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Good morning and welcome to In Our Range.

I'm your host, Mike LeBeau.

This morning we're joined by Mary Hansen, board president at Awkward Stage Drama Club here in Ironwood.

The Awkward Stage Drama Club is a non-profit organization providing theater activities for students in grades 4 through 12.

It was established in partnership and with support from the Ironwood Carnegie Library.

The Ironwood Carnegie Library and historic Ironwood Theater were instrumental in the establishment and nourishment of the club.

Now, the ASDC operates on its own as a 501C3.

Activities include learning about acting, set building, makeup, costumes, backstage management, tech, publicity, and marketing.

The club is hosting open houses on September 3rd and 8th at Zion Lutheran Church at 100 Midland Avenue in Ironwood.

The club is open to both new and returning participants, bringing together all children from across the region.

Mary Hansen is a volunteer at the Awkward Stage Drama Club.

She's an Ironwood resident and tremendous supporter of the performing arts here on the range.

Mary is a retired school psychologist and is one of the founders of the Awkward Stage Drama Club.

She's also served and volunteered at the Range Strikers Soccer Club for many years with her husband Bill and daughter Alexi.

That's where we met, right?

That's

right.

Good morning, Mary, and welcome to In Our

Range.

Good morning, Mike.

How are you doing today?

I'm fantastic.

Thank you.

Well, thanks for coming in.

Of course.

When my family and I first moved here in 2019 and I saw the Flyers for the awkward stage drama club just

so delighted by the name and the idea of it.

And I've just been excited.

I'm so glad you could come in here this morning.

Me too.

Thank you.

So with 14 years of the awkward stage drama club under your belt, what are a couple of things that really stand out for you when it comes to how this program benefits kids here on the range?

Well, I think that what first comes to mind is that when we first started this, what I noticed is that none of the school districts had a theater program in their schools.

And so that was one of the reasons that we wanted to start something so that there was an opportunity to learn about theater arts.

And then what it ended up doing was bringing those kids that were sometimes the outliers or didn't have a lot of friends that once they became a part of this group, they established the friendships they established.

Oh, I'm not the only one that kind of sticks out but has a likeness for

talking or for tech or for lighting and sound, whatever it might be.

There was a venue for them to come together and not feel like they were the outsiders.

They were their own group.

And so they could be who they were.

They felt comfortable in the group.

And so that was kind of the side benefit of that.

And now it's really become kind of the focus.

Theater can teach so much.

in so many different levels but kids can come and feel respected and supported for who they are and figure out that they're not the only ones in their schools that might be just a little bit different and it's been wonderful to watch that nurtured.

So not only do these kids get to come in and gain some skills and maybe

have an activity that they're interested in but they get to develop these skills to a deep level really nerd out on what it is that they bring to it whether it's tech or production or acting or directing and then in that they also find a safe community for themselves where they get to really develop their own character in real life not just on the stage.

When I first started back in the day and we were doing you know

hour, hour and a half productions.

There were a lot of kids in the schools that would come and participate.

And we've got into all of the costumes and the makeup and all of that.

And that a large part was due to historical and with theater who got this big grant for us.

And we were able to purchase those things.

And then they got to express themselves, build confidence in how they speak, come out of their shell, and then have

And there were some kids that you never would have expected to show up that did.

You know, sort of like high school musical, you get your sometimes the jock, right?

That comes

in and felt comfortable doing that.

And boy, we had some fun production.

So when I look back at 14 years, who's still in our community that was a part of that, the skills they learned was amazing.

Now, kids don't really know how to have a social conversation.

So working on the art of conversation, eye contact, expressing yourself verbally, not in a text with an LOL or whatever emojis that they might want.

What does it look like when you're sad?

What does it look like when you're mad?

How do you move your body?

What do you notice about what this person is doing?

So our hope is that it can perpetuate some of those skills within the schools or with their family or friends because I feel like we're getting a group of kids here that it's a lost art even to communicate.

Yeah, so working in the dramatic arts allows especially young people but really anybody Sometimes you learn so much about yourself and get to develop yourself when you're pretending to be somebody else correct and When you're learning acting and you're learning this cooperative skills of putting on a production You have to communicate and you have to communicate clearly you have to work through conflict Learn how you understand and you this club offers a safe nourishing environment for these people

kids to really come out and then add in the fact that you might get these kids from different social circles different clicks that come together and there may be some pardon the phrase awkwardness around that they find that in this group all of that stuff that might exist in the halls of the school or in a classroom or somewhere else they don't exist there and it's wonderful and then that functions as you notice you still see so many of these kids who are now adults moving through the world and

The club functions almost as a pipeline of talent into theater north and all these other things.

Exactly.

And that's where we want to, especially this year, we're pulling back a little bit in that we're going to make smaller group sizes because we do want to form those relationships better and build those skills better.

When they leave here and they're looking for a group of like minds when they're adults and they leave our community, or even if they stay at theater north, they know

where they can go to find some people that.

have that same joy, that same fun, that same outlet.

They know what to look for to find their people and then they have a stronger sense of self when they get out on their own to be able to say, okay, I feel confident about this and this is what I can provide moving forward.

Correct.

And it's not just, like you were saying, it's not just the acting part.

That is a huge part.

We want to give kids confidence to speak clearly, to

think on their feet, read body language, and we'll do that with group activities.

But there's a whole other world.

There's art in the schools, but this provides another opportunity for set design.

marketing and publicity.

You design the posters for us.

You design stuff for the Facebook page for us.

We want to move in that direction now as well.

Lighting and sound.

I think theater north just got a new light and sound system.

And wouldn't it be great to have some of our kids eventually be able to learn that?

Historic Ironwood Theater has updated their equipment.

They're looking for volunteers.

Wouldn't it be great to nurture some of our kids to be able to participate in that?

And as you are learning those skills, you're also among other people who like theater art and whatever form it is.

But yes, so.

step by step, once we moved into the 501C3 status, I was held to more of

Like we have a board of directors now and we have requirements and expectations that kind of shifted whereas before it was just kind of Mary and Lynn and Bruce kind of, oh, let's put on a production, right?

So moving forward, we're really trying to give it more of an intimate look with each age group and work on learning the skills a little bit more in depth.

And we'll look at doing workshops, not just a production, but we'll do many workshops.

Like it might be a makeup workshop.

It might be how to do an audition workshop.

Angela Burla ran an audition workshop this summer.

And what do you need to know when you go to an audition?

If you've ever auditioned for different directors at Theatre North, you know they do it differently.

Yeah.

Yeah.

you know, we want them ready for that.

Wow.

So you're not, you're not just deepening skill sets with these kids, but you're also expanding the skill sets available for these kids, which invites more kids who may not be as extroverted or wanting to be on the stage, but have these skills that they can develop while remaining true to the original mission of keeping this supportive community and allowing these kids to really be themselves.

And rather than just have, okay, here's auditions and then here's our rehearsals, you have regular club

meetings and workshops that go on regardless of whether there's a production actually in work.

That's the

vision.

That's the vision.

So Angela Burla and myself are kind of the two key leaders of this right now and doing that at least for this year because of getting used to what paperwork needs to be signed, communication with parents, making sure that these kids are all in.

as far as if you're going to participate then you need to say that you're going to participate and show up

and if

you don't then we

have to let you go.

Right.

We haven't really done that in the past.

So it's going to look a little bit different

for those that are coming back.

A little more structured, a little more, yeah.

Yes.

Expectations happen when you take that status.

Right.

And so in my head, it's kind of like a five to eight year vision before we finally get

like

the whole thing running smoothly and built to a

a bigger program, but we will offer these components as we go along.

That's why I would start as workshops.

Like it might be a one day workshop, but at least you're introduced to light and sound.

You're introduced to set design.

You're introduced to make up.

So with this rearrangement, you're not only looking to expand the group of kids, but I can imagine with all the administrative work and outreach and publicity that you could use some adult volunteers as well with that help.

Yeah, we can.

And I anybody that's

interested in doing that can certainly contact the website on the Facebook page or whatever you know it's

here reach out to you through Gmail right we'll give out later and then the Facebook page

yes I mean I want them to come in and be able to see what we're about

So come and talk to me.

Let's see what could happen.

So with that, you have these open houses coming up for people to come visit, check out the community, see whether and how they can get involved on Thursday, September 3rd and on a Tuesday, September 8th from 6 to 8 PM at the Zion Lutheran Church in Ironwood on Midland Avenue over there.

They'll be having a possibilities and registration opportunity

for all the kids who will be in fourth through twelfth grade in school or homeschooled and parents can come in and check out the club.

What would you like to share about that event coming up?

What can folks expect?

Well, first of all, before I say that, I do have to say like the hugest shout out to Zion Lutheran Church who has donated their space now for the last two years.

for us to have a home so that I don't have to live out of my shed and my front porch.

And so we actually have a costume area and we have a props area and we have a working area.

And then we also have a place to perform when we're ready to do a show.

So this wouldn't be happening at this level with without them.

So from six to eight and it's an open house, you don't have to be there the whole time.

You come in

We'll be there to talk about the age of your child, what the expectations are for that age group.

What I will say is that for our fifth and sixth grade group and our seventh and eighth grade group, you have to commit to both Tuesday and Thursday.

Fifth and sixth grade group will be Tuesdays and Thursdays from 345 to 515.

And the seventh and eighth grade group will be from 6pm to 730pm on Tuesday and Thursday.

In order to really make this a cohesive group and form this team of people for what we're doing in the fall, you have to commit to both.

And we hope to be done.

We will be done by December 10th.

We can't tell you which production we're doing until we see how many kids.

we have in the group.

And then when we know how many we have in the group, then we'll look at the production date.

So we'll work that out with the parents.

Yes.

So there's a new structure, which also needs to go with the flow, depending on what happens.

And the commitment is an important part of that character development that we were talking about earlier.

It's the best way to ensure that everyone gets

their needs met and develop skills and then the community thrives.

I like to think of it as a team.

If you're playing on the football team or the softball team, you're required to be there for

your

practices and you can't produce a team if you're gone from every other practice.

We're going to max it out at 12 per group.

So if your kids are interested, please come and sign up because we are going to cap it at 12.

so that both Angela and I can handle the group, communicate with the group and not feel overwhelmed ourselves.

The kids are gonna have so much fun with the different games that we do while they probably won't even know that they're learning skills because

they're gonna

be have fun doing the games.

And then one of the things that I learned from this resource that I never even considered was that for every one minute that your production says it is.

So let's say it's a 45 minute.

production.

You need one hour of rehearsal.

Yeah, so if you want it to go well, you need to spend an hour on for that many minutes.

Well that's so we're looking at a 20 minute production but those that have come in the past or those that have come and seen productions, my expectation is is that you're going to be like

Oh my gosh.

They all had their lines memorized.

Their body movement was different.

They watched each other.

Their emotions matched what they were saying.

This was incredible.

That's where we want to be.

Excellent.

So I want to give that a try.

Yeah, so there's a real vision of development.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Is there anything else you'd like to add before we get out of here

today?

No, just that

Please come and talk to us.

The sky is the limit.

If you come in and your child really wants to draw this type of stuff or learn about this, we want the ideas just as much as we want the commitment to a Tuesday, Thursday, or how are we going to do workshops?

How many people do we have doing this?

Well, then we need to do a workshop.

So even if you have been a past participant, no, you can't do the two days.

Come in anyway.

because we want to make sure that we do have something for you.

That sounds excellent.

Mary, thank you so much for joining us this morning.

Thank you, Mike.

We really appreciate it.

Good luck to you and the Awkward Stage Drama Club.

Thank you.

We really appreciate the work you do here.

Thanks, Mike.

I'd like to thank Mary Hansen for joining us this morning and sharing about this tremendous opportunity for young folks on the range with the Awkward Stage Drama Club.

The club is hosting open houses on September 3rd and 8th at Zion Lutheran Church in Ironwood.

Kids and adults are all welcome to come learn more and see how they can get involved.

More information can be found on the Awkward Stage Drama Club's Facebook page, or you can email them at awkwardstagedramaclub at gmail.com.

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us.

60 yard pass, 15 yard line gets to the 30, cuts a run, looking for these off and away so they not catch you, will take it to the

distance.

He's in for the touchdown.

Let's go out to the play-by-play with Rod Helverson on WJMS.

Good afternoon football fans from Cardinal Athletic Field in Wakefield.

It's boys high school football as the North Central Jets coming to town to take on the Goodgiver minors.

I'm Rod Helverson alongside Randy Charles.

The golden voice of Randy is back for another year.

No, it's Rod with the golden voice.

Randy's just here.

Wow, Rod, I finally get to watch a game.

You've done two games already and you're just way out ahead of me there.

So yeah, good to get, maybe I'll get caught up.

I'm like, yeah, you're right.

This is my third game.

Feel like I'm in midseason already.

You are.

What the heck?

But that's kind of neat.

You got to cover all the area teams in one weekend.

Well, that's true.

That's a really neat thing.

Well, over two weeks early.

Yeah,

over two weeks.

Yeah, but it's not even Saturday yet.

So you got everything covered.

No.

Yeah.

And so far, the local teams are undefeated.

start covering soccer pretty quick I suppose.

Early with the big overtime win last night, 20 to 14 and then ironing with the big victory over Florence 51 to 52 to 15.

Congratulations to those teams.

Yeah

now if we can get the same thing on the minors tonight we'll be really good.

Yeah it should be a nice night for football early start since there's no lights at Cardinal Field and no school in North Central or

Go give it.

So they decide to play this game at five.

Well, I don't think they had a choice.

I shouldn't say decided.

Yeah, if they're going to play in the way trial, they better play either on a Saturday or early on a Friday.

And the rest better get this game moving right away.

Because the lights here don't work that well.

We got two flashlights in the side over there in the

side.

That's it.

So

everybody can hold up their cell phone and it gets that far.

But, yeah, what time does the sun go down around 7.30?

Yeah, it starts getting, the sun will go down around 7.30, but it starts getting dark about quarter to eight or so.

Right.

I checked, really, I checked that last night just to see when it started to get

dull.

It's

a little noisy press box right now.

A lot of people coming and going, yeah, we do.

It's like Grand Central Station here.

But miners, could I be dealing with some injuries and one injury?

of importance randy is the quarterback jayden barrett you know that guy was all you'd be consideration

last year he was definitely going to be big time this year being injured we don't know for sure how long he's open we're watching him beforehand we're commenting on a result thrown the ball and everything but

You said he had surgery on his left shoulder.

He was catching it well and everything like that, so he looked okay.

The only thing they're worried about is if he plays and he has contact on that shoulder until he gets clearance.

Jason and I went to that midnight scrimmage and I'll tell you what, he is the fastest guy in the team.

He just goes up and down that field so smoothly.

But that's going to be a big loss.

And then they got some other injuries that are out there.

Corey Aspenwald is not suited up tonight.

I don't think, I haven't seen his number.

He wears 23 and I have not seen 23 in the warm-ups.

But I don't see 23 on the sidelines either.

So I'm not sure if Corey is out there.

And we'll see how the game develops.

So Gygivik's going to go with

Decent quarterback, junior Bryson Lainott.

Six foot, 155 pound junior and he throws a real nice ball.

I was watching him in practice and he can air it out for 40, 45 yards and he's got the two backs are going to be Caden Haru and Henry Jenkins and those, well Jason and I went to the scrimmage last Friday and those guys got some speed and that's of course Avan football Randy has built a lot of wrong speed.

That's exactly right.

When you're missing Jaden Barrett, probably one of the fastest, if not the fastest guy in the UP.

You're missing a lot already, and you take him out of there, but you're right.

Those guys, both are you and Henry Jackson, Jenkins, excuse me, have really good speed.

We saw it last year.

They

had a lot of playing time.

That's what it's going to be.

The team has experience coming back, but they sure lost a key number of players off this minor's team from last year's.

Only eight of them.

Yeah, just eight.

Okay, never mind.

I thought it was a lot.

Seven-man football.

They only lost eight guys.

That's it.

When you look at when you look at the Jaden Verrett out with an injury and then you take out the entire offensive line That's that's what I've done.

That's key that line.

They're gone and then the running backs Mildjevic and Hollenbeck Aiden Partner now wide receiver and Matthew Schweitzer on defense Matt Schweitzer all over the field.

Oh my gosh He got to be like our just it was like a cult following for us just watching him so so

Jason, we went to a scrimmage last Friday.

Gogebic looked good.

My mindset was, okay, we know Ironwood is young and a little bit smaller, but Ironwood looked very good last night against maybe a not very good Florence team, hard to judge.

But when I saw Ironwood performing on offense, I got a better feel for the way the miners looked at that scrimmage.

I think coach Edvington Hurley had a really good point on all that.

He said that maybe after week three or week four, you can start to use comparative scores and how teams look against each other to see where teams might be.

It's really hard to tell after a scrimmage or after the first week.

Yeah.

And I guess that's why I'm a little not sure what to think of these teams yet.

I don't think Florence was that good.

They had a real tall quarterback, a good size quarterback.

He had two, six, four receivers.

But they only had one big play and that was a 64 yard touchdown pass and actually it was the running back that threw it to the quarterback and that's pretty much their office.

The game was called at the end of third quarter because Florence suited up 14 players and the only had eight left and the coach down by 35 at that point running clock just said, can we be done?

I don't want to lose any more players.

We've got conference games coming up.

So they agreed last night to end it early, which was probably I think one kid from Florence went to the hospital.

So

it's

hard to judge.

Too early to judge, isn't it?

They're here at 23 out there, but he's not suited up.

He is out there.

But he's not suited up.

Okay.

Corey is in street clothes.

You got 23

and four of both out there as captains.

Hopefully they'll be back soon.

Here's what I remember of North Central last year.

Now they lost

I think, I know they lost their quarterback, but this running back, Caden Malone, a little speech there, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, he was a little speech there.

Jason's just nodding his head.

Like, that's an understatement.

And the other guy that came in late in that game, in Vezmar last year, I think it was Pryor Levante, was another good running back.

So those guys there, those two guys, I think we're going to hear a lot about.

They don't have the positions on here.

They don't have the size on here.

All we have is names, numbers, and grades.

So, any idea who their quarterback might be?

Do you, I know you talked to

Corzinsk?

Uh, TIPCORN, Nathan TIPCORN, I believe, is quarterback senior.

Okay.

North Central doesn't really rebuild, though.

They just kind of reload.

Right, yeah.

There's

always,

there's a couple teams that do that.

So, and actually,

uh... forget it is kind of rebuilding they got kaden harry was the only starter right now from last year but they had a decent jv team and they got some size in the line a little bit uh... inexperience they moved uh... dennis elam i think he was a receiver last year i know he's some of the kicking in that norway game they're gonna move him on into the the line he's in marty's open areas he's a good size kid

So that's going to help them there.

And Felix Miller, he's been playing quite a bit.

He's a junior.

He's a six-foot, 300-pound junior.

And he's going to be the center.

He's going to be the anchor of that offensive line.

But we said this last year about Crystal Falls.

Crystal Falls had some good athletes.

But their line was suspect.

And they ended up one and eight.

Good work, Scott, some good athletes.

But their line is inexperienced this year.

Well, and the other thing that happened to Christopher last year is everybody got hurt and that's kind of what's been happening to the minors and the pre-season with all their injuries.

But hopefully they don't get any more than get some guys back here.

They've got on their roster, they've got three 300 pounders on Gugovic's roster, the 300 pound plus.

And I don't know, especially there's a carpenter, I don't know who's actually starting, we're going to find out when they get out there.

But that's not bad when you can have three guys at 300 pounds.

Yeah, I think Damien, and I heard this Damien may start at one of the guard spots.

And Felix Miller, I think, will be the senior.

I think he'll not go down and get started in line-ups.

Here, we would just do that as the game develops.

But

Randy, I haven't seen you since basketball season.

How you been?

You know what?

I've been okay.

How are you, Rod?

I've been okay.

I've seen you.

Where did we see you?

I saw you after you got back from... Oh, we did.

We did.

Girls

softball, fastball.

That's where it was.

That's right.

It wasn't bad.

We went to Marathon, didn't we?

Yeah, we did.

We did it early, too.

Memory is good, but it's kind of short.

Well, yeah.

All right, so you had a good summer and now you're ready for football.

Summer went fast.

Oh my god, didn't go fast for me

anyway.

Just flew by.

What a beautiful setting tonight.

I just love where we sit here.

Sit here at this field.

You look out at just a beautifully contoured field in great shape.

You got Sunday Lake in the background and

you

got Rod and Jason in the booth with you.

What else could you need?

The one complaint I heard so far from different people is the geese from the ducks.

They were living on this field a lot this year.

They had to get them off, for sure.

But they left something behind.

A lot of nitrogen from the soil.

So I know the miners practiced down here.

I think they came down and worked with the JV team.

junior high team and I heard that the field is well they very

well they had

to do

some raking and they did some heavy watering the last week and a half years

yes we got a straight from the the field manager okay Holly Jacobson all right yeah other than that it looks very considering the lack of rain we've had yeah it is very green so Jason how about the early game last night went into overtime

Some did like a Hurley first half and a Labino-Layano second half.

Yeah, sure was.

They would have had the momentum going into overtime but Hurley was able to pick off the first pass in overtime and then scoring when they had the ball.

So a big confidence win for them.

That was probably their toughest game of the year.

another one tough one coming up this year or this week with Phillips

yeah and in high school football they would they just keep playing overtime until there's a winner how does that work or just one overtime no you keep going okay and nothing like an overtime game when you're already like 140 miles away

from home right

yeah

I thought these games were supposed to be a closer an eight player and keep getting further I don't

know

they

traded Gransberg on the on the

Western and early on the eastern end.

Well, what we don't still have a little closer than Grandsburg, I think, but maybe not.

So they redid.

They redid the conferences, actually both conferences that were familiar with Leonel Abino, Elko, White Lake and three Lakes Phelps all joined the Hurley conference.

They kicked out who?

Athens, Flambeau and one other one.

Okay.

and then this conference here yeah this one added some yeah this one this has to be the toughest conference you know in the state I mean we say it every year and it's not going to change you know they added new teams we have the added municine dish priming and um what's the other one I can't think about municine dish priming and gosh why am I drawing my drawing again

but they put all the biggest schools in this one

And all the best ones, too, so it's quite a gauntlet.

Yes.

They call it the West and they got immunocene.

What are they doing in the western side of the conference?

Well, they're west of Sault Ste.

Marie.

That's true.

That must be why.

Yeah,

I can't think of the 13, though.

It's coming, immunocene, and gosh, why am I drawing the blank on that?

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Alright, back here in Wakefield.

We are getting set for the opening kickoff.

Beautiful day for football.

We had jet skis on the water.

We did.

They were out there running quite a while, but it looks like the north central will be kicking off.

Right away the miners get a chance to drop first blood.

I'm going to open the window, but if the wind gets too...

bad into our headsets.

I'll end up closing it because it was really windy when I don't think the wind is going to go away either.

So Randy, what who are you going to do?

Are you going to do a good pick stance?

Yeah,

I'll just follow our same routine unless you rather do it differently.

It does not matter to me.

I got north central.

All right, ball is teed up and who's back for Jenkins?

Henry Jenkins is back deep.

Fact that he's standing about the 16 yard line and it looks like number 20 Alan Hull is set to kick

off.

Oh, final Alan Hull.

Difficult

Hull though.

Or holy is holy.

It's a squibber and it's going to bounce up to 35 and roll out of bounds and I think the kids will get all in the 40 yard line and I think that's where they

slide.

Your kick goes out of bounds just beyond the 30 yard line.

Miners first in 10.

First in 10 where?

I'm sure it's 40.

I think you're right to it.

Now they're marching up to 30.

What the heck's going on here?

Why are they?

Yeah, they should get it.

I think it's up to 35.

Yeah, let's see you say it's already touched it, but nobody touched it.

No, nobody touched it.

It went out of bounds.

Well, the official was marked.

He was still standing right where it went out of bounds.

No, it's 35 yard line then.

Okay.

Well, we don't know.

That's like Mike Schwartz, Mike Schwartz senior, Budgie, Iowa.

Mike

Schwartz, Jr.

and maybe

Andrew DiGiorgio for sure and then I don't know who the fifth is.

Alright so first in 10 they spotted at the 35 yard line that's where the miners will start and it looks like Felix Miller is the starting center number 65.

Line up the quarterback and handoff goes to Jenkins for a loss of about one.

Jenkins is a 5'7", 145 pound senior.

It

looked like he had an opportunity.

It looked like an opening in the line, but by the time he got to the line, it was filled.

He's got some speed.

If he can get outside, he's fast.

He and RU both back there, they can show off some speed.

When they have not downgrading line out at all, but when they have red in there, they have the fastest

back there, so fast as many would

it be.

Lionel Lone in the shotgun sends Harju in motion.

Here's a hand up to Harju.

Turns to the corner.

He's at the 40-45.

Oh, one by the shoestring tackle.

Wow.

Harju, one guy got beat, and you're right, Randy.

It was a shoestring tackle.

That guy just reached out for something, and he caught Caden Harju by the shoelace.

But it's a pickup of 20 yards.

All right, first down for the miners inside North Central Territory.

Fall on the 46 yard line.

Give you a couple numbers here as we get them.

Carder, well that's a little wide left.

Haru and Jenkins in the slot.

Jenkins goes in motion and the line-up's going to keep it up the middle and just

like

his brother did

a couple years

ago, straight ahead, head down.

And he picks up about six yards.

It's got to be genetics.

See how he becomes from a quarterback family.

Yeah.

Picked up.

Looks like five yards.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even

now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe

six even now.

Maybe six even now.

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Maybe six even now.

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Maybe six even now.

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Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even

now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe six even now.

Maybe

six even now.

Maybe six even now.

So it's going to be a completion or loss of about three.

Yeah, well roll backwards.

Well, luckily it did roll backwards.

Rolled away from the Japs.

The

loss of three, we'll give them on

that one.

62 is okay.

Damien and Nipnit.

I got to get that.

Nipnit?

Nipnit.

That's what they told me was problems, and I believe Dennis Elam is the other lineman was the only name I didn't really know on that whole team Are you in motion?

Why not?

The middle right off and he will get the first down north

central jet bit on the

fake handoff to hard you coming across The backfield line up faked it and kept it What do you get about ten yard game in your game another first down for the miners other first down They what this has got to make the miners feel good

You're going to get a really good team and you've got a sustained drive going here.

Just keep it going though.

Finish it off.

Now Haru will line up alongside line up in the backfield.

I wouldn't be surprised if they sometimes go to like a direct snap.

Jenkins in motion.

Quick hitter up the middle through Haru.

And he's getting the line.

He talked about the line being inexperienced right now.

They're controlling the line of scrimmage.

They're getting that quick hitter up there.

They're busting through before they have a chance to before that line has a chance to react.

He picked up a good four yards on Ellen Just on the way here 933 to go first quarter down inside

the 30 yard line

second and second and six Line up stays in the shotgun.

How are you off to his right?

Line up's gonna roll out quick pass to hard you coming on the back, you know, then Hardy is gonna pick up the first

down

6-7 yards on that pickup.

Ball was on the 29.

Where's it now?

They're

giving it a right down the 29

yard pickup.

Yeah, I

was waiting for it to see where they put it too.

First and 10 on the 20.

Mine was great to huddle.

And how are you split out as a wing back on the right?

And number

10 is, isn't that?

Why not?

Why not?

Now, in motion, Jenkins at quarterback, Jenkins going to keep it, and North Central is not fooled on that

one.

Maybe he got one yard.

Half yard or

one yard.

New

formation to try to mix things up a little bit.

27 to go here.

All on the Jets 19 yard line Miner's facing a second and nine You can see with the speed that the

miners have if they can just break that first Contact

or get around that first contact.

They've had lots of room Are you in motion and up goes to how are you

very?

When

if he's flipped on some of that duck stuff loose

Goose.

He's

lost about a yard on that one.

So brings up third and... After all, third and ten, isn't it?

Even a little more.

Yeah, maybe third and eleven.

Well, ten or eleven, you're right, though,

right?

It's a

little more than ten, but not quite eleven, so we'll call it ten or a half.

I don't think that works.

Ten and a half.

That's what they call a long ten, right?

Yeah.

Well, here's the first real big play,

the miners of...

head this game Jenkins goes in motion line up going to go up the middle did he get all of us Jets read that one tried to go off the little right side

right at the line of scrimmage it looks

like and

he lost

two

more yards on that yes

so

the miner is facing a fourth and twelve now on the Jets 22 yard line oh boy I tell you what first couple plays look pretty easy but

I would assume they'll go for it.

Jet's defense.

Skipping up here.

We might see a nice pass here, Rod.

Why not can throw it?

So I'm in practice a couple of times.

It does a nice pass.

Of course, that was with no rush, obviously.

Well, that's a little bit out wide left.

Johnson wide right.

Baxter in the slots.

Why not pass?

Incomplete.

To Haru and the Jet's defense.

Holds the minors and they will take over first in ten on their own 22 yard line When they gobbled up a bunch of that quarter,

so it's

635

left We'll see if you got those names down Rod where Rod excel so he really does I always say that I mean that whether it's basketball or football or anything Rod picks up the the opposing team that we haven't seen all year he always picks them up quickly real quickly so

That's a talent.

Jets are all in tight

where they are bunched right in there.

Going straight up the middle and that goes to number two and that is prior LeBonte.

Prior LeBonte we saw him last year in the second half of that game he looked good.

When he came in.

Yeah he got a lot of speed I remember that and I remember Caden Malone is the other speedster on this team.

Quarterback is Nathan Pipcorn.

That

number 28 is in there for the Jets.

Carter Farley.

He gets him six yards on that one run.

I gave him

five.

Whatever you gave him, that's

good.

Scoreboard says four.

I'm going with five.

Tight formation.

Handoff goes to...

Oh!

LeBonte

again and...

Adam Everson just grabbing by the foot.

There's

a quick claim to 35 yard line first down

First down for north-central and LeBonte picked up 12 yards on two carries and he almost broke that one

Yeah, you did like said Adam Everson just grabbed him by the red by

the ankle.

He was the last person had a chance at him the point goes under center Then tight formation

Hicklarn keeps it, goes right side, he's wrapped up.

Well that defensive end, that defender came up there

quick.

That was

Drew Johnson, really filled the hole nice on this side.

He came from the linebacker spot and came up there, gave him a nice pop.

Pick up of two yards, make it second and eight, ball on the Jets 37 there, line five, 16 to go first quarter.

Jets going away from the high school, heading towards the east end zone.

And they stay in that tight formation.

Two tight ends.

Two backs in tight.

Quarterback under center.

Quarterback's going to keep it.

Looking for a room on the left side.

Now it's a pitch out to Malone.

Is that Malone?

Okay, Malone, yes.

And he's going to pick up yardage, but short of the first down.

I don't know how he got around that end.

I thought they had that end sealed

off.

The

last 44

yard line.

Third down.

Pick up a five from alone.

Third two, third

and

three.

Not third and three.

The big guy at Nibbent just came off the sideline here.

And off goes up the middle and it's going to be a first down for the Jets.

Well nothing fancy here, just straight ahead.

Just trying to gain it by another two yard, about a

four

yard run

there.

He's got a Jets first down.

Not sure who carried that.

Is that number?

Is that

number two?

I think it was number two.

All I saw was a mass of humanity.

Yeah,

it jumped up so fast.

I didn't even think it was number.

Yeah, it was one of those two backs and it was two.

Yep.

I had my eye on my name.

We broke the huddle.

I could see where it was number two.

So instead of down through the jet, there's a pitch out to the loan, breaks a tackle and he's going to

get

About three yards.

Somebody on defense had a shot at him in the back.

Drew Johnson had a shot at him

about three, four yards deep, but he just made a nice little side step and went right around him.

Being

a long three on

that one.

335 to go here in the quarter.

The wind is actually behind.

Which way is the wind blowing?

Behind the jets, but they haven't passed it anyway.

Quarterback Keeper, we got a penalty flag.

We got a false start on

the flag on the flag.

Full third, second, the Jets.

So we'll all back the Jets up five yards.

Make it a second and 12.

Ball moved back to the, on the Jets side of the field, back to the 47.

We

can

put a little more pressure on that running game of theirs too.

They've been living on four and five yard genes.

You

don't have sizes on Jets.

We just have to use our imagination.

Yeah.

Some of them are big and some are bigger.

No.