Edge of Your Seat Podcast

On Saturday, Edge of Your Seat Podcast was part of the Mendota Easter Hop. We were the Bunny Radio Station DJ and had every kid, the ones who weren't too shy, say their name and Happy Easter. We have it all here for you on this spring special episode, as we helped create memories at the Easter event and we're going to help remember good times on the baseball and softball field with nine pod chats....

As the Midwest weather is throwing a tantrum in March, let's manifest how we want Mother Nature to act with some golf talk. Seneca junior Piper Stenzel (24:36.5) talks about golfing at state for her third consecutive year. Hall junior Luke Bryant (29:40) chats about the Hall team playing together at state for the first time in program history and hitting a hole-in-one at the biggest tournament of...

La Salle-Peru has had numerous great athletes through the decades, including our four guests on Episode 345. Lexi Marx (5:12) is coaching at St. Bede and excelling in disc golf. Kaitlyn Gibson (29:04) graduated from Ball State after playing four years of softball and is now in the law school process. Sam Nauman (46:25) is an L-P junior who earned a fourth- and a 10th-place medal at the state swim...

Kim (Holdenrid) Barth (19:20.5), a Mendota native, has been teaching and coaching at Washington for the last 15 years. When she took over the girls basketball program in 2016, goals were created. The Panthers had checked off the entire list except one...until Saturday when they won the IHSA Class 3A State Championship. Chat It Up (first 19:20): Wrestling postseason and Paying Respect

Who doesn't love to talk about state championships? In the fall, northern Illinois had them coming from every which direction. Bureau Valley senior Wyatt Novotny (21:03) won a Class 1A golf title. Sandwich senior Sundara Weber (26:10) won her second consecutive Class 1A cross country final race. The Byron football team and coach Jeff Boyer (38:29) won their third Class 3A trophy in the last five y...

Kelly Champlin, a Mendota native who has lived in Earlville for the last 20 years has entered the Ms. Health & Fitness Contest. She could be on the cover of HERS Magazine, tell her story in her article, help others with their fitness journey and take home $20,000. But...voting ends at 9 p.m. TONIGHT. To vote, you need a Facebook profile and your password. Visit the Kelly Champlin Facebook page...

Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio and Polo meet tonight in the last game of the season, the Illinois 8-Man Football Association State Championship. In honor of the game, we have an all 8-man football episode. On the show A-L-O Clipper senior Cody Winn and sophomore Caden Heath, plus coach Scott Payne after the first round of the playoffs (5:36). Payne after a 64-6 victory over Pawnee in the second round (14:37....

Fall IHSA sports are in full postseason motion. Regionals, sectionals, state championships...oh my. On this show: MHS boys soccer representatives after winning the Trojans' seventh straight regional: MHS coach Nick Myers (10:47), Mateo Goy (16:20) and Isaac Diaz (18:14) MHS boys soccer representatives after winning a sectional semifinal: Sebastian Carlos and Mauricio Salinas (22:30) Amboy cross co...

It's Week 9 of the IHSA football season. Every program wants its seniors to go out in style. On the show: Hall-PC Coach Nick Sterling after Week 8 (2:50) Mendota Coach Jim Eustice (13:30) Sterling about Week 9 (24:30) Princeton senior Casey Etheridge (33:03) Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio Coach Scott Payne (41:01)

The Mendota boys soccer team has been on a legendary run the last few seasons. The Trojans took it a step further last year taking third at the IHSA Class 1A State Tournament. This year, Mendota has a 20-4 record after a Class 1A Mendota Regional Semifinal victory and is looking to accomplish the goal of winning Mendota High School's first state championship...in any sport. Edge of Your Seat Podca...

Week 7 and Week 8 of the IHSA football season packed together!!! On the Show: Before Week 7: Hall seniors Braden Curran, Aiden Redcliff, Alex Koch, Jack Curran (6:34) Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio Coach Scott Payne (11:23) Mendota Coach Jim Eustice (16:27) Annawan-Wethersfield Coach Tony Gripp (23:05) Before Week 8: Hall-Putnam County Coach Nick Sterling (35:37) Eustice (41:01) Payne (47:11) Dixon Coach Jar...

End of September, middle of October means IESA and IHSA fall sports are wrapping up and in playoff mode. The Peru Parkside baseball team finished second in the IESA Class 2A State Tournament, while the Mendota Northbrook soccer team wrapped up a 21-0 season with three wins in a tournament. We also had to catch up with football chats from Week 1-3 which weren't aired yet because host Brandon LaChan...

Local golfers have been doing all they can do on the course throughout the season. Regionals and sectionals were completed and today (Oct. 10) begins state meets for both boys and girls, on all levels. On the show: Intro discussing playoff results Mendota senior Brody Hartt (29:25) Hall senior Johnni Escatel (37:33) and junior Noah Plym (40:50) Ottawa senior Colt Bryson and junior Bryer Harris (45...

Week 6 of the IHSA football season is upon us! Edge of Your Seat Podcast was joined by five coaches as they prepare for big games. On the show: St. Bede Coach Jack Brady (5:55); Bruins (2-3) play Dwight (2-3) in the SBA Homecoming Game at 1 p.m. Saturday. Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio Coach Scott Payne (13:02); Clippers (4-1) play Peoria Heights (1-4) on the road at 7 p.m. Friday. Hall-Putnam County Coach N...

Just like that, the Peru Parkside baseball team is playing in the IESA Class 3A State Tournament, starting at 2:30 p.m. today (Friday, Sept. 26) and the IHSA football season is in Week 5. On the show: Peru Parkside Coach Christian Parry (6:52) Mendota Coach Jim Eustice (20:15) Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio Coach Scott Payne (27:25) Hall-Putnam County Coach Nick Sterling (36:15) Marquette Coach Ken Carlson (...

Life transitions put us behind the football season. No time like the present to catch up and learn and be entertained with four chats with coaches before the IHSA football season began. Plus, Chris Walker led the Mendota-Waltham-Dimmick Lady Tribe softball team to a third-place finish in the IESA Class 1A State Tournament, only a month after having a field named after him by Putnam County. Walker...

High school football is right at midseason as squads took to the field for Week 4 this past Friday. We caught up with coaches before the games, but couldn't get the episode out in time because of health reasons. However, we were able to sweeten the show with an after game interview also!! On this show: Mendota Coach Jim Eustice (8:13) Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio Coach Scott Payne (16:02) La Salle-Peru Coa...

Jam packed show with all the amazingness expected on Edge of Your Seat Podcast! Marquette baseball representatives coach Todd Hopkins and seniors, now graduated, Keaton Davis and Sam Mitre speak on winning the IHSA Class 1A State Championship...for the second year in a row (22:09). Marisa Guisti, La Salle-Peru alumna and former NCAA Division I volleyball player, tells us about the sales role she h...

Episode 329 took two weeks put together as host Brandon LaChance cut his eye and ran into podcast technical difficulties, and work and non-work situations. The show will always go on!! Fantastic guests in Sidney Bakabella, a manager in DreamWave Wrestling and five Mendota representatives. Out of the Valley (5:44): Aaron Rodgers, NHL Stanley Cup and NBA Finals (after Game 4 and Game 2), Courtney Va...

Edge of Your Seat Podcast talks baseball and state track.

Woooooaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh, it has been way, way, way too long since there has been an episode of Edge of Your Seat Podcast. There has been plenty of movement behind the scenes, but definitely not enough shows. There is no better way to get back in the grove than chatting with DreamWave Wrestling owner Jay Repsel as the promotion has a double shot weekend April 11 and April 12. Tickets are sold out b...

Football playoffs are a couple weeks in and we've caught up with players and coaches from Amboy-LaMoille-Ohio (play an Illinois 8-Man Football Association semifinal at 4 p.m. today) and Princeton (play a Class 3A quarterfinal at 1 p.m. today) to talk about their games and tell their stories. Also, we spoke with Dave Martin, the man behind the trading card shows at the Peru Mall, including today, N...

Edge of Your Seat Podcast is going to be running once a week, broadcasting a new show every Sunday night or Monday morning. Each show will consist of each of the pod's segments including Putting in the Work (local scores and accomplishments), Bring it Back (diving into an artist and their album), What the Pod is (new, chatting about other podcasts we listen to), Keep it Rollin (what's on TV or the...

The Hall-Putnam County football team has a new coach in Logan Larson. We had spoken to him four times by the time we entered Week 2. The excited coach hasn't let up and neither has his team. The no-quit mentality is in full-effect. Also, we lead in with a group of awesome kids at the Graves-Hume Public Library in Mendota.

Connor Hopkins (50:34) pulled off one of the biggest swerves in DREAMWAVE Wrestling history when he cashed in his briefcase and took the DREAMWAVE Championship from his former Coyotes ally, Christian Rose. What is Hopkins next move? Intro: NFL Hall of Fame Game, Mix & Match (going into the summer vault)