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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 450 - Week 4 Football Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast.
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  Speaker 2: This is episode 450, the week four football recap, and
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  Speaker 2: I am Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps. Do you live
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  Speaker 2: in Whatcom, Skagit Island, or San Juan County and want
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  Speaker 2: to become an official?
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  Speaker 1: Officiating is a great way to give back to your
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  Speaker 1: community and ensure our youth have an opportunity to compete
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  Speaker 1: in athletics. Go to nwofficials.com today and learn how you
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  Speaker 1: can get involved. All right, let's check it out. We've
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of games to go over. We have
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  Speaker 1: two of them from Thursday. We're going to start with
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  Speaker 1: those ones. The first one, Linden all over Bellingham, 57-0.
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  Speaker 1: It was Linden's homecoming game. And it was the first
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  Speaker 1: time these two teams have played each other in about
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  Speaker 1: 10 years. And it was just kind of the perfect
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  Speaker 1: storm for Bellingham as their starting quarterback was injured and
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  Speaker 1: he could not suit up. they had to go with
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  Speaker 1: the backup who was a freshman, Nick Leonard. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're a freshman quarterback and your first ever varsity start
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  Speaker 1: is on the road at Linden on homecoming night in
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  Speaker 1: the rain, um, that was a tough task. So, um,
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  Speaker 1: that's a, that's really, really hard to do the lions.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was all lions. They, they only ran
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  Speaker 1: 36 plays the entire game. Um, It was 48-0 at
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  Speaker 1: the half. They scored three defensive touchdowns and got a safety. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it was, you know, the defense scored almost
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  Speaker 1: half the points. And there was nothing they could really
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  Speaker 1: do to stop them. Leading the way, Russian, was Cash Triplett,
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  Speaker 1: who's their third or fourth running back. Eight carries for
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  Speaker 1: 87 yards. He had two touchdowns. Um, Dawson Van Dalen,
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  Speaker 1: 56 yards and five carries. He also had a touchdown.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Postman, two carries for 48 yards. He had a
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  Speaker 1: touchdown and Jack Lovegren, five, five carries for 29 yards. Um, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was, it was a lot of Linden. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of the time they only had to go to the
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  Speaker 1: air seven times in the game. A lot of teams
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  Speaker 1: this week didn't throw a lot, especially on Friday night. Um,
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  Speaker 1: just cause of the weather. Um, They held Bellingham to
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  Speaker 1: negative three yards rushing and 37 yards overall for the game.
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  Speaker 1: Early on, there was a play where Bellingham was back
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  Speaker 1: to punt. The snap went over the punter's head. Alejandro
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  Speaker 1: Pringle tried to get rid of it near the goal
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  Speaker 1: line and just tossed up a desperation throw. And it
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  Speaker 1: was intercepted by Landon Tolsma, who took it in for
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown. Caden Brown had an 83-yard pick six, the
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  Speaker 1: big Defensive end dropped back in the flat there and
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  Speaker 1: intercepted one and then showed his speed there. And then
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  Speaker 1: Nick Rentis had a 25-yard fumbled return. So those were
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  Speaker 1: the three defensive touchdowns. And then on the last play
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  Speaker 1: of the game, Noah Streiksma sacked Nick Leonard in the
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  Speaker 1: end zone and ended up being a safety. So it
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  Speaker 1: was a lot going right for the Linden Lions. And
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham will just have to regroup and they will go
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  Speaker 1: on the road and take on Marysville Pilchuck on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll talk about next week's games in the next podcast,
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  Speaker 1: where we talk to coaches and kind of get a
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  Speaker 1: feel for all that kind of stuff. But defensive wise,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Adam Holman made his presence known early on,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he only played a few series, but he
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  Speaker 1: had two and a half tackles for a loss. The
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  Speaker 1: inside linebacker. Again, I talked about, you know, the defensive
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  Speaker 1: touchdowns by the other guys. They just, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: guys getting into the game. Once they got to the
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  Speaker 1: second half, You could see full line changes like they
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  Speaker 1: would in hockey. Try to get everybody in there with
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  Speaker 1: the running clock going. Defensively for Bellingham, Matthew Steele had
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  Speaker 1: an interception. It was actually the first time Linden had
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  Speaker 1: been intercepted all season. So pretty great job there by
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Steele. Had a pretty good return as well. But
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  Speaker 1: it was that very next play that it was the
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  Speaker 1: pick six the other way. So it was tough for
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  Speaker 1: Bellingham to get anything going. The other game on Thursday night,
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  Speaker 1: Glacier Peak 4A team, the Grizzlies, came to town to
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  Speaker 1: take on Ferndale. Ferndale undefeated going into the game. Glacier
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  Speaker 1: Peak was 1-2. But those two losses were to a
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  Speaker 1: couple 4A powers with, I believe it was Skyline and Bothell. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that Glacier Peak team was loaded. And I
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  Speaker 1: got to go there. I'm not going to be going
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  Speaker 1: out to games Friday nights until at least the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: because of the live show that I'm doing in the studio.
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  Speaker 1: But Thursday and Saturday, I am able to make it
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  Speaker 1: out to games here and there when I can. There's
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  Speaker 1: obviously other sports going on as well. And I did
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  Speaker 1: make it out to this one. I was there for
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  Speaker 1: pretty much the entire first half. And Glacier Peak was
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  Speaker 1: just winging it down the field. They ended up completing
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  Speaker 1: 12 of their 15 attempts for the game for 227 yards,
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  Speaker 1: with the vast majority of that being in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: They did score early on a touchdown pass. And then
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  Speaker 1: Elliot Lenson came back and had a 64-yard touchdown run.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought it might be a shootout back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: But after that, it was Glacier Peak over and over
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  Speaker 1: and over again scoring touchdowns with long touchdown passes. And
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  Speaker 1: Ferndale's not really built to throw the ball a whole lot.
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  Speaker 1: And they have to come back. They did go to
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  Speaker 1: the air 21 times, which was... Quite a bit, and
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  Speaker 1: I have to look and see the last time they
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  Speaker 1: attempted 21 passes in a single game. And there were
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  Speaker 1: moments when they were only down by two scores and
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  Speaker 1: they were driving, but then a pass would get tipped,
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  Speaker 1: it got intercepted, and it completely flipped the field, and
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  Speaker 1: then Glacier Peak scored on the next play. And it just,
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  Speaker 1: those kinds of things. Ferndale did score a couple touchdowns late,
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  Speaker 1: a couple three-yard touchdown runs by Elliott Lenson and Wyatt Broyles.
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  Speaker 1: Final score, 35-22. Glacier Peak winning. It was great to
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  Speaker 1: see Chance Hatchet back out there. Not 100% yet. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't play every snap on offense and every snap on
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  Speaker 1: defense like you would expect him to. But he still
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  Speaker 1: had three catches for 38 yards. Had a handful of
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  Speaker 1: tackles as well. It was one of those games that
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  Speaker 1: You know, Ferndale was, they were so amped up, you know,
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  Speaker 1: 3-0 going into it. You're at home on a Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: And so a lot of eyeballs on that game at
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  Speaker 1: that time. But Glacier Peak was just loaded. And it's,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's just what's going to happen. And they've been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they've, they schedule tough. And that's a, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good part of it. And now they're going
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  Speaker 1: to go into league play starting next week. And when
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  Speaker 1: you look at the rest of the league, You got
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  Speaker 1: to look at Ferndale as one of the favorites there.
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  Speaker 1: So based on what they've done so far against some
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  Speaker 1: pretty good opponents. So I think that they'll be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: Elliot Lenson, 29 carries for 167 yards. He's almost to
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  Speaker 1: a thousand yards already on the season. And we haven't
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  Speaker 1: even gotten into conference play yet. Wyatt Broyles, 16 carries
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  Speaker 1: for 55 yards. Sawyer Saab, nine of 21 for 116 yards.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, Chance Hatchett had three catches for
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  Speaker 1: 38 yards. Hank Whitaker, two catches for 33 yards. Johnny Mahaffey,
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  Speaker 1: Elliot Lenson, Parker McManus, and Luke Bader all had a
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  Speaker 1: catch as well. On the defensive side of the ball,
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  Speaker 1: Brock Hoyt, six tackles, a sack, a forced fumble, a
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  Speaker 1: fumble recovery. Mason Buttonshone, seven half tackles, half a tackle
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  Speaker 1: for loss, a forced fumble as well.
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: Some good things there, but again, that opponent was really
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  Speaker 1: something special. And so Ferndale suffers their first loss of
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  Speaker 1: the year. We move on to Friday night now, and
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  Speaker 1: this was a really rainy night out at Nooksack Valley,
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  Speaker 1: Sid Lambert Field, as the Squalicum Storm came to town
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  Speaker 1: for the first ever matchup between these two teams, which
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  Speaker 1: is a really, really cool deal. I love these inter-county
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  Speaker 1: games that you don't see too often. We've got another
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  Speaker 1: one later with Siegelman Meridian in a few weeks, which
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  Speaker 1: will be great to see as well. And it's just,
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  Speaker 1: I love it when it happens. It's fantastic. And now
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  Speaker 1: with the 2A, with how many conference games they have,
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  Speaker 1: they really only have that one non-conference game to schedule.
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  Speaker 1: And I hope they reach out to the 1A teams
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  Speaker 1: because there's no slouches there. So it's still good competition there.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, I even hope that in week 10, if
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  Speaker 1: teams don't make the playoffs and you have to have
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  Speaker 1: a crossover game for week 10, you know, I hope
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  Speaker 1: the two A's and one A's that didn't make it
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  Speaker 1: can cross over and play each other. Cause then you
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  Speaker 1: do cut down on travel. You get a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: crowd that way. And it's a win-win I think, cause
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  Speaker 1: it's good competition. So, but in this game, boy, Nooksack Valley,
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  Speaker 1: it was all pioneers early on. They score three touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: in the first quarter, all on the ground. And it's 19-0,
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  Speaker 1: and you're thinking, my goodness, they're going to put a
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  Speaker 1: running clock on him. But it was completely different the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the way. As the squalicum storm went to
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  Speaker 1: Maddox Strickland quite a bit, he scores a touchdown through
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  Speaker 1: the air and on the ground. But that would be it.
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  Speaker 1: But it was– the second half was, boy, multiple long plays,
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  Speaker 1: touchdown plays, turnovers that were called back because of penalties.
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  Speaker 1: Then there were lots of fumbles and, you know, long
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  Speaker 1: drives that would end in a fumble and then a
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  Speaker 1: long drive the other way and in a fumble. And
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  Speaker 1: so there was just there was no hardly any scoring
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  Speaker 1: in the second half. It was just six points by Squalicum.
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  Speaker 1: That would be it as the Pioneers held on to
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  Speaker 1: win 19 to 12. And Nooksack Valley still undefeated on
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  Speaker 1: the season. They're the only 4-0 school in Whatcom County.
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  Speaker 1: Lummi Nation is 3-0. And then you've got the one-loss
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  Speaker 1: teams in there, like Mount Baker and Lyndon Christian and
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  Speaker 1: Lyndon and Erndale. But right now, Nooksack Valley looking like
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  Speaker 1: they're the real deal and did some really good things
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  Speaker 1: on the ground once again. Trevon Skenstra, 12 carries for
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  Speaker 1: 174 yards and a long 70-yard touchdown run. Trey Hutink
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  Speaker 1: had two more scores, 36 yards on the ground. Lucas Woodridge,
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  Speaker 1: six for 12 through the air for 39 yards. Tyler Martin,
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  Speaker 1: three catches. Dane Ackerman, two catches. And Jaden Jones had
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  Speaker 1: a reception as well. For Squalicum, they really went heavy
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. And I thought it was a good
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  Speaker 1: game plan, especially with the weather, the way that it was.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't really tell on film how bad it was.
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  Speaker 1: And then I saw videos of Squalicum cheerleaders dancing in
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  Speaker 1: the rain the next day and and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: Holy cow, that rain is really coming down. And, um,
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  Speaker 1: and Squalicum did what they tried to do. They, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Strickland and Tucker Hofstede each had 20 carries. They each
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  Speaker 1: had 20 carries and they did a lot with it. Strickland,
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  Speaker 1: 150 yards on the ground. That's a career high for him.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker Hofstede, 87 yards on the ground, hard earned yards
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  Speaker 1: by both of those guys. And, um, They outgained Nooksack
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  Speaker 1: Valley in yards for the game. It was just turnovers
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  Speaker 1: that really did them in, and mostly fumbles. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was really slippery out there, and so you kind
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  Speaker 1: of understand that happening here and there. Phoenix Price, four
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  Speaker 1: for 13 through the air, 31 yards. Maddox Strickland, two
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  Speaker 1: catches for 16 yards, and then Elias Laranaga and Tucker
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  Speaker 1: Hofstad each had a catch as well. But the Pioneers
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  Speaker 1: staying undefeated defensive wise. Tyler Martin, another huge game, 11
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  Speaker 1: and a half tackles, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery
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  Speaker 1: and an interception. I mean, my goodness, he did a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stuff there. And man, he's he's turning into
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  Speaker 1: one of the best players in Whatcom County today. And
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  Speaker 1: he's shooting up that list right now. I haven't really
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  Speaker 1: thought about the top 100 list that much yet. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just kind of still taking it all in, but that's
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  Speaker 1: a guy that's, you know, every week he's proving in
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  Speaker 1: a year, week in and week out that he, he
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  Speaker 1: belongs on that list and he belongs high on that list.
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  Speaker 1: Silas Tierna had a really good game too at linebacker,
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  Speaker 1: 10 and a half tackles, one and a half tackles
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  Speaker 1: for loss. Max Lautenbach, again, great, great player, five tackles,
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  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss, a forced fumble, uh, Trevick McMillan,
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  Speaker 1: six and a half tackles and a half tackle for loss.
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  Speaker 1: I thought Dane Ackerman had one of his better defensive
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  Speaker 1: games as well. He also had six and a half
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  Speaker 1: tackles and a tackle for loss. So, um, it's a
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  Speaker 1: great overall game by the pioneers for Squalicum on defense. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: Mason Sone, I thought had a pretty good game, five
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  Speaker 1: and a half tackles. He had two passes broken up. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and a fumble recovery. Maddox Strickland, six tackles, a tackle
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  Speaker 1: for loss. He also had a fumble recovery. Noah Gilbert
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  Speaker 1: had five and a half tackles and a tackle for loss.
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  Speaker 1: And Brock Scammell, four tackles, a half tackle for loss,
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  Speaker 1: and a forced fumble as well. So, Squalicum, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to have to bounce back. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a really tough week for them as I believe
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  Speaker 1: they're playing Archbishop Murphy this upcoming week. And Nooksack Valley
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  Speaker 1: will open up a league play. I believe they're hosting Blaine. So, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be good. I think there are two
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  Speaker 1: teams that are... It was a really good matchup, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that they played each other. And I think
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  Speaker 1: it's two teams that have those playoff aspirations. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to be really tough in 2A because it looks like
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be five teams that will get to
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  Speaker 1: the round of 32, and there's four right now that
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  Speaker 1: are really making a name for themselves. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Anacortes, Archbishop Murphy, Linden, and Burlington Edison kind
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  Speaker 1: of standing out there. And that fifth team, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's a battle of the city schools. And so Squalicum
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  Speaker 1: right now has that upper hand because they did beat Sehome.
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  Speaker 1: They played Bellingham later in the year. Of course, Bellingham
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  Speaker 1: and Sehome haven't played each other yet. So a lot
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  Speaker 1: of football still to be played as Nooksack Valley looking
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  Speaker 1: pretty good going into their 1A conference schedule. So Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Nooksack Valley 19, Squalicum 12 in the first ever matchup
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  Speaker 1: between the two Whatcom County schools. For our next game
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night, we head out to Civic Stadium and
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  Speaker 1: our coach, Jeff Wood, was there. Coach, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: joining me today. How are you doing? I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 3: How are you, Tyler?
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  Speaker 1: Doing all right.
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  Speaker 4: So you've had a string of pretty good games that
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  Speaker 4: you've been able to cover, which makes it– I don't
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  Speaker 4: know about you, but when I'm writing a story about
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  Speaker 4: a game and it's a good game, it makes it
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  Speaker 4: a lot easier to write.
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  Speaker 1: It just kind of writes itself. Um, and this one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Lakewood started out great, but see home came
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  Speaker 1: back and there was a lot of big plays back
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  Speaker 1: and forth and see home hung on and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of tell us about, uh, first of all, just maybe
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  Speaker 1: what you saw starting out and what made Lakewood successful
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  Speaker 1: early on.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Lakewood, uh, they spread you out and they have
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  Speaker 3: a really athletic quarterback. That's got a good strong arm,
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  Speaker 3: pretty accurate. And so see home hadn't seen. a ton
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  Speaker 3: of passing game at this year and they have a
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  Speaker 3: solid secondary, good athletes back there. Uh, but I mean, just,
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  Speaker 3: just getting used to that. And then, you know, Lakewood doesn't,
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  Speaker 3: they're still relatively balanced.
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  Speaker 4: Um, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And they, they got on the board first, the Cougars did.
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  Speaker 3: And then, man, uh, I've seen a lot of onsite
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  Speaker 3: kicks already this year. So they kind of hit the
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  Speaker 3: one into the void. Uh, You know, not deep, but
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  Speaker 3: it was a shorter one, kind of, you know, right
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  Speaker 3: past the front line.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And were able to recover it. And then, so they
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  Speaker 3: followed that up with another touchdown. And like I said
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  Speaker 3: in my article, they do the swinging gate. And they've
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  Speaker 3: done that for a long time. When I was coaching,
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  Speaker 3: they would do it in the middle of the field.
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  Speaker 3: And they had, shoot, eight, ten different plays from it.
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  Speaker 3: And it was a lot to prepare for. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: this time they, I think it was three on three
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  Speaker 3: on the side with the quarterback in the center. And
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  Speaker 3: the quarterback, you know, really good athlete. He was going
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  Speaker 3: for the edge and didn't pitch it. And a lot
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  Speaker 3: of took him down and made a great tackle. So
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  Speaker 3: held it to 13-0 instead of 14-0. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And as you mentioned in the story, that would be
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  Speaker 1: a big factor later on in the game. Um, the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners did something that I was kind of hoping they
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  Speaker 1: would do, which is they went to the run game, uh,
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  Speaker 1: quite a bit in which I thought that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: against Lakewood, that's been a way to get them. It
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  Speaker 1: seems like, it seems like they're more of a smaller,
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  Speaker 1: faster team. If, I don't know if that's fair to say,
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  Speaker 1: but Seaholm's got some big dudes up front, and I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of thinking going into that game, that might
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  Speaker 1: be the game plan, which is tough to do if
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  Speaker 1: you're down two scores early on. It's hard to come
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  Speaker 1: back if you're just going to be pounding the ball,
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  Speaker 1: but they do end up running quite a bit. Like
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  Speaker 1: I said, I wasn't there. What was the weather like
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  Speaker 1: that night?
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  Speaker 3: You know, the first half was tough. You know, the
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: turf was probably wet, but it wasn't really raining. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: then it was raining the second half. But, again, you're
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: rotating balls. And it wasn't windy. So I don't think
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: it made that much of a difference. I didn't see any,
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: you know, slipped ball. There were a few fumbles. But,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: you know, in terms of I think they were recovered
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: by their own team. But, anyway, it didn't seem to
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: be a major factor. But, yeah, Sehome, you know, being
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: a pretty young team, you know, they graduated early. A
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: lot of those studs from last year, being down 13-0,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: they showed some great resolve and didn't hang their heads
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: and came down and, you know, scored. And they were real,
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: like you said, they were really feeding. Cash Barnes was back.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: He'd missed a couple weeks. And with Lakewood running that,
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: usually they're kind of in that 3-3 stack. So you
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: kind of have some angles. There's not as many guys
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: in the box. And even when they did start to
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: bring in more guys in the box, you know, Seaholm's got,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: you know, everybody knows about Logan Rogers, but they got
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: some other pretty dang good offensive linemen. They got Owen
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Reed at center, Mason Holmes is at the other tackle,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: the Carmona brothers, and Theo Schoenlein. Yeah, so they were
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: just leaning on those Lakewood Cougars, and the run game
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: was working for the Mariners.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Those are some big dudes up front. You know,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, Theo Schoenlein is a big dude and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: he showed a lot on defense as well. A big
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: play in that first half, you know, when Lakewood goes
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: up 20 to 7 and it's, you know, it's getting
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: kind of late. It's almost halftime. They kick it off.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Nicky Smith makes a play there. Kind of take us
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: through that play.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Well, he dropped the kickoff.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: It was right around the 20, 22, and it came
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: right back up to him and he grabbed it. So
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: sometimes that, and you've seen that play before where that
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: happens in the, the, just the timing of it sometimes
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: helps the returner and the blockers and yeah, well blocked.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: And he was able to get to the sideline and,
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I think it was either one of the Lakewood receivers'
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: defensive backs was chasing him down and caught him right
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: at the goal line, but he got in.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a great return by Nicky Smith, and
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: you're absolutely right. If people remember the Seahawks Super Bowl
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: over the Broncos, the second half kickoff, Percy Harvin drops it,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: and it allows that pursuit to just come a little
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: bit more, and then by the time he picked it up,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it's almost like over-pursued at that point. And he was
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: able to run in for a touchdown and that's, you know,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: to coach's point, that's what he's talking about. That it's
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: weird when that happens, but it can really benefit if
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: you got a guy that can grab it and go
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and make something happen. A lot of times, you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: you grab it and you're surrounded, but in this case
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: it really worked out. And then after that, after that, um,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: kickoff return, um, there's not a lot of time left.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I believe it was after that. You, I, you might
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: correct me, but I think it was after that when, uh,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It was late in the first half, and then Bane
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Mitchell with the kickoff had a little play there.
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so he did, like in the Meridian game last week,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: just hit as hard as you can right at the
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: front guy, and it went off the Lakewood guy, and
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Bane recovered it himself, and so that was good. And
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: then they had a chance, and he actually kicked a
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: successful field goal, but they had to delay a game,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: and Seaholm had to fight through some penalties there. in
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: this game. So, uh, yeah, that took some points off
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: the board and they were, they were able to survive
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: that luckily.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And I was, it was crazy. Cause the, the view
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: that I was watching at the moment, uh, after the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: delay of game, we couldn't tell if he had made
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the first one, uh, and the film I saw later, you,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: you could see it. And then he had to, so
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: he had to back it up five yards to a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: 42 yarder, which is no gimme by any stretch in
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: high school. And, um, when he, I mean, I wasn't
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: shocked that he missed it, but when I saw the film,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, if it would have been straight, that would
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: have been good from like 50-something because he really got
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: a hold of it. And if you see in the film,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: he's He's back like at least five yards from the holder.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Like he took a good running stab at it, got
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: it well. It just went wide left, which was kind
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: of a bummer. But Seaholm gets on the board first
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: in the third quarter with a touchdown pass to Devin Bankson.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Good to see him back out there. He missed last
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: week with a concussion. And that whole second half, like
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: you said in the story, it was Cash Barnes and
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: that offensive line.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You know, they really, uh, blocked well and he ran
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: what sometimes he had, uh, what it looked from our
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: angle up, up top, you know, some outside opportunities, but
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: he's such a North South runner and that's a good
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: quality to have is he's just going, you know, and
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: he'll make cuts, but, uh, he definitely keeps it North
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: South and that's, uh, and always falling forward and good,
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: strong kid. And then, uh, Yeah, the passing game was
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: balanced out. You know, Devin had a great catch on that.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: You know, it was well covered. And it was just
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: a nice, accurate throw by Jad. And he kind of
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: broke the tackle and scored. That was on their first
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: drive coming out of half. So that really got the
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: momentum going. And then, yeah, the Cougars didn't give up.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: And they, you know, came back and scored. Uh, and then, uh,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you know, I think just the, just the running game
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: was able to, uh, take control there in the fourth
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: quarter for Sehome and, uh, get them that win. Oh,
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: and then, you know, Barnes had a lot of those,
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: but then Smith had the other touchdown on kind of a,
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: was it a forward to Ollie Johnson was lead block
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: and it was to the short side of the field
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: so that there wasn't a lot of room, but it
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: was blocked well. And that was like a 60, 65 yarder.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: So that was a good play as well when they're
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: running so much straight, you know, off tackle.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. So two huge plays by Nikki Smith there who,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you know, is listed as a wide receiver has been
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: playing mostly wide receiver, but he has that running back
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: skill as he's been playing that spot. kind of as
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a backup the last three years to Sawyer Woods and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: different guys. And then so this year I kind of
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: thought he might be the guy, knowing that Cash Barnes
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: was pretty good too. So they find a way to
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: get him the ball. He's got great speed, and he
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: broke off that touchdown. Of course, Bane Mitchell makes all
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: of his extra points, which gives them that eight-point lead late.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Lakewood has the ball, and there was– they had a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: couple of different opportunities at the end. Um, there was
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: one time when, uh, Callum LaPlante intercepted the pass, but
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: then it was taken back on a penalty and Devin
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Bankson intercepts a pass. And, and you think that's going
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to be kind of it, but they get the ball
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: again late. They drive down the field. They even had
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a throw into the end zone that gets knocked down
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: by Avery flag. And that's that. And see him picks
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: up their first win. And, and, um, you know, this is,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: you saw them in week one. Now you've seen them
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: in week four, both games in person. Um, I, I
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: would imagine you've seen some pretty big improvements here.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. Uh, improvement and getting some guys back
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: from injury and, you know, see homes always had, uh,
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you know, good players, quality players, but not a ton
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: of depth. So I remember when we're, uh, going pretty good, we, we'd, uh,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: be dressing sometimes less than 30 guys just like they
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: did on Friday night. But if those guys can stay
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: healthy and, you know, are in good condition, then they
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: can compete with a lot of other teams. So, yeah,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: it was good to see that group gel and get
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: that victory.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Cash Barnes, 200 yards on the ground on 27 carries.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: And like you mentioned in the story, a big, big
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: chunk of it coming in the second half, 177 yards.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: of his 200 yards in the second half. Of course,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Nicky Smith with the two long touchdowns. Jack Geiger gets
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the touchdown pass. Bankson's back playing great defense as well.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Lotto with the big stop. It was a great team
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: effort by the Mariners to get that win on the board.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Thanks a lot, Coach, for joining me in the Coach's Corner,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and I'll talk to you later. All right.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Thanks, Tyler.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: All right. That's Coach Wood telling you like it is
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: out there at Civic Stadium. A great game for the Mariners.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and picking up their first win of the year. So
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: congratulations to them and your prize for that. Now you've
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: got to face Linden. So it's going to be a
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: tough one there. But, hey, you never know. A lot
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of green and gold on the field, and we'll just
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: kind of have to wait and see how that goes.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Next up, the Meridian Trojans go on the road to
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: take on Onalaska. And the Loggers, I think they were
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: ranked the top 2B team in the state going into
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: that game. And they are a running machine. And I
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: was kind of talking with Patrick Ames about I was
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: kind of joking, but I was being serious, too, during
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the week. I said the way I think the best
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: way to get them really is this. You have to
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: score a few touchdowns early and and and then just
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: stay on them because they want to control the clock.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: They want to hold on to the ball. And if
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: you're up early, then it might force them to to
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: throw more times than usual. And that's not their forte
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: at all. And that's exactly what happened. Meridian went down.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: The bus legs did not seem to be apparent at all.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And they scored the first three touchdowns of the game
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: up 21-0 in the second quarter. And I thought, my goodness,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: this is going to happen. And it's basically what happened.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, Onalaska ended up throwing the ball six times
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: in the game, which is a lot for them. Usually it's,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: you know, one. You know, they've played games where they
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: have not thrown a pass Most games it's one, sometimes two.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Usually when they have a second pass, it gets intercepted.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: And this one, they had to throw the ball six times.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: They even threw a touchdown pass in the game, which was,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you know, holy cow. But boy, it was all Meridian.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Trey Alexander, another huge game. 26 of 32 through the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: air for 378 yards and four touchdowns. Three of them
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: go into Casey Brennan, who had a career game as well.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: 11 catches for 165 yards. and three touchdowns as he
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: is knocking on the door to 100 receptions in his career,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: which is a huge number that not a lot of
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: players in Whatcom County history have done. I think it's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: around 22, 23 players have ever done that out of 10,000.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So pretty incredible what Casey Brennan is is getting close
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: to here. Uh, Trey Alexander also led them in rushing
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: with 10 carries for 39 yards. Uh, there was a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: couple of rushing touchdowns to Pierce Brzozowski had a three
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: yard touchdown run. Jackson fan and steel had a one
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: yard touchdown run. And, um, and that defense played, you know,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: extremely well for being on the field as much as
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: they were on Alaska, ran the ball 60 times. They
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: ran more plays than Meridian did. That's kind of what
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: they do. That's their game plan. But Meridian just had
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: more explosive plays and were able to get in the
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: end zone. Also, I thought it was interesting. Ryan Wynn,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the linebacker for Meridian, he had a game plan of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: stripping the ball out, and he did it twice. One
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: of them was recovered by Meridian. Jackson Fanninsteel had a recovery. And,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: you know, that's one way, you know, when you, when you,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: when you play a team that's more balanced or more
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: pass heavy, you know, you have, there's, there's, um, ways,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: you know, to get the ball with interceptions and different
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: things or deflections and you never know, or sack the quarterback,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: the ball comes out. But when you play a run
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: heavy team, it's turnovers are a little more difficult. So
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: you really have to try to go for that ball.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: And Ryan Wynn was doing that and he was successful
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: a few times. Um, Ethan Valich, my goodness. I mean,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: you're going to put up big numbers if you're in
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the middle of that all game and they run the
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: ball 60 times. But he had 16 and a half tackles,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: which is a huge number. Very, very impressive there. Wynn
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: had 10 and a half himself. Just, you know, a
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: lot of, you know, digging in there and getting plays
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: and making things happen. Trevin Crabtree, I thought, had a
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: really good game defensively as well. Seven and a half tackles,
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss. Casey Brennan had eight tackles to
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: go along with his great offensive game and Meridian picks
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: up the win 41 to 22. They now want two
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: games in a row going into conference play. And, and
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot like last year where so
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: many of these key players for them are out with injuries.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: But I think that, I think that they are adapting
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: to it a little better maybe than last year. Yeah.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: cause it's about the same number. I mean, there are
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: some key, key players out right now for Meridian. When
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: you talk about Lincoln Burgess and River Todd and Braden Fisher,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: these are dudes, these are two way starters that are out. And,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: and Meridian is finding a way with lots of other
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: guys stepping up. You know, you see in Jamison Alexander, uh,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: playing tight end, he had five catches for 82 yards.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: He had a, he had a great game. Um, you know,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: case and Colt had three more catches for 38 yards. Um,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: You know, like I brought up Crabtree, you know, a
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: lot of these guys that are probably playing more snaps
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: than they would have. And they're and they're making the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: best of it. And that's that's what you love to see.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: So congratulations to the Trojans. And I'll be honest, I
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: did not think that that was a game that they
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: would win. I thought it was a win a bowl game,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: but I thought that on Alaska would probably get them,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of based on them playing Liberty Bell
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: earlier on in the year, who's also a 2B team.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: And they're a team that might be in the top 10.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Onalaska was the top-ranked team. And so for them to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: beat them and pretty much double them up is very,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: very impressive. So that shows me that progression from Week
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: 1 to Week 4. Meridian did a lot of really
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: good things. So congratulations to them on the win. Next
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: up on Friday night, I believe it's our last game
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: to talk about for Friday night, is Mount Baker. puts
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the O in OMAC, beating them 41-0. The shutout win,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and they looked really good. I don't even think that
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: they allowed 100 yards total. OMAC had the ball for
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: 54 plays and averaged less than two yards a play.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Mount Baker, it was all Mountaineers as they put up
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: 362 yards of offense, scored six touchdowns, five of them
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: on the ground. Andrew Monteith, who had his first 100-yard
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: rushing game, scored his first touchdown last week when he
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: scored three of them. This week it was no touchdowns,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: but he did all the work gaining 138 yards on
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the ground, getting them into the red zone for the touchdowns.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Noah Nicole Mills, six carries for 72 yards. He had
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a long 31-yard touchdown run. Anok Smith, eight carries for
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: 70 yards. Three of them go for touchdowns. He also
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: made five of his six extra point attempts. Gage Smith,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: two carries for 29 yards. Boy, he had another one
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: that it was blown on an inadvertent whistle where he
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: would have been gone. And yeah, that happens. I know
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: that's not Coach Lep's favorite thing. It was such a
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: great slide of hand by Tyson Barksdale, and they've just
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: got that down so well. I almost wonder if before
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: a play happens, if there could be something where Lep
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: could tell a side judge– and they can give a
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: hand code basically meaning like, hey, don't blow an inadvertent
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: whistle here because there's going to be some chicanery in
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: the backfield. I mean, the more I think about it,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the more that's a dumb idea because you don't want
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: the other team to kind of know what's going on. But, oh,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: it's just frustrating because you do something so well that
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: it doesn't work because you did it too well. And
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: it didn't matter. I mean, 41-0, Mount Baker with the
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: win there. So– It is what it is. Tyson Barksdale
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: scores a touchdown run and throws a touchdown pass. 27-yarder
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: over the middle to Pepe McAvoy-Salgado. Other catches by Zion
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Paglia and Noah Nicole Mills. A lot of guys defensively
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: doing a great job. I thought Isaac DeCreek had an
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: awesome game. He started at linebacker, which was cool to see.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Just his progression throughout the years and him playing really,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: really well his senior year. He had six tackles, one
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles for loss. a forced fumble and
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: an interception, uh, Gage Smith, who's been playing safety the
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: last couple of years, he got, he moved a corner
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: this week and he had two interceptions playing corner. So
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: that was a, that was a fantastic move and he
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: adapted pretty well to it. Aaron Torres. Um, there's not
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: that many interior defensive linemen that are as active and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: strong as he is eight and a half tackles, two
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: more tackles for loss. Um, I'm trying to think the
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: last great, um, or at least as good as him
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: into your defensive lineman for Mount Baker, you know, going
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: over the years, usually when they have a great defensive lineman,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: he plays on the outside, you know, even, um, TJ Bass,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: who's now playing for the Dallas Cowboys. He was the
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: biggest kid on the team, but he played defensive end,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: not defensive tackle. Uh, and he, and Aaron Torres is
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: one of the great ones. I mean, I, I have
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: to go back to like Carl Fromley, who was all
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: state in the, in the, in the mid nineties. Um,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: It's been a while since there's been a defensive tackle
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: that has had that kind of impact on a game,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: and Aaron Torres is doing a fantastic job. Zion Paglia
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: had nine tackles, a tackle for loss, just one of
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the really good tackling corners, which is great to have.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Pepe McAvoy-Salgado, another great game. He had a couple passes
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: broken up. He had a fumble recovery. Kel Reardon, obviously,
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: every week just seems like he's all over the place.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Five-and-a-half tackles, one-and-a-half tackles for loss. and a fumble recovery
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: as well. Ramsey Mitchell, if he can keep his helmet on,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: five tackles, one tackle for loss. I think his helmet
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: popped off twice in the same quarter. Get that kid
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a chin strap. Andrew Monteith, six tackles, one and a
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: half tackles for loss. So, so many guys doing a
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: great job on that Mount Baker defense. And of course,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: collectively putting it together to get the shutout win. Great,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: great job by Mount Baker. We go to Saturday now
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: as Linden Christian had another shutout. So another shutout in
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Whatcom County here as Linden Christian beat La Center 24-0,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: which I thought that they would win by two or
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: three scores, but I thought La Center might get into
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the end zone. But, man, it was all links. And
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: even early on, Dawson Hines with an interception on the
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: third play from scrimmage. They end up going down, scoring
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the touchdowns. They gave Kellen Blankers some run at quarterback.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: They put Hines out wide, see what he could do
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: at receiver. He had a few catches there, did a
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: good job. Jackson Yoon with a 26-yard field goal in
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the second quarter. And then right before the half, Hines
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: hit Chris Coyman on a 35-yard touchdown pass right down
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the seam as they went five wide as Coyman, who's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: normally the running back, split out. Didn't really split out,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: but he was more, you know, kind of like a
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: lined up, you know, a few yards off the tackle,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: but he was standing up as a receiver and like
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: as a slot receiver. And he just went down the
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: seam and there's no matchup for him. And that worked
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: out really, really well. I remember seeing that happen last year,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: a few times it worked out well. And then Chris
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Koyman in the second half had a touchdown run. He
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: finished with 21 carries for 132 yards. They were without
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: some big time players. You talk about Wyatt Campouse missing
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: his second straight game. He's a playmaker in all three
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: phases and, And then you, and then Caden Veldman and
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Eli stamps, both missing in action. And those are the
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: two inside linebackers. And you, when you have to replace
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: both those guys in one game, that's really, really tough.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: And I thought Gavin Van Lowe and Mason Berenson did
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: an awesome, awesome job. And that's your future at, at
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: inside linebacker. Those will be your inside linebackers last year.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: And I think the Lynx are very happy with that
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: because they both played extremely well. I thought Trey Morleg
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: played very well. Grant Adams. I thought everyone in the
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: secondary had a great game. Dawson Hines, Josh Senti had
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: his first career interception. So there were some really good
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: things that happened there for the Linden Christian Lynx and
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: keeping the center off the scoreboard. very well done for them.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Justin Kiewik had three catches. Heinz had three. Morleg had three.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: One of them he reached up and caught with one
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: hand in like a backhand kind of way. That play
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: is up for the Pepsi play of the week. It
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: was one of those kind of holy cow plays. Yeah,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: just a good overall game by the Lynx as they
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: go into conference play and did, you know, they play
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: so well at home. And having those Saturday games you know,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: day games. I don't know if, I would assume the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: center came up the same day. That's an early morning
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: for them. And, you know, LC got on, got on
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: them early and, and the center was never really able
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to recover. And in our last game of the week,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: it was another shutout, but it went the wrong way
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: as Kings came to town and beat Blaine 20 to zero.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: And it was just kind of an odd game to
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: watch because I don't think that they, dominated Blaine that much.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: They just, you know, had the ball a lot more,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: you know, they ran 71 plays. Blaine ran 47. Blaine
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: had dropped passes, especially there was one in the end
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: zone early. Um, it just kind of weird things that
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: happen and, you know, and they didn't get to play
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: football the week before. And so you kind of look
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: at that going, the rest versus rust thing. I think
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: for Isaac Bauma and Matt Campion, the rest was great
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: as they were, they had injuries. Um, but as far
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: as a lot of the other players, it was rust.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And so you put it all together, you play a
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: really good Kings team, you lose 20 to zero. And,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: and that's just a bummer. Um, Connor Brown led them
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: in rushing with 28 yards. He also completed 10 passes
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: for 156 yards. Peyton Bauma, four catches for 77 yards.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Isaac Bauma, three catches for 76 yards. But the defense
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: was on the field a lot. Like I said, for
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: 71 plays, which means they're going to put up some
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: pretty big numbers as they're out there a lot. Matt Campion,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: 15 and a half tackles and a tackle for loss.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Axel Shelton, 13 tackles, a tackle for loss and a
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: forced fumble. No surprise him putting up big numbers. Sehu Kanaji,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the junior defensive end, you know, he started a game
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: as a freshman at defensive end against Friday Harbor. He's
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: a kid that played some linebacker last year. Now he's
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: back at defensive end. And he was all over the place.
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Eight and a half tackles, three tackles for loss, doing
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: some good things down there. Tandy Heer and Isaac Bauma,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: he each had an interception. I thought the freshman, Dimitri Shvorak,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: had a really good game, three and a half tackles,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: a tackle for loss, a pass tipped. Peyton Bauman, nine
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: and a half tackles, a tackle for loss, a pass
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: broken up. Jackson Bogards was making plays as he was
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: coming up and run support. He's just a sophomore. So,
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: you know, I thought they played really well on defense,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: but like I said, they were just on the field
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: too much on defense. And that's, and that's, that's, that's tough.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I thought that I thought
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: they were going to do some different things in the
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: run game, but they really relied on Connor Brown a
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: lot and Kings was not fooled. And, and it might've
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: been just a matchup thing, trying to get things going there. And,
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: and in the passing game, it just never really got going.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: There was a few good long plays, but there were
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: some dropped passes. And, and like I said, sometimes when
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: you haven't played in a while, and then when you do,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: and it's a Saturday afternoon, it's just kind of, it's
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: just kind of different. It's, And it just did not
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: go Blaine's way. And Kings took advantage and scored three touchdowns.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was a two-score game in the fourth quarter.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: It was not like it was a blowout. So I
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: think Blaine would love to play that game again the
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: next day. And even at their place, it just wasn't
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: their day on Saturday. And sometimes that's just the way
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: that it goes. So let's take a look at the
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: players of the week. We're going to start off with
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: the Offensive Player of the Week, which is brought to
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: you by Walton Beverage. Walton Beverage has been a staple
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: in our community for 95 years, and I will continue
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: to work harder every day to make the fantastic people
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: at Walton Beverage proud to sponsor youth sports in our community.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: They deliver superior quality and commitment, and I plan to
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: do the very same. The Walton Beverage Offensive Player of
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: the Week, I'm going with Meridian's Casey Brennan. 11 catches
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: for 165 yards and 3 touchdowns. You know, I thought
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Trey Alexander was well deserving of this award as well.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Trevon Skeenstra, Cash Barnes. There was a lot of guys
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: that had big weeks on offense, but I thought Casey Brennan,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: what he did early on, especially to get way out
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: ahead of on Alaska and set that tone. He was
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: just finding ways to get open and he was catching
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: everything and they just, they just couldn't, they just couldn't
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: get ahold of him. And there was no, there was
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: no match for him. So congratulations to Casey Brennan. You
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: are the Walton beverage offensive player of the week. The
• 44:57
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• 45:12
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• 45:15
  Speaker 1: with a C and, M-A-B-E-R-R-Y farm.com. Boy, I went back
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: and forth and back and forth on this one for
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: the defensive player of the week. There were a handful
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: of guys that just had these awesome games and there
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: were shutouts across, you know, so you got to look
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: at that with a shutout win. There was multiple defensive
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: touchdowns that were scored. So I looked at all that,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: but when I really looked at everything and and the
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: opponent and what was needed to win and all that stuff.
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going, it's back to back weeks for Tyler Martin, uh,
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: 11 and a half tackles, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery,
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: and an interception. He also had another interception, but that
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: was called back on a penalty. Uh, he is having
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: a monster year on offense and defense. And, and he
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: even gave up the kicking duties. He's been the kicker
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: since he was a freshman. So, um, just what, A
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: great year he's had so far. A big, big reason
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: why they're undefeated. So congratulations to the Nooksack Valley Junior,
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Tyler Martin, once again being named the Kirk Mayberry Farm
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: Defensive Player of the Week. Excuse me. We move on
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: to special teams, and the Special Teams Player of the
• 46:32
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• 46:34
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• 46:38
  Speaker 1: at petsrealestate.com, P-E-T-Z. realestate.com. Again, there were some huge punts.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: There were field goals kicked, all sorts of those things.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: But the big one, and we talked about it with
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Coach Wood, Nicky Smith had that 78-yard kickoff return. And
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: when that happened, it was almost halftime and Seohan was down,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: I think it was like 20-7 when that kickoff took place.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: So that really jumped charged everything to shift the other way.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: So it was a huge play by Nikki Smith. So
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: congratulations to the Seaholmes senior, Nikki Smith. You are the
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: Pets Real Estate Special Teams Player of the Week. And finally,
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: the Anytime Fitness Offensive Lineman of the Week. Anytime Fitness,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: they checked them out in Linden, Linden North, and Ferndale.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: They also sponsor the scoreboards every Thursday, Friday, Saturday night
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: for football. This was... this one stood out to me
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: and I was, and I was kind of not that
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: I was calling for it, but I really thought that
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: see them's best chance to, to, to take it to
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Lakewood would be just go and run the ball and
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: just play tough defense in their tough, tough offense in
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: the trenches there and, and push your way and gain
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: yards that way. And Logan Rogers, uh, It's hard to
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: find a guy better than him. So congratulations to the
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Seaholm senior, Logan Rogers. You are the Anytime Fitness Offensive
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Lineman of the Week. Be sure to visit our sponsors
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• 48:15
  Speaker 1: the Whatcom Preps podcast. Again, I want to thank Coach
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Wood for joining me on the Whatcom Preps podcast in
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: the Coach's Corner. This has been Episode 450, the Week
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: 4 Football Recap. I'm Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps, and
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you in a few minutes.