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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 456 - Week 6 Football Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast. This is
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Speaker 1: episode 456, the week six football recap. I am Tyler
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Speaker 1: Anderson of Whatcom Preps and let's get to it. Do
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Speaker 1: today and find out how you can get involved. All right,
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Speaker 1: so we got some really good games that took place
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Speaker 1: over the weekend. We're going to start off with the
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Speaker 1: Thursday game and then go through the Friday games. No
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Speaker 1: games on Saturday. And we'll be bringing in Coach Wood
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Speaker 1: for the game that he was at as well. But
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Speaker 1: let's start with the Thursday night game as Lyndon Christian
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Speaker 1: hosted Archbishop Murphy. And with as banged up as the
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Speaker 1: Lynx are, I was really pleasantly surprised how they competed.
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Speaker 1: and almost pulled out the victory. So let's talk about
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Speaker 1: this for a second, because Archbishop comes down big run
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Speaker 1: after big run, scores a 17-yard rushing touchdown. It's like, okay,
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Speaker 1: this is going to be tough. Then Lyndon Christian combated
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Speaker 1: with a really strong drive, and by the time they
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Speaker 1: got to the end of their drive, it was already
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Speaker 1: the second quarter, because these two teams are running the ball,
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Speaker 1: time's going fast, and Jackson Yoon kicks a 39-yard field goal.
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Speaker 1: good by probably five or 10 yards and it's seven
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Speaker 1: to three. And I was, I know that was at
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Speaker 1: the end of the first quarter, my bad. So, but
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Speaker 1: what was crazy about that was that Jackson Yoon's field goal,
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Speaker 1: it broke the school record for career field goals. So
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Speaker 1: he now has eight field goals in his career and
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Speaker 1: he's just a junior. So pretty impressive there. And what
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Speaker 1: a great kicker. I mean, he's a great athlete obviously,
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Speaker 1: but the, you know, the kicking off is fantastic. He
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Speaker 1: started punting this year as well. And he might be
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Speaker 1: the third string punter, but the two guys ahead of
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Speaker 1: him are both injured. So that just kind of tells
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Speaker 1: you how it's going for the links. I mean, when you,
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Speaker 1: what the links have done so far with the injuries
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Speaker 1: is pretty amazing. Eli stamps probably out for the year,
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Speaker 1: probably the strongest kid on the team. One of the
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Speaker 1: strongest kids in the County guard linebacker to, you know,
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Speaker 1: second year starting at both. And, And he's out, which
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Speaker 1: is just a huge blow. But then you go from
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Speaker 1: there and you say, OK, Caden Feldman, probably the best
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Speaker 1: overall football player on the team. He's been he's been
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Speaker 1: missing the last couple of games and he played in
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Speaker 1: this one, but just a few series on defense late
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Speaker 1: in the second quarter. And when he was out there.
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Speaker 1: I knew it was an ankle injury, and you could
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Speaker 1: take a look at both ankles, and one looked twice
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Speaker 1: as big as the other one. I didn't see him
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Speaker 1: play in the second half, so I'm hoping he's getting
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Speaker 1: to be okay, because if they're going to make a
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Speaker 1: deep run, he will be extremely crucial. Such a great player.
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Speaker 1: They've also been without Wyatt Kamphouse the last few games,
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Speaker 1: but he played in this one, and he looked awesome.
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Speaker 1: He played a great game, so that was great to
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Speaker 1: see him back out there doing things in all three phases,
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Speaker 1: as it usually does. And then now they're without their
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Speaker 1: starting quarterback, starting safety, Dawson Hines. So with all those things,
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Speaker 1: you know, in play here for them to hang with
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Speaker 1: Archbishop Murphy was pretty amazing. Archbishop Murphy on their first
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Speaker 1: pass attempt of the game. This was in the second quarter,
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Speaker 1: took everybody by surprise, went for a 49 yard touchdown.
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Speaker 1: And then the Wildcats also kicked a 21 yard field
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Speaker 1: goal at the end of the first half to take
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Speaker 1: the lead 17 to three. And it wasn't looking great,
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Speaker 1: but there was a lot of good things that happened
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Speaker 1: in the third quarter, including a, I think it was
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Speaker 1: like a 64-yard pass from Kellen Blankers to Wyatt Camphouse.
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Speaker 1: Couldn't have been placed any better. Camphouse streaking down the sideline.
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Speaker 1: And it put the Lynx right there. I think they
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Speaker 1: put the Lynx at like the 12-yard line. They were
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Speaker 1: denied there. And instead of kicking for a field goal,
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Speaker 1: they go for it on fourth down. They don't get it.
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Speaker 1: And then they force an Archbishop punt, get down there
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Speaker 1: to the field once again on a good pass from
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Speaker 1: Blankers to Kiewich. And they turn it over on fourth
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Speaker 1: down again. And, you know, you could say, well, they
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Speaker 1: would have kicked the field goals in both of those,
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Speaker 1: you know, opportunities. And you say, oh, they could have
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Speaker 1: cut into the lead even more. But, you know, when
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Speaker 1: you're down by 14, you're down by two touchdowns, and
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Speaker 1: it's midway through the third quarter against a team that good.
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Speaker 1: You've got to take your chances. And they did. They
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Speaker 1: came up empty in those. But then they were able
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Speaker 1: to get the ball back. Once again, I tell you,
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Speaker 1: the defense was really, especially the run defense, was really,
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Speaker 1: really strong in the second half. led by Gavin Van Lowe,
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Speaker 1: Peter Enfield, and Wyatt Camphouse. Those are kind of the
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Speaker 1: three levels of those guys. Those were the leaders of
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Speaker 1: those levels, and they played awesome. Gavin Van Lowe, nine
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Speaker 1: and a half tackles, half a tackle for loss. Wyatt
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Speaker 1: Camphouse had eight tackles. Peter Enfield had seven and a
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Speaker 1: half tackles. And making short gains or causing short gains
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Speaker 1: instead of seven-yard gains, there were one or two-yard gains,
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Speaker 1: and that's something that a lot of teams– struggle to
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Speaker 1: do against Archbishop Murphy. Then Lyndon Christian got the ball back,
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Speaker 1: and then it was Chris Koiman, and he was a
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Speaker 1: man out there, and he showed that he might be
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Speaker 1: the best 1A back in the state, and he just
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Speaker 1: kept plowing through and plowing through and plowing through. He
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Speaker 1: ends up scoring a couple touchdowns in the fourth quarter
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Speaker 1: to tie the game at 17-17. The place is going
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Speaker 1: absolutely nuts. I was so excited that I was able
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Speaker 1: to be there for the game because it was on
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Speaker 1: a Thursday night. I'm not recording the show on Thursday night.
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Speaker 1: And when Koiman scored his second touchdown, there was, let's
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Speaker 1: see here, it was 5-10 left in the game. And
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Speaker 1: so Archbishop has the ball and it's a tied ball
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Speaker 1: game and they get to about midfield and you know,
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Speaker 1: they're going to go for it on fourth down. Cause
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Speaker 1: you know, cause I think it was like fourth and
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Speaker 1: two and they're a little bit on their own side
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Speaker 1: of the field there. And it's a huge play. Cause
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Speaker 1: I think by this time there was like two and
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Speaker 1: a half minutes to go or something like that. And
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Speaker 1: they go for the, you know, there's the quarterback run there,
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Speaker 1: but it's not necessarily a quarterback. They got Cole Severs
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Speaker 1: in a quarterback and he breaks through. Everybody scores the
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Speaker 1: 57 yard touchdown run to break the tie, give Archbishop
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Speaker 1: the lead and, And now LLC has to pass. You know,
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Speaker 1: they're running out of time. They get sacked on third
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Speaker 1: and fourth down to give the ball back to Archbishop Murphy.
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Speaker 1: But Lyndon Christian still has two timeouts. They use them both.
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Speaker 1: They're able to get the ball back one more time.
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Speaker 1: But it was only with like 10 seconds to go
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Speaker 1: or something like that. And they tried a couple trick plays,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't go anywhere. And that was that. Archbishop
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Speaker 1: wins 24-17. great, great game. Chris Koiman, 27 carries for
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Speaker 1: 106 yards and two touchdowns. Kellen Blankers, I cannot say
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Speaker 1: enough about Kellen Blankers. I almost messaged him that night
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Speaker 1: on Instagram just to tell him how proud of him
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Speaker 1: I was. I just was so, I thought he played awesome.
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Speaker 1: I thought he played with, you know, you could tell
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Speaker 1: he was a little amped up. He had a little
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Speaker 1: adrenaline going, but he was still under control. He wasn't
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Speaker 1: wasn't overshooting his passes. You know, that usually is what
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Speaker 1: happens when you're a little amped up, you overthrow everything.
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Speaker 1: He was right on the money, but he put a
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Speaker 1: little extra zip on it. And it was awesome to
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Speaker 1: see Kellen Blankers, 11 of 18 through the air for
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Speaker 1: 149 yards. Wyatt Campouse, five catches for 101 yards. Justin,
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Speaker 1: Justin Kiewik, three catches for 30 yards. The links, they
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Speaker 1: dropped to four and two, but I tell you what, um,
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Speaker 1: If they can start getting healthy here for the stretch
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Speaker 1: run of the regular season, they could be the favorites
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Speaker 1: in this very tough Northwest Conference of the 1A. And
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Speaker 1: we'll just have to see how or when or if
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Speaker 1: they can start getting some of their guys back because
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Speaker 1: it's a really, really strong team. And there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of brute force on that team. And it makes for
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Speaker 1: some great battles in the trenches. And that's what they've
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Speaker 1: kind of been missing in previous years is, They had
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Speaker 1: a ton of skill guys and then a lot of
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Speaker 1: bigger basketball player built guys playing the line. And now
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Speaker 1: they got linemen type guys. And so it makes for
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Speaker 1: that complete team. Now the big thing is just getting healthy.
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Speaker 1: So we'll have to see going forward with that one.
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Speaker 1: Then we'll go to the Friday games. First up, Meridian
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Speaker 1: at Belain. Meridian takes this one 41 to 26. But
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Speaker 1: I tell you what, really, really close game. It was
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Speaker 1: all Trojans in the first quarter. Trey Alexander with a
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Speaker 1: couple of touchdown runs. One on an eight-yard run that
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Speaker 1: was him just kind of seeing if he can get
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Speaker 1: the corner of the end zone. But the second one
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Speaker 1: was on an 88-yard touchdown run. And that was pretty
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Speaker 1: incredible to see him slicing and dicing through everybody. And
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Speaker 1: Casey Brennan. Let me tell you about Casey Brennan. He
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Speaker 1: was 20 yards behind the play. And he's got that
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Speaker 1: amazing speed. And he sprinted through everybody, made a block
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Speaker 1: to spring Alexander the final 50 yards or so. And
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Speaker 1: that's what made the touchdown. So Casey Brennan and I
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Speaker 1: got to give him all the props in the world
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Speaker 1: for that play. And it was pretty amazing to see
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Speaker 1: when you don't give up on a play and how
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Speaker 1: you can make things just even better. Meridian was up
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Speaker 1: 15-0 after the first quarter. The rest of the way,
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Speaker 1: it's even-steven because Meridian ended up winning by 15%. Asher
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Speaker 1: Hagee scores on a seven-yard touchdown run. I thought they
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Speaker 1: got some good things going in the run game. Blaine did.
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Speaker 1: And then they made it within a two-point game when
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Speaker 1: Hunter Candenoza caught an 18-yard touchdown pass from Connor Brown.
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Speaker 1: That was a great catch on a one-handed catch. And
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Speaker 1: it came one play after There was a touchdown pass
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Speaker 1: the play before, but there happened to be a penalty,
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Speaker 1: and that was a great play by Connor Brown, just
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Speaker 1: buying time, running around, and then finding his receiver in
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Speaker 1: the end zone. They had to back it up, though,
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Speaker 1: and then they just scored again on the next play.
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Speaker 1: Pierce Brzozowski did score on a one-yard rushing touchdown before
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Speaker 1: the half, so Meridian was up 21-13, and it was
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Speaker 1: a scoreless third quarter with a lot of fireworks in
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Blaine made it, again, like a two-point
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Speaker 1: game again, when Candenoza caught another touchdown pass from Brown,
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Speaker 1: made it 21-19. And then Meridian went on a little
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Speaker 1: run here in the fourth quarter. And Trey Alexander, he
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Speaker 1: rolled to his left, and there was, you know, it
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Speaker 1: was probably a zone coverage, or it looked like it
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Speaker 1: could have been, for Blaine. And he didn't know if
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Speaker 1: he should drop back into coverage or if he should
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Speaker 1: come up and try to tackle Alexander. As soon as
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Speaker 1: the defender came up, Alexander knew exactly what to do
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Speaker 1: with it. Tossed a six-yard touchdown pass to freshman Knox Gooden.
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Speaker 1: which is always really exciting. First ever varsity touchdown. And
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Speaker 1: that put Meridian up by two scores there. Cause I
11:23
Speaker 1: think it gave them a nine point lead, which was huge.
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Speaker 1: And then Meridian just from there kept, you know, they
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Speaker 1: were able to keep scoring. Trey Alexander scored on a
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Speaker 1: one yard touchdown run. Pierce Brzozowski with the second touchdown
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Speaker 1: run of the game. Blaine scores at the end on
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Speaker 1: a really, really well thrown ball by Connor Brown, 30
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Speaker 1: yard touchdown to Isaac Bama. The ball probably went 40,
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Speaker 1: 45 yards in the air. and it was a tough
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Speaker 1: play because he had to get behind the defense but
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Speaker 1: in front of the back of the end zone, and
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Speaker 1: he placed it just right, and that would be that. Meridian,
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Speaker 1: for the second week in a row with over 200
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Speaker 1: yards rushing and 200 yards passing, the Trojans haven't done
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Speaker 1: that since 2010. That was back in the Zach Slesk
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Speaker 1: and Mitchell Tripp days. I mean, these were some big-time
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Speaker 1: offensive teams back then, and Meridian just just accomplished that.
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Speaker 1: That was in the 2010 1A playoffs against Stevenson and Kings.
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Speaker 1: And the Borderites, I thought they did pretty well through
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Speaker 1: the air. They did throw three interceptions, which was tough.
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Speaker 1: Casey Brennan had an interception on the sideline on a
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Speaker 1: really good play there. Trey Alexander intercepted a pass. I
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Speaker 1: believe that one was on a double pass by Blaine,
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Speaker 1: a little chicanery. And then Josiah Harris had a had
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Speaker 1: a huge interception that kind of turned the tide of
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Speaker 1: the game in the fourth quarter, allowed Meridian to score
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Speaker 1: a few more touchdowns there and kind of extend that
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Speaker 1: lead to where it needed to be. So that was
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Speaker 1: kind of the big difference of the game was those,
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Speaker 1: was those three interceptions by the Meridian defense. Meridian's offense,
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Speaker 1: Trey Alexander, another big game on the ground, 15 carries
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Speaker 1: for 126 yards and three touchdowns. Ethan Valich had 35
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Speaker 1: yards rushing. Sawyer Strunk had 21. Through the air, Trey Alexander,
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Speaker 1: Trey Alexander, 20 of 29 for 246 yards and a
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Speaker 1: touchdown and receiving. Casey Brennan, five catches for 65 yards.
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Speaker 1: Pierce Brzozowski, four catches for 70 yards. Cason Colt, three
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Speaker 1: catches for 25 yards. Lincoln Brzozowski, two catches for 28 yards.
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Speaker 1: Knox Gooden had two catches, and four other players had
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Speaker 1: a reception for Meridian. For Blaine, leading the way on
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Speaker 1: the ground, Asher Hagee, 13 carries for 54 yards and
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Speaker 1: a touchdown and I really think he's starting to improve
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Speaker 1: week in and week out as a running back. And
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Speaker 1: he hits the hole so hard that he's so fast
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Speaker 1: he only knows one speed. And it's tough to see
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Speaker 1: how the blocks develop. So he just kind of makes
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Speaker 1: his own gaps there and just goes. But, boy, he's explosive.
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Speaker 1: And it's been good that he's starting to read the
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Speaker 1: blocks a little bit more. You can see him cut it.
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Speaker 1: left to right, and boy, the more he plays, the
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Speaker 1: more he's going to get better. He's going to be
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Speaker 1: a great one, just a sophomore. Through the air, Connor Brown,
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Speaker 1: 13 of 25 for 232 yards. He did also complete
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Speaker 1: the three touchdown passes. Isaac Baum, a huge game, receiving
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Speaker 1: eight catches for 164 yards, and he caught the late touchdown.
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Speaker 1: Hunter Candenoza, four catches for 59 yards and two touchdowns. Defensively,
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Speaker 1: Leading the way for Meridian was Pierce Brzozowski. He had
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Speaker 1: four tackles, two tackles for loss, two passes broken up.
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Speaker 1: Griffith Ingram, five and a half tackles, two and a
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Speaker 1: half sacks. Really getting after the quarterback there. Great job
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Speaker 1: by him. Isaac Cypress, five and a half tackles, one
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Speaker 1: tackle for loss, and a sack. Casey Brennan had four
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Speaker 1: and a half tackles, a pass broken up, and an interception.
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Speaker 1: A lot of good things there by the defense. Blaine's
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Speaker 1: defense was led by Matt Campion, who had four who
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Speaker 1: had 13 and a half tackles and a half a
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Speaker 1: tackle for a loss. That kid is just flies to
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Speaker 1: where the football is. Axel Shelton, seven and a half
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Speaker 1: tackles and a sack. Isaac Bauma, six tackles and a
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Speaker 1: pass broken up. And Sehu Kanaji, three and a half tackles,
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Speaker 1: a tackle for a loss and a quarterback sack. Meridian
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Speaker 1: ups their record to three and three. And the Borderites
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Speaker 1: fell to two and four. So the tough thing there
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Speaker 1: for Boyne, Two losses in conference play with only two
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Speaker 1: games to go makes it really, really difficult to get
15:37
Speaker 1: a postseason berth now at this point. And so we'll
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Speaker 1: just have to wait and see. They're going to have
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Speaker 1: to win out. They're going to need some other things
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Speaker 1: to probably happen, and that's going to be tough. But
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Speaker 1: you never know. We'll see how it goes right now.
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker and Lyndon Christian each have one Northwest Conference game,
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Speaker 1: and they each won that game. and Nooksack Valley right
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Speaker 1: now 1-1 in the Northwest Conference, as is Meridian. So
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Speaker 1: playing at 0-2, they've got a lot of work to do,
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Speaker 1: and like I said, they need some other things to
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Speaker 1: happen as well. Well, let's go to the next game.
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Speaker 1: We're going to travel down south to Oak Harbor, where
16:15
Speaker 1: the Golden Eagles defeated the Wildcats 22-6. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm not really surprised by the score. I was kind
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Speaker 1: of surprised what happened early, as Oak Harbor just drove
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Speaker 1: down the field and scored a touchdown. And I was like, okay,
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Speaker 1: like we were doing the show live. And when that happened,
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Speaker 1: it was kind of like, okay, is this going to
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Speaker 1: be a back and forth game? But that would be
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Speaker 1: the only scoring for the Wildcats as Ferndale kind of
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Speaker 1: took control after that. Wyatt Broyles scores a 12-yard touchdown
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Speaker 1: in the first quarter, and then the snap goes over
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Speaker 1: the head on the PAT. Parker McManus picks it up
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Speaker 1: at about the 25-yard line and then went from kicker
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Speaker 1: to wide receiver as he used that speed that he
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Speaker 1: has and got to the corner of the end zone
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Speaker 1: for the two-point conversion to make it 8-6. By the way,
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Speaker 1: extra point blocked by Braden Hendrickson again? Are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I've seen... The same person blocks
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Speaker 1: so many extra points in a season. And I'll be
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Speaker 1: talking to Coach Plankovich later this week because I'm curious
17:16
Speaker 1: if he's ever seen anything like this. It seems like
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Speaker 1: it happens week in and week out. He's always blocking
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Speaker 1: an extra point. And once you get into the postseason,
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Speaker 1: stuff like that, if they can get there, that is
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Speaker 1: a huge deal. And Parker McManus never misses either. So
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Speaker 1: you might have a game where you win it 28-27
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Speaker 1: to 35-34. And a lot of it could be because
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Speaker 1: of Braden Hendrickson's breaking through the middle, putting the big
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Speaker 1: paw up there, and blocking an extra point. It's awesome
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Speaker 1: to see. Ferndale had a few things. They turned the
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Speaker 1: ball over twice at the one-yard line, once on downs,
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Speaker 1: once with a fumble. So, you know, they got a
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Speaker 1: lot of yards. They just didn't pick up the points
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Speaker 1: that they probably could have gotten. They still win 22-6
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Speaker 1: as Elliott Lanson scores a couple touchdown runs. He finishes
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Speaker 1: with 22 carries. for 192 yards and the two touchdowns.
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Speaker 1: He has 19 touchdowns on the year so far, and
18:10
Speaker 1: we're only through six games, so he's averaging over three
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Speaker 1: touchdowns a game, which is a pretty incredible number there.
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Speaker 1: Wyatt Broyles also surpassed 100 yards on the ground, 12
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Speaker 1: carries for 103 yards, and Ferndale still looking pretty good.
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Speaker 1: They've got a big undefeated opponent coming up, and we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that in the next podcast, but defensively, Chance Hatchett,
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Speaker 1: just getting better and better every week, which is cool
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Speaker 1: to see. You can tell he's starting to get healthier. 7.5 tackles, 2.5
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Speaker 1: tackles for loss and a fumble recovery. Brock Hoyt, 8.5 tackles,
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Speaker 1: half a tackle for loss. Elliott Lenson, 3.5 tackles, a
18:52
Speaker 1: tackle for loss and a fumble recovery as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's really good team defense by the Golden Eagles right now,
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Speaker 1: and they're going to need it in this next week
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Speaker 1: because we'll see kind of how that goes against Stanwood,
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Speaker 1: who is undefeated on the season. For our next game
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Speaker 1: out at Civic Stadium, our very own coach, Jeff Wood,
19:13
Speaker 1: was at the game. Coach, how are you doing today?
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Speaker 1: I'm doing great, Tyler.
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Speaker 2: Great.
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Speaker 1: So, I mean, this was a game that we kind
19:25
Speaker 1: of thought would be a little closer maybe uh they
19:29
Speaker 1: both had a lot of common opponents that had very
19:32
Speaker 1: similar scores and i think when you look at those
19:34
Speaker 1: things you kind of usually think okay this is this
19:37
Speaker 1: will be a pretty good game it was close after
19:40
Speaker 1: one quarter play the second quarter was a little different
19:42
Speaker 1: what did you see out there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah they uh traded touchdowns there in the first uh
19:50
Speaker 2: quarter see home had kind of a long sustained drive
19:54
Speaker 2: and bellingham had a really short drive with a i
19:58
Speaker 2: think it was their maybe fourth play from scrimmage uh
20:02
Speaker 2: where matthew steel caught one kind of over the middle
20:07
Speaker 2: Behind the defensive backfield. And took off. And he's a
20:13
Speaker 2: very fast player. And wasn't going to get caught from behind.
20:17
Speaker 2: And so tied up.
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Speaker 1: And you know.
20:22
Speaker 2: Thought it was going to be close. But then Bellingham.
20:25
Speaker 2: They had some troubles. In terms of some snaps. They
20:30
Speaker 2: had two safeties.
20:32
Speaker 1: They gave up.
20:34
Speaker 2: And one was on a punt snap. And the other
20:37
Speaker 2: was one on just a shotgun snap on an offensive play.
20:41
Speaker 2: So that kind of put them behind the eight ball.
20:45
Speaker 2: And that was after Seaholm had already scored another touchdown.
20:50
Speaker 2: So they were down 11, I think. And then they
20:55
Speaker 2: just couldn't really get a whole bunch more going on offense.
21:00
Speaker 2: And Seaholm did get it going on offense and kind
21:04
Speaker 2: of took control in the second half. or second quarter,
21:07
Speaker 2: right before halftime.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and a lot of stuff happened in that second
21:11
Speaker 1: quarter that was good for Sehome. You mentioned the two safeties.
21:14
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's happened. I can't recall two safeties in
21:19
Speaker 1: one quarter. You rarely get two safeties in one game.
21:23
Speaker 1: And from a coach's perspective, because after that, there was
21:27
Speaker 1: a long touchdown pass, 75-yarder from Jad Geiger to Nicky Smith,
21:32
Speaker 1: And from a coach's perspective, I know one is six
21:36
Speaker 1: points and the other is two points. But what shifts
21:43
Speaker 1: the momentum bigger, a safety or a long touchdown?
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Speaker 2: Oh, again, it kind of depends on the game. But
21:54
Speaker 2: when you give up a safety early on in the
22:01
Speaker 2: game– And it's just, you got to give up the
22:06
Speaker 2: ball again also. So you're giving up possession as well
22:11
Speaker 2: as those two points. And the momentum really shifts to
22:15
Speaker 2: the other team.
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Speaker 3: Although both kickoffs from the 20, right, went over or
22:25
Speaker 3: were kind of misplayed by Seaholm. And so Seaholm didn't
22:29
Speaker 3: have good possession on either of those. kick returns, but
22:34
Speaker 3: they kind of had the passing game going. Obviously, they
22:37
Speaker 3: had the run game going again, but they also had
22:40
Speaker 3: the passing game going. Like you said, Nicky Smith kind
22:44
Speaker 3: of got free. It looked like a little bit of
22:46
Speaker 3: a busted coverage, and Jad kind of broke contain, which
22:52
Speaker 3: sometimes happens, and then sometimes the defensive backs come up
22:57
Speaker 3: because they think the quarterback's going to run it, but
22:59
Speaker 3: he was still behind the line of scrimmage, and Found
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Speaker 3: Nicky for a deep one. Then he found Gunnar Andersen
23:05
Speaker 3: for another one that went all the way down to
23:09
Speaker 3: the one-yard line.
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Speaker 2: Right before halftime. And they got the– it was really
23:15
Speaker 2: interesting because they barely got the next playoff right before
23:20
Speaker 2: halftime to score again. So they took control and they
23:25
Speaker 2: just kind of had– Out of the 22 guys on
23:31
Speaker 2: the field at the time, Sehome probably had the best
23:34
Speaker 2: four or five guys. Football is definitely a team game,
23:38
Speaker 2: but when you have those top few guys, it makes
23:41
Speaker 2: a difference.
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Speaker 1: One of those top guys I want to talk about
23:45
Speaker 1: is Logan Rogers. We've all seen what he does at
23:47
Speaker 1: offensive line, defensive line, but how about early on him
23:51
Speaker 1: lining up at fullback? and just brought right just busted
23:55
Speaker 1: through the hole and lighten up guys uh for the
23:58
Speaker 1: for the for the ground game going um was this
24:01
Speaker 1: something that you were might have been privy to that
24:04
Speaker 1: you teach out at seahome or when you saw this
24:06
Speaker 1: what did you think.
24:07
Speaker 2: I was not privy to it but hey it's a
24:09
Speaker 2: pretty good strategy in that that short yardage situation you
24:13
Speaker 2: know mike dick had just passed away and remember that
24:16
Speaker 2: you and i remember and the old guys we remember
24:19
Speaker 2: the days of the fridge yeah uh running the ball
24:22
Speaker 2: in for the Bears. So definitely when you have that
24:26
Speaker 2: much mass behind you, it's a pretty good strategy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's an athletic kid. He can move his feet,
24:33
Speaker 1: plays basketball. I mean, so it's all kind of– it
24:37
Speaker 1: works in that situation. He just– in the three-point stance
24:40
Speaker 1: next to Jad Geiger, he looked like he was about
24:43
Speaker 1: 450 pounds back there because you just don't see guys
24:46
Speaker 1: that big. in the backfield, and he had a good get-off.
24:50
Speaker 1: And when you get a running steam at somebody, boy,
24:53
Speaker 1: it was really working. You know, Cash Barnes goes for
24:56
Speaker 1: over 200 yards and a lot of carries, 31 carries.
25:00
Speaker 1: We saw Sawyer Woods do this a few times last year.
25:04
Speaker 1: Can you draw any comparisons between the two running backs?
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Speaker 2: You know, Barnes is a little bit bigger of a guy.
25:12
Speaker 2: You know, he's only a sophomore than Sawyer, and Sawyer
25:15
Speaker 2: was– Uh, they both ran, uh, very hard downhill runners.
25:21
Speaker 2: So you got that comparison. Uh, but, uh, and Sawyer
25:25
Speaker 2: was a little bit more dynamic in terms of probably, uh,
25:31
Speaker 2: jump cuts and some breakaway speed, but Barnes's vision is,
25:35
Speaker 2: is good. He follows his blocks and they're both running
25:39
Speaker 2: a lot of plays behind a lot of double tight sets.
25:42
Speaker 2: So there's that extra gap and, uh, you know, the offense,
25:46
Speaker 2: cause some of the same guys like Logan Rogers and, uh,
25:50
Speaker 2: blocking on the old line. So yeah, definitely some similarities.
25:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. Both guys, uh, are guys that can carry the
25:58
Speaker 1: ball 30 times in a game, which not a lot of,
26:00
Speaker 1: you know, you can't just grab a high school kid
26:02
Speaker 1: and say, Hey, I'm going to give it to you
26:03
Speaker 1: 30 times in a game. Uh, it's not an easy
26:06
Speaker 1: thing to do. And, and it's something they've both done now. And,
26:09
Speaker 1: and it's kind of something that seoma starting to hang
26:12
Speaker 1: their hat on is a strong run game and and
26:15
Speaker 1: uh see if they can go the rest of the
26:17
Speaker 1: year uh doing that bellingham a very very young team
26:22
Speaker 1: you saw a lot of freshmen get in there at
26:24
Speaker 1: the end i know the c team is very strong
26:26
Speaker 1: so hopefully the future is bright for them i know
26:28
Speaker 1: you mentioned in the story that uh they're pretty youthful
26:31
Speaker 1: i think only six seniors on the team uh And
26:34
Speaker 1: so hopefully things will start evening out in that rivalry
26:39
Speaker 1: down the road. Defensive wise, obviously, you know, Logan Rogers
26:44
Speaker 1: did some good things. Saw Gunnar Andersen with an interception.
26:48
Speaker 1: I thought Avery Flagg played well, the freshman. He's getting
26:52
Speaker 1: a little more physical. I thought in the beginning he
26:55
Speaker 1: wasn't playing. He was playing some defense, but he wasn't,
26:58
Speaker 1: he was kind of still, maybe the eyes were a
27:00
Speaker 1: little bright under the Friday night lights and And now
27:03
Speaker 1: he's starting to play a lot tougher. And then on the,
27:07
Speaker 1: you know, Bellingham's defensive side, Calvin Van Hofwegen had seven
27:10
Speaker 1: and a half tackles and there, but they were on
27:13
Speaker 1: the field a lot more, you know, I'm counting the
27:15
Speaker 1: plays here. And I think it was something like 66
27:18
Speaker 1: plays to 32. So more than twice the time. And
27:23
Speaker 1: you know, Did it feel that? Being there on the field,
27:31
Speaker 1: being there in real time, did it feel like Seaholm
27:33
Speaker 1: had the ball twice as many plays than Bellingham did?
27:38
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, for sure. Again, with those safeties, you're losing
27:41
Speaker 2: possession again. And then just starting with the first drive,
27:45
Speaker 2: I think it was 15 plays for Seaholm. And Bellingham
27:50
Speaker 2: was having shorter possessions. So, yeah, Seaholm really took control
27:56
Speaker 2: of the clock throughout the whole game so and that's
28:00
Speaker 2: yeah that's tough to deal with but credit to Bellingham
28:04
Speaker 2: they kept fighting and yeah they have a good young
28:08
Speaker 2: group sophomore and freshman group so I think you know
28:12
Speaker 2: you take your licks sometimes but then it you know
28:16
Speaker 2: drives them in the offseason and the weight room and
28:19
Speaker 2: all those things that they try to build for the future.
28:23
Speaker 1: Yeah absolutely I mean you were part of the coaching
28:26
Speaker 1: staff when Sehome was rebuilding and and you know had
28:30
Speaker 1: to go to an independent schedule most teams do that
28:33
Speaker 1: for two years i think you guys only did it
28:35
Speaker 1: for one year ended on a winning streak came back
28:39
Speaker 1: the next year and had a really strong year what's
28:41
Speaker 1: the big like obviously talent but what's the big key
28:45
Speaker 1: to turning a program around yeah.
28:49
Speaker 2: It's just uh you know keeping that group of players
28:56
Speaker 2: together And, you know, even when you're losing, you're taking
29:02
Speaker 2: those little victories and you're getting that experience and, you know,
29:08
Speaker 2: doing those things. And it's so hard to do because
29:12
Speaker 2: nobody likes to lose and get your teeth kicked in.
29:16
Speaker 2: And we started out, I remember that year with Coach
29:19
Speaker 2: Beeson and we're 0-6. That continued a 20-some game losing streak.
29:24
Speaker 2: And then we Turned it around against Seton Catholic down
29:29
Speaker 2: there in Vancouver. It was our first win with our regime.
29:33
Speaker 2: And then we won our last four, ended up on
29:35
Speaker 2: a snowy night against Blaine. and uh that was pretty
29:40
Speaker 2: fun with that group and then uh the next year
29:43
Speaker 2: we had a pretty good run there was the sky
29:46
Speaker 2: and the lake division right one whichever one was the
29:50
Speaker 2: lower one and then we had to play bellingham we
29:53
Speaker 2: played bellingham twice that year.
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Speaker 1: I think Yeah, back-to-back weeks, I believe. Yeah, yeah.
29:58
Speaker 2: And then we got to play the old Archbishop Murphy,
30:01
Speaker 2: and they didn't take us very seriously, and we put
30:06
Speaker 2: it on them. So that was pretty cool. We had DeMallo. Actually,
30:10
Speaker 2: Max wasn't on that team, but Tim and Cap and
30:14
Speaker 2: a bunch of guys, Austin Roberts and Riley Bear. Yeah,
30:17
Speaker 2: that was a good group.
30:19
Speaker 1: Dylan Roberts.
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Speaker 3: Yep.
30:21
Speaker 1: Brett Magasy, and that was a fun, fun team to watch.
30:26
Speaker 1: I was there calling that game on the Doug Lang
30:28
Speaker 1: Network when you guys beat Archbishop Murphy, and Jay Travier
30:33
Speaker 1: just couldn't stop getting interceptions left and right. My goodness,
30:36
Speaker 1: that was a fun team to watch. And, Coach, again,
30:40
Speaker 1: thank you for it.
30:41
Speaker 2: I've got to give Jay some credit on that. Obviously
30:44
Speaker 2: a great player all the way through, but he got
30:46
Speaker 2: an interception as a free safety on a screen pass.
30:51
Speaker 2: uh yeah so that's some film study right there and
30:54
Speaker 2: just some great instincts that was i'll never forget that.
30:58
Speaker 1: That is in that's incredible that's something you never see.
31:03
Speaker 2: The screen pass the running back we're not talking like
31:05
Speaker 2: a outside screen receiver he just burst straight up the
31:09
Speaker 2: middle and that was pretty pretty good but anyway uh
31:13
Speaker 2: yeah uh great rivalry and bellingham and see you home
31:17
Speaker 2: it'll keep on going throughout the years and The crowds
31:21
Speaker 2: were great. And, you know, it's just a good tradition
31:26
Speaker 2: in the city of Bellingham.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Coach. So glad you're able to make it out
31:30
Speaker 1: there for that one. And thanks for making it here
31:32
Speaker 1: with me for this podcast. Thank you so much for
31:34
Speaker 1: joining me, Coach. All right.
31:36
Speaker 2: Thanks, Tyler.
31:38
Speaker 1: Always good to talk to Coach Wood. Thank you very much, Coach,
31:41
Speaker 1: for explaining how that game went down. And, you know,
31:47
Speaker 1: after a close first quarter, it was– It kind of
31:50
Speaker 1: went all Mariners after that. So, yeah, thank you very
31:55
Speaker 1: much for explaining that one. Next one up, this was
31:58
Speaker 1: out of Bob Tisdale Field as Mount Baker defeated Nooksack
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Speaker 1: Valley 21-14. And this one, I don't think anybody's really
32:08
Speaker 1: too surprised. Even though Nooksack Valley was undefeated going into it,
32:13
Speaker 1: Mount Baker had lost to a B school the week before.
32:16
Speaker 1: you know, you hear the cliche all the time. Oh,
32:19
Speaker 1: throw the records out when these two teams get together.
32:21
Speaker 1: That's kind of what this matchup is like. And it's
32:23
Speaker 1: been like for a little while is, uh, they're just,
32:27
Speaker 1: it's always a great matchup. I mean, when they played
32:29
Speaker 1: each other for the, for the semifinal in the semifinals
32:32
Speaker 1: and the one, a state playoffs at civic stadium, that
32:35
Speaker 1: was one of the best games you'll ever see. Winter
32:37
Speaker 1: was going to go to the play for the state
32:39
Speaker 1: championship game. And, and that came down to the very end. So, um, yeah, it's, uh,
32:47
Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive what these two teams have done against
32:50
Speaker 1: each other. And I tell you what, it was very,
32:54
Speaker 1: it was just a well-played football game. I don't know
32:57
Speaker 1: how else to explain it. It was really good defense.
33:01
Speaker 1: A lot of punts. Teams weren't really taking chances. They
33:04
Speaker 1: weren't going to kind of let something slip away. So
33:07
Speaker 1: I think there was a total of like, I don't know,
33:09
Speaker 1: 13 or 14 punts in the game. Something crazy like that.
33:13
Speaker 1: A number that you just do not see very much,
33:15
Speaker 1: especially in high school football. Nooksack Valley got on the
33:18
Speaker 1: board first when Lucas Woodridge threw a deep pass down
33:21
Speaker 1: the right sideline. Tyler Martin was able to stop on
33:25
Speaker 1: a dime, and when that happened, his defender fell down.
33:27
Speaker 1: Martin jumped up, caught it at the peak of the pass,
33:32
Speaker 1: and then brought it 58 yards for a touchdown. And
33:35
Speaker 1: then from there, Mount Baker scored a couple touchdowns there
33:39
Speaker 1: at the end of the first half. Andrew Monteith on
33:42
Speaker 1: a one-yard touchdown run. And then Tyson Barksdale found Zion
33:46
Speaker 1: Paglia on a 16-yard touchdown pass on a tremendous route
33:50
Speaker 1: that was run. I guess you'd call it like a sluggo.
33:52
Speaker 1: It was kind of more like a slant and corner.
33:57
Speaker 1: Maybe you'd call that a slacorner. But he basically took–
34:01
Speaker 1: he basically went with a slant. It was on the
34:02
Speaker 1: left side. He went a slant. Then he broke off
34:04
Speaker 1: to the corner of the end zone. And as soon–
34:06
Speaker 1: and I think there was– a pump fake involved there too,
34:10
Speaker 1: which really helped throw the defender off. And then Peglia
34:13
Speaker 1: had that window where he was open for a little bit.
34:15
Speaker 1: Barksdale hit him. Tyson Barksdale had a few passes in
34:18
Speaker 1: that game where he put a little mustard on some
34:21
Speaker 1: of those balls, especially down the middle to a knock Smith.
34:25
Speaker 1: He threw a deep one, a gauge Smith that went
34:27
Speaker 1: pretty well. And his passing is just, even just from
34:31
Speaker 1: week one to now is really, they could tell he's
34:34
Speaker 1: throwing the ball with some confidence. So Mount Baker is,
34:36
Speaker 1: was leading 14-7 at the half. They come out in
34:40
Speaker 1: the second half, and it's Barksdale to Paglia again on
34:45
Speaker 1: a 29-yard touchdown pass to take that 21-7 lead. And
34:50
Speaker 1: Trevin Schoenstra scores on a one-yard touchdown run in this
34:55
Speaker 1: third quarter to make it 21-14. They both kind of
34:59
Speaker 1: punted back and forth in the fourth quarter, but Nooksack
35:03
Speaker 1: Valley put together a really strong drive there at the end,
35:08
Speaker 1: and they got down to the 13-yard line, first and
35:11
Speaker 1: 10 at the 13. I can't tell you how much
35:15
Speaker 1: time was left, but I'm going to say it's probably
35:18
Speaker 1: less than a minute, and you're down by seven. They
35:21
Speaker 1: took four chances in the end zone, and they were
35:25
Speaker 1: denied all four times. On that fourth one, Gage Smith
35:28
Speaker 1: had the breakup there, and that was that as Mount
35:31
Speaker 1: Baker took The wind moved to 4-2 on the season.
35:35
Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley dropped to 5-1. You take a look at
35:38
Speaker 1: the stats for the Pioneers. Trevin Skeenstra led the way
35:41
Speaker 1: on the ground. 13 carries for 48 yards and a touchdown.
35:45
Speaker 1: Trey Huting, 5 carries for 31 yards. Lucas Woodridge was
35:48
Speaker 1: 14 of 30 through the air for 208 yards. And
35:52
Speaker 1: in receiving, Dane Ackerman, 5 catches for 71 yards. Tyler Martin,
35:58
Speaker 1: 3 catches for 69 yards and a touchdown. Trevin Schoenstra, A.J. Woodrich,
36:02
Speaker 1: and Jaden Jones each had two catches. For Mount Baker,
36:07
Speaker 1: it was Enoch Smith leading the way on the ground,
36:10
Speaker 1: 17 carries for 81 yards. Got his, I believe, his
36:14
Speaker 1: first start on offense in his varsity career. And this was,
36:20
Speaker 1: and this is a huge deal. Taking the place of
36:23
Speaker 1: Noah Nicole Mills, who we all know, great, great player,
36:26
Speaker 1: two-way player. Noah Nicole Mills had to fill in for
36:30
Speaker 1: a missing pioneer or missing Mountaineer on the offensive line.
36:33
Speaker 1: He had to put a number 52 on, he's usually
36:36
Speaker 1: number nine and he had to play right guard. He
36:38
Speaker 1: had to learn it during the week. And coach Lepa
36:42
Speaker 1: told him, if we're going to win this game, we
36:44
Speaker 1: need you to play right guard in this game. And
36:46
Speaker 1: he did, he did well, and they did win the game.
36:50
Speaker 1: So that, you know, kudos to a kid who is
36:52
Speaker 1: a senior running back on a run heavy team that
36:56
Speaker 1: is willing to change his position to an unglorified position
37:02
Speaker 1: to better his own team. And I think that goes
37:04
Speaker 1: a long way. And a lot of kids, you know,
37:08
Speaker 1: I want a lot of kids to understand how important
37:10
Speaker 1: that is to help your team get better. And you
37:13
Speaker 1: will get praised for it because that was a pretty
37:15
Speaker 1: unbelievable job. Knowing Nicole Mills, if you've seen him, he's
37:18
Speaker 1: over 200 pounds. He's a really, really super strong kid.
37:21
Speaker 1: So he's perfectly fit. to play an offensive guard spot
37:26
Speaker 1: on that Mount, Mount Baker team. And it worked extremely well.
37:29
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens, you know, going forward the next
37:33
Speaker 1: few weeks. And if he's, if he'll be back and what,
37:37
Speaker 1: what'll be happening, but it's great to have a player
37:39
Speaker 1: that is that dynamic, but a knock Smith filled in great.
37:44
Speaker 1: His first run of the game. I think he picked
37:46
Speaker 1: up like 28 yards, 29 yards ended with 81 yards
37:49
Speaker 1: on the game. Andrew Monteith had 29 yards rushing, Tyson Barksdale,
37:54
Speaker 1: eight of 14 through the air for 132 yards and
37:57
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. Zion Paglia and Enoch Smith each had three catches.
38:01
Speaker 1: Gage Smith had two catches, all averaging in double digits
38:08
Speaker 1: as far as yards per catch. So Mountaineers moving the
38:12
Speaker 1: ball down the field. Defensively for Nooksack Valley, Paxton Miller
38:17
Speaker 1: had a crazy great game. Eight and a half tackles,
38:21
Speaker 1: four tackles for loss. And, um, he really had like
38:27
Speaker 1: a standout game, a game, a game that like coaches
38:30
Speaker 1: will see that on film, recognize it, write stuff down.
38:33
Speaker 1: And then when they go to the all conference meeting, uh,
38:36
Speaker 1: and about a month from now, he'll be one of
38:38
Speaker 1: those that they'll say, yep, that guy is definitely a
38:42
Speaker 1: guy I'm voting for because he, he made a difference
38:45
Speaker 1: and you, you kind of saw it coming the last
38:49
Speaker 1: year or so, uh, really, really good player. And he
38:52
Speaker 1: made a big difference. in that game. Trey Hutink, six
38:55
Speaker 1: and a half tackles, a tackle for loss. Max Lautenbach
38:58
Speaker 1: was all over the field, seven and a half tackles,
39:00
Speaker 1: a tackle for loss. I thought he played an awesome
39:02
Speaker 1: game as well. He's a guy that when he gets
39:05
Speaker 1: to you, he's bringing you down, period. People do not
39:08
Speaker 1: break tackles against him. And he's not the biggest kid.
39:12
Speaker 1: He's just determined when he's making a tackle. And then,
39:15
Speaker 1: I mean, Tyler Martin had another interception. So that breaks
39:20
Speaker 1: seven now on the year. which has just been incredible.
39:23
Speaker 1: Seven interceptions through six games. We'll see if he can
39:26
Speaker 1: keep that going. The Whatcom County record is 10%. A
39:31
Speaker 1: few guys have done it. Um, Jeff Benham of Meridian,
39:35
Speaker 1: he intercepted 10, 10 passes in one year. Jay Travier
39:39
Speaker 1: for Sehome, he intercepted 10 passes. And I'm going to
39:42
Speaker 1: say there might be another one, but, um, But 10,
39:47
Speaker 1: that's a lot for a season. He's at seven right now.
39:50
Speaker 1: Like I said, only through six games. So we'll see
39:52
Speaker 1: what happens going forward. He's just, boy, he knows how
39:57
Speaker 1: to break on the ball, and he does a tremendous job.
40:00
Speaker 1: The defensive guys for Mount Baker that stood out, Gage Smith,
40:03
Speaker 1: 11 tackles, a pass broken up, and that pass broken
40:06
Speaker 1: up was pretty much the eventual game winner, or was
40:09
Speaker 1: the game winner, I should say. Kel Reardon, holy cow.
40:13
Speaker 1: There was a sequence there. where he was doing pretty good.
40:16
Speaker 1: He had a couple of sacks in the game. He
40:18
Speaker 1: also forced a fumble with a sack. And then there
40:21
Speaker 1: was a play where they tried a wide receiver end-around pass,
40:25
Speaker 1: and he was all over. He basically hit Martin as
40:28
Speaker 1: he threw the ball to cause the incompletion. And Kilruden
40:32
Speaker 1: just put on tape another reason why he'll be playing
40:35
Speaker 1: at the next level. Silas Maple, too. Silas Maple, because
40:39
Speaker 1: of the player that was missing– He had to get
40:43
Speaker 1: moved from defensive tackle to defensive end. I thought he
40:45
Speaker 1: did a pretty good job. Five tackles, a tackle for loss,
40:49
Speaker 1: and he recovered the fumble that Kel Reardon had caused.
40:53
Speaker 1: So those were kind of your main guys on defense.
40:56
Speaker 1: I did think Noah Nicole Mills did play pretty well too.
40:58
Speaker 1: Six and a half tackles, wearing number 52 out there
41:03
Speaker 1: instead of his number nine. So huge win for Mount Baker.
41:06
Speaker 1: It was a big bounce back game for them. after
41:09
Speaker 1: a disappointing loss the week before Nooksack Valley, you know,
41:12
Speaker 1: they've been saying all year, there's a lot of stuff
41:14
Speaker 1: we need to work on. And, um, and I thought
41:18
Speaker 1: they played pretty well in this one. There was just,
41:20
Speaker 1: you know, a few little things. And when you play these, these, uh,
41:24
Speaker 1: these conference games of this players and coaches that know
41:26
Speaker 1: you so well, you gotta, you gotta really tighten things
41:29
Speaker 1: up and they're going to have a big one next week.
41:31
Speaker 1: And we'll again, talk about that, uh, on the next, uh, podcast,
41:36
Speaker 1: which should come out, um, It's either going to come
41:40
Speaker 1: out Thursday night or Friday morning. We'll just kind of
41:41
Speaker 1: wait and see there. Next up, this was a great
41:46
Speaker 1: game that came right down to the end. The Squalicum
41:49
Speaker 1: Storm defeats Solton 20-17. The Stormbreaker, four-game losing streak to
41:54
Speaker 1: pick up the win. This was a fast game. If
41:58
Speaker 1: you were there, it probably ended pretty quickly. We were
42:01
Speaker 1: doing our live show, our broadcast, and it was a
42:05
Speaker 1: game that kicked off at 7, and it was just,
42:09
Speaker 1: it was by far was the first one over. I mean,
42:12
Speaker 1: it just, it moved along. And a lot of that
42:14
Speaker 1: had to do with the first quarter as it was
42:16
Speaker 1: basically just running plays over and over again to both teams,
42:20
Speaker 1: just eating up clock and both teams turning it over
42:23
Speaker 1: on downs. And basically it was one and a half
42:26
Speaker 1: possessions in the first quarter that took up the entire
42:28
Speaker 1: quarter moves into the second quarter. And then they finally
42:32
Speaker 1: broke a long run. It was Maddox Strickland on a
42:35
Speaker 1: 43 yard touchdown run. to give Squalicum the early 7-0
42:39
Speaker 1: lead there in the second quarter. Sultan drove down. Then
42:42
Speaker 1: they went to the halfback pass, old school, and they
42:46
Speaker 1: converted it on a 22-yard touchdown pass. They made the kick,
42:50
Speaker 1: and it was 7-7 there. So it was 7-7 at halftime.
42:54
Speaker 1: Squalicum did have a chance to get in the end
42:57
Speaker 1: zone right before the half, but the ball was intercepted,
43:00
Speaker 1: a great one-handed interception by the Turks that put an
43:03
Speaker 1: end to that. And so it was still tied at
43:06
Speaker 1: the half. In the second half, it started with Elias
43:09
Speaker 1: Laranaga kicking a 23-yard field goal to give Squalicum a
43:13
Speaker 1: 10-7 lead. And then early in the fourth quarter, Sultan
43:16
Speaker 1: did the same with a 26-yard field goal. So it
43:19
Speaker 1: went back to a tied game. So this had multiple ties,
43:22
Speaker 1: multiple– I don't know. Sultan never had the lead in
43:28
Speaker 1: this one, I don't believe. Yeah, they never had the lead.
43:30
Speaker 1: It was just Squalicum would score. Sultan would do whatever
43:33
Speaker 1: they did. It was 7-0, 7-7, 10-7, 10-10. 17-10, 17-17.
43:38
Speaker 1: And that's just kind of the way it went. And Squalicum,
43:43
Speaker 1: when it was tied 10-10, halfway through the fourth quarter,
43:46
Speaker 1: maybe a little further down, Phoenix Price was back to pass.
43:50
Speaker 1: This was a great, great play. And he's looking and
43:52
Speaker 1: he's looking and everyone's covered. And so he just took
43:56
Speaker 1: off and he just went to like, like he went,
43:58
Speaker 1: he shifted like three gears all at once and just
44:01
Speaker 1: started whizzing past everybody and then, and breaking a tackle
44:04
Speaker 1: and then, And it was a great, great run by
44:07
Speaker 1: Phoenix Price, who started the year as a tight end,
44:10
Speaker 1: especially when they went double tight. And so he displayed
44:13
Speaker 1: some of those ball-carrying abilities there as he scored the
44:16
Speaker 1: 49-yard touchdown run. Sultan was able to score on a
44:20
Speaker 1: two-yard touchdown run extremely late in the game. Let's see
44:24
Speaker 1: here if I have the timestamp on that. Because, yeah,
44:28
Speaker 1: it was 55 seconds left in the game. when Sultan
44:33
Speaker 1: tied it up 17 to 17. So you're thinking, okay,
44:36
Speaker 1: and we were talking about this live on the show.
44:38
Speaker 1: We were showing this game and Squalicum needed some big
44:43
Speaker 1: things to happen for them to get down there. And
44:45
Speaker 1: they hadn't had that many long plays. I think the
44:48
Speaker 1: only real two long ones they had both were the
44:50
Speaker 1: touchdown plays that they had, the one rushing or the
44:53
Speaker 1: two rushing, I should say, as Price scored the other one.
44:56
Speaker 1: But there was a penalty on the kick return, which
44:58
Speaker 1: gave them a little extra 15 yards there. and they
45:02
Speaker 1: did some good things moving the ball down the field.
45:05
Speaker 1: I think they completed a deep pass to Mason Sone,
45:09
Speaker 1: and that got them into the red zone as time
45:11
Speaker 1: was ticking down. Phoenix Price runs down, spikes the ball,
45:15
Speaker 1: and they run a few plays. They had an open
45:18
Speaker 1: guy in the end zone. It just did not connect,
45:21
Speaker 1: so then they had to line up for a 30-yard
45:23
Speaker 1: field goal. Elias Laranaga kicks it through with 12 seconds
45:27
Speaker 1: to go in the game to give Squalicum a 20-17 lead,
45:29
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, this one's over now they got 12
45:33
Speaker 1: seconds and they're going to kick off. And, uh, for
45:36
Speaker 1: some reason it was kind of a onside kick, uh,
45:39
Speaker 1: to the right side. And this is exactly what Bellingham
45:43
Speaker 1: did to Sultan. And that there was a, the guy
45:46
Speaker 1: on the front line grabbed it and returned it for
45:48
Speaker 1: a touchdown. That's what he did against Bellingham. He almost
45:50
Speaker 1: did it here, which would have just been so demoralizing.
45:53
Speaker 1: He got brought down with a face mask, which gave
45:55
Speaker 1: them an extra 15 yards. So then they're set up.
45:58
Speaker 1: They're set up at like, you know, uh, at the
46:03
Speaker 1: 13 yard line now with like one, basically one play
46:08
Speaker 1: and they could have lined up to kick a field
46:10
Speaker 1: goal would have been a 30 yard field goal, which
46:12
Speaker 1: is what, you know, Laranaga hit and Sultan just decides to,
46:17
Speaker 1: you know, take a chance. But if you're going to
46:19
Speaker 1: take a chance and you don't have any timeouts, you
46:21
Speaker 1: got to throw it into the end zone and just
46:25
Speaker 1: for one play and then kick the field goal. He didn't,
46:27
Speaker 1: he threw it out to the flat. Elias Laranaga makes
46:30
Speaker 1: the tackle and that ended the game. So Elias Laranaga
46:33
Speaker 1: had the game winning field goal and the game winning tackle,
46:36
Speaker 1: which is pretty awesome. And Squalicum wins 20 to 17.
46:40
Speaker 1: Maddox Strickland, a hundred yards on the ground. And yeah, big,
46:47
Speaker 1: you know, big, big game for him. He had a few,
46:50
Speaker 1: they were kind of getting by him behind the line
46:52
Speaker 1: of scrimmage early, but then he started as the game
46:54
Speaker 1: wore on, he was just getting better and better. Tucker Hofstede,
46:57
Speaker 1: Great game. 11 carries for 53 yards. I thought he
47:00
Speaker 1: was amazing on defense as well, and we'll get into
47:02
Speaker 1: that a little bit. Phoenix Price, 4 carries for 52 yards.
47:06
Speaker 1: Mason Sone, 5 carries for 21 yards. Phoenix Price, 4
47:09
Speaker 1: of 11 through the air for 87 yards. Mason Sone,
47:12
Speaker 1: 2 catches for 52 yards. Tucker Hofstede, 2 catches for
47:16
Speaker 1: 35 yards. I was talking about Hofstede on defense. He
47:20
Speaker 1: had 8 tackles and 3 tackles for loss. He plays
47:23
Speaker 1: on that defensive line. It's only a 3-man line. And
47:27
Speaker 1: usually when you play a three-man line, you're just there
47:30
Speaker 1: to kind of muck things up and have the linebackers
47:32
Speaker 1: get all the glory. He makes a lot of plays
47:36
Speaker 1: playing on that three-man line. He's just so active and
47:40
Speaker 1: just a sophomore too. So I'm really, really excited for
47:42
Speaker 1: his future. It's going to be awesome to see. Brock
47:47
Speaker 1: Scammell had nine tackles and a tackle for loss, another
47:50
Speaker 1: big game for him. There wasn't a ton of plays
47:53
Speaker 1: that he made early, but he really finished strong. which
47:56
Speaker 1: was awesome to see. Elias Laranaga, eight tackles, a pass
47:59
Speaker 1: broken up. Of course, a really big tackle at the
48:01
Speaker 1: end there. River Thompson getting some play on the defensive
48:04
Speaker 1: side of the ball. He was fantastic. Two tackles for loss,
48:07
Speaker 1: four total tackles. That was really cool to see as well.
48:11
Speaker 1: Squalicum Storm, they kind of hold with that win over
48:15
Speaker 1: Sultan and five, there's five births into that week 10
48:19
Speaker 1: round of 32. Squalicum now kind of holds their spot
48:23
Speaker 1: as that fifth team. as we speak, when you look
48:26
Speaker 1: at kind of who the top four are, uh, we
48:29
Speaker 1: really know who the top three are. Burlington's probably that
48:31
Speaker 1: fourth team and Squalicum is going to be nestled in
48:34
Speaker 1: that fifth seat. If they take care of business from
48:37
Speaker 1: here on out, um, they're looking pretty good to get
48:40
Speaker 1: that last spot. So we'll just have to see how
48:42
Speaker 1: that goes. And the final game of the week, and
48:46
Speaker 1: this was a big one, Linden defeating top ranked Anacortes
48:50
Speaker 1: 41 to 26. And, um, you know, it, just doing
48:55
Speaker 1: an awesome job. Holding Ryan Harrington to under 50% passing
49:00
Speaker 1: is incredible to do that. Linden always has a tremendous
49:05
Speaker 1: game plan. I don't know if the weather really was
49:11
Speaker 1: rainy or not, but playing on the natural grass probably
49:14
Speaker 1: threw off the timing for Anacortes a little bit. But
49:16
Speaker 1: I tell you what, Linden's guys, they will come up
49:19
Speaker 1: and they will hit you in the mouth and then
49:21
Speaker 1: they will help you up. And it was really awesome
49:23
Speaker 1: to see Anacortes takes the early lead on a Harrington
49:27
Speaker 1: six yard touchdown run. And then Linden just started scoring
49:31
Speaker 1: after that Austin Postma with two touchdown runs in the
49:35
Speaker 1: second quarter alone, and Archbishop Anacortes was able to score
49:40
Speaker 1: on a 17-yard touchdown run before the half, and it
49:44
Speaker 1: was 14-12 at that point. In the second half, it
49:51
Speaker 1: just became every two touchdowns Lennon would do, Anacortes would
49:54
Speaker 1: only be able to score one, and it just kind
49:56
Speaker 1: of kept extending the lead from there. Postma found the
49:59
Speaker 1: end zone three more times, became the first player in
50:03
Speaker 1: school history, and this was kind of hard to believe.
50:05
Speaker 1: First player in school history to have five rushing touchdowns
50:09
Speaker 1: in one game. There's been a lot of guys that
50:11
Speaker 1: have scored four. Scott Notaboom was the first in school
50:14
Speaker 1: history to score four. He's now on the coaching staff,
50:17
Speaker 1: so that's pretty cool that he was there to witness it.
50:19
Speaker 1: A lot of other guys have scored four. Austin Postman,
50:22
Speaker 1: the first one to score five. And the other touchdown
50:25
Speaker 1: that took place for Linden, Gordie Bedlington with a 10-yard
50:28
Speaker 1: touchdown pass to Lincoln Van Rye. What a great game.
50:33
Speaker 1: Linden played extremely well. They ran 55 plays and 46
50:39
Speaker 1: of them were on the ground. Actually, both teams ran
50:42
Speaker 1: 55 plays. So, you know, it was pretty even as
50:46
Speaker 1: far as that goes. Yeah, just a great, great game.
50:51
Speaker 1: And Linden did everything they needed to do to get
50:54
Speaker 1: that win. And, you know, Coach Van Dalen talked about it.
50:58
Speaker 1: You take away last year, the four previous years to that,
51:02
Speaker 1: whoever won this matchup won the state championship. So I'm
51:06
Speaker 1: just saying, it's an interesting stat. And how about that?
51:13
Speaker 1: I mean, Linden, you know, with all the transfers they
51:15
Speaker 1: had moving out of the district going into this year,
51:19
Speaker 1: you just kind of didn't know what they were going
51:21
Speaker 1: to be. But then if you've watched Linden football for
51:24
Speaker 1: the last, you know, 40 years, you just say, they'll
51:27
Speaker 1: be just fine. It's Linden. And they're proving that. And
51:30
Speaker 1: they also proved that when you put in the time
51:32
Speaker 1: in the weight room in the offseason and it makes
51:35
Speaker 1: a difference and they are making the difference right now. Defensively,
51:38
Speaker 1: Sam Arango, three and a half tackles, two passes broken
51:41
Speaker 1: up and an interception late to seal the game. And
51:44
Speaker 1: then the DVD burner, Dawson Van Dalen, five tackles, two
51:49
Speaker 1: passes broken up. Matthew Meglione had a huge fumble recovery,
51:55
Speaker 1: the deep into Anacortes territory. That was a big play
51:58
Speaker 1: for them. Zach Dykstra, five tackles and a quarterback sack.
52:03
Speaker 1: Great overall performance. team effort by the Linden Lions, which
52:07
Speaker 1: it always is. And congratulations because that was a huge,
52:11
Speaker 1: huge win for the Lions. On the ground, Austin Postma,
52:16
Speaker 1: 18 carries for 163 yards and five touchdowns. Huge game
52:21
Speaker 1: for him. Gordie Bedlington, 12 carries for 59 yards. And
52:25
Speaker 1: then Dawson Van Dalen, 16 carries for 54 yards. So
52:28
Speaker 1: it was basically those three guys just running the ball,
52:32
Speaker 1: There happened to be nine pass attempts as well. Bellington
52:34
Speaker 1: was four of six for 59 yards. Postman one of
52:37
Speaker 1: three for six yards. Lincoln Van Rye and Caden Brown,
52:41
Speaker 1: the two tight ends, each had two receptions each. Samarango
52:44
Speaker 1: also caught a pass. So congratulations to the Linden Lions.
52:47
Speaker 1: They are now five and one on the season, and
52:50
Speaker 1: they move to the top of the Northwest Conference 2AA classification.
52:55
Speaker 1: Very big game for them. All right, let's talk about
52:58
Speaker 1: the players of the week. We're going to start off
53:00
Speaker 1: with the Walton Beverage Offensive Player of the Week. Walton
53:03
Speaker 1: Beverage has been a staple in our community for 95 years,
53:06
Speaker 1: and I will continue to work harder every day to
53:08
Speaker 1: make the fantastic people at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor
53:11
Speaker 1: youth sports in our community. They deliver superior quality and commitment,
53:15
Speaker 1: and I plan to do the very same. And this
53:19
Speaker 1: player is, I was just talking about him, Austin Posma
53:23
Speaker 1: of Linden. 18 carries, 163 yards, and 5 touchdowns. There
53:29
Speaker 1: was a few other players that had amazing games. Trey
53:32
Speaker 1: Alexander had an amazing game. There were a few of those,
53:36
Speaker 1: but to do this against Anacortes, breaking a school record,
53:41
Speaker 1: I mean, all these kinds of things, it's just incredible.
53:45
Speaker 1: So I'm going with Austin Postma of Linden. Congratulations. You
53:49
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53:52
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54:10
Speaker 1: Curt with a C, M-A-B-E-R-R-Y farm.com. Again, this was really,
54:17
Speaker 1: really tough. I mean, it was looking like Paxton Miller. Um,
54:23
Speaker 1: but I rarely give an award, especially a defensive player
54:26
Speaker 1: of the ward, um, to a team that didn't win. Uh,
54:31
Speaker 1: so I, you know, that was, that was kind of
54:33
Speaker 1: tough there. I thought Tucker Hofstede is very deserving of
54:36
Speaker 1: this award as well. Um, but I'm going with Chance
54:40
Speaker 1: Hatchet of Ferndale, seven and a half tackles, two and
54:42
Speaker 1: a half tackles for loss and a fumble recovery. And, uh,
54:46
Speaker 1: and when he tackles you, you feel it for the
54:48
Speaker 1: rest of the weekend. And so, uh, There's no stats
54:51
Speaker 1: for that, but trust me, I don't know firsthand, thank goodness.
54:59
Speaker 1: And I'm not asking you to go out to football
55:00
Speaker 1: practice and put pads on and get hit by chance
55:02
Speaker 1: at it, because I want to be doing this for
55:06
Speaker 1: at least a few more years. But trust me, yeah,
55:12
Speaker 1: he lays the lumber, and he is your Curt Mary
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Speaker 1: Farm Defensive Player of the Week. That's real estate. Pets
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55:28
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55:35
Speaker 1: And this is the first week. We're in week– this
55:37
Speaker 1: is week six. It's our first week that it's actually
55:40
Speaker 1: a kicker winning this award. This basically was the kicker's award.
55:45
Speaker 1: And– This is going to Elias Laranaga. I almost called
55:49
Speaker 1: it as it was happening live on the show on YouTube.
55:53
Speaker 1: I said, if he makes this, he's going to be
55:55
Speaker 1: your Pets Real Estate Special Team Player of the Week.
55:58
Speaker 1: Not that I was putting any pressure on him. He
56:00
Speaker 1: couldn't hear me or anything, but he did nail that
56:02
Speaker 1: 30-yard field goal. He was 2-for-2 on extra points, 2-for-2
56:05
Speaker 1: on field goals, including the game-winning field goal for Squalicum.
56:10
Speaker 1: So congratulations, Elias. to Squalicum's Elias Laranaga. You're the Pets
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Speaker 1: Real Estate Special Teams Player of the Week. And finally,
56:18
Speaker 1: the Anytime Fitness Offensive Alignment of the Week. Check out
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Speaker 1: sponsor the Friday Night Scoreboards, which has been a huge,
56:30
Speaker 1: huge exciting thing there because those football scoreboards are They
56:35
Speaker 1: get more views maybe than anything that I do. And so,
56:39
Speaker 1: you know, Anytime Fitness really getting a bang for their
56:42
Speaker 1: buck there. The Anytime Fitness Offensive Lineman of the Week
56:45
Speaker 1: is Meridian senior Isaac Cypress. And for two weeks in
56:49
Speaker 1: a row now, Meridian having that many yards, well over 400,
56:53
Speaker 1: close to 500 yards the last two weeks, doing it
56:56
Speaker 1: again in this game. And I got to give this
56:58
Speaker 1: one to Isaac Cypress of Meridian, kind of leading that
57:01
Speaker 1: offensive line to big, big chunks of yards, doing it
57:04
Speaker 1: run blocking and pass blocking. So congratulations to him for
57:08
Speaker 1: winning the Anytime Fitness Offensive Alignment of the Week. Be
57:11
Speaker 1: sure to visit our sponsors. Let them know you heard
57:13
Speaker 1: about their business on the Whatcom Preps podcast. Well, thank
57:19
Speaker 1: you very much to Coach Wood for joining again after
57:22
Speaker 1: taking a week off. It's good to see him back
57:24
Speaker 1: on the sideline doing his thing. And That has been
57:28
Speaker 1: the Walkin' Preps podcast. This has been episode 456, the
57:32
Speaker 1: week six football recap. I'm Tyler Anderson of Walkin' Preps,
57:35
Speaker 1: and I'll talk to you in a few days.