Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: It's the final week of the regular season. Who's in after this week? Who's out? And who needs to win in week ten to keep playing? We discuss this and much more on this week's Prep Rally.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: You're listening to the Prep Rally Podcast. Now here's your host, Graham Thomas.
[00:00:21] Speaker A: Welcome to the Prep Rally podcast, sponsored by West, Termite, best and lawn. I'm Graham Thomas with Northwest Arkansas democrat gazette. Over here on my left is Rick fires, northwest Arkansas democrat. Gazette sports reporter Leland Barclay joins us, as always, from the river valley. And gentlemen, we've got a lot to talk about this morning. We've got high school football's final regular season week. We've got high school volleyball state championships to recap, and, well, let's just get started.
So, Leland, you made the trip down to the hot springs this last week for the volleyball state championships. And we're going to get to that in just a second. But we're going to start off with the football game you covered on Friday night in the River Valley. Bentonville west. Taking on Fort Smith, south side. And no doubt this was one of the key games of the week last week. And it kind of lived up to its billing, I'd say, with Bentonville West pulling out a 24 to 21 win over the Mavericks.
[00:01:29] Speaker C: Yeah, I tell you, it's two very good teams vying for very high playoff spots, and Bentonville West prevailed 24 21. A key spot in the game. Bentonville west was up 17 to 14 in the third quarter. South side was driving, lost an option pitch that Bentonville West recovered. Then they went in and scored and made it 20 414. Southside answered with a touchdown with 202 left. But then Bentonville West was able to get the onside kick and run out the clock and win 24 21 and sets up a huge game, maybe the biggest game in west history on Friday night.
[00:02:11] Speaker A: Yeah, Bentonville West is going to host the Bentonville Tigers, the intra school district rival, over in centerton. It's going to be an exciting matchup. You're right, the stakes are high for this one. The winner will get the number two seed in the seven A West conference for the class seven A playoffs and get a bye week, which I think both of them probably could use right about now. And the winner like to play in the first round or sorry, the loser want to play in the first round, the three seed. So it's kind of a clean scenario there. I mean, the winner is the two, the losers the three.
We can't say that about all of our scenarios in the playoffs for this year and this week in particular, but, man, Bennettville West just keeps finding ways to win close games. I mean, they did it against Rogers. They've done it against you know, you got to give those guys a lot of credit over there. And they did it this week without Coach pratt. He was sitting in the vehicle listening on the live stream for the first part of this one.
[00:03:21] Speaker C: He was down the street in a parking lot not very far from the stadium, obviously watching the live stream of the first half. And Southside led seven to three at the half. It was a very back and forth defensive first half, and seven to three at the half, Southside led. But you're right, the Dalton Rice story is a great one for west, how he's kind of emerged and taken the starting spot and has put up some very good numbers and more than anything, put up wins for west. And then Cole Edmondson, the running back Friday night, he had 17 carries for 101 and an 18 yard touchdown run. That was really kind of the decisive score of the game for west. So, yeah, they've been very balanced, and again, very good. And defensively, they've been very good. I think they start five guys two ways, which is very unusual in seven A or six a ball, but they get the mileage out of them and they've had a great year, and we'll see what happens Friday night.
[00:04:36] Speaker A: Well, I was going to say, Rick, this Bentonville West team kind of sounds like your kind of football team, winning close games, scrapping, I mean, just clawing and doing all they can to get victories.
[00:04:47] Speaker D: Oh, yeah, I've enjoyed them. And they play some defense, too. It just contrasts. What you're talking about that Bentville West game. I saw one of them games again, a Rogers 63 21 was it 84 points? And literally when I went from the press box down to the field, there's two more touchdowns scored. It's just amazing. I don't see how you guys can keep up all these stats.
Why did it take me three minutes to get down there and fight the crowd? I said what happened? What happened on the scoreboard? Well, that team just scored, and the other team ran the other one back. So within about seven minute period, there's three more touchdowns. But if you want to talk a little bit about my game, roger 63, Springdale Harbor, 21.
Started right off the bat, you're going to be hearing a lot about this guy, Jeff Reagan. Regan. I think you know it's. Jeff regan, I'm sorry.
Returned to opening kickoff, 90 yard. Man, they had that set up. You could tell this is where scouting comes into play, because maybe they saw something in Harbor's defense right there, alignment on special teams. And as soon as Regan caught that ball, he had it to the left, they had it blocked, and he's fast enough. He got down the sideline and boom. And I'm standing over by the harbor student section. My goodness, what are we doing? What are we doing? And it was that kind of night. It was a rainy, foggy, drizzly night. Rogers back on track, and I think Harbor, I don't know, I guess they're trying for the fifth or 6th seed. I don't know.
[00:06:29] Speaker A: Yeah. So Rogers secured the number four seed with that win. So they're going to get a home playoff game in the first round. Harbor and Southside, there's some scenarios there, and I think Southside really has the inside track to the number five, and Harbor, I think, has the number six. But there's all kinds of goofy scenarios that can happen with involving Springdale, maybe knocking. I don't know, Leland, I think you're a little more on top of that than I am. But that's kind of the way we think it's going to play out.
[00:07:05] Speaker C: Yeah. Of course, Southside does have to go on the road to secure that fifth spot on Friday night at Springdale, which is not a given the fact it's on the road. And know, one of the things that sticks out to me when I talked to Coach Kim Damron after the game was that he said that the biggest challenge this week is going to be putting that game behind them because they poured everything they had into that game. I mean, that was a big game. It was at home. So it's going to be a challenge for the Mavericks this week. And we talk about rick was talking about the offense and how you miss stuff so quick. I don't know if I've ever seen this in the seven A west before, but there were two opening kickoffs returned for touchdowns on Friday night. You mentioned Jeff Regan returning 188 yards. Well, CJ. Brown returned the opening kickoff 97 yards and Bentonville's 51 to ten win over Springdale. And then on the very first offensive play of Fayetteville's win, drake Lindsay hit Spencer for an 80 yard touchdown. So that's three games out of four where there were fireworks from the absolute very beginning.
[00:08:25] Speaker A: Got to get in your seat early and be paying attention. You might miss many.
[00:08:30] Speaker D: I've seen at least two or three times that CJ. Has returned kickoff.
[00:08:35] Speaker A: I'm glad you asked the that's number three. So he had one against Conway, he had one against harbor, and he has one against Springdale. So people are still kicking to him. That's the amazing thing about oh, you.
[00:08:48] Speaker D: Know what, he probably had at least maybe one or two his junior year, I'm assuming. But he's a heck of a returner.
[00:08:57] Speaker A: So let's move on to the Greenwood Bulldogs now. So Greenwood gets the big win on the road at a little had some trouble down there, but pulled away at the end for a multiple touchdown victory there. Now the Greenwood Bulldogs are welcoming in Little Rock Christian, which we talk about Bentonville and Bentonville West being the game of the week. And Greenwood and Little Rock Christian may be the game of the year as far as we're concerned. We've been circling that one since January.
And Kane Archer was our player of the week. He had about how many touchdowns did.
[00:09:40] Speaker D: He have rick, he counted for eight, eight, five touchdown passes and ran for three. And here just a sophomore going in and leading the team. I don't know, in huddle as a sophomore, it's hard to be a team leader. I mean you got some seniors out there but man, you're the engineer, you're the quarterback and for him to have a game like that and first win there when I think I read and the Democrat is dead on Saturday, first time somebody's beaten PA at home since 2013, maybe. I mean that's a great win. Love that conference. I know they're going to kind of reclassify next year, but man, what a great win for Greenwood. Now they got to go home, do it again.
[00:10:22] Speaker A: So Leland, you're going to be at the game this week against Little Rock Christian, Smith Robinson, what time are you showing up down there for that one?
[00:10:29] Speaker C: Make sure you know, that's funny, I was just thinking that yesterday. I plan on being there by five because it will know with north side and South Side both being out of mean, there's going to be a lot of people not from Greenwood that will want to watch that game for a lot of different reasons.
And I know Drake Lindsay's. Very good quarterback. He's going to Minnesota to play. Carter Nye is good.
Gosh dizzy Dean's having a great, fantastic season.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:11:02] Speaker C: But this may be well, it is without a doubt two of the best quarterbacks in the state that's going to be on display in Greenwood Friday night and it may be the two best quarterbacks in the state. Now granted, one of them is a sophomore, one of them is about the Kane. Archer barely has his driver's license and Walker White is about to go off to college. But still, these two guys are very good. So it's going to be a huge display of just great talent all over the field and two very good teams.
When you talk about Pulaski Academy on Friday night, greenwood was up 30 to 20 at the half and was set to receive the opening kickoff. Well, PA comes out, gets the onside kick scores, makes it a three point game early in the third quarter. Greenwood scores four straight possessions, 28 points in the third quarter to put that one away. So we can get into that game Friday night as much as you want to, but that's going to be at least in our part and I know Bryant and Conway is a big game too, but Greenwood, Little Rock Christian is going to be gigantic.
[00:12:10] Speaker A: Yes, and it's a game we're not going to spend a whole lot of time on. But Fort Smith, Northside still not out of it. They can get into the playoffs this week with a win at Little Rock Southwest. In fact, I believe the winner of that game will go to the playoffs. And so a lot to play for for Southside, for north Side. They're going to have to do it on the road, though, against Darryl Patton and the Griffins in Little Rock. So there's a lot at stake there for them.
The other Seven A West games this week, we'll go back to that real quick. As we said, Bentonville is at Bentonville, west harbor is at Fayetteville, and we'll send Ricky Fires out there for that one. The Battle of Rogers. Rogers heritage at Rogers. I don't believe there's any real seating implications. That one heritage is out of it. Rogers is going to be the four, but it's always exciting when those intra city rivalries kind of meet up. As we said, south Side is going to be at springdale six a. West games. Other we're looking at Van Buren's got a big one against Salem Springs that they're going to need to win, I think, to keep their playoff hopes alive in the Five A West. We've got a lot of big wins. There's about three teams that can win the conference championship and get the number one seed on Friday night. A lot will be determined with Shiloh Christian and Alma. That's going to be a big one. Farmington is going to be at Prairie Grove, and Farmington's got the tiebreaker over Shiloh. So if Farmington wins and Shiloh wins, and Farmington will be the number one seed, alma's got the real straight line. If they beat Shiloh Christian, I believe they're the conference champions. So a real crowded at the top five. A west. We knew it would be a fun year for that conference, guys, and it's really played out that way. Rick, I know you've kind of kept up with it.
[00:14:04] Speaker D: Yeah.
P Ridge. I've seen a lot of the five A West games. I'm looking forward to that.
I won't be covering it, but the result of that Elkins Lincoln game, lincoln has really come on last few weeks.
Even as Elkins, as good as they are, they're going to have to go over there and really not take anything for granted. They're going to have to play ball over there at Lincoln because, man, I really like their quarterback, Drew White and Kale Jones, and the receiver, the Jace Burks. And they're going to have a big crowd over there at Lincoln. And I'm going back to something that Leland said earlier about big crowd coming down there at Greenwood. Even before I got into sports, before I got out of college, me and a couple of my friends would just go around and say, what's the best game in town? Let's go see this game. Let's go. That game, we might drive 40 miles, just whatever. The biggest game in town you get to see.
And for people like college football, man, you're going to see these guys before they become stars on the college level and every once in a while on the pro level. So if you're down there in Fort Smith area, I would definitely think about going checking that game out.
[00:15:24] Speaker A: Well, and you kind of got into the four A one there on me, Rick, with Elkins and Lincoln.
One of the interesting things about what Elkins is doing, they've got back to back shutouts against two really good offensive football teams in Ozark and Gentry. So back to back shutouts in two consecutive weeks.
[00:15:45] Speaker D: We get caught up in their offense. And Dizzy Dean, what's, completing what, 79% of his passes. That's remarkable to me. And we get so focused on that. And then, oh, wait a minute, the other team didn't score. Yeah, man, they got some great two way athletes. So you're exactly right. We overlooked it. Shame on me because I'm a defensive guy.
I don't care. During a modern era, you're shutting out guys back to back.
[00:16:13] Speaker A: Good for you. We're going to take a little break here and we will be back in just a few minutes.
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[00:17:08] Speaker A: And we're back with the Prep Rally podcast, segment two this week. And we're going to jump into some high school volleyball coverage. And Leland was at the state championship game and state championship day in Hot Springs with Paul Boyd from the Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette. And between the two of them wrote five. They covered five state championship volleyball matches. And just a great job. Yeah, great job by you.
[00:17:35] Speaker D: I love reading our Sunday paper, reading game story after game story, game story, especially the two winners from our area.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: So, Leland, it was a good day of volleyball down there for you guys.
[00:17:46] Speaker C: I tell you, it was amazing to watch.
I guess I watched about 10 hours of 10 hours of volleyball on Saturday. And the level of competition and the level of talent that was displayed on the court was just absolutely at another level. Now, I know that was ten of the best teams in the state, but wow, what a performance by all ten teams that were there. And also what a blessing to have as many schools from our area playing on Saturday and had some more that were really close to being there as well. We started off today with Fayetteville winning a tough five sets and then finished with Greenwood pushing Benton, which I understand was probably a favorite to win six A all season or five A all season long, pushed them to the limit and went to five sets in that one. And then, of course, Mansfield won the two A, their fourth straight state championship.
[00:18:49] Speaker A: Yeah, well, let's start with that. Fayetteville, they won their fourth straight six A state volleyball title.
They are just amazing.
Jessica Veelan, the coach at Fayetteville, and her group, they just kind of reload every year. They almost had a brand new team worth of players this year and still pulled it out.
[00:19:15] Speaker D: Rick yeah, they're a dynasty. They've won more than four straight. And you talk about culture, winning culture. I can't remember the specific reason I had to go to Fayville high during the summer, maybe mid August, and I said, man, what's all that noise coming from the gym? And I walked in there and the volleyball girls, and they were going at it. Jessica and her assistants had them break down doing little drills. So this just doesn't come easy.
I mean, these girls work at it, and really, they start off the high school sports.
A lot of people look to football, but, no, it's the volleyball girl that really set the tone for the whole year. And Fable following it up with football success right there. And then Mansfield right down there winning a championship. So I just want to emphasize that these girls worked their butts off to get here. And congratulations to finishing up just get here and bringing home another championship plaque.
[00:20:20] Speaker A: So Reagan Harp, 29 kills in the championship match. Was the MVP for Fayetteville. Another dynasty.
Leland has flat out said it in his story about the Mansfield Tigers. That's their fourth straight state championship, and it's just another great win for coach Andrews.
[00:20:41] Speaker C: And her talked to talked to her after the game and asked her specifically about the four seniors. And, of course, she said that she brought all of them up after their junior high season was finished four years ago.
None of them started, but Alison Edwards did play some, but they were there. They were on the team, part of the team when they won that first title since 2014, four years ago. And, of course, now they've won four in a row, those seniors. And just to think about the fact that they went four years and never walked off the court knowing anything but holding up that championship trophy is just an amazing feat. And Rick talked about culture, and, boy, they know. You know, the thing about the Mansfield girls is last year, they started off the season with a volleyball state championship. They played in the softball state championship game, and they didn't finish less than third in any single sport all season long. Indoor track, outdoor track, basketball.
They finished at least in the top, I guess top four in every single sport. And so many of those girls play several of those sports.
And Allison Edwards won the MVP on Saturday. She was second time for her to win the MVP.
She had ten kills in the first set.
[00:22:18] Speaker A: Wow.
[00:22:19] Speaker C: Which was a tough 25 to 23 win. So she kind of set the tone early and three set sweep, and it was their fourth straight.
[00:22:29] Speaker A: That's a lot of sweep.
[00:22:31] Speaker C: So they've went, what is that? Twelve? And they never lost a set in the state championship game the last four years.
[00:22:39] Speaker A: That's just amazing. And ten kills in one set, that's a lot of kills.
[00:22:43] Speaker D: And Arkansas is a good state for volleyball. I know Silo Springs for years, really good. I'm from the Jonesboro area. Valley View and Jonesboro. West side. Now we're sending kids off to college, ellie Maypowell and others. And so volleyball is really big in this.
[00:23:03] Speaker A: Just it's growing and it's getting better all over the place. And now, you know, places like Mansfield, Hackett, and just really excelling in volleyball. Greenwood has been good at volleyball for a long time and they've made the state championship game a bunch. It's just been a lot. And they were on the very verge of winning another state championship. Just fell a little bit short, three two. But I mean, watching that one, them go back and forth with Benton was just really amazing. They fought to the very end. And Coach Golden and her girls, I'm sure disappointed that they didn't pull it out, but nothing to be ashamed of in that one year.
[00:23:49] Speaker C: No, it was back and forth. Greenwood won the first set 25 to 21. And throughout the five sets, there were 30 ties and 15 lead changes throughout the whole five sets. And Greenwood won the first one. Bitten comes back and wins the next two. Both close.
And I'm thinking, well, Bitten is probably going to close it out here. No, Greenwood wins the fourth one, forces that fifth set and was up nine seven in that set before Benton rallied and won 15 to eleven. So, like you said, so close. And we had other teams. Harrison actually won the five A West, and of course they were close. Lavaca was close. So we're just, again, very blessed to have that level of talent and wow, what athletes.
[00:24:43] Speaker A: Yeah. And let's not forget about Hackett and Shiloh Christian. So Hackett fell short against Baptist Prep in the three A finals, but eventually they're going to crack through and get them the state title. And they're a force down there. They've got some good athletes and a couple of things go bounce their way in that first set. And maybe they're the ones holding the trophy. Same for Shiloh Christian.
They had a very tough one against Brooklyn. And just to get there, Rick, is very difficult. So for these schools to get know you didn't win it, but there's nothing to be ashamed of. And we're happy for them that they had such a great season.
[00:25:31] Speaker D: I haven't covered a lot this year, but in previous year, I love covering volleyball. It's fast paced. They changed the rules several years ago, make it more inclusive. And man, if you got a young girl coming up, man, get her involved in volleyball. She can move on basketball and softball or track. But man, volleyball, it may be my second or third favorite sport.
[00:25:55] Speaker A: I'll tell you what, too, I always walk away from a volleyball match with a new appreciation for how tough those girls are. They are throwing their bodies all over the court with nothing but a bunch of knee pads on their knees and they'll go diving into the bleachers to get a ball. It's really amazing.
[00:26:18] Speaker D: Well, and you get hit in the nose by one and powerful setter. You wipe the blood off your nose or whatever and get right back at it. Now, these girls are tough. Love them.
[00:26:28] Speaker A: Yep. So great job by Leland and Paul Boyd at the state finals for volleyball. And we were excited to see their work come through on Saturday evening. So we're going to take another break. And when we come back, we will work.
We will give you our top five of the week.
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[00:27:24] Speaker A: Welcome back to Prep Rally Podcast, sponsored by West Termite, Pest and Lawn, Graham Thomas and Rick Fires here in Fayetteville and Leland Barclay in the River Valley. And let's jump right into the top five of the week.
And I'm going to start us off this.
So, guys, I'm going to go back to the Elkins. Elks, great mascot, great football team, great football town. Back to back shutouts over Gentry and Ozark who are really two really good offensive football teams in class four A.
I just saw Ozark this last week and been around the Gentry program quite a bit. They can really score the football and neither of those teams scored against Elkins.
That's definitely number one for this week in the top five.
Number two, we're going to go Brayden Long with the Harrison Goblins with four touchdowns on the ground against Know. Harrison just kind of laying in the weeds over there. They doing good things, sitting at six and three. They're going to make the class five A playoffs. And I would be a team I would not want to have to deal with if I were five A coach in the postseason.
I don't know if you guys saw this, but Cole Creighton, the freshman quarterback for Shiloh Christian, he's back and threw three touchdown passes against Prairie Grove last week. So that's a shot in the arm for the Saints as they head to Alma this week with maybe a chance to win conference championship and a number one seed. We'll see what happens. I'm going to switch it up a little bit here.
I'm going to get off the football and talk about the greenwood girls cross country team defending state champions and won the five a west conference meet in silence springs last week. Carol werner was the second overall finisher and I think the greenwood lady bulldogs have a great chance to maybe repeat as class five a state champions this week. We talked about dynasties for a while there. Siloma had the cross country dynasty winning girls cross country five straight times. Now it's greenwood. Greenwood has had some really good five a or really good cross country teams here in the last few years and this is another one and I just don't see them slowing down the finals.
[00:29:54] Speaker D: Down at hot springs.
[00:29:55] Speaker A: Hot springs man at know that is an experience for anyone who's never been and what I've always told people because I'm not really a horse racing guy, rick, I know you probably like that stuff.
[00:30:08] Speaker D: I've lost a lot of money.
[00:30:09] Speaker A: You cannot appreciate how big a horse track is until you've been inside the infield of it down at oakland, but it's huge and trying to run back and forth, take photos of as the runners go by. It's a lot of fun and that's a great event down there in hot springs. Henry apple will be there this week for the democrat gazette.
And last on my top five, I'm going to go with the shiloh christian lady saints. They had a real barn burner in the second round of the playoffs on their home floor against, well I can't remember who it was, but the match went throw was win yellow jackets. Yes they had to win a three two set against the win yellow jackets in the second round.
They got to the semifinals and won that game and made another state trip to the finals in volleyball. And all you got to do if you get there enough times, you're going to win one. So good job by those girls and I'm going to pitch it over to leland for his top five.
[00:31:17] Speaker C: Well I'm definitely going to start off with volleyball. Of course, Mansfield won their fourth straight state title, allison edwards a second straight MVP award and it's not going to be the last time we hear from her. She'll probably go out and average close to 20 points a game, 18 to 20 points a game for mansfield. In fact, they've probably already started knowing coach bowman down at Mansfield. They've probably already started basketball practice so we'll hear from her and that and she's also an outstanding softball player so it will not be the last time that we hear alison edwards mentioned on the show. And of course hacken and greenwood man represented the river valley just so great in tough matches on Saturday. And then switching over to is.
You'll have to pay attention a. Little bit on this one because Booneville's Dakota Matson on Friday night caught two touchdown passes. I know Booneville is known for running the football, but they actually threw two touchdown passes on Friday night, which it's kind of unusual for the Bearcats. And then Lamar's Caleb Green, quarterback, ran for three touchdowns, passed for one in a 27 to 21 win over Clinton, which we haven't even gotten into the four A four. And we used to always call the five a west and the seven a west the wild, wild west. Well, look at the standings in the four A four, and it is the Wild, Wild four A four. And we'll have to get the Calculators out on Friday night to figure out all the scenarios and the points after those games are completed. And then finally, Rick's, Player of the Week, of course, Kane Archer, eight touchdowns he accounted for on Friday night. That's 15 touchdowns in two weeks that he's accounted for to set up that big game against Little Rock Christian on Friday night.
[00:33:28] Speaker A: Wow, that's a lot of touchdowns.
[00:33:31] Speaker D: It is. All right, my time. All right, I got to start with volleyball. To fable. They're a dynasty. Jessica feeling them girls over there, they do a great job start to finish. They won their fourth consecutive state championship, beating Conway, three two. And Conway had the momentum going in there and winning that set, but Fable pulled it out. That's what champions do is 1614, and they found a way to win. That's what champions do. And now going over to football, these next two are kind of intertwined. Rogers, 63 to 21 over harbor. Bentonville 51 ten over springdale. The unique thing about this, both these games started off with kickoff returns for touchdowns. There's a young man up at Rogers, Jeff Regan. He returned sophomore, sophomore, you're going to be hearing a lot about him. He returned the opening kickoff, 90 yards for touchdown. They set it up beautifully. Well executed.
When you're a player coach in a film room, you love to stop that right there. Stop the tape. Stop the tape. Stop the tape. You love everybody doing their job right there. And young Jeff Regan, he ran for two touchdowns out of the shotgun when Rogers got close to the end zone. I think it was four yard on one and five yard the other. And then in the fourth quarter as a backup quarterback, he threw a 45 yard touchdown run pass right there for the Mounties.
Looking over back over to CJ. Brown, the king of kickoff returns. 97, 98 yards. I think Bentonville rolled.
Just think at the Brown, he's committed to the Razorbacks. And possibly we're going to see CJ. Brown and Satania back there on kick return.
[00:35:25] Speaker A: They could use him right now.
[00:35:26] Speaker D: Yeah, they could use him, right.
And man, that's two great Northwest Arkansas guys potentially got a chance to show out on special teams. I think they need to be showing out, too, at wide receiver. That's a different topic.
Fable, a couple years ago, I remember, they won the first conference championship for first time in years and years and years. Now they got a chance to finish conference play undefeated. Drake Lindsay doing a great job. Christian setzer their running game what they really going to need if they want to make a deep playoff run. Another good game right there, and I'm saving the best for last. We talk all week about this is the great game. This may be the game of the year. This is the game of the year.
Bryant is going to play at Conway. Both of them won last week.
Buck James Wampus Cats are nine, and his former team, Brian, is eight and one. After losing early. I think it was the PerfView I think it was the perk view early. But hey, if you talk about if you're in central Arkansas, anywhere near Conway, that's the game you want to see right there.
Brian against Conway. Fantastic finish to the regular season.
[00:36:41] Speaker A: Wow, man.
You sure you don't want to go down there and cover that one for us, even though that's not two of our team?
[00:36:49] Speaker D: I would they got a couple of good burger place down there, too, man.
[00:36:54] Speaker A: We could do a whole podcast about where to go eat at, you know what I mean?
[00:36:58] Speaker D: We know look at us.
[00:37:00] Speaker A: We've been all around the state and know all the places to hit up like Greg Snelson.
[00:37:07] Speaker D: He always does.
[00:37:08] Speaker A: That a yeah. So well, folks, that's going to wrap us up for this week's edition of the Prep Rally Podcast. And we would like to thank our sponsor, west Termite, Pest and Lawn for their sponsorship. And you can listen to the Prep Rally Podcast at NWA online, or you can watch it on YouTube, or you can do both at wherever you get your podcasts. And be sure and look for Prep Rally Live later this week where we talk about our predictions, where Rick Fires and I'll talk about our predictions. And we're going to send Leland out to Greenwood. He might just go camp out there the rest of the week and make sure that he's got a good spot in the press box for that one. And I'll be at Bentonville and Bentonville West, and Rick will handle those Fayetteville purple dogs for so. All right, well, thank you again, folks, for listening to Prep Rally Live. We love you.
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