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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 226 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 12-25 to 12-30 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is senior Lynden basketball player Anthony Canalis and you're listening to the Welcome Preps
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Podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Lions, Greetings and welcome into the watcom
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Preps Podcast. This is episode two and twenty six, a winter sports weekly
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wrap up for Monday, December twenty fifth through Saturday, December thirtieth. I'm
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Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson from Baker High School
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No of watcom Preps. Tyler, how are we doing? Doing great?
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Ry Island? It's uh. As we're recording this, it's New Year's Eve.
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We only got a few hours left it this year, and uh doing
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great? Man? How are you doing? I'm doing good. It sounds
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like a war zone outside. I'm house sitting. Yeah, I'm in like
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South Seattle slash renting. Yeah, your favorite place. Yeah. I do
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love coming and house sitting here because it's on the lake. It's I mean,
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I can look out right now and I can see I mean, I'm
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sitting here on the couch because I messed up my back today, but I'm
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looking across the whatever this is the lake here, and I see fireworks going
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off over on Mercer Island. I can see them over at some people looks
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like maybe like Seward Park area, Like it's pretty cool, it's pretty fun,
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but it's also a little scary because when these things start going boom boom,
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boom, and I'm down here in an area where, you know,
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not exactly the safest place. Let's just say that. Yeah, yeah,
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you kind of never know if that's you know, a boom boom you need
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to be a little afraid of, if you know what I'm saying here.
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Yeah, yeah, we're not talking about organ vigory. But yeah, yeah,
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we're not talking about thunderfoot over there. But yeah, I mean I'm
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having a good time. I mean, the Seahawks lost today, of course,
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you know, Pete Carroll just ruins New Year's Eve for everybody. But
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yeah, I mean it is what it is. We're headed into the new
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year. When the people are hearing this, it's already the new year,
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that's true. As a matter of fact, the people in Australia, they're
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already celebrating it. You know, Tyler, did you see that thing I
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posted today on Instagram? I did not, I guess I shared it as
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a story. It says Australia is in twenty twenty four, United States is
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in twenty twenty three, and Yankees fans are is still in two thousand and
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nine. Oh nice, that was a good one. I like that one.
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But Tyler, let's talk winter sports. We need to give a thank
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you to Anthony Kanalis, a young man I've never heard of, but apparently
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he plays basketball for Lyndon. He is the man out there. He's the
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he is as of now, he's the leading scorer in boys basketball for Walkin
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County. And he's a stud man. He's he was the two A tournament
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MVP last year for the state championship tournament. And he's a he's he's the
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real deal. He's he's a six or four guard that can score out of
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anywhere and just hangs in the air and gets it shot and kind of the
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kind of the the straw that stirs that Linen basketball program right now. He's
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really good. Sounds like a guy that might have been a nice going over
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the middle making some catches. Well you gonna play some football, huh,
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that's true. He would have been pretty sil attactor of about six four and
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ninety pounds. Yeah. We also need to give thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm
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Tyler, Today we're talking winter sports, but the Anytime Fitness Football Top
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one hundred count Down is already in full swing as you're hearing this. We're
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down to about the top thirty, might even be under the top thirty if
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you're listening to this on like Tuesday or Wednesday. But the next Top one
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hundred Countdown podcast will be this Wednesday, the third, which seems really weird
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to say Wednesday, the third at nine a m. That will be counting
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down forty three to twenty five. So we're down to just two of the
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big podcasts left and then we got the top five. Yeah, and as
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people are hearing this, Tyler, I hate to break the news to him,
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we've already recorded all of it. Yes, true, it's already done.
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It's already been recorded. As a matter of fact, that it's a
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reminder to myself. Now, I still got to cut up the final three.
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I think I think I sent you five and four, didn't I I
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can't. Yes, you did, yes, five and four? Yeah,
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okay, But today we are going to talk about boys wrestling. We've got
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some well, okay, we got boys wrestling, boys and girls basketball.
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Now, before we get into any of that, Tyler, let's talk about
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the Stuffer Insurance boys swim and dive. Nothing going on again this week,
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right right right, nothing going on and get a good break, but it's
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gonna hit right in full swing on Tuesday, So be right back into conference
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action on Tuesday. All right. That's Staffer Insurance. They are the sponsors
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of Boys Women Dive three six zero seven four six eighty eight Oho three nineteen
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oh three Front Street in Linden. Now, Tyler says, we talked Staffer
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Insurance here, and we've got some We got some sponsors for boys and girls
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basketball atterly Darry especially, but we'll get into some of the other stuff.
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There is no sponsor for wrestling yet, right right, But I do have
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a lead that I don't want to give away anything because nothing's set in stone,
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but I did someone reached out to me a couple of nights ago,
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a parent, a proud parent of a wrestler. So I'm guessing this is
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a way it could go. He's a guy that I went to school with.
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He was an awesome wrestler. So, uh so we'll see, we'll
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see kind of what that turns into. Might be something going on there.
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But there's also still all the stuff to sponsor. And it still blows my
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mind that nobody has sponsored the the daily roundups right, yeah, recaps random
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yeah, yeah, the recap, the daily ones for basketball for boys and
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girls. It still blows my mind nobody sponsored that. That being said,
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if somebody wants to sponsor Tyler, how do they get a hold of you?
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Yeah, the easiest way is to do social media Facebook, Twitter,
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or Instagram. Just search for walk them preps and send me a direct message.
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Uh. That's the best way. Uh And and I'll you know,
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I'll try and get to I get a lot of the I get a lot
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of messages, so you know, if I don't if I don't respond right
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away, send another one and just say hey, don't forget you know,
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and uh, and I'll get back to you and we'll figure something out.
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That's the thing. It's not really things that are set in stone. It's
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kind of what you're comfortable doing and what you want a sponsor, and and
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we'll just make something work, you know, that's the whole plan. And
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and uh, we'll see if we can have it work out going forward.
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Yeah. I mean, look, if you if your business for the next
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couple of months only afford one hundred dollars a month, you can throw your
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logos somewhere, you know what I mean, just put it up on the
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website somewhere. You know what, Tyler, I should sponsor one hundred dollars
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a month and you can just put my face right there on the website.
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How great would that be. I'm trying to attract people. Yeah, hey,
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money's money, right, Yeah, sure, Tyler. Let's talk boys
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wrestling. And this time of the year, not a lot of duel meets
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going on. They'll get back into that come what I guess next week.
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But tournaments, lots of tournaments, and kind of the theme here of this
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show is going to be tournaments. But boys wrestling. Now, we've got
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what do we got here? Three tournaments to talk about. The first one
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the rock On Vashon, the rock On Vashon. That's a little tougher to
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say. Wrestling tournament took place. I assume at Vashon Island High School.
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Mount Baker takes second place with one hundred and sixty six points. Lake Stevens
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wins it overall with one hundred four h Tyler, Who are some of the
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guys that placed there for Mount Baker? Yeah, Matt Baker like there.
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You know, they have those guys that are pretty top heavy. They always
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do really well in these tournaments. Daniel Washburn again with another first place finish
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at one hundred and fifty seven pounds. His brother Elijah was a state champion
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last year as a senior. I think Daniel was looking to do the same
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as a senior this year. That'd be a pretty cool thing. Two brothers
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two years in a row. Isaac da Creek at one oh six, Andrew
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Monteeth won thirty two, Wyatt Freeman one hundred and sixty five pounds, and
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Vance Lawrence at one hundred and seventy five pounds all took second place in this
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tournament. So five guys wrestling for championships. That explains the high point total
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right there. So great job by the Mountaineers. And and uh, you
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know our favorite coach out there, and and who love them high school?
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That's right. It makes me wonder, Tyler, I wonder of the what
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do they have? One? Two, three, four guys finished second place?
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I wonder how many of them were against Lake Stevens. And if you
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know Mount Baker had a chance to win it there. Yeah, I know,
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I was just thinking that as I was reading it, and I you
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know, I don't. I mean, I could look it up, but
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right now that we're recording, you would imagine I'm sure a few because if
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they scored more points, they probably had a few more chances and it could
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have been in some of those matches for sure. Yeah. Interesting the gut
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Check Tournament, seventy plus schools. I tried to count them all. It
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was like seventy six, seventy four. I don't even know. There's a
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ton of schools. They were down there at the Shower Center down to Kent
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where the Seattle Thunderbirds play. I've spent a lot of time in that arena.
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Yes you have. Blaine took twenty eighth place with fifty four points,
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and Tyler sounds like a guy did it again. Huh Oh it's crazy Victor
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Gruval. You know, I just went to go look and see. And
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the first thing I did is I went to the two eighty five because I
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was like, man, Blaine's there. I wonder how Vic did. And
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of course he won it again. This that's two tournaments in a row with
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seventy plus teams. He won the championship at two hundred and eighty five pounds
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nineteen to zero. On the season, he beat a top andish kid,
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which I think has been you know, I mean, I don't know for
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sure, but I would imagine that kid is, you know, a pretty
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darn good wrestler. As we know topsh tends to do. They always have
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a bunch of really good wrestlers. That that could be a preview of the
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state championship at the one A for two eighty five. So uh, for
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him, for him to beat him, that probably gave him a ton of
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confidence. And and uh, you know, I'm really curious to see Blaine
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and Baker wrestle a duel meet because I just think that I think Blaine has
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more guys. They have more wrestlers to fill out the classes, but Baker
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might have a slight edge in more weight classes, if that makes any sense.
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But man, when you give up six points to a forfeit, like,
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it's just it's tough in a duel like that. So I'm really curious
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to see how that would, you know, eventually end up. But man,
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Victor Gerval just what a stud you know, uh doing it again,
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probably wrestling at around two hundred and twenty five pounds too, which I think.
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You know, it's interesting because you see a lot of those the you
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know, the heavyweights that that there. It's either they're they're you know,
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up around the two seventy mark plus or they're down by the two twenty to
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two thirty. It always just kind of looks it always seems that way.
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And uh, you know, it's crazy. What was it? Was it
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to eighty five or was it too seventy five when you wrestled? It was
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too seventy five when I wrestled, but it was uh, but I was
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very much I was light. I was Uh, I was usually around that
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two twenty five to two thirty mark because yeah, I we would we had
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times where they would want me to wrestle two fifteen and I needed to be
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you know, be able to get down. Yeah, yeah, I needed
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to be able to get down and if you know, if I wanted to
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do it, that's you got to stay in that range. And uh it
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was tough. It was real, real tough. But uh, yeah,
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that's awesome. I mean, that is really really cool for him to do
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that. And I know that, you know, there's a lot of the
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tournaments that we used to wrestle when I was growing up, those aren't really
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around anymore. But the gut Check one. I have heard of that one
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for years. So that's that's truly saying something because you know, I follow
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wrestling enough to kind of know, you know, bits and pieces, but
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not you know, maybe like I used to. So for for him to
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win a tournament that even I still know of, that's that's really cool.
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That's really really I mean. And look, anytime you win a tournament there's
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you know, over fifty teams, let alone you know, added another twenty
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five or so. That's just crazy to me. Yeah. There was also
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the Knights of the Castle tournament. Tyler. Now, where the heck was
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that one at? I don't know for sure. I could probably find it,
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but it would take me a little while. But well, here,
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how about this, I'll say this sixteen schools. Nikzack Valley finished in the
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middle of the pack in eighth with one hundred and four points. Tell me
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about some of the placers there and I'll see if I can't figure it out.
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Okay, So yeah, Andrew Dugger, who I think this is his
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first championship in a tournament. He keeps kind of finishing in the third or
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fourth range, but he takes first place one hundred and sixty five pounds.
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And then Wyatt Bacon, who he seems like we've been talking about a lot,
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at one hundred and ninety pounds, he finished in first place. And
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then Abraham Hernandez at one hundred and forty four pounds finished in second place.
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For Nuksack Valley, who they don't really have a full squad either. I
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think they have like six or seven guys wrestling, so maybe a few more,
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but a lot like Baker where they don't fill out all the all the
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spots, all the weights, but they have some good top end guys that
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can do pretty well. Looks like it looks like Stadium High School down in
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Tacoma. Okay, Yeah, yeah, which makes sense because you ever seen
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that high school. No, it's the one that's from Ten Things Hate About
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You if you've ever seen it, Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah,
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which awful place to watch a football game. Everybody thinks it's like this great
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thing, and it's like, yeah, the stadium itself is huge. It's
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shaped like a weird shaped where you don't actually like, what's the word I'm
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looking for. It's not parallel to the field, you know, like the
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stands, aren't they start to like slowly get further away from the field.
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Yes, very much like Candlestick Park. And the thing that the thing about
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it is there's no there's no seats, so you sit on concrete. So
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if it rains, it just goes right under your butt. I mean you
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just get absolutely soaked. Yeah, and if you're on the home side,
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you can't see the dang school anyway behind you, you know what I mean.
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I don't know, but yeah, that's what it looks like. It
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says Knights, well actually it says Knights and Dames of the Cast. Yeah.
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A lot of girls teams that were there too. Yeahah, that's pretty
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cool. Yeah, let's see here, boys would diving. We didn't have
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anything, so now let's talk that was everything right for wrestling. Yes,
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yeah, okay, so that's everything for wrestling. Let's talk girls basketball here,
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Tyler. Normally we go through and I talk about the standings and we
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talk about some of the teams and everything. But they also had a lot
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of tournaments going on. That being said, there were a couple of non
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tournament games, right, Tyler. Yeah. Ferndale was that Holy Names.
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They lost forty eight to thirty seven. It was a close game throughout,
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but Holy Names, you know, had a really strong fourth quarter to pull
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that one out. And then Marysville Getchel defeated Bellingham thirty three to twenty eight
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in a non conference game. Looks like a couple of young teams that were
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It's a good it was a good matchup, but but Bellingham just couldn't claw
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back. Bellingham is very young. They you know, they don't have any
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seniors. There are some really good, you know, parts to their team,
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but it's you know, they're they're still growing. Coach Wolferton's a really
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good coach. I think they're gonna be okay in the future, but it's
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going to be a struggle this year. Let's talk about some of the tournaments,
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all right. Here. I gotta I gotta figure out exactly what I'm
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looking at here, Tyler Trojan Storm Winter Classic. What the heck was that
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one? Yeah, so that's held at Meridian High School, but it's kind
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of it's kind of lin Squalicum and Meridian together kind of host it. Both
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boys and girls. Teams from both schools are there. So are there games
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at Squalicum then too? No, No, it's only at Meridian and they
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have they have two gyms, they have a North gym and a South gym,
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and they're really close to each other. So and there was always two
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games going at a time, and there's four games on each court during the
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day, so it was very busy. It was a great place to set
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up shop if you wanted to come out. And I was out there,
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you know, constantly. Yeah, there was time. There was times when
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I was there and then I'd go to go get something to eat and I
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came back. There was times when I was there and I'd go to another
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tournament, I came back. So it was awesome because it was just constant
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basketball and there were five well kind of five and a half because there was
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a late you know, there's a late entry in the last day that came
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in and played a game Walking County teams playing, so it always seems like
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there was always a Walking County game going. It was. It was awesome
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on the on the girls side. So we're just talking girls back the girl.
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Yeah, yeah, squalk them. You know, they came into the
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tournament. They haven't even won a conference game yet, so they've been struggling.
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But Bann they they played great in this. They beat Bellevue Christian in
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the first game and that was a really really close game. They won by
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five points, forty eight to forty three. And then they beat Blaine in
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the second game fifty five thirty three. And which is funny because they're going
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to play each other this upcoming week. It is a conference game. Oh
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they they hadn't They hadn't played each other yet. They were supposed to play
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a couple of weeks ago. In fact, I drove to the game.
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I got to the Squalkam parking lot and it was not full at all,
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and I thought, that's kind of weird. And I texted a parent,
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a Blaine parent, I said, Hey, is your daughter playing tonight at
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Squalicum? And he wrote back, he goes, no, that game was
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moved and so that was kind of kind of you say, moved. It
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wasn't moved to this, was it? No? No, no, it
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was moved to this upcoming week. They okay each other. Yeah, they
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just happened to face each other in the in the semis in this tournament.
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So Squalkum won that and then they went on to play stan Wood in the
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championship game and also won that game by five forty three to thirty eight.
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So Squalicum took first place, which is a huge confidence booster for them.
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But they you know, they play a lot of players. They play eight
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or nine players regularly, but they always get all twelve into the game every
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game. So I think they're still trying to find the right fits and pieces
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and rotations. And I think they found out some really good things in this
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tournament. Going three and oh, they took first first place. Blaine beat
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over Lake in the first round. They were down in that game. They
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came back in the fourth quarter and hit some big shots and had some big
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time stops to win that one. Like I said, they lost a squalk
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them in the second one, but they finished by beating Freddy Harbor fifty two
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to twenty six, and it was good to see them play a full game
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against Friday Harbor that we that first game of the year was that game was
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cut short because they had to get back on the ferry. They beat them
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like twenty eight to ten, but they only played a half. Yes,
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so yeah, so they got to play a full game. They got him
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there. So basically, I guess you could say they took third place and
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then and then Meridian. They started up by losing to stand With thirty three
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to twenty three. They beat over Lake handily forty six to sixteen, and
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then lost in their third game to Bellevue Christian fifty four to thirty three.
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So three Walkome County teams at this tournament kept me quite busy for three days.
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Yeah, sounds like it. That being said, did you get over
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to the Linded Christmas Classic, because that one's next on our list? Yes,
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I did. I was there. I went there a few times.
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Yeah. Okay, So tell me about what went on over there with the
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girls. Well, the first round Linden and White River, that was that
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was kind of the that was kind of the game, you know, and
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it was it was a round one game. Lynden beat him fifty eight forty
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seven, very very good game, and then Linden Christian beat ingle Moore forty
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two to thirty so it was kind of setting up. They were on opposite
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sides of the bracket, so it's kind of setting up that it could be
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Lynden Linden Christian for the championship. And then the semis I was there for
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that for about eighty percent of it. Linden beat Prosser sixty four to thirty
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five. Snohomish beat Lyndon Christian fifty two to thirty eight, so it wouldn't
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be an all Linden championship. And then the next night in the finals,
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Linden beat Snohomish fifty one to twenty nine. Snahomish was they were really good.
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I was, really I was. I wasn't surprised, but I was.
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It was. It was just rare that you see a team that like
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beat, that handled Lynden Christian the way they did. But then they came
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over the next day and Lynden got him really, really, really good to
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take first place. Lynden Christian beat for third place forty eight to forty two.
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Uh. It's it's been a kind of a rough year for LC.
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I mean, their best player, Gracie Heintz, recovering from knee surgery,
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and you know, I don't know if she's going to be able to play
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at all this year. So it's kind of a you know, you go
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into the year without your best player, you might not have her for the
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whole year. That's just that's just tough. So uh, but all the
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girls have been playing really, really well, and they're so well coached with
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Brady Baumber, and you know they'll be they'll be fine. Lyndon sophomore Peyton
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Mills was named the tournament MVP. She's a heck of a player, six
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foot two and soft hands. I mean everything she does just looks smooth,
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whether it's a foot back, offensive rebound. She can shoot threes at six
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foot two, she knows how to get open in the post, and then
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she has a lot of good low post moves. She's very active on defense.
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Uh. It's it was, it was. She's really something to see
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and she's she's got that, you know, future Conference player of the year
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type player in her. So a lot of fun to watch her play.
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And that Lindon Lyon basketball team is just their outstanding and they sub so much
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and they play ten players on the regular and it's like almost every single time,
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and I know I've said this before, but almost every time play is
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resumed from like a timeout or a foul or whatever, as soon as it's
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resumed, another player is set to check in. So at the next whistle,
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boom another player. And they just have it down so well. And
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you know, they can all shoot, they can all defend. It's it's
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it's fun basketball to watch. Top of the Peak Holiday Tournament sounds like Nuksack
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Valley was down in my neck of the woods there at Glacier Peak High School.
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Tyler. Yeah, this is a huge tournament that had big time teams
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from different states. Even Nuksack Valley started and this this this tournament took place
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kind of a day earlier than everybody else. So it started Wednesday night.
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Nuoksack Valley beat Seattle Prep in round one, fifty one to twenty nine to
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set up a really good semi final match against Mead, who's one of the
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top teams three a U. And it was kind of one of those well
23:03
like, okay, we know noksacts good, but how good are they?
23:07
And they showed everybody by beating Need forty seven to thirty, and that set
23:11
up the big matchup against Lake City, Idaho, a five A school from
23:15
Cordelaine, Idaho and Nooksi. I fally lost that one fifty five to forty
23:19
eight. But you know, I think that a lot could be said about
23:25
teams that have a set back during the season that is expecting big things because
23:30
you got to be challenged every once in a while. I mean, they've
23:33
had a lot of games where they win, like seventy seven to twenty five.
23:37
You know, it's like, where's the challenge in that. You got
23:38
to have some challenging games so you know how to deal with it when it
23:41
gets to the postseason. So I think they went to this tournament knowing that
23:45
they're going to play some big time opponents and they did. It doesn't hurt
23:49
their conference schedule at all or of conference records. So and playing three days
23:55
in a row is big for all these schools, especially if they want to
23:57
have a big state run where you got to play more days in a row.
24:00
Yeah. For those wondering, Lake City is is a five A school,
24:03
which is kind of equivalent to a four A school in this state.
24:07
It's their top level they've Lake City is in football, they play some some
24:12
of the Spokane schools. Their big rival Cordelaine, they routinely come across the
24:18
mountains. Twenty thirteen or twenty fourteen they played Bothel at the at U dub
24:25
and then last year they actually came over actually saw Cordline High School, not
24:29
Lake City, but Cordelane. I saw them play Woodenville in like week two
24:33
or week three, I can't remember when it was, but yeah, I
24:37
mean, that's that's huge for them to for them to play as well as
24:41
they did against some very very good competition that was in a higher level than
24:47
them. I mean, that's that's really saying something. So congratulations to those
24:52
ladies. Portland Holiday Classic Tyler Seahome went down there a little bit of a
24:56
rough stretch for them. Well, yeah, but this is a huge tournament.
25:00
There there were teams. There's so many teams in this tournament. There
25:03
was fifty four teams, I believe, good lord. And it's and it's
25:07
broken up into all these brackets like the Diamond bracket and the you know,
25:11
the Emerald bracket and the it's just it's there's so many teams. There's teams
25:15
from California, Oregon and Washington there and see them played three really good teams
25:22
from Oregon and they were in these games. They were in them, all
25:26
of them, but they all four of them had really tough fourth quarters.
25:30
That was the big thing that stood up to me. They lost a Mountain
25:33
Side fifty four to forty in the first game, lost a really close one
25:37
to Wells fifty three to thirty eight, which I thought for sure they had
25:41
that one. I was watching it until the very end and it just kind
25:45
of fell apart there. And then they lost a Sunset fifty six to forty.
25:48
But I tell you what, the Seal Mariners, they're very senior heavy.
25:52
Uh. This is kind of their year as far as you know,
25:55
how it lined up with the with the kids they have and and you know,
25:59
have a lot of scene and they just have they have something going that
26:03
is, you know, they're playing these top end teams and once they get
26:07
back to conference play, they're gonna they're gonna keep doing pretty well. And
26:10
they're they're a team to definitely look for for the next couple of months.
26:15
Okay, And so that's girls basketball. Let's talk boys basketball again. This
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is all sponsored by Etily Dairy or at least Italy Day sponsors the scoreboards,
26:22
and so we want to give them a little bit of a shout out here
26:26
as far as the basketball stuff goes. So a couple of non tournament games
26:30
on the boys side, Tyler, what do you got there? Yeah,
26:33
Ferndale lost a heartbreaker and a cascade of Everett sixty three to sixty two.
26:38
That was a game that was at Ferndale. I popped in for a little
26:41
bit to see that one. Ferndale, they've had trouble in the win loss
26:45
column, but they're super athletic. They're one of those teams that I feel
26:49
like is just they get better every time I see them. Every time,
26:52
they just get a little bit better. And that's that's a that's a really
26:56
that says a lot about coaching and stuff like that. You know, they
27:00
just they get they get better every week, and that's what so many coaches
27:03
always say, We just want you to get better every week. That's what
27:06
we need to do. Bellingham lost at Mary's Vulgaetel seventy three to fifty one,
27:11
and they came back home the next day and beat Squim sixty nine to
27:14
fifty seven. Bellingham is they just have a lot of talent and and uh
27:19
their will coach. They you know, they play the right way. Whyatt
27:22
Stephan's a stud. Kinkaid van Houton is a six to six whoa, whoa,
27:27
whoa whoa say again, Kincaid van Houten. That is the all name
27:33
team right there. Oh absolutely, Like he might even be the MVP.
27:38
He's a front runner for that, yeah for sure. And he's a junior
27:41
too, so listed as a six to six guard. I remember when I
27:45
saw that, I thought it was a I thought it was a misprint because
27:48
he jumps center and he does all that stuff. But then when I saw
27:52
him play, I was like, holy cow. Like when when Stephan comes
27:55
out of the game, he brings the ball up to the court like this
27:57
this kid is is that size the NBA bringing the ball up to the court
28:02
not too crazy? That size of high school bringing the ball off the court.
28:06
That's that's wild. Yeah, yeah, you just don't see that very
28:08
often. Tall, tallest guy on the team. But he can play inside
28:11
too, and he's very he's used player, gets a lot of rebounds.
28:15
Yeah. So those were the non tournament games. All right, Let's talk
28:18
the boys side of the Trojan Store, What are classic? What do you
28:22
have for me there? Yeah, and there's some interesting stuff that happens with
28:26
this, so try to follow me the best you can. Yeah, everybody,
28:29
sit down, grab a drink, kick your feet up here, because
28:30
this is going to get crazy. Yeah. So Meridian in the in the
28:34
in the first round lost to Nathan Hale. They lost big, They lost
28:37
seventy eight to forty seven, but they were actually able to move on to
28:41
the semi finals because the Raiders were only in town for that one game.
28:45
So I think it was all it was kind of pre you know, they
28:48
knew it advance. Yeah, yeah, they knew in advanced that win or
28:52
lose, Meridian was going to move on to the semi finals, but they
28:56
wanted to get a game in so it worked out. But that causes havoc
29:00
for later on in the tournament too, so they had to adjust other things
29:06
and so the anyway, So yeah, so they go into the semi finals
29:08
despite losing seventy eight to forty seven. That they then beat Stillicum forty nine
29:12
to thirty four. And it was just weird to see because I was like,
29:18
you know, still a come in my head is like the Star football
29:22
team. I thought they were gonna be great at basketball, but you just
29:23
you just never know, and Meridian got them pretty good. Squallykum opened up
29:29
the tournament with a sixty six to fifty nine overtime winn against Bellevue Christian.
29:33
That was a one of the craziest momentum games I'd seen. I was running
29:37
back and forth between gyms, but I watched a lot of that one and
29:41
and Squalicum they were ahead at half. Then they were like then Bellevue Christian
29:47
was they put up. They went on a sixteen to two run in the
29:49
third, so then I thought, wow, this might be over, and
29:53
then Squalicum tied it up, and then they just took over in overtime,
29:56
and it was kind of the Marcus Nixon show in the fourth quarter in overtime,
30:00
and he scored like twenty four points and had eight rebounds and six deals
30:04
or some crazy thing, and he just kind of took over. And then
30:07
the next day they defeated Centralia fifty two to thirty eight in the semi finals.
30:12
It was funny because I was waiting for that one to start. They
30:15
had to wait for like an hour and a half for Centralia just to show
30:18
up. So that kind of threw a lot of things into crazy whack with
30:22
different you know, you had to push other things back and move things around
30:26
because they showed up late. I just I was just sitting there watching them
30:29
in the layup line with nobody else in the gym for like twenty minutes,
30:33
and then they were playing some free throw games and you know, they were
30:36
all doing their playing horse and stuff like that, just kind of staying loose
30:40
ready for Centralia to show up. So that set up the championship game between
30:45
Squalk and Meridian, the two quote unquote host teams of this tournament. Meridian
30:51
won that game forty nine to thirty five. I thought, I thought that
30:55
was going to be a really a much closer game than it was. But
30:57
Marcus Nixon was in foul trouble a lot of it, and that really hindered
31:02
them as far as you know, it's Squalk them when when things break down
31:07
and they don't really have a play to go to this it's kind of Marcus
31:10
Nixon takeover time and when he and he usually plays a lot of minutes,
31:14
so when he wasn't in there, they really had to rely on some other
31:17
guys to do some things. It wasn't shots were not falling, and sometimes
31:19
on that third day of a tournament, it's kind of a defensive game anyways.
31:23
You know, you're tired, you don't have your legs all the way
31:26
and so they're a little lower scoring games. The funny thing about that third
31:32
day is Linden Christian showed up on the final day and to play in a
31:36
consolation game. So they were set up against Bellevue Christian and they beat him
31:40
seventy nine to forty And uh so you wonder why weren't they there for the
31:45
first two days. Well, why don't you tell us why they weren't there
31:48
for the first two days. Yeah, well, Tyler, they weren't there
31:52
because they were at the Mount Lake Terras Holiday Tournament. I mean, yeah,
31:56
what in the world is going on here? So Linden Christian technically played
32:00
in two tournaments. Yeah, and they had a heck of a week.
32:05
And you know, they start off the Mount Lake Terrace Halliday Tournament beat by
32:08
beating North Creek sixty one to fifty two. And North Creek is a really
32:13
good team. I know, they beat a Walking County school. I I'm
32:15
trying to remember which one earlier this year, but no, I can't remember.
32:22
I can tell you right now, boys, right yeah, oh no,
32:27
I'm all the girls. It was somebody that made me go, oh,
32:30
North Creek is for real. It was either that it was a really
32:32
close game. It could have been Linden, but it might have been so.
32:38
But anyways, they beat North Creek by nine and then follow that up
32:42
with a showdown against Mount Lake Terrace, the host tournament team and Mount Lake
32:47
Terrace. I know that they've beat Linden. I know they beat Oh as
32:52
Ferndale is who they beat, but they smacked him pretty good, right,
32:55
yeah, right, that's right. Oh oh no, that's wait, that's
32:59
who they beat. Oh yeah, yeah no, because that's right. Because
33:00
then they played Living Christian I see, yeah, yeah yeah so Norton,
33:04
yeah, North that's right. North Creek beat Ferndale by like thirty and so,
33:07
uh so I knew they were good. Uh so. And then they
33:10
played Mount Lake Terras, who's the host team who is just been playing out
33:16
of their minds recently, And I was like, man, this is gonna
33:19
be a great game. That game sixty six to sixty four and overtime Els
33:23
pulls it out. Man. I this team, this Link team right now
33:30
is just you know, they're two times defending champions, but I don't think
33:34
the Links have ever won three in a row. So, uh, you
33:37
know, I don't want to jinx them or anything. Jinks the Links,
33:40
that's not going to be a big thing anymore. But uh yeah they are.
33:45
They are really really good. And so they played those two days.
33:47
They come off playing those those two opponents down at Mount Lake Terrace, they
33:52
come back and beat Bellvu Christian at the Trojan Storm Winter Classic and almost double
33:58
them up. So the Links are extremely strong. Sealm was also at the
34:01
Mount Lake Terras Holiday Tournament and they defeated Prairie seventy four to seventy three in
34:07
overtime. On the first game. I think Nolan Wright went off like twenty
34:09
five points in that game. That guy, I think he's leading all the
34:15
boys basketball players in free throw percentage. A guy, and you love it
34:20
when your point guard can hit free throws. That's just that's just awesome because
34:24
you always have that guy you can get the ball into and foul at the
34:27
end of the game when the other team's fouling and you have a guy that
34:30
you know is gonna knock him down. That's a huge, huge deal.
34:32
But then they lost to Inglemore fifty nine to forty nine the following day.
34:37
So this could have been one of those quote unquote tournaments where you're just gonna
34:39
play two games. They always they already know who you're gonna play, just
34:43
you play them and then you get out of there. But those sounds like
34:45
some big time teams that were down there at the Mount Lake Terras Holiday Tournament.
34:50
Yeah, I think that one usually has some pretty good teams in it,
34:52
because I know Mountlake Terrace is usually pretty good at basketball. So yeah,
34:55
let's see hear Mount Vernon Christian Holiday Tournament, Tyler, Mount Vernon Christian
35:01
they are the Hurricanes, right, Yes, I love that logo. Yeah,
35:05
it makes no sense for Mount Vernon to be the Hurricanes. But Mount
35:09
Vernon Christian Holiday Tournament. I see Blaine and I see Lummy on there as
35:14
well. Yeah, you know, maybe maybe Mount Vernon Christian and I always
35:17
see them doing the U sign too. I don't know what that means.
35:21
Maybe Miami Hurricanes. I'm just kidding. Yeah, but still like that doesn't
35:23
make a whole lot of sense for them. Yeah, not a ton of
35:27
her. Is it supposed to be a you? Or maybe is it a
35:29
V? Oh? There could be, well Vernon, but they don't do
35:31
an M. Maybe they do the M like the YMCA. Yeah, maybe
35:36
I don't know. And it's yeah, it gonna be in the inside of
35:38
it there, Yeah, there you go. And they they started a tournament
35:42
by hosting Blaine, and Blaine got him fifty one to forty seven. Uh.
35:46
Connor Dowry probably had his best game of the year in that one,
35:49
scored over twenty points. But then it was kind of downhill after that.
35:52
They lost to what wakakam kayakam what kayaka. I knew I was gonna be
36:00
way better than what the GPS said when I drove to I went down to
36:02
a football game there a couple of years ago. Oh nice, And as
36:06
I was pulling up, the GPS says, you know, turn left into
36:09
wauki Yakham And I was like, Kurt, what, I was like,
36:14
what what did she just say? Oh? Man? And that was you
36:19
know, that was a tough one. You know, they were hoping to
36:21
move on, but they lost that game, and then they were beat the
36:23
third day by adding of fifty eight forty two. Really tough thing. In
36:27
that first game, ninety seconds into the game, Jesse Deming either sprained his
36:31
ankle or hurt his foot or something. But right off the bat you lose
36:36
your point guard, and that's just you know, you're playing the third day
36:38
in a row. That's a that's a that's a tough one. I really
36:42
open him come back. I really like watching him play. The lummy Blackhawks
36:45
won the tournament, but I've had some trouble getting information information to post about
36:50
them. But they have a great team this year, definitely gonna make some
36:52
noise in the one B ranks. They've always had a really really strong team.
36:57
The head coach, Jerome Toby, was one of the best players I
37:00
ever saw that, you know, kind of played in my era. Played
37:02
at Ferndale. A five to seven point guard that could just shoot the lights
37:07
out. They had a few Toby's that have come through lobbying for football as
37:14
well. Yeah. Yeah, And and you know, Jerome Toby was boy,
37:19
he was a stud. He was a, like I said, one
37:22
of the smaller guys. I think they got fourth in state his senior year,
37:27
and that's the best Ferndale has ever been in basketball. Ferndale was never
37:30
like a big time basketball powerhouse, but the team that he was on was
37:35
the best they'd ever had. And his son, Jerome Toby Junior, is
37:39
the point guard on this lummy team, and and he's you know, he's
37:44
he's probably averaging around twenty points a game, a big time shooter. So
37:47
I expect some big time things out of them this year. I think I
37:51
saw I could be wrong here, I think I saw winter Hawk. Layden's
37:57
mom was out there taking pictures. Oh, Heather, Yeah, yeah,
38:00
Heather, Yeah, I think I saw on her Facebook because we're still friends
38:05
on there. She is one of the nicest people I've ever met my life.
38:08
And she takes great pictures too. Now, yeah, that's right.
38:12
That being said, she takes great sports pictures. I've never seen some pictures
38:16
of barns with mountains in the background, like Randy Small, Yeah, different
38:21
kind of pictures. Yeah, but her sports pictures are truly unbelievable. And
38:23
she's yeah, she's truly one of the nicest people I've ever met. Yeah,
38:29
But Tyler Lummy, somebody has to be listening to this that can help
38:32
us out with Lummy, because you want to report on it more you want
38:37
to do more stuff, but just it's hard getting information. So if anybody
38:40
can help us out, you know. Yeah, yeah, I've read,
38:44
I've reached out, I've sent emails, and I just haven't gotten anything back
38:47
yet. So I know there's a way it can happen. You know.
38:52
I ran into Jerome Toby last year during like the senior there's like a Senior's
38:57
All Star game out at Linden at the end of every year, and and
39:00
but I didn't know if he kind of knew who I was. But we
39:02
just started talking and stuff like that. I think I was where in my
39:06
my peachey hoodie, you know, and you got to kick out of that.
39:08
We were started talking about that, and I was like, I don't
39:12
think he knows what walking preps is. I didn't bring it up, you
39:15
know, although I think, like, you know, a few players came
39:17
by and gave me a fist bump. They're like, wait, what's up,
39:21
Tyler, So I think he knew sucking. But yeah, we just
39:22
haven't been able to connect yet, and you know, which is too bad
39:27
because the season's already pretty much halfway through the regular season anyways. So but
39:30
yeah, i'd like to be able to report more on the Lemmy Blackhawks for
39:35
sure. Yeah. So if somebody can help us out with that, that
39:37
would truly be great. And it doesn't have to be hey, can you
39:39
give us the information? It's hey, can you just help us get in?
39:44
You know what I mean? Yeah? Right, it's get that,
39:46
get it started, get it opened up, Open up the line of communication,
39:51
kick the foot of the door. Right, yep, there it is
39:54
now, Tyler Wilbur Ellis Sundome Tournaments the last one we got to talk about
39:59
here. I don't know who Wilbur Ellis is, but I do know the
40:01
Sundome Oh Sundome shootout, which, by the way, sounds awful in today's
40:07
day and age. But Wilbur Ellis Sundome shootout, Tyler, I see Linden,
40:14
I see Nuksack Valley. Is that all we had going on over there?
40:16
Yeah? Boys tournament with some really big time teams. Again, another
40:22
one of those ones where I don't know if it was set up for just
40:24
a two day thing where you're only going to play two no remember what.
40:28
Both teams went one and one. Linden opened up with a loss to Zilla
40:31
sixty to fifty five. But follow that up with a convincing sixty eight to
40:36
forty eight win over Mark Morris, which was a rematch of last year's two
40:39
way state championship. You know, you and I were talking off the air
40:43
about Mark Morris as a basketball program and how it feels like from my recollection,
40:47
it seems like Lynden and Mark Morris always face each other in the state
40:51
playoffs. It seems like it's been that way since the late nineties, so
40:55
I kind of expected that one to be a pretty good one. N Nooksack
40:59
Valley, they started the tournament with a fifty nine to thirty seven win over
41:02
top Finish, pretty pretty convincing there, and in the second game they lost
41:07
to Quincy sixty two to forty eight. And I just want to thank Tanya
41:13
Sylvis because she live streamed both of these games from her phone from the stands.
41:17
Wow, that was that was how I got the stats. So I'm
41:22
watching her live stream and taking the stats, so so a huge think thank
41:27
you to her, because without that I don't have stats. I just have
41:30
scores. So and at the sun Dome, I guess games are not on
41:37
NFHS there unless they are set up. I'm sure they'll be set up for
41:39
the state tournament. But yeah, but for the for this tournament, they
41:43
were not set up at all, So it seems ridiculous. Yeah, so
41:46
I had no way to watching film, to watch film on those So although
41:51
there's so many tournaments going on at that time, it's got to be hard
41:52
to you know, yeah, like because you figure to be able to do
41:57
something like that, I would assume a school would have to bring their equipment
42:00
to do it, you know what I mean, And they probably don't really
42:02
have that ability because in the state tournament, it's not just it's already set
42:07
up, it's somebody has to come set up all the equipment. So right,
42:10
I guess it does make a little bit of sense. Yeah, I
42:13
guess so, all right, Tyler, So that's it for all of the
42:17
games. Now we've started doing a thing here called the boys and girls Basketball
42:22
Game of the Week. Tyler, what do you got for the girls basketball
42:25
game of the week. Yeah, there there are some good ones, some
42:28
that I got to see in person. Blaine over over Lake forty seven to
42:31
forty two. That was one where Overlake had it. You know, it
42:37
seemed that way. Blaine only has eight players suited up. They do not.
42:40
They did not have a sub varsity team, and their best player,
42:44
Jordan Vezzetti, fouls out early in the fourth quarter, and wow, you
42:47
know, it's just like, man, how are they going to compete?
42:52
Marcella Bring is a freshman that came in. She's a big time three and
42:55
D player that hasn't had a lot of minutes, but she came in.
42:59
She shut down the opponent's point guard. She hit a couple of big shots
43:02
and that really catapulted the team to come back. Linden beating White River in
43:07
the first round was an awesome game. I missed that one. I caught
43:12
a little bit of it, but I didn't get to see the whole thing.
43:14
But that was a big time game. And then Lynden Christian beating Prosser
43:16
for third place forty eight to forty two. That was a big one.
43:20
But the game of the week was that Lake City, Idaho beating Noksack fifty
43:23
five to forty eight. I hate to pick it in the game of the
43:27
week when a Walker County team did not win. Yeah, but as far
43:30
as a game they had these they had these live streaming on the I think
43:35
it's it's like the STPSN STSPN. Yeah, Todd Todd Elvig is the guy
43:39
that runs STSPN. He is. First off, he's an awesome dude.
43:44
They have hands down the best broadcast of anybody in the state. I mean
43:49
it's it's it's truly unbelievable. I don't know if they had the I don't
43:52
know if he had his whole setup for basketball, but for football, Glacier
43:58
Peak it's thehomish. Both played at the same so he has his own booth,
44:02
like he gets to leave his equipment in there and everything, and he's
44:07
got instant replay. Like it was the first time I'd ever done a color
44:12
commentary for a game with instant replay. Let me tell you that's hard to
44:15
do, Yeah, because you're not used to you know, you're just talking
44:20
about what you just saw and next you know, you got to play right
44:22
in front of you and you can sit there and like diagram it almost Yeah,
44:27
and I'm sitting here going this is a high school broadcast man, Like
44:29
Yah. Yeah, anyway, STSPN it's the Homish Times Sports Network or something.
44:35
I don't know, but yeah, he's awesome. It was great because
44:37
they got to you know, they brought in, you know, the player
44:39
of the game after every game and did a live interview on video and so
44:44
they give him a T shirt. Yeah, I give him a T shirt.
44:45
And it was really like crystal clear yep. And so it was cool
44:50
to see two high, high quality teams play. I got to sit at
44:54
home and watch it, watch the whole thing. Devin Coppinger went off for
44:58
twenty two points. You know, he's going to go to the University of
45:00
Washington. Unbelievable player. But it just wasn't enough. That Lake City team
45:05
was loaded. It was just a great matchup. I mean, yeah,
45:08
awesome, awesome girls basketball game. Just one of those one of those ones
45:14
where somebody had to win if someone had to lose, and yeah, just
45:17
a just a great overall game. Tanna Hookoma had ten points for Knuksac Valley,
45:22
Laney Kimball eight points, eight rebounds, four assists. Just a great
45:28
overall game and the fitting championship for the Top of the Peak tournament because those
45:32
those two teams are definitely the top of the Peak. That wasn't that was
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just a great finish. Boys side, what are some of the good games
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over there? I know Randy Small was losing his mind about one of the
45:43
games. Yeah, well, the seventy four to seventy three overtime win by
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Sea Home was was was awesome. You know, anytime a game goes in
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overtime, it's crazy. It seems like Sea Home has played a handful of
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these overtime games, and they've had a lot of really really close ones.
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I know, they they beat Squalk them by one. They you know they
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I think it was Sigral Woolley they went into overtime with. And now Prairie
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Ferndale lost that heartbreaker a Cascade Everett's sixty three to sixty two at home in
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a non tournament game. But the game of the week was Lindy Christian beating
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Mount Lake Tarra sixty six to sixty four in overtime. The Hawks led fifty
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five to forty eight with fifty seconds to go. So that's they're up by
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seven with fifty seconds to go. I mean, at any level, that's
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that's pretty much in the bay. Not for sure, but pretty much.
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But they were up by the Hawks are up by five with five seconds to
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go, I mean, that's that's definitely in the bag. Yeah. Mountlake
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Terrass turned it over the last second, Elsie hit a buzzer beater to send
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the game into overtime. So, you know, just two great teams.
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I'm pretty sure they were both undefeated at the time, so that was a
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game everyone was looking at. Dawson Bauma's thirty eight points. That's the highest
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point for you know, output so far this season for Walking County. I
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know Jager five had a game where he had thirty six. I believe Anthony
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Canalis has gone over thirty a few times, but thirty eight points for Dawson.
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Bauma shot sixteen of twenty seven from the field, including four of seven
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on three pointers. Just a unbelievable game. And he kind of had a
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rough game in that first game against North Creek, so it was good to
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see him bounce back and play that kind of game. Gannon Dykstra had nine
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assists, the junior point guard who's a really, really good player. And
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Jeremiah Wright, you know, is still coming back from that elbow injury,
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but he's back in the starting lineup. Ten points, eight rebounds, you
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know, a big presence down low. Just an awesome, awesome performance by
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Lynn and Christian and they're just they're having an unbelievable season and it's back to
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the conference play now where all the other local teams are going, Oh great,
47:50
now we get to play them because they're just they're on a roll right
47:53
now and there's no end in sight for them. They're gonna go for a
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while. Let's talk girls and boys basketball players of the Week, Tyler.
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This is sponsored by Anytime Fitness, three specific locations, Ferndale, Linden North.
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Tell me who is the girls basketball player of the week. Yeah,
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well, Maury Binning, guard from Squalkum, a senior. She's she's only
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about five fours so, but she is the engine that keeps that team together,
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keeps it running good. And and her shooting, her penetrating, her
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foul shooting, steals, assists everything. Uh. She led that Storm team
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to the to the the Winter Classic Tournament championship, and and for those three
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games in a row, three days in a row as well, she earned
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the Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball Player of the Week. All right, what about
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the boys basketball player of the week who you got over there? Well,
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there's a ton of great, you know, recipients that could have got it
48:52
as well. But but Lynden Christian, you know, going to and no
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down to Mount Lake Terrace, then coming up to Meridian and and and doubling
48:59
up Bellevue Christian basically Dawson Bama for the second time this year already is your
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Anytime Fitness Boys Player of the Week, the Linden Christian senior guard scoring thirty
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eight points against Mount Lake Terris. I mean, when you you have a
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big game, I you know you could see it against certain opponents, but
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when you do it against a team that's gonna go to State and and plays
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high, Uh, that tells me a lot. When you could when you
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play your best games against the best competition, that's that's a big time achievement.
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Uh second time this year winning it. Dawson Bauma is just uh he's
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a he's a difference maker out there and and man, when he goes up
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for a for a jump shot, guys are guys are still on their way
49:38
down when he's at the top of his peak with that jump shot. It
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makes for some great pictures, I tell you, when he's jumped way up
49:45
ahead of everybody and and uh so he's uh, he's a special player,
49:49
a lot of fun to watch. Let's talk upcoming games of the week to
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look for Tyler. Uh, We're back into the what League play, if
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you will. Teams are getting back, gonna be playing Wakam County versus Wakham
50:04
County again instead of these holiday tournaments where Tyler's having to look up logos of
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teams he's never even heard of that big Yeah. Yeah, well kayaka who
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uh girl's side? What are some of the games this week that people should
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be looking out for? Yeah? Well, as I'm looking at you know,
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I'm trying to like picture the matchup in my head and stuff like that.
50:27
And one that really stood out was Seahome at Lakewood. That's gonna be
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that's gonna be a really good game. Lakewood is very balanced and sea Home
50:34
is very balanced. I expect that to one to be a really good game
50:37
on Friday Night. But the big one will be Nuksack Valley at Lynn and
50:39
Christian Friday at five forty. Uh. And it's it is a and it's
50:46
interesting that they're doing it at five point forty because you know, you think,
50:51
what's kind of an early time. But then the boys play, oh,
50:53
Noksack Valley one of those double Knights or whatever they are. It's a
50:58
double header, but they're not playing him at the same school. Oh yeah,
51:02
so it's it's that's very interesting. So what they're doing that is allowing
51:06
everybody to go from one to the other. Yeah, I mean that's so
51:09
kind of nice, I guess, but at the same time kind of weird.
51:13
But this is this is a great match. I mean, this has
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been the matchup over the years. Knukzack Valley and Linnon Christian. They've played
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for the state championship the last two years in a row. Linden Christian won
51:22
it two years ago, Nuksack Valley won it last year. I think the
51:27
one two years ago went into overtime. Uh, they're always playing each other
51:30
for you know, district championship. So this is a big time rivalry game.
51:36
But Knookzak, I you know, they're gonna hold a little bit of
51:37
the edge here because they've returned their star player where Lyndon Christian's star player is
51:43
injured. So, uh, that's gonna be a tough one. But I
51:45
tell you what I've you know, there's something about that Linden Christian gym.
51:50
It's it's got a special it's a special place, you know, like you
51:53
walk in and you kind of feel the I mean they've got you know,
51:57
dozens of banners up of state championship teams from all these different sports, and
52:00
it's it's it's a little different in there. So, uh, that's gonna
52:05
be that's gonna be a really good game, and you know, you bet
52:07
that's gonna be on the radio, and that's gonna be a big one for
52:10
the on the girls side this upcoming week. All right, let's jump over
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talk about the boys where some of the games on that side, Well,
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the LC Knoksac Boys will be another good game as well. Look, but
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Lenny Christian is just on a roll Nuk Sac Valley. They have a really
52:22
good squad. They play really well together. I just don't know if they
52:27
have the overall basketball playing ability to stay with Lindy Christian, But I think
52:31
it'll be close in the beginning. They just need to hit their shots and
52:36
and stay stay in it for as long as they can and they'll be fine.
52:39
Uh. Burlington at Meridian is kind of saucy in my head, like
52:44
I kind of look at that one going well, Meridian is you know,
52:46
they played well in the tournament, they won the they won their their their
52:50
holiday tournament. They just haven't had all their guys together. Like, I'm
52:53
looking at the games played and seems like seems like seventy or eighty percent of
52:59
the teams of the players on their team have missed a game for some reason
53:02
or another, and they're all healthy now, so I think it's a good
53:07
launching point for them. Burlington, I've seen a couple times. They got
53:09
like a six to nine kid that can block everything, and they got some
53:14
good shooters, So I think that's gonna be a good matchup on Tuesday.
53:16
But the big one that I see is Bellingham at Lyndon. It's a tall
53:22
task for Bellingham, but they're very, very good and they can make a
53:27
lot of shots. But Lyndon at home, they're gonna be really tough to
53:30
beat. Bellingham can match size with them, We're one of the few teams
53:34
that can. But Lyndon is just so efficient with Anthony Kanalis and Brent Hefner,
53:40
you know, they can both play inside or outside. Jack Stapleton's sixty
53:45
six center, and then they got Ty Hallam and a six to seven guy
53:47
coming off the bench. You got Charlie Yers knocking down threes. You know,
53:52
Brady Elsner's averaging like seven assists a game. So they're just such a
53:55
good, complete team. That's gonna be a great, great match. I'm
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really really excited for that one. Tyler. What else we got anything?
54:04
Are we doube? I think we're done. I just, you know,
54:07
I just I didn't know what to expect on these holiday tournaments. I used
54:10
to cover some for The Herald like twenty years ago, so it's been about
54:14
twenty years since I've been out to these tournaments. And it's a good prep
54:19
for the, uh for the Yakamas Sundome coming up in a couple of months,
54:22
because uh, it's just basketball, basketball, basketball, crazy running around
54:27
going from Jim to Jim, it was. It was a lot of fun,
54:31
you know, seeing Jim Carberry at these gyms I saw, I saw
54:37
Connor, Ben and Tendee at the gym. I saw all the different photographers
54:40
and it's just it's just one of those, you know, crazy things.
54:44
I even texted Jim because I had a question for her. I needed I
54:47
needed the game book. I didn't get a game book from one of the
54:51
games, and I asked him if he had it, and he sent it
54:53
to me, but he sent the wrong one, so I sent, hey,
54:57
can I go, you send me this one? Can you can you
54:59
send me that one? He texted back, and he said, Tyler,
55:01
don't He's like, don't throw me curve balls like this. I'm still recovering
55:06
from the past three days. And it was just funny because it's like,
55:09
you know, he's retired, he's doing this out of passion, and it's
55:14
just you know, he's the best, and so it was just funny how
55:16
he responded like that, and I said, I'm sorry, sir, but
55:20
uh, it's it is crazy. I mean, you know, you start
55:22
looking at there was you know, dozens of games the last three days,
55:25
and it's just been it's been. Uh, it's been crazy. I haven't
55:30
been able to watch all of them yet and get all the stats down,
55:32
but I'm hoping too soon and and have that ready before this this upcoming basically
55:38
the you know, the unofficial second half of the season kicks off. Yeah,
55:43
a true whirlwhip, Yes kind of what you've what you've been experiencing here
55:47
since we last talked, Tyler. So yeah, yeah, I guess that's
55:52
it, uh, I guess. Before we get out of here, though,
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and Watcombe County High School Athletics. Tyler, let's get out of here,
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I guess before we go, Happy New Year? Yes, yeah, happy.
56:24
I mean we're only as we about to hit end here about two hours
56:30
away, so yeah, a little over two hours away from the Have you
56:34
ever been to the space needle for that big thing or that's not your don't.
56:37
I've never been down like down close, but I've watched it from afar.
56:43
One year, we actually decided to go over to West Seattle and watch
56:45
it from there, and that was pretty cool. And then I've watched it
56:49
from oh, what is the name of that? I can't remember the name
56:52
of it. Whatever the hill is on the east side, Capitol Hill,
56:54
I think, yeah, Capitol Hill, something like that. I don't know.
56:57
You know, it's funny. I live right you know, right by
56:59
sea at all it. I never go there. Yeah, I'm just curious
57:04
because you know, I'm always thinking like what people do in New Year's And
57:07
I've got friends that have gone, like live up here and they've gone down
57:08
to the space needol for stuff like that. But I look it back at
57:13
my New Year's and say, man, a big chunk of them, like
57:15
a lot of my memories are playing music at like events. Yeah, you
57:19
know, And and that's that was always kind of what I did for New
57:22
Year's and and uh man, and then all of a sudden it's twelve thirty
57:27
and people start leaving. It's like, man, get my back up my
57:30
car and get out of here and drive safely because you never know what's out
57:32
there. But so yeah, so hopefully people are listening to this in twenty
57:37
twenty four. Hopefully you had a good New Year's Eve and and ready for
57:42
looking ready for the next year. Yeah, yeah, we're excited. We've
57:45
got a lot of plans not only for the rest of the winter sports,
57:47
but there's lots of spring sports coming up as well here on watcome perhaps so
57:53
again, if anybody would like to sponsor anything having to go on with not
57:58
only winter sports, but bring sports, We're gonna do some stuff throughout the
58:02
summer as well. And then we go right back into football. Man.
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Yep, it's crazy going back on. Stop. It's not stopping anymore.
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Tyler, this is this is it. This is your life now, I
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know. Anyway. He's Tyler Anderson of watcom Preps, walkompreps dot com.
58:21
No, just walkompreps, walkompreps dot com. Coach. Uh. I'm Ryland
58:24
Spencer. You've been listening to episode two and twenty six, the Winter Sports
58:29
Weekly wrap up here on the Walk Up Preps podcast. We will talk to
58:32
you in a couple of days. What that