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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 228 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 1-1 to 1-6 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Lyndon Christian junior basketball player Gainindikstra, and you're listening to Welcome Preps
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Podcast with Tyler and Ryland Gollings. Greetings and welcome into the watcom Perhaps podcast.
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This is episode at two twenty eight, a winter sports weekly wrap up
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for Monday January first through Saturday January sixth. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me
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as always is Hi learn Anderson of watcum Perhaps. Tyler, how we doing
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doing great? It's the new year and kind of back to normal with these
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winter sports. So it was kind of a weird break with just a lot
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of tournaments and no swimming and everything. So everything's kind of back on track
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with regular duels, regular league games, you know, swimming meets during the
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week. So it's it's good to be back on track and excited for the
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new year. Tyler, you get any New Year's resolutions? No, I
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don't do that stuff. I got one. Oh no talking bad about referees
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for me this year. Okay, unless they, you know, make a
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really bad call, then all that it. We need to give a thank
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you to junior point guarded Gannon and Dykstra of Lyndon Christian Boys at basketball Tyler.
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Is there a relation to the Dykester that was there a couple of years
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ago? Oh yeah, of course, I mean they're all oh yeah,
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I mean I don't say of course because there's two Christiansens on pretty much every
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team in Royal City and they're never related. Yeah. Well there used to
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be two Dykesters too, but I think that and they're not really weren't related,
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but they got married and that, you know, back in the late
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nineties. So now all the Dykesters are all diced. Really yeah, so
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it's wild. Yeah, so it's uh, there's so there's just legions of
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Dykester's and they're all amazed and yeah. Gannondikeshra unbelievable point guard and I sometimes
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I call him a point scard because he can he can rack them up to
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scoring. So really really good, really good player on a very good link
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basketball team. Right now, we also need to give a thank you to
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Kurt Mayberry Farm. Kurt Maayberry farm dot Com is the website. Kurt Mayberry
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B E R R y farm dot com. Tyler. We are also going
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to be talking about UH staff for insurance up here in a little bit at
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a lean dairy Anytime Fitness in Linden Ferndale and Linden North. There's still a
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lot of things that people can sponsor. We need to we need to get
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some sponsors here and they're a spring sports right around the corner, so we
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got all kinds of stuff there. How can people reach out to you?
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What are how about this? Give me? What do you think that the
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top two things the sponsor in the spring are going to be? Well?
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I think scoreboards are huge. I think that people really love those and see
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those and it's a daily thing. So scoreboards for baseball, for fast pitch,
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hoping, hoping for boys soccer, and UH track and field and golfs
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and there's a lot of stuff going on in the spring and I want to
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try to capture as much of it as I can. The scoreboards as a
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whole is always a pretty big deal. UH. The recaps are going to
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be huge. There's a there's a daily recap for baseball and fast pitch as
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there's games basically six days a week at least five, sometimes six, and
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uh yeah, and so and there'll probably be like weekly stat leaders, you
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know, stuff like that, probably be doing Players of the Week again,
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don't know how exactly that's going to look. It might be Athletes of the
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Week, and we start, you know, diving into other sports kind of
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throw it all together. So, uh, there's a lot of big time
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options. And you can get a hold of me through social media just search
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Walking Preps on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, send me a personal message and
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just say hey, you know how how can I get involved? And we
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can go from there. So there's lots of there's lots of different options that
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we could do. And and uh, you know whether you you know,
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can only do so much or you can do this much. And sometimes people
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just write a check and they say spend it how you want, do whatever
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you think is the best, you know, and it's they just want to
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keep Walking Preps going. And that's that's the whole that's the whole plan.
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I never want to make a pay site to where people have to pay to
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to look at it. But in order to do that, you got to
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rely on sponsorships. So I believe in the community and and uh and I
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know they believe in me. So just got over went over four thousand followers
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on Instagram a couple of days ago. So uh so things are growing fast.
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And it was kind of funny because there was a sponsor in August that
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turned me down because they said that I didn't have a big enough following and
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they wanted to they wanted to revisit it. It was a pretty big sponsor
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and they wanted to revisit it next year and so. And as soon as
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I hear that, the first thing I do is I go to see how
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many followers they have on their national chain. And they had about fifteen hundred
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more than I did, So I said, okay, I understand, well
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today I passed them up. So now I have that in my bag.
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If they say, you know, you don't have a big enough following,
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so well, and do you know what you were at when you talk to
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them, yes, okay, so then you can show them the growth,
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you know what I mean? Yeah? Right, and yeah, and they
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since then have gained about two hundred, where I've gained about seventeen hundred since
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August. Yeah, that's awesome. Well, Tyler, today we are talking
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winter sports, but the Anytime Fitness Football Top one hundred countdown, it's I
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would say it's in full swing, but actually Tyler's wrapping up as a matter
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of fast. Yeah, it goes really fast once it gets going. This
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podcast will be the first of eight straight days with a podcast. Now some
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of them, a couple of them are going to be longer, five of
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them are going to be short, at least from our standard short. But
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what's gonna end up happening is tomorrow twenty five down to six and the Top
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one hundred countdown, and then five straight days in a row. Boom,
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the top five they each get their own five days in a row. They're
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about I don't know what, Tyler, seventeen to twenty minute podcast that we
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did, and then another winter sports wrap up that'll be next Monday. That's
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when things start getting a little wild. To hear Tyler, all right,
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because that's when the voting opens up for the Wotcome Preps Football Awards. Yes,
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now are the awards sponsored. Only one of them is sponsored. That
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was an agreement I had with Pet's real estate. He was he was the
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He's basically the first sponsor with all the stuff when I kind of I mean
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I've had sponsors like a few years ago, you know, with side Pietz
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and stuff like that. But but this is like when we first went full
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on this year. He was the first one to reach out and it was
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basically to be to do the Special Teams Player of the Week award and as
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well as the Special Teams Player of the Year. So we agreed upon that.
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So yeah, so the Pets Real Estate Special Teams Player of the Year
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is sponsored. So there you go. So the look, if somebody wants
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to sponsor the awards show, somebody wants to sponsor the voting. That voting,
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Tyler, I remember you told me it went absolutely bonkers the last couple
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of years. Yeah, not just the number of votes, but just the
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number of views. I think that, you know, a good day,
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well, it used to be a good day. Clicks wise on the website
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was a thousand clicks. That was like, Okay, if if I reach
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a thousand clicks in a day, I feel pretty pretty good about myself.
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Lately, it's it's you know, it's been it's been over three thousand every
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day, and and so and I made a deal with myself, I said,
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because I went, I was right at about six hundred thousand clicks for
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the year in twenty twenty three, and so maybe this is a new Year's
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resolution in a way. But I said that I'm gonna I will get I
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guarantee I will get over a million clicks in just in twenty twenty four.
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Oh and so to do that, I have to average two thousand, seven
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hundred and forty clicks a day. So so far I'm above that average.
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So I'm comfortably above it. So I'm usually right between three thousand and thirty
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four hundred a day right now, So that's really good. But last year
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it was like the first day of voting, it was nineteen thousand clicks in
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one day. Yeah, I remember you. Did you post about it or
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maybe you just told me about it, but I think I took a screenshot
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and sent it to you. Yeah. Yeah, I remember being like holy
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crap, like yeah, because because I think I said to you, what
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do you normally get? And you were like oh, like you know twenty
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twenty five, were like what, like like what are you talking about?
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Like that is absolutely insane. So look, if somebody wants to sponsor just
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the just the awards. I mean, they could be on the voting,
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they could be on the podcast, they could be I mean, there's a
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lot of stuff there. So again, reach out to Tyler. He'll get
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you taken care of. But yeah, that's gonna be up starting. It'll
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be next Monday. What was the date on that? Do you remember?
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What is that? The twenty fifth, twenty first? What is it?
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I can't remember. The Monday will be the twenty second, twenty second,
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No, are you talking about the neck the upcoming? Like, yeah,
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yeah, it'd be Monday the fifteenth, right, Yeah, so Monday the
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fifteenth, and voting is going to open like right around ten am or so,
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right, and they'll have until Wednesday to vote. So's you're gonna have
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forty eight hours to vote, and then the very next day Boom podcast comes
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out with the results and then we're done with football. Ye nothing else to
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do for football. It took me a little while to go, yeah,
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you're right, Yeah, we're done with football. In the middle of January,
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there hasn't been a game in what two months or I guess a month,
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been a month and a half, month and a half for Walking County.
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Yeah, yeah, unbelievable. But uh yeah, anyway, So yeah,
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if somebody wants to get on that, that's a smart move my personal
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opinion, because they're gonna have a lot of eyes on that one. That
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being said, Tyler, we got boys wrestling, We've got boys swimming dive,
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We've got boys and girls basketball, and we're already ten minutes in,
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so let's get going because it's going to be a long night here. And
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I know Blake Whitman's got to get to bed, so ye, let's start
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off to get some he has to get some shut eye, you know.
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Yes, uh yeah, Well we do love the guy, yes we do.
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That being said, boys wrestling sponsored by Nobody, Tyler, somebody needs
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to get on this. Wrestling's wrapping up here in the next what month or
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so, so get a solid month out of it and then wrestling. There's
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more and more to talk about over the next few weeks. So it's hot
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to heavy here. So yeah, that being said, Tyler, there's a
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double duel Tuesday night out of Mount Baker. What went on out there?
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Yeah, four schools, all Walkham County schools and Mount Baker and Blaine and
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Squalkum and Bellingham. But it was kind of the county schools versus the city
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schools in this. So Mount Baker beat Squalicum sixty four to sixteen, and
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then Mount Baker beat Bellingham forty six to thirty pretty close match there. Bellingham
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has some dudes, We've talked about them in the past. And then Blaine
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beat Squalkham forty eight to thirty three, and I think what would be,
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you know, a little closer than people anticipated. And then they also beat
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Spellingham in a very close match forty five to thirty six. So what everybody's
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been wanting to see is Mount Baker and Blaine, and that's going to be
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coming up this upcoming week. I want to say it's there. They face
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each other in a double duel at Ferndale. I don't remember exactly which day
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it is, but I think it might be Tuesday. But that's going to
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be a big one that everyone's going to be pretty excited to see. I'm
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definitely planning on being out there and I'm excited about that one. So Mount
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Baker and bell and Blaine each go to to zero against Squalkham and Bellingham Wednesday
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night out at Lyndon. What four teams were out there and what went on.
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Yeah, same thing it was, you know, it was a couple
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ros. Basically all four were county teams again, Linden hosting against with Meridian,
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Seahome and Nuksack Valley. Linden beat Meridian forty five to thirty, and
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then they beat Nuxack Valley fifty four to twenty four. And then Seahome went
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one and one. They beat Nukxack Valley thirty three to twelve, and then
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Meridian beat Seahome forty eight to thirty. You see some of these lower scores
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thirty three to twelve. There's a lot of double forfeits going on and not
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a ton of weight classes being filled out by these tool schools. But you
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know, that's what's cool about this is where you can get you know,
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a few different schools involved. You can get a lot of kids some matches
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and and make it a make it a night that's worthwhile. Then Friday,
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Bellingham was home hosting Burlington Edison. Yeah, that was a close, close
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one. Bellingham got nipped by one point thirty seven to thirty six. Uh,
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it's you know Bellingham. I you know, I don't know, I
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it's I. I guess I would say that. I was really pumped for
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them beginning the season. I thought they were gonna be doing I mean,
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they're still doing very well, but there's a lot of these close matches that
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they're losing and and I don't know what it's what it's been, but I
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really like coach Brewery. I think they got a good chance in the postseason,
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but they're losing a lot of these really close ones here during the season,
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and that's it's been tough. Over the weekend, Saturday had some tournaments
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going on. Snowhomish Panther Classic. Glacier Peak wins with two hundred and eighteen
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points. That's got to sting a little bit if you're Snowhomish. Their big
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rivals over there. But Glacier Peak wins Mount Baker, Squalicum, and Seahome
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they were there. Mount Baker takes third place with one hundred and sixty points.
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Squalicum finish his tenth with fifty. Sea Home twenty eight and a half
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points. They finished eleventh. Tyler, who are some of the Who are
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some of the guys that placed in the in the the Homusch Panther Classic.
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Yeah, Mount Baker had a couple of guys that were champions. Daniel Washburn
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first place at one hundred and fifty seven pounds. He's twenty eight and one
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on the season now. And Wyatt Freeman took first place at one hundred and
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sixty five pounds. He's twenty eight and two. So a couple of studs
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right there that are leading the way. Isaac da Creek took second place at
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one oh six. I've seen him wrest a little bit at one thirteen.
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He's down to one oh six now. He's twenty one and four on the
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season. And I tell you what, you got a really good wrestler at
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one o six. Just you know, that's you know, you can go
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into a lot of Yeah, you can go into a lot of tournaments and
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get some buys and just get some rack up some points and do well.
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Andrew Monty third place at one hundred and twenty six pounds. He's twenty four
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and eight. Dylan Moa took second place at one hundred and ninety pounds.
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He's twenty and five on the season. Seaholmes Grant Oliver took third place at
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one hundred and fifty pounds as Squalicum Miles Morgan At took third place at one
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hundred and thirty eight pounds. Vance Lawrence also took third place at one hundred
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and seventy five pounds for Mount Baker. He's twenty six and three on the
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season, and Griffin Smith of Squalicum took fourth place at one hundred and forty
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four pounds. I'm looking at it here, Tyler. The two guys that
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finished first place, Washburn and Freeman, they're right there right about the same
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way class, So they must wrestle each other a lot in practice. I'm
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gonna matchine twenty eight and one, twenty eight and two, I mean fifty
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six and three between the two, right, my goodness, I mean that
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is unbelievable. No credit to coach Lap by the way, all right,
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yeah, big High school, that guy East Everett School. Let it fly
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tournament. Odey wins with one hundred and ninety seven and a half points.
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Lindon finishes fifth place with one hundred and fifty five and a half or excuse
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me, one hundred and fifty five finished fifth place. That's a lot of
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fives, Tyler, who from the Lions placed in this one. Yeah.
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Christian Velasquez took first place one hundred and twenty six pounds. He's twenty two
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and three on the year. I saw him Russell at the Mount Baker.
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Gus Compton invite that and he's an impressive wrestler. He's done really well this
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year. John Johnston took second place one hundred and sixty five pounds. Logan
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Austrie second place at two eighty five. He was a big time player on
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that defensive line for Linden's. He's got a bright future. And then third
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place was Trig Jorgensen at one hundred and thirty eight pounds. In fourth place
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Irwin Planco at one hundred and thirteen pounds, and Everett Taylor took fifth place
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at one hundred and thirty eight pounds. Do you think Trigg is his like
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real first name or do you think that's like a nickname or do you think
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it's short for something trigger? I don't know. I don't know. I
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like it, Yeah, I do too, Trigg Jorgenson, Like that's an
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that's a wrestling name. If I was just gonna say that's a wrestler right
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there, Yeah, that was a really cool name. Paul Reimer Memorial Tournament
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over at Mount Vernon. Now this is a different type of tournament, because
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this is a dual tournament. So I see what here Ferndale, Bellingham and
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Blaine, am I correct? Yeah, So they showed up and they wrestled
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five matches each. Yeah, and it looks like they all wrestled the same
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five schools. Yeah, so so they were all in the same kind of
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you know, a coupling together. They's like the a's and the b's or
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whatever. And Ferndale went three and two. They beat White River, they
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beat River Ridge, and beat Monroe, but lost to Arlington and Marysville Pilchuck.
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Bellingham went two and three. They beat Stanwood, so I guess that's
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a different opponent. They beat Stanwood and Monroe, but they lost to Arlington,
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White River, and Marysville. Pilchuck and Blaine also went three to two,
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also losing to Arlington and as will pil Chuck, but they beat Monroe,
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Stanwood, and river Ridge. So so yeah, I mean, I
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would imagine it's a pretty even tournament out there. Ferndale, Blaine, and
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Belling Amber are all pretty good wrestling schools, and so that's a that's a
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lot of matt time for those guys. You know, we'll go out there
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just wrestle a ton and I and I saw I was looking at some of
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like the results and and you didn't see like the same They didn't see a
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ton of the same guys wrestle like all five, you know times, so
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you know, they were kind of doing what they can move, moving guys
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around or maybe place putting a different guy against a different team or whatever.
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So, uh but that's that's a that's huge when you can go do that
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and you could basically guarantee a ton of matches. I think that's a good
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way to go sometimes, especially if they're wrestling a ton of other tournaments.
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You're used to that tournament style, and when you go do this, you
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know you're kinda you might you might not be waiting too long. I mean,
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you could go at it. You could go to a tournament. If
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you're a top wrestler like a Daniel Washburn, say, you might have a
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buye in the first round and then you have to wait for the quarters because
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they're doing consolation matches. I mean, yeah, you might not wrestle for
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a long time. So, uh So, this way I think it gets
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it. So you're kind of always wrestling every you know, you know,
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well, Andy might only get three matches at that point, right, Yeah,
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so this is not Are's not a bad way to do it. There's
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a lot of action going on. Yeah. I remember when when when I
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was in school and when I was wrestling at one EA, we had,
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uh we used to go to a thing called the Dream Duels over in Spokane,
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yep, and uh. I don't know if they still have that or
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not, but we used to go to it. I remember hearing about it.
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Yeah, yeah, and it was it was awesome. I mean,
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we we went. We we did very very well. One year. I
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think the only team we've lost he was Lake Stevens, but everybody was losing
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the Lake Stevens if I remember right. Burke Barnes, Brenton Barnes was the
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head coach at Lake Stevens for a long time. Burke was one of his
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sons, and I think he was like a four time state champ or something.
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And I remember one of my buddies was really really good wrestler, and
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yeah, he didn't last long. Before you know it, he was in
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a cradle and we're all just going, h wait, how did that happen?
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Yeah, So that's wrestling. Tyler let's talk boys, Swim and Dive,
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Bellingham and Linden. Those are the five schools that do participate. And
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I think, maybe say it again, if you go to a school that
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doesn't have a team and you want to play or you want to swim,
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you just go to another one of these teams and before you know it,
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you're swimming. So that being said, Tyler, I'm looking at top times
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here. Swimming took a couple of weeks off. I feel like it was
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maybe like the entire Christmas break is basically what they did. They're back to
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swimming. I see top times again, Tyler, And I'm seeing some blue
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stuff here and I'm seeing some black stuff. So what are you doing to
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me right now? Yeah? So on the sheet, you know, black
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is kind of the font color we used for everything, but I highlighted a
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few things in blue because there were six times that were broken in Walking County
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first, so there's new season records this year already. So in the two
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hundred freestyle, a new time Dylan Fisk from Squalicum, our guy that's been,
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you know, doing a lot of these big times. One minute forty
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seven second, one minute forty seven point six two seconds, I should say
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in the two hundred freestyle, that's the new best time in Walking County.
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The two hundred individual medley Miles Kratzenberg from Bellingham just a hair over two minutes
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at two minutes one point one four seconds, and then he also took another
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one at the one hundred butterfly, uh fifty one point one to one seconds
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in that one. And then in the one hundred freestyle, Gunner Drowsed Cubits
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or Drost Cubits from Bellingham as a new season high at fifty four point four
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to five or if you want to call it a season low, season higher,
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season low, I think it'd be a season high. But I think
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best is the best way to use. It's the best time, yeah,
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the county best or something for yeah. Yeah. And then Dylan Fisk going
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the distance here five hundred freestyle and under five minutes, four minutes, fifty
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five point zero four seconds. That's super impressive. Like I always said,
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that's almost like like a mile time, Like if you can break five minutes
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in a mile's that's incredible. So it's kind of comparable there. And then
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in the two hundred freestyle relay is the Sea Home had a time with their
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four swimmers now at squalk them with Michael Ciotti, Finn Smith, Hayden Nelson,
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and Dylan Fisk at one minute forty one point six seconds. That's the
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two hundred freestyle relay. So six new times out of what we got one,
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two, three, four or five out of twelve events, so half
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of the events have new times now and you kind of expect that in swimming
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where and you see this a lot in track and field, where especially certain
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events, where as the season goes on, there's a couple of things that
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happened. Athletes get better and better, especially the long distance running. I
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mean every single week, those times just keep get falling and falling and falling.
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But also at the same time, the weather gets better and better too,
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so you know it's a little easier for some of these events. So
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yeah, so but that's track and field, but it's very similar to this.
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As the season gets on, they just get more accustomed to the same
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things and getting better at it. And they're always working on beating their own
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times, you know, and getting a district qualifying time or state qualifying time.
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So really really cool deal. And and and we've and I've talked to
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Randy Elsner, the squalic and coach, and he's interested on you know,
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maybe coming on and talking some swimming with us, which would be cool because
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you know, there's everybody has swam before, but there's things about it that
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we just don't know as far as competition goes, and you know, be
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fun to learn and just kind of know, you know, like and you
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look at a swimmer and go, he'd be really good at at this,
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Like how do you know? Or when you watch them swim, do you
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what do you? How do you train them? So I think a lot
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of you know, what this would be Tyler. This would be the first
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zoom video that we do that's outside of football. That's true, that's that's
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I mean, that's got to be what it is. That's what we need
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to do. And maybe what we need to do one of these times is
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get a you know, a lep to come on and we're not going to
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talk football. We're gonna talk just wrestling. Oh he would love that.
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Yeaheah, just wrestling. I think he and I would probably go nuts over
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something like that. Yeah, and then you know, maybe have another wrestling
24:30
coach on or something. Uh. I think it was it the Bellingham guy
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that you said you talk to a lot or yeah, Cam Brearley. I
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know he would for sure love to come on and talk wrestling. It'd be
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great. Yeah, that'd be fun. So that's something, uh, you
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know, that's something that maybe we do a little more in the off season,
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but definitely some stuff that we need to get done because uh, you
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know, as much as we love football, and football is the uh you
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know, the backbone do it all for for what you and I do here.
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Yeah, look, we're doing a lot more about other sports. And
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I don't know about you, but I'm having a lot of fun doing it.
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Oh definitely. Now, you, on the other hand, are getting
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less and less sleep because well, first off, thanks again to stuff for
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the reason you're getting less and less sleep is because girls and boys basketball
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are going absolutely nuts right now and we need to talk about Well, let's
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start with the girls basketball and again the sponsors for girls basketball and boys basketball
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specifically, those are sponsored by Edilne Dairy. And again, this is one
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of those things Edily Dairy, Tyler, you've always you've told me, you
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were telling me about them before they were even a sponsor, about you know,
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eating the ice cream and the whole bishobootsy thing and you know all this
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stuff. So thank you to Edilyn Darry for their continued support here as well.
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Let's talk girls basketball first, and let's kind of do a little bit
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of a recap of the week, if you will. And let's start with
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let's start with Meridian, Mount Baker and Bellingham Tyler. What did those three
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schools do. Yeah, Meridian coming off their own basketball tournament that they held
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at Meridian High School. They they ran into a really good Burlington team in
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the beginning of the week. They lost to them fifty two to twenty nine.
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Then they lost a really close one to Mount Vernon forty five to forty.
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I thought they have really had a chance in that one, but they
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just they didn't. They didn't get there, so they dropped a three and
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eight on the season, one and six in conference play. Mount Baker they
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went up against a couple Juggernauts. They lost to Lyndon Christian seventy four to
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thirty six, and then they faced that same Burlington Edison team and lost eighty
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one to thirty six. I don't think Burlington has lost a conference game all
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year, so they're very very legit team. They beat Lyndon Christian by a
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single point, so they're they're they were really good team. There's a Mount
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Baker falls to three and nine. Bellingham only played the one game they lost
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to Lyndon in a really tough one sixty two to nine. They dropped a
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two and nine on the season. Now, Tyler, when you start talking
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girls basketball, I'm not sure there's a hotter team in the county right now
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than Squalicum. I mean, we know what looksack Valley and Linden are doing,
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but squal cumb that they're coming on hot lately. They're eight and five
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in or eight and five overall, three and four in conference play, but
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they had a really nice week. And then let's talk about Blaine also,
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Yeah, you're absolutely right about Squalicum. And they come off that to that
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same tournament, which they won, and and so now they've won, and
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then they won three more games this week, so they run a six game
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winning streak right now, which is super impressive. They beat Mount Vernon forty
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eight to thirty three, then turn around and beat Anacorus fifty eight to twenty
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five, and then beat Blaine forty seven to thirty two. So these are
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all double digit wing wins by a Squalcum team that's really starting to gel right
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now. And you see that a lot with team sports, as the season
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goes on and they learn how to play with each other, and especially in
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basketball, you find that rotation that just works and you just kind of keep
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and everything just kind of meshes, and they know who they're what they're doing,
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and they playing for each other and it's really great. Blaine lost a
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really close one to Sedro woollie. They were ahead at halftime. And the
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tough thing with Blaine right now is they just don't have any depth. They
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just don't have any girls. They only have eight players on the team,
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a ninth that's been injured all year. I don't think she's gonna be able
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to play. One of the eight is learning how to play basketball right now.
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She's a foreign exchange student. So you really just have seven that have
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experience. And the game against Squalkum, they they were without one of them
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because she was sick. So, I mean, it's just it's so tough
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if you get into foul trouble. I mean it's crazy. I've I covered
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a game when Blaine it was Blaine Girls, oddly enough, where they didn't
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have that many players and they had it went into overtime. There was so
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much foul trouble. They only had four players on the floor and but that's
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all they could do. You know, it made me think back to Hoosiers.
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You know, my team is out there, you know. Uh yeah,
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so imember the one they only counted as a half, right and Blaine
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lost the seto Willie. Like I said, they just kind of ran out
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of gas at the end and then they lost a Squalicum forty seven thirty two
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ran into you know, a team that's playing hot right now. I was
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at that game. I was there for the whole thing, and that was
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that was a rough one for playing. But again, they only suited up
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seven for that game, and uh, that's that's a tall task to go
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against. The Squalicum will play twelve players. You know, they play probably
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nine quite regularly, but they will get the other three in at some point,
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usually in the third quarter, and so they stay fresh. And like
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I said, they found that rotation and they're on a six game winning streak
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right now. They're playing really well. Now. There's almost like a little
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bit of a second wave, if you will, of teams here in the
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in the county Seahome, Ferndale, Linden, Christian all having really nice seasons.
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Tyler as they kind of Chase Linden and Nooksack Valley, if you will.
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But those three teams having really nice years. How did they do this
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week? Yeah? See home again. You know, they came up that
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big time tournament and down in Portland where they lost all three, but against
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really really good competition. They beat Lake with seventy one fifty three. You
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know, that was one of the games I had as as you know,
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looking ahead last week as a potential game of the week type of game.
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I thought, Man, this is gonna be close. But they they did
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really well against them. Emmy Hart is just shooting the shooting the lights out.
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She's made She's probably made more three pointers than you know, seventy percent
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of the league has taken. You know, it's first players. I mean,
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she she just is relentless shooting the three. Ferndale they lost a heartbreaker
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against Oak Harver sixty six to sixty four in overtime. It seems like they've
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been playing a lot. They've had a lot of like three game weeks where
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they just play a lot. So they didn't play in a tournament. I
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think they displayed game or two during the break. They only have won this
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last week, so but you know that that's a really tough one. That
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was their first conference loss of the season, so it was a tough one
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for Ferndale. Linden Christian always a great team. They beat Mount Baker seventy
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four to thirty six, but then they lost to Nuxack Valley in the the
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big big game that everyone was talking about, sixty one to forty six.
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So, you know, eight and five on the season, five and two
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in league play. Lynn and Christian is always strong. They will be they
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will be in there at the end. That's just the way they always are
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every year. And then the two teams kind of getting the most attention right
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now, Nuksack Valley and Linden Tyler. What do you got for them?
31:29
Yeah, both undefeated and and well that's weird that it says both undefeated and
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league play because they played each other. So I don't know how that could
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be, but well, you messed it up, yes I did. Uh,
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yeah, it should be a Nukzac Valley seven to zero in league played.
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They they just had the one game they beat LC. That was the
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that's the you know, the the the third game of the rubber match,
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I guess you could say, because they played the last two state championship games
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against each other, but then they always played district champions against each other.
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They always play conference games against each other, so that was a big one.
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I was there for the first ten minutes. I just popped in for
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a second, got some pictures, got out of there because I was headed
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over to the Linden football banquet. But that was a really good game.
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Lyndon beat Bellingham sixty two to nine. That was the only game they played
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all week, so they definitely put all their energy into that one and it
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showed. So those are two teams in the one A and the two a
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that are just they're very similar. But man, they they play. They
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both play you know, nine or ten players a lot, and they can
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rely on them and they can all move, they can all shoot, they
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can all defend, and it's really good basketball watching those two teams play.
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Let's talk boys basketball now, Tyler and again sponsored by Edeline Darry So thanks
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to them. Let's start. Let's see here, let's start with Blaine and
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Mount Baker. What do you got for those two schools. Yeah, well,
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Blaine lost to Sigel Woolley a really close game, a winnable game.
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It was too bad. It just it just wasn't happening. You know,
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Blaine got third in state last year. And it's been a really tough go
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so far this season. You know, they're three and nine right now.
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Uh, and it's it's just it's just a different team. It's just,
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you know, completely different. They they have some good players, but something's
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not clicking. They've lost some really close games. I think they lost a
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nook sack by one and lost a squall ofk them by one. So,
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uh, it's that's really tough. And and see Drew, I thought they
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had a chance in that one but they lost sixty four to fifty seven Mount
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Baker. I saw both of these games. They went out to LC lost
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eighty seven forty one. That's that's just a tough one to handle. You
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go in there knowing that that that's just a juggernaut team, and and you
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just do what you can. And it's crazy because as I was watching the
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game, I tried not to look at the scoreboard for the whole first quarter.
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I just wanted to get a feel for the game. That's really hard
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to do if you're at a basketball game, is to not look at the
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scoreboard. But I purposely tried to do that. And as I was watching,
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I was like, man, Mount Baker's playing really well. And then
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I look up at the scoreboard and they were down like twenty two to nine.
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I'm like, are you kidding me? Like that's and that's what else
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does. It's like they it doesn't even look like like they're throttling you,
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but they are. It just doesn't appear that way. They're just so efficient.
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And yeah, and then and you'll get a kick out of this.
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On Saturday afternoon, my car made it out of the county and I drove
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down to Burlington Edison and uh and watched a road game down there, and
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and all the boys games were on the road out of the county, but
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that one, this one was at one o'clock, so I was able to
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make that, and on my way back hit the three o'clock girls game at
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Squalkum, so I was able to get a couple of games in during the
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day. And that was a really close game. Mount Baker played very very
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well. Burlington has some really good players they have. They have like a
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six to nine kid that blocks everything, but he was in foul trouble early
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and so he was out a lot and they were able to take advantage of
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that. But he came back in the third quarter and went on a big
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run in the third quarter. Mount Baker came back strong in the fourth,
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but it wasn't enough. They lost sixty one to fifty four Ferndale, Meridian
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and Squalicum. Tyler. Tell me about those three schools. Ferndale, man,
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I tell you what they are playing great right now. They beat Foster
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fifty three to forty two in a non conference game on the road, and
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then they just throttled oh Carver eighty two to forty seven. Ferndale is one
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of those teams that when you talk about from day one to now, they
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are the most improved team in Walkham County. For the boys, really love
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their how they play together. They're passing, they get a lot of guys
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involved, a lot of assists, And I tell you what, you look
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at teams that lead and assists and those are the teams that win's. That's
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just the way that it is. You start playing one on one basketball,
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it's not going to work unless you just have a super stud. But this
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is really working for Ferndale. So to get those two wins was huge Meridian.
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You know, they're seven and six on the year right now. They
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played three games this past week. They beat Burlington sixty three sixty one.
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That was on Tuesday. I was at that game for the entire game.
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That was a great one because I went there kind of going, I'll stay
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if it's good, and I'm so glad I stayed. That was a great
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game. Then they lost to Mount Vernon eighty five to fifty. The only
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good thing about that it was at the Mount Vernon gym, which is my
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favorite gym in all of high school sports. I absolutely love that gym.
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And then and then they lost to Annacordas seventy six to forty eight. Ana
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Chordis they got a kid, Davis Vogel, who is just unreal at basketball.
36:35
I mean he shoots. You know, he's six foot seven, but
36:37
he's shooting twenty eight footers. He drains them all. He's thrown down dungks,
36:42
he's blocking shots, he's got great moves, he makes every free throw.
36:45
He is an incredible player. Has an offer to your Nebraska Cornhuskers as
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well as a few other schools, and just a junior. So I'm kind
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of excited to see what he does. Squalk them. Yeah, nebrasketball squad
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man, this was crazy. At home, they lost to Mount Vernon sixty
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one to fifty eight. Mount Vernon is a top ten ranked team at the
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three A level, and so that was a great game that they played.
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They had the ball the end too, down by three, they didn't get
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the shot they wanted, but they did get a shot off and missed it
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that would have tied the game and sent it in overtime. But I was
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really proud of how the Storm played in that game. That just told me
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a lot. And then they lost to the Davis Fogel, anter course of
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Seahawks sixty eight to forty seven. I think Fogel had thirty seven points in
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that one, but and all in the first three quarters as well, So
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that was you know, that was a rough one for Squalkum. But I
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think they're playing very very well. They definitely and there's no seniors on that
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team, so you could really see the progression as the year goes on.
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They're gonna be a good team next year. I just want to point out
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to Tyler nebrasketball twelve and three on the year. Hey, look at that.
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Yeah, now they haven't played anybody good. Well, they had the
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three teams that they lost to, but yeah, yeah, I mean twelve
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wins. If you would have told me Nebrasko is gonna have twelve wins in
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basketball, I would have told you you're crazy. Now, if you told
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me they're gonna have twelve wins in football, would have told you you're really
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He told me you're wrong. Yeah, yeah, very very wrong. Let's
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just get to a ball game, boys. Let's see here, Tyler,
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where are we at here? Bellingham, Seahome, k Nooksack Valley? Is
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that his next Yeah? These are about those guys. Yeah, and it's
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there's a lot of differences with all these teams. You know, Bellingham has
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been playing great, but they had a really rough week this leek. They
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lost to Lyndon on the road sixty seven thirty six, and they lost to
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Laquood on the road eighty two to sixty six. It's been you know,
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I've talked very highly about them, but they suffered a big loss with Harmon
38:45
Winkers, who's they're by far their best kind of outside threat. I mean,
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he's every team's got that guy that's like, man, he's like everybody
38:52
yells out shooter. You know, it's yeah that that's that guy. And
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he is an incredible outside shooter, close to like forty on three point percentage.
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And he he hurt his achilles. I believe he's out for the year.
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So these were the kind of you know, first big games without him,
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and and it just they were just missing that that that piece he can
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he can spread the floor. You know, it gets the defense to come
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out and opens up the inside, and it just you know, it was
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tough ones, but don't find a way. They're they're well coached and they
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have some really good athletes. But they ran into a couple of really good
39:25
teams. Lake they like they played Lakewood. Lake would beat Anna Chortus earlier
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in the weeks, which was kind of that, you know, everyone's like
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lake would be Anachortus Like it was kind of one of those like Wow,
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Sea Home had a great week. They beat out Carver by ten, sixty
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seven to fifty seven, and they beat Lakewood by ten. So I mean
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Lakewood who beat Anna Chordas, now see Home beat them. Now See Home
39:47
lost earlier in the year to Mount Baker and that was one of the biggest
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upsets of the year. So, but there's something going on right now with
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the Mariners. Norman right is playing out of his mind. Uh that kid,
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I think he's made four teen of his last fifteen free throws and he
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just he just keeps doing it. You send that kid to the line and
40:06
you could depend on him. That's a great thing for a point guard.
40:08
We've talked about that. So they're playing very very well right now. They're
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eight and four on the year, and they were very much like Blaine where
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they had a great run last year, but they had a ton of seniors.
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Well Blaine has you know, kind of gone the other way with a
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lot of new varsity guys. We're see home with a lot of new versity
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guys have found ways to win. And that just goes a long way to
40:29
the to the coach Brad Jackson, who you know, I mean, Brad
40:31
Jackson coached against Mike Krzyzewsky in a game for crying out loud. So he's
40:35
got a great resume. Yeah, he was coach at Western for a long
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time and Western ran the They won the national championship one year, and so
40:44
they always have the two national champs play each other the following year to start
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the year. So they played against they played against Duke. Yeah, so
40:52
that's a pretty pretty cool deal. So he's he's seen it all and he's
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a great, great coach Nuksac Valley. You know, this is kind of
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a plus minus thing for them, not just the win loss. They beat
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Freddy Harber at home seventy four to thirty one, and then they hosted Lynny
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Christian, who's you know, great, great team and they lose by thirty
41:14
to them. But man, like I said, Lynny Christian just one of
41:15
those teams. And then the other plus minus for them is they you know,
41:20
I haven't seen Joey Brown out there. I think he's has an ankle
41:22
injury, and that's a tough one. He's in the Sea. He's been
41:25
in the starting lineup all year. A guy that can you know, a
41:29
jumping jack that can get rebounds, but he'd also shoot the three. But
41:31
Wayne Silvis is back, which is an awesome thing. We talked about him,
41:35
you know, hurting himself during the football season, and one of the
41:38
first things I thought of was, I think he'll miss the rest of the
41:40
season, but will he be able to play basketball? And was really hoping
41:45
he would because he can really hit those threes and get that team going.
41:49
He's just a smart player. And his first game back, he came off
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the bench and led this ole team in scoring with fifteen points. He hit
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three threes, he had a steal. I mean, he just did some
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great things and so kind of a really emotional game that really got the crowd
42:02
going. But lost e LC. Hey, that's tough, but it's good
42:07
to see Wayne Silver's back and playing now. Speaking to LC, they are
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undefeated on the year, thirteen to zero. Lindon they're nine and three on
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the year, but both teams are undefeated in the league. Play correct,
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Yeah, that's that's gonna be a crazy one when they when they take the
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floor against each other. I think it's the last league game of the year.
42:27
I think it's been that way for the last few years and scheduled to
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be played at Linden Christian, which probably holds half as many people as the
42:35
Linden Gym does, so I think they're trying to kind of make something work
42:38
so they could play it at Linden. I don't really know exactly how that's
42:40
gonna work. I know the girls and boys games against them against each other,
42:45
we are split up like ones like at two thirty and the ones at
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seven thirty, so you can collect good at the gate there, and definitely
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they will. Everyone in Linden will be at those games. Lindy Christian again
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strong week, beating Mount Baker's eighty seven a forty one, then beating Nooksack
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Bally seventy two to forty two. And when they've won a lot of their
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games in the past, you know guys like Gannan Dykstra who gave us the
43:08
intro, or Dawson Bauma, they'll just go like they'll have a big game
43:14
or they score like thirty points. These haven't been like that. They've been
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very across the board where no one has twenty, no one even has more
43:20
than fifteen. But they'll have five or six guys in double figures. And
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that's what you really want to see, a good team basketball, getting everybody
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involved. It's been working really well and lin Lenny christian is. There's no
43:30
shortage on injuries there either. Trepan Blair has been out. I see him
43:34
on crutches, which is I hate to see that because he missed a chunk
43:37
of the football season as well, so he's been He was starting on the
43:40
team. Trey Bosman was starting the team, but I haven't seen him play
43:44
for a little bit, so I don't know if something's wrong with him.
43:46
Uh So they're dealing with stuff right now and they're still winning these games.
43:51
Lynnon just had the one game they beat Bellingham sixty seven to thirty six.
43:54
They are so impressive. They're very top heavy with a few of their players.
44:00
You know, Canalis and Hepner are both guys that can go off for
44:05
twenty plus points on any night. They can both do it from the inside
44:07
or the outside. I was taking pictures kind of down by the baseline by
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the corner three area, and Canalis had a steal a breakaway a half court
44:15
and I was like and I ran. I was like, oh, I
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gotta get this because I know he's gonna throw it down. And I took
44:21
like three steps and I hold my camera down, which is not a great
44:23
camera, and the clicks are like quick, quick, quick, quick,
44:27
and I'm like, oh, I hope I got a dunk in there somewhere
44:30
where everybody else's cameras they hold it down and it's like, yeah, it
44:32
sounds like a machine gun. Yeah yeah, And I'm like, oh,
44:36
I hope I got a dunk in there. But I did get a good
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one. With him pulling the rim down, you can see the ball going
44:39
through it. So he's just a fun, fun player to watch. He
44:44
also hit all four of his threes in that first half. Lennon's just they're
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really playing well right now, and as soon as all their role players feel
44:53
comfortable in their roles and just fill those other spots playing defense, hitting an
44:58
open three, and and you got Canalis and Heppner kind of running the show
45:02
as far as scoring and doing all those big things. And and Brady Elsner
45:07
is just as a peer point guard I'm talking peer point guard, running a
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team, finding the open guy. There's nobody better in Walking County. He's
45:14
been doing a great job at that, so uh so, yeah, it's
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a it's just a really good mix right now. And coach Roper at Lindon,
45:21
he's closing in on four hundred victories in basketball in history, so that's
45:27
a that's a pretty big number. I think Jake Mayberry, who the gym
45:30
is named after, who coached Linden for a ton time, I think from
45:35
the fifties to the eighties, I think he had five hundred and eleven or
45:38
five hundred and twelve something like that. So so there's big numbers to go
45:44
get. But Brian Roper, ever since he's taken on that that team,
45:47
they just spent an unbelievable juggernaut type team that everybody shoots for. And like
45:53
I always said that they show up at the state tournament, it does not
45:57
matter what seed they are. People see the Linden on the front and you
46:00
get five points right there just from that because it's just that little bit of
46:04
oh man, we're playing Lyndon and that's all it takes sometimes and these are
46:08
high school kids and you just kind of never know how it's gonna go.
46:13
But man, they's just so so much fun to watch. And they're they're
46:16
so long on depense. You can't get a pass inside against them. And
46:21
Bellingham's really really struggled and they didn't score a lot of their points until the
46:24
fourth quarter. Well, that is a wrap up. Boys and girls scoreboards
46:29
again brought to you by Edilyn Darry Tyler. Let's talk about the games of
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the week in terms of last week. So what are the best games that
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you saw last week? These two segments are both unsponsored, so if somebody
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would like to sponsor them for the rest of the basketball season, reach out
46:45
to Tyler. He'll get taken care of. What was the game of the
46:47
week last week as far as girls basketball goes? Tyler, Yeah, there
46:52
was a handful of them, you know, and I got to see some
46:53
of these. You know. Mount Vernon beating Meridian forty five to forty was
46:57
a good game. Blaine Seeger Woolley was a great game that Blaine had in
47:01
control, but Sieger Wolley took control late, Oak Harbor beating Ferndale sixty six
47:07
to sixty four in overtime, giving Ferndale their first loss. These are all
47:10
great games. They weren't great for Walking County as they were on the losing
47:14
end of all three of those, but they were really good games. But
47:16
the game of the week was Nuksack Valley and Lennon Christian sixty one to forty
47:21
six Nukzack Valley, a rematch of the last two one A state championship games.
47:24
These two teams played. Gray have a ton of respect for each other.
47:29
I mean, they just know each other so well. Elsie started out
47:31
really fast. They were tied with Nuksack Valley after one quarter, but the
47:35
Pioneers scored twenty four points in the second corner and it was basically the Devin
47:38
Coppinger show from there on out. She finished with twenty nine points, six
47:43
rebounds, five assists, and two steals. She kind of plays like if
47:49
something happens where you know, someone steals the ball from her, or someone
47:53
you know deflects a shot or something like that, she gets this look on
47:57
her face where it's like, oh, oh, I just upset the beast,
48:00
and she will just take over from there and she will make you look
48:04
silly with her dribbling and stuff like that. And and that's basically what she
48:08
did. I mean, yeah, there was there were twenty great players out
48:14
there. She was the only one in double digits since she scored twenty nine
48:16
points. So it was kind of known that she was the alpha out there,
48:22
you know, and she and she was not going to lose that game
48:25
because it was close in the beginning. I mean I think it was at
48:28
one point, I think it was eleven to nine LC and all nine points
48:31
were three pointers by Coppinger. They were not allowing the ball to get inside,
48:36
and they make adjustments. You know. Shane Wickers has been the coach
48:39
at Duksak Valley for twenty seven years. I remember I remember interviewing him when
48:44
he was a coach when I was writing for the Herald, and he looks
48:46
the exact same. Now, that's the one thing I can't understand. He's
48:51
he has not changed at all. And uh, and then but at Brady
48:54
Bomber, who he's just you know, he's in his mid thirties. He's
48:58
been the head coach at Lynda Christian for ten years, so he's got a
49:01
really bright future as well. Yeah. So it's these two teams, like
49:06
I said, great respect for each other. It's kind of the it's you
49:09
know, the game that everybody wants to go see. It was awesome to
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go there and see the radio there, you know, Jim Bring and Dan
49:15
kaem Ink on the call. I was only there for ten minutes, but
49:20
but yeah, it was I did have another thing I had to go to,
49:23
but it was good that I was at. The thing I had to
49:25
go to was in London, so I was able to be there for a
49:29
little bit, you know, and just watch the beginning because that was just
49:30
a great atmosphere. You said it was Dan kam Ink on the color commentary.
49:37
Yes, a man of many talents. He's been doing it for a
49:39
while. You know. Every once in a while, like if the links
49:43
were bounced in the football playoffs, he would come on and do football games.
49:45
Yeah, and and even like I think when he was he kind of
49:51
took a little sabbatical from coaching for about five years, five six years,
49:54
and when he did that, he when that happened, he would announce some
49:58
football games. But he's been doing basketball the last oh boy, four or
50:01
five maybe six years, and he does a great job. And and he
50:06
was a great, great basketball player too when he played, so uh so
50:09
he definitely knows the sport and and uh, it's a lot of fun.
50:14
And Jim Bring knows his stuff. I mean, he was a college basketball
50:16
player. He's he he's great play by play and those two together for football
50:22
and basketball, is a lot of fun to listen to. Well, that's
50:24
awesome. Uh, let's move over to talk about the boys basketball game of
50:29
the week Tyler, what'd you see over there? Yeah, it's a lot
50:31
of really good games. Again, you know, both those games at Sea
50:34
Home won were fantastic. Uh. You know, they were very similar to
50:38
where they had enough of a lead where it was going to be close at
50:42
the end and he had to start fouling. So that kind of kind of
50:45
brings it down a little bit, you know, where it's like, Okay,
50:47
it's a slow paced game at the end, but See Home just made
50:51
their foul shots and and you know, was able to win win those games.
50:54
The Burlington Mount Baker game that I went to on Saturday down at Burlington
50:58
as the first time eve or not, I'd been to Burlington Edison High School,
51:01
I saw Kirkby Field for the first time in person. You know,
51:05
I drive by it all the time on the freeway and I always look at
51:07
it. Well, but all the time, You've a few times. Every
51:12
time I drive on I five and I'm going by Burlington, I always look
51:15
over at it because I've seen I've seen it on film as zillion times,
51:19
but I and I've seen it from the freeway, so it was kind of
51:22
cool to see it from that other end and look into it. It was
51:24
It was a neat entrance where it says Kirkby Field and everything. Yeah,
51:28
I gotta like walk underneath the building or whatever it is. Yeah, so
51:31
and and stands on both sides. It's it was a lot of It was
51:35
really cool, but I don't know where the gym is. I don't know
51:37
where anything is, and for someone like me who's not really comfortable being in
51:40
a place i've ever been to before, it was a little intimidating. But
51:44
I saw a few people walking that way went into there. That was a
51:46
really really good game, and one o'clock game on a Saturday. It's kind
51:49
of weird for players sometimes, but it was played really well. But I
51:52
tell you what. The game of the week that I saw was the Meridian
51:54
Burlington Edison game sixty three to sixty one jug and Junior Guard Talon Jenkins.
52:00
We've talked about him in the past. He gave us an intro a while
52:04
back. He made six three pointers in the third quarter alone will propel Mrid
52:08
past in Burlington Edison in a tightly contested game in which they were down five
52:14
points at halftime, so Meridian had to come back. That had that big
52:16
third quarter, Talon Jenkins could not miss from three. He's a guard,
52:21
he stands six foot five and he's playing guard at the high school level,
52:23
so that is very very helpful for him just a junior. He also had
52:27
eleven rebounds, three steals, and two assists. And then seniors Christian Klausen,
52:31
who's a center, and Tarren Burk's a guard, each scored ten points
52:35
to kind of help them along and kind of hold on to that win at
52:37
the end. But that was a very very good game, fun one to
52:40
be at. I love it when it's you know, every like you could
52:45
see and every little mistake had happened. I mean there was a mistake that
52:47
was made with like a minute to go. Coach Shane Stacey, who's been
52:52
there, This has got to be close to twenty years now. We played
52:55
against each other in high school football when I was named honorable mentionedicker, he
53:00
was the first team kicker. Uh So I always, you know, give
53:02
him a hard time about that. I was like, man, I would
53:05
have been first team, it wasn't for you. Uh But and he went
53:07
on and played football at Western as a wide receiver. But he's been the
53:12
basketball coach for a long time, and and uh he's just a great guy.
53:15
And there was a time when his one of his players made a mistake
53:17
and he just had that look on his face and he's just kind of looking
53:21
kind of aimless, and then he locks eyes with me and he just looks
53:24
at me, like you know, I just I just shrug my shoulders,
53:30
like I know, coach. That's that's what's crazy about this game. But
53:32
it was such a nail biting game, so much fun to watch. Yeah,
53:37
yeah, and it just it's just it was. I love it when
53:40
it comes down to every single possession and and two evenly matched teams and and
53:46
and uh yeah, it was just good and two teams that have a lot
53:50
of good underclassmen. So you think, you know, going forward, this
53:52
is going to be a good game next year as well, and and uh
53:57
yeah, I was that was one that I was glad that I went to
53:59
because I was another one where I was like, well, if it's good,
54:01
I'll stick around. But I don't know who knows, and it was.
54:05
It was great Anytime Fitness. They sponsored the girls and boys at basketball
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Players of the Week Tyler, Lyndon, Linden, North, and Ferndale locations
54:15
of Anytime Fitness. Who is the girls basketball Player of the Week. Yeah,
54:20
well, I've been putting this off for a while, but Devin Coppinger,
54:24
Nooksack Valley the scene to All State senior guard. You know, she's
54:29
gonna go to University of Washington to play guard. And as I was,
54:34
you know, every single week and I look at things and I kind of
54:36
go buy certain things. While I like it to be a team that won
54:37
all their games that week, I want this, I want that, And
54:40
it's like she's qualifies every week. But I'm like, you know, she's
54:45
had so many accolades that I you know, it's like, well this person
54:47
had a great week. I'm gonna give it to that person. But what
54:51
she did against Lyndon Christian it was just the one game, but how she
54:54
controlled that game had to give it to her to be the player of the
54:59
week. This this week is just an incredible effort. And uh and she's
55:04
just a great person too, And that's you know, that's what you know
55:07
a lot of people have said, and you kind of figure it out when
55:10
you've done, when you've done this for a while. You know, I
55:13
got to meet Luke ridden Now, I got to meet Jake Locker, I
55:15
got to cover them playing their games. And when you you realize like how
55:20
selfless they are and how just nice a person they are, you start to
55:23
see those similarities and why they made it to where they did. And she's
55:27
very much like that. There's been a lot of comparisons drawn to Luke Riddanow,
55:30
who's a four year starter. As a sophomore, you got the state
55:34
title game but lost, and then as a junior you won the state title.
55:38
This is the exact same thing with Coppinger, as started as a freshman
55:42
who was the best player in the league. As a freshman, as a
55:44
sophomore, you get the state title game, but you lose. As a
55:46
junior, you get there and you win. Now what she going to do
55:50
as a senior. There's very very strong parallels. They both you know,
55:53
went to the pack well as a PAC ten when Luke went, but packed
55:57
well, who knows what it is now with Devin, but right, so
56:01
it's it's very but it's very similar. The paths are very similar. I
56:06
think Luke was, you know, ranked in the top twenty five in the
56:08
country, played in the McDonald's All American Games. She's in the thirties,
56:13
so it's very very similar. I think it's a really cool deal and I'm
56:16
just blessed to be able to watch her play. And congratulations to her for
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being the Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball Player of the Week. Yeah. The big
56:25
difference here, Tyler. She's going to a good school. He went to
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that ugly green and yellow one, all right. I tell you what though,
56:32
because he had offers to go to a lot of schools and he brought
56:36
them from nowhere, oh yeah, to be They were in the Elite eight
56:39
his junior year. It was crazy what he did. It was awesome.
56:42
They were really really good, was there. Yeah? Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball
56:47
Player of the Week, Tyler. Yeah. And I was looking this over
56:51
and I was looking, well, Anthony Knalis had a really good game,
56:52
but it was just a single game, and I was just kind of looking
56:55
here and there and I was like, man Montage sing the Ferndale forward,
57:01
He's just a sophomore. He every single game I see he gets better and
57:06
better. I was. I was talking to Donnie Hennigs at a Ferndale game,
57:09
who is usually who I'm standing by when I go to games at Ferndale,
57:13
and I pointed him out. I said, that kid is great,
57:15
like he's he. I don't think he even has a clue how good he
57:19
is. Like, he just keeps getting better every time I see him,
57:22
and this week he went off. He's he's one of those kids that takes
57:24
really high percentage shots, which I love, I don't. I hate it
57:29
when they're just catch it and just jack one up like he. Every time
57:31
he takes a shot, it's a really good shot. So he makes a
57:34
good percentage of him. He's about a forty percent three point shooter. He
57:37
could finish with both hands around the basket, really is easily. I believe
57:40
he's left handed. But he makes he makes his free throws. He you
57:45
know, he doesn't do stupid fouls. And he had a great week.
57:49
Ferndale went to and zero and he was a big, big part of it,
57:52
averaging you know, well over twenty five a game and just a sophomore,
57:57
so I'm really excited for his future. Montage Singing of Ferndale is the
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Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball Player of the Week. Let's go ahead and talk about
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the upcoming games to look for, Tyler, and these are not sponsored,
58:08
so anybody wants to get in on that. Now is a great time to
58:12
do that. Girls basketball, Tyler, what do the what do the games
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look for this week? Well, there's a few that I'm looking at.
58:19
You know, Meridian Blaine, these two teams don't have a great record,
58:22
but when you start looking at the postseason at the one A level, you
58:25
know it's going to be Nuksack and LC at the one A level that are
58:30
going to be kind of heading going into district tournament. But there's gonna be
58:32
that third team, you know, who's gonna be that that three seed between
58:37
Meridian Blaine and Mount Baker. So this matchup Meridian at Blaine Tuesday night,
58:40
seven fifteen, that could be telling, very very telling. You know.
58:44
Meridian, as they play nine players, they're all very they're all pretty good
58:50
and they just haven't been winning a lot. But Blaine, you know,
58:52
they only play really six or seven, but they probably have more top end
58:58
players, but there's just a few. They're just making a lot of mental
59:01
mistakes right now. So one of those teams is gonna step up and win
59:05
that game. I think that's gonna be a good one. Squallyam at Nuksack
59:08
Valley. You know, anyone playing Nuxsack Valley is really tough. But Squalicam
59:13
is playing really hot right now. When six games in a row, that's
59:16
gonna be tough. When at Nukzack Valley, I guarantee you that. But
59:20
they're just playing with a lot of confidence right now. They just got to
59:22
hit their open shots and play smart. That's also Tuesday night at seven fifteen
59:25
at Nuzack Valley. But the game of the week I'm really looking for is
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Burlington Edison at Ferndale. That's Wednesday at seven fifteen Burlington. They have not
59:37
lost a league game yet. Ferndale lost their first one in overtime this week,
59:40
so that's a great great matchup. Burlington is they're just they don't do
59:46
they don't do anything like, there's no weaknesses, they don't do anything wrong.
59:51
They just seem to play the right way. They're very much like their
59:53
volleyball team, they just they just do everything right and they're just they make
59:58
it really hard. They don't make any mistakes. They make you make the
1:00:00
mistakes and they never beat themselves. And Ferndale they basically just play six players,
1:00:07
but they rotate them very very well. They do a great job.
1:00:12
Julia Fox is a beast down low. She can get a ton of rebounds,
1:00:15
but she can go outside and shoot some shots. And they got some
1:00:20
really good shooters Naomi Stanley, Caleb Washington, Mallory Button Show, and Malia
1:00:23
Singson at Abby White. They can all shoot the three. So I think
1:00:28
this is a this will come down to a really really close game, and
1:00:31
that's what I love to look for. So my girls game to look for
1:00:35
this week is Burlington Edison at Ferndale. That'll be Wednesday night at seven fifteen.
1:00:38
Let's talk about the boys side of things here, Tyler, what are
1:00:42
the games you're looking for over there? Well, it's a handful again.
1:00:45
Nooksack Valley at Squalicum on Tuesday. I look at that game and I just
1:00:50
go, man, that's just a lot of really good athletes. Yeah,
1:00:52
you know, you start looking at you know, Marcus Nixon Hunter Calloway and
1:00:58
Colton Lentz and Cayden Hugh Ting, Brady Ackerman. I mean, these are
1:01:00
just like stud athletes that you're gonna see a lot of running, a lot
1:01:06
of fast paced, a lot of scoring. I think that'd just be a
1:01:09
really exciting game to see. And uh, that'll be Tuesday night at seven
1:01:15
fifteen out of Squalkum. On Wednesday night, Mount Vernon at Sea Home really
1:01:20
piques my interest because you know, Mount Vernon is the top ten ranked team
1:01:23
in three A Seahome is playing out of their minds right now. They're just
1:01:27
they always find ways to win. They're so well coached. They make their
1:01:30
free throws and that's a great, great deal as well for them. So
1:01:34
Wednesday night at seven fifteen. But the big big game I think people are
1:01:37
really gonna be in Tune four will be Saturday afternoon at two fifteen An a
1:01:43
Chordus at Lyndon Christian and A Chordus has got the reigning player of the Year
1:01:46
and Davis Fogel he's probably gonna win it again this year. And you're going
1:01:51
against the undefeated Links, So I'm really curious to see how they're gonna play
1:01:55
defense against them. Are they gonna be a box and one? If not,
1:01:59
if it's man, who were they going to put on Davis Fogel.
1:02:01
I'm just really excited to see that. And it's not just Davis Fogel.
1:02:05
They got a lot of guys that can shoot outside. And uh, that's
1:02:08
the one thing I really recognize is is they knock down threes. But man,
1:02:13
so does Lenny Christian Link. The Links put up ninety seven points against
1:02:16
Blaine. They can really put up points in a hurry, and uh,
1:02:22
it's almost like a prerequisite for the Links, like if you have to be
1:02:23
able to shoot a three to play on this team, and so that that's
1:02:28
one of those games that I'm I mean, you know, I can't wait
1:02:31
to just be in attendance for I just, man, I want to see
1:02:37
Davis Fogel in person. I've never seen him in person. I've heard all
1:02:40
these stories, Oh he had ten dunks against this team, and I mean
1:02:45
and then when I see him, when I see him on film, finally
1:02:47
it's like, holy cow, he is a different player out there. So
1:02:52
I'm really curious to see how the Links will combat that. And I think
1:02:54
it's going to be a great, great matchup. Well that's it, Tyler,
1:02:59
we got anything else? I don't think so. Alrighty, well,
1:03:02
let's give it thanks again to Anytime Fitness, Eedeline, Dry Staffer Insurance,
1:03:07
and Kurt May Barry Farm for their continued support of watcom Preps and Watcombe County
1:03:14
High School Athletics. He's Tyler Anderson from Walkompreps walkompreps dot com. I'm Ryland
1:03:19
Spencer. You've been listening to episode at two hundred and twenty eight, the
1:03:22
Winter Sports Weekly wrap up here on the WACOM Preps podcast. We will talk
1:03:27
to you well tomorrow and for the next seven days after that. What Dad?
1:03:32
Yeah, Jim, you heard that right. We'll talk to you guys
1:03:35
a lot for the next couple of days.