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S4E26: Winter sports in full swing

·1 hr 17 min·5 clips

Warsaw's six-point win over Northridge leaves the Tigers one game up with five conference games left.

1. Goshen News Sports Podcast S4E26 focuses on winter sports in full swing across boys basketball, girls basketball, wrestling, and swimming. 2. Austin Huff hosts the show as Goshen News Sports Editor, and Tony Miller from Goshen College co-hosts to add fact-checking and local context. 3. The episode exists to sort out conference races, tournament brackets, and upcoming sectional pressure before the next week of games. 4. Warsaw's 47-41 win over Northridge in the Northern Lakes Conference gives the Tigers a one-game lead with five conference games left. 5. Northwood's recent 34-point win over Wawasee and 26-point win over Columbia City makes it the clear NLC benchmark right now. 6. Northridge's four-game losing streak changes the conversation from contending for first to trying to salvage its league chances. 7. Concord beats Goshen 63-41 and follows that with three straight wins, which the hosts say keeps the Minutemen in the conference race. 8. West Noble starts the NECC discussion at 9-1 overall, with its only loss coming against Blackhawk Christian, the No. 2 team in 2A. 9. Fairfield stays alive in the NECC race at 14-2 and 3-1 in conference play, even as Hamilton no longer counts as an NECC win. 10. Bethany Christian's girls are 14-2 and are headed into a crowded bracket path that includes Lakeland Christian and likely Fairfield. 11. Northwood's conference position matters because a second league loss would push Northridge even farther behind in the NLC race. 12. Goshen's boys are described as beating the teams they should beat and losing the games they should lose, with the Concord loss standing out most. 13. Westview is labeled the hosts' surprise team, and Brady Yoder is singled out for carrying more of the scoring load after Mason Yoder graduated. 14. Bethany Christian's girls are credited with three wins in five days, including conference games and a rescheduled matchup after the Christmas snowstorm. 15. Zoe Willems is nearing 1,000 career points, while Mariah Stoltzfus has broken Bethany's all-time steals record before the end of her junior season. 16. Girls wrestling is treated as a growing sport, with five area qualifiers advancing to state from five different schools. 17. The show has a loose, conversational pace, with Austin Huff and Tony Miller correcting each other's conference names, standings, and school details as they go. 18. The tone shifts quickly between basketball standings, sectional logistics, and wrestling updates, giving it a report-from-the-road feel rather than a formal interview format. 19. Best for fans tracking Goshen-area basketball, wrestling, and swimming. 20. Skip it if you want polished national analysis without local scoreboard details.

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A local winter-sports check-in that stays useful even when the bracket talk gets a little sideways.

This Goshen News Sports Podcast stays close to local winter sports, with girls wrestling setting up the regional and state-meet picture before the focus shifts to West Noble boys basketball coach Ethan Marsh and the upcoming Northeast Corner Conference tournament.

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For a local winter-sports reset with a coach interview and enough conference chatter to stay useful.

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