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S4E42: Spring sports check-in as calendar turns to May

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Tyra Markham's on-base plus slugging is 2,022, and she has 17 career home runs.

1. Goshen News Sports Podcast S4E42 covers spring sports at the start of May, with baseball, softball, and track all squeezed around weather delays. 2. Austin Huff hosts with veteran correspondent Steve Kraw, who follows baseball, softball, and local spring schedules closely enough to cite team records and individual stat lines. 3. The episode uses "fourth winter" and the May 1-May 2 cancellations as a checkpoint for conference races, sectional positioning, and pitching depth. 4. Baseball starts with the NECC tournament, where Eastside beat Fairfield in the championship game and Fairfield played Westview on its new turf field as the road team. 5. Fairfield's baseball team is 11-5, with Alec Hershberger at 3-3 and a 1.4 ERA and Keegan Miller at 4-0 with a 1.7 ERA. 6. Fairfield also has two of the NECC's top batting averages, with Michael Slabaugh at .540 and Cohen Yoder at .444. 7. Mishawaka leads the Northern Lakes Conference at 6-0, and the hosts connect that to a 1-0 pitching duel against Northridge and to Penn as Mishawaka's only loss. 8. Northridge's Caden Plank, Gavin Collins, and Jack Urbanski come up as reasons the team remains in the NLC race despite a damaging loss to Warsaw. 9. Goshen's baseball team is 5-8 overall but 3-2 in the NLC, with Kai and Miller, Tomas Castillo, and a four-game conference stretch that includes Northridge, Northwood, and Wawasee. 10. Jimtown's baseball notes include Sam Garner's .447 average, Brandon Smith's five home runs, and the memory of Josh Smith on Jimtown's 1999 state finalist team. 11. Northwood's baseball side is described as young but promising, with Bo Patterson, Mason Bogan, and Ryder Randsberger highlighted as key pieces. 12. Westview's baseball team is 8-6, with Braden Coffman hitting .400, Max Engel posting a 0.91 ERA, and three Engels in the lineup. 13. Bethany Christian and Elkhart Christian are discussed as the Hoosier Plains Conference teams still in position to decide that league title. 14. On softball, Fairfield is 11-4 and has seven hitters batting .300 or better, but Steve Kraw says the team still needs a big win to push its season forward. 15. Wawasee beat Fairfield on Fairfield's new turf earlier this season, and Haley Allen is singled out for 108 strikeouts, a 1.76 ERA, and a .448 batting average. 16. Jimtown softball is 8-3, with Kendall McPhee at .536, Abby Brown and McPhee both driving in 11 runs, and Kyla Eberhardt at 5-2 with a 2.18 ERA. 17. The tone stays conversational and local, with Austin Huff asking follow-ups and Steve Kraw moving from records to individual players to tournament implications. 18. The baseball and softball segments shift quickly between team-by-team updates, while the track section adds meet results and conference stakes. 19. Listeners who follow Goshen-area baseball, softball, and track will get the most out of this episode. 20. Listeners wanting a single long-form interview or a national sports angle may skip it.

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A steady May check-in on local spring sports, bracket paths, and the teams still in the mix.

Austin Huff and Steve Kraw spend this spring check-in moving between baseball, softball, and track as May opens and the weather keeps reminding everyone it is still cold.

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