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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 336 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 2-24 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Nuksack Valley junior Peyton Bartle, and you're listening
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Speaker 1: to the Walkom Preps Podcast with Tyler and Rylan Rally
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Speaker 1: the Valley. Greetings, and welcome into the Walcome Preps Podcast.
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Speaker 1: This is episode three hundred and thirty six, a winter
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Speaker 1: sports weekly wrap up. I am Tyler Anderson and I
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Speaker 1: am solo once again. I hope Ryland's feeling better soon.
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Speaker 1: We were both out of commission last week, so there
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Speaker 1: was no podcast last week. It felt really weird and
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of stuff going on, but I
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Speaker 1: was able to get stories out people could read up
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Speaker 1: on those. And now this is a big one obviously
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Speaker 1: because of the state tournament that happened over the weekend
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Speaker 1: and multiple sports and districts wrapping up and try districts
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff and setting up for regionals and states.
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Speaker 1: So we'll get into all that. I just want to
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Speaker 1: give it thank you to Niksack Valley junior Peyton Bartell.
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Speaker 1: She had herself quite the week on the basketball court
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Speaker 1: and she will be a part of the regionals coming
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Speaker 1: up this upcoming weekend, so we'll talk about that soon.
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Speaker 1: So thank you very much to Peyton Bartell and we're
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Speaker 1: just gonna jump right into it. We're going to talk
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Speaker 1: Matt Klassic here. We're gonna start on the boys side,
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Speaker 1: and at the one A level there was wrestlers from
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Speaker 1: four different schools from Walking County down in Tacoma, but
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Speaker 1: the top three teams at the one A was Wapaitau
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Speaker 1: that finished with three hundred and a half points, Zilla
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Speaker 1: which finished with two hundred and thirty five points, in
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Speaker 1: Castle Rock at one hundred and seventy seven points Wapatau.
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Speaker 1: I guess that's no big surprise. A lot of guys
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Speaker 1: and they do really well filling up those brackets and
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Speaker 1: Zilla as well. And Zilla, you know they're gonna be
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Speaker 1: one of the top teams on the basket boys basketball
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Speaker 1: side as well. So really big time winter sports going
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Speaker 1: on for the Zillah Leopards, which is good for them.
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker finished in seventeenth place in the state seventy
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Speaker 1: four and a half points, Blaine right behind them with
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Speaker 1: an eighteenth place with sixty seven points, Meridian and twenty
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Speaker 1: sixth place with forty two and a half points in
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Speaker 1: Knuksack Valley twenty ninth place with thirty five and a
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Speaker 1: half points, So we're going to talk about the individual
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Speaker 1: placers here for the one A boys at one hundred
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Speaker 1: and twenty pounds. Vinisaiah of Blaine took sixth place at
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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty six pounds. Andrew Monteeth of Mount
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Speaker 1: Baker took fourth place at one hundred and thirty two pounds.
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Speaker 1: Daniel Joner of Blaine took sixth place at one hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty eight pounds. Gavin Compton of Mount Baker took
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Speaker 1: fifth place at one hundred and forty four pounds. Carson
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Speaker 1: Seodol from Meridian took sixth place at one hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty five pounds. Wyatt Freeman of Mount Baker took third
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Speaker 1: place at one hundred and ninety pounds. Wyatt Bacon of
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Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley took third place at two hundred and fifteen pounds.
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Speaker 1: Rht Dirsh of Meridian took fifth place, and at two
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five pounds, Auto Shelton of Blaine took
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Speaker 1: third place. So congratulations to all of them. A lot
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Speaker 1: of third place finishes there. I think there's three of them.
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Speaker 1: That says a lot that's doing a lot. Nobody got
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Speaker 1: to the championship match. But some people got pretty durn
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Speaker 1: close on the boy's side. For two way, Ording is
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Speaker 1: the state champion with four hundred and thirty four points,
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Speaker 1: followed by topin Ish at three hundred and seventeen points
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Speaker 1: and Othello at one hundred and seventy eight and a
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Speaker 1: half points. Ording finished almost twice as many points as
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Speaker 1: the third place team, so that is really impressive. For
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Speaker 1: the two way schools, Bellingham took thirty six with twenty
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Speaker 1: five and a half points, Seahome had twenty two points,
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Speaker 1: Squalk them eighteen points, and Linden had three points. There
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Speaker 1: was only one Walcom County placer that was Grant all
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Speaker 1: for a Sea Home, who took fifth place. For the
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Speaker 1: three A boys, White River took first. There is the
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Speaker 1: team champion two hundred and fifty two points, Hermiston right
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Speaker 1: behind them two hundred and forty two and a half
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Speaker 1: and Lincoln of Tacoma one hundred and ninety seven and
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Speaker 1: a half points. Ferndale finished with sixty four and a
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Speaker 1: half points, good enough for twenty ninth in the state,
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Speaker 1: and Wyatt Straight of Ferndale took seventh place at a
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Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty five pounds, So congratulations to him,
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Speaker 1: those are your state placers. On the boys side, we
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Speaker 1: talked girls wrestling at one B, two B and one
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Speaker 1: A all combined here the smaller schools, and I remember
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Speaker 1: when girls when it was it was just girls wrestling.
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Speaker 1: It didn't matter for classification. The sport is growing so much,
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Speaker 1: which is awesome, so they're starting to break it up now,
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Speaker 1: and but the smaller school is all still together one B,
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Speaker 1: two B, one A, and the state champions are Granger
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty four points, Royal really close behind
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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty one and a half, and Zillah
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Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty seven and a half. Mount Baker
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Speaker 1: took ninth place, which out of all the wrestling teams,
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Speaker 1: that was the highest placed team I believe in Walking County.
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Speaker 1: So they took ninth place eighty four points, Meridian took
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Speaker 1: twelve seventy five and a half, Blaine fifteenth place sixty
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Speaker 1: six points, and Nuzack Valley finished with twenty four points.
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Speaker 1: So the individual placers you had a few here in
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Speaker 1: the championship match. McKenna Lauzier of Blaine took second place
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Speaker 1: in state at one hundred and five pounds at one
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Speaker 1: hundred and ten pounds. Ana Camacho took fourth place at
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen pounds. Haley Horseman of Meridian took
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Speaker 1: sixth place at one hundred and forty pounds. Tyler Olsen
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Speaker 1: of Mount Baker took second place at one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty five pounds, Analysia Ordoniez of Blaine took third place,
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Speaker 1: and Stephanie Camacho of Mount Baker took sixth place, and
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Speaker 1: in two hundred and thirty five pounds, Mina Azam of
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Speaker 1: Nuzack Valley took fourth place. So a lot of high
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Speaker 1: finishes there, really cool to see. H always great to
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Speaker 1: see a lot of talent come through this area, and
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Speaker 1: a really strong showing for a lot of those wrestlers
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Speaker 1: at the two A level. Topinish finished in first place
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Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy three and a half points, Othello
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Speaker 1: second two hundred and twenty one and a half an
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Speaker 1: ording third one eighty eight. And you know, I'm just
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Speaker 1: realizing now those are the same three teams that finished
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Speaker 1: in the top three for the boys, just a different order.
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Speaker 1: So big time programs obviously. Squalakum took fourteenth place with
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Speaker 1: seventy four and a half points. Bellingham had eight points
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Speaker 1: and Linden had three points. There was only a couple
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Speaker 1: state finishers, but both of them got to the championship
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Speaker 1: match and both from Squalicum High School. So at one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds, Claire Hume of Squalicum took second
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Speaker 1: place and one hundred and forty five pounds Brook Lego
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Speaker 1: of Squalkum took second place. So that's really something. I
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Speaker 1: have two wrestlers reach the championship match, which is, you know,
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Speaker 1: really really great and neither of them could win, which is,
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Speaker 1: you know, that's that's too bad, but really great showing
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Speaker 1: for those Squalking Storm pair there. At the girls three
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Speaker 1: A level, Kelso is a state champion two hundred and
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Speaker 1: seventeen and a half points, Peninsula second with two hundred
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Speaker 1: and ten points, and Hermiston third one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 1: two and a half. Ferndale finishes with nine points there.
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Speaker 1: So congratulations to all the teams, coaches, athletes for a
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Speaker 1: great showing at the Matt Classic. And we're gonna jump
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Speaker 1: over to boys swim and dive, and of course when
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Speaker 1: we do that, we've got to talk to Stafford Insurance.
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Speaker 1: at three six zero seven four six eight eight zero
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Speaker 1: three and UH. There's a lot of strong schools out
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Speaker 1: there at the two A level. Bainbridge Island is your
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Speaker 1: state champion three three hundred and ninety five points, Pullman
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Speaker 1: second three hundred and thirty six and Stillicum took third
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Speaker 1: at one hundred and forty nine points. Squalaum finished in
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Speaker 1: tenth place in the state with seventy four points, Seahome
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Speaker 1: fourteenth with fifty four points, in Bellingham twentieth with thirty
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Speaker 1: seven points. As far as swimming goes, there was only
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Speaker 1: one race where Walkom County finished in the top eight.
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Speaker 1: That was the four hundred freestyle Freestyle relay and it's uh.
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Speaker 1: It was Mac Hofstet, Michael Siotti, Finn Smith, and Hayden
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Speaker 1: Nelson of Squalicum finished in seventh place with a time
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Speaker 1: of three minutes and thirty three point zero six seconds,
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Speaker 1: so seventh place finished in state. But for the for diving,
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Speaker 1: Walkom County did pretty darn well. Cayden Schmidt is your
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Speaker 1: state champion from Seahome two hundred and eighty point seventy
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Speaker 1: five points. Miles Ludwig of Bellingham took third place two
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three point two points, and Nolan Whitman
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Speaker 1: of Squalalam took sixth place two hundred and thirteen point
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Speaker 1: eight five points. So those were those were your athletes
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Speaker 1: that finished in the top eight at state boys swimming
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Speaker 1: and diving. And again a big, huge thank you to
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Speaker 1: stoff for Insurance for sponsoring boys swimming diving all season long,
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Speaker 1: and we'll be looking forward to them joining up for
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Speaker 1: boys and girls track and field in the spring, which
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Speaker 1: I can't believe is just right around the corner. Spring
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Speaker 1: is spring practices. If you're listening to this right now,
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Speaker 1: you got a week. You got a week into spring practices.
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Speaker 1: nicer weather, I mean, my goodness. I mean, I'm recording
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Speaker 1: this Sunday night, and it's just it's just rained all
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Speaker 1: day pretty much, So hopefully the weather will get a
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Speaker 1: It's a fun, fun partnership and we're gonna look at
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Speaker 1: the brackets that happened over the week over this this
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Speaker 1: past week and we start with UH with one B
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Speaker 1: and D. In this past week, it was the tried
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Speaker 1: district tournament for one B Lemon Nation girls in that
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Speaker 1: they were the number two seed, so they got to host.
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Speaker 1: They got to host a game when they faced the
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Speaker 1: winner of Grace Academy and Summit Classical Christian, which happened
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Speaker 1: to be Summit. They took care of business there, won
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Speaker 1: fifty eight to fifteen, put them into the semi finals,
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Speaker 1: which was played down at Mount Vernon Christian where they
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Speaker 1: took on Cross Point Christian won that game fifty eight
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Speaker 1: to forty seven to put them in the finals where
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Speaker 1: they played against top ranked Nia Bay. Nia Bay who
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Speaker 1: was the state champion last last year and only had
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Speaker 1: one loss on the year. Lemon Nation played pretty well.
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Speaker 1: This was held at the Muckleshoot Community Center and they
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Speaker 1: just got down early, but they held Nia Bay pretty
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Speaker 1: well as far as you know, only holding them to
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Speaker 1: forty eight points. The Blackhawks they went off for I
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Speaker 1: think close to twenty points in that final quarter but
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Speaker 1: only master thirty seven total, so they do finish second place,
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Speaker 1: and they were seated second, so that sounds about right.
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Speaker 1: But they they're gonna go on and they're gonna still
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Speaker 1: be able to play in the regionals and state tournament
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that, so they they will get to
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Speaker 1: keep playing a really really strong showing here and this
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Speaker 1: is this is one of their best showings on the
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Speaker 1: girls side that they've had for a while. So I
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Speaker 1: think their record's about twenty two and four right now.
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Speaker 1: So I played a lot of games and as far
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Speaker 1: as I can tell, relatively healthy and so that's good.
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Speaker 1: Everything is kind of working out for them right now.
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Speaker 1: And you know, after seeing Nia Bay and how deep
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Speaker 1: they are and fast and aggressive and on point with everything,
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Speaker 1: that kind of shows you maybe what the what the
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Speaker 1: tip of the iceberg is at the one B girls level.
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Speaker 1: So I just hadn't seen that many teams, so it
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Speaker 1: was really hard for me to tell. The elimination. Played
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Speaker 1: some tough games against some bigger opponents Mount Vern and Christian.
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Speaker 1: They did lose the game to Peteros, who I know
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Speaker 1: is in the one B level is pretty good, so
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Speaker 1: uh so we'll see what they can do. Here. Probably
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Speaker 1: the only thing that might hinder them a little bit
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Speaker 1: is size. They they don't have a ton of height.
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Speaker 1: Uh Celestiam James comes off the bench and she's about
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Speaker 1: five to nine, which is which is great to have,
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Speaker 1: but for their starters, they don't go taller than five six. So,
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Speaker 1: uh so we'll just have to see what they can do.
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Speaker 1: But if they get hot, they get going, they ride
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Speaker 1: themselves on their on their defense, a lot of steals,
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Speaker 1: and it's they're they're they're just fun to watch. So
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Speaker 1: good luck to them moving forward, you jump to the
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Speaker 1: one A level. In this past week, it was it
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Speaker 1: was there was some playoff games. There was the district
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Speaker 1: I mean to make sure I'm seeing this right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there was the district kind of the final game of districts,
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Speaker 1: which was between Meridian and Nuxack Valley. I was out.
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Speaker 1: I was out at that game out at Lyndon High
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Speaker 1: School and Nuikzack Valley just they got off to a
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Speaker 1: really good start and Meridian was missing a lot of
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Speaker 1: shots early. They started making them in the second half,
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Speaker 1: but Nicksack Valley just it seemed like they, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to say, understood the moment more but they had,
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Speaker 1: but they had the experience. They had been there, and
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Speaker 1: and when you get off to a hot start, it's
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Speaker 1: really hard to get back on them. And Meridian played really,
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Speaker 1: really well. You know. I got to give it to
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Speaker 1: Brooklyn Fuller and Sophia Brooks. Those two seniors played their
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Speaker 1: heart out. Brooks got hurt early on in the game,
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Speaker 1: she was able to come back and play. And Meridian
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Speaker 1: is going to be a good team for the next
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Speaker 1: few years. They've got all the pieces and all the
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Speaker 1: makings for a strong future. Nikzack Valley played really really well,
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Speaker 1: like I said, scored sixty four points. The Meridian tried
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Speaker 1: different things. They tried fouling, you know, try to get
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Speaker 1: them to the foul line, try to get the ball
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Speaker 1: back that that way kind of early in the process.
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Speaker 1: But Meridian was knocking down there Knooksack Valley was knocking
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Speaker 1: down their foul shots, and there wasn't really anything they
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Speaker 1: could do. It seemed like the Pioneers were just destined
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Speaker 1: to win that game, and and they did, which ended
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Speaker 1: Meridian season. But it was a great, great season for
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Speaker 1: the for the Trojans. Uh Nuksac Valley moved on to
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Speaker 1: play at the Crossover games where they played against Bear Creek,
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Speaker 1: and I mean it was just a bare disaster. I
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Speaker 1: mean it was these these crossover games, you know. And
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Speaker 1: I kind of went off a little bit about it
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Speaker 1: on on on a post online, and I try not
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Speaker 1: to throw too much of my opinion out there, but
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Speaker 1: and I understand all these things that you know, you
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Speaker 1: got to get so many teams and whatever, but you know,
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Speaker 1: the they're just so lopsided. And I kind of equated
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Speaker 1: it to let's say the Duke Blue Devils. You know, they're,
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Speaker 1: you know, a top ten team in the nation. They
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Speaker 1: win the ACC tournament, but before you can get into
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Speaker 1: March Madness, you have to face like the number five
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Speaker 1: team from the IVY League. It's like really like what like,
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Speaker 1: So that's kind of how I equate this. You know,
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Speaker 1: I wish it would be like it was in the
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Speaker 1: old days, for you know, our four teams will take
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Speaker 1: there on their four teams and that's an eight team
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Speaker 1: tournament in Mount Vernon and you just play. But you know,
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Speaker 1: it's just not that way anymore. And hopefully things can
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Speaker 1: get back to how it was. But they had knooks
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Speaker 1: that probably went down to King's High School beat up
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Speaker 1: on Bear Creek sixty five to sixteen. Peyton Bartell had
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Speaker 1: a huge game in that one. You know a lot
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Speaker 1: of points and rebounds, but also steals and assists. She
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Speaker 1: kind of did a little bit of everything. Grace d
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Speaker 1: Hoague had nineteen points, nine boards, and they just, you know,
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Speaker 1: they proved that they were the much better team and
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Speaker 1: that they deserve it, you know, a spot in regionals
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Speaker 1: and states. So they moved on right after that game.
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Speaker 1: It was another kind of bloodbath there. Lindon Christian beat
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Speaker 1: Granite Falls seventy seven to six. I sat down and
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Speaker 1: I almost went down to Seattle because I didn't know
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Speaker 1: if these games were going to be streamed. I found
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Speaker 1: out Saturday morning that they were going to be on
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Speaker 1: fan Huddle, so I was able to sit down to
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Speaker 1: keep stats as the game was going. But when you
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Speaker 1: keep stats of a game at seventy seven to six,
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Speaker 1: it's it can be you just kind of laugh at
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Speaker 1: yourself a few times every once in a while, because
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of assists made, made baskets, offensive
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Speaker 1: rebound stuff like that, and they just they just add
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Speaker 1: up really fast. And the thing about the links that
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Speaker 1: I really liked is they you know, they played their
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Speaker 1: game in the first half. You know that this is
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Speaker 1: who we are here. You go stop it, try try
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Speaker 1: to stop it. And I want to say they were
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Speaker 1: up fifty to three at halftime. The second half, they
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Speaker 1: took their four key players Alison Schueme Ella Fritz, Daniel
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Speaker 1: Dykstra and Estella Hernandez and none of them played a
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Speaker 1: one second in the second half. They let the other
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Speaker 1: seven players take care of it, so that way you
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Speaker 1: can just get them a lot of run. It was
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Speaker 1: a running clock the whole time. They still were able
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Speaker 1: to put up twenty seven points and a lot of
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Speaker 1: other players did some pretty impressive things. So that was
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Speaker 1: really good to see them take care of business there.
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Speaker 1: And so Lenny Christian will move on as well, go
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Speaker 1: to this to the state tournament. We'll talk about who
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Speaker 1: they're facing and all that stuff, and just just a
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Speaker 1: little bit. This was the week that was so Knooksac
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Speaker 1: Valley and Lennon Christian, congratulations. Moving on. Now in the
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Speaker 1: one A division we go to two A and on
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Speaker 1: the on the girls side, and there was there was
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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff going on. Squald Can beat Lakewood
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Speaker 1: on Monday night down in Mount Vernon to eliminate the Cougars.
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Speaker 1: They played a played a really really good game in
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Speaker 1: that fourth quarter, especially, I think they shut the Cougars
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Speaker 1: out and uh, just a good overall game, really fun
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Speaker 1: game to watch. I'm so glad that that these are
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Speaker 1: being broadcast because during during the season NFHS doesn't they don't.
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Speaker 1: They don't show games at Mount Vernon for the most
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Speaker 1: part unless there's a broadcast team there that's gonna, you know,
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19:15
Speaker 1: them being playoff games, just it just helped me out
19:18
Speaker 1: so bad because I was still pretty sick on Monday
19:20
Speaker 1: night and uh, but I was able to sit here,
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Speaker 1: take the stats live and U and go from there.
19:26
Speaker 1: So Squalicum beating Lake wuiod that was pretty awesome, but
19:31
Speaker 1: it meant that they were going to play Burlington Edison
19:34
Speaker 1: in the next round in the Constellations and they lost
19:37
Speaker 1: that one fifty to thirty one. I thought they hung
19:39
Speaker 1: with them pretty well for a while, but the experience
19:42
Speaker 1: of the tires just kind of shine through at the
19:44
Speaker 1: end and it was a little too much for the
19:46
Speaker 1: storm and the storm it was a darn good year.
19:50
Speaker 1: They did some things that they haven't done in a
19:52
Speaker 1: long time, so really excited about their future as well.
19:55
Speaker 1: And I've gone over that, you know, over the weeks
19:58
Speaker 1: here on this on this podcast what I feel about
20:00
Speaker 1: that team and and all the pieces that I like
20:03
Speaker 1: a lot, So I'm really excited about them. And uh
20:09
Speaker 1: and then also in the district championship game, Linden took
20:12
Speaker 1: on Archbishop Murphy and I tell you, Archbishop Murphy is
20:16
Speaker 1: pretty awesome and they got some big time out outside shooters,
20:19
Speaker 1: but the defense of the Lions really forced them to
20:23
Speaker 1: not really get the shots that they would want. They
20:25
Speaker 1: ended up making some threes, but they were like step
20:27
Speaker 1: back shots that banked in. I mean, they were not
20:30
Speaker 1: the easiest shots in the world to make. And give
20:33
Speaker 1: Linden credit because that that that was that defense that
20:36
Speaker 1: just makes it so tough, and the Wildcats couldn't really
20:39
Speaker 1: do a ton. The Wildcats then turn around and beat
20:42
Speaker 1: Burlington Edison, so they're going to move on as well.
20:44
Speaker 1: But congratulations to the Linden Lions. They remained undefeated on
20:48
Speaker 1: the season. They're the you know, they were the one
20:50
Speaker 1: seed in this district tournament. They win the district championship,
20:53
Speaker 1: go on to state, and so congratulations to Lyndon there.
20:58
Speaker 1: So so that's that's all for girls basketball. We go
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23:28
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25:28
Speaker 1: we're gonna go through these games that happened on the
25:31
Speaker 1: boys side Uh. For for one bet, it was very
25:34
Speaker 1: very similar for for lamination as the girls, except for
25:37
Speaker 1: they were the top seed on the boys side, so
25:39
Speaker 1: they got to again, they got to host a game
25:43
Speaker 1: played and played that first one against Providence Classical Christian
25:46
Speaker 1: and uh they took care of business big time, won
25:49
Speaker 1: ninety four to twenty five. This is in the Tri
25:52
Speaker 1: District tournament after winning districts, and then they moved on
25:58
Speaker 1: and played a few days later down at Mount Vernon
26:01
Speaker 1: Christian played against Summit Classical Christian. They won sixty eight
26:05
Speaker 1: to forty two, and then which moved them to the
26:09
Speaker 1: Tri District championship game being played at Muckelstut Community Center
26:12
Speaker 1: on Saturday night where they faced Nia Bay. So it
26:15
Speaker 1: was the same you know, Nia baversus Leimonation boys and girls.
26:19
Speaker 1: On the boy side, it went the way at the
26:21
Speaker 1: Blackhawks sixty one to forty six. Jerome Toby had an
26:25
Speaker 1: amazing game. He scored twenty seven points. I think he
26:28
Speaker 1: led them in rebounds as well, six rebounds, four steals
26:33
Speaker 1: to assists. He made all ten of his free throw attempts.
26:36
Speaker 1: And they were down after second quarter. You know, they
26:39
Speaker 1: were down at the half, They were down after the
26:40
Speaker 1: third quarter, and then they went on a twenty to
26:43
Speaker 1: three run in the fourth quarter to pull it out.
26:45
Speaker 1: That was just awesome to see. The defense was the
26:49
Speaker 1: defense for elimination is really really fun to watch, and
26:52
Speaker 1: they just play so well together and when the anticipation
26:56
Speaker 1: is at such a high level. And Dyson Edwards had
26:59
Speaker 1: a great game as well, and a lot of these
27:01
Speaker 1: other guys are just you know, doing the right thing.
27:05
Speaker 1: And DeAndre James down low, and Travon Lee and Landing
27:09
Speaker 1: Lafontaine from outside, Carson Reeve coming back from an injury
27:12
Speaker 1: at just the right time. They are great. They are
27:16
Speaker 1: great to watch. They were the number one seed here.
27:19
Speaker 1: They win it all in the Tri District tournament. And
27:21
Speaker 1: it's funny because I could RPI and different rankings like
27:24
Speaker 1: they weren't even there, and I just kept saying, man, yeah,
27:27
Speaker 1: it's because they're playing teams like Lakewood, who, by the way,
27:30
Speaker 1: is in the state tournament and and KNICKKXAC Valley, who
27:32
Speaker 1: was one game away from the from the state tournament.
27:34
Speaker 1: I mean there they were playing. Yeah, they had a
27:37
Speaker 1: couple losses, but these were against much bigger teams and
27:40
Speaker 1: they weren't by that many points. So I love that
27:44
Speaker 1: coach Toby is is getting out there and finding tough
27:47
Speaker 1: competition and taking him on and and and just he'll
27:52
Speaker 1: play anybody, it does not matter to him. And just
27:55
Speaker 1: a great, great team to watch. So congratulations to them,
27:58
Speaker 1: and we'll be talking about them in a little bit
28:00
Speaker 1: as well. On the one A side again, the matchup
28:04
Speaker 1: nuk Zach Valley Meridian, that was you know, you just
28:08
Speaker 1: you knew what to expect. This is two really physical
28:11
Speaker 1: teams that have a bitter rival uh with the that
28:15
Speaker 1: are bitter rivals with each other, and you know, coach
28:18
Speaker 1: Shane Stacey even said after the game, this is the
28:20
Speaker 1: this is the kind of team that you that you
28:23
Speaker 1: that you you you love to hate like it's such
28:26
Speaker 1: a strong rivalry, but you wouldn't want it any other way.
28:29
Speaker 1: It's just the respect level is high. But you just
28:32
Speaker 1: want to beat those guys. And they've had so many
28:34
Speaker 1: you know, they've each had buzzer beaters against each other
28:37
Speaker 1: in the last few games. I mean, it's just unbelievable.
28:41
Speaker 1: But Meridian won at sixty two to fifty four. The
28:43
Speaker 1: end of the season for the Pioneers and Meridian moves
28:46
Speaker 1: on a really great job by Pierce Brosowski in that game.
28:50
Speaker 1: I thought he had some big time moments. He had
28:54
Speaker 1: a he had a lay in that he was fouled
28:56
Speaker 1: on late in the game, and he also hit the
28:58
Speaker 1: final three of the game, which was kind of that
29:00
Speaker 1: final dagger, which was huge, and uh, just a big,
29:04
Speaker 1: big game for him. And and I love how that
29:07
Speaker 1: team's coming together. It's very senior heavy, but the younger
29:11
Speaker 1: guys just keep getting better and better and they're filling
29:14
Speaker 1: this void. They do this thing in the second quarter
29:16
Speaker 1: where they it's like a full line change and they
29:19
Speaker 1: bring in all these small guys and they just they
29:23
Speaker 1: just run around and play tough, and it's just, you know,
29:27
Speaker 1: it's kind of it's almost like it it hits you.
29:30
Speaker 1: It's like a it's like a little mismatch there for
29:32
Speaker 1: a while because they're just they're so quick, and then
29:34
Speaker 1: before right right before you feel like you can adapt
29:37
Speaker 1: to it, then they bring in all the big guys again,
29:40
Speaker 1: and it's kind of it's kind of disheartening that you'll
29:44
Speaker 1: see that for the other for the other teams, and
29:45
Speaker 1: it's a way that this second group can really play
29:49
Speaker 1: well together. And it's a lot of fun to watch.
29:52
Speaker 1: So i' Meridian won that one, which means they moved
29:54
Speaker 1: on to that crossover game where they played against Bush
29:58
Speaker 1: High School, where they won eighty three to forty six.
30:01
Speaker 1: Jager Fife went for twenty four points. He started, you know,
30:04
Speaker 1: hitting those those twenty eight foot three pointers early in
30:07
Speaker 1: the game, and that can really demoralize the other team
30:11
Speaker 1: because then the defender has to come even further out,
30:13
Speaker 1: which allows five to drive around those guys and go
30:17
Speaker 1: to the bucket or find an open teammate. Talon Jenkins
30:21
Speaker 1: in the corner for three a few times. He ended
30:23
Speaker 1: up with twenty two points and eleven rebounds. James head
30:26
Speaker 1: All had a double double eleven points, eleven rebounds. Trey
30:30
Speaker 1: Alexander scored nine points. I mean they they did everything
30:34
Speaker 1: right in that game. Pierce Prosausk had five assists. So
30:38
Speaker 1: many guys got into the scoring call un for that one.
30:41
Speaker 1: I love watching Canyon James play play basketball. He's a
30:45
Speaker 1: guy that gets no glory, gets no pub and starts
30:49
Speaker 1: on that team and they just say, hey, just just
30:52
Speaker 1: guard the other team's best player and just and he
30:55
Speaker 1: can just go, go go, And that's what you get
30:57
Speaker 1: for with these cross country kids. They can run and
30:59
Speaker 1: run and run and they do not get tired. And
31:02
Speaker 1: he might take a shot once a game. He might not,
31:05
Speaker 1: but he's out there for one purpose, and it's a
31:08
Speaker 1: purpose that it's it's it's the stuff that you know,
31:11
Speaker 1: most guys don't want to do, and he takes it
31:14
Speaker 1: on and he's starting on a high caliber state team
31:18
Speaker 1: because of it. So I love watching him play and
31:23
Speaker 1: and the Trojans are going to move on and Lynnen Christian.
31:26
Speaker 1: They also played in this crossover stuff with Cedar Park
31:30
Speaker 1: Christian out of Bothel. I saw Cedar Park Chrishi was
31:33
Speaker 1: the first basketball game I watched all year. It was
31:36
Speaker 1: in late November. They came up and played against Noooksack
31:39
Speaker 1: Valley and the one thing I remember about Cedar Park
31:41
Speaker 1: Christian was and the Pioneers took care him pretty pretty
31:43
Speaker 1: good in that game. But Cedar Park Christian just shot
31:45
Speaker 1: a lot of threes. I mean, I don't know if
31:47
Speaker 1: I ever saw a team shoot more threes. And I
31:49
Speaker 1: didn't know if it was because you know, you got
31:52
Speaker 1: Brady Ackerman and Tristan camp House and Landsman Berkham down
31:55
Speaker 1: low like maybe just don't want to go inside and
31:57
Speaker 1: maybe you think the best way to do is shoot threes,
32:00
Speaker 1: but not a lot had changed and Lenny Christian took advantage.
32:03
Speaker 1: Even though they were without both Gannon Dykstra and Gunnerdikstra,
32:07
Speaker 1: they still had five different players scoring double digits. It
32:10
Speaker 1: was a very complete team effort, Dawson Hintz leading the
32:13
Speaker 1: way with seventeen points in that one. No surprise there.
32:16
Speaker 1: The Links win seventy three to thirty one, so Lenny
32:20
Speaker 1: Christian emorating both going on to State. We jumped to
32:24
Speaker 1: the two A level now and Squalakum finally got eliminated.
32:29
Speaker 1: It was a heck of a run late in the year.
32:31
Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever seen a team suit
32:33
Speaker 1: up more players for varsity over the year. It was
32:37
Speaker 1: around twenty. I mean, you know, it was just crazy.
32:41
Speaker 1: There was a lot of guys that were there in
32:43
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year that didn't finish the season.
32:46
Speaker 1: It brought up, There was injuries, There was you know,
32:48
Speaker 1: different JV guys that they brought up. So many different
32:50
Speaker 1: players got their chance to suit up for varsity. And
32:53
Speaker 1: like I said, I don't know if I've ever seen it.
32:55
Speaker 1: I think sixteen or seventeen was the most I've ever
32:58
Speaker 1: seen and I think they reached twenty so it was
33:01
Speaker 1: just crazy. And at the end they were playing with
33:03
Speaker 1: six or seven guys for the most part, really gutsy performances.
33:07
Speaker 1: But they got beat by Burlington Edison sixty to forty three,
33:11
Speaker 1: which ended their season, but a heck of a run
33:15
Speaker 1: for Squalicum, and it was just it was a really
33:20
Speaker 1: odd year just because, you know, watching them from Afar,
33:26
Speaker 1: I was like, I never knew like who was going
33:28
Speaker 1: to be on the Who's going to be playing, because
33:30
Speaker 1: it just seemed like there was a lot of roster
33:32
Speaker 1: moves and different things like that. But the things that
33:36
Speaker 1: you could count on were basically those six at the
33:39
Speaker 1: end of the year, you know, Marcus Nixon, Hunter Callaway,
33:44
Speaker 1: Jackson Hoefer, Ezra Nichols, Blake Elston and Ty Hoffman. I mean,
33:48
Speaker 1: those six guys just put everything out there and they
33:53
Speaker 1: all did something great throughout the season and different they
33:57
Speaker 1: all understood their parts of the game, and I just
34:00
Speaker 1: because of that, they were able to get this far
34:03
Speaker 1: and that was really really cool. Linden played against Lakewood
34:06
Speaker 1: for the district championship game, and I tell you what,
34:09
Speaker 1: the Cougars start four players that are five to ten
34:12
Speaker 1: and you think, boy, that's gonna be a real mismatch
34:15
Speaker 1: for Linden. But they used it to their advantage. They
34:17
Speaker 1: swarmed around on defense, They caused multiple ten second violations
34:21
Speaker 1: where Linden couldn't advance the ball past half court in time.
34:24
Speaker 1: And it's one of those it's one of those things
34:28
Speaker 1: where if you if you do that game plan nine
34:31
Speaker 1: times out of ten, you're probably gonna lose, but you
34:35
Speaker 1: might get a win out of it. And they did.
34:37
Speaker 1: I mean, they were up eighteen to nothing before Linden
34:41
Speaker 1: could kind of figure out what was going on, and
34:44
Speaker 1: and Linden really had to regroup, hit some shots, forced
34:48
Speaker 1: them to not make a shot so they couldn't set
34:50
Speaker 1: up their defense, and then he just started chipping away
34:52
Speaker 1: and getting back into the game. And they had a
34:54
Speaker 1: four point lead with less than a minute to go.
34:57
Speaker 1: But there was a five point possession by the Cougars.
35:00
Speaker 1: There was an intentional foul, a couple free throws were made,
35:02
Speaker 1: and then they hit a three. It was a five
35:04
Speaker 1: point possession basically for the Cougars, which gave them a
35:08
Speaker 1: one point lead. Linden then turned around hit a three.
35:11
Speaker 1: Lake would turn around and hit a three. So it
35:14
Speaker 1: was basically those two free throws, a three pointer, three
35:17
Speaker 1: point on the other side, three pointer on the other side,
35:19
Speaker 1: and then that was it. There was only four seconds
35:21
Speaker 1: left when that last three pointer was hit. So unbelievable game.
35:26
Speaker 1: I was watching it online while listening to on the
35:28
Speaker 1: radio trying to sync it up, and Randy Farmer and
35:32
Speaker 1: Dan Kmick they were like, this could have been the
35:33
Speaker 1: best game we've ever got. We called and it was
35:37
Speaker 1: a low scoring game. Lake Would just they had a
35:40
Speaker 1: game plan that they stuck with and they ended up
35:43
Speaker 1: winning because of it. I give them a ton of credit.
35:45
Speaker 1: The Cougars are the district champions. They win fifty to
35:48
Speaker 1: forty nine. That does not mean Linden seasons over. It
35:50
Speaker 1: just means that they were going to take it out
35:52
Speaker 1: on whoever they were going to be facing and Archbishop Murphy.
35:55
Speaker 1: They went into this district tournament as the seventh seed
35:59
Speaker 1: and they got a role by Lakewood eighty to forty two,
36:03
Speaker 1: and then they can't had to win out. I mean,
36:05
Speaker 1: they barely got by Belling Pam, they barely got by
36:08
Speaker 1: Anna Chordis, they barely got by Burlington Edison in a
36:12
Speaker 1: thrilling three overtime game, and by the by Saturday, they
36:16
Speaker 1: might have been out of juice because Linden took it
36:18
Speaker 1: to him seventy three to forty and Linden lines Bran
36:21
Speaker 1: Hepner scores thirty two points and and he, you know,
36:27
Speaker 1: he willed that team. I think he was eight of
36:28
Speaker 1: eight from the foul line. And Gordy Bedlington had eleven
36:32
Speaker 1: points and eleven assists. I think his maturation just during
36:36
Speaker 1: the season has been so impressive, which is scary for
36:39
Speaker 1: the for the state tournament because he's speaking at the
36:42
Speaker 1: right time, you know, him and Jack Stapleton. Neither of
36:45
Speaker 1: them were available for the game they played against Archbishop
36:50
Speaker 1: Murphy in late December. I was at that game out
36:54
Speaker 1: out in Linden and they were down those two starters.
36:56
Speaker 1: So so this time around it was a little bit different.
37:00
Speaker 1: Lynnon takes care of business seventy through three to forty
37:03
Speaker 1: and they go on to the state tournament and we'll
37:05
Speaker 1: talk about them, and just a little bit on the
37:08
Speaker 1: three A side there was Ferndale was still alive this
37:13
Speaker 1: this week, but they did drop the game to Marysville
37:16
Speaker 1: Getchel and uh and that's that's the season for the
37:20
Speaker 1: Golden Eagles. But I tell you what, I love what
37:23
Speaker 1: Luke de Shane has done as far as you know,
37:26
Speaker 1: you look at the team two years ago, I think
37:27
Speaker 1: they had one win. You look at them last year
37:29
Speaker 1: and they jumped way up and wins, and then this
37:31
Speaker 1: year they get deep into the district tournament. So the
37:35
Speaker 1: improvement every single year has been there. So, you know,
37:39
Speaker 1: congratulations to the Golden Eagles. I know the seniors didn't
37:42
Speaker 1: want to go out like that, but that's a really
37:44
Speaker 1: good Marysville Ketchel team. I saw them earlier in the
37:47
Speaker 1: year against Squalkum and uh, they've got some really good pieces,
37:51
Speaker 1: so there's no there's no shame in that. Yeah, it's
37:56
Speaker 1: a Ferndale played a really good year or have played,
37:59
Speaker 1: you know, played really well this year and they have
38:02
Speaker 1: some big time players that are just a ton of
38:05
Speaker 1: fun to watch. So congratulations to the Golden Eagles on
38:09
Speaker 1: a really strong year. So that's basically it for the
38:14
Speaker 1: one A boys basketball games that happened this past week,
38:17
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39:01
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39:09
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39:13
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39:18
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39:27
Speaker 1: Driving School and Linden. And now we look at the
39:31
Speaker 1: players of the week, and of course they're sponsored by
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39:52
Speaker 1: Uh So that is definitely the place to go if
39:55
Speaker 1: you want to get your sweat on. So on the
39:58
Speaker 1: girl's side, girls basket ball, the player of the week,
40:02
Speaker 1: the Anytime Fitness Player of the week. When I looked
40:04
Speaker 1: at all the games and all the performances and everything,
40:06
Speaker 1: I'm given that to the girl who gave the intro
40:09
Speaker 1: this week, Peyton Bartle of nuk Sack Valley, big, big
40:13
Speaker 1: game against Meridian where she made I think she made
40:16
Speaker 1: something like fourteen of seventeen free throws. It was. It
40:20
Speaker 1: was a crazy amount where they were trying different things
40:23
Speaker 1: to slow the Pioneers down and a lot of times
40:25
Speaker 1: that meant fouling and she was the recipient and she
40:27
Speaker 1: took care of those those buckets. But then in that
40:30
Speaker 1: game against Bear Creek, I mean she had a couple
40:33
Speaker 1: steals and scores early and which made it eight to three.
40:37
Speaker 1: Bear Creek calls a timeout, and it just didn't didn't
40:40
Speaker 1: even get better after that. She did so many things.
40:44
Speaker 1: You know, she was really close to a triple double,
40:46
Speaker 1: kind of close to a quadruple double. I mean, if
40:48
Speaker 1: she would have played more minutes in the fourth quarter
40:50
Speaker 1: and they were way way ahead and they were playing
40:53
Speaker 1: a lot of the backups. So just had a great,
40:56
Speaker 1: great week. I really think that her game has jumped
40:58
Speaker 1: from her sophomore year to her junior year. And I
41:01
Speaker 1: think last year, you know, she was just a shooter
41:03
Speaker 1: that came off the bench, and she was a player
41:05
Speaker 1: that you'd have to look out for. Just spot up
41:07
Speaker 1: in the corner and she would catch and shoot. This year,
41:09
Speaker 1: it's a lot different. She's driving to the hoop, she's
41:12
Speaker 1: finding open teammates, she's taking on more of a leadership role.
41:15
Speaker 1: So congratulations to Peyton Bartell junior at a Nucksack Ballet.
41:18
Speaker 1: She is the Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball Player of the Week.
41:22
Speaker 1: On the boys side, a lot of great candidates here.
41:26
Speaker 1: Obviously there wasn't you know, obviously there's not a ton
41:28
Speaker 1: of games going on, you know, half the teams aren't
41:31
Speaker 1: playing anymore. A lot of these teams only have one game.
41:35
Speaker 1: But I tell you what, Lemu Nation played three games
41:39
Speaker 1: and Jerome Toby Junior just he just did some amazing things.
41:44
Speaker 1: And I spoke about it a little bit earlier on.
41:46
Speaker 1: But in that Try District championship game, twenty seven points,
41:49
Speaker 1: ten to ten from the foul line, six rebounds, four
41:53
Speaker 1: steals in a game where you know all eyes are
41:55
Speaker 1: on you, And I tell you what, when the moment
41:59
Speaker 1: gets bigger, he plays better and he just he has
42:03
Speaker 1: that laser focus and he can He's so quick. So
42:07
Speaker 1: great job by Jerome Toby at a Lumny Nation the point,
42:10
Speaker 1: the junior point guard. He is your boys basketball anytime
42:14
Speaker 1: fitness player of the week. And when I look at
42:17
Speaker 1: and usually at this point is when I look at
42:19
Speaker 1: the intriguing games for this upcoming week. Well it's all
42:21
Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday, and it's all in Mount Vernon for
42:24
Speaker 1: the most part. There is one away game and we'll
42:29
Speaker 1: be talking about that in a little bit, but but yeah,
42:32
Speaker 1: on Friday, it's gonna be in Mount Vernon. There will
42:36
Speaker 1: be a Lummy Nation double header. So that's that's really cool.
42:42
Speaker 1: It's gonna start out with the girls at six o'clock
42:46
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be playing uh no, I'm sorry, it's
42:52
Speaker 1: the boys. The boys are gonna start out at six
42:54
Speaker 1: o'clock at Mount at Mount Vernon High School and they
42:59
Speaker 1: will be playing Moses Lake Christian slash Covenant Christian. So
43:04
Speaker 1: it might be two schools that combine together. Elimination got
43:08
Speaker 1: the number two seed for the state tournament, which is
43:11
Speaker 1: really really cool. So they'll play the number seven seed
43:14
Speaker 1: Moses Lake Christian Covenant Christian, and that, like I said,
43:17
Speaker 1: will be at Mount Vernon High School at six o'clock. Now,
43:22
Speaker 1: if they lose this game, that doesn't it doesn't mean
43:25
Speaker 1: they're done. That just means they have to play on Wednesday.
43:28
Speaker 1: That's Spoke Cane Arena. If you win, you get to
43:31
Speaker 1: jump into the quarterfinals and play on or on Thursday
43:36
Speaker 1: at the Spoke Cane Arena. So a win would obviously
43:39
Speaker 1: be huge, but if you lose, you're still in it.
43:42
Speaker 1: And that's the case for most of these teams that
43:45
Speaker 1: will be playing. We have seven teams going to State.
43:48
Speaker 1: Six of them are in this situation where if you lose,
43:51
Speaker 1: you're still going to play. You just have to play
43:54
Speaker 1: on Wednesday as well, So the game right after that
43:59
Speaker 1: will be the Luma Nation girls, and they they don't
44:05
Speaker 1: know who their opponent is yet. I think they'll be
44:08
Speaker 1: they are the well I'm sorry, they're also in this
44:12
Speaker 1: point where if they lose, they will be done, but
44:15
Speaker 1: they will be hosting, well not hosting, but they'll be
44:18
Speaker 1: playing in at Mount Vernon High School. The winner between
44:21
Speaker 1: Mary M. Knight and Muckleshoot Tribal, so they're the seventeen
44:26
Speaker 1: and sixteen seeds playing each other. They're gonna play each
44:28
Speaker 1: other on Tuesday night, and the winner of that game
44:32
Speaker 1: will come to Mount Vernon and play Lemon Nation on
44:35
Speaker 1: Friday night at eight o'clock. Losers out from that one
44:39
Speaker 1: the winner goes to Spokane. So Lemon Nation got the
44:43
Speaker 1: nine seed, which means they were just one seed away
44:47
Speaker 1: from being in that kind of that secured round of
44:50
Speaker 1: being able to play this later in the week as well.
44:53
Speaker 1: But I think they'll be favored pretty heavily with whoever
44:57
Speaker 1: wins that game, the seventeen versus the sixteen and elimination
45:02
Speaker 1: being at number nine, the other team has to travel
45:04
Speaker 1: quite a bit, so so that'll be a lot of fun.
45:06
Speaker 1: Meridian boys will have to travel to Ellensburg High School
45:11
Speaker 1: on Friday to play Royal at six o'clock. So that's
45:15
Speaker 1: really the one, if you want to say, away game
45:19
Speaker 1: out of all these out of all these teams. So
45:23
Speaker 1: Meridian got the seven seed in the state, which I
45:26
Speaker 1: think is pretty good and which means but you're going
45:31
Speaker 1: to start out by playing the number two seed Royal Knights.
45:34
Speaker 1: Now again, this is one of those games where if
45:37
Speaker 1: Royal wins, the Meridian is still okay. They just have
45:41
Speaker 1: to play on Wednesday at state tournament. They will be
45:44
Speaker 1: going to Yakama no matter what. But if they can
45:47
Speaker 1: win this game and they can pull off the upset
45:49
Speaker 1: against Royal, they can jump straight into the quarterfinals and
45:52
Speaker 1: play on Thursday. So so it should be it should
45:55
Speaker 1: be a great, great game. I've heard a lot of
45:57
Speaker 1: good things about Royal. I'm not sure what kind of
45:59
Speaker 1: competition they've played, and we'll just kind of see how
46:03
Speaker 1: it goes. I mean Royal, I mean, obviously we all
46:05
Speaker 1: know about the football team. We'll say they are how
46:07
Speaker 1: they are on the hardwood, and Meridian though, will be
46:10
Speaker 1: up for the task in that one. Saturday. Saturday is
46:14
Speaker 1: crazy Saturday. There is I don't even know if you
46:17
Speaker 1: want to what you can call it, because a quinn header,
46:21
Speaker 1: I mean there's a double header, triple header, a quadruple header.
46:25
Speaker 1: This is going to be five games back to back
46:28
Speaker 1: to back to back to back at Mount Vernon High
46:31
Speaker 1: School starting at noon, So you got a game at noon, two, four,
46:35
Speaker 1: six and eight, which means I got to eat a
46:38
Speaker 1: lot before I get there, so I can just plant
46:42
Speaker 1: my butt right there at the scorers table and keep
46:45
Speaker 1: stats and have a good old time and you know,
46:48
Speaker 1: get up and stretch between games or whatever. But yeah,
46:52
Speaker 1: I mean it's gonna be a heck of a time.
46:55
Speaker 1: It's gonna kick off with Nooksack Valley Girls playing against
47:00
Speaker 1: hoq Wim. Now, the Knucksack Valley girls, they got the
47:06
Speaker 1: nine seed, so they will take they will. They're gonna
47:09
Speaker 1: face oak Wim, the sixteen seeds of the team that
47:12
Speaker 1: barely made the tournament, and Hokum's gonna travel all the
47:14
Speaker 1: way up. And I've seen this matchup a lot in
47:17
Speaker 1: football recently, Knuksack Valley and hok win. But Hopewim has
47:20
Speaker 1: travel up play against Knuckxack Valley at noon, so that
47:24
Speaker 1: will be the game. That'll be the first game. Now
47:26
Speaker 1: the losers out in this one, winner goes to Yakama,
47:29
Speaker 1: so so that'll be huge. Winner of that one will
47:35
Speaker 1: go play on Wednesday. I will be there in Yakima
47:38
Speaker 1: for that. I'm gonna be showing up Tuesday night, so
47:40
Speaker 1: I'll be all ready to go. And so even if
47:43
Speaker 1: they happen to play, so let's see here, I wonder
47:45
Speaker 1: if they have the times because if they win, they
47:48
Speaker 1: go to game twelve, and Game twelve starts at two pm. Okay,
47:51
Speaker 1: so if Nuxack Valley wins, they're gonna play at two
47:54
Speaker 1: pm on Wednesday. I'll have plenty of time to get
47:57
Speaker 1: set up and everything. I was I was wondering if
47:58
Speaker 1: they're gonna be playing like it on Yakaman on Wednesday,
48:02
Speaker 1: which you know, kind of opens my eyes up a
48:04
Speaker 1: little bit. But yeah, two pm, that should be fine.
48:06
Speaker 1: Nooksac Valley obviously has to take care of business against
48:09
Speaker 1: the Grizzlies there, but a noon game that should be
48:13
Speaker 1: a good one two o'clock the game right afterwards, Lynden
48:16
Speaker 1: Christian girls, they're gonna be taking on Nachi's Valley. Linden
48:19
Speaker 1: Christian got the number one seed for the girls, which
48:24
Speaker 1: is great, great for them. They're gonna play the number
48:26
Speaker 1: eight Nachis Valley again. If you lose, you go to Wednesday.
48:30
Speaker 1: If you win, you go straight to Thursday. In that one,
48:34
Speaker 1: the next game after that four o'clock you jump to
48:37
Speaker 1: the boy's side, and on the boy's side, Lynden Christian
48:40
Speaker 1: they are the three seed. They're gonna be taken on
48:42
Speaker 1: seat In Catholic, which we saw a bunch of last
48:45
Speaker 1: year in this round. I think they played maybe against
48:48
Speaker 1: Lindon Christian last year in this exact same round and
48:51
Speaker 1: then they ended up beating Meridian, I believe in Yakama
48:56
Speaker 1: last year, so kind of saw them up close and
48:58
Speaker 1: personal twice last year. I remember that a really really
49:01
Speaker 1: good athletic freshman that was about six foot five that
49:04
Speaker 1: could do a lot of stuff. I'm really curious to
49:06
Speaker 1: see what his development has been like. I'm sure Lendy
49:08
Speaker 1: Christian knows everything about him, and you know, Caden Veldman
49:11
Speaker 1: will be on him like glue. So so yeah, Lyndon
49:15
Speaker 1: Christian Links will be playing Seaton Catholic at four o'clock
49:19
Speaker 1: and that one again is one of those where if
49:21
Speaker 1: you win, you go to Thursday. If you lose, you
49:23
Speaker 1: go to Wednesday. You'll both teams will be going to Yakama.
49:26
Speaker 1: So so no worries about that right there. The game
49:31
Speaker 1: after that will be the Linden Boys, So Linden Boys,
49:35
Speaker 1: they are top ranked as well. They will be hope.
49:38
Speaker 1: They will be playing against Mark Morris, the number eight seed. Again.
49:42
Speaker 1: This will be at Mount Vern High School at six o'clock.
49:45
Speaker 1: And this is the same type of deal where you win,
49:48
Speaker 1: you go to Thursday. You lose, you go to Wednesday.
49:51
Speaker 1: And Mark Morris and Linden it seems like they've played
49:54
Speaker 1: each other a lot over the years in the state tournament.
49:57
Speaker 1: I think there's been state championship games with that matchup.
50:00
Speaker 1: So congratulations to Lyndon. I love that what they saw
50:03
Speaker 1: was that, yes they did have one loss late, but
50:06
Speaker 1: it was a one point lost against a really good
50:08
Speaker 1: lake Wood team. So you know, they get the one seed.
50:11
Speaker 1: I think they deserve it. That's that's really cool. Lakewood
50:13
Speaker 1: got the sixth seed. I think that's great for them
50:15
Speaker 1: as well. They will be playing against Bremerton. Uh So, yeah,
50:21
Speaker 1: Bill Lakewood will will already be going to Yakama as well.
50:24
Speaker 1: Because of the sixth seeds, so really really cool there
50:27
Speaker 1: Linden versus Mark Morris and then the final game, the
50:30
Speaker 1: fifth game of the night, will be the Lindon Girls,
50:34
Speaker 1: who also got the top seed. They will be taking
50:38
Speaker 1: on Bainbridge Island and that will be at eight o'clock
50:41
Speaker 1: Mount Vernon High School. And again same scenario here. You win,
50:44
Speaker 1: you go to the quarterfinals on Thursday. You win, you play,
50:48
Speaker 1: you have to play on Wednesday night at Yakama. But
50:50
Speaker 1: no matter what win or lose, you will be playing
50:52
Speaker 1: in Yakama. So really really exciting stuff here for basketball
50:56
Speaker 1: boys and girls. You know, I as these schedules were
51:01
Speaker 1: coming out, I was kind of curious, like, you know, okay,
51:04
Speaker 1: how many games are gonna be at Mount Vernon. Turns
51:06
Speaker 1: out there's gonna be seven of them, is that right?
51:11
Speaker 1: Seven of them? Yeah, seven of them. Only one is
51:13
Speaker 1: outside of the county, and that will be the Meridian
51:15
Speaker 1: Boys playing at Ellensburg High School against Royal everything else.
51:20
Speaker 1: Friday night let me Nation boys and Girls. And then
51:22
Speaker 1: Saturday two A and one a extravaganza starting at noon
51:27
Speaker 1: going all the way to about ten o'clock at night.
51:30
Speaker 1: It's gonna be crazy, and I can't wait. And you know,
51:34
Speaker 1: I was so excited a few weeks ago to go
51:36
Speaker 1: to Lynden High School for the big quadruple header and
51:39
Speaker 1: I got I was so sick Saturday morning and there
51:42
Speaker 1: was just no way I could go, and I felt
51:44
Speaker 1: so bummed about it. And but this is gonna be awesome.
51:48
Speaker 1: I can't I can't wait. I'm feeling better, and it's
51:52
Speaker 1: just it's it's just a lot of basketball. I love it.
51:56
Speaker 1: It's it's it's the best and I can't wait to
51:59
Speaker 1: be there. So so anyways, that's it. So that kind
52:04
Speaker 1: of wraps everything up. So I just want to give
52:06
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52:11
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52:20
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52:24
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52:26
Speaker 1: He's got a lot of stuff going on. Hopefully for
52:29
Speaker 1: the spring he'll be good to go and and we
52:32
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52:35
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52:38
Speaker 1: in the future. I'm not quite sure yet there could
52:40
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52:44
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52:48
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52:51
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52:53
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52:56
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53:00
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53:03
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53:06
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53:07
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