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VLD Sports ☑️
Like that? NCAA Mic’d up with Keith Kogane of @Marmora Hockey for game one of the Altea vs Marmora championship! 🏒
#NCAAhockey #Micdup
[Video opens with Keith and Shiro on the ice in Marmora colors, deep gray and purple. Shiro’s gloved hand on Keith’s shoulder]
“Patience yields focus,” they say in sync.
“We’ve got this,” Shiro adds with a nod before skating out of frame.
Keith turns in time to see Lance swinging by, a flash of white and blue. His skates scrape loudly against the ice. “Focus on getting that puck in the net, Red!” he shouts.
Keith flicks his stick out toward Lance’s legs but misses.
[The Mic’d up logo appears on screen over a clip of Keith heading toward the bench]
“Being mic’d up was not a good idea.”
[Cut to camera tracking Keith as he moves through center ice]
“Over here! Over here!”
The puck is passed to him. He keeps it away for a few seconds, but when Allura gets close to him on the right, he passes back to Pidge.
[Cut to a play near the Altea goal]
Keith swerves around opponents. He knocks into Lance with his hip, sending him flying toward the edge of the goal, getting him away from the puck and giving Shiro possession. Lance steadies himself, narrowly avoiding tipping the goal over.
Marmora defenders fighting off a few insistent Altea players block Shiro's only angle, so he's forced to pass to Keith.
Hunk, Altea’s goalie, is struggling.
Keith backhands the puck right into the the net, and Hunk falls over in his attempt to block it. The crowd erupts in cheers.
Lance stands near the boards, jaw dropped in shock, staring at Keith with wide eyes.
Keith grins. “Like that?”
[Cut to short clips, including Pidge getting checked into the board and collapsing. The Marmora team nurse comes out to check on her, and everything’s okay. During review of the hit, Keith watches with teammate Acxa]
“What’s that guy's problem?”
“I don’t know.” Acxa’s too far way, so her voice is barely picked up by the mic. She gestures angrily in Lotor’s direction. “He just, like, completely leveled her!”
[A ref announces that no foul play was found, no penalty for Altea’s Lotor. Cut to a play one minute later]
Lotor moves the puck along the board. Keith speeds toward him from the opposite side. He doesn’t slow when Lotor no longer has possession.
They make contact, Keith shouldering bodily into him. Lotor flips over and lands on his back, the wind knocked out of him.
Whistles are blown immediately. Keith spins around slowly, looking confused but still standing too close to Lotor. Multiple refs have to push Keith away.
“What was that?” One of the refs shouts.
“I don’t know what you mean!” Keith yells back through heaving breaths, throwing his hands up. “I barely even touched him.”
[Cut to ref calling a minor penalty for charging.]
Keith races out of the penalty box when his time is up, rushing the net and assisting shiro in a goal.
“Oh, come on,” Lance groans from the distance.
Pidge skates over to Keith and reaches up to pat his helmet with her gloved hand. “Right out of the sin bin, dude!”
[Camera cuts to Keith and Ryan on the bench, Keith squeezing water into his mouth through the grate of his helmet while Ryan talks]
“Saw a tweet,” Ryan starts, “saying that our team needs more confidence.”
“Man, get off of twitter,” Keith replies. After a moment, “But… Shiro does say the same thing.”
“Yeah?”
“Yep, all the time.”
[Cut to a split clip, the top is on the bench, the bottom shows the game. Everyone's clacking their sticks against the board and floor in a cacophony]
An overlapping chant of “Pidge Pidge Pidge!” echoes across the team, with Keith being the loudest.
“Pidge…” In the anticipation, a quiet settles, and then, “Yes! F**k yeah!” The video censors the word.
“That’s my player!” Ryan pumps his stick in the air.
[Cut to the final buzzer on a 3-1 game, Marmora’s favor]
Keith’s teammates crash into him and Shiro, absolutely smothering them. He’s barely visible over all the helmets.
“God… I, I can’t breathe in here guys.” Comes from the pile, the mic muffled by bodies.
[Cut to Keith going down the line for handshakes with Altea]
Keith is behind Pidge, waiting for her to move forward, and Lance, who is shaking her hand, to move down the line.
Lance puts both hands on Pidge’s. “I’m so sorry about Lotor, he’s not usually—"
“It’s all good,” she butts in. “Just… keep your guy in line.”
Keith looks between the two. While Keith’s eyes are on Pidge, Lance’s gaze flicks to him. Lance focuses on Pidge again before answering.
“Will do.”
Keith extends his hand.
“Good game,” he says with a small smile.
Lance’s fingers brush Keith’s wrist as he shakes his hand in a firm grip.
“Good game.”
JACKSON 🏒70
WHAT was that look at the end?? the tension is crazy
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pink!!
everyone needs to check lotor like that, get the nepo baby out!!!
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kat 🐾🥍 @ancientstick10
i don’t go here but this is soooo buzzy
[video attached: Keith grinning at Lance after making a goal and saying “Like that?” in a cocky voice]
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alex! ALTEA LIONS COMEBACK @goalgarrett replying to @ancientstick10
i DO go here and i’m so fucking confused. i’ve been calling klancers delusional for years… sorry i wasn’t aware of their game
juniper 🗡️@xxacxasgriptapee
lance called keith red in the mic’d up video… right…. im not losing it ?
mcgane-spy 5h
omg… wow. the klance fandom used to be so small we could fit in one bus
#where did you all come from #get out of my house #or come in. it’s fun here #klance #hockey
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VLD Sports ☑️
I LOVE the drama!! NCAA Mic’d up with Lance “lover boy” McClain of @Altea Hockey Lions for game two of Altea vs Marmora! 🏒
#NCAAhockey #Micdup
[Video opens on Allura and Lance doing a shooting warm up, Lance holding the bucket to help Allura collect their stray pucks]
“Are you excited for the mic, princess?” Lance asks, pointing to where a small mic is attached under his jersey.
She throws a puck into the bucket. “If you’re doing that, you have to attempt to flirt less.”
“What?”
Allura levels a cool, blue stare at him. “I know you heard me,” she scolds.
“Noooo,” Lance dramatically folds over for a second, “but my loverboy advantage! How ever will we win!”
Allura tosses a puck at the side of Lance’s helmet and it crackles in the mic along with his laughter.
[The Mic'd Up logo appears on screen over a clip of Lance, Keith, and Hunk talking. It fades out to Hunk, low in a frog stretch, while Lance and Keith stand to his right]
“Okay,” Lance continues, his brows raised, “so after Hunk says ‘loser’, I say ‘mar’ and you,” he turns to Keith, “say ‘mora’.”
Hunk grins up at him from the ice.
He begins the chant, “Loser?”
“Mar!”
“… Marmora?” Keith mumbles, clearly not following.
Lance and Hunk burst into giggles while Keith looks around at them with slightly furrowed brows and a smile tugging at his lips.
Keith stumbles a bit as Lance swings an arm around his shoulder in a friendly squeeze.
[Cut to Lance stopping short in front of Altea’s goal]
Hunk pushes himself up from the ice.
“Are you okay?” Lance says breathlessly.
“Yes, of course,” Hunk answers, deadpan. “I love being practically jumped by grown men in pounds of gear.”
Lance chuckles, then bites his lip, debating. “Well…”
Hunk stops adjusting his helmet to give Lance a look.
“Want me to get payback?”
“Please, no,” Hunk begs. “No more Marmora power plays this game. It’s getting scary over here.”
[Cut to the camera tracking Lance as he makes Altea’s first goal of the game from a challenging distance]
Lance skates around the back of the goal in celebration. He kneels on the ice, still moving with momentum, and mimes hoisting a fake gun on his shoulder.
The crowd is so loud it nearly drowns out his own happy, disbelieving breaths.
Romelle speeds toward him, bracing both hands on his shoulders as soon as he's up. “Lance!” she yells in his face.
“Yes?”
“What do they call you!”
Lance barely restrains his smirk. “Sharpshooter!”
“Yeah!” Romelle hugs him tight as their teammates join in.
“Hell yeah!”
[Cut to Lance and Rolo, a Marmora defender, pushing at each other]
“Wanna cross check me again, buddy? Huh?” Rolo shoves Lance back.
Lance surges forward. “What are you talking about?” His brows are furrowed, his voice pitched in anger.
Three refs show up and force them apart, telling them to break it up. Lance keeps yelling petty insults.
“Hey!” the ref on Lance says. “You have a mic! You have a mic!”
“I don’t care what I have—let me show him a real cross check.”
Lance’s exasperated sigh is picked up by the mic.
“The drama's gonna come to you because you’re mic’d up,” the ref explains, a firm hand still planted on Lance’s chest, holding him away.
“Oh!” Lance exclaims. “Oh, I love the drama!” Lance shoves the ref away, skirting around him and toward where the others dragged Rolo. “Come on! Come and get some of this!”
Lance seems giddy with adrenaline.
The ref is scrambling, saying, “No no no no,” somewhere behind Lance.
Then, a Marmora player makes a sharp stop behind him, sending ice shavings everywhere with their skates. They lift their head and the camera catches Keith’s face for a moment.
Keith grabs a fistful of Lance’s jersey and drags him back a few feet—Lance struggling the whole way—before releasing him. His back is to the camera, meanwhile the way Lance’s expression softens a fraction is on full display.
“Hey, Lance, calm down,” Keith whispers, his voice too gentle before adjusting to something gruffer. “Shiro’s got him. And your team needs you on the ice.”
After a second, Lance appears to have calmed, slipping back into his cocky smirk. “I figured you’d appreciate the advantage of one less forward.”
“We don’t need an advantage,” Keith spins around to Lance’s other side, his face visible again, and leans in to say, “plus, I enjoy a challenge.”
[Cut to almost everyone surrounding a section of the ice where the puck is trapped between the board and three sticks]
Lance stands on alert nearby, and then looks up at the time.
“Shoot, look,” he says, pointing up for his teammates nearby to see. Twelve seconds remaining in a tied game. “It’s countdown to overtime time.”
Lance starts counting down with the clock, and Allura and James join in.
“Three! Two! One!”
Lance screams in a similar pitch to the buzzer, and Pidge joins in, finally giving up on the puck now that the period is over.
[Cut to overtime, camera tracking Lance as he passes the puck back and forth to Allura to keep it away from Marmora]
Allura takes a shot on goal but misses, bringing it back around the back of the net quickly to pass to Lance. He shoots, and it barely makes it past the blade of the Marmora goalie’s skate.
Lance rushes into Allura, hugging her tight.
"Legendary pass, princess!"
[Cut to after handshake lineups. Keith standing on his own, his helmet off and in his hand]
Lance slides into him with a hip bump.
“Hey baby!” Lance smiles. “How’d you like that winning shot during over time?”
A blush spreads over Keith's cheeks. “Jeez, say it into your mic why don’t you?”
Lance pinches a handful of his jersey at his collarbones and brings it close to his lips, looking up at Keith and repeating slowly, “Overtime win. Me. Not you.”
Keith pushes at Lance’s shoulder.
“Shut up.” But Keith is laughing.
drewy˚｡ @dewdrop_ezorflop
DID YOU GUYS SEE THAT???
cloud ☁️ @excesskeith
lance called keith baby i repeat lance called keith kogane of Marmora Hockey baby. THEEEEE blade being embarrassed
[Image attached: Keith blushing while looking at Lance]
᭝ ᨳଓ ՟ @luvvysara replying to @excesskeith
It was CLEARLY about the chirping. And McClain calls everyone babyliterally allura’s gf @somebutchaltean replying to @luvvysara
exactlyyyy like have these people never seen interviews with him and allura and hunk??
4th addition to wife line @victoirenthusiast
“… marmora?” is about to hit every hockeytwt bio like a nuclear bomb
[Tiktok of a guy in Altea merch staring the camera down with white text over it]
everyone on the keith & pidge bffism wavelength now but they weren’t on the front lines with me when she transferred. What Do You Know About The Garrison Trio?
mcgane-spy reblogged
rosenroque 2h
klance went crazy this game, especially in the mic’d up video, but can we please talk about Shiro and that hot ref with the glasses
they were definitely flirting
#new hockey rpf just dropped #like ok stare at his mouth while he complains... gay #takashi shirogane #Marmora Blades #hockey
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Friends or Foes: Altea vs Marmora takes the internet by storm
Marmora held the cup two years in a row with knockout victories as NCAA hockey’s champion with Kolivan in as the head coach. But Altea’s strategy of building up their Forward roster might threaten to bring Marmora down.
Mic’d up (presented by VLD Sports) debuted their NCAA hockey series with Junior Keith Kogane, right wing for Marmora. Kogane has only been interviewed four times in his entire college career, so this pick was a welcome surprise.
His video was posted soon after the game and went viral over the weekend. Fans ran to Twitter and TikTok expressing excitement over the player's relationships with his teammates.
Sources informed us that the follow up video, “Lance McClain Mic’d Up: Championship game 2,” was requested by McClain himself. McClain commented on the post, “had to show the people both sides! unbiased reporting is important!” which is a sentiment that we at Arusian News support.
The Kogane and McClain dynamic of Mic’d Up brings a new wave of hockey fans in time for the third and final game on Sunday.
Below is a championship recap, the date for the final game, and a link to purchase remaining tickets.
Championship
Game one, 3/14 | Altea 1, Marmora 3
Game two, 3/18 | Altea 2, Marmora 1
Game three 3/22 @3pm | N/A