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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 257 - Spring Sports Wrap Up - 5-27 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is the person behind the walcom prep Spotted Instagram account and you're listening to
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  the Walkham Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland Readings and Welcome into the watcom Preps
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  podcast. This is episode two hundred and fifty seven of Spring Sports Weekly wrap
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  Up. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always this Tyler Anderson love watcom
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  Preps. Tyler, how are we doing? Doing great? Relaxed, a
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  little bit long weekend, a lot of stuff going on, and excited to
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  talk about it. Yeah. You know, Tyler, we only played We
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  played two baseball games and I got home and I haven't been that tired in
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  a while. I mean, I was exhausted. It's not even a bad
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  trip over, It's not. It was just a couple of really really long
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  days, man, and you know we we lost the first one, and
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  then that set us up from back to back nine thirty am games, which
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  yeah, yeah, when you're talking about yeah, well, and when you're
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  talking about having to have batting practice before and you know, it's uh sure,
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  Yeah. I came home and uh Saturday night, I sat down on
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  the couch at about eight o'clock and kicked my feet up and by eight thirty.
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  I'm pretty sure I was gone. And uh, I woke up at
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  about four o'clock in the morning and I went whoa, whoa, like what
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  happened here? Yeah, and then I went right back to sleep. Anyway,
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  Let's I mean we have a When I say we have a ton of stuff
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  to talk about, that's even maybe a little bit of an understatement here.
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  We've got track, we've got golf, we've got tennis, we've got baseball,
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  we've got fast pitched, We've got I don't even know, there's probably
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  more to talk about, but yeah, Let's start with track and field,
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  Tyler. The one A State Championships is where we're gonna begin. And that
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  was over there at Zephyl Stadium in Yakama. You even popped in for a
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  little bit, a little bit of the action. Huh. Yeah, Thursday,
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  I you know, right off the bat. Uh that's when I arrived
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  in Eastern Washington, Uh, fresh off going to majors, and I was
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  like, I got to check this out. This is awesome. The weather's
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  great. I got there, you know during warm ups and stuff. Was
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  there for the you know, the Star Spangled banner and and and caught you
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  know, probably six or seven events and what it's just it's just so massive
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  and all the people and the throwing is like behind the stadium and I walked
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  around you know, the whole stadium a few times and just kind of caught
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  a lot of stuff going on. There's always something, and I was really
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  impressed with how there's the there's like the tracker, like on the website,
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  you could see everything that's going on live, you know, like it'll be
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  like this person just crossed finish line. This person just and it's it's really
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  cool to have all that stuff. But yeah, it was. It was.
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  It was really neat my first time ever when a track. Well,
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  let's talk a little bit about the team scores. Kings if North Seattle they
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  win the girls one A state championship with eighty two points, and I don't
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  know what that exactly means until I look down and I see Lyndon Christian comes
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  in second with fifty three. So kind of a dominating performance by the Kings.
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  Knights on the boys side, Cedar Park Christian they are the state champions
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  with sixty two points. Seattle Academy right on their heels at fifty nine,
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  but Meridian finishes fourth with forty four and a half and Lyndon Christian coming in
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  eighth with twenty five points. Tyler, let's go through and we will talk
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  about the top eight finishers. Basically anybody that got on the podium. Is
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  that what it is? Yeah? Well, basically get scoring points for your
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  team. So yeah, yeah, so let's talk girls and we will start
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  in eighth place. Tyler, I see one athlete from Wakam County in eighth
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  place. Yeah, Mount Baker High School. Love Jane Lentz there it is
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  in the four hundred meters dash, squeaked in there to get to get a
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  point for for Mount Baker with one minute two seconds two point seven to two
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  seconds in the four hundred. Five athletes from Wacom County finished in seventh place.
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  Yeah, this is a They're all from Lennon Christian Tabby de Young in
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  the discus one hundred and eleven feet nine inches, Aleena velt Camp and the
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  triple jump thirty three feet ten and three quarters inches, Josie Hendrix in the
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  pole vault at ten feet, Edit to Young in the four hundred a little
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  bit over a minute one oh one point two eight and the four x four
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  hundred relay team Avery langstrat Estella Hernanez, Kayla Yun and Edit de Young four
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  minutes and seventeen point two six seconds in sixth place. We had three athletes,
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  Logan Ignacio from Meridian, the long distance runner in the sixteen hundred five
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  minutes twelve point seven seconds, Sadie Mullyacht in the long jump sixteen feet seven
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  and three quarters inches, and Alena velt Camp once again in this time in
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  the one hundred hurdles sixteen point twenty four seconds. Fifth place has a Meridian
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  trojan and one athlete high school. Yeah, Amilia Coning, the freshman from
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  Meridian in the triple jump thirty four feet one and a half inches, and
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  Natalie Horseman from Mount Baker in the pole vault ten feet tether. That last
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  name sounds kind of familiar. Yes, it is fourth place, Tyler.
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  Two more athletes, Yeah, a couple of speedsters here from Walking County.
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  Morgan Delgado from Lendy Christian in the one hundred twelve point seven seconds, and
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  Cheyenne Parker of Blaine, just a freshman in the two hundred twenty six point
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  twenty nine seconds. And sticking with the trend, how about two more in
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  third place? Yeah, Ellie van Lowe from Lenny Christian in the discus one
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  hundred and nineteen feet. You know I got to see her in personal during
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  the season a really really impressive athlete, and Logan Ignacio from Meridian saw her
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  a lot as well. In the thirty two hundred, eleven minutes twenty seven
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  point eight nine seconds, second place two well technically five people, but it's
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  two different events. Yeah, there you go. Tab it to Young in
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  the in the shot put forty two feet six and a half inches. Just
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  an awesome career overall for her in multiple sports. And then in the four
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  by one hundred relay, elenavelt Camp, Sadie Mullyacht, Josie Hendricks, and
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  Morgan Delgado fifty point four eight seconds. Couple of those names you just mentioned
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  are also state champions. Tyler. Yeah, the Linden Christian four by two
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  hundred relay team won it by four one hundredths of a second. Wow.
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  Josie Hendricks, Sadie Mullyacht, edit to Young and Estella Hernandez in the four
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  by two hundred relay one minute forty six point three five seconds. Just a
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  unbelievable time. You know, you go to you go to a lot of
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  track meets and that's always the first event that you see because the boys don't
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  run a four by two hundred, so they set up. They already have
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  the you know, they already have the the hurdles set up, but they
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  just run that and get it over with and go to the next thing.
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  And so it's always kind of a you know, a shocker right right away,
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  but really really cool that the Links won that one bring home a state
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  championship as a team. There. Let's talk you know something that's kind of
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  funny too, Taylers, Like, we see these numbers all year and it's
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  like, oh, the best time Walkome County or the best this, you
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  know, and you see all these times, and then you get them into
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  the state tournament, You're like, wow, that's where they sit in state,
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  you know what I mean? Like, yeah, where they Yeah,
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  where they fit. It's the same thing for like tennis and a lot of
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  things where you go, well, who are they? How good is really
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  good? Yeah? Right? You just don't know what that means anywhere,
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  you know what I mean? Yeah, you really don't, especially because we
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  just simply can't and don't follow it on the full state level. Sure,
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  let's talk the boys side. Tyler eighth place four athletes from Wakam County.
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  Yeah, loaded with a lot of Meridian Trodren's here. Braxton Ashmore from Meridian
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  in the sixteen hundred, four minutes twenty seven point zero four seconds. Willem
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  Nichols in the pole vault squeaked in there on the podium for with a thirteen
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  foot vault. Jason Clinkhammer from Meridian, you know, one of the favorites
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  in the two hundred, but a time of thirty six point seven to one,
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  which tells me that he must have fell or something, because I think
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  in the prelimbs it was, you know, twenty one seconds or something like
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  that. So, and then Alex Mololi in the school right in the in
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  the javelin one hundred and sixty five feet and ten inches. I'll be on
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  that from here on out. Yeah, seventh place Tyler. Two athletes placing
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  from Walkham County. Yeah, Tyson Bima from Lenny Christian, really good athlete
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  that we saw a lot on the football field high jumped six feet and then
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  Christopher Sierra from Mount Bigger High School in the one hundred ambulatory division twenty two
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  point five six seconds. Christopher Sierra from high school also finished sixth place in
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  an event Tyler, and so did two other events from Walkham, Yeah,
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  Sierra in the shot put ambulatory division twelve feet one and a half inches,
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  and then Joey Brown and the javelin from Nukzack Valley one hundred and seventy five
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  feet and two inches. There was a lot of big time scores there.
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  By the way, your boy from Bothel took the four A state championship.
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  I noticed, I wanted to hurry it. I want twenty feet yeah,
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  yeah, yeah. And then Lennon Christian four by one team Mick Owen,
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  Boyce Robertson, Carson Khruswick, and Tyson Bima from Lennon Christian forty four point
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  four to two seconds. And what was interesting about this is, I don't
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  know. I don't think these guys ran together a ton during the regular season.
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  I know Mick Owen and Boyce Robertson were doing a lot of long jump
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  triple jump stuff, and then late in the year they they joined up and
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  formed this team and got sixth place in state. Yeah. We on Saturday,
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  Tyler, we got back to the high school at the same time.
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  Tracted Oh cool. So I went over and wish Kyle of you know,
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  congratulations, you know, blah blah, blah, I go, all right,
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  well you're ridiculous. I turn around and walked away. Yeah, there's
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  always that one coach that tells it is Yeah, I mean's he is,
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  He's ridiculous. How about fifth place, Tyler? We got four more athletes,
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  Yeah, all of them from Lyndon Christian. Mick Owen from Lennon Christian,
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  last year's state champion in the triple jump, took fifth place this year,
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  still had another year to go as well. I was there to watch
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  this forty one feet six and a quarter inches Nicholas Lose from Lindy Christian sixteen
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  in the sixteen hundred and four minutes twenty five point six seconds, Tyson Bima
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  from Lendy Christian in the long jump twenty feet ten and three quarters inches,
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  and Gibson Lewis High School and the shot put ambulatory division twelve feet eleven and
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  a half inches. How about fourth place? We got two more athletes,
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  both from Meridian this time. Yeah. Dane Bischlined from Meridian one hundred and
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  ten the one ten high hurdles fourteen point ninety five. Man, you run
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  that under fifteen seconds, you are cruising. And so there was a lot
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  of big time athletes there because that's fourth place. Yeah, yeah, to
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  get fourth place, So the fourteen point ninety five is unbelievable. I always
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  marveled at you know, Andre Korbmacher from Squalicum, who's the state record holder
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  for all classifications in this event, he ran it in like thirteen to seven
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  or something. Yeah, easy thing, and that's why he's running at Florida
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  State now. And Braxton Ashmore for Meridian in the thirty two hundred and nine
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  minutes thirty five point seventy five seconds, third place, another Meridian trojan.
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  Yeah, always like, always like watching Ret Dirst there in the shot put
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  forty nine feet ten and three quarters inches. I wish he would have done
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  a little better in the discus. I think he scratched every throw his first
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  three throws, so he was out after the first you know, the first
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  flight or whatever. And boy, as a kid that works really, really
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  hard, and he was the one who I thought originally was behind Walker prep
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  spotted, but listening to that intro, he is not. I've never talked
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  to the guy before, but I don't think it is. Yeah, I
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  don't think it's him. But a good job for him. Just a sophomore,
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  and you know, pretty good, pretty good showing there in the shotput,
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  We've got one, two, three, four, we got five at
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  second place finishes. Tyler. Yeah, the start off with Christopher Sierra School
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  uh in the javelin ambulatory division twenty nine feet ten inches, Kean Coppinger in
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  the shot put fifty feet eleven inches. Been so fun watching him in his
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  career multiple sports. Jace Clinkhammer in the one hundred ten point six seven,
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  which is ridiculous, that actually broke the one A state record, but or
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  you know, it would have, but there was a guy in front of
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  him that got ran like ten five or something like that, Reggie Witherspoon from
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  Seattle Academy, and there those guys. Those guys battled against each other in
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  the districts and everything, so it was kind of everyone knew it was gonna
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  come down to those two guys. I can't I can't imagine how fast he
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  has on the football field, My goodness. Yeah, he's pretty dangn quick.
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  Yeah, and then jays quink Camer again in the four hundred and forty
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  nine point seven seven seconds and Nicholas Loose in the thirty two hundred took second
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  place nine minutes thirty four point zero seven seconds. Let's see here, Tyler,
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  we've got won two state champions. Yeah. Ken Coppinger in the discus,
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  Congratulations to him from the Knixack Valley Pioneers with a personal best of one
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  hundred and seventy nine feet and six inches. I was there when he threw
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  for the first time in his career over one sixty and it was a big
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  celebration and it was a really cool deal. But boy, he he unheaved
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  that one. It was his first throw of the day too, so uh
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  and that's that's huge because everyone else sees that and goes, oh no,
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  and you could, you know, knock a little wind out of everybody with
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  that. And then in the four by one hundred relays, this was kind
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  of you know, if I would have said the surest bet to come home
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  with the state champion and all the track and field events, this would have
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  been the one. Josh den Elmer, Jas Clinkamer, Caleb Young, and
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  Casey Brennan four by one undred relay from Meridian forty three point four to four
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  seconds. It's just I think they won every race they did all year.
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  It's just every single time, and it was by pretty good margin. Usually
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  Tyler. You know we always talk about we always talk about Kyle Orge,
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  our what do you call it javelin thrower, Right, I do got to
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  mention also we at Bothel, we had another young man he's in the ambulatory
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  Logan Powell, who plays left tackle and defensive end for US. Also,
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  yeah, he I believe was born without the lower half of his left leg.
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  And this young man won state championship in shot put with a distance of
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  thirty seven seven and a half. The next closest was twenty three to nine,
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  and then in the discus eighty two feet one inches and the next closest
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  was sixty five to two. Yeah, I mean, just absolutely chuck on
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  him. But the he ended up being a little disappointed because his javelin throw
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  wasn't very good, but I mean his arm was probably a little tired by
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  this point, only eighty five feet four inches and he actually holds the state
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  meet record with one hundred and eleven feet five inches, so which actually would
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  not have been good enough to win anyway. But yeah, pretty cool.
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  Yeah, I mean he can absolutely, he's probably one of the strongest kids
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  that was in our football program, and yeah, compete there in the ambulatory
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  let's talk. Let's see we got to go to two A, Tyler.
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  Yeah, two A was down at Mount Tahoma High School down in Tacoma.
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  Oh, Tyler, you know what did I Let me just look at one
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  thing really quickly, Tyler, do we Yeah? Okay, to a Mountahoma
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  High School? Where were I out here? There it is. We've got
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  let's see here, we've got state champions. On the girls side, East
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  Valley of Spokane with sixty seven points. Cedar Crest they finished second with fifty
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  nine, and then three straight Walkham County schools Lynden fifty six points, Sea
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  Home fifty four, and Bellingham forty seven. On the boys side, no
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  teams from Wakham County finished in the top ten. But Anna chortus, we
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  do talk about them a little bit here there. Maybe not make some people
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  happy, but Anna chordis, they did finish tied for first with Columbia River,
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  So congratulations to them. Let's talk about the top eight finishes from the
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  girls side, Tyler, and we will start with eighth place where we had
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  well, what would be it'd be seven girls, three different events or four
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  different events. Yeah, there's a lot of big time scores here, and
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  again I want to congratulate those three walking kind of teams were right there.
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  And it's crazy because you know, like Bellingham, wouldn't you usually even score
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  very high in some different events and stuff like that. But it shows that
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  they have so much top end talent that when you get to the state level,
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  they could put up you know, ten points here, ten points there
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  because of you know, the top end talent they have, which was really
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  impressive. Yeah. In eighth place, Samantha nit from Sea Home sixteen hundred
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  meter they finished five minutes thirteen point two six seconds. Rita vander May from
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  Linden and the three hundred hurdles forty seven point nine to five, the four
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  by one hundred relay team for Squalicum with Jolie Paz, Emily Horst, Hannah
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  Warner and Addison Warner fifty one point five to seven seconds, and Ella Frericks
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  from Lyndon in the four hundred and fifty nine point five two. You run
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  that full lap in under a minute, especially in the girls division, really
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  really impress see that. Yeah, I don't care who you are, that's
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  fast, way faster than you and me too. Seventh place, Tyler two
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  athletes from Walkam County. Yeah, Callie Young from Bellingham and the pole vault
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  ten feet. I was thinking she might get like a top three finish here,
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  but ten feet is still pretty darn good. And then Jada Derek from
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  Seahome in the two hundred twenty six point five to six. I mean she
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  could jump over a basketball rim with that pole vault. H yeah, I
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  mean technically that's what she did. Yeah, let's see hear Tyler sixth place.
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  Two more Yeah, bell and Lopez from Lyndon saw her dominate in the
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  girl's wrestling scene with a shot put thirty five feet nine and three quarters inches.
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  And then also from Lyndon, Keiki York in the two hundred meter dash
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  twenty six point three eight seconds. Really impressive athlete. Excited to see her
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  come back next year again on the basketball team with the best lockdown defender I
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  saw year and really good track athlete as well. Now we've been having higher
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  number of athletes with lower number of events. Now this time it's a higher
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  number of events, lower number of athletes. Because there's five different events here
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  that took fifth place, but only four girls. Yeah, it's really impressive
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  and what this is what really stands out as teammates Chase Flick Williams and Genevieve
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  Blum tied for fifth place in the long in the same competition in the long
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  jump sixteen feet nine inches. That's really really cool for both of them.
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  And then Chase Flick Williams also in the triple jump took fifth place thirty four
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  feet three and three quarters inches. Kira Reeves from Seahome in the three hundred
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  hurdles forty seven point one point one and Sidney Harry from Seahome in the thirty
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  two hundred eleven minutes fifteen point four one seconds. We had five fifth places.
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  Now we get four fourth places. Tyler Yeah, Joe Lee Paz and
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  the from Squalicum in the one hundred hurdles, just a sophomore, she was
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  the competitor that's in this plus in the shot foot which was just a just
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  a really you unique athlete with a with an unbelievable skill set sixteen point two
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  zero seconds and one hundred hurdles to take fourth place. Samantha Nip from Sea
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  Home in the eight hundred two minutes nineteen point five to two seconds. The
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  four by one hundred really team from Seahome consisting of Bella Coonell, Maddelin Hill,
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  Kylie Ivshevek and Jada Derrek from uh with fifty point three to one and
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  Lil Desler from Sea Hoome in the thirty two hundred eleven minutes thirteen point four
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  to six seconds. See home always boys and girls side always has a good
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  stock of long distance runners, of course, winning all those state titles on
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  the in cross country as well. Well, let's talk third place where we've
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  got five more events. Yeah, Sloan Dixon in the sixteen hundred four fifty
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  eight point twenty eight. Just what an unbelievable time. Basically a mile under
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  five minutes is crazy. Bella Connell and from Sea Home and the hurdles the
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  hunter Mere hurdles sixteen point one nine Genevieve Blum again and this time in the
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  triple jump thirty four feet nine inches. The four x two hundred relay team
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  from Seahome Amaya Reid, Alena Kratzov, Madeline Hill and Kylie Ifsovik four by
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  two hundred and one minute forty five point zero six seconds, and Jada Derrock
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  from Seahome in the four hundred fifty seven point zero five. We got five.
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  No excuse me, We've got three relays here in getting second place,
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  including one that was just barely behind the state champion from Walkam County. But
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  we've got five total events here getting second place from Walkom County. Yeah,
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  Sophia Cock from Bellingham six in the sixteen hundred, four minutes fifty seven point
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  eight four seconds, again under five minutes, is crazy. Good Faith van
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  Brocklan from Lyndon in the three hundred hurdles forty five point four to eight.
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  Just an unbelievable athlete. And you know, I went to high school with
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  her parents and and uh, just really really good athlete there. And then
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  you're right, this is so crazy. All three relay teams from London took
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  second place, Rita vander May, Ella Frearricks, Faith Van Brooklyn, Keky
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  York and the four by two hundred, Rita Vander make Keik York, Eve
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  Ellis and Maya Engeldoo from U the four by one hundred, and then Sloan
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  Dixon, Faith Van Brocklyn, Ella Farricks and Keky York in the four by
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  four hundred. So what are I mean are we looking at? Is there
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  Anyonody that took. I mean, Faith Van Brocklyn has basically three second place,
• 23:30
  Keky York has three second place and crazy. Yeah, it's just you
• 23:34
  know, you see these names over and over again. It's crazy, it
• 23:37
  is wild. I mean that is unbelievable. Really, let's see here,
• 23:44
  Tyler, we've got four state champion events with well, I guess what we
• 23:48
  got here? One, two, three, four, five, six names
• 23:52
  to list off. Yeah, the four x four hundred really team from Sea
• 23:56
  Home which just narrowed out the Linden team Kira Reeves, Amaya Reid, Madeline
• 24:02
  Hill and Arena Elena kratsof four minutes just over four minutes, four minutes point
• 24:07
  three four seconds and they always you know close the events with the four by
• 24:11
  four hundred Saturday night, really really impressive there. Sofia Calabretta from Bellingham the
• 24:18
  speedster took takes first place in the one hundred and the two hundred really impressive
• 24:22
  in the one hundred, twelve point one five that is Burnin and then the
• 24:26
  two hundred and twenty five point seven to two, and then Sloan Dixon from
• 24:30
  Lyndon in the eight hundred to is the state champion two minutes and fifteen point
• 24:34
  four seconds. She was, I mean, you know, she was also
• 24:38
  on that four x four hundred RelA team. She took third in the sixteen
• 24:41
  hundred. So a lot of big time athletes finishing their seasons and some of
• 24:47
  them their careers on a high note. Let's talk boys top eight place finishers
• 24:53
  here, Tyler, and eighth place is actually the same person that sponsors the
• 25:00
  pitch player of the week. No sponsor, so no eighth place. How
• 25:03
  about seventh place, Tyler? We got two boys listed there. Yeah,
• 25:07
  a couple from Squalicum here. Finn Smith, who you know, came up
• 25:11
  to me during an event and introduced himself, and it was funny because he
• 25:15
  even said, like he goes, there should be no reason why you should
• 25:17
  know who I am. It was really humble about it. And then he
• 25:19
  goes into get seventh place in state in the pole vault twelve feet six inches
• 25:23
  And trust me, Finn, I know who you are now. And Chase
• 25:26
  Bartlett from Squalicum in the eight hundred in under two minutes, one minute,
• 25:30
  fifty seven point three eight seconds, another Squalicum, a Lindon and a Sea
• 25:34
  Home getting sixth place. Yeah, Adam Perry from Seahome in the triple jump
• 25:40
  forty two feet seven point twenty five inches. He was another kid who I
• 25:42
  thought had a good chance of doing some damage there, but boy, some
• 25:45
  of those distances were unreal. And you know the all time state leader is
• 25:51
  Cason Williams and that is in the triple jump. Wow, that doesn't totally
• 25:55
  surprise me, right, Yeah, we both know how good of an athlete
• 25:57
  he was. Yeah, and uh and a super good person too, by
• 26:03
  the way, Like, yeah, really really nice guy. Yeah. Gage
• 26:06
  Ellis from Lyndon in the eight hundred, one minute fifty seven point three one
• 26:10
  seconds, and Teagan Daughters from Squalicum in the one hundred with an eleven point
• 26:14
  six y five couple of Seahome Mariners, Tyler in fifth place. Yeah,
• 26:19
  Jack Brady in the one ten hurdles the high hurdles fifteen point seven to two.
• 26:25
  And then Nick Gargano, the son of Miss Walkin Prep's doctor who's retiring
• 26:29
  in a few days in the thirty two hundred, nine minutes twenty two point
• 26:33
  six eight seconds. That's you know, eight laps around and doing it in
• 26:37
  under nine and a half minutes is kind of hard for me to fathom.
• 26:41
  You've got to keep that rhythm going pretty pretty strong all the way through.
• 26:45
  It's really impressive. Just a junior as well. I'm not sure I could
• 26:47
  walk eight laps in nine hours in twenty two minutes. Let's talk fourth place,
• 26:52
  Tyler, one athlete listed from Lyndon. Yeah, Jared McCrory in the
• 26:56
  poll vault, just really impressive all year, always one of the one of
• 27:00
  the top guys, you know, the best pole vaulter in walkin County.
• 27:04
  Fourteen feet six inches. You know, it's crazy, Tyler. When you
• 27:07
  look at fourth place and then you go look at seventh place where Finn Smith
• 27:11
  was two foot different. Yeah, I mean, whoa like that is a
• 27:18
  huge jump. I mean, at least it seems like it is. I
• 27:19
  don't I guess I don't actually know if it is or isn't. Yeah,
• 27:22
  I think they go up by six inch increments until there's three or three competitors
• 27:27
  left, and then they can go up by threes if you want, or
• 27:30
  something like that. So that's wild. Yeah. Third place two events here,
• 27:34
  both squalum, Yeah, Teak and daughters in both of these in the
• 27:40
  two hundred finishes. Third twenty two point three, three seconds, and he
• 27:42
  was also part of the four by four hundred relay team with Chase Bartlett,
• 27:47
  ty Hoffman and Owen Voight three minutes twenty six point two six seconds. One
• 27:52
  athlete finished in second place, Yeah, Maxton Rush from Seahome. That I
• 27:57
  think. I'm pretty sure this was his personal best too. In the long
• 28:00
  jump twenty two feet one in three quarters inches. You start talking over twenty
• 28:06
  feet is really impressive. You get over twenty two feet now you're really talking,
• 28:10
  and I would imagine that was his longest all year, probably in his
• 28:12
  career. Wow, that's impressive. Twenty two to one in three quarters one
• 28:18
  State champion Tyler Yeah, Hunter Decentz from Bellingham and the one ten high high
• 28:25
  hurdles fifteen point two one. Kind of came on halfway through the year and
• 28:30
  was doing really really well. And I don't know if he lost that race,
• 28:34
  you know, you know, it hasn't in a while, and he
• 28:37
  just kind of kept kept crusing, kept cruising and takes home the state championship
• 28:41
  for the BayHawks that is boys and girls state track and field. Again,
• 28:47
  thank you to Staffer Insurance and Linden for their continued support of everything Watkum preps.
• 28:52
  Does Tyler, what was it they did in the winner? Boys swimming?
• 28:56
  That's right, boy swim and dive, right, swim and dive.
• 29:00
  Yes, yeah, boys women dive. And then I don't know if they're
• 29:03
  lined up for the fall, but I got a feeling they'll find something.
• 29:07
  Oh they already are. Oh okay, well there we go. Yeah,
• 29:11
  Tyler, let's talk a girls tennis. The two A state championship was down
• 29:15
  there at the Nordstrom Tennis Center in the Seattle. Let's start with the singles.
• 29:22
  A couple of finishers there. Yeah, And before we get into this,
• 29:26
  I was just gonna say that on the boys side, when we talked
• 29:29
  about the Ana chordis athlete, Yes, making the decision, he did go
• 29:32
  and play tennis. Wow, good friends. And I don't know how they
• 29:34
  finished, but I know they won. I was kind of tracking it a
• 29:37
  little bit and they did win a few and on his doubles team, so
• 29:41
  so yeah, so I'll look it up. Tyler. You talk about the
• 29:45
  singles finishers. Yeah, so on the singles side, and again this is
• 29:48
  something we talked about with not really knowing how good the rest of the state
• 29:53
  is. We see them against walkin County competition or Northwest Conference competition and we
• 29:57
  don't really know. And and the two top singles players from Walking County go
• 30:03
  on and did pretty well. Anna Samukovich from Lyndon took third place. She
• 30:07
  lost in the semis to the eventual state champion, so you know, it
• 30:12
  makes sense that she gets knocked down and wins and then takes third place.
• 30:15
  So really impressive, uh in that in that respect. And then Malia Hanks
• 30:19
  from Bellingham took eighth place. Uh, so they both got in there,
• 30:22
  they both placed, and that's that's really really impressive, and it gives me
• 30:26
  kind of an idea of where they stand within the state rankings. So it's
• 30:32
  really cool. Yeah, Tyler, so young man from from Anna Chordus made
• 30:37
  the right move? Did they? How do they do? Not only did
• 30:41
  they win the state championship, but they didn't lose a set. Yeah.
• 30:45
  Yeah, maybe it was an easier decision than we thought. Two O two
• 30:48
  O two oh and two oh. I mean wow, good. I knew
• 30:52
  they won in the beginning because I was looking at it. I wanted to
• 30:56
  make sure, but I kind of wanted to look just in case, because
• 31:00
  if they weren't going to play the belling Amp team was going to come in,
• 31:03
  so I wanted to just make sure that it was there was Walking County
• 31:07
  involved or not involved. And when I saw that he participated and they won,
• 31:11
  I was like, Okay, that's all I need to know. I
• 31:12
  didn't know they won at all. That's awesome. Yeah, something that's interesting
• 31:15
  too. And obviously I don't know anything about this stuff. But twenty six
• 31:19
  total matches, only five total sets, one by losing teams, if that
• 31:27
  makes sense. So everything was two oh except for one was right or excuse
• 31:33
  me, five of them were two to one. Yeah, that seems pretty
• 31:37
  surprising. But yeah, uh two O two O two O two oh for
• 31:42
  uh for the Ana Chortus kids. So wow, good move, smart man,
• 31:48
  good job. Yeah, let's talk doubles, Tyler. What do we
• 31:52
  got over there? Yeah, well, a couple of really strong teams here.
• 31:56
  The Newcomb sisters Kilani and Rolana took fourth place, and and uh,
• 32:00
  you know, saw them all year do really really well. But man,
• 32:04
  I was really I was really excited to see how Ela Mora and Kira Carlson
• 32:07
  would do. Last year's state runner up, they go in, they win
• 32:12
  the state championship. As a doubles team so awesome. And they would break
• 32:15
  off the singles every once in a while, but when they played together in
• 32:19
  doubles, they was just they were just dominant. And uh, and I
• 32:22
  got to see them at Ferndale, I saw them at Seahome, I saw
• 32:25
  that. I saw them team up in different places, saw them in the
• 32:29
  district tournament, and uh, they go and then win state here. Just
• 32:32
  a great, great job. And and coach Steve Cronister's got to be extremely
• 32:37
  proud. He's he's he's seen a lot of tennis and knows knows what he's
• 32:40
  doing, and and he brings home a double state champion. Uh, let's
• 32:45
  move on. Talk about boys golf. Tyler to state tournament for one a
• 32:51
  down at Riverside Country Club down in Sha Halis. Uh, what do we
• 32:54
  have down there? Yeah, on the on the on the boy's side,
• 32:59
  No Meridian took second as the as a team, and then they also brought
• 33:02
  home this individual state champion. Daniel Blankenberg won up by seven strokes. He
• 33:07
  shot, he had the best score in day one and day two, so
• 33:13
  there was he left no doubt. And uh, an underclassman too. So
• 33:17
  that's a really really impressive thing, and and uh, what a, what
• 33:22
  a what a great job by him. He's always near the top, you
• 33:24
  know, with you know, but he's always golfing against a lot of two
• 33:27
  A and three A competition. You know, Burlington won state as a team
• 33:30
  for two A and we always and we talked about how good Baylor Larrabie is,
• 33:35
  but these are these are upper classification golfers, and he's always kind of
• 33:37
  in the mix with them. So then you bring him out in the in
• 33:42
  against other one A teams and he just showed what he could do and he
• 33:45
  didn't fall under pressure. He did awesome. Also making the cut from Walking
• 33:49
  County where Matthew Blankenberg from Meridian and Thomas and Hartog who tied for twentieth place.
• 33:54
  Uh, Thomas and Hartog from Lynn lynnon Christians So but again Meridian also
• 33:59
  took take took second as a team. Two A was over at Liberty Lake
• 34:02
  in eastern Washington. I'm seeing what four names here from Wacom County. Tyler,
• 34:09
  Yeah, a couple of Seahome golfers, couple of Linden golfers, and
• 34:15
  they did they did pretty well. John Coomer from Seahome and Jack Stapleton from
• 34:19
  London tied for ninth place, and then Crew Price from Lindon finished in twentieth.
• 34:27
  Really came on strong at the end of the year and it was,
• 34:30
  you know, kind of in the middle of the pack a lot during the
• 34:31
  year and then just started rising up at the end doing really well to cap
• 34:37
  off his senior season. And Gabe Quick from Seahome made the cut but finished
• 34:40
  thirty second in Day two three a at Hawke's Prairie down in Lacy Ferndale's Baylor
• 34:47
  Lairbee Tyler with the name that we were all looking for. What happened with
• 34:51
  him, Well, it's a tough first day and he had to bounce back
• 34:57
  and he had an unbelievable second day but was just unstroke behind the eventual champion.
• 35:02
  So he took second place in the three individual competition. But as far
• 35:07
  as just a single round, his Day two round was better than anybody else's.
• 35:12
  But he had to overcome a tough first day and that's that, and
• 35:15
  that's that's golf man, you know it's and he knows it better than anybody.
• 35:20
  But still to come back and finish in second places is very very impressive.
• 35:23
  Yeah, when I when I was I checked in on after the first
• 35:28
  day and I was like, Wow, I was not expecting that. And
• 35:31
  then I check in after the second day and it was like, and that
• 35:35
  is what I was expecting. Like, that's that's a little more like it.
• 35:37
  There. Let's talk girls golf. Tyler State Tournament one A also down
• 35:42
  a riverside in Shahli's one athlete from Wacom County in there. Yeah, a
• 35:46
  couple athletes were sent. Jovie Jensen did not make the cut, but Madeleine
• 35:50
  Angles did from Lenny Christian, she finished in sixteenth place. Two A out
• 35:54
  at Meadowwood in Liberty Lake. Three athletes make the cut there. Yeah,
• 36:00
  as they did. They all did pretty pretty well and I think Linden finished
• 36:06
  eighth as a team. And from Lyndon, Lucy Jones took thirty third place.
• 36:10
  Kinsley Rector twentieth place. A couple of underclassmen there so though, they'll
• 36:15
  be back next year to help build that team even more. And then Cassie
• 36:19
  Hogan from Seaholme was the highest Walkam County finisher from in fourteenth place. She
• 36:23
  is a senior though, so that was her final term. That is boys
• 36:28
  and girls golf. Let's talk boys soccer brought to you by North County Alliance
• 36:32
  FC. You can find them online at NC alliance fc dot com. Tyler,
• 36:37
  let's take a look over the bracket. Only two games left to play
• 36:40
  this week, and it was in the semi finals on Thursday down at Renton
• 36:45
  Memorial Stadium and then Sea Home. They get a win Thursday, or excuse
• 36:50
  me, Friday, get a win Friday, and that sets up a game
• 36:52
  against Franklin Pierce, who knocked out Squalla Com last week, and then they
• 36:58
  fall in the championship game. But Tyler, heck of a season from Sea
• 37:01
  Home and a couple of really close games as well. Yeah, that first
• 37:05
  game Asher Sullivan who plays you know, center back, but he he's got
• 37:09
  he's got a knack on corner kicks to head the ball in, big tall
• 37:15
  kid. Uh and and and that's how they got their goals. They win
• 37:19
  two to one in the semis there and uh to set up the state championship
• 37:23
  against Franklin Pierce, who you know. I saw the whole game against Squallykum,
• 37:28
  a really really close game. That was the crazy weather game, back
• 37:30
  and forth, and then I sat and watched the entire state championship game in
• 37:36
  my hotel room. Uh. And you know, I was done for the
• 37:38
  day as far as covering stuff. I'm writing things. I have that on
• 37:42
  the screen. And and boy, it was crazy because pretty early in the
• 37:47
  game, I would I would say, ten minutes into the game, there's
• 37:51
  a red card given to a Sea Home player. And I I don't know
• 37:54
  that much about soccer. I know the yellow card and red card. I
• 37:58
  know that they exist. I didn't know exactly actly what they did. But
• 38:01
  Sealm had to play with one man down the rest of the game. I
• 38:05
  didn't know that rule. I didn't know that rule. Well too, yellows
• 38:08
  equal a red too if he didn't know that, right, I knew about
• 38:10
  that, but I didn't know what a red meant. I thought I thought
• 38:14
  that he's ejected for the game. I didn't know they had to play with
• 38:16
  like a player down. Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And this was the
• 38:21
  This was early so Seem's playing with the player down. It's still it's still
• 38:24
  scoreless at the half. And I was like, Okay, they're staying with
• 38:28
  it. And the announcers for announcers were fantastic. They were on top of
• 38:31
  things. Uh. And and they they knew, they know, they knew
• 38:35
  every player by name. It wasn't like, okay, number twenty four to
• 38:37
  number ten, like I can't stand that, you know. And they did
• 38:40
  a great, great job and uh and I was, you know, and
• 38:45
  now it's like, man, I've seen the seem team like a dozen times,
• 38:47
  like I know exactly who all these kids are, and uh, you
• 38:52
  know, it just kept going, kept going. Noah, Allen scores a
• 38:55
  goal like the sixty fifth minute, and I'm thinking, holy cow, they
• 38:59
  just they're a man down, you know, or I mean, I don't
• 39:02
  know if they do it and call it in soccer a short handed goal.
• 39:05
  I know in hockey, you know that's the term. But uh but basically,
• 39:09
  but unlike hockey, you don't score the goal, which means your player
• 39:14
  gets to come back in this is a you know. But then right and
• 39:17
  Franklin Pierce like two minutes later scored a goal, so it was short lived,
• 39:22
  and uh go into the overtime period to play a couple five minute periods.
• 39:27
  First one is is you know, not a whole lot kind of uneventful,
• 39:30
  and the second one right at the end, it looked like Linden had
• 39:37
  a really good chance of scoring on a corner kick, the ball goes asked,
• 39:40
  what's that? See home? Yeah? See or what did I say,
• 39:44
  Linden? Oh, no, green and yellow team? Right, you
• 39:49
  got that right? Yeah. Sealm had a really good chance. They actually
• 39:52
  put went past the goalie, but a defender deflected it. It was a
• 39:57
  really good play by the Franklin Pierce defender. And and right after that the
• 40:01
  feather final buzzer goes or the whistle, I should say, And then they
• 40:06
  had to go to penalty kicks. And you know that's always a tricky deal
• 40:10
  when you're determining a state championship by penalty kicks. Franklin Pierce going into this
• 40:16
  game was, you know, undefeated on the season and seeom had one defeat
• 40:21
  and that was in penalty kicks, and now they're in penalty kicks again,
• 40:23
  and it was just kind of back and forth. I believe it was the
• 40:25
  third player for Seahome uh kind of saled one over the goal and and and
• 40:34
  Franklin Pierce made all of their So it came down to the final one.
• 40:37
  And what was really interesting about this was like with a minute left to go
• 40:43
  in the second overtime, is Franklin Pierce subbed their goalie they brought in a
• 40:49
  whole they brought a new goalie, and the announcers were saying, and they're
• 40:52
  probably setting this up for the penalty kicks. Yeah, because you have to
• 40:57
  have played in the game. And now this goalie is fresh. Yep.
• 41:00
  So I'm not sure it has something to do with Maybe he's got like more
• 41:04
  length, Maybe he's just better in the shootout, who knows, right,
• 41:07
  And so they and they were both seniors, both goalies were seniors. So
• 41:10
  cool that he was able to get in as well. And Franklin Pierce won
• 41:15
  their first ever state soccer championship and and uh, you know, it was
• 41:19
  disappointing. I mean, I was, what a great season for the Mariners.
• 41:24
  And you know, I mean they had one tie. I was there
• 41:28
  for that one. They had the one loss, so I was there for
• 41:30
  that one. But after regular they never lost in regulation all year. Really
• 41:36
  really good team and a lot of seniors on that team. But what a
• 41:39
  what a great season for the Mariners. Uh yeah, I mean that's just
• 41:44
  a truly a tremendous I mean they're basically one kick away, you know,
• 41:49
  Yeah, I mean it's pretty wild. Let's talk final scoring leaders Tyler again,
• 41:53
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• 41:59
  why don't you just go ahead and go through the top ten? Yeah,
• 42:01
  you know this is final up, you know, after the whole complete
• 42:05
  season including playoffs. Judah Straight from Bellingham led with twenty five goals, And
• 42:10
  to put it in context, I like, even going into season, I
• 42:14
  have no clue what like the top goal getter would have, Like you know,
• 42:17
  I would just never know. So it's kind of cool to have these
• 42:20
  numbers and have a reference point going into next year. Noah Allen from Seahome
• 42:24
  with twenty one, Simon Agner of Squalkum's seventeen, Skylar Rowe of Meridian sixteen
• 42:30
  just a sophomore excited to see the next few years with him. Jude Decker
• 42:34
  from Lenny Christian also with sixteen, catadd and Fosani from Ferndale fifteen with no
• 42:39
  postseason goals there, so that's his all regular season there, Liam Schumacher see
• 42:44
  fifteen, Tarren Berks of Meridian fourteen, Blake Kureski of Blaine with thirteen,
• 42:50
  and Isaac Grimes of Squalkum with thirteen. So a few underclassmen on this list
• 42:53
  to look forward to next year. But a great season by all these kids
• 42:58
  and welcoming myself, you know, big time with open arms. So many
• 43:04
  kids sending me info, scores, who who scored, and you know,
• 43:10
  giving me info when I needed it. I mean there's so many kids on
• 43:14
  every team that were helping me out with different questions I may have had because
• 43:17
  I might get something like a coach would say, oh, and the goal
• 43:21
  was scored by this guy, and I'd email and I'd say, you know,
• 43:23
  our text the player and say, okay, was it a header?
• 43:27
  Do you remember the circumstances? And they were just oh, they were all
• 43:30
  so excited about the coverage and so really really positive reaction with with boy soccer.
• 43:35
  It was. It was a fantastic season. Yeah, And that's exactly
• 43:37
  what we've talked about, right, like we want to do all this stuff.
• 43:39
  We want to be able to give all the correct info, but always
• 43:43
  need a little bit of help with you know, different things. So that
• 43:46
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• 44:37
  Where did you go? My goodness? Okay, let's see here. Thursday,
• 44:42
  I drove over and went to have Majors. Of course I showed up
• 44:46
  and they were out of uh food, because I got there about two hours
• 44:50
  after you. You guys got there. Yeah, we came out and clean
• 44:52
  the joint out. Yeah and uh but no, no, I got my
• 44:57
  I got my major double cheeseburger. Holy cow, it just gets better every
• 45:01
  time. And then I went from there to track and Field and was there
• 45:09
  for an hour and a half or so, and then I went from there
• 45:15
  to check into my hotel in Richland and so cause then Monday or Friday morning,
• 45:22
  woke up and went straight to the one A state fast pitch tournament was
• 45:28
  there for a while, and ended up going to the two A state tournament
• 45:37
  that evening because it was really tricky because the both teams were playing kind of
• 45:40
  at the same time. The two A state tournament was about an hour and
• 45:44
  twenty five minutes away. Yeah, and Sila, So, and I tell
• 45:47
  you what, that little stretch that they put me on on the Google Maps,
• 45:52
  it was like I was the only person on the road. I mean
• 45:54
  it was just I didn't see another car there or back. So it was
• 46:00
  crazy. Uh. I mean I might have signed. Yeah, I saw
• 46:02
  two or three, but there were none of them going in my direction.
• 46:06
  So I was cruising and uh so, but it was kind of like,
• 46:08
  well, if Lyndon wins, then they will play again, but if they
• 46:12
  lose, then they'll play at this time later, and so I'm trying to
• 46:15
  track what's going on. And uh I you know, I saw the you
• 46:20
  know, the quarterfinal game that Mount Baker had. When that was done,
• 46:24
  I mean, it was so funny because I knew I needed to get gas.
• 46:28
  I knew I needed to eat. I knew I needed to get sunscreen.
• 46:30
  I knew. I like, there were things I had in my head.
• 46:32
  This is hilarious. I go to the gas station first after the thing,
• 46:37
  after the Mount Baker semi quarterfinal game. I pull up, I walk
• 46:42
  in. I'm looking for sunscreen in the gas station. They don't have any,
• 46:45
  and so I say, okay, well, I'm gonna put twenty five
• 46:47
  dollars on you know, hump number four or whatever. I come out,
• 46:52
  get in my car, drive away. Never pumped gas. Oh what?
• 46:55
  Because I was I had all these things in my mind, like I have
• 46:59
  to get sunscreen. I have to. I'm hungry, and and I totally
• 47:01
  forgot. I drove there's a there's a right aid like I saw rid it
• 47:06
  like two blocks away. So it's like, oh, they'll have sunscreen there.
• 47:09
  So I drive to the right aid get sunscreen. And then I realized
• 47:14
  I never pumped gas. I paid for it, so I had to.
• 47:17
  I had to come and I'm hungry. I'm really hungry. So I come
• 47:21
  back and then come to the gas station. I walk in. The guy
• 47:23
  goes, it's still ready for you, and he kind of started he was
• 47:27
  kind of chuckling, and I was like, oh, thank you, And
• 47:29
  so I pumped my gas and then I headed over to Zips to grab a
• 47:34
  burger, and and then so cause it's all kind of right there, and
• 47:37
  I went back to my ho My hotel was only like a mile from the
• 47:40
  Columbia ball fields, so I was really close get back to the hotel.
• 47:45
  I'm eating, I'm trying to kind of get everything done. I'm looking and
• 47:49
  everything's backed up on the two way side, and and Linnon's playing a game.
• 47:53
  But if they win that game, they don't play again until tomorrow morning,
• 48:00
  the next morning. But if they lose that game, they play again
• 48:02
  right away. And it's a close game, and I don't and so I'm
• 48:06
  thinking, would I just go out there just in case? And then I'm
• 48:09
  kind of looking at it and it looks like they're gonna lose. So then
• 48:12
  I hop in my car and I drive out the Sila. I get there
• 48:15
  when they're playing their next game about the second or third inning. I stayed
• 48:17
  for that entire thing. I saw Siegro play and kind of a scare there
• 48:22
  against Othello, and uh so I got to see Lynn and then I drive
• 48:28
  all the way back and then the next morning woke up, went back out
• 48:31
  to one A and it was kind of a disappointing day, a couple of
• 48:35
  losses there, and came back and then that was when I came back and
• 48:37
  I got more. I got subway and I watched the Two Ways soccer game.
• 48:42
  I watched the baseball game that night while I was writing. You know,
• 48:46
  I checked it. I checked in for another night. I was gonna
• 48:50
  come back that day, but with so many stuffy, so many things going
• 48:53
  on, I just like, I if I can stay in the hotel room
• 48:57
  and just write and kind of get ahead of stuff. Yeah, I just
• 49:00
  thought, you know, it'd be better. And uh, you know,
• 49:04
  Michayla was already going to be at baseball anyways, so I knew she had
• 49:07
  that covered. And I mean I wanted to come back for it. But
• 49:10
  it all worked out pretty well. Was able to sleep pretty well, wake
• 49:14
  up Sunday morning, early, check out, drive home, and oh it
• 49:19
  was it was crazy. It was. It was. It was crazy.
• 49:22
  But I can't believe I forgot to get get I forgot to get my gas
• 49:27
  after I paid for it. Yeah, that's uh. I can't say I've
• 49:30
  ever done that before. Yeah, that's that's a new one. I'm not
• 49:32
  exactly proud of it, but no, but it sounds like something that could
• 49:36
  happen. Let's see here, Tyler, let's talk two a first. Okay,
• 49:39
  we've got Linden here, a couple of wins, a couple of losses
• 49:45
  for the Lions. Yeah, I mean that opening win was huge. I
• 49:49
  was sitting there watching it on Game Changer as I'm getting ready for the quarterfinal
• 49:53
  game at the one A, and uh, you know, they're the twelve
• 49:58
  seed going against the five Doug w F West, and you know, you'll
• 50:02
  ask a lot of the Linden parents and coaches and stuff like that, and
• 50:06
  they're like, we weren't even supposed to be at the state tournament and we
• 50:07
  come here and we beat the five, which was really cool. Extra inning
• 50:12
  game. It was it was very much you know, you do this,
• 50:15
  then we would do that. You score a run, will score one,
• 50:19
  you score two, will score two. And it just kind of kept going
• 50:22
  like that. Every time Linden would do something, w F West would would
• 50:24
  do the same. And then when Lyndon did it in the eighth, w
• 50:29
  F West just didn't do it. And they had a runner on, but
• 50:31
  she got doubled off off first base on a on a flyout to right field,
• 50:36
  children to Young, caught the ball, threw it to first got the
• 50:38
  out, which is a huge double play in the eighth inning. Then you
• 50:42
  kind of ride that momentum get that final out strike out looking by Trinity Andrew
• 50:45
  and then boom, Lyndon wins. So huge, huge game there. They
• 50:50
  did drop drop the next one to Port Angelus, which really really good Port
• 50:54
  Angelis team, and that's just you know, that's just kind of how that
• 50:59
  goes. See Alexander with the solo home run in that one being the lone
• 51:04
  shot the loan run in that game, and that was the game I was
• 51:07
  kind of looking at determining if I was gonna get out there or not.
• 51:13
  Uh. They do lose that one, which uh forced them to play right
• 51:16
  away again because they were way behind. I mean, that game against Port
• 51:20
  Angelas started probably an hour and a half late, so they had to turn
• 51:24
  around and play really quickly against Rochester and a loser out game, third game
• 51:29
  of the day for them. That was the game that I showed up for
• 51:32
  and saw basically the last you know, eighty percent of it or so and
• 51:38
  and Linden looked really really strong. You know, those those loser out games
• 51:42
  is tough because you just this is it, especially for those seniors, and
• 51:46
  Linden kind of imposed their will. Early looked like they were gonna hear they
• 51:51
  were gonna ten ten run them, but they led by like nine, and
• 51:54
  then Rochester came back and scored some runs late. Uh. There was some
• 51:59
  really good, really good moments in that and that one Hannah Sours senior,
• 52:01
  came off the bench. She suffered an injury earlier in the year, but
• 52:07
  she came off the bench and had a big time single that knocked in a
• 52:09
  couple runs, the biggest cheer of the night, which was really really cool.
• 52:13
  She's had a rough senior year again with the injury and stuff like that.
• 52:15
  For her to come in and make a difference and just the just the
• 52:19
  accolades that she got and the crowd and the coaches were so excited, So
• 52:22
  that was really really cool. So they survived to go on to play on
• 52:25
  Saturday, which was you know, again, nobody thought that would happen.
• 52:30
  A really really cool deal. I know that on Friday night, you know,
• 52:34
  they you know, the coaches were trying to set up. They were
• 52:37
  able to set up a pizza place to stay open late just for them after
• 52:40
  the game because they were all so hungry. A long long day starting at
• 52:44
  ten am, getting done at about you know, nine pm, go on,
• 52:49
  got some pizza. Eventually fell to othello the next morning six to two.
• 52:55
  And yeah, I just what a great season. I mean, it
• 52:59
  wasn't this wrongest Linden team. You know, I've been watching them the last
• 53:01
  six years or so pretty regularly, and and uh, I would say that
• 53:07
  just they're the overall talent Maybe wasn't there. They had some big time top
• 53:10
  end talent and good pitching. But but for them to come together and play
• 53:15
  really well and play into championship Saturday, it was really really impressive. And
• 53:21
  and uh, you know, a really good season for the Linden Lions.
• 53:22
  I mean, you wouldn't expect anything else, right, I Mean, that's
• 53:25
  just kind of how they are. They're always there are a lot of these
• 53:30
  a lot of these kids are veterans of of just playing so many sports and
• 53:35
  and and going and traveling and playing and doing well in state tournaments and that
• 53:39
  kind of stuff. So and especially the coaching staff, I mean, you
• 53:43
  know, ed Barmber is the head coach. I mean he's seen it and
• 53:45
  all in football. Ryan Dykster assistant coach. He's assistant on the girls basketball
• 53:49
  team. You know, these are state championship coaches that have seen it all,
• 53:52
  so uh, they kind of know what to expect. There's no wide
• 53:54
  eyes in this, but a really good season for for Linden Lions. It
• 53:59
  all down the first game on Saturday, that is two A. Let's jump
• 54:04
  over and talk about one A now Tyler, which were down there at Columbia
• 54:07
  Playfields in Richland Mount Baker. They get through the first game and then a
• 54:14
  couple of disappointing losses there after that. Yeah, it was just it was
• 54:20
  it was It was just a strange tournament. You know, I got there,
• 54:22
  you know for the quarterfinals, and they have that opening around where there's
• 54:27
  kind of like playans to get to the quarterfinals and as in loser losing,
• 54:30
  you're out, and and so so all these the top four teams are all
• 54:37
  gonna host or post or you know, kind of play host to teams that
• 54:39
  have been there and played a game already. So there's that kind of weird
• 54:43
  advantage of kind of already being there and playing a game, and and I
• 54:47
  was talking to some of the Mount Baker parents and I was I was like,
• 54:50
  you know, it could be rough early because they're, you know,
• 54:53
  the other teams have already played a game the day before and they're kind of
• 54:57
  used to everything. And it was it was it was a little rough early.
• 55:00
  Mount Baker was down two to nothing and they made it to one on
• 55:02
  an RBI double from Ava Duretzki and then she comes in in the third inning
• 55:07
  and hits a three run shot, so now it's four to four to two
• 55:09
  Baker. She has all four RBIs. She pitched the the entire game.
• 55:15
  Mount Baker had a pretty comfortable lead. They added on in the sixth to
• 55:19
  make it eight to four, and then Cascade Christian scored three runs in the
• 55:24
  top of the seventh put it make it a little scary, and even to
• 55:28
  make it worse, there was another hit and the final out was made on
• 55:30
  the bases running back to second base tagged her out and that was that.
• 55:35
  That was the game. So it was kind of like a it's kind of
• 55:37
  a surviving a scare there, just like, Okay, we got past that.
• 55:42
  But I could tell that Coach up was not super happy after the game,
• 55:46
  some defensive miscues and and barely getting by the ten seed. There they
• 55:50
  come in as the two seed. But that was the only game they had
• 55:52
  to play. So they wake up the next morning play early game nine am
• 55:58
  against Seaton Catholic, who you know, they upset. They upset riverside.
• 56:02
  Uh Montasena was knocked out in that quarter final round. They were the top
• 56:07
  seeded team. So there was a lot of big time upsets going on here
• 56:10
  and and this was, you know, the Mount Baker Seaton Catholic game.
• 56:15
  It was it was one big inning by by seating Catholic. I mean it
• 56:19
  was a couple airs to open up the inning, which was you know,
• 56:22
  kind of the way it went for Mount Baker. The whole weekend was you
• 56:24
  know, they had three or four errors every game, and it was that
• 56:29
  that's what you know, kind of did them in. But you know,
• 56:30
  a couple of airs, a little bit of miscommunication in the outfield, they
• 56:34
  get a couple of runners on, they hit a home run, the next
• 56:37
  batter walks, next batter hits a home run, and all of a sudden,
• 56:39
  it's you know, it's five zero Seaton Catholic and they might have they
• 56:45
  might have scored six or seven in that inning. Uh and you know,
• 56:49
  Mount Baker did some good things, but you look at that inning and may
• 56:52
  go, just man, if that would have been different, you know,
• 56:54
  they could be playing in the state championship game against Royal, who they beat
• 56:59
  early in the year, and Royal ends up winning the state title. So
• 57:04
  so that was a that was a really, really tough loss. Mount Baker
• 57:07
  drops down to the consolation round to play against Mont Seeno, who was the
• 57:13
  top ranked team going in. So you got the one versus two in a
• 57:15
  loser out game and the wind was just knocked out of Mount Baker. Montiseeno
• 57:22
  is just I mean, they're awesome every year. I mean, I don't
• 57:24
  know how many state titles they've won, but it's it's crazy amount. It's
• 57:28
  probably in the fifteen to twenty range. And and they have I mean,
• 57:32
  it was I tell you, they brought a lot of fans and they lined
• 57:39
  both both you know sides, like down the left field and right field line,
• 57:45
  which I thought was kind of a you know, kind of a dinky
• 57:49
  move by them because the Mount Baker parents had no place to stand over there,
• 57:53
  you know. But whatever they're they kind of you know, have this
• 57:58
  belief that they own the tournament and that that's fine. They usually do,
• 58:00
  but they did lose earlier. And but this Montaseno. The pitching was great,
• 58:06
  the defense was phenomenal, speed, every player can you know, can
• 58:10
  bunt. They hit for power like it was just relentless. And it seemed
• 58:17
  like the whole lineup went righty left you righty, left, you, righty
• 58:20
  left. I mean, it was all over the place. You saw a
• 58:22
  player that, you know, lefties that could slap and then they could also
• 58:24
  drill it to the fence and and it just kind of got out of hand
• 58:29
  after a while. And then that that was that, you know, I
• 58:32
  I I don't I don't think that they expected to play Montosano in a loser
• 58:36
  out game. I think they expected to play him in the championship game.
• 58:38
  But sometimes that's just how it goes. And and uh and just like that,
• 58:42
  the blink of an eye, the season's done. Mount Baker had three
• 58:45
  seniors on the team that all did a ton of Ava Jeretzky, La Maloli
• 58:50
  and Lauren Vallam, who are all big time players. You know, a
• 58:52
  bat in two, four and five in the lineup and they're going to be
• 58:55
  missed greatly, but they have a great team coming back. They had some
• 59:00
  good bench players that can come and fill those roles, and I think they'll
• 59:05
  be fine. But it was really it was a really really good season.
• 59:07
  But I think that you know going into that year that this season they were
• 59:12
  all kind of in pointing on this one being this could be pretty magical,
• 59:15
  and it didn't end the way they wanted to. But uh but it was
• 59:19
  fun to go over there watch them. I watched every pitch of of all
• 59:22
  three games, and and uh so it's I just I like going over to
• 59:27
  that area and just and covering that tournament. I think this has been the
• 59:30
  fifth one, maybe sixth one something around there that I've I've been to and
• 59:36
  it's it's been a blast. Every time it's two bad. There's only one
• 59:37
  Walking County team over there, but but I was spotted over there too,
• 59:42
  by the way, so so it happens everywhere. By our intro, that
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• 59:52
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• 59:58
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  Bedlington Farms. You find them online at Bedlington Farms dot com. Let's take
• 1:00:22
  a look at the brackets here, Tyler. We had just two teams left,
• 1:00:25
  yep, Lindon Columbia River. The Lions lose to nothing on Friday.
• 1:00:32
  That sets them into a third fourth place game against who else? Anna Chordis
• 1:00:39
  and the Lions with a two to one win over Anachordus to finish out the
• 1:00:44
  season. Yeah, that first game against Columbia River, you know they threw
• 1:00:47
  Lane Simonson their their their ace and it was a good move Lane had.
• 1:00:53
  You know, there was just that one inning, I think it was a
• 1:00:55
  second inning. Columbia River scores a couple runs in that inning, and Columbia
• 1:01:00
  River did the right things. They took advantage of a defensive misque, they
• 1:01:05
  punted a runner over, they did all the right things. They got like
• 1:01:07
  another hit, and they ended all of a sudden they scored two runs and
• 1:01:10
  that was that. I think after that, Simonson, you know, got
• 1:01:15
  the next ten batters out and pitched really well throughout the whole game. Struck
• 1:01:19
  out nine batters and held clumber River to just two runs the eventual state champion,
• 1:01:23
  who that was their least amount of runs they scored in any game of
• 1:01:27
  the tournament. So so Lynnon did everything they could in that one. They
• 1:01:30
  lose it, but they bounced back the next day, like you said,
• 1:01:34
  against the rival Anna Chordis. They beat Anacortis by one in the Raiders season.
• 1:01:38
  They lost to them by one in the district championship game, so you
• 1:01:43
  kind of figured it was gonna be one run game. It was again two
• 1:01:45
  to one, and Kale Stapleton pitched fantastic ended up with his eighth win of
• 1:01:52
  the year to lead Walking County. Great great win by him, one of
• 1:01:55
  the more underrated players, also bats lead off, plays a great center field.
• 1:02:00
  Uh yeah, great great season by Lennon. Obviously not how they wanted
• 1:02:05
  to end it, but uh but they lost a lot of seniors from last
• 1:02:08
  year's team that finished second in the state, and I know that I know
• 1:02:12
  they were bringing back you know, Lane Simonson and Cooper Moore and some of
• 1:02:15
  these guys. But uh I, I, you know, really impressed that
• 1:02:21
  they got third in the state. Uh And when you look around at you
• 1:02:24
  know, some of the other teams in their in their conference, for Anna
• 1:02:28
  Chordus to you know, take fourth, Mount Vernon took second in three A
• 1:02:31
  and we'll talk about the one A a little bit, but it's just this
• 1:02:35
  really strong Northwest Conference and I think that it's you look at that and you
• 1:02:39
  go, oh, you know, these teams are doing pretty pretty good.
• 1:02:42
  You don't really know how that's going to project into the regional round of state
• 1:02:45
  and going on to state, but it really shows, well, you know,
• 1:02:51
  how well the Northwest Conference is up and down and and and how battle
• 1:02:54
  tested these teams are once they get the state tournament. Yeah, obviously,
• 1:03:00
  congratulations to Lynden. Heck of a season. I mean, it really is
• 1:03:01
  finishing third in the state and anything is truly impressive. So let's talk one
• 1:03:07
  A. Tyler one A also up there at Joe Martin Stadium in Bellingham,
• 1:03:10
  and yeah, Meridian gets a two to one win on Friday to set themselves
• 1:03:16
  up with a game against of all teams, over Lake Bear Creek. But
• 1:03:22
  the Trojans do fall in the championship three to two. Yeah, in that
• 1:03:25
  semi final game, you know, they pitched Joonah Ossi, which was a
• 1:03:30
  smart move. We talked about it in the last podcast, because they played
• 1:03:32
  Cedar Park Christian In for the district championship game, which they lost. I
• 1:03:37
  believe that was four to two. But they brought in Aussi like in the
• 1:03:40
  third inning in that game, and he just mowed them down and they didn't
• 1:03:45
  score after that, so I figured, okay, they threw their two guys
• 1:03:50
  this. You know, Ossi ended up doing better, so you might as
• 1:03:52
  well start him in this game against that lineup. And he did great,
• 1:03:55
  struck out fifteen once again, just like he did in the round four against
• 1:04:00
  Seaton Catholic, and you just kind of did his thing. He hit the
• 1:04:04
  pitch count limit with four outs left in the game. So they brought in
• 1:04:08
  Nate Payne, the freshman, and who got the final four outs and big
• 1:04:12
  time pressure situation and picked up a save, just like I said, just
• 1:04:16
  the freshman. He started that next game against over Lake Bear Creek. I
• 1:04:20
  thought for sure Maradian was gonna take this one. I'd seen over Lake three
• 1:04:26
  or four times during the year, I you know, I think, I
• 1:04:30
  mean, I saw them squeak one out against Kings. I saw them beat
• 1:04:33
  playing one zero in eight innings. Lynnon Christian beat him twice. They beat
• 1:04:39
  him in the Ragers season, and they beat him eight to zero. I
• 1:04:42
  believe in the in the first round of the district tournament, and they just
• 1:04:46
  I thought last year's over Lake Bear Creek team was pretty darn good. Like,
• 1:04:51
  I was really impressed with that lineup up and down, and this one
• 1:04:55
  I just recognized a few names that were back, so it didn't give me
• 1:04:59
  as much a boost. I know, they played against the like going like
• 1:05:03
  in between the regionals rounds, the round of sixteen and eight, and then
• 1:05:08
  going in between that and the and the final four, they played a baseball
• 1:05:13
  game against Overlake did against their like alumni. And so I bet a lot
• 1:05:20
  of those teams, a lot of those players from the team I saw before,
• 1:05:25
  you know, kind of gave them a little bit to say, Okay,
• 1:05:27
  this is what you're gonna go against some pretty good baseball. And it
• 1:05:30
  was a tie game three to three. So and I think that gave them
• 1:05:33
  a little bit of Okay, now we know what we can do but the
• 1:05:38
  Cinderella story. I mean, they come in, they walk off Meridian three
• 1:05:41
  to two in that one, and Nate Payne pitched the entire game. I'm
• 1:05:45
  really really excited for his future and Meridian's future as a whole. Yeah,
• 1:05:49
  they had some big time sing Oh I'm sorry, Nate did not finish.
• 1:05:51
  He did not finish the game. Ian Forbes came in and pitched the seventh
• 1:05:56
  inning. The catcher, the senior catcher, and I mean he's gonna he's
• 1:06:00
  gonna graduate four year starter, which is huge as a catcher. And you
• 1:06:04
  know Jacob Aminson, Tyson Timmer, uh, you know Silas Bershower at third
• 1:06:10
  base. They have some really good senior players. But boy, they bring
• 1:06:14
  back a lot of talent too. And so I'm excited for a future.
• 1:06:19
  Yes, well yeah, I mean and if you can talk, you know
• 1:06:23
  Jager Pfeiffen too coming back. That could be huge too. But Pierce Pierce
• 1:06:27
  Brozowski played shortstop all year. He'll probably take over at catcher next year.
• 1:06:31
  Landon Rally is a big time hitter at first base. He's a freshman as
• 1:06:35
  well. You know, you can plug Trey Alexander back in at shortstop and
• 1:06:41
  or you know, or if Jager comes back, he could play third or
• 1:06:44
  whatever. And you know Kelly Gray and and at Tristan Wang, and he
• 1:06:48
  got a lot of guys that are underclassmen that'll be coming back. And and
• 1:06:54
  but you're right about the pitching with Jonah Aussie and Nate Payne returning, Trey
• 1:06:58
  Alexander can pitch too, And so yeah, it's you know Lincoln Hofer,
• 1:07:02
  big big first baseman coming off the bench. Uh, he could be starting
• 1:07:06
  at first base, we'll see. But yeah, it's it's a really good
• 1:07:11
  program that emphasizes defense pitching, and they don't swing and miss a lot.
• 1:07:15
  There's just a lot of contact in their bats, especially for a high school
• 1:07:19
  team. That really stands out to me when I turn around and look at
• 1:07:24
  it and just go, man, they they there's no whiff, Like the
• 1:07:27
  wifth percentage is really low. I know we're getting in there's some nerdy stuff
• 1:07:30
  there, but yes, but but yeah, it's it's really impressive team.
• 1:07:34
  Not surprising that Maradian and Linden baseball went on a run like that. You
• 1:07:40
  know, they are teams that will play small ball. You know, they
• 1:07:43
  have no problem bunting with their number three hitter you know, like stuff like
• 1:07:46
  that, Like it's they want to move runners, they want to score runs,
• 1:07:50
  They pitch well, they play awesome defense, they don't make mistakes.
• 1:07:54
  It's a it's very very mirror images of both those teams. You know.
• 1:07:59
  It's it's fun you say that about bunting your three hitter. When one of
• 1:08:02
  the games I was at over the weekend there was it was a semi final
• 1:08:08
  game in four A. You know, the best hitter on this one team,
• 1:08:13
  they took him out to bunt, you know, they they put put
• 1:08:15
  they put another guy in, and I just yeah, they you know,
• 1:08:19
  And I just thought to myself, like, one, it just seems so
• 1:08:23
  crazy to me to take the bat out of your best hitter. And it's
• 1:08:26
  a guy that is by far the best hitter, you know what I mean,
• 1:08:29
  Like it's not even close, like he is, like I don't even
• 1:08:31
  know what his average is, but it's got to be in the four hundred
• 1:08:33
  or more range. But then also, you know, you burn that one
• 1:08:39
  guy, yeah, you know, And I don't know, it just seems
• 1:08:42
  so weird to me to do that. But yeah, Tyler, Again,
• 1:08:47
  thank you to j e KK Sports Cards and Bedlington Farms for their support all
• 1:08:51
  year as far as baseball goes. But that's it. Well, we're done
• 1:08:57
  talking about individual sports. All we got left here a Players of the Week,
• 1:09:01
  which, by the way, Tyler, I'm just curious, never got
• 1:09:05
  a sponsor Fast Pitch, Who is it? Yeah, this one, I'm
• 1:09:11
  giving it to Campbell to Young from Linden, the sophomore second baseman, the
• 1:09:15
  spark plug that gets the things going. Lead off hitter. She is a
• 1:09:19
  Ricky Henderson prototype. She let off the game, the Rochester game with a
• 1:09:26
  home run. She seems like she does that like once a week. She'll
• 1:09:29
  just lead off a game with a home run. But she, you know,
• 1:09:30
  stole my goodness. I haven't totalled everything yet yet, but I'm guessing
• 1:09:34
  around thirty five bases this year. She just creates havoc on the bass pass,
• 1:09:40
  never runs out of energy. Great great defensively, probably the best defensive
• 1:09:45
  second basement that I saw all year in the Fast Pitch and around Walkham County.
• 1:09:49
  Lauren Vallin was very very good too, but boy, she's she's unbelievable
• 1:09:56
  and so yeah, just a really strong showing at the state tournament. She'll
• 1:09:59
  be back again to lead off for the next couple of years, and and
• 1:10:01
  I'm excited to see her progression and how the linen lines will do. SIGs
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  Services dot com. They have been great sponsors of the Baseball Player of the
• 1:10:23
  Week and tether it's got a little bit of a familiar name here. Yeah,
• 1:10:28
  he won it last week. He won it and earlier on in the
• 1:10:30
  season too. Jonah Assi, I just couldn't deny not giving it to him
• 1:10:35
  again with And it wasn't just the fifteen strikeouts they had in the semi final
• 1:10:41
  game. He hit really well in both games defensively in centerfield in the championship
• 1:10:45
  game, had like seven putouts probably probably four of them or three or four
• 1:10:51
  of them that you know, an average centerfielder wouldn't have gotten to. He
• 1:10:57
  you know, he closed out the game in centerfield in the semi finals,
• 1:11:00
  and the final out in that game was a over the over the shoulder kind
• 1:11:03
  of Willie May's catch. So he it wasn't just the pitching, the offense
• 1:11:10
  and the you know, just the overall defensive ability that he had was great.
• 1:11:15
  I think he ended the year with eighty strikeouts on the mound and he
• 1:11:17
  pitched thirty six innings. So that's kind of crazy when you think about averaging
• 1:11:24
  over two strikeouts an inning. Wow, you just don't see that too often.
• 1:11:28
  I think he led and I don't have everything, you know, total
• 1:11:31
  death yet, but I think he led Walking County in walks. This is
• 1:11:34
  as a hitter in walks and RBI's which is kind of a unique you know,
• 1:11:41
  duo hard he'll do. Yeah, I mean I would say, like
• 1:11:44
  Babe Ruth and Ted Williams might be the only guys maybe Frank Thomas to ever
• 1:11:48
  do that. Sea yeah. T ball, Yeah, I mean hard to
• 1:11:54
  walk in T ball you gotta be really patient. No, No, they
• 1:11:56
  would just they would just four pitch. Oh just they just put you on.
• 1:12:00
  I love it. Uh yeah, but I'd love to see that.
• 1:12:06
  But what a great year and just a junior and you know, a three
• 1:12:11
  time winner of this award, And congratulations to him. North County Alliance f
• 1:12:16
  C Tyler, They have been awesome sponsors and boys soccer Mcalliance FC dot com
• 1:12:21
  is their website. Who is the North County Alliance f C Boys Soccer Player
• 1:12:27
  of the week. Yeah, Asher Sullivan of Sea Home scoring those two goals
• 1:12:30
  in the semi final game and to win two to one. Huge, huge.
• 1:12:35
  I mean he had six goals on the year total, and to score
• 1:12:39
  two of them in the semi final game was just unbelievable. Big, big
• 1:12:43
  day for him. Uh. And then having to you know, you have
• 1:12:47
  to you know that in that championship game, having to adjust playing with one
• 1:12:51
  less player, you know, especially defensively, and he's back there at center
• 1:12:56
  back, and and and having to you know, adjusting a different way and
• 1:13:00
  not rely on another guy, and and uh, just you know, big
• 1:13:04
  time week for him. Uh, for see him. Of course they couldn't
• 1:13:08
  pull out the wind, but you know that's just the way it goes sometimes.
• 1:13:10
  And again, like you said, North County Alliance FC, my goodness,
• 1:13:14
  they hopped on. They were all in right away. Just the positivity
• 1:13:18
  from them is overwhelming and helping me out with even rules. I'll all text
• 1:13:26
  them and say because I didn't know the rule for like a shootout, Yeah
• 1:13:30
  you know, what's the score? Like, how do you how do you
• 1:13:32
  say what the score is when it's zero? Zero? And you go to
• 1:13:35
  a shootout, like and then the shootout ends up being five to four.
• 1:13:39
  I didn't know it's one mil. And then a five four shootout like I
• 1:13:42
  didn't know that, yeah, one one zero, and then in parentheses five
• 1:13:46
  four yeah, yeah right, And I didn't. So I just you know,
• 1:13:49
  and I'm getting ready to write a story and I send a text at
• 1:13:51
  like ten thirty at night and they reply like that's like, that's what was.
• 1:13:57
  And there's so many things about uh, the positivity going forward. I
• 1:14:00
  you know, I'm I'm I'm one hundred percent positive they're going to hop on
• 1:14:03
  for girls soccer in the fall, which is you know, I didn't I
• 1:14:09
  didn't jump on girls soccer or cross country and stuff in the fall last year
• 1:14:13
  because I was just focusing on expanding with volleyball fully and then I fully expanded
• 1:14:17
  in the winter, well not fully but quite a bit, and then fully
• 1:14:21
  in spring. Obviously, so excited to see who the best girls soccer players
• 1:14:27
  are and just you know, and and they're going to be on board with
• 1:14:30
  that. So really really good deal for North County Alliance FC. Again.
• 1:14:33
  Congratulations to Asher Sullivan from Seahome winning the Boy Soccer Player of the week.
• 1:14:41
  That's it, Tyler. The only thing we have left is says here,
• 1:14:44
  and I'm gonna put you on the spot looking ahead to this summer. So
• 1:14:46
  I don't know what you're looking ahead to because I got nothing to do for
• 1:14:48
  the next few months. Well, and there's a lot of you know,
• 1:14:55
  things kind of in the hopper. There's could be a partnership with District Brewing
• 1:15:00
  coming up. Gonna be gonna be meeting with them this weekend about doing a
• 1:15:04
  possibly a weekly kind of deal down there on Sunday afternoons where uh, you
• 1:15:11
  know, you put up I'll put up like four different games from the past
• 1:15:15
  football games, you know, the nineteen you know, ninety seven game Mount
• 1:15:18
  Baker versus Meridian or this, and I'll put up four games that people could
• 1:15:23
  vote on which one they want to watch, and then we'll we'll air it
• 1:15:26
  at the at the at the restaurant. People come in and watch it,
• 1:15:30
  and and uh you know, I'll probably have like weekly guests, people come
• 1:15:34
  in, We'll do interviews. We might do a like a video like a
• 1:15:38
  TV type show. Uh do it maybe live on YouTube. We don't know,
• 1:15:42
  we're gonna We're gonna have there's gonna be a lot of conversations about what
• 1:15:45
  we're gonna do legacy supporters, uh, you know, working on that,
• 1:15:50
  going back and researching old statistics to you know, if to for more content
• 1:15:58
  about other sports, not not just football, to figure out record holders and
• 1:16:01
  stuff like that. And you know, oh, this is the first time
• 1:16:04
  in twenty eight years at a you know, a discus was thrown this far
• 1:16:11
  what you know whatever, finding out all that kind of stuff, doing a
• 1:16:14
  lot of research. You know, it's going to be that's the kind of
• 1:16:18
  stuff. I love the grind. I want have to put as many miles
• 1:16:21
  on the car. I'll just be sitting in the office grinding away doing different
• 1:16:25
  things. The top fifty for baseball and fast pitch you're going to be coming
• 1:16:29
  out very very soon, I think, hopefully the middle of this week.
• 1:16:33
  And just so you know, Tyler, I have that graphic done. I
• 1:16:36
  just forgot to put it in drop box. We're going to do that anastic,
• 1:16:40
  fantastic that's what I added the hopefully and and yeah, so that'll be
• 1:16:44
  coming out pretty soon and and uh yeah, and then just looking ahead and
• 1:16:48
  loading up sponsors for the fall, and and you know, I know a
• 1:16:54
  lot of people have reached out to me to to already you know, kind
• 1:16:57
  of set their spot for what they want to do as far as if it's
• 1:17:00
  a certain special sport, a certain school, a certain scoreboard or whatever.
• 1:17:06
  Players of the week, and just excited to keep walking preps, growing and
• 1:17:13
  and and doing what I love and bringing this community some awesome content, or
• 1:17:17
  at least I hope it's awesome content. And uh, you know, and
• 1:17:21
  we'll see. I'm not I know, we're gonna take the next week off
• 1:17:24
  for the podcast because you got some stuff going on, but but we'll see.
• 1:17:30
  We'll see going forward. You've got a Earthday coming up and it will
• 1:17:34
  be in Ohio for my birthday, Tyler Boom, the beautiful state of Ohio.
• 1:17:41
  But but I do get to go to Culver's and that makes me very
• 1:17:45
  happy. Son. Yeah, there's actually where my hotel is. There's a
• 1:17:48
  Culver's, a Texas roadhouse, raising canes pretty much. I might come back
• 1:17:54
  looking bigger than ever, and I'm only going to be there three days.
• 1:18:00
  Love it. That's awesome. But yeah, I gotta go hang out with
• 1:18:03
  with Jake Heaps and run some Elite eleven quarterback stuff. So that should be
• 1:18:08
  a lot of fun. But yeah, yeah, you got the Top fifties
• 1:18:11
  coming up here soon, Tyler, that is. I mean you're gonna like
• 1:18:15
  maybe take the rest of the day off and probably not, but you're gonna
• 1:18:18
  get right back into things. There's gonna be plenty of stuff. I'm sure
• 1:18:20
  that it won't be long before the people hear from us when we do a
• 1:18:25
  probably a top fifty countdown. I mean yeah, I would think we'll probably
• 1:18:29
  do one of each, you know, one one for the softball, one
• 1:18:31
  for the baseball. So yeah, lots and lots of stuff still to come.
• 1:18:38
  Yep. And then, of course, you know how it is,
• 1:18:41
  football boom instantly all of a sudden into your face. Yeah. Well,
• 1:18:45
  and not to mention Tyler, you could actually go out to some football practices
• 1:18:48
  in the next few days too, So I yeah, I was gonna say
• 1:18:50
  spring football is happening. I know there's another that, you know, the
• 1:18:54
  same down in Arlington. There's gonna be you know, Linden and Knuksack will
• 1:18:58
  be down there as well as Arlington. It won't be Lake Stevens this time,
• 1:19:01
  though, they'll be joined by another team. I can't remember exactly who
• 1:19:04
  it is, but Lake Stevens are in the same league now, oh right,
• 1:19:10
  yeah, and so yeah, but Linnen and Kooksack will be down there,
• 1:19:14
  and uh so I'll probably I'll probably head down to that. I turned
• 1:19:19
  down there. I think of Arlington though, Tyler, because we play them
• 1:19:21
  week two. So just you know, interesting, interesting, I did turn
• 1:19:28
  down the invite to head over to Eastern camp this year. I just got
• 1:19:30
  a lot of things going on. But that, I mean, that's always
• 1:19:35
  an awesome, awesome, awesome camp. I'm sure Tom Water will be holding
• 1:19:40
  something again, you know. Yeah, and then like Lakewood having that seven
• 1:19:46
  on seven stuff, yep, we will be there. Yeah. So and
• 1:19:53
  lineman competition by the way, oh nice. Yeah, the linemen can get
• 1:19:57
  down there and they flip some tires, they do a tuggle war, and
• 1:19:59
  they they do the four by one hundred fat Man relay with a football instead
• 1:20:02
  of a baton. Oh man, oh man. Oh yeah. You have
• 1:20:09
  rules to it. There's there's rules to it. They have to you have
• 1:20:13
  to only play on the line, So if you're a tight end defensive end,
• 1:20:16
  you can't do it right. Or if you're like a guard linebacker.
• 1:20:20
  Yeah, yeah, so you have to be alignment. So yeah, you
• 1:20:24
  get some some big bodies in there just cooking down the sides. It's pretty
• 1:20:27
  funny. Oh that is fair. Yeah. They take a football and they
• 1:20:30
  like deflate it and that's what they have to hand off. Yeah. Oh,
• 1:20:36
  man, tell me they have donuts at the finish line like they do
• 1:20:40
  that they I mean, they should so cool. Yeah, but they actually
• 1:20:44
  have good food there too, they have it's like all volunteers, parents and
• 1:20:47
  Dan Teeters always just walking around doing his thing. But yeah, yeah,
• 1:20:51
  it's it's it's a it's a great event. It truly is like the you
• 1:20:56
  know, the last event that goes on and all of a sudd and it's
• 1:21:00
  like, all right, well we kind of get a couple of weeks off
• 1:21:01
  from practices and such and then boom here we go, right the true culmination
• 1:21:06
  of everything before it kicks off again. Yeah. Absolutely, it's that's cool.
• 1:21:11
  It's gonna be fun. I'm excited. Uh. I think we got
• 1:21:14
  a good shot to be pretty good this year, Tyler. So uh,
• 1:21:16
  and that we're going to run is up my alley. So so yeah,
• 1:21:23
  we've got all kinds of cool things coming on this summer here with Wakome preps.
• 1:21:26
  Tyler, we got anything else to say, just you know, thank
• 1:21:30
  you to everybody. You know, so many new uh listeners and stuff I
• 1:21:34
  hear about. Thanks to you too, Riland because I know that you're busier
• 1:21:38
  than ever and doing so involved now with bothel sports and not just football but
• 1:21:43
  uh P announcing and and and traveling with the team and doing something. And
• 1:21:47
  I know it's I know it's a really tight schedule for you, and so
• 1:21:51
  I really appreciate that. And and uh and thank you to Laura, my
• 1:21:56
  girlfriend, for allowing me to drive around the county every single night and and
• 1:22:00
  and then wait for me to get home so I can help her with her
• 1:22:03
  infusions and stuff like that. So it'll be nice to be able to be
• 1:22:08
  home and help her out. We're gonna go camping later on in June,
• 1:22:11
  and and so I'm excited for that. We have a wedding to go to
• 1:22:15
  in Wyoming in July. Wyoming. Yeah, yeah, Laramie, Wyoming.
• 1:22:19
  I might buzz down to catch a Rocky's Brewers game a few days later.
• 1:22:27
  So yeah, So I got some stuff going on, and this is kind
• 1:22:29
  of when I can do my normal stuff, you know, life. Yeah,
• 1:22:34
  so I got to take advantage of that and and but still every day
• 1:22:39
  I'm gonna wake up, come into the office, grind and and just always
• 1:22:44
  try to make walking preps better. But but just a huge thank you to
• 1:22:46
  everybody, because you know, I always you know, I joke around and
• 1:22:50
  say it's just one person, but it's not. Is a community. It's
• 1:22:55
  people like your people like yourself, and and so many coaches and athletes and
• 1:23:00
  parents and and even just fans that reach out and help me with things because
• 1:23:06
  I'm you know, I can't it's impossible to figure everything out, so I
• 1:23:11
  need to I need help and people are always willing to give it and it's
• 1:23:15
  been really really rewarding, and I just feel so grateful to be in this
• 1:23:20
  community. It's awesome. Well, before we get out of here, let's
• 1:23:24
  give another thank you to all of our sponsors, North County Alliance FC,
• 1:23:28
  SIG's Funeral and Cremation Services, Bedlington Farms, j e KK Sports Cards,
• 1:23:35
  Line Drive, Northwest Mana Insurance, North County Alliance FC, North County Alliance
• 1:23:42
  FC Staffer Insurance. And there's always a big thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm
• 1:23:49
  Kurtmabrayfarm dot com, their website. You've been listening to Tyler Anderson, and
• 1:23:55
  Ryland Spencer sitting here talking about Watcome Preps high school athletes, teams, state
• 1:24:01
  championships. Congratulations to everybody that even made it to this weekend as far as
• 1:24:08
  spring sports go. This is episode of two hundred and fifty seven of the
• 1:24:12
  Spring sports that weekly wrap up here on the Watcome Preps podcast. We will
• 1:24:15
  talk to you whenever it is we talk to you next. What's that