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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 313 - Boys And Girls Basketball Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is n Ooksack Valley senior Katie hugh Tink and
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to the twenty twenty four basketball preview on
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  Speaker 1: the Walk Up Preps podcast with Tyler and Ryland Rally
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  Speaker 1: the Valley.
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  Speaker 2: Reading Zan. Welcome into the watcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 2: episode at three hundred and thirteen, the Boys and Girls
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  Speaker 2: basketball Preview. I'm Rylan Spencer along with me as always
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  Speaker 2: is Tyler Anderson of watcom Preps. Tyler, how are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Doing great? A little a little behind with stuff, but
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  Speaker 1: just trying to get through it and keep grinding. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, basketball season this stuff for than football season.
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you that there's a twenty two teams playing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching film of every game. It's not one game
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  Speaker 1: a week, it's basically seven or eight a day. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a little crazy, but it's so fun to wake
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  Speaker 1: up and go straight into just watching stuff and keeping
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  Speaker 1: stats and writing little things and just knowing I get
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  Speaker 1: to do that every day. Yeah, it's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Tyler. If I said to you, what is one thing
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  Speaker 2: coaches or anybody could do to help you in this process?
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  Speaker 2: Is there anything.
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  Speaker 1: If they could send over? I mean, some coaches send
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  Speaker 1: over the book after the game, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: Just take a picture with their phone or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a lot of coaches do that, which is
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  Speaker 1: great because it's got points and you know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah field goals made.
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  Speaker 1: And free throws and stuff like that. But I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: field goal percentage, I'm doing rebounds, steals, assists, blocks, I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing everything. So if a coach happens to stat the
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  Speaker 1: game that way and wants to send that, yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: would save me a lot of time.
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  Speaker 2: But you also need it in a pretty quick turn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I need it the next morning basically. So it's
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  Speaker 1: it's just you know, I mean, yeah, I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting these things done by I'm trying to get them
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  Speaker 1: done by five pm the next day so I can
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  Speaker 1: get ready to go to more games that next night.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a little it's a little tricky. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I didn't really do stat Leaders last year
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  Speaker 1: because I couldn't stay on top of the stats the
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  Speaker 1: stats last year like in a timely matter. But this
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  Speaker 1: year it's sponsored.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we gotta go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be doing stat Leaders. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Tyler, we need to give a thank you to
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  Speaker 2: Nick Sack Valley Senior point guard Kayden Hugh Tink. We're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be talking about him and his teammates here in
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. Yeah, that being said, Tyler, you mentioned
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  Speaker 2: the you got you got a sponsor for the for
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  Speaker 2: the stats. I'm sure there's some other things that still
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  Speaker 2: need to be sponsored. If somebody wants to sponsor anything
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  Speaker 2: on Wacom Preps, or maybe they don't even know what
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  Speaker 2: they want to sponsor, how did they get ahold of you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just getting hold of me through social media is
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  Speaker 1: the best way. Send a message to Walk them preps.
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  Speaker 1: Just search for Walker Preps on social media and then
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  Speaker 1: just send send a message. And usually what happens after
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  Speaker 1: that is I like to just talk on the phone,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, sometimes they ask for like a sheet
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  Speaker 1: like I have got got like a document, but it's
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  Speaker 1: very basic, like we can break it down to lots
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  Speaker 1: of different ideas, and if we talk on the phone,
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  Speaker 1: if I get to know maybe what your budget is,
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  Speaker 1: or if you're interested in a sport or a team
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  Speaker 1: or kind of whatever, or a graphic or I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's just so many different types of deals and I
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  Speaker 1: just want to try to make things work for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: So usually call after that and get things moving pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: One thing they could sponsor, they could be the main
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  Speaker 2: sponsor here on the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and someone did speak up about that and wanting
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  Speaker 1: to take that over and I think starting in January.
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  Speaker 1: So so that's really cool. It's exciting. I got to
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  Speaker 1: call her and talked to her about it. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so there's some there's some good things coming.
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  Speaker 2: Up, or there's all kinds of different segments we have,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean there's always something. You know, all
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  Speaker 2: you do is reach out to Tyler, who'll get to
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  Speaker 2: taken care of.
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  Speaker 1: But daily recaps for boys and girls basketball right now?
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  Speaker 1: Holy yeah, those are sitting there without a sponsor and
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  Speaker 1: that ton of views.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and if you sponsor something like that, we do
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  Speaker 2: mention you every single week on the podcast too. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the podcast remind me, was it Acriture that sponsored the No,
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  Speaker 2: who was it that sponsored to the daily recaps? Maybe
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  Speaker 2: for volleyball?
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  Speaker 1: Boxy Browns, Foxy Browns, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we talked about him every single week, and
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  Speaker 2: I gave the website and gave the phone number, gave
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  Speaker 2: the hours of the dang star. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I've ever done that before and tell that one,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? So uh so, yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: any of the sponsors for any of those things specific
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  Speaker 2: We mentioned it every week as we go through. And
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  Speaker 2: I mean I think you know there's some places Marty
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  Speaker 2: Staffer might give a good review. What's the soccer one? Now,
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  Speaker 2: I can't even think it a NW Alliance FC, North
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  Speaker 2: County Alliance and see Alliance and Alliance North County Alliance FC.
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  Speaker 2: They would give a good I mean, come on, people,
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  Speaker 2: what are we waiting for here?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we're on like a PBS, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like phonoson.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Sure.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, Tyler, this is the boys and Girls basketball preview.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow we will have our first Winter Sports Weekly wrap
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  Speaker 2: up of the season. Then on Wednesday you'll be able
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  Speaker 2: to hear the volleyball Top fifty count down. Tyler. That
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  Speaker 2: means we got to be coming down to what I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you're doing two a day, you gotta be down
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  Speaker 2: like the final ten right now, almost right, Like I mean, you're.
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  Speaker 1: Right there, yeah, yeah, doing three a day. Oh three
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  Speaker 1: we are by the time people are listening to this, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we're getting really really close to the end. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's counting down fast.
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  Speaker 2: Once that is over, Thursday will be the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the Football Top one hundred Countdown. Lots of podcasts coming
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  Speaker 2: up over the next month and a half. Will be
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  Speaker 2: sure to subscribe to the podcast and you will get
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  Speaker 2: notified when a new one is available. Tyler, we actually
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  Speaker 2: have totally different here. I mean not totally different, because
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  Speaker 2: it's actually a lot of the same teams, but we
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  Speaker 2: do have We're gonna go girls and then boys, and
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna start at Mellingham. We're gonna work our way
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  Speaker 2: down and Tyler's somewhere right in the middle. People might
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  Speaker 2: notice we added another l school and we're not talking
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  Speaker 2: about losses. We're talking about Lummy and they're definitely not
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  Speaker 2: talking losses because my goodness, but we will be talking
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  Speaker 2: about Lummy now in basketball, which is totally different. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think you and I've ever talked Lummy. It's a
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  Speaker 2: little harder. I think maybe there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: an explanation we can give here. It's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: harder with football because they're playing eight man football. It's
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  Speaker 2: totally different sport. I mean it's the same sport, it's
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  Speaker 2: totally different game. So you can't really compare their stats
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  Speaker 2: to the eleven man stats, it's a little bit tougher,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, it's kind of just something that you know,
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  Speaker 2: we've kind of never really gotten into. But hey, we'll see,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. Maybe maybe we're talking mummy football
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  Speaker 2: next fall. I mean, who knows. I mean, well, we'll
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  Speaker 2: see what happens. But it's almost something basketball wise that
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  Speaker 2: too good to ignore, if you will, because yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's a natural fit. It's the same game and the.
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  Speaker 2: Same game, same hoop, same field, same people on the court,
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  Speaker 2: same you know everything. So I mean in football, they
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  Speaker 2: don't even really kick field goals or extra points, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean. It's like they just go for
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  Speaker 2: two the whole time. So it's it's a different game.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a little bit different. But yeah, we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens. Who knows, maybe maybe Lummy becomes a full
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  Speaker 2: time member here on the Wacham Preps podcast. But they
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  Speaker 2: are here for basketball, and yeah, there's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: lot to talk about there because especially the boys. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness, yeah, there's a lot to talk about. That
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  Speaker 2: being said, Tyler, we will start with the Bellingham at
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  Speaker 2: BayHawks and as I said, we're gonna start with the girls.
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  Speaker 2: Head coach Ken McClendon first year with Bellingham. He has
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  Speaker 2: coached before over at Mount Baker, where he went four
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  Speaker 2: to nine during the COVID shortened season. Last season, the
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  Speaker 2: BayHawks have finished three and seventeen. Last year's team had
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  Speaker 2: no seniors. Now, sometimes that's a great thing. Sometimes it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, who knows, three and seventeen not super encouraging.
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  Speaker 2: But anytime you return a lot of experience, that's never
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  Speaker 2: a bad thing. Tyler.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And even this year's team is it only has
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  Speaker 1: a few seniors on it as well, so they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be very loaded next year as far as experience goes.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Malia Hanks returns. She's kind of kind of
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  Speaker 1: a jack of ball trades player, really good athlete play
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  Speaker 1: soccer average eight point seven points a game, five point
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  Speaker 1: two rebounds a game, two point five assists a game,
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  Speaker 1: three point six steals a game. So she could just
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  Speaker 1: put her hand a little bit at everything and she'll be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, one of the primary ball handlers. Mary Lockhart
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  Speaker 1: comes back in the in the paint. She averaged over
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  Speaker 1: like nine point six rebounds a game as well, So
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  Speaker 1: another really good player. And then she can shoot it
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  Speaker 1: from the outside too. I'm not talking three pointers, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, fifteen feet. You know, she's got a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good shot. Lily Jude is back to she was at
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  Speaker 1: four points, three rebounds a game, also with one and
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  Speaker 1: a half steals a game. Merritt Jensen is a player,
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  Speaker 1: just a sophomore that's really good at finishing with either
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  Speaker 1: hand underneath the whop gets up, gets a lot of rebounds.
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  Speaker 1: She's one of those few players that will average generally
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  Speaker 1: more rebounds than points per game. You know, she can
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  Speaker 1: just she can.
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  Speaker 2: Just suck that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she could just bring that ball down and
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  Speaker 1: and and she's she's got it, you know, like she can.
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  Speaker 1: She's some players just know how to get rebounds, they
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  Speaker 1: just know how to position themselves, and she's one of
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  Speaker 1: those players. Alexis Evans returns, she can shoot it from
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  Speaker 1: the outside. Avery Manning returns, she's another quick guard. And
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  Speaker 1: then they got a and then there's another senior, Jenny Ruano,
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  Speaker 1: who's I don't know if she's a first year player,
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  Speaker 1: if she is a transfer, but she's a senior and
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen her play before. I did watch her
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  Speaker 1: play earlier in the week, and she's got really quick hands.
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  Speaker 1: It gets a lot of steals. So uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you bring in a new coach and you look at
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  Speaker 1: things a little differently, and you know, they came out
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  Speaker 1: of the gate with the win at Marysville Getcha to
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  Speaker 1: start the season. So so we'll see how this goes.
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  Speaker 1: It's it is a lot of the same players, and
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  Speaker 1: they got a good rotation of like seven girls that
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  Speaker 1: they really really believe in, and they all have, you know,
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  Speaker 1: varsity experience, and so you know, it will be interesting
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  Speaker 1: to see once they go up against some of these
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  Speaker 1: other Walkam County teams.
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  Speaker 2: I like what you said about kind of like knowing
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  Speaker 2: how to rebound. There there was a girl in the
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  Speaker 2: game I was watching the other night, and she might've
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  Speaker 2: been the smallest girl on the court, and I swear
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  Speaker 2: she had to have had six or seven rebounds and
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  Speaker 2: you're just like, how, like, how does she keep coming
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  Speaker 2: away with the ball? Yeah, it didn't make any sense,
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  Speaker 2: but there she was, you know what I mean, And
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  Speaker 2: then she'd get the ball man she would take off
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  Speaker 2: up court and it was like wow, you know, but
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  Speaker 2: that's Bellingham BayHawks girls. Let's talk about the Bellingham BayHawks
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  Speaker 2: Boys Tyler head coach Brad McKay in his twelfth year
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  Speaker 2: with the BayHawks nine and one thirty four record. Last
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  Speaker 2: season they went to twelve and eleven. Should be a
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  Speaker 2: well balanced team with a little bit of everything. Could
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  Speaker 2: be one of the top shooting teams in the league.
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  Speaker 1: Though, Yeah, I really believe.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: They were pretty good last year. They lost Harmon Winkers,
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  Speaker 1: who was their best outside shooter, about a month into
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  Speaker 1: the season. He was out for the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: year and so they didn't really have him down the
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  Speaker 1: stretch when they would have needed him. And so he
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  Speaker 1: comes back, and then they also bring in Fabian Singh
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  Speaker 1: who is a transfer from Squalicum who's a great outside shooter.
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  Speaker 1: So it's almost like you're gaining two outside shooters and
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  Speaker 1: you already have some other good ones too with Kinkaid,
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  Speaker 1: Van Hooton and gave Van Hofwagen. So some good outside shots, right.
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  Speaker 1: But they have good size, very balanced. I think this team,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is there's there's nothing really missing with this team,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like they have kind of
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  Speaker 1: a lot a lot of the pieces that they would need.
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  Speaker 1: Last year when guys got hurt, especially Actually it was
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  Speaker 1: when Harmon got hurt. They brought up Joe Harward from
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  Speaker 1: the JV and like right away he was averaging double digits.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it was just like he came. He came
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  Speaker 1: right up from the You don't see that very often. Guy,
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  Speaker 1: he comes up from JB and scoring like thirteen to
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  Speaker 1: fourteen a game, So it's really really impressive. Kin kid
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  Speaker 1: Van Houton is a kid that's about six six, can
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  Speaker 1: play like a guard, but you know, he's definitely has
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  Speaker 1: that size advantage. You know, twelve point seven rebounds a game,
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  Speaker 1: two assists, so he's a really good player. He's a senior,
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  Speaker 1: will probably kind of be their main go to guy
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  Speaker 1: on offense. Joe Harvard, who's another couple inches taller than
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  Speaker 1: he was last year, very very athletic, physical, nine point
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  Speaker 1: six rebounds, two assists last year. He'll probably be like
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  Speaker 1: that power forward spot Herman Winkers, the shooter. He only
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  Speaker 1: got to playing nine games last year. He averaged almost
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  Speaker 1: eleven points a game and two point two assists. But
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  Speaker 1: he's just a he's just a three point machine. Gave
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  Speaker 1: Van Hoffwagen one of our guys from football, averaging over
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  Speaker 1: five and a half points. Three rebounds a game. Is
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  Speaker 1: another shooter, Milo Wright, the point guard. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: kind of came in. He was the JV point guard
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  Speaker 1: to start the season and near the end of the year. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: he played a lot. At the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: It probably took a little presser pressure off of Wyatt Stefan.
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  Speaker 1: He averaged about three and a half points a game,
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  Speaker 1: two point four assists. So they got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys that, you know that kind of fit all the
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  Speaker 1: different spots, you know what I mean. And like I said,
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  Speaker 1: Fabian Singh comes over from Squalicum, big time shooter there.
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  Speaker 1: Gabe's little brother, Calvin van Hoffwagen had some more size.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's a there's a kid that's six foot
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  Speaker 1: six that came up at the very end of the
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  Speaker 1: year last year, Barrett Johnson, who I'm really intrigued by
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  Speaker 1: just because of his size. But I've heard some really
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  Speaker 1: good things and I want to see what he can
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  Speaker 1: do with some more minutes now.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, they have.
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  Speaker 1: Size, they got you know, good ball handling, they got shooting,
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  Speaker 1: got a good coach. They kind of just have all
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  Speaker 1: the pieces. It's just about believing that you can win
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  Speaker 1: and battling against those those Linden's and those kinds of teams,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and just seeing that you can do it.
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  Speaker 1: And even though Anna Kortus doesn't have Davis Fogel anymore,
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  Speaker 1: they returned a lot of really good other players as well.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not just the Lindons in the two way
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  Speaker 1: that's in the Northwest Conference. There's a lot of other
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  Speaker 1: good teams as well.
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  Speaker 2: That is the Bellingham BayHawks boys and girls. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: Blaine Borders basketball Tyler, and again we start with the girls.
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  Speaker 2: Head coach Vick wolfis in his second year with Blaine
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  Speaker 2: thirty six and thirty eight record with multiple girls teams,
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  Speaker 2: also two twenty seven and one thirty two record as
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  Speaker 2: the Linnen Christian boys coach U last season they went
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  Speaker 2: ten and twelve. Only one player Tyler returns that has
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  Speaker 2: ever played high school basketball. This is a program that
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  Speaker 2: really lacked quantity if you will, last year, and they really,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kind of lack some experience this year if
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  Speaker 2: you will.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tricky. I mean last year they only have
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  Speaker 1: eight they only had eight girls in the whole program.
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  Speaker 1: Four of them were seniors and then one was a
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  Speaker 1: foreign exchange student. So you knew you were gonna lose
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  Speaker 1: five right away. And so you have three that we're
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  Speaker 1: all freshmen. The other three were all we're all freshmen.
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  Speaker 1: Two of them decide not to turn out, so you
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  Speaker 1: return one freshman, and that's mart That's Mark Sella Bring
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  Speaker 1: and she's you know, she's kind of a three and
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  Speaker 1: D player, she's a she's a big time three point
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  Speaker 1: shooter and pretty good on ball defender. But that's all
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  Speaker 1: you got, right, So you look at everything else and
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  Speaker 1: you go, okay, so what do you do. You start
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  Speaker 1: scouting the hallways, You start going to soccer games, you
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  Speaker 1: start going to volleyball games, start going fast pitch games.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of these athletes that have come out,
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  Speaker 1: Bree Smith, you know, Olivia Price, Bailey Boss, Olivia Tanwako,
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  Speaker 1: Leah Bowman, Brianna Sandel, Beatrice Dixon, Mason Polse, Kate Kuresky, like,
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  Speaker 1: these are all athletes that I've seen in other sports
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  Speaker 1: that oh, of course, yeah, so this is like this.
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  Speaker 1: So they've they've done a great job of getting girls
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: to come back out that have played before, they just
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: haven't played in a while. And uh, even when I
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: went to practice, you know, Coach Wolfa, he kind of
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: put his hand on my shoulder and he goes, they
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: look like a basketball team, don't they. I was like, yeah,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: they do. And so you know, they start They started
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the season one and one. They lost on the road
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: to the Connor and then they beat Freddy Harber at
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: home and they get after it defensively. They've learned this.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: They played this one three one zone right now, and
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: they're doing a really good job. They understand the fundamentals.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: And sometimes when you have players that that haven't developed
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: bad habits, you can really mold them and teach them
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: into what you want. And Vic Wolfis is a guy
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: that's coached like five different teams. Like he's he's a
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: he's like a lifer as a coach, you know, and
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: he probably loves this because he gets to teach. He's
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: to actually teach, you know. And there's been some there's
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: been some you know, little things that have happened that
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: you know, you see I've been watching the film and
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, basketball player wouldn't make that mistake, but
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: she hasn't played basketball in a while, you know, or
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: something like that. But you know, Bryce Smith gets after it,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and you know, underneath the hoop and Kate Keureski is
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: kicking handle the ball and play some defense, and had
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Breada Sandel really good soccer player, Like she's you know,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: she's hustling and running around, and I mean it's you know,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: it's it's it's it's kind of working. So we'll see
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: how it goes. I'm really intrigued. Like, you know, if
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: anyone said, you know, what's one of the kind of
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: underrated stories this year, this is it because it's kind
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: of just I mean, who'd have ever thought there'd be
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: a team that not just only had one return, but
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: only one player that's ever played high school basketball. It's
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: it's unheard of, and I'm really curious to see how
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: it goes this year for them.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk Blade Border Rights boys basketball. Tyler head
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: coach Chas cock first year with Blaine. He was the
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: head coach of Burlington Edison a few years ago. Last
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: season four and seventeen, new coach, new format, new outlook.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: One of the smaller teams around in terms of height though, Tyler.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very it's gonna be very guard heavy. There are
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: a few teams like that. But you know, you know,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Chas is a great coach and he's gonna. I mean,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: his dad, Jerry Cock, was like the legendary youth coach
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: for multiple sports. I worked with him at Linnondoor years
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: ago and got to know him pretty well. And uh,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: and it's just, you know, there's just this legendary feeling,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: you know, and it's cool because he's the athletic director.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: He's the best dressed coach I've ever seen, that's for sure.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I Mean he's got like a suit on, you know,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: on the sideline, he looks fantastic. Or on the yeah,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I guess the sideline.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Rather game I was at last night, the coach for
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: the opponent opposing the team was wearing a hoodie and sweatpants.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: I've never seen that before in high school basketball for basketball. Yeah,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: and actually the entire coaching staff was dressed the same.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I've never seen that before. I was blown away. Anyway,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: go ahead.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: And it's been a weird kind of back and forth
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: for the Blaine Boys because two years ago they got
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: third in state. Oh and and last year they went
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: four and seventeen. So it was just kind of you know,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and this year it's a it's a lot of new players.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: There are a few returning players, Josiah Weeda is a
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: really good athlete, really really quick, about six two six
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: ' three, left handed, can finish at the hoop and
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: shoot it. Averaged over fourteen and a half points a
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: game last year, so usually you get numbers like that
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: returning that's pretty big. He got hurt at the at
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the end of the year, didn't wasn't able to finish
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: out the year, so that was really tough. But but yeah,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, Jacob Donor is a really good ball handler.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: He's deaf, a past first guy. Just watching the film
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: like he really really wants to get his other guys involved,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: which is really cool. Abdual Kanaji is is about you know,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: he's six ' four. He's probably their tallest guy. He
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: comes off the bench a lot of energy, I guess,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of offensive rebounds and put backs and stuff
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: like that and gets the crowd going. Kay Kerwin has
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: been a good point guard. Landon Melton is a kid
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: who's about six ' three, so he's one of the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: taller kids on the team, but he's more of an
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: outside threat. Can really stroke it from the outside, you know,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: very smooth player. Everything looks really easy, very smooth, and
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: I tell you what you know, Coach Cox got them
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: running this kind of offense where they're just there's constant
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: motion and and they're moving the ball and then they
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: find the cutter and it works. I mean, when you're undersized,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: you got to do little things like that, and it's
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: been working so far. They're two to zero on the season.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: And by the time we're recording this, and things have
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: been looking things have been looking pretty good. I mean,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it's a lot of new guys on the varsity that
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: are kind of getting these extended minutes now. But you know,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: there's some other guys Beckham Blizzard and Landon Brown, and
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: there's some guys that are that have been kind of
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: waiting their turn, and and I think that there's some
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: there's a good future coming right now for the Border,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: right boys.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Team, Tyler, maybe we should let people know we are
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: recording this on Thursday the fifth, right, Yeah, yeah, so
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: anything you say take it with a there's nothing from
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Friday or Saturday yet, so we'll get to that stuff
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: on the on the wrap up tomorrow. Right, people settle
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: down there, that's blame Border Ice Basketball, Tyler. Let's move
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: on to talk about the Ferndale Golden Eagles. The girls
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: head coach Terry Yos sixth sixth year with Ferndale fifty
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: three and forty six record. Last season they went ten
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: and eleven. A good shooting team generally has a rotation
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: of about six or seven girls.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they they tend to play a ton of players,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: but they are you know, they usually get after it
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: pretty good and usually everybody can shoot. And that's that's
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: kind of what it's been looking like so far this year.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And it's, uh, you know, they have a good inside
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: threat with Jillia Fox. She's she's kind of an inside
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: outside player. I mean she's she's about five ten and
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: you can get a lot of rebounds and stuff like that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Last year she averaged eleven and eleven and a half
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: points a game and eight and a half rebounds a game. So,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: you know, a good inside player. But she can shoot
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: it from the outside too. She can even you know,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: shoot it from three point range if needed. Then then
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: they have a couple of guards, Kayla Washington and Abbey White,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: who who are not afraid to shoot it deep. They're
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: gonna each probably you know, throw about eight three pointers
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: up there a game each of them, and so they
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: will like they'll come down, and you know, Kaylo Kayla Washington,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: you know, handles the ball a lot, and if she
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: sees the shot that she likes, she'll just go right.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: She'll just go right up to the three point line
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: and just take it. Abby White is a spot up shooter,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: usually from the left side, and that first game she
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: went off, she hit four three pointers in the first quarter,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: kind of really set the tone. End up twenty five
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: points in that game, a career high. Last year she
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: averaged five and a half points a game. Kayla Washington
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: read at ten points a game, so you got some
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: scoring that has returned. They got Brooklyn Larrabie to come out,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: and we've talked a lot about her and volleyball, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: she's a great point guard, gets you know, very athletic,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: plays great defense, not looking to shoot, just looking to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: get others involved. And the funny thing is is I
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: remember when she was a freshman. I was watching her
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: play volleyball and someone said, you know, she's pretty good.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: I said yeah. They said, wait till you watch her
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: play basketball, and I said, oh cool. And then basketball
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: came around. She wasn't there, and I thought, well, okay,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: maybe she's playing club volleyball year round or something like that.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: And then when I went out to get head shots
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: this year for basketball, she's like, hey, Tyler, and I go, hey,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: they tuck you into playing this year. She goes, yeah. So,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I mean it's a huge thing for Ferndale because I
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: mean there's there. It's a pretty darn good team. You know.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: They but they like like like you said, they don't
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: they don't play a lot of girls. But they're gonna
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: rely heavily on six or seven of them to just
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: kind of keep rotating and they're all gonna be open
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to shoot and and kind of keeps them pretty engaged
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: that way. So we'll see how it goes.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk Ferndale Golden Eagles boys basketball. Luke Deshe
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: the second year head coach of the Golden Eagles seven
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: and fourteen. Last year, Uh, they have decent hype. Last
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: year they took a big step forward after winning just
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: one game the season before, Tyler, can they take that
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: next step? That's the big question mark. Yeah.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: They they had great size. I mean they Jonah Prolowski's
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: about six six, Hunter Wills about six ' five, and
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Montage sing is about six three or six four and
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: those three will be kind of our main guys. Man
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Montage sing Is he's a different kind of player, like
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: he he can I don't know if he's ambidextrous, but
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: he is really good with either hand, not just dribbling,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: but in and around the hoop. I couldn't tell you
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: if he's left handed or right handed. That just shows
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: like how much he uses both hands. I think he's
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: left handed, but really really good, great just overall player,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Like that's a lot of things. Average fourteen points a
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: game last year, five and a half rebounds a game,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: over one assist, over one steal in, almost one block
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: per game. So a guy that can do a little
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: bit everything. But Jonan Brolowski could be the guy that
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you know, as he goes is how the team will go.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Like I said, he's about six six, he's not thick,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: but he's lean. He can jump out of the gym.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: He can get but he's got a good straight ahead
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: like three point shot too, like right you know, right
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: behind the free throw line, like straight ahead. He can
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: hit that three as well. So he averaged about thirteen
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: points and eight rebounds a game last year, So I
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: think that he's gonna be you know, a big, big factor.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I think teams are gonna be looking for him a
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: little bit a little bit more this year. And then
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Hunter Wills is a kid who didn't play a ton
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: last year, but I think he's gonna be a big
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: time player this year. Like you said, about six foot five.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And then Lincoln Thomas, who we know from from football.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: You know, he's about six to two. He's much more
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: physical looking, I mean a football player out there's about
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty five pounds, and he's a great defender.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: He could bring the ball up. He's probably gonna you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna shoot it a ton average like five
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: points a game last year, but defensively he's gonna bring it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And so he has a lot of varsity experience as well.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: And then you bring in a guy like Cooper Vincent
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: who's a junior super athletic. I think he can fit
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: right in Raj gree walls and is like a backup
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: point guard. Cavera Dylan is is a guy who's looking
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: to get other guys involved as well, so you know
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: they have some guys that can do some things and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: and really good. I really like Luke DeShane as a coach.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I've the way he runs his
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: practice and stuff like that, so I think they can
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: take that next step. It's just about once you get
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: to the playoffs, how difficult it's going to be against
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: those other three A school that's gonna be the real test.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: That is Forerdale Golden Eagles boys and girls. Let's talk
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: about the Lemming Nation Blackhawks, Tyler. The first time we've
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: ever talked about Lemmy Nation here on the Welcome Preps podcast,
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: and we're gonna start with the girls. Head coach Christa
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Joe Maylee last season eighteen and nine, balanced scoring across
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the board. And I'll tell you what, if you're going
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: to play the Blackhawks, you better be ready to run
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: because they got some good speed.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah they are. So. I watched the game against Concrete
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and very very balanced. I mean they had forced players
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: in double digit scoring. So that really, I mean that
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: does not happen in high school basketball very often, and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: so especially in the first game, Like you know, they
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: came out, they were ready and it wasn't like the
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: usually if you have four players of double digit scoring,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: you score like eighty points. I think they were like
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: in the fifties so it was extremely balance.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: So Gemma James is a really good ball handler, just
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a natural basketball player. Everything looks very smooth with her dribbling, shooting, rebounding, defense, everything.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Very very good player. She's just a sophomore and she's
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the one that kind of, you know, gets the whole
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: thing going. Elena Raebang is a player who she played
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: a little bit at Seahome last year transferred to Lummy
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: and kind of kind of kind of blew up, and
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: she can do a lot of different things. She's probably
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the best inside threat, but she's more of a guard.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: But she had like I don't know, sixteen or seventeen
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: rebounds in that first game. But she's just so active
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: and she's about five foot eight. It's not a super
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: tall team, but like I said, they just run, run, run.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Brianna Matteba is so fun to watch and she's another
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: player with both hands shoot. When when she shoots, she's
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: right handed, but when she'll she'll take a lot of
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: runners and she'll take a left handed which is really
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: unique to see. And she's really good at using the
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: backboard and uh. And then Cashlyn Mack is a is
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a good player that can can dribble her way out
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: of anything, and then she can shoot it from deep.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: She's got some moves down low. It's a really fun
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: team to watch. I'm excited to be covering Lemon Nation
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: this year. And uh yeah, there's some really really good
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: players and some good young players too. I mean Rey
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Bang and Matteba and James, they're all underclassman Mac as well.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I mean, so it's gonna be it's gonna be a good,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: good team for a while. Last year they got to State.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna place at state this year. We'll
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: see how it goes.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Let's talk a Lemming Nation. Blackhawks boys basketball Tyler head
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: coach Jerome Toby, a senior twenty four and three. Last year,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: they finished sixth in the state. Jerome Toby junior is
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: back healthy. This is a team, Tyler, that we feel
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: pretty confident they could they can bring home some serious
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: hardware this winter. Yeah.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: They are. They're they're loaded. I mean, they have size,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: they have shooting. They played great together. I got to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: witness my first game, you know, I was there for
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the first half when they played against.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: Seahome, and I just love how well they just play
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: team basketball, like it and it was their first game
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: of the year, and they looked like they were in
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: mid season form.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: They they were top ranked for most of the year
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: last year before injuries kind of derailed their season and
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: it ended up short and they ended up sixth in state.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, if you go twenty four and
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: three and you're bringing home, you're bringing back a ton
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: of talent, it's gonna be incredible. Jerome Toby Junior is
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: a legit point guard. He can do it all. Tony
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Abrams is an awesome big man. Dyson Edwards, Carson Reeve,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: treven Lee, I mean Land and laugh on. There's some
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: there's some dudes on this team that I'm telling you, man,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: if they were in the Northwest Conference, they would they
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: would be in the upper half of it. And that's
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that says a lot for being just a one B school,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: you know. And coach Toby, you know, he's he was
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: telling me, he goes, we have forty six boys in
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: the school and twenty nine of them turned out for basketball,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: and that's just that's just crazy. But that's that doesn't
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: surprise me because out at lem Nation, I mean, everybody,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: it's like it's like Indiana, right, Everyone just grows up
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: with a with a ball in their hand and they're
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: just always shooting. I mean, they can all shoot. It's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: it is incredible. Uh. So this is gonna be one
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: of those years where you know, they I think they're
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: looking at it, going we have a serious shot here,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: and uh they're gonna not hopefully not let it slip
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: away because I think they know how important it is.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Picked a good time to start covering lemonation Tyler. Let
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: me tell you, I know, Uh that's it for Lemy
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Nation Blackhawks boys and girls. Let's talk Lyndon the girls.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Head coach Rob Adams. Fifteenth year at Linden. Uh, three
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: hundred and five wins, one hundred and thirty six losses
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: at Linden and blame combined last season, twenty seven and
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: one state champions and this team favored to repeat a game.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Tyler, Yeah, I think so. I believe they went unbeaten
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: over the summer, and they played against a lot of
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: big time, bigger schools and they you know, they still
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: beat everybody. They played against a really good Canadian school
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to open up their their season got off to a
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: really hot start. And then and then the other team.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think who there. I think it was
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the I think it was the Riverside Secondary the Rapids,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and they started doing some good things in the second quarter.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: I believe it was tied at the half, and but
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: then Linden just made some adjustments. Linden they will play
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: ten players regularly, like and they it's almost like there's
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a every minute and a half, there's a sub. And
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: you know, coach Adams has been doing this for years.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And you know, I mean I've known Rob forever. I
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: mean he was my first uh oh man real estate agent.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I bought my when I had bought my house in
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Blaine in twenty twelve. He was my real estate agent
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: back then and so and that was like right after
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: he just won his first state title. Now he's won
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: a handful of him. And I asked him the other day,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I go, you know, the subbing, and he just starts
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: laughing and he goes, yeah, he goes, everybody asked me
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: about that. And he goes Even at the state title
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: game last year, like you know, every single time there
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: was a whistle, he goes a ref like like walked
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: over to him and he goes, do you sub this?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Much like year round and he's like yeah, and he
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: just but he's got this rotation where the girls know
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: exactly what to do and they just it's I don't
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: it's it's really unique to watch because they're always fresh
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: and they're all that. He always has, you know, eight
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: or nine or ten girls that can legitimately play, and
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: it's the same way this year. I mean Peyton Mills
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: is I mean, she's got offers from Boise State, just
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: different places. She's about six one and a forward. She
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: she rebounds everything. Last year, uh you know, she averaged
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: thirteen and a half points a game, seven point two
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: rebounds a game, but she went off for thirty points
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: in that first game. Really really good soft touch from
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the outside as well. I think she led the county
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: and free throw percentage, so you know, really good at
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the line. And then finley Partcher is six to one
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: as well, and she's you know, a guard like she
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: can handle the ball. You don't see six to one
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: guards that are you know, on the at the girls
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: side very often. She can finish. She scored like seventeen points.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: She averaged fourteen and a half. Last year she averaged
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: fourteen and a half points, seven point four rebounds, three
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: point three assists and three point five steals as a
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: freshman last year. And you know that's just it's just incredible.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: And so that one two punch is pretty scary. Ryan
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Stephan is another forward who's about six foot two. So there,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: so your three best players are all six to one.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Are over on the girl's side. Keiki york Is, you
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: know we talked about her during track and field. I
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: mean she is a defensive stopper. You put her on
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the best player and they have no chance. I think
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: she let in field goal percentage because she takes really
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: smart shots. Lexi herman Utz is a really good ball handler.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: She she can play the point. Yeah, they just there's
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: just no holes in that game. They they're really good
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: outside shooters. They don't overshoot it like they do it
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: at the right time. They communicate. Well, it's you know
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: if someone, you know, before I really dug into Lumby
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Nation and how good they are, someone said, you know,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: who's the who's the best team, like the best chance
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to to you know, do some damage in the state playoffs.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I would say it's the Lennon girls. It's just they
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: just return a lot and the really good coaching and yeah,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: they're really fun to watch.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Tyler, are they fun to watch? Yeah?
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I mean sometimes that's all you need to say, right, Like, yeah.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: They're just they just play it the right way and
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: there and even if they're because they usually have a
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: size advantage over everybody, but they don't they don't need
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: to take advantage of it, if that they don't have
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: to change their game, if that makes any sense. Like
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: they just they just they just play and it's like
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: my goodness, like they're so dominant, like they're so dialed
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: in and it's really impressive.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Well, Tyler, that is the Linden girls. Let's talk about
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: the Linden boys. And this is a team that they've
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: won three straight state championships, Tyler, five of the last six.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, the last state champion that
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: was not live in was North Kitsap who knocked out
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Linden in the semi finals back in twenty nineteen. What
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: do you think can they make it for in a
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: row here?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, wouldn't that be something? I mean, ever since COVID
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: has been a thing, they've been state champions and it's
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be really tough, you know, just because they
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: lost a lot. You know, Anthony Canalis is the all
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: time leading scorer. He's over at Western Washington University. Now
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: they lost Brady Elsner, who is the all time leader
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: and assists. You know, ty Ty Holloman was a great,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: great player as well. Charlie Ayres, Danny Bowler is not
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: turning out this year. So it's there's a lot of
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: spots now that are open. And the one thing about
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Lindon is you could say, well, they'll just plug and
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: play and they'll they'll be fine. But you know, Brent
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Hepner is not only is he just you know, he
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: could be the best player that's returning this year. And
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously he's six foot six and he's a
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: great kid, all that stuff, but like he's got such
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: a smooth shooting stroke too. He's he's a great, great shooter.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: He averaged fifteen and a half points a game last year,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: seven rebounds. But he's an amazing interior passer. Like he's
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: really good at if he gets the ball in the paint,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: he needs to pass that. I mean, I mean part
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: of that is just being a quarterback. I mean, he's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: so good at everything and finding the right play at
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: the right time. He had nine assists in the in
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: the opener this this year and to go with twenty
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: two points or whatever he had, So he's always gonna
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: make the right play. Jack Stapleton six foot seven, and
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: he could shoot from the outside, he can rebound, he
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: can dunk. I mean, he's he's a great You know
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: though they you know, him and Hepner both started last
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: year down low, so they have them both back. Is great.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Spencer Adams returns. He didn't play a ton last year,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: but he's starting now. He's about six foot four. Gordy
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Bedlington and we know from baseball he's gonna be their
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: new point guard. He's just a sophomore. Ty Jorgensen, My
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: goodness gracious, that kid is like on a pogo stick,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: you know. He does he does the jump ball. He's
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: about six five. He does the jump ball and it's
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: just like it's no contest. He had a he can
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: just jump off two feet like it's nothing. He just
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: had like a in traffic two handed dunk in that
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: first game when I was not expecting it. He had
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: like four or five blocks in that first game. So
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: I love players like that. They're just kind of fun
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: to watch. Malachi Canaan, Uh, you know, he's a yeah.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, i mean both his parents really good basketball players,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Like covered both of his parents in high school and
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: they played basketball, you know, and so it's, uh, it's
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: not that surprising to me. But but he's you know,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: he can shoot it from the outside, he can he
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: can handle the ball a little bit. Malachi Bowman's another
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: really good athlete, about six foot four. So there's just
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: they have these next wave of guys coming in that
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: are going to kind of fill that spot. But it's
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: it's to be a lot of Brent Epner, Jack Stapleton,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: and probably the number three guy that's gonna be gonna
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: emerge is probably gonna be ty Ty Jorgensen that you know,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the jumping jack kid. I mean, he's he's really exciting
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: to watch. And Gordy Bedlington is a kid that he's
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: just a sophomore, but running the point and watching you
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: know Elsner last year, like Elsner rarely shot the ball.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: He was always looking to get his guys involved. Now,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: if it's a wide open shot and it's the right shot,
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: he'll take it. But he's only gonna take like one
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: or two shots a game, and I really respect that
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: with high school kids that you know, everyone just Jack's
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: threes now and he is constantly looking to, you know,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: for the right play and so that's really cool to see.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: And you know, it doesn't surprise me with all the
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: great coaching they have out Linden.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Tyler, I was just doing a little bit of research here. Yeah,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: the last time Lynden did not place in state for
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: boys basketball was twenty fifteen. Okay, they lost in the
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: regional round to Mark Morris. Every year since then they've
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: either won the state championship or they've lost in the
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: semi finals and then won the third place game. Yeah,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I mean that's remarkable. Like, I don't care who you are,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: that's that's really really hard to do. I mean, that's
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: that's a testament to a lot of things, you know,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: And that's the testament too. I mean, that's kind of
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: what goes on at Linden with athletics. You know, they
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: make a huge investment in athletics. And I mean that
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: doesn't show you, I don't know what does. But that's
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Lynden Lions boys and girls.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Tyler.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Let's talk Lyndon. Christian the Links girls head coach, Brady
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Bomber eleventh year at Lyndon Christian to twenty eight and thirty. Overall,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: they went twenty that just saying that, like you laugh
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: in my head, I'm laughing, but I got to keep
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: it together here. Last season twenty and eight, they finished
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: third at State. Grace Heintz is out again, Tyler, but
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: this team still very well balanced.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know, they lost her last year.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: She did come back at the second half of the
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: year and played, but she wasn't at full strength. But
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: with her out, it really kind of it made the
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: rest of the team just better. You know, they just
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: had to play better without her, and I think they
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: did really well and they still adjusted very well when
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: she came back, and that's kind of why they had
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: some of those losses earlier in the year. I mean,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: I remember they lost to Burlington, you know at Burlington
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: by like one point, and Burlington celebrated like it was
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: the NBA Championship, And I mean for right rightly. So,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, you look at that record that Elsie has
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: and you know, with the like you just said, two
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight wins to thirty losses over the
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: last ten years, you know, it makes sense, but they
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: were still kind of learning how to play with each other,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: with each other without Grace Hines and with her out
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: again this year, it's tough as being her senior year.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: It's amazing that she basically you know her it. It's
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: really unique because she's hardly played, but she had over
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: a thousand points in her career. Like it's like, how
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: did she do that? And she and it seems like
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: she was never healthy. Just one of the best you
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: know to do it. But but right, but Ella Fritz,
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I mean again, you know, we talked about her during volleyball.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: How athletics. She is really really good point guard. Averaged
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: eleven point three points a game, four rebounds to assist,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: one steal. She can do a little bit of everything.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: Alison shoemate Is is a great, great post player, you know,
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: almost ten points and five rebounds a game last year.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: Daniel Dykster is about six feet tall. She can shoot
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: it from the outside. Average about five points and four
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: four rebounds. Estella Hernandez another player that averaged right around
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: six points. There's just so many players. Sarah van lou
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: was right at about three points and three rebounds. Kayla
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: yun By far will be the shortest player on the team.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: It seems like all the ELCI girls are they all
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: they all tower way over me. And then Yun's about
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: five three or five four, but extremely quick, she can
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: shoot it. Good defensive player. She played a lot last
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: year as well, so there's there's a lot of these
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: players that have just got a ton of experience. And
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: Ellie Pierce even played quite a bit as a freshman
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: last year. And then they got Tyradikster this year, who's
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: who is a freshman this year, and after watching her
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: in volleyball and seeing how high she could jump, I'm
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: really curious to see what she does playing basketball. They
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: have Jocelyn s Ice who's about six one six y
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: two that she you know, she suited up a little
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: bit last year and played a little here and there,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: but I think she's going to take that next step forward.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: So yeah, they don't they do not have Grace Heinz,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: but my goodness, they are loaded and the coaching is amazing.
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: So that's the you know, that's the team in the
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: one a to look at. If you're talking boys and
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: girls combined, that could be the big one that's going
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: to be playing on Saturday at the at the Yakamau
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Sun Dome.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: I'm just looking at this, Yere Tyler the if you
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: can bind the boys and girls basketball coaches, in the
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: last sixteen seasons, they've lost a total of thirty seven games.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, boys and girls, Yeah.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: You can bind them. I mean it's eleven and five
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: years for Tim Zilstra, yeah, or fifth year at you know,
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: fifth year, so it's actually what fourteen seasons. But regardless,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: like it's just it's crazy to look at that number
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: and just I mean, all you can kind of do
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: is chuckle. Here, let's talk a lining Christian Links boys basketball.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: Tim Zilstra, fifth year at LC eighty two and seven
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: record last season twenty four and three, third place in
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: state first time in a while. Else does not have
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: a couple of towers, if you will. They don't have
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: tremendous size like the usual. But this is a team
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: that can still really shoot the ball.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And last year was just kind of a weird
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: thing because they won state the previous two years and
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: last year they lost that heartbreaker. I want to say,
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: oh my goodness, I'm trying to remember who who was right, Yeah,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: I think it was Andy, right, They lost by like
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: two in just a fluky game, and then they came
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: out and won big in the third place game, and
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: and it was tough because it was like, uh, you know,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: they were on this run just like the Linen Boys,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: and they weren't able to do that. But yeah, Tim
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Zelstra eighty two and seven record is just crazy. And
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: you know it was You're right about the size. I mean,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: I went to practice and it was just weird to
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: not see like these six six sixty seven guys. Now
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: they now they do have Luke Van Couten, who's about
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: six five maybe, but he's more of a shooter and
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: you know he's gonna jump ball and stuff like that.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: But he's and he can play inside. But I really
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: like Caden Veldman. I know we've talked about him for
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: during football. He's about six four two and twenty five pounds,
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: kind of in that mold of as a football player,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: kind of in that Cayden Stite, like you know what
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Cad and Stite looked like when he was a sophomore
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: and so, but probably a better basketball player than Kayden Styite. Actually,
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Veldman started at center earlier earlier in the year. Last
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: year as a freshman when Stite wasn't when Stite and
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Right were both out for a little bit and they
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: needed some size. He was about sixty two as a
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: freshman and played really well. But now he's about six
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: ' four, gained a lot of muscle, and I think
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: in that first game he had, like, my goodness, he
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: had something like eighteen points and seventeen rebounds. So I
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: think that he's gonna be you know, like I said,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: they don't have the big six seven guys or anything,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: but at six four, he'll probably still be pretty darn good.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: The big the big time player is Gannen Dykester. I
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: mean Gannon Dykester is legit. He's already signed on to
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: play at college. I believe that Biola and he averaged
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: last year sixteen point four points a game, four rebounds,
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: and almost six assists. So that's a lot in high
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: school basketball.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Six assists in a.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: Game and to average that is pretty pretty remarkable, really
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: awesome to watch him. Just he can jump out of
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: the gym. He can really shoot it. And when Dawson
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Heintz returns returns from his injury, that's just gonna be
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: another jumpin' jack guard. That's gonna be awesome to watch. So,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: you know, I I remember, I don't know, a couple
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, I was thinking, well, Elsie might beat
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: a little down this year. And then I went to practice,
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: and then I watched their first game and I was like,
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: holy cow, Like they're just so they're just so fundamentally
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: sound and and everything's just faster, Like everything they do
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: is just faster. I don't know how to explain it. It
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: just looks really good. Boyce Robertson another athlete that we've
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: talked about during football. He's gonna be out there. Eli Mayberry,
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: same thing, Oak Howell, who is not playing this year.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: Trey Bosman's not playing this year. Those are guys that
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: you know played quite a bit last year. But Harvest Howell,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Oaks little brother is gonna be out there playing. Carter
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: Ayler's Gunner Dykstra another dykester coming up. So there's there's
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: some paces there that is just going to be you know,
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: it's it's not going to be easy, but I think
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: there's still going to be the team to beat for
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: the one A in the Northwest Conference. Boys side.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: Uh, just taking a look at your tyler really quickly
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: to fact check both of us. It was Andy right,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: it was a two point loss. Matter of fact, I'm
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: not trying to pump my own tires, but pretty impressive
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: pull on my part to throw Anny Wright out there.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah exactly.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: I mean that had to have surprised you. Yeah, but
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: you know what, good on you to keep it together
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: because you absolutely could have thrown me under the bus
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: and been like, wow, what happened there? And then you
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: mentioned they did finish third place with a seventy to
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: forty four win over Seattle Academy.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Played a little upset.
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I took a little little something out on the
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: old Seattle Academy boys over there. Yeah, that's Lyndon Christian
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: Lynks boys and girls. Let's talk Meridian Tyler, head coach
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: of the girls team is Bree Joy. Fourth year at radium,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: thirty and thirty seven record last year seven and seventeen.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: They do return a lot of very athletic group could
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: make a big jump this season Tyler, Yeah.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I really believe so. And a lot of these players
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: are players that we know from different sports. I mean
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: the Eden Bernardi and Brooklyn Foller and Taya Benson and
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Kinsley Neil and Amelia Kooning and it's you know, Mattie Swans.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: I mean, these there's a lot of players with some
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: big time varsity experience. They like to shoot a ton
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: of threes. They can get hot and start making them.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Sophia Brooks is another really good soccer player. She came out.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: She hit three threes in that first game. I think
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: they hit like, my goodness, think that like twelve of
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: them in the first game. They just they can just
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: go off and just keep shooting, keep shooting. But they
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: do have good size. Melanie Short who we've talked about
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: during volleyball. She comes off the bench and she led
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: their She led the team in scoring in that first
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: game coming off the bench. So very athletic player. She
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: can shoot it as well. There's a lot to like
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Brooklyn Fuller is just you know, she gets after
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: it man just as a point guard. Defensively, she can
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: handle the ball. She's has command of the whole team.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: She's you know, I'm trying to remember if she's the
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: only senior on the team or if she's just one
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: of a few, but uh, there's it's it's pretty impressive
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: to watch them as a group. They just need to
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: you know. I mean, Nuksak and Lennon Christn have been
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: so good the last you know, few years that they've
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: really beaten down some of these other teams. And now
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I believe Nuksak will be down quite a bit, not
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: not a ton, but you know, they're gonna They've lost
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: some huge players, so I think, and Meridian, I think
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be much better. So they just have to,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: you know, if they can meet at that spot, they
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: just have to believe that they can beat them. And
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: I and and I think they have the talent to definitely,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: you know, give them a heck of a test, and
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be you else. Girls are kind
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: of the class. But it's going to be a jumble
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: there for second place and for the one as I'm
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: talking for the Northwest Conference and Meridian. They have all
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: the talent in the world. They just have to know
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: that they can do it. I mean, you know, there's
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: there's some there's some pretty darn good players. Brooklyn brook
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: like I said, Brooklyn Fuller averaged like five points five
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: rebounds to assists one and that Steele's yeah, I mean,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Maddy's Matty Swanson can shoot it pretty pretty darn Well
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Kinsley Neil she shoots from the outside, Emilily Coning from
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: the outside, Taya Benson down down low. I means they
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: all have they all have a lot of varsity experience,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: and they've all had success in other sports as well,
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: which I think goes a long way, and it's just
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: about putting it all together. Now.
• 52:42
  Speaker 2: Well, let's talk Meridian Trojan boys basketball here. Tyler and
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: head coach Shane Stacy. Twentieth year at Meridian to twelve
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: two twenty four record fourteen to twelve. Last season, they
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: did make it to the state tournament, and they returned
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: a couple of big guns in Jenkins and Fife. Who
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: else is gonna help fill out that ross?
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Tyler, Well, that's that's kind of the big question. I mean,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Talon Jenkins and Jager five for both tall, athletic shooting,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: you know, wing guard type guys. They could both handle
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the ball. Talon Jenkins is about six foot six, Jager
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: five's about six foot two. And these are guys that
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: are just been you know, they've been kind of the
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: main guys on their team for a while, but they've
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: had these other parts that have really, you know, made
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: their team work I mean last year, you know, they
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: had Tarryn Arren Burks on the out on on the
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: outside that could just run forever and play defense and
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: get offensive rebounds, and he was just that perfect complimentary player.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: They had Christian Klausen who was six foot six on
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: the inside. Jacob Auminson was a great glue guy. Cohen
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: Foller at that game winning shot to get them to State.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, they you know, they they had these pieces
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: that were really really important, and it's who's gonna be.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Those guys are gonna step into those spots. James heat
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: All is one of the guys I kind of expect
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: he probably start at center, average four and a half
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: points a game, three and a half rebounds a game.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: He's an athletic, six foot five kid. Kenyon James is
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: a kid that is a cross country runner that can
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: just run all day as well. He might be that
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: guy that's probably not gonna take many shots, but he'll
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: do everything else and play great defense. Trey Alexander is
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: another kid that we know a lot about from other sports.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: Very athletic kid. Nate Payne who pitched in that state
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: championship game last year as a freshman. He can play
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: in the post athletic kid there. Brock Hogan is a
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: guy that could do a lot of things. He can
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: shoot it, Damian Hayes can play some defense and shoot it.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Pierce Sperzowski once he's healthy, I think he's probably another
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: few weeks away from returning, but once he does.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: That'll be good.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: So there's a lot of guys to choose from m
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: it's just gonna be who's gonna kinda who's gonna fill
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: those spots and who's gonna be relied upon because that's
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: really gonna be needed. You can't have just those two
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: big guys. I mean they're both going to average right
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: around twenty a game. I mean Townon Jenkins last year
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: was at eighteen. Jagerfiffe was at fifteen last year, and
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: they combined for, you know, over six steals a game.
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: You know, can bind for eleven rebounds, five point seven
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: assists over a block. They did a lot together. They
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: compliment each other very very well, but it's not always
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: going to happen. It's not always going to be their night.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: And who's going to be that that that third guy
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: that's going to be the real test for a Meridian.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: That's the Meridian Trojan boys and girls. Let's talk Mount
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: Baker High School and we will start with the girls.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: The Mountaineers head coach Tiffany Ramirez. Fourth year at Mount Baker,
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: eleven and forty seven, record three and eighteen last year,
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: their two best players have transferred. But Tyler, are you're
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: telling me they picked up a pretty big transfer in
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: their own right?
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah? They lost Natalie van lu she averaged twelve and
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: a half points a game last year, average almost three
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: steals a game last year. She is transferred. They lost
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Violett Fox, she transferred as well. She was she was
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: a freshman last year that averaged nine points, six rebounds,
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: two assists in three steals a game. She was doing
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: so much. And then they graduated Jenna Weininger, who was,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: you know, average, basically a double double. She averaged nine
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: point two and nine nine point two points and nine
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: point seven rebounds a game. So, uh, you know, you
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: you lose all of that and they started the season
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: two and oh how'd they do that? Yeah, they brought
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: in Rebecca Sores, who's a sophomore. She plays for the
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Brazilian national team, the U sixteen team. So I mean
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: that tells you something right there, and she's a you know,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a she's a legacy player. I mean
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: her older sisters and brother played at Mount Baker and
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: her older sister, Stephanie, was the fourth pick in the
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: w NBA Draft this past year for Washington. Her older
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: brother Tim played at Baker. He was like with the
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Spurs Summer League at one point. Her mom, Susan Anderson,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: was probably the best girls basketball player that the Walking
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: County's ever seen. She was the Gatorade National Player of
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: the Year at Mount Baker in the mid eighties, like
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: for the whole nation. It was tiny, single a deming Washington.
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: And I remember learning about that as a kid, like, what,
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: like the national player.
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: Of the year. I mean, that's borderline ridiculous, Like how
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: like nowadays I can understand it, but back then, how
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: did they even find her? You know what I mean?
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: Like right right, That's that's what's truly mind blowing about
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: it all. But anyway, go ahead, keep talking. Yeah, I mean,
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: she just it was amazing. And back then, you know,
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: there was no WNBA. She went to University of Texas.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: She could have gone wherever she wanted.
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: She went to University of Texas and was good there,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: and then she played professionally in Brazil and that's how
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: you know. Now she's got all these kids that are
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: great players that are Brazilian and her husband, I don't
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: think he played basketball. I think he was a volleyball player,
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: like a professional volleyball players. So but all then you
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: go way even further back, Susan Anderson's dad, So you're
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: talking Rebecca's grandfather, Art Anderson, who graduated nineteen fifty eight
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: from Mount Baker. He he brought he was the center
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: on the first ever state championship team for Mount Baker.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: So and that was the very first year that high
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: school basketball was classified, like you had, you know, like
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: you broke it. You broke it up. And before then,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: like it was just everybody and Baker would had like
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: some fourth place and fifth place finishes. They had some
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: really good teams. But you go, you're talking to every
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: single team in the state. The first year they broke
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: it up and they were Class A.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: They win the.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: State title behind Art Anderson. So there is a legacy,
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: there's generations here. She's come in. She's six foot two
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: and she can handle the ball, she can shoot it.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: Obviously she can rebound.
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: She's averaging right now about you know, twenty five and
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: fifth fifteen early on in the season. So hey, they're
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: two to zero to start, and they were three and
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: eighteen last year, so I it's uh, well, it'd be
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: interesting interesting to see how she does against these other
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: teams that are a little better, especially around the conference.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: But so far, so good. It's been amazing to watch.
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: And you know, I just wish them all the success
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: in the world because right now they are they are needing.
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: And now there are some other good players. Faith Wilson's
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: a really good player and she can do a lot
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: of different things. She can handle the ball. She's about
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: five foot eight, she can shoot it. Samaya Powell can
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: shoot it. So Rhys Brown is good inside. So they
• 59:38
  Speaker 1: do have some other good players that they're gonna they're
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: going to rely on too, and and it'll be really
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: interesting to see how they do. Let's talk about the boys.
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Thanks coach head coach Tony that Tiger Clark.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: I feel like there should be like some old ESPN
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: NFL you know, music going on behind that third Mount
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: Baker six and thirty six record four nineteen. Last season,
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: they returned almost everybody Tyler, and this is a team
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: that is about as balanced as it gets.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is I really like this group, you know.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: And the tough thing is they didn't have that many
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: seniors last year, and so it's kind of the everybody's
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: back and they had one, two, three, four, five, six.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: Seven players average at least four points a game. So
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: you got a lot of different guys that are involved there.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: And all seven of those players are on the team
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: this year. Uh, there's an additional two that are not
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: gonna be able to play because they got injured during
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: football that played last year, Brady Bruland and Jet Ross.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: But you look around, I mean kel Reard and at
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: six foot five, you know he's gonna you know right
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: it there is one of the few true centers in
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: the county. Averaged nine points, eight point two rebounds. He
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: had averaged an assist and a steal and a block
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: a game as well. Uh, he's you know, that spot's base.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: Taking care of Carter Hill now in his third year
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: as a starter. He can really shoot it from the outside,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: can do a lot of different things now just a junior,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: but he was their leading scorer last year, so he returns.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: He's had a couple of big games. I think he
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: scored like twenty four points against Orcas Island, so, you know,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: really really good that way. Darius gilstrap Man, he's just
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: super athletic. I mean he's a guy that can go
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: off at any given time. Can do a lot of
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 1: different things. Luke Smith, you know, I think he's averaging
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: a double double so far this year. Great player all around.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Jordan Bailey is a wizard with the ball. He plays
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: like a he's the point guard. I mean he he
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: almost plays like that like a kind of like a
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: street ball type of game where it's just very loose
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: and he's very instinctive, you know, and a lot of
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun to watch, really really good. Peyton
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: Abdia coming off the bench left handed, kind of a
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: herky jerky player, does some things that are unorthodox, which
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: is kind of hard to defend. Sometimes. Chris Armbright can
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: shoot it. Cole Lucas is a is a you know,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: is the backup to Kel Reardon. And he's a senior
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: and he's about six three six ' four, so he's
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: got some good size below and I mean they got
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of pieces and you know, they started out
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 1: the season two to zero. And and you know it,
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: that's a it's a good sign for them because they're
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: they there was some good you know, they beat I
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: think they beat Blaine in that district playing game last
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: year to you know, stay in it and compete the
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: next you know, on Saturday out at Lyndon High School
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: and go against the better schools. And so I think
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: there were some good things that happened there. And and
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: and I really like coach Clark too. I mean I've
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: known him for like twenty years. He's an awesome guy.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: So glad that he's able to be the one to
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: steer this ship because I think they're definitely headed in
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 1: the right direction.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 2: That is Mount Baker Mountaineers boys and girls. Let's talk
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: Nooksack Valley Pioneers basketball. We start with the girls. Head
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: coach Shane Wickers twenty ninth year at Nuksack Valley four
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: forty two and two fifty eight record. They are twenty
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 2: six and one last season state champions and Tyler, this
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: is a team that they've been to the state tournament
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: four years in a row, four seasons in a row,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: I guess if you will, because there was a COVID
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: year in there. They've been to the state championship game
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: three years in a row, winning back to back state championships.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Some some major talent loss, but a few major players
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: still return.
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you're obviously losing you know, Devin Coppinger,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: she's playing for the Huskies. Now, that's the big, big loss.
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: But losing Tanahokama and Laney Kimball and Kayleie Anderson and
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: those are those are really big time players, all of
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: them starters. And then Elena Dykstra is not playing this year.
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: She's a really good soccer player, really good fast pitch player,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: and so it kind of, you know, kind of leaves
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: that open. So the so their lone returning starter that's
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: coming back is Kate shint For she was kind of
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: the player that was the kind of the defensive pest
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: if you will. I mean, she will guard the best
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: ball handler and but she can shoot it as well.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: I think she I think she broke her arm like
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: first day of school this year, and so she's wearing
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: a brace on her arm. And I'm pretty sure she's okay.
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: I watched the very first game. She looked good, so
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: everything's fine. She's a really really tough girl. Really great player,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: and so she's gonna kind of lead that team. But
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: there were some there were some major players that would
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: come off the bench, Grace to Hogue, Peyton Bartell, and
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Shale Davis, and all three of them now are in
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: this into the start burning lineup, gonna get a lot
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: more run. Grace to Hoague is about six to two, uh,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: playing at center. You know, she's very very good. She's
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: a walking double double. She's gonna be just fine.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: Peyton Peyton Bartell really really good shooter, left handed stroke
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: from the corners. She's deadly and and she she and
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: she's and she's about five to six as well, so
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: it's not like, you know, she's super short, but she's
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: about average. Hide out there, but she might take that
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: spot that kind of Kaylie Anderson had. Kaylie Anderson was
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: just a great spot up shooter. And Peyton Bartle kind
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: of is that same type of player. Shayley Davis a
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: bundle of energy, another good guard that can you know,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 1: she can shoot it, she can handle the ball. But
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: then there's then you have to start looking at other players.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Who else is gonna be able to step up. Reagan
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: Burke is a taller player she played. She's a sophomore
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: that played on the volleyball team. She did pretty good.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: Peyton Duquet is a really good soccer player. She's a
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: sophomore as well, left handed Caitlin Baion Dililo another sophomore,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: and then a few freshmen Natalie Harmon and Lysette Flores.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: So coach Wickers is just so darn good. Like you know,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not worried. I mean, it's different. It's a lot
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: different this year than what we've seen recently, but they're
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: still pretty good. They struggled a little bit in that
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: opening game just shooting the ball, but you're gonna have
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: offshooting nights. They still won against Sultan, but I you know,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: it's really interesting to see where they're gonna fall in
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: the pack here because I think Linda Christian is the favorite.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: But it's them against Meridian. I really believe for that
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: second spot and we'll just have to see kind of
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: how it all turns out.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: That's the girls. Let's talk of Noksack of Valley Boys
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: head coach Jason hugh Tink second year at Nuksack Valley
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: twelve and twelve record last season, Tyler, this core group
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: of boys here in the valley. They've been together for
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: well four years now.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's you know, it's a lot of these kids
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: started as freshmen and now they're all seniors. So it's
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: kind you're kind of looking at it, going, Okay, this
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: is kind of the year everyone's been looking towards. And
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: last year they were a buzzer beating laying away from
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: getting to the regional round of the state tournament. And
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: I think there's some revenge for them. And you look around,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, you start off with Caden hugh Tink, the
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: coach's son at Point Yard, and it's so funny because
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: and everybody knows this at Knoksack Valley, but maybe not
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 1: everyone listening does. But you look up in the banners
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: and there's all sorts of state championships for different sports.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: There's only two of them for boys basketball nineteen seventy
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: four and I believe two thousand. See now I'm going
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: to screw it up, two thousand and three. And in
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy four it was led by Rocky hough Tink.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: In two thousand and three it was led by Jason Hughtink.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: They were both and there were senior guards those years
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: and now we got a senior guard, third generation Caden
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: hough tink. Now I'm not. I don't want to put
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: any pressure that they should win the state title because
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: Dad did and Grandpa did when they were seniors. But
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: it was just cool to stand there. I'm looking at
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: seeing these banners. I look down, I see all three
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: of them. Because Dad is the coach, Granddad is an
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: assistant coach, and so it's just a it's just a
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: really cool deal. But watching Cayden Houghton from his freshman
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: year to now, just a completely different player. I mean
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: he's so much bigger and stronger and better and is
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: very fluent with everything. I mean, it's everything is really easy.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: Great great distributor, knows how to finish at the hoop,
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: can shoot it from the outside, great free throw shooter.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: Last year he average twelve points, five assists a game,
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 1: four rebounds down low at center, Brady Ackerman one of
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: the few true centers in the league. I don't think
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: he's attempted a three point shot, which I can't say
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: about really any other player. He is all is back
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: to the basket. He has no nonsense. Eleven point two
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: points a game, over eight rebounds a game, almost two
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: blocks a game get finished in a lot of different ways.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: That first game of the year, he was five for
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: five from the field and four for four from the line.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: So I mean he's he's got a smooth touch, but
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: he's just so strong down there. Corey only see these
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: are again these are names that you know, great great defender,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: shooter from as a shooting guard spot. Tristan Campalace is
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: six foot six, but he can shoot it from the outside,
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: but he's just a mismatch problem. Cole Koppinger is athletic
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: as heck, gets after it defensively, and then he he
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: turns a lot of the great defensive plays into layups,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: which is which is great. You got Brady's little brother,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: Dane Ackerman, who's he's a little smaller, he's about six
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: three two twenty, but he's more of an outside presence.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: He can shoot it. I mean he can play inside too,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: but he can shoot it from the outside. Lance Van Berkham,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: you know we've watched from football. He's the backup to Brady.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: He can come in and bang bodies and he's six four,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty pounds and he's athletic. And then
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: you got Weston Silvis and Owen Wickers coming off the
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: bench to spell some guys. The name missing here is
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Colton Lentz. I mean, you know, he was a three
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: year starter freshman soccer junior year and he's not playing
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: this year. But I'm lee that door open. I would
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: imagine at some point he's gonna get that itch. I
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: just have a feeling. I don't know why.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: No insider information here, Tyler.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: No, No, no insider information. It could be one of
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: those things where he's, you know, signing day is coming past,
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: and that's been on his mind and and maybe he's
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: not happy how football ended, and he just kind of
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: needed to get away for a little bit. But you know,
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: I went, I went to the girls game. I saw
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: him sitting up in the crowd. I think he's I
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: think he might be feeling it now a little bit,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: and I'm hoping he comes back because you just add
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: that another six y three to two hundred and twenty
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: pound body and he's I mean, he's a football player
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: playing basketball, don't make any mistake about that. But the rebounding,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: the defense, the setting picks, it's different. He's just so
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: athletic that he can make he can make a difference.
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: And I think this is you know, this is a
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: team that's looking to go to state. I mean they are,
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: they are definitely looking that way. But I mean, obviously
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: I'll see is loaded and Meridians got those two big guns,
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: so it's you can't take all three of them. So
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: something's got to give and this is going to be
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: another great district tournament to see how that goes.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 2: That is the Knuxack Valley Pioneers boys and girls. Let's
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: talk See Home Mariners and we start with the girls.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: Head coach Kim Stansgar is in her third year at
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 2: Sea Home one hundred. My eyes are all watery right now.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: I'm over here choking on my water. A second ago
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: one hundred and two and sixty two record at Seahome
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: and Mount Baker last season fourteen and eleven, one game
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: away from the state tournament. They did lose a lot
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: of talent from last year, but still a good young
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: group up and coming here.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah they did. I mean they lost three players that
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: average double digits and scoring.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: Wow, So that that's a lot of production to lose.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: It's rare to have three players that average double digits
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: and then you and then they're all seniors. So I
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: remember going to practice and kind of think, well, rebuilding,
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: we'll see how it goes. And there was otherre's other
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: parts they lost, and there's other seniors that they lost
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: to that were pretty darned good. But you know, you know,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: Matty Cooper and me Hart and Natalie Brewer, those were
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: big time players. And then Kylie Watson, Hazel Gast and
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: Macy Avin They're really they were good players too. But
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: it was, you know, going to practice, I was kind
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: of like, I'm taking headshots in them, like I don't
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: I only recognize these girls from like other sports, or
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: I don't really recognize them at all. There's a few
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 1: of them that I knew of. But and but they've
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: they're starting the year really really well. I mean, they
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: beat Ferndale on the road. They they beat squalk Him
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: at home. Those are two games that if you would
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: ask me before the season, I would have said they
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: would have lost both those games by ten to twenty points,
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: and they won them both. So so I don't know anything,
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: is basically what I'm saying. But they do they do
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: return some players that have that got some some experience,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: Aspen Barge great name Aspen Barge. She's about six foot one,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: really good, you know, not overpowering, but good timing on
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: blocking shots and stuff like that. She's getting better on
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: the offensive game and and stuff like that. Kate Schroeder
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: is really good soccer player. She's a forward that is good.
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: She can pass and do different different things like that.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: You know, at least panaghos Is she was a freshman
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: last year that got a little bit of playing time.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: Now as a sophomore, is getting a little bit more
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: as a as a as a forward. And then they
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: have a freshman Taylor Terrell, and she is fantastic and
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: sometimes you just bring in that freshman that's really good.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: She handles the ball. She's doing great so far this year,
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: and it is really kind of help their team because
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: I mean they've had Matty Cooper handle the ball the
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: last few years and that's a big reason why they
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: did so well. And she steps right in and she's
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: able to take that to take that spot, which is
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: which is which, which is huge. And you know, you
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: have a lot of hustle, a lot of hustle and
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: heart and and you play hard and and good good
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: things will happen. It's really good coaching staff. I mean,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: I mean Kim Stensgar won a state championship with Mount
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: Baker and uh she had a couple of the Sores
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: girls on her team and coach Lepp was an assistant coach.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: It was like the one year he took off wrestling.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: I was about to say, no way he whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: He was an assistant girls basketball coach. I didn't know
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: this side of him.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he does it for a year and they win state.
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: I mean touch.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: But that's what's cool is Kim Stensgar's dad is like
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 1: coach Lepp's mentor. That's Doug Preston, and that was the
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: guy who brought in coach Mount Baker.
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: Here's a connection.
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, that was my coach. I loved coach Preston. So
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: so it's kind of fun to, you know, get to
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: know his daughter now and and and she played at
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 1: Sea Home and then she coached at Baker because there
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: was connections there, and then now she's coaching at her
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: alma mater. So it's a really cool deal. And she's
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: got her team playing really well. So this has been
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: the biggest surprise I think so far in this very
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: very young season for me was the Seeome girls. I
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: did not expect them to be this good this quickly,
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: but it's been really fun to watch.
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 2: Let's talk Seahome Boys head coach Brad Jackson, also in
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: his third year at Sea Hoome twenty nine and eighteen record.
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: Last season they were eleven and twelve, one of the
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 2: smaller teams in terms of hype. They're waiting on a
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 2: couple of injured football players. Hopefully, maybe give him a
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: little beef in the old middle there, Hunt Tyler.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Seeome has always been kind of a
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: one of the stalwarts at Walkin County and boys basketball
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: and coach Brad Jackson. I mean, my goodness, he's won
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: a national title at Western Washington University coach there forever
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: I mean twenty something years, maybe you can close to
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: thirty years, so he's seen it all. And it almost
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: feels like he's coaching Seome just to kind of give
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: back to the community, you know, like I thought, he
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: just did it. He was just gonna do it like
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: one and done. And now he's in his third year,
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: which is great, and which is cool because I've known
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 1: about them all my life. But now I'm finally to
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: kind of get to know him a little bit, which
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: is fun. And but it's a lot of new it's
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: a lot of new faces. There are some there are
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: some faces that we recognize. Of course, Nolan right playing
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: the point, that's great. Quincy Tannevian is a is a
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: shooter extraordinaire on the outside. And they're both underclassmen. And
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 1: you got some football players, uh you know, playing forward
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: down in the middle. They're a little undersized, but they're
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: using their rough and tough football expertise to debang bodies,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: Cooper McAtee and Grady Evans. And but they're waiting on
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 1: you know, col Terrell, who started last year as a
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: freshman down low I'm sorry, as a sophomore down down low.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: They're waiting on Carter Duckworth to get back. And these
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: are guys that you know, cold Terrell is about six
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: two and but he's about two, you know, forty five
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: or so and really strong and really athletic that can
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 1: you know, move some bodies. He's not one of those
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: rare true post players in Waukin County. And then Carter
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 1: duckworths is about six ft four and you know, they
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 1: both got hurt during football and hopefully they can come
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: back soon. But there's been some other guys that have
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: that have kind of shown some stuff. Xavier Kelly is
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: you know, he's really really athletic player. That is, you know,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: doing the jump ball in the beginning, but he's not
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 1: a center at all. He's more of a wing player,
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 1: but super athletic. Klay Jackson, who's Coach Jackson's grandson, great,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: great shooter. I mean he's I mean his dad, Kyle Jackson.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: I covered him when he played at Sea Home. I
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: think the first basketball game I ever covered for the
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: Herald was Seahome playing and watching Kyle Jackson shoot, I
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: was like, holy cow. And Clay is a really good
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: shooter as well. Baine Mitchell's got he's just a sophomore,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: but at six foot three, he's the tallest guy on
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 1: the team and he's got really long arms so he
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: can get those extended rebounds and block some shots. So
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: there are some good parts there, but it's not fully
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 1: assembled just yet and we'll just have to see how
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: it goes. But Nolan Wright running the point, that's always
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: a you know, a really really good thing. In his
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: third year now as a varsity player.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: That is the Sea Home boys and girls. Let's talk
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: Squalicum Girls. Tyler head coach at Jenleen Brown. Third year
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: at Squalicum twenty six twenty one record fifteen to nine
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: last year. This is a good group, but maybe a
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: little bit of youth here.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think Loretta Murphy Kangus is the only
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: senior on the team. She started at center last year.
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: She's back again. So that's that's good you have that.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 1: But other than that, it's a very very young group.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: You had a lot of freshmen last year playing a lot,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: and they got some experience and they won some games,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: but they were really reliant on kind of their senior
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: leadership with Maury Binning and and I'm trying to remember
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: who else, Kaitln Richardson and Mikayla Heaton. Those were the
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: three seniors that played a ton and so now without
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: them in there, you kind of have all these all
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: these freshmen that are now sophomores that are gonna, you know,
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: get a role right right away. Addison Kentman is a great,
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: great player down low. She's about five ten five eleven.
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: Her dad, Ryan Keman, was you know, if I would
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: say who was the best player on the best basketball
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: team the Walkome County's ever seen. It was Ryan Kentman,
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 1: So there's a little bit of pedigree there. H. Carly
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: Kisau is about five eight five nine and she can
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: really shoot it. Lexi Robbins, Tianna Thompson, Jasmine Singh Sanchez.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 1: There's some really good players that are all in that
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: sophomore class. You know, Kolei Harper, Lola Gibbs, and they're
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: Peyton Horst. I mean, there's so many of them that
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: are in that class that have gotten a little bit
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: of experience here and there. Some a little bit more
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: than others. But Tylana Perez as a freshman, she's you know,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: I remember watching her. I'm watching videos of her when
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: she was grown up. She played with the boys all
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: the time. She dominated them. She's a about oh my goodness,
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe five to eleven. She can she
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: handles the ball, she plays the point. And you recognize
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: the name Perez. That's that's the daughter of our buddy,
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 1: that's the daughter of our buddy. Mike. Yeah, I've been
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: hearing a lot about her for a while. She was
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: the goalie on the soccer team, did a great, great
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: job now as a freshman, she's kind of the primarily
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: prime primary ball handler and she led the team in
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: scoring in Game one, So I mean, I'm really excited
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: to see what she does. It's but it's it's it's
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: a new group. You know, there's a lot of youngsters here,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: and I think in a couple of years, you're gonna
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: start you're gonna say, wow, like this is kind of
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: what it all happened. This is you know, this is
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: what all culminated. But for now, you know, they're gonna
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: take their lumps a little bit. But it's gonna be
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: a fun group to watch because I think they've played
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: together for a while and and uh, it'll be really
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: interesting to see how just this how the improvement goes
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: just over the season, you know, not just the next
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: three year, Tyler.
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  Speaker 2: We let we lap it. We wrap it up with
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  Speaker 2: the Squalacum Storm Boys head coach David at Dunham his
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  Speaker 2: first year at Squalicum. Last season, the boys nine and twelve. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: last year's team had no seniors, Tyler, So some serious
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  Speaker 2: experience returning for the Squalicum Storm. Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're they are loaded with talent. There's just
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  Speaker 1: not a ton of size. That was their big thing
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  Speaker 1: last year was you know, it was kind of like
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  Speaker 1: five guards out there. You can throw throw Ezra Nichols
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  Speaker 1: down low. He can do the dirty work. You know.
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  Speaker 1: He had like five points three rebounds a game last year,
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  Speaker 1: and and he can do that. He's about six three
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  Speaker 1: two thirty. You know, played played right tackle and defensive
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  Speaker 1: line in the football season. So you're gonna have that
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  Speaker 1: guy that can do that down there. But you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of guys around him that can do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things. I mean, it starts and ends
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  Speaker 1: with Marcus Nixon. Uh, just you know, such a great athlete.
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  Speaker 1: He average, He led the team. We talked about this
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  Speaker 1: in the last podcast. He led them in every statistical
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  Speaker 1: category and points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks. So really
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  Speaker 1: really hard to do all those things. And uh and
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  Speaker 1: they were good numbers and all of them too, Like
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  Speaker 1: sixteen points a game, six and a half rebounds a game,
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  Speaker 1: three point two assists, three point four steals, and a
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  Speaker 1: full block a game. Just incredible. He's kind of positionless,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like he's just you know,
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  Speaker 1: watch him drive and finish, or watch them drive and
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  Speaker 1: kick or or just do whatever. I really like Hunter
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  Speaker 1: Calloway too as a point guard. I mean, he was
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  Speaker 1: a freshman starting at point guard last year and kind
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  Speaker 1: of turned into a points guard, if you will, because
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  Speaker 1: he started scoring quite a bit near the end of
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  Speaker 1: the year, averaged over double figures, averaged like twelve point
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  Speaker 1: two a game, and so he so he can shoot it,
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  Speaker 1: for sure, but it's and it's just a nice thing
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  Speaker 1: to have when you're you know, you have a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Marcus Nixon is going to command double teams and
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  Speaker 1: he can drive and kick, so hundred can really play
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  Speaker 1: as a as a point guard. Jackson Hoefer is a
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  Speaker 1: guy who I really like as well. He's one of
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  Speaker 1: the taller kids on the team, but he's more of
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  Speaker 1: an outside threat as a shooter. Malachi Smith we've seen
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  Speaker 1: him over the years for football. A really tough kid
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  Speaker 1: that can can jump pretty pretty darn well, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got a good, good smooth shot. Zach Watt is another
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  Speaker 1: one that as his sophomore he was starting uh as
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  Speaker 1: like a like a power forward, you know, and it's
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  Speaker 1: just they just don't have a ton of size. But
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  Speaker 1: but he's very, very physical and he can get the
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  Speaker 1: job done. He's a junior now Cole Burke, who was
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  Speaker 1: starting quarterback. He played quite a bit on the basketball
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  Speaker 1: team last year as a sophomore. So that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: nice when you when you gain that I don't know what,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know I expected, but like when you once
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  Speaker 1: you become like a starting quarterback at a school, it's
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  Speaker 1: like you kind of gain some moxie, you kind of
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  Speaker 1: gain some of that respect from the other athletes that
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  Speaker 1: it's probably gonna help him this year for basketball, I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine. And then they got Lockeye down there too.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he might be the biggest guy on the
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  Speaker 1: team about six four two fifteen and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: probably he'll probably come off the bench and give you
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  Speaker 1: the hustle minutes and get those offensive rebounds and stuff
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  Speaker 1: like that. So and then they have like you know,
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  Speaker 1: Ty Hoffman can run for days, he's a cross country guy,
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  Speaker 1: play defense, and so they have a lot of pieces
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  Speaker 1: that you know, they're all back and so I'm that's
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  Speaker 1: but again, they just don't have that major size, but
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  Speaker 1: they can run you out of the gym. They can
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  Speaker 1: shoot it, so you know, it's it'll be really interesting
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  Speaker 1: to see how good they end up.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Tyler, before we get out of here, I
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  Speaker 2: need your most underrated player in the county. Boys and
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  Speaker 2: girls go.
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  Speaker 1: Underrated, meaning like somebody.
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  Speaker 2: Who somebody that somebody you mentioned, but somebody that maybe
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  Speaker 2: you should have given more PUB two because they might
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  Speaker 2: surprise some people this year. On the girl's side, who
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  Speaker 2: do you got?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, on the girl's side.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm, oh boy, I got them stumped. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's so many I'm thinking of so many teams
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  Speaker 1: and so many girls. And I think Abby White from Ferndale.
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  Speaker 1: I think she's really gonna stand out. I think that
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  Speaker 1: she has a really really smooth shot. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: can tell a lot by when you watch them and
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  Speaker 1: shoot a free throw. Yeah, and and hers is just pure.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that the way that Ferndale plays, I
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  Speaker 1: think that she's one of those players that could really
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  Speaker 1: make a big jump this season.
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  Speaker 2: All right. And on the boy's side.
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  Speaker 1: On the boy's side, hmmm, I think it's I think
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  Speaker 1: it's Ty Jorgensen. A I'm sorry, yeah, ty Ty Jorgenson,
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  Speaker 1: the jumpin Jack from Lyndon. I just think that he
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  Speaker 1: only played like in four varsity games last year. And
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  Speaker 1: I just think that he's gonna be one of those
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  Speaker 1: guys that's just gonna be like an all conference kind
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  Speaker 1: of kid. I really think he's gonna take that big,
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  Speaker 1: big jump, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, literally and figuratively.
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  Speaker 1: And and Linden just has those kinds of guys, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not surprised it's a Linden guy. But that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of that's kind of my gut to, you know's
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  Speaker 1: gonna expect to jump here.
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  Speaker 2: All right, now, let's have a little fun, okay, And
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  Speaker 2: well I'm not putting you on the spot anymore, Tyler. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's have a little fun here. And if you're still
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  Speaker 2: listening to the podcast, if you've gone this far, then
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  Speaker 2: in the comments, throw those two names. Throw him in there.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see who's listening, Tyler. I mean, I mean if
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  Speaker 2: we did this in football, he'd be the guy. He
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  Speaker 2: would comment, or actually he wouldn't comment. He'd probably just
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  Speaker 2: text you with me later. But let's see who's listening.
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  Speaker 2: See if anybody comments with those two names. If not,
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  Speaker 2: we're never talking boys and girls basketball again.
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  Speaker 1: Again. Those names are Abby White and ty Jorgensen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you've and you know, maybe you don't need
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  Speaker 2: to throw both give me one. At least give me one,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so we'll see who. We'll see who's listening still,
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  Speaker 2: So I like it. I like it. Anything else before
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  Speaker 2: we get out of here, Tyler. Oh no, I think
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  Speaker 2: we're good. Yes, good, because it's almost midnight. I'm ready
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  Speaker 2: to go to bed because I'm going to state football
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  Speaker 2: championships tomorrow. Tyler. So, yeah, we'll be right back at
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  Speaker 2: it again in the next couple of days with what
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  Speaker 2: the Winter Sports Weekly wrap up tomorrow and then volleyball
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  Speaker 2: and then volleyball Top fifty football Top one hundred starts
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  Speaker 2: He's Tyler Anderston to wakomprepswalkompreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer.
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  Speaker 2: You've listening to episode at three hundred and thirteen, the
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  Speaker 2: boys and Girls basketball preview here on the Walk Them
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  Speaker 2: Preps podcast. We will talk to you tomorrow today. I
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  Speaker 2: guess when it comes out right or almost I here
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  Speaker 2: we go, Tyler, we're right into it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that