
It's gonna be fourth and nine It looks like the punting unit coming out for Nagani And that's what it is Waterman back to punt We have Oscar Locust back to return fourth down and nine at the Calumet 49 yard line Waterman
Signals for the ball, waiting for the snap.
Takes it.
Punt goes.
Well placed punt here.
Locus takes it, juke's out of defender, going to his right.
Locus had room, but finally met in the backfield.
That's number 14 for the minors.
Michael Warwick on the tackle.
Stopped what could have been a big gain for the Copper Kings before they get started here on offense.
Ball will be placed at roughly the 28 yard line of the Copper Kings.
4-44 to go in this second quarter.
And it's going to be number 16.
Tyler Hallinan lined up in shotgun.
He's got Trent Anderson behind him.
Takes the snap, fakes the handoff.
Hallinan on the keeper goes to his left.
Able to shake through a couple defenders but brought down by a pile of Nagani.
Defenders after a game of about four or five yards will be second down in about six 426 and counting on the game clock
Kings head back out
Halonen lined up in shotgun.
Three players fake motion on his right hand side near the offensive line.
Halonen takes the snap, hands it off, and that's going to be Oscar Locus.
They're still waiting.
Oh, it's actually Trent Anderson who took the handoff there.
It was a fake to Locus.
And it looks like that is going to be enough for the first down.
Ball moves to the... Oh, apologies, folks.
The drive started at about 18 yards.
But now the ball is at the 29 or so and it is going to be a first down at 10 for the Calumet Copper King 351 to go in this second quarter Looking left And that is Oscar Locas with his first reception of the game on the first pass attempt of the game for the Calumet Copper Kings
335 and taking left in this second quarter.
Calumet looking to get one more score before having to kick the ball off back to Nagani to start the second half.
Allen takes the snap.
Quarterback keeper after the fake handoff and he's brought down.
That's going to be a sack credited to Nagani's number 55, Mason Sandy, the defensive lineman shaking through his opponent.
and getting to the backfield in time after that fake handoff.
Brings down.
And that's good.
Back to the Copper Kings.
And it looks like actually close enough back to the line.
They're going to call that no in second down.
And then they go.
Ball at the Calumet 39.
Copper Kings with the ball.
2-52 left in this one.
In the first half, excuse me.
Allen and lined up in shotgun while running back behind.
Motion from left to right this time.
Hallinan takes the snap looking for his man downfield.
Gonna throw it up and over and that is all nearly caught but dropped.
It's number 12 Oscar Locus again.
He ran a short crossing right across the field then turned up near the sideline.
Had his man just barely beat.
Hallinan placed that ball well.
Far enough out that only Locus could catch it but Oscar just not quite able to get the spacing needed to get that ball cleanly.
That would have been a spectacular catch if he had been able to bring that one in but that will stop the clock 235 to go in this first half Calumet leading seven to six Trying to turn a one-point lead into something a bit more defendable as Nagani is due to receive the second half kickoff Halonen lined up in shotgun Mimi in the back Halonen takes the snap
Rolls to his right, looking for another man down the field, and he's gonna be stacked once again!
And that's gonna be number five, David Jusimic.
For Jusimic, excuse me.
And that is gonna be another big play for him.
He's been all over the place on defense so far this game.
A timeout called by Nagani now, as we are dealing with a fourth down situation all of a sudden.
223 to go in this one.
And the Copper Kings need to figure out what they're going to do here on this play.
Just by the nature of where they are on the field, they need to pump this one back to Nagani.
Both teams now with two timeouts, two minutes 23 to go in the first half.
It's a fourth down and 14 of a Calumet 35.
And it sure looks like Alan is backing up far enough that this is going to be a punt.
Both teams quarterbacks also taking time as the punter Been pretty impressive so far on special teams both ways Had that big breakaway return By as a Kanan for the Nagani minors earlier in this game got them to about midfield and Play whistled back to life here 223 on the clock
Howlin' and ready to punt.
Takes the snap, and there's a flag before he can get the kick off, and we are gonna see a false start on the Copper Kings backing them up five yards further, giving the Miners even better field position to the visiting side bleachers, a fan of that penalty call.
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Number three, Waylon Harville has not been back on the field since his helmet came off on that hit.
Hopefully he's okay.
Snap there, punted away, it's a low punt, but gonna keep bouncing.
Evan Delangelo picks it up, gets past one defender, gets past another, takes his near sideline, and will be forced out of bounds near the Naganti bench, right at midfield.
And we're gonna see if this Naganti minor two-minute offense can get some points before halftime here.
Waiting for the official spot.
It's gonna be either at or very close to midfield And now Kyle Waterman with the chance to lead his team to a touchdown ball be placed at their own 49 yard line So 51 yards to go to reach the end zone here in Calumet
Whalen Harvilla, who we just mentioned, glad to see him back out on the field.
And he'll pick up a couple yards.
Glad to see him okay as Helmut had come off the kick return earlier after a Copper King cleat got underneath it, pulled it off his head, but he seemed to get up quickly.
Just glad to see that he's okay, always concerning to see an injury or a Helmut come off in a play.
It's gonna make his third down and eight.
And boy, Prucy wide open there had to jump up to try to bring that ball in and just couldn't keep his hands on it.
And that is a tough break for Nagani.
That would have been a huge way to move the chains.
Get the drive moving here in a minute.
30 to go now in this first half.
Third and eight midfield.
Nagani down one looking to put some points on the board before the halftime break.
Waterman in shotgun.
Takes the snap and a whistle blown.
And that is going to be a timeout called by the Miners.
We'll see what Nagani does in this final moment here in the first half in just a moment here on MIX 93.
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Trailing the Calumet Copper Kings a score seven to six, but Nagani with the ball Now a third down and eight coming up Miners due to receive the second half kickoff so looking for a chance to score on back-to-back drives against Calumet What a big crucial third down here, let's see what the miners have here Modern line-up is shot, takes the snap, looks to his right, and he is screened out to pretend That's Brady Gleason who will juke out the defender, but
Only able to gain four rounds before flipping out of bounds.
Minus 1-3 on the clock, it's gonna be a fourth down, about five yards to go.
And this is a tough call here from Golley, and it's 23 to go.
Calumet has two timeouts, the miners have one.
Gotta see if this is gonna be a punt attempt here.
At least for the moment, Copper King's players are set up as if they're gonna have to play some defense on this play.
The ball placed on the Calumet 46.
It's a fourth down and five.
A minute 23 in the second quarter.
And for the moment, it looks like it's going to be
offense.
Delangelo.
Oh my goodness.
Waterman hit as he threw.
Evan Delangelo brings down a pass on a prayer.
In contested coverage.
Hurry up offense here.
Waterman still in shotgun.
Three receivers out wide from the Ghani and a timeout call.
Waiting to see what.
is gonna happen here.
Three receivers were lined up wide for Nagani, a timeout called by Calumet.
Wow!
Ball placed at the 24 yard line of Calumet, a minute 16 on the clock.
On fourth down and five, Kyle Waterman sends up a prayer.
Well contested, got hit after the throw, and somehow Evan Delangelo.
Holds on to that ball and contested coverage was covered.
Well, I'm not sure what copper King had a hand on that ball But did a spectacular job of bringing that one in Brought down soon after inbounds Nagani went hurry up to try to get a playoff and Copper King's coach Josh Franti saw something in that formation that he didn't like a Minute 16 to go now
Miners still on the sideline.
Now taking the field once again.
First and 10 balls of the 23 yard line.
Nagani looking for some more points before they head back to the locker rooms for halftime.
Again, Waterman and shotgun.
It's Waylon Harvala to his right.
Three receivers out wide.
Waterman steps back and shotgun.
Open on the far side of the field and that is brought in.
Is it in bounds?
And that's a touchdown.
Cole Prusey, the receiver who brings that ball in, caught the ball with half a yard to go, and was able to jump into the end zone before being tackled or forced out of bounds just barely.
And Kyle Waterman with a clinic.
From midfield to pay dirt in just over a minute.
Currently 12-7 in favor of the Nagani minors over the Calumet Copper Kings.
Extra point pending.
It's gonna be another two-point try here by Nagani trying to make it an even seven-point lead.
Waterman in shotgun.
Motion from right to left in front of his offensive line.
Takes the snap looking for a bubble screen.
Gonna find it.
Number 11 trying to get to the end zone.
He's gonna be stopped short.
Evan Delangelo.
not able to make any more magic on this play.
Copper Kings able to get the stop.
The score sits at 7 to 12 at the moment.
We'll see if the Copper Kings give one last effort on offense after these quick messages here on MIX 93.
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Cole Pruci ready to kick the ball off for Nagani.
Two returners back for the Copper Kings.
Kickoff goes to the Swib Kick once again.
Fielded successfully.
And turning up field now is number 20.
Andrew Hantala gets out of bounds in midfield of another big kickoff return.
And a heavy hit out of bounds, but the special teams unit for the Copper Kings loves it.
Great field position now.
I mean, with a minute and one second on the clock, one timeout left for the Copper Kings.
You gotta think they're gonna try to make something happen on offense.
They can't waste this field position.
The fans here at Agassiz Field absolutely love that return.
Ball placed right at the 50 yard line.
First down in 10 for Calumet.
One timeout to go a five-point lead at the moment for the Nagani minors.
Nagani will get the kickoff to start the second half so Calumet looking to capitalize while they have the ball here.
Halledon in shotgun takes the snap.
Quarterback keeper out to his left.
He'll gain a couple of yards before being brought down and we'll see if they run some hurry up offense here.
Halledon gains four yards second down and six.
Timeout called quickly by the Copper Kings.
53 seconds to go on that clock, 53.3 showing on the scoreboard here.
Interesting that they would choose a run play and a call timeout that quickly instead of keeping the timeout in their pocket in case they're tackled downfield in bounds.
But Coach Franti seems to have a plan.
Maybe hoping to catch Nagani off guard there on that play.
Got a couple yards out of it, but not able to get past the front seven for a big game.
And the Nagani cheerleaders and fans leading the Copper Kings fans here in Calumet through some cheers during the timeout.
Again, no timeouts left for the Copper Kings, 53 seconds to go.
Second down in six, they're on the Nagani 46 yard line.
trailing by five and due to kick the ball away to start the second half.
Offense retakes the field.
Both quarterbacks, Waterman and Halledon had had a great day so far, not a ton of pass attempts for either, but done a good job of keeping the game afloat for both sides.
Waterman on that last drive though, absolutely torques the field, a couple of huge completions to have in Delangelo.
Halonen in shotgun now second down takes the snap rolls out to his right.
Halonen still with the ball takes back to his left being pursued by some Nagani defenders and he'll be tackled out of bounds and that'll be for a loss of two or three yards.
It's gonna be third and long with 46 seconds on the clock.
Calumet just nobody opened downfield.
Nagani's defensive backfield doing a fantastic job of keeping this play.
Shut down for the Copper Kings.
It's gonna be third down and ten or third and nine.
Excuse me 46 6 on the clock Nagani leading 12 to 7 Offense showing some serious life a nine and a half minute drive started this game for the Copper Kings.
They found pay dirt early
Since then have been having troubles getting past midfield third and nine Halonen and shotgun two receivers to his left Takes a snap plays whistle dead before it can go off and I believe that's gonna be the final time out of the game called By the miners Never mind.
It's delay of game on the Copper Kings that'll back him up five yards further and now a third down and 14 coming For the Calumet Copper Kings and that is a costly mistake here
Difficult situation here for the Copper Kings.
Howlin lined up in shotgun once again.
One running back behind, three receivers to his right.
Fakes the handoff, quarterback keeper runs up the middle and he's going to be tackled.
He might get back to the original first down marker.
But that is only going
game of about five yards.
It's going to be fourth and ten go.
Ball back in midfield.
Time ticking away.
McDonnie not electing to use her timeout.
Bit of an interesting decision by coach Jeff Nehme.
On fourth and ten, instead of choosing to try to get the ball back with some final seconds on the clock and no timeouts, wants the clock to run down.
Make sure Calumet doesn't have time to consider a fourth down offensive play.
Tyler Hallen bringing the play back out to his team.
I don't think they're gonna get to the line of scrimmage in time.
Electing to just let the clock run all the way down to zero and they'll do just that.
Half time here in Calumet.
So far, Nagani Miners leading 12-7 over hometown Copper Kings.
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the Hall of Famers here in Calumet have been inducted.
The formal induction ceremony is going to happen tomorrow, I believe, at the Calumet High School Gym.
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Kevin Langseth, Clara Locus Piedola, Lori Locus Anderson, Corey Nimola, and Andy Storm will be officially inducted into the Calumet High School Hall of Fame.
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We'll start with the West Peninsula Athletic Conference.
All of these games happening simultaneously to this one.
First off we have Kingsford taking on Gladstone and Gladstone.
Kingsford beat Houghton 34 to 6 last week while Gladstone lost 6 to 42 at Nagani who we're seeing play here today.
Lontes is 2-0 they're going to be taking on Houghton tonight.
Lontes beat Manus
46-22 last week.
We have West Iron County, the Wycons looking to bounce back after their tough loss to Gwyn, and they're going to be taking on Gwyn this week.
West Iron County we covered last week, and that 58-0 loss at Hancock.
Bulldogs showed off there.
And Gwyn lost to Barker or Harris, 6-54 last week.
Some two teams with rough losses in their recent past looking to bounce back.
dropped their game to North Muskegon last week by a final score of 19-14.
And Menominee is taking on Ishpemang Westwood, which is different than the Ishpemang team that we saw in the ATK action two weeks ago here on WMPL, excuse me.
Menominee beat Marquette 49-19 last week, while Ishpemang Westwood lost to Calumet by a final score of 27-8.
If we take a look at our 8-on-8 divisions in the Great Lakes 8,
Tonight we have Lake Lindenhubble taking on Munising, Lake Lindenhubble 2-0 to start their season, and Munising 0-2.
So Lake Lindenhubble looking to continue their hot streak after beating Ironwood 44-14 last week.
Munising losing to Crystal Falls Forest Park by a score of 41-14.
Crystal Falls Forest Park, on the other hand, is taking on Bessemer, Crystal Falls 2-0, Bessemer's 0-2 for the moment.
Norway is undefeated.
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The Huskies ranked number 20.
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Half time wrapping up here in Calium.
That's before we get back to the game's action.
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Second half about to start here in a moment.
Nagani currently leading 12 to 7 over the hometown Calumet Copper Kings.
About a minute and a half added to the clock to signal halftime here.
But the Miners about to kick the ball back off to Nagani.
So the Miners looking to make it a two possession game early in the third quarter before the Copper Kings can get rolling on offense once again.
Both teams
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Nagani mostly huddled up on their sideline now.
The lights are on starting to warm up here in Calumet as the sun is set off to our right here in the press box at Agassiz Field.
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The timer on the clock here at Agassiz Field has just hit zero.
Players head back to the sidelines and get ready for the second half kickoff here.
Absolutely, Pat's house here tonight
is happy.
I guess at least 2,000 people are here at the moment.
All bleachers are nearly completely full of visiting bleachers, also nearly full, and hundreds of people out on the sidelines near the Michigan Army National Guard helicopter that's parked stationery just outside of the field.
A couple other helicopters flew over for national
anthem.
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Kick it off through and return.
Crew are both out on the field.
It's going to be number 12 for the counter-kings.
That Oscar Locust getting ready to kick the ball off.
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They took the chance to get back in.
Both are getting set and ready here.
Locust.
Ready to get this one underway.
Armors raised, starts moving, and the second half is underway.
It's an onside kick attempt here, and the Calumet Copper Kings run over the Magani Minor.
And that
kick recovered by the Copper Kings.
Ball dribbled right up the middle of the field.
Nagani didn't see it coming.
They ran over the minors' returners or defenders, excuse me, who were expecting to be blocking on that kickoff.
And Calumet coach Josh Franti gets the crowd to come to life with that one.
What
a start for Calumet.
First in ten ball will start at the Nagani 45 yard line Let's see what the offense has in store their three-back formation howlin and hands the ball off The game of about three yards there for number 36, that's Trent Anderson
And
I will say so far this game is lived up to its billing both of these teams fighting hard out there on this field
And the entire town of Calumet, it sure seems like, is here ready to support the Copper Kings.
Quite a few people from Nagani as well making the trek out to the Kiwin off.
Same three back set, Allen and under center.
Second down at seven.
Takes the snap, hands it off.
And that's going to be Locus who runs through the front seven and able to pick up the first down or at least get close to it before being brought down by a crew of minor
defenders.
Checking the spot here officially.
Not sure if this is going to be third down an inches or a fresh set for the Copper Kings.
We might need to see the chain crew here.
That ball seems like it's right where the first down marker
you could measure that in millimeters.
Same three back set.
Halonen once again lined up under center.
Seven offensive linemen.
Takes the snap, hands it off.
Trent Anderson's gonna run through the pile and knows to easily have the first down.
A fresh set of downs here for the Copper
Kings.
First and ten.
Ball the 33 yard line, 10-30 left in the third quarter.
Copper Kings down five at the moment.
The score seven to twelve.
looking to take the lead for the first time since their opening touchdown drive.
Same three-back formation as the past few plays.
Allenen lines up under center, hands it off.
That's going to be Locus who has room and he'll gain about
actually reached over and picked up the first down, waiting for the spot here in the call and that's again really close.
For the moment, the down marker pylon stay put.
yard.
Comper Kings
a couple breakaway plays in their running game all of a sudden.
Second and very short, same formation.
Allen takes the snap, hands it off.
And that's going to be more than enough for a first down.
And that was Locus once again.
Number 12, Brandon Locus.
He's seen the ball quite a bit today for the Comper Kings.
It'll be a brush set of downs, ball now at the 21 yard line, first and 10, 9-30 to go in the third quarter.
Same formation, howlin' and under center, takes the snap, actually holds onto it, solid defender coming in hot, and kids around that defender who brought down his running back before he could get the hand off to him, maybe gained a yard, and it's gonna be second down and nine ball now at the 20, back in the red zone, brought to you by Genos.
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Second down and up.
Allen on the keeper, he's round the defenders with too many in the backfield for him to escape them all.
And that will
a yard or two.
It's going to be third and about seven.
Ball
Red Zone,
left on the clock in this third quarter.
It'll be just that, 37 ball, the 18 yard line.
Again, the Copper Kings happy to let the clock keep ticking away.
In no rush to find the end zone here.
And it's that same three-back set we've seen basically the entire drive so far.
Allenen lines up under center.
Takes a snap, hands it off.
And May have gained a couple of yards there.
Waiting to see which running back that was.
There are three in the backfield on all these plays.
And I believe that's going to be Trent Anderson, who gains a few yards, but it's going to be fourth and about four.
Ball placed the 15-yard line.
Looking to get to the 11 for a fresh set of downs.
And for the moment, you got to think this is going to be an attempt here.
The field goal for the copper team is not enough to break the lead.
They'd still be down two.
They need to touch down here.
We'll see that same three-back formation on fourth down and four.
Ball to 15.
Hallonan shifts over.
Locust ready for the snap.
And a handoff off to Trent Anderson.
He breaks free.
to the one yard line and he is not going to be ruled for a touchdown, but it's going to be a first and goal for the Copper Kings at the one yard line.
More than
sudden.
What a start here for Calumet.
Quarterback keeper right up the middle, that's enough.
That's a touchdown for the Copper Kings.
Flags, wave, and celebration erupts from the stands here at Agassiz Field.
The score now 13-12 in favor of the Copper Kings.
The fight's on once again.
We'll see now.
They're currently at a single point.
A successful two-point try here.
We're making a three-point game.
A field goal to tie instead of take the lead for Nagani.
They'll do just that same three-back set that's worked so well for them so far.
Halon and Undercenter takes the snap, steps back right, and pass deflected behind the line of scrimmage.
That's number 21 for Nagani.
That's Cole Prusey,
who
dropped a ball on an earlier drive for Nagani, but there makes a big play for the Miners, and that'll keep it a one-point game.
Calumet now in the lead, sending the ball back to Nagani after these messages on mix 93.
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704 on the clock here in Calumet.
Copper Kings just took a 13 to 12 lead, went for two to extend the lead to three points.
Pass was deflected in the backfield by Nagani defender Cole Prusey.
A big play for him.
704 on the backcourt.
Calumet getting ready to kick it off.
It's going to be low sending the ball down field.
Two returners in the backfield.
Delangelo,
The other
22, that's Evan Azekainen.
Locust kick off ready, raises his hand.
And sends the ball out, it's a slip kick and the play whistle did immediately a flag on the play.
And I believe we're going to have an off sides here.
A player a little too antsy to get going.
Off
sides called on Calumet, unsure of which player it was.
But that'll back the kickoff up another five yards, now kicking off from the 40 yard line.
Excuse me, the 35 yard line.
The two returners from Nagani shift up field a little bit.
Hoping to field this
cleanly and start
field.
To get down the field and give the minors some better field position here on offense.
Locust lines up on the right hash.
Races his guard, and ready to send this one back.
As the other squirt gets to the field, he's going
to fight the lad below.
Eventually, he picks it up, looking for a hole.
He'll get through one tack, look at through two, and get run into by his own man, slip outside, but brought down
copper
started about the 39 yard line of the Nagani minors.
6.57 on the clock in this third corner.
Nagani now playing from behind once again.
A one point deficit this time.
A field goal technically enough, but I'm sure they'd be much happier with the touchdown and preferably with the two-point conversion.
Number four, the quarterback Kyle Waterman.
And the final two minutes of the first half let his team about 55 yards downfield.
Seeing significantly more passing plays than we'd seen in the rest of this game so far.
Evan Delangelo brought in a crazy reception.
And Cole Pussy, I actually, excuse me, I think I said he dropped the ball earlier.
He was the one who caught the receiving touchdown for the minors earlier in this game.
Getting my players mixed up.
There is now a penalty flag on the field and I'm not sure why.
Neither team in formation yet.
Maybe it just fell out of an official's pocket.
I'm not seeing a ruling yet.
And this is going to be a penalty against Nikolani.
I'm not sure what's going on here.
Still waiting for a ruling here.
We're not getting one.
Ball's going to get backed up.
That's a long distance, too.
It's a 15-yard penalty.
I'm wondering if that
was
a personal foul, maybe unsportsmanlike conduct in the downtime between kickoff and first down there.
I'm not entirely sure what the issue is.
Waterman.
Oh, it's going to be a direct snap here.
I believe no Waterman takes the snap after all.
Hands off in the backfield.
No game at pass for Nogani.
Believe that was Mason Sweiner.
Number 25.
Who
scrimmage by the Copper King defense.
Copper King's once again in the lead here in
Calumet.
A
packed house here in Agassizville.
Waterman lines up under center, two running backs in the backfield.
Two defenders out to his left.
Waterman takes the snap, backing up looking to pass.
Goes outside to his left.
And he'll find a receiver that's Evan Delangelo, who gets outside plenty of room for the first down.
And that'll move the chains.
Ball is going to be placed at about the 33-yard line.
Nice game there for the minors to get back to where they were originally after the 15-yard penalty after the kickoff before first down on their drive.
First and
10, ball is exactly at the 35-yard line.
6-14 to go in this third quarter.
Waterman now under center, takes the snap, hands it off.
That's going to be Nemi.
It's Ty Nemi who gains a couple of yards before being met by Nemi.
Not working defensive line once again.
It's going to be a gain of two yards credited to Ty Nemi.
Now they get second down and eight at the 36 yard line.
Two
receivers lining up wide to the right for Waterman.
Lined up under center on this play.
Two running backs in the backfield once again.
Takes the snap, bubble screen out to DeLangelo.
DeLangelo gets around one defender but dropped down by two more,
there.
It'll be third down and short for the Miners.
Got past the 40 yard line battery, able to get up to 42.
It'll be right there, third down and
Waterman under center.
Who catches the ball.
Lead that is number 21.
That's going to be...
Cole Prusey once again makes the catch and it's gonna be just
down Miners move the chains once again ball now at the full line on their own side First and ten
Miners now near midfield, Waterman lined up in shotgun and running back to his right.
Takes the snap, quarterback keeper, runs out to his right, gets around the defensive line.
What the linebacking crew for the Copper Kings,
Number 25 for Calumet, that's Keith Coyvisto.
One of the running backs on offense able to break the tackle.
Gains
Miners
head back out on offense.
Waterman now in shotgun.
Nagani
finding lots of room.
Mostly through the run game so far on this drive under four minutes to play in the third quarter.
Miners down one.
Looking for a catch on a two-point conversion to go up a clean seven on Cali.
Waterman in the gun.
Takes a snap looking left.
Finds number 10 who has some room gets outside for a first down and that'll be
Brandon Gleason, who picks up a first down for the Miners.
Hamaton today.
It's been Delangelo in the receiving game.
A little bit of Cole Prusey as well.
I think that's the second reception on the day for Gleason.
Might have had one for a few yards earlier, but this one moves the chains.
Now at the 25 of the Copper Kings, 3-26 to go.
Waterman and shotgun.
Takes the snap steps back finds Prusey who shakes the tackler but is brought down by the second to get their balls fumbled copper King saying they have the ball Waiting for a ruling from the officials and it's copper King ball And a minor slow to get up off the field here
Two Chief Signals, Copper King ball though.
Calumet, the players amped as they head back to the sideline.
Josh Asala, as he comes back to the sideline, jumping into his teammate's arms.
And now we'll see if Tyler Halonen can extend the steeper Calumet.
Copper
Kings, first and 10.
Howlin' in lines of under center, there are three back formations.
Hand off up the middle.
Gained three yards, I'd say.
It'll be second down about seven yards to go.
I believe Boy Visto on the carry on that play.
And Copper King with a very fortunate fumble on the sideline.
Able to recover.
Miners had
all the way to the Copper King red zone, but now Calumet with control once again.
240 left in the third quarter leading by one.
Tyler Hallinan, light under set, three back set.
And it off.
And that's going to be, I believe, just short of a first down.
And that's going to be Locus, who gained most of the distance there.
Going to be third and one ball now at the 30 yard line, or 25, excuse me, of
Calumet.
And a big third down coming here for Calumet.
The first down here, they can probably run the clock out, get all the way through the third quarter.
If they fail to convert here...
A very difficult decision about what to do next.
A minute 55 on the clock.
Three back
Halonen lines up under center.
Tyler Halonen.
Analyzing the defense.
Takes the snap, hands it off.
And a pile of players right near the line of scrimmage waiting to see if they have the first down.
No signal from the officiating crew yet.
No movement from the chain crew either.
And there it is finally a first down for Calumet.
I believe Keith Coifisto on the carry on that play.
It's difficult to keep track of all three running back from that backfield.
Quite a few fake handoffs have been involved for them as well trying to confuse especially the linebackers as they try to read the play.
But now a minute 20 on the clock in the third quarter Calumet with the ball at their own 26 yard line up a point.
Same three back set that we've seen in the past few plays.
Tyler Hallenin lines up under center.
Coach Franti, analyzing from the sidelines.
Hallenin takes the snap, a hand off up the middle once again, and a few yards.
This is going to be pretty close to a first down actually for Locust once again.
Off
for
Locust some big running plays for the Copper Kings in this one.
Seems like a large part of the time when he's got the ball.
He's able to find that hole in the off and the defensive line Excuse me and break loose for a game of a few yards.
They're actually gonna give him the first down and now the ball at the Copper King 37 Clock ticking away.
We're gonna have time for one more play before the end of third quarter Copper Kings
same three-back set Student section come to life here Tyler Halonen
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Here at Agassiz Field in Calumet, so far the Copper Kings hold on to a one-point lead at possession of the ball, but 12 minutes of football left to go here.
Looking forward to seeing how this one resolves.
We have a second down and five coming up from the Copper King 42.
They can keep this drive alive for a little while longer, trying to drain the clock and keep the miners out of this one.
Same three-back set we've seen all drive.
Tyler Howlinen lies up under center.
The quarterback takes it, hands it off.
And that's gonna be... Keith Coyfisto, who gains maybe a yard on that
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Third down and three.
Copper King 43 yard line.
Calumet up by a point.
Same three back set.
Allen it.
Ducks down.
Takes the snap.
Hands it off and that's gonna be Trent Anderson.
A fumble.
Clay still rolling there in a late penalty.
That may have been
King.
Clay was not whistled dead.
But I didn't see anything else warranting a flag.
I believe that was Halonen who jumped into the pile there.
May have been Locus.
And let's see what this penalty call is here.
And that is going to be a personal foul of Face Mask called against the Ghani.
Chains for the Copper Kings.
And boy, that is a tough break for the Miners.
Unsure of what player committed the crucial penalty there.
But a big Face Mask going to move the chains.
And the situation growing more and more desperate for Nagani.
11-07 on the clock.
Copper King's up one point, but now firmly in Nagani territory, trying to ice this one away.
Somewhere in that pile.
He could have been a fumble for a moment.
Play was not whistled dead.
Allen and now lines up under center.
Fresh set of downs at the Nagani 38.
Lines up under center.
Analyzing the defense.
Very close defense here.
Every player near the line.
Allen takes the staff design quarterback run.
Able to get around one defender, but eventually sandwiched between two and now another flag coming in.
This could be...
Miners, it's gotta be that hit.
May have just been called unnecessary roughness, no signal for the exact penalty, but it is a personal foul against the Miners and the Chains move once again.
There hadn't been many penalties in this game up to this point, but all of a sudden, I'm back to back plays.
The Copper King's getting a free ride for 30 yards, and now, they had been just past midfield, they're now in the Magani Red Zone.
10-38 on the clock.
And the fans here at Agassiz Field getting more and more excited as that clock takes further down and the Copper Keys in closer to the end zone.
They have capitalized on the run game all day long.
Their first drive taking just less than 10 minutes found the end zone.
Didn't score for the rest of the first half.
Nagani has definitely shown more diversity in their offensive attack, largely thanks to their outside receivers, Evan Delangelo and Cole Prusey.
With receivers like that, Kyle Waterman's been able to shine.
But, the Copper Kings in the lead with possession.
Trying to put this game on ice.
First and 10, ball at the 18 yard line, 10-20 in the fourth quarter.
Halonen, under second.
takes the snap, hands it off to Locus, and the play blown dead, a flag coming, and I believe it's going to be a false start now on the Copper Kings.
So Nagani thankful to see that Calumet is capable of making a penalty as well.
That'll back the Copper Kings up five yards, first to 15 now coming.
Allenen can heads back out onto the field to relay the play.
Five more yards to worry about now for the Calumet Copper Kits.
Same three-back set, every single play this drive looks exactly the same.
Pre-snap from the Copper Kits.
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All now back in the minor red zone.
The Ghani minors by and large have held strong defensively on this rushing attack.
Calumet just keeps finding barely enough.
No real explosive plays for them so far.
One in under center, takes the snap, hands it off to Locust.
Locust finds a hole, gets through, and the defensive backfield
Notice the gain of about seven yards.
It'll be a third down, and we'll see what the distance is in a moment.
Looks like it'll be about, it'll be about three yards on the third short.
8.45 left on the clock.
The clock is still running.
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Same formation.
Third down and four ball at the 12 yard line.
Halonen lines up under center.
Same very tight defensive set.
The safety is only about six yards away from the line of scrimmage.
They know a run is coming and a timeout called by Calumet.
Must have been approaching a delay of game.
And while the Copper Kings discuss what to do on third down,
we're going to take a quick 30 second break.
We'll be right back here on MIX 93.
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and again the field comes to life the third touchdown of the game for the Copper Kings
Flags waving off in the student section and now the score 19 to 12 with 813 to go in this fourth quarter.
Extra point pending for Calumet.
And Oscar Locus has done everything his team is needed of him in this game.
He's had probably the largest share of carries out of their backfield.
He's made a couple big plays on defense.
And a touchdown there.
Now a seven point lead looking to make it more.
Two point try coming, same three back set.
Allen hands it off.
Focus once again.
Can he reach over for the two point conversion?
He can.
And now the lead nine points.
21 to 12, the score.
Calumet fans happy.
Rush fans happy.
Nagani fans at the moment, not so much.
A nine-point game here in Calumet.
Copper Kings, the hometown team take the lead.
We'll be back to see how the minors respond in 30 seconds here on MIX 93.
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Calumet, Copper Kings score their third touchdown of the game and take a 21-12 lead over the Nagani minors.
Both teams 2-0 coming into this matchup, looking to have a perfect season continue, but both of these teams likely faces in the local playoff picture in Division 5 for Nagani, Division 6 for Calumet.
Oscar Locas ready to kick the ball off downfield for the Copper Kings, two returners in the backfield for the minors.
Locust sends the ball up and it's another onside kick this time I believe successfully recovered by the miners and the line judge will decree just that This time the Nagani miners Return team ready for that and we have a player down for Nagani Another player holding the leg of the down player
Not entirely sure of the number at the moment, but it's one of the linemen Ball is placed at the 49 yard line Player still down on the pitch No training staff coming out though it seems like and he will get up just fine It's number 60 who unfortunately I do not have on my roster
but glad to see that he's okay.
Listening in the press box trying to figure out which player that is unfortunately we're not entirely sure.
But his teammates help him back to the sideline.
Hopefully he'll be alright.
As Nagani takes the field one more time, 8-12 left in this game now trailing by 9, so one score not good enough by any means.
After a game where both teams seemed content largely to slowly march downfield, all of a sudden we're gonna need to see some urgency from at least one side.
Ball at the Nagani 49 yard line after the failed onside kick attempt.
Coach Franti trying to catch the miners off guard.
going for an onside despite a two possession lead.
After a successful onside earlier in the game, to start the second half, this time the minors ready for it.
Both teams still huddle up on the sidelines.
It's been an eventful night here in Calumet.
The game has been fantastic so far.
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On top of that it was a veteran's appreciation night here in Calumet.
Players are now heading back to the locker rooms and we are not entirely sure why.
We're going to take a quick 30 second break While we determine what exactly is going on right now, but both teams heading back to the locker room and Fans waiting to see what's going on.
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Calumet at Nagani here on MIX 93.
We've just got the alert that there is lightning in the vicinity.
So we are going to have to take a delay of at least 30 minutes here and we will have to wait and see what exactly the plan is here.
Fans heading back to their cars, I believe.
To my knowledge, there was no forecast for rain this evening.
I'll have to check and see if anything has changed.
Taking a look at local weather in Calumet.
And it looks like there is now a pretty decent chance of rain.
No thunder was in the forecast, though, or no lightning, excuse me.
So, an interesting development there.
I was hoping we could get through this game weather event free.
All right.
And the fans in the stands are being sent back to their vehicles for a lightning delay.
Well, we assess exactly what we're going to do here for the next 30 minutes.
We're going to take a break.
We'll be back in one minute here on MIX 93.
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High school football game of the week here on MIX 93.
All of a sudden an eventful game becomes eventful for the wrong reasons.
Lightning seen on the horizon here in Calumet and we are going to have to take at least a 30 minute lightning delay.
As we wait for the players to retake the field, 8-12 remaining in the fourth quarter, Calumet currently holding on to a 21-12 lead.
I hope some of the listeners back home appreciated my rush reference as that score hit the scoreboard.
But, for the moment, we have to take a pause.
Fans of the moment still staying in the stands.
There was an announcement over the PA system here at Agassiz Field that
They are supposed to head back to their vehicles, but for the moment it seems like most people are staying, but slowly we have to shuffle back.
But for the time being, just making sure everybody's safe.
People are being asked to locate indoor doors.
Currently it is not raining here in Calumet.
I'm not exactly sure where the lightning was.
I wasn't sure that it had happened from my view in the press box, so it was not in front of me.
And it leaked earlier a few hours ago.
We did not have any serious chance of rain in the forecast.
I was seeing a 5-10% chance of rain.
But, unfortunately, uh, regardless of where the lightning is, we see that flash of light on the horizon for the sake of players' safety, where you have to send everybody back to the locker room for 30 minutes.
I don't believe we've seen any other strikes in the meantime, so hopefully we're on track for the fastest possible 30-minute lightning delay.
Taking a look at this game so far, though, it has been...
A game to live up to its hype for sure.
The Copper Kings and Nagani Miners have been going at it all game long.
It has been almost entirely the run game on offense, especially for the Copper Kings.
The Miners have gotten their receiver core involved quite a bit as well.
Evan Delangelo with a spectacular catch.
Probably the single best play of the game was Nagani quarterback.
Excuse me.
Kyle Watermans throw on a fourth down at about eight yards, I believe.
to Evan Delangelo down the field.
Waterman was hit as he threw the ball, and somehow in contested coverage on that fourth down, Delangelo came down with the ball, kept the drive going for the minors, and that's how they got the score from six points to 12 before half.
Although two two-point conversion attempts neither have gone their way so far in this game, and that is now why the deficit sits at nine points compared to seven or five.
So the two-point conversion attempts trying to be aggressive there,
resulted in now a two-score deficit that the Magani miners must overcome.
The ball is placed at their own 49 yard line to start this drive.
The Copper Kings tried to get an onside kickoff after successfully getting one to start the second half, caught the miners return crew off guard.
The front five players on the kickoff were not ready for the onside attempt.
A little dribbler right up the middle of the field that was covered by the Copper Kings in a big pile and
After that, the Copper Kings started their drive.
I believe a couple of punts in three and outs.
And then, near the end of the third quarter, back-to-back 15-yard penalties.
Wind up moving the Copper Kings downfield 30 yards for free, and from the red zone, they're able to punch it in.
Oscar Locas with, I believe, his second touchdown of the day, resulting from that.
And that's been the difference so far.
Those two costly penalties in a game that had been mostly laundry-free up to that point,
All of a sudden, results in a pretty significant advantage on offense for the Copper Kings and eventually a touchdown.
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We had an injured player on that on-site kick attempt.
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Thankfully, it seemed to just be a leg cramp.
I'm hoping he's all right.
The miners as a whole were able to get back to the locker room pretty quickly.
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Eight, twelve on the clock.
Most people in the stands seem to have relocated to their cars, but I think a large number of the fans and attendants who are out in the field here at Agassiz Field are not... maybe they walked from in town, their houses or apartments in Calumet, and are trying to just weather it out, hopefully rain does not start falling.
Again, we are in the middle of a lightning delay here for those of you just joining us and this is a pretty strange situation We had frankly by far the closest game of the year that we've covered here on mix 93 or on 107 3 920 WMPL so far this season in our high school football games of the week Two very solid teams both undefeated so far in their regular season Calumet and Nagani both
I wouldn't call them blocks for the postseason, but generally expected to contend and at least make an appearance in the postseason.
Nagani in 2022 actually appeared in the Division 6 state championship game since then they've moved up to Division 5 as of last year and appeared in the playoffs and lost a one-point game, I believe, to West Branch, Agama County in their first round playoff matchup, but...
They're showing that they can hang in that higher division despite not having the postseason win and of course in their regular season mostly going up against local teams not a ton has changed in that aspect Most of the suit and section with the flags a couple of sparkly hats Out in the stands still still no sign of rain over the field itself here in Calumet but again as a Condition for player and fans safety
If there is lightning seen on the horizon, we must immediately stop play and take at least a 30-minute break to ensure that tragedy does not strike on the field.
On top of the game itself, of course, we've had the 2026 class of Calumet High School Hall of Famers be introduced.
You can take a look at their names once again.
We've got Leia Killen and Bjorn, Kevin Langseth, Clara Locus Piedola,
Lowry, Locus, Anderson, Corey, Nimola, and Andy Storm all on the crew.
Additionally, oh, are we?
I believe we're going to see the helicopter that had been parked just outside of Agassiz Field fly away now.
I'm actually gonna turn up my house microphone here so we can hear this.
There were three military helicopters from Michigan Army National Guard.
Two of them flew to Overwall, one of them parked on the lawn outside of the stadium.
And now the motor revving up on one of those, the one that was parked, and I believe it'll be flying away here pretty soon, but have to head back to base and get in tonight.
Without the lightning delay, this game would be at least dearly over by now, so understandable they need to pack up and head home.
It was a very nice national anthem and proceeding ceremony.
There were plenty of active service members, veterans, and local first responders who were holding a flag and bid deal during the national anthem while the Calumet fan played Star Spangled Banner.
And the helicopter is now taken off.
And they are getting out of town here.
I'm wondering if they're getting out due to the weather emergency or just because they need to get back on time.
And for the moment, while all these games are on delay, we're going to take a quick break here on MIX 93, and then we're going to find some, hopefully, some other scores being reported from out of town.
Hopefully, those outside of the Kevenall Peninsula have been able to play through and maybe have a score reported by now.
So we're going to take a quick break while we get that sorted.
We'll be right back for more intermission here on MIX 93.
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but he's still in a lightning delay here at Agassiz Field in Calumet.
So far the Copper Kings in control, leading this one 21-12, but Nagani Miners with the ball, the ball placed at the 49 yard line.
In fact, the football is still out there, almost dead center of midfield, with 8-12 on the clock, and trying to figure out exactly how long we're gonna be in this lightning delay.
We saw a single lightning strike on the horizon.
It actually was not visible from the press box, but the PA announcer was quickly alerted and to follow safety procedures.
We have to take at least a 30-minute delay to ensure that there is no lightning strikes on the field while players or fans are present.
So, in the case of everybody's safety, especially with these large steel bleachers, we're gonna try to wait this storm out.
It seems like if there are games here, it should be a pretty...
light amount of rain if we see any.
However, there are some larger cells developing behind the initial wall of rain that had that one singular lightning strike that we've seen.
Again, looking out my window here, I've still got the window open in my press box position here.
And we can see that, at least for the moment, there is no rain.
We've seen no lightning.
And we're hoping that it continues to hold that way.
We'll have to see as we continue waiting out this delay, and hopefully we're not going to have any further stoppages after the initial required 30 minutes.
Not entirely sure how much time we have to go in this delay, but assuming that the storm is cleared and we're still safe to continue here, we can have an opportunity.
And we have a bunch of students pushing out into the stands now.
I'm not sure if this is a signal that the play is about to continue anytime soon, but plenty of local Calumet high school students have just retaken the stands.
As they head back up into their seats, I'm gonna actually take a quick peek and see if they're letting fans back into Agassiz's field.
It does not look like there's much of a push otherwise, so maybe just a large group of local students.
wanting to get excited and get ready, cheering on the oncoming storm, perhaps.
Again, Pepsi Trivia, we still have no answer, so no winner for our free 12 Pack of
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Everybody is being told to evacuate the field.
But, quick reminder of our Pepsi Trivia question, if you call in and get the correct answer, you can win yourself a 12 Pack of Pepsi.
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The question was, and a gist, I've actually lost my note with the exact question, but in 2022, Nagani High School, the minors, went on a perfect regular season run and made it all the way to the Division 6 state championship game where they lost to Grant Rapids Catholic West, a high school down in the lower peninsula in the Division 6 state championship.
The question I asked was, what local team did they beat in the first round of that 2022 playoff run?
So what local school did Nagani match up against in 2022 and their first round playoff matchup?
If you can call in and tell us the answer, you can go pick up a 12 pack of Pepsi from the MIX 93 Studios in Hancock.
Unfortunately, I'm having some issues loading the scores from out-of-town games here.
I have it on good authority that the game in Houghton is currently stopped as well.
So we may not have any scores to report anyway.
However, trying to fill the time here and make sure we can still offer some kind of content here.
Unfortunately, it's not quite like the rain delay cruise that I'm used to down in Southeast Michigan.
I'd love to have a
Somebody to bounce some rain delay questions off of similar to the Tigers broadcast crew but Posing questions myself and then answering them doesn't seem like a great way to fill time so We're hoping that we can get back to play here relatively soon Again, the field has been evacuated.
We are in the middle of a lightning delay here at Agassiz Field in Calumet the score 21 to 12 in favor of the Copper Kings With eight minutes and 12 seconds to go in our fourth quarter
Nagani has the ball.
It's first and 10 at their own 49 yard line.
They need two scores in these final eight minutes and some solid defense to bring this one back.
Student section still sitting.
That single section of the bleachers packed with high school students.
Everything else mostly sitting empty here.
Most of the fans appear to be sticking around at least for a moment though.
And to my understanding, we have not seen any other lightning.
We're not worried about any severe thunderstorms kicking in in the area anytime soon.
But in the name of player and fan safety, we are required to take a 30 minute stoppage.
So we are going to do just that.
We're going to take another quick break here.
We'll be back and hopefully with a soon to end lightning delay here on Mixed 93.
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in the midst of a lightning delay here at Agassiz Field in Calumet.
Copper King's leading 21 to 12.
During the break here, I was able to have a brief talk with Calumet athletic director Patrick Dwyer.
What he said is essentially, they just saw more lightning on the horizon.
They're expecting the delay to last at least until 1020 or 1030 p.m.
Although since it is not a school night, the intent is to play the game tonight.
So we may be in for a long delay here, folks.
Well, myself and our board operators here at the MIX 93 Studio in Hancock discuss what to do next.
We need to figure out what our solution is going to be here.
But as we continue to discuss, well, slowing down time here.
Oh, we have a trivia winner for the Pepsi trivia question that I asked earlier.
Cheryl Gibbons of Hancock correctly guessed the Houghton Gremlins.
Reminder that the question was,
What team did the Nagani minors beat in the first round of their 2022 playoff run, where they eventually went to the Division 6 state championship game?
So congrats to Cheryl.
You won a 12-pack of Pepsi there by guessing the Houghton Gremlins.
That game a 48-0 final result.
So Nagani, very solid start there.
Houghton currently 0-2 to start this year.
They're playing a game...
out of town.
I have the note somewhere.
Unfortunately, I think one of my papers actually flew out of the press box in the wind here.
Yeah, I'm not entirely sure where that note went.
Oh, we have it.
Sorry, folks.
I've got to improvise.
I might as well buy myself some seconds while I'm here.
Houghton is playing lots tonight.
That game is in Houghton.
Additionally, I do want to mention that the Michigan Tech Huskies
I believe we're currently down in Emporia, Kansas, getting ready for their game tomorrow.
It'll be at 2 o'clock Eastern time, taking on the Emporia State Hornets.
Both of those teams, 2-0 to start their season.
And a very exciting matchup there.
One that seemed like a lower-key, non-conference matchup that maybe wouldn't have a ton of implications for either team.
But now, all of a sudden, both these teams are undefeated, Emporia State upset number 10 Pittsburgh State.
Last week, Pittsburgh State actually started as the number four team in the country before being blown out by Ferris State in their week one matchup.
So the Pittsburgh State Gorillas, which by the way, fantastic mascot, are now 0-2 to start the year after a top five ranking in the AFCA Division 2 pre-season poll.
So...
It'll be interesting to see how the Huskies perform in that game.
They have not played a ranked opponent yet this season.
They defeated Bemidji State by a final score of 31 to 29.
And Midwestern State last week, I believe the final score in that one, 48 to 27.
Elliott Larner has taken almost every snap at quarterback for the Huskies so far.
He's been frankly fantastic.
He's put on a fantastic show for the Huskies.
Bryce Kearns and Nick Nora have done really well in the receiving game.
And also Abram Larner, who was a freshman at Grand Valley State last year, transferred up to play with his twin brother.
He's been another receiver for the Huskies and he's made a couple of big plays, actually caught his first reception from Nick Nora on a wide receiver quarterback throw.
So a pretty interesting start to his Husky career.
We'll have to see how it develops over the course of the season and hopefully beyond.
Now at 9 25 p.m.
I was told the early estimates for when this will start again are around 10 20 to 10 30 p.m.
So a lot of time here To go in this game 21 to 12 Calumet currently in the lead over Nagani Nagani with the ball the ball still the only thing out on the field Sitting at the 49 yard line of the Nagani minors to my right
I'm almost placed exactly at midfield.
It's been a wonderful position to call this game from so far.
But two coaches who recently took the reins from long-time, very decorated coaches at both of these programs.
Jeff Nimi taking over in Calumet, Josh Franti.
Sorry, Jeff Nimi and Nagani, Josh Franti and Hancock.
Wow, I'm getting all my names mixed up.
Jeff Nimi and Nagani, Josh Franti and Calumet.
Mimi started as head coach just last year.
He actually graduated from Nagani High School in 1997 and was immediately brought on as an assistant coach.
He's coached varsity basketball for a very long time at Nagani as well.
Josh Franti, the head coach here at Calumet since 2022, also a longtime assistant before that.
So both of these coaches inheriting very successful programs, they helped build as assistants or coordinators over their tenure underneath previous head coaches.
both schools and both have continued their history of success.
Josh Franti made the playoffs in his first year, missed it in 2023, but he came back in both 2024 and 2025.
I believe he has a playoff win to his name.
And coach Nimi from Nagani, excuse me, made a playoff appearance in division five.
Actually, Nagani had bumped up from division six from division five in between.
the 2024 and 2025 seasons.
So a pretty incredible performance there.
Only lost their first Division 5 playoff game by a single point.
I believe the final score was 18 to 19 to West Branch, Augumau County.
And we still have a crowd of Calumet high school students here.
I believe they're singing patriotic songs to kill the time here in Calumet.
There's gotta be.
I would think probably 50-ish students still standing in the stands here.
Basically everybody else cleared out and we'll have to see how many fans actually stick around.
It looks like this rain delay or lightning delay.
We still haven't seen any rain here at the field yet, but this could last quite a while.
But the intent at least for the moment is to play the game tonight.
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Another batch of Calumet High School students seems to have taken the field.
We'll have to see if that's a sign of more football to come in the near future.
But for now, I'm going to take a break and get some water, folks.
And we'll be back with more here on MIX 93.
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High school football game of the week here on MIX 93.
Unfortunately still in the midst of a lightning delay.
Still no rain to hit the field here in Calumet.
Agus' field was absolutely brimming.
with local residents and visitors from Nagani alike earlier as the Copper Kings and Miners have played a pretty intense game so far.
The score currently sitting at 21 to 12 in favor of the Copper Kings, but Nagani, when this game eventually resumes, will start with the ball at their own 49 yard line.
A lot to cover here in this game, but...
A long time to go in this lightning delay.
We saw lightning in the vicinity about 10 minutes ago now, I believe.
So, hoping this wraps up relatively quickly.
A lot of the local middle and high school students are still in the home bleachers.
Happy to kill time.
At least for the moment, there's no rain.
So, hoping that we don't have any dangerous situations here.
Some fans standing in the visitors' bleachers as well.
And still...
A decent chunk of fans out on the lawn outside of the stadium fence.
And still plenty of cars in the parking lot behind the press box here.
But we'll have to wait and see how many fans are willing to tough out this wait.
It is a Friday night.
It's not a school night.
It's actually our first game of the week that we've covered on Friday so far this season.
But unfortunately, in my third game here filling in for Jimmy Young, I'm gonna have to fill as much time as I can.
Eight minutes and 12 seconds on the clock.
During the break, I did check to see if we had any scores reported in some other high school games in the West Pennants last last conference.
Unfortunately, no scores have been posted yet.
I don't believe there's any change in the 8v8 schools either for the Great Lakes 8 East or West divisions.
What we can do is quickly run over those other matchups that are happening, like we did in our this weekend football segment during halftime, so let's go ahead and run through those again.
We have Kingsford, who's 2-0 so far this season, taking on 1-1 Gladstone in Gladstone.
Kingsford last week defeated Houghton 34-6.
Gladstone lost last week 6-42 against the Nagani minors that we're seeing take on Calumet tonight.
Kingsford, often a very strong contender.
I believe in the past two years they've been the team that defeated Calumet in the playoffs.
I could be incorrect about that, but they are often a very successful local program as well.
So we'll have to see if Gladstone can put up a fight and beat them in that matchup.
Launce is 2-0 so far this season.
They're taking on the Houghton Gremlins in Houghton tonight.
Launce beat Manastique 36-22 last week and their week 2 matchup.
West Iron County and Gwynn are both looking to bounce back after tough losses last week.
Last Thursday we covered West Iron County losing 58 to nothing to Hancock.
So the Wycons hoping they can get back on the board and record their first win of the season against Gwynn who lost to Bark River Harris by a final score of 6 to 54 last week.
Madisonique is taking on the Hancock Bulldogs who of course won that game that we covered last week.
They're actually looking for their first back-to-back wins since the year 2021.
It's been a pretty rough past few years for the Bulldogs, but after that big resounding win last week, you've got to hope that better news is on the horizon.
Hopefully the Bulldogs are doing well down in that matchup.
They're actually playing back at Condon Field this week.
The Bark River Harris is 2-0 so far.
They're taking on 1-1 Iron Mountain.
Iron Mountain lost to North Muskegon 14 to 19 last week.
I believe they were in North Muskegon for that game as well So obviously quite a track for them to get all the way down to the lower peninsula for that game So a one-score game they're pretty impressive and Menominee is taking on Ishpeming Westwood Menominee actually beat Marquette 49 to 19 the Sentinels following in that matchup while Ishpeming Westwood lost to Calumet by a final score of 8 to 27
Apologies folks, I just hit my game dial while I was trying to announce all those scores, so hopefully I wasn't quiet for too long there.
I don't have a text from my board operator back in the studio, Chuck Rottola, so I'm gonna hope that, or... I should have asked if it was Ritala or Ritala.
So, Chuck, if you text me and get back to me, I'll make sure I pronounce your name right on the radio.
Otherwise, take a look at our 8V8 divisions, the Great Lakes 8.
We have Lake Lindenhubble 2-0 so far in their season.
They're taking on Municing, who has not won a game yet this season.
We'll have to see if the Lakes can make it to 3-0 to start their season.
They beat Ironwood 44-14, sorry.
Okay.
Update from the press box, actually.
The Lakes apparently were in a pretty commanding lead in Municing.
I don't have a final score posted in the MHSAA website yet, but...
We'll have to see if the lakes can hold onto that one.
I'm not sure if that's under a delay.
It's all the way out in Municing, so I think for the moment they're probably lightning-free.
Got some fans shouting across the stadium.
I think trying to get the attention of the few Nagani fans who are still out in the visitor stands.
Crystal Falls Forest Park is 2-0 so far this season.
They're taking on 0-2 Bessemer in Bessemer.
We'll have to see how that game goes and see if Crystal Falls Forest Park, usually a contender for the Division II State, or the Eight Player Division II State Championship.
I believe they've won three times in the past five years, if I remember my research correctly.
I think from 2021 to 23.
Maybe it was 2020 to 22.
Norway is also 2-0.
They're taking on Ironwood.
They're Ironwood currently 1-1 after they lost to Lake Lindenhubble last week.
Stevenson is taking on Ishpeming.
Ishfeming actually beat Powers North Central 50 to 22.
That's a pretty surprising development from people following the Great Lakes 8.
Powers North Central often one of those teams that's contending for at least playoff spots and often state championships.
So interesting to see them drop that game to Ishfeming who of course was pretty handily beaten by Lakeland and Hubble in their week one matchups that we covered on WMPL two weeks ago.
And finally, Antonagin, taking on powers north-central.
Antonagin looking for their first one of the year, while powers is one and one.
Still plenty of time to go here, unfortunately, until our lightning delay wraps up here.
So we're going to fill the time as best we can.
Riddala is the correct pronunciation of our border operator's name.
Thank you, Chuck, for letting me know.
Chuck also fairly new with the next 93 studios although if there are audio issues tonight it's almost certainly my fault or the fault of tough reception possibly due to the storm in the area so we hope that our signal is still coming through loud and clear and you're all having a great time enjoying while we waste some time away together and hope we can see this last eight minutes of football tonight.
In the meantime, we can talk more about the Calumet High School Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2026.
They were introduced to the public last night and tomorrow morning they'll be inducted officially into the Hall of Fame in the CLK Schools Commons.
That'll be tomorrow, September 12th at 11 a.m.
I've actually got a short biography of all of the Hall of Famers here that I'll start going through to kill some time here.
So let's start with Lea Killen and I'm born.
She earned 10 letters, four of which came from cross-country, two from basketball, three from track, and one from softball while attending Calumet from 2012 to 2016.
In cross-country, she was named to the All Conference First Team, the All UP First Team, and the All State First Team as a freshman.
Leia was named to the All-Conference First Team, all UP, and All-State First Team as a sophomore, and a junior, and as a senior.
So all four years in basketball, she was named to the Conference Honorable Mention Team as a junior, and she helped lead her team to the MHSAA Class C State Championship as a junior, defeating Flint-Hammity High School, 57 to 49.
That was in the 2015 season.
In that year, she was named to the all-conference first team and all-UP second team as a senior in 2016 in basketball.
In track, she was named the conference distance MVP as a freshman.
She earned all-state honors six times based on results of the MHSAA UP finals.
In the 1600 meters, she finished third place, 3200 meters fifth place, 1600 fifth place in 2014, 3200 fifth place in 2014.
the 800 meters 6th place in 2015, and the 1600 meters in 6th place in 2015.
So throughout her career, across sports, appearing all over the local leaderboards.
Kevin Langseth earned eight total letters in football, two there, hockey, three in hockey and three in track, while attending from 1977 to 1981.
And he was named to the Superior Six All-Conference Second Team as a junior.
He led his team to back-to-back conference championships in 1979 and 1980 in football.
And in hockey, he was named to the Lake Superior All Conference Second Team as a junior and the first team as a senior.
He was named the Lake Superior Conference Player of the Year as a senior, actually.
So congrats to Kevin on that.
As an on-ice official as well, he officiated MHSA hockey games for 25 years, including multiple state finals and championships, and served on the Ice Hockey Rules Committee and Official Selection Committee.
Spent 13 years officiating instruction staff for USA hockey Worked over 800 excuse me NCAA division one official games and the CCHA WCHA and big 10 over a 30 year officiating career He officiated in 19 NCAA hockey tournaments including eight consecutive frozen fours from 2000 to 2007 he was a four-time
referee in NCAA semi-finals and four times in the NCAA national championship.
He was selected to officiate the first-ever college outdoor game in Michigan, known as the Cold War between Michigan and Michigan State at Spartan Stadium, which had an attendance of just under 75,000 fans.
He officiated a professional hockey for six seasons in the CHL and the UHL and was served in playoff assignments every year.
and was also part of the supervisor crew for the WCHA, and he was the director of officiating for the CCHA from 2021 to 2023.
We have a few other hall of famers to go through.
I'm going to try to abbreviate that a little bit more so I don't just sit there and name accomplishments one after another.
Unfortunately, I didn't get the opportunity to talk to any of them pre-game.
We had to make sure that everything got ready to go here on our broadcast, but...
Again, outside the Lightning Delay, it's been a pretty non-stop action night.
It's just now we're about, I'd say, 45 minutes into this Lightning Delay.
Hoping everything's okay.
Again, our Pepsi trivia question has been answered.
Cheryl Gibbons of Hancock knew that the Nagani minors defeated the Houghton Kremlins in their first round, excuse me, playoff matchup, to advance on their postseason run that eventually led all the way to the state championship.
So congrats to Cheryl.
Make sure you pick up your 12 pack of Pepsi.
I'm not sure if Chuck is able to give that out tonight.
Probably not.
I would guess that you need to wait for office hours, so probably weekdays from 9 to 5.
Unfortunately, I'm not super familiar with that.
I'm actually going to take another quick break here, and I'm going to see if I can talk to Chuck and figure out how to fill the rest of this time.
Hopefully we can come up with something together here and try to keep this as entertaining as possible while we wait for the rest of this delay.
We'll see you right back here in a couple minutes on mix 93.
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Welcome back everybody, High School Football Game of the Week here on MIX93, unfortunately still in the middle of a lightning delay for those of you just joining us.
The Nagani Miners currently trailing the Calumet Copper Kings, the score 21-12.
Nagani has the football, with a little over 8 minutes left on the clock.
The plan for now is to still play the game tonight.
We'll have to see if that actually resolves as we see...
Some the wind starting to pick up here.
We'll have to see if rain actually arrives hoping that the lightning timer has not reset I know we saw a second lightning strike a little while ago So hopefully the weather clears enough for us to finish the last few minutes of this football game Players or we have some fans on the field here.
Hopefully they can get off the field pretty quick here and they are We have we actually have some high school students running across the field which they probably ought to stop doing but
For now, we actually do have a segment that we can run.
We have a five minute coverage of this week in MHSAA football.
So we're going to come back to that for the next few minutes.
So check out what's happening in the rest of state of Michigan for high school sports.
The number of students playing high school sports continues to go up.
And we hear from a coach turned official on why he wears the stripes.
I'm John Ross, and this is this week in high school sports powered by the Michigan Achievement Scholarship.
and coming to you from the 1-800-CALL-SAM studio.
The state of Michigan's ranking for high school sports participation once again outpaces its population rank.
Michigan is 10th nationally in terms of population but has the sixth most boys and eighth most girls participating in high school sports.
Combined, the Great Lake State ranks eighth in overall participation.
This is according to the annual study conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations.
In Michigan,
Ice hockey has the fourth most, boys basketball the fifth most, and boys wrestling the seventh most participants.
And for girls sports, bowling and tennis have the third most, with volleyball the sixth most.
Nationally, high school sports participation has increased for the fifth straight year, with more than 8.4 million students playing nationwide.
Eleven player football is the country's most popular.
For boys, that's followed by track and field, basketball and soccer,
For girls, the tops are track and field, volleyball, and soccer.
Texas remains atop the list of most participants, followed by California, Ohio, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.
For more, check out mhsa.com.
It's time for game balls, when we highlight a trio of standout performances from the past week.
First, Eudica Eisenhower, volleyball sisters Olivia and Juliet Behrichaw.
Juliet, a freshman, had 12 kills and Olivia, a senior, had 11 kills as the Eagles defeated Romeo in straight sets.
Detroit Kings Don Spiller caught three touchdowns in a 44-42 triple overtime win over Orchard Lake St.
Mary's, the defending Division II champions.
And to Battle Creek Harper Creek's Sean Johnson, he had 14 tackles on Harper Creek's 19-nothing win over Cedar Springs.
The Beaver's second straight shutout to open the season.
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Our weekly Be the Referee feature takes a look at the fine art of officiating with MHSAA registered official Paige Winnie.
We're on the volleyball court today where the home team only had one libero listed.
In the middle of the first set, that libero is disqualified for making bolder comments to the first referee.
Can the home team now designate a new libero?
Or do they play without a libero for the rest of the match?
Or for just the rest of that set before picking a new libero?
If you said they must play the rest of the set without a libero, and then can designate a new one before the start of the second set, you are correct.
Remember, a libero is a back row defensive specialist who focuses on passing and digging.
They can't attack the ball above the net or play on the front row, but can substitute in and out freely for back row players without counting against official substitution limits.
Thanks, Paige.
There are lots of reasons to get in and stay in officiating.
Each week, we hear from a current or former official in a segment called What's My Why?
This week, we hear from Murray Rose, a former wrestling coach who's been an MHSAA registered official since 2017.
After
30 years of coaching wrestling, I decided to become a wrestling official.
My wife asked me, why would you ever want to do that?
I said, the answer is simple.
I'm a wrestling guy.
It's what I do.
It's been my passion, my whole life.
This time for me to give back to the sport has given so much to me through the years.
Think about it, I get to work out, get paid, and have fun all at the same time.
I get to be in the middle of the action, and I get to have the best seat in the house.
I get to shake hands with thousands of student athletes, coaches, and I get to make hundreds of new, officiating friends.
For me, officiating is a way of life.
It's been a wild ride for nine years now.
I encourage all of you young men and women out there to jump on this officiating train and challenge yourself because I want you to have as much fun officiating as I am.
Now more than ever, we need officials.
If you're interested, go to the MHSAA website now to register and to check out other What's My Wise.
You've been listening to this week in high school sports powered by Michigan's Student Aid, a production of the MHSAA network.
Thanks for joining us here in the 1-800-CALL-SAM Studio.
I'm John Ross, and we'll be back next
week.
The rain is still about 10 miles to the west of Calumet.
It should be blowing in here reasonably soon.
It sounds like that rain cell is not super severe, but we did have a couple of lightning strikes in it earlier on.
However, it doesn't look like lightning is in it at the moment.
So, the plan for the moment is to have the players return to the field at 9.59.
That will be exactly 30 minutes after the last lightning strike was spotted, and then a 10 minute warm-up has to occur, so hopefully, play can resume as early as 10.09 p.m.
In the meantime, I've been given a couple extra segments to push for you all.
The big thing is to shout out that you should download the Civic Media app and select Mix 93.
If you want to send some text into the stations, you can do that as well.
But regardless of whether or not you want to send in some text, help us kill these last few minutes of the delay, maybe.
Download that civic media app.
You can check out mix93 on there.
You can listen from anywhere I believe you can listen to all of our other affiliate stations as well So that's worth your time if you love high school football in the area big thing to mention the game of the week sometimes it conflicts with Michigan Tech schedules, so we often Call the NHSAA game of the week on
107.3 the Hooper.
It's also listenable on AM 920 if you prefer listening on the AM signal.
So when there are nights when we have high school football to cover and the Michigan Tech Huskies are playing either hockey or football often you can tune over to 107.3 or AM 920 if you want the high school side instead.
Josh Ilatelo by the way will be calling the Michigan Tech Huskies game tomorrow night or tomorrow afternoon excuse me against Emporia State.
So if you're looking forward to that game, you'll be able to hear Josh Serenade you with stats about football.
And hopefully the Huskies can advance to a 3-0 record on their way to a fantastic season so far.
We'll have to see how that actually shakes out for Michigan Tech, but now six minutes, we hope, from players returning to the field here in August's field in Calumet.
For those of you just joining us, the score right now 21-12 in favor of the Calumet Copper Kings looking to extend their win streak to three games to start this season.
I'm sure both of these teams will at least still be firmly in the hunt for the postseason by the time the regular season wraps up.
But a big win here, especially against a high quality opponent, either of these teams will be substantial in helping them lock up a playoff spot in the Division 5 playoffs for Nagani, the Division 6 playoffs.
for the Copper Kings.
Again, if we have any more word, we will update you, but hopefully about five minutes before players return to the field here, as long as the weather holds for the moment.
We'll see if that winds up happening, but we're gonna take a quick break and we'll be back, excuse me, with more updates in a moment here on VIX 93.
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High school football game of the week, still in the middle of our lightning delay here on MIX 93, but we're hoping that in the next three minutes or so the players will be allowed to retake the field as the 30-minute minimum lightning window is passed.
We're expecting some mild rain in the vicinity here fairly soon, but it looks like there should not be any lightning in that cell.
About half an hour after that one, there's more heavier rain coming, but we're hoping the game can be wrapped up before that cell hits.
So...
Unfortunately, my pre-game forecast was a little bit inaccurate today.
I don't want to blame Bucko's party store for that by any means, of course.
But the... We thought there wasn't going to be significant rain, thought it'd be mostly overcast, had the sun peek through for a little while, and I'll say for the first half of this game and well into the third quarter was absolutely beautiful.
We still have not seen a single drop of rain here at Agassiz Field.
But, of course, lightning on the horizon...
In the sake of player and fan safety, we got to make sure that everybody is cleared away from the big steel bleachers.
Nobody's out there standing on the open field.
It's the last thing we want to see here on a night like this, when otherwise we've seen some spectacular football.
And we also have the Hall of Fame class for the Calumet High School, athletics being inducted.
They were introduced at midfield at halftime, and we also had a military appreciation night involving multiple Michigan Army National Guard helicopters.
One was actually parked out on the field just past Agassiz Field, well in sight of the stadium.
It made for a pretty interesting view from the press box for sure.
And then we had to fly over during the national anthem.
That was pretty incredible to see at a high school game, so props to Calumet High School for putting on a heck of a show tonight.
in what's likely going to be one of the biggest matchups of the year for both of these teams coming into this night.
Looking off towards the locker room, I'm not seeing any movement outside of it yet.
There's some people huddled up near it, but waiting to see if they actually retake the field anytime soon.
The time 9.58, I was told 9.59, and I hear some cheers, and here come the Calumet Copper Kings!
Something I forgot to mention earlier in the night.
They're wearing special camo uniforms still keeping their blue gray and white color palette But special for the military appreciation night, and they're gonna be auctioning off these uniforms.
I believe I was given some information on this a moment ago Let me make sure that I have that pulled up for you so I get everything right If my camera roll will load that would be nice
But the Copper Kings have retaken the field beginning to run some sprints here Hoping they can get back out on the field and the Ghani miners have also left the locker room now and Through nearly an hour of delays It looks like hopefully in a few moments time here.
We'll be able to wrap up this football game For those of you joining us recently, there's eight minutes and 12 seconds left in the fourth quarter
Calumet currently leads 21-12, but Nagani has the ball to that about midfield.
The spot of the ball has not moved in the past hour or so, still sitting at the Nagani 49 yard line as they're about to head from west to east, and they're going to need to score two touchdowns here, or two scores at least, with a nine-point deficit.
Both teams now out on the field, people returning to the stands.
I'm sure the crowd is gonna take a bit of a sizable dent here because of the, I believe, about a 45-minute long delay.
However, there is still quite a few people packing the stands here at Agassiz Field.
The parking lot's still mostly full behind me.
And I have the information here now on the silent auction for the military-themed football jerseys.
All funds raised in the auction will go to the UP Veterans Assistance Fund and the Copper Country Police and Fire Relief Fund.
So...
a very nice way to make something out of a solemn night, an appreciative night of service members.
Players still continuing to stretch out.
The Copper King coaching staff lined up underneath their goalpost.
And you can just see and feel the excitement roaring back into this place.
Cheers coming from the parking lot.
and the field off to our side.
Hopefully it's going to be a pretty exciting one.
I can turn my PA mic back up now, then I think about it.
Hopefully that won't be flowing out of your drones once we have big things going on on the field, but I think it ought to be pretty good.
And the timer is now ticking on the clock, saying 8 minutes and 38 seconds and counting until the game is ready to get going once again.
So, for the meantime, we're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back, and hopefully, in about eight minutes' time, we'll have some more football coming up for you here on MIX
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Rain just now starting to fall here at Agassiz Field in Calumet.
The lightning delay nearly over as it stands currently.
About six minutes left on this clock and I think every single person in this stadium is thinking more than anything.
Please please know more lightning.
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Unfortunately, about an hour long delay in the middle of that sponsored fourth quarter, but it seems like we're back and ready to go here in the near future.
Everybody in the press box here getting pretty excited about it, ready to get going.
And again, the football game up until the pause was fantastic.
Copper Kings leading 21-12 as it stands right now.
8 minutes and 12 seconds on the game clock.
It'll be first down in 10 with Nagani ball.
They're starting at their own 49 yard line.
Simply put, they need to touch down on this first drive.
It's that simple.
They need to get through the Calumet defense.
They need to find something big.
Especially with the rain coming in now, I would expect the passing game to be mostly an afterthought at this point.
Nagani was a bit more keen to pass than Calumet.
over the course of this game, but in general, both teams seem to heavily favor the run.
Both mentioned a very strong committee of running backs.
Both coaches talked about that in their pre-game show interviews.
And for the moment, I would expect almost entirely run plays as this clock winds down.
If Dagoni gets any real desperation time here in these final few minutes, or if they retake the lead quickly, then we may need to see some passing from either team.
But we'll have to see how that develops as the game progresses.
Four minutes and 33 seconds to go.
Now, not on the game clock, but on the rain delay clock, as we hope that timer holds.
Again, if there's more lightning, they've got to head back to the locker rooms for 30 more minutes.
And the rain's starting to come down pretty significantly now.
I'm actually going to stick my hand out of the press box here.
If you can hear it on the ambient microphone, I apologize.
I hope you can't hear the pattern on it.
But the...
officiating crew, both teams have retaken the field and at least for the moment the student section is still absolutely packed.
The Calumet Middle and High School students who decide to come out for tonight's game have shown up and they have stayed here through the rain.
They want to see the Copper Kings win this game.
They know how big of a game it is.
They know the playoff implications often attached to this Calumet-Nagani matchup and we will have to see
if the Copper Kings can hold that nine point lead in the final eight and a half or so minutes of this matchup.
Again, Pepsi trivia question was answered.
We were asking which local team did the Nagani Miners beat in their first round postseason matchup as they went on their state championship run in 1922, not 1922, 2022.
I'm not asking 104-year-old trivia questions, thankfully, for the people at home.
And it was Cheryl Gibbons of Hancock who got the answer correct, so congrats to Cheryl once again.
Hope you're still tuning in here.
As we now need to shut the press box windows as rain begins to come in quite a bit more heavily, I unfortunately may need to turn off the ambient microphone pretty soon.
Want to make sure we don't have any damage to any of the equipment here at Agassiz Field.
And the fans...
A couple screaming in delight ready, saying finally we're getting some more football.
I'm actually seeing some cars pull into the parking lot now as we speak.
So maybe some fans who headed home for a little while and they heard, oh wait, hey, this game's actually gonna go on tonight.
So they had it back out.
And for the moment, it looks like we're gonna get some more football.
Two minutes and 30 seconds to go until play is allowed to resume.
A 10 minute required warm up period as the teams retake the field.
and I am going to go ahead and remove this microphone.
So we're going to have to go without ambient audio for the rest of the game, unfortunately, just to make sure I don't do any damage to this microphone.
Rain's starting to come down a little bit more heavily now.
But, at least for the moment, it looks like football's back on, folks.
Two minutes left on this timer.
The Copper Kings doing jumping jacks as they huddle up, getting ready to retake the field and try to shut down the Nagani minors on defense.
We're going to take one more break and hopefully when we're back, there will be football here on MIX 93.
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I hate to break it to you, but both teams were ready to get going here early.
I think that clock was a little bit behind the time here.
The 10-minute warm-up period ended.
The Goanee came out on the very first play.
They passed it out to Ryan Delangelo.
Or Evan Delangelo, excuse me.
And a flag gonna be on this play as a handoff on second down run to the right by number 12 That was Ethan Gatson out there for the Nagani minors But I was saying I wouldn't expect any more run place for the rest of the game and just like that Kyle Waterman out there throwing the ball out to Evan Delangelo Who has made some pretty incredible plays for the Nagani minors all night now it's gonna be
First down, and I believe backed up here as a hold was called on the minors, so they're going to be back about in pretty similar field position.
It's going to be
ball will be at the 45 yard line as they try to make their way back down the field.
Ambien, Mike, for now, I have peeking through the window.
The rain has slowed a little bit during our commercial break.
And again, seemingly working
here, making sure that we can get through this game.
before a heavier cell hits the Calumet area.
And it's now first and 20, ball at the Nagani 45 yard line.
Waterman and Shaka.
Takes the snap, D'Angelo pitches out, going to his right.
D'Angelo gets to the outside, gains about nine yards, and that'll make it about second down and 10.
Nice way to make back most of the yards lost on that holding call.
It'll be second down at a little over 10 yards.
Make it 11.
Miners being a little bit more aggressive with the ball than I would think given the field and ball are now wet.
But the passing game opened up.
They had a nice completion to start this drive.
Now doing some pitches in the backfield.
Galangelo has not lost his grip on the ball yet.
Waterman and Shotgun now for second down and 11 takes the snap looking left.
Pass out to Delantillo over his head incomplete.
He was actually branded Gleason, that water and tried to get that ball too.
And now it's going to be third down in 11.
The student section loving the trouble here on offense now.
Third and very long here for the minors.
Seven minutes 30 left on the clock.
Clock is stopped after the incomplete pass.
A nine point game here.
A two possession lead for Calumet.
Need to find some kind of points here, preferably a touchdown.
Offensive snap breaks.
Miners ready to go.
Waterman lined up in the shotgun.
Two receivers to his left, one out to his right, that's Delangelo.
Running back in the backfield with him.
Waterman takes the snap, steps back, looking deep, going out, and that's...
Intercepted by the Copper Kings in the end zone, looking for Delangelo in double coverage.
And this time... Oh, is it ruled incomplete?
Oh, the ball bobble.
For a moment, I thought a Copper King made that interception, but the ball bounces, hits the ground before possession can be gained.
It'll be fourth down and 11 now.
Ball still at the 36-yard line of Calumet.
I would think far too long for a field goal try
the clock.
We'll see if Nagani feels the pressure to go for it.
I would think they do here.
Students' section getting loud.
I'd say about 40% of the fans that we saw earlier after the lightning delay.
And for now, they're in their offensive set.
Waterman in shotgun.
Running back to his right.
Two receivers out.
Takes a snap steps back looking left find some room throws across his feet throws cross body and is brought in By Brayden Gleason, but he is ruled short And that is gonna be a turnover on downs And the Calumet Copper Kings will resume on offense And a fourth down stop on fourth and 11
Copper Kings get the ball back with a nine point lead looking to put this game on ice.
Now I would expect from Calumet this ball is staying on the ground no doubt.
Miners still have all three timeouts.
I doubt they start using them this early but as we get closer to four or five minutes left on the clock I would expect Nagani to start using those up.
In the meantime they'll probably look for a three and out.
And it's going to be Tyler Halonen.
In that three back set, we've seen all game long from the Copper Kings.
Halonen lined up under center.
Takes the snap and the play's whistled dead before the ball is snapped.
And I think a timeout might be getting called here.
They're going to call it delay of game.
And
that is going to be a five yard penalty backing up the Copper Kings.
I'm not sure they care too much about that at the moment.
It'll make the first down a little bit more difficult.
But for now, the mentality is kill clock.
Get as much time off that game clock on the east end of the field as they can.
Still in their free back set.
Allen and Undercenter takes the snap, hands it off.
It's locus, I believe.
Apologies, it's Trent Anderson.
Who runs up the middle there gains a yard or two It's gonna be second down and 13 ball at the Calumet 22 And it's gonna be second down quite a bit of distance to go here after the delay of game on first second and 13 Again Calumet leading by nine the score is 21 to 12 trying to put this game on ice in that three-back set once again
Allen, under center.
Defense is playing real close to the line of scrimmage.
Nobody more than five yards off.
Takes a snap.
Quarterback keeper, and he's met and brought down in the backfield.
It's going to be Kyle Waterman, actually, the opposing quarterback playing linebacker there, who makes the tackle for no gain, maybe a small loss.
And it's now going to be 6-14 and counting.
Third down, and they're going to call it a long 10 yards actually.
So Howlin and got past the line to score a mid game to yard or two, but nowhere near enough for a first down.
I highly doubt the down and distance influences Calumet's play call here.
It's almost certainly going to be a run to take another 40 seconds off the clock.
Three back set, third and 10 ball at the 25 yard line.
Howlin and under center.
Takes the snap, hands it off.
And I believe that was Coy Visto, no it was Locus.
Who can't get past the line of scrimmage and that is going to be a forced down and ten yards to go.
The nine point lead for the Copper Kings holding strong in these first three minutes back.
But Nagani looking to get the ball back in decent field position.
They're going to call their first time out to avoid more time bleeding off the clock.
Five thirty-one to go in this one.
I know you've heard enough of my voice during that lightning delay, but we've hit all of our ad segments, so I'm just going to keep on talking about the game here.
Clock is going to be backed up to 5 minutes 34.
A couple extra seconds being added.
I'm sure the miners are not going to complain about that.
We've got some fans in the east, or behind the east goal post.
Looks like they're doing the tarps out special.
Decent bit of fans have piled back into the Nagani stands.
I guess if you gotta drive over a hundred miles to get back home, then you might as well stick around through an hour-long lightning delay.
The student sections here at Agassiz Field still absolutely packed.
Most of the rest of the stands now largely empty.
Halibut on 4th and 11th.
Getting ready to punt, takes the snap, kick is clean, low punt dribbles and is going to bounce, stay in, bounds way back into the backfield.
Recovered at the 21 yard line by Delangelo.
Delangelo cuts right, has room.
Delangelo getting up the field, shakes a tackler and gets out of bounds finally, finally brought down at about the 34 yard line of the Copper Kings.
A massive return for Evan Delangelo.
Trying to get the miners back into this one.
They needed something like that.
Fantastic field position, better than their previous drive was before the delay.
Now the question is, after some time back out on the field, has the offense warmed up?
Are these players ready to continue their drive?
5.15 on the clock.
Miners down two scores.
It's a nine point deficit.
21 to 12 in favor of Calumet at the moment.
Nagani with the ball in fantastic field position, first in 10 on the Calumet 34.
Waterman in the shotgun has number three, Waylon Harvilla to his right, three receiver, four receivers outside.
Takes the snap, steps back looking to pass, looking deep.
And it's broken up, incomplete pass, vibrating Gleason, but a late flag.
It's gonna be past interference a Hand in the face there of Braden Gleeson looking for his first big catch of the game and this is probably going against the hometown crowd here past interference called on the Copper Kings and that is gonna move the chains And that'll be a spot foul Miners getting a lot of free real estate there off that penalty call
It was heavily contested it sure looked like there was a hand in the face 15-yard penalty excuse me it'll be first in town first in ten at the 19-yard line of Calumet 509 to go in this game Seems like they are more than willing to pass not having issues with a slippery ball
Clock still paused at 5.09.
Officials are having a discussion near the line of scrimmage here.
And waiting to see what happens here.
All right, play now resumes.
First in 10, Nagani in the Calumet red zone.
Waterman lined up in shotgun, running back to his right.
Takes the snap quarterback keeper runs up the middle and brought down in the backfield.
It's number 72 for Calumet Joe Haliman With a big tackle there that easily could have broken for at least a first down
Waterman
almost let that one loose With some time and opportune blocks that could have been six, but shut down after a gain of about three yards Waterman in the shotgun takes the snap exact same play
And met by a swarm of Copper King defenders, might have gained a yard.
Jeff Nemi trying to catch the Copper Kings off guard with that play call, not able to do it.
4-27
and counting.
Two timeouts left for Nagani, down two scores.
Third and sixth ball at the Calumet, 14 yard line.
Looking for a touchdown here.
Waterman.
Lined up in the shotgun.
Harvilla to his right, three receivers to his left.
Ball is snapped, play is whistled dead.
And
offside on the minors.
Or a false start, excuse me.
And now make it third and 11.
4-0-3 to go now on the clock.
Penalties of cost, the minors, the key moments
back-to-back personal fouls, allowed the Copper Kings to extend the lead to two possessions.
Waterman steps back looking to his left, passes complete, and it's actually dropped.
That was number 21, Cole Prousty having trouble holding on to the wet ball.
It's gonna be fourth down and 10, ball up the 19 yard line.
Nagani.
No chance other than going forward here 349 clock is stopped The clock becoming an increasing concern For the miners fourth and ten same formation three receivers to the left Waterman and a running back in the backfield Waterman takes the snap looking to his left rolls out
gets around one defender gonna run for it running out the middle tries to cut inside and he's gonna be brought down at the 12 yard line he's gonna be short and that's gonna be a turnover on downs copper Kings retain the ball after another red
stop a
play waiting to see who this is on if it's on Calumet this could be a second chance for Nagani waiting for the call from the crew chief
The crew chief discussing with Calumet coach Josh Franti.
It's a hold on the offense.
That play, that penalty's declined.
It's a turnover on downs.
Calumet ball, 341 to go.
The score is still 21-12.
Copper Kings will start this drive with their own 19.
Nothing to do but take time off the clock.
Ball is down to the 13-yard line, excuse me, after the run for six yards by Waterman.
A valiant effort on the quarterback run.
It was not designed.
He was looking for a man deep, couldn't find anybody, snuck out to his left, got past the defensive line, but couldn't get through the linebackers.
Hallinan takes the snap.
Quarterback keeper goes to the outside, and he is picked up and brought down by Jonah Mills.
The 10th grader with a pile driver.
Clock continues to tick.
Allen and got up just fine.
But Jonah Mills making a statement there as precious time continues to dwindle for Nagani.
309 left, second down and seven, ball at the Calumet 16.
Calumet with a nine-point lead, Allen and under center, same three-back formation.
Allen it.
Crouch is under center, waiting for the snap, takes it, hands it off.
A few yards gain, but not gonna have the first down.
Waiting to see which running back that was.
And it was number 36 Trent Anderson.
He's gotten a few carries tonight.
I think it's safe to say that Oscar Locus has been the main running back in the game tonight, but Anderson getting some time out there as well, along with 25 Keith Coyvisto.
Timeout called by Nagani, clock will stop at 244.
Third down and seven.
Ball is placed at the Copper King 19 yard line.
A two possession lead for Calumet as they try to push this, as they try to put this game on ice.
At this point,
The minors need a stop on third down, a quick touchdown and a miracle.
Copper Kings back out on the field, minors defense heads back out to meet up.
Third and three ball up in 19.
It's going to be that same three running back set that we've seen all night long.
All three running backs lined up next to each other in the backfield.
About three yards behind Halled and the quarterback under center.
Defense showing heavy blitz.
Why not?
Halledon takes the snap, hands it off.
Maybe he gained a yard or two.
I think he's going to wind up being short.
It was Locus waiting to see the spot here.
If this is a first down, this game is nearly wrapped.
And that ball is placed about halfway between the 20 and 21 yard line.
Short of the first down, timeout called by McGoni.
Miners out of timeouts.
And now a fourth down and two in the Calumet red zone.
And now a tough decision for Coach Franti.
If you go for it and get a first down.
You can essentially run the clock down to zero, but if you fail to convert, you gift the miners a start of a drive in your own red zone while down two possessions.
Either way, Nagani's gonna need an onside kick, so do you punt it and try to make them go the extra 40 or so yards.
237 on the clock, it is stopped.
No timeouts left for the Nagani miners as they trail by nine.
And it looks like it will be a punt.
Halonen, about 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage, ready to send this one up.
And who else, number 11, Evan Delangelo, standing around midfield, getting ready to return.
Halonen takes the snap.
Kick is nearly blocked, but gets up good.
Delangelo takes the return and gains about five before dropping out of bounds.
2.30 on the clock.
Miners will begin this drive at the Calumet 44.
Two possession game.
Nagani trails by nine.
Starting in Calumet territory.
But they need to capitalize and do it quick.
Afterwards they need an onside kick.
That Calumet will know is coming.
No timeouts left.
You can't play dice and look for a three and out.
You're not going to have time on the clock.
Calumet fans, antsy, but excited.
Offense breaks.
They know they're probably not going to have much time in a huddle on this drive.
Waterman lined up in the shotgun.
Number three, Wayland Harvilla lined up to his right.
Three receivers out wide.
Waterman takes the snap.
Looking right.
Throws, complete.
Cuts inside.
It's Evan Delangelo who gains about 15 yards with tackled in bounds.
Chains will move.
Clock is ticking.
224.
When the ball sets, no huddle offense here.
Waiting for the ball to get set.
They do not want more time to take off the clock.
They may just spike this ball.
For the moment, they have three receivers out wide right.
Waterman and Harvilla in the backfield.
218 and ticking.
Steps back, takes the snap, a flag on the play.
And we'll see, this is gonna be another false start on the offense, backing him up five yards.
The penalties have been big so far against Nagani.
A relatively clean first half, I believe only two or three total penalties.
And then back-to-back personal fouls of Face Mask.
And I believe a late hit.
Moved Cal, he met down field on offense, allowed them to score that third touchdown.
A big part of why it's a two-position game.
Nagani rushes back to the line, Waterman and Shotgun takes the snap, stepping up, and he's hit as he throws, and that ball is intercepted by the Copper Kings!
A flag on the field, but number 15, he's gonna go all the way for the Copper Kings!
James
If it holds!
And there's a flag on the play, it looks like it's coming back.
We'll have to see what the call is here.
I believe it was number 15.
Ball was batted in the backfield, popped up.
Waterman did not want the ball to go there.
He was looking deep, I believe, for Delangelo.
Waiting to see what the penalty is here.
It's a personal foul against the defense.
No elaboration beyond that, but a 15-yard penalty when the hometown fans thought they had a pick six.
A brutal turn here.
But still a tough hill to climb for the Miners in this remaining minute 47.
Good heads-up play it was number 15 James Karki who caught the bobble pass and returned it all the way to the house.
Unbeknownst to him a flag earlier on the play brings it all the way back plus 15 And a ball boy able to supply the official crew with a ball everybody in the press box wondering where the ball went Karki may have thrown it out Celebrating the pick six.
I'm not sure Miners and their huddle Ball is gonna start here at the 20 at the
25 yard line, excuse me.
First and 10.
Miners down nine.
Four receivers out.
Waterman and Chaka.
Delangelo, fake the pitch.
Waterman out deep and over the top and
incomplete.
Looking for Cole Prusey, that ball a little too high.
Prusey wasn't ready to jump up for
it.
Second down and ten.
Ball to Calumet 25.
Nagani cannot afford to let more time tick off this clock.
144 to go.
Two possession game.
Copper Kings being tested on defense once again.
They thought they had a pick six.
It gets called back after a personal foul near the line of scrimmage.
Waterman lined up in shotgun three receivers out to his left Waterman takes the snap stepping back looking to his right Looking deep and that's I believe caught and brought in by Evan Delangelo Brought down And he's gonna be ruled as brought down at the eight yard line.
It's gonna be first and goal for the miners I'm not sure if he got out of bounds, but that will reset the down marker another big catch by Evan Delangelo
Waterman's tried to force a couple passes to
There he had a bit of an opening, but a long pass to the opposite side of the field.
Means he gets tackled by the time the ball gets to him.
And another flag coming as the ball is snapped.
Waiting to see who this one's on.
And it's another penalty
Ghani.
We're seeing yellow flags fly all over the place in this fourth quarter.
Ball is backed up.
It's going to be first in goal at the 14 yard line.
The Ghani needs the touchdown now.
Can they get this
Waterman and shotgun receivers out to his left steps back looks left completed quickly to Delangelo Delangelo shakes a tackle tries to get inside dives for it Touchdown Nagani This game's not over yet folks 21 to 18 now the score a minute 19 to play and Evan Delangelo with more heroics today Three-point deficit
A minute, 19 to go.
And let's see what the miners do on this conversion attempt.
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They're going for two.
Waterman and Shotgun takes the snap, looking right.
Fade for Delangelo, it's up!
Did he bring that in?
And that's an incomplete pass.
The lead remains three.
21 to 18, a minute 19 on the clock.
Nagani, due to kickoff, you know an onside kick is coming.
No timeouts left for the minors.
They need the ball back now.
What a game, folks.
The team's given about an hour to sit in the locker room and stew on this one.
Nagani, far more time off the clock than they would have liked.
We went to the lightning delay with 8 minutes 12 on the clock and now with a minute 19 they score the first of two scores they needed to get themselves back in this one.
Three point game, 21 to 18.
And you've got to expect the onside recovery unit going to be ready here for the Copper Kings.
as they head out onto the field.
Chaos will ensue shortly, I'm sure.
But those missed two-point conversions, they've missed three this game.
Oh, for three on two-point conversions,
of them, they're winning
One returner deep, the other 10 men lined up within 15 yards of the kickoff point.
It's number 21, Cole Prusey on the kickoff.
Timeout called by Calumet.
Looks like the Copper Kings are choosing to ice Prusey on this kickoff.
Not something you see very often.
But you've got one timeout and no other need for it.
Might as well go for it.
Pre-game show started over four hours ago now Getting some extra time Here and we'll see what happens here extra football not necessarily out of the picture if Nagani recovers this and kicks a field goal But first the onside kick looms large It's 21 Cole
Prusey on the kickoff.
Onside kick coming, still one player back to return, the other 10 on the hands team.
Prusey looking for an onside.
Whistle blows.
Skies it up and that's recovered by the Copper Kings.
Oscar Locust reigns it in.
The most crucial reception of the game in a game with few receptions for the Calumet Copper Kings.
And this one will allow Calumet to ice this game away.
A minute 19 on the clock.
No timeouts from Nagani.
Take a knee two times and call it a day.
Victory formation for the Calumet Copper Kings.
Allen takes the snap, first knee is without an incident.
Time ticking away.
And what an incredible game we saw here tonight, folks.
One more knee and this game should be over.
Taking every second off the clock, they can minimize as much risk as they possibly can.
They may even take a delay of game to ensure they get as much time off the clock as they can.
Allin' it.
Lines up.
The fans erupting here at Agassiz Field.
Takes the knee.
And I believe that should do it.
And it will.
Copper Kings take the field.
And despite a last second scare, Calumet holds on.
They never lost the lead.
Calumet, Copper Kings persevere.
Your final score here in Calumet, Copper Kings 21, minors 18.
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Calumet Copper Kings hold on to take down the Nagani Miners by a final score of 21 to 18.
Quick correction, I did say before the break that the Copper Kings never lost the lead.
That's not true.
They were down 12 to 7 at one point, I believe going into the half.
But after converting an onside kick to start the second half, they wound up in a pretty great spot.
I may be mixing that up again, apologies.
I have my notes here and I think I made a mistake there.
But regardless, a fantastic game by Calumet.
And despite the last second scare on the touchdown by the minors, they did a fantastic job of putting the game on ice.
Eventually let in that last touchdown by Nagani, but the recovery of the onside kick winds up ending the game.
Copper Kings go home 3-0.
Nagani gonna have that long drive back, reminiscing on what could have been, and their record will sit at 2-1.
Pivotal play of the game.
Recency bias may be taking hold here, and it's not often you're going to hear that the biggest play of the game was an onside kick attempt that went in the way of the return team.
But that recovery of the onside kick by number 12.
For the Calumet Copper Kings Oscar locus in those last few seconds that felt like you could hear a pin drop in this stadium until he clearly brought that ball in I will also say the onside kick that went the way of the Copper Kings on the kickoff to start the second half That was recovered by Calumet that led to a touchdown drive a very productive effort there for the Copper Kings to Just a fantastic performance all around by both teams, but in this instance Copper Kings prevail
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I'm sure that Calumet fans were very aware of that fact coming into this game, especially when the rain started pouring down and they needed to try to close out a nine-point lead.
It made perfect sense to keep the ball on the ground as long as you could, and a fantastic effort by the Calumet Copper Kings to hold on to this one.
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Wrapping up tonight a little bit later than we would have thought.
Final score.
Calumet Copper Kings 21.
Nagani Miners 18.
And the Copper Kings improved to 3-0.
But before we wrap up shop here tonight.
It's time for our Coca-Cola of Hancock Player of the Game.
For those of you listening all game, I'm sure it's no surprise.
It's going to go to the 11th grader, number 12 from Calumet, Oscar Locus.
He was the primary running back tonight for the Copper Kings.
I believe received over half of the total carries, had two touchdowns, and recovered the crucial onside kick that sealed the game up for the Calumet Copper Kings.
Copper Kings improve to 3-0.
So they head into their next week's matchup.
We take a look at our high school games of the week coming up on both MIX 93 and 1073 WMPL.
Next Friday, we're going to see a game at Houghton.
Unfortunately, I need a second here to get my notes and make sure I say the correct opponent.
I want to make sure I get this right for you all.
There we go.
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Our pre-game show will begin there at 6.30 with a 7 o'clock kickoff.
And the day after, on Saturday, September 19th, we're going to see Norway and the Knights come in to Lake Lindenhubble to take on the lakes.
As they look, I believe to improve to 4-0.
And that game will begin at 1.30, so our pre-game show will begin at 1 o'clock.
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The game on Friday the 18th, ishmaning westward at Houghton, will be right here on MIX 93.
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Here's coach Jeff Johnson.
The second quarter, we made a couple of mistakes in the first quarter.
but the way we handled the second quarter and just to complete, to dominate both sides of the ball, uh, rattle off 28 points.
That was kind of a highlight for me.
Uh, our kids, when they make mistakes, they don't get rattled.
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And, uh, what do you think the team needs to improve upon right now, Jeff?
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Uh, we, the second, third and fourth quarters have been very good for us in the last couple of games.
The first quarter, it wasn't like a bunch of mental mistakes.
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And then we're back on defense.
The good thing is a defense held.
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So you hit the road this week.
This is a pretty tough challenge, isn't it?
Yeah, River Ridge always has good culture.
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They run heavy offense with some swing pass.
built in, but we got to be on our option game this week.
I'm presuming we had a chance to see their game with Potosi Castile.
That must have been a good one
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They did give up a safety, and they did give up a defensive touchdown.
But otherwise, it was kind of a grind on both sides, I think.
Potosi is probably the better team, but you cannot count these teams out in this league.
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And yeah, hitting the road, Six Rivers Conference.
You play some of these teams that, in my mind, they're kind of throwbacks.
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Previewing this evening in
Southwest Wisconsin Conference action, Prairie Duchenne plays at Broadhead, Judah.
Platteville is at Richland Center.
Here is Hornet head coach Andy Truxell.
Prairie Duchenne, anything surprise you about them?
They're just the team to beat in the SWC.
You know, they've got a lot of veteran guys and their offensive line was physical.
They were tough.
You know, Darian Jackson in the backfield.
It's going to be a hard kid to bring
down.
You know, and we told our kids the whole week, you can't tackle that kid from the waist up.
From what, you know, how do they compare with Platteville this week's opponent?
It's, it's different.
You know, I mean, Prairie is absolutely going to run and they're going to try to own the trenches, you know, and Platteville is going to go through the air.
They're more of a spread team.
You know, the only thing that'll be a little bit different this week is I know they, they lost their all state quarterback to a broken
collarbone a couple of weeks ago.
you know, so that, that looks a little bit different.
I mean, certainly the guy that's going to step into that role this week is, is no slouch at all.
But you know, anytime you're not going against a, you know, a two or three year starter, right?
And an all state kid, I mean, that,
that absolutely helps.
But he is absolutely a run threat.
And so that's something that we've been preparing for this, this week as well.
What are some things the Hornets are doing?
Maybe changing things up a little bit here for week number four.
Yeah, I think offensively we're just on the cost.
you know, there's a lot of things that are there in the last couple of weeks that we just didn't take advantage of.
I think
our run game is strong, you know, and I think that everybody kind of knows that when they look at center, you know, and what we have to really work on is our short passing game.
You know, that timing is just not there yet.
And so we've dedicated quite a bit of time and attention to that on the short week, because we weren't
able to practice on Monday.
And then defensively, we're just young.
There's so many kids that are in new positions.
Making sure that they understand the roles and the responsibilities.
So hopefully, you know, with that, we play a little more confident and confidence comes speed.
So despite the loss last Friday, anybody stand out, you know, make improvements or anything individually you'd like to talk about.
Yeah, I was really impressed with Bronson Perkins.
You know, I think that he's come on strong as a blade.
He's got incredible field vision, you know, unable to make cuts at the line of scrimmage and just he's a kid that he'll give you on contact another two to three
yards.
you know, he'll find it somewhere, somehow, some way.
So, I mean, he had 68 yards rushing on 13 carries and a TD, you know, which was fantastic.
So on the ground game, absolutely him, uh, Isaac Gold, our left tackle had a heck of a game.
You know, that kid's really kind of coming into his own, you know, as another three year starter and just a force to be reckoned with on the left side of the offensive line.
Richland center football coach Andy Troxell, his team home against Platteville
tonight.
Perry D'Sheena brought Head Judah and Dodgeville at River Valley, the other Southwest Conference games this evening.
For River Valley, speaking on behalf of the Black Hawks, here is head coach Tyler McLean.
What went wrong in the game against Fenimore?
I think, you know, the first thing we can kind of look at right away are kind of the self-inflicted wounds.
There's a lot of penalties on our side, both offensively and
defensively, that put us in some bad spots, turnovers as well, that really hurt us.
And then probably the final spot that we really
got to keep cleaning up is just controlling that line of scrimmage on both sides of the football.
Well, you get ready for a Dodgeville game prep this week.
And this Dodgeville team is a pretty good club this year, aren't they?
Yeah, I know Coach David's in a nice job with that group over there, building their culture and developing their guys.
I mean, they're going to be a physical group.
I think it's going to be a very physical football game on Friday night.
Our job is going to have to try to match intensity with intensity.
And at the same time, we've got to try to surpass that as well.
Your team is not a real large team, especially on the line.
Do you do some things to make up for that?
We're kind of looking around to shuffle some
We do move some guys around.
We try to create a little bit more misdirection with that as well.
Again, we have kind of a little bit of an inexperienced group that's now got a couple of games underneath their belt.
I'm looking to see improvement from that and grow from there.
Yeah, that's what we forget sometimes is there's quite a bit of youth out there, isn't there?
Yeah, it's been kind of something that a lot of people talk about and mention to me.
But as a group, we've told them up front, like us, our youth doesn't matter.
These
are varsity level players.
We have varsity level expectations for them.
Again, now that we kind of got a couple of games underneath our belt now, I'm seeing the areas
that we really got to improve
and focus on our process.
It's been something that's been a big
focus for us this week.
As your idea of the top team of the conference changed anything as you watched the first three weeks so the scores come in here so far from conference teams?
Again I still think it's going to be a very competitive conference.
I think Parade of Sheen has showed a lot of stuff.
I
mean obviously kind of being the returner champion as well.
I know they got a lot of guys coming back but each and every week I truly believe it's going to be a dogfight which every match up no matter who that is and what
part of the week we're in or part of the season we're in.
So what does Dodgeville do that's going to make it tough to defend?
For them, I mean, they're a heavy run team, something that we've kind of struggled a little bit stopping so far on the defensive side of it.
They got some guys up front that were going to have to neutralize and kind of win that line of scrimmage.
Obviously kind of the
same struggles we had with Fennimore when stuff gets to the outside.
We got to be willing to tackle and be able to fit.
So again, big focus for us this week and sort of the biggest area we're trying to eliminate with Dodgeville.
It's not Richland Center, but still, I think Dodgeville presents a good rivalry when you play them.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of connections there, I still think.
There's a couple of kids that know kids pretty well from
over there.
I think last year's result, too, where they kind of came down and punched us in the mouth and got that win there, kind of leaves a bad taste in our mouth as well.
So again, I expect a very physical, intense game and probably a great game for anybody to be coming and watching.
It should be a good one in Spring
Green tonight.
River Valley hosting Dodgeville.
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Coach, looking back to New Lisbon, I guess what went right for Ithaca-Weston in that game?
Our defense played incredibly well.
Your offense must have done something right.
Yeah, they had 300 yards on the ground, so that's a good problem to have.
What were the things that led to some of the good running plays?
Were you getting some good blocking?
Yeah, I felt they were a very assignment sound up front, and then I said just good hard running.
As you get ready for this week, what's the game rep, what is Bangor feature that makes them look tough?
They run a double tight, double wing offense.
They run it very, very well, so trying to figure out how to stop that.
Is that a common thing?
Do you see that very often?
No.
What they run is pretty unique
to them, and that's a huge advantage that they have.
Do you look at this as maybe one of the contenders you're facing this year on the schedule?
Oh, yeah, Bangler's always a contender to be at the top.
And looking at your team, what do you have to do this week?
What's key for the Bulldogs?
Like I said, just kind of got to build off of the early success that we've had.
They've got a lot of youth, but they've got to kind of start taking the next steps.
Yeah, at what point do you become like a upperclassman, you know, if you're a sophomore?
I mean, you know, this is the fourth game of the season.
Do you look for, you know, growth and improvement during the season?
Now, that's why I said at this point, we can't really say that we're sophomores and young anymore.
We've been doing it long enough in their spots that they kind of got to take that next step.
This week being at home, how good is that?
It would be nice if I'd be out on the field, that we put the field all together on Labor Day.
Peyton Alliance doing a thing took about three hours, but it looks pretty nice.
Yeah, there is more work when it's a home game, but still it's, you know, game prep's a little easier, isn't it?
Much better to play at home than drive an hour in 20 minutes to Bangor, yes.
Right, that's one of the longer trips.
So the team, you feel like you're kind of like back on your feet.
This team, this would be a big one.
I mean, how important is this game at this stage of the season?
It would be huge.
You kind of set the tone for playoff to start 3-0.
I guess that would win against them, what it would be.
putting us in a driver's seat to make the postseason pretty solid.
Yeah.
Is it too early to talk playoffs?
No, because I've had the, but one thing about school football makes a lot of fun is every game kind of matters.
Bottom line, what are you going to have to do if you're going to win this one coach?
Like I said, we're going to have to get a couple of losses behind the line of scrimmage for them on defense and then run our offense and just pound the ball four yards at a time.
That is Kyle Kelly.
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From Ithaca High School, hello everyone.
Welcome to tonight's broadcast as the Ithaca Western Bulldogs taking on the Bangor Cardinals this evening in a scenic plus conference matchup.
Bangor coming in with a record of one and two while Ithaca Western stands at three and all coming in.
Some stamps on Bangor as they get ready for the battle.
And of course, we have watched Bangor and Ithaca play a lot of times over the years.
Bangor with some of the same names that we've called in the past.
Maybe younger brothers, or maybe even cousins, or maybe even sons.
Max Langer, a sophomore, their leading quarterback.
He has thrown so far for 79 yards.
Leading running back is Sawyer Jacobsen, who has three touchdowns and 206 yards during the first three games.
Weston Pollock, their leading receiver, who has picked up a total of 24 yards so far.
They don't pass the ball a lot.
Leading tackler is Will Reed with 21 tackled totals through the three weeks.
Right now our national anthem from Ithaca.
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Welcome back to Ithaca.
It's senior night.
They're doing some special introductions tonight honoring seniors Quentus Banker, Liam Rowan, Ricky Thompson, also Ben Otto and Isaiah Farjan, also Bracen Boland who is in charge of the audio visual as well during the season.
So special announcements being made by Dave Banger, top at the North End zone here at Ithaca, and we're about set for game time kickoff here tonight.
Ithaca Western led by sophomore quarterback Jacob Keller.
We saw him the first week of the season, 154 yards.
He has also thrown for a touchdown, rushed for 127.
Also Spencer Nelson a sophomore with 141 yards rushing.
Those are some of the stats for the team here tonight as Ipica Weston gets set
for the battle, lights are on here and everybody that comes in says, what a night here, my goodness, it is just incredible for the fourth week of the season.
It feels very reminiscent of the opening game when you come out, it's a little muggy and the first game on the field, but it's already the fourth and one of just two here at Ithaca this year.
The Weston game was canceled earlier this season, second of the season, and there will be a couple more at Weston late this season, including their homecoming, which I believe is coming up the last week of the regular season.
So also could have some playoff implications at that point.
Van Goren on the far side of the field, and they have been, again, a good opponent for Ithaca over the years, and now Weston.
So we look forward to the game this evening.
They come in with a one and two record and really had a tough loss.
The opening night gave up a lot of points, but they were getting some players back.
They have at least one key player out.
That's Max Langhair, the sophomore quarterback who will not play tonight.
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And now, ready to kick off here to begin the game, Bangor will be receiving to my left Ithaca Weston kicking off to my right here as they get the clock set at 12 minutes.
and ready to roll here.
The immortal Adam Hess, the Prime Uber King, will be on the PA tonight.
And other buddies up here as well, Ken Anderson and the immortal Chad Clary, next door, one of the Ithaca Western coaches, good to see him back in the business.
Here we go, approached by Ithaca Western, this one is underway, gonna be caught by Bangor here on the near side, 10, 15.
to the 20 and more 25 all the way to the 36 yard line is the return man number 22 Owen Huffman brought down by several of bulldogs including that was Hayden Burns and also Isaiah Farge and Amistad.
So defensively for Ithaca Weston Ben Otto Hayden Burns Mason Van Coulter and Reed Wapshaw along the defensive front
Isaiah Fargent and Landon Walmer are linebackers Peyton Brown, Spencer Nelson, Jacob Keller, Quintus Banker and Caden Keller in the backfield.
Both gaps for Bangor on this opening play.
There's the snap quarterback keeps it, runs right side gaping hole first down and then some up to the 49 yard line of Bangor.
So a good run and a really big gap there.
So your Jacobson gives Bangor its first
first down this evening and the chains will move.
There is no breeze here tonight as we look at the American flag on the
far side.
Nice job with a national anthem by Kennedy Chulberg who is the music teacher here at Ithaca.
First and 10 for Bangor from the 49 their own after the quarterback and off for a counter going to the left side at about 70 yards for Elijah Krop the running back.
He got to the 45
before he is brought down by several bulldogs.
Gonna bring up second down at about four yards to go.
So the bulldog team back to the 40 yard line as they huddle up defensively, Bangor at the
Ithaca Western 46 yard line.
And they're up to the football.
Long snap count there's this snap hand running play coming right side cutting around the right cutting back across the field first down down to the 36 yard line He lies a crop running again for so far Bangor looking really good in those close gaps Nothing fancy some straight ahead football here and Bangor moving the football deeper into Ithaca Western territory here opening quarter 1038 remaining in the first Bangor
Heading to the football.
Awaiting a snap from center.
There's the snap.
QB keeping it.
Going around the left hand, got a little room.
35, down to the 30.
Inside, around to the 26.
Looks like another first down.
Bangor's starting line includes number 50, Ryan Locken.
51 will read, and 52, Rudy Hansen out of the guard.
Blake Wintold and Corey Schrader are the tackles.
Waylon Richardson, one of the wide receivers along with Gunnar Eklund, Weston Pollock, Sawyer Jacobson and Holton Reitz in the backfield and the crop lining up.
There's the snap, handoff going to Jacobson and he's going to run left side.
That was the crop, I should say.
Inside the 25, another first down.
That's
all the way to the Ithaca Weston 24 yard line.
So first in 10, Ithaca Weston
Getting
pushed back and Colter on
running up the gut there turns in for about four yards Got inside down around the 21 yard line for Sawyer Jacobson
He is a junior running back for Bangor.
We'll give him a strong four on that one.
So right now, Ithaca-Weston trying to find a combination here to slow him down a little bit.
Spencer Nelson on the stop for Ithaca-Weston.
Ducking down play right around the 21-yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
Handoff running play left side, cutting back across the field first down and more for Crop.
down around the 15 and another first down for Bangor.
So the sticks are moving on.
Bangor moving and grooving on the ground.
And it's first in 10 for Bangor.
Ball marked right around the 16 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
A drive that started at their own 36 for the Cardinals.
They'll break Huddle and head to the line.
We'll read.
Up to do the work on the line to snap the ball.
There's the snap.
Quarterback hands up, running off left tackle, and gobbled up by Ithaca Weston after about a one-yard game.
Elijah Crop is going to be brought down, filling the gap there.
Spencer Nelson, it shows no game.
Second down for Bangor.
That's the best attempt to play so far for Ithaca Weston.
Good crowd on hand tonight for this one.
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As soon as it gets cold the windows are shut and I have my parka out of my gloves, but so far so good this season.
Second down and around 10 yards to go, 750 fumble on the play and getting back on it is the quarterback, Sawyer Jacobson.
That was very close to a turnover.
Hayden Burns, I mean the Gweston was right there trying to get his hands on the ball, but the quarterback grabbed it called dibs and now it's third and long for Bangor.
All marked back.
right around the 21 yard line.
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There you are, not quite yet.
Back in the red zone, the quarterback will take the snap from right around the 30, and now rolling near side, they're gonna pass for the first time, throw it on the round, caught, and over the shoulder grab there for 22, Hoplin, brought down right around the 20 yard line, hit immediately,
by Spencer Nelson.
Man, it's like Spencer's got a twin brother.
He's everywhere.
Back on this side of the field makes the tackle, but it's fourth down for Bangor ball at the 21 yard line.
So Bangor will do a little bit of searching here.
Looking to the sidelines.
Holton Reitz brings the play in from the far side.
For a first down, they must get down to around the sixth
Yard line ball is on the 21.
It looks like fourth down and 15 yards to go ball of an ear hash mark There's the snap from center quarterback straight back pretty good protection rolls now runs throws on the run and incomplete He was looking for Holt and Reese who was kind of looking the other way and Bangor will turn it over on down it ago at since defense bends, but it does not break and so after driving to
But 21 of Ithaca-Weston-Bengore will turn it back over.
Actually, it was further than that.
It was down to the 16-yard line, but then the fumble took them kind of back out of the play, and they eventually turned it over on Val.
So Ithaca-Weston has to feel like that's an early mini-victory on their own.
21, starting out offense now, all in the near-hash mark and getting set for the snap, and there's a flag right away.
I'm guessing illegal procedures, so they'll talk about that.
We set the starters, Jacob Keller, the quarterback, sophomore, or Ithaca Weston.
Aidan Keller and Quentes Banger, also wide receivers.
Spencer Nelson lines up at a tight end as does Peyton Brown and Landon Walmer are running back.
Isaiah Fargent along the line, along with Reed Wabscho, Mason Van Coulter, Aidan Burns, Ben Otto.
and Kashton Katherall, also a wide receiver.
Handoff running play, Nelson cutting to the right.
It's a few out to the 26 yard line.
So after the loss of five, Nelson gains about nine yards on the play.
It'll bring up second down and seven yards to go for Ithaca Weston.
Time of possession for Bangor.
They kept that ball about seven minutes in the first half.
So we're down to around five minutes and you think a Western with a football?
Check it down.
Six yards to go.
Here's a handoff running play in a gaping hole.
They're bounding his ways.
Nelson all for a first down.
Out to the 36 yard line.
Nelson with a nice run there and a big gaping hole.
And then Walmer helping out on the block.
And also number 70 Hayden Burns coming out.
to take care of the linebacker, and Ithaca-Weston moves the chains.
Ball right around the 36 yard line, their own 522 remaining in the opening quarter of area football.
We are scoreless here.
We'll be checking to fill the flip phone from time to time this evening.
Heller under center, long snap count, and there's a handoff running play.
Go on to Walmer on that right side, puts his shoulder down, crosses the 36-2 around the
39, maybe the 40, and he got there.
A little extra effort brought down by several Bangor players led by number six, Jacobson.
So it comes back to Ithaca Weston for the ball on the second down play about three yards ago.
So Ithaca Weston, like Bangor, having a little bit of success on the ground so far.
Second down play handoff there is Nelson dragging a couple with him gets to the first down I believe Cross the 45 to the 46 kind of depends on where his knees went down the officials Initially marked it short it looks like They will eyeball it if you go by the yard marker on the far side of the field it is a first down
And they are gonna move it up to a first down First down play for Ithaca Western 46 yard line their own four minutes five seconds remaining in the opening quarter of scoreless football Just a little bit of a breeze blowing at the back of IW right now as the line is set There's the snap from center handoff humble on the play loose on the ground and Bangor has it
Bangor picks it up.
Looks like it wasn't a real clean exchange from quarterback to running back.
And it was recovered by Elijah Crop.
So a turnover and the Bangor right back with some really good field position.
And so they'll take over first and 10 at the 44 of Ithaca-Weston for their second possession here of the night.
Stuff break for Ithaca-Weston after.
Looking pretty good, moving the ball.
Right now, Bangor lines up at the 44 yard line, getting set, awaiting a snap from center.
There it is, running play for the quarterback, trying to get around the left side.
Spins and brought down after about a yard.
Nice play, good coverage by Landon Walmer and Company.
So it'll be second at about nine yards to go for Bangor.
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on its fourth night of the regular season.
You're in front of the home fans in Ithaca for the first time tonight.
Otherwise they were on the road at Riverdale first week and the third week at New Lisbon.
Second down and there's a reverse in the backfield cutting back to the left side is Owen Huffman and he'll get to the 39 of Ithaca-Weston so gains about five yards.
Spencer Nelson brings you down.
and the clock gets down to three minutes remaining here in the first quarter of area football.
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And here is a running play for Bangor that's not going very far.
A nice play by Ithaca Weston.
Huffman is brought down by Isaiah Farjan, and that'll bring up a fourth down for Bangor.
Try to take advantage of the early going of this one here tonight.
So fourth down, they're going to market it four yards to go inside the 40 of Ithaca Weston.
Bangor going forward here on fourth down.
Block running, two minutes, five seconds remaining in the quarter.
There's the snap, handoff, running play, up the god move for a first down, still moving and gripping as Elisha Croft, first down all the way down to the 24 yard line of Ithaca Weston.
So a game of about 15 to 18 yards on that play, 24 yard line.
Brought down by Caden Keller down to two minutes remaining here in the opening quarter of area football WRCO giving you the call tonight our game of the week out of the shotgun steps Sawyer Jacobson hands off running play up the gut for crop and he bowls ahead across the 19 to around the 18 yard line Getting into the red zone again Red zone now the works plumbing and heating red zone alert because when it's crunch time
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Second down about seven yards to go for the Bangor Cardinals.
Deep in Ithaca-Weston territory again.
A minute 18 remaining in the quarter.
Ithaca-Weston trying to break into the scoring column first.
There's the snap.
There's that reverse play again.
Coming right, cutting across the field.
First down, good run by Owen Huffman.
And Bangor moves the chains again.
We're getting some good upfront blocking.
We've talked about that with some of the lead blockers Blake Wenthold Jr.
leading a block on that one and now down to a first and 10 from right around the 11 yard line is where it's marked.
Down to the final 50 seconds of the first quarter, Bangor driving toward the Shelf End Zone.
Sawyer Jacobson takes the snap and off running play crop.
Wanted to go up the middle now goes around the outside still moving.
Count around the five and he is brought down by several epic Western players led by Landon Walmers second down Gonna mark that inside the five yard line now for Bangor down to 25 seconds the remaining in the opening quarter Good action coming your way tonight.
Let's see a Bangor It's another playoff before the end of the quarter and it looks like they will not they're gonna stay
in the huddle, and they'll go to the other end of the field, try and punch one in against Ithaca-Weston.
No score after one.
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Ithaca Western in Bangor.
Nothing more than after one.
A quick moving quarter too, but that's because both teams primarily have been running the football.
Bangor on the drive, trying to take advantage of a fumble recovered, starting a drive at the 44 of IW.
Now they're trying to cap off the drive.
Ball is right around the six yard line.
They have five yards to go for a first down.
and six yards to go for a touchdown.
So the Cardinals running to the other end of the field to get set.
Weston trying to take advantage here of maybe some plays on that far side trying to clog up the middle.
Angkor has been pretty successful at the up the middle run of those close gaps.
There's the snap.
We're going to reverse it.
It's going to go back to 22 off and then he's inside the five.
Down to around the
They'll
market short of the first down, third down, and about two yards to go for the first down.
Bangor running the plays from the far sideline.
They were here early tonight.
I thought I got here early since it's my first time here this year, and they were already here.
They were hanging out.
Third and two for Bangor ball is right around the four yard line There's a snap from center running play and I'm choosing his space wisely going ahead for the touchdown is dropped Bangor gets into the
end zone on the run by Elijah drop and Bangor scores first here tonight They get advantage of a fumble and putting it in the end zone So they'll talk about the extra point Bangor taking the lead here
and in the huddle now to talk it over.
It's like a Weston kind of be fuddled a little bit by the running game of Bangor and again those inside trap plays.
We're gonna go for two will Bangor.
Looking it over is the QB so here Jacobson handoff second man through hits the first guy, bounces and then he is in for two.
Elijah Croft
Pounced off the first would-be tackler and gets in to make it 8-0.
Nice job by Bangor.
Cap it off the drive and that will do it for this drive.
Bangor back on defense.
Ithaca-Weston will be on offense when we return.
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Straighter will kick off for Bangor.
Here's the approach and the end over end will be taken by Ithaca-Weston around the 10 yard line.
Now grooving ahead a little bit to the left side of Quintus Banker, going back to the right and then gang tackled by Bangor right around the 24 yard line.
Brought down by Caden Gilbertson, so second possession of the night for IW and they'll take over at their own 21 yard line.
Bangor with a scoring drive that started at the IW 44 yard line.
So they're back in the huddle, back in committee, and we'll see if Ithaca-Weston can follow soon.
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Under center is Keller, there's the snap.
Hand off Nelson cut left big run.
He's gonna pull over a man another man and get down to the 41 yard lock.
Ah, he looks good.
Gotta head his team Spencer Nelson moves the change for Ithaca Weston and the change moving and grooving ball up to the 42 yard line of IW and Ithaca Weston missing three players on the injured list here tonight, which
Certainly doesn't help the cause either, especially we were talking about a man that we called a lot a couple of weeks ago when we were there.
Liam Rowan, who's out.
First down in 10 for Ithaca-Weston.
The line is set.
One man wide to the left, one man wide to the right.
Quarterback trying to keep it.
Running on the near side is Keller, then gang tackled by Bangor in the backfield.
He did get ahead for maybe a yard.
Tackle made by Weston Pollock and Sawyer Jacobson second down at nine to go here for Ithaca-Weston.
All easy to spot here on the near side on the hash mark closest to the Ithaca-Weston sideline.
Must be like superhero night.
They got some red, white, blue, and Americana stuff going on, of course, for 25th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.
There's the snap handoff Nelson left side.
He's going to put the shoulder down and finally bowled down around the 49 yard line.
That's where he is brought down.
Weston Pollack on the stop for Bangor and Ithaca Weston moving closer to midfield with that one.
But it is third down third down and three.
Jacob Keller coming to the near side for the play gets the play from coach Kelly and then.
Heads to the huddle, and now up to the line goes the Ithaca-Weston line.
Third down, three yards to go from the 49.
There's the snap, handoff running playing Nelson right side.
First down into Bangor territory, all the way to the 43.
Brought down by number 22, Owen Huffman.
And IW moves the change, trying to answer that
early score by Bangor.
Keller gets the play, heads to the huddle, and they are heading to the football.
Nine minutes remaining in the first half.
Ithaca Weston with the ball on the near hash mark.
Looking it over now is quarterback Jacob Keller.
He's got Nelson in the backfield along with Landon Walmer, and timeout is taken by Ithaca Weston.
847 remaining in the half, 8-0 Bangor, here
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Ball carrier for Ithaca-Weston is brought down in the backfield.
Landon-Walmer had nowhere to go and loses a few yards.
So the ball is backed around the 44 yard line of Bangor.
Ithaca-Weston's second down play coming up at about 13 yards to go.
Next week is already homecoming here at Ithaca and a lot of things going on with the Ithaca school fair.
We go away from entry day and all the stuff going on on Saturday.
Second down, there's the handoff.
Nelson, bread and butter guy cutting through a gaping hole.
Left tackle gets to the 40 down to the 39.
The 40 is brought down.
Tackled by Owen Huffman.
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I think that'll work out well Should hold the crowd pretty well So here we go ball on the far hash mark third down at about eight yards to go and
for Ithaca Weston, and here's the snap from center.
Keller gonna roll out, ball on his hip, gonna try to run, and cuts right side, and puts the shoulder down, got a little room, and may have gotten the first down.
He pulled back, I think initially he was gonna pass that ball, but then saw a little bit of running room, and Jacob Keller looking good on that one, takes it into a first down, inside the 30 yard line of Bangor.
Ithaca Weston moving the ball.
They were earlier before the fumble, so they are proving themselves that they can also move the ball on the ground.
These teams look very, very similar here tonight as we watch this.
And this is kind of what I anticipated is we scheduled this game going to be a good even matchup.
They take a Western trying to even the score on the drive.
Here's the handoff Nelson cutting left side up ended initially puts the shoulder down and then rambles across the 25.
down to around the 24.
Boy, I like the way Spencer Nelson runs.
Kind of looks like crazy legs.
Hirsch out there a couple of times when he's cut around the corner, makes a little bit of headway, second down play for Ithaca-Weston coming up.
Ball is marked just across the 25, 24 yard line of Bangor.
Ithaca-Weston heading to the football.
This drive started on their own 21 yard line.
Looking things over now is Jacob Keller.
Keller
awaiting a snap under center, second down play.
There's the pitch going to Nelson.
They're going right side this time, following some
lead blocking and then cutting to the right side and he's close to a first down.
And I believe he got it.
Yes, it's dependent on where
he went out of bounds.
It looks like they're going to mark him all the way down around the 12 yard line.
Spencer Nelson
running downhill.
And again, got some lead blocking
and making a little bit of headway there.
Aiden Byrne sealing the end at the tackle position.
And Ithaca-West had moved the chains again.
Quick move and a half.
Everybody keeping the ball on the ground for the most part.
Six minutes remaining in the first half.
Jacob Keller under center takes the snap.
Handoff, running play, not much for Nelson.
Hit and dropped, brought down right back.
Right around the 12 yard line no gain on the play So it will be Checking down coming up.
Was there a flag on the play?
We're looking down field.
I'm kind of anticipating now.
I think we've only had We've only had like one or two penalties in this game bar cry for the first couple of weeks of the season When we had a number last week we had a record number of holding penalties But tonight
Not the case second down and about 11 yards to go for Ithaca-Weston ball is going to be snapped There's a running play for the QB Keller trying to cut left side breaks a couple tackles still going Still going what a run he gets near the first down now brought down around the four yard line Oh, that was a great run by the quarterback He actually probably should have been wrapped up back around the ten yard line and now He is a little slow to get up there as he is
going to be staying down on his knees and they're going to call for the trainer so Jacob Keller now he is up and getting running back off to the far side to the near side under his own power but yeah what an effort what a run by the young sophomore to make that third and short yardage third and two ball is marked right around the
Six yard line of Bangor 453 remaining here in this first half of action from WRCO.
8-0 Bangor leading Ithaca-Weston trying to match that.
And they're looking to the sidelines.
Will they possibly use a timeout?
And they will.
Timeout taken by Ithaca-Weston.
8-0 the score here at Ithaca tonight.
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So a nice drive by Ithaca-Weston, but they haven't accomplished anything yet.
And they're trying to punch one in here.
It's going to bring up third down and two after an Ithaca timeout.
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Second quarter third down about two yards to go from the six of Bangor handoff Nelson bounces off one inside the tackle spot Getting a first down of them down around the goal line, but didn't quite get in I don't believe So a first down for Ithaca Weston Spencer Nelson has been leading the way down the field here for IW and now It is a first down so you've got four chances to make it good from the two yard line
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No, he's close, but Bangor play it.
Well come on
through the pack with number 51 will read second down and about a half yard to go for a touchdown for Ithaca Weston so they will stop and talk it over and the Keller runs back into the huddle so Ithaca Weston they moved the ball solid effort here downfield at a drive that started at their 21 yard line initially so
This play continues.
Ithaca-Weston takes the snap.
Keller quarterback keeper down around the goal line and he is in!
There's a touchdown for Ithaca-Weston.
Nice run by the QB on the keeper and the sophomore scores and Ithaca-Weston is on the board.
Nice job by IW and the line as they come back to get it done with 3-41.
That's all remaining in the second quarter.
for the quarterback on the keeper, Jacob Keller, who scores another touchdown this year.
So Ithaca-Weston will see if they go for two, which I would assume they would after Bangor was successful on their opening drive to get the two.
There's this map from center.
Keller rolling out slips and throws it in the air.
No, he went down.
He threw it to the back of the end zone, but had gone down before that.
So it is no good.
8-6.
Bangor leading 3-41 remaining in the opening half of area.
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The Weston will kick it off after the recent score.
And they're going to work to try and hold Bangor down here.
This could match up through the second quarter of action.
The Weston had the ball in the majority of minutes.
Here's the approach.
And Kaden Keller kicks it off.
It's going to be caught on the fly by Bangor at 15, 20, 25.
And then they are going to be brought out solid.
Tackled in the open field by Hayden Burns and Ithaca Westin.
So for its third possession, Bangor will take over.
Ball is going to be resting right around the 29 yard line.
They're all in.
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Vangor up to the football now, getting the ball with 335 remaining.
Here in the first half there's the Snapham Center running play and cutting to the right tackle and getting a couple of yards.
Here's the ball carrier, Elijah Croft.
Brought down at the ankles by several of the Bulldogs.
Aiden Burns.
on the top and Reed Lobchow.
Second down and about six yards to go for Bangor, 3-14 remaining in the opening frame.
These two schools have played in baseball a few times in the past as well.
Second down and six yards to go.
There's a shotgun snap.
Bumble, the ball is loose on the field and who's got it?
There's a mad scramble for it.
And I think Bangor got back on it eventually.
Oh man, right on the...
chance to get a real big break there.
Ithaca Weston unable to come up with it, and Sawyer Jacobson, he fell on it, back for a big loss for Bangor, but they don't care, the ball is in their hands again.
Ball is going to be marked at the 26th yard line of Ithaca Weston.
Third down, now make that, no, it's going to be marked right around the 29 yard line.
The third down to about 11 yards to go, 230 remaining here in the first half.
Those close gaps set up, Ithaca-Weston showing blitz and now Spencer Nelson saying that they're drawn off and the flags fly.
Ithaca-Weston was showing blitz and the Bangor players did jump as Ithaca went across the line and a five-yard penalty.
Ball start takes him back a little further.
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I've tried Third down about 15 and now Ithaca Weston may have jumped off sides The officials Looking it over there barely
Queen played first half, but now back-to-back penalties, and the five-yard penalty is pushed right back to where it was.
Like the old Maxine Nightdale disco song, right back where we started from.
Third down, 11 yards to go for Bangor, exactly two minutes remaining here in the first half.
Bangor leading it 8-6.
Bangor up to the football.
Long snap count and they're gonna pitch it out to the right side going around the right end his crop and taking a few with him He may be close to a first down shot to the 39 yard line before brought down by several including Isaiah Barton Chains will move for Bangor a minute 41 Remaining here in the first half Flatville and Richland Center tied at 14 That's in the second quarter of football action at a vitus rip field tonight
There's a good one there.
Good one here.
A minute 25 remaining in the first half.
Bangor 8th, Ithaca Western 6th, first down, and a running play.
Nowhere to go up the gut, so bouncing to the outside and not much there either.
For Elijah Crop, the running back, and Bangor will use a timeout.
113 remaining here in the first half.
Both teams.
Going for some water.
Almost need water breaks on a warm night like this as well.
They're getting a little bit extra now as they go to the sidelines.
We're back in 30 seconds.
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Second down play after the Bangor timeout.
Ball is out there 39.
Now there's a counter play running back coming to the left side.
Crashes across the 42 to the 43 yard line.
That's a game of a couple of yards.
Tackle by Quicktus.
Banker.
Sticks.
Will not move.
We're under a minute remaining here in the ball game in Ithaca, Weston.
Kind of getting the the tune now for this Bangor team and what they run being a little more successful and stopping they'll try to stop them again There's a running play by crop rolling down to around the 48 yard line got close to a first down tackle is made by Landon Walmer and Well, wait a minute the sticks already started moving, but I believe They're gonna eyeball it and Bangor uses a another
Time out.
So 37 seconds remaining in the quarter.
Both teams go to the sidelines, and we'll keep it here for this one.
Bangor leading 8-6.
They really haven't been going through the air much.
And we mentioned that their starting quarterback still not playing.
But Jacobson's done a good job, but he basically has been either running quarterback, handing it off.
He has thrown or attempted a couple of really short passes.
The only difference of a game is the two-point conversion that was missed by the Bulldogs, unable to get in the end zone on a quarterback keeper.
So that's what separates these two teams.
of the games on the schedule that you look at and you're like, you know, this, even though it's only the fourth week of season, could really decide the conference fate.
Because there are a couple of teams that are contenders and it seems like they are year after year.
First count in 10 from the 49, Bangor is own running play and the running back is straight up and brought back.
Oh, Hayden Burns, Spencer Nelson making a great play up the middle nowhere to go.
Bill Huddle for Bangor down to 24 seconds.
Second down.
Ten yards to go from the 49.
Quarterback trying to run it.
Don't let it go!
Ithaca Weston brings him down for a loss.
Behind the line is Sprimmage.
Flowing some dirt there was Hayden Burns underneath and several on top.
Ben Otto back there as well and Ithaca Weston making some plays.
Third down and short and Bangor is just gonna let it run down and it will Bangor and Ithaca Weston in an old-fashioned game here tonight first half moving quickly and Yeah, it's worked out a half hour earlier than we were the first half last week That's because both teams primarily ran the ball and really some good play here tonight So good ball game at halftime Bangor leads it by two
8.6 here at Ithaca.
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There is a big cross-country meet going on tomorrow at River Valley.
I spoke with Eric Mindum, head coach of Richland Center Ithaca's cross-country team.
We get to face a lot of the best Madison area schools.
So plenty, we get to punch up, punch above our weight a little bit.
So it's kind of fun when we get there and have a big race, a sectional like atmosphere, great teams, great individuals there.
So it's always a good challenge for us.
Yeah, I was going to say that it seems like a sectional with a number of large and small schools that are there.
This might be especially for some of your youngest runners, kind of their first chance in a real big atmosphere, isn't it?
It is.
And it's good to have that experience before we get to the large meets in October.
So, yeah, definitely a good opportunity for them to try to fuel their way through a race of that size against competition that's strong.
Still warm temperatures out there, which is not common by now, but I mean, how are you adjusting to the heat and humidity?
Yeah, it's just preaching a lot that they need to hydrate and really harp in on them to take care of themselves this time of year and in that heat.
It's a challenge for practices to be able to maybe push it as much as we would like to.
but certainly races too.
There's a balance there between pushing hard enough, but not overdoing it.
I know at Baroque last week, for example, several girl runners, some other teams have been collapsing.
So it's kind of scary.
That's Coach Eric Mittenham.
Temperatures will be around 80 tomorrow for the cross country meet at River Valley, featuring large and big schools and also middle school.
And lots of great stuff going on tomorrow at River Valley on the spring green golf course is where that meat will be held.
Coming up, we'll talk to Travis Wilson of bound, Wisconsin next on our halftime show.
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Travis Wilson from Bound Wisconsin is our guest on WRC radio.
Well Travis here it is week number four and it's still weather-wise feels like pre-season doesn't it?
Sure does.
Nice and warm.
Hopefully it'll be dry at least.
We've had a little bit of weather impacts the first couple weeks but overall you know we're sitting pretty good.
We've got some good games in our area.
Bangor at Ithaca is one of our coverages with Ithaca Weston.
Should be a good one on Friday night.
Yeah, should be a big game for both teams.
Bangor has not looked particularly good this year so far.
Certainly not up to what we have come to expect over the last 15 years or so from the Cardinals.
And an opportunity for Ithaca Weston to get a key victory in that conference.
So an important game for both teams.
Um, should be a good atmosphere.
Prairie machine got the best original center last week and, uh, they're looking pretty strong in the Southwest, aren't they?
They certainly are.
Um, they've, they've definitely looked like the best team in the Southwest conference so far.
Platteville, uh, has, uh, has a loss and, uh, I think still could be in the mix, but, uh, definitely looks like prairie machine so far through a third of the season and things can certainly change, but they look like, uh, the best team so far.
Some of your top picks on Ballon, Wisconsin, Darlington at New Glaris.
That's got the makings for a good one, doesn't it?
Yeah, of course, SWC teams and Richland Center, familiar with New Glaris being in the Southwest Conference the last couple of years.
They make the move over to the swall this year.
And this week, they're taken on Darlington.
Both teams undefeated.
Both teams ranked in our most recent coaches poll.
It'll be interesting to see if New Glaris has what it takes to hang with Darlington.
Darlington,
has played a extremely difficult schedule to this point.
They put a running clock on both St.
Mary Springs and last year's Illinois State Champion, Lena Winslow, had a little closer game with Mineral Point last week.
It was a 21 point game, but 21, excuse me, 27 to six over Mineral Point in that rivalry game.
But still, they are absolutely loaded as we've talked about a couple of times, as talented as any team in, quite honestly, D4, 5, 6, or 7.
Yeah, that game last week with mineral point, the score and halftime was very close.
It kind of surprised me.
Yeah, it was a little surprising to see it as close as it was.
Again, it ended up being a three score game.
Um, you know, it happened sometimes.
I mean, Darlington is not going to win every game by 50 or 35 points or whatever.
And, uh, you know, again, they've still got plenty of talent going for them.
So undefeated, it's Portage and Evansville.
Portage having a pretty good year, aren't they?
Yeah, they're off to a very good start three and oh I got a chance to see them against Wisconsin Dells Of course, it's a graduate Chris Rice is the head coach there He's doing a nice job running the variation of the wingtee that he ran in high school for so many years and Yeah, they're they're looking good and of course they moved to a new conference this year so they're Competing in the capital conference a little bit smaller than and where they were in the Badger Excuse me small and last year they were the last team
eliminated in division three.
They were team 33 and there's only 32 that make the playoffs.
So they are obviously really wanting to get back to the postseason.
They drop down to division four and go to a new conference.
So a lot of things set up really well for Portage.
They take on an Evansville team this week that is undefeated as well and has a really strong college prospect and Harker Larson linebacker defensive end type.
So this will be a good measuring stick for Portage.
in terms of where they're at in that league, which is still a very good conference, but they're going to have some really tough games the rest of the way.
Has anything changed as far as playoff qualifications or anything for this season?
Nope, still the same system that was introduced last year for the first time, the playoff matrix or playoff qualifying system.
All based on the wins that you get, you get more points based on the size of your opponent, what division they're in.
And you also get
What they term tier two points which are which is essentially a strength of schedule measure Where you accumulate the points of the teams that you beat so if you beat good teams you get more points you get higher in the qualification system and Also higher when it comes to seating Have you noticed anything changing with the schedule as a result of teams needing to play up a little bit sometimes in the preseason?
You know we have seen Especially in the larger divisions division one and two
where a lot of those teams are challenging themselves quite a bit.
They're going out and scheduling tough games and that's why we've seen, you know, Kimberly is off to an 0-3 start and Franklin has struggled a little bit and there's been some teams that have struggled early on and a part of that is because they're just playing really good conference, really good schedules here in the early going and
So somebody's got to lose those good games.
So there are teams that are now recognizing that it's not just enough to win.
You've got to beat good teams if you want to move up in that playoff qualification, and especially in the seeding.
If you want to get a number one seed, you've got to be a really good team, and you've got to play a good schedule.
And so we are seeing some teams really push themselves in that non-conference scheduling rather.
Anything on the eight player front, uh, any games you're looking forward to or games of note this week.
Well, uh, just going back to last week quickly, we did have number one versus number two last week with Gilman taking on Owen with the, uh, that was actually a conference game.
Gilman one, I think it was 36 to six, one pretty handily and established themselves as once again.
the favorite in eight player.
This week, not necessarily that kind of high level elite game, but there are some really good games on the eight player schedule.
Unfortunately, what we are seeing a decent amount in eight player is that there's some teams that are not able to go seven eight player games this weekend are canceled because teams are not able to field an eight player squad.
Now some of it is those teams.
A few of them haven't had teams the last few years and they wanted to try to give it a go and.
and weren't able to and end up canceling their season.
But even locally, there's been some challenges.
Wanywalk Center is canceling three or four games this year.
They're kind of doing it based on the strength of their opponent.
They're canceling against the better teams on their schedule, so they canceled this week.
I think they were supposed to play North Crawford maybe.
They already canceled the regular season finale against the Soto, but then they do plan to play
like kick a pool kick a pool of fudge for instance and and some of the games they feel they can be a little more competitive in.
I see Highland has Orangeville is that Illinois?
That is Illinois.
Yep.
I can't remember who Highland was supposed to play if they had a you know cancellation on their schedule or where that that game came from but Orangeville is down in Illinois and yeah just a
one of those games they had to pick up, try to find somebody to play, to get the kids playing time.
Well, I know you've returned from the WIA meetings that have been going on.
Anything significant from this week's meetings, Travis?
Compared to some years, not a lot of fireworks.
It was the area meetings where the, the WI goes around to seven districts around the state over the couple of weeks period and just kind of check in with ADs, let them know what's going on with the WIA, what kind of things.
happened last year.
They do a year in review.
They talk about kind of the issues at hand.
One of the things they did talk about were the constitutional amendments that are likely to be on the agenda for next year's annual meeting.
And one of those is the shot clock, which we got approved as a limited use where you can use it in non-conference games if both teams agree this year.
And then on the agenda for next year will be a full implementation of the shot clock.
that would begin in 2028 if approved by the majority of schools.
So that will be a real big topic of conversation as we move into basketball season, how that shot clock works for games that have it, and what that will look like as we move to a vote on full implementation next spring.
Well, a lot of schools probably have to start planning ahead a little bit with their score clocks to get a clock that works, and that's a little bit of an adjustment, maybe a little bit of a funding issue too, isn't it?
Yeah, that's one of the biggest challenges is the funding and the logistical aspects to it Depending on your scoreboard you have it could be a couple thousand dollars.
It could be ten to fifteen thousand dollars also depends on what kind of style or you know Form of shot clock you want to use how many gyms you got to put it in but there are schools that have it There are some small schools that have it basketball has it.
They just built a new gym and
They were proactive.
It's much easier to put it in while you're building your gym than to go back and do it later.
So they actually have it in at Bosque Bell.
They don't use it, of course, up to this point.
But there are some that have recent construction that have put it in.
Otherwise, you're looking at retrofitting your existing system.
And again, it can get pretty pricey, depending on what kind of model scoreboard you have and what you want to do with that setup.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm in favor of it.
We used to call it at the campus.
As you know, you coached there and we've seen some teams come from Minnesota.
We've gone to Minnesota and used it there as well.
So it's exciting from that standpoint.
I think some of the games where the teams are really even in a match and
skilled are going to be really good.
I still am concerned where you've got teams that are not that skilled where, you know, you get down to that last second and they're throwing up airballs and things.
I don't know what, what is your thought on that?
Yeah.
That's the challenge.
I think at some places and especially in higher divisions, it will be implemented and it will be relatively seamless and teams can execute and do things.
I think in places where teams are already struggling or where skill levels are not as high, you're going to see some
really ugly possessions at the end of a
shot clock that will not go very well in a lot of places.
So it's, it's the shot clock full timer.
Does it not be in use in the last minute or how does that work Travis?
It's, it's in use all the time.
If it's used, um, and, and the, the proposal, by the way, is varsity only.
So it's not like you'd have to implement it down at JV and freshmen levels.
So it's varsity only, um, would apply if, if fully implemented would apply and be required for all games beginning in 20, 28, and it applies in all situations.
The only time it does not apply is if the period, whether it's first half, second half, or if there's ever a return to quarters, if there's more, excuse me, less time left in the period than there is on the shot clock, then the shot clock goes dark, just like NBA and college basketball.
Wonderful.
Anything else come from the meetings of note?
No, not too much.
Again, it's just an opportunity for the WII staff to connect with ADs and
and give them updates on what's going on, also get feedback from those ADs.
But again, compared to some years, not a lot of fireworks or big ticket items necessarily on the agenda this year.
Lots of football this weekend.
How about Reedsburg?
Who do you guys have this week?
We have Onalaska coming in, a team that we've been able to take care of at least last year.
Always a solid program.
They've got some injury issues going on, but
If we take care of business like we have been, we should be fine.
Had a close one last week against La Crosse Central.
We were up a couple touchdowns early.
They ended up coming back and scoring, I think it was 26 points in the third quarter to go ahead.
And we scored with, I don't know, four or five minutes left and held on for a 36-32 win.
So we're still working through some young kids in some new places, but like where things are headed.
Sounds good Travis.
Thanks for taking the time to talk to us again and good luck this weekend.
Sounds good.
Thanks, Bill.
Go Hornets.
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And the course at the half, the score of that game is Bangor 8.
and Ithaca Western 6.
Elsewhere in the scenic bluff conference, Hillsborough leads Brookwood 21-0 in the second.
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They're going to half on that one.
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8-6 to score, Ithaca Weston trailing Bangor.
Bangor is scoring with 11-19 remaining in the first half.
Elijah Kropp on a three-yard run.
He also took him the two-point conversion.
For Ithaca Weston, they scored with 3-41 remaining in the first half.
It was Keller with the plunge, one-yard plunge for Jacob Keller, and the missed
two-point conversion throw, and that's how we are at halftime, 8-6.
Ithaca-Weston had a key turnover on a nice drive, a fumble recovered by Elijah Krop of Bangor, and that's kind of the story of the first half.
Ithaca-Weston, they will receive the ball to start here in the second half.
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Indeed, has all the scores, and a recap of this week in high school sports.
Here is the kickoff, that ball bounds around the 20, picked up now by Caden Keller, 15 to the 20, 25, and he is brought backwards after forward progress, something I guess around the 24, where they will
line up
now for Ithaca-Weston here in the second half, trying to get something done, trailing by two in a game that could have huge conference implications later on.
Big up Keller, is the quarterback.
Going to the backfield by a landed Walmer, I should say.
Gator Keller and Quintus Banker are the receivers, along with Kashton Katherall.
And let's see here, coming up to the line, ready to snap the ball.
We'll set the rest in a moment.
Angkor showing Blitz, there is the handoff, running play on the near side, and not much for Nelson.
He is going to be brought down, maybe got a yard on the forward progress, and he is brought down.
by number 57, Blake Wenthol.
Ithaca Weston's line includes Isaiah Fargent, along with Reed
Wabsho, Mason Van Coulter, Aiden Burns, and Ben Otto.
Ball on the near hash mark, second down, about nine yards to go for I-W here in this start of the third quarter.
Get a very first, very fast first half.
Last week we weren't even at halftime yet.
We're in the third quarter next and here we go second of nine for Ithaca-Weston from the 27th and often that
is going to be the second man through getting a couple of yards ahead is landed warmer.
It's to the 33 yard line so running coming kind of tough sledding right now Rudy Hanson on the tackle for Bangor.
A lot of games going on.
I think just one tomorrow.
That's over in the Six Rivers Conference.
A daytime game.
I'm probably already getting
into some homecomings.
I would not be surprised already.
Ithaca's homecoming is next week with the Ithaca Fair.
They're
down at about six yards to go for IWU Drive.
It started on their own 26 yard line.
There's the snap from center, fake handoff, and Keller's back to throw airs it out, caught by Kaden Keller.
First down, up to the 50, and spun around out about.
Kaden Keller, thanks for grab, and the Ipica Western team moves it on.
I was just talking in the booth at half-time, and I said, other than special teams, Kaden Keller had been kind of quiet.
They were unable to get in the ball.
I think
they were looking at him on the two-point conversion attempt.
But they find him here.
Nice throw by Jacob Keller to Caden Keller.
No relation, by the way.
And here goes the Interco-Western football team up to the line.
Ball is just an inch shy of the midfield stripe on the Interco-Western side.
There's the snap from center.
Fake handoff.
Quarterback keeper trying to get around the left end, hesitates a bit, then gets into Bangor territory to the 47 of them driven backwards.
Jacob Keller on the carry Start the start of the tackle was made by Bangor number 21 Elijah crop second down and Got three yards on that second down and seven yards to go ball in Bangor territory now around the 47 yard line 925 remaining of the third building with you Friday night prime time here under the lights at Ithaca High School
Second down play.
I double
you up to the line.
Keller will take the snap from under center.
Two men in the backfield.
There's the snap.
Hand off to the second man through.
Walmer trying to cut off right tackle.
Puts the shoulder down to the 45.
Gain of about four yards on the play following the blocking of Isaiah Fargent.
And it's going to be a second to make that third down play and less than five yards to go.
for Ithaca-Weston.
Now in committee, they're going to look to the sideline for the play.
Went to Spanker, runs the play in from the other side.
IW in the huddle now and ready to try and keep the drive alive.
Ball control.
Clock control.
Both teams have done it to perfection here in this game tonight.
Third down and lesson five.
There's the snap handoff Spencer Nelson left tackle gaping.
Oh, he's got a little room first down down around the 35 Nice run by Spencer Nelson as they get around the end Ceiling the deal out there was Reed Wabsall and the sticks move on for Iw 814 remaining in the third quarter run him downhill now the ball is Mark again around that 35 yard line area of Bangor
So here goes the play and I double you back in the huddle.
Have not thrown the ball a lot except that first down completion to Caden Keller.
Otherwise, they've been fairly consistent on the ground.
First in 10, awaiting a snap from center.
There it is.
Handoff Keller going to Nelson.
Nelson right tackle cuts across the field again for an extra yard or so.
Wines up down around the 31 yard line.
Spencer Nelson.
on the carry.
And so they'll mark it second down to about five yards to go for Ithaca-Weston ball inside that thirty three yard line somewhere in that area.
Seven twenty remaining in the third quarter Ithaca-Weston has had the ball the entire time.
Chewing up the clock here and again that's pretty important in this game.
Bangor did a great job of it on their
only score the game in two-point conversion.
Checking down to about five yards to go.
There's the snap.
Nelson getting the call left tackle.
Orham Shiver gets another step or two.
Lost the football.
Let's see.
Vangory celebrating like they had it.
The ball was on the ground, but it is going to be Ithaca-Weston football, I presume, as they unpile on the far sideline.
So they're going to say that he was down.
Third down play and the ball marked.
Guard markers are kind of hard to see.
They're blocked by the teams, but that one is just inside the 30 at the 29 yard line of Bangor.
Third and short, about two yards to go for a first down.
They're quickly up to the ball.
MAP IW with a running play on the nearside.
Nelson moving his way, grooves inside the 25 down around the 21.
Good run by Spencer Nelson.
First in 10, Jack Olmay by number 27.
We'll read on the stop.
First in 10 for Ithaca Weston, running downhill.
615 remaining, trying to take the lead here in the third quarter.
8-6, Bangor, in the advantage.
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First in 10 from the 21, awaiting a snap, Keller, and he fakes the handoff, rolling, now looking, now throwing, down around
Aten Brown was the closest to tight end, incomplete nonetheless, and it is second down in 10 yards to go.
That does finally stop the clock with 549.
It's almost like a running clock here tonight as fast as it's going.
Half time, Flatbill leading Ritzelfinner 21-13, Brewer's up 9-0 on the reds, bottom of the fifth inning.
How about that?
Second down play for Ithaca-Weston.
Ball in the near hash mark.
Here's the second attempt.
Ball lost.
Now picked up by the quarterback, Jacob Keller, trying to make something of it.
Got a couple of yards ahead and then bowled back by a whole bunch of Bangor Cardinals.
That could have been again another disaster for Ithaca Weston.
They'll give him a yard, maybe third and nine for Ithaca Weston.
Ball is right around the 20 yard line, the red zone here.
So they're going to try to make a while the sun shines and they need to convert on this
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There's a throw left side.
Caught by Ithaca Western and they're going to be brought down.
Really no game.
Caden Keller caught it and may have been out of bounds for a yard or so.
It's going to bring up a fourth down.
That play was just not going to work as it was really good coverage.
I think you had to go west and was hoping to get it out on the end and then have Cayden do the rest but Bangor did so well of sealing the end and now IW with a fourth and about 11 yards to go.
All marked to the 22 and a timeout has been taken.
436 remaining in the third, 8-6.
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Welcome back to Ithaca.
Ithaca Weston trying to keep the drive alive here after a timeout.
They're going to head back to the football and again, Bangor staying on the far side of the field here for the entire duration of the timeout.
Lots of hard hitting going on out there.
Also,
The
trainers are being asked to go to the other side, so they're going over the other side of the field.
They'll look at a Bangor player, so they'll be given time to get over there.
The officials stopping play.
In fact, there's a young man seated on the bench over there for Bangor.
Check on him, and we are ready to go.
Fourth, I mean, 11 from the 22 of Bangor.
There's the snap.
Throw, Keller catches it up in here, so I'm now gonna try to run.
Cut around the right side, hip arms wide, he's down the sideline.
Caden, Keller!
Inside the five, I believe, is out of bounds.
Keller!
Keller!
With a catch and run.
They're gonna call that down around
to the...
Five yard line again.
I'm kind of blocked out of where he went out of bounds, but it'll go now what what a nice play Jacob Keller rolling out I said at halftime trying to get the ball to Caden get that passing game going and that some of the wide receivers and that's the second really big conversion tonight on fourth down that the ethical lessons been able to do So here we go, it's going to be down around the
three yard line it looks like first and goal there's the handoff Spencer Nelson trying to get around the left side put the shoulder down down around the goal line he's got a touchdown and Ithaca Weston takes the lead first lead of the night here for Ithaca Weston as they go up on top here to the tune of 12 to 8
423 remaining here in the third quarter, big touchdown and a great drive that started at their own 26 yard line.
So Ithaca Weston now will talk about a possible conversion as they get back to talk about it.
Well, that was just a very impressive run by Spencer Nelson for the score.
Two point conversion try coming up.
Shotgun snap.
Jacob Keller is going to pitch out to Keller.
He's going to throw it.
It's low and incomplete.
And the score will stay 12-8.
Ithaca Weston leading Bangor 4-23 remaining in the third.
What a ball game here at Ithaca.
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Welcome back to Ithaca, 12-8.
Ithaca-Weston has taken its first lead of the ballgame.
Bangor is scoring.
At the start of the second quarter, they've not scored since.
And here's Caden Keller with the approach.
Ticks it in over in, left side taken around the five-yard line by Bangor up to the 15 and the 20.
Over the pile, still going.
Look out, he's down to the 45-yard line.
Rocked down finally by Ithaca-Weston, number 14, Carter Pleamer, who might have seen the...
Touchdown on the run back by Jacobson.
It's a great field position for Bangor as they start out.
Hey, Mark, knocking back a little bit further back than what I saw initially.
Maybe as he went down, they're going to market at the 41 of Bangor, but he almost broke that by the time he got to around midfield.
But they marketed the 41, and that's where Bangor will take over first and 10 trailing for the first time in the game.
They
are set.
Quarterback takes it out of the shotgun.
Running play.
Ithaca-Weston catches him from behind, and the play is made.
On the far side, nice delivery there on the tackle by Ithaca-Weston, tackled by Isaiah Fargent and company.
So it'll bring up a second down play and just less than 10 yards for Bangor.
Clock running, 350 remaining here in the third quarter.
That is a high school tonight.
Bangor to the football.
Wendell Hansen, Reed, Wacken and Schroeder along the line.
There's a counter run.
It's going to be across the 45 to the 46 yard line.
A slight gain for Bangor.
Going to take him up for a third down play and let her on five yards to go for a first down.
tackle made by Reed Wapshall.
So third and five for the Cardinals.
You have to go west and looking for a defensive stop in this one.
Bangor heading to the football.
Third down five yards to go.
Three-minute mark of the third quarter.
Jacobson takes the snap, the quarterback gonna run it himself coming near side, stripped initially
the ball and holds on and then gets another couple of yards
50
line.
be short of the first down by just a little bit.
The quarterback keeper.
Nice tackle.
Keller helping out on the stop.
Fourth down
They're gonna
Of course, go for it in a situation.
Gonna try
to get the job done.
Don't have a lot of real estate to go for the first down.
Ithaca-Weston, boy, this would be a huge play if they could shut him down.
Fourth down in short yardage.
Pipe gaps.
There's this snap from center.
Handoff, running play, first down.
45 of Ithaca-Weston with a forward progress.
Finally driven down and there is an injured player getting up slowly.
He does get up.
It's number 34, Landon Walmer.
gets back to the pile, walking a little bit gingerly now as he heads back to the defensive huddle.
Dick's move.
Ball is in Ithaca-Weston territory at the 45.
2-10 remaining in the third quarter.
Leading here tonight, Ithaca-Weston 12-8.
Bangor up to the football.
First and 10 for the Cardinals.
There's the snap from center.
And off, with China choosing his way as Huffman, and he is stacked up right around the line of scrimmage.
Well played by Ithaca Weston.
Big Aiden Burns coming up to make this stop.
Aiden just a sophomore for Ithaca Weston following his brother who played graduated in the spring actually and lots of brotherly love on this team some other siblings that have played football either at Ithaca or Weston.
A minute, 25 remaining in a quick moving third quarter.
Second down about nine yards to go.
Ball just inside the Ithaca-Weston 45.
There's the snap.
Shotgun to the quarterback.
He is hit and dropped by Ithaca-Weston.
They just pushed that offensive line backwards.
Nice play.
Boy, he could barely walk earlier.
Landon Walmer comes up and makes a tremendous play and then Reed Wabschil is there as well.
Third down about 11 yards to go for Bangor.
loss of a yard or two.
Ball is back at the 46 yard line.
Awesome defensive effort here for Ithaca-Weston.
49 seconds remaining in the third quarter.
12-8, the ball game score.
Ithaca-Weston has come back to take the lead if you're just joining us.
Third and about 11 for Bangor from the 46th of Ithaca-Weston.
There's the snap back to throw the quarterback.
This is a rarity.
He's back.
He's going to air one.
over the middle of hanging up there, picked off by Caden Keller.
Intercepted, coming back the other way to the 30 yard line.
What a play!
Caden Keller now gets up a little bit late, maybe with a cramp.
He is back down on the ground, nice IMT.
First turnover for Bangor.
Ooh, there is a flag on the play.
Let's see what that call is.
It's back in the Bangor territory.
Personal foul.
Ooh, again, Kithika Weston.
Personal foul is the call as the official makes the call and so That'll probably melify the interception man.
That was an exciting play So 15 yard penalty and I'm not sure so the interception will not stand and Bangor
We'll have the football it looks like for a first down there is a hit the go Western player down Via injury that's Caden Keller who again trying to Stretch out the leg looks like a cramp So as they check on him boy, that's a big big play at the go Western was gonna have the football back with 23 seconds in the third quarter Interception waved off on a penalty and again it was a
15 yarder, a personal foul in it to go west and it was clear on the other side of the field.
Let's check the scoreboard.
Halftime River Ridge, Leading Riverdale, 28
6.
It is GET Leading Fenimore, 28 to 7 third quarter.
Also Orangeville Leading Highland, 22-8.
Mineral point, 12-0 over Landgaster, that's in the third quarter.
At last word Platteville was up on Richland Center 21 to 13 and that was at halftime So they're gonna sort it out here I Was just ready to put down the INP in the book and it looks like it's not gonna stand Kate and Keller comes over to the sidelines to get a little work done and I think a Western on the defense both teams
Huddling it up, getting a little bit of water time as well.
No timeout was called.
Bangor, I think, is just going to stay and be content to run this one down and get
to the fourth quarter.
And they will.
They're going to stay
in the huddle.
That'll do it.
Final quarter coming up.
It's a good one here at Ithaca.
12-8.
Ithaca-Weston hit the lead over Bangor.
Bangor will have the football in pretty good field shape.
after the penalty when we return with a fourth quarter next to WRCO and WRCO.com.
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Welcome back, fourth quarter.
We're just looking at the Brewer's score.
17-0 up on the Reds.
Are you kidding me?
Wow.
Vangor gets the football back, started the fourth quarter.
Quarterback keeper, and he's brought down behind the line of scrimmage.
Nice tackle by several of the Ithico Western players.
Aiden Burns having a great game, brings down the quarterback along with a little help from
yards ago now looks like a loss of a bit for Bangor.
I think a Western leading it 12-8 trying to overcome a big penalty and a transition of the ball back to Bangor.
So the Cardinals trying to take advantage.
There's the quarterback under center.
There's the snap and the ball is loose again and Bangor falls on it.
Burns was there trying to scoop that one up and so was
paiton brown but the quarterback tolayer jackson gets right back on it lost of a pair of yards third down in twelve that ball is marked at the thirty-three yard line of it the co-western early
a minute into the fourth
quarter quick ball game an hour and a half into it and we're in the fourth quarter here and we had an extended halftime as well here tonight that goes to show you the couple of running teams uh... at the clock has been a running clock tonight because
of the ball staying on the ground.
Very little stoppage of play as there haven't been a lot of passes.
Third down, big play for Bangor on offense, third down at about 12.
There's the snap, quarterback is back being rushed.
Rose, it's going to be caught and knocked away at the last moment.
Loose on the field, they're going to say it was incomplete pass.
Holton reach, and it was played really well by Ithaca Weston, coming up from behind to make the play.
It was Peyton Brown, nice play.
Several of the Bulldogs got pressure on the quarterback and it's fourth down and 12 yards to go.
So another big defensive play is coming up for Ithaca-Weston, Bangor hustling
play in from the sideline with Gunnar Eklund.
He's in the huddle.
12-8 Ithaca-Weston leading by four in this scenic bluffs conference showdown.
Looking things over is Sawyer Jacobson.
running out of the shotgun.
Fourth and 12 back to throw.
They pressure him.
They hit him.
They bring him down.
Nice play by Ithaca Weston.
And they make the play of a quarterback sack.
Nicely done.
Spencer Nelson and company back to make the play.
Very emotional game.
Nice play on the QB sack.
And now Ithaca Weston will take over on downs from Bangor.
They drove.
Got with the penalty to the Ithaca Western 32 yard line Second possession of the half and IW gets it back.
That's right.
Just the second possession Spencer Nelson leading the defense and IW with a football to the 41 yard line There's a handoff
Spencer gets the
call runs right tackle got to around the 43 and brought backwards toward progress will give him potentially a yard
If we had to go west and right now, again, get into some of that clock control, ball control, just turn the ball over, try to keep turning away here.
And that strategy has worked out pretty well for IW.
Second down, seven yards to go after a three-yard game by Spencer.
Shotgun snap.
There it is.
And now the quarterback, Jacob Keller, trying to get around the right hand.
He's caught from behind and maybe a head for a yard to the 46 yard line.
Bangor makes
play coming up from underneath.
Justin Langer
play.
That'll bring
a first down.
Third down and five yards to go for a first down.
930 remaining in the game.
12-8.
Ithaca-Weston in the lead.
They head to the football.
Trying to convert here, they need to get just past the 50 for a first down.
There's the snap.
Handoff, running play, coming near side, bowling, a pile, a couple of yards, that's all for Spencer Nelson.
Shy of the 50, the ball is marked at the 49 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
That'll bring up a fourth down.
So what do you do here?
Ithaca-Weston
They've been pretty confident with the ground game and the running plays, but the puntet and try to push Bangor back a little bit, and that's what the decisions will be made here.
I think they're going to bring in the play from the near sign.
I believe they're going to go for it fourth down.
Boy, if they could keep it here, that would be huge as much time has been running off the clock here with these two teams playing the ball game here tonight that they like to play.
A running game has been dominant.
Ithaca-Weston lining up like they're going
for it here,
fourth down and short yard.
There's the snap, but that keeps it near side.
Jacob Keller spun around.
He's not going to get it.
He won't get it brought down by number 68, Corey Schrader.
And Ithaca-Weston stopped
up down.
That puts it back to Bangor.
And this old fashioned slugfest Bangor takes over at the IW 49 yard line.
They take over with 8-16 to go.
First in 10 for the Bangor Cardinals.
Defense has been the rule here tonight.
12-8, Ithaca-Weston in the lead.
We'll check the filmy flip phone again in just a little bit.
So both teams turn it over on downs and we are set
to go here again.
There's the snap to Bangor.
Hi!
Goes over the quarterback's head.
He can't get it.
It's loose.
Ithaca-Weston piling on it.
They may have gotten it.
Inigo Weston gets it back on a fumble recovery.
Taken there by number 34, Landon Walmer and his closest friends at Inigo Weston.
Getting on the football and that is a big point.
Could be a turning point in the game if Inigo Weston can do something with it from here on out.
Fumble recovered and now back in the hands of IW.
They'll take over at the 35 of Bangor.
12-8, Ithago Weston in the lead.
They head to the football, ready to snap the ball.
35-yard line of Bangor.
There's the snap.
Hand off Spencer Nelson, runs up the gut.
Inside the 35, down to a round.
That's a 32-yard line, it looks like.
Tackle made by Wil Reed, number 51.
Boy, there's
some fellas
that are black and blue tomorrow.
It's been a hard-hitting game.
Second
down at about seven yards to go for Ithaca West.
And again, they've not been in a real hurry tonight, keeping that clock running.
And they've been playing into perfection.
Four points, slim lead in this one.
Second down play, and Aiden Keller from the far side line is going to be back in the fold.
He's going to go to the right
as
to the football.
Second
Keller and company goes.
Now it's going to take a timeout.
Weren't sure of the play, and so they'll take timeout and head back to the line here on the nearside.
7-21 remaining in the football game.
Ithaca-Weston leading, 12-8, over visiting Bangor on WRCO Radio Sports.
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We're back to action here with Ithaca Weston leading
12-8, 7-21 to go, third, a second down, that is, in seven yards to go, and cutting back across the field with a good run is number 34, Landon Waller, and I believe he got a first down.
Landon Waller moves the chains with some good blocking up front.
Get to go west and fire up there, leading the way and blocking.
That line has done a good job here.
Tonight, kind of recovering a little bit, maybe struggled early on, Mason Van Coulter.
Hayden Burns on the upfront blocking and right now under seven minutes ago, Ithaca Weston, driving with a football just outside the 25 yard line of Bangor.
Jacob Keller takes the snap, handoff, Spencer Nelson trying to get around the left side.
He's got a little roll across the 20, down to around the 18 yard line.
Bulldogs continue the run, staying in bounds, clock running, 6.35 to go, second down.
And
about
five yards to go from the 19 yard line of Vangor.
You have to go west and getting the ball back on the fumble recovery.
And after some well-played defense, a quarterback sack by Spencer Nelson.
The defense has just really led the way.
I think a Western needs some time here in this game to maybe give the defense a rest, although some of the players, same players, play on both sides of the ball.
Certainly good to have the offense on the field.
Bring a new football.
I think it's getting a little bit maybe do covered out there.
So here we go.
Second now play and is fumbled and then falling on it is the quarterback Jacob
Keller.
So that
one could have been a catastrophe as well.
But if it go Weston keeps it clock continues to run 547 to go.
You have to go Weston now with a third down ball landed right on the.
The line of scrimmage and that's where it is though so they'll gain no loss and now Here comes the play from the sideline if you go west and trying to keep the ball in their possession and Just calmly close this one out four point lead They could add to it that might feel the deal 520 to play third down about five
yards to go There's this nap from center going back as the quarterback.
He's
being chased and then brought down I really know where to go for Jacob Keller
And well played by the defense of Bangor.
Number 52, Rudy Hanson coming back to make the play show at this point.
It's like a Western with the ball right around the 31 yard line, fourth down on a huge loss.
So for a first down, they must get inside the 15 to around the 14 yard line for 45 to go.
Ball is marked on the 31-yard line
right around 17 yards to go for
a first down.
Ithaca Weston lining up on the shotgun.
Keller back to throw.
They're coming after him.
Pocket breaks down.
He's going to whip one near side.
Caden Keller going down the line.
No, can't get it.
Incomplete.
And Ithaca Weston was looking back.
I think the quarterback got a pretty good shot there.
No penalties
that'll turn it back over to Bangor with 426 to go.
Oh my goodness.
Hold on to the radio here tonight.
Ithaca-Weston turns it over on downs with 426 to go.
Bangor takes over on the 31 yard line.
Oh my goodness.
Cardinals with the football.
Ithaca-Weston defense has got to dig deep here.
12-8 lead by four, running play, not much for number 11, Weston Pollock.
Oh, loose again!
Bulldogs say they have it, celebrating a fact and the officials are gonna say that it's down.
Pollock got back on it, it appears, but then Weston thought they had it.
Play was blown dead, so that'll be the call.
It brings up with four minutes exactly to go, second down to about eight yards to go.
from the 33 yard line.
12-8 Ithaca-Weston.
Down to the wire in this one tonight.
We thought it'd be a good game and it certainly is turning out to be that way.
An instant classic here tonight at Ithaca.
12-8 score.
They lead by four.
Bangor trying to get a last.
Dicks drive together.
Checking
Jacobson under center.
There's the snap.
Back to throw, stands up, throws it and he's gonna be getting dropped right away after a catch game of about two yards.
Well played on the
by Quintus Baker.
That was completed for a small game and that'll bring up a third down play, third in about
six.
Ithaca-Weston's defense has just really had a shot of adrenaline here tonight, making some tremendous plays.
And they're going to have to be called upon for a few more here tonight, I would say.
Three minutes remaining, Bangor third down and seven yards to go.
There's the snap.
Oh, it's going to roll, it's going to roll.
The quarterback gets up.
Oh, the 19 yard line on a low snap.
Sawyer Jacobson back to get
on
that ball.
Spencer Nelson was back there to make sure that he stayed down and
some of his friends as well.
So timeout by Bangor.
237 remaining.
It'll bring up a fourth down play and a long way to go for Bangor.
Timeout in the field.
You have to go west in celebrating, but this was not done yet.
12-8 they lead 237 to go.
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237 to go in the ball game here tonight at Ithaca.
Ithaca Weston on the verge if Bangor gives up the ball here.
Ithaca Weston gets it back and have a good chance of holding on to get it done here tonight.
If you're Bangor, you're going to have to try to go for it fourth down and long fourth at about 21 yards to go for a first down.
Jacobson will take the snap out of the shotgun awaiting the snap.
and there it is he's back to throw being flush from the pocket coming near side floats it over he's got a man it is caught and he is brought down right around the 36 yard line but short of the first down by about six yards Tayden Geller makes the stop after the grab by Huffman and Ithaca Western forces Bangor over on downs with a tremendous defensive play again there
the
They
gave up a little ground, but they had some guys in back of the throw and the play was stopped.
So Ithago Weston takes over 231 to go.
Paul is on the 35 of Bangor.
And here we go.
Under center is Keller.
Hands off.
Near side and trying to bake the corner is Nelson.
Bounces off one tackle.
Sports ahead to around the 31.
Boy, he just willed himself for a few extra yards.
You have to go Weston with a ball and 220 to play in a four point lead.
215 to go.
Belmont leading Wisconsin High State
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That one's also going quickly tonight in area high school football.
Complete look of scores coming up a little bit later on tonight.
We're at the scoreboard here tonight with Mr. Fabulous and on the score desk here from Rockwell.
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147 to play.
Ithaca-Weston taking some time.
Backline judge has his hand up and now Keller is under center.
There's the snap.
Jacob hands off big hole for Nelson
initially.
Get through for a first down.
Down
to around the 24 and Ithaca-Weston keeps the clock going.
Bangor is going to use a timeout 134 to go.
Indigo Western with ball in hand at the 26-yard line of banger when we return.
12-8, Indigo Western on WRCO at WRCO.com.
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Platteville Leading Richland Center, 27-19.
That's in the third quarter of that one.
Here at Ithaca, it is Ithaca Weston leading 12-8.
Ball in hand, first down and 10.
from the 25 yard line for Ithaca-Weston.
Game has gone by very quickly here tonight awaiting a snap from center.
There is the handoff to Spencer Nelson.
Off the right tackle gains a little bit again inside the 20 to around the 16 yard line.
Bangor I believe will use its final timeout and we will keep it here for this one.
Ithaca-Weston, deep in Bangor territory they're taking a timeout.
So the ball is marked inside the 20 and around the 16 yard line.
We'll be on
the air next week from Lancaster which will center in Lancaster High School football and then on Saturday we'll be here for the Ithaca-Weston game, a homecoming game for Ithaca and that will be against Brookwood.
That has a one o'clock kickoff time next week so we'll have that for you on WRCO as well for a Saturday game.
Big day for
All of the exhibits, all of the meat animal sale that goes on, the music boosters, putting on great food as always, the parade at 10.30, and bounce houses, mascot races, kimchi petal pool, all the part of the homecoming fair next week at Ithaca.
Checking down about four yards to go, a minute 28 remaining in the
shoulder down, gains a couple, short of the first down, brings up a third down.
Here for Ithaca Weston keeping the
a minute 15 to go in the
football game.
Ithaca Weston trying to put the salt on this one here tonight.
Old in the ball leading by Ford barring a turnover at this point going to take that clock down.
Ithaca Weston can use a timeout and I believe they're going to wait in the huddle until the appropriate time.
The clock is down to 53 seconds.
and coach Kelly patrolling the sidelines here.
Letting that clock run down to 43.
Down
to 40 seconds and I think a Western takes a timeout.
39.9 seconds remaining in the ball game.
Boy, you know, if you wanted to show a defensive battle to your team, how defense
can be fun and exciting.
This would be the one to show.
I mean, there have been some offensive highlights, but both teams have had their share of defensive prowess here tonight.
And with 39.9
seconds, I believe I think the Weston may have to snap the ball just one more time.
We'll see.
In fact, that's what assistant coach Brett Maxwell is asking as he is out talking to the official right now.
So Ithaca Weston with the football, third down.
About three yards to go for a first down.
The ball is on the 17 officially of Bangor.
Ithaca Weston running the play in from the near side, shuttling it in.
They'll go back to the huddle for a play here on third down.
And Ithaca Weston, I'm guessing you're going to play it pretty close to the vest.
You don't want a little razzle-dazzle and turn the ball over here.
That would be Bangor's only hope.
They're
Keller.
awaiting the snap under center.
The line is set.
There's the snap and off running play.
Nelson cuts through and he is going to be close to a first down.
Spencer with a good run up the middle.
Rudy Hanson with a tackle.
That may be the game's final play.
The fans celebrating here.
First down is the change.
Move on with 34 seconds.
Kipika Weston will head to the football.
possibly for a victory snap right at the end of the football game.
Down to 25 seconds.
Spencer Nelson and company in the huddle and they
at the clock and fur with the official.
I don't think you're going to have to snap it again.
Down to the final 12 seconds here.
The clock rolls down and Ithaca Weston is going to celebrate one here tonight.
Oh, it's an instant classic.
Ithaca Weston gets a big win tonight at home over Bangor.
With the picture of Briggs Maxwell in the middle, they head out to the middle of the field and celebrate this one here tonight.
12-8.
What a ball game.
Hats off to both teams.
This was an enjoyable game to call.
12-8 the final.
Ithaca Weston with the win over Bangor.
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What a really good game to recap here tonight.
Not a lot of scoring.
And the Duncan Awards turning point of the game.
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Well, possibly the last score of the game.
That goes back to 423 remaining in the third.
And that was a touchdown run by Spencer Nelson, a three-yard run, which gave Ithaca Weston the lead at that point.
And that was the score at the end of the third quarter.
Of course, there were some phenomenal plays called along the way on defense.
Ithaca Weston makes a couple of phenomenal plays.
Spencer Nelson had a quarterback shack in there.
Landon Walmer had a fumble recovery.
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Welcome back to Ithaca, a 12-8 victory for Ithaca Weston here tonight.
Great ball game as we put the wraps on it here this evening with a delinquent plumbing and heating post-game show.
Getting the job done here on defense.
The team played exceptional
just it couldn't be a better ball game.
Bangor took the early lead with the score by Elijah Krop on a three-yard run.
His two-point run put the visitors up by a score of 8-0.
In that first quarter as well, Elijah Kropp recovered a bulldog fumble, which in this game could have proven costly.
But at that point, Ithaca-Weston able to recover, and they would score their first touchdown on a one-yard plunge by quarterback Jacob Keller.
Nice touchdown.
They missed the two-point conversion, kept these teams separate at halftime.
The score was 8-0.
the sixth in favor of Bangor at the break.
Ithaca-Weston would take the lead.
They would control the clock most of the game.
And their first possession, they took the clock all the way down to 4-23 remaining in the
third.
When Spencer Nelson gapped off the drive with a three-yard run, the two-point throw is missed.
And it was a 12-8 ballgame at the end of the third.
Great defense.
Bangor was driving, getting into the fourth quarter, turned it over on down, throw all the way to the 32.
Spencer Nelson with a big quarterback stack there.
Also, Ithaca Weston's Caden Keller had an interception, but it was waved off because of a penalty against Ithaca Weston.
So that didn't go, and you thought
at that point, man, that might prove costly as well.
But it wasn't to be, and eventually,
landed Walmer with a fumble recovery for Ithaca-Weston.
Bangor turned it back.
The Bangor would get the ball one more time.
They had it at their 31 yard line and would give it back to Ithaca-Weston, turning it over on downs.
After a long pass, it was fourth down and long and they got about 12 of those yards back but stopped short by the Ithaca-Weston defense.
Ithaca-Weston took over at the 35 of Bangor and they were able to salt this one away here.
and wind it down for a 12-8 victory.
Joe, with the win, Ithaca Western with its third victory of the season, now looking at homecoming game next week with Brookwood getting the job done, and we'll see how the other scores go tonight, but Ithaca Western looking to keep the advantage going in the conference, seeing plus conference, and look ahead to some other big games coming up.
They're still going to win some games and I would say they're going to have to get going, but they still could be a playoff team from what we saw here this evening.
So moving on, again, Brookwood next week for Ithaca-Weston and that will start at 1 o'clock.
1 o'clock kickoff time for the game and we'll have it for you.
Three game time around at 12.45 on WRCO.
After the Brookwood game,
a tough one at Kashton the following week and then at Hillsborough Royal High School and then Weston High School.
That's a tough schedule for Ithaca-Weston to close out the regular season.
Just one more game at Ithaca, just one game at Weston.
That's Weston's homecoming game against Nassida final week of the regular season on the 16th of October.
For Bangor, after tonight, they will play host to Nassida next week and then
at New Lisbon.
They'll host Royal and Brookwood and close out against Cashton at Cashton on the final week of the regular season.
What a ball game tonight.
What a lot of defense that we saw here this evening.
Worked out really well for Ithaca Weston and hats off to their
coaching staff as they got the job done.
Marcus McCauley and Coach Kelly and Coach Maxwell and just a really good team effort.
for this Ithaca Westlaw.
The game has been engineered by our old buddy, Mr. Fabulous, Tim Thede.
He's got a fabulous post-game show coming up here in just a little bit.
Let's share with you some scores.
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That's a wild one and maybe a higher scoring game than we anticipated.
River Ridge, 49 to 6 over Riverdale, that's in the third quarter.
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Week number four of the high school football season, one of the hottest teams in our immediate area, the Riverdale Chieftains.
They've played extremely well, getting a couple of wins, including a victory last week over Wasika Steuben Seneca.
Here's coach Jeff Johnson.
The second quarter, we made a couple of mistakes in the first quarter.
but the way we handled the second quarter and just to complete, to dominate both sides of the ball, uh, rattle off 28 points.
That was kind of a highlight for me.
Uh, our kids, when they make mistakes, they don't get rattled.
You know, they don't fault, they don't hang their head.
They just keep moving
Uh, just consistency.
Uh, we, the second, third and fourth quarters have been very good for us in the last couple of games.
The first quarter, it wasn't like a bunch of mental mistakes.
It was just a miscue here and a miscue there.
And then we're back on defense.
The good thing is a defense held.
Wadzika did not move the ball well.
Their young team, we just kept moving forward.
it?
Yeah, River Ridge always has good culture.
Colts Winkers runs a good program down there.
They run heavy offense with some swing pass.
built in, but we got to be on our option game this
It was.
They did give up a safety, and they did give up a defensive touchdown.
But otherwise, it was kind of a grind on both sides, I think.
Potosi is probably the better team, but you cannot count these teams out in this league.
It's a really strong league.
And
Yeah, that's Southwestern Wisconsin for you, from the Six to the Swal to the SWC to the Ridge to the scenic.
Riverdale is at River Ridge this evening.
Boscobella Potosi-Cassville, Iowa.
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Cuba City at Southwestern East Dubuque.
Benton Scales Mount Sholesburg at Finnemore.
Darlington at New Glaris.
In the Cooley, Varroquod, Luther, G-E-T at Westby.
West Salem at Arcadia.
Black River Falls at Aquinas.
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Tomorrow was Zika Steuben Seneca at Pecatonica Argyle.
Key eight-player games tonight include Belmont versus Kick-A-Boo LeFarge and Ducoto versus North Crawford.
We'll come back and take a look at Southwest Wisconsin Conference action as we lead toward game time tonight between Bangor and Ithaca Western.
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Previewing this evening in Southwest Wisconsin Conference action, Prairie Duchenne plays at Broadhead, Judah.
Platteville is at Richland Center.
Here is Hornet head coach Andy Truxell.
Prairie Duchenne, anything surprise you about them?
They're just the team to beat in the SWC.
You know, they've got a lot of veteran guys and their offensive line was physical.
They were tough.
You know, Darian Jackson in the backfield.
It's going to be a hard kid to bring down.
You know, and we told our kids the whole week, you can't tackle that kid from the waist up.
It's, it's different.
You know, I mean, Prairie is absolutely going to run and they're going to try to own the trenches, you know, and Platteville is going to go through the air.
They're more of a spread team.
You know, the only thing that'll be a little bit different this week is I know they, they lost their all state quarterback to a broken collarbone a couple of weeks ago.
you know, so that, that looks a little bit different.
I mean, certainly the guy that's going to step into that role this week is, is no slouch at all.
But you know, anytime you're not going against a, you know, a two or three year starter, right?
And an all state kid, I mean, that, that absolutely helps.
But he is absolutely a run threat.
And so that's something that we've been preparing for this, this week as well.
Yeah, I think offensively we're just on the cost.
you know, there's a lot of things that are there in the last couple of weeks that we just didn't take advantage of.
I think our run game is strong, you know, and I think that everybody kind of knows that when they look at center, you know, and what we have to really work on is our short passing game.
You know, that timing is just not there yet.
And so we've dedicated quite a bit of time and attention to that on the short week, because we weren't able to practice on Monday.
And then defensively, we're just young.
There's so many kids that are in new positions.
Making sure that they understand the roles and the responsibilities.
So hopefully, you know, with that, we play a little more confident and confidence comes speed.
Yeah, I was really impressed with Bronson Perkins.
You know, I think that he's come on strong as a blade.
He's got incredible field vision, you know, unable to make cuts at the line of scrimmage and just he's a kid that he'll give you on contact another two to three yards.
you know, he'll find it somewhere, somehow, some way.
So, I mean, he had 68 yards rushing on 13 carries and a TD, you know, which was fantastic.
So on the ground game, absolutely him, uh, Isaac Gold, our left tackle had a heck of a game.
You know, that kid's really kind of coming into his own, you know, as another three year starter and just a force to be reckoned with on the left side of the offensive line.
Perry D'Sheena brought Head Judah and Dodgeville at River Valley, the other Southwest Conference games this evening.
For River Valley, speaking on behalf of the Black Hawks, here is head coach Tyler McLean.
What went wrong in the game against Fenimore?
I think, you know, the first thing we can kind of look at right away are kind of the self-inflicted wounds.
There's a lot of penalties on our side, both offensively and defensively, that put us in some bad spots, turnovers as well, that really hurt us.
And then probably the final spot that we really got to keep cleaning up is just controlling that line of scrimmage on both sides of the football.
Yeah, I know Coach David's in a nice job with that group over there, building their culture and developing their guys.
I mean, they're going to be a physical group.
I think it's going to be a very physical football game on Friday night.
Our job is going to have to try to match intensity with intensity.
And at the same time, we've got to try to surpass that as well.
We're kind of looking around to shuffle some guys around the line, just kind of better suit to their talents and their skills.
We do move some guys around.
We try to create a little bit more misdirection with that as well.
Again, we have kind of a little bit of an inexperienced group that's now got a couple of games underneath their belt.
I'm looking to see improvement from that and grow from there.
Yeah, it's been kind of something that a lot of people talk about and mention to me.
But as a group, we've told them up front, like us, our youth doesn't matter.
These are varsity level players.
We have varsity level expectations for them.
Again, now that we kind of got a couple of games underneath our belt now, I'm seeing the areas that we really got to improve and focus on our process.
It's been something that's been a big
focus for us this week.
Again I still think it's going to be a very competitive conference.
I think Parade of Sheen has showed a lot of stuff.
I mean obviously kind of being the returner champion as well.
I know they got a lot of guys coming back but each and every week I truly believe it's going to be a dogfight which every match up no matter who that is and what
part of the week we're in or part of the season we're in.
For them, I mean, they're a heavy run team, something that we've kind of struggled a little bit stopping so far on the defensive side of it.
They got some guys up front that were going to have to neutralize and kind of win that line of scrimmage.
Obviously kind of the same struggles we had with Fennimore when stuff gets to the outside.
We got to be willing to tackle and be able to fit.
So again, big focus for us this week and sort of the biggest area we're trying to eliminate with Dodgeville.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of connections there, I still think.
There's a couple of kids that know kids pretty well from over there.
I think last year's result, too, where they kind of came down and punched us in the mouth and got that win there, kind of leaves a bad taste in our mouth as well.
So again, I expect a very physical, intense game and probably a great game for anybody to be coming and watching.
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Next up, head coach of Ithaca West and Kyle Kelly on the pregame show.
Coach, looking back to New Lisbon, I guess what went right
for Ithaca-Weston in that game?
Our defense played incredibly well.
Your offense must have done something right.
Yeah, they had 300 yards on the ground, so that's a good problem to have.
Yeah, I felt they were a very assignment sound up front, and then I said just good hard running.
As you get ready for this week, what's the game rep, what is Bangor feature that makes them look tough?
They run a double tight, double wing offense.
They run it very, very well, so trying to figure out how to stop that.
a common
No.
What they run is pretty unique to them, and that's a huge advantage that they have.
Do you look at this as maybe one of the contenders you're facing this year on the schedule?
Oh, yeah, Bangler's always a contender to be at the top.
And looking at your team, what do you have to do this week?
What's key for the Bulldogs?
Like I said, just kind of got to build off of the early success that we've had.
They've got a lot of youth, but they've got to kind of start taking the next steps.
you look for, you know, growth and improvement during the season?
Now, that's why I said at this point, we can't really say that we're sophomores and young anymore.
We've been doing it long enough in their spots that they kind of got to take that next step.
This week being at home, how good is that?
It would be nice if I'd be out on the field, that we put the field all together on Labor Day.
Peyton Alliance doing a thing took about three hours, but it looks pretty nice.
Yeah, there is more work when it's a home game, but still it's, you know, game prep's a little easier, isn't it?
Much better to play at home than drive an hour in 20 minutes to Bangor, yes.
Right, that's one of the longer trips.
So the team, you feel like you're kind of like back on your feet.
This team, this would be a big one.
I mean, how important is this game at this stage of the season?
It would be huge.
You kind of set the tone for playoff to start 3-0.
I guess that would win against them, what it would be.
putting us in a driver's seat to make the postseason pretty solid.
Yeah.
Is it too early to talk playoffs?
No, because I've had the, but one thing about school football makes a lot of fun is every game kind of matters.
Bottom line, what are you going to have to do if you're going to win this one coach?
Like I said, we're going to have to get a couple of losses behind the line of scrimmage for them on defense and then run our offense and just pound the ball four yards at a time.
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From Ithaca High School, hello everyone.
Welcome to tonight's broadcast as the Ithaca Western Bulldogs taking on the Bangor Cardinals this evening in a scenic plus conference matchup.
Bangor coming in with a record of one and two while Ithaca Western stands at three and all coming in.
Some stamps on Bangor as they get ready for the battle.
And of course, we have watched Bangor and Ithaca play a lot of times over the years.
Bangor with some of the same names that we've called in the past.
Maybe younger brothers, or maybe even cousins, or maybe even sons.
Max Langer, a sophomore, their leading quarterback.
He has thrown so far for 79 yards.
Leading running back is Sawyer Jacobsen, who has three touchdowns and 206 yards during the first three games.
Weston Pollock, their leading receiver, who has picked up a total of 24 yards so far.
They don't pass the ball a lot.
Leading tackler is Will Reed with 21 tackled totals through the three weeks.
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Tonight we'll have more coming up from Ithaca High School as Ithaca Western faces Bangor in our game of the week tonight from WRCO FM 100.9 and WRCO.com.
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Welcome back to Ithaca.
It's senior night.
They're doing some special introductions tonight honoring seniors Quentus Banker, Liam Rowan, Ricky Thompson, also Ben Otto and Isaiah Farjan, also Bracen Boland who is in charge of the audio visual as well during the season.
So special announcements being made by Dave Banger, top at the North End zone here at Ithaca, and we're about set for game time kickoff here tonight.
Ithaca Western led by sophomore quarterback Jacob Keller.
We saw him the first week of the season, 154 yards.
He has also thrown for a touchdown, rushed for 127.
Also Spencer Nelson a sophomore with 141 yards rushing.
and Kaden Keller receiving 128 yards total, leading tacklers to sophomore Spencer Nelson with 15 tackles through the first three games.
Those are some of the stats for the team here tonight as Ipica Weston gets set
for the battle, lights are on here and everybody that comes in says, what a night here, my goodness, it is just incredible for the fourth week of the season.
It feels very reminiscent of the opening game when you come out, it's a little muggy and the first game on the field, but it's already the fourth and one of just two here at Ithaca this year.
The Weston game was canceled earlier this season, second of the season, and there will be a couple more at Weston late this season, including their homecoming, which I believe is coming up the last week of the regular season.
So also could have some playoff implications at that point.
Van Goren on the far side of the field, and they have been, again, a good opponent for Ithaca over the years, and now Weston.
So we look forward to the game this evening.
They come in with a one and two record and really had a tough loss.
The opening night gave up a lot of points, but they were getting some players back.
They have at least one key player out.
That's Max Langhair, the sophomore quarterback who will not play tonight.
And on the other side, I think a Western has key players out, including a young man that we saw.
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And now, ready to kick off here to begin the game, Bangor will be receiving to my left Ithaca Weston kicking off to my right here as they get the clock set at 12 minutes.
and ready to roll here.
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And other buddies up here as well, Ken Anderson and the immortal Chad Clary, next door, one of the Ithaca Western coaches, good to see him back in the business.
Here we go, approached by Ithaca Western, this one is underway, gonna be caught by Bangor here on the near side, 10, 15.
to the 20 and more 25 all the way to the 36 yard line is the return man number 22 Owen Huffman brought down by several of bulldogs including that was Hayden Burns and also Isaiah Farge and Amistad.
So defensively for Ithaca Weston Ben Otto Hayden Burns Mason Van Coulter and Reed Wapshaw along the defensive front
Isaiah Fargent and Landon Walmer are linebackers Peyton Brown, Spencer Nelson, Jacob Keller, Quintus Banker and Caden Keller in the backfield.
Both gaps for Bangor on this opening play.
There's the snap quarterback keeps it, runs right side gaping hole first down and then some up to the 49 yard line of Bangor.
So a good run and a really big gap there.
So your Jacobson gives Bangor its first
first down this evening and the chains will move.
There is no breeze here tonight as we look at the American flag on the far side.
Nice job with a national anthem by Kennedy Chulberg who is the music teacher here at Ithaca.
First and 10 for Bangor from the 49 their own after the quarterback and off for a counter going to the left side at about 70 yards for Elijah Krop the running back.
He got to the 45
before he is brought down by several bulldogs.
Gonna bring up second down at about four yards to go.
So the bulldog team back to the 40 yard line as they huddle up defensively, Bangor at the Ithaca Western 46 yard line.
And they're up to the football.
Long snap count there's this snap hand running play coming right side cutting around the right cutting back across the field first down down to the 36 yard line He lies a crop running again for so far Bangor looking really good in those close gaps Nothing fancy some straight ahead football here and Bangor moving the football deeper into Ithaca Western territory here opening quarter 1038 remaining in the first Bangor
Heading to the football.
Awaiting a snap from center.
There's the snap.
QB keeping it.
Going around the left hand, got a little room.
35, down to the 30.
Inside, around to the 26.
Looks like another first down.
Bangor's starting line includes number 50, Ryan Locken.
51 will read, and 52, Rudy Hansen out of the guard.
Blake Wintold and Corey Schrader are the tackles.
Waylon Richardson, one of the wide receivers along with Gunnar Eklund, Weston Pollock, Sawyer Jacobson and Holton Reitz in the backfield and the crop lining up.
There's the snap, handoff going to Jacobson and he's going to run left side.
That was the crop, I should say.
Inside the 25, another first down.
That's all the way to the Ithaca Weston 24 yard line.
So first in 10, Ithaca Weston
Getting pushed back and Colter on the stop Mason a 6-3 250 pound sophomore along the line for Ithaca-Weston The ball marked Right around that 25 yard line area.
There's the snap quarterback keeps it again running up the gut there turns in for about four yards Got inside down around the 21 yard line for Sawyer Jacobson
He is a junior running back for Bangor.
We'll give him a strong four on that one.
So right now, Ithaca-Weston trying to find a combination here to slow him down a little bit.
Spencer Nelson on the stop for Ithaca-Weston.
Ducking down play right around the 21-yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
Handoff running play left side, cutting back across the field first down and more for Crop.
down around the 15 and another first down for Bangor.
So the sticks are moving on.
Bangor moving and grooving on the ground.
And it's first in 10 for Bangor.
Ball marked right around the 16 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
A drive that started at their own 36 for the Cardinals.
They'll break Huddle and head to the line.
We'll read.
Up to do the work on the line to snap the ball.
There's the snap.
Quarterback hands up, running off left tackle, and gobbled up by Ithaca Weston after about a one-yard game.
Elijah Crop is going to be brought down, filling the gap there.
Spencer Nelson, it shows no game.
Second down for Bangor.
That's the best attempt to play so far for Ithaca Weston.
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Second down and around 10 yards to go, 750 fumble on the play and getting back on it is the quarterback, Sawyer Jacobson.
That was very close to a turnover.
Hayden Burns, I mean the Gweston was right there trying to get his hands on the ball, but the quarterback grabbed it called dibs and now it's third and long for Bangor.
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There you are, not quite yet.
Back in the red zone, the quarterback will take the snap from right around the 30, and now rolling near side, they're gonna pass for the first time, throw it on the round, caught, and over the shoulder grab there for 22, Hoplin, brought down right around the 20 yard line, hit immediately,
by Spencer Nelson.
Man, it's like Spencer's got a twin brother.
He's everywhere.
Back on this side of the field makes the tackle, but it's fourth down for Bangor ball at the 21 yard line.
So Bangor will do a little bit of searching here.
Looking to the sidelines.
Holton Reitz brings the play in from the far side.
For a first down, they must get down to around the sixth
Yard line ball is on the 21.
It looks like fourth down and 15 yards to go ball of an ear hash mark There's the snap from center quarterback straight back pretty good protection rolls now runs throws on the run and incomplete He was looking for Holt and Reese who was kind of looking the other way and Bangor will turn it over on down it ago at since defense bends, but it does not break and so after driving to
But 21 of Ithaca-Weston-Bengore will turn it back over.
Actually, it was further than that.
It was down to the 16-yard line, but then the fumble took them kind of back out of the play, and they eventually turned it over on Val.
So Ithaca-Weston has to feel like that's an early mini-victory on their own.
21, starting out offense now, all in the near-hash mark and getting set for the snap, and there's a flag right away.
I'm guessing illegal procedures, so they'll talk about that.
We set the starters, Jacob Keller, the quarterback, sophomore, or Ithaca Weston.
Aidan Keller and Quentes Banger, also wide receivers.
Spencer Nelson lines up at a tight end as does Peyton Brown and Landon Walmer are running back.
Isaiah Fargent along the line, along with Reed Wabscho, Mason Van Coulter, Aidan Burns, Ben Otto.
and Kashton Katherall, also a wide receiver.
Handoff running play, Nelson cutting to the right.
It's a few out to the 26 yard line.
So after the loss of five, Nelson gains about nine yards on the play.
It'll bring up second down and seven yards to go for Ithaca Weston.
Time of possession for Bangor.
They kept that ball about seven minutes in the first half.
So we're down to around five minutes and you think a Western with a football?
Check it down.
Six yards to go.
Here's a handoff running play in a gaping hole.
They're bounding his ways.
Nelson all for a first down.
Out to the 36 yard line.
Nelson with a nice run there and a big gaping hole.
And then Walmer helping out on the block.
And also number 70 Hayden Burns coming out.
to take care of the linebacker, and Ithaca-Weston moves the chains.
Ball right around the 36 yard line, their own 522 remaining in the opening quarter of area football.
We are scoreless here.
We'll be checking to fill the flip phone from time to time this evening.
Heller under center, long snap count, and there's a handoff running play.
Go on to Walmer on that right side, puts his shoulder down, crosses the 36-2 around the
39, maybe the 40, and he got there.
A little extra effort brought down by several Bangor players led by number six, Jacobson.
So it comes back to Ithaca Weston for the ball on the second down play about three yards ago.
So Ithaca Weston, like Bangor, having a little bit of success on the ground so far.
Second down play handoff there is Nelson dragging a couple with him gets to the first down I believe Cross the 45 to the 46 kind of depends on where his knees went down the officials Initially marked it short it looks like They will eyeball it if you go by the yard marker on the far side of the field it is a first down
And they are gonna move it up to a first down First down play for Ithaca Western 46 yard line their own four minutes five seconds remaining in the opening quarter of scoreless football Just a little bit of a breeze blowing at the back of IW right now as the line is set There's the snap from center handoff humble on the play loose on the ground and Bangor has it
Bangor picks it up.
Looks like it wasn't a real clean exchange from quarterback to running back.
And it was recovered by Elijah Crop.
So a turnover and the Bangor right back with some really good field position.
And so they'll take over first and 10 at the 44 of Ithaca-Weston for their second possession here of the night.
Stuff break for Ithaca-Weston after.
Looking pretty good, moving the ball.
Right now, Bangor lines up at the 44 yard line, getting set, awaiting a snap from center.
There it is, running play for the quarterback, trying to get around the left side.
Spins and brought down after about a yard.
Nice play, good coverage by Landon Walmer and Company.
So it'll be second at about nine yards to go for Bangor.
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Second down and there's a reverse in the backfield cutting back to the left side is Owen Huffman and he'll get to the 39 of Ithaca-Weston so gains about five yards.
Spencer Nelson brings you down.
and the clock gets down to three minutes remaining here in the first quarter of area football.
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And here is a running play for Bangor that's not going very far.
A nice play by Ithaca Weston.
Huffman is brought down by Isaiah Farjan, and that'll bring up a fourth down for Bangor.
Try to take advantage of the early going of this one here tonight.
So fourth down, they're going to market it four yards to go inside the 40 of Ithaca Weston.
Bangor going forward here on fourth down.
Block running, two minutes, five seconds remaining in the quarter.
There's the snap, handoff, running play, up the god move for a first down, still moving and gripping as Elisha Croft, first down all the way down to the 24 yard line of Ithaca Weston.
So a game of about 15 to 18 yards on that play, 24 yard line.
Brought down by Caden Keller down to two minutes remaining here in the opening quarter of area football WRCO giving you the call tonight our game of the week out of the shotgun steps Sawyer Jacobson hands off running play up the gut for crop and he bowls ahead across the 19 to around the 18 yard line Getting into the red zone again Red zone now the works plumbing and heating red zone alert because when it's crunch time
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Second down about seven yards to go for the Bangor Cardinals.
Deep in Ithaca-Weston territory again.
A minute 18 remaining in the quarter.
Ithaca-Weston trying to break into the scoring column first.
There's the snap.
There's that reverse play again.
Coming right, cutting across the field.
First down, good run by Owen Huffman.
And Bangor moves the chains again.
We're getting some good upfront blocking.
We've talked about that with some of the lead blockers Blake Wenthold Jr.
leading a block on that one and now down to a first and 10 from right around the 11 yard line is where it's marked.
Down to the final 50 seconds of the first quarter, Bangor driving toward the Shelf End Zone.
Sawyer Jacobson takes the snap and off running play crop.
Wanted to go up the middle now goes around the outside still moving.
Count around the five and he is brought down by several epic Western players led by Landon Walmers second down Gonna mark that inside the five yard line now for Bangor down to 25 seconds the remaining in the opening quarter Good action coming your way tonight.
Let's see a Bangor It's another playoff before the end of the quarter and it looks like they will not they're gonna stay
in the huddle, and they'll go to the other end of the field, try and punch one in against Ithaca-Weston.
No score after one.
High school football tonight from WRCO Sports.
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Ithaca Western in Bangor.
Nothing more than after one.
A quick moving quarter too, but that's because both teams primarily have been running the football.
Bangor on the drive, trying to take advantage of a fumble recovered, starting a drive at the 44 of IW.
Now they're trying to cap off the drive.
Ball is right around the six yard line.
They have five yards to go for a first down.
and six yards to go for a touchdown.
So the Cardinals running to the other end of the field to get set.
Weston trying to take advantage here of maybe some plays on that far side trying to clog up the middle.
Angkor has been pretty successful at the up the middle run of those close gaps.
There's the snap.
We're going to reverse it.
It's going to go back to 22 off and then he's inside the five.
Down to around the
They'll market short of the first down, third down, and about two yards to go for the first down.
Bangor running the plays from the far sideline.
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Third and two for Bangor ball is right around the four yard line There's a snap from center running play and I'm choosing his space wisely going ahead for the touchdown is dropped Bangor gets into the end zone on the run by Elijah drop and Bangor scores first here tonight They get advantage of a fumble and putting it in the end zone So they'll talk about the extra point Bangor taking the lead here
and in the huddle now to talk it over.
It's like a Weston kind of be fuddled a little bit by the running game of Bangor and again those inside trap plays.
We're gonna go for two will Bangor.
Looking it over is the QB so here Jacobson handoff second man through hits the first guy, bounces and then he is in for two.
Elijah Croft
Pounced off the first would-be tackler and gets in to make it 8-0.
Nice job by Bangor.
Cap it off the drive and that will do it for this drive.
Bangor back on defense.
Ithaca-Weston will be on offense when we return.
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Straighter will kick off for Bangor.
Here's the approach and the end over end will be taken by Ithaca-Weston around the 10 yard line.
Now grooving ahead a little bit to the left side of Quintus Banker, going back to the right and then gang tackled by Bangor right around the 24 yard line.
Brought down by Caden Gilbertson, so second possession of the night for IW and they'll take over at their own 21 yard line.
Bangor with a scoring drive that started at the IW 44 yard line.
So they're back in the huddle, back in committee, and we'll see if Ithaca-Weston can follow soon.
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Under center is Keller, there's the snap.
Hand off Nelson cut left big run.
He's gonna pull over a man another man and get down to the 41 yard lock.
Ah, he looks good.
Gotta head his team Spencer Nelson moves the change for Ithaca Weston and the change moving and grooving ball up to the 42 yard line of IW and Ithaca Weston missing three players on the injured list here tonight, which
Certainly doesn't help the cause either, especially we were talking about a man that we called a lot a couple of weeks ago when we were there.
Liam Rowan, who's out.
First down in 10 for Ithaca-Weston.
The line is set.
One man wide to the left, one man wide to the right.
Quarterback trying to keep it.
Running on the near side is Keller, then gang tackled by Bangor in the backfield.
He did get ahead for maybe a yard.
Tackle made by Weston Pollock and Sawyer Jacobson second down at nine to go here for Ithaca-Weston.
All easy to spot here on the near side on the hash mark closest to the Ithaca-Weston sideline.
Must be like superhero night.
They got some red, white, blue, and Americana stuff going on, of course, for 25th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.
There's the snap handoff Nelson left side.
He's going to put the shoulder down and finally bowled down around the 49 yard line.
That's where he is brought down.
Weston Pollack on the stop for Bangor and Ithaca Weston moving closer to midfield with that one.
But it is third down third down and three.
Jacob Keller coming to the near side for the play gets the play from coach Kelly and then.
Heads to the huddle, and now up to the line goes the Ithaca-Weston line.
Third down, three yards to go from the 49.
There's the snap, handoff running playing Nelson right side.
First down into Bangor territory, all the way to the 43.
Brought down by number 22, Owen Huffman.
And IW moves the change, trying to answer that early score by Bangor.
Keller gets the play, heads to the huddle, and they are heading to the football.
Nine minutes remaining in the first half.
Ithaca Weston with the ball on the near hash mark.
Looking it over now is quarterback Jacob Keller.
He's got Nelson in the backfield along with Landon Walmer, and timeout is taken by Ithaca Weston.
847 remaining in the half, 8-0 Bangor, here in Ithaca country on WRCO.
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Ball carrier for Ithaca-Weston is brought down in the backfield.
Landon-Walmer had nowhere to go and loses a few yards.
So the ball is backed around the 44 yard line of Bangor.
Ithaca-Weston's second down play coming up at about 13 yards to go.
Next week is already homecoming here at Ithaca and a lot of things going on with the Ithaca school fair.
We go away from entry day and all the stuff going on on Saturday.
Second down, there's the handoff.
Nelson, bread and butter guy cutting through a gaping hole.
Left tackle gets to the 40 down to the 39.
The 40 is brought down.
Tackled by Owen Huffman.
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I think that'll work out well Should hold the crowd pretty well So here we go ball on the far hash mark third down at about eight yards to go and
for Ithaca Weston, and here's the snap from center.
Keller gonna roll out, ball on his hip, gonna try to run, and cuts right side, and puts the shoulder down, got a little room, and may have gotten the first down.
He pulled back, I think initially he was gonna pass that ball, but then saw a little bit of running room, and Jacob Keller looking good on that one, takes it into a first down, inside the 30 yard line of Bangor.
Ithaca Weston moving the ball.
They were earlier before the fumble, so they are proving themselves that they can also move the ball on the ground.
These teams look very, very similar here tonight as we watch this.
And this is kind of what I anticipated is we scheduled this game going to be a good even matchup.
They take a Western trying to even the score on the drive.
Here's the handoff Nelson cutting left side up ended initially puts the shoulder down and then rambles across the 25.
down to around the 24.
Boy, I like the way Spencer Nelson runs.
Kind of looks like crazy legs.
Hirsch out there a couple of times when he's cut around the corner, makes a little bit of headway, second down play for Ithaca-Weston coming up.
Ball is marked just across the 25, 24 yard line of Bangor.
Ithaca-Weston heading to the football.
This drive started on their own 21 yard line.
Looking things over now is Jacob Keller.
Keller awaiting a snap under center, second down play.
There's the pitch going to Nelson.
They're going right side this time, following some lead blocking and then cutting to the right side and he's close to a first down.
And I believe
he
got it.
Yes, it's dependent on where he went out of bounds.
It looks like they're going to mark him all the way down around the 12 yard line.
Spencer Nelson running downhill.
And again, got some lead blocking there.
Great job by Landon Walmer out there pulling and making a little bit of headway there.
Aiden Byrne sealing the end at the tackle position.
And Ithaca-West had moved the chains again.
Quick move and a half.
Everybody keeping the ball on the ground for the most part.
Six minutes remaining in the first half.
Jacob Keller under center takes the snap.
Handoff, running play, not much for Nelson.
Hit and dropped, brought down right back.
Right around the 12 yard line no gain on the play So it will be Checking down coming up.
Was there a flag on the play?
We're looking down field.
I'm kind of anticipating now.
I think we've only had
We've
only had like one or two penalties in this game bar cry for the first couple of weeks of the season When we had a number last week we had a record number of holding penalties But tonight
Not the case second down and about 11 yards to go for Ithaca-Weston ball is going to be snapped There's a running play for the QB Keller trying to cut left side breaks a couple tackles still going Still going what a run he gets near the first down now brought down around the four yard line Oh, that was a great run by the quarterback He actually probably should have been wrapped up back around the ten yard line and now He is a little slow to get up there as he is
going to be staying down on his knees and they're going to call for the trainer so Jacob Keller now he is up and getting running back off to the far side to the near side under his own power but yeah what an effort what a run by the young sophomore to make that third and short yardage third and two ball is marked right around the
Six yard line of Bangor 453 remaining here in this first half of action from WRCO.
8-0 Bangor leading Ithaca-Weston trying to match that.
And they're looking to the sidelines.
Will they possibly use a timeout?
And they will.
Timeout taken by Ithaca-Weston.
8-0 the score here at Ithaca tonight.
We'll be back in 30
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So a nice drive by Ithaca-Weston, but they haven't accomplished anything yet.
And they're trying to punch one in here.
It's going to bring up third down and two after an Ithaca timeout.
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Second quarter third down about two yards to go from the six of Bangor handoff Nelson bounces off one inside the tackle spot Getting a first down of them down around the goal line, but didn't quite get in I don't believe So a first down for Ithaca Weston Spencer Nelson has been leading the way down the field here for IW and now It is a first down so you've got four chances to make it good from the two yard line
Red zone time for Ithaca Weston the red zone coverage sponsored by words plumbing and heating no leaks no fumbles just results Here we go Ithaca Weston with the football down around the two-yard line awaiting a snap from center is Jacob Keller Turns and hands off to Spencer Nelson and a rugged move, but he didn't get in or did he?
No, he's close, but Bangor play it.
Well come on
through the pack with number 51 will read second down and about a half yard to go for a touchdown for Ithaca Weston so they will stop and talk it over and the Keller runs back into the huddle so Ithaca Weston they moved the ball solid effort here downfield at a drive that started at their 21 yard line initially so
This play continues.
Ithaca-Weston takes the snap.
Keller quarterback keeper down around the goal line and he is in!
There's a touchdown for Ithaca-Weston.
Nice run by the QB on the keeper and the sophomore scores and Ithaca-Weston is on the board.
Nice job by IW and the line as they come back to get it done with 3-41.
That's all remaining in the second quarter.
We'll call it a one-yard plunge for the quarterback on the keeper, Jacob Keller, who scores another touchdown this year.
So Ithaca-Weston will see if they go for two, which I would assume they would after Bangor was successful on their opening drive to get the two.
There's this map from center.
Keller rolling out slips and throws it in the air.
No, he went down.
He threw it to the back of the end zone, but had gone down before that.
So it is no good.
8-6.
Bangor leading 3-41 remaining in the opening half of area.
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The Weston will kick it off after the recent score.
And they're going to work to try and hold Bangor down here.
This could match up through the second quarter of action.
The Weston had the ball in the majority of minutes.
Here's the approach.
And Kaden Keller kicks it off.
It's going to be caught on the fly by Bangor at 15, 20, 25.
And then they are going to be brought out solid.
Tackled in the open field by Hayden Burns and Ithaca Westin.
So for its third possession, Bangor will take over.
Ball is going to be resting right around the 29 yard line.
They're all in.
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Vangor up to the football now, getting the ball with 335 remaining.
Here in the first half there's the Snapham Center running play and cutting to the right tackle and getting a couple of yards.
Here's the ball carrier, Elijah Croft.
Brought down at the ankles by several
of the Bulldogs.
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on the top and Reed Lobchow.
Second down and about six yards to go for Bangor, 3-14 remaining in the opening frame.
These two schools have played in baseball a few times in the past as well.
Second down and six yards to go.
There's a shotgun snap.
Bumble, the ball is loose on the field and who's got it?
There's a mad scramble for it.
And I think Bangor got back on it eventually.
Oh man, right on the...
chance to get a real big break there.
Ithaca Weston unable to come up with it, and Sawyer Jacobson, he fell on it, back for a big loss for Bangor, but they don't care, the ball is in their hands again.
Ball is going to be marked at the 26th yard line of Ithaca Weston.
Third down, now make that, no, it's going to be marked right around the 29 yard line.
The third down to about 11 yards to go, 230 remaining here in the first half.
Those close gaps set up, Ithaca-Weston showing blitz and now Spencer Nelson saying that they're drawn off and the flags fly.
Ithaca-Weston was showing blitz and the Bangor players did jump as Ithaca went across the line and a five-yard penalty.
Ball start takes him back a little further.
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I've tried Third down about 15 and now Ithaca Weston may have jumped off sides The officials Looking it over there barely
Queen played first half, but now back-to-back penalties, and the five-yard penalty is pushed right back to where it was.
Like the old Maxine Nightdale disco song, right back where we started from.
Third down, 11 yards to go for Bangor, exactly two minutes remaining here in the first half.
Bangor leading it 8-6.
Bangor up to the football.
Long snap count and they're gonna pitch it out to the right side going around the right end his crop and taking a few with him He may be close to a first down shot to the 39 yard line before brought down by several including Isaiah Barton Chains will move for Bangor a minute 41 Remaining here in the first half Flatville and Richland Center tied at 14 That's in the second quarter of football action at a vitus rip field tonight
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Good one here.
A minute 25 remaining in the first half.
Bangor 8th, Ithaca Western 6th, first down, and a running play.
Nowhere to go up the gut, so bouncing to the outside and not much there either.
For Elijah Crop, the running back, and Bangor will use a timeout.
113 remaining here in the first half.
Both teams.
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Almost need water breaks on a warm night like this as well.
They're getting a little bit extra now as they go to the sidelines.
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Second down play after the Bangor timeout.
Ball is out there 39.
Now there's a counter play running back coming to the left side.
Crashes across the 42 to the 43 yard line.
That's a game of a couple of yards.
Tackle by Quicktus.
Banker.
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We're under a minute remaining here in the ball game in Ithaca, Weston.
Kind of getting the the tune now for this Bangor team and what they run being a little more successful and stopping they'll try to stop them again There's a running play by crop rolling down to around the 48 yard line got close to a first down tackle is made by Landon Walmer and Well, wait a minute the sticks already started moving, but I believe They're gonna eyeball it and Bangor uses a another
Time out.
So 37 seconds remaining in the quarter.
Both teams go to the sidelines, and we'll keep it here for this one.
Bangor leading 8-6.
They really haven't been going through the air much.
And we mentioned that their starting quarterback still not playing.
But Jacobson's done a good job, but he basically has been either running quarterback, handing it off.
He has thrown or attempted a couple of really short passes.
The only difference of a game is the two-point conversion that was missed by the Bulldogs, unable to get in the end zone on a quarterback keeper.
So that's what separates these two teams.
One of the games on the schedule that you look at and you're like, you know, this, even though it's only the fourth week of season, could really decide the conference fate.
Because there are a couple of teams that are contenders and it seems like they are year after year.
First count in 10 from the 49, Bangor is own running play and the running back is straight up and brought back.
Oh, Hayden Burns, Spencer Nelson making a great play up the middle nowhere to go.
Bill Huddle for Bangor down to 24 seconds.
Second down.
Ten yards to go from the 49.
Quarterback trying to run it.
Don't let it go!
Ithaca Weston brings him down for a loss.
Behind the line is Sprimmage.
Flowing some dirt there was Hayden Burns underneath and several on top.
Ben Otto back there as well and Ithaca Weston making some plays.
Third down and short and Bangor is just gonna let it run down and it will Bangor and Ithaca Weston in an old-fashioned game here tonight first half moving quickly and Yeah, it's worked out a half hour earlier than we were the first half last week That's because both teams primarily ran the ball and really some good play here tonight So good ball game at halftime Bangor leads it by two
8.6 here at Ithaca.
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So plenty, we get to punch up, punch above our weight a little bit.
So it's kind of fun when we get there and have a big race, a sectional like atmosphere, great teams, great individuals there.
So it's always a good
It is.
And it's good to have that experience before we get to the large meets in October.
So, yeah, definitely a good opportunity for them to try to fuel their way through a race of that size against competition that's strong.
Yeah, it's just preaching a lot that they need to hydrate and really harp in on them to take care of themselves this time of year and in that heat.
It's a challenge for practices to be able to maybe push it as much as we would like to.
but certainly races too.
There's a balance there between pushing hard enough, but not overdoing it.
I know at Baroque last week, for example, several girl runners, some other teams have been collapsing.
So it's kind of scary.
Temperatures will be around 80 tomorrow for the cross country meet at River Valley, featuring large and big schools and also middle school.
And lots of great stuff going on tomorrow at River Valley on the spring green golf course is where that meat will be held.
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Nice and warm.
Hopefully it'll be dry at least.
We've had a little bit of weather impacts the first couple weeks but overall you know we're sitting pretty good.
Yeah, should be a big game for both teams.
Bangor has not looked particularly good this year so far.
Certainly not up to what we have come to expect over the last 15 years or so from the Cardinals.
And an opportunity for Ithaca Weston to get a key victory in that conference.
So an important game for both teams.
Um, should be a good atmosphere.
They certainly are.
Um, they've, they've definitely looked like the best team in the Southwest conference so far.
Platteville, uh, has, uh, has a loss and, uh, I think still could be in the mix, but, uh, definitely looks like prairie machine so far through a third of the season and things can certainly change, but they look like, uh, the best team so far.
Yeah, of course, SWC teams and Richland Center, familiar with New Glaris being in the Southwest Conference the last couple of years.
They make the move over to the swall this year.
And this week, they're taken on Darlington.
Both teams undefeated.
Both teams ranked in our most recent coaches poll.
It'll be interesting to see if New Glaris has what it takes to hang with Darlington.
Darlington,
has played a extremely difficult schedule to this point.
They put a running clock on both St.
Mary Springs and last year's Illinois State Champion, Lena Winslow, had a little closer game with Mineral Point last week.
It was a 21 point game, but 21, excuse me, 27 to six over Mineral Point in that rivalry game.
But still, they are absolutely loaded as we've talked about a couple of times, as talented as any team in, quite honestly, D4, 5, 6, or 7.
Yeah, it was a little surprising to see it as close as it was.
Again, it ended up being a three score game.
Um, you know, it happened sometimes.
I mean, Darlington is not going to win every game by 50 or 35 points or whatever.
And, uh, you know, again, they've still got plenty of talent going for them.
Yeah, they're off to a very good start three and oh I got a chance to see them against Wisconsin Dells Of course, it's a graduate Chris Rice is the head coach there He's doing a nice job running the variation of the wingtee that he ran in high school for so many years and Yeah, they're they're looking good and of course they moved to a new conference this year so they're Competing in the capital conference a little bit smaller than and where they were in the Badger Excuse me small and last year they were the last team
eliminated in division three.
They were team 33 and there's only 32 that make the playoffs.
So they are obviously really wanting to get back to the postseason.
They drop down to division four and go to a new conference.
So a lot of things set up really well for Portage.
They take on an Evansville team this week that is undefeated as well and has a really strong college prospect and Harker Larson linebacker defensive end type.
So this will be a good measuring stick for Portage.
in terms of where they're at in that league, which is still a very good conference, but they're going to have some really tough games the rest of the way.
Nope, still the same system that was introduced last year for the first time, the playoff matrix or playoff qualifying system.
All based on the wins that you get, you get more points based on the size of your opponent, what division they're in.
And you also get
What they term tier two points which are which is essentially a strength of schedule measure Where you accumulate the points of the teams that you beat so if you beat good teams you get more points you get higher in the qualification system and Also higher when it comes to seating
You know we have seen Especially in the larger divisions division one and two
where a lot of those teams are challenging themselves quite a bit.
They're going out and scheduling tough games and that's why we've seen, you know, Kimberly is off to an 0-3 start and Franklin has struggled a little bit and there's been some teams that have struggled early on and a part of that is because they're just playing really good conference, really good schedules here in the early going and
So somebody's got to lose those good games.
So there are teams that are now recognizing that it's not just enough to win.
You've got to beat good teams if you want to move up in that playoff qualification, and especially in the seeding.
If you want to get a number one seed, you've got to be a really good team, and you've got to play a good schedule.
And so we are seeing some teams really push themselves in that non-conference scheduling rather.
Well, uh, just going back to last week quickly, we did have number one versus number two last week with Gilman taking on Owen with the, uh, that was actually a conference game.
Gilman one, I think it was 36 to six, one pretty handily and established themselves as once again.
the favorite in eight player.
This week, not necessarily that kind of high level elite game, but there are some really good games on the eight player schedule.
Unfortunately, what we are seeing a decent amount in eight player is that there's some teams that are not able to go seven eight player games this weekend are canceled because teams are not able to field an eight player squad.
Now some of it is those teams.
A few of them haven't had teams the last few years and they wanted to try to give it a go and.
and weren't able to and end up canceling their season.
But even locally, there's been some challenges.
Wanywalk Center is canceling three or four games this year.
They're kind of doing it based on the strength of their opponent.
They're canceling against the better teams on their schedule, so they canceled this week.
I think they were supposed to play North Crawford maybe.
They already canceled the regular season finale against the Soto, but then they do plan to play
like kick a pool kick a pool of fudge for instance and and some of the games they feel they can be a little more competitive in.
That is Illinois.
Yep.
I can't remember who Highland was supposed to play if they had a you know cancellation on their schedule or where that that game came from but Orangeville is down in Illinois and yeah just a
one of those games they had to pick up, try to find somebody to play, to get the kids playing time.
Compared to some years, not a lot of fireworks.
It was the area meetings where the, the WI goes around to seven districts around the state over the couple of weeks period and just kind of check in with ADs, let them know what's going on with the WIA, what kind of things.
happened last year.
They do a year in review.
They talk about kind of the issues at hand.
One of the things they did talk about were the constitutional amendments that are likely to be on the agenda for next year's annual meeting.
And one of those is the shot clock, which we got approved as a limited use where you can use it in non-conference games if both teams agree this year.
And then on the agenda for next year will be a full implementation of the shot clock.
that would begin in 2028 if approved by the majority of schools.
So that will be a real big topic of conversation as we move into basketball season, how that shot clock works for games that have it, and what that will look like as we move to a vote on full implementation next spring.
Yeah, that's one of the biggest challenges is the funding and the logistical aspects to it Depending on your scoreboard you have it could be a couple thousand dollars.
It could be ten to fifteen thousand dollars also depends on what kind of style or you know Form of shot clock you want to use how many gyms you got to put it in but there are schools that have it There are some small schools that have it basketball has it.
They just built a new gym and
They were proactive.
It's much easier to put it in while you're building your gym than to go back and do it later.
So they actually have it in at Bosque Bell.
They don't use it, of course, up to this point.
But there are some that have recent construction that have put it in.
Otherwise, you're looking at retrofitting your existing system.
And again, it can get pretty pricey, depending on what kind of model scoreboard you have and what you want to do with that setup.
I mean, I'm in favor of it.
We used to call it at the campus.
As you know, you coached there and we've seen some teams come from Minnesota.
We've gone to Minnesota and used it there as well.
So it's exciting from that standpoint.
I think some of the games where the teams are really even in a match and skilled are going to be really good.
I still am concerned where you've got teams that are not that skilled where, you know, you get down to that last second and they're throwing up airballs and things.
I don't know what, what is your thought on that?
Yeah.
That's the challenge.
I think at some places and especially in higher divisions, it will be implemented and it will be relatively seamless and teams can execute and do things.
I think in places where teams are already struggling or where skill levels are not as high, you're going to see some really ugly possessions at the end of a shot clock that will not go very well in a lot of places.
It's, it's in use all the time.
If it's used, um, and, and the, the proposal, by the way, is varsity only.
So it's not like you'd have to implement it down at JV and freshmen levels.
So it's varsity only, um, would apply if, if fully implemented would apply and be required for all games beginning in 20, 28, and it applies in all situations.
The only time it does not apply is if the period, whether it's first half, second half, or if there's ever a return to quarters, if there's more, excuse me, less time left in the period than there is on the shot clock, then the shot clock goes dark, just like NBA and college basketball.
No, not too much.
Again, it's just an opportunity for the WII staff to connect with ADs and
and give them updates on what's going on, also get feedback from those ADs.
But again, compared to some years, not a lot of fireworks or big ticket items necessarily on the agenda this year.
We have Onalaska coming in, a team that we've been able to take care of at least last year.
Always a solid program.
They've got some injury issues going on, but
If we take care of business like we have been, we should be fine.
Had a close one last week against La Crosse Central.
We were up a couple touchdowns early.
They ended up coming back and scoring, I think it was 26 points in the third quarter to go ahead.
And we scored with, I don't know, four or five minutes left and held on for a 36-32 win.
So we're still working through some young kids in some new places, but like where things are headed.
Sounds good.
Thanks, Bill.
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And the course at the half, the score of that game is Bangor 8.
and Ithaca Western 6.
Elsewhere in the scenic bluff conference, Hillsborough leads Brookwood 21-0 in the second.
In the Southwest Conference, it's Plattville leading Russell Center 21-13.
They're going to half on that one.
Curry Dushin leads Broadhead Judah 21-6 in the second.
Also in the second, Mineral Point leads Lancaster 12-0.
Going into the halftime, it's a Riverdale trailing River Ridge, 21-6.
Potosia Caspill leads Boscobel, 23-0 in the second quarter.
That's in the Six Rivers Conference.
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Benton's skills found as tight with Venomore at 7-0 and Darlington leads Nouglairs, 14-3.
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8-6 to score, Ithaca Weston trailing Bangor.
Bangor is scoring with 11-19 remaining in the first half.
Elijah Kropp on a three-yard run.
He also took him the two-point conversion.
For Ithaca Weston, they scored with 3-41 remaining in the first half.
It was Keller with the plunge, one-yard plunge for Jacob Keller, and the missed
two-point conversion throw, and that's how we are at halftime, 8-6.
Ithaca-Weston had a key turnover on a nice drive, a fumble recovered by Elijah Krop of Bangor, and that's kind of the story of the first half.
Ithaca-Weston, they will receive the ball to start here in the second half.
Make sure to join us for the fabulous post-game show with Mr. Fabulous, following the play-by-play of this one tonight.
Indeed, has all the scores, and a recap of this week in high school sports.
Here is the kickoff, that ball bounds around the 20, picked up now by Caden Keller, 15 to the 20, 25, and he is brought backwards after forward progress, something I guess around the 24, where they will line up now for Ithaca-Weston here in the second half, trying to get something done, trailing by two in a game that could have huge conference implications later on.
Big up Keller, is the quarterback.
Going to the backfield by a landed Walmer, I should say.
Gator Keller and Quintus Banker are the receivers, along with Kashton Katherall.
And let's see here, coming up to the line, ready to snap the ball.
We'll set the rest in a moment.
Angkor showing Blitz, there is the handoff, running play on the near side, and not much for Nelson.
He is going to be brought down, maybe got a yard on the forward progress, and he is brought down.
by number 57, Blake Wenthol.
Ithaca Weston's line includes Isaiah Fargent, along with Reed Wabsho, Mason Van Coulter, Aiden Burns, and Ben Otto.
Ball on the near hash mark, second down, about nine yards to go for I-W here in this start of the third quarter.
Get a very first, very fast first half.
Last week we weren't even at halftime yet.
We're in the third quarter next and here we go second of nine for Ithaca-Weston from the 27th and often that is going to be the second man through getting a couple of yards ahead is landed warmer.
It's to the 33 yard
line
so running coming kind of tough sledding right now Rudy Hanson on the tackle for Bangor.
A lot of games going on.
I think just one tomorrow.
That's over in the Six Rivers Conference.
A daytime game.
I'm probably already getting into some homecomings.
I would not be surprised already.
Ithaca's homecoming is next week with the Ithaca Fair.
They're down at about six yards to go for IWU Drive.
It started on their own 26 yard line.
There's the snap from center, fake handoff, and Keller's back to throw airs it out, caught by Kaden Keller.
First down, up to the 50, and spun around out about.
Kaden Keller, thanks for grab, and the Ipica Western team moves it on.
I was just talking in the booth at half-time, and I said, other than special teams, Kaden Keller had been kind of quiet.
They were unable to get in the ball.
I think they were looking at him on the two-point conversion attempt.
But they find him here.
Nice throw by Jacob Keller to Caden Keller.
No relation, by the way.
And here goes the Interco-Western football team up to the line.
Ball is just an inch shy of the midfield stripe on the Interco-Western side.
There's the snap from center.
Fake handoff.
Quarterback keeper trying to get around the left end, hesitates a bit, then gets into Bangor territory to the 47 of them driven backwards.
Jacob Keller on the carry
Start
the start of the tackle was made by Bangor number 21 Elijah crop second down and Got three yards on that second down and seven yards to go ball in Bangor territory now around the 47 yard line 925 remaining of the third building with you Friday night prime time here under the lights at Ithaca High School
Second down play.
I double you up to the line.
Keller will take the snap from under center.
Two men in the backfield.
There's the snap.
Hand off to the second man through.
Walmer trying to cut off right tackle.
Puts the shoulder down to the 45.
Gain of about four yards on the play following the blocking of Isaiah Fargent.
And it's going to be a second to make that third down play and less than five yards to go.
for Ithaca-Weston.
Now in committee, they're going to look to the sideline for the play.
Went to Spanker, runs the play in from the other side.
IW in the huddle now and ready to try and keep the drive alive.
Ball control.
Clock control.
Both teams have done it to perfection here in this game tonight.
Third down and lesson five.
There's the snap handoff Spencer Nelson left tackle gaping.
Oh, he's got a little room first down down around the 35 Nice run by Spencer Nelson as they get around the end Ceiling the deal out there was Reed Wabsall and the sticks move on for Iw 814 remaining in the third quarter run him downhill now the ball is Mark again around that 35 yard line area of Bangor
So here goes the play and I double you back in the huddle.
Have not thrown the ball a lot except that first down completion to Caden Keller.
Otherwise, they've been fairly consistent on the ground.
First in 10, awaiting a snap from center.
There it is.
Handoff Keller going to Nelson.
Nelson right tackle cuts across the field again for an extra yard or so.
Wines up down around the 31 yard line.
Spencer Nelson.
on the carry.
And so they'll mark it second down to about five yards to go for Ithaca-Weston ball inside that thirty three yard line somewhere in that area.
Seven twenty remaining in the third quarter Ithaca-Weston has had the ball the entire time.
Chewing up the clock here and again that's pretty important in this game.
Bangor did a great job of it on their
only score the game in two-point conversion.
Checking down to about five yards to go.
There's the snap.
Nelson getting the call left tackle.
Orham Shiver gets another step or two.
Lost the football.
Let's see.
Vangory celebrating like they had it.
The ball was on the ground, but it is going to be Ithaca-Weston football, I presume, as they unpile on the far sideline.
So they're going to say that he was down.
Third down play and the ball marked.
Guard markers are kind of hard to see.
They're blocked by the teams, but that one is just inside the 30 at the 29 yard line of Bangor.
Third and short, about two yards to go for a first down.
They're quickly up to the ball.
MAP IW with a running play on the nearside.
Nelson moving his way, grooves inside the 25 down around the 21.
Good run by Spencer Nelson.
First in 10, Jack Olmay by number 27.
We'll read on the stop.
First in 10 for Ithaca Weston, running downhill.
615 remaining, trying to take the lead here in the third quarter.
8-6, Bangor, in the advantage.
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First in 10 from the 21, awaiting a snap, Keller, and he fakes the handoff, rolling, now looking, now throwing, down around the goal line, incomplete.
He was intending it for Keller, or maybe Aten Brown was the closest to tight end, incomplete nonetheless, and it is second down in 10 yards to go.
That does finally stop the clock with 549.
It's almost like a running clock here tonight as fast as it's going.
Half time, Flatbill leading Ritzelfinner 21-13, Brewer's up 9-0 on the reds, bottom of the fifth inning.
How about that?
Second down play for Ithaca-Weston.
Ball in the near hash mark.
Here's the second attempt.
Ball lost.
Now picked up by the quarterback, Jacob Keller, trying to make something of it.
Got a couple of yards ahead and then bowled back by a whole bunch of Bangor Cardinals.
That could have been again another disaster for Ithaca Weston.
They'll give him a yard, maybe third and nine for Ithaca Weston.
Ball is right around the 20 yard line, the red zone here.
So they're going to try to make a while the sun shines and they need to convert on this
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There's a throw left side.
Caught by Ithaca Western and they're going to be brought down.
Really no game.
Caden Keller caught it and may have been out of bounds for a yard or so.
It's going to bring up a fourth down.
That play was just not going to work as it was really good coverage.
I think you had to go west and was hoping to get it out on the end and then have Cayden do the rest but Bangor did so well of sealing the end and now IW with a fourth and about 11 yards to go.
All marked to the 22 and a timeout has been taken.
436 remaining in the third, 8-6.
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Welcome back to Ithaca.
Ithaca Weston trying to keep the drive alive here after a timeout.
They're going to head back to the football and again, Bangor staying on the far side of the field here for the entire duration of the timeout.
Lots of hard hitting going on out there.
Also,
The trainers are being asked to go to the other side, so they're going over the other side of the field.
They'll look at a Bangor player, so they'll be given time to get over there.
The officials stopping play.
In fact, there's a young man seated on the bench over there for Bangor.
Check on him, and we are ready to go.
Fourth, I mean, 11 from the 22 of Bangor.
There's the snap.
Throw, Keller catches it up in here, so I'm now gonna try to run.
Cut around the right side, hip arms wide, he's down the sideline.
Caden, Keller!
Inside the five, I believe, is out of bounds.
Keller!
Keller!
With a catch and run.
They're gonna call that down around to the...
Five yard line again.
I'm kind of blocked out of where he went out of bounds, but it'll go now what what a nice play Jacob Keller rolling out I said at halftime trying to get the ball to Caden get that passing game going and that some of the wide receivers and that's the second really big conversion tonight on fourth down that the ethical lessons been able to do So here we go, it's going to be down around the
three yard line it looks like first and goal there's the handoff Spencer Nelson trying to get around the left side put the shoulder down down around the goal line he's got a touchdown and Ithaca Weston takes the lead first lead of the night here for Ithaca Weston as they go up on top here to the tune of 12 to 8
423 remaining here in the third quarter, big touchdown and a great drive that started at their own 26 yard line.
So Ithaca Weston now will talk about a possible conversion as they get back to talk about it.
Well, that was just a very impressive run by Spencer Nelson for the score.
Two point conversion try coming up.
Shotgun snap.
Jacob Keller is going to pitch out to Keller.
He's going to throw it.
It's low and incomplete.
And the score will stay 12-8.
Ithaca Weston leading Bangor 4-23 remaining in the third.
What a ball game here at Ithaca.
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Welcome back to Ithaca, 12-8.
Ithaca-Weston has taken its first lead of the ballgame.
Bangor is scoring.
At the start of the second quarter, they've not scored since.
And here's Caden Keller with the approach.
Ticks it in over in, left side taken around the five-yard line by Bangor up to the 15 and the 20.
Over the pile, still going.
Look out, he's down to the 45-yard line.
Rocked down finally by Ithaca-Weston, number 14, Carter Pleamer, who might have seen the...
Touchdown on the run back by Jacobson.
It's a great field position for Bangor as they start out.
Hey, Mark, knocking back a little bit further back than what I saw initially.
Maybe as he went down, they're going to market at the 41 of Bangor, but he almost broke that by the time he got to around midfield.
But they marketed the 41, and that's where Bangor will take over first and 10 trailing for the first time in the game.
They are set.
Quarterback takes it out of the shotgun.
Running play.
Ithaca-Weston catches him from behind, and the play is made.
On the far side, nice delivery there on the tackle by Ithaca-Weston, tackled by Isaiah Fargent and company.
So it'll bring up a second down play and just less than 10 yards for Bangor.
Clock running, 350 remaining here in the third quarter.
That is a high school tonight.
Bangor to the football.
Wendell Hansen, Reed, Wacken and Schroeder along the line.
There's a counter run.
It's going to be across the 45 to the 46 yard line.
A slight gain for Bangor.
Going to take him up for a third down play and let her on five yards to go for a first down.
tackle made by Reed Wapshall.
So third and five for the Cardinals.
You have to go west and looking for a defensive stop in this one.
Bangor heading to the football.
Third down five yards to go.
Three-minute mark of the third quarter.
Jacobson takes the snap, the quarterback gonna run it himself coming near side, stripped initially of the ball and holds on and then gets another couple of yards across the 50 to the 49 yard line.
He'll be short of the first down by just a little bit.
The quarterback keeper.
Nice tackle.
Jacob Keller helping out on the stop.
Fourth down and short yardage for Bangor.
They're gonna
Of course, go for it in a situation.
Gonna try to get the job done.
Don't have a lot of real estate to go for the first down.
Ithaca-Weston, boy, this would be a huge play if they could shut him down.
Fourth down in short yardage.
Pipe gaps.
There's this snap from center.
Handoff, running play, first down.
45 of Ithaca-Weston with a forward progress.
Finally driven down and there is an injured player getting up slowly.
He does get up.
It's number 34, Landon Walmer.
gets back to the pile, walking a little bit gingerly now as he heads back to the defensive huddle.
Dick's move.
Ball is in Ithaca-Weston territory at the 45.
2-10 remaining in the third quarter.
Leading here tonight, Ithaca-Weston 12-8.
Bangor up to the football.
First and 10 for the Cardinals.
There's the snap from center.
And off, with China choosing his way as Huffman, and he is stacked up right around the line of scrimmage.
Well played by Ithaca Weston.
Big Aiden Burns coming up to make this stop.
Aiden just a sophomore for Ithaca Weston following his brother who played graduated in the spring actually and lots of brotherly love on this team some other siblings that have played football either at Ithaca or Weston.
A minute, 25 remaining in a quick moving third quarter.
Second down about nine yards to go.
Ball just inside the Ithaca-Weston 45.
There's the snap.
Shotgun to the quarterback.
He is hit and dropped by Ithaca-Weston.
They just pushed that offensive line backwards.
Nice play.
Boy, he could barely walk earlier.
Landon Walmer comes up and makes a tremendous play and then Reed Wabschil is there as well.
Third down about 11 yards to go for Bangor.
loss of a yard or two.
Ball is back at the 46 yard line.
Awesome defensive effort here for Ithaca-Weston.
49 seconds remaining in the third quarter.
12-8, the ball game score.
Ithaca-Weston has come back to take the lead if you're just joining us.
Third and about 11 for Bangor from the 46th of Ithaca-Weston.
There's the snap back to throw the quarterback.
This is a rarity.
He's back.
He's going to air one.
over the middle of hanging up there, picked off by Caden Keller.
Intercepted, coming back the other way to the 30 yard line.
What a play!
Caden Keller now gets up a little bit late, maybe with a cramp.
He is back down on the ground, nice IMT.
First turnover for Bangor.
Ooh, there is a flag on the play.
Let's see what that call is.
It's back in the Bangor territory.
Personal foul.
Ooh, again, Kithika Weston.
Personal foul is the call as the official makes the call and so That'll probably melify the interception man.
That was an exciting play So 15 yard penalty and I'm not sure so the interception will not stand and Bangor
We'll have the football it looks like for a first down there is a hit the go Western player down Via injury that's Caden Keller who again trying to Stretch out the leg looks like a cramp So as they check on him boy, that's a big big play at the go Western was gonna have the football back with 23 seconds in the third quarter Interception waved off on a penalty and again it was a
15 yarder, a personal foul in it to go west and it was clear on the other side of the field.
Let's check the scoreboard.
Halftime River Ridge, Leading Riverdale, 28 to 6.
It is GET Leading Fenimore, 28 to 7 third quarter.
Also Orangeville Leading Highland, 22-8.
Mineral point, 12-0 over Landgaster, that's in the third quarter.
At last word Platteville was up on Richland Center 21 to 13 and that was at halftime So they're gonna sort it out here I Was just ready to put down the INP in the book and it looks like it's not gonna stand Kate and Keller comes over to the sidelines to get a little work done and I think a Western on the defense both teams
Huddling it up, getting a little bit of water time as well.
No timeout was called.
Bangor, I think, is just going to stay and be content to run this one down and get to the fourth quarter.
And they will.
They're going to stay in the huddle.
That'll do it.
Final quarter coming up.
It's a good one here at Ithaca.
12-8.
Ithaca-Weston hit the lead over Bangor.
Bangor will have the football in pretty good field shape.
after the penalty when we return with a fourth quarter next to WRCO and WRCO.com.
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Welcome back, fourth quarter.
We're just looking at the Brewer's score.
17-0 up on the Reds.
Are you kidding me?
Wow.
Vangor gets the football back, started the fourth quarter.
Quarterback keeper, and he's brought down behind the line of scrimmage.
Nice tackle by several of the Ithico Western players.
Aiden Burns having a great game, brings down the quarterback along with a little help from his friends.
Second down about 11 yards ago now looks like a loss of a bit for Bangor.
I think a Western leading it 12-8 trying to overcome a big penalty and a transition of the ball back to Bangor.
So the Cardinals trying to take advantage.
There's the quarterback under center.
There's the snap and the ball is loose again and Bangor falls on it.
Burns was there trying to scoop that one up and so was
paiton brown but the quarterback tolayer jackson gets right back on it lost of a pair of yards third down in twelve that ball is marked at the thirty-three yard line of it the co-western early a minute into the fourth quarter quick ball game an hour and a half into it and we're in the fourth quarter here and we had an extended halftime as well here tonight that goes to show you the couple of running teams
uh...
at the clock has been a running clock tonight because
of the ball staying on the ground.
Very little stoppage of play as there haven't been a lot of passes.
Third down, big play for Bangor on offense, third down at about 12.
There's the snap, quarterback is back being rushed.
Rose, it's going to be caught and knocked away at the last moment.
Loose on the field, they're going to say it was incomplete pass.
Holton reach, and it was played really well by Ithaca Weston, coming up from behind to make the play.
It was Peyton Brown, nice play.
Several of the Bulldogs got pressure on the quarterback and it's fourth down and 12 yards to go.
So another big defensive play is coming up for Ithaca-Weston, Bangor hustling the play in from the sideline with Gunnar Eklund.
He's in the huddle.
12-8 Ithaca-Weston leading by four in this scenic bluffs conference showdown.
Looking things over is Sawyer Jacobson.
running out of the shotgun.
Fourth and 12 back to throw.
They pressure him.
They hit him.
They bring him down.
Nice play by Ithaca Weston.
And they make the play of a quarterback sack.
Nicely done.
Spencer Nelson and company back to make the play.
Very emotional game.
Nice play on the QB sack.
And now Ithaca Weston will take over on downs from Bangor.
They drove.
Got with the penalty to the Ithaca Western 32 yard line Second possession of the half and IW gets it back.
That's right.
Just the second possession Spencer Nelson leading the defense and IW with a football to the 41 yard line There's a handoff Spencer gets the call runs right tackle got to around the 43 and brought backwards toward progress will give him potentially a yard
If we had to go west and right now, again, get into some of that clock control, ball control, just turn the ball over, try to keep turning away here.
And that strategy has worked out pretty well for IW.
Second down, seven yards to go after a three-yard game by Spencer.
Shotgun snap.
There it is.
And now the quarterback, Jacob Keller, trying to get around the right hand.
He's caught from behind and maybe a head for a yard to the 46 yard line.
Bangor makes the play coming up from underneath.
Justin Langer on the play.
That'll bring up about, like about five yards to go for a first down.
Third down and five yards to go for a first down.
930 remaining in the game.
12-8.
Ithaca-Weston in the lead.
They head to the football.
Trying to convert here, they need to get just past the 50 for a first down.
There's the snap.
Handoff, running play, coming near side, bowling, a pile, a couple of yards, that's all for Spencer Nelson.
Shy of the 50, the ball is marked at the 49 yard line of Ithaca-Weston.
That'll bring up a fourth down.
So what do you do here?
Ithaca-Weston
They've been pretty confident with the ground game and the running plays, but the puntet and try to push Bangor back a little bit, and that's what the decisions will be made here.
I think they're going to bring in the play from the near sign.
I believe they're going to go for it fourth down.
Boy, if they could keep it here, that would be huge as much time has been running off the clock here with these two teams playing the ball game here tonight that they like to play.
A running game has been dominant.
Ithaca-Weston lining up like they're going for it here, fourth down and short yard.
There's the snap, but that keeps it near side.
Jacob Keller spun around.
He's not going to get it.
He won't get it brought down by number 68, Corey Schrader.
And Ithaca-Weston stopped up down.
That puts it back to Bangor.
And this old fashioned slugfest Bangor takes over at the IW 49 yard line.
They take over with 8-16 to go.
First in 10 for the Bangor Cardinals.
Defense has been the rule here tonight.
12-8, Ithaca-Weston in the lead.
We'll check the filmy flip phone again in just a little bit.
So both teams turn it over on downs and we are set to go here again.
There's the snap to Bangor.
Hi!
Goes over the quarterback's head.
He can't get it.
It's loose.
Ithaca-Weston piling on it.
They may have gotten it.
Inigo Weston gets it back on a fumble recovery.
Taken there by number 34, Landon Walmer and his closest friends at Inigo Weston.
Getting on the football and that is a big point.
Could be a turning point in the game if Inigo Weston can do something with it from here on out.
Fumble recovered and now back in the hands of IW.
They'll take over at the 35 of Bangor.
12-8, Ithago Weston in the lead.
They head to the football, ready to snap the ball.
35-yard line of Bangor.
There's the snap.
Hand off Spencer Nelson, runs up the gut.
Inside the 35, down to a round.
That's a 32-yard line, it looks like.
Tackle made by Wil Reed, number 51.
Boy, there's some fellas that are black and blue tomorrow.
It's been a hard-hitting game.
Second down at about seven yards to go for Ithaca West.
And again, they've not been in a real hurry tonight, keeping that clock running.
And they've been playing into perfection.
Four points, slim lead in this one.
Second down play, and Aiden Keller from the far side line is going to be back in the fold.
He's going to go to the right side as Ithaca Weston heads to the football.
Second down play, Jacob Keller and company goes.
Now it's going to take a timeout.
Weren't sure of the play, and so they'll take timeout and head back to the line here on the nearside.
7-21 remaining in the football game.
Ithaca-Weston leading, 12-8, over visiting Bangor on WRCO Radio Sports.
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We're back to action here with Ithaca Weston leading
12-8, 7-21 to go, third, a second down, that is, in seven yards to go, and cutting back across the field with a good run is number 34, Landon Waller, and I believe he got a first down.
Landon Waller moves the chains with some good blocking up front.
Get to go west and fire up there, leading the way and blocking.
That line has done a good job here.
Tonight, kind of recovering a little bit, maybe struggled early on, Mason Van Coulter.
Hayden Burns on the upfront blocking and right now under seven minutes ago, Ithaca Weston, driving with a football just outside the 25 yard line of Bangor.
Jacob Keller takes the snap, handoff, Spencer Nelson trying to get around the left side.
He's got a little roll across the 20, down to around the 18 yard line.
Bulldogs continue the run, staying in bounds, clock running, 6.35 to go, second down.
And about five yards to go from the 19 yard line of Vangor.
You have to go west and getting the ball back on the fumble recovery.
And after some well-played defense, a quarterback sack by Spencer Nelson.
The defense has just really led the way.
I think a Western needs some time here in this game to maybe give the defense a rest, although some of the players, same players, play on both sides of the ball.
Certainly good to have the offense on the field.
Bring a new football.
I think it's getting a little bit maybe do covered out there.
So here we go.
Second now play and is fumbled and then falling on it is the quarterback Jacob Keller.
So that one could have been a catastrophe as well.
But if it go Weston keeps it clock continues to run 547 to go.
You have to go Weston now with a third down ball landed right on the.
The line of scrimmage and that's where it is though so they'll gain no loss and now Here comes the play from the sideline if you go west and trying to keep the ball in their possession and Just calmly close this one out four point lead They could add to it that might feel the deal 520 to play third down about five yards to go There's this nap from center going back as the quarterback.
He's being chased and then brought down I really know where to go for Jacob Keller
And well played by the defense of Bangor.
Number 52, Rudy Hanson coming back to make the play show at this point.
It's like a Western with the ball right around the 31 yard line, fourth down on a huge loss.
So for a first down, they must get inside the 15 to around the 14 yard line for 45 to go.
Ball is marked on the 31-yard line right around 17 yards to go for a first down.
Ithaca Weston lining up on the shotgun.
Keller back to throw.
They're coming after him.
Pocket breaks down.
He's going to whip one near side.
Caden Keller going down the line.
No, can't get it.
Incomplete.
And Ithaca Weston was looking back.
I think the quarterback got a pretty good shot there.
No penalties and that'll turn it back over to Bangor with 426 to go.
Oh my goodness.
Hold on to the radio here tonight.
Ithaca-Weston turns it over on downs with 426 to go.
Bangor takes over on the 31 yard line.
Oh my goodness.
Cardinals with the football.
Ithaca-Weston defense has got to dig deep here.
12-8 lead by four, running play, not much for number 11, Weston Pollock.
Oh, loose again!
Bulldogs say they have it, celebrating a fact and the officials are gonna say that it's down.
Pollock got back on it, it appears, but then Weston thought they had it.
Play was blown dead, so that'll be the call.
It brings up with four minutes exactly to go, second down to about eight yards to go.
from the 33 yard line.
12-8 Ithaca-Weston.
Down to the wire in this one tonight.
We thought it'd be a good game and it certainly is turning out to be that way.
An instant classic here tonight at Ithaca.
12-8 score.
They lead by four.
Bangor trying to get a last.
Dicks drive together.
Checking down from their 33 yard line.
Jacobson under center.
There's the snap.
Back to throw, stands up, throws it and he's gonna be getting dropped right away after a catch game of about two yards.
Well played on the defense by Quintus Baker.
That was completed for a small game and that'll bring up a third down play, third in about six.
Ithaca-Weston's defense has just really had a shot of adrenaline here tonight, making some tremendous plays.
And they're going to have to be called upon for a few more here tonight, I would say.
Three minutes remaining, Bangor third down and seven yards to go.
There's the snap.
Oh, it's going to roll, it's going to roll.
The quarterback gets up.
Oh, the 19 yard line on a low snap.
Sawyer Jacobson back to get on that ball.
Spencer Nelson was back there to make sure that he stayed down and
some of his friends as well.
So timeout by Bangor.
237 remaining.
It'll bring up a fourth down play and a long way to go for Bangor.
Timeout in the field.
You have to go west in celebrating, but this was not done yet.
12-8 they lead 237 to go.
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237 to go in the ball game here tonight at Ithaca.
Ithaca Weston on the verge if Bangor gives up the ball here.
Ithaca Weston gets it back and have a good chance of holding on to get it done here tonight.
If you're Bangor, you're going to have to try to go for it fourth down and long fourth at about 21 yards to go for a first down.
Jacobson will take the snap out of the shotgun awaiting the snap.
and there it is he's back to throw being flush from the pocket coming near side floats it over he's got a man it is caught and he is brought down right around the 36 yard line but short of the first down by about six yards Tayden Geller makes the stop after the grab by Huffman and Ithaca Western forces Bangor over on downs with a tremendous defensive play again there the
They gave up a little ground, but they had some guys in back of the throw and the play was stopped.
So Ithago Weston takes over 231 to go.
Paul is on the 35 of Bangor.
And here we go.
Under center is Keller.
Hands off.
Near side and trying to bake the corner is Nelson.
Bounces off one tackle.
Sports ahead to around the 31.
Boy, he just willed himself for a few extra yards.
You have to go Weston with a ball and 220 to play in a four point lead.
215 to go.
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147 to play.
Ithaca-Weston taking some time.
Backline judge has his hand up and now Keller is under center.
There's the snap.
Jacob hands off big hole for Nelson initially.
Get through for a first down.
Down to around the 24 and Ithaca-Weston keeps the clock going.
Bangor is going to use a timeout 134 to go.
Indigo Western with ball in hand at the 26-yard line of banger when we return.
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Platteville Leading Richland Center, 27-19.
That's in the third quarter of that one.
Here at Ithaca, it is Ithaca Weston leading 12-8.
Ball in hand, first down and 10.
from the 25 yard line for Ithaca-Weston.
Game has gone by very quickly here tonight awaiting a snap from center.
There is the handoff to Spencer Nelson.
Off the right tackle gains a little bit again inside the 20 to around the 16 yard line.
Bangor I believe will use its final timeout and we will keep it here for this one.
Ithaca-Weston, deep in Bangor territory they're taking a timeout.
So the ball is marked inside the 20 and around the 16 yard line.
We'll be on the air next week from Lancaster which will center in Lancaster High School football and then on Saturday we'll be here for the Ithaca-Weston game, a homecoming game for Ithaca and that will be against Brookwood.
That has a one o'clock kickoff time next week so we'll have that for you on WRCO as well for a Saturday game.
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Checking down about four yards to go, a minute 28 remaining in the game, there's the snap, and off Nelson Boots, his shoulder down, gains a couple, short of the first down, brings up a third down.
Here for Ithaca Weston keeping the ball a minute 15 to go in the football game.
Ithaca Weston trying to put the salt on this one here tonight.
Old in the ball leading by Ford barring a turnover at this point going to take that clock down.
Ithaca Weston can use a timeout and I believe they're going to wait in the huddle until the appropriate time.
The clock is down to 53 seconds.
and coach Kelly patrolling the sidelines here.
Letting that clock run down to 43.
Down to 40 seconds and I think a Western takes a timeout.
39.9 seconds remaining in the ball game.
Boy, you know, if you wanted to show a defensive battle to your team, how defense
can be fun and exciting.
This would be the one to show.
I mean, there have been some offensive highlights, but both teams have had their share of defensive prowess here tonight.
And with 39.9 seconds, I believe I think the Weston may have to snap the ball just one more time.
We'll see.
In fact, that's what assistant coach Brett Maxwell is asking as he is out talking to the official right now.
So Ithaca Weston with the football, third down.
About three yards to go for a first down.
The ball is on the 17 officially of Bangor.
Ithaca Weston running the play in from the near side, shuttling it in.
They'll go back to the huddle for a play here on third down.
And Ithaca Weston, I'm guessing you're going to play it pretty close to the vest.
You don't want a little razzle-dazzle and turn the ball over here.
That would be Bangor's only hope.
They're playing without a timeout.
Jacob Keller.
awaiting the snap under center.
The line is set.
There's the snap and off running play.
Nelson cuts through and he is going to be close to a first down.
Spencer with a good run up the middle.
Rudy Hanson with a tackle.
That may be the game's final play.
The fans celebrating here.
First down is the change.
Move on with 34 seconds.
Kipika Weston
will
head to the football.
possibly for a victory snap right at the end of the football game.
Down to 25 seconds.
Spencer Nelson and company in the huddle and they look at the clock and fur with the official.
I don't think you're going to have to snap it again.
Down to the final 12 seconds here.
The clock rolls down and Ithaca Weston is going to celebrate one here tonight.
Oh, it's an instant classic.
Ithaca Weston gets a big win tonight at home over Bangor.
With the picture of Briggs Maxwell in the middle, they head out to the middle of the field and celebrate this one here tonight.
12-8.
What a ball game.
Hats off to both teams.
This was an enjoyable game to call.
12-8 the final.
Ithaca Weston with the win over Bangor.
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we're back to Ithaca.
What a really good game to recap here tonight.
Not a lot of scoring.
And the Duncan Awards turning point of the game.
What do you turn to?
Well, possibly the last score of the game.
That goes back to 423 remaining in the third.
And that was a touchdown run by Spencer Nelson, a three-yard run, which gave Ithaca Weston the lead at that point.
And that was the score at the end of the third quarter.
Of course, there were some phenomenal plays called along the way on defense.
Ithaca Weston makes a couple of phenomenal plays.
Spencer Nelson had a quarterback shack in there.
Landon Walmer had a fumble recovery.
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Welcome back to Ithaca, a 12-8 victory for Ithaca Weston here tonight.
Great ball game as we put the wraps on it here this evening with a delinquent plumbing and heating post-game show.
Getting the job done here on defense.
The team played exceptional well.
Bangor played well as well and just it couldn't be a better ball game.
Bangor took the early lead with the score by Elijah Krop on a three-yard run.
His two-point run put the visitors up by a score of 8-0.
In that first quarter as well, Elijah Kropp recovered a bulldog fumble, which in this game could have proven costly.
But at that point, Ithaca-Weston able to recover, and they would score their first touchdown on a one-yard plunge by quarterback Jacob Keller.
Nice touchdown.
They missed the two-point conversion, kept these teams separate at halftime.
The score was 8-0.
the sixth in favor of Bangor at the break.
Ithaca-Weston would take the lead.
They would control the clock most of the game.
And their first possession, they took the clock all the way down to 4-23 remaining in the third.
When Spencer Nelson gapped off the drive with a three-yard run, the two-point throw is missed.
And it was a 12-8 ballgame at the end of the third.
Great defense.
Bangor was driving, getting into the fourth quarter, turned it over on down, throw all the way to the 32.
Spencer Nelson with a big quarterback stack there.
Also, Ithaca Weston's Caden Keller had an interception, but it was waved off because of a penalty against Ithaca Weston.
So that didn't go, and you thought at that point, man, that might prove costly as well.
But it wasn't to be, and eventually,
landed Walmer with a fumble recovery for Ithaca-Weston.
Bangor turned it back.
The Bangor would get the ball one more time.
They had it at their 31 yard line and would give it back to Ithaca-Weston, turning it over on downs.
After a long pass, it was fourth down and long and they got about 12 of those yards back but stopped short by the Ithaca-Weston defense.
Ithaca-Weston took over at the 35 of Bangor and they were able to salt this one away here.
and wind it down for a 12-8 victory.
Joe, with the win, Ithaca Western with its third victory of the season, now looking at homecoming game next week with Brookwood getting the job done, and we'll see how the other scores go tonight, but Ithaca Western looking to keep the advantage going in the conference, seeing plus conference, and look ahead to some other big games coming up.
They're still going to win some games and I would say they're going to have to get going, but they still could be a playoff team from what we saw here this evening.
So moving on, again, Brookwood next week for Ithaca-Weston and that will start at 1 o'clock.
1 o'clock kickoff time for the game and we'll have it for you.
Three game time around at 12.45 on WRCO.
After the Brookwood game,
a tough one at Kashton the following week and then at Hillsborough Royal High School and then Weston High School.
That's a tough schedule for Ithaca-Weston to close out the regular season.
Just one more game at Ithaca, just one game at Weston.
That's Weston's homecoming game against Nassida final week of the regular season on the 16th of October.
For Bangor, after tonight, they will play host to Nassida next week and then
at New Lisbon.
They'll host Royal and Brookwood and close out against Cashton at Cashton on the final week of the regular season.
What a ball game tonight.
What a lot of defense that we saw here this evening.
Worked out really well for Ithaca Weston and hats off to their coaching staff as they got the job done.
Marcus McCauley
and
Coach Kelly and Coach Maxwell and just a really good team effort.
for this Ithaca Westlaw.
The game has been engineered by our old buddy, Mr. Fabulous, Tim Thede.
He's got a fabulous post-game show coming up here in just a little bit.
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That's a wild one and maybe a higher scoring game than we anticipated.
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