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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 400 - Week 1 Winter Sports Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: This is Lindon's senior, Payton Mills, and you're listening to
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  Speaker 1: the Walcome Preps Podcast with Tyler Anderson. Go Lions, Greetings
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  Speaker 1: and welcome to the Gatorade Game Day Podcast with Walkham Preps.
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  Speaker 1: This is episode four hundred. I never thought I would
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  Speaker 1: get to this point. Holy Cow, the Week one Winter
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  Speaker 1: sports recap, and I am Tyler Anderson of Walkham Preps.
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  Speaker 2: I want to give a special thank you to.
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  Speaker 1: Lynden senior Peyton Mills for the intro boy probably maybe
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  Speaker 1: one of the best seniors in the entire state when
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  Speaker 1: you look at girls basketball. She's already committed to play
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  Speaker 1: basketball at University of Hawaii, and I think she's poised
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  Speaker 1: to have a huge senior season. Back to back state championships,
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  Speaker 1: going for number three. It's gonna be pretty awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta give a huge thank you to Walton Beverage.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're just I can't believe how blessed and
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  Speaker 1: thankful I am for them. This is they've been around forever.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they've been around over ninety years, and for
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  Speaker 1: them to take an interest in me and allow me
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  Speaker 1: to keep doing what I'm doing is pretty amazing. They
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  Speaker 1: deliver superior quality and commitment, and I plan to do
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  Speaker 1: the very same to honor them. And and yeah, they're
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  Speaker 1: They're the reason I am able to do this. They're
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  Speaker 1: the biggest reason, and it's a pretty pretty great deal.
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  Speaker 1: There's also a big reason that, you know, games, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of doubleheaders and games get moved around and canceled,
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  Speaker 1: and that's because of a shortage of official officials. So
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  Speaker 1: if you live in Wakam's, Gadget Island or San Juan
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  Speaker 1: County and want to become an official, uh, there's one
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  Speaker 1: way to do it. Officiating is a great way to
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  Speaker 1: give back to your community and ensure our youth have
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity to compete in athletics. Go to nwofficials dot
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  Speaker 1: com and check it out and make it.
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  Speaker 2: So the sports are not going to go away.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to talk a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: football Top one hundred list. It's been going on. I
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  Speaker 1: think twenty seventeen was the first year I did it,
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  Speaker 1: which would make this the ninth year in a row
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  Speaker 1: doing it, and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm still on the fence about it.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just found out that it's not sponsored
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  Speaker 1: this year, so I'm without a sponsor, and it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those things where people look forward to it every year,
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  Speaker 1: but boy, it takes a lot of work, and it's
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  Speaker 1: it's an everyday thing, and it's a lot of graphics
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  Speaker 1: and it's and it really makes a lot of people upset,
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  Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and I hear about it.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't really know if I'm going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I did it the last few years because
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  Speaker 1: I did have a sponsor attached to it, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't right now.
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  Speaker 2: So it's still a fifty to fifty shot.
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  Speaker 1: If somebody wants to reach out and sponsor it, then
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  Speaker 1: I'd be happy to listen to you and and and
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  Speaker 1: we could try to work it together. But right now
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  Speaker 1: it's very very up.
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  Speaker 2: In the air. And it usually would start after the volleyball.
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  Speaker 1: Top fifty list is finished, and I think that wraps
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  Speaker 1: up on Friday the twelfth something around there, so it
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  Speaker 1: would be like the following week, the fifteenth and sixteenth
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  Speaker 1: of December is when.
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  Speaker 2: I would start it. I used to do three a day.
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  Speaker 2: I might do four.
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  Speaker 1: I might announce four players per day to kind of
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  Speaker 1: speed up the process because it gets, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: go bleeds all the way into like February, almost by
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  Speaker 1: the time the list gets.
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  Speaker 2: Done, and by then football has been played for a
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  Speaker 2: long time.
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  Speaker 1: So and maybe it was just a crazy undertaking to
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  Speaker 1: do a top one hundred list every year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but but we'll see. It's still it
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  Speaker 2: still could.
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  Speaker 1: Happen, and we'll just have to kind of wait and see.
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  Speaker 1: But if there is anybody that's interested in sponsoring it,
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  Speaker 1: reach out to me. Just send me a message on
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  Speaker 1: social media and.
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  Speaker 2: We can talk from there.
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  Speaker 1: I always have my email address and phone number and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff kind of out there on social media,
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  Speaker 1: so if you want to even call me or email
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  Speaker 1: me or whatever, we can figure it out. But first
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  Speaker 1: let's talk about some boys swimming and diving, and of
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  Speaker 1: course when we do, we got to talk about Staffer Insurance.
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  Speaker 1: Staffer Insurance is located at nineteen o three Front Street
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  Speaker 1: in Lindon. Give him a call three six zero seven
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  Speaker 1: four six eighty eight zero three. I was just in
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  Speaker 1: there last week and talked to Marty and really really
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  Speaker 1: really sad to say that Carter the dog has passed away.
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  Speaker 1: And I loved going in there and spending time with him,
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  Speaker 1: and he was getting up there in age. But boy,
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  Speaker 1: they're just such great people over there at Stafford Insurance.
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  Speaker 1: Go check them out and like their slogan says, they're
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  Speaker 1: happy to help. And you know, Marty and his crew,
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  Speaker 1: they do such an amazing job. It was the opening
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  Speaker 1: week for boys swimming and when we look at this standings,
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  Speaker 1: Mount Vernon, Linden and a Cordis are all one and oh.
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham is one oh and one. They had a tie
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  Speaker 1: with Okkarber, the rare tie in swimming. I mean things
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  Speaker 1: gonna match up just right. Ferndale and Squalkum are both
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  Speaker 1: one and one, Okcarbor oh one and one, Burnsonicon oh
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  Speaker 1: and one and Segar Willie is own two. Seahome has
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  Speaker 1: yet to compete yet, so I'm really anxious to see
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  Speaker 1: what kind of team they have. Let's go over the
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  Speaker 1: leaders in each event here. We're going to start off
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  Speaker 1: with a two hundred individual or the two hundred medley relay,
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  Speaker 1: and the top team is the Bellingham team of Camp Hancock,
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Foyle, Marley Watts and Tony Seaholme. They have a
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  Speaker 1: time of one minute fifty eight point twenty nine seconds.
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  Speaker 1: That's the top time for walking county times. In the
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  Speaker 1: two hundred freestyle, it's Ferndale's Odin Overson with a time
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  Speaker 1: of two minutes fourteen point ninety seven seconds. In the
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  Speaker 1: two hundred individual medley, it's Marley Lots of Bellingham two
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  Speaker 1: minutes twenty two point one to two seconds. That's fourteen
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  Speaker 1: seconds faster than the closest time. Of course, early in
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  Speaker 1: the year, you know, there's a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 1: disparity between times and different things. It'll tighten up as
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  Speaker 1: the season wears on and we'll see lots of different names.
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  Speaker 1: In the fifty freestyle, it's Odin Overson of Bellingham as
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry at Ferndale.
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  Speaker 2: With a time of twenty four point four to one seconds.
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  Speaker 1: That is that is burning. That's pretty turned fast. And
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  Speaker 1: then we go to the diving competition and it squal
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  Speaker 1: comes Nolan Whitman with a score of one's seventy four
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  Speaker 1: point six y five. That's that's over six dives, so
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  Speaker 1: he's leading that right there. That's not you surprise him
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  Speaker 1: and Alex Whitman, Miles Ludwig of Bellingham kind of coming
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  Speaker 1: in as who I would expect. The one hundred butterfly
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  Speaker 1: is Luke Mitchell of Ferndale with a time of one
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  Speaker 1: minute three point five to four seconds. In the one
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  Speaker 1: hundred freestyle, it's Camp Hancock of Bellingham with a time
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  Speaker 1: of fifty fifty five point seven seconds, already qualified for districts.
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  Speaker 2: There. In the five.
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  Speaker 1: Hundred freestyle it's Ferndale's Odin overson the time of six
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  Speaker 1: minutes fourteen point six four seconds. And the two hundred
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  Speaker 1: freestyle relay it's the Bellingham team of I've been cure
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  Speaker 1: of them. Coach is going to have to help me
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  Speaker 1: out with that name Tony Seaholm, Toren Fraser and Carlos Full.
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  Speaker 1: I have a time of one minute fifty one point
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  Speaker 1: four to seven seconds. That's ten seconds faster than the
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  Speaker 1: next time. And the one hundred backstroke it's Camp Hancock
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  Speaker 1: of Bellingham with a time of one minute eight point
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  Speaker 1: nine to six seconds. And the one hundred breast stroke
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  Speaker 1: it's Bellingham's Carlos full of a time of womenute eighteen
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  Speaker 1: point one six seconds. Really really good. There's that's good
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  Speaker 1: enough for districts and and boy he keeps improving on that,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a pretty impressive. And the four
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  Speaker 1: hundred freestyle relay best time is Bellingham's Tony Seaholme, Marley Lotts,
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  Speaker 1: you and Kelly and Camp Hancock at a time of
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  Speaker 1: four minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Six point two eight seconds.
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  Speaker 1: So, like I said, we're gonna see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: change in this those are the early leaders. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Sea Home has not swam yet, so we'll get them
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  Speaker 1: in there at some point and.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll just kind of see how it all goes
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  Speaker 2: over the next few months.
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  Speaker 1: And and it's always really really exciting, and it's there's
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  Speaker 1: some there's some swimming.
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  Speaker 2: Like in the last like.
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  Speaker 1: Two or three years since I've really been covering it,
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  Speaker 1: there's been some of the like there's been a lot
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  Speaker 1: of record breaking performances as far as school records go
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  Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So we were kind of in
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  Speaker 1: that golden age of swimming, you know, in Walking County
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  Speaker 1: and especially.
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  Speaker 2: On the boys side.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully they'll be in a lot of them graduated,
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  Speaker 1: but hopefully they'll be some that we'll be talking about
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  Speaker 1: here pretty pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, Seaholme has not.
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  Speaker 1: Swam yet, but you know, Linden k not to a
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  Speaker 1: good starts, so as Bellingham Ferndal's one and one, so
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  Speaker 1: as Squalicum. So they all all the Walkam County schools
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  Speaker 1: that have swam have at least one win under the belt,
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  Speaker 1: so very very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: take a look at the standing so far.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people ask.
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  Speaker 1: Me about them, you know, I was getting a lot
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  Speaker 1: of asks about volleyball sponsorships, but it was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: more than halfway through the year and everything was full.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, now is the time to get.
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  Speaker 1: In on this because it's it's the season has just
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  Speaker 1: started and and and things are open right now. There's
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  Speaker 1: been no league games yet, but Bellingham see Him and
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  Speaker 1: Linden Christian are each two and oh, while Nogzac Valley
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  Speaker 1: and Meridian are both one to oh. I've seen all
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  Speaker 1: these teams play Bellingham. You know, they haven't played the
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  Speaker 1: stiffest competition, but I love how well they're playing, especially
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  Speaker 1: they're they're starting five.
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  Speaker 2: They've they've done okay the last.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of years, but uh, they'll they'll they'd stub their
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  Speaker 1: toe on something and they just kind of turned the
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  Speaker 1: ball over inopportune times and things like. It just feels
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  Speaker 1: like it's really gelling.
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  Speaker 2: Really well right now.
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  Speaker 1: But of course it's early on, but they're starting the
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  Speaker 1: season off really well under new head coach Drew McFall.
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  Speaker 1: Really has him believing and that's really really fun to see.
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  Speaker 1: Seaholm has played two pretty good opponents with Ferndale and
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  Speaker 1: Squalicum both non league games, but beating them both. The
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  Speaker 1: Seaholm a team that you know this year had kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know, bringing pretty much everybody back, so it's
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  Speaker 1: a it goes from a young team to a veteran
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  Speaker 1: team in a blink of an eye. And that game
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  Speaker 1: against Squally, um, you know, I was out there for
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  Speaker 1: that one, and it was Squalicum had him pretty good
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  Speaker 1: in the first half. Seahom played extremely well in the
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  Speaker 1: second half to come back and get that one. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: playing very very well. Then the Christian of course too
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  Speaker 1: and zero and they are the real deal. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they have a good rotation going right now. They kind
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  Speaker 1: of they always look like they're in mid season form
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  Speaker 1: early on, so no surprises there. I watched them against
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  Speaker 1: the Australian traveling team where it was funny because I
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  Speaker 1: got there at halftime in something and this it was
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  Speaker 1: like a two point game, and some people were like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's really weird. They're just not hitting their shots,
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  Speaker 1: and that's you know, it's a first.
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  Speaker 2: Game that happens. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: But then all of a sudden they were they were
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  Speaker 1: on fire in the third quarter there and closed out
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  Speaker 1: the job, got the you know, got the win. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, they're just and then they turned around and
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  Speaker 1: played again the very next night and against on Alaska
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  Speaker 1: got the win again and against a pretty good team,
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  Speaker 1: but they win by twenty and it's a really really impressive.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there are you know, they graduated.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I think that like five seniors last year.
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  Speaker 1: And so they're all gone. There's a other few other
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  Speaker 1: athletes that play other sports that didn't turn out this year.
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  Speaker 1: So there's kind of a lot of spots that were
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  Speaker 1: up for grabs for players to come right in and
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  Speaker 1: make a big difference, and they're doing that right now
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  Speaker 1: with links and of course Brady Bomber knows what he's doing,
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  Speaker 1: so not surprised to see them at two and oh,
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  Speaker 1: no exact valley. I'm mere riding both one and oh
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  Speaker 1: and you know both taking on what I would just
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  Speaker 1: consider inferior opponents. And they got the job done. They
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  Speaker 1: did what they're supposed to do, picking up big, big
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  Speaker 1: wins there, and so that's, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of what I expected.
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  Speaker 1: It's weird because talking about them, it seems like they
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  Speaker 1: played so long ago because they've only played one game each,
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  Speaker 1: but it was just this past week and they'll they'll
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  Speaker 1: probably be playing more than one game a week going forward,
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  Speaker 1: even starting this upcoming week. Squalakum is two and one
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  Speaker 1: right now, Lemu Nation and Mount Baker both one and one.
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  Speaker 1: Squalakum is looking really really good, and they were almost
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  Speaker 1: three and zero. You know, they had that game against
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  Speaker 1: See hom It.
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  Speaker 2: Just did not work out in the end there.
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  Speaker 1: Lexi Robbins fouls out with probably five minutes left in
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  Speaker 1: the game. Peyton Horst came in and did a good
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  Speaker 1: job her backups. She I mean, she came in, she
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  Speaker 1: hit a shot right away. But there's something about when
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  Speaker 1: Lexi Robbins is running that offense where she gets a
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  Speaker 1: lot of assists, can do a lot of things, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, it kind of came to a surprise to
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  Speaker 1: her when she had to come out of the game.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like and it was just kind of shocked
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  Speaker 2: the whole.
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  Speaker 1: Team and they just weren't able to recover from that
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  Speaker 1: lemination going to Town on Grace Academy and winning eighty
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  Speaker 1: four to sixteen. But had a really rough one, well
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  Speaker 1: not a rough one, but a close one against Mount
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  Speaker 1: Vernon Christian, a really really good team and that's one
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  Speaker 1: classification higher than leimination. That was a four point game
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  Speaker 1: that the Blackhawks almost pulled off gem and James hit
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  Speaker 1: I think she hit four threes in the final three
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  Speaker 1: minutes or something like that to kind of bring them closer.
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  Speaker 1: They did get within one point, but they did lose
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  Speaker 1: that game. Mount Baker won and one. They got the
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  Speaker 1: win at Orchest Island and by twenty earth by thirty points,
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  Speaker 1: i should say, and then they lost a close one
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  Speaker 1: to Mount Vernon Christian as well on the road. So
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  Speaker 1: Mount Baker Mountaineers have yet to play at home. But
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's a team that's vastly improved from last
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  Speaker 1: year as well, So we'll see if they can how
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  Speaker 1: they can stay around five hundred or even above five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Blaine is one and two. They played three games so far.
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  Speaker 1: They did they did get that win, which was really
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  Speaker 1: really good to see. I was there earlier in the season.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was our first game of the year. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: when they when they got a loss, I felt horrible
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  Speaker 1: because I watched the first I don't know, the first
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  Speaker 1: half of the first quarter kind of from the stands,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of watching the game, and it was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was close. I think it was like seven to
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  Speaker 1: six at that point, and I was like, okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: time out. I'm gonna go down and by the baseline
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  Speaker 1: and take some pictures of them coming like towards me.
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  Speaker 1: And I sat down there on the baseline until halftime,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't score a point When I was down there.
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  Speaker 2: I felt horrible. I just felt like, am I Am
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  Speaker 2: I in the way? Am I? You know? Am I distraction?
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  Speaker 1: Because like I said, it was they were I think
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  Speaker 1: they might have even been ahead seven to six. And
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  Speaker 1: I went down there and then there was I think
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  Speaker 1: it was like twenty seven to seven when it was halftime,
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  Speaker 1: and so I left to go to another game or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, and I just and you know, and
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  Speaker 1: then they played really well in the second half. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they stayed with them. I think they may even outscored
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  Speaker 1: them in the second half. I think that was against
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  Speaker 1: trying to remember who was against Bear Creek maybe, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was, you know, they it's a it's it's a again,
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  Speaker 1: it's a.
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  Speaker 2: Very young team.
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  Speaker 1: But I think they're I think they're improved from last year,
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  Speaker 1: and it's they're a lot more experienced than they were
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  Speaker 1: last year, that's for sure. Ferndale's zero and two, uh,
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  Speaker 1: playing a couple of tough opponents that what's what's really
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: too bad about the Ferndale squad this year is that
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: neither game so far i've been able to get a
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: video of, so I haven't seen them. So I'm really
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: excited to see them, even on tape, but even I
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: would love to see them in person because I'm really
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: excited about their season. Even though they're owned two right now,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I think they have a shot to do something pretty good.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: They just.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I think their starting lineup it's, you know, basically the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: same as last year, but I think they're just bolstered
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: with more experience and and you got you had some
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: you know, three year starters that are on that on
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: that starting lineup now, and that our seniors, and it's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: a really really good group. And I think the bench
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: is even better. Uh there's been Ferndal teams in the
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: past where they just go six deep. They just have
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: one player rotat in and out off the bench and
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: kind of expels everybody at times and everyone kind of
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: played the same amount of minutes. I think there's a
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: little bit deeper bench now, So I you know, I'm
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: excited to see them in person, like I said, and
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: we'll see if we can get some games in this
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: upcoming week. Let's take a look at the stat leaders
• 17:42
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• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the girls basketball stat leaders. Kevin Austinc. Partnered with Walkham
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• 17:54
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• 17:57
  Speaker 1: and girls' sport at the same time throughout each that passes.
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• 18:10
  Speaker 1: six four five sixty seven telling me you heard about
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: them on the WACOM Preps podcast. So we got eight
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: categories here to look at who the leaders are in
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: girls' basketball and we're gonna start off with points per
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: game and so far it's Ella Fritz of Lyndon Christian
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: averaging twenty three point five points per game. You know,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: she usually brings the ball up, the core of the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: balls in her hand a lot. She does get her
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: teammates involved quite a bit, but she's just such a
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: great score and she can hit the mid range shot
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: extremely well, and she can shoot it from outside as well,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: so she's.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: Going to be relied upon heavily.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: And I said it during the girls basketball preview, I said,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: you know, she's going to challenge Kalo Anderson of Kings
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: for that, you know, one a state player of the year.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I really truly believe that she has that kind of
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: ability and field goal person. It is Mount Baker sophomore
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Kaalin Abedia leading at seventy five percent. She's been shooting
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: it pretty dang well. That's now that's gonna be I'm
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: not I mean, I never want to say impossible, but
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: that's going to be really hard to keep up. Nobody
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: shoots seventy five percent right now. She is on the year,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: so congratulations to her. In free throw percentage, there's multiple
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: players that are still at one hundred percent, but the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: player who has made the most without missing is Bellingham
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: sophomore Lucy Holland. You know, her and her sister Elise
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Holland have really bolstered that Bellingham starting lineup. Really it's
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: just awesome to see and we'll see what they can
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: do once they start playing conference games. But I really
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: like what I see so far, so that's been really
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: really good. In three point percentage, it is Ella Fritz
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: of Lenday Christians seventy five percent. Now she's just three
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: for four, but that tells me something. That tells me
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: that she will take it when when it's a smart shot,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and a lot of players, if a players three for
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: four and three point shooting, they're just going to keep
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: shooting it because they feel like they're hot and they're
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: on something and they can keep going. And that's when
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: you start missing a bunch. And so that really shows
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the command and the patience that Elle Fritz has where
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: you know she's getting other teammates involved as well, but
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: when she has the open shot, she takes it, and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: right now she's making it at a seventy five percent
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: clip from beyond the arc rebounds per game. It's Mount
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Baker's junior Rebecca Sores seventeen rebounds a game. Her and
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Grace Dhova are going to be battling this out the
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: whole year, just like they did last year. I mean,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: it's it's no surprise and when they.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Play each other, it's really really fun to watch.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: But right now, Rebecca Sores is leading the way and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: assists per game. It's lumin Nation senior Elena Raebang at
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: seven assists per game.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: And she's not even the point.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Guard, but she's very, very good at bringing the deal.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: The defense will collapse on her engine, she'll find the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: open teammate, or she'll kick it out to all those
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: three point shooters that they have at Lemonation. So she's
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: at seven assists per game and steals per game. Get this,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: it's an eighth grader at Lemination. It's Jordie Reider. Heard
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of good things about her practice. You know,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: they had lost Cashla Mack, who who moved back up
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: to Canada. And and when I heard that, you know,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I said, oh, they got an eighth grader that's going
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to be kind of taking her spot. I thought, well,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: an eighth grader, I mean, you know, how good is
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: she really? Boy, she's pretty darn good. Uh, seven steals
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: per game right now? Of course, that limination defense, they
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: can really swarm and attack, and and they they invite
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: you to pass.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: Errantly. Let's just say, you know.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Side side, you know, court side to side, court side passes,
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: deep passes, you know, one arm passes, and that's where
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: they get you they'll just jump out of nowhere, get
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: the ball and then they and they score, and that's
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: what they do really well.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: So Jordie Reider, the eighth grader out of elimination, leading
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: the way with seven steals.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Per game, and then in blocks per game, we go
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: back to Mount Baker junior Rebecca Sores, averaging three blocks
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: per game. Very very good at blocking without fouling. She
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: has a really she has a real knack for that.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Obviously she's tall six foot two, but there's a lot
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: more than just that. It's she's very athletic. She has
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: great awareness and you know, she doesn't go after every
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: shot either, and so she doesn't get into foul trouble,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: which is a big deal.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: But when she sees her opportunity, she goes for.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: So with all that being said, it's time to talk
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: about the Player of the Week, which is brought to
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• 22:53
  Speaker 1: player of the Week is Ella Fritz of Linden Christian.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: You know, I watch those first two games and I
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: kind of locked it into my head saying I think
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: she's the player of the week. I don't know if
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: anyone's gonna be able to beat her out. Now, Jemma
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: James had an amazing opening game where she nearly got
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I think she.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Was two she was. I think she was two assists.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Away from a quadruple double in that opening game. And
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and boy, if she would have shot them to the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: win in the second game, she probably would have got
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the award. But I you know, she missed a bunch
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: of shots earlier on early on. I think at one
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: point she was I think one for seventeen or something
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: like that, but she hit a bunch late. But they couldn't.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: They couldn't. They couldn't secure that that win. But but yes,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: so this goes to Lenny Christian Senior Ella Fritz. She
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: is her Anytime Fitness the girls basketball player of the Week.
• 23:48
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• 24:31
  Speaker 2: So let's take a look at the standings.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker has yet to play a game, and there again,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: just like the girls side, there are no league games
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: that have been played, but Squalkum and Nooksack Valley are
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: both two and oh so far in the year, Bellingham
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: is one and oh you look at Squalkum right now,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: they're playing without Hunter Callaway. So you say that starting out,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: you talk about all the seniors they lost last year
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and then and then their big star they're bringing back
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is injured right now.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: And for them to be too and O, that says
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: a lot.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: That that is huge because there they've got a lot
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of new varsity guys that are believing in themselves. And
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you know, you get off on a hot start. I mean,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: if they were zero and two, and even if they
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: played just as well, there'd be something in their in
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: their brain mentally saying but we're just not closing it out,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: or then they start questioning themselves. And that's what's tough
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: with high school kids, is so much of it is mental.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: But to be too aoh, I think it is a huge,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: huge deal.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Blake Elson's been playing tremendous. I think he's putting a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: lot on his plate himself with the absence of Hunter Callaway.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: He's about two or three inches taller than he was
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: last year, and he's really refined his game and he
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: can finish the hoop, which has been good to see.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And then Oriyan Gramberg Kittle, I just I love his
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: improvement so much, just for even from last year to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: this year. You know, he's still learning the game of
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: basketball six foot five underneath. And you know a lot
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of times, the great thing about when you take a
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: player that didn't grow up playing basketball, they don't develop
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: those bad habits and they're eager to learn, so you
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: can really teach them the way you want to teach them.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: And so I think that's a good example of that
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: with him because I think he's really he's really playing
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: well for the Squalicum Storm, who are too and no
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Nuksac Valley also to and Oh.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: It's been fun to watch. They've been a lot of guys.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, they you know, they have a lot of
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: guys that play a lot of minutes, so they're rotating constantly,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and you know.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: It's it's always five guys.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: They can handle, they can shoot, they could rebound, they
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: could play defense. And that's what's really cool about their
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: about their team is that they don't really drop off
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: when they when they sub.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: They've got a lot of good guys that can do
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: some things.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: They got some young guys I think will be really
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: good someday, but they're still kind of finding their way.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: So I think the Pioneers are off to a great
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: start to and O. And Bellingham is one to know.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: They just had that one game. It was against Marysville
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Pilchuck and and you know, the Tomahawks are not that
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the best of teams, and they were missing a few starters,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: so Bellingham took advantage. You know, they were up nineteen
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: one at one point, and Joe Harwood went off twenty
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: five points, three dunks, forced deals.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: And just kind of doing what he does.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: But it was great to see, you know, Barrett Johnson
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: and Cyrus Campos and these guys that that have been
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: on the varsity team for a while, they're now getting
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: their their time to shine and and to start and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: play valuable minutes and they're making the most of it
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and playing really well. So really really good to see there.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Let Me Nation is one zero and one, and I
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: know it's crazy, but you know, we can talk about it.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: A little bit.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard about it, but Lemon Nation and
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Lakewood did play to a tie. It was a close
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: game all the way through Lakewood. I mean, last year's
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: you know, two AAY district champions up here, so that's
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: there's no slouch at all. And and Let Me Nation
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: went down there to play at their place. The game
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: was tight throughout and lake Would went on a little
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: bit of a run to make it like a sixty
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: four to sixty game with a little over three minutes
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to go, and then the lights went out and there
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: was about a twenty minute delay where you didn't really
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: know what was going to happen. The auxiliary lights came on,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: but it was you know, not the same, so if
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: you're watching online, you're kind of confused about what's going on.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: But the power went out.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: They were able to get the game going, and then
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: they played for by probably twenty seconds, and it happened again.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: So then they moved the game to a different gym
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: on the campus just to get those final three minutes,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and then when.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: They did, it played to a tie.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: And so and then the power went out again and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: instead of going to overtime or fighting another gym and say,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: you know what, let's just end it right there. So
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: it ended in a tie, which is crazy to.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Say, but that's just the way it goes.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: And then they and then they turned around and beat
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Sea home on Saturday night on the road.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: So leimonation looking pretty darn good right now. Blaine is
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: two and one, which is great.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Last year they had three wins all year, so for
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: them to have two already this year has been fantastic.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I really like their rotation and what they got going on.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: They still have a couple of really good players that
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: are that are that suffered football.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Injuries that are waiting to come back, and so that's
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: just gonna add to their lineup. But it's been very
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: very consistent. Dawson Donor has been playing great. You know,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: there's you know, kay Kerwin handling the ball has been awesome.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Land and Melton kind of inside outside game, the Dixon
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Brothers inside. It's just it's it's coming together really well.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: So for them to be two and one to start
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: the season is awesome to see. Uh Lyndon Christian is
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: one in one playing two really different opponents starting off
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the year playing on the Australian traveling team and they
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: were missing all of their football players, so they really
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: only had like two or three guys that adversity experience
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: and they and it was the rest of them was
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: JV guys basically.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: But they had a.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Really good game in that one. They win by I
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: think it was like eighteen or something like that. Uh
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Gunnar Dykstra was an assist away from a triple double.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Uh I kind of expected him to go off in
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: that game because he was the guy with the main
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: varsity experience.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Really cool to see Trade and Ridnower come out. You know,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: he was the JV point guard last year. Him, he
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: played quite a bit of minutes and that and that
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: game scored I think he led the team in scoring.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: He had, boy, he had like six three pointers maybe
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: didn't leave the team to had like twenty two points,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and uh.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was it was cool to see.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: You know, his dad's an assistant coach now of course,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Luke Ridnower, and so I think he's worked with a
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: lot of.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: Those guys, a lot of those a lot of those.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Kids in that great in that age group, you know,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: growing up, and so he knows those kids pretty well.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: So with his you know, expertise and value is only
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: going to be that you know, it's going to help
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: that much more him sitting on the bench and helping.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Out as an assistant for Tim Zilstra.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: And then they played at Lake Stevens, a four A school,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: and that game they had, you know, they were ahead
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: going into the second half. Some of their football players
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: were able to come back from that one, not all
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: of them, and but you know Lake Stevens pulled away
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: late in the game and they ended up getting the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: win there. So e Linni Christian takes the loss. Despite
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Dawson Heintz with twenty nine points. I think Gondard Diisterra
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: had twenty five. Cayden Veldman had this unreal game, you know,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: like something like thirteen points, fifteen rebounds, six blocks, six steals,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: just something, just crazy, And I didn't he was one
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: of the football players I was not expecting to play.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: I know he's not one hundred percent, so that that
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: tells me a lot about his game and his work
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: ethic and his toughness, which doesn't surprise me at all.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: And he had a great, great game.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: And if he's ready to go with leak right around
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the corner, it's going to be it's gonna be scary
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: because Lennon Christian, they will put.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: It all together when he's on the floor, that's for sure.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: But Boyce Robertson and Eli Mayberry and some of those guys,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: they were not quite ready yet. So once they get
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: in there and provide that depth, it's gonna be great.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Robertson might even start. He started a handful of games
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: last year, so if he's one hundred percent, and you
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: could bet you could see him back in the starting lineup.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: See home one and two. Started off started the year
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: off with a win at Marysville. Pilchuck Xavier Kelly went off,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, close to a triple double, really
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: really big game for him. Quincy Tanneman did as well,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: and then they played a Holy Cross from from British Columbia.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Watched that one. They are a really, really really talented team,
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  Speaker 1: good size, but they can shoot it from the outside
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: It was cool I got. I got to see them twice.
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  Speaker 1: I saw them at Murdy in the next day and
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: I got to listen to O Canada, which is an
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: awesome song. If you ask me, it's probably the best,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: just the best song as as far as anthems go.
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  Speaker 2: I just think it's a fun song. I actually sang it.
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  Speaker 1: There, not like in the microphone, but at the Meridian
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  Speaker 1: game when I was standing there, I was singing it
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  Speaker 1: to myself.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a fun song. So that was kind of
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  Speaker 2: cool to see. So see them drop that one. That
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  Speaker 2: was a close game.
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  Speaker 1: Col Terrell had a great game in that one, twenty points.
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  Speaker 1: He they just they didn't have an answer for him
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  Speaker 1: down low, especially early on. And then they dropped the
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  Speaker 1: game against Lemination on Saturday. I was at that one
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  Speaker 1: as well. Uh, they were without Coldterrell in that one,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know, he wasn't even on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm not quite sure if he had a prior
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  Speaker 1: engagement or what was going on, but that you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say that's the reason they lost a lamination,
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  Speaker 1: but having him in there would have definitely helped.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: But see home one and two.
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  Speaker 1: I think they'll they'll be fine as the as the
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: year goes on. It's a pretty it's a pretty good
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: team with a little bit more depth than usual, which
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: is good.
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  Speaker 2: Lyndon Owen one, which is weird to say.
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  Speaker 1: They they've just played the one game they hosted. Meadowdale
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: lost that one close one. They were down by fifteen
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  Speaker 1: going into the fourth quarter and then they came back
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: and came back and came back. It just kind of
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: ran out of time there at the end. So uh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: another three or four minutes of that one, it could
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: be a different story. But they do fall to oh
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: and one. Ferndale and Meridian are both looking for their
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: first win as well. Ferndale oh and two Meridian Owen three.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen both these teams multiple times already and it's
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: just a lot of new varsity guys and that's kind
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: of what happens. I do like what both teams are doing.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: I think they both have great coaching staffs. They both
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: ran into some really good teams as well, so that's
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: a big, big part of it. But you know, Ferndale
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: I again, I like they can go nine deep and
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: go and not fall off a whole lot, which is
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: good to see. Plus Cavira Dylan hasn't played yet, so
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: that's going to add.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: More to their depth.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: You know, like the emergence of Trays and Pizzaski, which
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: has been awesome. You know, he was Houston Wills and
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: and Blake Singsung can really shoot it and so I
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: they'll be just fine. Meridian is very is very guard
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: heavy is probably the best way to put it, which
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: is not a bad thing sometimes. I mean you can really,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: you know, play some great defense when you're very much
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: quicker than the other team and you get after it.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: But it's been it's it's been tough because they just
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: don't have a ton of size.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: And they you know, they lost a heartbreaker.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I believe it was to Mount Vernon Christian and double overtime, uh,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: coming back and and getting close but then just you know,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: not doing not getting there all the way. But they
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: they were able to push those over times and that
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: was what was good to see. And or at the
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: end of regulation and at the end of the first overtime. So,
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: uh so there's some good things again, great great coaching
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: gave Gobert has been has been really lights out. I mean,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: he's been the guy that there's always that guy where
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I know who he is, but there's that one or
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: two players every year that just jumps, it just takes
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: leaps and bounds forward from where they were last year.
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  Speaker 1: And I really feel like he's been that guy this
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: year so far Walkham County. He's had I think he's
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: led him in scoring all three games, and it's been
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: by a pretty big margin. And you know, he came
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: off the bench in week one and he's starting now.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: So it's a it's a pretty obvious. Uh you know,
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: there are certain guys that when it when the lights
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: are on and it's game time, they just play better.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: And I would imagine that Golabreth is like that, and
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: so they're giving him a lot more minutes. Now, let's
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: take a look at the stat Leaders. Of course, stat
• 36:45
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• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Kevin Nassinc. Partnered with me back in August of twenty
• 36:52
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• 36:58
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• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Tell him you heard about them on the WACOM Preps podcast.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: We're gonna start off with points per game, and again
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of these especially these averages and different things.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're all averages and percentages, they're all very
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: skewed because some of these teams have only played one game,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: so it's kind of all over the place boats as
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: it is. The points per game right now is the
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: leaders Dawson Heinz of Lennon Christian, who scored twenty nine
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: points against Lake Stevens, did not play in the opener,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: so he's averaging twenty nine points a game.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: The field goal percentage.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Leader is Cole Terrell of Seahome. The big senior center
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: is shooting eighty percent right now. Boy, he takes them
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: all right there in that block. And it's not just
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: him just being super big and bullying guys around. He's
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: got a good spin move, he's got a good touch
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: off the glass, and so that's been really good to see.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: In free throw percentage, multiple players are still at one
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: hundred percent, but the player who has made the most
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: without missing is Nuksack Valley senior Brian Laierley. Congratulations to him.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I think he even banked one in, so that kid
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: just can't miss when he's at the foul line. Three
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: point percentage shooting a blistering sixty one and a half
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: percent from beyond the arc is Trade and Ridenour, the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: sophomore out of Linden Christian. It's a little bit of
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: an unorthodox.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Shot, but they go in.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I think he was six to ten in that first
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: game from beyond the arc, and then he was two
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: for three in game two, So right at sixty one
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and a half percent, that's gonna be really tough to
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: keep up. But so far, so good for the young sophomore.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: In rebounds per game, it's Chase Waight Keller of Lemon Nation,
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the big six foot eight center transfer. He's at sixteen
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: point five rebounds per game. Boy, he's gonna be battling
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: that with Kel Riard and for arg well, yeah, Kel
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Reardon probably, but Cayden Veldman as well.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: For quite a while, there's there's.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Some pretty good rebounders going on as Xavier Kelly is
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: up there too, and assists per game, it's Jerome Toby
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: of Nation with eight assists per game. He led Walking
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: County last year, looking the lead again this year. In
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: steeles per game, it's Joe Harvard of Bellingham. He had
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: four steals in that opener against Marysville Pilchuck. That first
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: one led to a pretty good two handed dunk there.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: And then in blocks per game, it's Caden Veldman of
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Lynden Christian averaging six blocks per game. Boy, I can't
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: wait to see what he does when he's one hundred
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: percent healthy. And he was doing that against a four
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: A school too, so he is really really special. And
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: that brings us to the Player of the Week for
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: boys basketball. Of course, player of the Week is brought
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: to you by Anytime Fitness check them out in Lyndon,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Linden North and Ferndale and the Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Player of the Week. I had so many ways I
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: could have gone with us, but I'm gonna go with
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: the Squalicum junior Blake Elston.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I really think that the.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Numbers were really, really good, but there was more to
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: it than that, because I think a lot was put
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: on his shoulders to lead this team with the absence
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of Hunter Callaway and he's led him to a two
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: and zero start, and I just think that's really really important.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: He's getting a lot of.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Assists as well, so he's getting guys involved doing a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: lots of things. So Blake Elston a Squalicum, Congratulations, you
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: are the Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball Player of the Week.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Let's take a look at this upcoming week. What we
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: got going so far? A little bit of something every day.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's always stuff every day, but when I
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: look at kind of the things that intrigue me the most.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: On Monday, boys basketball Meridian at Sea Home at seven fifteen,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: This would be a tough one for the for the Trojans,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: but I think it's a good It's it's kind of
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: a good matchup for them because se Home is not
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: the tallest team in the world.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: So I really think that it could be a good matchup.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: You know, I think it'll be closer than people think
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: because I guess is what I'm saying. And it's always
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: a fun gym out at See Home High School to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: check out a game, so uh, that's you know, it's
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: gonna be a good one. Probably where I'll be Tuesday in
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: the afternoon it's boys swimming Squalicum at Ferndale at three thirty.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Now the website says it's at Ferndale High School.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: Which I don't think they have a swimming pool there.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I do think when the Ferndale has their home meets
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: it's at a pool in Linden, and so I have
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: to get clarification on that. But that'll be Tuesday at
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: three thirty. Wednesday, You're ready for some flag football? Oh man,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: it's it's you know, last year they kind of dip
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: their toes in it a little bit. This year it
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: is a you know, full all, full on, full fledged sport.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: So we got and I think games are gonna be
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: every Wednesday.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: At least that's what I've been told.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: And it starts this this Wednesday, Ferndale at Squalk them
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: at four thirty and Bellingham at Seahome also at four thirty.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna have to kind of figure out where
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be. H.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: I don't think I can hit both of them, although
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: I might be able to kind of leave it.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Right around halftime. That's still gonna be pretty tough to do.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: But I kind of want to get in on this.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: On the ground you know, get on on the ground
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: floor when this as a sport is starting.
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: As far as.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Taking stats and all those things, I don't know. I
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: might need some help from some coaches at least giving
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: me information and maybe.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: Just touchdowns or something like that. So we'll see. It's
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: a it's gonna be really cool though, really excited about it.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: And then later on that night Wednesday night, boys basketball,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Blaine at Bellingham at seven point fifteen. I think that'll
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: be a pretty darn good game. Two teams that you know,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: are not the upper echelon teams in the North and
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: the Northwest Conference, but two teams that I think are
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: pretty excited about their starts, and so this will be
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: a good matchup because whoever comes out on top of
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: this one will have a really good boost going for
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: this early part.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Of the season.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: On Thursday, I bought this doubleheader a Squallakum High School
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: girls and boys basketball. Girls start at five forty five,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: boys that follow at seven fifteen. It's Lindon at Squalicum.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I think the girls game, you know, could be pretty
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: darn good. The boys game might might be too. I mean,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: right now, Squalicum's rolling, and so you never know, it
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: could be really good, a good This is at Squalicum
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: High School Thursday night, check it out, doubleheader. Go there,
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: watch a game, get something to eat at the concessions,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: watch another one.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Can't can't beat that.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Friday boys basketball out at the Deming Dome, Bellingham at
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker seven point fifteen. I think this could be
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: a pretty good matchup as well. You know, Joe Harward
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: puts up a ton of points. He started his career
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: at Mount Baker, so there's you know, he knows a
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: lot of those guys. So that's fun. You know, brings
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: a really good competition. So we'll have to wait and
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: see how that one goes. That'll be Friday night, seven fifteen,
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and then on Saturday, a fun, it's a really cool
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: doubleheader out at Linden Christian High School at five thirty.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Starting at five point thirty Archbishop Murphy at Linden Christian
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: for girls basketball, followed by the Lummy Nation boys playing
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: LC at seven point fifteen. So a kind of a
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: mixed doubleheader there with Lynden Christian hosting both games. First
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: off the girls Archbishop Murphy team and then second the
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: boys Lemonation team playing. Really looking forward to that lemination
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Linden Christian Game. That's quite a test for lemination, but
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: they're they're pretty darn good. So again another really fun
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: jim to watch games at and to shoot games at
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: as far as taking pictures.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: So that'll be a fun one for me to go
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: to on Saturday night. Well, that pretty much wraps it up.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: I want to thank the sponsors Anytime Fitness, Most Seria,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Construction Acceleration, Driving School in Lynden, Edeline, Dry Stuff for
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• 44:59
  Speaker 1: You been listening to episode four hundred, still can't believe
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: I'm saying that.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: The Week one Winter Sports recap. I am Tyler
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: Anderson of Walking Preps and I'll talk to you next week.