Twins compete for the same record | Things You Missed

The women's pole vault scene is being dominated by twin sisters. This is Amanda and Hannah Maul on the left and the right, and they are breaking records at every level of competition. Hannah on the right has the outdoor record of 4.83, and in this competition, the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship, they are both chasing it down. They're trying to get 4.84, and this is Hannah's first attempt. Can she break her own record? First attempt up over, but her feet nicked the bar, and it lands on top. Imagine your biggest competition is your twin sister, who's also probably your closest ally and the one who understands you the most deeply. Amanda, her chance to break her sister's record, and she does the same thing. Ain't that twins? That's what it's all about. Okay, Hannah's up. Now, I watched an interview, and Amanda said that Hannah is more competitive. She looks at what the other people are doing around her, and she's got more of the attack in her, where Amanda, she's more internal and just wants to do a good job and do the best she can. That isn't gonna do it for Hannah. Maybe we've got a league of their own situation. Maybe we dropped the ball to let Kit finally get the win. Don't think so. I think Hannah's competitive. I think they're both competitive. They're very good at what they do. That's how it happens. Amanda goes up and over, and she gets it on her third and final attempt, 4.84. She currently has the outdoor record, but her sister is in wait, and she's at the start of the track, and she's ready, and she's got the killer instinct. She's got the braids in, and Amanda doesn't have the braids, and that's how I've been telling them apart, and also the name that's on the screen is a huge hint. Okay, pull up. Here we go, and we're off. It goes left, right, left, right, left is the run, and then the pole goes down, and then up, and oh, that's not it. Amanda gets the victory. She breaks the record, and Hannah, she's got something to strive for. She just needs, you know, it's like Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit, they always had to pull him back a little bit so he could see the other horses, and remember, I gotta go faster, so Hannah now has a carrot again, and she can chase it down. The fifth to 10th best thing in all of sports is a faux celebration, a fake out. You think you won, and then you didn't, and you celebrated for nothing, and that's what happens to St. Rita here. Foul ball, they catch it. That secures them their first state championship ever. They've been to the finals three times. They lost all three times. They're celebrating on the mound. They beat Triad. They almost lost it, because Triad came back seven runs, but they hold on, final out, foul ball in the catcher's glove, celebrating on the field. They are state champions. Illinois high school state champions. Oh, no, wait, what? The umpires are getting together, and they're like, no, guys, no, you didn't catch it, and no one really argues, so either they're the most disciplined, well-coached, respectful bunch of boys in all of Illinois, or maybe the catcher's like, yeah, okay, I thought maybe you'd say that, and he's not really complaining or putting up a stink, and he's just putting his head down and walking back behind the mound. He's gonna grab his mask, and now there's a bunch of adrenaline that's been dropped. Other team is like, here, Blue, here's the ball. Let's take a look. What happened here? Catcher grabs the ball, and then it pops out. Now, I thought maybe he discarded it and threw the ball out of his glove in celebration, but you can see that's not what happened, and then you can see he realizes, looks at his glove, and does the old, oh, no, kind of breaks down his running. Did they? Are they calling it? No? Okay, well, let's celebrate then. In his glove, out of his glove, umpire's right there. Umpire sees him look at his glove, realize, oh, that wasn't, he didn't throw it in celebration. The whole other dugout is there. First base coach is there. Umpire's like, no catch. That is a gut punch because there's two runners on. The tying run is at the plate. He's got two strikes on him. Now, it's a ball, two and two, and then he swings big, and it's the game-tying home run from fouling out to end the season to hitting the game-tying home run to complete the comeback and push the game to extras, and St. Rita's thinking, oh, my God, are we the fools? We celebrated for nothing. Triad's going crazy. Their fans are shirtless. That was a really good in unison jump from everyone, and the vibes are spinning their way, but we go to the eighth inning, bottom of the eighth inning. Triad doesn't score. St. Rita has bases loaded, one out. They've got the infield in. The 2-1 pitch is fouled down the right field line. You should let that drop and let it be strike two. He opts to catch it, throws home. You're never going to throw that runner out from that position, and St. Rita celebrates winning twice. Their first-ever state champion, their second time celebrating it, and if you're that right fielder, it's also the kid who hit the home run, but the story of this is a foul ball that should have been caught and was dropped, and a foul ball that should not have been caught but was caught. Tough because he did hit the game-tying. I think it's the same kid at the game-tying home run, but justice for the catcher. He's out there celebrating, and congratulations to St. Rita and the Triad. You guys did a hell of a job. You know, sports happen. Today's episode of Things You Missed is brought to you by That's Cricket. 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Going for the headlock. She's on top, but red is going to spin her down. No, that's a blue takedown. Two points blue, but that's a red pin. Two points red, but that's a blue win. Bam, bam, bam. Sage Mortimer. This was a rematch from 2022, so they're a little bit of rivals, and Sage gets it done, and you're going to want to see the replay because the second most impressive person in this video is the scorekeeper, the woman behind the desk. Watch this quickly. Where is it? What color? Where's my blue? Okay, blue, two points. Whoa, red, two points. Whoa, keeps watching. Blue, two points. What a rush. Six points in a flurry. Now let's go to Ireland and not for hurling this time. This is Gaelic football, and it's very similar to hurling, except they use their feet and their hands instead of the hurly, and they use a round ball instead of the slither that they use. Other than that, same amount of people, same field size, same length. Everything else is the same. Rinse and repeat. Change the equipment. Change some slight rules. You got yourself two sports, one rule. Anyway, this is the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Round 2A, and Louth is looking for the upset, but they're down two points right now, and we're in the 70th minute. 69, 14, 15, 16, 17, and the announcer said something very interesting. He said they can't see the clock, so they don't know exactly what's ticking. They just have a sense they're in the final minute, and it's running down. They need to get the kick off before you get past 7-0-0-0. That's what they need, and they need two points, so they need to kick it from behind that straight line. That would give them two points just through the uprights. If they put it in net, it's three and they win, but that's harder to do because you have a keeper. They need two points. They can't kick it from ahead unless they're going for the goal. He drops the ball. Five seconds, four seconds, three seconds, two, one. Needs to boot it. He does. It's up. Is it over and through the uprights? No, it's through the keeper's hands and in the goal for three. They were looking for two. He shot it short. It goes through the keeper's hands and gives them three. A miraculous finish. Just gets the opening with this juke step there, puts it up and it's, oh no, and it's in the keeper's hands. Now this team is on their third keeper in three straight matches. Their starter got hurt and this kid, Ethan Rafferty, is the substitute goalie and that is unfortunate. It was in his hands and then it was out. All he needed to do was bat it away. That's risky though. Why not when you can catch it? Oh my God. Gets open. That's Sam Mulroy for Louth and they go on to win. And that was everything you missed that you never planned on watching. Thank you very much for tuning in. Appreciate you guys. As always, shout out to the team here, Dalton and Sirocco, for making everything happen and see you next time.