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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 209 - First Round State Tournament Preview · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This isn't the Saga Valley Junior Colton Lentz and you're listening to the Walker Preps
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  Podcast with Tyler and Ryland Rally the Valley. Greetings and welcome to the WATCUM
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  Preps podcast. This is episode to zero nine, a preview of the first
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  round of the state tournament. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always
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  is Tyler Anderson of watcumb Perhaps, Tyler, how are we doing? Your
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  cadence changes every time everything that's hilarious and it's almost like you were, like,
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  Tyler, who's that guy? And like I accidently deleted your name on
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  the show sheet here, so I didn't remember what I was supposed to say,
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  Tyler, Shoot, what's his name? Hey, let's give Colt Lentz
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  a thanks for the intro. Tyler, I feel like he's only done like
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  one before. Huh, Yeah, I did. He did one last year
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  and uh, and he hadn't done one yet this year. I'm always trying
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  to find people that hadn't done one yet. But now it's getting down to
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  playoffs and we're trying to get kids that are still in the playoffs, and
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  there's all sorts of you know, craziness going on, and uh yeah,
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  very thankful for him. It was kind of a short notice thing and I
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  reached that to him and he responded, so it was awesome. Well,
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  at least Duke didn't end up in this one. We also need to give
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  You can find them Kurtmayberry Farm dot com. Kurt with A C, M,
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  A B E R R y Farm dot com. Tyler, we kind
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  of teased it a little bit last week and we talked tiny bit, we're
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  gonna go a little in depth here with volleyball first, So I guess you
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  know what, I kind of lied when I said a preview of the first
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  round of the state tournament. Actually no, I didn't, because we're only
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  gonna talk about the around the volleyball State tournament because that's all we know at
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  the moment, because there's other games be played on Friday and Saturday over there
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  in yakamav But before we do that, we need to talk about Snowhomish at
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  first or Snowhomish versus Ferndale. That game is Thursday, five pm at Maryville
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  Pilchuck High School. Now, by the time you're hearing this, it very
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  easily could be over. And if it is over, then one of two
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  things happened. Either Ferndale has been eliminated or they're gearing up to play a
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  game Saturday at eleven am against Marysville Pilchuck High School. That'll be the loser
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  of game number six, which is Shortcrest and Linn Wood that is being played.
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  I would assume it's directly after still Homisch plays Ferndale on Thursday at Marysville
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  Pilchuck High School. So so yeah, some things to figure out there,
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  But yeah, Snohomish Ferndale that is five pm on Thursday, Tyler, Yeah,
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  it's Ferndale's. You know, they got into the district tournament. They
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  beat Edmunds Woodway at home, a thrilling match three to two. They won
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  the fifth set and like extra you know, they had to go extra time
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  in that even to win it, which was just really thrilling match. And
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  so they worked themselves into the dumb elimination tournament. They lost on Tuesday to
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  Meadowdale three sets to zero. It's a pretty young team. They have two
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  seniors that were both on the team a couple of years ago when they made
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  a deep run at state. So the leadership of Mallory Button shown and Tia
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  Gilday are are huge. But there's a lot of youth around. You know
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  that you got a freshman setter Brooklyn Lairbee, sophomore Leberro Katrina Ferry, a
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  lot of really good defenders. So it's a good young team and it's a
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  good mix of players and they're gonna keep trying to stay alive in the three
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  A. Now that being said, if you are wondering whether if you're hearing
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  this after what say six thirty pm on Thursday night, well then they've probably
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  already played. The game is probably over and Tyler probably has one of his
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  Bell Anderson Insurance score board is up on social media, so if you want
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  to know if they want or lost, you can go find that on social
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  media. Just search Watcome Preps on either Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. And
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  again, if they've won, then they will be playing on Saturday eleven am
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  at Marysville Pilchuck High School. If they've lost, then their home and you
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  know, maybe onto some other sports. There's a lot of other sports that
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  are starting up here real soon in the in the for the winner for the
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  winter season. So good luck to the Ferndale volleyball team on Thursday night and
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  if they win, good look on Saturday. Uh. That being said,
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  Tyler, you are not going to be at any football games this weekend because
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  you've got your You've got your your your Hyundai legs out and you're gonna hit
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  the freeway down to be down I five probably to four oh five, over
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  to I ninety then down. I mean, you gots some miles. You're
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  gonna be putt on some miles because you are headed over to Yakama for the
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  one A and two A State volleyball tournament, which has taking place at the
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  Sun Dome, the Mini Kingdome over there in yakom There's two teams in one
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  A and then one team in two A. So what we're gonna do is
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  we're gonna talk a little bit about all three games. Now, again,
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  this is a bracket style tournament, so there's gonna be more than one game
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  played on Friday by all three of these teams. It's just a matter of
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  is it in the city, is it in the championship? Is it in
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  the consolation? But as of right now, the only one we know,
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  you know, game for each team is what's gonna happen in the first round.
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  So we'll talk about those games. Here. Number twelve Kingsway Christian out
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  of Vancouver, they are taking on number five Knoksack Valley Friday nine a m.
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  At the sun Dome. Tyler, you're gonna be up brighton early over
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  there in the in the sun Dome, and uh yeah, I mean Nuksack
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  Valley. This is a team that they got a lot of talent, They've
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  got a lot of history. Tyler, you know Nuksack Valley, Kingsway christ
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  What are your thoughts here? Yeah? This is this is a really good
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  match Knuksack Valley. Is they you know they they had some weird moments throughout
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  the season where you thought, man like they they lost a set to this
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  team. They just they would have some moments where miscommunication. But men,
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  when they're on, they're really hard to beat. They're very, very very
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  balanced. Coach Katie Emmons was a fast, fantastic player. I covered her
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  when she played volleyball at Nuksack twenty years ago when I was writing for the
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  Belly m Harald and and she's got them going really well. They are you
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  know, they have Sam good, some good hight. Laney Kimball's probably the
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  most dynamic, you know, outside hitter at the one a one of them
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  anyways, and she's very, very athletic. You know, won a state
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  title last year in basketball, she's won a state title as a sophomore and
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  fast pitch. So you know you're talking about a three sport athlete with multiple
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  state titles. This is you know, this is so this is kind of
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  a big one. I mean, if she could they could pull this out.
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  Then she has three in three different sports in three different seasons. That's
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  be unbelievable. But there's a lot around her too. Yeah yeah, uh
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  Tana Hookama, Elizabeth de Lange, she's just she's a freshman. Uh yeah
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  she yeah, six two freshmen in the middle, Oh my goodness. Yeah.
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  And somehow we're related, so don't ask me work out. She could
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  probably play tight end Mike goodness. Yeah, and then uh yeah, Juliana
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  Jamaica Peyton Bartell, coach's daughter is the setter. She's just a sophomore and
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  has a really good serve left handed serve to Uh yeah, there's a lot.
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  It's a really good, really well balanced team with with really no weaknesses.
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  There's just they just and went. But when they're communicating really well and
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  they're gelling, uh they can beat They can beat some really good teams.
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  And they even beat Meridian at home during the regular season, which was a
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  huge win, beat him in three straight sets. So when they're on,
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  they're really really tough to be very very very powerful. So uh so I'll
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  be there early. I hope they opened the building at like eight, because
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  I'm one of those people that if I haven't been to a place, and
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  I've never been to the Yakama Sundme, I need to get there early just
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  to make sure I know where I'm going, I know where to be,
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  you know, and I have to get there early. So I'm opening the
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  doors, will be there early for the media at least, and I'll get
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  I'll get all ready, and so yeah, it will be in early morning,
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  but it'll be a lot of fun. I know that with the with
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  the Tacoma Dome back in the day, it used to be two hours before.
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  I don't know what it is for the Sun Dome. I don't know,
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  if you know, I don't know what their thing is over there.
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  That being said, Tyler's got some nuggets. Man. Now hold on a
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  second here, Coach Lucy, you're telling me Tyler's got volleyball nuggets. You
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  know what we need to do? Tyler? What's it? I have one
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  goal for you in Yakama. I need to get a coach to say,
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  Tyler's got some nuggets. You do. Who's the coach at Knuuksack Valley?
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  Yeah, Katie Emmons. She's doing it. I'm volunteering her to do it.
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  Yeah. I don't know if she hears this. She probably doesn't.
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  But there is a football relation here. Her husband, Brady Emmons at Meridian
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  Uh huh was one of the best players. He was. He was a
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  Wendy's Heisman like finals like he was at the Heisman ceremony his senior year.
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  Wow. Yeah, he was an amazing football player at Meridians. So there
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  is a there is a tie in here if I remember right that Heisman.
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  Isn't that like you gotta be a good football player, But isn't that also
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  have something to do with academics. Yeah, it's all sorts of things.
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  And they pick a male and a female high school athlete in the nation.
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  It's not just who's the best quarterback on whatever team, like they'd be right
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  in college instead of giving it to Dama Kunsu like they should have. Sorry,
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  a little bit of a rant there, Okay, Tyler, Tyler's got
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  some nuggets, man, Thanks Lucy, you get us back on track.
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  Uh k Nooksack Valley nugget here? Is that? Is that what I'm hearing?
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  Well, it's it was. Yeah, it's crazy because you talked about
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  their history and they'd have it. They had they had a run from nineteen
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  seventy eight to nineteen eighty six. That's just crazy. So from nineteen first,
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  in nineteen seventy eight, seventy nine, and eighty they were third in
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  the state all three years. Nineteen eighty two they were third again, nineteen
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  eighty three they were second, and then the next three years they won the
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  state title. So, I mean that's that's a kind of a that's a
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  really dominant window that is hard to find in Walking County as far as state
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  goes. I mean, yeah, there's like most sports in general, like,
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  yeah, I mean Seahome gymnastics, that's a completely different story. Uh,
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  you know, they won like nineteen state titles out in twenty years or
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  something. Oh my goodness. That's that's like a completely different stratosphere. But
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  yeah, isn't there Isn't somebody really good at at a cross country up there?
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  Yes, Seahome. Oh of course they just they just win it every
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  year. Yeah, so congratulations to Sea Home boys and girls cross country.
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  They also won state this year. Oh yeah, because it was last weekend.
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  Yeah, yeah, totally forgot about that. Yeah, but yeah,
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  it's it's but Nooksac. They had that crazy run and I haven't dug too
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  deep into that, but I'm excited to look back at the history of that
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  and just see who some of these athletes were, because that's a that's unbelievable
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  and well and you've got to figure there's got to be some football ties in
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  there too, right, like brothers and you know what I mean, like
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  stuff like that, or like how you mentioned coach Bartell's daughter, you know
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  what I mean, Like there might be a random you know who, what's
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  the name is it, Sid Lambert Field? Right, maybe there's a random
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  Lambert you know what I mean, but you know, you just never know
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  what stuff like that. You know, There's I mentioned Laney Kimball. Well
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  we talked about Dawson Kimball. This is her younger sister. She's and she's
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  cousins with Colton Lentz, you know, so first first cousins. Yeah,
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  so it's and then they all live about six seconds away from each other.
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  Right. I want to make sure I get this right, but I'm pretty
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  sure Laney's mom and Colton's dad are brother and sister. So, okay,
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  I see what you're saying there. Yeah, so there's yeah, so there's
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  some good there's some good athletic backgrounds and a lot of these players and they're
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  just a very athletic team and a lot of fun to watch. That's number
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  twelve Kingsway Christian against number five Nuksack Valley Friday, nine am at the Yakama
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  Sundome. Also in the one a number thirteen Bellevue Christian from of all places,
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  Bellvue. They are taking on number four Meridian Friday ten forty five.
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  So basically, as soon as Nuksack Valley is done, Tyler, hopefully you
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  don't have to move very far hopefully you can just maybe turn your head a
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  little bit and watch Meridian play. But yeah, Tyler Bellvue Christian Meridian.
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  Yeah, and this is very similar. Meridian and Knukzack Valley are very even.
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  Like they you know, they they split during the season. Knuksack Valley
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  got him in the regular season. Meridian got them in the district championship game
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  in a great match and it was out at Meridian High School. Almost went
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  five sets, it went four, but it was very very even. Meridian
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  is they're Meridian. I mean, they've been really good at volleyball for quite
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  a while now, and they just have great coaching and they are very even
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  as well. Like they have they have substitutes that can come in and get
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  the job done. They have you know, specialists that are really good at
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  serving. They have one singer which is so scary. Uh now, she's
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  really good. E Emery Clay's six foot one is a great outside hitter,
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  you know, four year player, and and she's she gets set up a
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  lot, so you kind of know what's coming. But she's really good at
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  the at the tip kill as well. You know, you think when when
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  you're trying to load up to blockers. She's very good at placing it right
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  over the blockers and barely tap it. I thought it was called like a
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  dink. Yeah, I guess you could call it that. I I always
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  I was just call it a tip, isn't it. I mean I remember
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  sitting on a broadcast one time and a guy kept saying a dink and I
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  had no idea what he was talking. I thought he was talking about like
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  doingk dink pink and wink the old Yeah. I was like, yeah,
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  what so so? Because and she's very powerful, but because of there's so
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  much attention drawn to her, she's gotten really good at that as well.
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  And and and she's good defensively, a lot of digs, she's good.
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  She's a good server, just a great overall player. But there's a lot
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  of talent around here. Grace Wells is an awesome setter. There's there to
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  the sisters Rylan and Eden Bernardi, which is the Bernardi Party. They're both
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  very very good. Ryland's a junior and Eden's a freshman. Even might be
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  Eden might be the best server in Walkin County. She's averages an ace and
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  a half per set, so she's very very good too. And She's very
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  good up front. Gracie Papp just a sophomore, really good in the middle
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  as a blocker. Kinsley Neil is a really good server. They you know,
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  they have just a lot of pieces as well, and they communicate great
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  and they're they rarely kind of you know, tip uh, you know,
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  screw up mentally. They're very very good mentally, and they work great together.
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  And they just looked like they've been playing together a long time. And
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  so much of success in volleyball is that, you know, so much communication
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  and just knowing where everyone's going to be. That is, Oh, Tyler's
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  got some nuggets, man, coach Lucy, right back at it. Tyler's
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  got Meridian nuggets now too. Well, yeah, I mean I talked about
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  you know, Emery Clay's being just is she being the only senior on the
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  team. She was a big part of the team a couple of years ago
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  that got third in state and so she's she's been through this. You know,
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  she's gone to the sun Dome and competed at the highest level with all
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  these players. During that time she was playing with her with a couple of
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  sisters too, and there were really good players. And then her mom Shannon
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  was the head coach at that time. She's an assistant now and back when
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  she played in high school, they won a state championship in nineteen ninety eight.
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  I remember Shannon when I was in high school. She was a few
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  years younger than me, but she was like the best player in Walkin County.
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  We were all like, holy cow, did you see what she just
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  did? And she was like she was like a freshman when she was doing
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  all this stuff. It was like, holy cow. Yeah, so pretty
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  cool to see to see her coaching now. She is the assistant coach now
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  and and and yeah, it's just it's a great program they have. They
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  won the state title again in two thousand and four. There was a really
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  cool thing earlier in the year that they did where they brought back the original
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  team from nineteen seventy three, so from fifty years ago, the first ever
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  Meridian volleyball team. They brought all the players out and they you know,
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  had them sit in a specific area for a game. And I got to
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  go out for that one and check it out. That the Meridian does a
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  lot of cool things historical wise, you know, with the guy the chain
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  gang, Frank Castanete, celebrating his fifty years and you know, they really
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  embraced the history and and it makes a lot of fun for what I do.
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  So there's a big there's a big history with Meridian volleyball and they they're
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  they're doing really well this year. Number thirteen Bellevue Christian, Number four Meridian
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  Friday ten forty five am. A couple hours after that, we get into
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  the two A State tournament, which is number fifteen Smamish taking on number two
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  Lindon. That is Friday twelve forty five pm, Tyler. So maybe you
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  can get time to go to the bathroom real quick and come back and sit
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  down and watch some two A state tournament here. Huh Yeah, I'm I'm
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  really excited about this one. I love watching Linden play volleyball because it is
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  very machine like, like it's almost, I don't want to say predictable,
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  but it's like it's almost to the and I don't know volleyball well enough to
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  kind of see things happen. Yeah, but like when they play, it's
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  almost like, oh, they served it over here, so it's probably gonna
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  come back this way, and this is how they're going to react to it.
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  It's they're so they're just oh man, they're so good. They have
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  so much talent, a ton of height, very well well balanced. I
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  mean if you're like, oh, you know, just just talk about walking
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  county. Well, who's the best outside hitter, who's the best setter,
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  who's the best libero, who's the best pin, who's the best defensive specialist.
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  They're they're all Linden players, you know. And and they've been playing
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  together forever. I've seen these pictures on Instagram of this group of seniors,
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  like back when they were in fifth grade, you know, taking its like
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  like yeah, like taking a picture together. And then they do they do
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  the same picture and as as seniors, and they have great players coming off
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  the bench, and and and they got youth. You know. They have
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  a freshman Finley Parcher, who's great. They have a sophomore Ryan Stephan who's
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  fantastic. She's she's six foot three. Ashley Shoe May is just you know,
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  they call her stretch. You know, she's a six foot three senior
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  tons of power. Uh as an out as an outside hitter. Haley Kucci
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  is a little bit shorter, but very similar as a player. She's she's
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  a rock that could play all over the place. Maya vander Yacht is five
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  to two Libero. She's like a spider monkey man. She could just go
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  and get anything. It's unbelievable. And Grace Rice is really the kind of
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  the lynchpin to She's the setter. She never comes out of any games,
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  and she's constantly just like she's the one that makes everybody else look fantastic.
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  But she does a lot of other things. She can block, she can
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  dig, she gets a great server, she's a great overall player. It's
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  just it's kind of and a lot of these players have been starting since they
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  were fresh and so this is kind of that culmination of okay that you know,
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  and I think they're all determined. Chris Elsner is an amazing coach.
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  She's been there a long time. And yeah, it's just it's a great
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  unit and I think they're destined to make a pretty big run this year.
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  I gotta know who number one in the state is. I gotta know Columbia
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  River. Yeah, I know. I was kind of shocked with the with
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  the two seed. Their only lost all year was to the for A Curtis
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  I believe who was I don't know where they are in the for a tournament,
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  but I think they're one of the best teams. I think at the
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  time they were ranked. Well, I guess the four A hasn't They haven't
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  determined that they're seting yet, yeah, because they're still playing playoffs, but
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  either I'm looking at the Columbia River schedule right now. Oh yeah, okay,
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  I get it. Okay, they haven't dropped a set. Uh,
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  they've dropped one set, and it was their last game against Ridgefield. Yeah,
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  so it was like the district championship. Yeah, They've They've beat every
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  other every literally every single one. Three nothing, I mean yeah. So
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  I mean, hey, you can't argue that, you know, and you
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  can only play who's in front of you. So I get that. But
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  I'm excited and and Linden is a big reason why I'm making the trek over
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  there. I I really think that I want to There's a chance to witness
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  something special and I want to be there for that and I want to capture
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  it. So uh and I've learned so much about volleyball this this year,
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  and I've had so much help with with different you know, officials and coaches
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  that have kind of helped me along. The way with rules and different things
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  and and why this and and how this and and uh, it's such a
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  fun sport to watch and I've just had a lot of fun covering it this
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  year. So I'm looking Curtis, just because you asked. Curtis is seventeen
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  and three at the four A level at the four A level, and their
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  only losses are to Olympia, who is eighteen and six, and that was
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  a three to two. They also lost to Pewallup who's twenty one and two,
• 21:23
  and they lost to pull Up again who's twenty one and two. So
• 21:26
  yeah, yeah, yeah, Curtis is pretty dang good themselves, I mean,
• 21:30
  yeah yeah. And that was like a Saturday match, you know,
• 21:32
  against Lynden and it went five sets. I mean it's you know, and
• 21:36
  then Linden. And then then I think Linden didn't lose a set at all.
• 21:40
  Other than that, they did not lose a set in the league play.
• 21:42
  They lost one to Archbishop in the conference tournament, and then I think
• 21:47
  they lost one to Burlington in the conference championship. So they lost two,
• 21:52
  three, four. They lost five sets on the year on the year,
• 21:56
  Yeah, three to three to Curtis went to Archbishop and one to Edison,
• 22:00
  who's also in the excuse me, excuse me six, because they also lost
• 22:03
  one to Lake Stevens. Oh okay, yeah, oh right, Lake Stevens.
• 22:08
  Yeah. And then the other two were yeah, Archbishop and Burlington in
• 22:11
  the district tournament. Yeah, yeah, wow, I mean that is unbelievable.
• 22:15
  And then, uh, let's just see here, who's number three,
• 22:18
  fifteen and one Ellensburg who? Yeah, I mean there they lost to West
• 22:23
  Valley. Who. I don't know what West Valley's like this here, but
• 22:26
  West Valley's I remember when I did a volleyball broadcast. I remember finding out
• 22:30
  a few things about West Valley and they were always like one of the better
• 22:33
  teams apparently. Yeah. And then they lost a set to Prosser, and
• 22:37
  they lost a set to Prosser again, and that's all that they've lost,
• 22:40
  So they've only lost five sets all year. And then Burlington Edison. You
• 22:44
  told me before that they are very good, They're very very good. Yes,
• 22:48
  yeah, they've lost. They lost as they won, but lost a
• 22:51
  set to Glacier Peak, Oak Harbor and Lakewood. They lost two to Sea
• 22:56
  Home. They lost obviously three to Lyndon. Yeah. And then three to
• 23:00
  Linden again. So I mean Burlington Edison is no slouch either. I mean,
• 23:03
  yeah, they're very very good. They're their defense is unbelievable, Like
• 23:07
  I've never seen them. Like you see you see a like a big time
• 23:12
  spike and you're just like, well, that's it. It's like what like
• 23:15
  you almost see like the team, the offensive team celebrate pre prematurely and then
• 23:19
  but Burlington can dig it out and keep it going. It's like holy cow.
• 23:23
  So they're very good defensively, very good serving, just very consistent.
• 23:27
  They're gonna do pretty good in the two A tournament as well. I'm not
• 23:30
  gonna be covering them, but I'm gonna keep my eye on them. Yeah.
• 23:32
  Well, then I'm watching or I'm looking at White River, who is
• 23:36
  the five seed. They are nineteen and one on the year. They've dropped
• 23:41
  three total sets excuse me, four total sets, three to three to enom
• 23:47
  Claw and one to five, but they also beat enum Claw three nothing in
• 23:51
  another in another match. So yeah, so they lost three to two to
• 23:55
  enom Claw and then I mean that's unbelievable. And then I would assume Ridgefield,
• 24:00
  who is the sixth seed. Yeah, I mean their losses are to
• 24:03
  Columbia River, Columbia River, Camus A four A school, and then Columbia
• 24:07
  River. So they've they've dropped nine sets to Columbia River, the top seed.
• 24:12
  Yeah, they've dropped three sets to Camas and then one to wash Google
• 24:17
  and one to tom Water. And tom Water is usually pretty dang good themselves.
• 24:22
  Yeah, and they're seventeen and two and they're the seven seed. They
• 24:26
  lost really good volleyball. Yeah, I mean they lost three to one to
• 24:30
  Ridgefield obviously, and then the only other ones that they even dropped a set,
• 24:33
  and they dropped one set to Timberline and then they lost three nothing to
• 24:37
  North Thurston, you know, I mean, and that's one, two,
• 24:41
  three, four, five six, that's seven. I mean the eight seed,
• 24:45
  Pullman, they got to be pretty good. Maybe not, they're thirteen
• 24:48
  and six, but it looks like they've played a lot of four A teams,
• 24:52
  like yeah, three A and four A. Because Ferris University they are
• 24:56
  Shado Park I think is three A no marks two A. But they're also
• 25:00
  in the state tournament. You know, I mean, it's pretty crazy to
• 25:03
  look at this and you see these teams and you're just like, now,
• 25:06
  I just have to know, and I hate to do this. I hate
• 25:07
  to throw a team down like this. Five the sixteen seed, they're twelve
• 25:12
  and eight. Yeah, I mean a little bit different looking schedule here.
• 25:18
  Yeah, some Amish seventeen and three. Eck, the fifteen seed is seventeen
• 25:23
  and three, Tyler. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, and they've only
• 25:26
  playing Linden six. Yeah. I mean, so the team is playing Linden,
• 25:30
  some Ambish. Now, obviously we don't know how good these teams are
• 25:33
  that they're beating, but they lost three sets, three sets, four,
• 25:37
  five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
• 25:42
  They've only lost twelve sets all year and they're seventeen and three. Yeah.
• 25:47
  I mean yeah, I don't know. I don't know much about volleyball.
• 25:49
  I just know that Linden's really good because you always talk about them.
• 25:53
  So, now, did we do this? Tyler's got some nuggets? Man?
• 25:57
  Have we done the nuggets yet for this one? Tyler? Because oh,
• 26:00
  Jim, Tyler's got some nuggets. Man, he's got nuggets. Tyler's
• 26:03
  got nuggets here. So did you did you give it to us yet?
• 26:07
  I don't think so. No. Well, I was talking, I was,
• 26:08
  you know, talking about their senior class and stuff like that, and
• 26:11
  and they just recently all signed, you know, with respective colleges to go
• 26:15
  play. Four of the girls on this Linden team are going to play volleyball
• 26:21
  at the next level. So Hailey Coachy is signed down to Northwest University right
• 26:26
  down three from my house, the old, the old Seahawks training facility.
• 26:30
  Nice right there at Northwest. He actually when I was up there the last
• 26:33
  time, which was a couple of years ago. If you drive up to
• 26:36
  their their athletic offices, it still says Tim Russell and Mike Holmgren on the
• 26:40
  on the on the sidewalk anyway, go ahead, nice maya vander yacht,
• 26:45
  the Liberro. She's the one that's just five foot two and all over the
• 26:48
  place. She's going to Central Washington University. They're usually pretty good. I've
• 26:52
  seen them play. I used to go to a lot of Seattle Pacific volleyball
• 26:56
  because it was like, okay, it was like four dollars to get in
• 26:57
  Tyler and for five bucks you could get a Costco dog and a and a
• 27:02
  and a gatorade. Yeah. I used to go to Seattle Pacific because that
• 27:07
  volleyball that d two volleyball, and the in the g NAC is really really
• 27:10
  good. Yeah yeah uh. And then Grace Rice and Ashley Shoemate are both
• 27:15
  going to Biola University down in California. Nice. So four girls going to
• 27:23
  going to college to play off of one team, like that's really cool.
• 27:27
  Yeah. And then and Casey Thomas, who's the defensive specialist on that team.
• 27:30
  She's signed to go play fast pitch yesterday. So we're a really good
• 27:36
  athlete too. I want to say Skedget Valley or Everett Everett Community College or
• 27:42
  some are some are between you and I somewhere between. Yeah. And there's
• 27:47
  not a whole lot not not a whole lot of like Edmunds. It's all.
• 27:51
  It's all the community colleges or whatever they're called, the two year colleges.
• 27:55
  But that's a that's pretty much all. It's between you and me as
• 27:57
  far as university goes. Yeah, and Western I guess yeah, yeah,
• 28:03
  yeah, because there's not because Northwest University is south of me anyway. Yeah.
• 28:10
  Set fifteen Smamish number two, Linden, Friday, twelve forty five pm.
• 28:14
  Now there's gonna be a lot of games from this weekend. Tyler's going
• 28:18
  to have you covered on everything. There's gonna be some scoreboards from Bell Anderson
• 28:22
  Insurance. There's gonna be a lot of stuff going on. I mean a
• 28:25
  lot of stuff going on, So be sure to keep your eyes peeled to
• 28:29
  walcom Preps, walkompreps dot com, and on all the social media's Facebook,
• 28:33
  Twitter, and Instagram. Just search watkcom Preps and yeah, as soon as
• 28:37
  it's available, Tyler will have it up ready to go. That being said,
• 28:41
  Tyler, we've got four football games to talk about here, and you're
• 28:45
  not gonna be at any of them. So you and I are going to
• 28:45
  see the same amount of Wacom County football this weekend. The first one is
• 28:52
  it. So there's three games on Friday, And yeah, I don't want
• 28:56
  to go too crazy in this, Tyler, but I'm very disappointed in the
• 29:00
  way that things went in all of this because three games on Friday, they're
• 29:04
  all three basically at the same time. I mean, you know, the
• 29:07
  first game in the third game are Yeah, I guess you could in theory
• 29:11
  get from one to the other, but they're all spread out all over the
• 29:15
  county. It's just I don't know, it's kind of ridiculous to me.
• 29:18
  The people of Wakham County do such a good job supporting football just in general.
• 29:22
  You know, it doesn't even matter. I mean, Tyler, you've
• 29:25
  talked about it so many times. You go to a Thursday night game at
• 29:26
  Civic and there's people from all over the county, guys from different teams and
• 29:30
  stuff. Yeah, so it's pretty disappointing to look at the schedule and go,
• 29:33
  you know, people can't sit in one stadium and watch games, you
• 29:37
  know what I mean. It's yeah, I don't know, it's kind of
• 29:38
  disappointing. But the first game, Tyler is number fourteen Connell, who's five
• 29:45
  and five. They're coming to town to take on number three at Lennon Christian
• 29:48
  they are seven and two. That's a four pm game at Blaine High School.
• 29:52
  Now it's no school in the county, I believe, the whole county
• 29:56
  right right, Because it's Veterans Day on Saturday, I believe. Yeah,
• 30:00
  yeah, they're gonna observe it on Friday. So the school's observe it on
• 30:03
  Friday, which means you can play a four pm game. It'd be a
• 30:07
  little be a little different trying to play it, but that's a four pm
• 30:10
  game out there Blaine High School. I feel like has Blaine hosted a playoff
• 30:12
  game before? They hosted the Kansas tiebreaker last year. And that's right,
• 30:17
  that's what I'm thinking. Yeah, yeah, so that's kind of a new
• 30:21
  thing and it'll be exciting. Coach Wil'll be out there. It's uh and
• 30:26
  this is these are two teams I've seen. Obviously, I've seen Lynn Christian
• 30:29
  quite a bit, and I actually seen I've seen Lyndon Christian live this year
• 30:33
  I think five times. Well, it helps that they played like nineteen weeks
• 30:37
  in a row on Saturday. Yeah, that was that was a good little
• 30:41
  run. I sat up in the little there's a little it's like an extra
• 30:45
  box just for media up there next to the coaches. I just a little
• 30:48
  one one seater and I took that and watched some football. And but yeah,
• 30:53
  then I saw them against Meriden, I saw them against Baker and you
• 30:59
  know, and I saw Connell. I saw Connell play at Nuksack Valley very
• 31:03
  early in the season, like week two maybe. Yeah, that's right.
• 31:06
  I forgot about that and and Nuksack Valley put it to him pretty hard.
• 31:11
  I think Connell they wanted to run a lot, and it just was not
• 31:15
  happening against that defensive line. So they spread it out and they're basically throwing
• 31:19
  on every play. After that, they ended up changing their quarterback in like
• 31:22
  the third or fourth quarter, and they had a younger kid come in that
• 31:26
  was bigger, and he actually did probably a little bit better too. Now
• 31:30
  by that time they were going against some JV guys and stuff like that,
• 31:33
  and they they were able to find the end zone a couple of times.
• 31:36
  But but Lennon Christian, Man, their defense, it's just it's I keep
• 31:45
  talking about it. Those four linebackers. You know, they got the combined
• 31:48
  wing span of like fifty feet. You know, It's it's just it's just
• 31:52
  they cover so much ground. The seven lineback course, Yeah, yeah,
• 31:57
  exactly. It's they're all very very good, very very active, and it's
• 32:06
  that's gonna be the toughest thing because you might be able to run on them
• 32:08
  a little bit more, but if you're gonna pass, you really have to
• 32:13
  be efficient on finding your windows and and maybe you know, just quick decisions
• 32:17
  and take what they give you, Like if they're playing off a little bit,
• 32:21
  get it out there to them, because once you get more out towards
• 32:24
  the defense. They're just so athletic and very opportunistic and that you know,
• 32:30
  that's where Lynn and Christian's defense can really feed on you and and they turn
• 32:34
  the game over really quickly. Oh, Tyler's got some nuggets, man,
• 32:39
  Tyler, really, we got nuggets here for football too. Now, Lynn
• 32:43
  and Christian nuggets. What do you got here? Well, we were just
• 32:45
  looking back at how they've fared in the first round and it's it's pretty eye
• 32:51
  opening, you know, for a lot of Walking County teams in the first
• 32:53
  round of the state playoffs. So this is this is this will be their
• 32:57
  twentieth trip to the state playoffs. So I've had nineteen previous going back to
• 33:01
  what in like nineteen seventy two, well seventy three is when they started the
• 33:07
  playoffs. And their first playoff was actually in eighty six for Linon Christian.
• 33:12
  Oh wow, and they and they got to the state title game that that
• 33:15
  year and they were like the second place team in Walkam County League. And
• 33:21
  definitely just twenty times in thirty six years, yeah, because there was no
• 33:27
  COVID right, so right, and so in those in those nineteen this will
• 33:30
  be their twenty times in those nineteen other appearances, they're sixteen and three in
• 33:36
  the first round. Wow. Yeah, yeah, that is very impressive.
• 33:39
  Yeah, so they you know, they get there and they take care business.
• 33:44
  So you know two of those times coach Turt played in those in ninety
• 33:47
  and ninety one as junior and senior year. Junior year did not go so
• 33:52
  well. Senior year went great, but you know, yeah, I mean
• 33:58
  Walkom County always does well in the play, but especially that first round.
• 34:01
  And we're gonna hope they do it again against Connell, number fourteen, Connell
• 34:07
  five and five, number three Lynden Christian seven and two, four pm at
• 34:09
  Blaine High School. Coach would will be out there. So if you see
• 34:12
  him, go up and give him a code word. You won't get anything
• 34:15
  out of it. But just walk up to him and say Montana is not
• 34:17
  as good as Montana State and he'll be very happy to hear from you.
• 34:22
  Let's see here, number twelve Bremerton eight and two coming to town to take
• 34:25
  on number five at Linden seven and two. That's a six pm game at
• 34:30
  Civic Stadium. Yeah, Tyler, I can't imagine. Bremerton has a lot
• 34:34
  of history with Walkham County do they. Yeah, not off the top of
• 34:37
  my head. I mean it's just yeah, it's I couldn't tell you anything.
• 34:42
  I mean I asked you earlier off the here, like what colors are
• 34:45
  they? Like, I just didn't know. I didn't know anything about him.
• 34:46
  I don't know what their mascot is. I know that Bremerton is near
• 34:51
  Seattle. That's about all I across the water. Oh okay, well yeah,
• 34:55
  I mean yeah, yeah, that's I mean, it's just I you
• 35:00
  know, I It's funny because what I've learned from Bremerton, I've learned on
• 35:04
  like from like the show Almost Live. Yeah, that's that's about all I
• 35:09
  know like from Bremerton. Yeah, but like football wise, I don't know
• 35:14
  anything. Eight and two record though, I mean, okay, so things
• 35:16
  are going well and Linden, you know, with the five seed, I
• 35:22
  think maybe since the seeding format has come out, this might be their lowest
• 35:25
  seed they've ever had. I think they've always been top four and you know,
• 35:32
  uh, they're you know, they lost week one, then they lost
• 35:37
  the final week. They lost to two teams that are in the state playoffs,
• 35:40
  Ferndale Landa Chordis and Linden's Linden man, especially you play at Civic Stadium.
• 35:45
  I mean, this is they feel at home at Civic Stadium. I
• 35:50
  would I should research. I can't. I'm trying to think the last time
• 35:52
  they lost a game at Civic Stadium. I bet it's been quite a while.
• 35:58
  Yeah, I mean I feel like I've been to a lot of them.
• 36:00
  They've always like damn clock on everybody. It seems like, yeah,
• 36:04
  yeah, so I you know, I I would have to look back and
• 36:07
  you know, I just don't know. It's just but you know, Linden
• 36:13
  is Linden is Linen. They're very very much machine like. They don't change
• 36:16
  what they do be based on their opponent too much. You know. Uh,
• 36:21
  they say, we are the Lions. You try and stop what we
• 36:23
  do defensively, They'll they will scheme up and do different things like that,
• 36:29
  but they will try their base stuff in the beginning and kind of see,
• 36:34
  uh, what's working, what isn't, and then make fantastic adjustments after that,
• 36:38
  you know, And a lot of it is you know what it says
• 36:42
  right there in the front of your jersey. You know, it says Linden,
• 36:44
  And that's kind of a you know, that's part of it mentally for
• 36:47
  these kids, where you know, Bremerton's gonna come in and they're gonna go,
• 36:51
  man, this is the two times state champions, and it's it's one
• 36:55
  of the Like a couple of years ago, I remember Linnen was like five,
• 36:59
  like the sixth seed maybe in boys basketball, and they had a they
• 37:02
  had a good year. They didn't have a Linden year, but they had
• 37:05
  a good year. And I looked at it. I was like, they
• 37:07
  might. I think they're gonna win state. And it's a lot of it
• 37:08
  was just because you get Lynden down there at bat the basketball tournament and people
• 37:14
  go, oh, man, it's Linden and and they're they're already halfway defeated,
• 37:17
  you know, and I and the football team is starting to develop that
• 37:20
  too, and Bremerton's new to the state tournament. So we'll see how it
• 37:23
  goes. But obviously you still got to put on the pads and play and
• 37:28
  all that. You never know, and there are they are teenagers, and
• 37:31
  but it's been it's been a lot of fun. Talking to some of the
• 37:36
  Lennon coaches, it's I think it's been a lot of fun for them just
• 37:37
  to actually do a lot of coaching this year. A lot of new varsity
• 37:42
  kids that have been waiting for this moment to get to show what they can
• 37:45
  do in the state playoffs. And they witnessed it so much on the sideline
• 37:49
  the last couple of years. And yeah, you got the guys that are
• 37:52
  returning. You got the Brent Heppner's and your Isaiah Admans and and Charlie Errs
• 37:55
  and stuff like that. But uh, kyper Ross Sink and Bennett or To.
• 38:00
  But this is you know, this is a new chapter. And and
• 38:07
  uh, we'll just see if they can keep good going as they as they
• 38:09
  like to say, Tyler's got some nuggets. Man, be gonna keeping good
• 38:14
  going, keep it going here, Tyler, what do you got for Linden?
• 38:15
  Well, again we're talking about state playoffs, first round. This is
• 38:21
  their thirty second year in the state playoffs and wow, uh and this uh
• 38:29
  in their previous thirty one do you want to you want to throw out a
• 38:31
  guess for a thirty one? Uh? Ding ding ding ding ding? No
• 38:38
  way, you nailed it twenty six and five for Linden. And and people
• 38:43
  need to know I had no idea. I just threw a random number out
• 38:46
  here. He didn't. He didn't. I felt kind of bad, like
• 38:49
  putting the spotlight on you for a second. But yeah, but you know,
• 38:52
  I'm always good to throw something random out there like that's that's true.
• 38:54
  I know your game. That's why I did it. But I was like,
• 38:58
  I'm just naturally when people that feels bad for other people at all times,
• 39:02
  but don't feel bad for me. I'm wrong all the time. Yeah,
• 39:07
  yeah, but yeah, twenty six and five, that's uh, it's
• 39:10
  been a while. Yeah, I mean coach Van Dalen's first year, they
• 39:15
  had an exit in the first round against Tumwater. They had like a sub
• 39:19
  five hundred record, and they went in there and played really tough and lost
• 39:22
  by just one score to tomb Water. And then back in twenty ten they
• 39:25
  lost a Tumbwater two. But then before that, it's been a while.
• 39:29
  But yeah, twenty six and five in the first round. Not too bad
• 39:32
  there for the Linen lines, No, not at all. Number twelve Bremerton
• 39:37
  Tyler. How about this? What's Bremerton's mascot? Yeah, I have no
• 39:42
  idea. The Bremolos. The Knights. Oh, the Knights, Okay,
• 39:45
  and by that I mean kay and I like not in Bremerton. Yeah,
• 39:49
  yeah, like their nightlife isn't great. Well it might be. I mean
• 39:52
  it's a it's a navy town, right, so you gotta figure the night
• 39:54
  life. I mean you just gotta be careful over there obviously. But yeah,
• 40:00
  I mean they do a lot of like you can you can drive right
• 40:02
  into Bremerton and you just see like massive ships, like oh wow. Yeah,
• 40:07
  it's pretty cool. It's a it's a fun place. I've never been
• 40:09
  to a football game at Bremerton High School, but I have been to a
• 40:12
  soccer match there. Oh yeah. I don't know why, but I remember
• 40:15
  one time we went to a it was a US Open Cup match there and
• 40:20
  it was the Kitsap Pumas against the Portland Timbers. So we were probably going
• 40:24
  there to root against Portland and they probably won because kits Apps just like they're
• 40:30
  they're like a whole like level below, so they shouldn't win, right But
• 40:35
  yeah. Number twelve Bremerton eight and two at number five Linden seven and two,
• 40:39
  six pm, Civic Stadium, Tyler. The final game on Friday,
• 40:44
  Number nine Mount Dahoma. We want to give a guess of their name.
• 40:50
  They're red and yellow. So the Wholka maniacs Now. That's a freaking great
• 40:53
  answer. I'll give you a clue, Tyler. It's one of my favorite
• 40:57
  teams first, like one of my teams that I go to a lot,
• 41:02
  the Thunderbirds. Mount Tahoma Thunderbirds are coming to town seven and three to take
• 41:07
  on the number eight Ferndale Golden Eagles. This is maybe the longest two team
• 41:13
  names ever. Mount Tahoma Thunderbirds Ferndale Golden Eagles Ferndale's eight and two, seven
• 41:17
  pm at Golden Eagles Stadium. I mean I would assume, well, I
• 41:22
  mean Mountahoma maybe could have no they can. They've never been really good,
• 41:27
  but they are really good this year. And Tyler, there is a little
• 41:29
  bit of a Ryland might even have a little bit of a nugget here nice
• 41:32
  on this one. But yeah, Tyler, Mountahoma Ferndale, Well, I
• 41:37
  mean, anytime you get the eight and nine game, you know it's going
• 41:38
  to be really good. We saw it a few years ago Mount Baker Toppini
• 41:43
  Ish. That was a really good close game that kind of you came up
• 41:46
  for that one at Civic Stadium, and you know that was the last game
• 41:52
  Devin Beson played and he was kicking off. Remember we were talking about that.
• 41:55
  He was everything that right that they ate nine games are always and it's
• 42:01
  a weird thing because it's like it's a good till. It's gonna be a
• 42:04
  great game to go against the top seeded team, you know. Yeah,
• 42:08
  that's that's normally this week I am looking at seven ten and eight nine games.
• 42:15
  Those are the games that like I'm usually looking at to go to.
• 42:19
  Yeah, unless there's a team from Eastern Washington that's coming over. You know,
• 42:23
  like a say they're a fourteen seed maybe, but they're really you know,
• 42:27
  they're a team I want to see, maybe they got some guys,
• 42:29
  you know, something specific. Normally I would be looking at the seven ten
• 42:31
  to eight nines because those are usually just you never know, you just never
• 42:37
  know what's gonna happen in those games. Yeah, I mean seven to ten
• 42:39
  last year was to and I know Mount Baker and Mount Baker came out on
• 42:43
  top and and uh so, yeah, this game I think will be great.
• 42:47
  It's what is this the fifth game in a row at Ferndale High School?
• 42:52
  Like we kind of talked about this a little bit. Fifth week in
• 42:54
  a row where Ferndale's hosting a game, so that's a that's a crazy run.
• 43:00
  And they're undefeated at home this year. They they are you know,
• 43:05
  they got they really have things going in yeah in there, Lindon, Yeah
• 43:13
  yeah, right, uh, but it's they're on a roll right now.
• 43:17
  The machine is like we talked about last podcast. They're very machine like methodical.
• 43:22
  You know, run the ball over fifty times, smart when you're throwing
• 43:28
  the ball, all that stuff. Defense has been playing great, the line's
• 43:31
  been great, the coaching is outstanding. So all those things to combined and
• 43:37
  it's all for this one moment. Right you're getting to the state playoffs.
• 43:39
  Now you're going because it gets a team, like you said, doesn't have
• 43:42
  a ton of experience in the state playoffs. They you know, but they're
• 43:46
  hungry. They've they have a good win loss record. They're gigantic up front.
• 43:52
  They you know, they're it's it's a new thing. It's all new,
• 43:58
  and they maybe they're going to go into it with we have nothing to
• 44:00
  lose, let's just play loose. And sometimes that can go a long way.
• 44:07
  And speaking of a long way, they got to come a long way
• 44:09
  up here. But still that's that's the scary thing. You look at some
• 44:15
  of even the teams that even the games that they lost were good games against
• 44:19
  really good teams. So you know they're a great team. And it has
• 44:23
  to be because of like the eight to nine game, like we're talking about,
• 44:27
  is always great. So this is gonna be, uh, this is
• 44:30
  gonna be pretty pretty pretty crazy. Tyler's got some nuggets, man, a
• 44:36
  Ferndale nugget. I would assume this is their first round record, Tyler.
• 44:42
  Yeah, Ferndale's first round records. So looking at them, they've been They've
• 44:46
  made a lot of runs too. This will be their twenty third trip to
• 44:50
  the state playoffs for football. So in the previous twenty two do you want
• 44:54
  to take a guess again, I'm gonna go twenty two, So I gotta
• 45:00
  do a little math here. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go fourteen and
• 45:07
  eight. Woh, fifteen and seven? Oh club, I was, I
• 45:12
  was right there. I'm thinking myself fifteen and seven. I'm also thinking like
• 45:15
  thirty. No, I feel like, uh, you know what, I'm
• 45:16
  gonna go right in between, and I went with fourteen. Yeah. That
• 45:22
  would have been wild if I would have got both of them. Yeah,
• 45:24
  Yeah, that was really really close. So they they you know, there
• 45:27
  was some there. We had some runs in the eighties, you know,
• 45:30
  mit early it was crazy because they they had Vic Randalls their head coach from
• 45:35
  like eighty two to eighty nine, and they had some great teams. Then
• 45:39
  he took four years off to watch his son Scott play at Sea Home and
• 45:45
  and they turned. Yeah, and those four years Ferndale they went from the
• 45:51
  wing tea to go spread and they were not good any of those four years.
• 45:55
  They were sub five hundred all four years, including going oh to nine
• 45:59
  the fourth year. And then Big Randall came back, put the put the
• 46:04
  wing tea back in and they made the playoffs immediately again, and then they
• 46:07
  dominated the end of the nineties. They had like a run of I don't
• 46:10
  know how many league games in a row that they won, and then you
• 46:14
  know, and then the early two thousands they dipped a little bit and then
• 46:15
  the lockers all came in and so they you know, they they've always been
• 46:20
  kind of up there, but uh, you know, fifteen and seven in
• 46:22
  the first round of state playoffs is it's pretty that's pretty darn good. And
• 46:27
  they you know, they're they're up there with the higher teams than the bigger
• 46:30
  schools, So it's pretty cool. That is number nine Mountahoma, seven and
• 46:35
  three, Ferndale number eight. They are eight and two, seven pm,
• 46:38
  Golden Eagle Stadium on Friday night. Now, Tyler, there is one Saturday
• 46:43
  game that is number eleven Cascade Christian. They are eight and two coming to
• 46:46
  town to take on number six Nooksack Valley. They are seven and two.
• 46:51
  That's five pm at Civic Stadium. I feel like there's a lot of history
• 46:55
  between Cascade Christian and Wakam County in general. But I've even seen cast Kate.
• 47:00
  Christian played Knoxsack Valley before down at at Sunset Chevrolet Stadium down there in
• 47:04
  a sumner and I trying to remember, I think was it was it tanner
• 47:07
  Meyer was a quarterback maybe when I saw that. Yeah, I remember,
• 47:10
  I think I remember you telling me about that game. I looked it up,
• 47:14
  and I want to say tanner Meyer was playing quarterback, and I think
• 47:15
  Casey Bauman was a freshman and he was playing receiver maybe and he I think
• 47:20
  he even caught a touchdown pass in that game. But there's there's a ton
• 47:24
  of history with Cascade Christian and Walking county teams and probably more than anybody against
• 47:30
  Nuksack Valley, they like you're talking about, they played a lot against each
• 47:34
  other in the regular season. I think it's it could have started when they
• 47:37
  they met each other like in the late two thousands, like two thousand and
• 47:39
  eight, nine and ten, kind of in that era. They seemed to
• 47:44
  me, they seemed to meet up in the state playoffs a lot, and
• 47:46
  maybe they developed something to where they you know, a good communication to where
• 47:51
  they started playing each other a lot in the regular season. And that started
• 47:53
  happening in the early teams. Like you were talking about, that could have
• 47:58
  been, you know, twenty twelve, so twenty thirteen when you went and
• 48:00
  saw him and I you know, I've seen Cascade Christian play against Baker,
• 48:07
  I've seen him play against luks Like. I've seen him play against g Ridan.
• 48:09
  I've seen him play against Lynn Christian and they always are very good.
• 48:16
  They had that quarterback that was there for four as a four year starter for
• 48:20
  Parker Johnson. Marker Johnson, Yeah, he was he looked he looked like
• 48:23
  a senior when he was a freshman. He was a big, strong kid,
• 48:27
  great arm I loved watching him play and it was. It was really
• 48:31
  fun to watch him his senior year against Lyndon Christian out at Civic Stadium against
• 48:36
  that secondary well, I remember he was playing both ways that day because they
• 48:38
  had so many injuries that he ended up playing I think corner as well.
• 48:44
  Yeah, it was. It was crazy because those receivers were running so many
• 48:47
  gos and then they come back and get the huddle and then run another go
• 48:51
  and then comeback. I mean, it was the running that those guys had
• 48:52
  to do that day that night was crazy. I remember that night very very
• 48:57
  well. And Butka, you know, and they're eight and two, and
• 49:01
  the big thing that I see from from Cascade Christian that kind of jumped off
• 49:06
  the page of me when you looked at their schedule and their wins and losses
• 49:08
  is they they also lost to Kings by two. Same with you know,
• 49:13
  Knukzack Valley lost by I believe it was two. So that tells me something
• 49:19
  right there. I've been very impressed with Kings. I saw them against Mount
• 49:22
  Baker as well. They're very very strong. They got Doug Flutie back there
• 49:27
  at quarterback. They're so I don't think that's his given name, but you
• 49:31
  say wait what, Well, they have the little guy that wears number twenty
• 49:35
  two, who's fantastic, I mean, the great arm runner everything. He's
• 49:38
  got the long hair coming out the back and it just looks like Doug Flutie.
• 49:43
  It's just like spitting image, especially in that red jersey. It looks
• 49:45
  like Boston College all over again. But uh, it's they're, you know,
• 49:52
  Cascade Christian. I think they're gonna be able to do some things,
• 49:57
  but I don't know if they can do enough against Nuoksack Valley. There's they're
• 50:00
  just the Pioneers are so strong overall. You were talking about eight, nine
• 50:05
  and seven tens. Well, this is kind of that next one down the
• 50:07
  six and eleven's you know, knoks That Valley getting a six seed, that's
• 50:13
  pretty good. There's undefeated teams behind them. They could have easily gotten a
• 50:15
  seven or an eight, so, you know, which kind of gets them
• 50:21
  even kind of closer to the Cascade Christians of the state. You know.
• 50:23
  So it's this could be a really good game. It's gonna be the only,
• 50:27
  you know, the only one on Saturday. I think it'll probably be
• 50:30
  a packed house. I will not be there. I will be uh not
• 50:35
  rooting but I'll be covering the lady Pioneers. So if there's any you know,
• 50:38
  pioneers there there that want to know how things are going, I can
• 50:42
  maybe update you if you help me out updating with what's going on down there.
• 50:45
  But are up here, I should say it's it's gonna be awesome.
• 50:49
  I mean playoff football, man, oh boy, you can't beat it.
• 50:52
  I Uh, I was just curious Tyler. So I looked up that game
• 50:57
  that I was at. Huh yeah, and uh, twenty thirteen. It
• 51:00
  was twenty Well where did it go? It was twenty fourteen? Okay,
• 51:08
  so that was when Casey was a fresh Casey was a freshman tanner Meyer.
• 51:13
  And then there was one other name that I looked up really quickly that I
• 51:16
  recognized. Was it Curtis Handy maybe? Oh, Churs Handy was awesome?
• 51:23
  Yes, that's then. That's that's who it is that I was thinking of,
• 51:25
  because was it was there more than one Handy that came to Yeah,
• 51:29
  well yeah, well there was a ton, but Pray Handy. Trey Handy
• 51:32
  is the one I was thinking of. But I remember Curtis also, yeah,
• 51:36
  and then Curtis Handy and Kyle Handy and you know Tyler number seventy four
• 51:40
  that year. Do you know who it was for nook Sack? Yeah,
• 51:45
  this is this is me throwing you on the spot. Now baby, is
• 51:50
  it a Holly yap YAPPI? Leathan hallaap YAPPI? Yeah, yeah, how
• 51:53
  about that? I mean yeah? And then Clancy Coppinger. I would assume
• 51:57
  maybe some Actually it says seventh grade. What are they doing? A seventh
• 52:01
  grade? He was probably six four, yeah, probably, But I decided
• 52:06
  to look it up Tyler just to see. Forty two eighteen Cascade Christian over
• 52:10
  Nookzac Valley tanner Meyer twenty completions, twenty of twenty five for two to h
• 52:16
  one. He completed eighty percent of his passes, two touchdowns in interception.
• 52:22
  And then Joe McNeely also threw two passes. But then Jalen Goldsmith I don't
• 52:25
  remember. I remember Jalen Goldsmith was the quarterback at Cascake ch Christian then,
• 52:30
  but Caske Christian. That team went undefeated one a state championship. But they
• 52:35
  were unbelievable. Robert Urhewn in that game fifteen carries, two hundred and five
• 52:40
  yards. Yeah, three touchdowns. Here's a name that you'll recognize Madden and
• 52:46
  Mason Tobak oh Tobek, Yeah, the Tobacks, Yeah, yep. And
• 52:52
  then Josh Seaton was a really good player. Zach Bartolome was a good player.
• 52:57
  Yeah. They were absolutely loaded, that Skate Christian team was. But
• 53:01
  that being said, Oh and Robert Rhun he went to uh he went to
• 53:06
  Jacksonville University, which is a Division I school and A and A it's a
• 53:09
  what do you call it a non scholarship D one or whatever it is.
• 53:13
  But yeah, and by the way, Tyler, I forgot to give a
• 53:15
  little bit of my nugget from the Mount to Homa thing too. Their defensive
• 53:20
  coordinator. We we've talked about him before. He's uh. He went to
• 53:23
  Eastern Washington was an All American there. Dion Alexander he played with Britt Lentz
• 53:28
  and t J Ackerman. But I think he knew I think he knew TJ's
• 53:34
  brother better, is what it was. I think those two guys were freshmen
• 53:37
  when Dion was a senior, so he knew them. But he knew Tom
• 53:42
  More because was Tom older. Yeah, Tom's older. Yeah, so he
• 53:45
  knew Tom Moore's is or Tom Tom Ackerman, not Tom Moore, not not
• 53:49
  coach Moore. Yeah, not Tom, not coach Tom Moore, who's one
• 53:52
  of the all time greats. But he knew them more that being said Tyler
• 53:55
  Tyler nuggets man. Tyler's got some nuggets man. So kook Zach Valley would
• 53:59
  give you what do they got for first round? All right, here you
• 54:01
  go. This is their tenth trip to the state tournament. Four and six,
• 54:07
  No six, they were six and three in the first round. Oh,
• 54:12
  this is their tenth. So this is this is their tenth so nine
• 54:15
  previous So six and three in the first round. I mean, and it's
• 54:19
  it's I thought it was going to be a little bit different because it seemed
• 54:22
  like there was a lot of like fringe years where they got in and it
• 54:25
  was happy to be their type stuff. Yeah, that's why I said.
• 54:30
  Yeah, and uh, but you have to go back to the second year
• 54:35
  that you know, this this big group of coaches have we're together. You're
• 54:39
  talking about you know, you talked about coach Lentz and coach Ackerman and and
• 54:44
  Rob Meyer was the head coach of that staff, and they all kind of
• 54:47
  started together in two thousands. It was their second year when they were the
• 54:51
  last time they were ousted in the first round. So that was back in
• 54:53
  two thousand and one. It was a thirteen to nothing game against Ording,
• 54:58
  which man, I know they still look back at then. Oh, could
• 55:01
  have had that one. But so yeah, they've had they haven't had a
• 55:06
  ton of trips, but they've done pretty well. I mean, six and
• 55:07
  three in the first round, you know. And last year they got all
• 55:12
  the way to the Semis, and they've had they've had another they had a
• 55:15
  trip to the Semis a few about ten or twelve years ago, and and
• 55:19
  uh, I know they got big aspirations this year too, but you got
• 55:22
  to get past a really tough Cascade Christian team and and uh, it's gonna
• 55:25
  be it's gonna be some great football on Saturday, number eleven, Cascade Christian
• 55:30
  Cougars, eight and two, Nooksack Valley Pioneers number six, seven and two,
• 55:35
  five pm, Civic Stadium on Saturday. Yeah, that's it for the
• 55:39
  games. Tyler, Randy Small, that's our guy, Randy Small. He's
• 55:44
  our guy. By the way, I found a picture they popped up on
• 55:46
  my Facebook memories the other the other day, and I meant to take Randy
• 55:50
  Small in it. It's from there's a little side road. If you're at
• 55:54
  the Silver Reef Casino and you're headed back to the freeway, there's this little
• 55:57
  tiny side road. And at one point me and my buddy were like trying
• 55:59
  to find something, and we turned around on that side roun and we were
• 56:01
  sitting there and I looked up and I went, wow, would you look
• 56:05
  at Mount Baker? And so I just took a picture with my phone and
• 56:07
  then a couple of years ago, I did some photoshop to it and I
• 56:10
  put it online as like, oh, here's a cool picture. It looks
• 56:14
  like something Randy Small would have taken. Now, not nearly as good as
• 56:15
  what he does, but it looks like, you know, his kind of
• 56:19
  picture. Yeah, exactly. And I meant to tag him in it the
• 56:22
  other day because we all know what this guy does. But Randy Small,
• 56:27
  he's got the weather forecast. Walkcome County wx dot com is the website Walcome
• 56:31
  County Weather on Facebook. Yeah, let's head to Randy Small and get the
• 56:36
  forecast for the weekend. Hello, this is Randy Small Wakome County Weather and
• 56:39
  we are looking forward to the playoffs and I want to say congratulations to all
• 56:44
  the teams that have made it. We have some big games coming up this
• 56:46
  weekend and the weather is going to be well, a mixed bag, I
• 56:51
  suppose, but overall there are chances for rain and some win chances. So
• 56:57
  we're looking at the games on Friday afternoon at four and then early evening at
• 57:01
  six, and then seven, and then a game on Saturday night at five
• 57:07
  o'clock. So it's really hard at this time of the year to nail down
• 57:12
  exact time of rain and showers. Sometimes in between systems. Friday Thursday night
• 57:16
  into Friday, which I know is not a game night, does look rainy,
• 57:20
  and then it looks like there might be some dry time on Friday with
• 57:22
  shower chances. It's when and where those showers end up on Friday night and
• 57:28
  win when the next system how quickly it gets in. So I'm calling for
• 57:32
  a chance of showers slash chance of rain for Friday night with the potential of
• 57:36
  some breezy wins, especially over by the water. So I'm thinking, well,
• 57:39
  I guess all the games are along the water, Blaine, Ferndale,
• 57:43
  and Bellingham, so possibly some win there. I don't know if it'll be
• 57:46
  crazy, it might be a little bit stronger over night hours. Saturday also
• 57:51
  looks like rain chances, but it might be It's very possible that these games
• 57:57
  aren't too wet, but definitely chance to rain and chance the showers for both
• 58:01
  Friday night and Saturday night, and win chances is probably a little bit higher
• 58:06
  for Friday than this Saturday. Overall attempts will be in the upper forties,
• 58:09
  low fifties. I don't think it's going to be a bad bad night either
• 58:13
  one of them, although you never know, especially the way this November has
• 58:17
  started out. Okay, I hope everybody enjoys following your favorite team in the
• 58:22
  postseason. I hope everybody in Walkam County gets to win this week Man of
• 58:28
  the people that Randy Small, he hopes everybody in Walkame County gets a win.
• 58:31
  Yeah, thank you again to Randy for his forecast and providing that one
• 58:37
  or all four win this weekend. We'll have them back again next week to
• 58:40
  talk about the Tyler. Do you want to tell people when you started considering
• 58:44
  going to the volleyball State Termay, you want to tell people what the first
• 58:45
  thing you did was. Yeah, so there's lots of things, you know,
• 58:50
  I had to wait, you know, the difference. Do I go
• 58:52
  to as many football games as I can. I can't go to all of
• 58:54
  them because they're kind of jumbled together. So that kind of turned me off
• 58:58
  from that. So I was like, well, I could go State volleyball.
• 59:00
  But I've never been to the Yakama Sundome. I've been past there.
• 59:05
  I've been to Richland a bunch of times, but I've never been to the
• 59:07
  Yakama Sundome. And I was worried about the past because it's November and I
• 59:12
  have a little car, and I was like, oh man, this might
• 59:15
  not be good. The first thing I did I texted Randy Small. I
• 59:17
  said, Okay, Randy, I'm thinking about going to Yakama on Thursday,
• 59:22
  coming back on Sunday. Do I have to worry about the past, And
• 59:24
  of course he gave me the whole weather report. It was awesome. He
• 59:29
  was quick with the reply too, which I was. I didn't think I
• 59:30
  would be because I know how busy he is. So you know, here's
• 59:35
  a funny start. I was in Vegas once years ago during in January when
• 59:40
  there was Washington or Walking County got hit by a huge snowstorm and my car
• 59:46
  was at the airport at Bellingham Airport and I was thinking about staying an extra
• 59:53
  night because I didn't know if i'd be able to get out of the airport
• 59:57
  like drive off, and I I texted Randy Small. I'd never met him
• 1:00:01
  before, and I texted him and I said, Hey, Randy, this
• 1:00:05
  here's my scenario blah blah. And he's like, well, if you landed
• 1:00:07
  this time, you should be able to get out because there's a warm front
• 1:00:09
  coming to the I was like, man, this is awesome. This is
• 1:00:13
  before I ever met him. Yeah, And he's just the nicest guy and
• 1:00:16
  really really cool and glad to call him a friend and see him on the
• 1:00:21
  sideline and he's always got a smile and just a wonderful person. Yeah,
• 1:00:25
  that's a guy that just loves what he does, you know what I mean.
• 1:00:29
  He's just he's always having a good time. And it's always fun anytime
• 1:00:32
  I get a chance to run into him, it's always fun to talk to
• 1:00:35
  him for a little bit. And you know, he's such a nut job.
• 1:00:37
  It's so funny. I mean, he wants to help everybody else.
• 1:00:40
  That's what he serves, like, that's his passion. The thing that's funny
• 1:00:45
  is the way that you and I are just being complete nut jobs about high
• 1:00:46
  school football. He is about the weather, you know what I mean,
• 1:00:50
  Like we've all got our own thing, right, and that's what he's passionate
• 1:00:52
  about. And man, he's he does an incredible job. The fact that
• 1:00:55
  he was able to look up from like nineteen eighty or night was like nineteen
• 1:01:00
  ninety two and just like pull it out like, hey, by the way,
• 1:01:02
  guys, with that that one that you were talking about, this is
• 1:01:04
  what it was. Ye oh sorry, but yeah, so uh so yeah,
• 1:01:10
  uh there's the weather forecast and yeah, like I said, well we'll
• 1:01:15
  we'll have them on and I know I joked about it before, but maybe
• 1:01:19
  we do have like a hey, what does the weather forecast look like this
• 1:01:21
  week for basketball? Just to let people know, like, hey, if
• 1:01:23
  you're walking from your car at this time of the day, you might want
• 1:01:25
  to have a coat on, you know, I mean, it's never a
• 1:01:29
  bad thing. Or hey, if you're going to that double header out there
• 1:01:31
  at Lyndon and uh when the boys get done, you know, maybe it's
• 1:01:35
  gonna be ten to fifteen at night, Hey, bring your coat. It
• 1:01:38
  could be poured down rain. You just yea, you never know, Tyler,
• 1:01:44
  We're on to the guest picker here. Huh yeah, the pick'ems.
• 1:01:46
  Let's do it. Andrew Olsen, he is our head coach Andy Olsen of
• 1:01:53
  Blaine High School. He is our guest picker this week. And the guest
• 1:01:58
  picker is actually doing better than Joe Consensus at the moment, right or they
• 1:02:01
  tie the guests, they are ahead of Joe. It's it's the guests have
• 1:02:06
  been on fire this year. But it also kind of shows that there's been
• 1:02:08
  some weird, you know, outcomes here and there and and why it's why
• 1:02:13
  the consensus might be down a little bit. Yeah, uh, it's yeah,
• 1:02:15
  it's been a fun year. It's been interesting. Well, it's weird
• 1:02:17
  because in theory, the Joe Consensus should almost win every single year. Absolutely,
• 1:02:23
  you know, you just should. But there's always like one of our
• 1:02:25
  it's always like one of our goals to just to beat Joe Consensus. That's
• 1:02:30
  always been my goal. I just want to beat Joe. That's all I
• 1:02:31
  ever wanted to do is beat Joe. And then you know, I won
• 1:02:35
  the one year and last year didn't do so well and this year I'm right
• 1:02:38
  on the heels. Now. It's kind of like getting on Google Maps and
• 1:02:40
  you're like, you know you're gonna arrive at twelve sixteen, and you're just
• 1:02:45
  like, it's like, man, I'm gonna arrive at twelve fifteen. I
• 1:02:46
  don't know what you're talking about. The heck with you with Google, I'm
• 1:02:49
  showing up early. Yeah, and Google's not even gonna see it coming.
• 1:02:53
  That being said, Tyler, you are in last place. So as of
• 1:02:57
  right now, nobody sees you coming twenty seven and then right, let's see,
• 1:03:02
  it would be not last place, but close. Is jo consensus at
• 1:03:06
  fifty three or yeah, fifty three and twenty four Connor and the guests.
• 1:03:10
  So this week Andy Olsen fifty four and twenty three, I am now fifty
• 1:03:15
  five and twenty two, and Nate leading the way fifty six and twenty one.
• 1:03:19
  So I am right there now that being said, Tyler, yeah,
• 1:03:23
  this week's games are all over the place on the schedule as far as the
• 1:03:28
  pick thems though, see if you can follow me here. All right,
• 1:03:31
  okay, okay, okay, everybody is picking Nooksack Valley to win, Okay,
• 1:03:37
  Lynden to win, Lynden Christian to win, and then Ferndale though everybody's
• 1:03:44
  picking them to win, so nobody's moving this week. There's no ground to
• 1:03:49
  be had. So that being said, Tyler, you're still going to be
• 1:03:52
  in last place, just so you know, Yeah, that's true. This
• 1:03:55
  is this is omer week. Yes, and uh, you know we'll take
• 1:04:00
  it. That's just uh, you know, hey, it is you know
• 1:04:02
  what, Tyler. I think as far as you go, as long as
• 1:04:04
  you are fifty four and whatever it is, your big loss total is as
• 1:04:09
  long as you get those four wins, you're going to be a happy CAMMERA
• 1:04:12
  yes, but so well everybody else. And that's you know, it's uh
• 1:04:15
  yeah, I mean you weren't going to catch anybody this week anyway. I
• 1:04:16
  mean that's true, that's true. That being said, Tyler, the last
• 1:04:20
  thing we got to do here is we got to pick our fantasy teams.
• 1:04:24
  Uh. Speaking of last place, Tyler, you're also in last place in
• 1:04:26
  the fantasy league. Now that's just between you and me. But you are
• 1:04:31
  way down now, Tyler. Let's go back to week three, No,
• 1:04:34
  week four, okay four, Yes, you're three and one on the year.
• 1:04:40
  Yeah, looking good. You had to have been feeling great about yourself.
• 1:04:43
  Yeah, I mean you had to have been feeling really good, like
• 1:04:45
  hey, because remember last year I got you and I think it was that
• 1:04:48
  was last year our first year. No, we did it before, but
• 1:04:50
  I don't think I don't know that we kept standings the year before, right,
• 1:04:56
  But that being said, like, I mean, I kind of kicked
• 1:04:57
  your butt all over the place last year and then you know, allowed you
• 1:05:00
  to get back into it late. But that being said, Tyler, you
• 1:05:05
  had to feel great about where you were at only to go on a six
• 1:05:10
  game losing streak. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of the
• 1:05:14
  same as like my life. I kind of look at it like what like
• 1:05:17
  like like before I was in even in kindergarten, I was really smart,
• 1:05:20
  Like I was. I learned how to read when I was like two.
• 1:05:24
  I was doing long division when I was like three. Were you also like
• 1:05:27
  taller than everybody else at those ages? And then and then you hit kindergarten,
• 1:05:31
  it was just like when you were gone everybody else, it was just
• 1:05:34
  I felt so advanced, and then it was just like then you hit long
• 1:05:40
  division, which was basically week four. Yeah. No, I know,
• 1:05:43
  I loved long division. I was doing it when I was like three years
• 1:05:45
  old, like I I everything came really easy early on, and then it
• 1:05:50
  just kind of like everyone caught up and lapped me all of a sudden.
• 1:05:55
  Geometry algebra, Yeah, it's just it's just one of those weird things.
• 1:05:59
  And maybe don't know. I mean, what's that you had to sit in
• 1:06:02
  the second row and you couldn't see the board. Oh yeah, that's true.
• 1:06:05
  And it's not just a glasses thing. That's a short joke. And
• 1:06:09
  that's actually it was not glasses at all, because I got them too.
• 1:06:12
  Yeah, although mine was I noticed where I noticed I kind of needed glasses
• 1:06:17
  somehow, And I don't know how I ended up at the very back of
• 1:06:19
  the class. Doesn't seem like something I would pick, but I ended up
• 1:06:25
  at the back of the class. And yeah, I couldn't see the board.
• 1:06:27
  I remember squinting, squinting one day, going yeah, this isn't gonna
• 1:06:30
  work too well. Yeah, that happened to me at baseball practice. We
• 1:06:33
  were practicing in the in the field house because it was raining outside and we're
• 1:06:38
  just taking grounders and doing infield and stuff like that, and and I I
• 1:06:43
  got hit in the face with the baseball twice because I couldn't see the ball.
• 1:06:46
  And that bad. My goodness. Yeah, the lighting in there was
• 1:06:50
  like kind of had like a weird orange tint and the balls were not like
• 1:06:54
  brand new white. Yeah, and like a little bit of a shadow in
• 1:06:58
  a way, or you know what I mean. Like it, I just
• 1:07:00
  couldn't see the ball and I got hit in the face twice. I'll never
• 1:07:01
  forget that. And I went home after practice and told my dad. I
• 1:07:05
  was like, we have to go to lens Crafters now, like I have
• 1:07:09
  to get glasses. Now. You're like, you're like either a I'm awful
• 1:07:14
  at baseball, which can't be what it is, or be I need glasses.
• 1:07:17
  Well, my younger sister, my older brother, they both had glasses
• 1:07:19
  to that point. And I knew, you know, it was gonna come
• 1:07:23
  anyways. And you guys were sitting too close to the TV as kids,
• 1:07:27
  Tyler, Yeah, that's what. I'm close to the computer screen for me,
• 1:07:30
  even as a kid. Oh yeah, I was working on spreadsheets with
• 1:07:33
  stats like Seahawks stats and stuff. Oh that's right, Yeah, you talked
• 1:07:38
  an old mac. Yeah. Yeah, because I give you access to the
• 1:07:40
  PR give you access to the Seahawks PR stats and everything. And remember I
• 1:07:45
  remember the first thing you did is you were like, oh my god,
• 1:07:47
  they've got the the PDF of the actual score or the actual handwritten Yeah,
• 1:07:53
  the handwritten ones from the eighties, And we were looking at it, and
• 1:07:56
  then we both went to the same one. We both started cracking up because
• 1:07:58
  it said like the weather was written in by hand and the time and like
• 1:08:01
  everything, and it was like, wow, this is actually unbelievable. I
• 1:08:04
  think you and I spent probably forty five minutes of we were supposed to be
• 1:08:06
  recording. Sometimes people wonder, why are you guys recording at like one am.
• 1:08:11
  Well, the first forty five minutes we were looking at box scords from
• 1:08:13
  eighty five. I mean we had to do that, right, Like yeah,
• 1:08:16
  you know, that's one of those things where you've ever seen some of
• 1:08:19
  those like videos where it's like, you know, like a woman and she
• 1:08:25
  thinks like, oh, he must be cheating on me. Then they show
• 1:08:27
  the guy and it's him and his buddies sitting around trying to bounce quarters into
• 1:08:30
  a cup or something, you know what I mean, like competing on stupid
• 1:08:31
  stuff like that. Like I still do that with my buddies. We just
• 1:08:34
  sit there and start naming off old baseball players, and you just go and
• 1:08:36
  tell who knows what you know what I mean, likes there's no endgame to
• 1:08:41
  this. Yeah, that was always a game where at work, where people
• 1:08:45
  would come up to me and just give me an athlete and I had to
• 1:08:47
  say, what college you went to? Yeah? I still do that.
• 1:08:50
  Yeah, And I got stumped once and I couldn't believe it, and so
• 1:08:56
  he still gives me crap about it, like twenty years later, but it
• 1:08:59
  was Jeff HORNI sack and I'm like, how come I can't picture Jeff Hornseck
• 1:09:03
  in college? Was it Kansas? No? Iowa State? Iowa State?
• 1:09:08
  And I'll never forget that now, you know. But yeah, it's fun,
• 1:09:12
  fun stuff, That's what. There's a coach on the staff at Bothel,
• 1:09:15
  coach Greg China. He's our defensive line coach, really good coach,
• 1:09:18
  but he he and I like to do that with Seahawks players, just throw
• 1:09:23
  random players out there and you got to name the college. And we were
• 1:09:26
  both going back and forth, and I was actually really surprised at how good
• 1:09:29
  he was at this, because you know, up until probably four or five
• 1:09:31
  years ago, I could name every single player. I could name every single
• 1:09:34
  college, you know, what I mean, like that was one of my
• 1:09:35
  things. Yeah, and he was like, when we're going toe to toe
• 1:09:40
  and then I hit him with Leonard Weaver. Oh my goodness, the full
• 1:09:44
  back. Yeah, the fullback. I do not know, Are you sure?
• 1:09:48
  Yeah? Yeah, I'm sure. I mean on once I once I
• 1:09:51
  went all in on walking preps, A lot of that old knowledge just went
• 1:09:55
  away. So he went to Carson Newman University in Nevada, in uh now,
• 1:10:00
  in Tennessee. I think it is. Oh, okay, I think
• 1:10:04
  it is. Don't don't quote me on that one, but yeah, that's
• 1:10:08
  I threw that one out there and he was like, what, like,
• 1:10:11
  how the heck do you know that one? And I'm like, I have
• 1:10:14
  no idea. Well too, that's one of the ones. There are two
• 1:10:17
  amazing Seahawks went to tiny schools. Dave Craig, he went to a school
• 1:10:24
  that's not even around anymore, is it, Milton Yep, No, I
• 1:10:26
  don't think the school even exists anymore, right, And it didn't exist like
• 1:10:30
  it was like three or four years after he got the NFL, like it
• 1:10:31
  was pretty early. And Chris Warren, Chris Warren, I don't know where
• 1:10:36
  he went fare I've never heard of that one. Yeah, I think he
• 1:10:41
  went to a big school and he didn't cut it, yeah, at grades
• 1:10:44
  wise, and then he went to Fareham University, which I think was in
• 1:10:47
  Virginia. Knowing him, that sounds like something that would happen, not cut
• 1:10:50
  it grades wise, not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. So I'm
• 1:10:55
  just looking at Carson there is fast. Yeah, no, he really is.
• 1:11:00
  I'm looking at Carson Newman really quickly because I'm just now intrigued. Right,
• 1:11:02
  Yeah, Steve c shk also from there the picture Todd Collins, the
• 1:11:09
  quarterback, former quarterback. And then there was one other one that I recognized.
• 1:11:15
  Oh, Chris Jones, the former punter for the Cowboys. Oh wow,
• 1:11:18
  Todd Collins. Isn't that a isn't that like a drink too? That's
• 1:11:23
  a Tom Collins. Oh, I'm sorry. Tracy Smothers, How do I
• 1:11:27
  know that names a pro wrestler? Says did he have a name, a
• 1:11:32
  nickname? Tennessee? Tracy Smothers, Nashville. Oh no, that's where he's
• 1:11:39
  built from it says here he was in w CW for a while. So
• 1:11:42
  who was he in w CW? Now I need to know here Tyler rabbit
• 1:11:46
  Hole. He was. He was part of the Wild Eyed Southern Boys with
• 1:11:51
  Kevin Sullivan and Cactus Jack. Oh wait, no, that's who they've wrestled.
• 1:11:56
  Yeah, I don't know. Pretty wild, but yeah, Carson Newman,
• 1:11:59
  that was one that we threw out there. But uh well, Tyler,
• 1:12:01
  you are three and seven. I'm seven and three in the fantasy.
• 1:12:04
  We're back to fantasy now. That being said, if I win this week,
• 1:12:09
  you have no chance at winning, right if you win this week,
• 1:12:14
  we still got some stuff to figure out here. So yeah, we need
• 1:12:16
  we need teams to get to the Husky Stadium. Really yeah, yeah,
• 1:12:20
  So here's the thing. You need it for the pick ems. Yeah,
• 1:12:24
  you definitely need it for the fantasy because, yeah, you gotta get kind
• 1:12:30
  of lucky here. Really, what you need though, in the Pick THEMS
• 1:12:31
  is you need a couple of us to start picking teams outside the county so
• 1:12:33
  that you can keep picking them inside and then they keep winning and they go
• 1:12:36
  unfortunately for you, probably just not gonna happen. This kind of bodes well
• 1:12:41
  because kind of my fantasy is to see a state championship game at Usky Stadium,
• 1:12:45
  So it kinda is all coming together I think, by the way,
• 1:12:48
  if that if there happens to be state championships, like if if you come
• 1:12:53
  down for it. Yeah, I know the place we're going to eat.
• 1:12:57
  I'm sure you do. I know the place. And it's not Dick's driving.
• 1:13:00
  We're going to Varlamos. It's right just on the north side, on
• 1:13:03
  the north parking lot off off the north side there. When I say this,
• 1:13:08
  this isn't a joke. They have col zones the size of footballs.
• 1:13:12
  Oh my goodness, they are freaking huge. But they are unbelievably good.
• 1:13:15
  I mean, oh, it's so good. Yeah, and I actually think
• 1:13:19
  they might even advertise it, the size of footballs. They're cal zones,
• 1:13:23
  but they're all meat one yeah, oh football, football zones. Football.
• 1:13:29
  Yeah. So Tyler, why don't you go ahead and pick? Uh,
• 1:13:31
  you have the first pick, and then I get the next two, and
• 1:13:33
  then we go to to to two. All right, Well, again,
• 1:13:36
  this is tough because we can't pick players from last week and we're limited to
• 1:13:40
  just four teams now, so we've got to get a little more creative here.
• 1:13:43
  Almost. Yeah, I'm gonna go offensive line. Linden Christian I saw
• 1:13:50
  what nooks like Valley's offensive line did to Connell, and I think Linden Christian
• 1:13:56
  can move the ball on them as well. So I'm going to go Linden
• 1:13:59
  Christian offensive line. Yeah, something tells me that's a pick that's gonna have
• 1:14:01
  a lot of points. I am gonna go. See. This is where
• 1:14:08
  it gets hard, because you know, you're looking at matchups and we don't
• 1:14:11
  know these teams nearly as well. I mean, like Bumbertown, I don't
• 1:14:15
  know really much about them. I know that the old head coach at at
• 1:14:20
  Auburn Mountainview, I think he's the DC there. I know a player that
• 1:14:25
  I used to coach when when when he was a kid, Aaron Watson.
• 1:14:28
  He's out there coaching I think the linebackers. He was in the Navy.
• 1:14:30
  Now he's coaching there in Bumbertown. Yeah, Connell, you've seen him.
• 1:14:36
  You you know more about Connell than I do. It's probably never been the
• 1:14:41
  case. And then uh yeah, I mean Cascade Christian. We don't really
• 1:14:45
  know a whole lot about them. Yeah, I mean this is tough.
• 1:14:49
  I'm gonna go. I'm gonna double up here. I'm going offense and defense,
• 1:14:56
  and I'm going Cadence Stite. I'm going, uh receiver, tight end
• 1:15:00
  whatever he is there, whatever you want to call it. And then I'm
• 1:15:02
  gonna go I'm going going front seven with Kayden State. Okay, so two
• 1:15:11
  times stight okay, yes, which uh oh yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah,
• 1:15:15
  we're good, We're good. I I'm gonna go out to wide receiver
• 1:15:25
  and I'm gonna go with the hot hand. Corey Olney has really put up
• 1:15:29
  some numbers recently at wide receiver, and so I'm gonna go with him.
• 1:15:34
  And because I think, you know, they might have to throw quite a
• 1:15:39
  bit maybe you know, against Cascade Christians. So I'm gonna do with that.
• 1:15:42
  And then uh, I think I'm gonna go with the quarterback to Joey
• 1:15:47
  Brown. I think that the numbers he's put up, as people go,
• 1:15:51
  oh, they're not good numbers, but if you look at all the the
• 1:15:55
  numbers that matter, the percentages, the averages, all that stuff, his
• 1:16:00
  completion percentage this year is the highest in Walking County history for a single season
• 1:16:04
  ever. You know, it's and it's and I know that, you know
• 1:16:09
  I could say that and then it could drop down and you know, I,
• 1:16:12
  yeah, Tyler, why did you do that? Well? I did
• 1:16:14
  it with Holden Bates last week with the school records for rushing average, and
• 1:16:17
  he upped it. Okay, all right, so I'm I'm I'm trusted.
• 1:16:21
  Yeah, but now I have to root against him. And it happened at
• 1:16:25
  Civic Stadium, and this is gonna be at Civic Stadium. So there's good
• 1:16:28
  mojo here. So I'm gonna go Corey Only wide receiver and Joey Brown quarterback.
• 1:16:31
  All right, I went what I do here, wide receiver, front
• 1:16:34
  seven. So I'm gonna go. Uh, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
• 1:16:41
  go. Linden Christian's defense. I feel like they're gonna shut down maybe pick
• 1:16:45
  six or two. Who's the guy that has all the fumble recoveries for them?
• 1:16:49
  Yeah, Jeremiah Wright has a couple of defensive touchdowns and Trey Bossman has
• 1:16:54
  a couple of defensive touchdowns as well, So let's go boys, here we
• 1:16:57
  go. And he had a defensive touchdown last year and Brody Bowman had two
• 1:17:00
  pick sixes last year too. This is a very opportunistic defense, yes,
• 1:17:03
  and when Caden Stite returns one for a touchdown, that's gonna double up points
• 1:17:08
  for me. So I like that. I didn't even think about that until
• 1:17:11
  just now. Uh, and then I'm gonna go I'm gonna go kick her,
• 1:17:15
  and I'm gonna go. H I'm gonna go with the big leg of
• 1:17:17
  Malachi Canaan. Ah. Yes, yeah, I want to. I mean
• 1:17:23
  I bet on the turf there. I mean he's been kicking on grass most
• 1:17:25
  of the year, exactly what I'm thinking. Yeah, I bet he could.
• 1:17:28
  But he could kick a field goal if needed pretty easily. He kicked
• 1:17:31
  a forty yarder at Lakewood. I mean, you get to kick one west
• 1:17:34
  from the bike track'd be awesome, hook it around, yeah, and it
• 1:17:41
  would go through both uprights. Yeah right? Six points? Uh okay,
• 1:17:46
  Well, I need to look at defense. I haven't done any defense,
• 1:17:49
  no team defense yet, no individual guys. So and again in the playoffs.
• 1:17:56
  Man, it's tough looking defensive wise. What's that? I I think
• 1:18:00
  I'm gonna go front seven. John Stremler, I think I've picked him a
• 1:18:06
  few times, but my goodness, he blitzed a few times last week and
• 1:18:13
  came up you know aces because he got a couple of sacks forced fumble.
• 1:18:16
  Uh. Still good in past coverage too, and a lot of like highlight
• 1:18:19
  type of plays big hits, so I think he's poised to have a big
• 1:18:25
  game. And then in the back seven, I'm gonna go with Bishop Bootsy.
• 1:18:30
  I know Laura, miss Walker Preps, will be excited. That's her
• 1:18:33
  favorite player. He does so much, you know, on offense as a
• 1:18:41
  leader and a quarterback and everything. But his ability on the back seven.
• 1:18:44
  I think he leads Walker County and passes defended. He's just he's always in
• 1:18:48
  the right place. And if Mount Dahoma wants to spread it out, you
• 1:18:54
  know, they might, you know, they might put Bishop on the kind
• 1:18:57
  of the main guy and so he might have to throw because they might be
• 1:19:00
  down, like, yeah, some interesting factors there. It could be.
• 1:19:04
  Yeah, And he's he's just he's the special player that seems to be in
• 1:19:08
  around the ball a lot. We'll tell you what, Tyler. I've been
• 1:19:11
  looking over the rosters here. M hm. I doubled up on Caden's stite
• 1:19:16
  at receiver in front seven. I'm doubling up on Connor Walker running back back
• 1:19:23
  seven. You did it last week, it didn't work out for you.
• 1:19:26
  I'm going to show you how it's done this week. Ah. I see
• 1:19:29
  that's how it's working out here. I tell you what, I'm sure Coach
• 1:19:31
  Best is just loving this because you know, you got Stite and Walker now
• 1:19:36
  and I've got the All Eastern team basically. Yeah, yeah, although Canaan
• 1:19:42
  might go bigger than you know he might, Yeah he might. Okay,
• 1:19:47
  So running back in back seven for you. So I'm going to take kicker
• 1:19:54
  Cayden Eldridge from Ferndale. He's he's got a big leg and I don't I
• 1:19:59
  don't. I think I may have seen him missed once since he took over
• 1:20:01
  the kicking duties halfway through the year, and he I think this is gonna
• 1:20:06
  be a really close game and it could be a game winning field goal.
• 1:20:09
  It could be a field goal that's kicked early that ends up, you know,
• 1:20:13
  making it a thirty one to twenty eight game or something like that.
• 1:20:15
  So I think that I think that it'll be a close game, and I
• 1:20:17
  think he could be a big difference in it. He's gonna have to make
• 1:20:19
  all his extra points so and he, like I said, he has the
• 1:20:21
  ability to make one from forty yards out. So I'm gonna go Cayden Eldridge
• 1:20:26
  from Ferndale as my kicker, and I'm gonna go Colton Lentz at running back,
• 1:20:30
  the guy who gave us the intro. I think they're going to try
• 1:20:32
  to feature him and get him the ball early and and try to wear out
• 1:20:36
  the Cascade Christian defense. I'm no coach, I mean I am technically now.
• 1:20:42
  Well, I was just gonna say, yeah, if I'm nug Zach
• 1:20:45
  Valley myself, I probably run Skyler Winter in the whole game. I'm just
• 1:20:48
  saying that. Being said, Tyler, I still need a quarterback and I
• 1:20:53
  need an offensive line, and I am going to go with I'm gonna stick
• 1:20:59
  on the you know, I'm a little linen Christian heavy this week, but
• 1:21:01
  I'm gonna go with Jeremiah Wright. You know, Tyler. The only thing
• 1:21:05
  that's interesting and and I didn't really put much thought of this. You know,
• 1:21:11
  we're talking uh you know, Randy Small talking potential, you know,
• 1:21:15
  wind and weather. Yeah, yeah, you know, so, man,
• 1:21:20
  this might have been a week to take Bishop Bootsy. Maybe they're gonna run
• 1:21:24
  him over at for and Dell. You just never know. Well, you
• 1:21:26
  know what he did talk about, uh, Friday during the day kind of
• 1:21:31
  like the sun coming back out with maybe some showers and that game on Friday
• 1:21:35
  is kind of early four o'clock game, you know, so Elsie could take
• 1:21:42
  advantage of that weather pattern. They've played great when it doesn't rain, and
• 1:21:45
  they've struggled when it did rain. So I know what you're saying. But
• 1:21:46
  uh, but he's a good he's a dual threat too, so he can
• 1:21:49
  you know, and he's been throwing the ball a lot better the last few
• 1:21:54
  weeks. Uh, you know, he's he's putting up numbers. Say what,
• 1:21:58
  Tyler, just looking at the at the rosters here, I could have
• 1:22:01
  this thing in the bag by by five thirty. Yeah, because you got
• 1:22:06
  all your guys going early. Yeah, well, I know, not not
• 1:22:10
  necessary because Lennon Christian's offensive line for you, does that? Oh that's true.
• 1:22:14
  That's true. That's a big, big points score of those offensive lines.
• 1:22:16
  Yeah. Yeah. Uh. And then I need an offensive line.
• 1:22:19
  So I'm gonna go with old reliable here, and I'm gonna pick I'm gonna
• 1:22:21
  pick the Linden offensive line. Yes, the fighting Kaiper rossinks, Yes,
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  Yes. And who's the guy that I really like seventy eight? No,
• 1:22:32
  who's the who's the kid that played a little bit as a freshman last year?
• 1:22:38
  Oh, Carter Reeling Is that his name? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:22:42
  yeah, they've and you know, benn A Rod has been starting since
• 1:22:44
  he was a sophomore. Blake Holman's awesome. Oh yeah, I like Holme,
• 1:22:47
  Ryan, Ryan van Berkham, the big six seven junior. Yeah,
• 1:22:51
  it's a it's a good they They had a kid that started a game too.
• 1:23:00
  I better get the name right. I think it was Zachdikstra and he's
• 1:23:04
  a freshman. He started a game at guard this year and he's at Linden,
• 1:23:08
  not living Christian. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think that
• 1:23:12
  was allowed, right, Well, I mean it's crazy, it's it's uh
• 1:23:15
  well, you know Jeff Dykstra was is was Logan's dad. He played at
• 1:23:21
  Linden. Okay, so it hasn't been allowed in twenty five years? How
• 1:23:25
  about that? Okay, there you go, all right? Uh so yeah,
• 1:23:27
  Linden's offense line always always strong. I only all I need to pick
• 1:23:30
  is a defense, and I just you know, I gotta keep my eye
• 1:23:39
  on Whitman's defense. Well, I mean, hey man, they make adjustments,
• 1:23:47
  they bend but don't break. They got playmakers on all levels. I
• 1:23:55
  think kyper Ostink, even as a defensive lineman, has really broken out and
• 1:23:59
  been one of the better defensive like down linemen that they've had in a long
• 1:24:02
  time. And uh so he kind of has kind of tilted it towards instead
• 1:24:10
  of guys just kind of mucking things up. He's making plays in the backfield
• 1:24:13
  and that that that is helping. Uh you know linebacker corps, you know
• 1:24:16
  airs and Autman and guys back there, Welch and more, and it's a
• 1:24:21
  it's a good overall group. They're always really strong and and we'll see what
• 1:24:26
  happens. It seems like they they don't do anything flashy a lot in the
• 1:24:30
  regular season, and then the playoffs hit and then you start seeing like pick
• 1:24:32
  sixes and stuff. Yeah, so we'll see. It's gonna be a lot
• 1:24:35
  of fun. Quarterback. I got Jeremiah Wright. You have Joey Brown running
• 1:24:40
  back. You've got Colton Lentz. I have Connor Walker wide receiver. You
• 1:24:45
  have who is it, Corey Olney. I have Caden Stite. Offensive line,
• 1:24:49
  Linden Christian for you, Linden for me. Defense, Linden for you,
• 1:24:55
  Linden Christian for me. Uh. Front seven, I've got Cayden Stite.
• 1:24:59
  You have John streem Or back seven, You've got Bishop Utzi, and
• 1:25:01
  I have Connor Walker, and then the Kickers Cayden Eldridge not Kate Cayden Eldridge,
• 1:25:08
  and Malachi Canaan not Michael Malachi. There's a lot of names here,
• 1:25:12
  Tyler that just like everybody like you've heard him over and over and over again.
• 1:25:15
  Yeah. That being said, Tyler, I'm seven and three year three
• 1:25:18
  and seven. Just want to remind everybody, especially you, of that record.
• 1:25:21
  I appreciate. I think that's it. I think we're done, Yeah,
• 1:25:26
  I think so. Nothing else. All kinds of stuff going on over
• 1:25:29
  at Walcome Preps walkompreps dot com, so we'll be sure to head over there
• 1:25:32
  before we get out. We want to give another thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm.
• 1:25:35
  Be sure to check out their website kurtmaberry Farm dot com find out what
• 1:25:40
  they got going on. Uh yeah, let's see. This is episode at
• 1:25:43
  two nine, a preview of the first round of the state tournament here on
• 1:25:45
  the Walkom Preps podcast. He's Tyler Anderson. I'm Ryland Spencer. We will
• 1:25:49
  talk to you next week.