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- 0:00This is Lennon Senior Casey Thomas, and you're listening to the Walcome Preps Podcast
- 0:03with Tyler and Ryland. Go Lions, Greetings and welcome into the watcom Preps
- 0:24Podcast. This is episode at two and forty six, a Spring Sports a
- 0:28weekly wrap up. I'm Brolan Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler
- 0:32Anderson. Well watcom Preps. Tyler, how we do when doing great?
- 0:37Man doing great? This is fun. This will be the first one of
- 0:40this brand and I'm excited to get it going. Yeah. I hadn't really
- 0:45thought about that, but we did just spend a lot of time redoing our
- 0:49whole show sheet here and it is absolutely loaded. I mean yeah, there's
- 0:56no time to mess around tonight, Tyler or else. We're going to be
- 0:59recording three am because there is a ton of stuff to talk about. We've
- 1:06got track and field, boys and girls. We've got girls tennis, we've
- 1:11got boys soccer, We've got fast pitch, we've got baseball. We've got
- 1:15some players of the week, we've got some looking ahead, We've got I
- 1:18mean, Tyler, there is so much stuff to talk about here. Yeah,
- 1:21and before we go any further, we need to give a thank you
- 1:23to Casey Thomas Linden fast pitch. I take it she's pretty good. Yeah,
- 1:30she's gonna go play at Skeatget Valley College next year and uh catch her
- 1:34third basement and she gets the job done. I think, Uh, she's
- 1:38gonna be right in the middle of that lineup too. And they bring back
- 1:41a lot of talent. That's gonna be really good year for Lindon. Is
- 1:44it just mirrors that seem like Linden sports in general just always bring back a
- 1:48lot of talent. Yeah. I don't know how that happens. It's not
- 1:51just you, it's it's What's what's crazy too, is you looked at like
- 1:55their volleyball team, which case is part of that as well, and they
- 1:57had a loaded senior last this year and this was kind of their year and
- 2:02they got third and state and then so you're thinking, well, we'll see
- 2:07how it goes next year. But they bring back a lot of really good
- 2:08players, you know that. I mean, it's just crazy. They still
- 2:13bring back a lot of talent from you know they will be next year.
- 2:15And so you're right, it's never a rebuild. It's always a reload in
- 2:20every sport. Yeah, I say that, and there's coaches all around the
- 2:23county listening, going, yeah, tell me about it. Yeah, exactly,
- 2:25Tyler. We also needed to give it thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm and
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- 4:12was going through it. I even recognized some last names, Tyler, And
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- 5:16Tyler is what it is, right, Yeah. Yeah, so we will
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- 5:26stuff going on, Tyler. If somebody wants to get on board, they
- 5:28want a sponsor. There's still stuff available. As a matter of fact,
- 5:30I'm going to even be mentioning it as we go here, but there's still
- 5:34some stuff available, girls tennis, boy soccer is still available, boy soccer,
- 5:40everything's available, scoreboard. It's a very possibility that if we start doing
- 5:44standings for graphic you know standings. Oh yeah, it could be like a
- 5:47daily thing or a weekly thing. I think that's something that people would want
- 5:51to jump on because people are always trying to look for the standings. So
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- 6:04what SIG's Funeral and Cremation Services did on Saturday morning. Just got hold of
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- 6:15thirty six hours later talking about them on the air. So it's as easy
- 6:19as that. Yeah. And by the way, SIGs is doing baseball.
- 6:25Nobody's doing fast pitch for the players of the week, So we got a
- 6:29little something something there to go, you know, sponsor, if somebody wants
- 6:32to do it, and those things get a lot of numbers too, I
- 6:34know on social media, but also we talk about it every week here on
- 6:38the podcast. There's also if somebody wanted a sponsor to look ahead the next
- 6:42week, we're gonna be talking about a bunch of different sports, so lots
- 6:46of stuff to still sponsor. If people want to get on board with it,
- 6:48just yeah, reach out to Tyler. He'll get you taken care of.
- 6:50Easiest way to do it just right there on social media, Tyler.
- 6:54Let's talk track and field. Huh, let's start with that. Yeah,
- 6:59I you know, it's so fun because with the weather changing obviously, this
- 7:02weekend that we just had was just nuts. But it's those track and field
- 7:09events are awesome and I don't know how many you've ever been to, but
- 7:12when you're a media member at them, it's you kind of feel like you
- 7:16just you just kind of walk around like you're not really restricted anywhere. You
- 7:20just want to stay off the track when you hear the gun out of the
- 7:25way of the javelin, Yeah right, you just kind of And I got
- 7:28to go to Ferndale High School and they were holding their first event there.
- 7:31Yeah, you know at the new Yeah, and so and it was the
- 7:35first time I believe I heard this right, first time they'd hosted a track
- 7:42and field event at Ferndale High School since twenty thirteen. Well, yeah,
- 7:46because they didn't have a track, right, it wasn't it wasn't it what's
- 7:50it called? Wasn't it still? Well, you don't know what am I
- 7:56trying to say here, like dirt or whatever, because it was no they
- 8:00because they used to hold track and field events there. Oh, I thought
- 8:03they didn't have the normal track. I thought they had dirt. No,
- 8:05they know they had they had track, but it's it's just they just hadn't
- 8:09hosted an event in a long time. Yeah. No, they probably got
- 8:13the nicest place in the county. Huh. Oh. Man. I was
- 8:15talking to some people from Sedro Woolley that they were like, man, this
- 8:18is a great this is a great place. There was a guy that said
- 8:20he graduated from Burlington in the eighties. He hadn't been to a Burndial high
- 8:24school since and he had to kind of look it up again and he rode
- 8:26his motorcycle out there and he's like, yeah, the field used to be
- 8:30over there where the school is, and he was he just was just sitting
- 8:33there in awe just catching it all. And those events are so cool because
- 8:37there's so much going on at once and oh yeah, and it's very much
- 8:41a hey, look a squirrel, you know what I mean? Like,
- 8:43yes, every few seconds there's something else going on. Yeah, you know.
- 8:48And and the whole time something's going on there, there's shot discus and
- 8:50javelin and anybody doing the hammer throw out there Tyler, I've seen that before.
- 8:56Two. Yeah, there's no hammer throw up here. But uh,
- 8:58but the cool thing about this this past week is that every school has already
- 9:01participated. So so we got a lot of like leader boards and stuff like
- 9:05that, and we got some got some good top top scores here and times.
- 9:11I should say, And since we're talking track and field, Tyler,
- 9:13you want to know who the sponsor is? Yeah, let's hear it.
- 9:18I'm just saying that. I mean, do you do you want to know?
- 9:20Tyler? Well? I think I do know, but I want to
- 9:22hear. Well, SOFTI Insurance guy Martin's over there, nineteen oh three Front
- 9:26Street in Lindon three six zero seven four six eighty eight oh three. Well,
- 9:31what was SOFTA insurance? Was it? It was boys women dive right.
- 9:35Yeah, yeah, and hey they're doing track and field now and uh
- 9:41so it's a really it's a really really cool deal. I mean and Marty,
- 9:43you know, Marty even reached out to me on Saturday just to just
- 9:46to thank me again for how things are going. He's loving the new format
- 9:50and he loves what Walker Preps does and and he just wanted to he you
- 9:54know, he said a lot of people heard about it through him. Now
- 10:00he was and he was so happy. He's like I just got to reach
- 10:01out to Tyler and just tell him this is this is such a cool partnership
- 10:05and it's such a cool deal. And so I love it because he's a
- 10:07really genuine guy and he definitely is behind Walking Preps and and uh you know,
- 10:15it's a it's a really cool partnership. He's a he's a great guy.
- 10:18You know, Tyler, you put on some fins and some like some
- 10:22like floaty you know things. Yeah, yeah, are we gonna get goal
- 10:26and yeah, are we gonna get something for track now? Like uh,
- 10:30I don't know, he hasn't reached out. They do some funny commercials.
- 10:33They have a lot of fun. It's all about fun there and and pop
- 10:37positivity and stuff like that. But he hasn't reached out about doing a track
- 10:39and field commercial, at least not yet. Man. I know he's interested
- 10:43in doing cross country in the fall. Oh I don't know if you can
- 10:46get me running that far, but we'll find out. Tyler. Remember back
- 10:50in the day, they used to have, you know, like little people.
- 10:52They'd shoot him out of cannons, you know, like like circuses.
- 10:56Yeah, yeah, how about shoot you out of a cannon over the pole
- 10:58vault thing. And I'm just throwing it out there, Marty, I mean,
- 11:03I'm just throwing it out there, Tyler. Staffer Insurance s T A,
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- 11:18RV insurance, and Randy small business Insurance. I mean just small business
- 11:20insurance. But it says here we specialize. We're proud to specialize in each
- 11:26of those following services. How they specialize in three, six, seven,
- 11:31eight different things, I don't know, but they're incredible because we've heard nothing
- 11:35but good things out of them. So absolutely, Staffer Insurance be sure to
- 11:37check them out, let's talk about the boys leaders, Tyler, So,
- 11:43swim and dive and track and field they're kind of similar in that you're really
- 11:50looking at the numbers. You're not necessarily looking at you know, where they
- 11:56place, but it's like, what is their number as far as you know,
- 11:58moving on and stuff. And so that's kind of what we're gonna do
- 12:01here with track and field each week in this excuse me. In the winter,
- 12:07we talked about the who was our guy Dylan Fisk? Yeah? Who
- 12:13Isles Kratzenburg? Yeah, Miles Kratzenberg. These guys were putting up numbers that
- 12:16were just insane, and basically what we did was kind of updated him each
- 12:20week. Hey, here's the ones that were broken this week, here's some
- 12:22new things. Blah blah blah blah. So that's kind of what we're gonna
- 12:24do here, now, Tyler, tell me this. There were there some
- 12:28track meets. I mean obviously there was track meets, but like, how
- 12:30many were there going on? Like what was going on with that last week?
- 12:33Yeah? Well, right in the middle of the week there was five
- 12:35I believe going on in one day. Wow. And it was you know,
- 12:39and it was not just walking County teams. But I went out to
- 12:43Ferndale. They had Segar William Blaine there, so that was that was cool
- 12:46to see that. But it was all on the same day. I think
- 12:48like Lakewood, Anna, Chordis and Baker were at one. I think all
- 12:52three city schools were at Civic. Yeah, it was just crazy, just
- 12:58all these I think Lyndon was at Oak Harbor. It was just the two
- 13:01of them. Yeah, it was a lot going on. And then Nuksak
- 13:05and Lennon Christian were with Mount Vernon on Friday, got and that and so
- 13:11that and that was out at Nuksack Valley High School. Uh, Meridian was
- 13:15competing with another school. I mean it was just but all ten schools competed
- 13:20this week and a lot of them happened on the same day. I was
- 13:24out of town on the Friday. Uh so uh, that would have been
- 13:28fun to go to that. That Loan track meet out in Nuksack Valley with
- 13:31l C Knuksack and Mount Vernon, but I missed that one, but it
- 13:35was Yeah, it was just that just all happened on the same day.
- 13:37And I remember growing up that track meets were kind of like that. They
- 13:41all would kind of compete on the same day and and you know, all
- 13:46my goal is to go out and get it see everybody, So I'm sure
- 13:48that'll happen. Let's talk boys leaders, uh, and and we'll start off
- 13:54with with the sprints here. And the reason we're gonna start off with these
- 13:56two here is because the same guy has the time for the one hundred and
- 14:01two hundred tyler. Yeah, Jase Clinkhammer from Meridian. You know, he
- 14:05was really good last year too. I believe he ran one hundred meter a
- 14:09sub eleven second hundred meter last year, so he's already the early leader board
- 14:13eleven point twenty five in Walkin County and then the two hundred meter at twenty
- 14:16two point seventy five. Now the four hundred, either Jase doesn't run it,
- 14:22or he's nice enough to let somebody else take over and win that one,
- 14:26or or have the best time so far. What do we got there
- 14:28for the four hundred? Yeah, that's Luke Jones at Ferndale fifty three point
- 14:33four to three seconds. And that's always a weird like it is classified as
- 14:35a sprint, but that's one full lap and that is just I don't know
- 14:39about you, but I can't sprint a full lap. It's a terror on
- 14:43your body. You know. It's kind of in between that sprint and long
- 14:46distance. It takes a special athlete to do that, you know, and
- 14:50especially if you start getting a kid that run it under under fifty seconds,
- 14:54that's and you know, you see kids like a like who's that? Like
- 14:58Caleb Newman? You know, oh yeah, you see these freak athletes that
- 15:01can run a four hundred under fifty seconds and you go, holy cow.
- 15:05So uh, that's always a unique event. Tyler. You want to know
- 15:07who ran the four hundred and under fifty seconds? You remember Miles Jack?
- 15:16Yes, yeah, Miles Jack used to run it in like like forty nine
- 15:20seconds. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, I mean that dude is huge.
- 15:24Yeah, right, hold on, hold on, we got I just
- 15:26got to look it up really quickly. Miles Jack, Miles Jack. I
- 15:31mean, granted, you know these are NFL Like what he is? You
- 15:35know what he was in the NFL? Or is he is he still in
- 15:37the NFL? Did he sign somewhere? He's with the Steelers practice squad last
- 15:41right, six one, two forty five. But like in high school,
- 15:46he was like six one, like two twenty five right, and he's running,
- 15:50you know, sub fifty second. I mean, just stupid. Yeah,
- 15:54I think, like I said, I think Caleb Newman did too,
- 15:56and he was six three two thirty five. That guy was a freak.
- 15:58I remember, He's just walk around on the field and smack himself in the
- 16:00head. So let's talk eight hundred and sixteen hundred because Tyler, those happened
- 16:07to be the same guy, young man out here from Squalicum. Yeah,
- 16:11Chase Barlott has always been on the top of these leader boards for a while,
- 16:14and he's kind of he's probably gonna be the guy to catch. Now,
- 16:17eight hundred meters in one minute fifty seven point three four seconds sub two
- 16:22minute eight hundred meters, that's ridiculous. And then sixteen hundred meters four twenty
- 16:26six eighty seven. It's not exactly a mile, it's pretty close. You
- 16:30start thinking about that, man. I mean, I remember in high school
- 16:33and conditioning class on Fridays, we have to run the mile and you always
- 16:37kind of have like your goal, and Michael was always tried to get like
- 16:40below six and a half minutes, and it was just that was just,
- 16:45you know, hard to do. He's running in under four and a half
- 16:48minutes. Yeah, you know, it's just crazy incredible. Yeah, so
- 16:53eight hundred meters, two laps around the track, sixteen hundred meters four right,
- 16:57thirty two hundred meters years Tyler, I don't know that I could walk
- 17:02that A young man from Meridian, Yeah, Braxton Ashmore, ten minutes thirty
- 17:07nine seconds. That's that's a really good time. You'll start to see,
- 17:11especially in this kind of event, You'll start to see as the season wears
- 17:15on, these times will just keep getting nicked down, down down. You'll
- 17:18start seeing some sub ten minute signs. And that's one of those events where
- 17:25as the season wears on, you'll get better times going forward. I think
- 17:30relayser kind of like that too, because you get used to each other a
- 17:33little bit more. But a lot of the other events, you'll just have
- 17:37this really beautiful day and it just everything goes right and you have a really
- 17:40great long jump or a really great shot. But yeah, and that then
- 17:42that'll stick for the year, and which is always interesting because then you go
- 17:47to State and it's just really nice weather and it's just crazy, and then
- 17:52sometimes you get in the adrenaline is going too, so you get some really
- 17:55good times there. Let's talk hurdles, Tyler one hundred and ten, one
- 18:00hundred and ten meter hurdles, three hundred meter hurdles. And it's the same
- 18:04guy, yeah, Dane Beachline from Meridian. He's kind of known as the
- 18:08hurdle guy up here. Joey Brown is right behind him. That's gonna be
- 18:14a fun matchup as the season wears on. Uh, Dane beach Line sixteen
- 18:18point one to three in the one ten and then forty three point three to
- 18:22three in the three hundred. I know these are numbers that will get down
- 18:26to you know, they always try to get to forty a little. If
- 18:29you can get under forty, it's crazy. If you can get like to
- 18:32fifteen seconds flat, that's really really good too. So I would expect him
- 18:36to start sharpening these times as well. Now, let's talk at relays,
- 18:41and Meridian has the four by one hundred and four by four hundred. But
- 18:45it's a couple of different sets of sets of guys here Tyler and one of
- 18:48them the first and name I see here Josh and Elmer. I didn't know,
- 18:52but you know a guy that probably takes two steps for every one of
- 18:56everybody else's but hey, he's cooking though, I mean, and that's the
- 19:00thing. What do we got here for times? In the four by one
- 19:03hundred? Who are the guys? Yeah, the Trojans are well represented in
- 19:06this in all these top lists here, Josh den Elmer, Jace Clinkhammer,
- 19:10Dane Beachline, and Casey Brennan the speedy Freshman as well. So that's a
- 19:14really good group there in the four by one hundred forty four point four to
- 19:18three seconds, and then the four by four hundred is always a fun thing.
- 19:21They usually close out the events with that, so it's kind of like
- 19:23it's like the big event started starting to get dark, you know. It's
- 19:27a really cool thing. Tate Hansen, Dane Beachline, Ruben Taveldi, and
- 19:33Jace Clinkammer there with three minutes and forty seconds, just a crazy time in
- 19:37the four by four hundred. Meridian's got a lot of talent there. Coach
- 19:41Aames has got to be pretty happy with the way things are going early on.
- 19:45Yeah, and sticking with the Meridian train, we get into the field
- 19:48events here with the shot and it's a young man from Meridian. Yeah,
- 19:52it's a name we know too. Is they're starting left tackle Rhett Dirsh Really
- 19:57really like this kid, I think. I don't know for sure, but
- 20:00I have a punch that he is the guy behind Walking Prep spotted on the
- 20:04Instagram account. Don't know for sure, but uh, he's really good two
- 20:08hundred and fifteen pound wrestler, really good member of the of the of the
- 20:12band as well. Smart kid, what do you do? Yeah, I
- 20:18know, it's just I really really like him a lot. Just a sophomore
- 20:22too. I think that he's got a bright future in a lot of different
- 20:27things after sports in high school. And and uh, but yeah, forty
- 20:32seven feet six inches, that's a heck of a shot right there. Uh,
- 20:36you start getting near those fifty numbers, that's incredible. Let's get away
- 20:41from Meridian for a little bit. Let's talk Nooksack Valley about for the for
- 20:45the discus. Yeah, Ken Coppinger, we know him obviously from football.
- 20:49Really really strong kid. He's going to compete for that shot as well.
- 20:53Uh, they're gonna be He's gonna be right up there. He's second right
- 20:56now in the county. But a disc is throw one hundred and fifty one
- 21:00feet and eight inches. That is that is really really good. That's pretty
- 21:04unusual to have that right after your raf the bat in your first meet.
- 21:07That's gonna be that's gonna be really tough to beat. Now for the javelin,
- 21:12Tyler, we got a young man from high school. Give it to
- 21:18me who we got over there? H you goosefall? Yeah. Darius Gilstrap
- 21:22saw a lot of him on the basketball court transfer from Lyndon. Uh.
- 21:26Just freaky athletic. Uh and had no clue that he threw the javelin.
- 21:32So one hundred and fifty feet on the javelin, that's saying a lot.
- 21:34When you got Josh den Elmer, Joey Brown, there's a lot of guys
- 21:37that are gonna be right there competing for that spot. Uh. And I
- 21:41got a message from Darius Gilstrap before the season started. It says, are
- 21:45you gonna be covering track this year? I said absolutely? He goes good.
- 21:48You're gonna see me on the leader board. And again, I love
- 21:51that kind of competitiveness, that that confidence. And he's near the top and
- 21:56a few other events as well. He's not at the top as you see,
- 21:59but uh, but he's he's a guy that can do a lot of
- 22:02different things. Very very athletic. Well at some point what to have him
- 22:06do? The The intro sounds good to me. Yeah, I like it.
- 22:10High jump for the first one here Tyler, where we've got two guys
- 22:14with the same the same score. Yeah, And this is another one of
- 22:17those events. As the season wears on, you're gonna see you're gonna see
- 22:19better and better scores for sure. Luke Smith at Mount Baker is their quarterback,
- 22:25and uh and Benjamin Sandholm from Bellingham both high jumped five foot eight.
- 22:30I know Luke Smith competed in the high jump a lot last year. I
- 22:33can't remember if he broke six speed or not. That's one of those events
- 22:37that I love seeing in person. I went to school with a two time
- 22:41state champion that was a good friend of mine, Joel Joel Perry, and
- 22:45he was incredible to watch him. I see. I saw him high jump
- 22:48six foot nine, like just right in front of me, and it was
- 22:52just like just to see that as just right over you. Yeah, basically
- 22:56way over me. You know these guys were over you. Oh yeah,
- 23:00five eight. That's that's clearing me. That's what we need to have them
- 23:03do. You know how we were talking about it we were talking about,
- 23:07you know, we're gonna we're gonna strike out. You know, we're gonna
- 23:11strike out like we are, We're gonna you know, yeah, try to
- 23:14bet fai. Yeah, no, it's gonna it's gonna be bad. But
- 23:18then you know, we're gonna try to maybe stop some shots from a couple
- 23:21soccer players or score on a goalie or something. And yeah, jump over
- 23:25Tyler. Yeah, I mean you can jump over me. This one here,
- 23:27they would have gone right through my forehead. But uh yeah, I
- 23:30mean I think that we need to have them do that, Tyler. Let's
- 23:33talk pole vault, something that I know some some schools don't even participate in
- 23:38pole vault, I know in the state of Washington. But I see a
- 23:41young man here from Linden. Huh yeah, Jared McCrory thirteen feet six inches.
- 23:47I mean that's a really good score, especially early on. That's another
- 23:49one of those events that you start to see the scores get better and better
- 23:53quite a bit because it's so meticulous on how you do it. And uh
- 23:59and yeah, you're right. There's there's a lot of schools that just if
- 24:02you don't have a pull vault coach because it's such it's so unique compared to
- 24:07everything else. Then you just don't have anybody that will do it, you
- 24:11know, on the team. And so you find a pull vault coach,
- 24:14you hang on to them because they're they're very very valuable, very very good.
- 24:21Let's head over to see Home for the first time and talk about the
- 24:22long jump. Yeah, see Home, Maxton Rush twenty feet seven inches.
- 24:26That's a heck of a jump. See Home. You know, defending state
- 24:30champions in boys track for two ways. So there's a lot of there's just
- 24:36you know, a lot of long distance runners. They're gonna eventually start creeping
- 24:38in with more names on this list. And let's go back to lynd In,
- 24:42the same young man for the triple jump. Yeah, how about that.
- 24:45A lot of a lot of pole vaulters sometimes don't do a whole lot
- 24:48of other events, and but this guy does. Jared McCrory thirty nine feet
- 24:55eleven inches, just one inch away from forty feet in the triple jump.
- 24:57Anytime you can break forty feet in triple jump, you start you start looking
- 25:02at state placers. There. That's an that's an incredible that's an incredible number.
- 25:06I think the walking County record is right around forty six feet, which
- 25:10is just nuts. But but yeah, but Jared McCrory early on thirty nine
- 25:15feet eleven inches tops and walking County. Let's move over and talk about the
- 25:19girls leaders Tyler again sponsored by Stauffer Insurance. Let's start with the one hundred
- 25:26meters and a name I recognize here from Bellingham. Yes, for the volleyball
- 25:32chase, Flick Williams from Bellingham, twelve point eight four seconds. Just a
- 25:36crazy, phenomenal athlete. So athletic loved watching her play volleyball, and she's
- 25:41gonna go play volleyball at Western Washington University. But track and field, I
- 25:45mean, she is a she's a defending state champion. She's been just lights
- 25:51out in any event that she does. It seems like let's talk two hundred,
- 25:55four hundred and eight hundred meters Tyler. And the reason we're doing all
- 25:57three is because it's all it's same school over at Lyndon, but it's three
- 26:02different people. Yeah, that's that's a pretty incredible feat right there. Keiki
- 26:07York in the two hundred twenty six point thirty nine got to see her a
- 26:10lot during the basketball season started on that team. Probably the best one on
- 26:15one defender in girls basketball in Walking County. Very very athletic. Four hundred
- 26:18meters Ella Frearicks from Linden one minute and one second. You know she'll be
- 26:23cracking that minute pretty soon, I would imagine. And then in the eight
- 26:26hundred meters Sloane Dixon from London two and a half minutes for the eight hundred
- 26:32meters. Let's talk the one mile sixteen hundred meters and we head back to
- 26:37Bellingham. Yeah, Sophia Cotch from Bellingham five minutes and twelve seconds. Again,
- 26:44man, just running the four laps five minutes and twelve seconds just freaks
- 26:47me out. That is incredible, you know, just knowing that I was
- 26:51in pretty good shape in high school and it was always just trying to break
- 26:55six and a half minutes. It's just, you know, just see that
- 26:56and just go wow. Thirty two hundred Logan Ignacio from Meridian, thirteen minutes
- 27:03and sixteen seconds. Not a lot of kids have been running this lately.
- 27:07I noticed in some events there would be like only two kids running it.
- 27:11Really and that and I think it's just you got to build up the wind
- 27:14to be able to do that, and so you know, maybe early in
- 27:17this season there's just not a lot of kids running it. But I remember
- 27:21Logan from last year, and she'll be she'll be near the top for most
- 27:22of the year. Let's talk hurdles, the one hundred and the three hundred.
- 27:27We've got two separate schools, a Squalicum and a Linden. Yeah,
- 27:32Jolie Pass from Squalicum really good athlete. I would assume that she's going to
- 27:37be a really good jump or two like long jump, high jump. She's
- 27:40not very tall, but man on volleyball, she's like five to five,
- 27:42but she she had an awesome vertical, so I'm not surprised that she's doing
- 27:48pretty good in the hurdles. There seventeen point one to three seconds to lead
- 27:52Walking County. And then the three hundred is Faith van Brocklin from Linden forty
- 27:56eight point seventy one seconds to lead Walking County. That's a number that she'll
- 27:59do roughly improve on as well, and it's gonna be hard to take that
- 28:02lead from her. The four by one hundred, we head over to see
- 28:06some Mariners over at Sea Home. Yeah, Kira Reeves saw her on the
- 28:12basketball team as well. Alina Krapsov, Maddy Goodman, and Trea Mitchell together
- 28:18fifty one point seventy five seconds in the four by one hundred. They're from
- 28:22Seahome and then from Linden, Sloan Dixon, Faith van Brockland, Keiki York,
- 28:26Ella Freercks. How about that? I mean what I mean, all
- 28:29four of them we've talked about already. Then they team up together on this
- 28:33four by four hundred relay team for four minutes thirteen point nine three seconds.
- 28:37That's gonna be a tough team to beat. A lot of good athletes on
- 28:40that team. Yeah, that's pretty wild that all four of them are right
- 28:45now the leader in different campers yea and a different one like Yeah, I
- 28:49mean, that is remarkable. Let's go talk field events here, Tyler.
- 28:55We'll start with the shot put and we go right back to Lindon. Yeah,
- 28:59saraah Jo kashaua thirty three, just a little over thirty three feet in
- 29:02the shot put, thirty three and a half of an inch. That's that's
- 29:06a pretty incredible throw. You're gonna start seeing some numbers in the mid thirties
- 29:10and upper thirties as the season wears on. For the discus. We go
- 29:12right down the street to Lyndon Christian. So close, so close to one
- 29:17hundred feet on this Jesse Wainstra or Winstrom, I'm sorry from Linden Christian ninety
- 29:21nine feet four and a half inches that discus. Man, that's one of
- 29:26those ones where I know I would step out of the thing for sure.
- 29:30I would not stay in the circle at all. And I'm so glad they
- 29:33have a net around because I would not know where I'm releasing that. That
- 29:36just seems like it takes so much. Like you see the beginners, yeah,
- 29:38do it where they just kind of go back and then they go forward
- 29:41and throw it. Yeah, and then you see that a little step of
- 29:45like a hop, yeah, and you just see them do it so they
- 29:47know they're throwing it to the right direction. But then you see these you
- 29:51know, you see these really good athletes that have been doing it a while
- 29:53and they do the spin and rooney and then boom and throw its. It's
- 29:56incredible. They get the timing just right. Yeah. I've absolutely no idea
- 30:02how they do that stuff. I mean, yeah, repetition man, Yeah,
- 30:04well the shot and the disc those two things, like I yeah,
- 30:08I don't get it. I mean the javelin. Yeah, you got to
- 30:11stick in your hand, you're running, you throw it, you know what
- 30:14I mean, Like, it's pretty straightforward. The other yeah, I don't
- 30:17know, crazy. And then the hammer throw. That's really wild and I
- 30:21don't I know that we're not talking about it here, but they started spinning
- 30:25circles. Man, I don't know how they even, Like, how do
- 30:26you know when to let go? I mean that's what I mean. Yeah,
- 30:30And you want to talk about tryny, you know, potentially killing somebody?
- 30:33Oh my god? Yeah, yeah, my buddy Travis he did that
- 30:36in college. He did he did the hammer throw, and it talked about
- 30:37how exciting it was and how how crazy it was. And he didn't even
- 30:41do track in high school, but he did it. He did it in
- 30:45the Yeah, he did the shot put, discus, hammer throw, and
- 30:47he ran the one hundred meter dash believe it or not. Wow? In
- 30:49college. Yeah, I mean, hey, he did it out of a
- 30:53three point stance, left guard coming right at you. Was he going to
- 30:56like clown college? What the heck is going? Are you kidding me?
- 31:00Upper Iowa? He ran that's right, Upper Iowa. You look on the
- 31:03you look on the record, book. He holds the fifty meter indoor record
- 31:06for three hundred pound plus. It's on the website. Three hundred pound plus.
- 31:11Yeah, you know what that's that's the overweight division. Tyler. Let's
- 31:15talk javelin, and we're gonna go to Knooksack Valley and if she throws this
- 31:18thing any further, she's gonna hit Abbotsford. Yeah, no kidding. Kate
- 31:22Shintaffer great, great player on the basketball team, the state championship basketball team.
- 31:26She started at guard on that team. And it was funny because I
- 31:30was covering track a little bit last year and and but I wasn't doing a
- 31:33ton of basketball. And this year, when I was doing basketball, I
- 31:37was like, where do I know that name from? And then now the
- 31:38track is has resurfaced. I'm like, dad's right from javelin, So uh,
- 31:44she's she's up there. There's some other there are some other good throws
- 31:47there too, but one hundred and three feet already early on in the year,
- 31:49that's a that's quite a throw for Kate Shinteffer. Now, Tyler,
- 31:52when we talk high jump, we're gonna head to Linen Christian and these ones
- 31:57they got a little more time him to get it down as of right now.
- 32:01They're not jumping over you though. Yeah, they're getting they're getting close.
- 32:05Edit to Young four foot ten, Yeah, that that that's a heck
- 32:08of a jump. I I'm trying to think what the Walking County record is
- 32:13for girls high jump. I want to say it's like five foot ten.
- 32:15Wow, there was a girl at Burndale in the mid nineties Stacey Cowan.
- 32:22Maybe I'm trying to remember who it was, but there's been There's been some
- 32:24pretty good ones. Four foot ten is pretty darn good. Though. You
- 32:29start getting over five feet and girls high jump that is incredible. And Linny
- 32:32Christian it always seems like Lynnay Christian's got two or three girls that that that
- 32:37that get close to that or surpass it every single year. Let's go pole
- 32:42vault and we head the belling Ham and check in on some BayHawks. Yeah,
- 32:46CALLI young nine foot six. Uh, that's that's a heck of a
- 32:51score for early on in the season. She'll definitely be breaking ten feet soon.
- 32:55I'm sure she has it practice and stuff like that. But you start
- 32:59getting around all all those people and it's a little different in front of the
- 33:01crowd. For the long jump, we go back to a name we know
- 33:06from the one hundred meters, Yeah, Chase Flick Williams. It's gonna be
- 33:09really hard to get past her on this on this event, sixteen feet eight
- 33:15inches, she's gonna be about She's gonna be around seventeen and a half at
- 33:19some point during during the year. That's one of those things where when I
- 33:23go to track and field events and I noticed that Bellingham is is a part
- 33:28of it. I make it a point to stand by the long jump pit
- 33:31and watch her jump because it is something that you don't see every day.
- 33:36It's just incredible. And we finish it off with the triple jump when we
- 33:38go back to Linden Christian. Yeah, Aleena velt Camp thirty two feet three
- 33:44inches. That's a really good number, especially for early on. Triple jump
- 33:47is one of those events where if I try to, I feel like I'd
- 33:50break my my kneecap or something. It's one of those that doesn't look supernatural.
- 33:55Then you look at the really good ones do it and you're just like,
- 33:59WHOA, They've got it down. It's all timing and steps and everything,
- 34:02and then explosiveness on that last jump. Again, thank you to Stoft
- 34:06for Insurance nineteen oh three, Front Street and Lindon three six zero seven four
- 34:10six eighty eighth three. There continued support of Watcom Preps and Watcombe County High
- 34:16School Athletics. Tyler, let's move on and we will talk about girls tennis
- 34:21here, which we do not have a sponsor for yet. So if you
- 34:23would like to get on board with that, reach out to Tyler. Find
- 34:27them on all social media, just search Watcom Preps and send them a direct
- 34:30message. What do we got for girls tennis? I see six teams?
- 34:35Now, I see six teams played? Are there only six teams playing girls
- 34:38tennis? Yeah? So not every school in Walkom County does tennis, all
- 34:44the bigger schools and then Blaine is the only one A school they've always just
- 34:46traditionally had tennis. That's just kind of the way they've always been. They
- 34:51jumped up to two A for a while and now they're back down to one
- 34:52A and half of them won this week, the other half lost. Now
- 34:57there's other teams obviously, like Caigar, Woolley, o'car burr, Lakewood,
- 35:00Mount Vernon, uh Anacordas, stuff like that. But but yeah, see
- 35:06home Seem Seem did did great. They won an all seven courts. Uh,
- 35:10there's always four singles matches and then three doubles matches, and you know
- 35:15it's basically whoever can win, you know, you gotta win the majority of
- 35:19them. Uh. They beat Mount Vernon seven zero, so they kind of
- 35:22hold that higher ranking right now with seven courts one. Uh, Squalicum they
- 35:27won six to one, Lynden won four to three and a close one.
- 35:30Bellingham lost, uh four to three, Ferndale lost six to one, and
- 35:34Blaine lost six to one. But there's some there's some really good, really
- 35:37good players out there. Uh. You know, see Home see Holme's leader,
- 35:42Claire Stadola. Uh, she's the number, she's the top singles player.
- 35:45Uh I was, I remember a lot about Squalicum's Bernardine Salvatierra. Uh,
- 35:52an awesome singles player. She's she's gonna be really really tough to beat
- 35:55this year. And Lindon's loaded in doubles. Uh. You know it's when
- 36:00when they beat Bellingham four to three, they only won one singles match out
- 36:05of four, but they swept the doubles, and that's where they get a
- 36:07lot of their you know, that's where they can they can score a lot
- 36:10of their points because they're really good. They got the newcomb sisters Kolani and
- 36:15Rilana. They were both on the basketball team. And you get sisters or
- 36:19brothers, you know, playing together in doubles and it's almost unfair, you
- 36:22know, because they've probably been doing it forever. Ye uh. And then
- 36:24on the next team, Grace Rice and Maya Maya vander Yacht. Those are
- 36:29two great you know, volleyball players and they were both Grace Rice was drinking
- 36:32number one on my volleyball list. I think Maya vander Yacht was in the
- 36:36top five. And so you know, and on's the ones the libero and
- 36:40the other ones the setter. So you know that they have great communication skills.
- 36:44They're they're they're the number two team for Lindon. So uh, you
- 36:47start getting these really good groups together and it's it's it's it's gonna be it's
- 36:52gonna be interesting to see how how how it goes. Uh, State will
- 36:54happen. And that's the crazy thing about State is that you know, boys
- 36:59tennis in the fall and then they'll you know, whoever did well, they'll
- 37:04they'll be able to play in districts and State coming up in May. So
- 37:08we've talked about that a little bit in the past, but but it's exciting
- 37:12now with the weather all, you know, getting nice and everything, it's
- 37:15gonna be fun to go out to some of these tennis matches, especially some
- 37:17of these top end talented teams. That is girls tennis. Let's talk boys
- 37:22soccer, Tyler, and we got a little bit more to talk about here
- 37:25because we've even got some stats and and we got some scores. I mean,
- 37:30this is the thing is boy soccer. They have the coaches are helping
- 37:36you out here, right So that's or at least they're helping out enough right
- 37:40now. And so we got some things kind of need maybe I hate to
- 37:45say it like this, but maybe like a little bit more consistency or you
- 37:47know, just kind of getting this stuff. But so far, it's been
- 37:50great, and I've seen people talking about it, and it's really cool to
- 37:54see boys soccer here on Walkome Preps. But no sponsor yet, so somebody
- 38:00wants to sponsor. I mean a couple of things I was thinking about,
- 38:01Tyler. Yeah, One, you're doing recaps, we're talking about it here
- 38:07on the podcast. You're putting out scoreboards. Also, I mean, if
- 38:12somebody wanted to sponsor just boys soccer in general. I think maybe we could
- 38:15even throw in a player of the week type thing, right, I mean
- 38:20we could do that. Yeah, probably everything's available, everything's we could We
- 38:23could talk about stuff and kind of kind of figure it out, you know,
- 38:27you know, full disclosure, this is my first time ever covering boys
- 38:30soccer. I never did it for the Belling name, Harold. I have
- 38:34done some girls soccer in the past, but I would always try to make
- 38:37it to a game here or there, but my o litle job always got
- 38:39in the way and stuff like that. So now that I have the time,
- 38:43it's fun to jump in right away and just kind of and just kind
- 38:45of see how everything's going. And you're right. So far, the coaches,
- 38:49you know, have been have been very very helpful. They're very excited
- 38:52about things happening. I do send a text out roughly about an hour and
- 38:57a half after the game arts, just as a reminder, says, Hey,
- 39:01just a reminder, send me the score and stats as soon as the
- 39:04game's done so I can write a recap and and a lot of them are
- 39:07very thankful for the reminders. Sometimes they just they write back something really short,
- 39:10especially if they lost. But uh, it's been, it's been.
- 39:15It's been pretty good. There's only been one game so far where I didn't
- 39:17hear back anything about it, but uh, that's pretty good out of how
- 39:21many games there has already been. Uh, I've made it out to three
- 39:24of them and so and it was great. Like I'd make it out to
- 39:28a game. All of a sudden, I get a message in my Instagram
- 39:30later that night from a player saying, Hey, I saw you out of
- 39:32the game. That's so cool, Thank you so much. I mean,
- 39:35they're really really excited about it. And that's that's a that's a really cool
- 39:38deal because uh, you know, it's it's one of the it's one of
- 39:43those sports that's I don't I don't. I won't want to say it's like
- 39:45a niche sport, but it's the it's the world's sport really and so here
- 39:50it's it's just a little different because you know, there's a lot of focus
- 39:53on football and basketball and stuff like that. But boy, you go to
- 39:57those you go to those soccer games, and it's it's u it gets a
- 40:00little it gets a little rowdy, gets a little crazy. I mean,
- 40:02there was some stuff I saw between Ferndale and Lake Stevens and then stuff I
- 40:07heard about later that was pretty pretty crazy. But it's been it's been fun
- 40:12so far. I'm excited to see more games. Yeah, and so far.
- 40:15You know what, Tyler, let's do this. Let's start with the
- 40:16leading scores and then we'll go back and we'll talk about the standings leading scores.
- 40:22Let's just go Why don't we just give the top five starting at number
- 40:27five. Yeah, sounds good, number five, Tyler, Isaac Grimes of
- 40:31Squalicum. Now, oh, actually, I guess we got to go even
- 40:35further than that because I guess, you know what, just let's just do
- 40:37the whole thing. At number ten, though, we've got multiple players with
- 40:40one, so there's a couple of people that got one. Hopefully somebody gets
- 40:45to next week and then we're not stuck with multiple players still with one.
- 40:50At number nine though, we've got Noah Allen out of Sea Home two goals.
- 40:53The game that you talked about, you said you're missing one game.
- 40:57We had a score from it, but we didn't have stats, and that
- 41:00is Seahoman Squalicum and so that's the game it's missing. So Noah Allen as
- 41:06of right now, we've got him down as as two goals, so he's
- 41:09actually tied for eighth place with Phoenix Fink Bonner, our guy out of Ferndale.
- 41:15It's so cool to see these different names, like I recognize even a
- 41:19couple more names up here. Yeah, now, Tyler, there's three right
- 41:23now listed is having three goals. One of them is Isaac Grimes out of
- 41:27Squalicum, who again one game missing, so maybe he's got four, maybe
- 41:30he's got five. Heck, maybe he's got ten. Maybe he went nuts,
- 41:32although he didn't because we know the score. But that being said,
- 41:37he's also tied with Aiden McGuire out of Bellingham and Leonardo Blanco, which is
- 41:43maybe the coolest name on this list. He is from Blaine. They are
- 41:46tied it in fifth place with three goals and then in second place because we
- 41:52got three more tied. There a couple of names I recognize, Tarren Burks
- 42:00at a Meridian with four goals, Roy Marquez at a Meridian with four goals.
- 42:06Those two guys are they just like passing them back and forth to each
- 42:07other and just making everybody look silly. Is that what's going on here?
- 42:09They both had a hat trick in game one against Lakewood and then they went
- 42:15yeah, and then they won seven zero. And then the next game was
- 42:17four zero against Siegdrow and they had four different players score one goal and they
- 42:22each had one. Yeah, they actually passed the ball and then tied with
- 42:28those two guys. Is actually Blake Kureski out of blame? Yeah, he
- 42:32was the high player on their football team this year on the top top one
- 42:36hundred list. Yeah. I knew he was on the top one hundred,
- 42:37but I didn't realize he was the highest ranked guy. That's I mean,
- 42:40that's that's really impressive. It's it's so cool to see so many different people
- 42:44playing different sports. And then in first the leading scorer right now five goals
- 42:49again one game missing. If he's got five and in only what two games?
- 42:53Three games, you got a feeling he might have had another one.
- 42:59Is I'm an Anger? Yes, I mean that's a cool name too,
- 43:02Like, yeah, you think, like late in a game, if they're
- 43:06down by one, he just like channels his last name and just goes nuts
- 43:08and just like scores that could happen. Who knows, isn't there a punter
- 43:14with the last name Anger? I mean it's spelled a little bit different.
- 43:15Angerer. I think if Brian Anger. Oh yeah, that's what it is,
- 43:19Brian Anger. Actually, you know what, now I think about it,
- 43:21I'm pretty sure he was drafted one spot before Russell, before Russell Wilson.
- 43:23That's right. Yeh. By the way, the Steelers, how about
- 43:27that? Huh? And then they trade for Justin Fields too, Like what's
- 43:30going on there? Quarterbacks? Yeah, I mean it's it's like the It's
- 43:34like the Seahawks with tight ends. They just had like thirty of them.
- 43:38That's boys soccer again. Oh no, wait, we need to talk about
- 43:40the standings here, Tyler. Yeah, yeah, so so yeah, Mount
- 43:45Baker they haven't even played a game yet. Yeah, And I was looking
- 43:47at I don't I don't. I think their first game is like the twenty
- 43:50fifth. So I don't play this upcoming week either. So what hold on
- 43:53a second here. You might have to get somebody on the horn from high
- 43:57school and see what's going on over there. I might have to. We
- 44:00might know a guy. But then I'm looking at it over here, Tyler,
- 44:07we've got Linden Christian oh and two, Nuksack Valley O and two and
- 44:10Ferndale Owen three. But you told me those three teams were playing some tough
- 44:14squads right now, right, Yeah, It's it's crazy. I mean,
- 44:16these are they've they've been playing against teams that are really good, and they've
- 44:20been really close games. I mean, none of these have been blowouts.
- 44:22I think that probably the biggest I think that probably the biggest blowout of all
- 44:28of them might have been a four to one game, you know what I
- 44:30mean. I mean, there's nothing that's been seven zero, Like I said,
- 44:32you know, the Meridian Lakewood game and this is they've all been really
- 44:36close. I think you know, Lindy Christians both their losses were by one.
- 44:40I think Nuoksack Valleys was I think theirs was by two and then one.
- 44:45And Ferndale has been going against really big schools and Lake Stevens, Mount
- 44:49Mount Vernon. I know Verndo's a three A school as well, but they've
- 44:52lost three heartbreakers there. So uh, and I've gone I've watched two of
- 44:55these teams. I went out and saw Knucksack Valley, I went out and
- 44:58saw Ferndale and they're they're they're pretty good. They're definitely gonna get some wins
- 45:01here coming up soon Tyler. Could you imagine like the first game of your
- 45:06season in soccer losing seven nothing, like, you might as well just hang
- 45:09it up for the whole season, right, Like, that's that's tough.
- 45:12I mean that it's a brutal way to start the season. Hey, Linden,
- 45:16they started off about as even as you can get. They're one one
- 45:20and one after after well, would it be one week or did they did
- 45:23they play three games in the week or did they play one the weekend before?
- 45:27No? No, it all started on Monday. So they played three
- 45:30games during during this week and the Sounders can only play one a week.
- 45:34What's going on here? Man? I was at I was at the Linden
- 45:37game that they lost at Squalicum, and I walked over to say hi to
- 45:43the Linen longtime landing coach Drew Smiley, who we both know, and uh,
- 45:46he kind of laughed. He goes, what are you doing here?
- 45:49He goes, We're never good in the beginning of the season catches at the
- 45:52end and uh, yeah, you know, and you never know because you
- 45:55know a guy personally, but you don't know how his coach talk is.
- 45:59You know, It's like Bob Ames, You just don't know and so,
- 46:02but you know, Squalkamb got him pretty good. Uh, but then then
- 46:07they beat lend and Christian and a close one. Then they tied with Anacordis,
- 46:09so you know, yeah, they're right there one one and one and
- 46:13uh, we'll see, we'll see how they go moving forward. I know
- 46:16that, you know, coach Smiley has been there a long time and he'll
- 46:20I'm sure he'll write the ship pretty pretty quickly. We've got three teams at
- 46:23two and one on the season, Bellingham, the Squalicuma, and Meridian.
- 46:27Tyler, Yeah, these are three really good teams. Bellingham played Meridian,
- 46:31uh so that was Meridian's loss. Bellingham got him too, to zero.
- 46:36Both these other teams, Bellingham and Squalkum, their their all their losses were
- 46:39against Seaholme. So that tells you something about Seaholm. And because all all
- 46:43three of these teams are really really good, and I just I'm really curious
- 46:47to see how things will play out forward and going into postseason play. It'll
- 46:52be really really cool to see. It's actually crazy, Tyler when you think
- 46:54about it too, because Seaholme and Blaine, they are uh, they're both
- 47:00two and oh on the season. But see Home they're leading goal guy right
- 47:05now. It has only got two. Yeah, but I'm missing one of
- 47:07the one of the two games. Oh that's right, Okay, yeah,
- 47:09never mind, go ahead. So it's hard, it's hard. It's hard
- 47:12to see. But yeah, they've they've had two low scoring games. I
- 47:15know, See Home traditionally is really really good at soccer. I'm trying to
- 47:17remember how they finished in state last year, but I think they did pretty
- 47:22well. Uh, Blaine, you know, coach Geo has been there a
- 47:24long time. They took care of grant Falls eight to one. I think
- 47:29they scored, you know, it was eight zero one point, It was
- 47:32four four nothing half, and then it was eight it was eight nothing at
- 47:37one point, and then they and the grant Falls scored on a penalty kick.
- 47:39But uh, but Blaine's got a lot of talent there. Really curious
- 47:43to see when they when they faced Meridian to see how they'll do, you
- 47:45know that one A level. Uh, those two teams might be kind of
- 47:50the head of it in the one A division. We'll have to wait and
- 47:52see. Uh, Sea Home finished fourth last year, Tyler, Yeah,
- 47:57I knew they did pretty well, so I I make expecting some pretty good
- 48:00things out of them. I just I just I just need to hear back
- 48:02from their coach. That's what I that's what I need. I do not
- 48:07have his phone number. I only have his email, So it's been,
- 48:09uh, it's been tricky trying to get a hold of him. So if
- 48:13anybody out there listening to this, uh, if you want, how does
- 48:15coach would not have it? Oh that's a good point. That's a good
- 48:19point. We'll we'll, we'll, we'll figure it out. When I got
- 48:22the list of contact info for everything, I just I didn't have a I
- 48:24didn't have a phone number for the Sea Home coach. So uh so we'll
- 48:29we'll get it all figured out because I'm sure they're gonna want to be a
- 48:32part of this, especially if they're one of the better teams. So uh
- 48:36and it looks like they could be the cream of the crop in Walk County.
- 48:38And now doesn't coach would coach something in the spring? Yeah? Boys
- 48:43golf? So uh, what's up with that? Well, he did send
- 48:49me info for there was like a city championship tournament earlier in the week.
- 48:52Uh. But man, there's a lot of sports going on. Man,
- 48:55I'm trying to keep it all together. Yeah, I just got it.
- 48:58I just got an email like forty five minutes ago about a girls golf tournament
- 49:04that happened like three days ago. I just got the email. So I'm
- 49:07come on, people, you gotta be more on top of it here.
- 49:10I'm trying to do what I can't. Yeah. Well, and you know
- 49:13what, you know what you say next time I ask you something about that,
- 49:15Tyler, you just go, Hey, it's on the website. Go
- 49:17look it up walcomeprep dot com. Okay, great, Uh, that is
- 49:22a boy soccer again needing a sponsor, So go ahead, figure it out.
- 49:25Reach out to Tyler. Let's talk fast pitch, Tyler. And we've
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- 50:13It's a batting cage. We talked about it on the what is it called
- 50:16the Preview podcast, and uh, yeah, I'm a fan of batting cages.
- 50:22It's one of those places that even as an adult, and I don't
- 50:24even play baseball or softball or anything anymore, I would still go hit a
- 50:30bucket. I mean I will, yeah, yeah, if somebody was there
- 50:32to do it, i'd, you know. And you know what, Tyler,
- 50:36I think you and I need to go out there to line Drive.
- 50:37You throw to me, all throw to you. You know, I'll well,
- 50:42actually, you know what, we probably need to do that if we're
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- 50:46I don't know what the heck we're doing. But Tyler, let's talk about
- 50:51fast pitch here, and uh, all ten teams play right, one,
- 50:53two, three, four? Yeah? Oh yeah, okay, all ten
- 50:57teams are in on it. Let's start off with Squalicum, Bellingham and Nuksack
- 51:00Valley, all three teams. Look, we're only one weekend here, but
- 51:06all three teams have yet to win a game yet. Right Knuksac Valley had
- 51:08their opening alumni game that that just happened there. They're they're a little late
- 51:14to everything now with the with basketball going and they have a lot of players
- 51:17that played on the basketball team, so that that was just their only game
- 51:22was the alumni game. Bellingham and Squalkum, they've both played similar opponents.
- 51:28They both played see Him, they both played lynnon Christian Squalcumb also played against
- 51:32Kingston and it's just been it's been tough. Both teams are very young.
- 51:36Both teams are you know, are struggling kind of finding a pitcher who can
- 51:40find a good rhythm. A lot of them will just have a pitcher throw
- 51:45one inning and then go to another girl. And that's just kind of you
- 51:47know, just trying to find someone that can have repetition and finding the same
- 51:52release point. You know, they're not thrown down signs or anything for these
- 51:57pitchers. They're just trying to throw strikes right now. And you see glimpses.
- 52:02I've seen them both in person, and there are glimpses of that that's
- 52:06a good pitch. That's a good pitch, but it's just the consistency and
- 52:09trying to stay with it. Hitting has been difficult too, Like I said,
- 52:13a lot of young players and and they're going against these really good pitchers,
- 52:19and if you're not used to seeing it, it could be a it
- 52:21could be a struggle. Belling Am does have some really good players. I
- 52:25saw, you know, Sam, Sammy Stormo and a j Acapinti and these
- 52:30these were good players that that I saw, and the numbers will come around.
- 52:34Uh. Squalum's the same way, Keeley Melling. I saw a heck
- 52:39of a line drive hit the other day for a Squalicum by Carmen Rodrigue as
- 52:45a freshman. She just crushed when the right center uh went all the way
- 52:47to the wall. She got a double out out of it. UH.
- 52:51And so there is there is some good young talent there, but it's just
- 52:55it might just it might just take a while. Knick sac Valley, like
- 52:58I said, it was just the alumni game. I haven't seen them in
- 53:00person yet, so we'll have a little bit more analysis as the year goes
- 53:04on. Now, Tyler, the other seven teams in the county undefeated for
- 53:08the week. I mean, it's crazy, nobody do I still have it.
- 53:13Let's see here over here, boom. All I do is they do,
- 53:19That's all they do is win. When win. Let's start off with
- 53:22Lyndon Blaine and Meridian Tyler. All three teams went one to oh this week.
- 53:28Yeah, I think Linnen and Blaine have really high aspirations. And Linden
- 53:32played against Archbishop Murphy, kind of took care of business. There wasn't wasn't
- 53:38too too tough, got them twelve nothing. I think they only allowed one
- 53:43hit, and it's kind of what I expected. Blaine Blaine played against Cedar
- 53:46Park Christian, pretty good team. Emerson Baker. She struck out sixteen batters.
- 53:52That's just kind of her her mo. I mean, she's she can
- 53:57just do that and and the rest of it comes around. Jordan Vezzetti drove
- 54:00in six runs, hit a home run in that in that win, just
- 54:04the one game. Meridian is a team that I didn't really know about a
- 54:07whole lot coming in. I mean I knew about because they almost they almost
- 54:10return everybody. But I'm really curious to see how they'll do going going forward
- 54:15and if they can improve upon like a five hundred ish team. And they
- 54:20played great. They played against Friday Harbor got him pretty good. Katie Prengaman
- 54:24is she kind of did it all, struck out fourteen batters, hit a
- 54:28home run, did all that in the same game, and excited to see
- 54:31what they could do. You know, when they play against you know,
- 54:36the Blains and Linden's of the world, it's gonna be a good game.
- 54:38Let's talk about two teams that are two and now on the season. That's
- 54:42a Ferndale and Linden Christian. Yeah, Wen and Christian. I saw them
- 54:45against Squalkum early on. Cassidy Van Sost really really good pitcher, just a
- 54:51junior. She pitched all of last year when I mean all, I mean
- 54:54like ninety eight percent of the innings. Wow. And she's a very very
- 54:58good pitcher right handed pitch your left handed hitter. And a lot of good
- 55:02freshman talent on that team as well, So you get a kind of an
- 55:06influx of new players and and some good veterans that have been waiting their turn,
- 55:10and it's a good mesh right now. They're scoring a lot of points
- 55:14in their in their two games, they've scored over twenty in both of them.
- 55:16So, uh so they're they're definitely scoring some runs Uh. Ferndale played
- 55:22a doubleheader. UH. That was their only were their only games. It
- 55:24was against Friday Harbor eight to two, fourteen to nine. UH and Mallory
- 55:30Button shown got the win in both of those. Klin Blakely hit a home
- 55:34run in game two. She had five RBIs in that game. UH.
- 55:37It's gonna be interesting to see how they do. Uh. It's you know,
- 55:42it's a lot of there's a lot of new varsity players on that team,
- 55:45but some definite high end talent at the top. Good good coaching.
- 55:50Coach Rodondo's been there for a while, so it's a good it's a good
- 55:52mix. I haven't seen them in person yet, but I'm excited to see
- 55:55them in first and at the top three and oh three and oh for Sea
- 56:00Home and Mount Baker. Yeah, I saw Sea Home twice. I saw
- 56:05them against Squawkam saw them against Bellingham. Kind of hard to make a judgment
- 56:09on those. Those were two very young teams, but I didn't know if
- 56:15I was gonna be able to catch them on game changers, so I had
- 56:16to show up and keep book and then see Home. Their other win was
- 56:21against Marysville ChIL Pilchuck, where they won seven to three. But I can't
- 56:23tell you anything about that game. See, hom they there's a lot of
- 56:29uh, you know, they have a really good pitcher in in Kruisich.
- 56:34Their catcher at least Kraut is very very good. And you get that,
- 56:37you know, you get that picture catcher combo, and that's a good way
- 56:39to get started. Uh. I'm just kind of going off the top of
- 56:43my head to have a shortstop Peterson. She was really good. Third basement's
- 56:47got a heck of an arm. Uh and uh and there's a Lamasatelly on
- 56:51the team. Oh and so you remember T. D. Lamasatelly from back
- 56:54in the day. So so there's there's gonna be some good talent there Mount
- 56:59Baker right now, they're they're on a mission. I mean that's just plain
- 57:01and simple. They are out there. Uh and they are they're they're they're
- 57:07taking name and so to speak. They won thirteen to one, uh,
- 57:10nineteen to zero and nine to one. So you start adding all that up
- 57:15and it's really really impressive. Ava Vretsky's senior, she's got all three wins
- 57:21in the circle. She's hitting the you know, she's hitting a ton as
- 57:24well. And I think on the season. Boy, it's you know,
- 57:29I think she's already over seven hundred and probably around ten RBIs already. So,
- 57:34uh, it's a good it's a good group that feels like they were
- 57:37not short changed or cheated or anything last year. But there's unfinished business.
- 57:43Let's just put it that way. They they had a really good team last
- 57:45year that injuries kind of happened and they didn't get to State, and uh,
- 57:52they're on a mission this year and it's gonna be a lot of fun
- 57:54to watch them. No lemons so far from Mount Baker Tyler point No boy,
- 58:01boy, no Lemons. Yeah, so that is fast pitch again.
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- 58:35Baseball, oh and three oh and two squal Comb and Mount Baker Tyler.
- 58:38Yeah, I squal them. You know, they're they're gonna be just fined.
- 58:43You know, they lost a heartbreaker extra innings to Ferndale, and they're
- 58:49gonna they're gonna start picking up Coach Frize, an awesome coach, and and
- 58:53it's just again it's a really it's they have a young team as well,
- 58:58Mount Mount Baker. It might be struggle this year. I see, I
- 59:00see, you know, I I that was one roster that I still haven't
- 59:05gotten. I do have a lineup card from one of their games, so
- 59:07I kind of have an idea about the roster. But then I looked on
- 59:09the track and field side and I saw land In Hanstead and Hayden Ross are
- 59:14playing doing track and I thought, oh no, those are two big time
- 59:16players that they could have used on the baseball team this year. So it's
- 59:20gonna be it's gonna be a little it's gonna be a little bit of a
- 59:22struggle. They lost. They got ten run in both their games, So,
- 59:25uh, that one's gonna be it might take a while to come around,
- 59:30which is tough. You know, I played at Mount Baker, I
- 59:32played I played baseball, I played on that diamond. So uh, there
- 59:36is that little bit of me that wants them to to be a little bit
- 59:39more competitive, and they will be as the season goes on. I mean,
- 59:42it's just it's just the way that it goes And baseball is one of
- 59:45those weird sports man where every once in a while, like you'll see a
- 59:49game that I remember Mount Baker, I think they were like zero to fifteen
- 59:52at one point and Meridian was like twelve and two, and they beat Meridian
- 59:54two to one, and you're just like, what, So you just never
- 59:59know, and and that that's baseball exactly, you just never know. So
- 1:00:02we'll see what happens. Uh. See home starts the season one and three.
- 1:00:07Yeah, seem they're very very young too. A lot of their top
- 1:00:10players are sophomores, and they've got some good freshmen too. Uh. And
- 1:00:15the ones that they've lost have been really close. Actually, And I apologize
- 1:00:21because it says one and three, but it really should be one, two
- 1:00:22and one. Uh. They did have that tie early in the year that
- 1:00:27was called for darkness. Yeah, and so so that that's that's my bad
- 1:00:30there, But uh, I mean, can we just call it one and
- 1:00:34two Tyler? I don't want to say one, two and one. All.
- 1:00:36Yeah, it's weird for baseball, isn't it's okay for soccer. You
- 1:00:38see that in soccer. You just not it just doesn't. This is not
- 1:00:42right for baseball. Let's just go one and two. But like, if
- 1:00:44you're looking at like runs scored, runs against, it's pretty even. And
- 1:00:49and you know, Hudson nef and and Ryder McGrath, those guys are getting
- 1:00:53on base and they are stealing like crazy. I think they probably have a
- 1:00:57combined like eighteen stolen bases already this year, just between the two of them
- 1:01:01in four games. You're like, not even joking, are you? No,
- 1:01:05I'm not. They they are getting on base and they are running and
- 1:01:07and they don't care who knows it. Uh. And and that's gonna that
- 1:01:12might be the kind of team they're gonna be. A lot of their games
- 1:01:14have been three to two. You know, they've had a couple of three
- 1:01:16to two games on Saturday. They they won one, they they and they
- 1:01:21lost one. Uh. And that that just might be the kind of team
- 1:01:23that they are. I I really I love watching games there. I love
- 1:01:28the field. I love they have a little media spot there. Uh it's
- 1:01:31you know, it's but it's a lot of and it's so weird because over
- 1:01:36the I've covered them so much in the past, and where I kind of
- 1:01:38was always used to the same players. There's a lot of new guys on
- 1:01:42the roster this year that I'm gonna have to get get used to. So
- 1:01:45I haven't gone out there yet. My intern Mikayla did catch a game,
- 1:01:49so she was able to get some pictures and stuff. I'm excited to see
- 1:01:51them and and see what all coach Dane Sigfried's got going on. Nook Sack
- 1:01:55Valley, Bellingham. Those two teams are two and two on the year.
- 1:02:00Yeah, and thinking back about just a couple of years ago, three years
- 1:02:04ago or so, these were the two teams that really struggled. These were
- 1:02:07two teams that when they played each other, they were like, Okay,
- 1:02:09this is where we can get our league win. And they've been really picking
- 1:02:14it up. Coach Lewis, coach twistper Lair, they have turned things around
- 1:02:17in those programs and uh and the games that they're winning, they're they're they're
- 1:02:22winning big. They're winning by you know, nine ten runs and that's like
- 1:02:27great fourteen on somebody, Yeah, Knuckzack Valley when they beat Freddy Arbor fourteen
- 1:02:30zero. They beat and they beat Mariner fifteen to one earlier in the year,
- 1:02:35and and uh yeah, so it's just it's really cool to see them
- 1:02:39really turning that back corner. And there's a lot of players that have now
- 1:02:44been playing a lot of varsity ball. And you look at you know,
- 1:02:46Nuckzack Valley and you see, you know, Casey Newton as a senior,
- 1:02:51he's a four year starter on varsity. Eddie Surda, you know, these
- 1:02:54guys have been playing a ton of baseball at the varsity level. Colby Martin's
- 1:02:59in his third year starting at third base, so you so all that they
- 1:03:04start to feel more comfortable and you just you just get better at the sport.
- 1:03:07Belling him is the same way with Joe Tooth, Jake Trust, Jesse
- 1:03:10Harwood. These guys have been playing a lot of varsity baseball. These guys
- 1:03:14all suited up as freshmen and have been playing a lot of baseball. Owen
- 1:03:17Rasmussen, he's been He's probably played more than anybody. And he's he's a
- 1:03:21great guy to have because he can pitch, which is nice. You gotta
- 1:03:23have that. But anytime I look and see who's pitching for Bellingham, he
- 1:03:29just goes and plays their spot on the field. He can go catch,
- 1:03:32he'll go play first, third to play in the outfield, and uh so
- 1:03:36it's always good to have a guy like that. And both these teams two
- 1:03:38and two right now, it's a it's looking pretty good. Let's talk about
- 1:03:43Lynn and Christian who, uh well, technically they're in fifth in the standings
- 1:03:47right now, but they've got more wins than the team that's in fourth,
- 1:03:51but they also have a loss because they're three and one. On the air,
- 1:03:53Yeah, they look really really good. Their one loss was against Cedar
- 1:03:57Park Christian there on Saturday game Seeda Park. Chrishion usually pretty good at baseball.
- 1:04:01They only lost four to two. They had a really they had a
- 1:04:04game that went ten innings the other day too. They beat over Lake Bear
- 1:04:09Creek three to two. But they have had some slugfest too where they can
- 1:04:13they can pour out a ton of runs. They beat Squalok them twelve to
- 1:04:15four. They beat Belliam thirteen to three. They've got a really deep lineup
- 1:04:20and everybody can hit. The question coming into it was it was there was
- 1:04:25there pitching. They just didn't have that big time arm. It's going to
- 1:04:28strike out a ton of guys, but they have guys that are throwing strikes
- 1:04:31and and getting the ball put in play. You got a good defense behind
- 1:04:34you, and they're winning games. You could slug out a few, you
- 1:04:38know, Uh, Brody Bauman and Austin Angles, these guys are big time
- 1:04:42power hitters. And then you get other guys on bass, Jonah turpstraet Eli
- 1:04:45Mayberry, You'll be just fine. And and they're they're kind of using that
- 1:04:49right now and things are rolling really really in there in their direction in a
- 1:04:54really great way. Uh, They're they're they're kind of improving quicker than I
- 1:04:58thought they would. Maybe it would catch on in the second half of the
- 1:05:01season, kind of like it did last year when they kind of latched onto
- 1:05:04State and they they started playing really well. But it's happening earlier right now,
- 1:05:10and that's only gonna benefit them. It's a really good team. Let's
- 1:05:13talk Golden Eagle baseball. Tyler Ferndale one to zero on the weekend on the
- 1:05:16season. Yeah, They're played on Friday against Squalkum got him an eight innings,
- 1:05:23not a ton of hits. They only had three hits on the day,
- 1:05:27but one of them was the game winning single by Talon Bungard right up
- 1:05:30the middle, drove in Ran Dobbins and that was that in the bottom of
- 1:05:33the eighth inning, A walk off early. That's always fun. But it's
- 1:05:39gonna be it's gonna be interesting. You know. Camden Raymond is a big
- 1:05:44time presence in that lineup. I noticed he was walked a few times.
- 1:05:46I don't know about if it was intentional or not, but that's gonna be.
- 1:05:51That's gonna be a tricky thing is he might be challenging that all time
- 1:05:55walks record. I don't know what it is. I might have to look
- 1:05:57up and see what it's been over the last six or seven years, been
- 1:06:00covering it. But uh, it's you know, it's more than just Camden
- 1:06:03Raymond though. There's other guys in that lineup that people are going to start
- 1:06:08learning about pretty quickly. And and I really liked, uh what I what
- 1:06:13I heard about Nolan Boliac Uh started he started at pitcher and and it just
- 1:06:17a sophomore's first faresty start and he and he hung with him. He was
- 1:06:20tough. I played baseball with his dad, uh in high school and Uh
- 1:06:26and he was a really good pitcher too. So I'm I'm expecting some good
- 1:06:30things and I'm excited for that. Linden and Meridian both teams three and oh
- 1:06:34on the young season. Yeah, they're both putting up some big time numbers
- 1:06:39too. Well. Meridian's just putting up these crazy scores. Yeah, I
- 1:06:42mean they're they're averaging like twenty a game. Uh. And you know,
- 1:06:46coming into the year, I was a little I was like, oh,
- 1:06:48man Jager Fife' stop playing. I didn't know how it was going to hurt
- 1:06:51the team. And they have four freshmen that are just legit studs and they're
- 1:06:56playing. I mean, Trey Alexander is playing shortstop and batting lead off a
- 1:07:00freshman. Uh, you know Landon Rally whoa whoa whoa playing shortstop and batting
- 1:07:04leadoff as a freshman. Yeah, he's he's legit. Wow, he's a
- 1:07:09dude. I mean, his dad, Dominic Alexander is you know, you
- 1:07:14start looking at some of the best baseball players have ever come out of Walking
- 1:07:16County and he's he's one of them. I always you know, I always
- 1:07:20used to tell stories facing him in junior high because he threw in the nineties
- 1:07:24and junior high and I just oh, yeah, him and his he had
- 1:07:28a twin brother and one would pitch and one would catch because no one could
- 1:07:30catch the other one. And they were they were six feet tall in seventh
- 1:07:33grade and they were throwing ninety miles an hour and it was just incredible because
- 1:07:39you you'd go to the game and there'd be discussions on the bus about did
- 1:07:43these guys like are they from like another country or like yeah, they were
- 1:07:47like they you know, their imports, and they're twins and they they throw
- 1:07:51three hundred miles an hour and and they haven't given up a hit all year,
- 1:07:56and the rumors start spreading, you know. So, but it's been
- 1:08:00cool to get to know those guys now as we've gotten older and and uh,
- 1:08:03and now that it's their kids playing, you know, uh, Dominic
- 1:08:06Sun Trey on the Meridian team and Dante's daughter Sierra on the Linden Fast pitch
- 1:08:12team, it's really cool. But the Bridian they've they've got a great mesh
- 1:08:16of upperclassmen guys that are really experienced, and those four freshmen it's it's working
- 1:08:21out great in their favor right now. And and coach Les just picked up
- 1:08:26his two hundredth victory earlier on in the year and and uh he he works
- 1:08:30those kids hard, but they love it and and the wins are not coming
- 1:08:34by surprise, Lyndon. Uh, it's so funny and you're gonna you're gonna
- 1:08:40find you're gonna get a chuckle out of this. So they played at Richfield
- 1:08:45on Friday. I could have I could have been there. No, you
- 1:08:48know, it's funny. You said, you said something to me along the
- 1:08:51lines of like, uh oh, just getting into camus or something you you
- 1:08:56said, and then you sent me the scores because well, not to beat
- 1:09:00around the bush. I made the graphics over the weekend for you. Yeah.
- 1:09:03I was out of town. Yeah, you sent them to me.
- 1:09:05And I went, wait a minute, why did you just go to that
- 1:09:10game? Like I had? I know, I know, and I was,
- 1:09:13you know, I was. They played a double header there, right,
- 1:09:15they played a doubleheader there, and you could have gone would I could
- 1:09:18have gone there. They would have just been what is Walkham Preps doing here?
- 1:09:23Yeah? You could have got spotted on the road. Yeah, right,
- 1:09:27And I you know, it's tough. And because they won those two
- 1:09:30games, they played the next day in the little little Southwest Washington two as
- 1:09:34tournament State championship whatever game, and and they won that against w F West,
- 1:09:40So, uh, Lindon not surprising that they are just picking up right
- 1:09:45where they left off. And again, it's a lot of new guys,
- 1:09:48and they had a lot of seniors last year. And it's not it's not
- 1:09:53just you know, Lane Simonson and the Jackson five, it's it's a lot
- 1:09:57of guys. You know Lane Simonson, Uh, he pitched in one of
- 1:10:00the games, but he's also you know, he's batten third in the lineup,
- 1:10:03but he's playing first base and he's which is cool to see because he
- 1:10:06didn't I didn't get to see him hit a ton. I did see him
- 1:10:10hit a couple of home runs, but he would only have like twenty twenty
- 1:10:13five at bats a year, and so now he's right there in the middle
- 1:10:15of the lineup. Kyle Stapleton's been doing great as a lead off hitter.
- 1:10:18Really excited to see them in person. Could have done it evidently. I
- 1:10:23was driving to Camus on Friday, but did not know until I got to
- 1:10:27Camus and we were getting settled in and by the time I realized that they
- 1:10:30were halfway through the second game already, and I thought, oh, I
- 1:10:33would, I would. I would have probably missed it if I would have
- 1:10:35drove back out there. But man, Lynnon looks good. Corey White,
- 1:10:41you know, he's just a legend. He's been doing it, he's been
- 1:10:44at it for a long time. Ninety four was his first year. So
- 1:10:47not surprised to see them at three and zero and on top of the standings
- 1:10:51after the first week. Tyler, it's the Blaine Border rights at four and
- 1:10:56zero. Again, not that surprising. They reached in almost everybody. They
- 1:11:00graduated their best player AXL polls, but other than that, it's everybody's back.
- 1:11:06Kieran Marcuson is a strike throwing machine, I think so far on the
- 1:11:11year, he's got nineteen strikeouts, no walks, two to zero on the
- 1:11:15year, and he's gonna be really, really hard to beat. And then
- 1:11:17Diego Gudierrez has the other two wins, one as the starter and one that
- 1:11:23he picked up out of the bullpen Alejandra Moser Hernandez. He struck out ten
- 1:11:27guys and less than five innings, but the score with zero zero, so
- 1:11:30he got the no decision. Gudieerra's came in, they score three runs and
- 1:11:34they get the win. Three to nothing. That was over granted falls but
- 1:11:40they but they you know, they beat Burlington fifteen to two. You know,
- 1:11:44they've been putting up some really big numbers. They beat University Prep fifteen
- 1:11:47to four. University Prep is usually pretty darn good at baseball. Yeah,
- 1:11:50so Blaine is Blaine is a team that I expect some big, big things
- 1:11:57out of this year. There's been a few injuries all ready, but they've
- 1:12:00got so much depth and uh and they just have that, they have that
- 1:12:06something. They just have something that I'm really really excited to see what they
- 1:12:10do in the playoffs. Uh, you know all that stuff. It's a
- 1:12:14brand new coaching staff. There's new, there's new you know, uh,
- 1:12:18juice, you know, or however you want to say, there's Yeah,
- 1:12:20there's something about it that it feels like this is something special. We have.
- 1:12:26We have some good seniors, we have some good underclassmen. This is
- 1:12:28the year to do it. That is the baseball scoreboard for the first week
- 1:12:32of the season. Again, thank you to j e KK Sports Cards in
- 1:12:36Ferndale for their sponsorship of baseball Tyler. Let's talk players of the week,
- 1:12:42and we don't have a sponsor for the fast pitch but who is the no
- 1:12:45sponsor yet fast pitch player of the Week? Tyler, this was, uh,
- 1:12:50you know, going through the games, it was there was a lot
- 1:12:54to choose from, but there was one end that just kept popping up to
- 1:12:57me, and that was Ava Juretsky from Mount Baker. Three to zero,
- 1:13:00already on the season in the circle and she led walking county and home runs
- 1:13:04last year. She's already hit one this year, she's right around ten RBIs
- 1:13:09already on the year. And uh yeah, so she's she's kind of done
- 1:13:14a little bit of everything. She's putting the team on her back. There's
- 1:13:16a lot of good talent around her as well, but she's she's start off
- 1:13:20the year with the bang. Ava Jeretzky's senior from Mount Baker is your fast
- 1:13:25pitch player of the week. Let's talk boys baseball. Where you got the
- 1:13:30player of the week. This is where sigg's Funeral and Cremation Services come in
- 1:13:34Handy, Tyler, because baseball needs a player of the week sponsor and that's
- 1:13:39where they stepped up. Who is the player of the week. It is
- 1:13:44Lynnon Christian junior second baseman, Austin Engeles boy. He he just started off
- 1:13:48a season on a bang. It was like every game he was three for
- 1:13:51three or four for four, and then against Squalkham he hit two doubles and
- 1:13:56a grand slam. I mean, he just he's crushing it right now,
- 1:14:00way ahead of schedule. As far as you know, a lot of times
- 1:14:01hitters they kind of they kind of get their rhythm a few weeks into the
- 1:14:04season. He is right on top of it right now. He is in
- 1:14:09all four games, he has gotten on base multiple times. And uh,
- 1:14:13he's he's right now kind of that that that leader. Uh, you know,
- 1:14:16as far as offensive production goes in baseball. So Austin Engeles Junior from
- 1:14:21Lyndon Christian is your SIG's Funeral Home and Cremation Services Baseball player of the week.
- 1:14:27Let's take a look ahead, Tyler, and for this we can talk
- 1:14:30Indy sport. You know, where are you headed? What are you thinking
- 1:14:31about? What are some of the things you want to see this week?
- 1:14:34Uh, let's start with the boys side. What do you got over there?
- 1:14:38Yeah, I'm looking at the soccer match for Monday night, seven o'clock,
- 1:14:42Lyndon Christian at Bellingham. I think that's that's a pretty darn good matchup.
- 1:14:46I you know Lindon Christian. Uh, they lost against Lyndon. That
- 1:14:50was that was a tough one. But you know, their games have been
- 1:14:54really really close and Bellingham's have been really really close, so I would expect
- 1:14:58like a two to one game. It'll be really really that'll be a really
- 1:15:01good game of a game. I'll definitely that I'll be out to see.
- 1:15:04And on the baseball side of things, I think Tuesday at four o'clock at
- 1:15:08Lindon they're gonna host Lyndon Christian. Right now, both these teams are extremely
- 1:15:14hot. I think they're both gonna probably pitch their their main guys. I
- 1:15:18think it's gonna be pretty darn good. I don't know the regulations as far
- 1:15:24as if a kid pitches and he throws so many pitches, how long can
- 1:15:28it be till he could start again, or how many? You know.
- 1:15:30I know there's all those numbers out there and I don't know exactly what they
- 1:15:32are. But Lindy Christian did just pitch Jonah Turpstra on Friday or Saturday.
- 1:15:39I believe it might have been Saturday, so I don't know, and he's
- 1:15:42kind of their main guy, so they might be throwing Eli Mayberry. He
- 1:15:45might be seeing him against Lane Simonson, which would be something. Or maybe
- 1:15:50does Brody Bauman come out and pitch. He's been kind of that relief ace
- 1:15:55and you know, he's a really good hitter. But they might, you
- 1:15:59know, they might have to just say, hey, just throw hard for
- 1:16:01as many enasy as you can. This is a really good lineup. That's
- 1:16:03gonna be a great, great game. Uh, Tuesday, four o'clock at
- 1:16:06London. That's going to be exciting. So Tyler, I'm looking at it
- 1:16:11here. I just typed in, you know, baseball pitch count rules,
- 1:16:15and I everything seems to be a couple of years old, so I don't
- 1:16:20know if if they've changed anything. Yeah, I mean literally the newest thing
- 1:16:26I can find here is twenty seventeen. But it says here for the state
- 1:16:30of Washington, thirty six to sixty pitches you need one day rest. Sixty
- 1:16:36one to ninety you need two days. Ninety one to one twenty five you
- 1:16:40need three. That's interesting about the one twenty five because one oh five is
- 1:16:45the rule. Well for a game, yeah, unless you're in the middle
- 1:16:50of an at bat. Interesting, So yeah, well it isn't Walker County.
- 1:16:55Anyways, I know that's the one that I know for sure. Yeah,
- 1:17:00but I knew there was stuff about like if you pitch this many then
- 1:17:01you have to rest this many. I knew that. And now here's here's
- 1:17:06NFHS has says one through twenty five pitches no days, twenty six to forty
- 1:17:13five, one, forty six to sixty two, sixty one to eighty five
- 1:17:17to three and eighty six or more four. That sounds a little bit more
- 1:17:25correct. Yeah, I mean that's the thing is everything here is is multiple
- 1:17:29years old. So right, I mean that's about the best I can give
- 1:17:32you. But but yeah, so I mean some definite you know, well
- 1:17:39little little Linden flair to the to the boys side of the things this week,
- 1:17:42but Linden and then two Linden Christian games there. But what about the
- 1:17:45girls side, Tyler? What are you looking at over there? I'm really
- 1:17:48curious about the fast pitch matchup Meridian at Sea Home. These are two teams
- 1:17:53that, you know, Meridian, I think they were sub five hundred last
- 1:17:56year. I think they were like, you know, seven fourteen or something
- 1:18:00like that. And se Home only won you know, two or three games
- 1:18:04last year and they both have been great so far this year, so I'm
- 1:18:08really interested to see how they do against each other. I think this could
- 1:18:13be. These are both really good pitchers, Pregaman and Kruzich, and it's
- 1:18:18gonna be I think it's gonna be a really close game. I think,
- 1:18:21Uh yeah, I just I see this one, and this one jumped off
- 1:18:26of me. Of course, I love Walking County versus Walkin County, and
- 1:18:30this was the one that I looked at and thought, oh boy, I
- 1:18:32know it'd be really hard to pick a winner in this kind of game.
- 1:18:36I think Meridian has more varsity innings under their belt, so to speak,
- 1:18:43but seem might have some more some better top end talent and with some newcomers
- 1:18:47behind them, so we'll see. I think I think that one will be
- 1:18:50a really good one. That'll be Tuesday at four thirty at Seom High School.
- 1:18:56What else anything? Yeah, Tennis and courtis at Squalicum on Thursday.
- 1:19:02I think that's gonna be really good. Uh. I know, I'm going
- 1:19:04outside of the Walking County box a little bit, but uh but let's fine.
- 1:19:11Courts is almost like an adopted you know, son or daughter of ours,
- 1:19:15you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, you know Squalicum,
- 1:19:17you know Squalkum one six to one. They are they have a lot of
- 1:19:21talent and a Courtispeedo Karver seven to zero. So I think that's that this
- 1:19:27is going to be a really really close match. And you know a lot
- 1:19:32of out there probably I could. I think this will be this will be
- 1:19:39a really good one. Now I try to only go out to games and
- 1:19:43matches that have multiple Walking County teams, but but this one I think could
- 1:19:48really come down to it. And and so and I've played tennis on that
- 1:19:53COURTUS Squalicum High School and now it's been about fifteen years, but uh,
- 1:19:57hopefully they've reserviced it since then. Yeah, yeah, I would imagine they
- 1:20:00have. I remember when I went out, there was a pretty new you
- 1:20:02know, this school was pretty new at that time. But yeah, but
- 1:20:05that that's one thing. And then on the you know boys and girls side
- 1:20:10too, there's some there's some good track and field events both on Friday with
- 1:20:14involved all the teams. But uh, but yeah, I what's gonna be
- 1:20:18fun? You got that in front of you? Yeah, Well out at
- 1:20:24Lyndon Christian is going to be the Bedlington Invite, and which is I remember
- 1:20:30that always being at Linden for some reason, but maybe they're just moving into
- 1:20:33Lindon Christian this year. So that'll be Friday at three thirty. You'll blame
- 1:20:36Lyndon Christian, Ferndale, Linden, Meridian, Mount Baker, Nukseac Valley will
- 1:20:41all be there along with Oak Harbor and then out at Civic Stadium at the
- 1:20:45same time three thirty on Friday is all the city schools Squalk and Bellingham and
- 1:20:50Seahome will be at Twilight in the Ham Invite. And that'll that'll also include
- 1:20:56Anti Chordish, Your Bathel, Cougar's came he Out, Lakewood, Lincoln of
- 1:21:00Seattle, Mount Vernon, Port Townsend, and Sigel Woolly. So, uh
- 1:21:04that's usually a pretty big event. And and that's and that, and you
- 1:21:10know they call it Twilight and the Ham because you know a lot of schools
- 1:21:13it gets pretty dark by the end of it. So uh, it's it's
- 1:21:15it's kind of a fun thing. And I've been to both of these before.
- 1:21:19It's just too bad they're both happening at the exact same time, because
- 1:21:23but uh, I might I might hit head out to Elsie first get some
- 1:21:27pictures and then try to go out to Civic at the end. Well,
- 1:21:29we'll see it. It's and but those are the only two events this week
- 1:21:33for for track and field, So I gotta I gotta try to hit him
- 1:21:35up. I don't know how many, Like what what a normal number is,
- 1:21:42you know, for like track in terms of like boys and girls on
- 1:21:45a on a on a team. M hmm. But the other day I
- 1:21:48was talking to our athletic trainer at Bothlin. We're we were just talking about
- 1:21:53some things and and somebody had mentioned that the spring sports have more athletes than
- 1:21:59the other two sport or the other two seasons seasons, yeah, And I
- 1:22:02was like, I was like, wow, really, because like in my
- 1:22:04head, I'm like, you know, baseball's got decent numbers, you know,
- 1:22:08but like football, we have like one hundred and forty kids. And
- 1:22:10he goes, yeah, but track between boys and girls has like one hundred
- 1:22:13and ninety five. What one hundred and ninety five and they're all gonna be
- 1:22:16there or is that just the girls. No, it's it's boys and girls,
- 1:22:23and it's that's just our team. Yeah, So that the other team's
- 1:22:27got to have a lot of them too, right, Well, it's crazy.
- 1:22:29Yeah, I mean it's crazy. I see some of these like I
- 1:22:30see some of these results and it's like like I was looking at the Mount
- 1:22:34Vernon, you know, they were at Knooksack Valley and Lynnen Christian was there
- 1:22:38too on Friday and I saw the full results and it's just you know,
- 1:22:43like every event had like twenty people from out from Mount Vernon. You know,
- 1:22:47like every event, it's just crazy. I mean, Tyler, where's
- 1:22:50everybody in a park? You might be able to set up some like parking
- 1:22:54in your in your driveway, sell some parking. Tyler, Oh, it's
- 1:22:58crazy. Tyler's Park Working is sponsoring the Look look Ahead this week. Are
- 1:23:04you headed out to the track meet at Civic consider parking? Yeah? Are
- 1:23:12we? Don Tyler? Is that it? We got anything else? Any
- 1:23:14any other any other games you want to throw out there that you're thinking.
- 1:23:16Well, I just I just want to thank you for helping me out with
- 1:23:18the scoreboard. I was out of town this weekend. I was down in
- 1:23:21Camus. Came back today. Uh and so I will be able. I
- 1:23:26will be back out at events. Uh start if people are listening to this
- 1:23:30now starting tonight. So uh so I'm excited to get back out there,
- 1:23:35and hopefully the weather holds up. I know it's not really supposed to as
- 1:23:39the week goes on, but but we'll see, we'll see. It's a
- 1:23:42it's a fun time of year, a lot of stuff going on, and
- 1:23:45and if I can keep getting some golf stuff from some of these coaches,
- 1:23:49that'll help a lot too, and then every single sport will be covered.
- 1:23:53Imagine that, you know, Tyler. The good thing is I built the
- 1:23:56graphics, so if you ever need me to do them, I've got them.
- 1:24:00I know, I know, but I just hate to, you know,
- 1:24:02I hate to impose upon you to have to do that. I can't
- 1:24:08because I'm out of town. Well, Friday nights were a little late because
- 1:24:10we won a baseball game and then our coach decided to take us all out
- 1:24:13for milkshakes. Yeah that's a great excuse. Yeah, I mean, you
- 1:24:15can't turn that down. So this is actually pretty funny. We get on
- 1:24:19the bus and we start we start leaving Lake Stephens High School and where the
- 1:24:24bus drivers He's like, uh, should we go this way or this way?
- 1:24:27And he said, oh, the coach goes on, just go ahead
- 1:24:30and go straight and he's like what, he goes, if I buy you
- 1:24:32a milkshake, you want to go to Ray's and Everett and we can get
- 1:24:34some milkshakes and the and the bus driver goes show me the way, and
- 1:24:39next thing you know, we were at Ray's getting milkshakes. Nice. Yeah,
- 1:24:42unbelievab. I don't know how much they cost, but I think we
- 1:24:44had twenty six milkshakes, is what we had, and actually somehow we ended
- 1:24:47up with an extra one. I still don't know how that happened because we
- 1:24:49counted it exactly perfect, so I don't know how we ended up with an
- 1:24:53extra one. But the bus driver got a chocolate Anna Vanella, so good
- 1:24:56for him. Nice Yeah, yeah, he made out like a bandit.
- 1:25:00That being said, Tyler, I went with chocolate. Yeah, I mean,
- 1:25:02nothing wrong with chocolate. I think that's a I think it's a good
- 1:25:04milkshake to me. Your three like basic choices, right, vanilla, strawberry,
- 1:25:09chocolate. You really can't go wrong. Yeah you can't. I mean
- 1:25:13you know you're you're gonna be happy either way. And when they start going
- 1:25:16with more flavors, I usually tend to jump to one of the other ones,
- 1:25:19though, Butterscotches usually might go to butter, Scotch or cherry. Those
- 1:25:23are my two. Yeah, but if if what you've got is those three,
- 1:25:28I'm gonna be a happy camper. I really yeah, Absolutely, I'm
- 1:25:31gonna be a real happy camper. Anything else, nothing, anything, We're
- 1:25:35good. No, All right, Well, let's give one more thanks to
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