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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 305 - Fall Sports Wrap Up 11-17 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Bellingham senior soccer player Ruby Brown, and you're
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Speaker 1: listening to the Walkcam Preps podcast with Tyler and Ryland.
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Speaker 1: Go BayHawks.
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Speaker 2: Greetings and welcome into the Watkham Preps podcast. This episode
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Speaker 2: three hundred and five a fall sports a weekly wrap up.
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Speaker 2: I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler
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Speaker 2: Anderson of WATCUM Preps. Tyler, how are we doing?
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Speaker 1: Ah? Yeah, it's it's crazy, you know how, Like when
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Speaker 1: you look at your phone and it says it's at
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Speaker 1: twelve percent and you're like, Dang, that's kind of where
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Speaker 1: I'm at right now, Like I can still do stuff,
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Speaker 1: but we're getting close to the end here.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we really are. I mean we're in the state
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Speaker 2: tournament of everything and a couple more sports wrapped up
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Speaker 2: over the weekend. Tyler, you were out in Yakoma craziness.
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Speaker 2: But we need to a thank you to Ruby Brown,
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Speaker 2: Bellingham senior soccer player, for the intro. We also need
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Speaker 1: Tyler.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're coming down to the end of the fall
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Speaker 2: sport here, but doesn't mean that it isn't still fall
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Speaker 2: sports stuff that could be sponsored and it's time to
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Speaker 2: start thinking real heavily about the winter sport. So a
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Speaker 2: lot of people get a hold of you. Yeah, definitely,
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Speaker 2: it's right here.
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Speaker 1: I mean it is practices by the time you're listening
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Speaker 1: to this, practices start today, you know. So it's just
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Speaker 1: so funny how it just turns over like that. But
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Speaker 1: the best way to get a hold of me is
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Speaker 1: just search for walking preps on social media, send a message.
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Speaker 1: And you know, just now, right before we started recording,
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Speaker 1: I was turning down my phone and I got some
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Speaker 1: messages from people, and you never know what they're going
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Speaker 1: to be, but hey, they could be sponsored related, so
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Speaker 1: that that's great. But and I'll have to check them
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Speaker 1: when once we're done here. But yeah, that's just the
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Speaker 1: best way keep this, keep this thing going and spend
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Speaker 1: a lot of you know, it's been really really positive
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Speaker 1: so far. I just you know, uh, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: great with the NW officials. And I saw so many
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Speaker 1: different officials at the at the state volleyball tournament, and
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Speaker 1: it's so funny how they're all like walking around giving
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Speaker 1: each other fist bump because they know, like, Okay, this
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Speaker 1: is it. We're in it for the long haul here.
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Speaker 1: And and I don't know how they choose, if they
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Speaker 1: select from around the state, you know, or there's different
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Speaker 1: regions that send all the best ones, but it seems
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Speaker 1: like all the same ones that were there last time
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Speaker 1: I was there, and they're very very good, and they
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Speaker 1: get actual officials to do the lines and everything and
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Speaker 1: and but yeah, just the just reach out ask how
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Speaker 1: you can get involved and we'll figure something out for
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Speaker 1: you because there's lots of different options and you know,
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Speaker 1: especially with the graphics and different things, and and yeah,
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Speaker 1: Walko Preps is growing growing fast and time the time
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Speaker 1: to jump on board is right now.
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Speaker 2: We've only got three sports to talk about today, Tyler.
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Speaker 2: The football podcast as usual now will come out on Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: so be sure to keep an eye out for that.
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Speaker 2: But we've got girls from and dive the state championships.
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Speaker 2: We've got soccer which is going into the state championships
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Speaker 2: now the final four, so we'll talk about everything leading
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Speaker 2: up to that. And we will talk about volleyball which
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Speaker 2: is now over so well well yes, well yes, yeah,
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Speaker 2: the three A and four A they still have next weekend.
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Speaker 2: But Tyler, let's start off with girls soccer. As always,
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Speaker 2: everything on wacom perhaps is as far as soccer goes
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Speaker 2: is brought to you by North County Alliance FC. You
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Speaker 2: can find them online and c Alliance FC dot com.
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Speaker 2: It says here, Tyler, go over playoff brackets. Well, we're
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Speaker 2: only going to go over one. We're going to go
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Speaker 2: over the two way and the two A they are
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Speaker 2: now into the final four, and we do have a
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Speaker 2: team there. Bellingham has made their way through Sea Home.
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Speaker 2: They were I guess bounced from the state tournament in
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Speaker 2: the first round that was on was that Tuesday time Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: which when that's right, it was a Wednesday night double
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Speaker 2: header up there at Civic Stadium in Bellingham. Ellensburg comes
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Speaker 2: into town. They defeat Seahome. That's an eleven to six matchup,
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Speaker 2: and Sea Hoome obviously the six they get the home game.
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Speaker 2: That's a two to one win for Ellensburg.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ellensburg Bulldogs won in the shootout. It was one
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Speaker 1: to one after regulation and overtime, and so that's a
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Speaker 1: tough way to go in a shootout. A lot of
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Speaker 1: these matches that have been like the district championship, the
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Speaker 1: the elimination game you know between Bellingham and Linden at
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Speaker 1: the end of districts that ended in a shootout. Just
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Speaker 1: gets some really evenly matched teams and that's just kind
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Speaker 1: of what happens. Ellensburg scored the first goal of the game.
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Speaker 1: See Home answered back about seven and a half minutes
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Speaker 1: to go in the second half on a header from
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Speaker 1: junior Kira Reeves off a cornerkick and that was the
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Speaker 1: lone goal for the Mariners. But what a great year
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Speaker 1: for Seahome because yeah, I mean they got the state
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Speaker 1: that you know, they were the district champions. They got
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Speaker 1: a lot of underclassmen on that team, and it is
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Speaker 1: the future looks so bright for them. There there were
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Speaker 1: some big time seniors of course, but it wasn't a
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Speaker 1: large class and so really excited for the future for
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Speaker 1: the Mariners. But it's a it's a tough way to
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Speaker 1: go out. You know, you're the favorite, you're at home
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Speaker 1: right off the bat in the state tournament, and you're
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Speaker 1: losing a shootout. It's tough way to go Bellingham.
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Speaker 2: They hosted a four pm game on Wednesday up there
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Speaker 2: at Civic Stadium. Pullman made the little jog across the
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Speaker 2: entire state basically. I mean, that's like one of those
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Speaker 2: ones where you hear like, oh, I ninety is the
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Speaker 2: longest in the you know, freeway in the United States
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Speaker 2: or whatever. You're like, yeah, well, like a heck of
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Speaker 2: a drive across pretty much everything here for Pullman to
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Speaker 2: get to Bellingham. I mean, I can't think of too
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Speaker 2: many let's say two A and above that would have
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Speaker 2: a further distance to travel in the entire state if
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Speaker 2: you could. I mean, there might not be you know
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Speaker 2: what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Right right, yeah, I mean that's yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The Greyhounds though, they come to town and promptly don't
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Speaker 2: score a goal. They lose three to nothing in Bellingham.
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Speaker 2: Moving on, excuse me, moving on to the quarterfinals with
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Speaker 2: that win.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was huge for the for the BayHawks, kind
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Speaker 1: of kind of riding that momentum still from Saturday with
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Speaker 1: the you know the play it with the the last
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Speaker 1: berth I should say, where they won all those games
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Speaker 1: during the week and then they beat Linden and so
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Speaker 1: they were they came out firing goals by all seniors,
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Speaker 1: Kira Carlson, elamorro Ivy Nuwle, you know, all players that
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Speaker 1: have had great years this year. So I love how
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Speaker 1: it was all seniors they got involved and and that
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Speaker 1: put them into the to the quarters where they faced
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Speaker 1: Bainbridge on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they come away with a three two win
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Speaker 2: over Bainbridge.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is it was just awesome because they
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Speaker 1: get to the the final four for the first time
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Speaker 1: in eleven years, fourth time in school history. Gracy gourin
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Speaker 1: the senior from Bellingham scored the first goal. Spartans came
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Speaker 1: back and scored the next two to take a two
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Speaker 1: to one lead. Sophomore Sofia Dione tied the game up,
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Speaker 1: and then with less than three minutes to go in regulation,
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Speaker 1: there was a corner kick and it just it was
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Speaker 1: sometimes those corner kicks, I mean, I've seen it where
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Speaker 1: they just kind of put it like five feet to
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Speaker 1: a player, you know, and just kind of start from there.
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Speaker 1: But this one was just perfect. I mean it it
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Speaker 1: had the curve, it had everything, and as it got
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Speaker 1: really close to the goal, it was just tapped in
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Speaker 1: a short distance by junior Beckett Ferry, uh, you know,
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Speaker 1: and that, you know, basically was the game winning goal.
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Speaker 1: There wasn't a lot of time after that, and this
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Speaker 1: just think about how crazy that is, because if you
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Speaker 1: don't get that and it's gonna you know, it's probably
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Speaker 1: going to go into a shootout at some point, and
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Speaker 1: then it's just it's so fifty to fifty at that point.
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Speaker 1: So it's just it's huge for Bellingham to come away
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Speaker 1: with that, do it at home the last game of
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Speaker 1: the year at Civic Stadium, and now you go on
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Speaker 1: and it's the final four, and who knows what's going
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Speaker 1: to happen. I mean, we looked at this Northwest Conference
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Speaker 1: and kind of looked at like, Okay, Lyndon's the favorite,
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Speaker 1: and there was some other but there was a lot
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Speaker 1: of other teams that were up there kind of vying
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Speaker 1: for that next spot, whether it was you know, Seahome
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Speaker 1: or Bellingham and some other teams from out of the county.
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Speaker 1: And but Bellingham is the team that's left now. And
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Speaker 1: they had that great start, you know, where they didn't
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Speaker 1: allow a goal for so many games, and then they
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Speaker 1: lost I think it was two zero to Linden at home,
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Speaker 1: and then they kind of they slid a little bit,
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Speaker 1: not too much that they kind of got their groove back,
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Speaker 1: and then they went on that amazing run and in
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Speaker 1: the district playoffs and you know, it's just kind of
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Speaker 1: been this dream season that they've been able to keep alive.
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Speaker 2: Bellingham. They will next to face the top seeded at
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Speaker 2: Ridgefield sputters that game seven pm on Friday down at
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Speaker 2: Mountahoma High School down in Tacoma. Ridgefield Tyler on the
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Speaker 2: season twenty one and one. Their one loss came to
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Speaker 2: Columbia River, who is in the other side of the bracket.
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Speaker 2: They are the three seed and Ridgefield has beaten them
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Speaker 2: twice since that day. So they lost one nothing to
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Speaker 2: Columbia River. They beat them two to one and they
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Speaker 2: beat them two oh. Their only other non win was
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Speaker 2: a tie against a four A school in Skyviews, So yeah,
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Speaker 2: pretty good opponent there. The other teams that are left
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Speaker 2: Columbia River there are only two losses on the year
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Speaker 2: are to Ridgefield they are twenty and two, and then
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Speaker 2: West Valley of Spokane they are nineteen and one. They're one,
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Speaker 2: they're one. I'm trying to say here, they're one tie
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Speaker 2: was against the four A school in or maybe it's
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Speaker 2: a three school. I think it's a three A school
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Speaker 2: in Ridgeline New school out of the Spokane area.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, these are those are three major proponents.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like, yeah, a couple of a couple of
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Speaker 2: big time opponents. And you know, I mean, obviously we
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Speaker 2: know Bellingham no slouch. They are twenty and three on
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Speaker 2: the year now with losses to Lyndon, Burlington, Edison and
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Speaker 2: Ana Chordus. So you know, not exactly uh what am
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Speaker 2: I trying to say here, like not exactly an easy
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Speaker 2: opponent left in the match, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 2: like sometimes or in the in the tournament. Sometimes there's
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Speaker 2: one where it's like, oh, a ten seed sneaks through
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Speaker 2: and they're yeah thirteen and five in four or something,
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Speaker 2: you know, and not the case. Not the case right now.
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Speaker 1: That's kind of like the Mount Baker football team a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Yeah, they were the ten seed
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Speaker 1: and got all the way to the championship.
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Speaker 2: And it seems to happen in football a lot more
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Speaker 2: than other sports. Baseball is the other one where baseball
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Speaker 2: r you know, like, well we did it last year
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Speaker 2: at BOFEL, you know, we were the fourteen steed and
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Speaker 2: made it to the semuris Yeah, you know, and that happens.
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Speaker 2: It seems like every year there's a couple of tournaments
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Speaker 2: in baseball where there's like multiple double digit seeds that
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Speaker 2: made it through and because there's always one pitcher you
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Speaker 2: know or something whatever it is.
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Speaker 1: But right, yeah, as a huge and yeah, yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean you almost have to be perfect in those games.
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Speaker 1: You just do.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Anyway, that's girls soccer brought to you by North
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Speaker 2: County Alliance FC and Seealliance fc dot com is their website.
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Speaker 2: Tyler we got girls swim and dive. The state championships
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Speaker 2: were held down at King County Aquatics Center in Federal Way.
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Speaker 2: They've been hosting it as long as I can remember now.
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Speaker 2: Matter of fact, I couldn't even tell you where it
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Speaker 2: was hosted before that. Yeah, I mean, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: does you dub have a pool. I don't know if
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Speaker 2: they do. I know they don't have swimming and diving anymore,
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Speaker 2: but I mean they did so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they could have it, I guess at one point.
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Speaker 2: Or maybe they did it down there at the Aquatic Center.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, one A two A State Championships, Bellingham they end
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Speaker 2: up finishing fourth. Seahome they finished seventh the state champions
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Speaker 2: Bainbridge Island Tyler. Kind of funny when you think about it,
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Speaker 2: because we're talking about swimming in the school that their
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Speaker 2: whole you know, it's surrounded by water, their whole land
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Speaker 2: masses is swimming technically, I guess, but we got.
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Speaker 1: That's no fair, really, I mean, that's that's a yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's you know, that's the should compete in three A
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Speaker 1: or something like that. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: How does this school named Bainbridge Island not have like
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Speaker 2: a pirate mascot or something too. I think they are
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Speaker 2: the Spartans.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Spartans.
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Speaker 2: I mean that I feel like they could do better
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Speaker 2: than that. Anyway, we've got some placers.
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Speaker 1: Today.
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Speaker 2: Is I don't know if swimming and dive is the
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Speaker 2: same where it's like the top seven get a medal
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Speaker 2: or something, you know what I mean, or like they place.
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Speaker 2: But I will give you the uh, the whatever it is,
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Speaker 2: the discipline or something, and Tyler, you tell me what
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Speaker 2: we need to know about it.
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Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, that's that sounds good.
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Speaker 2: One meter diving.
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Speaker 1: That was Laura Webb from Seahome. She took third place
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Speaker 1: with a total of two hundred and thirty nine points.
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Speaker 2: Two hundred yard medley.
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Speaker 1: Relay, Yeah. Bellingham's group of Addie Hayes, Peyton Accord, Grace
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Speaker 1: Sorenson and June Wilson finished in fourth place, and the
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Speaker 1: Seahome group of boy Parnia, Gray, Prianca costanzo A, le
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Speaker 1: Van Jarsveld and Taylor Tellefson finished ninth place.
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Speaker 2: A couple of real easy names of saying that one there, Tyler.
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Speaker 2: The two hundred yard freestyle had three athletes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, anacoh Holland of Bellingham was took eleventh place. Elsa
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Speaker 1: Eppelba of Seahome took fourth, and Grace Sorenson of Bellingham,
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Speaker 1: your state champion with one minute fifty one point nine
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Speaker 1: five seconds.
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Speaker 2: One hundred yard individual medley.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, alternate on the eighty Olympic team. That was the
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Speaker 1: Blaine swimmer, Haley Ferrell took fifth place. One hundred yard butterfly.
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Speaker 1: Another state champion here for ch championship. I should say
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Speaker 1: for Grace Sorenson of Bellingham, first place, fifty five point
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Speaker 1: eight seven seconds, I think she I think she won
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Speaker 1: that by like I want to say, it was like
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Speaker 1: over like the next finisher was over a minute. So
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Speaker 1: she was five seconds ahead of the next swimmer, which
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Speaker 1: is incredible for only one hundred yards.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I was gonna say, it's not like it
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Speaker 2: was a real long one.
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Speaker 1: But right, Yeah, that's really impressive.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty amazing. One hundred yard freestyle.
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Speaker 1: Jasmine Garcia of Bellingham took tenth place.
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Speaker 2: We got four athletes to talk about in the five
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Speaker 2: hundred yard freestyle.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is that this is the long distance one,
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Speaker 1: this is the big one. Anacah Holland or Anica Holland
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Speaker 1: of Bellingham twelfth place, and then how about this walkin
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Speaker 1: county finishes one, two, three, This is amazing. Third place
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Speaker 1: Essel Elsa Ethelba of Seahome, second place Peyton Accord of Bellingham,
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Speaker 1: and first place is Hailey Ferrell of Blaine. In and
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Speaker 1: so and she wons I think a state title and
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Speaker 1: something in one of these swims and one of these
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Speaker 1: disciplines two years ago as a freshman. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if it was this one or if it was the
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Speaker 1: two hundred yard individual medley, but congratulations to her.
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Speaker 2: Really really impressive. And that's when I know it's you know,
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Speaker 2: it's the long one. But yeah, it's pretty amazing to
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Speaker 2: see that she finished ten seconds ahead of third place. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's pretty amazing. Like that's that's a
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Speaker 2: long time when you when when she finishes and you
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Speaker 2: look at the third place finish and you're like, wow,
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Speaker 2: they're still quite a ways away.
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Speaker 1: And those three have all raised each other in this
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Speaker 1: race all year, you know, I mean, it's yeah, pretty
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Speaker 1: pretty cool. I mean they probably push each other a lot,
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Speaker 1: so it's it's really awesome to see.
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Speaker 2: The two hundred yard freestyle relay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of teams here from the from Seahome
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Speaker 1: and Bellingham. Seaholme's group of Age Maiden Brielle Hicks, Taylor Tellison,
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Speaker 1: and Elsa Epa bah finished fourteenth place, and then from
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Speaker 1: Bellingham it's Jasmine Garcia, Madeline Nice, Addie Hayes, and Anacoho
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Speaker 1: Holland finished tenth place.
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Speaker 2: One hundred yard breaststroke.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Peyton Accord of Bellingham took seventh place, and Prianca
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Speaker 1: Costanzo of Seahome took fourteenth place.
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Speaker 2: Now that's pretty crazy too, because that's only a couple
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Speaker 2: of seconds apart, you know what I mean, from to
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Speaker 2: fourteenth that's pretty wild. Uh. Four hundred yard freestyle relay, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: A Sea Home team of Elsa Eppabas, Sage Maiden, Prianca
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Speaker 1: Costanzo and a le Van Jarsveld took eighth place, and
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Speaker 1: then Bellingham's group of Jasmine Garcia, Peyton Accord, Grace Sorenson
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Speaker 1: and Anaca Holland took second place. And there was a
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Speaker 1: couple of individual awards here. Tyler, Yeah, this is this
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Speaker 1: is really cool. I just learned about this. The coach
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Speaker 1: of the Year was Lauren Heath at Seahome and the
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Speaker 1: swimmer of the meet was Grace Sorenson at Bellingham. So
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Speaker 1: Walking County doing a great, great job. It was so
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Speaker 1: cool because on that Saturday morning when a lot of
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Speaker 1: these the finals were happening for the for the two A,
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Speaker 1: the one A two A, I was like kind of
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Speaker 1: getting ready to head back over to the sun Dome,
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Speaker 1: and I kept refreshing and then boom, they you know,
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Speaker 1: a bunch more results came up. And then you know
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Speaker 1: you've probably seen that on you know, the website, and
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Speaker 1: you refresh and then a bunch of more results come up.
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Speaker 1: It's very similar with like track and field and stuff
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Speaker 1: like that. And I was just like, I was all
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Speaker 1: smiles and I was just typing away and I'm like thinking, okay,
18:37
Speaker 1: I got to be at the sun Dome by like
18:39
Speaker 1: you know, twelve fifteen, and I just kept refreshing, and
18:43
Speaker 1: it was it was a wild weekend, man, But so
18:46
Speaker 1: cool that a lot of these Walking County swimmers did
18:49
Speaker 1: did so well and and just you know, congratulations to
18:53
Speaker 1: all of them. Just such a you know, a unique sport.
18:57
Speaker 1: It's an individual sport, but there's a lot of team
18:59
Speaker 1: MasSpec to especially with the relays and stuff. Like that,
19:02
Speaker 1: and it's so cool to see so many great swimmers
19:05
Speaker 1: up here.
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20:02
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20:04
Speaker 1: No.
20:04
Speaker 2: Two A bracket because No. Two A teams made it
20:06
Speaker 2: onto the state tournament. We're gonna talk Ferndale really quickly.
20:10
Speaker 2: Here they are into the three A state tournament after
20:16
Speaker 2: finding their way through the three A District one volleyball tournament.
20:20
Speaker 2: We talked about their win over Meadowdale on last week's podcast, Right, yeah, yeah.
20:26
Speaker 1: That happened last week, which was a win in your
20:29
Speaker 1: end type thing, losing you're done for the season. Yes,
20:32
Speaker 1: So they had that one at home, which was nice.
20:35
Speaker 1: They won that in straight sets, So that put them
20:37
Speaker 1: right into this district.
20:38
Speaker 2: Tournament where they eventually took on Linwood High School at
20:43
Speaker 2: Lynnwood High School and they lost that one three to two,
20:48
Speaker 2: sending them down into the consolation bracket where they ended
20:52
Speaker 2: up having to win two games. They defeated Monroe three
20:55
Speaker 2: to nothing and then found a way to beat the
20:58
Speaker 2: number three seed Edmonds would weigh three to one. That
21:02
Speaker 2: was on Saturday, I believe, Yeah, Friday.
21:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was on Saturday. That was also watching
21:07
Speaker 1: that while I was refreshing the swimming stuff. It was
21:12
Speaker 1: all happening at the same time. The match against Monroe
21:15
Speaker 1: that was Thursday, and you know, they took that three
21:20
Speaker 1: straight sets. Brooklyn Therabye had a triple double twenty one assists,
21:24
Speaker 1: twelve digs, ten kills. She also had three aces. Just
21:28
Speaker 1: really really impressive. I mean I can't say enough about
21:32
Speaker 1: what she does there for her whole team and does
21:34
Speaker 1: it in so many ways. And she kind of led
21:36
Speaker 1: that drive to eliminate the Bearcats. And then right after
21:41
Speaker 1: that against Edmonds Woodway, they dropped the first set twenty
21:44
Speaker 1: five to eighteen. And it was crazy because when I'm
21:48
Speaker 1: watching on NFHS sometimes all that they're all a little
21:50
Speaker 1: different where I might want to pause it for a
21:52
Speaker 1: second because I got to go do something and they'll
21:55
Speaker 1: come back and I don't want to miss anything. But
21:57
Speaker 1: on this feed, you could only go back thirty second.
22:00
Speaker 1: That was it. Ever, Like, even if you paused it, it
22:02
Speaker 1: would pause for thirty seconds then it would just keep going.
22:05
Speaker 1: So so I had to really stay glued to this
22:09
Speaker 1: and but boy, they came out the second set won
22:12
Speaker 1: twenty five to nine. I mean it was just like domination.
22:16
Speaker 1: And you know volleyball is a game of runs, right,
22:19
Speaker 1: I mean, you can get some big time momentum and
22:21
Speaker 1: it's really hard to recover from that and you can
22:24
Speaker 1: just go, go go. They win the next one twenty
22:26
Speaker 1: five to eleven, which is pretty dominating as well, and
22:30
Speaker 1: Edmunds would way put up a pretty big fight in
22:33
Speaker 1: the fourth set but Ferndale won twenty five to twenty one,
22:36
Speaker 1: and by doing so, securing a spot in the three
22:38
Speaker 1: D A State tournament. Ley Williams had seventeen kills two and
22:41
Speaker 1: a half blocks. Sophomores Vetlana Badak added thirteen kills. So
22:47
Speaker 1: they they went on the attack pretty well. And they're
22:50
Speaker 1: not the biggest attacking team. They're more defense and kind
22:55
Speaker 1: of let you and had like let you make a mistake.
22:57
Speaker 1: They're pretty good serving team, you know. And and and
23:01
Speaker 1: just Brooklyn Theraby just kind of runs around and sets
23:04
Speaker 1: everyone up. She had forty three assists, fifteen digs, Katrina
23:08
Speaker 1: Ferry had twelve dig Caitlyn Berg had ten digs. So
23:11
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's what they do. They play a
23:13
Speaker 1: lot of great defense. They keep they keep volays alive,
23:17
Speaker 1: and you know, or and just kind of you know,
23:20
Speaker 1: they don't beat themselves, they make you beat yourself, you know.
23:25
Speaker 1: And I don't know, like if you've ever wrestled a
23:27
Speaker 1: guy like that, it's just like he does everything technically sound,
23:30
Speaker 1: and it's like he's he's waiting for you to make
23:33
Speaker 1: a mistake and then they just capitalize on that.
23:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's how I wrestled. Okay, so yeah, I didn't
23:39
Speaker 2: tackle a whole lot. I kind of let you do
23:40
Speaker 2: your thing and then I would play off of it.
23:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so that's a lot like how Ferndale is.
23:46
Speaker 1: So they're not the they're not the tallest team, especially
23:48
Speaker 1: in three A, and so they just have, you know,
23:51
Speaker 1: a really good setter and good servers and good and
23:54
Speaker 1: good defense, and you know they will they will pick
23:57
Speaker 1: their spots when they need to. But it's more of
24:01
Speaker 1: a finesse team and they've done a great job in
24:02
Speaker 1: surviving this year.
24:04
Speaker 2: With the win, Frindell moves into the state tournament over
24:07
Speaker 2: in the Yakama on Friday and Saturday at the sun Dome.
24:11
Speaker 2: Their first game. If they win their first game, If
24:14
Speaker 2: they lose, their only game eight am against the Bellevue Wolverines,
24:20
Speaker 2: the hated Bellevue Wolverines. If they win, they come back
24:25
Speaker 2: and they will play at one thirty PM. If they win,
24:28
Speaker 2: they're guaranteed at least two more games. If they lose,
24:32
Speaker 2: they turn around and come right home. I mean, they
24:33
Speaker 2: could be home by one pm. I mean it's pretty crazy,
24:35
Speaker 2: Like it almost makes no sense to me why you
24:38
Speaker 2: would have them come over just to play the one game.
24:41
Speaker 2: You know, it's the.
24:44
Speaker 1: Is it?
24:44
Speaker 2: I think it's the basketball State tournament where they have
24:48
Speaker 2: this similar like play in type part, but instead they
24:52
Speaker 2: played on Tuesday and the winners move in. So I
24:55
Speaker 2: don't know why they do it this way. It's really
24:57
Speaker 2: strange that you would have them go all the way
24:59
Speaker 2: over to Yah, come on just to potend, like four
25:01
Speaker 2: teams are going to show up, play one game and
25:03
Speaker 2: then go home.
25:05
Speaker 1: Right, I don't know.
25:06
Speaker 2: It just doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
25:07
Speaker 2: But if they win, they will go on and play
25:11
Speaker 2: the number two seed North Thurston and then from there
25:15
Speaker 2: if they if they win, it's it's a really good thing.
25:18
Speaker 2: They'll end up sticking around for a whole nother day.
25:20
Speaker 2: But if you lose, then you come back and you
25:25
Speaker 2: still have a chance to move on to the next
25:27
Speaker 2: day as well. It's just a little bit tougher at
25:29
Speaker 2: that point, right. So so yeah, they still got some
25:31
Speaker 2: work to do, but yeah, they are in the state tournament.
25:34
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they get to keep playing. Yeah yeah,
25:37
Speaker 2: a whole nother week of practice and a little road trip.
25:40
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with those. Those are always fun. So good
25:43
Speaker 2: luck to the to Ferndale over there in Yakama, Tyler,
25:47
Speaker 2: I gotta imagine you probably won't be heading over for
25:50
Speaker 2: that one.
25:52
Speaker 1: No, I got my fill the sun Dome. It was.
25:55
Speaker 1: It was a great, great time and I will not
25:59
Speaker 1: be I'm and I'm lucky that and this happened last
26:03
Speaker 1: year when I was at the sun Dome. Was all
26:05
Speaker 1: the walking county teams advanced while I was gone. You know,
26:08
Speaker 1: I'm always I'm always worried that I'm gonna like I'm
26:10
Speaker 1: talking football teams, so I I kind of crossed my
26:15
Speaker 1: fingers for this one. It worked out all the football
26:18
Speaker 1: teams advanced, so I didn't, you know, really miss anything.
26:23
Speaker 1: I guess I should say. So I'm able to still
26:27
Speaker 1: be able to, you know, be involved with on the
26:29
Speaker 1: football side of things. But making this an annual trip
26:33
Speaker 1: to the one A two A state championships for volleyball
26:37
Speaker 1: I think is definitely in the future. And had a
26:40
Speaker 1: lot of fun down there.
26:42
Speaker 2: Well, let's talk about the one A State Championships, Tyler,
26:46
Speaker 2: And yeah, over in the Sundome. Two days of just
26:49
Speaker 2: complete mayhem. If you will kind of keep your head
26:52
Speaker 2: on a swivel because there's stuff going on all over
26:53
Speaker 2: the place. But the first game of the weekend, Meridian
26:58
Speaker 2: loses three to two to the Bear Creek School out
27:02
Speaker 2: of Redmond here.
27:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was you know, you get to the
27:06
Speaker 1: state tournament, they're all going to be pretty darn good.
27:09
Speaker 1: That might have been the biggest upset as far as
27:13
Speaker 1: just seeds go of the tournament, the eleven beating the six.
27:18
Speaker 1: And I don't know if there's any seeds that were
27:20
Speaker 1: five higher that won, I guess is what I'm saying.
27:24
Speaker 1: And this was this was grueling. It was back and forth.
27:28
Speaker 1: You know, the Grizzlies won the first one. They had
27:30
Speaker 1: a couple of big runs and they won the first
27:32
Speaker 1: set twenty five to eighteen. Trojans came back won the
27:35
Speaker 1: next two pretty handily, twenty five seventeen, twenty five to fifteen.
27:39
Speaker 1: Bear Creek won twenty five fifteen in the fourth. And
27:42
Speaker 1: that seems like this always happens, where if you come
27:45
Speaker 1: back and win the fourth to spring like to create
27:50
Speaker 1: the fifth set, Like if you won that fourth one, yeah,
27:53
Speaker 1: probably gonna win the fifth one. You just kind of
27:55
Speaker 1: build that momentum because it's so short, it's only to fifteen,
27:58
Speaker 1: and so they right out to an eight to four lead.
28:01
Speaker 1: Meridian had to burn a time out and Ta Benson
28:06
Speaker 1: had a block, and then bear Creek had a mistake,
28:08
Speaker 1: and then Gracy Pap had another. She had a h no,
28:13
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Ta Benson had to kill. Then there was
28:15
Speaker 1: a bear Creek mistake and then Gracey Pap had a
28:17
Speaker 1: block to make it ten, to make it ten seven,
28:20
Speaker 1: So they were kind of getting close, like up to
28:22
Speaker 1: that spot. But but then bart Creek went on a
28:25
Speaker 1: run and scored the next three, and then you know,
28:29
Speaker 1: Meridian scored a couple there. I'd make it thirteen to nine.
28:32
Speaker 1: Then the Grizzly scored there too, and it was just like,
28:35
Speaker 1: my goodness, it was just like that. It was and
28:38
Speaker 1: it's crazy because if you lose that first round, the
28:40
Speaker 1: best you can do is seventh place. So yeah, it was.
28:46
Speaker 1: It was a bummer for sure, because I think Meridian,
28:49
Speaker 1: you know who last year finished in fourth place. They
28:52
Speaker 1: only had one senior last year, it was their best player.
28:56
Speaker 1: But you know, I think that they went in with
28:59
Speaker 1: a higher aspirations and you go in there's a sixth seed,
29:03
Speaker 1: and now you lose and you can best you can
29:04
Speaker 1: finish now is now seventh, So you're goin to feel
29:07
Speaker 1: a little demoralized, but it was a heck of a
29:09
Speaker 1: battle that first that first match.
29:11
Speaker 2: The other first round match saw Stevenson and Lynn and Christian.
29:15
Speaker 2: This was a two thirty game and Stevenson a three
29:18
Speaker 2: nothing victory over Lynn and Christian.
29:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, and all three sets were won by two points,
29:24
Speaker 1: so it was very very tightly contested. It was just,
29:30
Speaker 1: you know, Stevenson was just so good defensively and you know,
29:33
Speaker 1: Linnen Christian's strength is their height, and it was they
29:37
Speaker 1: knew how to you know, battle that and Lynnen Christian.
29:41
Speaker 1: They was one point, they were down twenty to eleven
29:43
Speaker 1: in the second set. You know, they went on a
29:45
Speaker 1: run but eventually fell to the bulldogs. In that one,
29:49
Speaker 1: Elsie as a freshman Tyradikstra who she she is only
29:54
Speaker 1: about five four five five, but she flies. I don't
29:58
Speaker 1: I don't know how she does it. But it's so
30:01
Speaker 1: funny because she's playing in the front line with all
30:03
Speaker 1: these other players that are like six one six ' two,
30:06
Speaker 1: and she just looks tiny out there, and then they
30:08
Speaker 1: set her up and she just she had some big
30:10
Speaker 1: time kills in that one, which was really really cool
30:13
Speaker 1: to see because I didn't see her early in the year.
30:15
Speaker 1: I never got her head shot because she wasn't on
30:17
Speaker 1: the varsity roster, but she came up and did great.
30:20
Speaker 1: Daniel Dykstra did well, Ali Wright, but it was just
30:25
Speaker 1: is they just couldn't overcome Stevenson. And it was so close.
30:29
Speaker 1: Like I said, all three sets were by two points,
30:31
Speaker 1: which is, you know, the least amount that you can
30:33
Speaker 1: lose by. So uh, it was an incredible back and
30:37
Speaker 1: forth there.
30:39
Speaker 2: With the two losses, the teams do move on into
30:43
Speaker 2: the Constellation bracket. Meridian took on Zilla and came away
30:47
Speaker 2: with a three to one win.
30:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that was that was good to see because
30:52
Speaker 1: that meant, okay, they're gonna they're gonna keep going. Zilla.
30:55
Speaker 1: Of course they brought the crowd, uh, not too far
30:58
Speaker 1: away from the sun Dome. They had you know, some
31:01
Speaker 1: probably some guys on the football team with they had
31:03
Speaker 1: their shirts that said Leopards, you know, l E O,
31:06
Speaker 1: P A R D s, like they're all sitting together,
31:08
Speaker 1: you know. And then it was funny because once Meridian
31:12
Speaker 1: was up a few sets, some of the players left
31:15
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you look over and it
31:16
Speaker 1: said lads, and it just I just kind of chuckled
31:20
Speaker 1: because it was great, and uh, but they you know,
31:25
Speaker 1: I don't know if they were football players or not.
31:27
Speaker 1: They just they they kind of looked like it, which
31:29
Speaker 1: they weren't. Because the next day, well, they had the
31:31
Speaker 1: game the next day exactly, so I was like, thinking, well,
31:34
Speaker 1: you better get ready here.
31:35
Speaker 2: I would have thought those guys would probably already have
31:37
Speaker 2: been over there.
31:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, four PM game at Civic. Yeah, they might have
31:41
Speaker 1: left in the morning. But but yeah, Meridian took the
31:46
Speaker 1: first set twenty five nineteen, and uh, they won the
31:49
Speaker 1: next one twenty five eighteen, and Zilla had won the
31:52
Speaker 1: third one. Zilla very good defensively as well. But Meridian
31:59
Speaker 1: had a little bit of a side advantage, which they
32:00
Speaker 1: usually don't, but they did in this case and they
32:04
Speaker 1: and they use it to their advantage. Gracie pap and
32:06
Speaker 1: Taya Benson up front, the strong kills by Eden Bernardi
32:10
Speaker 1: and Melanie Short, the defense by Randyn Bernardi and Kinsley
32:13
Speaker 1: Neil and Grace Wells just setting everything up and they
32:16
Speaker 1: were able to keep playing. I mean, Rylan Bernardi had
32:18
Speaker 1: twenty two digs in that in that over that that match,
32:23
Speaker 1: and which is incredible, and Grace Wells had forty three assists,
32:27
Speaker 1: so really really good defense, and you know, you get
32:31
Speaker 1: you have your back up against the wall and all
32:33
Speaker 1: that stuff, and you have to really, you know, ratcheted up,
32:35
Speaker 1: and that's what they did, and they got to play
32:38
Speaker 1: the next day.
32:39
Speaker 2: Uh, Kalama and Lynn and Christian. They also played a
32:44
Speaker 2: consolation game and Lynn Christian came away with a three
32:46
Speaker 2: nothing win.
32:47
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was really kind of curious about this one
32:49
Speaker 1: because Kalama was the sixteen seed, so you go, Okay,
32:53
Speaker 1: well they snuck in here or whatever. But this wasn't
32:56
Speaker 1: that long ago when Lennon and Christian was the sixteen
32:58
Speaker 1: seed and they got all the way to the championship game.
33:00
Speaker 1: So you just never know.
33:01
Speaker 2: But Tyler twenty something, do you happen to just an idea,
33:06
Speaker 2: what was Lynnen Christian's record going into that.
33:09
Speaker 1: I do not remember that. I don't think it was
33:12
Speaker 1: great and I don't I don't know if it was
33:14
Speaker 1: one of those things where they had injuries and they
33:17
Speaker 1: had players come back for the tournament, I'm not I
33:20
Speaker 1: just I don't remember because during when that year, when
33:23
Speaker 1: that that was the first year they did the seating,
33:26
Speaker 1: and that year I was very I was covering volleyball,
33:29
Speaker 1: but very sporadically. Yeah, Like I was just kind of
33:32
Speaker 1: going to a game here and there every once in
33:34
Speaker 1: a while, just trying to put my toe in the water.
33:37
Speaker 1: You know. That might have been twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen something,
33:40
Speaker 1: because I.
33:40
Speaker 2: Was kind of curious just looking Zilla they were thirteen
33:44
Speaker 2: and ten. They finished the season thirteen and ten. Seaton
33:49
Speaker 2: Catholic who went well, they played what three games? They
33:55
Speaker 2: finished the season twelve and ten. Yeah, and then Kalama
34:00
Speaker 2: they finished the season twelve and twelve.
34:02
Speaker 1: I could have been similar to that, maybe more wins
34:04
Speaker 1: than losses, you know. So yeah, and you never know
34:09
Speaker 1: how good the league is and stuff like that. But
34:12
Speaker 1: what would happen though in this one is like the
34:16
Speaker 1: Chinooks would get out ahead early, like six to two,
34:19
Speaker 1: six three. They would always start off really well. But
34:22
Speaker 1: then Lennon Christan just used their size. I mean that
34:24
Speaker 1: was probably the biggest size mismatch I saw all weekend.
34:29
Speaker 1: Lenni Christian very very very tall, and and they kind
34:33
Speaker 1: of they do a lot of a lot of subs
34:35
Speaker 1: and they get a lot of players involved. You're never
34:38
Speaker 1: going to see that one player that ends with like
34:40
Speaker 1: seventeen kills, you just won't because they have they really
34:45
Speaker 1: keep you guessing on who they're going to go to.
34:47
Speaker 1: They don't really have that go to player, but they
34:50
Speaker 1: have you know, four or five of them, you know
34:52
Speaker 1: what I mean that it's just like Holy Cow, and
34:56
Speaker 1: so they always kind of keep you guessing and editing
34:59
Speaker 1: Young and Ali Wright and Tyra Dykstra and Joscelyn es
35:05
Speaker 1: Ice and they just you know, they're just flying up there,
35:08
Speaker 1: and really good defense as well by Ellie Meyer and
35:13
Speaker 1: Lyla Pereira. And they definitely played their best I think
35:19
Speaker 1: as a team, the links I'm talking about over the weekend,
35:22
Speaker 1: which is all you can ask for. I mean, you know,
35:25
Speaker 1: that's they were pretty incredible where their only match that
35:29
Speaker 1: they lost for the whole tournament was by the least
35:33
Speaker 1: amount of points that you can lose it by. So
35:36
Speaker 1: I thought they played I thought they played great, and
35:38
Speaker 1: they kind of got their confidence back with this win
35:40
Speaker 1: over Klama.
35:42
Speaker 2: Now that means both teams move on to play on Saturday,
35:47
Speaker 2: and they both played at the exact same time, and
35:51
Speaker 2: Meridian took on Seaton Catholic got a three nothing win,
35:55
Speaker 2: and Lynn Christian took on lake Side. They also got
35:57
Speaker 2: a three nothing win Lakeside. I'll tell you what not
35:59
Speaker 2: a good I had a great last couple of weeks
36:03
Speaker 2: here against Watcom County.
36:04
Speaker 1: Huh yeah. And Elsie got him earlier in the year
36:08
Speaker 1: in football as well. This was really cool because the
36:11
Speaker 1: Links they won the first one twenty five to eighteen,
36:15
Speaker 1: and then the second set there was a big boost
36:18
Speaker 1: when they brought in seniors Sidney Turpstra and Kenzie Lensen,
36:21
Speaker 1: who hadn't played yet I don't think in the state tournament.
36:24
Speaker 1: A couple of you know, like I said, a couple
36:25
Speaker 1: of seniors, and they they were feeding Terpstra over and
36:28
Speaker 1: over again, and she just had kill after kill and
36:31
Speaker 1: the crowd was just going crazy. And then Kensey Lentsen
36:34
Speaker 1: had like this diving dig, like she just flew out
36:37
Speaker 1: and hit the ball to keep it alive. And they
36:40
Speaker 1: didn't win the point on that, but they were just
36:42
Speaker 1: I mean, it was like a standing ovation from the
36:45
Speaker 1: crowd and it was just so cool to see and
36:47
Speaker 1: it was a great time to use a couple of
36:49
Speaker 1: seniors that have put in the work and put and
36:51
Speaker 1: put them in. They won that second set twenty five
36:54
Speaker 1: to eleven. They finished off twenty five to fourteen. It
36:57
Speaker 1: was pretty dominant. Lenny Chrishtman was really on top of
36:59
Speaker 1: their game here, and it was just it was just
37:02
Speaker 1: really awesome to see and they they, like I said,
37:06
Speaker 1: they just have a lot of weapons and and they
37:09
Speaker 1: just kind of kept everything going. And you know what's
37:11
Speaker 1: unique about the state tournament is like you watch a
37:14
Speaker 1: game at a gym, you know, during the regular season,
37:17
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and if you go after a ball
37:19
Speaker 1: that's like way out of bounds and you can hit
37:22
Speaker 1: it back in and you can keep going. But the
37:24
Speaker 1: state tournament, there's the blue line and if you go
37:28
Speaker 1: outside that at all, that's point you're done. And so
37:32
Speaker 1: and it's same with serving. You can't you can't start
37:34
Speaker 1: way back either. And there were a lot of serving
37:38
Speaker 1: errors where either they stepped over the line because they're
37:42
Speaker 1: not used to having that little amount of steps, or
37:45
Speaker 1: they started with their heels on the back on the
37:47
Speaker 1: edge of the over the blue. So it was really
37:51
Speaker 1: unique because I don't think any of the players were
37:53
Speaker 1: used to that, at least the Walkam County ones. So
37:57
Speaker 1: and I get that it's for safety because there's courts
37:59
Speaker 1: all over the place and you know there's media members.
38:03
Speaker 1: You know, I'm the only one from Wucking County media member,
38:06
Speaker 1: but there was media members there and doing their thing
38:09
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So there's a lot of moving
38:11
Speaker 1: parts and and so I get it, but it kind
38:14
Speaker 1: of made a little a different wrinkle there. But yeah,
38:16
Speaker 1: the Links looked awesome. That was their most dominant performance
38:21
Speaker 1: and again which meant they were going to play again
38:23
Speaker 1: later that evening for a trophy, which was awesome. Yeah.
38:26
Speaker 2: So with those two teams winning, they now face each
38:31
Speaker 2: other and I mean all the way over to Akama
38:34
Speaker 2: just to play a team that's right down the road
38:35
Speaker 2: from you. Three nothing though, Lynnon Christian gets the win
38:38
Speaker 2: and they finished in seventh place.
38:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I didn't talk about the Meridian Seaton Catholic game,
38:43
Speaker 1: but they you know, they they they got them pretty good.
38:46
Speaker 1: Seeing Catholic was they they were small, but they were
38:49
Speaker 1: super athletic. Meridian won in straight sets twenty five, twenty three,
38:54
Speaker 1: twenty five, twenty one, and twenty five twenty so they
38:57
Speaker 1: had to really work for him. But they didn't have
39:01
Speaker 1: an answer for Gracie Papp Again. You know, some big
39:05
Speaker 1: time left handed kills going cross court. Eden Bernardi was,
39:11
Speaker 1: she's so talented, especially when she gets she can on
39:15
Speaker 1: the left side there as an outside hitter. You know,
39:17
Speaker 1: she'll she'll go across the court, cross court and then
39:20
Speaker 1: like a touch one, and then she'll go right down
39:22
Speaker 1: the line. And those ones down the line are just
39:24
Speaker 1: so hard to defend because you know, you think it
39:28
Speaker 1: might go out, but you got to go for it anyways,
39:31
Speaker 1: and you just it just really sets you up for
39:33
Speaker 1: you know, a a tough return there. So a Meridian
39:37
Speaker 1: looks strong there. But yeah, and then it was great
39:40
Speaker 1: that they got to play each other. I finally didn't
39:41
Speaker 1: have to run back and forth. And because the night
39:45
Speaker 1: before and then that afternoon they were always playing at
39:48
Speaker 1: the same time. So now playing against each other the
39:51
Speaker 1: rubber match A Meridian won in the Raglar season, Lyndon
39:54
Speaker 1: Christian beat Meridian in the district championship game, so there
40:00
Speaker 1: was you know, who's who's the better team here? And
40:03
Speaker 1: I it was crazy because I'm sitting there watching and
40:06
Speaker 1: I was talking to a few officials and I said,
40:07
Speaker 1: this is this great, Like two teams that are like
40:09
Speaker 1: six miles away from each other and they're playing each other.
40:12
Speaker 1: One's gonna win. Get seventh one's gonna win eighth. They're
40:14
Speaker 1: going to each come home with trophies. And I go,
40:17
Speaker 1: I know they both lost, but this is a great
40:19
Speaker 1: way to finish it out. And it was funny because
40:22
Speaker 1: there was a lot of photographers and WIAA board members
40:25
Speaker 1: and stuff that would walk by and be like, you're
40:27
Speaker 1: still here. I was like, yeah, I go, both my
40:29
Speaker 1: teams are still here. Now they're playing each other, and
40:32
Speaker 1: so it was. It was you can kind of tell
40:36
Speaker 1: even in warm ups, like I think that Lenny Christian
40:40
Speaker 1: was just peaking more at that time. I mean, they
40:44
Speaker 1: looked polished, and Meridian was having a few mistakes. You
40:50
Speaker 1: whether it was communication or I don't know if they
40:52
Speaker 1: were tired. It was just it was there was something
40:56
Speaker 1: that just wasn't clicking with Meridian, and I thought, boy,
40:58
Speaker 1: they're really gonna have to play a great game to
41:01
Speaker 1: win this. Linday Christian won the first set twenty five nineteen.
41:05
Speaker 1: Daniel Dykstra, Tyra Dyksterra, and Ali Wright all had kills
41:08
Speaker 1: to kind of close that one out. Elsie looked even
41:12
Speaker 1: better in the second set when twenty five sixteen, and really,
41:16
Speaker 1: you know, puts the pressure on Meridian. Now now it's
41:19
Speaker 1: because then you start going, you know, the seniors are thinking,
41:22
Speaker 1: this is could this be my last set I ever play?
41:25
Speaker 1: And neither of these teams, they're so familiar with each other,
41:27
Speaker 1: you're not going to surprise either one. Like it was
41:30
Speaker 1: really cool to see when Gracie Pappa go out, Well,
41:32
Speaker 1: she's left handed, so you're not sometimes you're not expecting
41:35
Speaker 1: her to hit it a certain way and the blocks
41:37
Speaker 1: are not even close. Well, Elsie knows that she's left handed,
41:40
Speaker 1: so they're always ready for that. You know, you're not
41:43
Speaker 1: going to surprise each other with anything. And so it
41:46
Speaker 1: was it was you saw a lot of long volleys,
41:50
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, and it was really incredible to watch,
41:53
Speaker 1: and you know, you can see both coaches just shaking
41:55
Speaker 1: their heads and smiling and just saying, this is this
41:58
Speaker 1: is crazy how it's going. And but Meridan held a
42:04
Speaker 1: fifteen to nine lead at one point in the in
42:08
Speaker 1: the third set, and the Links went on a ten
42:12
Speaker 1: to four run to make it nineteen nineteen, and then
42:16
Speaker 1: Trojans committed a service air and it was just kind
42:19
Speaker 1: of it started falling apart a little bit. It got
42:22
Speaker 1: up to twenty three, twenty two, and then twenty four
42:25
Speaker 1: to twenty three. It was really really close, and Ellie
42:28
Speaker 1: Meyer she had an ace to kind of close it
42:31
Speaker 1: out secure seventh place. Ridan gets eighth place. It's it's
42:36
Speaker 1: tough because like I've watched these girls play all year,
42:41
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden it's over and you start
42:43
Speaker 1: seeing tears and stuff, and you know, I'm like starting
42:48
Speaker 1: to get choked up watching it. I'm trying to take
42:50
Speaker 1: pictures where they're holding the trophy, and it was just like, man,
42:52
Speaker 1: I get so invested in this, But I think that
42:55
Speaker 1: it comes from a good place because I am really
42:57
Speaker 1: passionate about it, and now that I've been full on
43:01
Speaker 1: for two years, I mean, these seniors know where it
43:05
Speaker 1: was their last game. I mean I saw so much
43:07
Speaker 1: of them play the last two years, and it's just
43:08
Speaker 1: gonna get harder and harder going forward now, because like
43:12
Speaker 1: I started watching Eaton Bernardi play as a freshman, and
43:15
Speaker 1: now she's gonna go into her junior year and as
43:18
Speaker 1: you know, it's players like that that it's going to
43:20
Speaker 1: be like when it's time for them to go, it's
43:21
Speaker 1: gonna be really hard. But there was a lot of emotion,
43:26
Speaker 1: but there was a lot of celebration as well a
43:28
Speaker 1: lot of respect on both sides. They both come home
43:30
Speaker 1: with trophies, so really really cool. I love being a
43:34
Speaker 1: part of just being there and going to that tournament.
43:38
Speaker 1: You know, I know my way around, I know where
43:40
Speaker 1: to eat, I know where to you know what I mean, Like,
43:43
Speaker 1: I just kind of know where to go, which you've
43:46
Speaker 1: helped me a lot with, you know, stay here, eat here,
43:48
Speaker 1: go here. I'm like, yeah, you got it, and yep,
43:51
Speaker 1: and so it's it was awesome. It was awesome. I'm
43:56
Speaker 1: excited to go again next year.
43:58
Speaker 2: Well that's it for one a of volleyball. I would
44:02
Speaker 2: assume next week, Tyler, we might just have to because
44:05
Speaker 2: next week, Oh no.
44:06
Speaker 1: I guess there is Yeah, I mean, I guess soccer
44:09
Speaker 1: have been of soccer and ferndeu volleyball. I mean we
44:11
Speaker 1: could throw it into like a senior goodbye, you know,
44:14
Speaker 1: or something for football. I mean we can.
44:17
Speaker 2: We'll probably probably just throw it at the beginning of
44:19
Speaker 2: the football podcast next week, right, probably what we do so,
44:23
Speaker 2: I don't know, we'll figure it out, but that's probably
44:26
Speaker 2: it for the for the fall sports weekly wrap ups.
44:30
Speaker 2: As far as this one that we're working on is
44:33
Speaker 2: probably the last one.
44:34
Speaker 1: So yep.
44:35
Speaker 2: Anyway, let's talk players of the week Tyler and girls
44:38
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44:45
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44:48
Speaker 2: Player of the week.
44:50
Speaker 1: It's a Bellingham junior, Beckett Ferry. I mean, that game
44:53
Speaker 1: winning goal to send you to the final four, that's
44:55
Speaker 1: going to be a memorable moment she'll always remember, like
44:57
Speaker 1: the whole team is going to remember. And that was huge. Yeah,
45:01
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of time left, but not
45:03
Speaker 1: very much. I mean, she's a player that started out
45:05
Speaker 1: really strong and didn't score a goal for a while
45:09
Speaker 1: and and but always played really well and then and
45:13
Speaker 1: now you know, everything's coming together and she's just such
45:16
Speaker 1: a great athlete and uh so really really exciting season
45:21
Speaker 1: obviously for the bell and m girls soccer team. But yeah,
45:24
Speaker 1: Beckett Ferry, the junior from Bellingham is your girl soccer
45:27
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45:41
Speaker 2: who is the volleyball terpstraw Law Offensive Player of the Week.
45:45
Speaker 1: This took a little doing, I you know, and I
45:49
Speaker 1: haven't given out an award all year to a setter
45:52
Speaker 1: because they just don't get the numbers generally. Uh, but
45:55
Speaker 1: they're really they are running the offense. I mean they
45:58
Speaker 1: you know, they really really are. And Ella Fritz is amazing.
46:05
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't I don't know how she does it.
46:08
Speaker 1: She never looks tired. She's she's just like a springboard.
46:13
Speaker 1: She's jumping all over the place and already being five
46:16
Speaker 1: to ten is a setter is huge because the setter
46:18
Speaker 1: is usually up by the net, so you got to
46:20
Speaker 1: turn around and play defense a lot as well. But
46:23
Speaker 1: the stuff she does, the no look passes and then
46:25
Speaker 1: she does like this thing where you know how they
46:28
Speaker 1: do like the set kind of over the net. Well
46:30
Speaker 1: she does like a She'll jump up and then she'll
46:32
Speaker 1: just go to one hand and just kind of like
46:34
Speaker 1: reverse dunk it over the net almost And it's like,
46:37
Speaker 1: my goodness, like she is ridiculously talented. Watched her a
46:43
Speaker 1: lot played basketball last year. Uh, but really really just.
46:48
Speaker 1: I mean she was pretty good setter last year and
46:50
Speaker 1: volleyball as a sophomore, but this year she just she
46:53
Speaker 1: took her game to a whole new level. So Ella,
46:55
Speaker 1: Fritz Lenna Christian Junior, awesome watching you play. You are
46:59
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47:03
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47:17
Speaker 1: Well, Ryland, it's your favorite player, the best player. Uh yeah,
47:22
Speaker 1: she's uh, I tell you what, She's like a spider
47:25
Speaker 1: monkey going after those balls. Ryland Bernardi, the senior for Meridian.
47:31
Speaker 1: She like I would say that that rule I was
47:34
Speaker 1: talking about with the blue line, it hurt. The person
47:37
Speaker 1: that hurt the most was her because she could She
47:39
Speaker 1: can get anything. I tell you, she can go after anything,
47:43
Speaker 1: and she is fearless. And you know, as a senior,
47:50
Speaker 1: I was watching her and it was the last point
47:52
Speaker 1: and I kept my eye on her with other seniors,
47:55
Speaker 1: and she just had a big smile on her face,
47:59
Speaker 1: like she I think she understood the moment, she knew
48:02
Speaker 1: that this is it, but she was living in that moment.
48:05
Speaker 1: She didn't have the emotion that overtook her. And maybe
48:08
Speaker 1: that happened later. I don't know, but I think she
48:12
Speaker 1: just really enjoyed everything so much. She always got such
48:15
Speaker 1: a big smile. Nobody celebrates like she does after a
48:18
Speaker 1: point with her teammates. Awesome watching her go after those
48:22
Speaker 1: those those volleyballs as a as a libero. So yeah.
48:27
Speaker 1: Rathern Bernardi, the senior from Meridian is your volleyball Acceleration
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Speaker 1: We are done?
48:48
Speaker 2: Alrighty Well, he's Tyler Anderson Walkcompreps, wakampreps dot com. I'm
48:51
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