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- 0:00Speaker 1: This is Mount Baker senior Kalan Jeule and you're listening
- 0:02Speaker 1: to the Walkham Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Baker. Greetings,
- 0:16Speaker 1: and welcome into the walcom Preps podcast. This is episode
- 0:20Speaker 1: three hundred and forty five, a spring sports weekly wrap up.
- 0:24Speaker 1: I'm Tyler Anderson of Walkham Preps, going solo again. Ryland
- 0:28Speaker 1: is busy moving and not moving away, not far away,
- 0:34Speaker 1: still going to be in the King County area, so
- 0:37Speaker 1: he'll be back next week, I'm sure, But for right now,
- 0:41Speaker 1: I'm gonna do my best with this. And this is
- 0:43Speaker 1: not only the weekly spring sports wrap up, but it's
- 0:48Speaker 1: also Easter Sunday when I'm recording this late and my birthday,
- 0:52Speaker 1: so crazy, crazy day, a lot of stuff going on.
- 0:55Speaker 1: Thank you, so many, thank you to so many people
- 0:57Speaker 1: that reached out and said happy birthday and sent me
- 1:00Speaker 1: some well wishes and send me some other stuff too,
- 1:04Speaker 1: which I'll get into in a little bit. But I
- 1:06Speaker 1: also want to thank Kaylin Jewel of Mount Baker senior
- 1:10Speaker 1: track athlete that has been doing great at the triple
- 1:14Speaker 1: jump the last few years, and then she just went
- 1:15Speaker 1: out and did the hurdles, the one hundred meter hurdles
- 1:18Speaker 1: at the last event that I was at out at
- 1:20Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian High School, which was cool to see. And
- 1:23Speaker 1: she's the perfect athlete for that event because she's fast
- 1:26Speaker 1: and she can jump, and you know, I mean, that's
- 1:30Speaker 1: that's that's perfect. And when an athlete can do multiple
- 1:33Speaker 1: events like that and it doesn't really interfere with the
- 1:36Speaker 1: same time when your other events are going, I think
- 1:38Speaker 1: that's a really cool thing. So congratulations to her on
- 1:41Speaker 1: trying out a new event. And she's just an amazing person.
- 1:45Speaker 1: I mean, just just wait, you know, twenty thirty years
- 1:48Speaker 1: from now, I hope I get to vote for her
- 1:50Speaker 1: for president of the United States because she is that
- 1:54Speaker 1: kind of person. She's amazing. And we can get right
- 1:59Speaker 1: into it here, but before I do, I just want
- 2:00Speaker 1: to thank uh, everybody out there that has donated the
- 2:06Speaker 1: last couple of days, you know, this past week, I've
- 2:10Speaker 1: you know, I've talked to a lot of people and
- 2:12Speaker 1: for some reason, it just kind of came up a
- 2:14Speaker 1: few times where people were like, you should start a GoFundMe,
- 2:17Speaker 1: you know, just just so you can you know, benefit
- 2:22Speaker 1: a little bit from what you're doing. And and yeah,
- 2:25Speaker 1: I have sponsors and stuff like that. But it's it's
- 2:29Speaker 1: it's tough, and I you know, I drive around a
- 2:31Speaker 1: lot and do a lot of things, and and so
- 2:34Speaker 1: I just I think it might have been I don't know,
- 2:37Speaker 1: Friday night or something. I just put up a quick
- 2:39Speaker 1: GoFundMe and thought, oh, well's just see how it goes.
- 2:42Speaker 1: And and yeah, it's been amazing. And so many people
- 2:47Speaker 1: have reached out and they're like, you got to look
- 2:50Speaker 1: at this. The community loves you. They they really appreciate you.
- 2:53Speaker 1: And it just, you know, it just brought me to
- 2:55Speaker 1: tears so many times because I still can't really believe it.
- 2:58Speaker 1: I mean, I am working hard, and I know there's
- 3:01Speaker 1: that part of it, but it's it's it is really
- 3:07Speaker 1: what I feel like I was meant to do. So
- 3:11Speaker 1: it's a great thing. I love this community. I love
- 3:14Speaker 1: high school athletics, the I love all the support. I
- 3:17Speaker 1: love the support that I got when I played. So
- 3:19Speaker 1: I want to keep that going and and that's the
- 3:23Speaker 1: best way to do it. And there's so many of
- 3:24Speaker 1: you that have donated and it's just amazing. So it's
- 3:30Speaker 1: been a great weekend. Busy weekend, A lot of stuff
- 3:33Speaker 1: going on, a lot of stuff going on during the
- 3:34Speaker 1: week too that I'm going to get to right now.
- 3:37Speaker 1: We're gonna start off with boys golf and as far
- 3:40Speaker 1: as the current standings going, Meridian still sitting on top
- 3:43Speaker 1: in boys golf, Head of Oak Carbon, Burlington, Edison, Ferndale
- 3:47Speaker 1: still in fourth. Seeum jumped up to fifth, An of
- 3:50Speaker 1: Courtus Lennon, Christian Mount Vernon, Segar, William Niksack Valley rounding
- 3:53Speaker 1: out the top ten. During the week, there was some
- 3:57Speaker 1: events and not a whole lot has changed in the
- 4:00Speaker 1: top ten in Walkin County. As a matter of fact,
- 4:02Speaker 1: I think it's all the same ten names, just very
- 4:06Speaker 1: very little movement. Gavin Ennabel and Logan Jacobe. Gavin Nabel
- 4:11Speaker 1: from Ferndale, Logan Jacoby of Meridian, they're tied for ninth.
- 4:14Speaker 1: They're averaging eight They're averaging eighty seven in their eighteen hole.
- 4:18Speaker 1: Is their eighteen hole average, I should say. Peyton Abadie
- 4:21Speaker 1: of Mount Baker averaging eighty six. Evan Iisley jumped up
- 4:23Speaker 1: to seventh place from Bellingham. He's averaging eighty five point three.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Jackson Neva of Seahome eighty four, Nathan Larson of Meridian
- 4:32Speaker 1: eighty one. At fourth place, Jack Stapleton of Linden's seventy
- 4:37Speaker 1: nine point seven. Travis Brocky, the third of Ferndale is
- 4:40Speaker 1: averaging seventy eight point five, good enough for third place
- 4:43Speaker 1: in the county, second place Matthew Blankenberger Meridians seventy seven
- 4:46Speaker 1: point five, and of course first place still Daniel Blankenberg
- 4:50Speaker 1: of Meridian averaging seventy two point eight. So pretty incredible
- 4:55Speaker 1: season he's having so far. He's really locked in. I
- 4:58Speaker 1: got to watch a lot of these top golfers. It
- 5:01Speaker 1: was early in the week out at North Bellingham Course.
- 5:05Speaker 1: I got I walked a few holes with the top group.
- 5:07Speaker 1: I had Daniel Blankeberg, Travis Brocky the third, Jack Stapleton,
- 5:11Speaker 1: and Jackson Neva. And just watching them, you know, up
- 5:16Speaker 1: and down the course was you know, pretty amazing to
- 5:19Speaker 1: see just how straight they hit it, how far they
- 5:21Speaker 1: hit it, how well they put how well they chip
- 5:23Speaker 1: all that stuff. It was. It was really really cool
- 5:26Speaker 1: to see. And and thank you Coach Wood for lett
- 5:30Speaker 1: me hop onto the back of your golf cart there
- 5:33Speaker 1: and bring me out to the to the sixteenth hole.
- 5:37Speaker 1: And yeah, so I got to I guess I got
- 5:39Speaker 1: to see three holes with them. I got to walk
- 5:41Speaker 1: three holes with them, and and you know, it's tough
- 5:43Speaker 1: because I don't want to get in their way. I
- 5:46Speaker 1: don't want to be a distraction. But I want to
- 5:48Speaker 1: get good pictures and I want to watch. I want
- 5:50Speaker 1: to see what's going on. So hopefully I stayed out
- 5:52Speaker 1: of those guys as way. If I didn't, I'm sorry,
- 5:56Speaker 1: let me know so I know better for next time.
- 5:58Speaker 1: But I think I did the right thing. And I
- 6:01Speaker 1: really like that course, the North, the North Bellingham course,
- 6:03Speaker 1: probably because I'm allowed to wear shorts and all that stuff.
- 6:06Speaker 1: But but those guys have been doing great all year.
- 6:09Speaker 1: It's been kind of that same group. Nathan Larson keeps
- 6:13Speaker 1: bettering his story. He's so close to being under eighty
- 6:15Speaker 1: now on an average. Yeah, so it's kind of it's
- 6:19Speaker 1: kind of it's kind of the same group. We're getting
- 6:20Speaker 1: closer to postseason coming up, and we'll kind of see
- 6:23Speaker 1: how that goes, and uh, it'll be pretty exciting to
- 6:27Speaker 1: see jump to girls golf now and the standings still
- 6:31Speaker 1: kind of remain the same there as well. Oak Harbor leading.
- 6:33Speaker 1: There's no surprise there. They have I mean, my goodness,
- 6:36Speaker 1: they have like that something like four out of the
- 6:39Speaker 1: top seven golfers in the in the conference just in
- 6:43Speaker 1: that one school, so so no no surprise that they're
- 6:46Speaker 1: leading there. Brilinston Neededis and second, Meridian, third, Linden, fourth, Ferndale, fifth,
- 6:51Speaker 1: Senior Woollie sixth, squal Come, seventh, Blaine eighth, Mount Vernon
- 6:54Speaker 1: ninth and Nuksack Valley rounding out the top ten out
- 6:57Speaker 1: of the fifteen schools in the Northwest Conference competing in
- 7:00Speaker 1: girls golf this year. Uh and what in the Wakham
- 7:02Speaker 1: County top ten sorted by an eighteen hole average. This
- 7:06Speaker 1: was the first week that the girls were shooting eighteen holes,
- 7:09Speaker 1: So it's right after spring break and they go out
- 7:12Speaker 1: and shoot eighteen I got to go out and watch
- 7:14Speaker 1: them play at Loomis Trail uh later in the weekend.
- 7:17Speaker 1: It was my first time out at that course, and
- 7:18Speaker 1: so it was awesome. It looked really really cool, pretty challenging,
- 7:24Speaker 1: crazy wind that day. So I I, you know, I
- 7:27Speaker 1: was kind of leary about scoring. You know, how how
- 7:31Speaker 1: how tough was it gonna be? And again I walked
- 7:34Speaker 1: with the first group. I just watched the watch, walked
- 7:37Speaker 1: with them the first hole and Kinsley, Rector of Lindon
- 7:40Speaker 1: was was in that group, and I guess the first
- 7:43Speaker 1: two groups. I kind of saw them in the in
- 7:45Speaker 1: the whole nine and and it was it was. It
- 7:50Speaker 1: was amazing as well. I mean Kinsley Rector. She won
- 7:53Speaker 1: the She won the event and shot her best, you know,
- 7:58Speaker 1: probably her It was probably her best out of the season.
- 8:01Speaker 1: Her average is now eighty six, which is fourteen ahead,
- 8:05Speaker 1: fourteen better than the next golfer, so that she's way
- 8:08Speaker 1: out in front. I don't know if Fame was gonna
- 8:09Speaker 1: be able to catch her as far as an eighteen
- 8:11Speaker 1: old average for the season, but she had a she
- 8:15Speaker 1: had a tremendous event. You know, did everything right, did
- 8:19Speaker 1: everything you're supposed to do, nothing, you know, no bad holes.
- 8:22Speaker 1: Everything was was pretty good. I saw Jovi Jensen have
- 8:25Speaker 1: a shot where I don't know, she was probably I
- 8:29Speaker 1: don't know, thirty yards away, forty yards away and chipped
- 8:33Speaker 1: onto the green and was probably three feet away for
- 8:36Speaker 1: a putt right after that. It was a great, great shot.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Saw some really really good golf and that was awesome
- 8:41Speaker 1: to see. Second place is Emily O'Toole of Ferndale right
- 8:44Speaker 1: at one hundred Cali Tan of Meridian at one o three,
- 8:47Speaker 1: Lucy Jones of Lyndon at one oh five, thora Engen
- 8:51Speaker 1: of Blaine at one oh six, So they're all pretty
- 8:54Speaker 1: close in that group. Right there, Jovi Jensen and Dallas
- 8:57Speaker 1: Ranky of Meridian are averaging one ten, along with Della
- 9:00Speaker 1: Hogan of Seahome, and then rounding out the top ten
- 9:03Speaker 1: is Reagan Millstead of Lyndon and Rhys mcintee of Meridian
- 9:06Speaker 1: both averaging one eleven. So Kinsley Erector way out in front.
- 9:11Speaker 1: But then the next nine golfers are separated by eleven shots,
- 9:14Speaker 1: so it's pretty close in that group. It's pretty much
- 9:17Speaker 1: the same names as we've been seeing, but you never know.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Things can move around and and but the averages start
- 9:23Speaker 1: to kind of hold stronger as the season goes, just
- 9:27Speaker 1: because there's more golf being played, and so if you
- 9:29Speaker 1: have one, you know, pretty good round or one pretty
- 9:32Speaker 1: bad round, it's not going to change as much. You
- 9:34Speaker 1: have to pretty you have to have a pretty significant
- 9:36Speaker 1: round for things to change at this point. So so yeah,
- 9:40Speaker 1: with the weather being great and and a season moving on,
- 9:44Speaker 1: I'm excited to see more golf this week. And I
- 9:46Speaker 1: never really look at the schedule too far in advance,
- 9:48Speaker 1: so I just don't have time to look ahead too much.
- 9:51Speaker 1: I'm trying to get content out in a timely manner.
- 9:54Speaker 1: So we'll see kind of where things will be going
- 9:57Speaker 1: next week. Hopefully I'll be able to make it out
- 9:58Speaker 1: to a few more golf courses in a few more events,
- 10:02Speaker 1: and hopefully I won't be in the way and take pictures.
- 10:04Speaker 1: I could hide behind some trees. That doesn't look creepy
- 10:06Speaker 1: at all, does it. So it's you know, it's been
- 10:10Speaker 1: a great season so far, and I hope to see
- 10:13Speaker 1: more of you out there and it's gonna be awesome.
- 10:16Speaker 1: So let's move on to girls tennis. I saw quite
- 10:18Speaker 1: a bit of tennis this week and there were you know,
- 10:22Speaker 1: one of the things I was really excited to see
- 10:23Speaker 1: is it was Linen against Bellingham and that was there
- 10:28Speaker 1: were so many spectators out at that event, and that
- 10:31Speaker 1: was the first thing that really stood out, which was great.
- 10:33Speaker 1: It was out at Linden Middle School and I probably
- 10:35Speaker 1: saw I don't know, at least fifty people watching, which
- 10:39Speaker 1: was way more than I've ever seen at a tennis event.
- 10:43Speaker 1: You know, Sea Home brings them in quite a bit,
- 10:47Speaker 1: but this one had a lot of people and that
- 10:49Speaker 1: was just so cool to see. It might have been sixty.
- 10:51Speaker 1: I mean, for all I know. I didn't stay too long.
- 10:53Speaker 1: I walked around and took some pictures, had to go
- 10:55Speaker 1: to another event. But but Lynden beat Bellingham in a
- 10:58Speaker 1: pretty pretty great matchup, So that was that was really
- 11:01Speaker 1: cool to see. Later in the week there was a
- 11:03Speaker 1: huge upset with Ferndale beating Sea Home. That was seems
- 11:07Speaker 1: first loss of the year, Ferndale coming into the match
- 11:09Speaker 1: with just one win and five losses coming into that,
- 11:13Speaker 1: so that was a that was a huge, huge deal.
- 11:16Speaker 1: I believe Ferndale won all of the doubles matches and
- 11:19Speaker 1: they won one of the singles matches and that's that.
- 11:21Speaker 1: That was all it took. And so big upset there
- 11:25Speaker 1: Ferndale beating Seahome at Ferndale. I was there for a
- 11:27Speaker 1: little bit of it and saw some unique things. And
- 11:31Speaker 1: one of the things I saw, and this is this
- 11:33Speaker 1: is what's really interesting about tennis, is they're kind of
- 11:35Speaker 1: policing themselves as far as was that in was that out?
- 11:40Speaker 1: And there was a there was a ball that I
- 11:43Speaker 1: thought for sure was in. It was called out by
- 11:48Speaker 1: the player that was going to receive it, and you
- 11:51Speaker 1: could tell on the other girl's face there was a
- 11:53Speaker 1: disagree you know, she was disagreeing. But you just play
- 11:55Speaker 1: on and and that's got to be kind of frustrating,
- 11:58Speaker 1: you know, it's I mean, it is what it is, right.
- 12:01Speaker 1: You can't have officials at all the all the different
- 12:03Speaker 1: courts at the same time, and and you just kind
- 12:06Speaker 1: of move on, you move past it, which is the
- 12:09Speaker 1: best thing to do. But I just thought, I've always known,
- 12:12Speaker 1: excuse me, I've always known that that was how it
- 12:15Speaker 1: was played, but it really stuck out this this past
- 12:18Speaker 1: at that at that event, and it just kind of
- 12:21Speaker 1: hit me in a different way where I thought, wow,
- 12:23Speaker 1: that's that is kind of what happens. Still undefeated in
- 12:27Speaker 1: singles matches. Brianna Winn of Squalicum Gabriella Gracia Salgado of
- 12:32Speaker 1: Sea Home. She's a really really good left handed player.
- 12:36Speaker 1: I love watching left handed players because it just looks
- 12:38Speaker 1: so different, and I would imagine it's you know, this
- 12:42Speaker 1: spin might be different when you're trying to receive the
- 12:45Speaker 1: ball from that player, and so it could throw a
- 12:47Speaker 1: lot of things off. It's kind of playing against a
- 12:49Speaker 1: left handed player in basketball, or when you wrestle someone
- 12:52Speaker 1: that that's that's left handed. It's just the strong side
- 12:55Speaker 1: is different. It's it's a whole different feeling. Ivy Brooks
- 12:58Speaker 1: of Bellingham, every Book Brooks and Halle Brooks of Lyndon,
- 13:01Speaker 1: Rolana Newcomb of Lindon. All of those players one, two, three, four, five,
- 13:06Speaker 1: six of them, they're all seven and zero so far
- 13:08Speaker 1: in singles competition, so very very impressive there. And they're
- 13:12Speaker 1: all in their different spots for their school, whether they're
- 13:15Speaker 1: the top singles player, the second, third, or fourth. So
- 13:18Speaker 1: it just depends on matchups. And they've all had really
- 13:21Speaker 1: great years so far, and we'll just kind of see
- 13:23Speaker 1: how the season progresses. But the big win by Ferndale
- 13:27Speaker 1: really really stood out. Uh squalkam playing really well. I
- 13:30Speaker 1: think they I want to say that they they played
- 13:33Speaker 1: Linden and I think they won a couple of courts
- 13:36Speaker 1: on that one, So I mean they are they're right there,
- 13:40Speaker 1: five and three on the year right now, so we'll
- 13:42Speaker 1: have to kind of see how things go in the
- 13:44Speaker 1: postseason and see, you know, who they'll match up with
- 13:49Speaker 1: and singles and doubles and things like that. But Lindon's
- 13:52Speaker 1: still on top eight and oh right now. They are
- 13:54Speaker 1: the only undefeated team UH in the conference at the moment,
- 13:58Speaker 1: so congratulations to them. Forty seven courts one to just
- 14:02Speaker 1: nine lost, so pretty impressive. So basically on average they
- 14:07Speaker 1: win six courts to one on average, so they're they're
- 14:10Speaker 1: dominating pretty well right now, especially in the singles, having
- 14:15Speaker 1: three singles players that are all undefeated, So congratulations to them.
- 14:19Speaker 1: Let's move on to track and field, and of course
- 14:21Speaker 1: track and Field brought to you by Staffer Insurance. You
- 14:24Speaker 1: can visit them at nineteen o three Front Street in London.
- 14:28Speaker 1: Call them up at three six zero seven four six
- 14:30Speaker 1: eighty eight zero three and track and Field back in
- 14:35Speaker 1: action again with the league meets around the league. They
- 14:39Speaker 1: all competed. I believe it was on Wednesday. I went
- 14:42Speaker 1: out to the meet at Lyndy Christian because I had
- 14:44Speaker 1: all five of the one A schools, which was I
- 14:47Speaker 1: love those kinds of things when you can bring out
- 14:49Speaker 1: so many schools that are all local, so I definitely
- 14:52Speaker 1: made it out there. The weather was fantastic. I actually
- 14:55Speaker 1: didn't even wear my hoodie. Probably people probably didn't even
- 14:59Speaker 1: reckon ignize me, and I think I came from a
- 15:02Speaker 1: golf event, so I was kind of dressed nice even
- 15:04Speaker 1: so I think, you know, it was pretty hard to
- 15:06Speaker 1: recognize me, I would imagine, But because of the great
- 15:08Speaker 1: weather and everything and everybody competing, there was some new
- 15:12Speaker 1: some new times now for top performances and boys and girls.
- 15:15Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the Boys Porter League of Seahome.
- 15:18Speaker 1: He best, he bettered his time in the one hundred
- 15:21Speaker 1: and the two hundred meters, so he's he's still leading,
- 15:24Speaker 1: but he has a better time now, faster time eleven
- 15:26Speaker 1: point one point eight and the one hundred meters and
- 15:29Speaker 1: twenty two point six to one and the two hundred
- 15:31Speaker 1: meters that is burning in the four hundred meters. We
- 15:34Speaker 1: have a new leader. He is also from Seahome, Campbell
- 15:37Speaker 1: Phillips fifty one point sixty two and the four inner meters.
- 15:40Speaker 1: You know, I remember back in the day, like when
- 15:43Speaker 1: I was in school, if you ran the four hundred meters,
- 15:45Speaker 1: if you ran one lap and under a minute, that
- 15:48Speaker 1: was really really cruising. And then you start hearing about
- 15:50Speaker 1: people that run in under fifty seconds and you're like,
- 15:52Speaker 1: there's that's that, there's no way. And he's at fifty
- 15:56Speaker 1: one point six to two right now. So I've seen
- 15:58Speaker 1: it a few times under fifty seconds, and you know
- 16:01Speaker 1: it's been done here and there, but Campbell Phillips looking
- 16:04Speaker 1: to break that. We jump ahead to the four by
- 16:08Speaker 1: one hundred relay and we have a new team and
- 16:11Speaker 1: it's a team from Lyndon. How about Max Ostinc, Caleb Dezawa,
- 16:15Speaker 1: James Ellis and Lucas Loalgie forty four point two eight
- 16:19Speaker 1: seconds and that is cruising And it looks like they've
- 16:22Speaker 1: made a few changes because I've seen this team run.
- 16:27Speaker 1: Some of these guys run on this team and with
- 16:30Speaker 1: the changes here, uh, that's maybe maybe this is the formula.
- 16:35Speaker 1: I have not seen Max Ostinc run with this group.
- 16:38Speaker 1: I have not seen Lucas Lolgi run the anchor leg.
- 16:41Speaker 1: And this is this is really interesting and I want
- 16:43Speaker 1: just want to bring this up about about Lucas too
- 16:45Speaker 1: because and this is why he's going to be a
- 16:49Speaker 1: tremendous quarterback as well. He came up to me during event,
- 16:52Speaker 1: during during an event, right after a relay race where
- 16:56Speaker 1: there was a dropped baton, and he came up to
- 16:58Speaker 1: me in the fruit and and I wasn't even looking
- 17:00Speaker 1: at him. He just came up from behind and he said, I,
- 17:03Speaker 1: you know, I screwed it up, Tyler. I dropped. I
- 17:05Speaker 1: dropped the baton and and I couldn't And he was
- 17:09Speaker 1: the one who was handing it off, and so it's
- 17:11Speaker 1: hard to tell if it was his fault or the
- 17:13Speaker 1: next guy's fault. But he took the blame right away.
- 17:18Speaker 1: He took it right away. And that's that, right there,
- 17:21Speaker 1: is why he's going to be a great quarterback. And
- 17:25Speaker 1: I and I think that that's that that attitude that
- 17:27Speaker 1: you have to have where not that he's putting a
- 17:30Speaker 1: lot of pressure on himself, but if something happens, he's
- 17:32Speaker 1: not gonna put it. He's not gonna blame it on
- 17:34Speaker 1: anyone else. And that's that's that's a natural quarterback. So
- 17:39Speaker 1: and and maybe maybe it was his fault, maybe it wasn't,
- 17:41Speaker 1: But how about this. Now he's running anchor like he
- 17:43Speaker 1: doesn't have to hand it to anyone else. So him
- 17:46Speaker 1: on that straight away. I mean that that might be
- 17:49Speaker 1: the way to go. And right now they have the
- 17:51Speaker 1: best time. So congratulations to Lucas and his teammates. Forty
- 17:54Speaker 1: four point two eight in the four by one hundred relay.
- 17:57Speaker 1: In the discus rhet dirsh better at his time he
- 18:01Speaker 1: betteded buy over ten feet one hundred and fifty seven
- 18:04Speaker 1: feet and ten inches. Now that's the new Walking County
- 18:07Speaker 1: high I believe that's his new PR as well. Awesome kid.
- 18:10Speaker 1: I got to talk to him a little bit at
- 18:12Speaker 1: the track event out at out at Lennon Christian. That's
- 18:16Speaker 1: a kid that puts in the time, puts in the
- 18:19Speaker 1: work and just wants to improve and get better constantly.
- 18:22Speaker 1: And it's and it's showing. I mean you see that.
- 18:24Speaker 1: You see the videos he puts out of doing all
- 18:27Speaker 1: these things and when he throws the discus, when he
- 18:30Speaker 1: throws the shot, but it's different than everybody else's. I
- 18:32Speaker 1: mean it is the form is perfect and if you
- 18:35Speaker 1: get that formed down, the rest of it all follow through.
- 18:39Speaker 1: So so yeah, he's up to one hundred and fifty
- 18:42Speaker 1: seven feet and ten inches now in the discus. In
- 18:44Speaker 1: the high jumped, Cole Luke's and Blue Hankins have jumped
- 18:48Speaker 1: six feet and they've kind of had that all year,
- 18:50Speaker 1: but now Logan will Height of Linden has now jumped
- 18:52Speaker 1: six feet, so we have a three way tie in
- 18:55Speaker 1: the high jump. In the long jump, this is pretty
- 18:57Speaker 1: cool because Caleb Young of Meridian now is the leader
- 19:01Speaker 1: twenty one feet two and a quarter inches. And I
- 19:04Speaker 1: don't know if I've ever seen Caleb Young do the
- 19:06Speaker 1: lung jump. Tremendous sprinter, you know, one of the fastest
- 19:11Speaker 1: kids in the county, and that's kind of what you need.
- 19:14Speaker 1: That's a big part of it for the lung jump.
- 19:16Speaker 1: So you bring that over to the long jump pit
- 19:19Speaker 1: and you do it just right and get off the
- 19:22Speaker 1: boards at just the right time and you can make
- 19:24Speaker 1: a jump that's over twenty feet. And he did it,
- 19:26Speaker 1: and he's the top in the county right now, So
- 19:28Speaker 1: congratulates to him. And then in the triple jump Adam
- 19:31Speaker 1: Perry of Squalicum, and this kind of surprised me because
- 19:36Speaker 1: I thought I figured I thought he went to Seal
- 19:38Speaker 1: him before maybe so he must be a transfer. I
- 19:41Speaker 1: do remember him jumping at Seahome playing football for Seahome.
- 19:44Speaker 1: So now at squalk him forty three feet eleven and
- 19:47Speaker 1: three quarters inches, so really close to forty four feet
- 19:51Speaker 1: in the triple jump for Squalicum. That is an incredible jump.
- 19:56Speaker 1: I almost want to go to the records book right
- 19:58Speaker 1: now and look at the trip jump record for Squalicum. Yeah,
- 20:04Speaker 1: I think he's got I think that broke the record.
- 20:06Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right now, and I have Joshua
- 20:08Speaker 1: Vail at forty three feet nine inches in twenty fifteen,
- 20:13Speaker 1: So correct me if I'm wrong. But I think Adam
- 20:16Speaker 1: Perry is the new school record. I'm just now finding
- 20:20Speaker 1: this out. So if you're listening to this and you
- 20:22Speaker 1: are on the track team at Squalicum or you might
- 20:24Speaker 1: know the answer to this. I believe Adam Perry broke
- 20:28Speaker 1: the school record, so let me know. If that's true.
- 20:31Speaker 1: That is incredible. I should have led with that, So
- 20:35Speaker 1: that's good for him. I mean he's a great athlete.
- 20:38Speaker 1: So that is one heck of a triple jump. I
- 20:40Speaker 1: want to say, like, the Walkham County record is around
- 20:43Speaker 1: forty six feet, believe it or not. And what I
- 20:47Speaker 1: found is when you go back in time and you
- 20:48Speaker 1: look at some of these old track meets, is triple
- 20:51Speaker 1: jump was a huge event back in the day. I
- 20:54Speaker 1: mean you saw a lot of schools had guys that
- 20:56Speaker 1: did it. And how about this. The red in walking
- 21:00Speaker 1: County that I have is from nineteen seventy nine forty
- 21:06Speaker 1: six feet six and three quarters in inches. Larry Plagerman
- 21:10Speaker 1: of Lennen Christian nineteen seventy nine. That's incredible. But a
- 21:14Speaker 1: lot of these top ten times or distances, I'm sorry,
- 21:17Speaker 1: is from the seventies. Jim Christie, Eric Strackbean, Troy Den Hartog,
- 21:23Speaker 1: David Yos. These guys are all triple jumping over forty
- 21:26Speaker 1: four forty five feet back in the day, So pretty impressive.
- 21:31Speaker 1: That's a that's an incredible distance. And again that's one
- 21:36Speaker 1: of those like you watch someone do it and it's
- 21:38Speaker 1: just like, I don't even want to try that just
- 21:41Speaker 1: looks like my leg would snap in half. And so
- 21:45Speaker 1: so that's it for boys track and fild. We're gonna
- 21:47Speaker 1: jump over to girl's side. And there's a few new
- 21:50Speaker 1: times and distances here. Kirsten Ludeman of Seahome now has
- 21:54Speaker 1: the best time in the four hundred meters at fifty
- 21:57Speaker 1: eight point zero three seconds. She already holds the distance
- 22:00Speaker 1: or the best time in the eight hundred meters. Now
- 22:02Speaker 1: she holds it in the four hundred as well in
- 22:04Speaker 1: the sixteen hundred and the thirty two hundred. Sloane Dixon
- 22:07Speaker 1: from Linden comes in and takes out Sloane clients from
- 22:11Speaker 1: se Ho so Sloan Dixon now has the best times
- 22:14Speaker 1: in the sixteen hundred five minutes and four point four
- 22:17Speaker 1: and a half seconds basically, and then in the thirty
- 22:19Speaker 1: two hundred ten minutes thirty nine point one to seven seconds.
- 22:23Speaker 1: So congratulations to Sloane Dixon taking over the Walkham County
- 22:26Speaker 1: lead in the long distance runs. In the three hundred
- 22:30Speaker 1: meter hurdles, Faith van Brocklan held that time and now
- 22:32Speaker 1: she bettered her time from Linden forty six point five
- 22:36Speaker 1: to one seconds in the four by one hundred relay.
- 22:40Speaker 1: It's Linden again taking it back. I think they had
- 22:43Speaker 1: this earlier in the year, but it's a different group.
- 22:46Speaker 1: Rita vander May, Kicky York, Elizabeth Leland and Mia Engeldau
- 22:51Speaker 1: of Linden fifty point sixty four seconds in the four
- 22:54Speaker 1: by one hundred relay. In the discus, Ellie van Lowe,
- 22:58Speaker 1: no surprise there she through one one hundred and nineteen
- 23:01Speaker 1: feet and two inches. Now that makes me want to
- 23:05Speaker 1: look up the top distances for the girls in Lynnen
- 23:09Speaker 1: Christian's school history and I's see here, I'm going over
- 23:12Speaker 1: there because what did I say, one nineteen something, yeah,
- 23:16Speaker 1: one nineteen two. So let's look at this here go
- 23:20Speaker 1: to discus. So that's that's the third best distance in
- 23:25Speaker 1: school history that I have Monica DaCosta nineteen eighty eight
- 23:29Speaker 1: through one hundred and twenty five eleven, Tabby de Young
- 23:31Speaker 1: last year through one hundred and twenty feet and two inches,
- 23:34Speaker 1: and now Ellie Van Lowe is it one hundred nineteen
- 23:37Speaker 1: feet and two inches. And how about this third place?
- 23:40Speaker 1: Is your current athletic director, Brenda Turpstra one hundred and
- 23:43Speaker 1: eighteen feet and one inch. So that was a record
- 23:46Speaker 1: that she held for six years before Monica DaCosta came along.
- 23:49Speaker 1: So congratulations to her, and congratulations to her on her
- 23:52Speaker 1: upcoming retirement. Known her for a long time, she was
- 23:57Speaker 1: a teacher of mine out at Mount Baker, so she's
- 24:00Speaker 1: always been very very accommodating to what I'm doing with
- 24:03Speaker 1: walking preps and stuff like that. So congratulations her to
- 24:07Speaker 1: her on her retirement, and congratulations to Brady Bomber who's
- 24:11Speaker 1: going to be the new athletic director starting this summer.
- 24:14Speaker 1: So out at Lyndon Christian. Also, in the high jump,
- 24:17Speaker 1: Taya Dubay has held that at five foot two. Now
- 24:20Speaker 1: she's joined by Emerson Varga of Ferndale, who has also
- 24:23Speaker 1: jumped five foot two. What's interesting about these athletes. Taya
- 24:26Speaker 1: Dubay just a sophomore, Emerson Varga a freshman, So that's
- 24:30Speaker 1: really really impressive. And I tell you, once you get
- 24:34Speaker 1: up to five four, five six, that's those are really
- 24:37Speaker 1: really crazy distances or distances heights in the In the
- 24:42Speaker 1: girls high jump, I remember seeing, you know, a classmate
- 24:45Speaker 1: of mine, Heather Green, that went to Mount Baker. I see,
- 24:49Speaker 1: I saw her jump five foot four and I'm I
- 24:51Speaker 1: was thinking at a time, like I'm five foot four,
- 24:54Speaker 1: Like that's incredible that she could just jump over me
- 24:56Speaker 1: like that. So it's it's that's one of the events
- 25:01Speaker 1: that when I go to attract me, I kind of
- 25:03Speaker 1: stick around the high jump for a while because just
- 25:07Speaker 1: seeing those athletes do that is just one of my
- 25:09Speaker 1: favorite things, especially up close. You know, javelin or well,
- 25:13Speaker 1: javelin's pretty cool too, but like pull vault is kind
- 25:17Speaker 1: of like that. You see it up close and it's
- 25:19Speaker 1: really it's really really unique. But high jump is one
- 25:22Speaker 1: of my favorites. So and other than that, everybody else
- 25:24Speaker 1: has remained with their top distances times and so that
- 25:29Speaker 1: is a boys and girls track and field of course,
- 25:32Speaker 1: brought to you by stuff for Insurance, and we'll see you.
- 25:35Speaker 1: There's gonna be some more events coming up this this
- 25:37Speaker 1: upcoming week and and you know that I'll be out
- 25:40Speaker 1: at them, especially if the weather's nice. So good luck
- 25:44Speaker 1: to all those athletes. I'm gonna move on now to
- 25:48Speaker 1: boys soccer, and of course when we're talking boys soccer,
- 25:51Speaker 1: we've got to talk about North Corounty Alliance FC. You
- 25:54Speaker 1: visit them online at n see alliancefc dot com and
- 25:58Speaker 1: they got all sorts of things going on there. If
- 26:00Speaker 1: you have a little one that's interested in playing soccer,
- 26:02Speaker 1: check them out because they will get you going the
- 26:04Speaker 1: right way. And so many great players have come out
- 26:08Speaker 1: of there and they're doing some great, great things right
- 26:10Speaker 1: now at the high school level, which is what I
- 26:12Speaker 1: pay attention to. And right now, you know, as far
- 26:16Speaker 1: as the league is going, Sea Home and Squalicum both
- 26:20Speaker 1: with identical records of eight wins, zero losses and two ties.
- 26:23Speaker 1: That's those are conference records. Squalkum did have a match
- 26:27Speaker 1: on Monday on the road against East Valley of Yakama
- 26:31Speaker 1: where they dropped it two to one, really really close
- 26:33Speaker 1: one there but those two teams are kind of headed
- 26:36Speaker 1: for a collision course right now for UH for tops
- 26:39Speaker 1: in the in the in the conference, Bellingham and Lyndon
- 26:42Speaker 1: also have an identical record at four three and two,
- 26:46Speaker 1: four wins, three losses and two draws. Ferndale snapped their
- 26:50Speaker 1: draw streak and beat and they beat Nukxac Valley. They did,
- 26:55Speaker 1: they did lose a match, but then they turn around
- 26:57Speaker 1: and beat in a course on the road three zero
- 26:59Speaker 1: and probably their best game of the year. Lindy Christian
- 27:02Speaker 1: four four and two, Meridian three four and three, Blaine
- 27:05Speaker 1: two and eight, Knuksack Valley gets their first win of
- 27:07Speaker 1: the year one and nine, and Mount Baker they scored
- 27:10Speaker 1: three goals on Saturday but could not get the win.
- 27:12Speaker 1: Theyre still win this at zero to ten. And you
- 27:15Speaker 1: look at the top goals scored this year, there are
- 27:20Speaker 1: boy how many here. We got eight players tied for fifth.
- 27:24Speaker 1: That's incredible, all with five goals each. So you're talking
- 27:28Speaker 1: Rudy Zurcher of Seaholme, Isaac Grimes of Squalicum, Victor huur
- 27:32Speaker 1: Rocha of Lyndon, Carson Brethauer of Bellingham, Malachi Canan of Lyndon,
- 27:37Speaker 1: Skylar Row of Meridian, Chris Munksel of Seaholme and Sebastian
- 27:41Speaker 1: Cruz Gonzalez of Squalalkum all have five goals and with
- 27:46Speaker 1: six goals as Eddie Bersno of Lyndon. Marcus Caanan of Lyndon,
- 27:51Speaker 1: the freshman has seven goals on the air. He had
- 27:53Speaker 1: a hat trick earlier in the week in a loss.
- 27:57Speaker 1: I believe there was a six to four game. It's
- 27:59Speaker 1: a high scoring for two very competitive teams. I think
- 28:02Speaker 1: they're playing Burlington on the road. Marcus Cannan with the
- 28:05Speaker 1: hat trick in that one. Cody McCauley of Squalkumb also
- 28:08Speaker 1: has seven goals for second place with seven goals. How
- 28:12Speaker 1: about double that? Harvest Howell with fourteen goals on the year.
- 28:16Speaker 1: Harvest how from Linny Christian, of course, just a sophomore
- 28:19Speaker 1: leading the county with fourteen goals. I don't it's gonna
- 28:22Speaker 1: be really really hard to catch him. I think the
- 28:24Speaker 1: only way someone could catch him would be if if
- 28:27Speaker 1: a team catches fire and plays a lot of postseason games,
- 28:30Speaker 1: and that that could be it. Because I count postseason.
- 28:32Speaker 1: I count everything into the season stats. So if for
- 28:36Speaker 1: some reason Elsee gets bumped early, and you know, Squalkam
- 28:40Speaker 1: or Seahome or another team could get on a run
- 28:43Speaker 1: in the postseason. That might be the only way that
- 28:45Speaker 1: Harvest Howell is going to be able to get caught.
- 28:47Speaker 1: And we'll have to see about that. Then we got
- 28:50Speaker 1: our player of the week, the North County Alliance FC
- 28:52Speaker 1: Player of the Week, and this was this was tough
- 28:56Speaker 1: because there was a lot of What was cool to
- 29:00Speaker 1: see was there were so many players that hadn't scored
- 29:02Speaker 1: yet scored this week. I want to say there was
- 29:04Speaker 1: like fifteen of them, which that was really cool. Grady Evans,
- 29:08Speaker 1: you know, he hadn't scored all year, he scored three
- 29:10Speaker 1: goals this week. That was that was really good. I
- 29:13Speaker 1: talked about Marcus Kanaan, who I think he scored four
- 29:17Speaker 1: or five goals this week at three in the one game.
- 29:19Speaker 1: Harvest Howells scored five goals this week. He's you know,
- 29:24Speaker 1: that's about what he's averaging, it seems like for a week.
- 29:27Speaker 1: But I'm giving it to Julian Herring of Seahome. He
- 29:30Speaker 1: had I think he had three goals this week and
- 29:33Speaker 1: he also had a handful of assists as well. And
- 29:35Speaker 1: see Home, you know, keeping that record where they're at
- 29:39Speaker 1: right now with no conference losses, a couple of ties.
- 29:43Speaker 1: He's been a big, big part of that all over
- 29:45Speaker 1: the field. So so congratulations to Julian Herring of Seahome,
- 29:49Speaker 1: the North County Alliance FC Player of the Week. And
- 29:54Speaker 1: we're gonna go to Fast Pitch now, and I know
- 29:55Speaker 1: we're moving along quickly, but you know, without Ryland, sometimes
- 29:58Speaker 1: it's a I can just go, go go, and it
- 30:01Speaker 1: seems like and there's not He likes to he likes
- 30:04Speaker 1: to take a left turn every once in a while,
- 30:06Speaker 1: which is fun. I love it when that happens sometimes
- 30:10Speaker 1: most of the time because you just kind of never
- 30:11Speaker 1: know what we're gonna talk about. All of a sudden,
- 30:13Speaker 1: it's we're talking about, you know, how many ties Ferndale
- 30:16Speaker 1: Soccer has had. Then we start talking about neck ties,
- 30:19Speaker 1: and then you start talking about pet Pete Incavilia playing
- 30:23Speaker 1: for the Texas Rangers in the eighties, and it just
- 30:25Speaker 1: kind of morphs into one big podcast. So let's move
- 30:29Speaker 1: on to Fast Pitch and the scoreboards for Fast Pitcher
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- 30:58Speaker 1: Front Street, you know, right, you know, across from the
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- 31:23Speaker 1: which is awesome. The daily recaps every single day, knew,
- 31:29Speaker 1: you know, there was eleven softball games on Saturday, for
- 31:31Speaker 1: crying out loud and Lyndon Christian didn't even play and
- 31:34Speaker 1: we only have ten teams, so there's a lot of
- 31:35Speaker 1: doubleheaders going on and a lot of fun stuff going
- 31:38Speaker 1: on east of the Mountains. So the daily recaps brought
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- 31:46Speaker 1: if you got a young fast pitch player, that is
- 31:49Speaker 1: the I mean, if you can make that team, you're
- 31:51Speaker 1: gonna be going places. Those are some loaded teams there seems,
- 31:55Speaker 1: and they're sprinkled all over the county, which is so cool.
- 31:58Speaker 1: So many of these players play for so many different
- 32:00Speaker 1: teams and and it's really really impressive to see kind
- 32:04Speaker 1: of that those talented athletes because fast pitch is such
- 32:09Speaker 1: a fast game and the quick reactions you have to
- 32:12Speaker 1: have with everything, whether it's you know, swinging at a pitcher,
- 32:14Speaker 1: deciding if it's a baller striker you're playing, you know,
- 32:17Speaker 1: third and you're only forty feet away and you get
- 32:19Speaker 1: a rocket hit hit at you. I mean, it is.
- 32:22Speaker 1: It's a snappy game and it's just so fun to watch.
- 32:24Speaker 1: I mean, if you haven't been to a fast pitch game,
- 32:26Speaker 1: I'm telling you just go check it out. Is it's
- 32:31Speaker 1: it gets, it gets intense fast. It just moves fast,
- 32:34Speaker 1: and that's what's really cool about it. And then of
- 32:37Speaker 1: course the weekly standings just just posted. The standings are
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- 33:36Speaker 1: place to go when we look at the standings, you know,
- 33:40Speaker 1: league wise right now, you know Meridian, squalk him in
- 33:44Speaker 1: Bellingham near the bottom there, Meridian one and six in
- 33:47Speaker 1: League two and nine overall, Squalkham and Bellingham both still
- 33:50Speaker 1: looking for their first win. It was a tough week
- 33:52Speaker 1: for all of them. But that's you know, the season
- 33:56Speaker 1: is still still young and there's a lot of stuff
- 33:59Speaker 1: that could still go on here. I definitely see improvements,
- 34:02Speaker 1: especially offensively, from from some of these teams. You know,
- 34:06Speaker 1: Belling and put up four runs against see them. I
- 34:08Speaker 1: think they put up six against Ferndale, so they are
- 34:11Speaker 1: scoring runs. I went out and saw them against Lyndon
- 34:13Speaker 1: on Saturday, and if you know what I what I
- 34:17Speaker 1: like about them too is that I think the defense
- 34:21Speaker 1: is getting a lot better. And that's something that doesn't
- 34:23Speaker 1: always show up in the box scores or in the
- 34:24Speaker 1: ride ups and and but when I get to visually
- 34:27Speaker 1: see it, you can really see the throwing, the catching,
- 34:31Speaker 1: the fielding, everything is a lot crisper, and that's that's
- 34:34Speaker 1: awesome to see. So haven't I haven't seen squalic them
- 34:38Speaker 1: very much. I hope to see them coming up this week.
- 34:41Speaker 1: I've seen Meridian a few times, and they they had
- 34:45Speaker 1: you know, they played four games this week, Meridian did
- 34:47Speaker 1: a few of these teams did. I think Nooksack played
- 34:51Speaker 1: like six games this week, so, you know, but a
- 34:54Speaker 1: lot of these teams were off the week before. So
- 34:56Speaker 1: getting back into the groove, you kind of look at
- 34:58Speaker 1: the middle of the league. Ferndale four and four in
- 35:02Speaker 1: league play, six and seven overall, see Home three and five,
- 35:05Speaker 1: four and seven overall, and Blaine two and five, three
- 35:08Speaker 1: and five overall. Blaine had a tough week playing a
- 35:11Speaker 1: lot of the top teams in the area, you know,
- 35:14Speaker 1: Segra Woolley and Lyndon Christian and stuff like that. So
- 35:17Speaker 1: Blaine had a tough week. But glad to see Aleah
- 35:19Speaker 1: Bowman back healthy and playing out at third base. You know,
- 35:23Speaker 1: I was, I don't know, twenty feet away right when
- 35:26Speaker 1: she landed bad on her ankle and her final basketball
- 35:30Speaker 1: game of the year, and I just thought, and the
- 35:31Speaker 1: first thing I thought was, Oh, no, she's gonna miss
- 35:33Speaker 1: fast pitch. And so I'm so glad that she's able
- 35:36Speaker 1: to get back out there and play. She's gonna be
- 35:39Speaker 1: a huge part of that Blaine offense and defense. As
- 35:43Speaker 1: the season winds down here. That's gonna be huge for them.
- 35:46Speaker 1: You know, Ferndale got the win over Bellingham but lost
- 35:48Speaker 1: a couple of games this week. They're still having there
- 35:51Speaker 1: right there at around five hundred. It's gonna be tricky
- 35:53Speaker 1: because once you get into the playoffs and they're a
- 35:55Speaker 1: three eight team, they're gonna be playing a lot of
- 35:57Speaker 1: teams I don't really know that much about. But they
- 35:59Speaker 1: just have to get there first, and that's that's kind
- 36:02Speaker 1: of been the tough thing for them, whether you know
- 36:05Speaker 1: they have a round five hundred and then getting a
- 36:08Speaker 1: spot in the playoffs can be tough. So a lot
- 36:10Speaker 1: of really good teams at the three A level sem
- 36:13Speaker 1: seal them had a pretty pretty good weekend and they
- 36:15Speaker 1: went one and two. They also beat Bellingham, but they
- 36:18Speaker 1: moved up in the in the standings, believe it or not,
- 36:20Speaker 1: now three and five in conference play, so in the
- 36:23Speaker 1: top teams. Mount Baker four and four in league play,
- 36:26Speaker 1: eight and six overall. They beat Meridian and then lost
- 36:30Speaker 1: to Linnen Christian in a really good game seven to five.
- 36:33Speaker 1: I saw that one from beginning to end. I usually
- 36:35Speaker 1: don't get to see a ton of games from beginning
- 36:37Speaker 1: to end because I'm going from one game to another,
- 36:39Speaker 1: but I kind of timed it well enough to where
- 36:42Speaker 1: I was gonna watch that whole thing. I knew it
- 36:44Speaker 1: would come down to the end. It did. Mount Baker
- 36:46Speaker 1: got the lead early. Lyndy Christian had a big inning
- 36:48Speaker 1: where they scored four runs, tacked on a few more there,
- 36:52Speaker 1: and then Mount Baker had to come back at the
- 36:54Speaker 1: end but could not complete it. They lose seven to five.
- 36:57Speaker 1: That was a really good game Knikzac Valley had. Like
- 37:00Speaker 1: I said, I think they had six games this week.
- 37:02Speaker 1: They lost to Linden and they lost a really close
- 37:05Speaker 1: game to kidd A Task, but they won all the
- 37:06Speaker 1: other games. They played a doubleheader on Friday and two
- 37:10Speaker 1: more on Saturday, all of them east of the Mountains,
- 37:12Speaker 1: so that's getting a lot of games in. They have
- 37:16Speaker 1: three good pitchers, which is nice to have. But I
- 37:18Speaker 1: think what's good about having games like that where you're
- 37:20Speaker 1: playing multiple teams on the same day in a different location.
- 37:24Speaker 1: It kind of preps you for the playoffs because that's
- 37:27Speaker 1: what you got to do. Sometimes you got to play
- 37:28Speaker 1: multiple games in the same day in a location that
- 37:31Speaker 1: you're not used to, so it's kind of getting ready
- 37:33Speaker 1: and Tom Harmon has seen at all in fast pitch
- 37:37Speaker 1: and in slow pitch for that matter, and so he
- 37:39Speaker 1: kind of knows how to get his team ready. And
- 37:41Speaker 1: right now they're nine and four overall, four and three
- 37:44Speaker 1: in league play, but the closest one to ten wins
- 37:47Speaker 1: now in the whole county. So congratulations the Pioneers still
- 37:50Speaker 1: doing pretty darn well. Lynd and Christian had a tremendous week.
- 37:53Speaker 1: I thought they went they only played two games, but
- 37:56Speaker 1: they won them both. There are both conference games against
- 37:59Speaker 1: Blaine and Mount Baker, and they're starting to shoot up
- 38:02Speaker 1: the the ranks now five and three in conference play,
- 38:05Speaker 1: and you know, they had a slow start and I
- 38:06Speaker 1: was kind of talking about that that they will get
- 38:09Speaker 1: things going. They had a really tough schedule early on,
- 38:12Speaker 1: especially non league schedule, playing some big time teams, uh
- 38:17Speaker 1: and some bigger just bigger teams as far as classifications go.
- 38:20Speaker 1: So I'm not surprised here to see them but that
- 38:23Speaker 1: but that win over Mount Baker was huge, and uh,
- 38:28Speaker 1: that's gonna give them a lot of confidence and and
- 38:31Speaker 1: to go forward to the to the by district tournament
- 38:34Speaker 1: that they're gonna have in the one days where they're
- 38:36Speaker 1: gonna glue with District four and play in Mill Creek,
- 38:41Speaker 1: and so that's gonna be a really interesting District four
- 38:44Speaker 1: has got great, great teams, but I think there's gonna
- 38:47Speaker 1: be five berths between the two districts. So it's possible
- 38:51Speaker 1: that more than one team can get out of Walking County,
- 38:53Speaker 1: which would be nice, but it's also possible that none
- 38:56Speaker 1: of them could. So I haven't booked my my stay
- 38:59Speaker 1: in Richly just yet, which has kind of been a
- 39:02Speaker 1: yearly thing. I've been going since twenty seventeen eighteen eighteen,
- 39:08Speaker 1: and it's been one of my favorite trips to do
- 39:11Speaker 1: every year. But I don't know for sure if a
- 39:15Speaker 1: team's gonna get over there. I'm pretty sure, I just
- 39:17Speaker 1: I don't know for sure, So I'll off to kind
- 39:19Speaker 1: of look into that, maybe get a you know, I
- 39:21Speaker 1: usually get a non refundable too, so we'll have to
- 39:23Speaker 1: see kind of how that goes. And then Linden right
- 39:26Speaker 1: now at the two A level seven and one in
- 39:29Speaker 1: conference play, seven and five overall, they lost their first
- 39:32Speaker 1: conference game of the year to SIGR Woolley, the defending
- 39:35Speaker 1: state champions in two A. Now they jumped to three
- 39:38Speaker 1: A and that again that's gonna be interesting to see
- 39:40Speaker 1: how they do in three A. But right now, Linden
- 39:42Speaker 1: seven and one in conference play, beat Nookseck Valley and
- 39:47Speaker 1: you know, beat him up pretty good. I think it
- 39:48Speaker 1: was like eighteen to six lost to Siedgero Woolie, but
- 39:51Speaker 1: it was only six zero. That's pretty good holding Siedro
- 39:54Speaker 1: to six. Of course, they have Cassandra Gonzalez in the
- 39:56Speaker 1: circle and she can be unhittable at times. I think
- 39:59Speaker 1: she threw a just a one hitter against Lindon. Linden
- 40:02Speaker 1: came back and beat Bellingham thirteen to zero in a
- 40:04Speaker 1: real class act game that I saw, uh, And it
- 40:08Speaker 1: was so cool because you could tell that you know,
- 40:10Speaker 1: it wasn't about how many runs you can score and
- 40:13Speaker 1: all that stuff. It was about so many kids got
- 40:15Speaker 1: into the game. I think every kid got into the game.
- 40:18Speaker 1: And then afterwards they had an Easter egg hunt, and
- 40:20Speaker 1: I mean it was just it. You know, you could
- 40:24Speaker 1: tell that they were really proud of Bellingham and how
- 40:27Speaker 1: much they've how far they've come along, and you know,
- 40:30Speaker 1: this is a team that didn't even have a program
- 40:32Speaker 1: a few years ago and now they're starting to rebuild
- 40:34Speaker 1: it now and that's how you do it. And even
- 40:36Speaker 1: if a team is far is by far so superior,
- 40:39Speaker 1: you don't rub it in. You play the game the
- 40:41Speaker 1: right way and and you just you have fun out
- 40:45Speaker 1: there and you compete, and you know that's the that's
- 40:49Speaker 1: that's all you can ask for. So I love seeing
- 40:52Speaker 1: the sportsmanship around the county. And good on you, Linden,
- 40:56Speaker 1: because you know you do it the right way. And
- 40:58Speaker 1: it's always a privilege to come out and take pictures
- 41:01Speaker 1: and take notes and watch your team's play. So great
- 41:06Speaker 1: job coach Dykstra and the Linen Lyons. When you look
- 41:09Speaker 1: at the stat leaders stat Leaders brought to you by
- 41:11Speaker 1: Man Insurance of course mana insurancegroup dot com. There's a
- 41:16Speaker 1: few new new names in here, and it's been a
- 41:18Speaker 1: while since we've done the stat leaders since they didn't
- 41:20Speaker 1: really play the week before. So the new hits leader
- 41:24Speaker 1: is now Annalie Kohane of Mount Baker, who has twenty
- 41:27Speaker 1: eight hits. What's extremely impressive about that twenty eight hits.
- 41:33Speaker 1: She has zero strikeouts. That is insane. I mean, she
- 41:39Speaker 1: connects with the ball. It does not matter who's pitching
- 41:41Speaker 1: she is, and you know she put her in the
- 41:44Speaker 1: leadoff spot. She's getting on and guess what she's taken
- 41:46Speaker 1: number two she's gonna steal. So that tends to happen.
- 41:50Speaker 1: The double, the leader in doubles or it's a three
- 41:52Speaker 1: way tie between all Mount Baker players. Zeta Haynes, Gracie Zender,
- 41:58Speaker 1: and Carl Welters Mount Baker all have seven doubles each.
- 42:01Speaker 1: And that's the thing about Mount Baker's offense. They can
- 42:03Speaker 1: get going, you know. I mean it was it was
- 42:06Speaker 1: seven to two in the seventh inning against Lennon Christian
- 42:10Speaker 1: and I think the Links knew, hey, we have to
- 42:12Speaker 1: be on our toes because they could explode at any time.
- 42:15Speaker 1: And you know, Grace Zender hit a two run home
- 42:18Speaker 1: run in that inning and they only scored three runs
- 42:20Speaker 1: in that inning, but they had a runner on. I mean,
- 42:22Speaker 1: there was stuff happening, so you always got to try
- 42:25Speaker 1: to really shut them down. Sarah Kruzich from Seahomes still
- 42:28Speaker 1: leading in triples with five. How about this, Gracie Zender
- 42:31Speaker 1: now continues her lead in home runs. She now has
- 42:35Speaker 1: nine home runs on the season. Think about that for
- 42:40Speaker 1: a little bit. Nine home runs on the air. That
- 42:42Speaker 1: is more home runs than most of the teams in
- 42:45Speaker 1: Waukin County have I would say, I don't. Is it
- 42:50Speaker 1: all the teams? I don't know. I don't. I'm not
- 42:52Speaker 1: gonna say all the teams combined, but I don't know
- 42:55Speaker 1: if there's any other team that has nine home runs
- 42:57Speaker 1: on the air. She's got nine herself. That's pretty incredible.
- 43:02Speaker 1: Batting average. New batting average leader Masa Pulse of Blaine
- 43:07Speaker 1: is batt in six point fifteen, which leads the county.
- 43:10Speaker 1: Gracie Zender now has thirty four runs batted in. She
- 43:14Speaker 1: had a game the game against Elma where they won
- 43:16Speaker 1: eleven to ten. She had seven RBIs in that one game.
- 43:19Speaker 1: She had I think two home runs in a double
- 43:22Speaker 1: and she walked seven RBIs in that game. She now
- 43:25Speaker 1: has thirty four RBIs on the year. Annalie Kona mount
- 43:28Speaker 1: Baker leads in runs with twenty eight and in stolen
- 43:33Speaker 1: bases with fourteen, So she's starting to take over a
- 43:35Speaker 1: lot of these speedy categories, if you will. And Maddie
- 43:39Speaker 1: Slevin of Ferndale leads by herself now with sixteen walks
- 43:44Speaker 1: on the year. I think she was tied with Taya
- 43:45Speaker 1: Vandercoy before now she's leading with sixteen walks, and you
- 43:49Speaker 1: go to the slugging percentage, and Gracie Zender's been holding
- 43:52Speaker 1: onto that for most of the year. She's slugging fourteen
- 43:55Speaker 1: hundred right now. And if you know what slugging percentages, yeah,
- 43:58Speaker 1: fourteen hundred is crazy. On base percentage, Shaley Daniels of Blaine,
- 44:04Speaker 1: she gets on base seventy one point nine percent of
- 44:07Speaker 1: the time. That is that's crazy. That is a tough
- 44:10Speaker 1: out right there. Ops on base plus slugging usually if
- 44:14Speaker 1: you're over a thousand, it's you're doing amazing. Gracie Zender
- 44:17Speaker 1: has it over two thousand right now twenty one oh five.
- 44:20Speaker 1: You go to the pitching side, Carl Welters of Mount
- 44:23Speaker 1: Baker leads and wins with eight She also leads an
- 44:26Speaker 1: innings pitch to a sixty four and two thirds and
- 44:29Speaker 1: which is an interesting because I don't I couldn't tell
- 44:32Speaker 1: you the last time a Mount Baker pitcher led an
- 44:35Speaker 1: innings pitched And it's mostly because coach Lap is really
- 44:39Speaker 1: cognizant about using multiple pitchers, and you know, he's got
- 44:43Speaker 1: kind of a quick hook. If he needs it, he
- 44:45Speaker 1: can always go back to the same pitcher put her
- 44:47Speaker 1: back in and he has used multiple pitchers this year,
- 44:51Speaker 1: but Carl Welters has done most of the pitching sixty
- 44:54Speaker 1: four and two thirds innings. Sarah Kruziz of Seahome leads
- 44:58Speaker 1: in strikeouts. She is the first one this year to
- 45:00Speaker 1: go over one hundred. She now is one hundred and
- 45:02Speaker 1: two strikeouts on the year, and the Knucksack Valley freshman
- 45:07Speaker 1: Elena vn Apron is leading an ERA at two point
- 45:11Speaker 1: seventy five. She was followed closely by Roxanne Lenning of
- 45:14Speaker 1: Lennon Christian who just has an ERA of just over three.
- 45:17Speaker 1: And I want to give a shout out to Roxanne
- 45:19Speaker 1: Lending as well because in that game against Mount Baker,
- 45:22Speaker 1: she came in to pitch with a two They were
- 45:26Speaker 1: down two zero against that offense, and she kind of
- 45:30Speaker 1: had to stop the bleeding and she went the rest
- 45:33Speaker 1: of the way and did an amazing job. She only
- 45:36Speaker 1: allowed those three runs in the final inning and allowed
- 45:39Speaker 1: her team to come back in it. So a big
- 45:41Speaker 1: time future for her. She is she is the real deal.
- 45:46Speaker 1: So that's it's fun. Then when you see these younger
- 45:51Speaker 1: pitchers come in. Welters is just a sophomore of an
- 45:53Speaker 1: Apron just a freshman lending a sophomore as well. So
- 45:56Speaker 1: you see these younger pitchers come in and it's kind
- 45:59Speaker 1: of fun to see that happen because you know, you
- 46:02Speaker 1: got a few years of you know, your anchor right there,
- 46:06Speaker 1: and so that's gonna be great to see. Of course,
- 46:08Speaker 1: Cassidy van Zeuss is doing great, so you have that
- 46:11Speaker 1: one two punch out at Lenny Christian and that could
- 46:13Speaker 1: really help them come postseason. For our Player of the Week,
- 46:17Speaker 1: of course, brought to you by the Walk and Wolverines.
- 46:22Speaker 1: There were again a lot of fast pitch games, big
- 46:25Speaker 1: time performances. You know. Gracie Zender had a tremendous week.
- 46:30Speaker 1: I think she had, my goodness, I don't know, three
- 46:33Speaker 1: or four home runs, tons of RBIs caught every inning.
- 46:39Speaker 1: Annie Cohene had another great week. She just won it
- 46:42Speaker 1: the week before, but that was just based on one game,
- 46:46Speaker 1: you know, Lennon Christian Roxanne Lenning, like I was just
- 46:48Speaker 1: talking about, she she she deserves a push for that
- 46:51Speaker 1: as well, but I'm giving it to a Lena Dykstra
- 46:55Speaker 1: of k Nooksack Valley. She had quite a week. I mean, yeah,
- 46:59Speaker 1: there were sick games to do it in. But she
- 47:01Speaker 1: was close to hitting for the cycle against Lyndon, which
- 47:04Speaker 1: is incredible on its own. I want to say that
- 47:06Speaker 1: total she had like three home runs and three triples
- 47:10Speaker 1: and three doubles and just put up these crazy offensive numbers.
- 47:15Speaker 1: I think she had kind of one maybe off game
- 47:18Speaker 1: or something. An off game might be like going one
- 47:20Speaker 1: for four, but everything else she was she was just
- 47:23Speaker 1: lighting up the scoreboards. So your Walking Wolverines Player of
- 47:26Speaker 1: the Week is a Lana Dykstra of Knooksack Valley, the
- 47:29Speaker 1: senior catcher. Congratulations to her. Now we're gonna jump over
- 47:34Speaker 1: to baseball. Of course. Baseball scoreboards are brought to you
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- 47:44Speaker 1: the lookout. They're going to be moving here pretty soon
- 47:46Speaker 1: to Bellingham. Kind in that area which I like to
- 47:50Speaker 1: call my favorite area to go eat at New Mexico,
- 47:52Speaker 1: but right in that area there the little spot behind there,
- 47:57Speaker 1: if they're gonna be able to have so much more room, boom,
- 48:00Speaker 1: and that's what's gonna be cool, because they got a
- 48:02Speaker 1: lot of cool stuff. And you know, every time I
- 48:04Speaker 1: go in there, it just seems to be more crowded
- 48:06Speaker 1: and more and more crowded. So good on them for
- 48:08Speaker 1: getting bigger and expanding and that's gonna be a great,
- 48:11Speaker 1: great thing. The daily recaps are brought to you by
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- 48:20Speaker 1: get him from Bedlington Farms. That is the way to go.
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- 48:29Speaker 1: zero seven, four six four five six seven. Give my
- 48:33Speaker 1: guy Kevin a call and he will set you up
- 48:36Speaker 1: to get driving the right way. And in baseball standings
- 48:40Speaker 1: right now kind of on the on the lower side,
- 48:42Speaker 1: Knoksack Valley, Squalak and Mount Baker. Nuksack Valley two and
- 48:46Speaker 1: seven in league play, three and eleven overall, Squalk and
- 48:49Speaker 1: one in eight in league play one and twelve overall.
- 48:52Speaker 1: Mount Baker's still looking for their first win in league
- 48:54Speaker 1: play and they are one and twelve overall as well.
- 48:56Speaker 1: Nuksack Valley started at the week good. They had a
- 49:00Speaker 1: win over Lakewood and then they you know, ran into
- 49:04Speaker 1: some really good competition. Later on in the week, Squalak
- 49:07Speaker 1: them had some had some closer games. They they had
- 49:10Speaker 1: a really close game against Lakewood. I think they lost
- 49:12Speaker 1: three to two something like that. And Mount Baker had
- 49:15Speaker 1: had a rough week, you know, losing to Blaine sixteen
- 49:19Speaker 1: to six, losing to you know, I think Lakewood twenty
- 49:22Speaker 1: to zero, and ok, Harver twenty five to five. But
- 49:25Speaker 1: other than that game against Lakewood, they are putting runs
- 49:27Speaker 1: on the board, which is nice to see. The pitching
- 49:30Speaker 1: still needs to come around, but they're still looking for
- 49:32Speaker 1: their first conference win in the middle of the league
- 49:35Speaker 1: kind of we got Sea home three and six in
- 49:38Speaker 1: league play, six and eight. Overall, I saw that game
- 49:41Speaker 1: against Ferndale. That was a great, great game. And what
- 49:46Speaker 1: I loved about that one, I think the bats really
- 49:48Speaker 1: came alive as far as one through nine, So many
- 49:50Speaker 1: guys with some line drive shots and even you know,
- 49:54Speaker 1: getting getting goodwood on the ball. As far as even
- 49:58Speaker 1: if it was foul, they were hitting it hard and
- 49:59Speaker 1: then it seemed like it was foul, and in the
- 50:01Speaker 1: next and then the next pitch they did it fair, like
- 50:03Speaker 1: you know, three feet closer to the line. It was
- 50:05Speaker 1: fair and it was just my goodness. They were really
- 50:07Speaker 1: hitting the ball hard and that was really cool to
- 50:11Speaker 1: see against a really good pitcher too, and Fenton Bassik
- 50:13Speaker 1: from from Ferndale, so that was impressive to see a
- 50:16Speaker 1: very young team but a very aggressive offensive team. So
- 50:20Speaker 1: that was cool. Good to see Ryder McGrath get back
- 50:22Speaker 1: on the mound again and you'll only only able to
- 50:24Speaker 1: go three innings, but at six foot six, he's a
- 50:26Speaker 1: very impressive figure up there and kind of got the
- 50:30Speaker 1: ball rolling for them, and and against a very good
- 50:33Speaker 1: offensive Ferndale team. Ferndal had a rough week. They went
- 50:36Speaker 1: owing three this week and uh, you know it's they're
- 50:41Speaker 1: a very very young team too. You look up and
- 50:43Speaker 1: down the line up you see a lot of freshmen,
- 50:46Speaker 1: but a team that's poised for the future but could
- 50:50Speaker 1: do some good things right now. Bellingham had a pretty
- 50:53Speaker 1: good week. They played against Sea Home and that big
- 50:55Speaker 1: time ravelry game beat them four to two. That was
- 51:00Speaker 1: a huge point for them. And and Bellingham is one
- 51:03Speaker 1: of those teams that just kind of won't go away.
- 51:05Speaker 1: They have some big time talent, uh and then they
- 51:08Speaker 1: have a lot of young a lot of new players,
- 51:10Speaker 1: you know, so it's kind of that. It's kind of
- 51:12Speaker 1: that mixture that you have and and when the young
- 51:15Speaker 1: player step but they seem to do pretty well, so uh,
- 51:18Speaker 1: that gives you a lot right down. And Meridian are
- 51:20Speaker 1: also four and five, so you got and you got Ferndale,
- 51:23Speaker 1: Meridian and Bellingham are all four and five in league
- 51:26Speaker 1: play very similar non or non league schedule as well,
- 51:30Speaker 1: Ala with six wins on the year. So and Meridian
- 51:34Speaker 1: they kind of ran into a bunch of really good
- 51:35Speaker 1: teams too. And you know, Sketchett County kind of had
- 51:38Speaker 1: their way with walkm County this past week in in
- 51:40Speaker 1: in baseball and and I noticed that. I mean, it's
- 51:44Speaker 1: kind of I kind of find it humorous or or
- 51:47Speaker 1: however you want to say, but I guess it's you know,
- 51:51Speaker 1: I'm flattered. But there is a Scadget Preps. It's just
- 51:56Speaker 1: a it's just a Twitter handle. I don't think there's
- 51:59Speaker 1: a web page or anything yet, but they really like
- 52:01Speaker 1: to let us know when they when they swept Walkham
- 52:05Speaker 1: County and they sure did this this this past week.
- 52:08Speaker 1: So boy, that'd be awesome if Skeatget Preps became a thing.
- 52:11Speaker 1: And they made a web page and did a podcast
- 52:13Speaker 1: and did all that stuff. I'd be so happy that way,
- 52:16Speaker 1: I don't have to field calls about it anymore. And
- 52:18Speaker 1: you look at the top of the conference with the
- 52:20Speaker 1: walkin county teams. Blaine it was also four and five
- 52:24Speaker 1: as some of those other teams, but they're eight and
- 52:25Speaker 1: five overall. Blaine in a great week. They went three
- 52:28Speaker 1: and oh, looked really really good and uh yeah, they're
- 52:33Speaker 1: kinda they're gonna kind of sneak up on some teams,
- 52:37Speaker 1: and you know, I think that, uh you know, in
- 52:40Speaker 1: one a, I think that a lot of I've talked
- 52:42Speaker 1: to some Lendon Christian fans and they were just like, yeah,
- 52:44Speaker 1: if we can just hold off Meridian and the playoffs,
- 52:46Speaker 1: I think will be okay. Do not overlook Blaine. There
- 52:49Speaker 1: there is some there's some talent on that team and
- 52:52Speaker 1: really good pitching, and you know, coach Anderson does things
- 52:56Speaker 1: the right way, and I just think they've got a
- 52:58Speaker 1: little jive going on right now. It's gonna be tough
- 53:01Speaker 1: to beat them. Lyndon six and three. Boy, they had
- 53:04Speaker 1: a rough week. They were six and oh in conference
- 53:06Speaker 1: play coming into the week and they just got slacked
- 53:09Speaker 1: this past week in conference play. Xavier Nions hit three
- 53:14Speaker 1: home runs against them. I think his second home run
- 53:17Speaker 1: hit the hit the same ball that he hit out
- 53:20Speaker 1: in the first inning, because that was still a I mean,
- 53:22Speaker 1: he just obviously we all know what Xavier Nions can do,
- 53:26Speaker 1: and and but he had really had his breakout game there.
- 53:29Speaker 1: But I can't recall ever Linden having a week like
- 53:32Speaker 1: this in conference play. And and they're a team that's
- 53:35Speaker 1: been hard to figure out. I think they have really
- 53:37Speaker 1: good pitching. I think they have a lot of arms,
- 53:40Speaker 1: but I don't think they have like, you know, like
- 53:43Speaker 1: those like two back to back studs. I mean, Matthew
- 53:46Speaker 1: Carroll's has had a great year, but you're so used
- 53:49Speaker 1: to having just the shut down arms, and and the
- 53:53Speaker 1: bats are either alive or they're just they're just kind
- 53:57Speaker 1: of I don't know what's what's going on. The thing
- 53:59Speaker 1: about Lennon though, is you know, they're not going to
- 54:01Speaker 1: have a lot of base running airs. I'm not gonna
- 54:03Speaker 1: have a lot of defensive airs. They're gonna do They're
- 54:07Speaker 1: gonna put themselves in the right position to win games.
- 54:10Speaker 1: But some of these games recently just kind of got
- 54:13Speaker 1: away from them. And you know, you just live to
- 54:15Speaker 1: play another day, still six and three in conference play,
- 54:18Speaker 1: but seven and eight overall. So kind of unique to
- 54:21Speaker 1: see right now from the Lions. But you know they're
- 54:23Speaker 1: they're Linden, right, They're gonna finish strong. And then Linden
- 54:26Speaker 1: Christian also had a tough week, losing a couple of
- 54:29Speaker 1: conference games early on in the week, salvaging the week
- 54:32Speaker 1: with a big win over Siegel Wooley on Saturday. I
- 54:34Speaker 1: was there for that one. They win six to three.
- 54:36Speaker 1: So they are seven and two in league player right now,
- 54:39Speaker 1: eleven and three overall, so having a great, great year
- 54:43Speaker 1: despite a couple losses earlier on in the week. I
- 54:47Speaker 1: was there against Oak Harbor. They were winning when I left,
- 54:50Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I find out later that
- 54:52Speaker 1: they lost by five or six runs, and I thought, oh,
- 54:55Speaker 1: what did I miss? So the Links though, still looking
- 54:59Speaker 1: pretty good. Thing about the Links too is that, like
- 55:02Speaker 1: I look at their numbers and like they're leading the
- 55:05Speaker 1: county and doubles and triples and and but one main
- 55:09Speaker 1: thing about them is they do not strike out very much.
- 55:13Speaker 1: And that's a huge telling number. Like even like as
- 55:16Speaker 1: a team, they just they just don't strike out very much.
- 55:19Speaker 1: They're very selective what they're hitting, but they're that they
- 55:23Speaker 1: make great contact, not good but even, but great. And
- 55:28Speaker 1: and the big thing now is that they have a
- 55:31Speaker 1: handful of arms that could come in and do the job.
- 55:33Speaker 1: I wouldn't even know who. I would say who they're aces,
- 55:37Speaker 1: you know, is it Eli Mayberry, is it Trason Johnson,
- 55:39Speaker 1: is it Sam Cock? They're all great. So and then
- 55:43Speaker 1: Tanner Blair comes in and throws a no hitter, So yeah,
- 55:49Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty impressive to see and when they're
- 55:53Speaker 1: when they're really rolling them and they got guys on
- 55:55Speaker 1: the bench that can really hit. I mean Vance Elton,
- 55:58Speaker 1: who plays kind of spare, he's a great hitter. I
- 56:02Speaker 1: mean he'd be hitting the middle of the lineup with
- 56:04Speaker 1: some of these teams. So that's what's really fun to
- 56:06Speaker 1: see about the links they have. They can do a
- 56:08Speaker 1: lot of things, and I'm excited to see what they
- 56:11Speaker 1: do to finish out the stretch. It's gonna be great
- 56:12Speaker 1: to see them against Lyndon and uh yeah in the playoffs,
- 56:17Speaker 1: that's always gonna be fun. I mean I've already marked
- 56:19Speaker 1: it down. May May tenth, see O High School Joe
- 56:22Speaker 1: Martin Stadium. I love that day, there's so much good
- 56:25Speaker 1: baseball going on, and that's really when you can kind
- 56:27Speaker 1: of separate yourselves from from the other teams, and those
- 56:30Speaker 1: are the games you gotta win. And there's been so
- 56:33Speaker 1: many close games there were just one little moment does
- 56:36Speaker 1: it And it's it's really really impressive. And and I
- 56:39Speaker 1: tell you what, especially the area with this, but that
- 56:41Speaker 1: by district tournament. You know last year, the four teams
- 56:44Speaker 1: that moved on from that tournament, three of them, all
- 56:48Speaker 1: four of them got to the final eight. Three of
- 56:50Speaker 1: them got to the final four. And yeah, it's just
- 56:55Speaker 1: you know that it tells you right there, like how
- 56:57Speaker 1: good these teams are. And two of them played for
- 56:59Speaker 1: the state championship against each other, So this is I'm
- 57:02Speaker 1: talking in the one A level here. So it's it's
- 57:05Speaker 1: really really impressive and I'm excited for the postseason play.
- 57:08Speaker 1: Still got you know, ways to go in the regular
- 57:10Speaker 1: season and we'll kind of see how that all pans out.
- 57:13Speaker 1: At the end. You look at the stat leaders and
- 57:15Speaker 1: of course that's brought to you by j e KK
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- 57:22Speaker 1: dot Com Inferndl for now look for them this summer
- 57:26Speaker 1: out in Bellingham, And I tell you what, I look
- 57:31Speaker 1: at this and I see just Austin Angles splattered all
- 57:34Speaker 1: over the place. Here. He leads in he leads in
- 57:37Speaker 1: hits with twenty four doubles, with nine, batting average five
- 57:41Speaker 1: thirty three, RBI's sixteen run scored seventeen along with his
- 57:46Speaker 1: teammate Jackson Hewleitt, slugging percentage seven thirty three, on base
- 57:50Speaker 1: percentage six twenty five, ops thirteen fifty eight. I tell
- 57:55Speaker 1: you what, Austin Angles, what's great about him? I mean,
- 57:59Speaker 1: he's just a tough out. And but what I love
- 58:01Speaker 1: is he just keeps getting better every year. And you
- 58:05Speaker 1: see a lot of really good freshman baseball players, and
- 58:11Speaker 1: the big thing is that you kind of look at
- 58:14Speaker 1: is like how much are they going to improve from
- 58:16Speaker 1: where they are now? And he was a really good
- 58:19Speaker 1: freshman baseball player. And what I've loved is that, I mean,
- 58:24Speaker 1: he's just gotten bigger and stronger, and he's improved. Man.
- 58:28Speaker 1: He is an offensive machine, so leading in all those categories,
- 58:32Speaker 1: very very impressive. In triples, it's his teammate Eli Maryberry
- 58:36Speaker 1: still with three home runs, Fenton Basset and Ferndale and
- 58:40Speaker 1: Cole Bauman of Knoks like Valley each have one stolen bases.
- 58:44Speaker 1: Joe Harward of Bellingham now has nineteen. I swear I
- 58:49Speaker 1: think him and Alten Scott are just having a competition of,
- 58:51Speaker 1: you know, teammates of who can have the most stolen bases,
- 58:54Speaker 1: because anytime either one of them gets on, they're going
- 58:57Speaker 1: And I, you know, maybe I'm wrong. Tell me if
- 59:00Speaker 1: I'm wrong, tell me if I'm right, Joe Alden, if
- 59:03Speaker 1: you guys are listening to this, are you guys having
- 59:04Speaker 1: a little competition, because it seems like it on this side,
- 59:07Speaker 1: and it's awesome. I am here for it. I keep
- 59:10Speaker 1: doing it. In walks, it's their teammate. Kai Nelson has
- 59:14Speaker 1: thirteen walks on the year. And then you go to pitching.
- 59:17Speaker 1: Hudson nef still leading with four wins an innings pitched.
- 59:22Speaker 1: Cameron Schmidt of Squalicum has pitched thirty seven innings now
- 59:27Speaker 1: on the year. He pitched earlier in the week and
- 59:30Speaker 1: started and through quite a bit, and then he pitched
- 59:32Speaker 1: again on Saturday. I think he pitched a complete game
- 59:35Speaker 1: game on Saturday, So I think it was enough time
- 59:37Speaker 1: in between to be able to do that. And boys,
- 59:42Speaker 1: he's a good left handed pitcher. I mean, he hasn't
- 59:45Speaker 1: gotten a ton of run support, and he's walked a
- 59:47Speaker 1: few here and there, but other than that, I kind
- 59:50Speaker 1: of see him becoming one of those really good pitchers
- 59:52Speaker 1: down the line, which is gonna be a lot of
- 59:54Speaker 1: fun to see. And usually when you see those those
- 59:56Speaker 1: freshman arms, those freshman pitchers that are pretty good. Big
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: jump is that next year. I when Jonah Aussi took
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: that jump. You know, I seeing Josh Cochran take that
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: jump this year, his sophomore year. It's a big, big jump,
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: and that's really cool to see. In strikeouts, Matthew Carroll
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: still leading with fifty four strikeouts on the year, the
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: ace from London. He is also leading an ERA at
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: zero point seven to eight. Despite allowing two earned runs
- 1:00:22Speaker 1: this week, he still has it under one, so zero
- 1:00:25Speaker 1: point seven eight. Congratulations to Matthew Carroll of London, the
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: big Junior. Now we look at the player of the week.
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- 1:00:42Speaker 1: six five six five four five nine, kind of kind
- 1:00:48Speaker 1: of across the street from like the Bellyam Golf and
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- 1:00:55Speaker 1: SIG's funeral and if you keep driving down that road,
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: you go to Big Stick Barbecue. And I tell you what,
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: I give him five stars. It is fantastic and player
- 1:01:03Speaker 1: of the week again. This was This was tough because
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: because you know, to be honest, Walkin County just didn't
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: have a great week win loss record wise. You know,
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: Lyndon kind of took it on the chin. Lyndon Christian
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: went one and two. Ferndale was was was winless. I
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: think Murden and Bellingham and Seelim each had one win.
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: Nooksactvalley had to win. But for the most part it
- 1:01:26Speaker 1: just didn't look at Blaine did great. They went three
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: and oh and then I look at Blaine. The player
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: that had the biggest impact on the week I think
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: was Ashton Vizzetti and you know, doing it offensively here
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: and there, nothing spectacular, but then he pitched against Bellingham,
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: had a great duel against Ben Leonard. He kind of
- 1:01:44Speaker 1: he came out on top. I think he allowed just
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: one hit, struck out twelve, and Bellingham is one of
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: those aggressive offensive teams and he just kind of mowed
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: him down. So that was the kind of cherry on
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: the cake for me, or do you put cherries on
- 1:01:57Speaker 1: cake anyways? Ashton Vizetti of Blaine, he's your SIG's Funeral
- 1:02:02Speaker 1: and Cremation Services Player of the Week, So uh, congratulations
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: to him. And uh and again, I just want to
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: thank everybody for donating. Uh, it's just been a it's been.
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: It kind of takes my breath away a little bit
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: just to kind of see the love and support that
- 1:02:23Speaker 1: there's been. It's uh, it really means a lot to
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: me because I know it's things are not you know,
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: things are tough right now, and it was just tax
- 1:02:33Speaker 1: season and you have pay your taxes and then you know,
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: you got property taxes do at the end of April,
- 1:02:39Speaker 1: and it's probably not the best time to open up
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: the checkbook. But a lot of you have have shown
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: your love and I really really appreciate it. It's it's a
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing. If you look ahead the next week,
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: kind of looking at the baseball schedule here kind of
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: on the fly. Uh Ferndale at Bellingham on Tuesday. That's
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: gonna be pretty good. What I like about that too,
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: is it's a night games tring at six o'clock. Let's
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: see here, what else do we got. We got Bellingham
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: at Lyndon Christian. That's that's saucy. And let's see it.
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: Linden at and a Chordus that's gonna be pretty darn good.
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: And a Chordus, man, they are, they are the real deal.
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: Especially when they throw Jake Andrew he can he can
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: really bring it, and he's he's just got such great
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: location with everything. Blaine at Seahome too on Friday, that's
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: gonna be pretty good. And of course the Xavier nine
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: Show and all the scouts are gonna show up to
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: Lennon Christian on Friday as well. So yeah, there's gonna
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: be a pretty packed schedule as far as baseball goes.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: I know in fast pitch a big one. There will
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: be Linden and Mount Baker. They're gonna be playing. Let's
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: see here, it looks like I think they're playing Tuesday. Yes,
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: it'll be at Mount Baker on Tuesday. Linden at Mount Baker.
- 1:03:57Speaker 1: That's gonna be that's gonna be pretty darn good. I
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: know they've had some really good games in the past
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: as well, so so that'll be good. You know, Blaine's
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: playing Meridian that one. You know, Blaine's and Meridian have
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: both struggled recently. This could be a big game for
- 1:04:11Speaker 1: either one of them. Whoever gets that win there could
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: really boost their confidence to move forward. So look for that. Also.
- 1:04:19Speaker 1: I think Nuokxacvalley at Ferndale that looks to be pretty good.
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: A couple of teams right there that are around five
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: hundred in conference play. Let's see here Mount Baker at
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: Blaine on Saturday. That's a noon game out at Pipeline Fields. Yeah,
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: so those are those are kind of the ones I'm
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: looking at there, there's some, there's some good ones. I'm excited.
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: I'm excited for the week. I'm sorry for the weather
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: to get better or continue to get better. It was
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: kind of a rainy one on Easter. But uh and
- 1:04:52Speaker 1: uh but yeah, that's that's walk. I'm county right, better
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: get out and mo quickly. So anyways, again, thank you
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: so much. There's you know, there's been almost forty people
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: that have donated to walk the preps in just the
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: last forty eight hours, and it's just, you know, I
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: cannot express my gratitude enough and it makes me want
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: to just keep, you know, doing more and more and
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: expanding and and doing broadcasts maybe games of the week
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: and you know, just as much stuff I can do
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: because this, uh, this community deserves it. So I'm I
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: am just a small, small, small part of it. Trust me.
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: I have so much help from so many people that
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: a lot of them just want to be nameless, you know,
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: but there are there are interns, there are photographers, there
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: are parents, there are coaches. There are so many people
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: that have you know, aided me to be able to
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: do what I'm doing. So I just want to thank
- 1:05:56Speaker 1: all of them, and and uh again for all you
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: that have donated and that continue to donate. It's it's
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: going to a good cause, trust me, and we're gonna
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: keep this thing going as long as we can. So again,
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: I just want to say thank you again. And hopefully
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: next week my partner in crime, Ryland Spencer, will be
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: back again. You know how it is when you move
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: sometimes you don't have the internet set up just just yet,
- 1:06:22Speaker 1: and that that that's not fun and so anyways, I'm Tyler, Tyler,
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: I'm Tyler. I'm Tyler Anderson of Welcome Preps. And I
- 1:06:33Speaker 1: will talk to you again next week. And again, thank
- 1:06:36Speaker 1: you to all the sponsors, the people that have donated,
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: Kaylin Jewel for doing the intro, Thank you all. Talk
- 1:06:42Speaker 1: to you next week.