Lindauer, Combs help make Memorial sports success a family affair

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BRANSON NEWS: Share This StoryEVANSVILLE – Annette and Jeanette Elkin’s decision to follow Chancellor Dugan to the University of Southern Indiana in 1991 changed the road map to and from Eastern Kentucky, perhaps for years to come.Annette and Jeanette (identical twins) began their college career at NCAA Division I Eastern Kentucky University, where Dugan was an assistant. Dugan landed the head coaching job at USI and the Elkin twins were her first two Eagles recruits. Annette later married Ronnie Combs,  a backup guard on USI’s NCAA Division II national runner-up basketball team in 1994, Bruce Pearl’s second season as head coach.Jeannette married former Central baseball and basketball standout Dirk Lindauer, who pitched for Missouri State and played one year in the St. Louis Cardinals organization.Now rising seniors, quarterback Michael Lindauer and tight end-linebacker Branson Combs have been offered football scholarships to EKU, among others. They could join former teammate Drew Hart, who will be a freshman offensive lineman for the Colonels.Branson Combs, left, and Michael Lindauer, far right, pose with their mothers, Annette Combs and Jeanette Lindauer, at after an awards ceremony in 2017.(Photo: Provided)Lindauer, Combs and Hart earned all-state honors in lifting Memorial High School to the Class 3A state football championship last fall. The Tigers hope to become the first Southern Indiana Athletic Conference school to win back-to-back state titles since the playoff format began in 1973.Memorial coach John Hurley, Michael’s uncle, returns several starters on offense and defense from last year’s 14-1 championship team. He guided the Tigers to the title game in 2008 and ’09, but they lost each time.More like brothers than cousins, Lindauer and Combs often stand next to each other on the sidelines. They have been with the program since they were ball boys as little kids.When Lindauer …


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