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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 318 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 12-23 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Nuksack Valley senor ka Shan Taffer, and you're
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Speaker 1: listening to the Walcome Press Podcast with Tyler and Ryland
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Speaker 1: Rally the Valley. Greetings and welcome into the Walcome Preps podcast.
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Speaker 1: This is episode three hundred and eighteen, a winter sports
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Speaker 1: weekly wrap up. I am Tyler Anderson without Ryland Spencer tonight,
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Speaker 1: and he's recovering from a few things, but he'll I'm
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Speaker 1: sure he'll be back pretty soon. It's like to give
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Speaker 1: a thank you to Kate Shintaffer, Nuksack Valley senior guard
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Speaker 1: basketball player for the intro awesome player, you know, part
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Speaker 1: of the champions state championship teams last few years and
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Speaker 1: now a senior captain and you know helping leading the
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Speaker 1: charge for the Pioneers who jumped out to a pretty
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Speaker 1: good start so far this year. And we'll talk about
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Speaker 1: them a little later on, but let's start off with
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Speaker 1: boys wrestling. Not a lot during the week, but some
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Speaker 1: big time tournaments over the weekend. So on Wednesday, Blaine
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Speaker 1: defeated Nuksack Valley, Squalicum edged past Bellingham forty two to forty.
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker was all over Meridian sixty six to three,
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Speaker 1: and Burlington Edison defeated Seahome sixty to sixteen, and then
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, there were some pretty big tournaments. Of course,
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Speaker 1: the Graham Morn Invitational out at Squalicum. Graham More in
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Speaker 1: one of the best high school wrestlers ever to come
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Speaker 1: out of Walkam County even the state of Washington, so
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Speaker 1: some big time schools coming out to this. Snohomish took
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Speaker 1: first place with two hundred and fifty seven points, river
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Speaker 1: Ridge two hundred and twenty nine points, Burlington Edison right
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Speaker 1: down the road one hundred and sixty eight and a half,
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Speaker 1: closely followed by Ferndale took fourth place at one hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty and a half points, and Stanwood took fifth
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Speaker 1: place at one hundred and thirty two and a half.
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Speaker 1: Other teams involved Linden had eighty seven points, Squalicum eighty
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Speaker 1: four and a half, Bellingham seventy two, and see Home
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Speaker 1: seventy one and a half, so those fourth schools really
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Speaker 1: tightly contested, kind of in the middle of the pack
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Speaker 1: at the tournament. So it's pretty cool that so many
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Speaker 1: schools involved here. Five teams from Wakam County the top
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Speaker 1: placers going by weight class at one hundred and six pounds,
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Speaker 1: Bryant Razzo from Bellingham took fourth, and Alvin Lee of
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Speaker 1: Squalicum took fifth. At one hundred and thirteen pounds, Jacob
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Speaker 1: McCarty of Bellingham took third, and Miguel N. Galleys of
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Speaker 1: Ferndale took sixth At one hundred and twenty six pounds,
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Speaker 1: Alisio Ortiz Lopez of Linden took second place, and Julian
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Speaker 1: Gonzalez Julian Gonzalez of Ferndale took fourth. At one hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty two pounds, Damien Cruz of Seaholme took fourth place,
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Speaker 1: and Aiden Rodriguez of Linden took sixth place. At one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight pounds, Brendan Ferrell Garcia of Squalicum
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Speaker 1: took third place, Mason Philippini of Ferndale took fourth, and
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Speaker 1: Aiden Borcher of Bellingham took fifth place. At one hundred
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Speaker 1: and four four pounds, Fine Hines of Squalicum took second.
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Speaker 1: Spencer Hamilton of Ferndale took fourth at one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty pounds. Miguel Lopez of Lyndon took second place. Gabriel
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Speaker 1: Long of Ferndale took sixth place at one hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty seven pounds. Colin mcgiverin of Seaholm took third, Harker
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Speaker 1: Merwin of Ferndale took sixth. At one hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: five pounds, we had the champion. Jacob Gandy took first
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Speaker 1: place from Ferndale. Aiden Holmes of Seaholm took fourth, Nate
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Speaker 1: Loss of Bellingham took fifth, and Simeon Blast of Squalicum
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Speaker 1: took sixth, so four out of the top six there
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Speaker 1: all coming from Wacom County. At one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 1: five pounds, Grant Oliver of Seaholm took second place and
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Speaker 1: Alexis Aguilar of Squalum took sixth place. Jumping up to
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen pounds, Julian Montoya of Bellingham took fourth,
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Speaker 1: and Sunny Powell of Bellingham took sixth and at two
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five pounds, Wyatt Straight of Ferndale was
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Speaker 1: the champion at Adrian Castell on Linnen took fifth place
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Speaker 1: and Isaac Lowry of Squalkum took sixth place. So a
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Speaker 1: lot of big time guys there. Of course, the two
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Speaker 1: champions from Ferndale, Jacob Gandy and Whyatt straight from No
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Speaker 1: surprise there. Those two guys are gonna do some big
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Speaker 1: time things, especially going into February. Another big, big tournament,
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Speaker 1: the Gus Compton Invite out at Mount Baker. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Gus Compton was a great, great wrestler taking for us,
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Speaker 1: taken from US way too soon, much like Graham morn
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Speaker 1: I grew up with the Compton family, going to school
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Speaker 1: with them, his older sister Jamie's older brother Jody knew
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Speaker 1: them pretty well, lived, you know, a mile and a
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Speaker 1: half away from me. So that's a pretty big tournament.
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Speaker 1: It's very very important, and it's really cool to see
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker take first place in this one two hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty eight and a half points, closely followed by
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Speaker 1: Glacier Peak with two hundred and forty eight points, Sultan
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty one points. Some Meridian took fourth
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Speaker 1: at one hundred and thirty nine points, and Ciedjo Woolley
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Speaker 1: took fifth at one hundred and nine and a half.
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Speaker 1: Nuzack Valley also scoring seventy seven points. Here. A lot
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Speaker 1: of plazers here from Wakam County. One hundred and six pounds.
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Speaker 1: Robert Nalbach of Meridian took sixth at one hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirteen pounds. Ryland Lee of Meridian took third at one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty pounds. Breck and Fowler of Mount Baker
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Speaker 1: took fifth at one hundred and twenty six pounds, Isaac
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Speaker 1: du Creek of Mount Baker took second, and Maddox Wolven
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Speaker 1: of Meridian took fifth. At one hundred and thirty two pounds,
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker had the champion of Andrew Monteith at one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty eight pounds. How about this, Gavin Compton
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Speaker 1: of Mount Baker took first place, The nephew of the
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Speaker 1: late Gus Compton. Also in fourth place Wyatt Lewenberger of Meridian.
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Speaker 1: At one hundred and forty four pounds, Sean Duggar of
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker took first place. Liam Wolven from Meridian took
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Speaker 1: fifth at one hundred and fifty pounds. Abraham Nunez of
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Speaker 1: Nuzack Valley took second place. Carson Seodol of Meridian took third,
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Speaker 1: and Ethan Vallak of Meridian took fifth, and Cole Christensen
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Speaker 1: of Mount Baker took sixth, so again four out of
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Speaker 1: the top six there from Walkam County at one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty seven pounds. Joe Jordan of Mount Baker took
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Speaker 1: second place at one hundred and sixty five pounds. A
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Speaker 1: lot of familiar names here. Wyatt Freeman of Mount Baker
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Speaker 1: is your champion, Owen Cunningham of Knuzack Valley took fourth,
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Speaker 1: Sawyer Strunk of Meridian took fifth, and Vincent Trung of
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Speaker 1: Meridian took sixth at one hundred and seventy five pounds.
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Speaker 1: Gunner McGrath of Mount Baker took second place, Andrew Duggar
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Speaker 1: of Nuzack Valley took fourth at one hundred and ninety pounds.
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Speaker 1: Dylan Moa is your champion from Mount Baker, Wyatt Bacon
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Speaker 1: took second place. He's from Nuxack Valley, and Landon Downey
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Speaker 1: of Meridian took fifth place at two hundred and fifteen pounds.
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Speaker 1: Silas Maple of Mount Baker took third and at two
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five pounds, Jeremiah Sheridan of Mount Baker
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Speaker 1: is your champion, and Jackson Hurlbut of Meridian took third place.
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Speaker 1: Another big tournament that took head the Hammerhead Invitational with
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Speaker 1: dozens and dozens of teams that took place down at
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Speaker 1: Kidsap and I mean the number one team was a
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Speaker 1: team from Utah. Syracuse. Utah took first place in that
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Speaker 1: with two hundred and thirty five points. Lincoln of Tacoma
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Speaker 1: took second two hundred two and a half, Zillah third,
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Speaker 1: White River fourth, and span Away Lake took fifth. Blaine
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Speaker 1: was a part of this tournament where they had fifty
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Speaker 1: eight and a half points. Unbelievable. Tournament, huge, huge, one
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Speaker 1: every year and a lot of schools participating in that.
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Speaker 1: Let's jump over to girls wrestling now and on Tuesday
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Speaker 1: and a Cordus beat Bellingham fifty four to twelve. On Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: it was Oak Harbor over Squalcum sixty six to eighteen
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Speaker 1: and Sedro Woolley defeated Mount Baker forty two to thirty.
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Speaker 1: On Thursday, Mount Vernon defeated Ferndale forty two to thirty
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Speaker 1: and Meridian beat Nokxack Valley sixty to six. And Lyndon
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Speaker 1: was the bested Burlington Edison forty two to eighteen. And
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Speaker 1: some tournaments here over the weekend. The Santa Slam at
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Speaker 1: Juanita High School had a couple teams from Walka County
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Speaker 1: in it, Mount Baker, Blaine and Squalakam. Mount Baker took
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Speaker 1: sixth place one hundred and four points. Blaine had forty
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Speaker 1: one points, Squalokum had twenty three points. The team champion
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Speaker 1: was Sunnyside with two hundred and six and a half,
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Speaker 1: followed by Oak Harbor, Curtis, Sumner and Auburn. So some
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Speaker 1: pretty big schools there and some pretty pretty good places
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Speaker 1: at placers as well. At one hundred pounds, Emily moa
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker took third place at one hundred and five pounds.
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Speaker 1: McKenna Lazier of Blaine is your champion and also at
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Speaker 1: one hundred and five pounds. Kira O'Reilly of Blaine took fifth.
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Speaker 1: Texi Villeever of Mount Baker took eighth at one hundred
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Speaker 1: and ten pounds. Kelly Camacho of Mount Baker took fifth
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Speaker 1: place at one hundred and fifteen pounds. Carolyn Cook of
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Speaker 1: Mount Baker took sixth at one hundred and thirty five pounds.
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Speaker 1: Abby Gail Marquez of Blaine took sixth place at one
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty pounds. Tyler Olsen of Mount Baker took
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Speaker 1: second one hundred and forty five pounds, Brook Lego of
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Speaker 1: Squalkum took fourth, and Sophia Moa of Mount Baker took
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Speaker 1: fifth place. Another tournament that took place, the Royal Classic.
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Speaker 1: Linden was a part of that. They took fifth place
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Speaker 1: with ninety two points and other The top schools were
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Speaker 1: Linuid with one hundred and forty seven, Garfield with one
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Speaker 1: thirty two, Arlington with one hundred and four and a half,
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Speaker 1: and Lincoln of Seattle had ninety five points. The Linden
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Speaker 1: placers include Elizabeth Tellez, who took fifth place at one
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen pounds, Kim bern Nelson took fourth place
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Speaker 1: at one hundred and twenty pounds, mar Leona Flores sixth
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Speaker 1: place at one hundred and twenty five pounds, Uretzi Nava
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Speaker 1: Gonzalez is your champion at one hundred and thirty pounds,
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Speaker 1: Carla Gutierrez Is took second place at one hundred and
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Speaker 1: forty five pounds, and Isabelle Dominguez took second place at
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Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety pounds. So, I mean, so much
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Speaker 1: action going on with all these tournaments every single weekend.
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Speaker 1: We're heading into the break now, but there will be there.
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Speaker 1: They will just keep on wrestling and and you know,
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Speaker 1: before you know it, it's gonna be postseason time. It's
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Speaker 1: crazy how fast, especially the wrestling season goes, and the
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Speaker 1: postseason jumps on us a lot earlier than some of
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Speaker 1: these other sports. So so good luck to all of them,
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Speaker 1: and stay healthy and and yeah, hopefully you get to
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Speaker 1: eat a bunch during the Christmas break here, because I
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Speaker 1: know during wrestling it's a little it's a little a
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Speaker 1: worth the trip to go see Carter the dog. Oh
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Speaker 1: my goodness, he's the sweetest dog in the world. I like,
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Speaker 1: I just go in there just to see Carter. I'll
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Speaker 1: walk in. Marty's on the phone. I'm like, that's fine,
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna pet Carter here for
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Speaker 1: like ten minutes, and I'll just I'll just I'll even
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Speaker 1: lay down with them and just kind of hang out
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Speaker 1: with them. He's an older dog. He's the sweetest dog
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Speaker 1: in the world. So let's jump into the standings here.
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Speaker 1: There wasn't a ton going on. There was only a
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Speaker 1: couple meets this week, and some schools didn't even didn't
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Speaker 1: even compete, and they won't be until the new year.
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Speaker 1: So but the update is standings right now. See Home
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Speaker 1: is three and oh squal Comes two and o, Ferndale's
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Speaker 1: three and one, Bellingham two and three, and Lyndon oh
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Speaker 1: and three. So Bellingham getting a win there this week.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, so it's uh Ferndale competed as well. Uh
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Speaker 1: the only and there was no time. There was no
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Speaker 1: new times or no new uh you know, top times
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Speaker 1: in any of the events except Odin Overson of Ferndale.
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Speaker 1: He bested his time that he or he was already
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Speaker 1: the leader in the one hundred freestyle and he just
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Speaker 1: got a little bit better on at fifty six point
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Speaker 1: zero two seconds. So it's going to be quite a
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Speaker 1: break here for boys swimming and diving. Like I said, well,
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Speaker 1: they won't jump back into action until the new year,
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Speaker 1: so so they'll be I mean the next winter recap
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Speaker 1: pot cast, there will be nothing to talk about so
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Speaker 1: with boys swimming dive, but there's gonna be a lot
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Speaker 1: coming up after that, So they're gonna they're gonna start
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Speaker 1: competing quite a bit, and you're gonna see a lot
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Speaker 1: of these times be bested, and you'll see a lot
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Speaker 1: of the same names over and over again, and and
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Speaker 1: really cool to see the Sealmos Squalic. I'm still unbeaten
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Speaker 1: in Ferndale right right up there at three and one,
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Speaker 1: So really really exciting, and and some big time athletes
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Speaker 1: that are that are competing and alreadys some really good times,
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Speaker 1: especially for early on in the season, which you don't
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Speaker 1: usually see, and so I'm excited to see what they
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Speaker 1: can do in the postseason as well. This jumped to
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Speaker 1: girls basketball now and the scoreboards are sponsored by Edeling
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Speaker 1: all around Walcome County, I mean from Siue, mass to Blaine.
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Speaker 1: Of course, there's a handful of them in Lyndon, uh
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Speaker 1: Ferndale here where I live. It's always a great place
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Speaker 1: to go. Uh just you know, the best ice cream
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Speaker 1: in the world. So you gotta go. You gotta go
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Speaker 1: check them out. Trust me, I love what they do.
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Speaker 1: They're sponsoring the boys and the girls scoreboards. But we're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk girls basketball now and some of these teams now,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about just kinda kind of go team
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Speaker 1: by team here. I'm gonna start up with Blaine. Blaine's
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Speaker 1: now two and five on the season. They lost a
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Speaker 1: tough one to Meridian forty three to nine. I was
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Speaker 1: at that game, and it's it's been a struggle this year.
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Speaker 1: But they were down a few players too as well.
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Speaker 1: I mean there were some girls that there was I
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Speaker 1: think there was a girl that went on vacation that
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Speaker 1: was scheduled, you know, months ago, because she didn't know
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Speaker 1: she'd be playing basketball, and and so that's what happened sometimes,
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Speaker 1: and the team was kind of thrown together last second,
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Speaker 1: and they I tell you what, they compete harder than anybody.
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Speaker 1: It's just the it's just the fundamentals that they're still
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Speaker 1: learning and stuff like that. When I what I loved
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Speaker 1: is that they turn around and they beat Cascade of
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Speaker 1: Everett a couple days later twenty nine to twenty five.
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Speaker 1: So really cool to see that happening there. Breece Smith
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Speaker 1: with ten points in that one to lead the way,
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Speaker 1: and and you know, great to see the Border Rights
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Speaker 1: come on on top of that two and five. Right
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Speaker 1: now in the young season, it's going to be a
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Speaker 1: struggle this year, but they're still plugging away really like
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Speaker 1: their coach, Ic Wolfus and and the things they're they're
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Speaker 1: aiming to do here Ferndale three and five on the season.
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Speaker 1: Right now, they had the big fifty nine to thirty
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Speaker 1: two win over Oak Harbor. I was there for that one.
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Speaker 1: Pressure defense really got to enforce like thirty six turnovers.
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Speaker 1: I think Brooklyn Larrabie had ten steals in that game
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Speaker 1: to go along with her ten points, kind of a
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Speaker 1: unique way to get a double double. So a big
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Speaker 1: win there, and then a few days later lost to
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Speaker 1: Lindon seventy five thirty eight. I mean, there's no you know,
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Speaker 1: there's no harm in that. Everybody loses Lindon. It seems
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Speaker 1: like so Ferndale three and five on the season right now.
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Speaker 1: But they have some really good players and they play
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Speaker 1: a really exciting brand at basketball and really fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: Glad to see them in person a few times over
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Speaker 1: so far this year. Squalk them three and four on
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Speaker 1: the season. They lost the heartbreaker to Marina in thirty
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Speaker 1: nine thirty six, and they turn around though and beat
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Speaker 1: Lakewood over the weekend sixty five forty two, So a
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Speaker 1: huge win there. I think they had four players and
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Speaker 1: double digits. Really really good to see right now. Addison
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Speaker 1: Kettman has been out with the with the injury. I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping she'll be able to return because that's going to
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Speaker 1: be a huge plus for their lineup. You know, she
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Speaker 1: starts as an inside player, and and you know, they
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Speaker 1: just have so many exciting players to watch and and
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Speaker 1: but they're very young. They're extremely young, and I think
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Speaker 1: they I think they even start, you know, four sophomores,
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Speaker 1: three or four sophomores or something like that, and sometimes
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Speaker 1: a freshman. So it's they're going to take their lumps
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Speaker 1: a little bit here and there, and right now. Foul
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Speaker 1: shooting has been the big bugaboo for them, and every
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Speaker 1: coach will tell you, you know, if we make you know, man,
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Speaker 1: if we just make sixty percent of our foul shots,
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Speaker 1: we could we could change we could turn some losses
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Speaker 1: into wins. And that would have been the case of
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Speaker 1: far for Squalicum so far this year. So they get
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Speaker 1: that turned around, they're going to start winning some games.
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Speaker 1: Three and four on the season right now, not too bad.
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Speaker 1: Bellingham's four and three on the year. They picked up
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Speaker 1: the forty nine to thirty seven win over Oak Harbor.
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Speaker 1: It was really cool to see them put up that
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Speaker 1: many points. They usually, you know, are around the thirties there,
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Speaker 1: but you know, knocking on the door to fifty points
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Speaker 1: and that win over Oak Harbor, which is fantastic. You know,
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Speaker 1: they I think Jenny Ruano scored like fourteen points in
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Speaker 1: that one, and Malia Hanks had had a lot of
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Speaker 1: steals and drives to the hoop late to get them
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Speaker 1: back into the game or kind of pull away late
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Speaker 1: in the game, which was awesome. They did lose fifty
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Speaker 1: nine to twenty two to Anacordus. That's a really good
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Speaker 1: Seahawk team and then they lost a heartbreaker on a
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Speaker 1: buzzer beater to Edmunds Woodway on Saturday, thirty nine to
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Speaker 1: thirty seven. So still though Bellingham has a lot to
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Speaker 1: like right now. Four and three on the season, so
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I can't remember if they even
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Speaker 1: had four wins last year, So that's really cool. Very
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Speaker 1: similar situation here is Mount Bay, also four and three
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Speaker 1: on the year. They were four and one coming into
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Speaker 1: the week. They did drop a close game to see
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Speaker 1: Home forty seven forty four, So that's a really really
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Speaker 1: tough one. That's a game that you know, could have
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Speaker 1: gone either way. They were ahead for most of the
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Speaker 1: game and then they just got cold in the fourth
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Speaker 1: quarter and there was they just were not making shots
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Speaker 1: at all until I think I think Ryan Harkness, the
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Speaker 1: freshman guard, she hit a three pointer. I believe that
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Speaker 1: tied the game. But seehom made their free throws down
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Speaker 1: the edd, down the stretch and ended up winning it
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Speaker 1: by three points. And they were playing without some key
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Speaker 1: players as well, as you know, especially the point guard,
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Speaker 1: freshman Taylor Terrell, who's been a fantastic player in this
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Speaker 1: young season so far. She's been out I believe with
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Speaker 1: an injury, and so that's really really tough. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you could say that she could be their best player
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Speaker 1: right now, and you don't have your best player out there,
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Speaker 1: at least one of your best players. It's just a
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Speaker 1: tough thing to overcome. But they do beat Mount Baker
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Speaker 1: at home. That was a big, big win, exciting game. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they played Lyndon Christian and then I think it was
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Speaker 1: on Friday night they lost that one sixty one to
18:11
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Really tough to overcome not having your full
18:14
Speaker 1: lineup against a team that's stacked as Lyndon Christian is.
18:17
Speaker 1: So see Home four and three on the year. We're
18:20
Speaker 1: going jump to Meridian, who's five and one on the
18:22
Speaker 1: season with they had three wins this week, went three
18:25
Speaker 1: to o this week, so they're they're looking really good.
18:28
Speaker 1: And what's fun about Meridian is that they've got like
18:31
Speaker 1: seven or eight girls that are good three point shooters,
18:34
Speaker 1: and so they can really spread the floor and shoot
18:37
Speaker 1: it and then they can have they all have some
18:39
Speaker 1: aggressive play on the inside. Eden Bernardi, you know, Taya Benson,
18:43
Speaker 1: Sophia Brooks, play players like that that can that are
18:46
Speaker 1: you know, very good athletes and other sports that are
18:49
Speaker 1: that have the ability to play inside and then they
18:51
Speaker 1: can kick it outside to some of their shooters. Beating
18:54
Speaker 1: Squalk them thirty nine thirty six in that really close game,
18:58
Speaker 1: beating Blaye forty three to nine. I was at that game.
19:01
Speaker 1: It was really fun to see. And then beating Cedarcrest
19:04
Speaker 1: forty two to twenty on Saturday. So great, great week
19:07
Speaker 1: for the Trojans. And you know, I was talking to
19:11
Speaker 1: their coach, Bree Joy before the season started and we
19:14
Speaker 1: were talking about how they have the talent, they just
19:16
Speaker 1: need to believe that they can win. And I think
19:18
Speaker 1: that that's starting to happen right now, and so much
19:20
Speaker 1: of it is mental and it's just really great to
19:24
Speaker 1: see that they're doing so well. And a team that
19:28
Speaker 1: they're looking at, I guarantee you right now is Nuksack Valley,
19:31
Speaker 1: who's playing pretty well. They are also five and one
19:33
Speaker 1: on the season, and they will clash at some point,
19:36
Speaker 1: which will be you know, it could be at some
19:39
Speaker 1: point down the road, it could be a winner to
19:41
Speaker 1: state game between these two teams. Nuxack Valley with the
19:45
Speaker 1: one point win over Mount Vernon fifty to forty nine.
19:49
Speaker 1: Shy Lee Davis with a game winning shot with five
19:52
Speaker 1: seconds to go. So that's really really exciting and really
19:56
Speaker 1: really cool for the team. And Shane Wickers, now, who's
19:59
Speaker 1: in my goodness, twenty I don't know how many season,
20:02
Speaker 1: twenty eighth, twenty ninth year now as the head coach
20:05
Speaker 1: at Nuksac Valley looks the exact same from when he started.
20:08
Speaker 1: I don't know how he does it, but he's just
20:11
Speaker 1: a heck of a coach. And you know, he's got
20:13
Speaker 1: his girls playing really really well right now. And then
20:15
Speaker 1: they turn around and it beat Sidro Woolley fifty four
20:18
Speaker 1: to forty six. And they have a really good inside
20:21
Speaker 1: outside presence with you know, Grace de Hoganside and Peyton
20:24
Speaker 1: Bartell on the outside and Kate shin Tapper who gave
20:27
Speaker 1: us the intro, and Shaley Davis who hit that game
20:30
Speaker 1: when he shot. They just got some really good players.
20:33
Speaker 1: And they have a lot of youth too that are
20:36
Speaker 1: learning on the job, kind of with Varsity's minutes, and
20:39
Speaker 1: so as the season progresses, they're going to probably get
20:42
Speaker 1: a little better as well. But right now five and one,
20:45
Speaker 1: that's pretty darn good. We're gonna jump over to Lummy
20:47
Speaker 1: Nation now, who has just been you know, running rough
20:50
Speaker 1: shot over everybody. They went three and o this week.
20:53
Speaker 1: Listen to these wins sixty one to eighteen over Friday Harbor,
20:57
Speaker 1: forty three to seven over Darrington, and then seventy two
21:00
Speaker 1: to eight over Grace Academy, and they just get after
21:06
Speaker 1: it defensively. They will force you into a ton of turnovers.
21:09
Speaker 1: I was doing stats for one game watching the film,
21:12
Speaker 1: and after the first quarter, the first quarter, they had
21:15
Speaker 1: seventeen steals in the first quarter alone. I think they
21:18
Speaker 1: were up thirty six to two, and then they kind
21:20
Speaker 1: of call off the dogs and and just plays, you know,
21:24
Speaker 1: we'll give them a little bit of room to bring
21:27
Speaker 1: the ball up and stuff like that. But it was
21:28
Speaker 1: just really impressive to see and how good they can.
21:31
Speaker 1: They they are, and they're seven and one on the
21:33
Speaker 1: season right now and a great, great start for the
21:36
Speaker 1: lumin Nation girls. So fun to be covering the Lady
21:39
Speaker 1: Blackhawks and watching them play. They have a lot of great,
21:42
Speaker 1: great players. Lyndon Christian only had one game this whole week.
21:46
Speaker 1: It was a sixty one to twenty eight win over
21:48
Speaker 1: Sea Home on Friday Night. They remain undefeated at five
21:51
Speaker 1: and oh on the season, and Lyndon went four and
21:55
Speaker 1: oh this week just an incredible week, very very busy.
21:59
Speaker 1: You know, four games in six days, that's really tough
22:02
Speaker 1: to do. Seventy three to thirty four over Lakewood, forty
22:05
Speaker 1: nine to thirty two over Bellevue Christian, close game there,
22:09
Speaker 1: Bellevue Christian. Pretty darn good, seventy five thirty eight over Ferndale,
22:13
Speaker 1: and fifty two to twenty seven over Stanwood. I was
22:15
Speaker 1: at that game against Stanwood, and I'd watched Stanwood earlier
22:19
Speaker 1: in the year play against Seahome and Ferndale. Watched them
22:21
Speaker 1: on film, and the one thing that really stood out
22:24
Speaker 1: about the Spartans was how good they are defensively, and
22:28
Speaker 1: they would hold teams to single digits by halftime, and
22:31
Speaker 1: this was right, this was happening regularly. So I was
22:33
Speaker 1: really excited to see how they would do against Linden.
22:36
Speaker 1: Linden struggled a little bit in the very beginning, but
22:39
Speaker 1: then they kind of, you know, got on their stride
22:41
Speaker 1: and everything was kind of catching up and they did
22:43
Speaker 1: just fine and nearly double them up. So that's just
22:46
Speaker 1: Lynden basketball for you. So Linden Alliance eight to o
22:49
Speaker 1: right now on the season, Let's take a look at
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Speaker 1: four five six seven. And then with looking at the
23:24
Speaker 1: stat Leaders now and there's some pretty impressive numbers here
23:28
Speaker 1: at the at points per game, we actually have a
23:30
Speaker 1: tie at first place with Rebecca Suarez of Mount Baker
23:34
Speaker 1: and Finleyparture of Lindon are each averaging twenty one point
23:38
Speaker 1: one points a game, which is an incredible number. What's
23:41
Speaker 1: even more incredible is there are both sophomores, so we
23:44
Speaker 1: really excited for the future of those two rebounds per game.
23:48
Speaker 1: Grace Dahoague of Nooksack Valley eighteen rebounds a game. Incredible
23:53
Speaker 1: to see. She had a game a little while ago
23:56
Speaker 1: where I think she had like twenty three rebounds or
23:59
Speaker 1: something like that. Just super impressive and uh yeah, just
24:04
Speaker 1: one of those players that came off the bench last
24:07
Speaker 1: year and was what a what a luxury to have.
24:10
Speaker 1: But now she is the center, she's the main player
24:13
Speaker 1: in the post down there for the for the Pioneers,
24:15
Speaker 1: and and she's been dominating so far. I mean, I
24:17
Speaker 1: think she's probably had a double double in every single
24:20
Speaker 1: game this year, which is incredible. A sis per game.
24:24
Speaker 1: We have a new leader. It's Lexi Robbins of Squalkum.
24:27
Speaker 1: Just a sophomore, but a really dynamic player, ball handler
24:31
Speaker 1: as a point guard has a lot of options since
24:34
Speaker 1: she gets the balls to the open player and and
24:37
Speaker 1: and uh she is going to be another She's another sophomore,
24:41
Speaker 1: gonna be a great, great player to watch over the
24:43
Speaker 1: years and uh, really really exciting. She she's you know,
24:48
Speaker 1: it's there's a few players that if you say, you know,
24:50
Speaker 1: if you had a race with the ball in your
24:52
Speaker 1: hand and you had to dribble from one one side
24:54
Speaker 1: of the court to the other and then come back,
24:57
Speaker 1: she might be the one that could win that. There's
24:59
Speaker 1: some really fast players with the ball. She's one of them.
25:02
Speaker 1: A lot of fun to watch. Steals per game, No
25:05
Speaker 1: surprise here, lumin Nation Gemma James seven point three steals
25:09
Speaker 1: a game. Incredible. She's had multiple games with over ten
25:13
Speaker 1: steals a game. Again, that's that lem Nation defense that
25:16
Speaker 1: just they just swarm you, but she she sits back
25:19
Speaker 1: and she almost like bits you into a passing and
25:21
Speaker 1: then she just jumps it and takes the ball out
25:23
Speaker 1: of mid air. Really fun to watch. Blocks per game
25:26
Speaker 1: Aspen Barge of Seahome two point three blocks a game.
25:30
Speaker 1: I don't know if she's had a game yet where
25:31
Speaker 1: she didn't have a block. Very very dominant inside six
25:35
Speaker 1: foot one and just really good timing. You know, she
25:39
Speaker 1: doesn't foul a lot. She blocks a lot of shots
25:42
Speaker 1: and she knows exactly you know, it's a unique skill
25:46
Speaker 1: that And last year I saw it. She played very
25:49
Speaker 1: limited minutes, but she would she would do that every
25:51
Speaker 1: once in a while. I saw them a lot in
25:53
Speaker 1: the district tournament down to Mount Vernon and and I'm
25:57
Speaker 1: seeing them that she's playing a lot more now, starting
26:00
Speaker 1: at center and with all the graduation that you know,
26:03
Speaker 1: Seehome was hit with and she's just been having a great,
26:06
Speaker 1: great year. She went eight for ten shooting against against
26:09
Speaker 1: Lennon Christian, which is really hard to do against that defense.
26:12
Speaker 1: So she gets that offense going to with the defense,
26:15
Speaker 1: She's going to be a big time player to People
26:18
Speaker 1: are gonna have to be looking out for field goal
26:21
Speaker 1: percentage sixty point six percent from the floor. That's Rebecca
26:25
Speaker 1: Sores of Mount Baker and I tell you what, they're
26:28
Speaker 1: not all put backs and layans. She is four for
26:31
Speaker 1: five on three pointers. That's incredible, which tells me one thing.
26:35
Speaker 1: She might need to shoot more three pointers, but incredible
26:39
Speaker 1: numbers there so fun to watch. I haven't seen her
26:42
Speaker 1: in person yet. I am going there tonight to watch
26:45
Speaker 1: her play, So I'm really really excited about that three
26:49
Speaker 1: point percentage. Amelia Koning of Meridian, she has hit fifty
26:54
Speaker 1: percent of her three point shots. I believe she's six
26:56
Speaker 1: for twelve on the year. Like like I said, Suarez
26:59
Speaker 1: is four five, but she hasn't had enough attempts to
27:01
Speaker 1: qualify here. But Amelia Coning from Meridia and she is
27:05
Speaker 1: a sharpshooter, especially from the corner, and you always got
27:07
Speaker 1: to watch out for her. And then free throw percentage.
27:10
Speaker 1: Brooklyn Fuller of Meridian, the Seahome point guard or Seahome
27:14
Speaker 1: Senior point guard still at one hundred percent. She is
27:18
Speaker 1: thirteen for thirteen. That is incredible. She is so much
27:23
Speaker 1: fun to watch, and out of all these names, I
27:25
Speaker 1: think she's the only senior that I just that I've
27:27
Speaker 1: listed here so that I've named off for this for
27:30
Speaker 1: the stat leaders, and uh so that that's kind of
27:33
Speaker 1: fun too, knowing that there's gonna be so many of
27:35
Speaker 1: these great players coming back. But Brooklyn Fuller one hundred
27:37
Speaker 1: percent at the foul line. That is amazing. And you
27:41
Speaker 1: love to have that in your with your point guard too,
27:43
Speaker 1: because late in games that you're trying to get the
27:45
Speaker 1: ball to and if they're going to be fouling, uh
27:48
Speaker 1: then it all works out pretty well. So that's girls basketball.
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29:12
Speaker 1: them right now one in five on the season, which
29:14
Speaker 1: is kind of surprising, but some of these losses have
29:17
Speaker 1: been really really close. They're a very very good team.
29:20
Speaker 1: They lost to Meridian fifty two to forty five in
29:23
Speaker 1: the game that they were up early, but Meridian came
29:26
Speaker 1: back late to take that one. Then they lost to
29:28
Speaker 1: Lake with sixty one fifty six in a game where
29:31
Speaker 1: they were down early and they were starting to come back.
29:33
Speaker 1: They just kind of ran out of time there. So
29:36
Speaker 1: squalk them. You know, they're really really fun to watch.
29:40
Speaker 1: They got a lot of they got a lot of shooters.
29:42
Speaker 1: They just don't have the big time post presence Ezra Nichols,
29:46
Speaker 1: Jackson Hoefer. Those guys can play inside, but they're not
29:49
Speaker 1: your traditional you know, six five six six kids and so.
29:53
Speaker 1: But they've got you know, the schedule has been pretty
29:56
Speaker 1: loaded up front, so you know, in a way, I'm
29:59
Speaker 1: not really surprised at the record. I am a little bit,
30:02
Speaker 1: but some of those were really really close. Blaine right
30:05
Speaker 1: now two and five. They had a rough week this week,
30:07
Speaker 1: lost to Burlington Edison seventy nine to forty seven, and
30:11
Speaker 1: then a similar score to Meridian seventy five forty four,
30:14
Speaker 1: and it seems like, man, they played pretty well. I
30:16
Speaker 1: was at that game at Meridian and they they can
30:19
Speaker 1: hang with teams, but they always have like that one
30:21
Speaker 1: bad quarter, and boy, you just can't have that in
30:24
Speaker 1: this conference. There's just too many good teams right now,
30:27
Speaker 1: and Blaine's sitting at two and five. They got some
30:29
Speaker 1: good players, they got a good inside outside presence with
30:32
Speaker 1: Abdual Kanaji down low, Josiah Weed outside, ky Kerwin can
30:36
Speaker 1: handle the ball. So there's there's some good things to
30:40
Speaker 1: like here. But it's been it's been tough. You know.
30:44
Speaker 1: They kind of ended the year rough last year, and
30:46
Speaker 1: they also graduated a lot of players, so that kind
30:49
Speaker 1: of double where me, you bring in Chas Cock to
30:51
Speaker 1: be the head coach, and I tell you what, he
30:53
Speaker 1: is coaching his butt off on the sideline, you know, always,
30:57
Speaker 1: you know, directing his kids. He's a fantastic coach. And
30:59
Speaker 1: I think think that you know, if he stays with it,
31:02
Speaker 1: which I know he will, Uh, they're gonna, you know,
31:05
Speaker 1: they're gonna turn the things around here pretty quickly. Seehome
31:08
Speaker 1: on the season is three and four. They had they
31:11
Speaker 1: had a they went zho and too this week, but
31:13
Speaker 1: they played pretty well. I actually saw them both times.
31:17
Speaker 1: Is just the way that it kind of turned out.
31:18
Speaker 1: They were at Mount Baker earlier on the week they
31:20
Speaker 1: lost seventy one fifty three, but then they played a
31:23
Speaker 1: really close game against Lennon Christian, which is man not
31:27
Speaker 1: a lot of teams can say that they only lost
31:29
Speaker 1: sixty nine to fifty eight, And what what I What
31:33
Speaker 1: I loved about that is that man, they only had
31:35
Speaker 1: like six or seven guys that were available, and they
31:38
Speaker 1: just played so hard and they hung with the links
31:41
Speaker 1: and that that tells me a lot about just their
31:43
Speaker 1: desire to to play as hard as possible. And Brad
31:47
Speaker 1: Jackson's an amazing coach. So, uh, three and four on
31:49
Speaker 1: the season. It's gonna be a rough year. You know,
31:51
Speaker 1: you got like three or four of your of your
31:54
Speaker 1: main guys that are injured right now. We'll see who's
31:57
Speaker 1: available to come back soon. You never know, it could
31:59
Speaker 1: be in January coming around the corner. I'd like see
32:02
Speaker 1: Cole Terrell come back. That'd be awesome, and a few
32:05
Speaker 1: of these other players that are banged up. We'll have
32:07
Speaker 1: to see what happens going forward. Ferndale right now is
32:10
Speaker 1: four and four on the season, but they had a
32:14
Speaker 1: couple of big wins this week. It beats Mary's Will
32:16
Speaker 1: Pilchuck sixty four to thirty one. That's a huge win,
32:19
Speaker 1: sixty three to forty nine over Oak Harbor, and then
32:22
Speaker 1: lost a close one to London fifty six forty four.
32:25
Speaker 1: So Ferndale's they've if you kind of looked at it
32:30
Speaker 1: and said who's played the hardest schedule so far. It
32:32
Speaker 1: could be Ferndale, a really tough non conference schedule, and
32:38
Speaker 1: and they've already you know, the in league, they've already
32:40
Speaker 1: played Linden and they're still right at five hundred. So
32:44
Speaker 1: that that that tells me quite a bit. That's a
32:47
Speaker 1: really good team with some big time length and all
32:51
Speaker 1: those tall guys in the middle. They're all really good players.
32:54
Speaker 1: I mean they I think they you know, they could
32:56
Speaker 1: end the season with three different players averaging double digits,
32:59
Speaker 1: which not a lot of teams could say that. So
33:02
Speaker 1: pretty impressed, Pretty impressive to see what the Golden Eagles
33:04
Speaker 1: are doing right now. You just you look, just look
33:07
Speaker 1: at them from two years ago and how much they've
33:09
Speaker 1: improved every you know, every step of the way if
33:12
Speaker 1: you even want to look at it, like every month. Uh,
33:14
Speaker 1: it's just been a great, great improvement. So really great
33:17
Speaker 1: to see there. The Knuxack Valley Pioneers had a rough week,
33:21
Speaker 1: ended with a good win, though they lost earlier to
33:24
Speaker 1: Mount Vernon sixty three fifty eight close game. They lost
33:27
Speaker 1: a Siegel Woolley seventy eight to seventy in the game
33:30
Speaker 1: that came down to free throws at the end. But
33:32
Speaker 1: then they turn around and they beat Lemy Nation fifty
33:34
Speaker 1: six to fifty. An exciting game that I was at.
33:38
Speaker 1: Lemon Nation was up by ten in the third quarter.
33:40
Speaker 1: Nuxac Valley just kept chipping away and tried to go
33:44
Speaker 1: down size. They had a little bit of a height
33:45
Speaker 1: advantage there, so they took that. You know, they took
33:48
Speaker 1: advantage of that and they were able to pull out
33:50
Speaker 1: the win fifty six to fifty. They've been without Brady
33:52
Speaker 1: Ackerman all week. Who uh, you know, he's just got
33:55
Speaker 1: a little bit of a hamstring thing going. So but
33:59
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll be find play once they come back
34:01
Speaker 1: from the break and they'll they'll be ready to go.
34:04
Speaker 1: So that'll be a huge addition literally and figuratively when
34:10
Speaker 1: they get him back into the lineup. A guy that's
34:12
Speaker 1: been starting basically at center since first game freshman year.
34:16
Speaker 1: So but I tell you what, Lance Van Berkham has
34:19
Speaker 1: been playing great in his absence. You know, he's he's
34:22
Speaker 1: he's usually the first get off the bench and take
34:24
Speaker 1: you know, going in for Ackerman and and bruising down low.
34:27
Speaker 1: But boy, he's he's been really doing well offensively, getting
34:31
Speaker 1: his rebounds, he hits his foul shots. So uh, it's
34:35
Speaker 1: kind of nice to see, you know, another kid get
34:38
Speaker 1: more minutes and then take advantage of it. And of course,
34:42
Speaker 1: you know, we saw him on the football field and
34:44
Speaker 1: what he can do, and he's a great, great competitor,
34:46
Speaker 1: So not surprised. There the Pioneers four and four on
34:49
Speaker 1: the season. Right now, Mount Baker is four and three.
34:52
Speaker 1: Picked up that huge win against see him. I was
34:55
Speaker 1: at that game. One thing I really like about Mount
34:57
Speaker 1: Baker is that they're starting five. I mean it is
35:01
Speaker 1: a twenty percent chance for all five of them of
35:04
Speaker 1: who's going to be the high score that game. You
35:07
Speaker 1: just never know. And that's that makes it tough for
35:09
Speaker 1: defenses because you can't really key on one guy. I mean,
35:12
Speaker 1: Jordan Bailey can go off at the point guard. He
35:15
Speaker 1: shoots a really high percentage. He's he's a really dynamic player.
35:18
Speaker 1: Carter Hill is an amazing shooter, has been starting day
35:21
Speaker 1: one since he was a freshman. Darius Gilstrap can take
35:24
Speaker 1: anybody off the dribble, he can jump out of the gym,
35:27
Speaker 1: he can shoot it. Luke Smith is just steady as ever,
35:30
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden you look and he's got
35:31
Speaker 1: like fifteen points every single game, it seems like. And
35:34
Speaker 1: kel Riard and at six foot five has got some
35:36
Speaker 1: great post moves and he really took over in that
35:39
Speaker 1: game against Seom, had a big, big game there and
35:43
Speaker 1: he was like twenty six points or something like that,
35:46
Speaker 1: something big. And so it's there's a lot of things
35:50
Speaker 1: to really like here. They did lose to Brillington Edison
35:52
Speaker 1: later in the week, seventy seven to fifty six Burlington Edison.
35:56
Speaker 1: Is They're they're playing really well right now and I'm
35:59
Speaker 1: I'm really curious to see when they play against Lyndon
36:02
Speaker 1: because coming into the season I wouldn't have thought that,
36:04
Speaker 1: but boy, they got some good players. They got that
36:06
Speaker 1: six foot nine kid who you know, in the past
36:09
Speaker 1: was just a tall kid that wouldn't put up too
36:11
Speaker 1: many shots, he'd get into foul trouble. This year he's
36:14
Speaker 1: really you know, he's blocking shots, he's getting rebounds, he's
36:16
Speaker 1: putting up twenty points or so a game. So that's
36:20
Speaker 1: really helped them down low. So we'll see kind of
36:24
Speaker 1: how that goes moving forward. Looking at Bellingham. Bellingham they
36:29
Speaker 1: went one in two this week. They entered the week undefeated,
36:33
Speaker 1: at three and oh, so now they're at four and two.
36:35
Speaker 1: I saw them early at Lyndon Christian Lendy. Christian took
36:37
Speaker 1: it to him a little bit. Eighty to forty was
36:39
Speaker 1: the final there. But then they picked up a great
36:43
Speaker 1: win against Annacordus seventy three to sixty four. That was
36:46
Speaker 1: a huge win against a really good Seahawk team, So
36:49
Speaker 1: that was good to see it. And then they lost a
36:51
Speaker 1: close one to Marysville Getchell sixty nine to fifty seven.
36:55
Speaker 1: I saw the Chargers play against Squalkum earlier in the
36:59
Speaker 1: year and they are very, very good. They got a
37:02
Speaker 1: point guard that is really dynamic and he does not
37:05
Speaker 1: miss and he's really quick. So Bellingham, you know, kind
37:09
Speaker 1: of a rough week. But Joe Harward Man he is
37:14
Speaker 1: he's uh, he's putting up some big time numbers. And
37:17
Speaker 1: just that last game, I think he had something like
37:19
Speaker 1: twenty seven points and sixteen rebounds and just a junior.
37:21
Speaker 1: So yeah, just a guy that can jump out of
37:25
Speaker 1: the gym and just out athlete people and really fun
37:28
Speaker 1: to watch, much like he does on the football field
37:31
Speaker 1: as well. So Bellingham four and two right now, Bayhawk's
37:34
Speaker 1: looking pretty good there. A couple of losses against some
37:37
Speaker 1: big time teams. Meridian five and one on the season.
37:41
Speaker 1: Their only loss came to see Home a couple of
37:43
Speaker 1: weeks ago with a game that I was at, which
37:45
Speaker 1: you know, you look back now and you go, man,
37:47
Speaker 1: what happened in that game? But seem just they just
37:50
Speaker 1: play after their competition. They you know, they are really
37:53
Speaker 1: good at that. And Meridian that's their only loss so
37:57
Speaker 1: far this year. This week they beat squaalk On fifty
37:59
Speaker 1: two to four five, and then they beat Blaine seventy
38:02
Speaker 1: five forty four. I was at that game. Meridian's just
38:06
Speaker 1: so well coached, and you know even you know, I mean,
38:09
Speaker 1: Shane Stacey's been there for twenty years. He really knows
38:12
Speaker 1: what he's doing. And then you look and you got
38:14
Speaker 1: Rob Gray sitting as an assistant coach. That's almost not fair.
38:18
Speaker 1: He's Mount Baker's all time leading, uh you know, coaching
38:22
Speaker 1: leader and wins and and my goodness, those guys together
38:26
Speaker 1: have seen a lot of basketball. They coached against each
38:29
Speaker 1: other forever, so there's a that's a really unique thing.
38:34
Speaker 1: And plus they got that great one two punch with
38:36
Speaker 1: Talon Jenkins and Jagger Fife, and you know it's It's
38:39
Speaker 1: one of those things where like, well, if one of
38:41
Speaker 1: them's off, the other one will carry him. But so
38:43
Speaker 1: far they've both been on every game, so that's when
38:48
Speaker 1: that happens. They're really tough to beat. So Meridian five
38:51
Speaker 1: and one on the Year looking really really good right now.
38:53
Speaker 1: Let me Nation eight and one on the Year played
38:56
Speaker 1: four games this past week. Beat Friday Harbor Night three
39:00
Speaker 1: to forty nine, and they were thinking, man, can we
39:03
Speaker 1: hit one hundred? Well they did the next game against
39:05
Speaker 1: Derrington one hundred to thirty five. And incredible performance. Offensive performance.
39:10
Speaker 1: Those guys can just shoot the lights out. It's unbelievable.
39:15
Speaker 1: Great team basketball too. You could tell those guys know
39:18
Speaker 1: each other's game plan. I mean, they know exactly where
39:21
Speaker 1: they're gonna be all the time. So fun to watch.
39:24
Speaker 1: Then they beat Grace Academy seventy three to twenty six,
39:27
Speaker 1: and then you know, lost a tough one to the
39:29
Speaker 1: Nuxak Valley Pioneers, and you know there's there's been a
39:32
Speaker 1: couple of players out for elimination, which is which is tough,
39:34
Speaker 1: Carson Reeve and oh man, there's another player, Tony Abrams.
39:41
Speaker 1: He's been out too. And these are great players. But
39:44
Speaker 1: you know, you kind of have a limited roster going
39:46
Speaker 1: in and then there's a couple more guys that you're
39:48
Speaker 1: that you're losing some two starters. That's really really tough,
39:52
Speaker 1: but they're still putting up pretty good numbers. Hopefully those
39:54
Speaker 1: guys will be back some injuries, some sickness, stuff like that,
39:58
Speaker 1: come back after the new year, be one hundred percent,
40:01
Speaker 1: because I think Elimination's got every single thing that they
40:04
Speaker 1: need to make a deep run in the state playoffs
40:07
Speaker 1: and I'm talking bring home the big Gold Bowl. I'm
40:09
Speaker 1: talking big time. They are so unique, so fun to watch,
40:14
Speaker 1: and a lot of underclassmen too, So that's kind of scary.
40:17
Speaker 1: Elimination eight and one on the year. You know, you
40:21
Speaker 1: could say technically nine and one when they played when
40:23
Speaker 1: they beat Concrete in the first game, they sent over
40:25
Speaker 1: their JV to play them and still beat them. So
40:28
Speaker 1: I don't know if that counts on the varsity record,
40:30
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna say they're eight and one because the
40:32
Speaker 1: varsity team has played nine games, so Lindon six to oh.
40:37
Speaker 1: Now on the year, they picked up three wins over
40:39
Speaker 1: the week, but none of them in really dominant fashion.
40:42
Speaker 1: But they just get the job done over and over again,
40:44
Speaker 1: sixty six to fifty five over Lakewood, fifty six to
40:48
Speaker 1: forty four against Ferndale, and fifty seven fifty one against
40:52
Speaker 1: stan Wood. So you know, these games are all pretty
40:54
Speaker 1: close games, there, they are. It's just it's a different
41:01
Speaker 1: team than we've been used to. Yes, they are the
41:03
Speaker 1: three time state champions, but there's a lot of new
41:05
Speaker 1: faces out there, still kind of learning how to play
41:08
Speaker 1: with each other. And they haven't had, you know, a
41:11
Speaker 1: big huge blowout win, but they haven't lost yet. I mean,
41:14
Speaker 1: they are just playing good, solid basketball and uh, you know,
41:19
Speaker 1: they don't get too high, they don't get too low.
41:21
Speaker 1: Much as a reflection from their head coach, Brian Roper,
41:24
Speaker 1: who's seen it all. And and my goodness, you know,
41:29
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that I've known forever, but
41:31
Speaker 1: I'd never really spent much time talking to him. I
41:34
Speaker 1: got to talk to him a practice and he's just
41:36
Speaker 1: a just a just a sweetheart of a man. I mean,
41:39
Speaker 1: just a gentleman that is, you know, very very generous
41:42
Speaker 1: with his time, and and you know, it's everything that
41:45
Speaker 1: I've heard about him, so it's really really cool. And boy,
41:48
Speaker 1: he can coach some basketball Lynden six and oh on
41:51
Speaker 1: the season and looking to keep doing pretty well from
41:55
Speaker 1: here on now. Lyndon Christian seven OH on the year,
41:58
Speaker 1: and uh, they've been doing it in really dynamic fashion.
42:02
Speaker 1: Went won two games this week, eighty to forty over Bellingham.
42:06
Speaker 1: I was at that game. You know, coming into that game,
42:08
Speaker 1: it was a couple of undefeated teams, and after one
42:10
Speaker 1: quarter it was like, my goodness, Lennon Christian is legit
42:15
Speaker 1: and doing it against a very good Bellingham team and
42:18
Speaker 1: doubling them up. It's very very impressive. I saw them
42:21
Speaker 1: again against Seahome sixty nine fifty eight win on the
42:25
Speaker 1: road in a in a game that you know, they
42:29
Speaker 1: struggled a little bit shooting, but boy, when they really
42:33
Speaker 1: needed a three point shot, they would knock it down.
42:35
Speaker 1: They got so many different guys that can hit that
42:37
Speaker 1: open shot, and they play so well, they swing it
42:39
Speaker 1: around so fast, and it's just, you know, it's they
42:45
Speaker 1: do everything everybody else does, but they do it just
42:47
Speaker 1: a little quicker than everybody else, and that's the big,
42:50
Speaker 1: big key, and especially in high school sports, and it's
42:53
Speaker 1: really amazing to watch them play, especially up close, and
42:56
Speaker 1: it's just it's really eye opening because it's fantastic team
42:59
Speaker 1: basketball and the links are their links are looking really
43:03
Speaker 1: really good right now, and I'm really excited to see
43:05
Speaker 1: what their future holds. So let's take a look at
43:08
Speaker 1: the stat leaders now. Stat leaders again brought to you
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Speaker 1: by Acceleration Driving School in Lyndon. The phone number is
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Speaker 1: three six zero seven four six four five six seven,
43:18
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go over some of these names, the
43:20
Speaker 1: stat leaders for boys basketball and again some incredible numbers
43:24
Speaker 1: here points per game leader right now, Gannon Dykstra, the
43:28
Speaker 1: senior guard from Lynden Christian twenty two point nine points
43:32
Speaker 1: per game. That's an incredible number. He is a boy.
43:37
Speaker 1: He is not shy about shooting. If he sees something,
43:40
Speaker 1: he will take it and he is a great, great shot.
43:43
Speaker 1: He's got a major vertical too. I don't know exactly
43:46
Speaker 1: what it is. If he's listening, he could send me
43:48
Speaker 1: a message, but I'm gonna guess it's around thirty six
43:52
Speaker 1: to thirty eight inch vertical. It's something crazy. It's pretty
43:56
Speaker 1: fun to watch him play basketball. He does a lot
43:58
Speaker 1: of other things to a lot of us. A lot
44:00
Speaker 1: of rebounds, a lot of steals. Speaking of rebounds, rebounds
44:04
Speaker 1: per game. Is the leader is Caden Veldman, also from
44:07
Speaker 1: Lyndon Christian. Just a sophomore. Ten point four rebounds a game.
44:11
Speaker 1: Boy he is by the time he becomes a senior.
44:15
Speaker 1: It's gonna be scary to watch what he does. And
44:18
Speaker 1: and I know over at Lyndon Christian that keep meticulous
44:21
Speaker 1: records and rebounds, you know, career rebounds. And I don't
44:25
Speaker 1: know who the leader is. I got a few names
44:28
Speaker 1: in mind, you know, Isaac Remer maybe or some guys
44:31
Speaker 1: like that. But I tell you what, Cayden Veldman could
44:34
Speaker 1: be pretty close. And it couldn't even be Jeremiah Wright,
44:36
Speaker 1: who's up there. I'm not quite sure, but but Caateen
44:39
Speaker 1: Veldman could get close to that by the time he graduates.
44:42
Speaker 1: Just a sophomore right now, a sis per game. It's
44:45
Speaker 1: Jerome Toby junior from lem Me Nation. Six point six
44:48
Speaker 1: assist per game. He's and he could score the basketball too,
44:52
Speaker 1: But boy, he's really good at leading his players to
44:55
Speaker 1: the bucket. And his players know exactly where you know
44:59
Speaker 1: to be with and Jerome has the ball in his hands,
45:01
Speaker 1: and so that makes for a really exciting team. And there,
45:04
Speaker 1: like I said, they're just so fun to watch and
45:05
Speaker 1: they rack up the assists and and a lot of
45:09
Speaker 1: guys do I mean, Dyson Edwards on that team is
45:11
Speaker 1: really high too on assists. So a lot of guys
45:14
Speaker 1: sharing the ball there and makes for really good basketball
45:18
Speaker 1: steals per game. No, no surprise here, Marcus Nixon four
45:22
Speaker 1: and a half steals per game the senior as qualkum,
45:26
Speaker 1: excuse me. He's just he's so quick and U like
45:31
Speaker 1: just dynamically quick with his hands, his feet. He plays
45:35
Speaker 1: great defense all the time, and it seems like every
45:39
Speaker 1: single game. I mean he's you know, he's got like
45:41
Speaker 1: five seals or something like that, and it's uh, you know,
45:45
Speaker 1: very very and he can guard like all five positions.
45:50
Speaker 1: And that's the scary thing too, is you get a
45:52
Speaker 1: guy that's that athletic, that is, you know, jumping center
45:56
Speaker 1: and then can guard your point guard. Uh, that is
45:59
Speaker 1: prettyish and it's a lot of fun to watch him play.
46:01
Speaker 1: Of course, he'll be going on to Eastern Washington University
46:04
Speaker 1: to be playing safety on the football team, so and
46:07
Speaker 1: I don't think he played it down to safety when
46:09
Speaker 1: he played high school football. So's the that's the unique
46:12
Speaker 1: thing is you could take a guy and you can
46:14
Speaker 1: kind of see what he could do and fit him
46:16
Speaker 1: into your program. And that's kind of what they do
46:18
Speaker 1: on the basketball court as well. We can you can
46:22
Speaker 1: jump ball, you can play defense, you can shoot threes,
46:24
Speaker 1: you can drive to the hoop, you can make your
46:26
Speaker 1: free throws. He can do it all. So really fun
46:28
Speaker 1: to watch their block shots per game. A couple guys
46:31
Speaker 1: here now at two point three blocks per game. We
46:34
Speaker 1: have a tie between Caden Veldman, again we've talked about
46:37
Speaker 1: him from Lyndon Christian and Jack Stapleton, the senior from Lyndon.
46:41
Speaker 1: So Stapleton is a little little bit taller, he's about
46:44
Speaker 1: six foot six, Veldman at six foot four, But yeah,
46:49
Speaker 1: a couple guys that are, you know, huge. You know,
46:53
Speaker 1: they do so much for their teams. And both teams
46:56
Speaker 1: are undefeated, so that just tells you how important it
46:58
Speaker 1: is to have that big guy down low and doing
47:01
Speaker 1: all that dirty work. Speaking of dirty work, field goal percentage,
47:04
Speaker 1: Brady Ackerman at eighty one and a half percent now
47:08
Speaker 1: on the season. He did miss this last week, but
47:10
Speaker 1: he still has enough attempts to qualify, so he's still
47:13
Speaker 1: leading there. Eighty one and a half percent. Nipping on
47:16
Speaker 1: his heels though is Caden Veldman, who's like right around
47:19
Speaker 1: seventy two percent. So when Ackerman gets back, he'll just
47:23
Speaker 1: have to keep making those shots and you just keep
47:25
Speaker 1: backing in turn around use the glass boom and it's
47:29
Speaker 1: kind of his staple there. So three point percentage leader
47:32
Speaker 1: is Talan Jenkins from Meridian forty five percent, and he's
47:37
Speaker 1: shot a lot of threes, but he's knocking him down.
47:39
Speaker 1: He can get hot, especially late in games, which is
47:43
Speaker 1: really really fun to see. And what's unique too is
47:46
Speaker 1: at the high school level, it's rare where your tallest
47:49
Speaker 1: guy is an outside threat. And Talon Jenkins, who was
47:52
Speaker 1: a legit six foot six, can really shoot it from
47:56
Speaker 1: the outside, very effortless touch and just you know, very
48:02
Speaker 1: it's just a very smooth shot, makes it look easy.
48:05
Speaker 1: Like I said, forty five percent on the season so far,
48:08
Speaker 1: that's really hitting your shots. And at the free throw line,
48:11
Speaker 1: how about Jonah Brolowski have Ferndale ninety point five percent,
48:17
Speaker 1: so and that's a really tough thing because he's about
48:20
Speaker 1: six foot six as well, So you go download to
48:23
Speaker 1: him and you follow him. I mean, that's an automatic
48:25
Speaker 1: two points right there. Jonah Brolowski ninety point five percent.
48:29
Speaker 1: If that's shooting in the NBA, you're talking top five
48:32
Speaker 1: right now. So he's just got incredible touch for a
48:36
Speaker 1: guy his size. And no surprise too that he can
48:40
Speaker 1: shoot it a little bit outside and when he takes
48:41
Speaker 1: his threes, they're usually straight on, so he's got a
48:44
Speaker 1: he's just got great vision with that straight on shot,
48:48
Speaker 1: and he does it at the free throw line. He
48:49
Speaker 1: does a three point line as well. And Jonah Brolowski
48:53
Speaker 1: leading those Golden Eagles in scoring right now, and just
48:56
Speaker 1: a really fun player to watch. If you haven't seen
48:58
Speaker 1: Ferndale basketball, you go check them out and watch number
49:02
Speaker 1: one there, Joan de Berlowski. He's a great, great player.
49:07
Speaker 1: Speaking of great players, let's go to the players of
49:09
Speaker 1: the week that are sponsored by Anytime Fitness. That's Anytime
49:12
Speaker 1: Fitness in Ferndale, Linden North and Linden, So you're talking
49:16
Speaker 1: the one there right next to Edieline's Derry and Ferndale,
49:20
Speaker 1: and there's one on the corner of pol In Hand
49:22
Speaker 1: again and then kind of northern London in that in
49:25
Speaker 1: the main you know, the main mini mall area there
49:29
Speaker 1: across the street from the Linden Fairground, so all great,
49:33
Speaker 1: great places and huge sponsors to walk in preps over
49:36
Speaker 1: the last couple of years and really really grateful for them.
49:39
Speaker 1: They sponsor both these players of the week and on
49:41
Speaker 1: the girls side, the girls player of the week is
49:44
Speaker 1: Finley Parcher from Linden, just a sophomore. But boy, they've
49:48
Speaker 1: played some great, great basketball. They went four and oh
49:51
Speaker 1: this week and she was a huge part in all
49:54
Speaker 1: four wins. There's nothing that she cannot do on the
49:59
Speaker 1: basketball court, you know. And what's what's great too, is
50:02
Speaker 1: she does all that stuff, but then she'll knock down
50:04
Speaker 1: her free throws and she'll play great defense. And you
50:07
Speaker 1: know that game against Stanwood, I mean what was really
50:11
Speaker 1: unique because she had eight steals in that game and
50:13
Speaker 1: this was against a team, a Stanwood team that is
50:16
Speaker 1: legit and for her to do that that is really
50:20
Speaker 1: really unique and really awesome to see. And we were talking,
50:24
Speaker 1: I was talking earlier about players that you know that
50:26
Speaker 1: could race up and down the court with a basketball,
50:28
Speaker 1: like dribbling a basketball, who'd be the fastest player. She'd
50:30
Speaker 1: be up there too, So a lot of good things
50:32
Speaker 1: that she can do. So much fun to watch Finley
50:35
Speaker 1: Partcher from Lyndon is your Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball Player
50:38
Speaker 1: of the Week. On the boys side, we're gonna go
50:40
Speaker 1: out to Linden again. This time it's Brent Hepner, the
50:43
Speaker 1: senior forward who had led them to a three to
50:46
Speaker 1: zero record this week. And he's boy, he can just
50:52
Speaker 1: put on a show. He's just so fluent with everything,
50:56
Speaker 1: you know, just around. His touch around the hoop is fantastic,
51:01
Speaker 1: really good, can finish with either hand. And you know,
51:04
Speaker 1: I just I can't picture him ever, you know, getting
51:07
Speaker 1: a put back and missing it. It seems like he's
51:09
Speaker 1: always right there. He knows how to do the pump
51:12
Speaker 1: fakes extremely well to get his players to jump. He's
51:15
Speaker 1: just been doing it for so long. He's got great
51:16
Speaker 1: touch from the outside. He hits his foul shots. He's
51:19
Speaker 1: an unselfish player. He grabs rebounds and by the end
51:22
Speaker 1: of the game, no player is sweating more than him.
51:25
Speaker 1: I mean, he is working his tail off out there,
51:27
Speaker 1: so really really fun to see and such a great
51:31
Speaker 1: kid too. I mean, I just you know, I always
51:33
Speaker 1: it always brightens my day whenever I see him because
51:36
Speaker 1: I know he's gonna come over and say hi, and
51:38
Speaker 1: what just just a phenomenal kid, and whatever he wants
51:41
Speaker 1: to do after high school, he's going to be great
51:43
Speaker 1: at it. So really excited for him and this season
51:46
Speaker 1: and in his future as well. So Brent Hepner from Lyndon.
51:49
Speaker 1: He's your Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball Player of the Week.
51:53
Speaker 1: And at this point is when I usually look at
51:54
Speaker 1: the intriguing games to look for this week, And you
51:58
Speaker 1: know what I'm looking forward to this week. I'm looking
52:01
Speaker 1: forward to taking a little break, you know, no games
52:04
Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve or Christmas. I'll be able to spend
52:07
Speaker 1: time with my loved ones and and that'll be nice.
52:11
Speaker 1: Hopefully they remember who I am. That's that's a big,
52:14
Speaker 1: big key to all that. And yeah, just you know,
52:19
Speaker 1: trading gifts and having fun and eating some good food
52:22
Speaker 1: and and having some sparkling cider and oh man, it's
52:25
Speaker 1: going to be a blast. I'm excited. So hopefully everybody
52:29
Speaker 1: listened to this. I hope you all have a great holiday,
52:32
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, and we will talk to you on Christmas
52:37
Speaker 1: Eve when we release the next list. The next chunk
52:41
Speaker 1: of the list at the top one hundred countdown for football,
52:44
Speaker 1: So that'll just be that'll be tomorrow when that comes out,
52:48
Speaker 1: so on Christmas Eve, so hopefully you have fun with that.
52:52
Speaker 1: You'll have some stuff to listen to in the meantime,
52:54
Speaker 1: and until then, I will talk to you later. Did men,