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# Hack and Scratch Episode 21
- URL: https://www.citizenjournal.us/hack-and-scratch-episode-21/
- Published: 2026-11-05T22:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-05T22:30:51.000Z
- Description: The Fearless Forecaster grades McPherson's fall teams and names their all-time greats, a bracket-by-bracket look at round two of the playoffs, and four clean sweeps in the Back Nine picks
- Author: Greg Loving
- Tags: McPherson County, #sports

00:00 – Cold open + Farmers State Bank intro  
00:51 – Welcome + Sheets-Adams Realtors read; Episode 21 is "legal to drink," but it's a dry episode  
01:44 – A new game: the Fearless Forecaster grades each McPherson fall team and names its all-time Mount Rushmore  
02:56 – Girls tennis: state runner-up and an A; the late Doug Gayer, Ellea Ediger, and 2021 doubles champions Patty Huerta and Perrin Schneider  
05:16 – Girls golf (five years in and the numbers are up), then cross-country: both teams 8th at state, a B; three-time state champion Caleb Muehler, 2009 champion Adam Porter, coach Nikolous Rempe  
08:39 – Volleyball: a B-plus after a tough state draw; setter Rylie Whitfield; the 2012 state champions with Katelyn Loecker and Paige Regnier  
11:32 – Boys soccer: "A-plus-plus-plus" for everything this team went through this year; Coach Adrian, Coach Post and the program's greats  
14:39 – Coming later: basketball Mount Rushmores and an all-area football team  
15:03 – Playoffs, round two — 4A: top-seeded McPherson (8-1) hosts Augusta (6-3), a 42-6 Week 1 win; Bishop Miege vs. St. Thomas Aquinas looms in the East  
18:54 – 1A: Inman (7-2) gets a Hillsboro rematch (21-0 in Week 5); Moundridge at top-seeded Sterling (53-21 in Week 1); TMP-Marian vs. Plainville; Conway Springs vs. Smith Center  
23:00 – 8-Man Division I: Canton-Galva vs. Southeast-Cherokee (5-4); top-seeded Oswego's single wing; a West bracket led by Lincoln and defending champion South Central  
25:50 – 8-Man Division II: Little River vs. Osborne (Kevin Ayers vs. Steve Tiernan); Hanover, Axtell and Cunningham, last year's six-man champion; five county teams still alive  
28:26 – Who goes furthest? Myron picks Little River, with Canton-Galva the dark horse  
29:38 – McPherson football in the 2010s: the Bishop Carroll "ice game," a 15-14 semifinal loss to Goddard, and the semifinals that got away  
31:33 – The Back Nine, presented by HCI + standings: Scratch and Ole My 35-27, Hack 32-30, the Fearless Forecaster 31-23 ("fade the Hack")  
32:32 – College: Oklahoma State at K-State (a clean sweep for the Cowboys with Avery Johnson out); UCF at KU splits the table  
37:25 – NFL Week 9: Raiders at 49ers (all four take Las Vegas and the points); Jets at Chiefs (another sweep for Kansas City)  
42:50 – Packers at Patriots: Myron alone on New England  
46:04 – Wild cards: Miami at Notre Dame ("Catholics vs. Convicts") and the Holy War, BYU at Utah (a fourth clean sweep)  
50:43 – The Fearless Forecaster's extra games (Rams, Broncos, Texans, Bears) + best bets: Myron's Bears, Hack's Dylan Edwards (80-plus rushing yards vs. UCF), Scratch's Broncos −2.5 at Carolina  
53:34 – Thanks to all our sponsors / sign-off

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