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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 381 - Week 6 Fall Sports Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is winning Christian senior Kayla and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: the walkm Preps Podcast with Tyler Anderson. Go links. Greetings
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Speaker 1: and welcome into the Walkham Preps Podcast. This is episode
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Speaker 1: three hundred and eighty one, your fall sports weekly recap,
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Speaker 1: and I'm your host, Tyler Anderson from Walkham Preps. Got
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Speaker 1: to give a special thank you to Lenny Christian senior
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Speaker 1: soccer player Kayla Yun for the intro. Boy a lot
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Speaker 1: of enthusiasm there. I love that on the intro, and yeah,
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Speaker 1: so you heard her talk right there. You should hear
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Speaker 1: her sing. Amazing voice, amazing family, really really cool deal.
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Speaker 1: So and she's having an amazing year and I'm glad
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Speaker 1: that she's sticking around to play college out at Western
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Speaker 1: Washington University. That's really really cool. What a wonderful kid
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Speaker 1: she is. I mean, she's just doing a great job
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Speaker 1: and represents Walkham County Athletics the right way. Also got
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Speaker 1: to give a thank you to Kirt Maybury Farm. Kirk
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Speaker 1: Mayberry Farm is a family farm committed to developing innovative
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Speaker 1: agronomic and business practices to grow, process, and market high
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Speaker 1: quality berries. Kirt Maybray Farm is the Northwest Berry supplier
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Speaker 1: of choice. You can visit them online at Kirkabury Farm
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's Kirtwth the c M A B E
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Speaker 1: r r Y Farm dot com. Of course, this podcast
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Speaker 1: is dedicated to the week that was in Walkham County,
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Speaker 1: but football is not included. If you want to hear
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Speaker 1: about what happened over the weekend with football, that podcast
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Speaker 1: will be coming out tomorrow morning, so we'll be sure
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Speaker 1: to tune in for that one. We're gonna start off
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Speaker 1: like we always do with cross country, and we can't
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Speaker 1: talk about cross country without talking about Staffer Insurance. You
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Speaker 1: could visit them in person at nineteen oh three Front
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Speaker 1: Street in London or give them a call at three
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Speaker 1: six zero seven four six eight eight zero three. Again
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Speaker 1: that Staffer Insurance is always backing everything cross country related.
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Speaker 1: And last week didn't have a lot to talk about
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Speaker 1: because I didn't have the results yet for the Nike
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Speaker 1: Hole in the Wall race that was out at Lakewood
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Speaker 1: High School, so it was over a week ago, but
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Speaker 1: I have the infom now, so I want to break
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Speaker 1: some of that down first before we talked about what
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Speaker 1: happened last week. There was the five K, there was
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Speaker 1: lots of races, I mean thousands of runners and all
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Speaker 1: sorts of different divisions. But in the five k women's Elite,
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Speaker 1: Seahome took first place as a team and they won
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Speaker 1: it by a landslide, really really impressive. Kirsten Ludimann took
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Speaker 1: third place overall, Littldsler's seventh place and Sloan Copklein's ninth
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Speaker 1: place all of Seahome. Sloane Dixon of Linden took second
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Speaker 1: place overall with a time of seventeen minutes eleven point
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Speaker 1: seven seconds, and for that she was named the Staffer
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Speaker 1: Insurance Runner of the Week last week. Didn't get to
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Speaker 1: talk about it. I got to post it by I
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Speaker 1: didn't get to talk about it, so I wanted to
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Speaker 1: bring that up. So congratulations to her unbelievable race. And
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Speaker 1: on the boys side, Bellingham's Berkeley Pass finished the five
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Speaker 1: k race in a time of fourteen minutes and fifty
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Speaker 1: eight seconds, which might be a school record. I'm not
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure, but I'm pretty sure, which is
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Speaker 1: incredible under I mean a five k and under fifteen minutes.
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Speaker 1: That is really really, really impressive. This past week we
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Speaker 1: had the Lake Padden lap invite, which I was at.
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Speaker 1: Always loved going out to Lake Padden and involved numerous
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Speaker 1: teams and runners from around Wakham County. There was a
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Speaker 1: small mishap in the beginning of the boys race where
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Speaker 1: some runners tangled up with each other. A Bellingham runner
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Speaker 1: ended up injuring his shoulder. I just I felt horrible.
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Speaker 1: Just kind of got trampled by a bunch of other runners,
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Speaker 1: and that's kind of what happens sometimes. But boy, I
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Speaker 1: don't know who the young man is, but I hope
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Speaker 1: he's doing okay. If a coach is a listening, you know,
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Speaker 1: especially the Bellingham coaches, please reach out and let me know,
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Speaker 1: because I really feel I really felt for that young man,
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Speaker 1: and and it's it's just one of those unfortunate things
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Speaker 1: that you don't see possibly happening in cross country. You
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Speaker 1: might see something, you know, maybe when you're running all
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Speaker 1: alone or you step into a weird spot or something
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Speaker 1: like that, but this was just a It was quite
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Speaker 1: the sight, and I hope he's doing okay. And Logan
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Speaker 1: Ignacio of Meridians. She took first place in the girls
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Speaker 1: race and in the boys race. It was a close
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Speaker 1: finish as Meridians Ruben Taveldi finished four seconds ahead of
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Speaker 1: Nicholas LUs of Lenny Christian. Those two, of course, are
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Speaker 1: going to be battling it out. They've been doing it
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Speaker 1: for a while now, for a couple of years, and
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Speaker 1: and they got this year still to go with Nicholas
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Speaker 1: Loose being a senior now, those two are usually out
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Speaker 1: ahead of a lot of races that they're both in
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Speaker 1: the stof for Insurance. Runner of the Week is Meridian
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Speaker 1: senior Logan Ignacio As. She finished forty six seconds ahead
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Speaker 1: of the second place runner. A dominant performance for her.
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Speaker 1: Seems like we've been talking about her forever now finally
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Speaker 1: a seeker and you know, has her site set on
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Speaker 1: a state championship at the one A level once that
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Speaker 1: that's right around the corner too, really really close. We're getting.
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Speaker 1: We're you know, we're gonna have the conference meet coming
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Speaker 1: up this week, which we'll talk about a little later
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Speaker 1: on in the podcast. So let's jump right into girls
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Speaker 1: swimming and diving. Of course, that's another sport that's kind
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Speaker 1: of wrapping up pretty pretty quickly here as we're getting
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Speaker 1: close to the end of the regular season with Anacordas
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Speaker 1: still on top eight and zero, an unbelievable record for them.
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Speaker 1: Every single meet they just do so well, you know,
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Speaker 1: usually winning by at least thirty forty points. Seahom and
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Speaker 1: Bellingham each seven and one on the season, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I think both of their losses came to ana chordis
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Speaker 1: they will be racing against each other this week. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that a little later on O Carver four
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Speaker 1: and three, Mount Vernon four and two, Squalicum three and five,
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Speaker 1: Lyndon two and five, Burlington one and five, c Jo
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Speaker 1: Williams Owen six and Ferndale Owen six as well. A
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Speaker 1: lot of the same times and same names here, but
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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna jump through them really quickly. Here
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Speaker 1: on the top times for Walking County through each event.
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Speaker 1: In the two hundred medley relay, it's the Sea Home
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Speaker 1: team of Kaisa Glass, Raja Gare, Sage Maiden and Brielle Hicks,
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Speaker 1: with a time of two minutes, ten point four to
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Speaker 1: five seconds. In the two hundred freestyle at Seahomes, Elsa
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Speaker 1: Effelba with a time of two minutes and six point
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Speaker 1: two to three seconds. In the two hundred individual medley,
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Speaker 1: it's Ferndale's Lexi Jensen with a time of really close
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Speaker 1: time here two minutes and thirty point six to one seconds,
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Speaker 1: followed closely behind by Solo Robido of Squalum, really really
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Speaker 1: close there. In the fifty free style, Bellingham's Jasmine Garcia
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Speaker 1: has the top time at twenty six point nine to
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Speaker 1: eight second. We jump over to diving, or we dive
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Speaker 1: over to diving if you will. Uh. For for six dives,
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Speaker 1: it's squal Comes Jazzy Nelson with a score of one
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Speaker 1: point fifty three point two five, jumped well out ahead
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Speaker 1: of everybody else in that one. And then in the
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Speaker 1: eleven dives competition it's Seahome's Ifa Taminga with a score
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Speaker 1: of two twenty three point seven five. So there'll be
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Speaker 1: some diving qualifiers coming up here on October twenty fifth
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Speaker 1: at Ernie Hannah, and you know, there'll be a lot
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Speaker 1: of things that we'll have to see of who moves
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Speaker 1: on in those categories. There's no three A divers in
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Speaker 1: the Northwest Conference, so just two A only. Uh, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty awesome to see
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Speaker 1: how that continues. Let's go back to the swimming events.
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Speaker 1: One hundred butterfly. It's Ferndale's Lexi Jensen one minute four
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Speaker 1: point seven seconds, one hundred freestyle, Jasmine Garcia of Bellingham
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Speaker 1: one minute exactly point six y four five hundred free style, Seahomes,
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Speaker 1: Elsa Ethelba five minutes thirty seven point four to two seconds,
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Speaker 1: just one tenth of a second faster than Blaine's Haley Ferrell.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Blaine swimmers and Mount Baker swimmers swim with
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Speaker 1: squalum as they co op, but they don't count towards
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Speaker 1: the team points. But I'd love that they're able to
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Speaker 1: the co op and and swim for other schools. There's
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Speaker 1: some Meridians, there's some Meridians swimmers. I think that that
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Speaker 1: swim as well for I think for Bellingham. I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to remember which which which ones jump over to other schools,
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Speaker 1: But such a such a great thing that can happen
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Speaker 1: in a sport like this. Uh In two hundred freestyle relay,
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Speaker 1: it's the Seahome team of Raja Gare, Blossombrogan, Brielle Hicks,
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Speaker 1: and Elsa Ethelba the time of one minute fifty four
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Speaker 1: point eight seconds and then one hundred backstroke. It's Ferndale's
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Speaker 1: Lexi Jensen one minute six point two eight seconds, and
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Speaker 1: the one hundred breaststroke it's squalic COM's Jazzy Elson with
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Speaker 1: a really close time three one hundredths of a second
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Speaker 1: faster than Seaholmes Raja Gaure at the time of one
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Speaker 1: sixteen point four to four. And in the four hundred
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Speaker 1: freestyle relay it's the Bellingham squad of Carmadi Beattie, Mandela Windrum,
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Speaker 1: Amanda Buck and Jasmine Garcia with a time of four
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Speaker 1: minutes twenty point zero two seconds. So yeah, we're getting right.
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Speaker 1: We're getting really close here to the end of the
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Speaker 1: regular season and a couple you know, some matches coming
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Speaker 1: up this week and then and then it'll be you know,
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Speaker 1: on the postseason rather quickly, so be ready for that
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Speaker 1: as well. Let's jump over to boys tennis. And speaking
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Speaker 1: This final standings are out. Seahome did finish the season
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Speaker 1: undefeated twelve and oh on the year, Bellingham eleven and one,
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Speaker 1: followed by Mount Vernon at ten and three, oh Carb
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Speaker 1: nine and five, Squall look them eight and five and
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Speaker 1: of course eight and six, brilliant in Edison six and six,
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Speaker 1: Lynden five and nine, Ferndale two and twelve, Cedral Woollie
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Speaker 1: one and twelve, and Lakewood oh and thirteen. Districts are
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Speaker 1: going on right now. It started on Thursday and it's
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Speaker 1: supposed to go Thursday, Friday, Saturday. It's a three day event,
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Speaker 1: but I think the weather on Saturday just wouldn't allow it.
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Speaker 1: So they're gonna they're gonna be. They're still continuing, so
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Speaker 1: as you're listening to this you can you might be
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Speaker 1: able to check it out. Going on right now, still
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Speaker 1: playing for the and there's a lot of Waking County
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Speaker 1: athletes that are still alive in the singles division for
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Speaker 1: the district championship. It'll be Seaholmes Harley Kaiser against Bellingham's
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Speaker 1: Leo Kuhn, no surprise there going against each other there.
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Speaker 1: The winner will go to State. The loser is still alive,
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Speaker 1: but they have to face the winner of the consolation bracket.
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Speaker 1: Players that are still alive in that are Ethan Oscarson
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Speaker 1: and Benjamin On of Squalcum as well as Justin Barriss
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Speaker 1: of Seahome, So all those players still alive. In district tennis,
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Speaker 1: of course, they'll be going on at Seahome High School
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Speaker 1: today in doubles competition. The Seahome duel of Sean Lane
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Speaker 1: and Christian Leon are in the championship match against the
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Speaker 1: top and a Cortis pair still alive in doubles competition,
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Speaker 1: or the Bellingham team of Taylor Watts and Devin Tenbrink
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Speaker 1: as well as this as well as the Squalicom team
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Speaker 1: of Hudson Daughters and Alvin Lee. So go check that out.
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard a definitive time yet of when they're
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Speaker 1: gonna conclude this this three day event. I would love
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Speaker 1: to go out there and check it out. I'm not
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Speaker 1: quite sure if I'm gonna have the time Monday morning.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I got a lot going on during the week,
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Speaker 1: posting graphics, different things, interviewing coaches. I'm also gonna be
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Speaker 1: taking Miss Walking preps to a doctor's appointment early in
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Speaker 1: the morning, so we will have to see kind of
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Speaker 1: how that all figures out here in the end. So
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Speaker 1: but I'll be on top of it. I'll post what's
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Speaker 1: going on, and you know, the name's not too surprised
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Speaker 1: at who's still in there. A lot of Walking County
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Speaker 1: flavoring there, so we're always rooting for that. Let's jump
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Speaker 1: over to girls soccer now. Of course, Girls Soccer brought
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Speaker 1: to you by North County Alliance FC. You can visit
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Speaker 1: them online at ncalliancefc dot com. I saw tons of
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Speaker 1: things on social media with a lot of you know,
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Speaker 1: tiny little soccer players out there giving it. They're all
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Speaker 1: the tryouts must be going on. I love seeing all that.
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Speaker 1: So many people I've I've been to Bender Fields when
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Speaker 1: they have stuff going on and it is alive. I
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Speaker 1: mean you cannot find a parking spots. I love that
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Speaker 1: how much the sport is growing, and that's a great,
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Speaker 1: great thing. And they're just such a tremendous sponsor The
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Speaker 1: first one is to lock me in for multiple years,
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Speaker 1: giving me the confidence to believe in myself and keep
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Speaker 1: doing what I'm doing. NC Alliance FC North County Alliance
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Speaker 1: is a tremendous sponsor, so I cannot say enough about them.
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Speaker 1: When you look at the league's standings, there were some
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Speaker 1: shake uffs there at the top. Seahomes still unbeaten with
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Speaker 1: a twelve and zero record with one tie and a
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Speaker 1: Chordus has been streaking recently, shooting past some other Walking
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Speaker 1: County schools. They are now eleven in one with a tie.
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Speaker 1: Squalok them ten and two with a tie. They've been
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Speaker 1: on a I think five or six game winning streaks
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Speaker 1: something like that, so they they have now shot past
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Speaker 1: Lynden and Bellingham Linden nine to two and two, Bellingham
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Speaker 1: nine and four, and then the top one Eighteam Linden
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Speaker 1: Christians seven to five and one, as is Oak Harbor
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Speaker 1: the top three eighteen they are seven to five and one,
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Speaker 1: Ferndale six four and three, Mount Vernon five four and
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Speaker 1: four four ties there for the Bulldogs that's crazy. Sidro
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Speaker 1: Wooley six and seven, brilliant Netis and four seven and
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Speaker 1: two Lakewood two wins eight losses, three ties, Blaine is
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Speaker 1: three and ten, Knukxac Valley one ten and one, Meridian
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Speaker 1: one and twelve, and Mount baker Owen twelve. Again, these
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Speaker 1: are league records only, so league will be wrapping up
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Speaker 1: rather quickly, and then before you know it, there'll be
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Speaker 1: that one a playing game out at Blaine High School
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Speaker 1: and it just it just happens right around the corner.
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Speaker 1: It happens so fast, so we'll be ready for that.
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Speaker 1: Those are the standings. When you look at the goal leaders,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna be talking about the top twelve here as
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Speaker 1: we have a three way tie for tenth place with
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Speaker 1: eight goals. That's Estella Seagual, the senior out of Lyndon,
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Speaker 1: Christian Kira Reeves, a senior from Seahome, and Siri Hogland,
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Speaker 1: sophomore out of Squalkum. They all have eight goals on
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Speaker 1: the year. Another trio of players with nine goals this
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Speaker 1: year Teagan Ambrose, the sophomore at a Ferndale, another sophomore
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Speaker 1: from Bellingham, Avery Riddle, and then the Seahome I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: the Squalicum senior abe A Signments. They all have nine
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Speaker 1: goals with ten goals on the season. It's Kaylan Hinton
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Speaker 1: of Lynnon Christian. She is a sophomore, as well as
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Speaker 1: Blaine freshman Ruby Bellermino with eleven goals on the year.
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Speaker 1: Is Lynnon Christian junior Nayla Spear. And then in third place,
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Speaker 1: it's Kayla Jeune of Lynnon Christian with thirteen goals. She's
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Speaker 1: the one who gave us the intro today. And then
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Speaker 1: in second place Addison Wilson, sophomore from Squalkum with sixteen
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Speaker 1: goals and leading the way with seventeen goals on the
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Speaker 1: year is Seahome senior Ryan Bame. Seahom had a heck
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Speaker 1: of a week getting the best of Lindon and then
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Speaker 1: beating up on Blaine, having a pretty big week and
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Speaker 1: finishing you know, finishing off. They got to finish off
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Speaker 1: strong here because that two A conference or I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: the two A district tournament is gonna be brutal. So
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Speaker 1: many good teams and I believe only two teams get
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Speaker 1: to move on. So, boy, you're gonna have to really
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Speaker 1: earn it. You're really gonna want to just win the
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Speaker 1: championship and not have to worry about playing all these
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Speaker 1: consolations because it could be quite taxing on your team
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Speaker 1: and we'll just kind of see how that goes. But
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Speaker 1: it makes for great soccer. I love that a lot
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Speaker 1: of them are so close being played at Civic Stadium
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Speaker 1: or Harrington Field at Western and makes it so you know,
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Speaker 1: I can go to them, which is the best part
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Speaker 1: and for me anyways, So when we looked at the
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Speaker 1: player of the week, of course, the player of the
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Speaker 1: week is brought to you by North County Alliance FC
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Speaker 1: as well. I'm going with the player that didn't score
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Speaker 1: any goals this week. And it's not a goalie. Don't
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Speaker 1: know if I've ever done this, but Seahome senior Kira
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Speaker 1: Reeves had six assists this week in those two matches
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Speaker 1: that I was talking about against and against Meridians, so
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Speaker 1: I mean not Meridian but Blaine. So Kira Reeves unbelievable player,
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Speaker 1: getting tons of different teammates involved. So because of that,
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Speaker 1: Seahome Senior Kira Reeves is your North County Alliance Player
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Speaker 1: And we check out the standings here and again. Some
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Speaker 1: more shake up at the top as Ferndale had to
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Speaker 1: battle some tough teams as did uh See Home and
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Speaker 1: Linden there started playing each other. Uh they were all
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Speaker 1: undefeated there for a while and Linden Linden came out
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Speaker 1: unscathed beating Sea Home. That was a big, big deal.
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Speaker 1: Scresem was without Hayden Nevadomski. She would have definitely made
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Speaker 1: a difference. I don't know, if they could have stole
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Speaker 1: a couple sets, they may have won. I don't you
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Speaker 1: know they could have won it from Linden. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I hope she'll be okay when it comes to the
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Speaker 1: playoffs because she is such a valuable player. But you know,
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Speaker 1: Seem is such a deep team though that they didn't like,
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Speaker 1: you know, they didn't have to dig too deep into
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Speaker 1: their bench. They did bring up a player that has
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Speaker 1: started playing quite a bit that wasn't playing earlier in
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Speaker 1: the year. But uh, for the most part they stayed
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Speaker 1: pretty unscathed. But Linden eleven and zero league right now,
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Speaker 1: big big win over Ferndale on Thursday. Five sets back
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Speaker 1: and forth. I mean the ones that Linden won, they
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Speaker 1: were winning, like twenty five to four, twenty five to eight.
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Speaker 1: The ones that Ferndale were winning, they were taking him.
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Speaker 1: They were taken to the limit by Lindon. It was
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Speaker 1: back and forth, and then of course the great fifth
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Speaker 1: set there that Lindon won, really showing what they could do.
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Speaker 1: Such a great team, especially at home. Undefeated on the year. Uh.
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Speaker 1: And in league play of course, eleven and zero seem
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Speaker 1: ten and one with that one loss being too Lindon
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Speaker 1: Ferndale nine and two. With losses that Lindon Christian and
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Speaker 1: Lindon a tough week for them, their first two losses
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Speaker 1: of the year in conference play, but they played really
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Speaker 1: really well. Uh. Noukxac Valley also nine and two on
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Speaker 1: the year. Now Meridian eight and three. Linden Christian jumps
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Speaker 1: up to eight and three as well. Linden Christian with
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Speaker 1: that big win over Ferndale. I was there for most
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Speaker 1: of that and they did a great job of adjusting
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Speaker 1: on things that just weren't doing well, and they started
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Speaker 1: communicating really well. Laila Pereira started playing great, uh you know,
19:53
Speaker 1: kind of going all out on defense. Ella Fritz doing
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Speaker 1: her thing. I mean, she's just an amazing play and uh,
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Speaker 1: setting up those those really tall players at the net
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Speaker 1: for some big time kills against against Ferndale and Ferndale
20:07
Speaker 1: with a tremendous defense, but it just it just they
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Speaker 1: just couldn't turn that corner against the Lynx Burlington Edison
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Speaker 1: seven and four, Squalicum six and five, Bellingham five and six,
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Speaker 1: Mount Vernon three and eight, along with Oak Harbor and
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Speaker 1: Blaine and then Anti Cordis, Sigro Woollie Lake would all
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Speaker 1: two to nine and Mount Baker oh and eleven on
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Speaker 1: the season. But they did defeat Orchis Island on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: That was a two o'clock match on Saturday at home,
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Speaker 1: and that was a huge accomplishment getting that win. They
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Speaker 1: dropped the first set, then when the next three, not
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Speaker 1: only was it their first win this year, but it
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Speaker 1: was their first win since October fourth twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 1: so that was when their seniors were all freshmen at
20:50
Speaker 1: that point. So very very impressive. I mean Mount Baker
20:55
Speaker 1: right now they're surging as far as they're just rapidly improving,
20:59
Speaker 1: having gotten that conference win yet. But hey, everybody gets
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Speaker 1: into that district tournament, you can knock off, you know,
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Speaker 1: Blaine who it looks like it's gonna be for that
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Speaker 1: fourth spot in the playing game, and you just never
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Speaker 1: know after that. So they're playing very very well, and
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Speaker 1: it's just great to see so many of these teams.
21:18
Speaker 1: I'm glad I've got to see them, you know, all
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Speaker 1: in person multiple times, and and I'm gonna continue to
21:24
Speaker 1: go check them out and just kind of see which
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Speaker 1: teams are gonna be going, because you know, already booked
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Speaker 1: for State and I'm I'm so confident this year that
21:31
Speaker 1: we're gonna have four teams, two from two A, two
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Speaker 1: from one A and hey, maybe Ferndale will get there
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Speaker 1: two for three. They played that one game at State
21:39
Speaker 1: last year. Of course, that's a separate weekend. It's the
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Speaker 1: following weekend. I don't think I can keep my hotel
21:44
Speaker 1: room for that long, but but yeah, it's a it's
21:48
Speaker 1: a it's a really really you know, electric sport and
21:52
Speaker 1: you know, saw some awesome things over the over the week,
21:55
Speaker 1: and uh, we're talking about that here when we get
21:58
Speaker 1: to our players of the week. Let's look at the
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Speaker 1: let's check out stat leaders. You go to kills per set,
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Speaker 1: Finley Parcher way out ahead and she's extended her lead.
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Speaker 1: Now she's averaging four point nine to three kills per
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Speaker 1: set on the season, the junior from Lyndon. She is
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Speaker 1: followed by Melanie Short of Meridian, Hayden Nevadomski of Sea Home,
23:16
Speaker 1: Teyo Dubay of Blaine, and Paige Floory also of Sea Home.
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Speaker 1: You go to diggs per set and it is a
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Speaker 1: new leader. We have the senior from Lyndon, Campbell DeYoung
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Speaker 1: and shot up at four point seventy nine digs per set.
23:29
Speaker 1: She is followed by Katrina Ferry of Ferndale, McKenna Andrews
23:33
Speaker 1: of Seahome, Tayo Dubay of Blaine, and Bailey Burge of Bellingham,
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Speaker 1: cracking the top five for the first time this season.
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Speaker 1: You go to aces per set and it is still
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Speaker 1: Page Floory of Seahome now at one point zero six
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Speaker 1: aces per set. She had an incredible eleven aces on Thursday.
23:51
Speaker 1: That is a monstrous number. I don't care how many
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Speaker 1: sets you play, that is a big time number. So
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Speaker 1: she extended her lead there. Melanie Short in second place
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Speaker 1: from Meridian glen There via Ferndale, and third Hayden Nevadomski
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Speaker 1: of Sea Home and fourth and rounding out the top
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Speaker 1: five is Jada Knutson of Bellingham the senior. And we
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Speaker 1: look at assists per set and again we have a
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Speaker 1: new leader and it's Linden's Izzy Stephen, the sophomore at
24:15
Speaker 1: nine point nine assists per set, followed very closely by
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Speaker 1: Taylor Terrell of Seahome, Ella Fritz of Lennon Christian, Chloe
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Speaker 1: Bresler of Meridian, and Peyton Bartell of Knoksack Valley. And
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Speaker 1: then in blocks per set, it was a tie last week,
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Speaker 1: and now taking the lead is Rebecca Sores of Mount
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Speaker 1: Baker one point zero four blocks per set. She was
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Speaker 1: followed by Elizabeth Delaying of Nuksack Valley, Joscelyn s Ie
24:42
Speaker 1: of Lennon Christian, Ali Wright of Lyndon Christian, and Ryan
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Speaker 1: Stephen of Linden. It's been those five, I think, my goodness,
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Speaker 1: probably since week two. And you know, the the next one,
24:55
Speaker 1: you're you guy have to have a couple of huge
24:57
Speaker 1: matches to break that. Those those top five, all five
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Speaker 1: of them, you're talking six three six two six two
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Speaker 1: six two and six, one six two. I mean, so
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Speaker 1: it makes sense, uh for those blocks per set. They
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Speaker 1: are not only not only are they all tall, but
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Speaker 1: they're getting the job done with great timing, athletic ability
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Speaker 1: and uh just a fierce, you know, demeanor at the net.
25:23
Speaker 1: And I think I think the sixth place I think
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Speaker 1: is Ella Fritz and she's but she's really close and
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Speaker 1: she gets a lot of you know, she teams up
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Speaker 1: for a lot of blocks with Josce Nazis and Ali Wright.
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Speaker 1: But it's hard to get a lot on your own
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Speaker 1: when those two are your teammates as well. So I
25:39
Speaker 1: understand that. But Lindy Christian very very strong at the net. Defensively,
25:43
Speaker 1: you're in and you're out. It's Players of the Week time,
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Speaker 1: So for the Defensive Player of the Week the Acceleration
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Speaker 1: Driving School and then in Defensive Player of the Week,
26:07
Speaker 1: this might be a little bit of a surprise, just
26:10
Speaker 1: as far as you know, numbers go and stuff like that,
26:13
Speaker 1: but and the numbers will still bear it out. But
26:16
Speaker 1: I'm going with Brooklyn Larrabie, the junior from Ferndale. She
26:19
Speaker 1: did a few things that I could not believe, getting
26:22
Speaker 1: getting to the ball on a in in you know,
26:26
Speaker 1: ways where I thought it was like, you know, the
26:30
Speaker 1: physics would not allow it, you know, unbelievable the what
26:34
Speaker 1: she can do, and it kind of I mean, she's
26:36
Speaker 1: such a good setter that you don't see, you know,
26:43
Speaker 1: she's not in the position as a libero usually is,
26:45
Speaker 1: but she's one of those players that if I mean,
26:48
Speaker 1: they have such a great libero with Katrina Ferry, but
26:50
Speaker 1: if she was a libero, I mean she would she
26:53
Speaker 1: would be one of the best at doing that as well.
26:56
Speaker 1: Just a complete volleyball player, unbelievable player. I know Ferndale
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Speaker 1: went ohing too this week, but what I saw with
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Speaker 1: my own two eyes and those two events, she is
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Speaker 1: so good. And you know, it's hard pressed for me
27:12
Speaker 1: to say that there's a better overall volleyball player in
27:14
Speaker 1: Walkham County right now than Brooklyn Larrabee of Ferndale. So
27:17
Speaker 1: because of that, she is your Acceleration Driving School and
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Speaker 1: Linden Defensive Player of the Week, and then the offensive
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Speaker 1: player of the week that has no sponsor, so I
27:26
Speaker 1: just call it the WALKAM Preps Offensive Player of the
27:28
Speaker 1: Week is Finley partser of Lindon. It's her second time
27:32
Speaker 1: winning it this season, and I try to share the
27:35
Speaker 1: love a little bit. But my goodness, she had a
27:37
Speaker 1: heck of a week. Of course, I mean, Linden had
27:40
Speaker 1: just had a great week as is beating Seahome, beating Ferndale.
27:44
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's about as big as it gets.
27:47
Speaker 1: And then she has such a huge part in both
27:49
Speaker 1: of those with big time numbers, maybe her best numbers
27:53
Speaker 1: in any week she's had this year. And she's already
27:55
Speaker 1: having a tremendous year. So when I talk about Brooklyn
27:59
Speaker 1: Larrabee being, you know, the best overall player in volleyball
28:02
Speaker 1: this year like she is, Finny Parcher is right there too.
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Speaker 1: Would not be surprised if they are one and two
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Speaker 1: on the Top fifty list, which is gonna be coming
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Speaker 1: out about a month, and you know who's one, who's two.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but these two players are kind of
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Speaker 1: leading the pack in my eyes. Unbelievable seasons by both
28:18
Speaker 1: in a tremendous week by both. The battle that they
28:21
Speaker 1: had Thursday against each other was tremendous. So lots of
28:25
Speaker 1: good stuff. Again, thank you so much for all the
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Speaker 1: sponsors with volleyball. Let's take a look at the week ahead.
28:32
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things going on here, and some
28:34
Speaker 1: important stuff because of the end of the season, playoffs
28:38
Speaker 1: around the corner and playoffs happening as we speak. Of course,
28:41
Speaker 1: today Monday, the check out the boys tennis district finals
28:45
Speaker 1: at seem you know, singles, doubles, a lot of Walkin
28:50
Speaker 1: county athletes being in this one. Hopefully the weather will
28:53
Speaker 1: be good. Of course I'm recording this on Sunday. The
28:56
Speaker 1: weather's been so crazy today with downpour, rain and then
28:59
Speaker 1: super so and who knows what's going on. Uh, but
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Speaker 1: hopefully the weather cooperates they can get those in today
29:06
Speaker 1: and then later on Monday night volleyball Lakewood at Mount
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Speaker 1: Baker at seven o'clock. I am pretty excited to go
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Speaker 1: out to this one. I think Mount Baker has a
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Speaker 1: real shot at getting their first conference win now in
29:17
Speaker 1: three years. They're gonna be at home. Lakewood's Lakewood can play.
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Speaker 1: I mean I saw them, you know, take a set
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Speaker 1: from some some good, some good teams. I think even
29:26
Speaker 1: Nuksack Valley. They got a set from Nuksack Valley. Uh,
29:29
Speaker 1: they're they. I think they got a set from Sea
29:31
Speaker 1: Home as well. They're just they're very good defensively. But
29:34
Speaker 1: Mount Baker if they can hang with them the way
29:36
Speaker 1: that they're playing right now, I think they're in the
29:39
Speaker 1: trajectory to get one from Lakewood, which would be great.
29:42
Speaker 1: And then on Tuesday, there's a handful of stuff going
29:45
Speaker 1: on girls swimming and diving Bellingham and Sea Home. At
29:48
Speaker 1: three point thirty Arnie A. Hannah Aquatic Center goes both
29:52
Speaker 1: both teams only having one loss on the year. I
29:54
Speaker 1: think this is going to be an extremely even matchup,
29:57
Speaker 1: so it could come down to the last race. Uh,
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Speaker 1: very very excited for this one. Is gonna be a
30:03
Speaker 1: lot of good athletes there. And again, I think this
30:06
Speaker 1: one's gonna be extremely close close where you're gonna see
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Speaker 1: you're gonna really hope for a lot of third place,
30:10
Speaker 1: fourth place finishes and certain races just to get those
30:13
Speaker 1: points that are desperately needed. I'm really curious to see
30:16
Speaker 1: how the coaches are gonna line up their their swimmers
30:19
Speaker 1: to match up and certain races. Is gonna be really intriguing.
30:23
Speaker 1: And then in girls soccer and half hour later Linden
30:26
Speaker 1: at Linden Christian at four o'clock. That's gonna be another great,
30:30
Speaker 1: great matchup. Of course, two schools out in the county
30:33
Speaker 1: of There and Linden. These players know each other extremely well.
30:36
Speaker 1: One a versus two way should be a great one there.
30:39
Speaker 1: And then the same two schools that night Linden at
30:42
Speaker 1: Linden Christian in volleyball at seven o'clock. That's gonna be
30:45
Speaker 1: a fantastic one as well. You know a lot of
30:49
Speaker 1: height up there. There's no holes in either of these
30:52
Speaker 1: teams as far as any way you look at it, defense, offense, serving,
30:56
Speaker 1: everything is fantastic. And don't forget about the center verse.
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Speaker 1: This is the Saint seven o'clock Monday night Sea Home
31:03
Speaker 1: at Nuksack Valley, Clayton, sin and Hawley Saint Marie the
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Speaker 1: Center versus the Saint. I love that, And for those
31:11
Speaker 1: of you who don't know they are husband and wife
31:13
Speaker 1: coaching against each other. I think it's just the coolest
31:16
Speaker 1: thing and I'm excited to see that. You go get
31:20
Speaker 1: their pregame, watch them do their little their little pregame handshake.
31:24
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be so cool. And I love that
31:27
Speaker 1: this is. I mean, this is a really good matchup.
31:30
Speaker 1: This could go five sets. And that'll be at seven
31:33
Speaker 1: o'clock out at Kayleb Master Gymnasium out at Nuxack Valley.
31:37
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a great atmosphere. I'm hoping to be
31:39
Speaker 1: out there for that one as well. On Wednesday, the
31:43
Speaker 1: Northwest Conference cross Country meet Boys and Girls at Civic
31:46
Speaker 1: Stadium starting at three twenty. All the schools are gonna
31:50
Speaker 1: be there, and you know there's gonna be some tremendous
31:54
Speaker 1: races going on. I think that's gonna be a fantastic day.
31:58
Speaker 1: Hopefully the weather will be decent. I don't know. The
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Speaker 1: runners don't care. They want to run in the muck
32:03
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. That's what cross country running is
32:05
Speaker 1: all about. But I'm just talking about for me, I
32:07
Speaker 1: want to get some good pictures and and and hopefully
32:11
Speaker 1: I do not get too much rain on my ratty camera.
32:14
Speaker 1: But we'll see how that goes. And then on Thursday,
32:16
Speaker 1: girls soccer see Home at Squalicum seven o'clock I think
32:21
Speaker 1: this one has the chance to be really really good.
32:25
Speaker 1: Ever since Squalicum sophomore Kaylana Perez has come back from
32:29
Speaker 1: her injury got back into the goal there, she that
32:33
Speaker 1: Squalicum has been surging and been playing really well. Of
32:36
Speaker 1: course now they're going to be playing the Mariners who
32:38
Speaker 1: are just loaded up and down, So that's gonna be
32:41
Speaker 1: a great, great battle. Can Perez stop or you know,
32:45
Speaker 1: help stop that see home offense and all the different
32:49
Speaker 1: weapons that they have. So that'll be Thursday night out
32:51
Speaker 1: at Squalicum High School at seven o'clock. Another great matchup there.
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Speaker 1: That about wraps it up. I got to give it
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Speaker 1: thank you to all my sponsors Eleration Driving School in London,
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Speaker 1: APEX Northwest Volleyball Club, the print House, design An Inc.
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Speaker 1: North County Alliance, FC Zozen, Salon and SPA, Staffer Insurance,
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Speaker 1: and of course Kurt Mayberry Farm. You've been listening to
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Speaker 1: episode three hundred and eighty one, your Fall Sports Weekly
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Speaker 1: wrap up. I am Tyler Anderson from Walking Preps and
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Speaker 1: I will talk to you tomorrow morning.