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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 449 - Week 4 Fall Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast. This is
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  Speaker 1: episode 449, the week four fall sports recap. And I
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  Speaker 1: am Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps. And it's hard saying
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  Speaker 1: 449 week four fall sports, but I just did it twice.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we're good to go. I want to
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  Speaker 1: give a thank you to Walton Beverage, who's been a
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  Speaker 1: staple in our community for 95 years. And I will
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  Speaker 1: continue to work harder every day to make the fantastic
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  Speaker 1: people at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth sports in
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  Speaker 1: our community and They deliver superior quality and commitment, and
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  Speaker 1: I plan to do the very same. And this podcast
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  Speaker 1: is dedicated to all the fall sports being played, except football,
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  Speaker 1: as that podcast will come out later in the week,
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  Speaker 1: most likely tomorrow. We are going to start off like
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  Speaker 1: we always do in cross country. And of course, cross
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  Speaker 1: All the teams, once again, racing on Wednesday. I went
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  Speaker 1: out to Bertheson Park. It's been a while since I've
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  Speaker 1: been out there. I've never been out there for a
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  Speaker 1: cross-country meet, though, which was kind of hard to believe.
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  Speaker 1: But they had three Whatcom County teams out there, Bellingham, Meridian,
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  Speaker 1: and Linden. So, obviously, check that out. That was a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. There was also a race at Lake Padden,
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  Speaker 1: Lakewood High School, Harold Bowen Park in Sumas, and Anacortes
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  Speaker 1: High School. On the girls' side out at Bertheson Park,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to start just with girls here. So on
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  Speaker 1: the girls' side, there was a 5K out of Bertheson Park.
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  Speaker 1: Meridian took first place. Meridian second. Linden took third. They
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  Speaker 1: were all Whatcom County runners, so we'll run through the
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  Speaker 1: top ten here. Actually, it was a two-way tie for
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  Speaker 1: first place. Both Bellingham runners both named Norah. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: Nora Alexander and Nora Seltz of Bellingham each won the
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  Speaker 1: race with a time of 19 minutes, 57 seconds. Lane
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  Speaker 1: Dixon of Meridian in third, 20 minutes even. Bria Remp
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  Speaker 1: of Meridian took fourth, 20.07. Harry Thompson of Meridian took fifth.
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  Speaker 1: Elise Holland of Bellingham sixth. Leah Wagner of Bellingham seventh.
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  Speaker 1: Ridley Struts of Meridian finished eighth. Grace Walls of Bellingham
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  Speaker 1: finished ninth. And Clara Badgma of Linden finished in 10th place.
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  Speaker 1: Out at Lake Patton, 2.6 miles, one lap around the track.
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  Speaker 1: Sehome takes that one. Oak Harbor in second. Linden Christian third.
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  Speaker 1: Mount Baker fourth. And with the Whatcom County runners, Samantha
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  Speaker 1: Nipp of Sehome took first. And as, you know, Sehome
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  Speaker 1: usually does, four runners kind of cross at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: but they break it up by every half second or so.
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  Speaker 1: Lil' Dessler of Sehome third. Kirsten Ludeman of Sehome third.
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  Speaker 1: And Sloan Clines of Seaholm fourth. And then dip down
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  Speaker 1: to Helen Butow of Seaholm took seventh. Morgan McGonigal of
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  Speaker 1: Seaholm took eighth. Paige Ricks of Seaholm took ninth. And
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  Speaker 1: Larkin McConnell of Linden Christian took tenth place. Out at
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  Speaker 1: Lakewood High School, Squalicum edging Lakewood by three points. And
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  Speaker 1: Ferndale finishes in third place. And Squalicum doing it behind
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  Speaker 1: Audrey Blue, the senior, who finished in first place, 20 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: 39 seconds. Sandra Voigt of Squalicum took second. Kayla Lee
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  Speaker 1: of Ferndale took third. Dahlia Strutz of Squalicum took sixth.
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  Speaker 1: And Layla Bloomquist of Squalicum took tenth. Out at Harold
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  Speaker 1: Bowen Park in Sumas, this was a 4K race. Mount
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  Speaker 1: Vernon took first place, Burlington second, Nooksack Valley in third.
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  Speaker 1: The top Whatcom County finisher from Nooksack Valley, Minnie Lind,
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  Speaker 1: took 11th place with a time of 19.07. Again, that's
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  Speaker 1: a 4K race. And then back out at a 5K
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  Speaker 1: race at Anacortes High School, Anacortes took first place, Cedro
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  Speaker 1: Woolley second, and Blaine third. The top finisher from Whatcom
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  Speaker 1: County was Blaine's Natalia Holguin, who finished in 28 minutes
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  Speaker 1: and 50 seconds. Now on the boys' side out at
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  Speaker 1: Bertheson Park, Bellingham finished tops as a team. Linden second,
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  Speaker 1: Meridian third. Luke Scouten of Linden took first place, seven
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  Speaker 1: seconds ahead of Jack Stoddard of Bellingham. Tarver May of
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham took third. Braxton Stacey of Linden took fourth. Ruben
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  Speaker 1: Taveldi of Meridian took fifth. Judah Taveldi of Meridian took sixth.
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  Speaker 1: Colton Valentine of Meridian took seventh. Actually, all three of
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  Speaker 1: them finished at the exact same time. And then Abel
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  Speaker 1: Ray of Bellingham, 8th. Mason Maughan of Bellingham, 9th. And
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  Speaker 1: Tobias Latzik of Bellingham took 10th. Out at Lake Padden,
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  Speaker 1: it was Seaholm won as a team. And then Oak Harbor,
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  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian, and then Mount Baker. But individually, it was
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  Speaker 1: William Sherfy of Lyndon Christian who won the race at
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  Speaker 1: 14 minutes and just a hair over 14 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Out at
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  Speaker 1: Lakewood High School, another 5, back to the 5K races,
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  Speaker 1: where Squalicum took 1st place as a team, Lakewood 2nd,
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  Speaker 1: Ferndale 3rd, Salton 4th, Taylor Rush Edges out teammate Luca
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  Speaker 1: Burley in the one-tenth of a second there for first place.
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  Speaker 1: Xander Spackman took third of Squalicum. Parker Mason of Squalicum
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  Speaker 1: took fourth. Vander Burley of Squalicum took sixth. Caleb Wenshack
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  Speaker 1: of Meridian took seventh. And Ephraim Wolfe of Squalicum took
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  Speaker 1: tenth place. Out at Harold Bowen Park, back to a
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  Speaker 1: 4K race. Mount Vernon wins it as a team. Burnison
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  Speaker 1: Edison second. Nooksack Valley third. The Pioneers' Alexander Ortiz takes
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  Speaker 1: 10th place overall in that race. And then out of
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  Speaker 1: Anacortes High School, Anacortes won the race as a team.
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  Speaker 1: Cedro Woolley took second. Blaine took third. Blaine's Logan Bennett
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  Speaker 1: was the top Whatcom County time at 20 minutes even
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  Speaker 1: in the 5K race. So that is kind of your
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  Speaker 1: information there on cross-country and It's going to be– we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about it a little later on, but all the
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  Speaker 1: teams will be back in action again on Wednesday. And
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  Speaker 1: I think there's going to be another race on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: as well where a lot of the schools will be
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  Speaker 1: competing there. But now it's time to go to the
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  Speaker 1: Stauffer Insurance Runner of the Week. And I kind of
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  Speaker 1: was going back and forth between a few, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: settling with Audrey Blue of Squalicum. And the big winner there,
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  Speaker 1: I think I chose her because Squalicum– She won, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: but her finishing where she did really helped them as
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  Speaker 1: a team, and they finished in first place by three points.
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  Speaker 1: She was a big, big reason why. She gets the win,
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  Speaker 1: but she helps her team get the overall win as well.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations to Audrey Blue of Squalicum. You are the Stauffer
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  Speaker 1: Insurance Runner of the Week. Now we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: was Monday, uh, let's see how the results went here.
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  Speaker 1: Squalicum blanked Lakewood 7-0. Bellingham did the same to Cedra Woolley.
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  Speaker 1: Burlington Edison just edges out Ferndale 4-3. Sehome beat Mount
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  Speaker 1: Vernon 6-1. So kind of across the board how you
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  Speaker 1: would think they would go. And then on Wednesday, Sehome, again,
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  Speaker 1: big winner over Cedra Woolley 7-0. The big match that
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  Speaker 1: I was at, I was really excited about this one.
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham and Squalicum Out at Squalicum, Bellingham gets the win, 5-2.
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  Speaker 1: Leo Kuhn with the win for Bellingham. Wesley Miller defeated
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  Speaker 1: Noah Schmidt as well. Nolan Dickinson over Gabe Harrison. Bronco
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  Speaker 1: Cook over Don Wynn. And, yeah, it was pretty impressive
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  Speaker 1: to see there what Bellingham did there against a really,
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  Speaker 1: really good Squalicum team who I think coming into that
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  Speaker 1: had only, like, They'd only lost like one court, like
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  Speaker 1: one match, like overall. And so Bellingham showing what they
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  Speaker 1: could do there. Ferndale drops a close one to Anacortes, 4-3.
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  Speaker 1: And Linden beats Mount Vernon in a close one, 4-3
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  Speaker 1: as well. So the standings is where they are right now.
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  Speaker 1: In league play, Bellingham, Burlington, and Seaholm all undefeated at
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  Speaker 1: the moment. Squalicum 4-1. Mount Vernon 4-4, Anacortes 3-2, Linden 2-3,
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  Speaker 1: Ferndale 1-6, as are Cedra Woolley and Oak Harbor and
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  Speaker 1: Lakewood still looking to get their first win. So got
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  Speaker 1: a big matchup coming up this week that we'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about between two undefeateds and in league play, that is.
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  Speaker 1: And that's going to be pretty awesome to see. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to move on to Girls Swimming and Diving, and
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  Speaker 1: It's the Fairhaven difference. Check them out at fairhaven.wwu.edu. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to look at all the top times right now.
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  Speaker 1: And I got to see a few different meets this
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  Speaker 1: past week, which was awesome because I got to see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different swimmers from different schools. Got to
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  Speaker 1: see some really good diving, which is always fun as well.
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  Speaker 1: And in the 200 medley relay, the top time is
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  Speaker 1: the Bellingham team of Carmody Beattie, Amanda Buck, Jasmine Garcia,
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  Speaker 1: and Jordan Ebeling. I watched this team. Very, very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Bellingham team. The 200 freestyle, Seaholmes Elsa Epibaw
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  Speaker 1: still leading the way, 2 minutes, 13 seconds left. In
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  Speaker 1: the 200 individual medley, Jazzy Nelson of Squalicum, two minutes, 37.18 seconds,
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  Speaker 1: just edging out Jordan Ebeling from Bellingham at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: In the 50 freestyle, it's Squalicum's Soleil Rubido with a
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  Speaker 1: time of 27 seconds, a little over 27, 27.02 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Very close to qualifying for state already. I believe I
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  Speaker 1: saw that. I saw her race and It's different, man.
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  Speaker 1: She is flying. And it's so cool to see it
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  Speaker 1: in person because, you know, when, when, when, like when
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  Speaker 1: the Olympics come around, you get to watch it and,
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  Speaker 1: and you get pumped up for it and you see
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  Speaker 1: these amazing swimmers, but in person, it's incredible. And she
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  Speaker 1: is so fast and got to see some really good swimmers.
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  Speaker 1: And that, and that, like I said, in that 50 freestyle,
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  Speaker 1: you're going all out. You're going to one side and
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  Speaker 1: back and that's it. And it goes fast. I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to take pictures of, And before I know it, the
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  Speaker 1: race is over. You've got to act fast. So really,
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  Speaker 1: really impressed to see what she did there. In diving,
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  Speaker 1: Effie Taminga of Seaholm still leading the way, 148.95. But
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  Speaker 1: like usual, that Squalicum duo right behind her, Ellie Hanslick
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  Speaker 1: and Jazzy Nelson right there. In the 100 butterfly, Jasmine
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  Speaker 1: Garcia of Bellingham with about a one-and-a-half-second difference faster than
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  Speaker 1: Jazzy Nelson of Squalicum. Those two way out ahead of
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  Speaker 1: everybody else. In the 100 freestyle, Jasmine Garcia of Bellingham,
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  Speaker 1: about a second faster than Lyndon's Claire Fleming-Butella. So that
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  Speaker 1: stayed about the same. In the 500 freestyle, the long-distance one,
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  Speaker 1: Seaholm's Elsa Efebaugh, just under six minutes still. Jordan Ebeling, though,
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  Speaker 1: getting pretty close. She's about 10 seconds off. And you
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  Speaker 1: think 10 seconds, that's a ways. Man, a 500 freestyle,
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  Speaker 1: you're talking... I'm trying to think of how many times... you're,
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  Speaker 1: you're going back and forth on that. So there and
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  Speaker 1: back is a 50. So times 10. So it's 20,
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  Speaker 1: it's like 20 goes at it. Like there, that and back,
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  Speaker 1: that's two, then three, then four, then five and six
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  Speaker 1: and seven. You gotta go 20 times. I bet the
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  Speaker 1: people that are timing are just trying to keep it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, keep it together. Okay. How many times has
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  Speaker 1: that been? You gotta, you gotta like notch it down
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  Speaker 1: or count on your fingers or something. Cause that's an,
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  Speaker 1: that's just an incredible race. 500 meters, uh, Pretty crazy there.
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  Speaker 1: 500 yards. 200 freestyle relay. It's the Bellingham team of
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  Speaker 1: Amanda Buck, Carmody Beattie, Jordan Ebeling, and Jasmine Garcia. 155.43.
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  Speaker 1: Just edging out the Sehome team there. And they are
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  Speaker 1: about six and a half seconds away from state qualifying time.
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  Speaker 1: 100 backstroke. It's Amanda Buck of Bellingham. Just a hair
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  Speaker 1: faster than Soleil Rubido of Squalicum. Very, very close there,
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  Speaker 1: about one-tenth of a second, almost two-tenths of a second faster.
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  Speaker 1: So very, very close there. The 100 breaststroke, Jazzy Nelson
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  Speaker 1: of Squalicum with a time of one minute, 17.83 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: But Raha Garay and Soleil Rubido, her teammate, very, very
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  Speaker 1: close too. They are within a second of Jazzy Nelson.
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  Speaker 1: And then in the 400 freestyle relay, it's the Seaholm
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  Speaker 1: team of Claire Thompson, Kaisa Glass, Jenny Guo, and Elsa Ethelbaugh.
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  Speaker 1: Four minutes, 29.2 seconds. That Bellingham team of the same
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  Speaker 1: names we've been saying, Ebeling, Beatty, Buck, and Garcia, just
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  Speaker 1: a second and a half behind them. So very, very
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  Speaker 1: close there. Still a ways to have a state qualifying time,
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  Speaker 1: but you're going to see them do pretty well, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: at district. So yeah, it's been great to see so far,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of swimming still left to go,
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  Speaker 1: and It's one of those sports, too, where you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see these times just get better and better as
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  Speaker 1: the season goes on. And thank you to the new sponsor,
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  Speaker 1: Fairhaven College at Western Washington University. Really, really cool to
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  Speaker 1: have them on board and join up with girls swimming
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  Speaker 1: and diving. So very, very fun. And I apologize to
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  Speaker 1: the Bellingham divers. I was taking pictures, and I was–
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  Speaker 1: I was doing it from different angles. And then I
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  Speaker 1: found this really awesome angle, basically like straight ahead. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sitting in the windowsill at Arnie Hanna Aquatic Center. And
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  Speaker 1: on the last round, one of the Belliam divers actually,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone's just sitting there watching. Everyone's standing around. And
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  Speaker 1: you know how this is if you've been to these
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  Speaker 1: swimming and diving meets is once it's diving time, everybody
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  Speaker 1: changes their attention to the diving pool and they get
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  Speaker 1: really excited and it's quiet and she's ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: And she just looks at me and then she looks
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  Speaker 1: to the judge and says, I need him to move.
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  Speaker 1: And so I was told to get out of the way.
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  Speaker 1: And I felt so bad, uh, because I'm trying not to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to get in anyone's head
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  Speaker 1: or anything. I'm just trying to take a really good picture.
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  Speaker 1: Cause in diving, you can take awesome pictures. Um, if
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  Speaker 1: you know what you're doing and I'm still kind of
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  Speaker 1: learning about what I'm doing. So, uh, my pictures aren't
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  Speaker 1: the best, but they're okay every once in a while. And,
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  Speaker 1: and I was trying to get a good, just head
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  Speaker 1: on perfectly perpendicular shot. And, um, And so I apologize
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  Speaker 1: to whichever Bellingham diver that was. I'm sorry, and I
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  Speaker 1: will not be in your way anymore going forward. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so much fun and awesome to see what these athletes
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  Speaker 1: can do. It's so impressive. It's fun just watching them
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  Speaker 1: warm up some of the stuff they can do. It
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  Speaker 1: is incredible. I'm wondering if I can still even do
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  Speaker 1: a flip off that thing. I think I could, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I could end up with a dive.
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  Speaker 1: That's the problem. It's how you finish, right? Yeah. We'll
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  Speaker 1: just have to wait and see. Maybe someday I'll get
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  Speaker 1: back in the pool. We'll find out. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: girls' soccer now. And there was matches on Tuesday, Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: and a few on Saturday. Girls' soccer sponsored by North
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  Speaker 1: County Alliance FC. Visit them online at ncalliancefc.com. All sorts
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  Speaker 1: of levels here, club, competitive, recreation. They sponsor everything as
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  Speaker 1: far as the scoreboard, the weekly, you know, or I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: the week, the daily write-ups, the weekly stat leaders, the standings,
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  Speaker 1: the players of the week, everything. So NC Alliance FC.com
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  Speaker 1: is the place to go. They're a huge sponsor of
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  Speaker 1: walk and preps and, uh, they, I couldn't be more, more,
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  Speaker 1: more excited about it. It's such a great deal. Linden
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  Speaker 1: Christian with a big win over Cedric Woolley at home
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  Speaker 1: five to zero kind of helped them get off the
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  Speaker 1: Schneid a little bit, get up above 500 once again.
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  Speaker 1: And Kaylin Hinton dazzled with a hat trick and an assist.
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  Speaker 1: Lennon-Christian also received goals from Josie Van Korbach and Megan Pringeman.
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  Speaker 1: And big, big game there for Lennon-Christian. I was out
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  Speaker 1: at that one. And get the shutout win over the
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  Speaker 1: 3A Cubs. Bellingham beat Anacortes 6-0. Sophia Dion, Sophie Koch,
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  Speaker 1: and Greta Ross all had two goals each. Big, big
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  Speaker 1: game there for the Blackhawks, who are just having a
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  Speaker 1: dynamite season. Lakewood beats... I'm sorry, Squalicum beats Lakewood 2-1
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  Speaker 1: as Ryla Sabado scored a goal, which was assisted by
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  Speaker 1: Siri Hoagland. And then Hoagland also scored on a penalty kick.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, Squalicum gets the win there. Sehome with
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  Speaker 1: a close match with the win over Linden 2-1. And
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  Speaker 1: the Lions actually took an early 1-0 lead when they
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  Speaker 1: got a goal from Sarah Erie. But the Mariners quickly
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  Speaker 1: tied it back up at 1-1 with a goal from
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  Speaker 1: Ayla Woodworth. which was assisted by Vivian Moss. Kylie Ivcevic
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  Speaker 1: then scored the go-ahead goal a little later, and a
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  Speaker 1: terrific save by senior goalkeeper Whitney Parno in the final
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  Speaker 1: minutes secured the win for Sehome. Ferndale with a big
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  Speaker 1: win over Nooksack Valley, 4-0. It was scoreless for 25 minutes,
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  Speaker 1: but then Mia Collins got Ferndale on the board, and
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  Speaker 1: then less than a minute later, sophomore Hannah Wynn found
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  Speaker 1: junior winger Tegan Ambrose for who finished the job, and
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  Speaker 1: it was 2-0 at the half. Ambrose then scored her
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  Speaker 1: second goal of the game in the second half on
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: an assist from junior Sarah Stoner, and the last goal
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: came when Wynn stole the ball at midfield, pushed it
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: ahead to Collins, who lofted one in for her second
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: goal of the game. Mount Vernon also beat Meridian 4-2,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: and Oak Harbor beat Blaine 5-1. On Thursday, Lyndon Christian
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: with a big win over Blaine. This is when it
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: kind of starts to kick off the 1A, so conference
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: meets now. conference matches, I should say, because it's a
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: little different this year. And we talked about this in
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: an earlier podcast about how the scheduling is a little different,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: 1A' s versus 1A' s, 2A' s versus 2A' s. They'll still have these
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: inner classification matches, but they don't count as in conference play.
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  Speaker 1: So this is when it really starts here. Lyndon Christian
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  Speaker 1: beats Blaine 3-1. It was 1-0 for a while when
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Kalen Hinton had one of the best goals I've ever seen.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: early on, but the borderites were able to tie it
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: up at home when a corner kick by Kate Koresky
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: was headed in by Ruby Bellarmineau. It remained one-to-one there
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: until about five minutes left in the game when Lexi
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Yoon found Josie Van Corbach for a goal, which gave
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian the lead. The lead was then added to
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: moments later when Addie Molendijk scored on an assist from
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Brinkley Bajima, and the Lynx pull out the 3-1 win
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: on the road. Meridian blanked Mount Baker 7-0. Ella Krapsoff
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: scored the first three goals of the game, and Meridian
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: never looked back. Avery Warnock added two goals to while
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Mila Kratsov had a goal and an assist, and Kaylee
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Williams also scored a goal. Other assists came from Finley Twining,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Caitlin Storgard, and Sophia Guzman, who had a pair of assists.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Sehome all over Sultan, 8-0. And, you know, Sultan coming
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: into this league, it's been tough for them in soccer,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: facing all these teams. There's been a lot of 8-0 games.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: And Sehome, it was no difference there, as Kylie Ifsevich
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: got things going with a pair of goals, one of
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: which came off her own corner kick, which is pretty
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: tough to do. Vivian Moss then scored the next two
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: goals to help put the game out of reach. Siam
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: also got a pair of goals and an assist from
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: freshman Evelyn Goetz. Kayla Reeves finished with a goal and
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: an assist, and Sienna Holcomb also scored a goal. Margo
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Smith dished out two assists, and Jonah Downing also had
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: an assist. How about Nooksack Valley tying with Mount Vernon 1-1?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty impressive there going down to the 3A school and
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: coming away with a tie. There was one goal missing.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: The one goal that the Pioneers scored was on a
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: free kick that ricocheted off the goalkeeper, and the ball
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: was punched in from close range by Emma Strand, and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the game remained tied the rest of the way. Bellingham
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: and Squalicum also tying up, which means the Bayhawks have
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: now tied both of the other city schools, and they've
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: yet to suffer a loss on the year as they
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: received a goal from Sophie Koch, which was assisted by
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Allie Bailey. The Storm got a goal from Audrey Kiesau
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: in that one-to-one tie. Linden just got edged out by
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Anacortes three to two. Kylie McVie scored a goal and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: also assisted on a goal that was scored by Lena
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Vandermeer and Sarah Erie was who assisted on McVie's goal
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: as Anna Cordes came out on top on that. That
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: wraps up the Thursday games. On Saturday, Meridian beat South
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Whitby 1-0 and Overlake beat Blaine 4-1. Meridian's 1-0 game,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I was at that one for the first 20 minutes
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and there was a lot of shots on goal, but
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: nothing was able to go in. until freshman Ella Krapsoff
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: scored the lone goal of the game to help Meridian
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: pick up the non-conference win at home over the Falcons.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: The Borderites, they got a goal from Ruby Bellarmino, which
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: was assisted by Violet Tuttle, but it wouldn't be enough
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: for Blaine to get past the Owls at home in
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: their non-conference game. So Meridian with the win on Saturday,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Blaine with the loss. We take a look at the
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: standings now. Bellingham still has not dropped a game, but
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: they do have two ties on the year. Burndale on
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a five-game winning streak. They're 5-1 right now, and they
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: haven't allowed a goal, I believe, since the first game.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: That was against Sehome, who is now at 6-1-1, and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: they're on a two-game winning streak. Oak Harbor proving to
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: be kind of the top team so far that's non-Walking County.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: They're 5-2. They started 0-2, and now they're 5-2. Squalicum 5-1-2.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: They're one of the top teams as well. And Linden
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Christian now getting pushed above 500. They're 5-3 now in
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the year. Meridian 6-4, they've played the most games. Mount
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Baker's 3-2. Linden 4-5. Nooksack Valley 3-3-1. Blaine 2-4-1. So
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of soccer still to be played, but those
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: are your standings at the moment. If we look at
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the goal leaders, let's see here. We've got a big
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: six-way tie for 10th place with five goals on the season.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Those players are Mia Collins of Ferndale, Siri Hoagland of Squalicum,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Sophia Dion of Bellingham, Ruby Bellarmino of Blaine, Sarah Erie
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: of Linden, and Kendall Coleman of Ferndale. All those players
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: have scored five goals so far on the season. And
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: then for fifth place, we have a five-way tie or
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: so for theirs as well. So for six goals on
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the year, Lena Vandermeer of Linden, Kylie Ifsevich of Sehome,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Tegan Ambrose of Ferndale, Luz Lane of Meridian and Addie
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Wilson of Squalicum have all scored six goals on the year.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Avery Warnock of Meridian has seven. And then we get
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to the top three. Vivian Moss of Sehome and Kaylin
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Hinton of Linden Christian each have eight goals. And leading
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: the way with 15 goals on the year is Ella
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Krapsoff of Meridian. 15 goals. She is just a freshman,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. And we go to the assist leaders,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: which is something new this year. We have a four-way tie,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: five assists each, and three of them, three of the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: four are Meridian Trojans. Les Lane, Mila Krapsov, and Sophia
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Guzman all have five assists on the year, joined by
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Sophia Dion of Bellingham. So those are the assist leaders. Yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: it's been fun to capture those as well, because there
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: are some players that really revel in the assists. You
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: talk about like Lexi Yoon, Hannah Wynn, they have a
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: lot more assists than they do goals. Sophia Guzman is
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the same way. So really cool to see that those
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: players that are, you know, they're very good with the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: assists and that's what makes your team better. So now
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: we end up with our North County Alliance FC player
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of the week. And I'm going with Ella Kratsoff of
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Meridian scoring in all the games this week, having a
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: hat trick earlier on in the first league, you know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: conference game of the year and then pulling in, they
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: got the one zero win over South Whidbey and it
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: was her goal that got it. So congratulations to, To
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Ella Krapcoff of Meridian, you are the North County Alliance
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: FC Player of the Week. And finally, that brings us
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: to volleyball, where we had four nights of volleyball, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Didn't see anything for Saturday, so we're just going with that.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: On Monday, Linden over Sehome, 3-0. That was the one
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I was at, and I was really excited to go
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: to that because I think the last time Linden dropped
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: just a set was against Sehome. Um, and I, boy,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember, this was two years ago at
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the district tournament. I think the last time they lost
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: an actual match would have been two years at the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: district tournament. And it's, you know, and they got put
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: out of that tournament. It was either Sehome or Archbishop Murphy.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: And now I'm wishing I would have looked before I
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: started the podcast, but, um, it could have been Sehome.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: So this Linden Sehome has been a good matchup for
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: a while. Linden still picks up the win, uh, in
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: three straight sets. The first and third set were actually
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: pretty close. And I tell you what, Seaholm's defense made
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: it a little more difficult than usual for Linden to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: pick up the win. It was a great overall game
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: for Seaholm. And that's what's funny about when you, that's
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: how good Linden is. Like a lot of times I'll
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: be watching them play. And when it feels like the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: other team's doing really, really well, I'm like, holy cow,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: this team's doing great. And I look up and it's
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: like tied. like, wow, that's how good Linden is. Like
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: even when the other team appears to be playing so well,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: it's still really close. And that's, that just shows the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: dominance that the Lions have had. And, you know, Finley
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Parcher and Lexi Hermanutes and Izzy Steffen and Casey DeYoung
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and Sarah McVie. I mean, these are, these are big
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: time players here. And, you know, Coach Elsner is, she's
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: just unbelievable. And they just, they run a tight ship
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and they know what they're doing. And And Seaholm's a
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: tremendous team, and it still wouldn't be enough against Linden.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Squalicum with the big win over Lakewood in four sets,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and they've been winning quite a bit. And they won
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the first two 25-19, then 25-7. After winning 25-7, something
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: set off Lakewood as they came back and won 25-15.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Then Squalicum closed the door, winning the fourth set, the
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: same score, 25-15. Anacortes, they won all three of their
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: sets against Bellingham as the Bayhawks still trying to figure
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: it out with so many new varsity faces on the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: team there. On Tuesday, the next day, Meridian beat Mount
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Vernon three sets to one. Mount Vernon got the first set.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I was there for that one. Meridian was a little
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: out of sorts in that one. Things weren't going right.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: They had to call a timeout. Melanie Short had a
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: cut on her arm or something. And so they had
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to call a timeout as they were giving first aid
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: for that. But then they found blood on the jersey,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: I believe. So she had to like run out to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the locker room, put a different jersey on, come back.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: They had to call, I think they had to call
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a second timeout for it just to extend the timeout
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: so they wouldn't have to sub her out. That's how
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: important she is. And like I said, they were just
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: out of sorts. It was weird seeing Melanie with that
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: number 14 on. It just wasn't normal. I've seen her
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: play so much. and to wear a different jersey. I
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: think she even felt kind of weird about it, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: it just wasn't happening in that first set. But then
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: things got on track, and she started playing really well.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: She finished with a game-high 20 kills to go with
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: eight digs and four aces, and they were able to
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: get Mount Vernon in the next three sets there. Ferndale,
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: with three straight sets over Nooksack Valley, the first two,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: they cruised 25-7 wins over a really good Pioneer team.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: So that shows you how good Ferndale is so far
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: this year. And then Blaine still looking to try to
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: get their first win of the year, but they did
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: not get it against Oak Harbor. And that's just kind of,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: that's just the way that it goes sometimes. And, you know,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: they're a very young team as well as Livia Weta,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: who's just such a dominant player. She's the lone senior
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: on the team. And, you know, she's making a lot
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: of plays out there, but it's hard to, it's a
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: team game. It's hard to do everything on your own.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: And so she's doing the best she can at of
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: youthful players around and they're still trying to come together
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: as a team. And hopefully they'll be on the right
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: track soon. So those were the games that were on Tuesday.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: On Wednesday, there was just a few games there. I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: was out of Bellingham High School as the storm beat Bellingham.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: in three straight sets, although Bellingham played extremely well. I
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: thought their defense was fantastic. Bailey Burge was all over
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the place with some diving digs. She had 21 digs
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: in that. Morgan Brennan did a good job. Estelle Oaks
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: did a great job as well. But Squalicum, it was
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: just too much. And right now, when they won that one, boy,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I think that's their fifth or sixth win in a row.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: They are really playing extremely well right now, and it's
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: just such a well-rounded team. They have everything going, and
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: it's been a lot of fun to see and then
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Lyndon beat Anacortes in three straight sets, you know, just
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: kind of went, not going through the motions, but, you know,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: they just consistently just kept doing what they do. Finley
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Parcher with another double-double with three aces. You know, Lexi Hermanutes,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Izzy Steffen again. Izzy Steffen had a couple blocks in
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: that one, 29 assists, four kills, three digs, two aces,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: and that's what a really, really good setter will do
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: is they'll kind of stuff the stat sheet with all
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: sorts of different things. Casey DeYoung was all over the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: backcourt on defense and able to turn that over into
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a great offense. She also had three aces in that one.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: On Thursday, a lot more volleyball took place as Sehome
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: beat Sultan 3-0 and upping their record to 5-2. They
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: were able to serve up 21 aces as a team,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: which is an incredible number. Radley Rosaleson leading the way
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: with seven of them, and Hadley Crovo had six of them.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: So very, very good job there. Meridian beating Mount Baker
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: three to zero. But I tell you what, in past years,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that would be a three zero score where they, they
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: would dominate. This was much, much closer as they won 25, 18, 25, 19,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: and 25, 15. So you could see that Mount Baker
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: right now is starting to get a little bit better
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and it's a little harder to get them these days.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: And Eden Bernardi though, she, she, did an extremely good job.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Nine kills, six digs, and had eight aces, which is
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a huge number. Seen a lot of big ace numbers
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: this year. Early in the year, we saw Radler Rosellison
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: had 10 in one match. I think Kendall Juergens had
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: 10 in one match. That's the first time I've ever
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: even seen double digits, I believe. And we've seen a
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: lot of sevens, eights, nines, and And so the serving
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: game is an unbelievable, I would love to, and I,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know which team would allow me
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: to do this, but I'd love to just go out
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: to practice and, and just have someone serve the ball
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: right to me. I just want to see if I
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: can actually keep it in the court. I really don't
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: think that I can, but I just want to see
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: it kind of first person and see what it's like,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: because sometimes you can, you can see that they're, they're
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: knuckling around or you think they might float a little
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: bit or they just die off and fall short and,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: And it's pretty incredible to see the serves. Also, I
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: want to maybe try surfing and see just how difficult
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: it is, because I think it's a lot of the
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: repetition and just doing it over and over again and
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: seeing if they can get that job done. Because, boy,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I feel like mine would just fall at the net,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: like not even go over the net, or it would
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: just go way too long. I don't know how to
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: get it just right to where you're hitting it, where
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: it will be a line drive but fall in bounds
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: every single time. So pretty incredible what they do there.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian with the big win over Blaine as well,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: you know, sweeping them. And that was, you know, you
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: kind of look at it going, well, that might be
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the top end and the bottom end of the one A's.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: And so you kind of expect a sweep there. Another,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: another big time serving day as Taya Vandercoy had seven aces,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Lila Pereira had five of them. So yeah, just a
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: lot going on there. And yeah, it's, And Livia Weta, again,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: two blocks, three digs. I'm sorry, two kills, three digs,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: and one and a half blocks. It just wouldn't be enough.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Even though Lyndon Christian was without Tyra Dykstra, Sadie Meyer,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: there's just a lot of athleticism on that side. And
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: then Mount Vernon, all over Nozak Valley, three straight sets.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: The Pioneers, a lot of new varsity faces, and they
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: started out pretty strong, but Lately, things have not been
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: going well, although they've been playing these 3A schools. So
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: maybe once it starts getting to the other schools, we'll
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: start to see kind of how they can do. That's
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: one of the teams I haven't even seen in person yet.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Every time I'm waiting for them to play in the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: county against another county team, I think the one time
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I could have gone was when they were playing Ferndale.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: But I'd just seen Ferndale like three times in a
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: row or something. So I opted out of that one.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: But I probably will be seeing them sometime this week.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: So those were all the volleyball matches this week, and
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: we take a look at the standings now. And, yeah, it's,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: you know, Linden 8-0, winning all eight there. Cedra Woolley
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: is 4-0. Haven't really seen much of them. Of course,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: not a Whatcom County team. Squalicum 6-1, five-game winning streak.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: So that's kind of what I was talking about. They're
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: really starting to play well. Ferndale 4-1 on a four-game
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: winning streak. Sehome is 5-2. Linden Christian 4-2. Meridian, who
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: started 0-3, is now 3-3. Nooksack Valley, who started 3-1,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: has fallen to 3-3. Bellingham, 2-5. They've lost four in
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a row. Mount Baker started 1-0. They're now 1-3. And Blaine, 0-6,
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  Speaker 1: still looking for their first win of the season. The
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's take a look at these leaders now.
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  Speaker 1: And we do have a little bit of a change
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  Speaker 1: here in kills per set as Melanie Short, just barely
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  Speaker 1: ahead of Finley Parcher. Melanie Short at 5.38, Finley Parcher
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  Speaker 1: at 5.36. So a very, very close race there. Svetlana
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  Speaker 1: Badak of Ferndale in third, Elizabeth Delang of Nooksack Valley
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  Speaker 1: in fourth, and Jocelyn Essise has moved up to fifth
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  Speaker 1: place now from Linden Christian. In digs per set, Bailey
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  Speaker 1: Burge leading the way at 4.31 digs per set. Jackie
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  Speaker 1: Hurley right behind her, 4.04. Bronwyn Jones of Squalicum at 3.69.
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Larrabee of Ferndale has 3.5. And Lila Pereira of
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  Speaker 1: Linden Christian, 3.40. In assists per set, Brooklyn Larrabee of
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  Speaker 1: Ferndale still leading the way, 9.72. Izzy Steffen, 9.36. Alyssa
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  Speaker 1: Rosselli at 7.27. Finley Mitchell, 7.2. And Kendall Stacey of
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  Speaker 1: Meridian at 7.14. We go to now aces per set.
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  Speaker 1: And Eden Bernardi, 1.25 aces per set. I'm curious how many.
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  Speaker 1: She's got 40 aces already on the year. That's ridiculous. 40.
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  Speaker 1: And I know coming into this year, she had the
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  Speaker 1: most in Whatcom County that were still active players. And
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  Speaker 1: I should be. try to total up what she actually has.
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  Speaker 1: I could probably click on her name really quickly and
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  Speaker 1: see this. Holy cow. So she has 233 aces in
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  Speaker 1: her career. That is crazy. It makes me start coughing
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  Speaker 1: at so many. Radlerose Ellison of Sehome. She is next
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  Speaker 1: at 1.22 aces per set. Taya Vanderkooy, 0.95 aces per set.
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  Speaker 1: Lola Froese of Squalicum is in fourth place, and Lily
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  Speaker 1: Laverne of Mount Baker tied with Kendall Juergens in fifth place.
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  Speaker 1: And we go to blocks per set, and we got
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  Speaker 1: Rebecca Soros still leading the way, 0.67. Avery Kettman right
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  Speaker 1: behind her. Jocelyn Essis of Linden Christian in third. Brooklyn
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  Speaker 1: Flamer of Sehome in fourth, and Izzy Stephan of Linden,
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  Speaker 1: the setter, in fifth. And when you can have a
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  Speaker 1: setter that can get blocks as well, that's just a,
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  Speaker 1: That's no fair. That's a great, great weapon to have. And,
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  Speaker 1: of course, she's a great weapon. She's an all-state setter.
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  Speaker 1: So no surprise there. Let's take a look at who
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  Speaker 1: the Offensive Player of the Week is. And the Offensive
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  Speaker 1: of stood out to me. It was kind of obvious.
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  Speaker 1: Got to go with Melanie Short of Meridian. She had
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  Speaker 1: a huge week. Meridian's on that big win streak right now.
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  Speaker 1: And when she gets going, she can get them in bunches.
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  Speaker 1: And it's been a lot of fun to see over
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  Speaker 1: the last few years and definitely this year. So Melanie
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  Speaker 1: I look at the defensive player of the week. You know,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times I do this by, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a combination of things. I look for teams that
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  Speaker 1: won during the week, maybe didn't have any losses. I
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: do look at stats, but I also give it the
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  Speaker 1: eye test. So there's kind of a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: different things. And even though Sehome went one and one
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  Speaker 1: during the week, that loss was against Linden. And the
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  Speaker 1: way they played defensively, like I said earlier in the podcast,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: they gave Linden, they made it a lot harder on
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  Speaker 1: Linden than they usually have it. meaning, you know, a
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: lot more long volleys, a lot more, the points were
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: just harder to get against that see-home defense. And Jackie
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Hurley was all over the place. There was, there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times, and I wasn't there for the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing. I was there for like a set and
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  Speaker 1: a half. And there were probably three or four times
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  Speaker 1: when my jaw just dropped. I was like, holy cow,
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  Speaker 1: how did she get to that? And it happened over
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  Speaker 1: and over again. And so I, you know, It's hard to,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who the best libero in, in Whatcom
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  Speaker 1: County is, but it might be her. She is all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. And so congratulations to see home senior,
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  Speaker 1: Jackie Hurley. You are the acceleration driving school defensive player
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  Speaker 1: of the week. And just, and again, so awesome to see.
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  Speaker 1: And that's, that's how you win. You, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: start with good defense and it leads to great offense.
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  Speaker 1: And that's, that's been a key for see home for years. And,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: you know, going back, you know, to, Molly Burfiend and
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  Speaker 1: McKenna Andrews and now Jackie Hurley. It's been pretty fun
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  Speaker 1: to watch and doing a really, really good job there.
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  Speaker 1: That is, you know, all the sports. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to look at the upcoming week, kind of, you know,
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: where everything's at this week and the big things, things
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I might be looking to go to, we're going to
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: start off with Monday. And I like this matchup. This
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: is Monday night volleyball, Mount Baker at Blaine. And Mount Baker,
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  Speaker 1: They haven't beat a 1A opponent in volleyball in quite
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  Speaker 1: a while, and I really, really believe this is a
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  Speaker 1: chance that it could be done. This will be 7
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  Speaker 1: o'clock at Blaine, and Blaine's still looking to get their
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  Speaker 1: first win of the year, and this might be their
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  Speaker 1: best chance to get it. So I really think this
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  Speaker 1: is a worthwhile game to go to. It could go
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  Speaker 1: multiple sets. So if you're up for a long night
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  Speaker 1: and some really good volleyball, check that out on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on Tuesday and I got to try
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  Speaker 1: to figure out my calendar with this because we got
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  Speaker 1: swimming at Arnie, Arnie Hannah aquatic center, squalicum at Bellingham.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be three 30 swimming and diving. Then you got
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  Speaker 1: tennis at four 30. Cause you got squalicum at seahome,
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  Speaker 1: which will be a very, very good matchup there. You take,
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  Speaker 1: you're taking them talking probably the best second and third
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  Speaker 1: best team in the conference or, you know, Burlington's really
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: good too, but squalicum seahome. I think that's a really
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: good matchup for tennis. And then later on that night,
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  Speaker 1: you got soccer. You got Nooksack Valley at Meridian, which
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I think is going to be a really close matchup
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  Speaker 1: as well. And that's totally a pick-em. I flip a
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  Speaker 1: coin on that one. I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic game. Also soccer, you got Linden at Squalicum
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  Speaker 1: at 7 o'clock. And then you got a big 1A
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  Speaker 1: volleyball match, same time, 7 o'clock, Meridian at Nooksack Valley.
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  Speaker 1: So this is where... I got to find people that
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  Speaker 1: can take pictures of different things. Cause there's a lot
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: of stuff going on that night. At least some of
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: it's broken up, but there's a lot of things going
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  Speaker 1: on at 7 PM and, and I'm not quite sure
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  Speaker 1: exactly where I'll be, but boy, a lot of good
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: stuff going on. It's going to be, it's going to
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: be a lot of action, especially on that Tuesday night
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, you got a full cross country slate. So
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: all the schools will be running. I'm not quite sure
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  Speaker 1: where I'll be yet. Um, I'll have to look it
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  Speaker 1: all over and kind of see who I've seen so far,
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: who I haven't seen. We'll have to see where the
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: races will be taking place. And that's kind of my
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: big focus on Wednesday will be the cross-country meets. I
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: don't know if I can make it to a multiple amount,
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  Speaker 1: probably just one, because they all kind of happen around 3.30,
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  Speaker 1: 4 o'clock. So we'll have to wait and see where
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  Speaker 1: I'll be going. I think there might be one at Hovander.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, that's the one that's closer to my house. But,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: you know, who knows where else they'll be. I'll have
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: to go and check those out. Once we get close
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: to the schedule, I never really know where I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go until like that morning even, which is tricky
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: because there's a lot going on. And I'm always trying
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: to figure out my calendar for the night and try
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  Speaker 1: to get it all squared away. And then how do
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: I fit dinner in there somewhere? You know, it can
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: get a little crazy. Thursday, another big schedule on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Tuesdays and Thursdays seem to be pretty busy all the time.
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  Speaker 1: especially with soccer always loading up on those days. And
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: there's no exception on Thursday as Meridian will be at Blaine,
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  Speaker 1: Lindy Christian at Nooksack Valley. Those are two big 1A
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  Speaker 1: matchups at seven o'clock on Thursday night. And then a
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: big 2A matchup also for soccer, Squalicum at Sehome. They
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  Speaker 1: did play earlier in the year. Maybe that, maybe that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't a conference match or maybe it was, I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know, but Squalicum got the win there. And I
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: think it was a little bit of an upset. It's
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: hard to say. Um, And, uh, but now they have
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  Speaker 1: a rematch. This will be at see home. I think
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  Speaker 1: this has the very good possibility of being a tie
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  Speaker 1: game or a one score game. So those are always really,
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  Speaker 1: really exciting, especially in the final, uh, you know, 10,
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  Speaker 1: 15 minutes. So squalicum at see home, uh, seven o'clock
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  Speaker 1: Thursday night as well. And then volleyball looks like Valley
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  Speaker 1: at Linden Christian. That's also at seven o'clock. So you've
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  Speaker 1: got four quality matchups, walking County versus walking County, all
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: happening at 7. PM all happening at the same time.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: So again, I've got to figure out what the heck
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I'm doing, and we'll get that going. I'm curious, and
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: I believe this would be really cool, that Linden Christian
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  Speaker 1: at Nooksack Valley soccer game, will that be on the
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: new field, the new turf field at the football stadium?
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  Speaker 1: Because it says it's a 7 p.m. game, so I
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: would imagine it will be, and that would be really cool.
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  Speaker 1: I think that might be the first game out there
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: on that field, and if that's the case, I might
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: have to go out there for that because that sounds
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: like it would be pretty cool. On Friday, we got tennis.
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham at Sehome, 4-30. That's going to be a huge
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: matchup once again. They did play earlier in the year.
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  Speaker 1: I think Bellingham got the win. It was either 4-3
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: or 5-2, something like that. And we'll see if they
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: have it in them again to beat Sehome. Sehome's pretty
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: darn good. They're well-rounded, so we'll have to see how
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: that goes. And then on Saturday, it's the Northwest Conference
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: Invitational Game. swim meet all the northwest conference teams will
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: be at fidalgo pool i believe that's an anacortes that
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: starts at 9 a.m so all the schools will be
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: there competing in all the events and that's a good
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: barometer to see where all the individual swimmers are at
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: so that'll be saturday morning 9 a.m whoo man another
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: week and uh yeah it's It's a lot of fun
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: doing this, but it's a lot of stuff to keep
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: track of. So thank you so much to our sponsors,
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  Speaker 1: listening to episode 449 of the Whatcom Preps podcast, the
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  Speaker 1: week four fall sports recap. I'm Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps,
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  Speaker 1: and I will talk to you tomorrow.