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Welcome back to the Keeping Score podcast.
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I'm your host, Luke Schmidt, and we are presented by Corwin Motors.
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As you can see behind me, I'm here at Legends Stadium.
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It's cross town flag football between Glacier and Flathead.
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I'm gonna go see what players and coaches I can round up.
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I'm here with Lexi Heron after their cross town win over Glacier.
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Lexi, you were all over the field tonight, scoring touchdowns, interceptions, deflecting balls in the secondary.
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How much fun did you have?
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A lot of fun.
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I mean, it's really fun to come out here and senior night and bring it home for our seniors.
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What was the environment like for you?
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The band was playing, they had a really cool halftime show.
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You know, it was very loud here for Flathead fans, I thought.
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Yeah, we were trying to bring our hypest game for this game, so we were saving it.
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Yeah.
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What did you think about uh the Glaciers play versus how you guys played?
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I know you guys came out on top by 20 points, but in the be in the beginning it was tight.
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Yeah, I mean the beginning, second half, we really locked it in there.
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Coaches were giving us good pep talk and really took it from straight to the gut, third quarter.
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Yeah.
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How much fun are you overall having this season on this team now that you're a sophomore?
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It's been a lot of fun.
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I mean, growing a lot this year with team and stuff.
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I mean, our team's great this year.
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I'm having a lot of fun.
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Yeah, last question on I'll leave you.
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You know, where do you want to see your team improve still?
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I'd say our defense.
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I mean, we're um getting out on those outsides there.
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We're kind of not those good, but I mean we're we'll work on it, practice, get better.
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Actually, I did have one more question.
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You had that touchdown catch over in the end zone over there.
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Almost a drop.
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It was real close, but you had it, they call it a touchdown.
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What was going through your mind there?
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Uh don't drop the ball.
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That's fair.
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That's more than fair.
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Well, congrats on the win and best of luck.
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We'll see you a basketball season, I'm sure.
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I'm here with Haley Belinski after their crosstown victory over Glacier.
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Haley, how special and how fun was this game for you?
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This game really means a lot to me.
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We have a really strong team, and especially since we just lost one of our players in the game, it really means a lot, and it's always such a fun game to compete in.
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What is something about today's game that you won't forget?
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I definitely won't forget the compassion we have for our team and just how hype we were.
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We're always hype on the sidelines, and I really think that helps us guide us to our victory.
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These wins are made at practice, right?
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The hard work comes before the games.
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Talk to me how hard you guys have worked as a team and how special the camandry you guys have this year.
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We've been working really hard.
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I mean, we have been putting in the effort every single day after school.
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We come here ready to work, ready to play.
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We just show up and we're ready for it.
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Talk to me what Coach's message was before the game and that halftime for you guys.
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Well, Jess keeps us really hyped.
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She always has a speech planned out for us.
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She always tells us to do our best no matter what the outcome is.
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We're here to play, we're here to win no matter what.
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Enduring halftime, same thing.
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What do you want to see the team progress a little bit more this season?
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And what is something you were really, really proud of the team did tonight?
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I think we could just do better.
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I don't really think anywhere.
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I feel like we did pretty good tonight, and I think we can carry it on and keep going.
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If we keep this energy up, we'll go far.
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And I think my proudest moment was seeing some of my best friends get some touchdowns.
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I think I'm pretty proud of them for that.
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They worked hard, they deserve it.
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I'm here with Coach Henzy after their crosstime victory over Glacier.
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Coach, how proud are you of these girls?
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And we were just talking about the execution tonight was on par with what you wanted.
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Yeah, you know, they we've we started our whole season on the road, um, had a tough uh two doubleheader in Missoula, and so to bounce back like this tonight, so proud.
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I told them that they are one person, they can only control what they do, and they did that tonight.
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Every single person, um, next play and executed, right?
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No, I was so proud of them.
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Just showed.
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Yeah, and speaking of someone that did amazing, we were just talking to Lexi here and there.
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Talk to me how stellar she played tonight and how what a fun player to have on your team.
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Yeah, she's just so awesome.
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She grew up, uh her brothers played football, and so she has a high football IQ, and then obviously tall, but she she runs routes so crisp and she knows how to get open.
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Um, yeah, just an all-around football player.
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So, so lucky to have her.
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She's a big and even better human, right?
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Just a great member of our team.
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Anyone that doesn't know your team, what are they like behind the scenes?
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That I love that question because these girls are so kind.
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Like they represent everything you would want um in just good humans.
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You know, they're resilient, they lift each other up, they don't get too hard on themselves, they're hard workers and they're hungry.
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Um, and on side of that, they're smart, they're intelligent, they're funny.
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Uh, I was kind of scared of high schoolers because I teach elementary school, but it is uh this is flip the script for sure.
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These are just great human beings.
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Um yeah, they want it, so it's fun.
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Yeah, it was a lot of fun tonight.
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The crowd was super involved.
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What did you think about you know the crosstown vibe this year?
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I know last year got canceled early with lightning, but this year it was a lot of fun.
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Fans were all out.
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What was the energy like for you?
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Yeah, you know, this is uh it was amazing.
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Um we did our Brave Walk for the first time in program history.
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Band walked us down.
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Uh yeah, the girls call it an aura.
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So it just kind of started, you know, um, started out and it was our senior night.
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So we just wanted to honor our seniors.
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A lot of them are four-year seniors that have put a lot into the program.
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So the vibe, the atmosphere, um, yeah, I think it was amazing.
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Flathead showed out, Glacier showed out, and the the big winner is the girls, right?
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Yeah.
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Because it's a girl, you know, flag football is new, and so to just to have that atmosphere and to play in that atmosphere is just amazing.
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How important was this win?
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Because that Glacier team you beat on the other sideline is not a bad team at all.
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They just went down to California, competed nationally.
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How important is this for your guys' mojo?
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This is huge, this is huge, especially like I said, uh tough doubleheader in Missoula last week.
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So to bounce back against um an incredibly well-coached crosstown rival, lots of talent on that team.
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They're a young team, um, but they're, you know, they they normally execute better than they did tonight.
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And so we didn't want to get too ahead of ourselves and just take one game at a time.
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So this was super big for our season.
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They are a good team.
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Um, this was we needed this one.
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We needed it bad.
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So I'm glad you guys got it.
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Last question I have for you, coach.
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What's next?
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You get to celebrate the win tonight, enjoy it until next practice starts.
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Where do you want to see the team keep building?
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Yeah, so um, we talk about two things, right?
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Like we are big athletes, and so um we just need to continue to do what we did tonight.
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Uh teams win flag football games.
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If you can make people miss tackles and you don't miss tackles, right?
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Um, because you have to get 20 yards, it's different than tackle football.
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20 yards is a long way.
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So keep building on that um and just keep on the momentum, and then don't let off the gas pedal, right?
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So um bring that intentionality to practice every day.
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That's what I'm gonna keep asking them to do because our goal's bigger this year.
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So yeah.
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Well, it looks like they've executed everything you said so far.
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Congrats on the win coach.
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Hey, thanks a lot, appreciate that.
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Thank you.