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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 394 - Week 11 Football Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is Seahome junior Elias Lata and you're listening to
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Speaker 1: the Walko Preps Podcast with Tyler Anderson. Go Mariners. Greetings
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Speaker 1: and welcome into the Walkham Preps Podcast. This is episode
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Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety four, a week eleven football recap.
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Speaker 1: I am Tyler Anderson of Walkham Preps and I'm ready
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Speaker 1: to talk some football. I want to give a thank
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Speaker 1: you to Elias Lata of Seahome, the junior tight end
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Speaker 1: and linebacker, for giving the intro. Seaholm looked great. He
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Speaker 1: played a great game. I think he scored his first
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Speaker 1: Farsty touchdown and we'll talk about that game a little
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Speaker 1: bit later on. And you know, this is a kid
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Speaker 1: that went to Squalcum, transfer to Seahome and is not
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Speaker 1: only going to help them on the football field, but
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Speaker 1: also on the baseball field as well. So I'm excited
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Speaker 1: to see that in the spring as well. Also got
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Speaker 1: it is needed, especially when you're getting into the basketball
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Speaker 1: season here with a lot of JV games, C team games.
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Speaker 1: Holy cow, it's needed bad. So yeah, get involved and
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Speaker 1: you know, make a difference and make it so. Like
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Speaker 1: I said, the youth have an opportunity to compete in athletics,
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Speaker 1: so we're gonna go over. It was just four games
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Speaker 1: that took place. Of course, Mount Baker and Lenny Christian
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Speaker 1: each earning a first round by in the state playoffs.
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Speaker 1: The one A is the only team that only gets
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Speaker 1: twelve teams in just because there's not as many one
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Speaker 1: A teams that play football in the state, so they're
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Speaker 1: like one number away from having enough to make it
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Speaker 1: a sixteen team tournament, but since they're not there, things
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Speaker 1: might change next year. It's only twelves, which means the
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Speaker 1: top four get a first round by Mount Baker and
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Speaker 1: Lenny Christian each got a top four seats, so they
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Speaker 1: did not play this past weekend. So we will talk
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Speaker 1: about the four games that did happen this past weekend
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Speaker 1: involving Walkham County teams, and we're gonna go in chronological order,
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Speaker 1: which means we'll start with Friday night, the Ferndale Golden
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Speaker 1: Eagles head down to rent and Memorial Stadium to take
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Speaker 1: on the O Day Fighting Irish, the number one ranked
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Speaker 1: O Day Fighting Irish, I might add, and they looked
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Speaker 1: every bit the number one ranking. Only ran twenty eight
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Speaker 1: plays in the game, and I think they averaged well
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Speaker 1: over ten yards you know a play, maybe closer to
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Speaker 1: fifteen I think I think I even saw that, or
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Speaker 1: you know, I was doing the stats. So in the
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Speaker 1: first half when they played their starters the first half,
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Speaker 1: they were averaging twenty seven yards of play or something
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Speaker 1: like that. So they looked they they could do no wrong.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they were gigantic up front, lots of D
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Speaker 1: one commits all over the place, really speedy tailback, they
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Speaker 1: could pass a little bit. They looked like oday, what
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Speaker 1: can I say? I mean it was you know, they're
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Speaker 1: probably the favorite and three A to win the state title,
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Speaker 1: and they could give any team a run for their
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Speaker 1: money and any classification. You know, Ferndale, you know, they
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Speaker 1: were out manned, they were out numbered and stuff. But
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Speaker 1: there was though some good things. Elliott Lenson ran for
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Speaker 1: fifty four yards on sixteen carries. You know, Nolan Boliac
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Speaker 1: threw for sixty two yards, completing five passes to four
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Speaker 1: different receivers, had some passes down the field, the chance
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Speaker 1: hatchet Cole Larson. But my goodness, O day it was.
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Speaker 1: It was crazy and it knocked Ferndill out of the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: You know, Fernial kind of playing with house money at
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Speaker 1: that point. I mean they they had some tough losses
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Speaker 1: in the regular season which knocked them down to the
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Speaker 1: four spot in their conference, which meant they played the
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Speaker 1: other four in the West Coast South. They get past
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Speaker 1: Edmunds Woodway and that one to get into the play
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Speaker 1: and round, which was great to be there, and then
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Speaker 1: they go and upset Cheenie's. So at that point you're
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Speaker 1: just kind of like, oh, yeah, we're just playing with
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Speaker 1: house money and we don't you know, whatever happens happens,
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Speaker 1: and there's not there wasn't. I don't think there was
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Speaker 1: a ton of pressure on them. And you know, going
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Speaker 1: against Oday, I mean that's just there's just a machine
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Speaker 1: and you know, probably averaging close to three hundred pounds
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Speaker 1: of guy up front and on both sides of the ball.
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Speaker 1: It was it was pretty crazy to see those guys
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Speaker 1: were very, very good and Fernil drops that one forty
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Speaker 1: nine to zero, the season comes to an end. That
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Speaker 1: does for the Golden Eagles at a record of five
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Speaker 1: and six, And yeah, I mean, I I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was a pretty decent season for them.
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Speaker 1: You know, they kind of had you know, there's probably
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Speaker 1: games that they should have won that they lost. There's
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Speaker 1: probably games they could have lost that they did win.
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Speaker 1: So it'll be interesting next year. You know, there's some
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Speaker 1: big time seniors that will be moving on, but you
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Speaker 1: got some nice pieces coming back as well, so it'd
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Speaker 1: be really interesting to see. I haven't looked at like,
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Speaker 1: you know, the JV and the C team and how
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Speaker 1: they did in the the in those spots to see
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Speaker 1: kind of what they have coming up, you know, so
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Speaker 1: we'll see if there's some improvement or if they take
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Speaker 1: a little dip. I think they're going to be just fine.
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Speaker 1: You know, the coaching staff is they're very, very knowledgeable,
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Speaker 1: but doing a long time and your return you're going
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Speaker 1: to return the leading rusher in the county with Elliot
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Speaker 1: Lenson and so that that helps a lot. You're also
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Speaker 1: going to return four your five starting linemen. That helps
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Speaker 1: a lot. Obviously, got to replace Coachal the Valley, which
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Speaker 1: is gonna be tough, and Nolan Boliac quarterback, which it
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Speaker 1: won't be easy as either. So so we'll see, we'll
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Speaker 1: kind of see how that goes. Replacing John Stannick to
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Speaker 1: at full back and linebacker will be not as easy either.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm sure that you know, they always have
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Speaker 1: a lot of guys. You know, they'll have you know,
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Speaker 1: ninety guys turning out and so you'll have the bodies
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Speaker 1: and it's just finding those, you know, twenty to twenty
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Speaker 1: five that are gonna be playing a lot of minutes
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Speaker 1: and going from there. So that was the season for
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Speaker 1: Ferndale in that loss. We'll move on to Saturday early
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Speaker 1: afternoon We're at two o'clock at Ferndale High School. Lyndon
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Speaker 1: took on West Valley of Spokane, which was it was
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Speaker 1: crazy because like I knew nothing about them. And the
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Speaker 1: funny thing was that, I think is like the night before,
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Speaker 1: the afternoon before or whatever, I was covering volleyball at
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Speaker 1: the state tournament and Linden played West Valley Spokane. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's just funny sometimes how that works. But but yeah,
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Speaker 1: this one was. You know, it was scoreless in the
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Speaker 1: first quarter. I think Lindon kind of didn't start off
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Speaker 1: the way they wanted to. It's just not really like them.
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Speaker 1: There was some some odd things that happened. They just
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Speaker 1: didn't look like the Lions in that first quarter, and
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Speaker 1: but they didn't give up any points. It was zero
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Speaker 1: zero after the first quarter. Gordy Bedlington played a few
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Speaker 1: series at quarterback. When he did, he threw a forty
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Speaker 1: two yard touchdown pass to Danny Boler. Awesome to see
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Speaker 1: him back out there playing both ways. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if he's one hundred percent. I don't think he could
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Speaker 1: be at this point, but close enough to where he's
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Speaker 1: clear to play. And he played really, really well defensively too.
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Speaker 1: I thought he played great, so that gets them ahead.
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Speaker 1: They missed the extra point again, that was just an
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Speaker 1: unusual thing. There was a few unusual things, uh in
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Speaker 1: this game, you know, regarding just Linden football and how
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Speaker 1: they usually operate, and that was kind of one of them. There.
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Speaker 1: West Valley scores on a touchdown pass and they kicked
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Speaker 1: the extra point and they're so they're ahead eight or
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, seven to six, and that's that was the
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Speaker 1: score going in a half, and so you know, there
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Speaker 1: might have been a few question marks there. And then
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Speaker 1: Max Ausin bless him, my goodness, it was so great
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Speaker 1: just to see him on the field. I didn't really
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Speaker 1: know how much he'd be able to contribute or if
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Speaker 1: he was just going to play on one side of
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Speaker 1: the ball, but he starts going in there and running
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Speaker 1: the ball, and it changed the game. You could you could,
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Speaker 1: you know, you could see them play with more spunk,
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Speaker 1: with more attitude, with more and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: he runs for a touchdown in the third quarter, they
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Speaker 1: go for two to make it, you know, a seven
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Speaker 1: point game, and they give it to him and he
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Speaker 1: scores again. He's just so big and strong and fast
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Speaker 1: and he's just a difference maker. And there was a
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Speaker 1: play on defense too. I think it might have been
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Speaker 1: in that third quarter where he jumped on the ball.
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Speaker 1: I don't think he came up with It was him
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Speaker 1: and Adam Holman, the linebacker, both on the ball. But
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Speaker 1: but he's making plays on defense. I mean he also
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Speaker 1: had a quarterback sack on defense, which was awesome to see.
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Speaker 1: Malachi Canaan had a sack as well, so did Alvaro Mendoza,
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Speaker 1: baby eighth of his career. So he's moving up the
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Speaker 1: list now for quarterback sacks and linens career. But then
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Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, Austinc Then's you know, runs off
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Speaker 1: a forty two yard touchdown run that was awesome to see.
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Speaker 1: And then so now they have a two score lead,
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Speaker 1: which is looking pretty good. That really got them going.
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Speaker 1: West Valley scores a touchdown in the fourth quarter after
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Speaker 1: the Austink touchdown run, and then Austink runs his third
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Speaker 1: touchdown of the game in and made it twenty eight
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Speaker 1: to fourteen. Lyndon ran the ball for three hundred and
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Speaker 1: twenty eight yards. My goodness, the offensive line was great,
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Speaker 1: grant or grand haucinc boy, I'm going back to the
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Speaker 1: early two thousands basketball stuff. Max Oscinc. Had twenty carries
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Speaker 1: for one hundred and eighty two yards and three touchdowns,
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Speaker 1: also the two point conversion. Lucas Lougi did some really
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Speaker 1: good things running the ball eleven carries for seventy eight yards.
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Speaker 1: Malachai Keenan had twenty seven yards, Dawson van Dalen twenty five,
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Speaker 1: Lucas Lolgi three of nine through the air for forty yards,
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Speaker 1: and Gordy Bedlington three of four for sixty nine yards.
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Speaker 1: So they didn't throw the ball a ton only throw
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Speaker 1: the ball thirteen times, ran the ball forty five times.
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Speaker 1: Sam Morango two catches for forty one yards, Danny Boler
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Speaker 1: with the forty two yard touchdown catch, Lofa Tiglau had
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Speaker 1: a twenty three yard reception, and Brody Price and max Osinc.
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Speaker 1: Each had a catch as well. On the defensive side
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Speaker 1: of the ball, there was a lot of guys that
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Speaker 1: did some good things. I talked about Malachai Canan six
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Speaker 1: and a half tackles, one sack, a pass broken up,
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Speaker 1: Danny Boehler five tackles and three passes broken up. He
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Speaker 1: was he was a difference maker as a corner. That
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Speaker 1: was really, really encouraging to see Max ocinc as a
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Speaker 1: defensive end spot three and a half tackles, a sack,
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Speaker 1: and kind of a partial fumble recovery him and Adam
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Speaker 1: Holman together. Holman had six tackles. Zay Harris, boy, what
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Speaker 1: a year he's had on the defensive line, he had
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Speaker 1: five and a half tackles and a tackle for loss.
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Speaker 1: And again in this one, Zach Deikster also had a
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Speaker 1: tackle for loss. So there was there was a lot
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Speaker 1: of good things there on the defensive side of the ball.
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Speaker 1: Jack's Barr knocked the ball down at the line of scrimmage.
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Speaker 1: A lot of different guys getting in there and doing
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Speaker 1: different things. Brody Price had an interception that he returned
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Speaker 1: for a touchdown, but it was called back and it
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Speaker 1: was like deja vu because last year in the playoffs
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Speaker 1: he had a pick six, a long pick six, at
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Speaker 1: that same stadium, going that same direction, and it was
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Speaker 1: just cool to see and then you're like, oh, but
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Speaker 1: it got called back, that's too bad. Yeah, it was
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Speaker 1: just uh, it was great. It was uh, it was
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Speaker 1: It was really just nice to see Lennon not maybe
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Speaker 1: not at full strength, but getting guys back that has
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Speaker 1: missed a huge chunk of the year and getting that win. Uh,
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Speaker 1: they are now nine and two and and and it's
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Speaker 1: you know, and it's you look at their season and
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Speaker 1: you're like, man, it's kind of been a struggle. It's
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Speaker 1: it's not like what we're used to. And then you
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Speaker 1: look at the record you go and they're nine and two.
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Speaker 1: It's like, my goodness, Like so many teams would just
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Speaker 1: kill to be nine and two and that. But that
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Speaker 1: shows you kind of even when Lyndon's notin one hundred percent,
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Speaker 1: they still do pretty darn well. They will be playing
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Speaker 1: on Saturday at three o'clock in the afternoon against East
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Speaker 1: Valley of Yakama, So you go from West Valley Spokane
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Speaker 1: to East Valley of Yakama, but they'll be playing at
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Speaker 1: West Valley High School in Yakama, so all sorts of
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Speaker 1: craziness there. So there was a lot of people out
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Speaker 1: at Yakama from Linden last weekend. They're going to make
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Speaker 1: that trek back over for the football game that'll be
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Speaker 1: Saturday at three o'clock. We'll be talking about that on
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Speaker 1: the Gatorade Game Day preview in a few days. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: Lyndon gets the win really really good to see, encouraging,
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Speaker 1: and they move on in the two A state playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Next up, Seaholme had to go back down to Othello
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Speaker 1: like they did last year. Last year, I think they
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Speaker 1: won twenty two to twenty one with a game winning
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Speaker 1: two point conversion. This time very very similar. It was
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Speaker 1: twenty four to twenty one. And you know, it's the
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Speaker 1: same scenario. It's the it's the eight nine game, it's
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Speaker 1: at the same time stadium, it's the same afternoon, it's
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Speaker 1: all those things. And it's a grass field, which is
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Speaker 1: rare for state playoffs, but their district allows it. So
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Speaker 1: see them goes in there and and they take care
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Speaker 1: of business. Now, fellow, early on they scored like from
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Speaker 1: the fifth play from scrimmage on a fifty yard touchdown pass.
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Speaker 1: And you know, those Huskies they looked they looked really
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Speaker 1: really good. I mean that that looked like it kind
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Speaker 1: of reminded me of like a Walkam County team. They're
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Speaker 1: just tough, you know, and they probably they probably like
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Speaker 1: playing on the grass. And that's just reminded me of
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Speaker 1: like a like a Mountain Baker, you know, Lennon Christian
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Speaker 1: Nuxac Valley type team and there at their quarterback. He
14:41
Speaker 1: liked to run around and sling its side arm and
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Speaker 1: it was just it was exciting football. There was a
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Speaker 1: lot of unique plays in the game too, where some
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Speaker 1: weird things happened. Sea Home came back and they scored
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Speaker 1: in the first corner when Nolan Wright hit Hudson nef
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Speaker 1: on a four yard touchdown pass on a play where
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Speaker 1: well he probably threw it again it was only a
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Speaker 1: four yard touchdown pass, but he probably threw it about
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Speaker 1: thirty yards from like one end one kind of one
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Speaker 1: side of the field to the left corner and perfectly placed.
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Speaker 1: That was the one hundredth touchdown pass and No. One
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Speaker 1: Wright's career. Again, that's more than anybody in the Walkin
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Speaker 1: County history. And then in the second quarter they're driving
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Speaker 1: down No. One right throws a perfect pass down the
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Speaker 1: right sideline that was caught by al Miller. That was
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Speaker 1: a huge, huge play. And then a few plays later
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Speaker 1: he throws one to theo quiggle on the left side
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Speaker 1: of the end zone once again, but it gets deflected
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Speaker 1: and Elis Lada, you know, Johnny on the spot grabs
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Speaker 1: the ball. He's in the end zone. Touchdown, seven yard
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Speaker 1: touchdown play. It reminds me a lot. And for you
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Speaker 1: old timers, you're you're gonna remember this Super Bowl twenty
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Speaker 1: one when the Giants beat the Broncos, Phil Simms against
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Speaker 1: John Elway, and there was a touchdown pass late in
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Speaker 1: the game, and I'll never forget it because it just
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Speaker 1: burned in my memory. I remember eating dinner and water
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Speaker 1: actually it at the same time. And and where Phil Simms,
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Speaker 1: who I think he still holds the record for best
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Speaker 1: completion percentage in the Super Bowl. I mean he was
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Speaker 1: he couldn't throw an incompletion of you know, his life
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Speaker 1: dependent on it. Everything was complete. He was on fire,
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Speaker 1: and he throws one over the middle to Mark Bavarro.
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Speaker 1: They all pro tight end and it go to deflects
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Speaker 1: off him and Phil mcconky dives in and catches it
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Speaker 1: in the end zone for a touchdown. So even when
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Speaker 1: it should have been incomplete, it's ends up being a
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Speaker 1: touchdown pass. It kind of not that the play was
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Speaker 1: exactly like that, but that's what I thought of when
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Speaker 1: I saw this play on film. And so Elislada with
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Speaker 1: the touchdown catch was awesome to see. Go to YouTube
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Speaker 1: and just put in Mark Bavarro, Phil Mconky touchdown super
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Speaker 1: Bowl or something like that, and you'll find the play
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Speaker 1: that I'm talking about. And at the near and then
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Speaker 1: later on the second quarter there was another really strange
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Speaker 1: play where Othello throws one deep and it gets deflected
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Speaker 1: and I don't know how the ball stayed in the air,
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Speaker 1: but some how it did. Theo Quiggal ends up with
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Speaker 1: the interception and returned it forty five yards. That was
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Speaker 1: just a strange play to see like. It was one
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Speaker 1: of those where it looked like the play was over
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Speaker 1: but it wasn't, and so good thing the officials were
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Speaker 1: kind of there to see all that and keep the
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Speaker 1: play alive. See them ends up kicking a thirty two
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Speaker 1: yard field goal at the end of the first half.
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Speaker 1: It was supposed to be a twenty seven yarder, but
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Speaker 1: a penalty pushed it back five yards and they're on
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Speaker 1: natural grass, and kicking a thirty two yarder on natural
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Speaker 1: grass is not the easiest thing, especially when the weather
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Speaker 1: starts turning. And that Bain Mitchell knocked it through, which
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Speaker 1: was really really good to see. So they're up seventeen
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Speaker 1: to eight at the half Ofellow scores two more touchdowns
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Speaker 1: in the third quarter, that they were. It was weird
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Speaker 1: because a lot of their plays they would get like
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Speaker 1: five yards or less, like they weren't doing much. But
17:56
Speaker 1: then they'd have a handful of these big, big, big
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Speaker 1: plays like thirty plus and you know, that's how they
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Speaker 1: scored their their touchdowns, that's how they got down the field.
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Speaker 1: Sealm did have a third quarter touchdown Nolan Wright with
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Speaker 1: his third touchdown pass of the game on another great,
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Speaker 1: great pass to al Miller from twenty two yards out
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Speaker 1: on fourth down too, So that was a huge, huge play.
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Speaker 1: Al Miller is catching it as he's going down into
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Speaker 1: the end zone and it worked out great, and a
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Speaker 1: fellow had the ball. They were driving late and down
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Speaker 1: by just three points, and they were going and going going,
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Speaker 1: but they were turned away on fourth down and that
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Speaker 1: was that. And then you know, to kind of get
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Speaker 1: out of the end zone, they're just running clock and
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Speaker 1: and Sealm gives the ball to Sawyer Woods and he
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Speaker 1: breaks off a long run and gets gets to mid midfield.
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Speaker 1: And Sawyer Woods was kind of the unsung here this
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Speaker 1: in this whole game because he was It was a
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Speaker 1: lot of ball control by him. You know, the Mariners
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Speaker 1: ran when they were on sixty four plays is Althello
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Speaker 1: ran forty five, so almost twenty more plays than the
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Speaker 1: other team. So you could see the ball control there,
19:06
Speaker 1: and a lot of that had to do with Sawyer Woods.
19:08
Speaker 1: He's young sung because he'd never got in the end zone,
19:10
Speaker 1: which is a rarity for him, especially in the second
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Speaker 1: half of the season. But still thirty two carries for
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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty three yards, so he was he
19:17
Speaker 1: was just you know, little chunks, little chunks at a time,
19:20
Speaker 1: run that clock and running the ball, you know that
19:24
Speaker 1: in that grass field and getting the job done. Nolan
19:28
Speaker 1: Wright also carried the ball five times for thirty yards.
19:30
Speaker 1: He was twelve of twenty seven through the air for
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Speaker 1: two hundred and eight yards and the three touchdowns. Al
19:35
Speaker 1: Miller had six catches for ninety nine yards and a touchdown.
19:39
Speaker 1: Hudson f two catches for thirty one yards and a touchdown.
19:42
Speaker 1: Ellis a lot of two catches for twenty nine yards
19:44
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. Theo Quiggle and Locki Fungatua each had
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Speaker 1: a long receptions each as well. On the defensive side
19:53
Speaker 1: of the ball, Hudson ne f eleven tackles, again just
19:56
Speaker 1: making so many plays. He knows how to take the
19:58
Speaker 1: right angles. He reads play is so much quicker than
20:01
Speaker 1: everybody else. Like I always say, on film, you could
20:04
Speaker 1: do it and you can roll it back in slow motion.
20:06
Speaker 1: You could see everything and you could see him break
20:09
Speaker 1: for the ball, you know, or the ball carrier, just
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Speaker 1: way before anybody else does. So he sees things really quickly,
20:15
Speaker 1: he reacts and he's a sure tackler as well. Eleven
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Speaker 1: tackles and a pass broken up. Laki Fungatua had did
20:23
Speaker 1: some good things. Three and a half tackles, a sack,
20:25
Speaker 1: of forced fumble, a pass broken up. Theo quiggle I thought,
20:29
Speaker 1: played a great game at safety, and you know he's
20:33
Speaker 1: been playing some corner, just been playing in the secondary
20:36
Speaker 1: a lot more recently. And he had five tackles and
20:39
Speaker 1: that interception that he returned forty five yards. But he
20:41
Speaker 1: put some big time hits on too, which was great
20:43
Speaker 1: to see. And you know, I know, and I know
20:46
Speaker 1: last year he had that neck injury and this year's
20:48
Speaker 1: been playing mostly offense, but boy he was. He was
20:51
Speaker 1: putting a thumpin on those guys and that was, like
20:53
Speaker 1: I said, very very encouraging to see the thing that
20:56
Speaker 1: might not be so curshing is now next week you
20:59
Speaker 1: got to go down Everett take on top ranked Archbishop Murphy,
21:02
Speaker 1: who they did play three weeks ago or so, and
21:07
Speaker 1: but they but they you know a lot of guys
21:10
Speaker 1: did not play in that game from Seahome. You're talking
21:12
Speaker 1: Nolan Wright, Sawyer Woods. I don't think that al Miller played.
21:19
Speaker 1: I don't think that well, Nolan Wright didn't didn't play either.
21:23
Speaker 1: I mean, there was just there was a lot of
21:24
Speaker 1: guys that you know, we're used to seeing Hudson f
21:28
Speaker 1: didn't play that we're not playing in that game. And
21:31
Speaker 1: so now they'll all be available, so we'll see what happens.
21:34
Speaker 1: It'd be really cool to see them take down the
21:36
Speaker 1: undefeated Wildcats. It's gonna be a really, really tall task.
21:40
Speaker 1: But we'll talk to coach Young about that. That'll be
21:43
Speaker 1: on the Gatorade Game Day preview in a couple of days.
21:47
Speaker 1: Great game by Sea Home. They get the win, twenty
21:50
Speaker 1: four to twenty one, and they move on in the
21:52
Speaker 1: state playoffs. And then on Saturday night, the final game
21:58
Speaker 1: was Niksack Valley Life Christian Academy and I wrote about
22:04
Speaker 1: this in the story where you know they played each
22:07
Speaker 1: other in week two, and I was out there for that.
22:09
Speaker 1: I was out there for the first half of that game,
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Speaker 1: and although Life Christian looked pretty good, I think they
22:17
Speaker 1: led it the half too. They end up losing that game.
22:19
Speaker 1: The one thing I mentioned, I think I mentioned one
22:21
Speaker 1: of the officials too, I said, they don't they hardly
22:24
Speaker 1: have any players suited up. Like I legitimately counted more
22:28
Speaker 1: cheerleaders than they had players suited up. I think I
22:30
Speaker 1: counted like twenty six cheerleaders and they probably had like
22:34
Speaker 1: I don't know, nineteen guys suited up or something like that.
22:36
Speaker 1: Like it was a big difference. And you know, I
22:40
Speaker 1: know it's private school and guys transfer in. And they
22:43
Speaker 1: did lose their first three games of the year, but
22:45
Speaker 1: then once they all became eligible, they went on a
22:48
Speaker 1: winning They went on a winning streak. They did lose
22:50
Speaker 1: one game that was in Cordelaine, Idaho, so a little
22:55
Speaker 1: different there. I think that's a pretty big school. But
22:58
Speaker 1: other than that, I mean, it was all it was all,
23:03
Speaker 1: you know, Life Christian Academy. So they get the ten
23:06
Speaker 1: seed going in and it's because of their record. They
23:08
Speaker 1: have four losses on the year, and and so they
23:11
Speaker 1: go on the road but they they looked great throwing
23:15
Speaker 1: the ball especially, and that quarterback is all State caliber.
23:18
Speaker 1: There's no doubt in my mind that he's probably, you know,
23:22
Speaker 1: gonna be the front runner for All State quarterback. He
23:24
Speaker 1: is just he can just and every single one of
23:27
Speaker 1: those passes are so accurate. It's just accurate. I mean,
23:30
Speaker 1: if he's got time, he can you know, he will
23:33
Speaker 1: find his guy, and then if he doesn't, he will
23:35
Speaker 1: create time and get out and move out of the
23:37
Speaker 1: pocket and then set up and throw. And then sometimes
23:41
Speaker 1: he'll take off and run, which is really good at that,
23:43
Speaker 1: but he wants to throw. He ended up throwing for
23:45
Speaker 1: over five hundred yards in that game. And it was
23:48
Speaker 1: tough because Nutzac Valley. First of all, you're already out
23:51
Speaker 1: Matthew Blake, who you know, broke his leg earlier in
23:53
Speaker 1: the year, so that's your starting safety. And you're out
23:57
Speaker 1: Tyler Martin who was one of your starting corners, and
24:01
Speaker 1: and then Jayden Jones was out too, another starting defensive back,
24:05
Speaker 1: so you're down three original starting defensive backs. And so
24:10
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you have cool Coppenter back there, but
24:12
Speaker 1: now you're you're mixing and matching, and you got Max
24:15
Speaker 1: Lawtenbach back there playing safety. He was a great player,
24:18
Speaker 1: but he's more of an outside linebacker, more of a
24:20
Speaker 1: nickel guy. Trace Palumbo's back there, who hasn't had a
24:23
Speaker 1: ton of varsity experienced, good athlete you put. You know,
24:27
Speaker 1: Evan Laerlee who's a freshman out at wide receiver, which
24:30
Speaker 1: is really tough against that offense. I mean, it was
24:33
Speaker 1: just and then you know, and more guys were getting hurt,
24:35
Speaker 1: and they were subbing in other guys, and people were
24:37
Speaker 1: playing at a position. It was just a battle of
24:40
Speaker 1: attrition in Nuksack Valley just couldn't keep up. And you know,
24:44
Speaker 1: they turned the ball over a few times as well.
24:46
Speaker 1: They lose thirty five to seven, the one touchdown being
24:50
Speaker 1: Max Lackenbach catching an eleven yard pass from Evan Brown.
24:55
Speaker 1: Trey Houghton has seven carries for fifty three yards to
24:58
Speaker 1: lead the rushing attack. Trevin's Skeinstra had twenty yards on
25:01
Speaker 1: five carries. Evan Brown was fourteen of twenty two through
25:04
Speaker 1: the air for one hundred and eighty yards and a touchdown.
25:07
Speaker 1: Dan Ackerman great to see him back five catches for
25:10
Speaker 1: thirty nine yards. Jackson Hester four catches for forty two yards.
25:14
Speaker 1: Cool Coppinger two catches for fifty six yards, Max Lawtenbach
25:17
Speaker 1: two catches for twenty nine yards and the touchdown, and
25:20
Speaker 1: Dylan Rymer had two catches for twenty two yards. On
25:23
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, defense was on the
25:25
Speaker 1: field quite a bit, so you're kind of racking up
25:26
Speaker 1: the stats here, but you know, it was Life Christian
25:31
Speaker 1: Academy just you know, a lot of quick passes, getting
25:34
Speaker 1: out of bounds, different things like that. They controlled the
25:36
Speaker 1: clock quite a bit. Wife Christian Academy ran seventy three
25:40
Speaker 1: plays in that game. Leaving the way was cayleb Visser,
25:44
Speaker 1: who started the game outside linebacker. I think he ended
25:46
Speaker 1: up having to go back to safety with guys moving
25:48
Speaker 1: around and guys getting hurt. He had ten and a
25:50
Speaker 1: half tackles. Cole Coppinger had seven tackles and a pass
25:55
Speaker 1: broken up. Usually he doesn't have that many tackles in
25:57
Speaker 1: a game, but they were throwing the ball so much
26:00
Speaker 1: that he was involved quite a bit. Brian Larley coming
26:03
Speaker 1: off the edge at defensive end, five and a half tackles,
26:05
Speaker 1: one tackle for loss. Max Lawtenbach had five tackles in
26:08
Speaker 1: a pass broken up and Andrew Dugger had five and
26:11
Speaker 1: a half tackles and a forced fumble. Some other guys
26:15
Speaker 1: really impressed me. I mean, Paxton Miller really really impressed me.
26:19
Speaker 1: The sophomore defensive tackle. He's gonna be a big, big
26:21
Speaker 1: part of their future going forward. He played a lot
26:23
Speaker 1: of offensive line this year, but playing some defensive tackle
26:28
Speaker 1: in this game. He going down the field and making
26:31
Speaker 1: tackles down down the field. That opened my eyes quite
26:35
Speaker 1: a bit. Paxton Miller, He's going to be a good,
26:37
Speaker 1: good player going forward. And but Nixzac Valley loses this one.
26:41
Speaker 1: They finished the year with a record of six and five,
26:44
Speaker 1: And it was just a strange season, you know, it was.
26:48
Speaker 1: It was one where there was off the field stuff.
26:50
Speaker 1: There was tons of injuries, you know, and guys showing up,
26:55
Speaker 1: you know, guys showing up to start practice like late.
26:59
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of guys that ended up
27:00
Speaker 1: being starters that didn't come out for practice until you know,
27:04
Speaker 1: late August. You know, they missed the whole summer stuff
27:07
Speaker 1: or what I mean. It was just it was just
27:08
Speaker 1: a weird year. But I still think that they played,
27:14
Speaker 1: you know, for them to be ranked in the top
27:16
Speaker 1: ten for most of the year in the state. I mean,
27:18
Speaker 1: that's that's better than I thought they would be. And
27:20
Speaker 1: I'd give a lot of credit to those kids and
27:22
Speaker 1: those coaches and and you know, the it's it's you
27:27
Speaker 1: know that that group they've been practicing against one of
27:30
Speaker 1: the best one A teams in the state over the
27:31
Speaker 1: last couple of years, and so they were they were
27:33
Speaker 1: ready when it was their turning. And uh but like
27:36
Speaker 1: I said, it was just a battle of attrition and
27:38
Speaker 1: they just kept losing guys and it was hard to
27:41
Speaker 1: keep up after that. So so yeah, so that's the
27:44
Speaker 1: final game, and it was it was a it was
27:51
Speaker 1: a crazy weekend because I didn't get to see any
27:53
Speaker 1: of these games. I was over in Yakma covering volleyball,
27:56
Speaker 1: so and I didn't get the stories out till much later,
27:59
Speaker 1: I think until Monday. And it was a lot of
28:01
Speaker 1: it was just you know, I just needed it. I
28:03
Speaker 1: was just behind a day or a day and a
28:05
Speaker 1: half even. I mean, uh so it's it's been a
28:07
Speaker 1: little bit crazy, but you know, I'm starting to get
28:10
Speaker 1: caught up now. But now it's time to go to
28:13
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Speaker 1: Twenty carries one hundred and eighty two yards, three touchdowns
28:42
Speaker 1: and a two point conversion. Boy, he was the difference,
28:45
Speaker 1: especially in that second half. Loved what he did. Really
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Speaker 1: It's just it's a it's a great, great thing. So
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Speaker 1: is Sea Home senior safety Hudson Nef. Like I said,
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30:02
Speaker 1: is worth a half. He also he actually had nine
30:05
Speaker 1: solo tackles and four assisted tackles. Now some people count
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Speaker 1: that as thirteen tackles. I counted as eleven because four
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Speaker 1: halves is two. So but that's still a ton of tackles,
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Speaker 1: especially in the way that I do the stats. So
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Speaker 1: eleven tackles went past broken up. Huge for Hudson Nef
30:22
Speaker 1: and for that defense because Othello was flinging it around
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31:04
Speaker 1: You needed all of them because you know you end
31:06
Speaker 1: up winning by three, and that is the junior kicker
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Speaker 1: out of Sea Home, Bine Mitchell. I think I think
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Speaker 1: it might be a second week in a row winning
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Speaker 1: saw that Holy cow. I just it's so funny because
32:11
Speaker 1: I'm like, how can that kid be so nice? He's
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Speaker 1: such a nice human and he could play play football,
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Speaker 1: so like he's just so like it was such impact,
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Speaker 1: you know, It's like, my goodness, It's like he's gonna
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Speaker 1: It's a quick one this week. Like I said, only
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Speaker 1: four games to talk about. There will be four games
32:52
Speaker 1: this upcoming weekend to talk about as well, and we
32:56
Speaker 1: will talk with all four of those coaches on the
32:59
Speaker 1: Gator a game day preview that will come out soon.
33:03
Speaker 1: And you know, we still have football. You know, last
33:05
Speaker 1: year this time we had four teams in the quarters
33:08
Speaker 1: and they all lost in the quarterfinal round. So I
33:12
Speaker 1: have a good feeling that that will not happen again.
33:14
Speaker 1: So the longer we get to talk about football, the
33:17
Speaker 1: better it is. And it's the longer it pushes off
33:19
Speaker 1: to me having to do the Top one hundred list,
33:21
Speaker 1: so I enjoy that as well. Kind of makes it
33:24
Speaker 1: a little easier this This year's list is getting out
33:27
Speaker 1: of hand for me. I'm trying to figure out every
33:29
Speaker 1: year it just gets harder and harder. To do, and
33:31
Speaker 1: I feel like it shouldn't because I should know more
33:33
Speaker 1: and more about these kids. But it is tough to do.
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Speaker 1: has been episode three hundred and ninety four, a week
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Speaker 1: eleven football recap, and I will talk to you in
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