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S4E46: Recapping the busiest week of the spring sports season

·1 hr 13 min·5 clips

Armin Koltukian literally dove to the finish line to get Concord’s 4x4 team to state.

1. Goshen News Sports Podcast recaps a Memorial Day weekend of sectional baseball, softball, and track across northern Indiana. 2. Austin Huff hosts with Tony Miller, and their banter matters because they frame the local sports recap and regional bracket talk. 3. The episode asks which Goshen-area teams survived the busiest spring week and where those qualifiers might be headed next. 4. Westview Baseball won its first sectional title since 2014 and its 10th in program history on Jason Ron’s third sectional team. 5. Max Engel powered Westview with 13 innings, 26 strikeouts, a complete game, and three RBIs in the semifinal. 6. The hosts say Westview allowed zero runs in the two games Engel pitched, and the only Busco run came after he left for pitch-count reasons. 7. The discussion shifts to the new one-game regional format, which changes how Westview and Bishop Luers will be placed on Saturday. 8. Austin and Tony compare possible sites like LaPorte, South Bend Clay, Plymouth, Griffith, Oak Hill, Logansport, Jefferson, and Central Catholic. 9. They repeatedly circle Oak Hill in Converse as the likeliest destination because the bracket looks heavily weighted to the western half of the state. 10. East Noble produced the day’s biggest baseball upset by beating Fairfield 5-0 in the 3A sectional final. 11. Fairfield entered at 24-6 after an NECC title, while East Noble entered at 12-16 and still won the sectional convincingly. 12. The hosts note Fairfield pitcher Keegan Miller and mention that East Noble also beat West Noble and Lakeland before the final. 13. Penn beat Goshen 10-0 for the 4A sectional championship after its semifinal win over Northridge on Saturday. 14. Goshen finished 15-13, and the hosts point out that this was its first sectional final since 2008. 15. Jimtown lost 9-3 to South Bend St. Joseph in the sectional semifinals after St. Joe scored seven runs in the first two innings. 16. In softball, the Goshen News coverage area finished 0-for-5 in sectional titles, with Elkhart, Jimtown, Westview, Fairfield, and the 1A teams all falling. 17. The hosts say Elkhart Christian’s semifinal and title-game run at Lakewood Park was the wildest local softball stretch, including an 8-1 lead that nearly disappeared. 18. The track segment features a competitive Warsaw regional, with Elkhart qualifying in seven events and Concord’s Armin Koltukian diving to the line for a .05-second margin. 19. Listeners who follow Goshen-area baseball, softball, and track will get the most out of this recap. 20. Listeners looking for one-team interviews or long-form feature stories may want a different episode.

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Sectional baseball, state track, and a loose local sports roundup that opens into the weekend's bigger talking points.

Spring sports pile up quickly here: sectional baseball decisions, the state track picture, and a steady stream of local updates all move through the show at a brisk clip.

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You want the spring sports backlog cleared without pretending it was a quiet week.

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