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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 237 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 1-15 to 1-20 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Blaine senior basketball player Jordan Vizzetti and you're listening to the Welcome Perhaps
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Podcast with Tyler and Ryland, Go Border Rights, Greedy Exen. Welcome into
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the WACOM Preps podcast. This is episode two thirty seven, a winter sports
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a week. We wrap up for Monday, January fifteenth through Saturday January twentieth.
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I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always is Tyler Anderson WACUM Preps.
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Tyler, how we doing doing great? The water's back on, so I
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am feeling good? Yeah? You uh, you've been dealing with the no
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water at your house. I was dealing without water for a few days and
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then all of a sudden, I'm sitting here in the living room and I
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hear something happening in the kitchen. I'm going, what is going on in
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there? And I go walking in because there's nobody else that lives in my
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house, yeah, all by my house, And all of a sudden,
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just and I'm going, what is going on in there? And I go
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look and also boom, water starts shooting out of the I didn't realize i'd
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left it on, Like that's the well. It's a good thing you did
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because that helps alleviate the pressure while it's frozen and then it helps it get
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back on. So you did good. Yeah, completely on accident. I
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had no idea that I was doing a good job. That being said,
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Tyler, we need to give a thank you to Jordan Vizzetti for the intro
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blaining girls basketball. We'll talk about her hair in a little bit and her
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teammates and Blaine Border rights basketball in general, because we got a lot of
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stuff to talk about today, Tyler. First, we need to give a
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thank you to Kurt Mayberry Farm at kirkmaberry farm dot com is the website.
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Kurt Mayberry Farm is a fourth generation, family owned and operated berry farm committed
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to growing the highest quality of berries, strawberries, blueberries, and raspberry.
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You can find them online Kurt Mayberryfarm dot com. That's Kurt with the C
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M A B E R r Y Farm dot com. Tyler, Yeah,
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this is usually the spot where I say, hey, how do people get
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in touch with you if they want a sponsor? And guess what, it
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worked? But it did because all of the sudden, out of nowhere,
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Eagle Rock Lodge is a new sponsor. You can find them www dot Eagle
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Rock dot Fish. Yeah, you heard that right, Eagle Rock dot Fish.
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It blows me away that you can have a dot fish. But yeah,
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that is their website and I'm looking at it here Tyler. This is
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pretty cool. Actually. First off, how the heck does Eagle Rock Lodge
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in Craig, Alaska find Tyler Anderson and watcom prehaps? Well, you know,
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probably from my appearance on the Jimmy Fallon Show. No, I'm just
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kidding, Uh wait what No, Dennis Strickler got a hold of me,
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a Meridian graduate from a while back, great football and baseball player, and
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he lives up there, works there and was interested, and we did.
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It was a brief conversation, you just and it did exactly like what we
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talk about. You know, just get a hold of me and say,
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hey, you know how much for this or what can I do for that?
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And just really quick and then I just all I need is a graphic,
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sends me a graphic. Boom done. It's as easy as that.
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So yeah, that's how it all. It all happened really fast. It
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was just some back and forth messages and and some documentation took care of it.
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Yeah, and Eagle Rock Lodge is out there on Prince of Wales Island,
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so it's pretty close to catch a kan Alaska. And basically what they
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are you pay them some money and you go out and you catch some humongous
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fish. Because I am looking at some pictures here on their website, Tyler,
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oh my goodness. I mean, first off, there's a couple of
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pictures here. I don't know if these guys, so it says here on
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their website four nights, three days of fishing. And I see this picture
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and there's like four guys here and they've got like forty fish. I mean,
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I don't know if that's common. I don't know if this picture here
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at the bottom of this picture at the bottom, Tyler, this picture like
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this guy could be holding you. I mean, this is a big old
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fish. This guy's got here. He kind of looks like me too.
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But this is a big old fish. This one here is brown. I
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mean, this thing is ugly, but I bet it tastes great. This
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one here looks like maybe a hal of it. I don't know. I
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mean I worked at Anthony's homeport for a couple of years. I still don't
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know what they look like. That big said, you can find Eagle Rock
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Lodge on Facebook. It is facebook dot com, backslash Eagle Rock Lodge,
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Alaska, or you can give them a call nine oh seven four to oh
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one thirty five fifty seven. You can email them info at Eagle Rock dot
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fish and I'll tell you what. This looks like a lot of fun.
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Like, I'm not gonna lie. This looks like something that would be right
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at my alley. Tyler. Are you into fishing? Are you into hunting?
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What do you like any of that stuff? You know? I just
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it was something that I was never much of an outdoorsman growing up. I
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was more about computers and numbers and stuff like that, so I just was
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never really exposed to it growing up. But that being said, Tyler,
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if I took you out and I said, hey, this is what we're
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doing. We're going fishing, put your spreadsheets away for a couple of days,
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Tyler, we're going fishing. You're gonna go Okay, Well, I
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guess I'll go, but I'm probably not gonna eat it because I know you're
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not big on fish. Right. You told me that you're headed to dinner
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here in a couple of days or tomorrow? Is it tomorrow? Yeah,
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Tuesday night. Tuesday night, you told me you're going to Anthony's. You're
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gonna get some some steak because it's mostly fish at that place, and you
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don't real but yeah, Eagle Rock Lodge, they've got all kinds of stuff
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going on. It says here Eagle Rock Lodge is filling up for the twenty
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twenty four summer season. So yeah, go ahead and take a look at
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their website again. Eagle Rock dot Fish excited to have them on board.
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I mean anytime, you know, not only just new sponsors, but anytime
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it's somebody who has like a connection to Walkham County that's setting it up.
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I really like that. So yeah, it's really cool. Yeah, Tyler,
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we've got a lot of stuff to talk about here. We've got well,
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well, actually, before I go any further, if somebody wants to
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reach out to you about sponsorship, just like Eagle Rock Lodge did, how
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do they get a hold of you. Easiest way is through social media.
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Just look up walk them Preps on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram and you'll
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see it pop up. You'll see the logo that you recognize, and then
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just send a message and just say hey, you know I want to talk
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to you about sponsoring, and we just you just kind of open it from
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there, and from there we can talk about all sorts of different things about
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you know, small amounts to large amounts, to you know, different parts
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on the website or just having a logo right on the main page, or
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if you want to sponsor a certain segment or whatever. We can talk about
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all that stuff and we'll get the job done and and make it all work.
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And that's that's, you know, solely how this is continuing. So
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uh, you know, if it can keep happening, then Walkome Preps will
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keep happening. And that's the that's the beauty of the back and forth that
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we do in Walkom County, and that's what that's what makes it all work.
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Let's do this really quickly, Tyler. What is sponsored right now in
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the spring? Right now, it's open. There are I know there are
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people that are interested, but I've just told them hang on for a second,
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because you know, I'm getting to the winner right now. But nothing
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has been spoken for in the spring specifically. I think that the scoreboards and
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the recaps are going to go fast. I well, let okay, I'll
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I'll go back Stopper Insurance has track and field. That's that's that that is
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done. That is done that so and that's already been Yeah, that was
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well in advance, so I should I should say that. So any you
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know, when I do like any write ups on track and field, or
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I do like a weekly top five and in each event, kind of put
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that out there so people can see that that is already sponsored by Stoffer Insurance.
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But the scoreboards have nothing has been you know, spoken of for scoreboards,
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recaps for multiple sports, different things like that, stat leaders, players
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of the week, things like that. So, uh, it's all open.
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But I know there are a few folks that have been sponsoring that would
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be eager to jump on different things for spring because I know that they are
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baseball and fast pitch fans, so uh so that that will happen. But
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hey, if you want to jump on there, there will definitely be some
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stuff available and and uh we'll just go from there. Yeah, there's gonna
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be I mean, there's boys or there's baseball stats, there's softball stats,
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there's I think we still need some help with soccer, right, girl soccer,
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boy soccer in the spring, Oh boy soccer. That's right, Yeah,
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girl girl soccer is in the fall, and so yes, boy soccer
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in the spring. I'm gonna talk to Trey Smiley or I'm sorry Tray Smiley,
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Drew Smiley and who's the coach out at Lindon and see if he can
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kind of help me facilitate with other coaches to get information and stuff like that.
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And even if there's a student out there that's into soccer that wants to
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help me out and go to games or collect stats or you know, stuff
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like that. I mean that goes a long way, you know. And
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and it could be an intern type thing. And and but there's boys and
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girls golf. Uh, there's it's there's a lot going on in the spring.
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So pretty pretty excited about it. Yeah, and you know what the
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best part about the spring is, Tyler, the weather could better. We
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get the sun back. Yes, So yeah, if anybody would like to
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have, you know, some form of sponsorship as far as Walkham Preps goes,
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just reach out to Tyler on any of the social media's by searching Watkam
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Preps and he'll get you taken care of. That. Being said, we've
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got boys wrestling, We've got boys women dive, we've got girls basketball and
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boys basketball to talk about. Only one tournament, Tyler, there was no
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duel meets this week as far as wrestling goes. But there's a lot of
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snow days. Oh that great. That just kind of wiped out a bunch
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of stuff. And and there was there was another tournament that was actually that
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took place that Ferndale won. It didn't have any other Walking County teams in
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it, but all I know is that they won. Uh, there's nothing
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on track wrestling with scores or anything, so I wasn't able to get information
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individual information or points or anything like that. So but Ferndale right now,
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if you're if you lined up all the Walking County schools top to bottom,
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I'd say, just you know, filling out weight classes, they all went
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against each other in some big Wakham County Invite type thing. I think Ferndale
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would win that. They are very very strong. And of course once you
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get to districts and you know, state and stuff like that, then they're
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at the three A level, which can be a little bit different, but
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it's it's weird. Wrestling is one of those sports where sometimes it doesn't really
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matter three A, two A one a man. If you've got a school
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that's really heavily into it, like topin Ish, who's one a you know,
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Topnish could probably take state as a team against anybody. You know.
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It's just it's just one of those weird things. So so yeah, Ferdale's
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was really big. But there were boy one, two, three, four,
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five schools this weekend at the Linden invite. Tyler tell me this,
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and I don't know no, Okay, wait, okay, Linden invite.
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Let's talk about that. Yeah, Linden Invite. There's a bunch of teams
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there. You mentioned Glacier Peak wins one hundred and eighty three, one hundred
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and eighty three point four points. I don't know why that one looks so
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weird to me. Mount Baker finished his second with one hundred and sixty four.
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Bellingham eighth place one hundred and five. Blaine finish his tenth with seventy
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seven points, and they only brought four wrestlers, which is absolutely amazing to
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have that many points when you only bring four guys. As nuts Linden finished
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fourteenth, they had forty nine points. Nooksack Valley finishes tied for seventeenth with
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twenty four. Now, Tyler, I see a lot of names here,
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so give me the names of the guys. Let's start. How about we
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start with this, Tyler, Let's start with sixth and fifth place. Give
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me those names. Yeah, hang on just a second. My computer's wigging
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out a little bit. So we have sixth place. There's a handful cold
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voight from Blaine at one hundred and thirteen pounds, Bellingham Alex Scott at one
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hundred and fifty seven pounds and Sonny Powell at two hundred and fifteen pounds,
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and then from Nuoksack Valley Andrew Dugger at won sixty five, Wyatt Bacon at
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one ninety and then from Seahome Gage Leggett at one seventy five. All right,
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now give me fourth and third. Oh, I'm sorry I didn't do
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the fifth place guys. So fifth place from Bellingham Jacob McCarty at one oh
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six and Carlo Lochanan at one seventy five, and then Grant Oliver from Seahome
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at won fifty and Dylan Moa of Mount Baker at one hundred and ninety pounds.
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Fourth and third place. Fourth place Isaac da Creek at one hundred and
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six pounds from Mount Baker. Also from Mount Baker Sean Duggart one hundred and
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thirty two pounds, and then in fourth place a couple Bellingham BayHawks Nate Loss
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at one hundred and forty four and Finnegan Jensen at two eighty five. And
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then at third place, Mount Baker's Andrew Monteeth at won twenty six and also
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Pavel Shintar from Bellingham at one fifty and I was really I was curious to
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see if he wrestled Daniel Washburn, and he did in that one, and
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that's when I want to see in person. That's what I would have liked
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to have seen in person. At the one hundred and fifty pounds you know
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weight class. Now guys that made it to the finals and this would be
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second place, and who are the champions? Also yeah, second place.
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Christian Velasquez of Linden, wrestling at home there at one hundred and twenty six
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pounds took second place. Then from Bellingham Connor Rodriguez Stiff at one hundred and
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thirty eight pounds, and then Blaine had a couple guys finished second, Cal
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Fitzgerald at one hundred and forty four pounds and Blake Golds at one hundred and
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ninety pounds, and then for Mount Baker, Daniel Washburn at won fifty took
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second place. He's been I think that was only his second loss of the
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year. And then Vance Lawrence took second place at won seventy five. And
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then there were three champions from Wakam County. Mount Baker's Gavin Compton at one
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thirty eight. He's been kind of going back and forth between one thirty eight
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and one forty four. Wyatt Freeman took first place from Mount Baker won sixty
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five, and then at the two hundred and eighty five pound the heavyweight division,
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Victor gervl from Blaine also took first place. Who's just been steamrolling through
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everybody this year. That's awesome. Yeah, yeah, he Uh, Victor
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Gerval is just he's been a little bit of a man, you know what
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I mean, Like, yeah, pretty wild when he's been able to accomplish.
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Uh. So that's wrestling. Let's talk boys, swim and dive Tyler.
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Uh and we do got to say sponsored by Staffer Insurance three six zero
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seven four six eighty eight oh three or find them at their physical location nineteen
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oh three Front Street in Lyndon uh Tyler. I'm seeing three new top times
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here and they all have kind of one common denominator if you will. One.
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Yeah, he's doing a lot of damage right now. Yeah. Absolutely.
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Dylan Fisk at Squalkum, who I believe is a sophomore, is really
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putting. I mean, he's already holds a lot of these top times.
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In the fifty freestyle, which we've talked about, is just that the quickest
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race there is. He broke his own time for the Walking County lead at
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twenty three point seventy one seconds, and then he also took over a new
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time the one hundred freestyle at fifty point seventy five seconds. That's I mean,
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that's so incredible if you think about that's twice as long and almost just
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it's almost double the time. So he keeps that same you know, rhythm
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going for twice as long. It's that shows that shows his endurance absolutely just
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is unbelievable. The squall com Storm swimmer. And then he is part of
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the team with him Finn Smith, Michael Siotti, and Hayden Nelson that broke
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their own time in the four hundred freestyle relay three minutes thirty nine point two
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eight seconds, and we're getting really close to postseason here. There was over
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the weekend there was an NWC invite where it was It's not the like the
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conference thing or anything, but it was all the schools from the conference got
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together and had a big meet. Anna Chortus took it. I think they
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won it with three hundred and seventy five points. They were way out ahead
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of everybody else. See Home took second, squal of them took third.
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But it kind of all lined up the way you thought. Not every swimmer
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was there. Some some guys were at different events for you know, for
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maybe their club teams that they're on stuff like that. But but that was
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kind of a nice thing to look at. I was able to see all
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the results and you just kind of see everybody's name in one shot. You
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know, you kind of open your eyes and see it all. It was
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pretty It was pretty cool, but you know, it's it's kind of the
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names that you expected. Some new state qualifying times, district qualifying times,
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and we're getting really close to that now as we are getting near to February,
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and and yeah, it's it's it's pretty incredible to see what some of
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these times and what they've been doing. Yeah, it's definitely been fun to
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kind of keep track of this and see how every single week it seems like
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a couple more pop up, you know, I like, yeah, absolutely
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cool and Dylan Fisk is just absolutely ridiculous. Yeah. Uh so yeah,
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that's Boys Women Dive again, sponsored by Staffer Insurance, So thank you to
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them. Let's talk girls basketball scoreboards, Tyler, And this has been sponsored
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all year by Ediling Dairy. Big fans of Edeling Dry, big fans of
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dairy in general. Tyler, I'm a I'm a big what's the dang it?
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What is the uh? What's the thing that like the bone? You
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know what I mean? Like you drink dairy because it's good for uh oh,
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you're like bones. I can't remember what it's for. I know,
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I know, I know, I know osteoporosis, though I don't know that
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anyway, Tyler, Boys and girls basketball. Now it's a little bit different
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because there was a lot of cancelations because of schools and stuff. So,
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uh, not a ton going on, but we got something to talk about
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here. Let's start off with melt Baker and Bellingham What was going on with
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with those ladies this week. Well, it was tough for all three of
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them. All three of them had two games and they all went zero to
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two. Kind of pushed them further down a little bit. Meridian lost to
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Nuxack Valley sixty nine thirty four, and then they lost a Seedrow Wolley forty
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nine to forty one in a game that they were. Man they had that
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one. I tell you what against Nuxack Valley, I mean, the top
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team in the state. They were up like halfway through the first quarter.
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They were up like thirteen to eleven or something like that, and it was
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it was crazy. But uh, you know, that's hard to maintain against
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the top team. Mount Baker lost a heartbreaker to Blaine. That was a
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really good game. I was there for that one, and then you know,
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lost and then they had to travel to Nuzack Valley on Saturday and that
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was I was at that one too, and that was that's really tough to
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do. You know, you play against the number one team at their place,
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Bellingham. Even though they lost a Lake With sixty three thirty nine and
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then to squal them sixty two to thirty. They're scoring more points, which
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has been promising. You know, a lot of times they're in the twenties.
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Now they're playing now they're geting up to the thirties, almost forty points
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against Lakewood, So that's intriguing. That's encouraging to see the improvement throughout the
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year for the BayHawks. Let's talk, Well, Ferno didn't have any games
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this week, but what about Blade, what did they have going on?
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Yeah, they just had the one game and it was earlier on in the
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week. They beat Mount Baker on the road fifty four to forty seven.
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That game was fifty to forty seven, like, you know, pretty late,
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and it was because Mount Baker was kind of staging a comeback by that
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Fox at a straightaway three to make it fifty to forty seven with a couple
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minutes left, and the Mount Baker crowd was going nuts. Timeout was called
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and Mount Baker had some foul trouble with some of their better players, and
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then in the you know, right after that, their center Jenna Weininger,
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she fouled out. Then by that Fox fouled out, and you lose those
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two top players and it's really hard and you're trying to come back at the
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same time, it's twenty a couple of minutes left. Uh, it just
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didn't have enough juice to beat to get Blaine. So Blaine Blaine pick picks
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up that win to getting close to five hundred on the season. See Home,
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Lindy Christian, the Squally Cup, how about those three? Yeah,
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see Home. They beat Anna Chordis in a really good game, sixty one
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to fifty two. Uh, that game was at home. I was that
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was on I believe it was Tuesday night. When I had the six different
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screens going. Uh, seeing all the different games that was, that was
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the one that was I was keeping my eye on the most. Seemed like
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that was a great game. Plus the radio was there, so I had
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the audio of the radio going, and while I was watching that, it
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was a lot of fun. Uh. Just they're just so well, just
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so well rounded. I meant every day it seems like they have three different
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players in double figures. And you know it's hard to defend a team like
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that because you can't just focus on one or two girls. Uh, Lyndy
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Christian Beato carb in a game that I thought was a little closer than I
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thought it was going to be, still get the win. But they are
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on the right trajectory now now that they're at full strength, I think they're
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gonna have a really strong finish to the season. And then Squalkam had a
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great week, beating Segar Willie forty two to twenty three and beating Bellingham sixty
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two to thirty, doubling up both their opponents for the most part, now
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eleven and six on the year, the squalcamb Storm. They're just one of
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those teams that as the year has gone on, has just gotten better and
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better and better, and that that bodes well for the future, and not
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just for next year, but the future this year because you could see some
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things happening in the postseason and they could surprise them teams. No games this
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week for Linden, but Nookzac Valley had three games. Yeah. Yeah,
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there was only three days they could have played Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday,
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Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, everything was closed, so they played all
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the three days that they could have and that that first game they played down
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at University at Puget Sound against four A Union, which is a really strong
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team, beat them fifty four to forty one. An incredible effort by the
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Pioneer Girls. They were down two starters and still was able to win that
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game by double digits. So just that just shows me so much about their
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their team, their coaching, and how just well they played together and what
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they can accomplish. Had a little bit of a letdown early against Meridian that
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I kind of spoke of, which they were down against the Trojans on the
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road, but they came back to win that one sixty nine thirty four,
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and then on Saturday they beat Mount Baker seventy two to twenty four. It
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was funny on Saturday because I wake up, I go out to Mount Baker.
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I watched the boys game in the morning and it's Mount Baker nuk Sack
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and then everybody gets in their car, drives from Mount Baker to Nuksack and
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watches the girls game. It was it was, I mean, I was
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behind the team, the team bus, you know, pretty much the whole
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way of the boys team that was leaving from there. And then they all,
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you know, go into their locker room, get changed, and now
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they're in those cheering section. It was it was like the whole It's like
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I saw everybody twice, you know, it was it was kind of a
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fun thing. But uh so yeah, so Nuksac Valley, Uh, just
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the one loss on the year to Lake City, Idaho, and in a
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really good game. They're they are, they are, they're they're playing so
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well right now and they have such a focus and uh and you know,
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coming off of a state championship, you feel like some at some point you
24:22
might lose that focus. But they are really determined. They're not letting games
24:26
against inferior opponents. They don't play down to them. They play their game
24:32
every time. It's incredible, Like right off the tip. You know,
24:36
they have Devin Coppinger do the tip and because she wins it every time,
24:40
and so they they have like it's like right when they line up for the
24:45
tip, they have a girl in each corner like to shoot a three.
24:48
Like before they even throw the ball up, like they they they put them
24:52
specifically in that spot. They don't defend because they know they're not going to
24:56
lose the tip. So it's like all of a sudden boom, tip right
24:59
to the corner shoot. I mean it is, it's deadly right off the
25:02
bat, Like they are full throttle all the time and they're so entertaining to
25:07
watch and they're so unselfish and they always take the right shot. I mean
25:12
they and it doesn't necessarily mean like they take the open shot, because they
25:18
will pass up on open shots if they see a better shot. And that's
25:21
really rare to see at the high school level. And they just they know
25:26
each other so well. They've been doing it for so long together, and
25:30
it's really really fun to watch and coach. You know, Shane Wickers has
25:34
been there forever. I mean his first year coaching was my senior year a
25:38
high school out of Knokseck Valley, so he's been there for a long time
25:42
and and he just he just has that machine going right now, and they're
25:48
going to be really, really tough to take down. Yeah. That's uh,
25:53
that's a heck of an accomplishment too. I mean for them to be
25:56
sixty to one right now with their only loss to you know, probably one
26:00
of the better teams out you know, in Courlaine. No, Yeah,
26:04
that's pretty amazing. But yeah, they're some exciting things going on over there.
26:10
Tyler, let's talk boys basketball. It looks like there's quite a few
26:15
more games played for the boys this week. Blade Mount Baker. Let's start
26:21
there, yeah, well they played each other. That was on Monday night
26:26
at at Blaine. Blaine got him sixty two to forty four. It was
26:30
a tough week for Baker. They you know, they lost, they lost
26:33
the two games. They lost to Blaine, they lost at home to Nuksack.
26:36
They were without their best player for the for the for the week.
26:38
Carter Hill was out and so he's you know, he's a sophomore sharpshooter,
26:45
can hit free throws, but he can do a little bit of everything.
26:48
And so a lot of guys had to step up and kind of do a
26:51
little bit more more stuff. And I was intrigued to see how they did.
26:56
They just didn't have the firepower against these against these other two teams.
26:59
So but but Blaine getting that getting that second conference win was was big for
27:04
them. And and Baker is, you know, three and thirteen on the
27:07
season right now. It's you know, they're so young, and I really
27:14
liked their coaches, and I think that things are on the right track.
27:18
They just they just have to continue to work at let's see hear Ferndale no
27:22
games this week, so they were made four and five and five and nine
27:26
on the season. Meridian Squalicum Tyler, what about those two Meridian had a
27:32
really rough week. They you know, they lost Nuksack Valley at I believe
27:37
that one was at home. Well, no, it was at Nuksack Valley,
27:42
And that was one where I think going into the game, it was
27:45
it was like a pick them. I mean, that was one where it
27:48
was common opponents, very very similar. You know, they both lost really
27:53
close ones to Ferndale, but they both be you know, they both be
27:57
Blaine. It just looked like it looked like that that was gonna be a
28:02
great game. But Nooksac Valley just did a little bit more when they needed
28:06
to, and then they lost a heartbreaker to Sidro Wooley. Uh, they
28:11
were down like seven with two minutes to go. They came back with a
28:15
lot of great things, steals lands, they tie it up with like I
28:19
think it was like twenty seconds to go, and then they fouled a cub
28:25
in the act of shooting and he with one point eight seconds to go,
28:29
Cdro Woollie makes the first foul shot and that was really all that was needed.
28:32
So that was just a heartbreaker for the Murting Trojans Squalicum Squalic them they've
28:38
been doing really really well lately. They beat sedjer woolli at fifty six to
28:42
forty five earlier in the week, but they lost a heartbreaker at home to
28:47
Bellingham crosstown rival game, and that was one where they did everything they could
28:53
and when they kind of started to get into trouble, like that's when Marcus
28:57
Nixon just kind of goes off. It's like Marcus Cook type thing. And
29:00
he scored like thirty two points and blocked four shots and did all the I
29:04
mean, he just went off. It just wasn't enough. It was just
29:07
so close. They just could not get past Bellingham in that one. Next
29:14
year, if he's played quarterback again, we're gonna have to do let Marcus
29:17
Cook. Let's see wait, Marcus Cook. Wasn't that a best Wasn't that
29:21
a basketball player? Marcus Cook? Not that I remember. Yeah, Let's
29:25
see here, Bellingham, Seahome, Nooksack, Valley Tyler. Tell me about
29:29
those three. Well, Bellingham lost the game the lake Wood. They just
29:33
played him like not too long ago either. So they played him in a
29:36
non conference game a few weeks ago, and then they play him in a
29:38
conference game. They lose by ten, but they but coming back to beat
29:42
Squalkam in that game I was just talking about was really big for them.
29:45
Kincaid van Houton had a really good game. Joe Harvard Jesse Harvard's little brother.
29:52
He's been playing awesome. He came up from the JV to kind of
29:56
replace Hermon Winkers when he's out with this he's an ending injury, and once
30:02
they put him in the game, he just he just scores. It's just
30:04
like it's like JV varsity, who cares, I'm gonna score a lot of
30:07
points. And he has not let up and so he's going like double digits
30:12
a game, which is you just don't see that when a guy comes up
30:15
from the JV for the first time and he played some varsity last year with
30:19
Mount Baker. He's a he's a good player when he was a freshman,
30:23
but he he's, uh, he's about sixty three now and he's really developing
30:27
into a really good basketball player. So he kind of gives that Bellingham team
30:30
a shot in the arm. See home boy, they just had the one
30:34
game and it was one they'd like to forget, giving up one hundred points
30:37
to Anacordus and Davis Fogel had another big forty plus point game that was that
30:45
was a rough one. I was watching that on that Tuesday night as well
30:48
on the with all the screens going on. Nuksac Falle had a good week,
30:52
beating Meridians sixty seven to fifty five, then beating Mount Baker sixty six
30:56
to forty four. There's still something inconsistent and about their game, Like when
31:00
I watch them, I think they could still Like even though they're winning these
31:03
games, I'm like, they could, they can, they can be better
31:07
like they they they I felt like they they played better earlier in the year
31:11
and and they played really great against Friday Harbor, But ever since then,
31:18
there's been something kind of I don't I just don't know what it is.
31:22
They get on some cold snaps and stuff like that. But I tell you
31:25
what if if they if they hit like they're supposed to hit and things start
31:29
flowing like they're supposed to flow, they are going to be a tough out
31:32
once they get to the one A playoffs, because, uh, they're just
31:36
so athletic and there's a lot of guys that can shoot, and you got
31:41
you got true players. I mean a lot of guys just have like five
31:42
guys on the perimeter. They have a true point guard in Caden Eughting.
31:47
They have a true center in Brady Ackerman. You know, they have these
31:49
true guys that are are hard to match up against, and they're gonna be
31:55
They're gonna be a threat when it comes into postseason if they can figure out
32:00
whatever that weird thing is that that's missing. And I don't it's hard to
32:02
even put my finger on it, but I can tell from I feel like
32:07
I've seen three out of their last four games, like in person, and
32:10
so when you're there in the building, you just kind of see it and
32:14
something is not quite clicking. But I tell you what, I think that
32:19
I would I wouldn't want to play them. I'll just I'll just end it
32:22
with that, I wouldn't want to play them. Coming up, let's see
32:24
here Linden and Linden Christian. What do they got. Well, Linden had
32:30
some big games this week that were that were canceled. I mean they had
32:32
a big you know, they had one against Mount Vernon. I was really
32:35
looking forward to, Uh, well, then get canceled. I guess I
32:37
got postponed. So their only game this week was on Martin Luther King day
32:42
out against Kings at down down there at the what's it called the Showwear Showwear
32:50
Center, And I was watching that game live. That was really cool.
32:52
That had some really neat camera angles and stuff like that, and they played
32:57
a really good Kings team and just handled them. You know, Kings was
33:00
in the Kings is traditionally great at basketball, and it seems like almost every
33:07
year at the one A level it's them against Lennon Christian in the state championship,
33:10
and I mean it was last year, last two years, I believe.
33:14
And but Lyndon when Linden's another one of those teams where like Knooksack Girls,
33:21
where they they always take the smart shot and where other teams will take
33:27
the open Well, some teams just take a shot, some teams take the
33:30
open shot, and then some teams take the smart shot. And Linden is
33:32
the third they will take the smart shot. Really fun to watch them past
33:37
the ball and keep moving it around until they find the best shot possible.
33:40
So that was a great game against Kings. And then Lynden Christian coming off
33:45
that loss against Anacordus first loss of the year, they took it out on
33:49
Oak Harbor got them ninety one to forty three. They're another one that's very
33:54
hard to defend because they're a little bit unorthodox is are as, not just
34:00
relying on threes and lands. They're very good in the mid range and they
34:05
do a lot of backdoor cuts and if you're not if you snooze for a
34:07
couple of seconds, Uh, that's gonna be tough. And they have a
34:10
lot of good size. Of course, really really well well coached. We've
34:15
you know, we talked about coach Zilstra's record in the last winter podcast.
34:19
It was something like, you know, eighty eight and four or something like
34:23
that in the last few years since he's taken over. So, uh,
34:28
you know, they just they know how to win. And and of course
34:30
there're gonna be another tough out going for that three peat out at Linden Christian
34:35
for the state title. Uh. Now, Tyler, we've got that.
34:38
Well, there weren't weren't as many games as we were expecting this week,
34:42
but we still need to talk about the girls basketball game of the week.
34:45
And a reminder this is this isn't necessarily the biggest game, but Tyler,
34:50
what was the best game you saw this week? Well, there were a
34:54
few of them. There was one I saw in person blaming Mount Baker out
35:00
of Mount Baker. I was talking about that one a little bit earlier.
35:02
That one was. That one was a really good one as far as you
35:07
know. Mount Baker jumped out ahead early and then which was not really what
35:12
I was expecting. And then Blaine kind of made a little bit closer than
35:15
Blaine took take took a bigger lead, and then Baker was starting to come
35:19
back. Even though they were in foul trouble, they were able to at
35:22
it within three before their two best players filed out, and then it kind
35:24
of just so it was really close the whole way through. The crowd was
35:28
really into it. It was fun being back home out there. It was
35:31
also fun to stop at my parents and fill up my jugs of water,
35:35
so I had water for a little bit. But yeah, that was a
35:38
good one. The next night, the Seaho man Achordus game I thought was
35:42
awesome. I thought, I guess I haven't seen Anti Chortis a ton,
35:46
but I kind of thought Selm was gonna handle them. But Anacortis played really
35:51
really well and stayed in that game. But Sea Hoom was really really tough.
35:54
To beat, especially at home. But the game of the week was
35:57
Noksack Valley beating Union fifty four to forty one. I watched that one.
36:01
That was just that was just an awesome game where you know, Lady Kimball's
36:07
out, Kaylee Anderson is out. These are two starting players that with state
36:13
championship experience, and so what happens is you have other players step up.
36:19
Tanna Hookama stepped up and you know, grabbed I think nineteen rebounds or something
36:23
like that. Grace Dhoague, a six' one sophomore, she stepped up.
36:29
You know, there were there was these other players that would come in
36:31
and do really well. Hayton Bartell came in and she's usually coming off the
36:36
bench. Now she was in the starting lineup because of the players missing,
36:38
and she's hitting outside shots and it's just and Kate Shintof are playing amazing defense,
36:44
and it's just and Devin Koppinger can really I mean, when she wants
36:50
to take over a game, she can just do it. And it does
36:52
not It's just such a just a great machine that they have, like I
36:58
said, and in that game, they they showed it, and other players
37:04
came on and showed that if they have more touches, which they showed what
37:08
they can do and it didn't drop off at all. It was just unbelievable
37:13
to see what what a great team, what a great game that was,
37:15
and what a great gym had to throw that one in there. Oh it
37:22
was awesome. Yeah, what about all the boys side, Tyler? What
37:24
do you got there? There are some good ones. I mean that Bellingham
37:28
Squalicum game was awesome as far as just great athletes. I mean, seeing
37:35
Whyatt Stefan and Marcus Nixon going at it. You know, it's just like,
37:38
man, these guys are just freaky athletes that are doing some great things.
37:44
I mean when they when they when they jump, it's different than other
37:46
high school kids jumping, you know, when they run, it's different.
37:50
Uh. That was just really really cool good. You know, these kids
37:53
have probably known each other forever. They've probably played with each other on teams
37:59
growing up, so really good rivalry there. And then same thing with the
38:01
Knuxac Valley Meridian game. That was one where you know, these kids know
38:07
each other so well. You know. I remember I like they were shooting
38:10
a free throw and I saw I saw Brady Ackerman and Jaker fife standing next
38:15
to each other. I mean, you know their their parents are great friends
38:17
with each other. I mean, this is it's really cool to see those
38:21
rivalries. But they're competing so hard and and it makes for a great game.
38:27
But the but the best game that I actually saw for the week,
38:30
unfortunately, was for Meridians game on Saturday, which they dropped by a point
38:35
against Cigar Woolley. Uh. They played their hearts out, you know,
38:38
they were they were down late and it was it was, you know,
38:44
a steal, well, it was a it was a three pointer that that
38:50
that got them from seven to four. I'm trying to remember who hit the
38:53
three now it's like slipping my mind for some reason. But but they they
38:58
hit. They hit a three pointer which was huge, and then a steal
39:01
in a lay in by Tarren Burks, which was just an awesome play.
39:06
I mean, he is just he's one of those every team's got that guy
39:08
that's like that crazy defensive guy. Jacob Alminsen was the kid who hit the
39:14
three to bring them within four. But then Tarren Burks is like that guy
39:19
that you put on the best offensive player and he can. He's just a
39:22
jumping jack. Never runs out of energy, gets in the passing lane.
39:27
He's a pest, he's awesome, gets probably more offensive than defensive rebounds.
39:30
You know, one of those kind of guys. He gets a steal in
39:34
the layup, which brings him within two. Then Talon Jenkins gets a steal
39:37
under the basket. They set up their offense and the ball gets tipped out
39:42
of the bounds. They set up a play it fro an inbound play to
39:44
get it to Talon Jenkins, who's six foot five, but he's a guard.
39:49
He could handle the ball. They kind of isolate him a little bit.
39:52
He comes in makes a point blank shot basically to tie the game.
39:57
But Seeger Willie made that that free throw at the end, and it was
40:00
just a heartbreaker out at Meridian. But I mean, yeah, like you
40:06
said, game of the week, just a great game. That was it.
40:08
Unfortunately, just didn't go in the way of the Trojans. Let's talk
40:14
Anytime Fitness Tyler, Lyndon, Lynden, North and Ferndale. They are the
40:17
sponsors of the Boys and Girls Basketball Player of the Week Tyler, who is
40:22
this week's Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball Player of the Week. Yeah, I went
40:27
with Tanna Hookma from Nuksack Valley, the six foot one senior. She you
40:32
know, she's been great all year, but I think she's been kind of
40:37
in the shadows a little bit of Devin Coffringer and Landy Kimball, but she's
40:40
just been putting up great numbers. But with Landy Kimball being out, she
40:45
really stepped up her game. And she can do so many different things.
40:49
I mean, yeah, she's a six to one player, and if you're
40:52
six to one playing girls basketball, they're gonna put you in the post.
40:55
But she can shoot outside, she can pass the ball, she gets a
40:59
lot of steals, she does a lot of stuff. She's got a ton
41:01
of rebounds. This week they won all three of their games. I thought
41:05
she just was awesome and it it It told. It told me that if
41:10
she was playing on you know, eighty percent of the other teams in the
41:15
county, she would be the player that they would go to all the time.
41:19
And and that's that speaks a lot to me. I got to see
41:22
her a lot during volleyball season. That's when I've kind of first started to
41:25
see her as an athlete do a lot of good things on the volleyball side.
41:30
And now on the basketball side, it's been so fun to watch her
41:35
play and and uh yeah, just a great, great week for her.
41:38
Tanna Hookema from Niksack Valley is your Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball Player of the Week,
41:44
Tyler, Are you telling me that she's like the Skyler Winterd of girls
41:46
basketball? That's a great call. I mean, she's been starting all year,
41:52
that's the difference. Uh but but yeah, that's a that's a I
41:57
see where you're going with that. That's that's pretty good. Yeah, what
42:00
about though, she could oh Skyler up, she's got about she got about
42:04
four inches on Skyler. So I really think that, oh yeah, oh
42:07
yeah, she would. She would dominate Skyler Wittard in the low post.
42:09
Okay, maybe I could take her on one on one. Probably not,
42:14
But that being said, Tyler, let's flip over to the boy's side.
42:15
Talk the any Time Fitness Boys Basketball Basketball Player of the league. Who he
42:20
got, Well, there was a lot of different ways I could have gone
42:22
here, but I went with Anthony Canalis from Lindon. You know his performance
42:28
against Kings. When you play really well against really good competition, that shows
42:32
me a lot. They only did play the one game but he was.
42:37
I mean, the there was announcers for this one, which is really cool
42:40
and and I love it when it's announcers that I don't know because you know,
42:47
they're not locals, so I'm curious what they're gonna say about the local
42:52
players. And they were just drooling over Canalist. They just kept saying,
42:55
like, wait, if he missed a shot, they were like, I
42:58
can't believe he missed a shot like that. He never misses. There's stuff
43:01
like that, and it was really it was really fun to just to listen
43:05
to them and uh, and he's a he's a player much like Devin Coppinger,
43:09
where you know, you could almost give it to them every week.
43:14
And uh, but he he just had that. He just had that great
43:17
game and I'm excited to see where the rest of the future goes. You
43:22
know, he's him along with Coppinger, we're both nominated for the McDonald's All
43:28
American Game. You know, it's I think each state has certain amount of
43:31
players nominated and then they kind of cut it down from there. So that's
43:35
a pretty cool honor as well. So Anthony Canalis, the Linden Guards Senior
43:38
Lendon Guard, is your anytime Fitness Boys Basketball Player of the Week Dallat's talk
43:44
up coming games look for Tyler, and we're getting down into it here.
43:47
There's not a lot of time left before we hit the playoffs. But what
43:52
are the girls games to look for this week? And what's the big game?
43:55
What's the one that you're looking forward to? Yeah, there's it's it's
44:00
there's a lot of games because I think some of them that got moved from
44:02
last week, and I was just kind of looking at all of them and
44:07
see home on the girls side is gonna be you know, they're I think
44:13
they only have one loss on conference play so far this year, but now
44:17
they're gonna start to play some some some tougher teams, and one of them
44:22
on Monday night seven fifteen hosting Ferndale. That's gonna be a pretty darn good
44:29
game, I think. I think if Ferndale can can can keep it close,
44:34
if they make their outside shots, they're gonna keep it close throughout and
44:37
they the big key for them is to just not run out of gas at
44:40
the end. See them plays a few more girls than Ferndale does, but
44:45
they both rely on kind of their big their big three or four players to
44:49
get them through it. So I think that's gonna be a really good game.
44:51
But the game of the week is gonna be Saturday afternoon at four point
44:53
thirty. See Home is hosting Lindon. I I this one I'm really curious
45:00
about because the Burlington girls are really good too, so that two a level
45:05
for girls, have three really good teams where I think only two of them
45:08
are gonna eventually be able to get to State. Uh, this is kind
45:14
of a gonna be a measuring spot for Sea Home. Linden hasn't played in
45:17
forever, it seems like girls, so it's gonna be, you know,
45:22
and they'll have games during the week. But this Saturday game out at Sea
45:24
Home, oh boy, it's gonna be. It's gonna be awesome. The
45:29
one thing that I think can really help a team to beat Linden is outside
45:34
shooting, Like you have to. You just have to knock down your outside
45:37
shots because interior passing is so hard against Lindon, So you're gonna have to
45:40
take outside shots. You're gonna have to make them, and See Home can
45:45
really make them, especially with Emmy Hart, So that's gonna be I'm really
45:49
curious how that's gonna go and and I would imagine I don't know who Keky
45:52
York is gonna be guarding. She's really good defensively for Lindon. Do you
45:57
put her on Emmy Hart? You put her on the point guard Matti Cooper
46:00
who was about five nine. So it's it's gonna be it's gonna be a
46:05
game of you know, chess. It's gonna be a lot of fun to
46:07
see how that all matches up. Uh, really really excited about that one.
46:12
Let's talk boy side Tyler. What are the games? What are the
46:14
game you're looking forward to? Uh? Lyndon Christian at Lakewood Tuesday at seven
46:20
fifteen. I think that's gonna be a good one. I'm not gonna be
46:22
there for that one. But Uh, Lindon Christian Lakewood lake would be ana
46:28
Chordus this year, and that says a lot. They got some guys.
46:31
They have a kidnam His last name is Rucker. I think his name is
46:35
Ben Rucker. And he's one of the streakiest shooters I've ever seen. And
46:38
when he gets on a roll, he does not miss. And and uh
46:43
that he's gonna be the key for the Cougars. Uh. And but Linden
46:47
Christian. I mean, you know they are. They're just so well coached
46:52
and they play so well. But I they're really, really, really hard
46:54
to beat. But I'm telling you that Rutger is that X factor for Lakewood,
46:59
So if they can keep him in check, they'll be okay. But
47:01
the big game, oh man, the big game and a Chordis and the
47:06
fighting Davis Fogels at Linden on Wednesday at seven fifteen. I am really curious
47:12
how they're gonna defend Fogel. Are you gonna put you know, who are
47:15
you gonna put on them? Are you gonna put Canalis on them? Are
47:17
you gonna you know? I mean, are you gonna put Hefner on him?
47:22
Linden has a couple six seven kids, uh, buts focals more of
47:27
a guard. So these six seven kids for Linden are post players. You
47:30
into a box and one. I can't wait to see the strategy in this
47:37
one and and then the adjustments after that. This is just one of those
47:40
ones where I, you know, I just put my shoulders up and just
47:45
go. It's gonna be fireworks. I mean, this is one of those
47:46
ones where everyone's gonna be there and I tell you what at when you go
47:51
to games at Linden, there's so many people there and you're standing on the
47:54
baseline and they actually have like crossing guards at each all four corners, like
48:00
constantly wish war places would do that. But I'm telling you, like,
48:05
like you go to a lot of other games and I'm standing there, and
48:08
you know, people kids kind of know like to not go to not walk
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and that way till a lot of places down here, trust me. Yeah,
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Well at Lindon there's just so many kids running around that you know,
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you got Shane Van Dalen at one at corner, you got Ed Bomber at
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one corner, you got I mean, you got all these guys standing at
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all these corners. I mean I literally saw like Jim Carberry almost pick up
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a kid because you almost you know, got it, got hit. I
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mean, it's it's a zoo. It is crazy. There's just so many
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people there, and and that that this one is one where I might just
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sit up in the stands and hide somewhere. Heck I might. I might
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hang out with the band in that one. Uh see if I can bang
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the drum a little a few times. Yeah, I mean I'd love to
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play with that band. That's an awesome band. So we'll see that gonna
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be just that was just you know, a lot of eyeballs are going to
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be on that one. That's that's a big one where I'm really curious to
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see and whoever wins or loses it almost you know. I you know they're
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gonna play each other again in the postseason A Districts, I'm sure, but
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this is gonna be one where they're gonna kind of feel each other out and
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see how it goes. The two best players in the Northwest Conference on the
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boy's side against each other. It's gonna be awesome. You know, Tyler,
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maybe you show up in a in a hockey jersey se if we can't
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get our guy Trevor Gallaghan to let you in there, huh, be awesome.
49:37
I'd love to sit in with the band. I have well somewhere.
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I think it might be at my dad's house. But I have a valve
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trombone, which there was only a few hundred of those made. Everyone knows
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of the trombone, you know, the big wrap around where you have moved
49:51
your arm in and out, but it's it's it's just like that has all
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the tubing, but it has valves instead. And it wasn't very popular because
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you know it people like to see, you know, usually when the band
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marches, the first line is the trombones because it looks great where they're all
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doing the same thing in unison and they're all doing that. But uh so
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a valve trombone doesn't look great. It sounds just like a trombone. But
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yeah, maybe I'll bring that out there and see if I can get some
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some sheet music and play along. Oh man, that'd be so cool.
50:22
My lips would be feeling it the next day. I'll tell you what I
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did. Sit down years ago, I played at an alumni band thing,
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and I went out. I brought my uh my little Mount Baker, Yeah,
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I Mount Baker, and brought brought my valve trombone, and we played
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like you know, we practiced for like an hour because we were gonna play
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it like a basketball game the next day. And and I my lips hurt
50:49
so bad because I hadn't done it for so long. It was just they
50:52
were like purple. I mean, it was. It was crazy because I
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just wasn't you know, you know, I wasn't my my posture was not
50:59
good, and but so I ended up doing that. I played like one
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song that I just played the drum set the rest of the night because because
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I was used to that, I was not used to playing the drombone.
51:09
But uh man, fun time. This this whole covering this basketball stuff and
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and all these other sports for the winter has been It's been eye opening.
51:21
And a lot of people come up to me, referees, parents, everywhere
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I go, and they kind of put their hand on my shoulder and they're
51:29
like, how are you surviving? Are you doing okay? Because they they
51:31
all kind of ward, yeah, I'm good, Yeah right, they all
51:36
they all sort of warned me. They're like, you know, this is
51:37
this is every night, this is every night. And I was like,
51:42
yeah, I mean I was going to volleyball games every night, so I
51:45
kind of get it. But it is. It is crazy, and but
51:51
it's so much fun and so many well wishers out there at all these different
51:54
schools, and it's just been I feel welcome everywhere now. I mean,
51:59
you know, it wasn't that long ago where I wasn't I didn't feel super
52:04
not that I wasn't welcome, but I didn't feel super comfortable at all all
52:07
the schools. Now, it's it's it's it's great. It's I would's imagine
52:14
how like you feel where you go. I mean, you don't even wear
52:15
a press pass anymore. Well when you were a part of the press,
52:19
but you know what I mean, like you could just walk in people know
52:21
who you are. It's not a not a problem. I still wear my
52:23
press pass, but it's, uh, it's they all have different feels and
52:30
they're all good, and I love it. I've gone to games where it's
52:32
you know, it's you know, these two schools, but I'll see a
52:36
parent from neither of those schools just show up and say hi, and they
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just want to see sports and want to see basketball or whatever sport it is.
52:44
And it's it's really cool. It's such a it's such a great community.
52:46
And and yeah, just it's been it's been really really rewarding, uh,
52:55
this past winter season so far. Yeah, it's funny you mentioned like
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I kind of stopped wearing press pass at one point. Like the only time
53:05
you ever really have to worry about it is like the one random person that
53:08
maybe doesn't know you, you know what I mean, Like, yeah,
53:10
because they're new or you know, like whatever, and then you explain who
53:14
you are and they go, oh, yeah, I've seen what you do.
53:16
I've seen what you do before. Yeah, they're fine, you know,
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but I think that's, you know, obviously unique probably the high school
53:24
sports, you know what I mean, because you can't really do that at
53:28
the college level. Yeah, right, ask good questions. Yeah, and
53:34
there are you know, sometimes I'll go into a game and I'll see someone
53:36
in the tickeer taker area that is new. And I've realized now. It
53:42
took me a while to realize, but I realize now that there's more people
53:45
that know me than I know them, which is fine. Yeah so they
53:47
so they probably know who I am. But I don't want to assume anything.
53:52
And but I'm I'm all plastered. I got my red hoodie that says
53:57
that the big walk and Preps emblem right in the middle. I got my
54:00
Walking Preps hat on. I think people are recognizing it now, you know.
54:06
I posted a thing on Facebook a couple of nights ago about you know,
54:09
sharing, you know, how to share with your friends about liking or
54:15
following Walking Preps, And all of a sudden, twenty four hours later,
54:19
it was over a thousand more followers just like that, and so I think
54:22
the word is getting out there and I'm just just so thankful and humbled for
54:29
this community because it makes it so it's just it's it's great. It's I
54:36
feel comfortable, and for some person like myself who's not comfortable when he leaves
54:42
his house, it's it makes it great to have comfortable spots around the county
54:46
that I can go to and and be myself, and that that goes a
54:51
long way. Tyler, I think we're done. I think so nothing else
54:57
to talk about ever again, not just kidding, Yeah no, no,
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Yeah. He's Tyler Anderson from Walkompreps walkompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer.
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You've been listening to episode of two hundred and thirty seven Winter Sports, a
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weekly wrap up here on the Walk Up Preps podcast, and we will talk
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to you next week