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- 0:00This is Bellingham sophomore Kai Nelson and you're listening to the Walkom Preps podcast with
- 0:04Tyler and Ryland Gobeyhawks readings and Welcome into the Watcum Preps podcast. This is
- 0:26episode two hundred and fifty Spring Sports, that weekly wrap up. I'm Ryland
- 0:31Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson of Watcum Preps. Tyler,
- 0:35how we doing, dude? Great? You know two hundred and fifty
- 0:38I had the under I'll tell you that much. I this is. It's
- 0:43just nuts when you really think about it, but so cool and so glad
- 0:49that you got a hold of me on that sunny August day and twenty nineteen
- 0:57something like that. Yeah, and just said, hey, you want to
- 0:59do a fuck asked, hey, let's do it. Yeah, I see
- 1:02you're not doing that one now? You want to do one just you and
- 1:03me? And you're like, uh sure the way we went yeah, and
- 1:08I think at that point we'd only met twice in person, maybe yeah,
- 1:12probably, so yeah, Pretty, it's just crazy, and uh, it's
- 1:17been a lot of fun. And we've we've gone from uh, you know,
- 1:21three or four listeners to apparently a lot of people now. So it's
- 1:25all a good thing. Yeah, I think we're even at triple digits.
- 1:27The I think the thing that really like blows me away, Tyler, is
- 1:33the more we do this, the more random people are reaching out to you
- 1:37or yeah, you know, we talk about you and I talk about it.
- 1:41So many different things about Walkham County is Walkham County. They're it's tight
- 1:45knit. It's everybody knows each other. It's you know, everybody's kind of
- 1:49family in a way, you know what I mean, Like everybody loves each
- 1:53other up there. Sure you don't like that team because you always want to
- 1:56beat them, but at the end of the day, you're going to shake
- 1:57hands and you're going to be you know, neighbors, you know. And
- 2:00there are so many connections with parents that wait, you know, I'll go
- 2:04to a Ferndal game and there I see parents went to Belly and went to
- 2:07see Home, you know, went to Blaine. But they're all have kids
- 2:09that play at Ferndale. There's no you know what I mean, Like,
- 2:13it's just so crazy. The one of the one of the best, one
- 2:17of the few NFL players that have ever come from Wakham County. Where does
- 2:22his kid play? Right? Yeah, Yeah, exactly. His kid goes
- 2:28to Linden. Yeah, what's considered to be basically what their biggest rival.
- 2:31Yeah right, I mean, come on, like you know, but it's
- 2:36uh, it's really cool and it's been a lot of fun. I know
- 2:39way too much about Wakham County just in general now, Like you know,
- 2:44Tyler, I have a lot of stupid knowledge things that people go Why do
- 2:47you know that I could spin off all kinds of stuff about Wakham County right
- 2:51now that nobody cares about other than Walkham County people. Yeah, you know,
- 2:57well, and I guess people that even have connections to the Wakham County
- 3:00Tyler. As a matter of fact, you know that as we are recording
- 3:02this, you know that it's somebody's birthday from Wakam County. I have Josh
- 3:07Parsons. That's whose birthday it is is and I record this today. It's
- 3:12his birthday. Yeah, yeah, somebody that now. He and I interact
- 3:15every now and then on Facebook. He's kind of a funny guy. Yeah,
- 3:19kind of a funny I don't to give him too much credit, but
- 3:21yeah, it lives out in Colorado, I think, yes, and and
- 3:23but he went to Lennon Christian yep three Sports Star. Yeah. Yeah,
- 3:28so it's been really cool. It's been a lot of fun. And I
- 3:30mean, as far as I feel right now, I don't see a slowing
- 3:34down. But who knows, who knows where it's going to go. Because
- 3:38if this time last year you would have told me that we would have done
- 3:42a whole Winter Sports and now we're doing a Spring Sports, I'd have told
- 3:44you your nuts. Yeah, So for all I know, maybe we're doing
- 3:47even more, maybe we're doing last who knows what we're doing this time next
- 3:51year, but we're having a lot of fun doing it. And yeah,
- 3:53two hundred and fifty is a crazy number, it really is. But yeah,
- 3:57Tyler, So for two hundred and fifty, we went and we got
- 4:00a huge name for the intro. Actually, we got Ky Nelson, sophomore
- 4:05Bellingham baseball shortstop and pitcher. I got a feeling we're gonna talk about this
- 4:11guy a little bit because Bellingham had himself a pretty good game this week.
- 4:16Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, Well we don't give too much away,
- 4:19we'll talk about it. We need to give thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm.
- 4:24Kurt Mayberry Farm, fourth generation, family owned and operated Berry Farm committed to
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- 4:31them online at Kurtmayberry Farm dot com. That's Kurt with A C, M,
- 4:35A B E R R Y Farm dot com. Tyler, we've got
- 4:40track and field. We've got boys and girls. By the way, we've
- 4:44got girls tennis. We've got boys golf. We've got girls golf. We've
- 4:46got boys soccer. We've got fast pitch, we've got baseball. We've got
- 4:50players of the week and a look ahead at next week. So let's not
- 4:56waste any more time and let's get right into it. We will start with
- 5:00track and Field, which is brought to you by Staffer Insurance at nineteen o
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- 5:26F F E R Insurance dot com. Tyler. Everyone was back to running
- 5:30this week. You know it was spring break the week before, So the
- 5:34last podcast we talked about it was not a whole lot going on, but
- 5:39where there were some things, but everybody was back running this week. And
- 5:43then there was the Kashmir Invitational, which is a big one over in the
- 5:46central part of the state. Only two noon times numbers whatever you want to
- 5:51say this week. So we got a couple of things to talk about here,
- 5:55but overall, Tyler, what was going on this week there in track?
- 5:58Yeah, I went to a few different meet So I went out to
- 6:00Civic Stadium, saw Squalicum, Seahome and Linden racing there, and it was
- 6:06I guess it was perfect timing because I got there and I saw some people
- 6:10and they said, were you here when it was raining? And I was
- 6:12like, no, but you could tell it, but you could tell it
- 6:15had been raining, and so that could be really tricky, especially for like
- 6:18a lot of the earlier events like the hundred meters dashes early, you know,
- 6:21and running in the rain is not easy after you're doing like long jump
- 6:25or something like that. But yeah, I was out at that, and
- 6:29then the next day I was out at Lyndon Christian All five of the of
- 6:31the one a teams were out there, so that kind of gave you like
- 6:34a good look at you know, going ahead of you know, who could
- 6:39make it to the next round, stuff like that. So I always loved
- 6:41seeing those when kind of all the one A teams are together or all the
- 6:44two A teams are together, and just kind of get a good gauge of
- 6:47because I look, I usually look at it with the whole county, like
- 6:50we do with our leaders. We look at the whole county, and then
- 6:54you might not realize that there's a really good athlete in a certain event that's
- 6:58just a one A athlete there buried behind a bunch of two A runners or
- 7:00something like that, and then you see them shine at the one A event,
- 7:03and that's always really cool. So went out to that and uh,
- 7:09yeah I didn't go down to Cashmere. Uh, but there were some some
- 7:12good times there and and but yeah, it was it was pretty good.
- 7:16I saw Teagan Daughters from Squalicum got the new high time or the new low
- 7:21time, if you will, the best time, yeah, in the hundred
- 7:24meter dash at eleven seconds flat, which is just burning. I had I'd
- 7:29heard of this athlete quite a bit. I never saw him up close and
- 7:32personal saw him out at Civic Civic Stadium, and he is put together.
- 7:38I was like, I was, I think I was kind of surprised how
- 7:41tall he was. You think of a lot of sprinters, especially at the
- 7:45high school level, the you know, they're usually kind of smaller guys,
- 7:47maybe kind of compact. Yeah, right, and and he was, My
- 7:53goodness, he was probably six two sixty three, built really well, probably
- 7:56over two hundred pounds, that could just really move and and from what I
- 8:01was told, nicest guy in the world. So that's really cool. I'm
- 8:05thinking thinking intro, you know, coming up, because I think he could
- 8:09do some damage at State. And then also at the cashmir Invitational, Cole
- 8:13Lukes from Mount Baker High jumped five to ten, so that that ties the
- 8:18county high. But his trend right now is really good because every time I've
- 8:22seen him, he's he's at five four five six, five eight five ten
- 8:26and high jump is one of those events that you kind of just get better
- 8:30and better as the year goes on. I saw him play basketball, really
- 8:31good basketball player, so I'm not surprised at this jumping ability. I was
- 8:37able to take a really good picture of him a couple of weeks ago and
- 8:39use that as and he really he's got good form. There's no wasted motion
- 8:45and it's not like, well, everything's good except for he's not raising his
- 8:48feed or he's not arching his back enough. Like everything looks really good on
- 8:52his jump. So so that's that was that was really cool to see too.
- 8:56There's a couple other times that were bettered by the people that already held
- 8:58the high time, but uh, but nothing really crazy weather kind of put
- 9:05a damper on some of these times for the for the boys track and field,
- 9:07and uh on the on the girl's side, you know, same type
- 9:11of deal. And that's what's always cool is you go to these track and
- 9:13field events and it's always boys and girls together, so you're seeing all sorts
- 9:18of athletes all over the place. Sloan Dixon at Lyndon, she got the
- 9:22new high time the eight hundred meters. I think she got it by like
- 9:26ten seconds too, which is impressive. Uh. That happened at the Kashmir
- 9:31and Fight, and you know those bigger meets, and we talked about this
- 9:33last week where a lot of schools are competing. Sometimes you just your best,
- 9:39you put your best effort out there because you know, they always talk
- 9:43about like I could run really fast, but bears chasing me or you know
- 9:46whatever. Yeah, like if you're if you're running around the track by yourself,
- 9:48it's hard to have that that drive sometimes. But if you're racing against
- 9:52other really good you know runners and you're trying to catch them, all of
- 9:56a sudden, you're gonna put up a pr you know. And that's what
- 10:00happens in a lot of these events. Uh Bella Connell of Seahome, she
- 10:03beat the one hundred meters one hundred meter hurdles time by a full second fifteen
- 10:09point eighty one, which is which is crazy and that in that kind of
- 10:11race. And she was also involved in the four by one hundred relay her
- 10:16Madeline Hill, Alina Kraptsov and Jamiderok fifty point sixty nine. That's the new
- 10:22uh low time or best time if you won the four by one hundred meters.
- 10:26So uh so, yeah, there are some of these that are happening
- 10:31there, you know. There again, there's a few times, you know,
- 10:33Tabby de Young threw further in the shot this week, Kane Kate Shintaffer
- 10:35through further in the javelin they're just taking their distances and putting putting a few
- 10:41more feet to it or a few more interest to it, and and and
- 10:43that's and that's really impressive. It's funny because like if you look at all
- 10:46these times, you know, Nooksack Valley, who hasn't been put up huge
- 10:54team scores, but they have in the boys side the leader in the shot
- 10:58discus javelin and on the girl's side javelin. So you start going, man,
- 11:01they must have really good throwing coaches or you know what, You're starting
- 11:05to look at stuff like that. I mean, obviously, you know,
- 11:07Keen Coppinger, Joey Brown and Kate Shinteff are just awesome athletes and we've seen
- 11:11them do that do great things in multiple sports. So uh but it's just
- 11:16so fun to go out to these events. I love going out there.
- 11:18I'm plumped because I got my new hoodies. So I got four different I
- 11:22got well, I got five now different colors of the Walking Preps hoodies,
- 11:26so you won't see me in the exact same thing every single time on the
- 11:31Walking Prep spotted. And uh so yeah, I'm always trying to make sure
- 11:35that I'm not you know, if you know I got a bright ORANGEE one,
- 11:39but if Blaine's playing a non or another Walking County team, I'm not
- 11:43gonna wear because I don't want to show favoritism. So so yeah, I
- 11:46got a white one, bright orange, neon green, baby blue, and
- 11:50uh and then the red one that I've had. So pretty pretty, pretty
- 11:56fun. But yeah, I love going to these track and field events so
- 11:58much going on. Tell me this, Tyler, do we know who the
- 12:01who the throws coach is over there? Oh? Boy? I you know?
- 12:07Justin Brown? I think is he's He's a one of the assistant football
- 12:11coaches. Been there at Nuksack Valley for a long time. He's from Bellingham,
- 12:16played at Bellingham, played a lot of semi pro football. Really awesome
- 12:20guy. Uh And I see him sitting around a lot of you know,
- 12:24sitting at at the discus and and shot and stuff like that, so I
- 12:26would assume it's it's him. I know that coach Meyer has helped out in
- 12:31the javelin in years past. I think, Tyler Mitchell, who is you
- 12:37know? I want to say he won state maybe twice in the javelin for
- 12:41Nuiksack Valley back in the late nineties early two thousands. He went on to
- 12:46to play basketball at Central. He's a six to seven forward, really really
- 12:50good player. Awesome guy. I mean, the first time I ever did
- 12:56an interview for the Bellingham Harold, it was him and and he was a
- 13:01quarterback and yeah, just and and I see him out there at the javelin
- 13:05area. So I'm thinking he's helping with the with with the javelin a little
- 13:07bit. Well, I can tell you this much. If he hasn't by
- 13:11now, I'm sure that our guy Joel is probably sending a text. Yeah,
- 13:16I'm sure he probably is, because I know he's listening. I'm pretty
- 13:20sure those are those are the coaches, because I've been out to a lot
- 13:22of these events and I see those guys out there quite a bit. Yeah.
- 13:24And yeah, Tyler Mitchell, I mean he threw over two hundred feet
- 13:28in the javelin, but that was right before they changed the javelin a little
- 13:31bit. And so when I don't know if it it's the different weight or
- 13:37if it's just weighted differently, if that makes any sense, Yeah, it
- 13:39makes it fly a little different. Like yeah, and all the all the
- 13:43distances went down by like fifty feet all of a sudden and then now people
- 13:46are starting to get up into those high one hundreds or the case with that
- 13:50kid at Bath all over two hundreds. So, by the way, starting
- 13:54to Montana the other day, I'm sorry, Kyle just committed to Montana the
- 13:58other day for track. Oh yes, I think I've told you here before.
- 14:03A year ago, this time he wasn't even taking jab serious, right,
- 14:07he was just thrown to be with his buddies basically, and now here
- 14:09he is going to college for it. Tyler. That is track and field
- 14:15again, brought to you by Stafford Insurance up there in Lindon. Thanks to
- 14:18stoff for Insurance for their continued support. Let's talk about girls tennis. Everybody
- 14:24had two league matches last week and then was it Lindon had the non conference
- 14:28game. Yeah, yeah, they they played on Wednesday against They're at Marysville
- 14:33or no snow homish themis they got to win there? Yeah. Now that
- 14:39being said, Tyler, see home Lyndon still undefeated as teams, and so
- 14:45they are both six and oh but really, what you've done here this week
- 14:48for me is you've kind of put it up here and you've said, hey,
- 14:52let's talk about some of the girls that are undefeated. Uh. And
- 14:54and this is undefeated, undefeated matches is what they have so far, right,
- 15:00Tyler, Right, yeah, exactly. So I mean you could you
- 15:03could win you know, six to four and six to four, and that's
- 15:09that's a that's a that's a match. That's a winning match. If you
- 15:13win six four six four, that's one and oh is what you're right?
- 15:16Exactly? Yes, So that being said, let's go through and let's talk
- 15:20about some of these girls here. We'll start off with Bellingham who on the
- 15:22season, they are six and one. They've won forty they're forty two and
- 15:26seven in courts in those in those seven matches. But Tyler, who are
- 15:33the undefeated girls there at Bellingham? Yeah, there's a couple of them in
- 15:37the singles ranks. Aba Harden and Malia Hanks are both seven and zero.
- 15:41Belly. You know, we talked about their head coach, their Hall of
- 15:43Fame head coach, Steve Cronister. Really really good team. Uh. They
- 15:48like to move some some athletes around in singles and doubles, but those are
- 15:52the two singles that they'll always keep at the top. I've seen them,
- 15:56you know, kind of go back and forth as far as because you have
- 15:58like this, like the top ranks, second rank, you have your one,
- 16:00two, three, and four basically, and they've kind of gone back
- 16:03and forth. I've seen Melia Hanks on the basketball court, you know,
- 16:07playing soccer. She's she's a legit three sport athlete, just you know,
- 16:12and she's just a junior as well. So yeah, there's a couple of
- 16:15players right there seven and oh. And we'll see how the season goes because
- 16:21there's some big time events coming up for them. See home. They are
- 16:25six and oh on the season, thirty eight and four in courts, and
- 16:29they've got one undefeated tennis player, yeah, with at least five singles matches
- 16:33and that, and that's Claire Stadola five and oh. I was really excited
- 16:37to see her play. I went out on because there was a ton of
- 16:41matches on Thursday, but all of them got rained out that were in Walkham
- 16:45County except for Squalcum's played, but they were down in Siger Woolley or something
- 16:51like that, so they got to play. But so they all got moved
- 16:55to Friday. So I was excited to go out to see him watching them
- 16:56play against Ferndale Friday and tennis and I go out there and there was a
- 17:00lot of players missing, including Claire, and and I found out from some
- 17:06parents that this this, you know, this was not scheduled. You know,
- 17:11originally it was supposed to be on Thursday, so a lot of these
- 17:12players had plans for the weekend that they left right after for school. And
- 17:18so seehom was missing a lot of the top players. They and you know,
- 17:21they're undefeat on the season. Now, they still won. I think
- 17:23they won four to three against Ferndale, So it was a really really close
- 17:26one. But you had a lot of you know, players that were used
- 17:30to doubles had to go up and play singles and you know, they had
- 17:33to bring up some some JV players to play singles and then and they they
- 17:37just got through and won at four to three. But yeah, but I
- 17:41have seen Claire play. I saw her playing against Sidrow and we'll see,
- 17:45uh moving forward when they have when they play against Lending Case, that's gonna
- 17:48be a really good matchup. Now, Tyler, you did also mention here
- 17:52five and oh is Claire is five? And oh that is the minimum?
- 17:56So right for them to be on this undefeated list that we're talking about here,
- 18:00they have to have won five matches and obviously they have to have not
- 18:04lost any five or more. That being said, Tyler, when we get
- 18:08to Lyndon, there's a few more names to talk about here, because they've
- 18:12got not only a single, but two doubles teams that are undefeated. Yeah,
- 18:17you know, the exact same record as Sea Home, even courts one
- 18:19is identical. Yeah, that's four. That's the most amazing thing here,
- 18:23Tyler. Both teams are not only six at oh but both teams are thirty
- 18:26eight and four. I mean, that's well imagine that. I mean,
- 18:29Seehalm only had one court lost going into Friday's match, and they lost three
- 18:33of them against Ferndale because they were kind of altered their you know, but
- 18:37there's there have a lot of depth. But you know, they almost drop
- 18:41that one. But you're right about Linden, you know you when I look
- 18:44at all all of Lindon's matches throughout the year, I don't even know if
- 18:48they've changed anything. Maybe the third doubles team gets moved around a little bit,
- 18:52but they always have the same top four singles always have this first two
- 18:56teams for doubles and Samukovich six and oh on the year singles wide wise.
- 19:03I mean, I can't wait to see you know, her play if it's
- 19:07against Claire or Ava or Malia, because that's gonna ask let's not ask Van
- 19:11Dalen how to say that last name. Huh. Well, I'm pretty,
- 19:15I'm pretty. I'm pretty confident in Samukovic because, oh, we know how
- 19:19to say it. He doesn't. Yeah, I just laugh because he's gonna
- 19:23tell us the exact opposite. Oh, yeah, I know, he's Skovich,
- 19:27Yeah, Sama Covid yeah. Uh. And and then on the double
- 19:32side, and we've talked about them in the past, uh, Kalani and
- 19:34Rolana Newcombe, the Newcombe sisters six and O saw them both on the basketball
- 19:40team, just you know, drain in threes. And then Grace Rice and
- 19:44Maya vander Yacht, two unbelievable athletes on the volleyball team, both going to
- 19:48play college volleyball, that are really close. Obviously they they know how to
- 19:53you know, communicate with each other on the court. They're also six and
- 19:56O. That's you know, Lindon, It's really hard to beat them because
- 20:00you're probably not gonna beat those two teams. So that's two and oh right
- 20:03off the bat, you really got to take advantage of them in the singles.
- 20:07And Anna Smukovi just six and oh, so it's hard to beat her
- 20:10as well. Now you're looking at how you're gonna beat the Lynnin's team.
- 20:14You gotta have an upset somewhere. I'm really looking forward to, you know,
- 20:18state when they do doubles, because these two teams could face each other,
- 20:22you know, down the line. I don't know how they're gonna rank
- 20:23them, or how they're gonna place them, or where they're gonna go and
- 20:26how that all works, but I think they're both gonna have pretty deep runs
- 20:30on the on the double side. Now do we know is Anna sister of
- 20:36Marco? I would imagine, because I want to say, because I remember,
- 20:41I know Marco's dad, Malad, and I worked with him at Linnendoor,
- 20:45you know, almost Geez Louise twenty years ago, now, yeah,
- 20:48and I remember that he had a son and then like three girls. So
- 20:53I would imagine. Now, you know, do we know if Marco played
- 20:57tennis? I don't think he did. I think he played soccer in the
- 21:02spring. Well, then maybe this is what we need to do, Tyler.
- 21:04You know, when we talk about doing like you know, going up
- 21:07against the best fast pitch, you know, pitcher and stuff. Like.
- 21:11Maybe what we need to do is we need to play Marco and tennis,
- 21:15and we need to have a field goal kicking competition against Anna. Maybe that's
- 21:21how we even it out and give her ourselves a chance. Yeah right,
- 21:23Well, I would kick against Marco, but he has to kick right footage.
- 21:26I think that's kind of well, then you have to kick left footed.
- 21:29No, no, no, I don't good because I know I can't
- 21:32kick left yeah. I can barely kick right footed. Yeah. Yeah,
- 21:36and hey, look at you remembering Marco's first name. Oh, we haven't
- 21:40talked about him in years. Yeah. Yeah, but there's only certain names
- 21:42that I remember the first name when it's a crazy name. When I got
- 21:45to figure out how to say a name, I'll never forget it, right,
- 21:48Yeah, like that that just doesn't happen. Yeah, that's the PA
- 21:52announcer in you. Yeah. Well that's that's me saying the name of a
- 21:56billion times in my head. So I don't screw it up, right,
- 21:59A little bit of a perfectionist, if you will. Yes. So yeah,
- 22:03that's girls tennis, uh, Tyler, let's talk boys golf we're not
- 22:07gonna go through the whole top ten, but uh, there is a new
- 22:11name in the top ten, Tyler. And uh, why don't you give
- 22:14us who is the young man coming in now at number ten? Yeah,
- 22:18Morrison, Coon's from Seahome, Sealm had a really good week, did awesome
- 22:22as a team out at the North Bellingham golf Course, winning that event with
- 22:26with with eight teams and and man, and you look at this, you
- 22:30know, you look at this list and there's four Sea Home players on it.
- 22:33So you're talking about you start talking about like team golf, and uh,
- 22:37they're really clicking as a team. And got to give some credit to
- 22:41their head coach, Jeff Wood. You know, our guy who's helped us
- 22:45out here. I mean that's there. I mean everything is kind of starting.
- 22:49It was bad, really bad weather too when they played on Thursday out
- 22:55at North North Bellingham. So but yeah, Morrison cootsing into that top ten.
- 23:00He's gotten better every single week, so he squeaks in there. Let's
- 23:03talk top five, Tyler, and the top five is kind of the same.
- 23:08But there is one young man, Matthew Blankenberg, who's moving his way
- 23:11up. Yeah. I moved up from six to now number four on the
- 23:15list, and there is kind of a logjam right in that eighty area with
- 23:19John Coomer, Blankenberg, Travis Brocky, Jack Stapleton, and Thomason Hartok are
- 23:23all within one stroke of each other. You're talking from third place to seventh
- 23:29place. They're all can kind of move around right there and really really impressive.
- 23:34But yeah, Matthew Blankenberg had a really good week, moves up a
- 23:37couple slots in the top ten for boys golf and Walkome County. And now
- 23:41when we look at the girl's side, there is no change in the top
- 23:45five. The top five are the top five. They have not moved.
- 23:48We'll give those names here in a second. But we need to talk about
- 23:52tenth place, the tenth golfer here in the top ten, because it's a
- 23:56new name this week. Yeah, Jovi Jensen, who was right on the
- 24:00cusp there, had a good week, moved up to number ten. Now
- 24:04she joins her teammate Dallas rank for both from Meridian to have. So the
- 24:10Trojans have two golfers now in the top ten. And you look around,
- 24:12you see a couple of sea Home, a couple Linden. It's uh,
- 24:18it's it's it's pretty competitive out there, and you know, hopefully the weather
- 24:22will start to get a little nicer because once that happens, you're gonna start
- 24:25seeing a lot of these scores start to drop. And that's a good thing.
- 24:29And uh, let's talk top five, Tyler, give us the top
- 24:30five. Yeah, Kaylie Anderson from Nikzack Valley one oh five, Marlea McMahon
- 24:34from Sea Home one oh four. Neither of them played last week, so
- 24:37they're they you know, their scores remained exact same. I don't think McMahon's
- 24:41played for a little while. Madeline Angles at one oh one, Cassidy Hogan
- 24:45at SEOM ninety two, and Kinsley Rector is still leading, averaging as a
- 24:49score of a score of ninety. That is boys and girls golf. Uh
- 24:56let's move on to talk boy soccer and Tyler boy soccer. As you know,
- 25:00and now everybody else is gonna know, is brought to you by North
- 25:03County Alliance FC. North County Alliance FC's got their tryouts going on, Tyler.
- 25:08They start well, technically, if you're hearing this on Monday, they
- 25:12start later today. Boys and girls are starting later today. That is for
- 25:18the twenty fifteen and twenty seventeen birth years. They are trying out and then
- 25:23the twenty sixteens start tomorrow. But that is up there at Bender Fields and
- 25:30Linden. You can find out more information on their website and sealliancefc dot com
- 25:37and actually if you want to go specifically for the tryouts and SEEALLIANCEFC dot com
- 25:41backslash tryouts. But yeah, everything is online over there. That is boys
- 25:48and girls youth soccer. And yeah, I mean we were big fans because
- 25:52they are sponsoring pretty much everything as far as soccer goes, and they are
- 25:56all over it. Tyler, let's just kind of briefly go through soccer.
- 26:02Mount Vernon came to town. They did some serious damage on a couple of
- 26:04the top teams in the county. But on a bright note, Lyndon Christian
- 26:08three and oh this week, yeah, they went on a you know,
- 26:11they kind of started rough this year and going three and oh this week was
- 26:17huge. They beat Meridian three to two, really really good game. I
- 26:19was out there. They were up three to nothing. Trojans made it exciting
- 26:23in the last ten minutes, scored a couple of goals, make it you
- 26:26know, a little scary there. But Elsie held on to win three to
- 26:30two. After that they played Nukxac Valley. I was out there for that
- 26:33one as well. They beat them at home for nothing. And you know,
- 26:37people's talk about how Elsie kind of has a little bit of an advantage,
- 26:41like a home field advantage. Nobody's complaining about it, but they all
- 26:45bring it up. And their field is kind of it's small. They don't
- 26:48play on the football field, they play off to the side and it's just
- 26:52a little bit smaller, and they're really good at kind of bunching things together
- 26:56and you could take advantage of that. You could do some you could do
- 27:00some damage. So they did that against Knuoksack Valley, another conference win,
- 27:03winning four to nothing. And then on Saturday they went down and played Sedro
- 27:07Woolley and beat them to zero. So really really strong week. They gave
- 27:12up a couple of goals to Meridian. That was it. Yeah, great
- 27:17great week by Lenny Christian. You're right about Mount Vernon two coming down.
- 27:19They're just so good. I mean, every time they play a Walking county
- 27:22team, they just they seem to get the best of us. Mount Vernon
- 27:26I think moving up to four a next year pretty big school. They came
- 27:32down they beat Bellingham four to three, snapped Bellingham's seven game win streak,
- 27:37and so you know, that was that was a crazy one that was down
- 27:41in Mount Mount Vernon. And then they came up and played Squalicum in a
- 27:45non conference game on a Friday. I was at that one. It was
- 27:49the only it was the only soccer game that night. I headed out there
- 27:53and uh, I want to say, that was even zero zero at the
- 27:57half, really really close game. As I was leaving to go to another
- 28:02event, I saw some Ferndale players coming down to check out check out that
- 28:07game. Mount Vernon wins three to two. Uh, you know, there
- 28:11was a lot of penalty kicks at the end, which was kind of weird.
- 28:14Uh, but Mount Vernon's just really really good. But they you know,
- 28:17they came down and did some things, you know in Nooksac Valley getting
- 28:19getting their second win of the season. It was a three to two win
- 28:22over Bear Creek. Tyrrell Johnson scored the game winning goal in the closing seconds
- 28:26on an assist from Alex Flores. That was super exciting, really really really
- 28:30really cool for them. Uh. You know, Ferndale. Ferndale played a
- 28:36lot of home games against really good teams. They lost to See Home,
- 28:37they lost to Bellingham. Then they played Blaine, a really good team on
- 28:41Saturday, and they beat him four to one. Catad and Fasani scored three
- 28:47goals in that game. Uh Phoenix fink Bonner scored the other, and it
- 28:51was it was for one at the half. I was checking that out.
- 28:53I was going from there to the baseball game, going back and forth,
- 28:56and every time I turned and go towards the baseball game, those goals score
- 29:00another one. They have a huge scoreboard so I can see it from the
- 29:03baseball field and I could see who scored, so that was kind of handy.
- 29:07Blaine did score first in that one, but then drop the game.
- 29:11Blaine had a good week going into that with some big, big wins,
- 29:15scoring a lot of goals, but they kind of got shut down by Ferndale
- 29:18in that one. Meridian had a good, you know, a decent week.
- 29:21They lose one, they tie one, they win one. So they
- 29:25just kind of had that kind of that straight across week and See Home just
- 29:27doing what they do. I mean, big big wins beating Ferndale six to
- 29:32one. I was out at that it was one to one for a while,
- 29:36but then See Home just turned it on and then they and then they
- 29:38go and beat Oak Harbor seven to one. It's gonna be hard. It's
- 29:42gonna be tough to bring them down. Everything's clicking right now, and they
- 29:48have a big, big match coming up this week that we'll talk about when
- 29:51we look ahead to next week's stuff. Yeah. And I was going to
- 29:55bring up and I meant to do it earlier, and then I kind of
- 29:56forgot. I was gonna bring up the the w I A a's RPI,
- 30:03their newest rankings. Yeah. Yeah, because let's see here, what do
- 30:07we want to do? We want to go two A yeah, two A.
- 30:11So they they got Sea Home on top, Bellingham in at number four,
- 30:15Squalicum at number nine. Uh. These are from what would the twelfth
- 30:19have been Wednesday of last week? I think No, that was Friday.
- 30:22Was that Friday? Yeah? How was that Friday? Today's the fourteenth,
- 30:26Tyler, Yeah, Today's Sunday. Yeah, the twelfth. You said April
- 30:32twelfth. No the tenth. Oh I thought you said the twelfth. Oh
- 30:34the tenth. Yeah. I was like, wait, maybe I did say
- 30:37the twelfth. I meant the tenth yeah, that was Wednesday. Yeah,
- 30:41okay, so yeah, so Sea home one, Bellingham four, and Squalicum
- 30:45in at number nine. I guess we could mention fast pitching baseball really quickly.
- 30:51Maybe let's see what do we got. We got a couple of fast
- 30:53pitch team? What we got Linden on here? Linden's on for both obviously,
- 30:59but yeah, so that's where there. What about one A. Let's
- 31:02se if we got anybody in one A since we're on the topic. Nobody
- 31:06in one A I see here, and then I assume Ferndale's not in there
- 31:10in three A. No, probably not. He'd never know though. With
- 31:14the wis RPI. By the way, I think I've mentioned this to you,
- 31:17Tyler, the WIAA on followed me on Twitter. Yeah you did tell
- 31:22me about that. I mean, you have what like twenty five thousand followers
- 31:25on Twitter. I think if you lose them, your twenty twenty three and
- 31:29twenty four at this exact moment, bet and one of them is not the
- 31:33WIAA. It's just funny. Honestly, I'm surprised they were they followed me
- 31:38as long as they did with how much stuff I say about him. Let's
- 31:41see here, Tyler, So that is the standings kind of general. Look
- 31:45at what went on this week. Uh, let's talk about the leading scores
- 31:49and the leading scores again also brought to you by North County Alliance FC.
- 31:53Who would have thought Ncalliance FC dot com is the website again? But Tyler
- 31:57the leading scorer. No changes in the one, two and three kind of
- 32:05at the top, Simon Agner with fifteen goals, Judah straight from Bellingham and
- 32:10Agner is from squalcumb Judah straight from Bellingham is in second with eleven goals.
- 32:15Now, this is where it gets a little weird here, because technically Noah
- 32:19Allen is still in third place. The difference is there was a lot of
- 32:22other guys that were that were tagging along with him in there in third place
- 32:25that are not in third place anymore because he's now in there. Well,
- 32:30technically I guess he's second. So what the heck is going on here,
- 32:32Tyler? We've got all kinds of crazy stuff going on with the leading scorers
- 32:36in Wakam County. You're right, there was a huge logjam for third place
- 32:39last week, and you know, some guys just scored more goals this week.
- 32:43Some guys had more games, and so you're right, and there's a
- 32:47few guys now that have ten. Couple of them. You know, we're
- 32:51tied for third last week Blake Kuresky, Liam Shoemaker or shoe maker I should
- 32:54say, but Katat and Fasani. He had four goals last week shot him
- 33:00from eighth place to be tied for fourth now and he, like I said,
- 33:05he had three goals in that game against Blaye. He is a really
- 33:07exciting player to watch. He's got to be about six four and just towers
- 33:13over everybody. You know, we talked about him. I compared him to
- 33:15the guy from the Boston Bruins. Yes, and so he just he stands
- 33:21out. He's really fast, really athletic, and shows a lot of emotion
- 33:25when he when he plays and when he scores, he gets right with his
- 33:29teammates. It's it's a lot of fun to watch him play. Too bad
- 33:31he's a senior though, because I know he has got a freshman brother,
- 33:36so that'll be fun to watch. But it's tough coming into the sport kind
- 33:39of late and seeing some of these kids that are seniors now. I never
- 33:43really got to see them play before. But yeah, that you know him,
- 33:47Keuresky, Schumacher all have ten goals, and Tarren Burks is right behind
- 33:52them at seventh place with nine goals. Tyler, I just wanted to see
- 33:58if there was anything on this young man, this Sauni kid, right,
- 34:00Yeah, So I typed his name into the old Google machine to see what
- 34:04comes up. The first thing I see is katad In Forsani to play title
- 34:09role in Linden Performing Art Guild's production of Tarzan the Stage Musical. Yes,
- 34:15I was told about this. I mean, what in the world, So
- 34:20do we have to now act against this kid? Is that? Or?
- 34:22Or do we got to try to hit headers because he's how tall? Yeah,
- 34:27he's pretty tall. I mean gotta be six threes at least. I
- 34:30mean that's unbelievable. And he's an actor. I mean this guy, yeah,
- 34:36renaissance man. Yeah, he can do a little. Most interesting man
- 34:38in the world, yeah yeah, and I always thought it was me.
- 34:40He's definitely the most interesting guy in Wakam County. Behind you, though,
- 34:45Tyler. Oh, uh, that's boys soccer again, North County Alliance FC.
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- 35:15Blake Whitman. And when they say yeah, hold on. As soon as
- 35:17he answers, he says, Hello, this is Blake Whitman. You can
- 35:21just go wah wah, wah wah, and he'll go oh, he would
- 35:24laugh so hard. Yeah, you know what, we should just flood the
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- 35:43That is a batting cages. I know they they've got all kinds of
- 35:46stuff going on up there. Softball, I'm sure they got baseball. I'm
- 35:49sure it's it's the full meal deal up there. But yeah, Line Drive
- 35:52Northwest they are your stat sponsors. Uh Tyler, the one A schools,
- 35:57they all went over to Walla, Walla to play a few games on Saturday.
- 36:00You also told me that Nooksack Valley played two games on their way to
- 36:05the Southeast. Yeah. They, man, they had a full schedule this
- 36:07week and they've been kind of playing catch up as far as just games played
- 36:10this year. They played a couple of league games, then they head out.
- 36:14They play against kitt a Task and while Luke on Friday, really close
- 36:19games. Both those dropped the one to kitt Tass nine to seven, beat
- 36:22while Luke thirteen to ten. And then right after that, yeah, they
- 36:24were they were part of that big Saturday, you know fiasco down to Walla
- 36:29wall I really really wanted to go down to that. It just didn't kind
- 36:31of didn't really work out in the cards for me. Had some other things
- 36:36going on as well. So and they went down there and played against Freeman
- 36:39in College Place. There were some really good teams down there, and I
- 36:45had heard about this tournament as soon as you know, when I was told
- 36:47about the whole one a only one team going down there, and they all
- 36:51wanted to be a part of this. They got a hold of a bunch
- 36:52of teams and said let's, you know, let's get a bunch of the
- 36:54best teams from one a and just play in this you know kind of thing
- 36:59where ever gets two games. And they got some really good teams to go
- 37:02down there, Elma Royal, Uh, Columbia White Salmon, Uh you know,
- 37:07Tanaino, Monasya, Oh hope. We you know, we're just teams
- 37:13that are traditionally really good at softball. They all went down there and played.
- 37:15It's almost like a showcase. Yeah, you know, it's it was
- 37:19a big deal, and I think it was to kind of maybe show later
- 37:22on that like because there's gonna be a really good team or two from Walkom
- 37:25County that's not gonna be going to state and they're gonna go yeah and they
- 37:30and look what they did in this thing, and they're not going to state
- 37:32because of this silly thing that you guys are doing. So I think that
- 37:37uh and and and that That's another thing is there's only twelve teams that go
- 37:40to state in one a. So you know, that's probably why only one
- 37:45team gets to come from Walkham County. But uh, you know that's just
- 37:50or you know, yeah, because there's not that there's not enough fast pitch
- 37:53teams in the state to make it sixteen. Oh my goodness, it's been
- 37:58like that for not maybe four. This is but this is again where the
- 38:01w i AA just fails student athletes. Yeah, there's no reason not to
- 38:07do it. Just just do it. It's fine. It's so dumb that,
- 38:10like my brain is just ready to explode, Tyler and yeah, see
- 38:16this is this is why they don't follow me anymore. Right, I know,
- 38:21I know, and I you know, I went down there and else
- 38:22kind of squeaked in and they were playing on that earlier day and it's like
- 38:27if they lose, they're done. Yeah, you know, go all the
- 38:30way there for that and if you lose and now they won, which was
- 38:31great. It was an upset win. So now they're in there into the
- 38:35double elimination after that. But yeah, it's just it's just, you know,
- 38:39it is what it is. And uh but yeah, really really busy
- 38:44week and fast pitch. I made it out to a ton of games.
- 38:46I saw Blaine Nuk Sac Valley play against each other. I saw Els hosting
- 38:52Mount Baker in a really good game that Baker won four to two. Uh
- 38:55that was just you know, a really really good fast pitch game with two
- 39:00teams that know each other very well. After that, went and saw Sea
- 39:05home in Bellingham. So just like that, in three days, I saw
- 39:07six different Walking County teams in a row. Boom boom, boom, boom
- 39:12boom, which was awesome, and uh, you know, and then after
- 39:15that it was teams went on the road. Elsie also played Elma on Friday,
- 39:20and they both teams were a part of this of this Walla Walla thing,
- 39:23so I'm not quite sure where that game was played Elma Elma got them
- 39:27nine to two. Mount Baker could have had a really good showing over at
- 39:30Walla wall They beat Elma eleven to eight, and then they beat Royal four
- 39:35to one. Elma and Royal are two teams that I can tell you right
- 39:37now will be in the state tournament. And for Mount Baker to beat both
- 39:42of them, that says a lot. Blaine suffered their first two losses of
- 39:45the season down there against Hoquiam and Monticeno Meridians split. They beat to Nino
- 39:52but then lost to Columbia White Salmon. I told you about the Knoksack Valley
- 39:57games, and Lynden Christian played really well. Lyndon Christian. Uh, they
- 40:00beat Columbia White Salmon sixteen to one, and they beat to nine oh ten
- 40:04zero. Lynnon Christian's a very young team, a lot of freshmen that are
- 40:07getting a lot of innings right now. So as the season's war on,
- 40:12I think that they're getting a little more used to varsity pitching stuff like that,
- 40:15and they're really starting to come together. I mean, losing to Mount
- 40:17Baker is uh, you know, a lot of teams lose to Mount Baker,
- 40:21but to do it only four to two, that tells me a lot.
- 40:23Uh. It's you know, Baker and Elc and Blaine, they're gonna
- 40:29be fighting and fighting and fighting for that one spot to go to State.
- 40:32Uh, it's it's gonna be It's it's gonna be really really tough. And
- 40:36then you know, as far as the other teams, you know, it's
- 40:40it's Uh. Ferndale and Bellingham played each other. Ferndale's Klin Blakely, I
- 40:46mean she knocked in nine runs, hit two triples in a Grand Slam.
- 40:51It's in one game. Yeah, she was four for five, four for
- 40:54five with two triples, a home run and nine runs batted in. It
- 40:58looks like that Mike box score when he did that at Fenway. Wasn't it
- 41:02wasn't it? Mark Witten who had like twelve RBIs in one game. Yeah,
- 41:06that's right. Hard hitting Mark Whitten. Hard hitting Mark Witten. That's
- 41:08a that's a you know, Rob Dibble tells a story about that and that
- 41:12game that went and hit four home runs. It might have been that same
- 41:15game when he had twelve rbiys. He already had three to that point when
- 41:17Dibble came in and Dibble, you know, could throw like one hundred miles
- 41:20an hour, and he just said, you know what, I'm gonna throw
- 41:22as hard as I can down the plate and if he hits it out,
- 41:25then good for him because not a lot of guys can get around on that.
- 41:28And the first pitch he crushed it. If I'm correct me. If
- 41:31I'm wrong, didn't didn't Mark Winnon do it like twice? Oh? I
- 41:37don't know about that. I just I know we had four home runs in
- 41:39a game. One of the few players to ever do that. He did
- 41:42it when he was with the Cardinals. Yeah. I thought he had twelve
- 41:45RBIs like in a game. I don't know. He Oh no, he
- 41:49tied the record, is what it was. He tied the record of Jim
- 41:52Bottomley nineteen twenty four. Twelve RBIs in one game in nineteen ninety three,
- 41:58and that's doing it off a finger Brown and all the other names. And
- 42:01there's been quite a few guys have actually hit ten had ten RBIs in a
- 42:06game. The last one to do it was Mark Reynolds in twenty eighteen.
- 42:10Two guys did it in twenty seventeen. Yeah, I mean, it's pretty
- 42:14wild to look at it, and twelve RBIs in a game that it just
- 42:16really stands out on the box score. Yeah, but yeah, but Mbers
- 42:22again though, Tyler, what did she do? She went four for five,
- 42:28four for five with two triples and a grand slam and finished with nine
- 42:32RBI's four runs scored. My goodness, that is a I mean, and
- 42:37she was, you know, like the week before the week before spring break,
- 42:45she was player of the Week because she hit like eight fifty that week
- 42:47or something like that. Like she was. She is really and she's just
- 42:52a junior Kaylyn Blakeley catcher from Ferndale. She's really really hitting like a young
- 42:55Ryland Spencer right now. Yeah, yeah, little Agrends. Yeah, and
- 43:01you know, see Home got the win. I went out to that see
- 43:04Bellam game and it was you know, see Home they played a bunch of
- 43:07uh they played some backups to get them some experience and hit Belliam put it
- 43:12on. They scored six runs in the first inning and then zeal went,
- 43:15okay, we got to figure that out and they started hitting. That was
- 43:17a really high scoring game, twenty five to ten. Bellyam put some points
- 43:22on the board against granted falls. They scored sixteen runs I think in a
- 43:28game. I mean that was oh yeah, that was on the scoreboard.
- 43:30Yeah, so it was the final of that one sixteen. It's when I
- 43:36saw that, I went, my goodness, I mean yeah, defense,
- 43:38pitching, option, all that, Yeah, and that was you know,
- 43:42that was really cool to see Belliam get some points up because uh, you
- 43:45know, that's that's that's a that's just been a struggling team over the years
- 43:50where sometimes they don't feel the team. But for them to score that many
- 43:53runs, that gives a lot of confidence. You know. Squal Coum still
- 43:55hasn't one. But they had a freshman Laylas Standarford that hit a home run
- 44:00and she's a really good player, standout on defense man. She could dive
- 44:02around and get everything in the middle infield. Uh, you know, see
- 44:06home getting the win Linden dropped their first conference game, getting beat by Sidrow.
- 44:10Woollie. I knew that was gonna be a good one. Uh Sieddrow
- 44:14got him seven to one, and you know, at Linden only had two
- 44:17hits in the game and seed DRO's pitcher really really good. I remember,
- 44:22if it's the same picture I'm thinking of. I remember seeing her last year
- 44:25at the district tournament and everyone was just kind of oohing and awing over like
- 44:30after every pitch, and then someone turned and said something to somebody else goes
- 44:34and she's a freshman, and I was like, oh, here we go.
- 44:37So I'm assuming it's still her. Uh and Si Droe not only are
- 44:40they really good, you know with the with the pitcher allowing runs, but
- 44:45they usually put up double digits. They beat Linden seven to one. That's
- 44:49Linden's only loss of the year. So so yeah, so that that's kind
- 44:52of how it went this week in fast pitch, and you know Mount Baker
- 44:55now eleven and one. Their only loss all year was six to four against
- 45:00Burlington Edison in a game where they were up four and nothing after the first
- 45:04inning, and then offensively, it just wasn't happening. So we'll see,
- 45:07you know, this second half of the year coming up, it's gonna be
- 45:09a lot of really good matchups to look forward to. And and even though
- 45:14and that yeah, like I said, even though Blaine lost those two games,
- 45:16not only are they undefeated in conference play, they haven't allowed a run
- 45:22in conference play. So but we'll see they have they have to play Sidro
- 45:25and Lindon coming up this week, so you know, some there's gonna be
- 45:30some separation happening and we'll see how that goes. Uh, Tyler, just
- 45:35to give it to you, Mill Creek Sportsplex is where that one a stuff
- 45:38was going on and the h who'd you say? It was Elma and else?
- 45:45Was that the other one that you didn't know where they go? Elma
- 45:47and Elsie played on Friday. Yeah, and that game was at Walla Walla
- 45:51Community College, which it looks like is like literally about thirty five feet away.
- 45:57Uh, there's like a little bit of a row and then a river
- 46:00or something that goes through. And I don't know what's going on in this
- 46:02river Tyler on Google Maps, but about every ten feet there's a little like
- 46:08rapid or some sort of like a little white thing going on there. I
- 46:10don't know if they got a bunch of ledges through here. I don't know
- 46:14if the only guy I can think of it it might have something to do
- 46:15with the with the wineries, you know what I mean, Like, for
- 46:19all I know, this could be man made, you know, I mean,
- 46:22yeah, I don't know. Kind of kind of looks very uniformed,
- 46:24but yeah, it looks like that game was played over at Walla Walla Community
- 46:29College, which is like literally right there. I mean it's right across the
- 46:31streets. So and you know what, for all I know, Walla Walla
- 46:37Community College might play their games at Mill Creek and that game could have just
- 46:40been played there and somebody put it in differently. And what former NFL star
- 46:45fullback played at Walla Walla Community College, Well, I don't know star is
- 46:52the right word, but I know Mike Sellers was there. Yeah, that's
- 46:55what I was thinking. That Mike Sellers, the guy that said that Century
- 47:00Link Fields not very loud, and it wasn't and it wasn't gonna affect the
- 47:02Redskins very much that day when he was there. Okay, yeah, sure,
- 47:07sure, you know what that did got me juiced up? Yeah,
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- 47:53Dick Bedlington Farms over there Mount Baker, Tyler. They get their first league
- 47:58win of the year. But really story this week A big one a game
- 48:01and maybe the most mind boggling two way upset that we did not see coming.
- 48:07Yeah, there are some really good games, you're right with that two
- 48:09A game. I went out there to Bellingham. They were hosting Lindon.
- 48:15That was on Friday night. I was out there for a little bit.
- 48:19It's and it's tough watching a game at Bellingham just the way like there's not
- 48:24a lot of seats and that's fenced off all the way around, so there's
- 48:28not like a little spot where you can really see or take good pictures.
- 48:30And I was there for a few winnings, and you know, it was
- 48:32a really really close game, and then all of a sudden, I hear
- 48:36later I was at the soccer game out at Squalkham and I hear later that
- 48:38Bellingham won, and I was just like wow, And I really got me
- 48:43thinking the last time Bellingham beat Linden in baseball, and I might have to
- 48:47go. Look, it might have to be back in the Austin Shenton days,
- 48:52who's now playing with the Tampa Bay Rays he played at Bellingham, could
- 48:55be even be before that. It's it'd be hard to say, but really
- 48:58impressive because that's a program that you know, had some tough times in the
- 49:05last few years and really picked it up last year with Tom Lewis heading up
- 49:10the you know, the program. And they think they got like eight eight
- 49:14wins last year when they had you know, probably had eight in the three
- 49:15or four years combined prior to that. And then this year even losing one
- 49:21of their best players. In the first game, they've really come together as
- 49:23a team. They play really really well, and to get that win that
- 49:27just has to give them all the confidence in the world. Ty Nelson,
- 49:31who gave us the intro, pitched a one hitter in that game and really
- 49:36really impressive. The rule that you and I talked about off the air,
- 49:39the pitch count rule. We understand why it's there. But he had one
- 49:45out left in a one hitter and he hit right at one hundred and five
- 49:49pitches, so they had to bring an Owen Rasmussen to face the last batter.
- 49:52He throws two pitches, gets the final out. Bellingham wins three to
- 49:55one. Yeah, that's kind of brutal, Like yeah, Like, I
- 50:00mean, I don't know. It's one of those things where I look at
- 50:01it and now that I've been around baseball as much as I have this season,
- 50:05I kind of wish they would just let him finish it out, like
- 50:07let him finish the inning. Maybe you know, if you hit the pitch
- 50:10count limit. But I get it though. The was it was it Rochester
- 50:15that had the kid that threw like one hundred and fifty pitches in a game
- 50:17or something like, Yeah, I don't know, really what brought a lot
- 50:21of this stuff on. Granted pitch counts that I don't have a problem with
- 50:23it at all, Like, I totally understand it. I mean, yeah,
- 50:27these some of these coaches, all they care about is winning, right,
- 50:30They don't care about some of that stuff, So I get it.
- 50:34But man, that's brutal. He comes in, throws a couple of pitches
- 50:37and this guy could have finished it out. That would have been awesome.
- 50:39Yeah, and then you know Mount Baker picking up their first their first conference
- 50:44win of the year. They'd beat Orches Island right before that, and then
- 50:47they come out and beat Squalkum at Squalkum that was I really really that was
- 50:52one to one all the way until the bottom of the bottom of the sixth
- 50:55when Squalkam scored to take a late lead. Mount Baker comes in the top
- 51:00of the seventh and Brayden Scott reached his base after dropped the third strike.
- 51:05The next two batters were hit by a pitch, loads of the bases and
- 51:08then the catcher, Cameron Hesseg, blooped the ball in the infield. The
- 51:12throw goes home, goes over the catcher's head. Mount Baker scores two runs
- 51:15there and then I don't know if you have the button ready or not.
- 51:20I should have maybe said so about this. But our guy Toga, he
- 51:24pitched the final four innings of that game to get and and including the final
- 51:29three outs and which gave Mount Baker the second their second win of the season.
- 51:32So there it is. Yeah, yeah, I was. It was
- 51:45awesome because when I saw that happen, I was like, oh man,
- 51:46this is going to make an appearance on the show. And then yeah,
- 51:50the other big one A game was you know, a game we're going into
- 51:54it. I really didn't know what to expect. But ELC beating Meridian two
- 51:58to one, really really big time game. Jonah Turpstraw the senior, gets
- 52:04the win. He allowed just two hits. Both both pitchers allowed just two
- 52:08hits. Just an unbelievably pitched games. Both pitchers pitched the entire game.
- 52:14Nate Payne from Meridian, who's about sixty three and a freshman, just a
- 52:19strike thrower. I mean he's walked like I think coming into the game,
- 52:22I think he'd walked like four guys and struck out like forty. So you
- 52:24got a love that high at the high school level. Yeah, that does
- 52:28not happen often, right, And so that was a really good matchup.
- 52:31Lyndon Christian just got the win two to one. Eli Mayberry and Carson LII
- 52:38Bolt they both had run scoring singles in the first inning and that was it.
- 52:44Uh And Jonah Turpster pitched the complete game. Sixty pitches in seven inning,
- 52:49complete game. Whoa that broke That broke a school record for the least
- 52:52amount of pitches in a complete game that went seven innings. So really impressive
- 52:58for Lyndon Christian there. And then you know Meridian right after that had to
- 53:01their next game was against Blaine, and that's another really tough one a team
- 53:05and Blaine was up basically the whole game. Karen marcuson cruising and then there
- 53:08were some errors in the field and the seventh inning and and that's you know,
- 53:15that was a that's kind of what happened or no way man that was
- 53:19in the I think it's the bottom of the fifth and Blaine had some airs,
- 53:23Meridians scored a bunch of runs. They end up winning seven to four.
- 53:27So it kind of put Blaine behind the eight ball a little bit,
- 53:30Meridian up ahead and Lynden Christian ahead of them, So it's going to be
- 53:34a lot of jocking for position right there. And Nuksak Valley's not going away.
- 53:38They beat Squali from fourteen to four. The biggest thing with Nukzak for
- 53:42me is compared to like previous years, is their batting average has to be
- 53:47at least one hundred points higher as a team than it's been the last couple
- 53:52of years. You know, they you'd see a lot of games where they
- 53:54had like two or three hits and just didn't go well. Now they're getting
- 53:58like double digit hits a game and that's been a huge turnaround for coach Dwist
- 54:01Blair's team is they are really hitting the ball. I take it he's not
- 54:06the hitting coach. He could he could hit the ball a little bit when
- 54:09he played, okay, But yeah, I know we're like we have a
- 54:12hard time. You know they did. They did lose the LC eight to
- 54:15five, really really good game there as well, but like nuk sac out
- 54:20hit them in that game. I mean, they are, they are getting
- 54:22on base, so that's been a rapid improvement and you know what. You
- 54:25know what else that I love from this week see Home beating Lakewood. That
- 54:30was Lakewood's a really good team and Seahome is is very young and they've been
- 54:35struggling to find wins, but they've been in a lot of games. They
- 54:37beat him fourteen to eight. That kind of came out of nowhere. Uh.
- 54:39They exploded for ten runs in the top of the fourth inning, breaking
- 54:43the game wide open. Cougars were a head five to four at that point,
- 54:46and uh, they just they just went from there. Ryder McGrath got
- 54:51his third win of the year. It was a third win for Sea Home.
- 54:52He has all three wins. He throws really hard. Junior that's getting
- 54:59into the eighty with ease, and that's been a that's been a lot of
- 55:02fun to see, you know, Hudson, nef Gunner, Tway. There's
- 55:07a lot of those, a lot of those players. There's a lot of
- 55:09young young players, a lot of sophomores. It's a few freshmen that have
- 55:14been putting in, uh make you know, doing some big, big things
- 55:16for the Sealing program. I think there's gonna be a nice turnaround there.
- 55:21And uh and I got to see Ferndale in person. I got to see
- 55:23them on Saturday. Telling bung Guard hit a home run that I think landed
- 55:27on top of the anytime fitness. Uh you know, I mean, he
- 55:31crushed that ball. The left fielder, he's he I'm standing kind of like
- 55:37by third base by the fence taking pictures of the left fielder goes that ball
- 55:42went four hundred bleeping feet like he couldn't believe it. That was against ocarvera
- 55:47Okarver did get the win in that one. They played twice in a real
- 55:51they played Friday and Saturday and a home and home there. But it was
- 55:54good to see them play on Saturday. I got to go out and see
- 55:57them. And but uh, yeah, a lot of good with the baseball
- 56:00this week, and you know, just you know, a lot of a
- 56:07lot of games happening. I mean, every team played for at least three
- 56:08games. Baker and Frindale each played four. So a lot of baseball this
- 56:13week to see. But they jam it all into certain days, like there
- 56:15was no baseball I think on like Monday or something like that. And uh,
- 56:21and then there was no baseball on Thursday. It was crazy because,
- 56:23like I was talking to you about it, like on Thursday, I went
- 56:25out to five different events, five different sporting events, and none of them
- 56:29were baseball which is just crazy. That really tells you how much is going
- 56:32on in the spring, and and uh boy, it's it's fun seeing it
- 56:37all. But man, these weeks fly by. It's it's crazy to think
- 56:40that we're, you know, we're the midpoint, you know, of the
- 56:44month of April, and and all of a sudden, it's going to be,
- 56:47you know, graduation time. My goodness, it's it's moving fast,
- 56:52man, Yeah, it really is. I mean I was looking at our
- 56:54baseball schedules the other day and I was like, whoa, we only got
- 56:59two weeks the games left. I mean yeah for regular season. Yeah,
- 57:02yeah, I mean wow, Like it kind of caught me out of nowhere.
- 57:06I was not really prepared for that. As a matter of fact.
- 57:07It got me to thinking, like, I need to start putting together scenior
- 57:09night stuff. Yeah that is baseball Tyler Scoreboards and Staff brought to you by
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- 57:21players of the week and are no sponsored yet Fast pitch Player of the Week,
- 57:27Tyler, Who do you got? And this was a tough one because
- 57:30so many players were playing in so many games, and there was all these
- 57:32you know, the tournament and everything and doubleheaders, going on belling and playing
- 57:37a doubleheader home, a lot of games, a lot of numbers coming out,
- 57:42but Aba Jaretzky and she won it in the first week. But boy,
- 57:45she really earned it in this week. And it all started out with
- 57:49that Linden Christian game, you know, when they beat Linden Christian on the
- 57:52road. What was really didn't need about this game was that last year,
- 57:59the last like the last time she saw Lennon Christian was at the district tournament
- 58:01in a win or go home game winner to state loser go home game and
- 58:07Mount Baker, I think the Gates score was tied, maybe Baker was up
- 58:09by one. She's pitching, she takes a comebacker right to her pitching hand
- 58:14and she's out for the rest of the game and elc ten runs them,
- 58:17and so this is our next time seeing them. They go to her play,
- 58:22they go to their place. She pitches in that game, gets her
- 58:23eighth win of the season. She hit a home run to write center to
- 58:28give her team an early one to nothing lead. And then later on in
- 58:31the week they play against Meridian and she picks up another win and she goes
- 58:37two for three with a home run and two RBIs. And then they go
- 58:40to Walla Walla and they're playing against Elma who's loaded. She goes two for
- 58:45three with two home runs and five RBIs and then they play against Royal like
- 58:51hours later, she gets her tenth win of the season, becomes the first
- 58:54player in Walking County they reach double digit and wins. So I mean she's
- 58:59doing it in the circle in the batter's box. Another great week for Ava
- 59:02Juretsky the senior and uh yeah, just really re impressive. Been watching her,
- 59:07you know, do this since she was a freshman, so it's really
- 59:09cool to see the progression. She's gotten better every each each and every year
- 59:15and did really well when they were at state a couple of years ago.
- 59:20They you know, they they played, you know, they they placed.
- 59:23They played in the last day of the season or the last day at state
- 59:27and placed. I think they placed fourth in state, and then last year,
- 59:30you know, with that comebacker, they were knocked out weren't able to
- 59:34go to the state tournament. I really think that she's leading this team that's
- 59:37on a mission right now to do some big things and she's obviously a really
- 59:40big part of it. The Boys or the Baseball Player of the Week brought
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- 1:00:05of the Week. Yeah. Again, and a lot of players to look
- 1:00:07at here and and uh, but it's really hard to you know, you
- 1:00:14can't discount what ky Nelson did on the mound against a really strong lending team
- 1:00:19that, like you said, you looked at the rankings, they're up there
- 1:00:22for the w i AA RPI rankings. You know, this is a team
- 1:00:27that had multiple players on it that was there was one runaway from winning the
- 1:00:30state championship last year. Battling against Cale Stapleton, who was on the mound,
- 1:00:36giving up just one hit to that offense. That is super impressive.
- 1:00:39Ky Nelson, who's not known for his pitching, really really really good defensive
- 1:00:45shortstop that is hitting, has come on strong this year. I think he
- 1:00:50was batting ninth in the in the lineup last year as a freshman. They
- 1:00:52could do some things get to get you know, set the table for the
- 1:00:55guys coming up the top of the lineup. But this year batting leadoff,
- 1:01:00doing awesome, hitting over four hundred and then comes in and pitches this game
- 1:01:04and I think kind of took the whole county by surprise. So congratulations to
- 1:01:08that young man. Just a sophomore at Belling And High School, Kai Nelson.
- 1:01:13North County Alliance FC. They are sponsoring the boys soccer Player of the
- 1:01:16week. Is this our first one? Did we give one out last week?
- 1:01:21We didn't last week because there were no games for spring break, but
- 1:01:22this is our second one. Simon Agner won it a couple of weeks.
- 1:01:27Oh that's right, Yeah, because he had the big week when he moved
- 1:01:29into first place in the in the standings or the leader board right for goals.
- 1:01:35So yeah, North County Alliance FC Mcalliance fc dot com is the website.
- 1:01:39They are sponsoring the boys soccer player of the week. So Tyler who
- 1:01:43is the North County Alliance FC Boys Soccer player of the week. Yeah,
- 1:01:46Jude Decker Lynnon Christian just had just an awesome, awesome week. They went
- 1:01:54undefeeded. We talked about that them going three no, they only had one
- 1:01:58win coming into the week, and they picked three of them up this week.
- 1:02:02He scored in each of in each game all three games. He also
- 1:02:07had some assists. Really really good with the ball, can do a lot
- 1:02:12of different things. I scored five goals overall during the week. But just
- 1:02:17really really impressive. I got to see two of the games up close and
- 1:02:21personal. You know, we saw him saw him kicking a little bit a
- 1:02:25few years ago on the football team when and he would kick sometimes when we'd
- 1:02:30see the qwit kick. He was kicking with Brydon Quk. They kind of
- 1:02:34go back and forth every once in a while, so so got to see
- 1:02:37him do that. But uh, really really impressive to see what he did
- 1:02:40this week. And and congratulations to him. Thank you to North County Alliance
- 1:02:45FC, SIG's Funeral and Cremation Services and no sponsor yet for their continued support
- 1:02:52of the Players of the Week for boys soccer, baseball and fast pitched Failure.
- 1:02:57Let's wrap up the show with a look ahead at next week on the
- 1:03:01boys side. Where are some of the games you're looking forward to? Well?
- 1:03:06Later on tonight Bellingham at Sea Hoome Soccer. That is gonna be awesome.
- 1:03:10We've been talking about that. They played the first game of the year
- 1:03:14against each other in a non conference game, and for a long time that
- 1:03:16was Bellingham's only loss. They won seven in a row. That got snapped
- 1:03:21against Mount Vernon on the road in a really close game. It was four
- 1:03:23to three. And so this is one that I've been looking forward to,
- 1:03:28this rematch, and this is going to be at Sea Home. Oh my
- 1:03:30goodness, I am pumped for that. So tonight seven o'clock soccer game,
- 1:03:35Bellingham at Sea Home under the lights. It's gonna be a lot of fun.
- 1:03:38Also Friday, Lyndon at Meridian. This has always been a really good
- 1:03:44game over the years. I am hoping it's gonna be Lane Simonson against Jonah
- 1:03:51Aussi the two U dub commits and Oussy hasn't pitched in a few weeks.
- 1:03:54There's been a little bit of stiffness in the arm. But I think he's
- 1:03:59I mean, he's been dhing, he's been fine. But if he's good
- 1:04:01to go, this is gonna be an awesome game. You're talking about two
- 1:04:05guys that have you know, both struck out over two hundred batters in their
- 1:04:10careers. Uh, just this is like ace on ace. I would love
- 1:04:15to see this matchup. If that's the way it's gonna go, this will
- 1:04:18be a can't miss game out at Meridian High School Friday at four o'clock.
- 1:04:23You do not want to miss it. And even I mean even if Jonah
- 1:04:25is not able to pitch, they they put up a ton of runs.
- 1:04:28They score more runs than any other Walking County team. And if it's against
- 1:04:31Lane Simonson, it's gonna be a really good test to see, you know,
- 1:04:35kind of that you know, that immovable force you know or whatever they
- 1:04:40call that, the uh, the irresistible force against the immovable object. How
- 1:04:45does that happen? You know how who's gonna who's gonna you know Falter first
- 1:04:48somethink that's gonna get really good? Yeah, what's that? At that point,
- 1:04:51something's got to give, right, right, Yeah, something's got to
- 1:04:54give. And I think that's you know, that could be a really really
- 1:04:58great game there. And if to coaches had been at it a long time
- 1:05:01with Corey White and Steve slesk Uh, you know this, it's it's that's
- 1:05:06always a really classic game to go to. Something tells me if that is
- 1:05:11the pitching matchup, Tyler, I think you'll be out there. I probably
- 1:05:15will. How about on the girls side, Tyler, what are you looking
- 1:05:18forward to over there? Well, I you know, they're both at Tuesday
- 1:05:24at four o'clock on the fast pitch side, Blaine at Lindon. I mean,
- 1:05:30yeah, you know. I mean that's that's gonna be crazy. Blaine
- 1:05:32is not giving up a run all year in conference play. Well, they
- 1:05:38got Sie Drow and Lindon this week, so that's gonna be really hard to
- 1:05:42keep up. But they also have last year's you know, pitcher of the
- 1:05:45Year, Emerson Baker. She's back, so you know that's it's again.
- 1:05:50You're talking about what we were just talking about, right is something's got to
- 1:05:54give. And and Linden at home, Oh boy, man, they got
- 1:05:58some really good cheers going on out of the dugout some some uh some what
- 1:06:02do you call the not not chance but uh uh, they just have some
- 1:06:06really good creative stuff and they get going and they get on a roll.
- 1:06:10They they start scoring runs in bunches, and uh like, watching them practice
- 1:06:15defensively is sharp. Man. They are throwing hard, they are getting in
- 1:06:18front of everything, they're rallying, they're excited listening to the music. It's
- 1:06:24a that's gonna be a really really good game. And at the exact same
- 1:06:28time over at Squalicum High School Tennis see home at Squalalkum see them is gonna
- 1:06:33be back to full strength after you know, a lot of their players missed
- 1:06:36on Friday, and Squalicum's only lost one match all year, So that's gonna
- 1:06:42be a really really good match. Seem's gonna be favored, but you know,
- 1:06:46if Squalicum can can get a few upsets in there, who knows what's
- 1:06:50gonna happen. So that's gonna be a really really good matchup as well.
- 1:06:53Again, both of these girls events at the exact same time Tuesday at four
- 1:06:58o'clock. I think I'm just gonna take like the file at Knife and split
- 1:07:01myself in two and then just kind of send myself to both things so I
- 1:07:04can see both. Make sure I have an eye on each one so you
- 1:07:08know, I can watch. I saw Fred Flintstone do something like that one
- 1:07:12time. You know, he was like, maybe that's my inspiration. He
- 1:07:15was at home and at the what was the like White Buffalo or whatever it
- 1:07:18was that they were, you know, the the lodge or whatever. I
- 1:07:20can't remember, right, Tyler, tell me something In fast pitch when they're
- 1:07:28in between innings up there, did they send all of the girls that are
- 1:07:30on the bench out to warm up? Yes, out in the like left
- 1:07:34field or right field. Yeah. I'd never seen that before. And and
- 1:07:38I was at, you know, one of our fast pitch games earlier in
- 1:07:41the season, and all of a sudden, you know, at the end
- 1:07:44of the inning, you know, they get three out or whatever, and
- 1:07:45all of a sudden, all the girls go take off running out there,
- 1:07:47and I think it's you know, in baseball, a lot of times you'll
- 1:07:50see the guys on the bench go run down to the run to the fence
- 1:07:54and back. Yeah, they run down to the to the basically the foul
- 1:07:56pulling back is what they do. Yeah, right, right, And so
- 1:07:59I thought that's what they were all doing. But then I realized they all
- 1:08:00had gloves on. And then I look over and they're all out there throwing,
- 1:08:02and I was like, wait, what is going on here? And
- 1:08:04then I'm thinking to myself, it's actually brilliant. I mean, it really
- 1:08:08is, because then if they need to go into a game, they're already
- 1:08:11kind of warm, Like, yeah, I was like it was actually brilliant,
- 1:08:13but I'd never seen it before. It was crazy. There was a
- 1:08:15there was one field umpire I saw it State last year, who was really
- 1:08:19strict with like with his clock in between innings. And it was so funny
- 1:08:24because I remember I was watching was that when Elsie was playing there. They're
- 1:08:28like they're opening around game or whatever you want to call it. On Thursday,
- 1:08:30Yeah, and I was there and I was on Elsie's side, and
- 1:08:33and all the girls kind of just you know, jogged out there and they
- 1:08:38didn't even get lined up yet, and I'm just like, ball's in.
- 1:08:42They all jogged back in the deck out. They didn't even get to throw.
- 1:08:45And I think after like two or three innings of that happening, they
- 1:08:47just stopped going out there because you know, I mean maybe they just ran
- 1:08:50around a little bit, but I don't think they ever got to play catch
- 1:08:53because they were that guy was interested and getting the game moving, and I
- 1:08:57get it at State, like there's a lot of games to be played,
- 1:08:59and it's you know, yeah, very very goodness, dude, Like,
- 1:09:02yeah, it was just funny. I just I kept looking at on they
- 1:09:08can they just throw it once, you know, because they weren't even getting
- 1:09:11that opportunity. It was they had to like hurry up and get out there
- 1:09:15really fast. You know, that's funny. Anything else, Tyler, We've
- 1:09:17done, think we're done, all righty, Well again, thank you to
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- 1:09:57been episode of two hundred and fifty Spring Sports Weekly wrap Up. He's Tyler
- 1:10:00Anderson, I'm Roylan Spencer. We will talk to you next week. What that