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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 224 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 12-18 to 12-22 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Murdy and junior basketball player Talon Jenkins, and you're listening to the
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walcom Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland. Go Trojans, Greetings and welcome into
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the watcom Preps Podcast. This is episode at two hundred and twenty four,
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a winter sports weekly wrap up for Monday, December eighteenth through Friday December twenty
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second. I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson of
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whatcom Preps. Tyler, how are we doing? What are you talking about?
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I'm doing great. It's it's the holiday season, man, It's crazy.
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It's it's upon us and we're just moving along here. Yeah, we
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were actually record this Christmas Eve. Yeah, that's how dedicated we are,
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Tyler. I know we are dedicated. And the Seahawks games going on right
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now. As a matter of fact, I've got it up right here.
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I'm watching the game and we're gonna do this at the same time. Tyler,
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they're playing the Tennessee Titans. You have a favorite Seahawks Tennessee Houston Oilers
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franchise memory? Oh, well, the first one that comes in my mind.
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I hate Oh because we played each other in the well. I mean
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but ste by far the first one that comes into my mind. We're playing
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the Oilers in the wild card game in nineteen eighty seven. I remember,
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I remember exactly where I was laying on my stomach, right in front of
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the TV, and and I am so pumped because we're back in the playoffs
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for the first time. I wasn't really old enough to know what was going
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on in eighty three and eighty four when we were in the playoffs. Yeah,
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I was less than one. Yeah, So but in eighty seven we're
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in the playoffs. I'm so excited we're in that we made the wild card.
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It was huge. And it goes into overtime and I'm freaking out.
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And then Warren Moon throws a pass. It gets tipped at the line of
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scrimage, goes way up in the air and it gets intercepted by Fred Young.
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Like the Houston twenty five. I mean, this is over. Yeah,
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Norm Johnson kicks a field goal. We are moving on, and they
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called it that it that referee said it touched the ground, that Fred that
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Freddie Young did not intercept it. And I was losing my mind because because
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and I'm like, you know, I'm seven, I'm I'm gonna be eight
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in a few you know, yeah, or no, I know, I'm
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eight and I'm going to be nine in a few months, and I'm I'm
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losing my mind. I mean, I'm probably jumping up and down crying.
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Yeah, they unbelievable. They put in I think they put in instant replay
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the next year and and and it was just oh, I was just losing
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it. And then they went down kicked the field goal and it was over
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and so so sad. But I remember, I think a week later,
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Minnesota upset San Francisco in a in a huge, like a playoff game that
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was just crazy. Anthony Carter had like ten catches for two hundred and fifty
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yards and he just went off and it was just one of those crazy games
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where I was like, that kind of made me feel a little better.
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I remember that. I remember we rented The Princess Bride and then watched that
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game at Mys's house out of Ferndale, and so I was over it by
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that time. But yeah, that's that's my memory. See. That's that's
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the thing I love about asking questions like that, Tyler, because you always
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come up with some crazy thing from the eighties like, that's what I love.
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Half the people listening right now are going, how the heck does he
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remember that? Like the Oilers? Yeah, he spread young, Yeah exactly.
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The only memory I really have is the is the block kick? Do
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you remember that one? It was like mid nineties Actually Dennis Erickson was the
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head coach, I believe. Okay, it was like sixteen sixteen, with
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like fifty seconds left, Al del Greco comes out to kick. Yeah,
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and I want to say, was Michael McCrary walked it, picked it up
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lateral? Is it to Robert Blackman and then housed it and we won on
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a block field goal. I have no memory of that. Yeah, I'll
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never forget it. It was in the it was in the Kingdom and the
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place was going absolutely bonkers. Yeah, you know, and it was Dennis
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Rickson, so we probably went what eight and eight? So what we did?
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Yeah? It Actually, you know, it's funny now that I think
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about it, Jeff Fisher would have been the head coach of the Titans or
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the Oilers. So you speak of a guy that goes knows about going like
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eight and eight. I mean, although he's what it was it seven and
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nine? Is that his big thing? Yeah, it was. Yeah,
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and then people we celebrate a Jeff Fisher Day on July ninth, right,
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Uh, yeah, it's really good. But yeah, well, Tyler,
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were almost five minutes in and we still haven't even said it. Thanks to
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Talon Jenkins for the intro Meridian basketball player. And we'll talk about him and
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the top one hundred count down for football is already in full swing. This
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search Watcom Preps. Wherever you get your podcasts, you should be able to
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find it. Tyler, we're gonna have we got a couple of sponsors to
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talk about here for different things. But if people want to sponsor walk Them
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Preps or anything having to do with Walcom County High School athletics here, how
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can they get a hold of you? What do you still have available to
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sponsor at this point? Yeah, it's still basically the same stuff that you've
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been hearing. It's the it's the recaps for boys and girls basketball. That's
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probably the big one. They go up. You know, I'm you know,
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almost almost every day. I'm a little bit behind right now and watching
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I've been doing some stat leaders, some graphics for stat leaders that could definitely
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Twitter or Instagram and just send me a direct message and and just start the
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conversation from there. And you know, spring sports are going to be coming
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so maybe businesses or you know, I know the fiscal year is different for
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a lot of different businesses, but uh, it could be Okay, Well,
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we're looking ahead for spring now. I know there's some people that have
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already are interested in spring sports that have contacted me. There's some people,
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you know Anytime Fitness is already talking to me about fall for next year.
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So it's a it's a really cool deal. And and uh, supporting local
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athletics is it would be great. It's a huge thing. And it'll keep
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this going as long as I can keep going. Yeah, So if you
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want to hear more about it, Tyler, how can they get ahold of
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you? Yeah, get just message me through Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
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Just search for walking preps send a message through there, or you can send
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me an email at mister mohawk at hotmail dot com. That's mister spelled out
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underscore mohawk at hotmail dot com. Yeah, do that. He'll take care
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of you and start talking about you here on the podcast and getting your logo
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up all over the website. Tons of views on social media and on the
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website right now. So so yeah, be sure to do that, Tyler.
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We've got what do we got here? Boys wrestling, Boys Swim and
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Dive. Nothing going on this week, so let's get that out of the
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Bellingham and Linden. Those are the schools playing or participating. I guess you
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don't really play swimming, do you. Those are the schools participating in Boy
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Swimming Dive. But they had nothing going on this week. So everything that
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we have from last week with the top times still the same, still the
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same. Dylan Fisk is out there killing everybody. Brandon Laffelholtz is doing all
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kinds of crazy stuff. Yeah, same guys, same guys. Well,
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we'll get an update, actually, I guess we will. We get an
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update on them next week. I'm gonna have to look ahead. I don't
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know. I'm not I'm quite sure if there's more stuff, they're off continuous
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for this week as well well. And even if they aren't, even if
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they are actually you know, doing anything, it's gonna be tough to top
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some of these times right here, let me tell you that. Yeah.
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But yeah, so that's a boys women dive. Not much going on there
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actually technically nothing going on there right now. Boys wrestling though, Tyler Mount
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Baker. They had their annual gust Gompton Invite. Seventeen schools came out to
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Mount Baker Beautiful deming to participate in this. Mount Baker finished second place behind
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Wapato. It's kind of crazy that one of the things I love about wrestling
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is like some of these schools come from way all over the place, you
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know what I mean, Wapao, Why are they coming out to you know?
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But it's a wrestling and it's a big time tournament. So yeah,
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Wapata wins it. By the way, Doctor Dan Dornickfield home of Wapato High
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School. But Mount Baker we're on Seahawks. I mean, what would Dornick
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have been in that game that you were talking about. No, No,
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he had retired eighty five was his last year and this was an eighty six.
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Okay, so yeah, Matt Baker finished his second, squal Cum took
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seventh place, Linden finished twelfth, and knoksack Valley finished his fourteenth. Tyler,
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I'm looking at the list here that he gave me. I see three
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guys finished first place. What do we got? Four finished second and three
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got third? So why don't you go ahead and give everybody those names?
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Yeah? So big, big, awesome tournament. I was there for probably
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four hours. It was it was insane. Finding a parking spot took the
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first hour. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, you ended up having
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a park at somebody's house that goes to Nuxzack Valley. Yeah, yeah,
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it was, it was. It was. It was crazy. It was
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so cool to be there. You know. I I knew Gus pretty well.
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I knew his older brother Jody, and his older sister, Jamie Moore.
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I graduated with his sister Jamie, and and I knew Jody, but
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I, you know, uh Us was an awesome wrestler and was just so
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cool that they that they've done this. And then in the past years it's
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been hard to get teams to come out because of weather. It just always
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lands on a day when you know half the schools couldn't make it, so
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at this time the weather was great. Seventeen schools were there, lots of
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school buses all over the place taking up all the parking spots, but it
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was it was awesome. It was so cool. Jonaph A. Petti from
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Squalicum. He took first place at one hundred and twenty pounds, as did
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Daniel Washburn from Mount Baker and Wyatt Freeman of Mount Baker. Washburn At won
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fifty seven. Wyatt Freeman at won sixty five, so they all were tournament
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champions. Second place. Isaac du creek At won thirteen from Mount Baker took
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second place, Andrew Monteeth Thatt won thirty two took second place, and Griffin
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Smith of Squalkum at one hundred and fifty pounds and Vance Lawrence suffered his first
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loss of the year. So I think he's nineteen and one now that he's
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at won seventy five. He lost to Anna Chordis's Ryland Lang, who does
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some great things on the football fold. He actually really huge game in the
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state championship. Yeah, and I think he took third in state last year
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in wrestling, so really really good wrestler. I mean, if you beat
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Vance Lawrence, that tells me a lot. Wait, that's actually kind of
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funny, Tyler. Let me give you something there. Yeah, what way
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class was that one twenty five? Yeah, the Lang is a defensive back
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and wide receiver, and Vance Lawrence is the center, center and defensive end.
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Yeah. Yeah, boy, I mean that's that's kind of funny to
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think about. You got a wide receiver wrestling a center at one seventy five
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anyway, Yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right. At Lindon's Christian Velasquez,
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he he won to turn him earlier in the year. He took third place
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in this one at one hundred and twenty six pounds. Gavin Compton, who's
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the nephew of Gus Compton, took third place at one hundred and forty four.
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That was really really cool to see him wrestle, and I saw his
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dad next to Coach Left taking video during during one of his matches. That
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was just it was just a neat moment to be there to kind of see
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all that. And then Nukzac Balley's Wyatt Bacon took third place at one hundred
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and ninety pounds, the highest finisher for the Pioneers. I feel like somebody
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named Bacon should be wrestling a heavier weight. I mean one nineties, all
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right, but he should be a heavyweight, shouldn't he? Yeah, yeah,
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it sounds like it, doesn't it really should Ferndale and Bellingham they competed
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in it, would. I mean, it's probably the largest wrestling tournament of
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the season. It's a really really big one, the Pacific Coast Tournament top
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and this ends up winning it no surprise to most people that know anything about
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wrestling. They won it with three hundred and seventy five points. Ferndale finished
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seventeenth with one hundred and ten. Bellingham finished thirty third. It was seventy
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eight seventy four teams, Tyler, seventy four stinking teams in this tournament.
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Wyatt straight, I don't know who that is. Is he good? Yeah?
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He seems really good and he's a good lineman too. For Ferndale that
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people are gonna to keep their out. But into the championship, it was
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seventy four teams in this thing. Tyler, Yeah, isn't that crazy?
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Yeah, settled for second place, But boy, it was. That's unbelievable.
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These brackets are ginormous. Ye, ridiculous, And it's you know,
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at two eighty five, the biggest weight class man. I really want to
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see him in Victor Gervil wrestle. I just I don't. I mean,
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it'll happen at some point. I think we need to set up the Tyler
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Anderson Invitational. Yeah. It's just one match, Yeah, and you'll just
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pick two wrestlers from each from each weight class in this in the county.
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Yeah, that'd actually been really cool. You know what they do sometimes.
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I'm sure they're gonna do it again this year. But I've been to a
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few of them where like the best wrestlers, like the Japanese. Yeah,
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actually they're coming through town. Yeah, they like all Kinko team in a
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couple of weeks or maybe next week at at Bothel. Yeah, there's I've
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seen it where they when they come to Walking County and they wrestle like all
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the top guys from each weight class from Walkham County and and it's it's amazing.
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It is so cool. Uh. And so I'm curious if they have
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a couple of heavyweights that can wrestle for the two for Whyae straight and Victor
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Hervil uh, and then Jacob Gandy took fourth place one hundred and fifty seven
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pounds straight and gained. You're a couple of guys that you know, you
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have to really keep your eye on, especially for the postseason, leading that
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Ferndale team. And and but man, what at such a huge tournament.
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I mean, just typing out all the scores took me, you know,
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fifteen minutes on the website when but it was just unbelievable to see all the
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teams that were there, and teams from different states, a lot of teams
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from Oregon. So yeah, just really cool. I saw like Klatskany and
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and uh, you know all you know, I covered a class. The
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first game I ever covered in my life was klat Skaney again its Nuksack Valley
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so fall football game. Yeah, so it was just cool. Yeah,
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that's pretty wild. Yeah, and I think I want to say that like
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players stayed at players' houses no way or something like that. Yeah, there
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was some crazy thing because they played like on a regular Friday night, regular
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time. That's awesome. And then I think like they matched up players to
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play it to stay at other like Knuoksack Valley players houses. Yeah, and
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I want to say that's right, stay at the center's house. Yeah,
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I want to say that was right. I don't know for sure, but
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I remember hearing that and thinking holy cow. So but yeah, huge,
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huge tournament, and Ferndale and Bellingham did did a great job competing in that.
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And yeah, yeah, I mean it's not completely out of the realm.
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But for back then, nowadays that they wouldn't do it. They just
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get a hotel room. But yeah, back then, you never know,
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I mean, especially if school wasn't in the which very possible it wasn't,
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you know what I mean. So yeah, and if coach Bartle's listening,
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uh, he would probably remember because he was coaching the Knucksack Valley team that
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that year. That's right. Uh yeah, just a young he was just
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a young up. I mean he was he was stole in his twenties,
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you know, just a just a baby, full hair ahead. And it
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was actually colored, although I guess gray's of color maybe is it? I
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mean, I know I got I got, I got lots of color in
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my beard. Oh same here, Yeah, it's uh and actually I need
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to trim it up before I go to my aunt's house today or else I
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will get yelled at. Yeah. So, Tyler, that's it for wrestling.
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Yeah, let's talk girls basketball. Yeah. Uh. The girls basketball
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scoreboards are sponsored by Eedeline Dry. Uh. Yeah, we don't need to
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get into them today. I mean, last thing I need to do is
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get a hunker and for more uh more ice cream and stuff. Anytime.
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Fitness sponsors the players of the week. We'll talk about that in just a
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moment. Uh. Let's see here, Tyler. Let's start off with we'll
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go through the teams again like we usually do. Let's start off with Squala
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Cum. They are in two and five oh and four in conference play.
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In Bellingham two and seven, own six in conference play. What can you
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tell me about the Storm and the BayHawks. Yeah. Storm had a couple
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of games early in the week. I think it was Tuesday, lost to
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Burlington fifty three to thirty six, and they turned around and beat Leconnor fifty
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two to twenty one. You know, squal Come is still Mary Binning is
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just such a great player. She probably had her two best games of the
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season in those two games. I mean I think in those two games combined,
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she might have scored half the team's points. Uh and or just a
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really good point guard gets to the line, makes her foul shots. Just
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a lot of fun to watch. Bellingham still fighting their way, you know.
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They they lost to a couple of really good teams, and they're you
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know, there's no seniors on the team, but Malia Hanks as a point
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guard, Mary Lockhart down low, they are the two, uh, you
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know, kind of the big time players for that team, and a lot
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of other players are you know, still very new to varsity play and and
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just kind of you know, getting getting their footing. But but they're competing
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hard, and it's you know, they they just ran into a buzzsaw against
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Seahome lost sixty three twenty four and Ferndale sixty five to twenty eight. Let's
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see here, Blaine three and four, one and four in conference play,
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Mount Baker three and seven, own three in conference play, Meridian two and
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four, one and four in conference play. What do you got about those
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three? Well, Blaine is it's it's tricky to watch because they started out
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so great, but it could have been kind of smoking mirrors with some of
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the you know, you don't really know, especially me, I didn't know
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how good the opponents would be. And then now that they're getting into conference
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play, it's it's getting a little rougher for them. But uh, but
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they but they know they they have a good team, but they only have
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like eight girls and there's no JV team. So it's it's hard because eight
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total. Do they do they see a freshmen? No? No, no,
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wow No, So it's it's uh so those are the eight and uh
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they have a ninth, but she's been injured all year and and so it's
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it's really really tough. But they have good players, but they have to
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play all the time. And uh and they ran into a bus saw this
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week with Lenny Christian and Nuksack Valley. I mean those are you know,
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the Blaine's one A. Those are the two top one A teams. They
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played for the state title last year last two years. Lost at LC sixty
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six twenty four Loston Nuxack Valley seventy eight to thirty. Uh, but like
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I said, they can, they can put up points, but it's just
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you know, it's it's that was a tough week. Mount Mount Baker lost
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to Granite Falls and a heartbreaker fifty nine to fifty. They were up at
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halftime in that one, and then they lost to Meridian forty five to thirty
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five. It was a close game all game, and Meridian kind of pulled
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away in the second half. And uh and Meridian, who I just you
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know, we were just talking about they beat Baker. Uh, that was
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the that's the first conference win of the season. And I think they're gonna
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surprise some people. I think they're gonna start moving up. They just they're
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so well coached, and I really like their their core. And they're a
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young team too, and but have some good senior players that are well rounded
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that could do a lot of different things. They can rebound, they can
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shoot three as, they can handle the ball, play defense. So I
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think Meridian is gonna start moving up a little bit. Tyler, really quickly,
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I told you I have the Seahawks game on. Yeah. They just
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showed a commercial and somebody was like buying jerseys in this commercial with like their
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American Express card or something, you know. Yeah, and the name on
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the back of the jersey. I couldn't believe it. Do you remember Joe
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Delamleer. Yeah, I mean, of all the names to pull out of
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the hat for a commercial. Yeah, they pull out a guard. Yeah,
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that's pretty cool. Yeah, I mean one of the one of the
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best of all time. That's awesome. Yeah, because they had and then
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oddly enough they had Scott Norwin on there too. Anyway, Tyler Ferndale seven
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and three five owen conference play see home five and two for and one in
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conference play. Lenny Christian five and three, four and one in conference play.
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What do you got about those three? Yeah, Ferndale played three games
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this week. That's hard to do in five days. Yeah, they were
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really, really busy. They beat Setra Wooley sixty three forty six. Uh
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just they were just on fire that game. Lost to a really good Stanwood
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team sixty to thirty seven. And I believe that was the next day.
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And I always look at like games when they played the following day. Yeah,
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uh and that's always that's always really tough. And then they beat Bellingham
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sixty five twenty eighth. Ferndale they own they have a bigger roster, but
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they only play six girls for the most part, and like I keep talking
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about that every week, but uh man, they just they play so well
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together. And and uh five and ohero in conference. So that's that's pretty
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darn good Sea home. They beat Bellingham in the big rivalry game earlier in
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the week. That was an unbelievable atmosphere. Over a thousand people in the
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in the gym, complete capacity, and they they were like telling people,
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I mean, I was standing next to the ad and they were like,
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you gotta we gotta do something about tickets, uh, because we don't have
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any room left in here. And then the boys game was was following that,
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so they were actually had to say with the loud speaker, Okay,
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if you're just here for the girls game, you know, please leave right
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after. So people from the boys game come in. It was crazy because
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a lot of you only have what ten to fifteen minutes between games. Yeah,
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and they were a lot of them try trying to get it going well.
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Yeah. And after the game a lot of times people hang around and
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talk and it's like, hey, we ain't got time for that tonight.
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We got to you gotta get people in and get people back out right,
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like yeah, yeah uh. And then they lost to Lake Stevens sixty nine
23:38
forty one. Lake Stevens pretty durn good. Um see them is great.
23:42
I mean they're a very very good team and and lose by twenty eight to
23:47
a teams tells me a lot. So Lake Stevens is something else. Lyndny
23:49
Christian only played one game. They took care of Blaine sixty six twenty four
23:52
and that one, Uh, they lost someone's early. But Lenny Christian is
23:56
they're They're Lennon Christian. I mean, they're gonna win games, They're gonna
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they're gonna go to the postseason. We've talked about it in the past seventeen
24:03
years in a row, finishing in the top four in state. So there's
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probably not gonna be much of a letdown this year. I think they'll be
24:10
fine. Their best player, Gracie Heinz, I mean, she's out for
24:14
the year. She hasn't played all year. She had knee surgery and so
24:18
but she's got more years to go. But she was going to be their
24:22
star player this year. So it might be a little bit of a down
24:25
year. But I mean, the links are the links. They're just they're
24:27
just that good. So we'll see how that goes. Yeah, one of
24:30
those ones where I'm sure they'll find a way. Yeah, Tyler, We've
24:33
got Nuksack Valley eight and oh six and zero conference play Lyndon eight and one,
24:38
five and one in conference play. This was the big game of the
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week last week that we had kind of talked about and everybody was looking forward
24:45
to. How'd that one go? Yeah, Nuksack Valley beat Linden sixty seven
24:48
to fifty two. It was it was you know, the Pioneers came out
24:52
really strong in the beginning and they just kind of they just kind of,
24:56
I wouldn't say coasted after that, but they kind of it was pretty even
25:00
after the first quarter. Pioneers are just so darned good defensively. They play
25:06
so well together. I mean, they're both like that. This was just
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one of those amazing games of awesome athletes. You know. Finley Parcher for
25:17
Linden is kind of the hot shot freshman that everyone's been talking about, and
25:21
Devin Coppinger is the you know, the All State you know, the Luke
25:25
Rittenauer of girls basketball that we've seen, you know, and so that was
25:30
the big matchup that everybody wanted to see, was how does this freshman you
25:33
know do? And Finley Parcher she scored twenty one points to lead the Lions.
25:37
So she is a six to one freshman that's got a really good future.
25:41
And so that was the big big game Knicks that Valley wins that one,
25:45
and then they beat Playing seventy eight to thirty at the end of the
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week. And at the same time, Lindon beat Sidro Woolley eighty one fifteen.
25:52
So when they're not playing each other, they just they just you know,
25:56
they really dominate other teams. And yeah, I'm just so glad that
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they're one A and two A because they're both probably gonna make huge runs in
26:03
the state playoffs. So that's a look at the girls basketball for last week.
26:07
Let's talk about boys basketball. Now. Who boys basketball? Also sponsored
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by Edeline Berry. Blaine two and six one to five in league play,
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Mount Baker three and seven one in four in league play. Tyler, tell
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me about those two. Yeah, Baker played three games as well. I
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mean, they've played ten games already on the season. That's just it's it's
26:26
it's it's nuts, man. They play a lot, and I don't think
26:30
they have a holiday tournament, so maybe they're off this upcoming week. They
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used they used to host one. I remember Ferndale will come to it,
26:36
inner Lake and somebody else. It was kind of the same four teams every
26:40
year and they just kind of played, you know, each other, and
26:42
it was I used to go to that tournament every year, but uh,
26:45
it doesn't look like that's gonna happen. Baker lost to Oak Harbor early in
26:49
the week. That was a tough game because they had both their point guards
26:52
were sick. So it's like, man, if you're missing both your point
26:56
guards, you're kind of at the mercy because you gotta figure out a way
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to run your offense. And they did. They did it all everything they
27:04
could, but they came up short in that one. It's too bad.
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It was a conference game where that happens. Then they beat Granted Falls fifty
27:12
five fifty in a really good game where you know, uh, you know,
27:17
one of their point guards came back, but it was it was it
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was you know, I was just really proud of how they did in the
27:25
fourth quarter to hold on to the lead and play smart. And then they
27:29
lost to Meridian Friday night at home eighty eight sixty four. That was a
27:33
really tough one. Blaine. They you know, it was a really rough
27:38
one at Linny Christian I was there for the first half. I think I
27:42
saw four dunks in the first half by the Lynx and it and I want
27:47
to say the score was like something like forty one to eighteen at the half.
27:51
I was only gonna say for the first half anyways, But it was
27:53
even worse in the second half. They lose to the Links ninety seven to
27:56
twenty seven. Those Links are just unbelievable. But they really turned it around
28:03
at home against the Pioneers. They only lost sixty to fifty nine against a
28:07
really good Nuksack Valley team. So so Blaine's got the ability to do some
28:12
stuff. They just you know, they're just it's not clicking right now,
28:18
but they're they're Nate Sullivan is such a great coach that just might not be
28:22
a more animated coach on the sideline, and and but he he sees things
28:26
so well and he's directing traffic and you really hear him. You know,
28:30
he's got a good voice that carries and and if the crowd is not into
28:34
it, you will hear coach Sullivan. Let's see here, Meridian four and
28:40
three two and three in league play, Squalicum two and five, two and
28:42
three in league play, Frendale two and seven two and four in league play.
28:47
What do you got about those three Tyler. Yeah, Meridian just played
28:49
the one game they beat Mount Baker talked about that one. That was you
28:53
know, the Trojans just do it, taking care of business. They finally
28:56
had almost other guys back. Cohen Fuller still out, but they you know,
29:03
they've been having trouble with you no missing guys at games. Talon Jenkins
29:07
did the intro for us. You know, he missed last week the game
29:10
against Linden. They were out a couple guys and you know that's a tough
29:14
one already against Linden. You need a six or five guy like Jenkins against
29:18
that those tall trees of the Lions. Yeah, but you know it.
29:22
But now with everyone back, they really put it all together. I was
29:23
there for the beginning of that game as well, a squalkum. You know,
29:30
they lost to Burlington fifty three to thirty nine, and then they lose
29:33
a heartbreaker to Archbishop Murphy fifty seven to fifty five. That Storm team is
29:37
so talented and so athletic, but again no seniors and they're just going to
29:44
try to out athlete. You you know, they're all pretty much guards.
29:48
So it's like watching a college game where everybody's like six' five and they're
29:52
just going to try to run around, shoot, play good defense, and
29:56
that's that's kind of what the Storm do. And and they have some guys
30:00
that can that can mixed up down low. But it's they're good. It's
30:03
it's tough because you're not gonna have a height advantage. You know, Lockey
30:06
Fagato comes off the bench. He's six three, it's maybe maybe six four,
30:10
and he can supplay, he can provides most of the muscle down low,
30:14
but going against guys at a few inches taller than them at the most
30:15
part and see home. You know, they lost a heartbreaker to Bellingham and
30:19
that rivalry game, Uh played played pretty well in that one. And then
30:23
he beat Seeder Woolie in overtime fifty two forty seven in an awesome game.
30:29
Uh they were without Braddock Duckworth in that game as well, so that was
30:32
a huge you know, they they rallied around each other without their leading score
30:37
to beat Segar Woolle in a big time game in overtime conference win. That
30:41
was a that was a really fun game. And then Bellingham, Oh geez
30:45
am, I jumping around. You're jumping around Tyler slow down, would you
30:49
UH, Ferndale, Ferndale, and they played three games as well, UH
30:53
and but they lost all three of them against UH a really tight game against
30:59
Sage Wooly. They just Burndale's got some really good pieces. But you know,
31:06
finding ways to win has been has been tough. Only two wins on
31:08
the season. They lost to a really good North Creek team. North Creek
31:12
has loaded Bishop Boots. He had a great game. I think he had
31:17
twenty three points, probably his best game this year so far. And then
31:21
and then they lost at the end of the week to Bellingham in a really
31:23
close game, Belling him a very very good team. Well, let's talk
31:26
about Bellingham Tyler six and two, five and one in league play, Nooksack
31:30
Valley six and two, four and two in league play, see Home five
31:33
and three, three and two in league play. What do you got for
31:37
those three? Yeah, well I brought everybody up to speed on Seahome already
31:41
accidentally. But but Bellingham they are very very good. They only have you
31:48
know, ten guys on the varsity roster. They really play eight of them,
31:55
and they're just they compliment each other so well. Really like Brad mca
32:00
as the head coach. They've got good size, they got great shooting,
32:02
athleticism, Wyatt Whyatt Stephan is the stud. Beating Seahome was a huge you
32:08
know starts that week. Then they lost to meadow Dale, who's very very
32:12
good. Meadow Dale beat Lindon, I believe or no, not Linden,
32:16
but they beat somebody else with a really really good team. But Meadowdale's is
32:23
loaded. And then they beat Ferndale fifty to forty five. So they went
32:27
to and one this week. But Bellingham is a team that is gonna be
32:30
very very good going forward, going to the postseason. They don't have any
32:35
holes. They just they have every piece that you need. Do you have
32:38
a guy that can play defense. Do you have a guy that's unselfish.
32:40
Do you have a guy that bring the ball up? Do you have a
32:44
muscle guy down load? You have a guy that can kind of do everything?
32:45
Do you have a three point specialist? They have all those guys.
32:50
They're very very good. Then Nuksack Valley. You know, they lost to
32:54
Lindon earlier in the week, which was you know, a really really tough
32:59
game, you know, lost sixty seven to twenty eight. But that they
33:02
came around and beat Blaine sixty to fifty nine. You know, Pioneers only
33:07
have two losses. They got a late start to the year. They're very
33:10
much the same way where there's not really that that many holes. They kind
33:14
of have a lot of guys they can do a lot of things. But
33:15
all these guys have a ton of varsity experience. You know, Caden heugh
33:20
Tink the point guard, Colton Lenz as a wing, Brady Ackerman in the
33:24
post. They've been starting since they were freshmen, all of them, and
33:29
there's now they're juniors. It's a very junior heavy team. There are some
33:32
seniors on the team. Joey Brown starts. But but it's a it's a
33:37
good core. It's a really good core. They've been playing together for a
33:39
long time. So I'm excited about this year and the future. Last,
33:45
but not least, on this list for boys basketball, here Tyler Lynnon Christian
33:49
eight and oh five and zero in league play. Lyndon a seven and two,
33:52
six and zero league play. Tell me about the Links and the Lions.
33:55
Yeah, dominant weeks for both of them. Lyndon Christian only had the
33:59
one game they be the Border Acts. By seventy four, they had five
34:02
players and double figures in that game. Everybody got in the game, even
34:07
Boyce Robertson, who is is kind of like the eleventh guy on the bench
34:10
or so. He came off the bench and scored ten points. It was
34:14
good to see Jeremiah Wright play getting it being in the starting lineup. Looks
34:19
like he's back to full health. He had a breakaway where I thought he
34:22
was gonna throw it down, but he thought wisely of it and just kind
34:23
of laid it in. He could have easily dunked it. That's a just
34:28
such a such a strong team. They do everything right. They're so fast
34:32
and efficient with everything. And Linnon is just, you know, a bus
34:36
sad they as well. They you know their Their two losses were both really
34:40
close losses to Jackson and Mount Lake Terrace non league games believe they were both
34:46
on the road, and then but six and zero conference played. They beat
34:50
Nuksack Valley early in the week. They beat Seed Joe Wooley. Both were
34:53
by big, big margins. The defense's what really stands out for me on
34:58
on that team. They're just so well dep it's so good defensively. They
35:00
got guys that are they got multiple guys that are six six in the starting
35:05
lineup, you bring a six to seven guy off the bench. Uh,
35:07
they're always gonna have size. That's just been the tradition of Linden basketball.
35:10
They've always been like that. When these two teams meet up, I believe
35:14
it's the last conference game of the season, it's always a huge, huge
35:19
game. Uh it's as of now, I think it's scheduled to be played
35:22
at Lindon Christian, which doesn't hold many people. So I'm not sure if
35:25
that's gonna change or what, but that that doubleheader over the years has been
35:30
a mussy for basketball fans in Linden and in Walkam County. The Linden and
35:35
Linden Christian Girls boys just gonna be an unbelievable match. Once again, that's
35:39
almost one that you'd like to see him move it to, like I don't
35:43
know, Western or something, you know what I mean. Yeah, Yeah.
35:45
The Linden Linden's gym, the Jake Maryberry Gymnasium, holds a ton of
35:51
people. The stands go way up there. Yeah, Like you see those
35:53
every once in a while. So when it even when it's there, I
35:55
mean, it's completely packed. You know. I've pictures a few thousand some
36:00
people. But you're right. I mean it's it's it's uh, everybody wants
36:04
to go go to that go to that game, so except for me because
36:07
I don't like crowds, but uh they it is. It is streamed,
36:10
which is fantastic. Yeah. I saw a picture of you the other day,
36:15
Tyler. Yeah. I don't remember who took it, but it was,
36:17
uh it was on Instagram Instagram story. Yeah. So I gotta give
36:23
a shout out to some of these Meridian kids because anytime I go to a
36:27
Meridian game. It started during football season. I swear there's like three or
36:30
four kids that have like this contest of who can get a picture of me
36:37
and then share it on a story while I'm covering a game. Yeah,
36:40
and they've been doing it for, like I said, since football, and
36:45
I always get a kick out of it because and then this time I actually
36:47
learned how to share it. I was shocked that you shared it. I
36:52
was like, yeah, wow, look moving on up. Yeah. I
36:55
think I tried to every time, but I screwed up. But I did
36:59
it right that time. Yeah, I was. I was coming from a
37:02
dinner party to go to that game, so I had white slacks on.
37:06
Don't tell me I can't wear white. After Labor Day, I had a
37:09
red Hawaiian shirt on with a Merry Christmas tie and a Santa hat, and
37:15
that was That was fantastic. And there's a there's a gal that's always at
37:21
Meridian games and she's been bugging me for stickers for about a month and and
37:25
I saw her at a Ferndale game and then I saw her at Baker and
37:30
I figured, since they're playing Meridian, I better, you know, search
37:32
for some more stickers. And as I was searching for like tape and stuff
37:37
to wrap presence, I found another page of stickers. Nice and so I
37:40
was really excited. I cut six of them up, brought them to the
37:44
game just in case I had them in my hand. As soon as I
37:45
walk in, of course, she makes a bee line with her friend,
37:49
goes right towards me and goes, okay, Tyler, where are my stickers?
37:52
Well, luckily I had him right there, so I was able to
37:54
give her some stickers. So yeah, that was a fun night Friday night
37:59
going to see a another double header. There were three boy girl doubleheaders this
38:04
week, which was amazing. Monday, the Big Belly and Sea Home was
38:07
awesome. They call it Belling Home, and they do all these they do
38:10
all these crazy things, like they each have like a mural that they unveil
38:15
in the crowd and then they vote on that. And they have all these
38:19
games, and they do like this fashion walk, and and then of course
38:22
the boys and girls game. It counts as a point. And there's like
38:23
all these competitions and then and and Bellingham won the competition. Overall, it's
38:30
a really neat deal. I think it's like seven years running they've been doing
38:31
this. But that's such a great atmosphere. Anyways, and then of course
38:35
the Linda Nuksack Valley Tuesday night, which which was huge, especially the girls
38:38
game being the second game. And then and Baker Meridian did it on Friday
38:43
night. So I was at Baker two games two days in a row.
38:45
I was there for the wrestling tournament on Thursday, go back out there for
38:49
Friday for basketball. It's been a it's been a busy week, but a
38:52
fun week. Tyler. You want to know how the Seahawks game's going.
38:57
Sure, Derek Henry just threw a touchdown pass as he does sometimes. Yeah,
39:04
Dev, and they're showing Devin Bush. I assume he's the one that
39:07
didn't do his job on that play. Let's see here, Tyler, we've
39:10
got and yes, he in fact was. Last week we started doing a
39:15
thing called the Game of the Week, and by game of the week,
39:19
we're talking about wrapping up the games of the week and what were the best
39:22
games of the week, Tyler. And it doesn't necessarily have to be what
39:25
was the biggest game on paper? It could be what ended up being the
39:30
best game? What was the game that Tyler watched and he went, wow,
39:32
down to the wire, unbelievable finish. What do you got for girls
39:37
basketball game of the week? Tyler? Well, it was the game that
39:40
we thought it would be, the Knuksack Valley Linden game. There were some
39:45
other pretty good games. Meridian Mount Baker that that was really close until the
39:50
end Meridian kind of pulled away. Uh and then Ferdale beating Sidroe Wooley was
39:54
a really good game as well. I think Fernald shot the lights out that
40:00
game. They played. Asked their potential almost it seemed like, but Nuksack
40:04
Valley Linden was just that was just a great game. You know. Nuksac
40:07
put up twenty one points in the first quarter, and they outscored Lindon seventeen
40:13
to five in the second, and then it was pretty even after that.
40:16
You know, the Pioneers were very even throughout. Tanahokama had eighteen points,
40:22
Devin Coppinger had fifteen, Landy Kimball had sixteen. These are all seniors that
40:28
have tons of experience playing in those crazy atmospheres and and they just did really,
40:34
really well. The Lions are pretty young. Finley Parcher had nineteen eight
40:37
and Mills had nine. Kiki York, Lexi Hermanuts and Klonie Newcomb each had
40:43
six points. But Linden will be They're gonna bounce right like I said,
40:46
they did bounce right back. They beat Segar Woolie eighty one to fifteen for
40:51
crying out loud. So but that was that was just a huge game,
40:54
much anticipated. Nuksack just jumped out to a huge start and Linden and played
41:00
them even in the second half. What about on the boy's side, biggest
41:04
best game of the week? Over there, there was a lot of games
41:07
that were really, really good. The Knucksack Blaining game came right down to
41:10
the end. You know, the last minute probably took twelve minutes with all
41:14
the time outs and free throws and everything going down. It was one of
41:16
those crazy games. Knuksack won sixty to fifty nine. Blaine had the advantage
41:22
of the half, Bellingham beating Ferndale fifty to forty five. You know,
41:27
it was kind of a lower scoring cume, more more of a defensive game.
41:30
See Holmes overtime win against Siadrow was awesome. With the playing without Breddick
41:35
Duckworth, other guys stepped up and they did really, really well. But
41:38
the Bellingham Sea home Boys game was insane. The atmosphere was unbelievable. Like
41:46
I said, over a thousand people there. The BayHawks had big quarters in
41:51
the first and third to kind of, you know, have them kind of
41:53
jump ahead. White Stephan had nineteen point six assists, five rebounds to kind
42:00
of lead his team Elias to GAJA. He had thirteen points, seven rebounds
42:04
and five blocks. But he fouled out early in the fourth quarter, and
42:07
that's when Seum started to make that comeback. It wasn't as close of a
42:10
game, but you started to feel like, seehom could win that one.
42:15
Breddick Duckworth that was six of nine from the field, six of six from
42:19
the foul line, he had eighteen points. That was just a I mean,
42:23
that's that was the game back when I was a kid, see home
42:27
belling him. That was the game. If you're gonna go to one basketball
42:29
game, that was the one to go to. So it was really cool
42:31
to see that atmosphere and and uh and be there live for that one was
42:36
really cool, you know, Tyler, I'm just thinking about something here.
42:40
What's said that'd be a good thing for a sponsorship boys and girls game of
42:44
the week. That's true. The boys in the boys blank game of the
42:47
week, the girls blank game of the week. Insert your business here,
42:52
insert your business here. Speaking of sponsorship, that's not something Michael Scott would
42:58
say. Yes, it very much is. You know he is a business
43:00
guy. Yeah, speaking of sponsorship, So Anytime Fitness they sponsored the girls
43:06
basketball player of the week, and this would be Anytime Fitness in Ferndale,
43:09
Linden and Lyndon North. Tyler, So who is the girl's basketball player of
43:14
the week. Well, I kind of I didn't break protocol. But what
43:17
I've been doing is because there's usually multiple games, and my first thing is,
43:22
okay, which teams went undefeated and then I kind of go from there,
43:27
and I kind of broke it this week because Emmy Hart went off.
43:30
She's a five foot two guard from Seahome Senior and in that game against Bellingham
43:37
she made eight threes, broke a school record. She made seven threes four
43:42
times last year, so it was, you know, she was so she
43:46
had to break her own school record. She is They said it on the
43:50
radio too, even in pregame. They said, she's kind of like Steph
43:53
Curry. You know, she's a small swan on the court. She's running
43:57
around, she gets her shot. And I was I was watching because she
44:00
was in the game of late and it was, you know, the game
44:02
was well in hand. This was against Bellingham, and they ran this play
44:07
where she ran through all these things and there was like a double screen and
44:10
she got wide open because of the screens, and they passed it to her
44:15
and when she hit it, the whole bench erupted. She jumped up and
44:19
down, and I was like, that was an important three for a reason
44:22
that I don't know. Yeah, and that ended up being you know,
44:24
yeah. She ended up with twenty six points that game. She had eight
44:28
threes. And then against uh against Lake Stevens, even though they got beat
44:32
pretty handily. She was five for ten in threes in that game. So,
44:37
uh, just an unbelievable week shooting the basketball. So Ammy Harp is
44:40
your Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball player of the week. She's like a young Jeff
44:45
Horniseck. Yeah. Nice. By the way, she's five. To my
44:52
goodness, I've eaten meals bigger than her. Where are we at here,
44:57
Tyler? Uh oh? Anytime Fitness boy you basketball player of the week?
45:00
Tyler? What are the three cities that Anytime Fitness has locations that we need
45:04
to talk about? Yeah, so Ferndale, Linden, and then Linden,
45:07
North Linden kind of spread out in the in the different areas in the northern
45:12
county there. Who is the boys basketball player of the week. And this
45:16
was a tough one too, because I was looking at you know, Linden
45:20
had a couple of wins. Riding only played one game, but Jager Fife
45:25
went off in that game, thirty five points in that game. He when
45:29
he gets hot, Holy cow, He's one of those guys that are it's
45:32
really tough to to defend. But he was also doing a lot of other
45:37
things. He was distributing, getting steals, got a lot of rebounds.
45:39
It was just one game, but it was a big enough game to win
45:43
the Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball Player of the Week, and and he he deserved
45:46
it. There's a couple of really good shooters, Emmy Hart and Jager Fife
45:50
winning these awards. Now, Tyler, if somebody wanted to sponsor the games
45:55
of the week from last week, they could double up and just make it
45:59
a package deal in the upcoming games for this week. Right, that's true,
46:02
that's true. They're kind of they kind of go hand in hand a
46:05
little bit. There's no problem with that. Yeah, well, let's talk
46:07
about the upcoming games to look for. And it is holiday tournament time,
46:12
Tyler, there's a lot of that going on. I know some schools are
46:15
down like California or headed down to California. There's all kinds of stuff going
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on. I don't know if there's schools from Walkham County or head down there.
46:21
But girls game of the week, Tyler, what do you got there?
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Yeah, you're right, it is tournament time. There's no like set
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conference games for Walking County. But the twenty eighth and twenty ninth Thursday and
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Friday, big tournament's going all over. Yeah. There used to there used
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to be a you know, Linden Blaine. They used to go down to
46:39
the surf and Slam tournament down in San Diego. I remember Luke Ridanow.
46:45
They would go down there and do really well, and people go, man,
46:47
who's that kid. I think one year down there he broke his hand
46:52
and played the rest of the year left handed and they got second in the
46:55
state that Year's It's like a Larry Bird stat you know what I mean,
46:59
Like, yeah, he brought his hand in the middle of the game,
47:00
decided to play left hand and still put up sixty. Yeah. I think
47:04
if you if you google that, Larry Bird just because he was bored went
47:08
left handed for the whole second half against Portland. Yeah, didn't he Like
47:13
it wasn't somebody like taunting him and he told him like, oh, I'll
47:15
go left handed in the second half and then did it. Yeah and yeah.
47:22
So yeah. So it's kind of like looking at the tournaments of the
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week almost so on the girl's side, Lennon Christian is hosting a big time
47:29
tournament. It's really cool because I even got like a packet from the coach
47:32
saying, hey, you know all the media that will be here, will
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we will provide food for you, you know, if you're here for the
47:37
whole thing and we'll do this thing and food. Well yeah, because they
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want us to like stick around and boat on like all tournament team and stuff
47:45
like that. So it's a really cool deal. Oh, I have no
47:49
idea, but I'm just I don't know if I'll be able to do it.
47:52
I'm going to stop by, but I don't know if I'll be able
47:53
to vote on stuff because I want to go to all sorts of different games.
47:59
But that's that's you know, Lindy Krishan will be there. Obviously,
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Linden will be there, so I think it's pretty top tier. And then
48:06
there's a big tournament for the on the boy's side down in Yakama on the
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Sundome. You know, lots of good teams from all over the state.
48:13
NUKXAC Valley and Linden will both be there. They just they just played each
48:15
other on Monday, so I'm sure that's gonna a lineup so they don't have
48:19
to play each other again. But uh, those are kind of the big
48:22
tournaments of the week. Boy side oh wait, Yeah, that's what I
48:27
was just saying. Yeah, the Yakama Sundome. Yeah, Yakama Sundome is
48:30
the boys, Lynden Christian is the girls. That's what you were saying there.
48:32
Yeah, yes, I don't know how I missed that all said.
48:35
I went, wait a minute, no, Yakima, we' already talked about
48:37
it. Yeah, I kind of jumped right into the and then on the
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boys side. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Well, Tyler, I
48:42
think that's it. We have anything else we want to talk about? I
48:45
don't think so, I don't. I wouldn't say this is the kind of
48:47
the halfway point. We're not quite at the halfway point for the winter season,
48:51
but it's moving along pretty fast. Usually you know, league play ends
48:54
and you know, getting into the second week of February. So uh,
49:00
but yeah, it's been a month now of winter sports and it flies.
49:05
Man. Uh, It's it's a lot of fun and and it's really just
49:09
just cool to go out to these schools and and and kind of in a
49:14
new atmosphere. I mean I probably went to a few events last year winter
49:17
stuff, but not like it is now. I mean it's every night,
49:22
and it's uh and it's just fun to I've been to all the gyms multiple
49:27
times, and it's it's and it's just it's not even halfway through it.
49:30
So I'm excited about the tournaments. I'm excited about the future, not just
49:34
this year but future upcoming years of so much young talent. So uh yeah,
49:38
just it's gonna be it's gonna be really cool and it's a lot of
49:42
fun. All right, Tyler, Well, we'll have one thing here before
49:45
we get Okay, birthdays, Christmas Day, birthdays, all right, since
49:51
this is being posted Christmas Day. Yeah, so hopefully people are listening on
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your way to Grandma's house or wherever you're going, all right. Yeah.
49:58
Ken Stabler nineteen forty five. Uh, Jean Lamont nineteen forty six. Yeah,
50:07
Larry Zonka nineteen forty six. Oh yeah, Larry Zonka. What a
50:13
great name. They just don't make names like that anymore, you know what
50:15
I mean? Player, Uh, Hedeki Okajima. Okay, what else we
50:23
got? Come on, there's got to be some good ones here. Marys
50:28
Thomas rest in peace. Yeah, that's all they got. It only goes
50:31
up to nineteen eighty eight. You can't tell me there isn't somebody born in
50:35
the nineties that's already a star athlete or something. Yeah. I don't believe
50:39
these people. I'm not quite sure anything in the Jay billis was yesterday,
50:46
well yesterday as in today when we're recording. Yeah, a bunch of cricket
50:52
guys. Maybe I just didn't go to one with American stuff. Here.
50:54
Here's here's a question. Do you, off the top of your head,
50:58
have people that share your birthday that are famous Kenny often, Yeah, Clint
51:05
Eastwood, nice, Yeah, let's uh, let's pretty one. Let's let's
51:09
look up May thirty one birthdays. Let's let's see what comes up here,
51:15
Tyler my my parents anniversary May thirty first. Yeah. Wow. Actually,
51:21
I've got a few more famous ones that I didn't even know about. Okay,
51:23
I don't care about these stupid TikTok stars. What are these ones on?
51:28
Here? Walk a flock out flame. I don't know who that is.
51:32
You might need to put the bleet button in on that one. No,
51:37
okay, I was trying to do it, says here Joe Namath,
51:42
oh, Nice Brooks Shields, Colin Farrell, Yeah, Gregory Harrison. I
51:47
don't know who that is. I just want sports that's all I care about.
51:52
Jordy Nelson, Dave Roberts, Nate Robinson, Nice Nate. You guys
51:59
might have been born at the same hospital at the same day. Says he
52:02
was born in eighty four, so he was born exactly a year later.
52:06
Oh, man, wouldn't that have been crazy? That would have been absolutely
52:09
wild because he's also one of the Yeah I don't like the guy. Oh
52:14
okay, I mean, you know, one of the all time great athletes
52:17
from our state. But yeah, talk about a helicopter dad anyway, Kenny
52:22
Lofton nineteen sixty seven, jakepv nineteen eighty one, Shane Bieber no relation to
52:29
Justin as far as I know, David Fletcher, Yeah, Angels, Tippy
52:35
Martinez, Yeah, old school Yeah, Andrew Bailey. I don't know who
52:40
that guy is. Tyler. What day is your birthday? Four? Oh
52:45
that's right. Yeah. And the crazy thing is, I'm just gonna say
52:49
this right away, there's always three that stand out that have It's there's not
52:53
that many people that have that. First most pops up is wow, one
52:57
of my favorites. Yeah. Don Mattingly, Yeah, maddingly And you know,
53:00
we the thing is is we hate the Yankees right in Seattle. Yeah,
53:04
but Don Mattingly like he was when the Yankees weren't very good, You're
53:08
you know, like they didn't even matter. The Yankees didn't really matter back
53:12
then. Now, granted his his what would it have been his last year
53:15
would have been ninety five. Yeah, that last game was the double.
53:20
Yeah, the double was his last game. What a way to go out.
53:22
Huh yeah, we'll see that. Well, I have a horrible one.
53:27
Adolf Hitler and oh yeah, and then and Joey Lawrence whoa uh and
53:34
so it's really those three who Joey Lawrence is not very famous anymore. Uh,
53:38
Adolf Hitler is infamous, and then Don Mattingly is awesome. And those
53:43
are the three that I always know about. Yeah, my mom, oh,
53:46
rest in peace, but my mom. Yeah. Uh. Tyler Newport
53:51
High School Rookie of the Year Major League Baseball No uh oh, the guy
54:00
that just won Rookie in here this year. No no, no, no,
54:02
no Diamondbacks. Oh no, he would have been Rookie of the Year
54:06
in ninety six. Tat Let's stache, Pat Listash. He would have been
54:13
for that Pat Listach. Todd Hollinsworth, Todd hollins Worth. Okay, yeah,
54:20
Newport High School in Bellevue. He was, yeah, really really good.
54:24
Uh Kyle Hgoshi Yoka. I guess he plays for the Yankees, okay?
54:30
Or did Matt Willcox? Brandon Belt? Oh yeah, Brandon Belt,
54:36
first baseman, Dave Bancroft. Yeah, I don't know who that is.
54:42
Oh he played in the eighteen hundred or was born in the eighteen hundred.
54:45
Sorry, yeah, let's see here April April twentieth birthday in sports. Excuse
54:53
me, Yeah, it's not a lot I'm telling you about football players.
54:58
Luke Keikley ohay, Oh, I like that. The kicker. That a
55:02
kicker that missed a game tying extra point. There's a lot of guys have
55:08
done that. I mean, I don't know there's that many game tying extra
55:14
point with zero time left on the clock in Jacksonville when he was with the
55:17
Saints. Oh after that, after the laterals, Yes, who missed that?
55:27
Now when I think of this guy, I think of the San Diego
55:30
Chargers Carney John Carney. Yeah, he was around forever. I think he
55:37
was the last guy that was on techmost Super Bowl, not techmo BIL,
55:43
but Techno super Bowl. That was still playing, because they would always like
55:45
when a guy would retire, Techo Super Bowl would be like and goodbye this
55:49
guy, and then he was the last one left. Yeah, let's see
55:52
hear. Tiger Stadium in Detroit officially opened in nineteen twelve. Fenway officially opened
55:59
in nineteen twelve. The Red Sox beat the New York Highlanders seven to six
56:02
and eleven, and the Tigers beat the Cleveland Indian six to five. A
56:07
couple of real close games. Yeah, nail fighters. Nineteen sixteen, Chicago
56:12
Cubs play their first game at Weekman Park. Now Wrigley Field beat the Cincinnati
56:15
Red seven to six. So every every game that opened back then was was
56:21
a one score game apparently, or every stadium that did. And they opened
56:23
in late April instead of early April. Late April, yes, yes,
56:29
you know what I mean. Like now the Major League Baseball season starts like
56:31
March thirty, first April first, somewher in there. Nineteen fifty Baltimore's Memorial
56:37
Stadium opened man Stanley Cup Final. Wait, what Stanley Cup Final in nineteen
56:43
fifty eight? How the heck is that on? Well, I guess there's
56:45
only six teams. Yeah, it would yeah. I was like, I
56:51
was like, wait a minute. The playoffs usually go until like until like
56:53
the first couple of weeks of June. Yeah, let's see, how about
56:59
a birthdays? There we go, birthday. Let's see if there's any other
57:01
birthdays just listed here, Tyson Griffith, there's Todd Hollins with Lemon Murray.
57:08
Yeah. Basketball, I remember that, and I we might have this.
57:13
What year was he born? He was born? Uh, don't know where
57:16
to go. Seventy three. Oh okay, yeah, never mind. I
57:19
would say maybe we were the same year. Also born in seventy three.
57:22
Seahawks tight end former Seahawks tight end from Cahucku, Hawaii, uh al alamily
57:30
nice. Chris Penn, former receiver for the for the Chiefs and the Bears.
57:37
Terry Smith, receiver for the Colts. Alan Houston basketball player, I
57:42
remember him. Oh yeah yeah, John Carney, Uh, Graham Fowler was
57:47
a was a really really good uh cricket player. Looks like that's about it.
57:54
I mean all the other games. I recognize some of them, but
57:57
not totally. Yeah. Yeah, I think even at this point, I
58:00
think even Blake quipment is like, okay, guys, no, women's not
58:04
oh no, he's he's still listening guaranteed. All right, Yeah, let's
58:08
get out of here, Tyler. Uh, Merry Christmas to you, Merry
58:12
Christmas to uh to miss Watcomb Preps. Yeah, and U I guess Marry
58:17
Christmas to all of our listeners too. Huh heck, yeah, man,
58:21
just uh, there'll be uh hopefully this is a nice Christmas present for people,
58:25
and and there will be more podcasts to come, and they're gonna it's
58:30
gonna be fast and furious here pretty soon. So in January that yeah,
58:36
Yeah, there are a lot of podcasts still to come over the next what
58:40
three weeks, two weeks, about three weeks. It's gonna be crazy.
58:45
Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of stuff coming up here. I mean
58:45
it's gonna be one of those things. Where's Tyler. You're almost gonna be
58:49
posting like a new podcast picture like every date. It's gonna be pretty wild.
58:52
Anyway. He's Tyler Anderson from wacom Preps watcompreps dot Com. I'm Ryland
58:57
Spencer. You've been listening to episode A two hundred and twenty four, the
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Weekly Winter Sports wrap up here on the Welcome Preaps podcast. We will talk
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