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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 390 - Week 9 Fall Sports Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is sea Hoome senior McKenna Andrews and you're listening
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Speaker 1: to the Walkham Preps Podcast with Tyler Anderson. Go Mariners.
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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Walkom Preps Podcast. This is
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Speaker 1: episode three hundred and ninety, your fall sports weekly recap,
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Speaker 1: and I am your host, Tyler Anderson from Walkham Preps.
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Speaker 1: I gotta give a thank you to Seahome senior volleyball
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Speaker 1: player McKenna Andrews for the intro see home getting back
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Speaker 1: to state for the first time in six years something
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Speaker 1: like that. I think twenty nineteen might have been the
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Speaker 1: last time. So very very exciting. You know, it's a
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Speaker 1: and she's she's a major leader of that team. You know,
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Speaker 1: multiple year starter, became the libero. Last year, she was
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Speaker 1: All Conference first team and yeah, one of the best
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Speaker 1: players in the state leading her team to state this year.
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Speaker 1: And we'll be talking about that in a little bit. Also,
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Speaker 1: I'm not feeling great, so I will get through this
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Speaker 1: the best I can. Also keep in mind this podcast
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Speaker 1: is dedicated to the week that was in Walkin County,
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Speaker 1: but football is not included. If you want to hear
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Speaker 1: about what happened over the weekend with football, that podcast
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Speaker 1: will be coming out tomorrow morning. Let's start with cross country.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe that you blink and crowd. The cost
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Speaker 1: country season is over. We're gonna talk about the state
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Speaker 1: championship races right now. There were no runners from three
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Speaker 1: A or one B that participated, so we're gonna go
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Speaker 1: right into just one A and two A. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: start off with the one A girls, and congratulations to
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Speaker 1: the Meridian Trojans. They are your one A state champions.
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Speaker 1: What an unbelievable run for them, literally run unintended but
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Speaker 1: it works, winning by ten points over Lakeside nine Mile Falls,
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Speaker 1: Medical Lake and third, the Bear Creek School, fourth, Cedar
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Speaker 1: Park Christian, fifth, Cascade of Levenworth sixth, Fashon Island seventh,
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Speaker 1: University Prep eighth, les Center ninth, and East Jefferson tenth.
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Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk about the individuals in just a second,
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Speaker 1: but we're gonna we're just gonna stay with the teams
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Speaker 1: here on one A boys, Cedar Park Christian is your
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Speaker 1: state champions, followed closely by Meridian in second place, King's third,
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Speaker 1: Bashon Island, fourth, East Jefferson fifth, South Whidby sixth, Lakeside
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Speaker 1: nine Mile Falls seventh, Coleville eighth, The Center ninth, and
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Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian finishing in tenths or I guess tied for ninth.
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Speaker 1: They had the same amount of points as the Center,
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Speaker 1: so congratulations to the links there and the Trojans second
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Speaker 1: place in boys, first place and girls. So it's very,
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Speaker 1: very impressive. I would expect next year's boys team could
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Speaker 1: be pretty darn good, with the Trojans the top two
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Speaker 1: runners coming back to the LDI brothers. So uh in
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Speaker 1: two A. Of course, all these radios are all five
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Speaker 1: K races over in Pasco, Washington over the weekend for
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Speaker 1: the girls, Seahome Mariners bring it home once again. I
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Speaker 1: should have prepped and found out exactly how many in
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Speaker 1: a row that is, but I want to say it's
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Speaker 1: it's in the double digits. They comfortably finished with the
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Speaker 1: state championship second place Ellensburg and Acordis and third, Cedar
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Speaker 1: Park or Cedar Crest fourth, Bellingham the BayHawks finishing in
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Speaker 1: fifth place in state, Bainbridge in sixth, Seala seventh, Mark
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Speaker 1: Morris eighth, Pullman in ninth, and Chief Self in tenth place.
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Speaker 1: On the boys side, Bainbridge is your state champions In
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Speaker 1: two A see home second place, Ellensburg third and Acordas fourth,
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Speaker 1: Seala fifth, Columbia, Columbia River sixth, Squalicum Storm. How about
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Speaker 1: them finishing in seventh place on the boy's side Hawkinson eighth,
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Speaker 1: Cedar Crest ninth, and West Valley of Spokane tenth. Let's
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Speaker 1: look at the individual times now go to the one
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Speaker 1: A girls. Congratulations to Leyla Melema of Lynden Christian She
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Speaker 1: takes third place in the state with a time of
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Speaker 1: nineteen minutes and twenty three point seven seconds. Logan Ignacio Meridian,
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Speaker 1: who finished second last year. I really thought she had
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Speaker 1: a chance here to finish first. She did finish in
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Speaker 1: twelfth place, but ran injured, So that's a really that's
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Speaker 1: that's a tough one. But she still anchored her team
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Speaker 1: to a state championship, and that's what's important. She finishes
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Speaker 1: in twelfth and then her teammates follow up right behind her.
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Speaker 1: Bria Remp in nineteenth, Aery Thompson in thirty eighth, Leela
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Speaker 1: van goln In thirty ninth, Adlan Nosty forty fourth, Mela
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Speaker 1: craps Off in sixty sixth, and adele Ashmore eighty first.
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Speaker 1: So congratulations to all of them. On the one A
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Speaker 1: boys side, Nicholas Luis of Lennon Christian finished second place
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Speaker 1: in the state. Ruben Taveldi of Meridian in sixth, Judah
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Speaker 1: Tavelli of Meridian in ninth, Colton Valentine of Meridian sixteenth,
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Speaker 1: William Shurfey of Lynda Christian twenty third, Colby Hankoop of
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Speaker 1: Lynda Christian twenty ninth, and then you got a run
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Speaker 1: of Meridian runners here, River Durban of Meridian forty sixth,
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Speaker 1: Carson Seodol of Meridian forty ninth, Wyatt Leuenberger of Meridian
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Speaker 1: sixty sixth, Emanuel Rios Martinez of Blaine eighty eighth, and
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Speaker 1: some more runners there finishing the race at the state tournament,
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Speaker 1: Oliver Nichols of Meridian, Stephen Phelps MacDonald of Blaine, Alexander
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Speaker 1: Ortiz of Knoksach Valley, Henry Contreras Moore of Mount Baker Blake,
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Speaker 1: Justice of Lenny Christian, and Weston Coyman of Lyndon Christian
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Speaker 1: for the two A girls. Congratulations to Sloane Dixon out
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Speaker 1: of Lyndon, she is your state champion and hell hold
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Speaker 1: slew of girls finishing here in the top twenty in
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Speaker 1: the state, Kirsten Ludeman of Seaholm in second place, Sloane
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Speaker 1: Kleines of Seahome in third place, Little Dessler of Seahome
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Speaker 1: in fifth place, Samantha Nip of Seaholm in sixth, Wren
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Speaker 1: Dixon of Lyndon in eleventh, Sandra Voight of Squalkum in thirteenth,
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Speaker 1: Page Rix of Seaholm in fifteenth Norah Alexander of Bellingham
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Speaker 1: in eighteenth, Audrey Blue of Squalkum in twentieth, Elise Holland
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Speaker 1: of Bellingham and thirtieth, Helen Butteau of Seaholme forty fifth,
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Speaker 1: Lucy Penner of Lyndon forty sixth, Leah Wagner of Bellingham
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Speaker 1: in forty eighth. And then we have other runners that
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Speaker 1: finished as well. In the two A boys, it was
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Speaker 1: Berkeley Pass of Bellingham who finished in third place in
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Speaker 1: the state, finished closely behind by his teammate Baines Machinsky
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Speaker 1: in fourth place, just two tenths of a second behind him.
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Speaker 1: Judson Bareth of Seahome in tenth, Luke Scouting of Lyndon
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Speaker 1: in fifteenth, Aiden bat of Seaholme in twentieth, Dylan Hill
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Speaker 1: of Seaholme in twenty first, Taylor Rush of Squalum And
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Speaker 1: finishes twenty second, Ezra Bub of Seahome twenty seventh, Luke
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Speaker 1: Zoner of Seaholm thirty second, Owen Mumley of Seahom thirty ninth,
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Speaker 1: Luca Burley of Squalicum forty first, Ian James of Seaholm
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Speaker 1: fifty second, Parker Mason of Squalicum's seventy seventh and camer
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Speaker 1: Horton of Squalicum eighty second. So congratulations to all of them.
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Speaker 1: Great individual times, great team performances, the Meridian Girls and
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Speaker 1: the Seahome Girls each bringing home a state championship. And
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Speaker 1: the Staffer Insurance Runner of the Week is Lynden Senior,
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Speaker 1: two A state champion Sloan Dixon. Congratulations to her her
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Speaker 1: second time winning this award. In her final high school race,
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Speaker 1: she wins the state championship. So very very impressive, and
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Speaker 1: it's so funny when you go to these you know,
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Speaker 1: I went out to Civic Stadium to watch kind of
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Speaker 1: like the conference meet and had all the schools from
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Speaker 1: one A through three A of the Northwest Conference there
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Speaker 1: and you're realizing when they're racing that so many of
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Speaker 1: these runners are gonna finish in the top ten in
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Speaker 1: the state. You know. I mean, it is just it
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Speaker 1: is a so much talent up here in this in
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Speaker 1: this running area, and you know, people ask me kind
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Speaker 1: of how why is it like that. I just I'm
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Speaker 1: always thinking, like, well, there's a lot of time, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of trails and stuff up here, especially and
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Speaker 1: in like the Seaholme Hill and different things in Galbrith
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Speaker 1: and Lake Padden and all those different areas, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I just I would imagine that, you know, runners come
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Speaker 1: here and run, they meet other runners, and they have
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Speaker 1: kids that are runners, and it just continues to happen.
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Speaker 1: And so you got a lot of great talent up
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Speaker 1: here for long distance running and it shows out at
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Speaker 1: the state tournament. So congratulations to all of them. Let's
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Speaker 1: jump over to girls swimming and diving. We had the
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Speaker 1: districts over in Anna Chordis just this past weekend. State
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Speaker 1: is coming up this weekend. So let's go over the
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Speaker 1: Walkham County qualifiers in each category here and one A
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Speaker 1: and two way they kind of combine. There's just not
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Speaker 1: a lot of one A schools you see. And even
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Speaker 1: up here, you know there are swimmers from and divers
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Speaker 1: from Blaine and Meridian and Mount Baker, but they swim
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Speaker 1: with the two way schools, but they represent their own school,
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Speaker 1: but they will compete against other two way swimmers at
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Speaker 1: the state championships. So so just keep that in mind.
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Speaker 1: None of the three A swimmers out of Fernde qualify
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Speaker 1: for state, So this is just the two way mixed
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Speaker 1: with one a that will be competing this upcoming weekend
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Speaker 1: at the King County Aquatic Center, and so the walkin
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Speaker 1: county qualifiers for the state meet will be in the
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Speaker 1: two hundred medley relay. The Seahome team they're ranked thirteenth
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Speaker 1: in the state, Bellingham is fifteenth and Squalicum twenty second,
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Speaker 1: so hopefully we'll get some points out of those teams.
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Speaker 1: In the two hundred freestyle, Elsa Elpabah of Seaholme is
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Speaker 1: ranked second. Eden Shields of Blaine is sixteenth, so they
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Speaker 1: will both be competing in the two hundred individual medley.
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Speaker 1: So laol Robido of Squalkum is sixteenth, Sage Maiden of
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Speaker 1: Seahome is twentieth. In the fifty free style, Jasmine Garcia
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Speaker 1: of Bellingham is ranked eleventh, Raja Gaurey of Seahome is fifteenth.
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Speaker 1: We have a handful of divers that will be going
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Speaker 1: looks like four of them here. Jazzy Nelson of Squalicum
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Speaker 1: is ranked fourth in the state. Ifa Taminga of Seahome
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Speaker 1: is fifth, Hailey Ferrell of Blaine is ninth, and Carmoda
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Speaker 1: Karmada Beatty of Bellingham is tenth. So hopefully get some
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Speaker 1: points for your schools there and come home, you know,
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Speaker 1: in the with a top eight finish at least or
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Speaker 1: something like that for your team. In the one hundred freestyle,
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Speaker 1: it's Jasmine Garcia of Bellingham who is ranked tenth. Jordan
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Speaker 1: Everling of Bellingham is twenty second. In the long distance race,
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Speaker 1: the five hundred freestyle, Elsa Eflaba of Seaholm is the
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Speaker 1: top ranked swimmer. Hopefully she can bring home that state championship.
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Speaker 1: That'd be awesome to see. Haley Ferrell of Blaine is fifth.
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Speaker 1: Sage Maiden of Seaholme is twenty first. In the two
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Speaker 1: hundred freestyle relay, Seaholme is ranked fifth. As a team,
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Speaker 1: Bellingham eleventh, Lyndon nineteenth, and the one hundred backstroke Carmada
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Speaker 1: Beatty of Bellingham is ranked nineteenth, and the one hundred
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Speaker 1: breaststroke Jazzy Nelson of Squalkum is ranked eighth. Rajag Gawrey
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Speaker 1: of Seaholme is ninth, and Soleao Robido of Squalkum is tenth.
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Speaker 1: You got eight ninety ten right there. In the four
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Speaker 1: hundred freestyle relay tenth, Bellingham is twelfth Squalkum eighteenth and
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Speaker 1: Lyndon twenty second, and then you have a couple adaptive
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Speaker 1: races the fifty freestyle. This will be Saturday only. You
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Speaker 1: got Sarah Corolla of Seahome, Lauren Gongwer of Seahome, Abigail
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Speaker 1: Small of Linden, and Anna auster Camp of Seahome will
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Speaker 1: all be racing in each of those races, the fifty
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Speaker 1: freestyle and the fifty backstroke. So congratulations to all of
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Speaker 1: them for competing at the state Championships this upcoming weekend
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Speaker 1: at the King County Aquatics Center. It's one of those
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Speaker 1: things that it's too bad so many everything falls at
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Speaker 1: the same time, because there's I wish I could just
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Speaker 1: go to all these different events, but I will have
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Speaker 1: a prior engagement out at the Yakamawa sun Dome covering
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Speaker 1: the volleyball state tournament with four teams going over there
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Speaker 1: as well. So yeah, there you have it for swimming diving,
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Speaker 1: you know, I will I will post all the placements
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff once those Once those races are over,
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Speaker 1: I'll probably be in the Yakamawa Sundome with my computer
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Speaker 1: watching volleyball while I'm reporting on those things. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it'll be it'll be interesting to see how how it
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Speaker 1: comes out. And we do have, you know, Elsath the
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Speaker 1: ball ranked first in the five hundred freestyle and second
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Speaker 1: in the two hundred freestyle, so she's kind of our
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Speaker 1: best bet for someone from Walking County to bring home
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Speaker 1: a big time, a big time accomplishment there. So we're
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Speaker 1: all root for her and everybody else in the two
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Speaker 1: thousand and five State Swimming and Diving Championships. Let us
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Speaker 1: go now to girls soccer, and we do have a
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Speaker 1: lot to talk about here, and we've got a lot
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Speaker 1: to talk about with one A, two A and three A.
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Speaker 1: So we're gonna start off with three A. With the
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Speaker 1: district tournament that is that has you know, taken place
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Speaker 1: over the last you know a little bit last time
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Speaker 1: we did talk to you, Ferndale had they had beaten
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Speaker 1: Everett in a loser out game eight to zero, but
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Speaker 1: then lost to Edmunds wood Way. But they were still
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Speaker 1: alive after they defeated Meadowdale in a loser out contest,
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Speaker 1: but then lost to Oak Harbor and that was on Thursday,
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Speaker 1: they lost four to one at Shoreline Stadium. The winner
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Speaker 1: of that match was going to state the loser was
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Speaker 1: knocked out. I really believe that Ferndale was the better
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Speaker 1: team there as far as just regular season goes. But
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Speaker 1: Okarbor Okarber has those stretches where they going to run.
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Speaker 1: I think they beat an A Cordus earlier in the year,
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Speaker 1: or they tied them or something like that. So I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's a team that can come out of nowhere and
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Speaker 1: do some great things. Ferndale pretty young team. Well hopefully
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Speaker 1: we'll see them back there again next year, but their
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Speaker 1: season came to a close with the four to one
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Speaker 1: loss to Oak Harbor. Let's go to two way now
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Speaker 1: and the district tournament. That's been happening. A lot of
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Speaker 1: these games happening at Civic Stadium, some happening at Blaine,
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Speaker 1: some happening at Ferndale. It's been all over the place.
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Speaker 1: I've been to a ton of them, and yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: been it's been crazy. I'm trying to think of, like
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Speaker 1: I'm always trying to think of where we left off last.
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Speaker 1: But basically, the first couple of rounds had already happened,
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Speaker 1: and so let's talk about what happened after that. This
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Speaker 1: the district championship games Seehome versus Anna Chordus Sea home
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Speaker 1: wins four to three. Both teams are already we're advancing
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Speaker 1: to the state tournament. But congratulations to the Mariners for
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Speaker 1: winning the district championship there and in one of the
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Speaker 1: most you know, fascinating games that I had seen. Another
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Speaker 1: one that also took place was, well, let's go a
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Speaker 1: little bit before that, because on that Monday last week,
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Speaker 1: Bellingham defeated Archbishop Murphy won to zero, and Lyndon defeated
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Speaker 1: Squalalum won to zero. When they won in PK so
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Speaker 1: Squalicum and Archbishop done for the year. They're really tough, tough,
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Speaker 1: you know, break for the for the storm, such a
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Speaker 1: such a great season. Their tremendous goalie, Kyleina Perez suffered
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Speaker 1: a major concussion. She is out of the hospital now.
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Speaker 1: It's it's it's been tough and it and my thoughts
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Speaker 1: and prayers are with her and her family that I
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Speaker 1: do know, and hopefully she'll be recovering. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if she'll be able to play a winter sport or not,
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Speaker 1: but that was just horrible timing and everything that happened there,
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Speaker 1: so hopefully she can recover and just kind of hopefully
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Speaker 1: doesn't linger on because that's what kind of what concussions do.
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Speaker 1: And she's such a great athlete with so many sports
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Speaker 1: that are kind of at her ready. I mean, if
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Speaker 1: she wanted to jump onto any sport she wanted to,
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Speaker 1: she'd be one of the best in the state at it.
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Speaker 1: So hopefully she will recover well and everything will be fine.
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Speaker 1: But their season does come to a close, which meant
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Speaker 1: Belling him and Linden played each other in a crazy match.
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Speaker 1: I mean I got there when it was one zero
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Speaker 1: Bellingham who they took an early lead, And I got
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Speaker 1: there with probably fifteen eighteen minutes to go in the game,
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Speaker 1: and it remained one zero for a while. Lyndon ties
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Speaker 1: it up at one to one, and it goes one
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Speaker 1: to one in the final two minutes, and in those
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Speaker 1: final two minutes of regulation, each team scores again, which
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Speaker 1: was just crazy. It was two to two. It was
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Speaker 1: very very windy, so the ball would go in the
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Speaker 1: air and just do some interesting things and you know,
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Speaker 1: turn a certain way, and it really made for a
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Speaker 1: thrilling ending. And then they played the two overtime periods
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Speaker 1: of five minutes each and those went scoreless, so they
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Speaker 1: went into penalty kicks where Lyndon won, Bellingham season came
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Speaker 1: to an end. Those two teams have met each other
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Speaker 1: in the district championship with huge implications in close matches
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Speaker 1: year after year after year. So not surprised there. But
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Speaker 1: what that meant was Bellingham was out and Linden then
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Speaker 1: had to play in a in a loser out winner
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Speaker 1: to state contest in a District five crossover or a
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Speaker 1: crossover with District five, I should say, went on the
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Speaker 1: road to Carl Grafts Stadium and played Sila Cela wins
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Speaker 1: one to zero in the second overtime with a penalty kick.
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Speaker 1: Just a horrible way to end your season. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: so the Vikings are on the state Linden they will
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Speaker 1: bow out at that point. So it was one of
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Speaker 1: those where I kept saying do two teams get to advance?
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Speaker 1: And I kept hearing will three get to But there's
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Speaker 1: a crossover, and so this was the crossover. Linden is
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Speaker 1: taken down and that's the season for the Lions. So
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Speaker 1: the CEO Mariners are the loan team in two way
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Speaker 1: from Walking County that is going to the state tournament.
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Speaker 1: In one A, the district tournament held at Blaine High School.
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Speaker 1: By the time we talked to you last the only
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Speaker 1: team that was eliminated was Mount Baker on November fifth,
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Speaker 1: That was Wednesday, the championship winter the state loser goes
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Speaker 1: to the consolation around That was Linden Christian defeating Nuksack
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Speaker 1: Valley one to zero. Nuksack Valley playing great, but it
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Speaker 1: was the one goal I believe it was by Nayla
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Speaker 1: Spear who sends the Links into the state tournament and
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Speaker 1: they are your district champions. So a great, great year
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Speaker 1: by the La putting up some pretty big numbers in
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Speaker 1: a really really tough conference, going against a lot of
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Speaker 1: two A and three A schools. They held their own,
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Speaker 1: so no surprise that they are the district champions. Blaine
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Speaker 1: also defeated Meridian one zero earlier that night, so Meridian
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Speaker 1: is out of it from that standpoint. Blaine. Blaine's Kate
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Speaker 1: Kreski scores the goal to keep Blaine season alive, so
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Speaker 1: that meant Nuksack Valley faced Blaine in the final in
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Speaker 1: the final game of the district tournament winner to state
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Speaker 1: loser out that was Saturday night. Blaine's Kate Kureski scores
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Speaker 1: twice more, Marcella Bring gets the shutout end goal for
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Speaker 1: the second game in a row. Both games were loser outs.
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Speaker 1: The Border Rights are going to the state tournament. I
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Speaker 1: believe for the first time in over twenty years. Nuksack
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Speaker 1: Valley bows out. Nucksack Valley is still a very young
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Speaker 1: team as well, so these teams will just keep on improving.
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Speaker 1: But congratulations to the Border Rights for moving on to
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Speaker 1: the state tournament. For one a when we look at
19:57
Speaker 1: the bracket for the two to a state tournament, like
20:00
Speaker 1: I said earlier, the one team from Walkin County that
20:03
Speaker 1: is in this bracket or the Seahome Mariners, and they
20:06
Speaker 1: got the number three seed. I was a little surprised
20:08
Speaker 1: about that. I figured for sure one or two, but
20:11
Speaker 1: they get the three seed. But they still get to host.
20:13
Speaker 1: They will be playing at Civic Stadium on Wednesday night
20:17
Speaker 1: at five o'clock. They were going to be hosting Ellensburg
20:21
Speaker 1: in the three fourteen match. Of course, you have to
20:24
Speaker 1: win the first two to get to the final four,
20:26
Speaker 1: so if you lose any of these, you're done for
20:28
Speaker 1: the year. So they will be taking on Ellensburg at
20:31
Speaker 1: five o'clock on Wednesday night and then after that they
20:35
Speaker 1: will probably play at Civic Stadium again. If they win
20:37
Speaker 1: that one, they'll probably play at Civic Stadium again either
20:39
Speaker 1: Friday or Saturday, and they will take on the winner
20:42
Speaker 1: of Port Angeles and Hawkinson. If they win that one,
20:45
Speaker 1: then they move on to the Federal Way Memorial Stadium
20:48
Speaker 1: for the final four of the state tournament, where no
20:52
Speaker 1: matter what, they will play two games. If you win,
20:55
Speaker 1: you go to the championship. If you lose, you play
20:57
Speaker 1: per third and fourth. So congratulations to them, Mas for
21:00
Speaker 1: going on to the state tournament. They were gonna be
21:02
Speaker 1: They're gonna be a very, very tough out. I'm glad
21:04
Speaker 1: I'll be able to be there on Wednesday night to
21:06
Speaker 1: check them out. I'm gonna be leaving Thursday morning to
21:09
Speaker 1: head over to Yakama, so at least i'll be able
21:11
Speaker 1: to see that one, probably write the story the next morning,
21:14
Speaker 1: and then head out as soon as I can. So
21:17
Speaker 1: hopefully they can get the win there and keep Walking
21:19
Speaker 1: County going well. And like I said earlier, Sea Home,
21:22
Speaker 1: they're just the complete team. They just have weapons all
21:25
Speaker 1: over the place. There's no holes in their game at all,
21:27
Speaker 1: and they've been playing They've had a great year so
21:31
Speaker 1: we'll be rooting for them there in the one A
21:35
Speaker 1: girls State soccer tournament. We do have a couple teams.
21:37
Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, Lennon Christian got the number six seeds,
21:40
Speaker 1: so that means they will host the first round. So
21:42
Speaker 1: they'll be playing Tuesday at one pm. Tuesday, of course
21:46
Speaker 1: is Veterans Day, so no school that day, so they'll
21:50
Speaker 1: be playing at Blaine High School at one pm against
21:53
Speaker 1: one pm against Cascade of Levenworth the eleven seats. So
21:58
Speaker 1: that's that's kind of a nice thing, kind of an afternoon,
22:01
Speaker 1: get right in there and play a game that might
22:04
Speaker 1: make it so I can head out there for that one,
22:06
Speaker 1: at least the second half of it. I think I
22:09
Speaker 1: got a lot of things that go that usually are
22:10
Speaker 1: happening during the day with interviews with coaches and things,
22:13
Speaker 1: so I gotta make sure I can make that work,
22:15
Speaker 1: but I think I can. That's gonna be great. Loser
22:17
Speaker 1: is done, but the winner gets to move on and
22:20
Speaker 1: take on the winner of Kingsway Christian and the Bear
22:23
Speaker 1: Creek School. So whoever wins that one, I think would
22:27
Speaker 1: then host Lynnen Christian this weekend. So that so that's
22:32
Speaker 1: you know, the links draw that they got there a
22:34
Speaker 1: number six seed. I think that's pretty good, you know
22:37
Speaker 1: when you look at their record, but then you got
22:39
Speaker 1: to consider the teams that they've been playing. So but
22:41
Speaker 1: the links look look pretty good right now. The district champs,
22:45
Speaker 1: the Blaine Border Rights. You just you get into the
22:49
Speaker 1: state tournament, first time in over twenty years, and you
22:52
Speaker 1: get that sixteen seed where you have to travel down
22:55
Speaker 1: and play seed to Perk Christian of Bothel. That's gonna
22:59
Speaker 1: be they are the number one ranked team in the state.
23:01
Speaker 1: That one will be on Tuesday at two o'clock at
23:05
Speaker 1: Sammamish High School. So uh so, yeah, I think that
23:10
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a tough one. I mean, obviously, you
23:12
Speaker 1: know you're playing the top ranked team in the state.
23:15
Speaker 1: But if you could keep riding that high Right now,
23:17
Speaker 1: Kate Kureski has been scoring a lot of goals, Marcella
23:21
Speaker 1: Bring has been stopping a lot of shots. So if
23:23
Speaker 1: they can bring that intensity and and and just and
23:26
Speaker 1: just make it last against the Depark Christian, that'd be
23:29
Speaker 1: really cool. So that'll be and Tuesday afternoon at two
23:32
Speaker 1: o'clock at Samamish High School. Best of luck to the
23:35
Speaker 1: Border Rights. There if they do get past them there,
23:37
Speaker 1: they would take on the winner of Bellevue Christian and
23:40
Speaker 1: Nachi's Valley And uh and I think they would be
23:44
Speaker 1: able to host that game because because you because you
23:47
Speaker 1: steal the seeds, so you'd be able to host that game.
23:49
Speaker 1: That would be this weekend, probably out of Blaine High School.
23:52
Speaker 1: Uh So, good luck to the border rights there. So
23:55
Speaker 1: there's kind of how everything is lined right now for
23:58
Speaker 1: girls soccer. And and let's take a look at the
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Speaker 1: goal leaders so far. We're we're still counting these up
24:05
Speaker 1: and right now tied for what is that seventh place?
24:09
Speaker 1: There's four players tied for seventh place with eleven goals each.
24:13
Speaker 1: It's Mia Collins, the freshman from Ferndale, Teagan Andmbrews Teagan Ambrose,
24:18
Speaker 1: the sophomore from Ferndale, Kira Reeves, Seaholm senior, and Kate Kereski,
24:23
Speaker 1: the junior from Blaine, all have eleven goals on the year.
24:27
Speaker 1: With twelve goals on the season, in sixth place is
24:29
Speaker 1: the junior from Seaholme, Kylie Ipsovik. And then tied for
24:34
Speaker 1: fourth place with fourteen goals is Nayla Spear of Lyndon
24:38
Speaker 1: Christian and her teammate Kaylin Hinton of Lyndon Christian each
24:41
Speaker 1: have fourteen goals in the year. In third place, it's
24:44
Speaker 1: Kayla Yun of lynd And Christian with fifteen goals. In
24:47
Speaker 1: second place, Addie Wilson, the sophomores from Squalkum has eight
24:51
Speaker 1: has eighteen goals did I say eighteen? With Kayla you
24:54
Speaker 1: and kille Une has fifteen. Addie Wilson has eighteen and
24:57
Speaker 1: then Ryan Bame of Seahome the senior. She's been leading
25:00
Speaker 1: for most of the year, especially the whole second half
25:02
Speaker 1: of the year. She has twenty six goals on the season,
25:06
Speaker 1: so congratulations to her on maintaining that lead still with
25:10
Speaker 1: at least another game to go, hoping for four games
25:13
Speaker 1: to go to add to that total. So those are
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25:43
Speaker 1: County Alliance Player of the week and that is Blaine
25:47
Speaker 1: junior Kate Kureski taking it upon herself to will her
25:51
Speaker 1: team to the state tournament for the first time in
25:54
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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the brackets for the and
26:35
Speaker 1: we're gonna go. We're gonna start with three a looking
26:38
Speaker 1: at the district brackets. District has not started yet, I
26:41
Speaker 1: mean it kind of did. There was some play in
26:43
Speaker 1: games that took place last week. None of the Walking
26:46
Speaker 1: County teams were involved in that as Ferndale being the
26:49
Speaker 1: only three A team from Walkin County, but they were.
26:52
Speaker 1: They're the number two seed in districts, so they got
26:55
Speaker 1: to sit back and not have to worry about this
26:59
Speaker 1: playing round and they get to host the winner of
27:01
Speaker 1: a playing game. That is Mount Vernon, so a familiar
27:05
Speaker 1: foe there. But that was a crazy game. Earlier this year,
27:07
Speaker 1: Ferndale went to Mount Vernon and the Bulldogs almost got them.
27:11
Speaker 1: I remember that happening was about half of through the year.
27:13
Speaker 1: Ferndale had not had a set, They had not lost
27:18
Speaker 1: a set in conference play until they played at Mount Vernon,
27:21
Speaker 1: so I know that they have you know some things.
27:25
Speaker 1: They did come back and win that one, I think
27:26
Speaker 1: in five. But Ferndale wants to prove a point I
27:30
Speaker 1: think to them they will get to host this time.
27:33
Speaker 1: That will be on Tuesday at seven o'clock at night.
27:37
Speaker 1: They're going to host Mount Vernon in the first round
27:40
Speaker 1: of the three A Volleyball District one tournament. If they
27:43
Speaker 1: win that one, then they will turn around and play
27:46
Speaker 1: on Thursday night at Stanwood High School against the winner
27:49
Speaker 1: of Everett and Edmunds wood Way, so they're in there.
27:54
Speaker 1: They're in the double elimination right now. So even if
27:57
Speaker 1: Ferndale loses this first round match to Mount Vernon, they
28:00
Speaker 1: still have a chance to get to state. But I
28:02
Speaker 1: think that the Golden Eagles are looking pretty good. To
28:05
Speaker 1: get the state, they're going to have to win some
28:08
Speaker 1: but boy, they've they've been winning all years, so we're
28:10
Speaker 1: going to be rooting them on there. Like I said,
28:13
Speaker 1: their districts and state are kind of a week later
28:15
Speaker 1: than the one a's and two as so because a
28:18
Speaker 1: lot of these other three A schools their season was
28:21
Speaker 1: still going last week while the one A and two
28:23
Speaker 1: A district tournaments were taking place. So Frindale is just
28:26
Speaker 1: kind of sitting back practicing, getting ready, fine tuning certain things,
28:29
Speaker 1: and and so they will be ready. They will be
28:32
Speaker 1: at home, like I said, against Mount Vernon on Tuesday
28:35
Speaker 1: night at seven o'clock. That will be a great, great
28:38
Speaker 1: matchup and kind of kick things off for the three
28:41
Speaker 1: A district tournament for the Golden Eagles. We look at
28:44
Speaker 1: the two A district tournament that is that is a wrap.
28:49
Speaker 1: It was. It's a lot of craziness going on out
28:52
Speaker 1: there at Meridian High School. I was out there five
28:55
Speaker 1: days in a row this past week, four days in
28:58
Speaker 1: a row, four volleyball. The fifth day went out there
29:00
Speaker 1: for a football game. So Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I
29:03
Speaker 1: was out there for volleyball at some point on Monday.
29:08
Speaker 1: The big you know, the big one that took place
29:10
Speaker 1: was Seahome defeating Archbishop Murphy. And I can't say enough
29:13
Speaker 1: about that matchup. I talked about it last week. You know,
29:17
Speaker 1: the Wildcats defeated Seahome in that very gym the year
29:20
Speaker 1: before for that spot to go to the state tournament
29:24
Speaker 1: last year, and this was a win and you're in state,
29:28
Speaker 1: so I mean, it was just so I don't even
29:31
Speaker 1: know how to describe it, but it was so electric.
29:34
Speaker 1: And I was even talking to one of the other
29:37
Speaker 1: reporters and they said, and they said, how come to
29:39
Speaker 1: Sea Home student section are all adults? And what he
29:43
Speaker 1: was he was joking, but what you meant by that was, boy,
29:46
Speaker 1: those Sea Home parents they get into it. They are
29:49
Speaker 1: they are dressed up, they have chance. They it seemed
29:53
Speaker 1: like a student section. It was so awesome to see
29:55
Speaker 1: and they are really backing this Seahome volleyball program and
29:59
Speaker 1: they it was just and they lived off that emotion.
30:03
Speaker 1: They defeat Archbishop Murphy three sets to one. I'm so
30:06
Speaker 1: glad I was there to witness it because I was
30:09
Speaker 1: there to see it the year before and it was
30:11
Speaker 1: it was heartbreaking because I really thought the SEO had
30:13
Speaker 1: a chance to go to State. Now they will be
30:15
Speaker 1: going to State after beating Archbishop Murphy and that advanced
30:20
Speaker 1: them to the district championship game. On the other side
30:23
Speaker 1: of the bracket, Lyndon took care of business against Burlington Edison,
30:26
Speaker 1: beating them in three straight sets. The Lions went on
30:29
Speaker 1: to face Seahome in the district championship game, where they
30:33
Speaker 1: beat them three sets to zero. Linnen is very machine like.
30:36
Speaker 1: When you get them going really really well, there's not
30:40
Speaker 1: a lot you can do. There's just they're just so tall,
30:43
Speaker 1: so athletic and play so well together. It is they
30:48
Speaker 1: are really really tough, and then Campbell Deng just gets
30:50
Speaker 1: everything in the back court. She will go after any
30:53
Speaker 1: I mean it. And it's weird because at State there's
30:57
Speaker 1: like there's like the colored tiles where you can't go
31:00
Speaker 1: outside that colored tile. It's it's just out if you
31:03
Speaker 1: go out there, and that kind of hurts Lindon I
31:05
Speaker 1: think because Campbell to young can chase anything down, but
31:09
Speaker 1: she's limited to a certain amount of area now. So
31:13
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if that's gonna hurt Linden
31:16
Speaker 1: Lions or not. They are the top seed, but we'll
31:18
Speaker 1: talk about that a little bit. I'm getting a little
31:20
Speaker 1: bit ahead of myself. Congratulations though, to the Linden Lines.
31:23
Speaker 1: They are your district champions. Really weird to see them
31:27
Speaker 1: not go to state last year. I was there for
31:28
Speaker 1: that as well when they were ousted I believe by
31:31
Speaker 1: Seahome So but they get them back here, but both
31:35
Speaker 1: teams will be going to state in the In the
31:38
Speaker 1: consolation matches, Anna Chordis defeated Bellingham three sets to one.
31:43
Speaker 1: I thought that Bayax BayHawks had a great year, only
31:46
Speaker 1: two wins the year prior. They bring back a lot
31:49
Speaker 1: of the same players. I think they ended with like
31:51
Speaker 1: seven or eight wins this year, so it was a big,
31:54
Speaker 1: big improvement from last year. Really liked the new coach,
31:57
Speaker 1: Crimson Rector. She gets them going. She communicates really well
32:01
Speaker 1: with the kids, so I think there's a bright future there.
32:03
Speaker 1: So I'm excited for Bellingham's future. They are ousted by
32:06
Speaker 1: the Anacorta Seahawks though in this case, and then also
32:11
Speaker 1: Squalicum defeating Lake with three sets to zero, the Storm
32:14
Speaker 1: keeping their season alive. That was really cool to see.
32:17
Speaker 1: I saw this intensity in Joe Lee Paz's face where
32:21
Speaker 1: she's either has the biggest smiler in her face or
32:23
Speaker 1: she looks like she's going to conquer the world. And
32:26
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of gray area there. And that's
32:29
Speaker 1: what I love about her is that she's such a
32:31
Speaker 1: competitor and boy, she was dialed in focused in that one,
32:35
Speaker 1: had a great, great game, willing her team to victory
32:37
Speaker 1: over the Cougars there three sets to zero. But what
32:41
Speaker 1: that meant was then they had to face Archbishop Murphy,
32:43
Speaker 1: and the Wildcats just took it to them. It was
32:46
Speaker 1: just too much firepower. Squalicum nearly won that second set.
32:50
Speaker 1: I think they lost by two or three points, but
32:54
Speaker 1: they do lose to the Archbishop Murphy, which brings an
32:56
Speaker 1: end to the Squalicum Storms volleyball season. I thought they played,
33:00
Speaker 1: I thought they had a great year. I thought they overachieved.
33:02
Speaker 1: I thought they were fantastic. There are certain teams you
33:04
Speaker 1: just find yourself rooting for more than others, and I
33:07
Speaker 1: don't I you know, I mean, I'm covering all the
33:11
Speaker 1: teams and I have to be unbiased. But that's what
33:13
Speaker 1: it's great about being my own boss is it doesn't
33:16
Speaker 1: really matter. I can root harder for certain teams if
33:18
Speaker 1: I want to. And if a team shows that grit
33:21
Speaker 1: and shows the appreciation for Walkom Preps, then I'm going
33:24
Speaker 1: to be pulling for them even more. And I really
33:26
Speaker 1: pulled for that squal and volleyball team all year. I
33:28
Speaker 1: thought they were really, really fun to watch and it
33:32
Speaker 1: was sad to see them see the season come to
33:34
Speaker 1: an end. I happened to be walking right into the
33:36
Speaker 1: gym when that was happening, and I just I had
33:38
Speaker 1: to walk out because I did not want to see
33:39
Speaker 1: those sad faces. But I wanted them to know that
33:42
Speaker 1: I appreciated them so much and it was such a
33:44
Speaker 1: great season to watch. But with Squalakum losing, then that
33:48
Speaker 1: was it for Walkham County teams. But it did mean
33:50
Speaker 1: that Lyndon and Seahome are moving on to the state tournament,
33:53
Speaker 1: which we'll talk about in a little bit. We're going
33:55
Speaker 1: to jump over to the one A district tournament, also
33:58
Speaker 1: being held at Meridian High School, and yeah, it was
34:03
Speaker 1: again it was a crazy week. I mean it was
34:06
Speaker 1: it was Monday Wednesday. Was it Monday or no, it
34:09
Speaker 1: was Saturday, Monday Wednesday, That's what it was. So we
34:12
Speaker 1: talked about what happened on Saturday, you know, Mount Baker
34:16
Speaker 1: being eliminated, so the other four schools were still in it,
34:19
Speaker 1: Lindy Christian and Nuksack Valley each getting to win. So
34:22
Speaker 1: they met They're going to meet each other for the
34:24
Speaker 1: district championship, which they did. Lynden Christian won that one
34:28
Speaker 1: three sets to one. So Lindon Christian with a strong
34:32
Speaker 1: showing in the district tournament, defeating Meridian and Nuxack Valley,
34:35
Speaker 1: two teams that they lost to earlier in the season,
34:38
Speaker 1: in five sets. So it got a little payback during
34:42
Speaker 1: that in the district tournament. They are going on to
34:45
Speaker 1: the state tournaments. Of congratulations to the links that met.
34:48
Speaker 1: Nuksack Valley had to go on to the consolation round
34:52
Speaker 1: and face the winner of Meridian and Blaine. The Trojans
34:55
Speaker 1: take care of business there they knock out the border
34:57
Speaker 1: rights Blaine again much improved from last year, you know,
35:01
Speaker 1: picking up more wins than last year. I thought they
35:03
Speaker 1: had a really good year, but their season comes to
35:05
Speaker 1: a close, and so the Trojans faced the Pioneers on
35:09
Speaker 1: pet on that crazy Thursday night. I was out at
35:14
Speaker 1: Civic Stadium earlier in the night watching Bellingham football. I
35:18
Speaker 1: left at halftime so I wouldn't miss this, and it
35:21
Speaker 1: was one of those where as I'm watching it unfold,
35:26
Speaker 1: he just thought, how come neither how come both these
35:29
Speaker 1: teams can't just go to the state tournament because they
35:30
Speaker 1: would both represent Walkam County very well. This was a
35:33
Speaker 1: winner to state loser out game, and it was just
35:39
Speaker 1: it was just it was crazy because I'm I'm right
35:42
Speaker 1: down the middle. I am fifty to fifty, I am
35:44
Speaker 1: I am excited for just good volleyball. I'm not pulling
35:48
Speaker 1: for anybody. It was back and forth. Meridian ends up
35:51
Speaker 1: winning it three sets to one. They won that fourth
35:54
Speaker 1: set twenty nine to twenty seven and went back and
35:57
Speaker 1: forth so much. Nuzac Valley was down. I think they
36:00
Speaker 1: were down by twenty four to nineteen or twenty four
36:04
Speaker 1: eighteen or something like that, and come and came back
36:07
Speaker 1: to make it so they'd have to keep playing and
36:08
Speaker 1: win win by two and just the the volleys that
36:12
Speaker 1: were happening. Melanie Short had a man. She was way
36:16
Speaker 1: out in the back court, way out of bounds, and
36:18
Speaker 1: on the third hit and was somehow hit it and
36:22
Speaker 1: it went so high. I mean a lot of gyms
36:24
Speaker 1: that would have hit the roof, but it somehow got
36:26
Speaker 1: over the net. I don't know how she did it.
36:28
Speaker 1: I'll never forget that that shot to keep a volley alive.
36:31
Speaker 1: I do think next thy Valley won that point. But
36:33
Speaker 1: it was just remarkable to see the grit that was
36:36
Speaker 1: going on on both sides. So much respect for both sides.
36:39
Speaker 1: The coaches know each other extremely well. This was just
36:43
Speaker 1: like I said, it was one of those ones where
36:44
Speaker 1: I could not believe that a team had to end
36:47
Speaker 1: their season right here. Both of both teams have tremendous
36:50
Speaker 1: seniors on it, and it was crazy, but the Meridian
36:54
Speaker 1: Trojans ended up winning. It was nice to capture happy
36:58
Speaker 1: tears and the Trojans go back to the you know
37:03
Speaker 1: this Yakama Sundome again. This will be my third time going.
37:06
Speaker 1: This will be there and every time I've gone, they've
37:08
Speaker 1: been there. They've been the one constant. When I went
37:11
Speaker 1: two years ago, it was Meridian, Nuksak, and Lynden were
37:14
Speaker 1: all there. Last year it was Meridian and Linden Christian
37:17
Speaker 1: that were there, and this year it'll be four schools
37:20
Speaker 1: that'll be covering. I've never covered four schools at once
37:22
Speaker 1: at the Yakama sun Dome for volleyball, and it's gonna
37:27
Speaker 1: be intense. It will basically be I'm gonna wake up
37:31
Speaker 1: from my hotel and go out to the sun Dome
37:33
Speaker 1: and be there for I don't know, fourteen hours maybe
37:36
Speaker 1: something like that. It's gonna be. It's gonna be crazy.
37:38
Speaker 1: I'm glad they have concessions because I don't know kind
37:41
Speaker 1: of how it's all gonna work, but we'll I'll deal
37:44
Speaker 1: with it when it comes to that. But congratulations to
37:46
Speaker 1: the Trojans. They defeat the Nuzack Valley Pioneers Nuckzak. Boy,
37:51
Speaker 1: what a season they had. It's it's unbelievable. A team
37:54
Speaker 1: with that many wins. I think they finished like fifteen
37:57
Speaker 1: and six is not going to the state tournament. And uh,
38:01
Speaker 1: it's just really really tough. So what a yeah, I
38:05
Speaker 1: just it's it's the it's the tough thing about sports
38:08
Speaker 1: and doing what I'm doing, and I have such a
38:12
Speaker 1: passionate love affair with high school sports, and and you
38:16
Speaker 1: get connected with communities and students and teams and coaches
38:20
Speaker 1: and and even fans. And it's uh when you see
38:25
Speaker 1: something like that happen, not that I mean, it's not
38:28
Speaker 1: a bad it's just it's just the season came to
38:30
Speaker 1: an end, and knowing that I might not see so
38:34
Speaker 1: and so's parent again, or I might you know, it's
38:36
Speaker 1: like that's it, that was that chapter came to a close.
38:38
Speaker 1: It's just it's just it's just hard to deal with.
38:43
Speaker 1: But I can't imagine. I mean, I know what it's like.
38:45
Speaker 1: You know, I was an athlete, so I know what
38:47
Speaker 1: it's like when your season comes to an end, and
38:48
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's numbing, you know. It's the only
38:52
Speaker 1: thing I could say is is numbing. And and I
38:56
Speaker 1: wasn't even the biggest competitor in the world. I mean,
38:58
Speaker 1: I loved playing, but there are far better athletes than
39:02
Speaker 1: me that I could imagine, it felt even worse. So
39:06
Speaker 1: so yeah, my heart goes out to all the teams
39:08
Speaker 1: that played until they couldn't play anymore. But the good
39:11
Speaker 1: thing is there's still four more teams that will be
39:13
Speaker 1: playing and that's that's the most you can get over
39:16
Speaker 1: there as four. So and then Frindo will probably be
39:18
Speaker 1: joining them out there a week later, so that's gonna
39:22
Speaker 1: be crazy. So let's look at the two to A
39:25
Speaker 1: state volleyball bracket right now. And as I'm looking at this,
39:30
Speaker 1: it looks like Seahome see Home got the fifth seed.
39:33
Speaker 1: I think that's a pretty good seed for them. I
39:34
Speaker 1: think that's deserving. They will be playing. Let's see here,
39:40
Speaker 1: they will be playing at twelve forty five in the
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Speaker 1: afternoon on Friday against Fife in the five to twelve matchup,
39:48
Speaker 1: and and then they and then later on at two thirty,
39:53
Speaker 1: so basically right after that, Lyndon will be hosting chief self.
39:57
Speaker 1: Lyndon got the number one seed, They'll be hosting Chief's
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Speaker 1: self at two thirty. Now both teams win, then they
40:03
Speaker 1: will be both playing at the same time eight o'clock
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Speaker 1: at night that night, so that'll be double duty for me.
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Speaker 1: On court court four and five, so if I remember right,
40:15
Speaker 1: those are pretty they're right next to each other. I
40:18
Speaker 1: think court three is the middle one that faces the
40:21
Speaker 1: other kind of faces the other direction, and one and
40:23
Speaker 1: two on the other side. So if it is. If
40:25
Speaker 1: it is what I'm thinking four and five, then that
40:27
Speaker 1: might make it a little easier for me to go
40:30
Speaker 1: back and forth take pictures and kind of capture everything
40:33
Speaker 1: that's going on. Now. It's double elimination as well, so
40:39
Speaker 1: you know, if Coe Home happens to lose, that means
40:42
Speaker 1: that they would be playing at six fifteen later on
40:45
Speaker 1: that night, and ina same with Lindon if they lose,
40:49
Speaker 1: they would be playing at six fifteen later that night.
40:51
Speaker 1: Different they're different opponents and so yeah, so it's going
40:55
Speaker 1: to be it's like it's a lot of volleyball. Let's
40:58
Speaker 1: just let's just put it that way. If Sea Home
41:01
Speaker 1: does get by five, they will play the winner of
41:03
Speaker 1: Tomwater and ra Long later on that night, Friday night,
41:06
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock. If Lynnen gets by chief self, they
41:08
Speaker 1: will take on the winner of West Valley and Bainbridge
41:11
Speaker 1: at eight o'clock. So again, Linen with the top seat,
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Speaker 1: see Home with the fifth seed. They're on the same
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Speaker 1: side of the brackets, so they could meet each other
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Speaker 1: in the semi finals, which you know, again would be
41:25
Speaker 1: a great matchup, but it's too bad they're not on
41:28
Speaker 1: opposite side of the brackets. But a lot of really
41:30
Speaker 1: good teams. Columbia River traditionally really good, Ellensburg traditionally really good.
41:34
Speaker 1: So we'll have to see kind of how that goes. Tomwater,
41:38
Speaker 1: I'm interesting to see how how they are as well.
41:40
Speaker 1: So yeah, so that is the two A state bracket.
41:44
Speaker 1: Let's look at the one A state bracket. Of course,
41:46
Speaker 1: these games one A and two A will be happening
41:48
Speaker 1: at the same time, same location, just different courts, and
41:52
Speaker 1: I'll be there to kind of cover it all. Meridian
41:55
Speaker 1: will be playing at nine am on Friday morning, and
41:59
Speaker 1: that's why I get there the day before so I
42:01
Speaker 1: can get a good night's sleep and get ready to go,
42:04
Speaker 1: so I can wake up and go right to the
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Speaker 1: dome and start and start watching everything. They're gonna be
42:09
Speaker 1: taking on any right at court three on Friday morning
42:13
Speaker 1: at nine am. If they win that one, then they
42:17
Speaker 1: will They will next play at four fifteen in the
42:20
Speaker 1: afternoon against the winner of Cedar Park Christian and Life
42:23
Speaker 1: Christian Academy. Cedar Park Christian very very good team. They
42:27
Speaker 1: defeated Ferndale and Linden Christian earlier in the year, so
42:30
Speaker 1: that tells you something right there. In non conference games
42:35
Speaker 1: and then and then Shelane is the number one ranked team.
42:37
Speaker 1: They are loaded. They they handled Meridian and Nukxack Valley
42:42
Speaker 1: in the regular season in some non conference games as well,
42:45
Speaker 1: so they're on the other side of the bracket. And
42:48
Speaker 1: then Lynn and Christian. Lynn and Christian got the four seed.
42:51
Speaker 1: They'll be taken on Seat and Catholic at ten forty
42:54
Speaker 1: five in the morning and if they win that one,
42:57
Speaker 1: then they will take on the winner of omak And
43:00
Speaker 1: at four fifteen in the afternoon. So basically I do
43:04
Speaker 1: have games locked in at nine am, ten forty five,
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Speaker 1: twelve forty five, and two thirty like those will be
43:14
Speaker 1: first round games no matter what for all four schools. Now,
43:19
Speaker 1: if some teams lose, especially the one A teams, then
43:22
Speaker 1: they will also be playing at two thirty. So kind
43:25
Speaker 1: of hoping that doesn't happen. So I don't have I
43:28
Speaker 1: would love it if it's just every time I'm done
43:30
Speaker 1: with them, there's another game to cover and it just
43:32
Speaker 1: keeps going. If there's two of them to cover at
43:33
Speaker 1: the same time, hey, I'll do my best, but it's
43:37
Speaker 1: gonna be it's gonna be pretty chaotic, but I'm here
43:40
Speaker 1: for it. It's gonna be it's gonna be great. Really
43:42
Speaker 1: really excited for the one A and two A state tournaments.
43:45
Speaker 1: I do have a feeling there will be some hardware
43:48
Speaker 1: being brought home and and uh boy, it's so funny
43:51
Speaker 1: to go over there. The atmosphere is just crazy. This.
43:54
Speaker 1: Like I said, this is my third year covering the
43:57
Speaker 1: state volleyball tournament. I think the first year that I went,
44:01
Speaker 1: I think I think Linen finished third, Meridian finished fourth,
44:04
Speaker 1: and Knooksack Valley finished sixth. So I got to be
44:07
Speaker 1: there until late Saturday, which was great to see. And
44:11
Speaker 1: then last year, you know, it was just Meridian and
44:14
Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian that went over there in the one day
44:16
Speaker 1: and they both lost in the first round, so I
44:18
Speaker 1: was like, holy cow, I could be done early. This
44:21
Speaker 1: is so weird. But then they both just kept winning
44:24
Speaker 1: and winning and winning and winning until they faced each
44:26
Speaker 1: other in the seventh and eighth place matchup and where
44:30
Speaker 1: Lynn Christian defeated Meridian in three straight sets. So so
44:34
Speaker 1: that's what happens. I mean, if you lose in the
44:36
Speaker 1: first round, the best you can get at seventh place,
44:38
Speaker 1: so that you know, that tells you something right there.
44:42
Speaker 1: But you know, I really feel like there's some really
44:45
Speaker 1: good teams. That's been a really strong year. I really
44:49
Speaker 1: feel like, uh, there will be some good things happening,
44:51
Speaker 1: and I'm so glad I'm going to be there for it,
44:54
Speaker 1: and I am really really excited about it. Let's take
44:57
Speaker 1: a look at the Weekly stat Leaders. Stat Leaders are
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Speaker 1: brought to you by APEX Northwest Volleyball Club. They've been
45:04
Speaker 1: sponsoring the Weekly stat Leaders all season. Apex Northwest Volleyball
45:07
Speaker 1: Club is a nonprofit that has practice facilities in Bellingham, Lynden,
45:12
Speaker 1: and Ferndale, and they offer opportunities and learning volleyball skills
45:15
Speaker 1: at competitive play for girls ages ten through eighteen. A
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Speaker 1: large part of their goal involves building an inclusive volleyball
45:22
Speaker 1: program and community that desires to further the love of
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Speaker 1: the game. They welcome athletes from all over to come
45:28
Speaker 1: and join them as they continue to grow, travel to
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Speaker 1: competitive tournaments, and provide opportunities for athletes to play club volleyball.
45:36
Speaker 1: They emphasize playing in a positive, nurturing environment, teaching the
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Speaker 1: concepts of teamwork, sportsmanship, and having fun. Their goal is
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Speaker 1: to support APEX Northwest athletes in reaching their goal of
45:48
Speaker 1: playing at the middle school high school and even collegiate levels.
45:52
Speaker 1: You can visit them online at APEX NW Volleyball Club
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Speaker 1: dot org. Awesome people there, eight great coaches, and uh,
46:02
Speaker 1: it's it's crazy because there's so many great players that
46:05
Speaker 1: come out of that that play with them that I
46:08
Speaker 1: noticed at the high school level and it's like, boy,
46:10
Speaker 1: they got APEX written all over them, you know, like
46:12
Speaker 1: you can you can tell these are these are big
46:15
Speaker 1: time players and so not surprised to see a lot
46:17
Speaker 1: of these leaders that are APEX athletes. Let's start off
46:23
Speaker 1: with kills per set, and it's been, it's been for
46:27
Speaker 1: the most part the same five. Uh numbers are getting
46:30
Speaker 1: you know, thrown around a little bit, kind of jumping
46:33
Speaker 1: here and up and down. But now Finley Parks are
46:36
Speaker 1: of Lyndon now over five kills per set, which is unreal.
46:39
Speaker 1: She had a great district district tournament. Boy, when she's
46:43
Speaker 1: on just there's nothing you can do to stop her.
46:46
Speaker 1: She is on a mission right now, and she's already
46:48
Speaker 1: won a couple of state championships at the Yakma Sun Dome,
46:51
Speaker 1: looking now to get one at a different sport. Five
46:54
Speaker 1: point zero six kills per set. She's followed by Melanie
46:57
Speaker 1: Short a Meridian at four point three six, hey nevah
47:00
Speaker 1: Doms gives see Hoolme, Teya Dubay of Blaine, and Grace
47:03
Speaker 1: de Hogue of Nuksack Valley. You go to Diggs per
47:07
Speaker 1: set and it's the same number, but this time it's
47:09
Speaker 1: Linden's Campbell to Young at five point zero six Dix
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Speaker 1: per set leading the county. Katrina Ferry is right there
47:16
Speaker 1: close at second place. McKenna Andrews, who gave us the
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Speaker 1: intro from Seaholme, is in third, Bailey Burge of Bellingham
47:22
Speaker 1: and fourth, and Bronwyn Jones of Squalkum in fifth place.
47:26
Speaker 1: You look at assists per sets, it's Ella Fritz of
47:28
Speaker 1: Lynday Christian at just over ten assists per set. She
47:33
Speaker 1: flies around and does so many things for that Lyndon
47:35
Speaker 1: Christian team. I'm really excited to see what she does
47:38
Speaker 1: at the state tournament. Izzy Stephen of Lyndon is at
47:41
Speaker 1: nine point nine to four, Taylor Terrell of Seaholm is
47:44
Speaker 1: in third place, Peyton Bartell is in fourth place, and
47:47
Speaker 1: Chloe Bresler of Meridian in fifth place. If you look
47:51
Speaker 1: at ass per set, it's Page Flory of Seaholme just
47:55
Speaker 1: barely leading Brooklyn Therabia Ferndale at zero point eight four
47:59
Speaker 1: and zero point eighty three. Man, you have one great
48:02
Speaker 1: set or one offset and it can totally change things.
48:05
Speaker 1: Melanie short Is in third place of Meridian, Isy Stephan
48:10
Speaker 1: Is in fourth place, and then Eden Bernardi and Gracey
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Speaker 1: Rutgers Eaton Bernardi of Meridian and Gracie Ruckers of Nukxack
48:18
Speaker 1: Valley tied for fifth place zero point six y nine
48:21
Speaker 1: aces per set, and then finally blocks per set Elizabeth DeLange.
48:27
Speaker 1: She finished the season with seventy seven blocks in seventy
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Speaker 1: six sets played, so she's right over one block per set.
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Speaker 1: Rebecca Sores of Mount Baker at second place with zero
48:38
Speaker 1: point nine to seven, Jocelyn s I of Lenny Christian third,
48:41
Speaker 1: Alley Wright of Lenny Christian fourth, and Ryan Stephen of
48:45
Speaker 1: Linden fifth place. I think it's been those five. I
48:48
Speaker 1: think the whole season might be starting in week two,
48:51
Speaker 1: but I think it's been those five the entire season.
48:54
Speaker 1: Really hard to catch them. Like like I said, the
48:56
Speaker 1: next ones that are coming up are Gracie Pappo, Meridian,
48:59
Speaker 1: Carl Saunders, Blaine Ella, fritzevelc Adel Overson of Ferndale and
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Speaker 1: Tianna Thompson of Squalicum. So congratulations to all of the
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Speaker 1: stat leaders. That means it's time for the players of
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Speaker 1: the week. And of course when we talk about the
49:12
Speaker 1: defensive player of the week, we have to talk about
49:14
Speaker 1: Acceleration Driving School in Lindon. They've been sponsoring the defensive
49:18
Speaker 1: Player of the Week all season. Checkout Acceleration Driving School
49:20
Speaker 1: and Lindon. Give Kevin a call at three six zero
49:24
Speaker 1: seven four six four five six seven and tell him
49:27
Speaker 1: you heard about them on the WALKAM Preps podcast. The
49:31
Speaker 1: Acceleration Driving School and Linden defensive player of the Week
49:35
Speaker 1: is Lyndon Christian junior Joscelyn s Ice holy cow six
49:41
Speaker 1: foot two and she is so dominant in the middle
49:44
Speaker 1: of that net, just getting better and better and playing
49:47
Speaker 1: with more confidence all the time. And that's what's really
49:50
Speaker 1: cool is because I think she's got a lot more
49:52
Speaker 1: ability than I think she thought she had, if that
49:55
Speaker 1: makes any sense. That was kind of a word salad there,
49:57
Speaker 1: but uh, I think that. But she's playing. I mean
50:01
Speaker 1: even just from the beginning of the year to now,
50:03
Speaker 1: you could see like on her face that she knows
50:05
Speaker 1: that she can dominate moments and she was doing that
50:08
Speaker 1: at the district tournament. So congratulations to the Linden Christian
50:11
Speaker 1: junior Joscelyn s Ice. She is your Acceleration Driving School
50:15
Speaker 1: and Linden defensive player of the week. And then we
50:19
Speaker 1: look at the offensive player of the week that does
50:21
Speaker 1: not have a sponsor, so I call it the walk
50:23
Speaker 1: and Preps Offensive Player of the Week. And I'm going
50:25
Speaker 1: to Izzy Stephan of Linden. You show me a great
50:29
Speaker 1: attacking team and I'll show you a great setter. And
50:32
Speaker 1: she's been running that offense so well all season, you know,
50:37
Speaker 1: probably deserves more pub and that's on me. So I'm
50:40
Speaker 1: I'm I'm giving my all right now because she is
50:44
Speaker 1: just she. I mean, it's like a well oiled machine,
50:47
Speaker 1: but she's the one driving the car and she's got
50:51
Speaker 1: them going to the state tournament with the number one seed.
50:54
Speaker 1: So congratulations to Linden sophomore Izzy Stephan. She is the
50:58
Speaker 1: Walkham Preps Volleyball Offensive Player of the week. Whoo and
51:03
Speaker 1: we did it, and I didn't only have to take
51:04
Speaker 1: one sip of hot apple cider from my throat, So
51:07
Speaker 1: I'm feeling pretty good about that, I want to give it.
51:09
Speaker 1: Thank you again to all the sponsors, Acceleration Driving School
51:12
Speaker 1: in London, APEX Northwest Volleyball Club, the print House Design
51:16
Speaker 1: and Ink, North County Alliance FC, Stafford Insurance and Kurt
51:21
Speaker 1: Maybury Farm. Also and again thank you very much to
51:24
Speaker 1: McKenna Andrews Seahome, senior volleyball player for the intro. And
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Speaker 1: you've been listening to episode three hundred and ninety your
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Speaker 1: fall sports weekly PEACAB. I am your host, Tyler Anderson
51:36
Speaker 1: of Walkham Preps and I will talk to you tomorrow
51:39
Speaker 1: morning