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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 447 - Week 3 Football Recap · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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Speaker 1: Greetings and welcome into the Whatcom Preps podcast. This is
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Speaker 1: episode 447. It's the week three football recap. I am
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Speaker 1: Tyler Anderson of Whatcom Preps and let's get to it.
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Speaker 1: to nwofficials.com today. All right, well, we have eight games
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Speaker 1: to talk about here. And let's jump right into it
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Speaker 1: as the first game, seven of them from Friday, one
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Speaker 1: on Saturday. And of course, the Blaine game got canceled
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Speaker 1: as their opponent, Bellevue Christian, forfeited. Most of the players
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Speaker 1: on the team was sick. during the week so game
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Speaker 1: was canceled so the first game we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about is Nooksack Valley defeating Kings 51 to 21 this
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Speaker 1: was uh I don't know who how many people saw
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Speaker 1: this coming I mean maybe they saw a defeat um
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Speaker 1: you know a win for Nooksack Valley over the Kings
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Speaker 1: but not by 30 points especially after how the game
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Speaker 1: started so Nooksack Valley returns the opening kickoff They run
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Speaker 1: a few plays. They throw an interception. Kings scores. Kings
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Speaker 1: are up 7-0 early. Next kickoff, the ball is fumbled
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Speaker 1: on the kickoff. Kings recovers, scores right away, and it's 14-0,
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Speaker 1: less than three minutes into the game, and it was
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Speaker 1: not looking good. But this is what was great is
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Speaker 1: they probably talked about it and just said, hey, there's
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Speaker 1: so much football left. Just get that out of your mind.
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Speaker 1: and start playing the way you know how to play.
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Speaker 1: And from then on out, I mean, from then on out,
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Speaker 1: it was basically 51 to seven Nooksack Valley. The run
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Speaker 1: game got going probably the first game all year where
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Speaker 1: they really felt like the run game got going. They
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Speaker 1: had two different players over 120 yards rushing each. You know,
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Speaker 1: the passing game, they threw for over 200 yards. They
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Speaker 1: intercepted four passes on defense. They kicked a field goal.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it was just kind of everything clicking for them.
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Speaker 1: Offensive line played great. Trey Hutink had his first big
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Speaker 1: game of the year, 12 carries, 134 yards, and he had,
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Speaker 1: let's see here, two touchdowns. Trevin Skinstra, 15 carries for
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Speaker 1: 122 yards and three touchdowns. He also caught a touchdown pass.
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Speaker 1: as did Tyler Martin, who caught four passes for 89 yards.
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Speaker 1: Dane Ackerman caught three passes for 54 yards, Skeenstra two
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Speaker 1: for 39, and Jayden Jones caught two passes for 25 yards.
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Speaker 1: Lucas Woodridge, 11 of 14 through the air, and one interception,
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Speaker 1: 207 yards passing, and the two touchdowns. So just a
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Speaker 1: really strong overall performance there. Let's see here, 476 yards
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Speaker 1: of offense by the Pioneers. That is definitely moving the ball.
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Speaker 1: And this is against a Kings team that they're good
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Speaker 1: year in and year out. It's a team that you
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Speaker 1: can pencil in to be in the state playoffs. And
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Speaker 1: I kept saying it over and over again. I didn't
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Speaker 1: know what to expect of the Pioneers this year. And
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Speaker 1: now I think the expectations are pretty high as they're 3-0.
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Speaker 1: Looking really good so far this year. Really excited about that.
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Speaker 1: Of course, they will host Squalicum on Friday at 7 o'clock,
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that on the next podcast when
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Speaker 1: we preview all the games and get all the coaches
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Speaker 1: on and stuff like that. But a great, great game
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Speaker 1: by the Pioneers here. Like I said, four interceptions, two
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Speaker 1: of them by Tyler Martin, who now has four on
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Speaker 1: the year. Evan Laerle and Jaden Jones each had an
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Speaker 1: interception as well. I thought defensively, you know, Tyler Martin
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Speaker 1: once again, leading the way. Eli King as a linebacker,
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Speaker 1: I thought played great. He had five tackles, a tackle
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Speaker 1: for loss, a pass broken up. Max Lautenbach all over
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Speaker 1: the field with seven and a half tackles. Trey Hutink
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Speaker 1: as well, five tackles and a fumble recovery. Silas Tierna
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Speaker 1: had four and a half tackles and a tackle for loss.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of guys really standing out here on
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Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball, which was really great
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Speaker 1: to see. Let's go on now to the big game
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Speaker 1: down south, which was Lynn and Christian going down there
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Speaker 1: to take on Bellevue. I tell you what, the Lynx,
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Speaker 1: I was pretty proud of them. They hung with the
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Speaker 1: Wolverines for two and a half quarters. I mean, it
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Speaker 1: was tough. I mean, you watch that game and you
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Speaker 1: see why Bellevue is so great. Everything is so crisply done,
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Speaker 1: and they play– the end of the whistle and they
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Speaker 1: hold their blocks and they're so fast and they're just really,
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Speaker 1: really good. And, and it was, it was awesome to
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Speaker 1: see the links, you know, battle them and, you know,
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Speaker 1: Bellevue came down and scored first, but then Elsie went
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Speaker 1: down and kicked a field goal, made it seven to three.
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Speaker 1: And that, you know, that, that hurrah moment was kind
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Speaker 1: of short lived as Bellevue returned the ensuing kickoff 92
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Speaker 1: yards for a touchdown. That's kind of where the overall
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Speaker 1: team speed comes into play there. Bellevue scores again before
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Speaker 1: the half to make it 21-3 at the half, but
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Speaker 1: Linda Christian scores first in the second half as Dawson
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Speaker 1: Hines hits Caden Veldman on a four-yard touchdown pass before
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Speaker 1: Bellevue runs away with it. They scored a couple touchdowns
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Speaker 1: on the backups. But Linda Christian, 19-26 through the air
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Speaker 1: as a team. Dawson Hines was 14-19 for 92 yards,
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Speaker 1: so a lot of short passes, just getting some completions
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Speaker 1: here and there where they could find them. Hines had
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Speaker 1: some pretty good runs, but then he was sacked a
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Speaker 1: few times as well, so the yardage kind of petered
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Speaker 1: out to just three yards. I thought Chris Coyman ran
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Speaker 1: the ball really hard, 19 carries for 77 yards against
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Speaker 1: that defense, which is pretty amazing. Caden Feldman and Justin
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Speaker 1: Kuech each had five catches. Jackson Yoon had four catches,
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Speaker 1: and they were without Eli Stamps and Wyatt Camphouse, so
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Speaker 1: you're talking about two big-time, two-way starters that they were missing,
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Speaker 1: so already going in shorthanded, not the easiest team to
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Speaker 1: do that against, but I got to give a lot
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Speaker 1: of credit to the links. I think that they, they
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Speaker 1: battled really hard. And I think, you know, part of
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Speaker 1: this coach or coach always talks about, he wants to
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Speaker 1: schedule hard. He wants to schedule tough. Cause it's, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's just going to make his team better. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: a lot of teams when they get into the Northwest
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Speaker 1: conference play, it's kind of like, Holy crap, this is tough.
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Speaker 1: You're weekend and week out. you know, this, these games
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Speaker 1: are tough, but LC, you know, they're probably going to
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Speaker 1: go in Northwest conference play and go, okay, now we're,
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Speaker 1: we're battle tested. We're already ready for this. So I
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Speaker 1: think that's kind of their game plan there. And, you know,
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Speaker 1: they dropped their first game of the year, two and one.
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Speaker 1: Now on the season, they'll be back home on Saturday
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Speaker 1: when they host the center at two o'clock in the afternoon.
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Speaker 1: So be on the lookout for that one defensively in
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Speaker 1: this game. I thought Dawson Heinz did a really good
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Speaker 1: job from a safety spot, eight tackles and a tackle
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Speaker 1: for loss. kind of leading that defense. Grant Adams had
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Speaker 1: a good game at corner, six and a half tackles.
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Speaker 1: And when you play corner against Bellevue, it's more like
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Speaker 1: an extended outside linebacker because, you know, unless that one
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Speaker 1: guy that's out wide is on your side, you're not
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Speaker 1: really playing out wide a whole lot. But the secondary
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Speaker 1: had to make tackles because those running backs are going
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Speaker 1: to break through a lot of guys at some point.
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Speaker 1: So you've got to, that last line of defense, that
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Speaker 1: secondary has to make tackles, and that's what they did.
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Speaker 1: They did let that one long touchdown go, a 73-yard
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Speaker 1: touchdown run late. But, I mean, again, really hats off
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Speaker 1: to Coach Terpstra and the Lynx. I thought that they
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Speaker 1: battled Bellevue extremely hard, and hopefully that will be on
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Speaker 1: the schedule again next year. Bellevue will come up here
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Speaker 1: to play Linda Christian at home. This is the first
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Speaker 1: of a two-year cycle where the home and aways generally switch,
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Speaker 1: so we'll have to see on that one. for our
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Speaker 1: next game, of course, it's the, was the big game
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Speaker 1: of the week. And for that, we're going to go
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Speaker 1: to the coach's corner is Jeff wood. Our coach here
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Speaker 1: at welcome preps was at the game coach. How you doing?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Tyler.
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Speaker 1: Awesome. So this one was, uh, it lived up to
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Speaker 1: the hype. And I think everybody, I think going into it,
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Speaker 1: everyone would have said, you know, it's hard to pick
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Speaker 1: a winner, but we know it'll be a really close game. Um,
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Speaker 1: What was the atmosphere like? Tell us what it was like.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you were on the field and got to
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Speaker 1: witness everything that was around it. Yeah, just a great
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Speaker 1: high school atmosphere.
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Speaker 2: Ferndale's had that.
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Speaker 3: Turf field and stadium for, what, four or five years now,
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Speaker 3: and they had it packed. Obviously, Lyndon brought quite a
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Speaker 3: few people as well, and their whole crew, and Lyndon
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Speaker 3: or Ferndale had the, the all black unis and the
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Speaker 3: blackout in the crowd and just, uh, yeah, it was, uh,
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Speaker 3: it was quite a scene and they had all sorts
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Speaker 3: of events and a t-shirt gun and, you know, extra
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Speaker 3: MC on the field besides the, uh, announcer for the game.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, it's, uh, they know how to, how to
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Speaker 2: do it up there, both those schools.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy because this is the one non-league game for Linden,
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Speaker 1: and it's one of a few non-league games for Ferndale,
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Speaker 1: but boy, they sure don't treat it like that. they
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Speaker 1: really go all out and they make it so great
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Speaker 1: and give it that big atmosphere like you said a
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Speaker 1: t-shirt gun and all that stuff I did see that
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Speaker 1: at Ferndale out at a volleyball game so I would
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Speaker 1: imagine it's the same one which is pretty cool Um,
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Speaker 1: but it's a great game all the way throughout. I mean,
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Speaker 1: back and forth, back and forth, uh, close games, tie games,
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Speaker 1: lead changes, all sorts of things. Um, talk about what
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Speaker 1: you saw in the first half. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Uh, Lennon took the lead and they were, uh, pretty balanced. Uh,
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Speaker 3: and they, they were really methodical though. I think going
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Speaker 3: into the game, they knew kind of upfront that, Uh, just.
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Speaker 2: Ferndale had a little bit more girth and a little
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Speaker 2: bit more depth.
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Speaker 3: And so they kind of wanted to shorten the game.
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Speaker 3: So even though they're kind of the, the team that
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Speaker 3: throws it a little bit more, uh, they were, they
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Speaker 3: were real methodical, but they were, uh, able to, to
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Speaker 3: get on the board first. And then, uh, you know, Ferndale,
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Speaker 3: I think they only threw three passes.
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Speaker 1: The whole game.
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Speaker 2: So, you know, they run in there, their wing T.
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Speaker 3: Most of the game, uh, They did have the full
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Speaker 3: house backfield for a couple series in the third quarter. But, yeah,
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Speaker 3: it was back and forth and well executed, but also
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Speaker 3: very well played defensively in the terms of every yard
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Speaker 3: was fought for and there weren't too many.
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Speaker 2: Big breakaway runs or passes.
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Speaker 3: So it was just two real solid teams going after
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Speaker 3: each other.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, early on it's tied 7-7. Lyndon is backed up
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Speaker 1: and has to punt. It's one of those things where
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Speaker 1: when do you go for the block? When do you
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Speaker 1: set up a return? Do you think this is one
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Speaker 1: of those where if you're inside the 10, you're going
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Speaker 1: to automatically try to go out for a block? As
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Speaker 1: a coach, is that a time when you say, this
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Speaker 1: is a perfect time to go after it here? I think.
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Speaker 2: Yes, not every single time.
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Speaker 3: I mean, maybe you have a returner that's really dynamic,
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Speaker 3: so maybe you want to set that up because he's
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Speaker 3: going to be catching it on the 40-yard line or
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Speaker 3: 50 probably at worst. But yeah, I think in terms
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Speaker 3: of blocks, if you are going to call one when
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Speaker 3: the other team's backed up, that's always– always a good
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Speaker 3: time to do it because you can get it safety
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Speaker 3: or in this case, a touchdown. And that really got
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Speaker 3: the momentum going for, going for Ferndale.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. And you did message me at halftime. The score
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Speaker 1: was tied at that point, but when you looked at it,
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Speaker 1: Lyndon had a lot more yards, but Ferndale did have
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Speaker 1: that block punt, which obviously, you know, you're not picking
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Speaker 1: up offensive yards on that, but you are picking up
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Speaker 1: seven points. The score is tied 14 to 14 at
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Speaker 1: the half. And, you know, just kind of talk about
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Speaker 1: the second half and at what point did Ferndale kind
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Speaker 1: of take control there?
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Speaker 3: Well, like you said, Ferndale didn't have possession that many–
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Speaker 3: I think it was 13 or 15 plays is all
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Speaker 3: because they scored without possession there. And then Linden was,
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Speaker 3: you know, moving the ball and taking a lot of time. So, again,
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Speaker 3: Ferndale having longer possessions– uh, in the second half was,
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Speaker 3: was kind of starting to take control and, uh, scoring
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Speaker 3: and taking the lead and wearing Linden down a little bit. Again,
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Speaker 3: Linden made them fight for every single yard. Uh, and
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Speaker 3: then Linden after they score, uh, you know, I don't
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Speaker 3: think it was planned, but sometimes you, you kick it
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Speaker 3: into a void and, uh, either the team doesn't return
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Speaker 3: it very far, or maybe you get on it as, uh,
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Speaker 3: Linden did and they got that, that kickoff, and so
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Speaker 3: they got possession again, but were unable to, I think
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Speaker 3: it was tied at that point, they could have taken
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Speaker 3: the lead there, but Ferndale got a stop.
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Speaker 2: And then I think scored after that.
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Speaker 3: It was really back and forth, and a lot more scoring,
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Speaker 3: you know, it was 14 all at half, and then
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Speaker 3: a lot more scoring in the second half, which was
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Speaker 3: really cool to see, I think in the third game,
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Speaker 3: the offenses are a little bit more in sync, versus
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Speaker 3: they've played, you know, that opening weekend for a few years,
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Speaker 3: and that's a little more, you know, you're not as
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Speaker 3: dialed in yet on offense.
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Speaker 1: Right, exactly. And there was a point in that second
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Speaker 1: half when Elliott Lenson carried the ball in a lot
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Speaker 1: of plays in a row. Obviously, you know, he broke
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Speaker 1: that school record last week. You get to see him
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Speaker 1: live against a very good Linden defense. What makes him
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Speaker 1: the back that he is?
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Speaker 3: I think it's just a combination of he's got good vision.
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Speaker 3: He knows how to follow his blocks. Obviously so many
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Speaker 3: of the players are well blocked.
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Speaker 2: So that's the first part.
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Speaker 3: You got to give credit to the, the Ferndale offensive
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Speaker 3: line executing and then speed. But he also, when he
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Speaker 3: doesn't have really much of an opening, he'll just stick
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Speaker 3: his nose in there and he'll run over a linebacker
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Speaker 3: or a safety or, or whoever. So he's always, you know,
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Speaker 3: getting a few yards, even if it's, you know, well defended. Uh,
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Speaker 3: and then if he does, he doesn't need much of
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Speaker 3: a crease and, you know, on a lot of those
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Speaker 3: sweeps or counter trays or, uh, you know, those plays, uh,
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Speaker 3: if there is that, that crease, he'll just hit it and,
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Speaker 3: you know, he'll be off to the races.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. It's been, uh, it's been a joy to watch
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Speaker 1: him and, uh, you know, I think he's, uh, I
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Speaker 1: think he surpassed 2000 yards in his career and he's
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Speaker 1: not done yet. And, and a lot of, a lot
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Speaker 1: of great backs and it's just awesome to see a
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Speaker 1: good close game again with these two schools. Uh, Linden
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Speaker 1: does come, you know, they get that possession late score
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Speaker 1: that late touchdown, but, um, they weren't able to, you know,
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Speaker 1: get the ball again after that. And, and, uh, and
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Speaker 1: that would be that as Ferndale wins 35 to 28. Um, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's just one of those classic games, like you said.
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Speaker 1: Ferndale with the new stadium can fit a lot of people.
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Speaker 1: Like you said, it was jam-packed and must have been
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Speaker 1: pretty cool. And we got to see it live on
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Speaker 1: the show. We would cut to it every once in
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Speaker 1: a while, and the emotions were pretty high. And you
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Speaker 1: even saw a lot of plays where a defensive back
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Speaker 1: would knock the ball away and then their wide receiver
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Speaker 1: that it was intended for you know, would kind of
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Speaker 1: like shake the DB's hand. Like that's a good play.
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Speaker 1: Like these kids know each other. It's such a, it's
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Speaker 1: such a great healthy rivalry. And so, yeah, that's a,
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Speaker 1: it's a, it's a great one. And coach, thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for being at that one. And we'll talk
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Speaker 1: to you a little later on this episode. All right.
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Speaker 2: Looking forward to it.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you very much coach. And we'll be listening.
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Speaker 1: We'll be hearing from him a little later on. It's,
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Speaker 1: it's a double segment of coach's corner and, as he
17:25
Speaker 1: went to two games this past weekend to kind of
17:28
Speaker 1: help me out as I've been juggling lots of things
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Speaker 1: as of late. So he's, you know, picking up my
17:35
Speaker 1: slack and doing an amazing job. So I can't thank
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Speaker 1: him enough. Let's go out to Civic Stadium now where
17:41
Speaker 1: the Squalicum Storm got off to a really rough start
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Speaker 1: against the Burlington Edison Tigers as Burlington Edison went up
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Speaker 1: 28 to zero early in the second quarter. And, but
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Speaker 1: from there on out, Squalicum, you know, basically outscored them
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Speaker 1: 21 to 14. But it was that, it was that
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Speaker 1: first quarter where, um, Burlington Edison forced a punt. They
18:02
Speaker 1: go down and scored a touchdown. Then they force a fumble,
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Speaker 1: score a touchdown, force another punt, score a touchdown, force
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Speaker 1: another fumble, score a touchdown. And they just had all
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Speaker 1: these short fields and had a lot of time of possession.
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Speaker 1: They were making big plays. Um, squalicum at one point,
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Speaker 1: they made the change at quarterback, um, from Grady Smith
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Speaker 1: to Phoenix Price. I don't know if it was an
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Speaker 1: injury-related thing or if it was just a switch. Either way,
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Speaker 1: it went really well once Squalicum made that switch. Tucker
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Speaker 1: Hofstett ran for a 42-yard touchdown run, which was a
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Speaker 1: run that kind of showed a lot of things from
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Speaker 1: the sophomore. Breaking tackles, good balance, and then hitting that
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Speaker 1: speed on the outside and running past guys. So Tucker
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Speaker 1: Hofstett really showed me a lot on just that specific run.
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Speaker 1: He's been doing a lot of good things on defense
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Speaker 1: as well, just a sophomore, so I'm excited to see
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Speaker 1: his progression. I think he's going to be one of
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Speaker 1: the top players in this conference for the next few years.
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Speaker 1: And then Phoenix Price threw a couple touchdown passes, both
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Speaker 1: of them to Ray Hoffman, the big 6'3, 205-pound senior
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Speaker 1: tight end, and so there might be a connection there
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Speaker 1: that we're seeing that's working, and we'll have to wait
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Speaker 1: and see where Squalicum goes at quarterback next week when
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Speaker 1: they go to Nooksack to take on the Pioneers. It'll
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Speaker 1: be the first ever matchup between Squalicum and Nooksack Valley,
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Speaker 1: and I love that matchup. They were supposed to play
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Speaker 1: during the COVID year, that spring season, and I think
19:36
Speaker 1: there was a bunch of players that got COVID, so
19:39
Speaker 1: that game got canceled. But it's going to be great
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Speaker 1: to see them play against each other. I think it'll
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Speaker 1: be fantastic. So, Hofstede had finished with 79 yards on
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Speaker 1: 10 carries he did have the long touchdown run Phoenix
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Speaker 1: price 9 of 11 for 137 yards and two touchdowns
19:55
Speaker 1: his two incomplete passes were actually both intercepted so Phoenix
19:59
Speaker 1: price put the ball in the air 11 times and
20:00
Speaker 1: it never hit the ground which is pretty tough to
20:03
Speaker 1: do a lot of different players catching passes and For Squalicum, Hoffman, Sone, Webster, Hofstet, Strickland, Ibata,
20:11
Speaker 1: and Laranaga all had receptions. But it was just, they
20:17
Speaker 1: were forced to climb themselves out of a hole early on,
20:21
Speaker 1: Squalicum was. And Burlington Edison is a quality team where
20:25
Speaker 1: you can't really, you know, climb out of that hole.
20:29
Speaker 1: It's really, really tough. And try to come back on them.
20:33
Speaker 1: And Squalicum moving to this new offense, it's built more
20:36
Speaker 1: for ball control and close games and holding onto a
20:39
Speaker 1: lead and stuff like that. It's not built to come
20:41
Speaker 1: back from 28 to zero. And, um, but they did
20:44
Speaker 1: their best. And, uh, I thought they finished pretty strong
20:47
Speaker 1: over a hundred yards, rushing 145 yards receiving, but they
20:50
Speaker 1: did give up 518 yards, which is just not the
20:55
Speaker 1: squalicum defensive way. Burlington Edison ran 76 plays squalicum ran
21:00
Speaker 1: just 33. So the time of possession way in Burlington
21:03
Speaker 1: Edison's favor, just too many turnovers and, um, you know,
21:08
Speaker 1: that was, that was basically that. I think there was
21:10
Speaker 1: like two or three fumbles. I threw two interceptions and
21:13
Speaker 1: Burlington Edison made them pay when those things happened. So defensively,
21:19
Speaker 1: I thought Noah Gilbert, the linebacker had a great game.
21:21
Speaker 1: He had 11 tackles, half a tackle for loss. Ray
21:24
Speaker 1: Hoffman had 10 tackles and a pass defended from a
21:27
Speaker 1: strong safety spot. Mason Sone, another defensive back. He had
21:31
Speaker 1: seven tackles and a pass broken up. Tucker Hofstedt, like
21:34
Speaker 1: I said, playing on that defensive line, four and a
21:37
Speaker 1: half tackles and a tackle for loss. I thought he
21:39
Speaker 1: did really well as well. I thought Maddox Strickland did well.
21:44
Speaker 1: He had eight tackles from his outside linebacker spot. He's
21:47
Speaker 1: not at 100% either. So guys played hard. But like
21:52
Speaker 1: I said, climbing your way out of that 28-0 deficit
21:56
Speaker 1: early on is really, really tough. But like I said,
22:00
Speaker 1: they battled hard and made it. a game there in
22:05
Speaker 1: the second half. Just really hard to come back from that.
22:08
Speaker 1: Next up, Mount Baker traveling down south to Everett to
22:12
Speaker 1: take on Kamiak, the 4A Knights. And this was kind
22:17
Speaker 1: of a back and forth game. This was 14-14 at
22:20
Speaker 1: one point early on. But Mount Baker just, you know,
22:24
Speaker 1: what's really weird is usually when you see these small
22:26
Speaker 1: schools versus big schools, meaning classifications, 1A versus 4A or
22:31
Speaker 1: 1A versus 3A or 2B versus 2A or whatever. Usually
22:35
Speaker 1: what happens is if the small school is a pretty
22:38
Speaker 1: good school, they'll play even with them for a half,
22:40
Speaker 1: maybe three quarters. But what happens late is the bigger
22:44
Speaker 1: school will, they have a lot of guys going that
22:48
Speaker 1: play just one side of the ball, offense or defense.
22:50
Speaker 1: And so you see the bigger school kind of wear
22:53
Speaker 1: them out at the end. And this was kind of
22:55
Speaker 1: the opposite. As Mount Baker, the smaller school, you could
22:59
Speaker 1: kind of see near the end of that game that,
23:02
Speaker 1: The way they play and the hard style and the
23:04
Speaker 1: hitting and everything, the physicality, the cameo just kind of
23:08
Speaker 1: didn't want any part of him anymore. And when you're
23:11
Speaker 1: running the ball and running the ball and running the
23:13
Speaker 1: ball and just pounding them over and over again, it's
23:16
Speaker 1: it's it can wear on you. And Mount Baker did
23:19
Speaker 1: that and they pounded on these guys and they were
23:22
Speaker 1: able to. reached the end zone eight times. Anak Smith
23:25
Speaker 1: made all eight of his extra points. Um, Andrew Monteith
23:28
Speaker 1: scored three touchdowns. It's the first time he's ever had
23:30
Speaker 1: a varsity touchdown, which was hard to believe. He scored
23:32
Speaker 1: three of them. Um, Tyson Bartsdale threw his first ever
23:36
Speaker 1: touchdown passes. He threw two of them. Um, Noah Nicole
23:39
Speaker 1: Mills had a couple of touchdowns. Uh, Anak Smith had
23:42
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Gage Smith caught a 73 yard touchdown. Juan
23:46
Speaker 1: Mapes had a touchdown at the, near the end. Um,
23:50
Speaker 1: Mount Baker ran for 292 yards. And how about this?
23:53
Speaker 1: They threw for 173 yards. So pretty even there, even
23:57
Speaker 1: though they ran the ball 37 times to just 10
23:59
Speaker 1: pass attempts. But that's a pretty good average there. 10
24:03
Speaker 1: pass plays, the average 17.3 yards per pass play called.
24:08
Speaker 1: So that's pretty good for Coach Lepp and the guys.
24:11
Speaker 1: Noah Nicole Mills, 99 yards rushing on 11 carries. Andrew Monteith,
24:15
Speaker 1: 11 carries for 63 yards. Anak Smith had 57 yards
24:18
Speaker 1: rushing yards. Gage Smith had 37. Mates had 23. Barksdale
24:23
Speaker 1: had 13. Zion Paglia caught two passes for 37 yards.
24:29
Speaker 1: And then Gage Smith, Jaden Louie, Noah Nicole Mills, and
24:33
Speaker 1: Pepe McAvoy Salgado each caught a pass as well. Boy,
24:37
Speaker 1: Jaden Louie's catch there that he caught when he was
24:40
Speaker 1: marked down right at the one-yard line was a heck
24:43
Speaker 1: of a catch. The way he Had to come around
24:47
Speaker 1: the defender and then go down to get the ball.
24:51
Speaker 1: It was a really athletic play, and I'm excited to see.
24:54
Speaker 1: He is a senior, but I'm excited to see his
24:56
Speaker 1: future of this season and see he could be a
24:59
Speaker 1: game-breaking type of player that Mount Baker has in their
25:03
Speaker 1: back pocket. So that's going to be fantastic to see
25:06
Speaker 1: going forward. Kamiak threw for over 400 yards, put the
25:10
Speaker 1: ball in the air 52 times. A lot of dinking
25:12
Speaker 1: and dunking and let their athletes run. They did score
25:15
Speaker 1: a long touchdown doing that late in the third quarter.
25:18
Speaker 1: But for the most part, Mount Baker handled them, especially
25:22
Speaker 1: in the second half. Defensive-wise, Kel Reardon, huge game. Eight tackles,
25:27
Speaker 1: two sacks, a pass broken up. Aaron Torres is just
25:32
Speaker 1: continuing to have a great season in the trenches. Eight
25:35
Speaker 1: and a half tackles and a quarterback sack. Zion Paglia,
25:39
Speaker 1: I thought, did a great job against this pass defense.
25:41
Speaker 1: He forced a fumble, had two and a half tackles,
25:43
Speaker 1: and he broke up four passes. That's getting the job
25:47
Speaker 1: done in the secondary. So really, really cool to see
25:50
Speaker 1: that as well. Mount Baker back on the winning side
25:55
Speaker 1: of things at 2-1 now. They'll be on the road
25:58
Speaker 1: for their third consecutive week on Friday. They will travel
26:01
Speaker 1: to OMAC to take on the Pioneers at 6 o'clock.
26:05
Speaker 1: So Yeah, so be ready for that one as the
26:08
Speaker 1: road warriors that are the Mountaineers continue to go on
26:12
Speaker 1: the road. Down at Dick Cardinal Stadium, Bellingham picks up
26:16
Speaker 1: the win against Lakewood, and it was not easy as
26:19
Speaker 1: they were down 12-3 going into the final quarter of
26:23
Speaker 1: play and pick up a 23-12 win. They outscore Lakewood
26:29
Speaker 1: 20-0 in the fourth quarter, which is, how huge is
26:33
Speaker 1: that for a team to just come together and have
26:36
Speaker 1: a game like that which was you know it was
26:38
Speaker 1: such a big thing for Bellingham to get that first
26:41
Speaker 1: conference win of the year Lakewood was looking for their
26:43
Speaker 1: first conference win of the year both teams faced you
26:47
Speaker 1: know tougher opponents early on in the season and and
26:52
Speaker 1: both teams looking for that first win and and it
26:56
Speaker 1: was great for Bellingham to do that Lakewood early on
26:59
Speaker 1: was Pretty dominant as far as moving the chains, keeping
27:03
Speaker 1: possession of the ball, scoring at the end of their drives.
27:05
Speaker 1: They scored at the end of their first two drives.
27:09
Speaker 1: Bellingham had a shot there to put three points on
27:12
Speaker 1: the board right before the half. Alejandro Pringle has one
27:16
Speaker 1: of the strongest legs in Whatcom County. He gets set
27:19
Speaker 1: up to kick a 39-yard field goal, which is not
27:22
Speaker 1: a gimme by any stretch in high school. And there's
27:25
Speaker 1: a penalty. They have to back it up five yards.
27:26
Speaker 1: So instead, it's a 44-yarder. And it just fell short.
27:30
Speaker 1: And you're like, man, if it wasn't a penalty, he
27:32
Speaker 1: would have made that from 39. But instead, they go
27:35
Speaker 1: into the halftime down 9-0. And then Pringle does kick
27:41
Speaker 1: a field goal in the third quarter. Legwa kicks their
27:43
Speaker 1: field goal, another one in the third quarter. That's what
27:46
Speaker 1: made it 12-3. But the big thing, the big change
27:49
Speaker 1: that I noticed in this game was Ben Leonard, the quarterback,
27:53
Speaker 1: who has never known, I've never seen a designed run
27:56
Speaker 1: with him. He's very good at staying in the pocket
28:00
Speaker 1: and dotting his receivers or even scrambling a little bit,
28:03
Speaker 1: buying time and then hitting his receivers. And he'll scramble
28:08
Speaker 1: and pick up yards here and there too. But I'm
28:10
Speaker 1: talking like designed runs and it's, I've never seen it
28:13
Speaker 1: happen before. And then he started doing it in the
28:16
Speaker 1: second half, and nobody saw it coming, including me. I
28:19
Speaker 1: was like, holy cow, look at him go. And he
28:21
Speaker 1: picked up huge chunks of yards, ends up leading them
28:24
Speaker 1: with 41 yards rushing. He went 20 of 32 through
28:27
Speaker 1: the air for 178 yards, and his touchdown pass to
28:31
Speaker 1: Matthew Steele in the fourth quarter not put him ahead
28:34
Speaker 1: of– Sean Linville who's in the Bellingham Hall of Fame
28:39
Speaker 1: for multiple sports for second all time on the school's
28:44
Speaker 1: career touchdown passing list just now only by Nick Knutson
28:47
Speaker 1: but he also had a rushing touchdown and MJ Maena
28:52
Speaker 1: scored a touchdown and all these touchdowns in the fourth
28:55
Speaker 1: quarter as the defense came up huge and Matthew Steele
28:59
Speaker 1: another big game seven catches for 100 yards and a
29:02
Speaker 1: touchdown I believe he has touchdown receptions in each game
29:05
Speaker 1: now Um, just, it was a great game for Bellingham
29:09
Speaker 1: all the way around to get that win. Calvin Van Hoffwagon,
29:12
Speaker 1: what a huge game on defense, 10 and a half tackles,
29:15
Speaker 1: three and a half tackles for loss and a sack
29:18
Speaker 1: and a pass broken up. But Matthew Steele had a
29:20
Speaker 1: great game defensively, seven tackles, two passes broken up and
29:24
Speaker 1: a fumble recovery. Lucius White, five tackles, a forced fumble
29:28
Speaker 1: and a pass broken up. And Silas McGurr, five and
29:31
Speaker 1: a half tackles and a pass broken up as well.
29:33
Speaker 1: James Button had six tackles. a lot of guys really
29:37
Speaker 1: stepping up. Jacques has loved Rogers. Um, or Love-Rodson, I
29:41
Speaker 1: should say, he had a tackle for loss late. Aaron
29:44
Speaker 1: Chasse had a tackle for loss early. These guys are
29:48
Speaker 1: starting to hit, right? It's starting to kind of happen
29:50
Speaker 1: for them, and they're going to have Another big one
29:55
Speaker 1: this upcoming week as they will play on Thursday when
29:57
Speaker 1: they travel to Linden to take on the Lions. That's
30:00
Speaker 1: Thursday night at 7 o'clock, so be ready for that one.
30:03
Speaker 1: Which also means that the Gatorade Game Day podcast where
30:06
Speaker 1: I preview all the week's games, that will come out
30:08
Speaker 1: Thursday morning instead of Friday morning because of the two
30:11
Speaker 1: Thursday games. Let's head out down to Sultan now, where
30:16
Speaker 1: the Sehome Mariners were down there. And this was a
30:19
Speaker 1: back and forth and back and forth game all the
30:21
Speaker 1: way until the fourth quarter. They were trading touchdowns back
30:25
Speaker 1: and forth and back and forth, like I said, all
30:27
Speaker 1: the way until the fourth quarter. And actually until the
30:29
Speaker 1: end of the third, when Sultan scored the last three
30:31
Speaker 1: touchdowns of the game to defeat the Mariners, 31-21. And
30:37
Speaker 1: I was looking back in the history to see if
30:39
Speaker 1: Seaholm and Sultan had ever played. They did play in
30:41
Speaker 1: 2009 and 2011. So those two years, they were both
30:45
Speaker 1: like week 10 games that were probably not on the schedule.
30:49
Speaker 1: And they were just crossover games for non-playoff teams late
30:52
Speaker 1: in the year. And they split those games. So they
30:54
Speaker 1: have played before, but it's been a while. Of course,
30:57
Speaker 1: this is the first time I'm playing in a conference game.
31:00
Speaker 1: Jadon Geiger, 13 of 29 through the air for 195
31:01
Speaker 1: yards and all three touchdowns. Gunnar Andersen caught two of
31:10
Speaker 1: the touchdown passes. He finished with four catches for 68 yards.
31:13
Speaker 1: Callum LaPlante, four catches for 42 yards. Nicky Smith, three
31:16
Speaker 1: catches for 52 yards. And then Elias... a lot of,
31:21
Speaker 1: and every flag each had a reception as well. Uh,
31:25
Speaker 1: they didn't run a ton. They did pick up some yards,
31:27
Speaker 1: but then they lost a lot of yards on different
31:29
Speaker 1: things like bad snaps and, and, um, you know, just
31:32
Speaker 1: mishandled plays and stuff like that. Nikki Smith leading the
31:35
Speaker 1: way with 15 yards, rushing, playing a lot of receiver,
31:38
Speaker 1: but playing a little running back this past week. I
31:40
Speaker 1: think they were missing a few guys. Um, but you know, it's,
31:46
Speaker 1: Sultan's just big. They're just huge. And they were kind
31:50
Speaker 1: of leaning on him a little bit. And late in
31:53
Speaker 1: the game is kind of when things went, you know,
31:56
Speaker 1: it was a really close game. Sultan has a lead by,
32:01
Speaker 1: I want to say it was like 25-21 in the
32:04
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. And Sion's driving. And they go for it
32:07
Speaker 1: on fourth down. And boy, it sure looked like they
32:10
Speaker 1: picked it up, especially with the forward progress. And the referee...
32:15
Speaker 1: that called, he was on the Sultan sideline and where
32:17
Speaker 1: the spot was, boy, it was tricky because I, I mean,
32:22
Speaker 1: I have, of course I can slow it down and
32:24
Speaker 1: reverse it and see everything on the film and see
32:27
Speaker 1: what happened. Um, but where he spotted it was definitely
32:31
Speaker 1: short of the first down that was on a fourth
32:33
Speaker 1: down play and which really started to put the nail
32:37
Speaker 1: in the coffin for see home. And then after that,
32:40
Speaker 1: They scored on a 38-yard touchdown pass, but you could
32:42
Speaker 1: see the right guard move well before the ball snapped.
32:46
Speaker 1: I mean, he flinched completely, and they didn't call it.
32:48
Speaker 1: They kind of took Sio off guard, I think, a
32:51
Speaker 1: little bit, and it was a weird broken play, and
32:55
Speaker 1: they ended up scoring a touchdown on it. It was
32:56
Speaker 1: just one of the flukiest plays, but you've got to
32:59
Speaker 1: give credit to Sultan because they did what they needed
33:02
Speaker 1: to do to score on that play, and it just–
33:05
Speaker 1: It was just a weird play to watch, but it really,
33:07
Speaker 1: I mean, that sunk them right there. It put them
33:10
Speaker 1: up by 10. You have to score twice now. Not
33:13
Speaker 1: a lot of time left. And that was that. And Sultan,
33:16
Speaker 1: how about the Sultan Turks picking up their second conference win?
33:20
Speaker 1: And the Mariners still looking for their first as they
33:22
Speaker 1: will host Lakewood at 7 o'clock on Friday at Civic Stadium.
33:26
Speaker 1: Both teams looking for their first win of the season. Defensively, Again,
33:31
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't say enough about Logan Rogers. Seven tackles,
33:34
Speaker 1: three of them for a loss. He is just a
33:37
Speaker 1: monster up there on the front line. Evan Hatzell, I thought,
33:41
Speaker 1: did a great job at linebacker. Nine tackles and a
33:44
Speaker 1: tackle for loss. Samuel Herring, I thought, did a great
33:48
Speaker 1: job as well. Two tackles for loss, a fumble recovery,
33:50
Speaker 1: three and a half total tackles. Nicky Smith had five tackles,
33:54
Speaker 1: a pass broken up. He also intercepted a pass. And
33:57
Speaker 1: Elias Lada, five tackles, a sack, and a pass broken up.
34:00
Speaker 1: So those were kind of the big names that I
34:03
Speaker 1: saw on defense. And, you know, Seaholm, they'll get a
34:09
Speaker 1: win at some point. It's just been a tough go.
34:11
Speaker 1: They've scored... First game, they didn't score any points. Last
34:14
Speaker 1: week and the next week, they scored two touchdowns. This
34:16
Speaker 1: last week, they scored three touchdowns. So I think they're
34:19
Speaker 1: starting to kind of get things going. They were without
34:21
Speaker 1: Devin Bankson last week, which is a big-time player, and
34:24
Speaker 1: hopefully he'll be back to contribute on both sides of
34:28
Speaker 1: the ball, especially from his linebacker spot on defense. So
34:31
Speaker 1: we'll just have to wait and see how Seaholm does
34:34
Speaker 1: next week when they take on Lakewood. And then for
34:37
Speaker 1: our final game, this was the Saturday game. We're going
34:40
Speaker 1: to go back to the coach's corner and bring back
34:42
Speaker 1: Coach Jeff Wood. Coach, what was it like out there
34:45
Speaker 1: at Bob Ames Field on Saturday afternoon?
34:47
Speaker 3: Oh, it was a great game, great day, you know,
34:51
Speaker 3: great weather all weekend. And they honored the 06 team.
34:57
Speaker 2: Before the game, which was cool. And, you know, they had.
35:05
Speaker 3: The Crimson Hawks, I guess their mascot now. They were
35:09
Speaker 3: a very strong team, a lot of big guys on
35:13
Speaker 3: the line and some talented guys also in the skill position.
35:19
Speaker 2: So it was just, it was a really good matchup.
35:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was, you know, as you put in the story,
35:26
Speaker 1: Colville was able to just kind of control it in
35:28
Speaker 1: that first possession and use their beef and move down
35:32
Speaker 1: the field and score that short touchdown. Meridian comes back
35:36
Speaker 1: and kind of does the same as they go down
35:38
Speaker 1: and score a touchdown and And it was kind of
35:41
Speaker 1: a back and forth game, but then in the second quarter,
35:44
Speaker 1: Marin is able to rip off three touchdown passes in
35:47
Speaker 1: one quarter. Um, kind of talk about what made that
35:52
Speaker 1: succeed for the Trojans and kind of what they had
35:55
Speaker 1: going on there. Yeah.
35:57
Speaker 3: You know, Trey Alexander is just, uh, he's very poised
36:00
Speaker 3: back there, has a strong arm, uh, has a good
36:04
Speaker 3: crew of receivers and they obviously it's, uh, been their
36:08
Speaker 3: forte for a long time, throwing the ball, uh, and
36:12
Speaker 3: executing in the passing game. And so he hit, hit
36:15
Speaker 3: some paths, some nice ones. And, uh, you know, Pierce Brzozowski,
36:20
Speaker 3: it's a mouthful, but, uh, and Casey Brennan had a
36:23
Speaker 3: long one.
36:24
Speaker 2: You know, speedster little guy, but you know, he, he has,
36:28
Speaker 2: has the speed to burn.
36:30
Speaker 3: So they, uh, they were executing well and kind of matching,
36:34
Speaker 3: matching the scores back and forth.
36:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, and when Colville scored their second touchdown of the
36:42
Speaker 1: third quarter, they elected to go for two. Do you
36:45
Speaker 1: think that– I mean, every extra point to that point
36:48
Speaker 1: had been made. So everything was kind of lining up.
36:51
Speaker 1: Games were getting tied here and there. But they were
36:54
Speaker 1: down– it put them down. Scoring the touchdown, they were
36:59
Speaker 1: only down by one, but they decide to go for–
37:05
Speaker 1: They just, yeah, they decided to go for two and
37:07
Speaker 1: get it. What's the, as, as a coach, what's the
37:11
Speaker 1: thought process that early on, you know, of going for
37:14
Speaker 1: two in that moment?
37:16
Speaker 3: Yeah. Um, you usually have at least one two point
37:20
Speaker 3: play in your bag as a coach that you're ready.
37:23
Speaker 1: To use either.
37:25
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, sometimes it's on a fourth and short, uh,
37:29
Speaker 3: but yeah, usually it's ready for a, a two point
37:31
Speaker 3: play that you haven't put on film. that the, you know,
37:34
Speaker 3: the opposing team hasn't, hasn't seen.
37:38
Speaker 2: And, you know, that's kind of just a gut probably
37:41
Speaker 2: of the head coach. Hey, let's, let's break it out here.
37:44
Speaker 3: Even if you have a good kicker, right, let's try
37:47
Speaker 3: to take, it's in the second half and let's see
37:50
Speaker 3: where we're at here. We can spring this on them
37:52
Speaker 3: and it's got a good chance to work and then
37:54
Speaker 3: take that lead and force, force the opposing team to,
38:00
Speaker 3: you know, probably go for two or, Uh, you know,
38:03
Speaker 3: and then if you don't get it, uh, you're, you know,
38:07
Speaker 3: you're sitting with an advantage. So yeah, different guys have
38:10
Speaker 3: different strategies, but, uh, that was, I thought that was
38:13
Speaker 3: interesting too, that, uh, he did a little earlier than normal,
38:17
Speaker 3: but worked out, but then Meridian matched, you know, they scored, uh, again,
38:23
Speaker 3: I think I was on the next drive and then
38:25
Speaker 3: they kind of did, uh, Alexander kind of did bootleg
38:29
Speaker 3: and got it to the pile on. to get a
38:31
Speaker 3: matching two-point play.
38:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was kind of refreshing to see that
38:36
Speaker 1: because Alexander does like to sit in the pocket and throw.
38:39
Speaker 1: He'll scramble and throw. He'll run around, use his athleticism,
38:46
Speaker 1: not necessarily on designed runs very often at all. He's
38:49
Speaker 1: a great athlete, as we've seen with other sports, but
38:52
Speaker 1: he's not, even as a sophomore, he was starting as
38:55
Speaker 1: a receiver. So you know he has the kind of
38:58
Speaker 1: speed but he doesn't show it very often. And so
39:01
Speaker 1: it was kind of nice to see him do that
39:03
Speaker 1: on a design bootleg and get the corner and show
39:06
Speaker 1: that that can happen. So they were able to answer
39:08
Speaker 1: that two point play, like you just said. And then
39:12
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, Colville lines up in a, you know,
39:15
Speaker 1: power eye and double tight and all this stuff. But
39:18
Speaker 1: then on a, I think it looked like a, like
39:21
Speaker 1: a play action pass and they were able to get
39:23
Speaker 1: it out on the edge to a guy who's pretty fast.
39:26
Speaker 1: They score an 80-yard touchdown play. What did it feel
39:30
Speaker 1: like in the stadium? Did it feel like kind of
39:32
Speaker 1: the air was sucked out, or was it just kind
39:34
Speaker 1: of like, hey, we have to do one better here?
39:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it was because Meridian did kind of
39:43
Speaker 3: have the momentum, and their defense was playing well, and
39:46
Speaker 3: I think that was a third and maybe long or maybe,
39:50
Speaker 3: maybe not a third and long, but just, just kind
39:53
Speaker 3: of the defense was playing good. And it kind of
39:57
Speaker 3: was just, and it wasn't poorly defended. It was just
40:01
Speaker 3: a great play by Colville and the guy, guy got
40:06
Speaker 3: the edge and scored, but then, you know, credit to,
40:10
Speaker 3: to Meridian, right. Especially with, you know, they've had a
40:14
Speaker 3: couple tough games against tough opponents that they, they haven't won,
40:18
Speaker 3: so they're sitting already at 0-2, and they didn't miss
40:22
Speaker 3: a beat, and they, you know, showed some really good
40:24
Speaker 3: leadership and resolve, and were able to have a real
40:29
Speaker 3: nice drive to take the lead.
40:33
Speaker 1: And win the game in the end.
40:35
Speaker 3: There was an onside kick that helped Colville earlier in
40:40
Speaker 3: the third quarter, beginning of fourth, so that kind of helped, uh,
40:44
Speaker 3: helped the Crimson Hawks as well. And then they tried
40:47
Speaker 3: it again. And that time, um, Meridian recovered it. So, uh, yeah,
40:53
Speaker 3: some day what they did was, and this is good strategy.
40:56
Speaker 3: Just kick it as hard as you can, like right
40:58
Speaker 3: at one of the up guys. Right.
41:00
Speaker 2: And you try to catch it.
41:01
Speaker 3: And sometimes they're, you know, not the, not the best
41:05
Speaker 3: hands guys on a regular kick return. Uh, and I
41:07
Speaker 3: think it just went off the Meridian, uh, shoulder pads and, Uh, yeah.
41:12
Speaker 3: So sometimes that's a strategy rather than kind of kicking
41:15
Speaker 3: it where they aren't.
41:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a, you know, when I was in, when
41:19
Speaker 1: I was playing in kickoff, we had lots of different
41:22
Speaker 1: types of things. We had, you know, the regular onside kick,
41:25
Speaker 1: but then we had what was called onside bunt, which
41:28
Speaker 1: was kind of like everyone's racing down and the kicker
41:32
Speaker 1: looks like he's going to kick it as hard as
41:33
Speaker 1: he can. And he just kind of pooches it right
41:36
Speaker 1: in front of him and you hope it goes 10 yards.
41:39
Speaker 1: And you're the one that has to.
41:39
Speaker 2: And then the kicker himself recovers, right?
41:41
Speaker 1: Right, right. Did you have any of those? No. I
41:46
Speaker 1: never got called to do it. I wanted to so bad.
41:49
Speaker 1: I thought that would be such a cool play. I've
41:51
Speaker 1: seen it done. I've seen Lyndon do it a few
41:53
Speaker 1: times when they had Troy Pets. When you have a
41:55
Speaker 1: guy that runs a 4-4 as your kicker, that kind
41:57
Speaker 1: of helps. Because he can bunt it and then just
42:01
Speaker 1: sprint after and get it. But you really hope that
42:03
Speaker 1: that front line, like you're saying, those guys that they're
42:06
Speaker 1: going to turn and run– so they don't see it happening. And, and, uh,
42:11
Speaker 1: but then we also had the line drive where you
42:13
Speaker 1: pick your guy. And, uh, usually it's that guy. There's
42:16
Speaker 1: usually a guy right there in front. He's looking right
42:19
Speaker 1: at you. He's 10 yards away. And, and that's where
42:21
Speaker 1: you want to kind of aim that, but you were right.
42:23
Speaker 1: And you said it in the story too, where, you know,
42:25
Speaker 1: Coldwell scores 15 points in the third quarter without Meridian
42:29
Speaker 1: even running a play yet. And so it was, uh,
42:32
Speaker 1: You know, and with Meridian's offense, that's not a bad
42:34
Speaker 1: strategy to try to just keep their offense off the field.
42:37
Speaker 1: You know, whether you give them, you know, 50 yards
42:40
Speaker 1: to work with or 80 yards to work with, they're
42:42
Speaker 1: probably going to march down and score. So you might
42:44
Speaker 1: as well try for that every once in a while.
42:46
Speaker 1: But Meridian does come back. They score that touchdown. Trey
42:50
Speaker 1: Alexander over 300 yards passing, four touchdowns. Here's Brzozowski, 10
42:54
Speaker 1: catches for 129 yards. You know, what a weapon he's
42:58
Speaker 1: been over the years and all sorts of different things
43:00
Speaker 1: that he's done. And it was good to see Meridian
43:03
Speaker 1: get in the win column here and get another– they'll
43:07
Speaker 1: have another non-league game, another long road trip where they
43:11
Speaker 1: go to play on Alaska before they head into league
43:15
Speaker 1: play the following week. So, Coach, thank you very much
43:18
Speaker 1: for your time in two segments, which has been fantastic.
43:22
Speaker 1: And I'll talk to you next week.
43:25
Speaker 2: That sounds good, Tyler.
43:26
Speaker 1: All right, so thank you very much to Coach Wood
43:28
Speaker 1: once again. We're going to go over the players of
43:31
Speaker 1: the week now, and we're going to start off with
43:33
Speaker 1: the offensive player of the week, which is brought to
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Speaker 1: They deliver superior quality and commitment, and I plan to
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Speaker 1: do the very same. Well, I'm bucking the trend as
43:53
Speaker 1: Elliott Lenson has won the Offensive Player of the Week
43:56
Speaker 1: the last first two weeks of the season. I'm going
43:59
Speaker 1: a different direction here as it's going to be Meridian
44:01
Speaker 1: Senior Quarterback Trey Alexander, who went 23 for 30 through
44:05
Speaker 1: the air for 307 yards and five touchdowns. He also
44:10
Speaker 1: scored the key two-point conversion to keep up with Colville.
44:14
Speaker 1: So congratulations to Meridian Senior Trey Alexander. You are the
44:17
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44:49
Speaker 1: defensive performances. You look at what Logan Rogers did. Sawyer
44:54
Speaker 1: Strunk was just a beast with those three quarterback sacks
44:57
Speaker 1: and then having to deal later on in the game
45:00
Speaker 1: with that fullback all game, causing so many plays in
45:05
Speaker 1: the middle. I thought Kel Reardon had a tremendous game.
45:08
Speaker 1: Noah Gilbert, a lot of guys doing some good things.
45:12
Speaker 1: Tyler Martin once again. but I'm going with Calvin Van
45:15
Speaker 1: Hoffwagon of Bellingham. And this was, this was a close one,
45:17
Speaker 1: but he really, I mean, they, that defense, what it
45:22
Speaker 1: did to get the ball back three times and come
45:24
Speaker 1: back and win that game against Lakewood. He had 10
45:27
Speaker 1: and a half tackles, three and a half tackles for
45:29
Speaker 1: loss and a quarterback sack and a pass broken up.
45:33
Speaker 1: He was all over the field. Even the announcer, you
45:35
Speaker 1: could hear him saying again on the tackle, Calvin Van Hoffwagon. So,
45:40
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Bellingham senior Calvin Van Hoffwagen. You are the
45:44
Speaker 1: Curt Mayberry Farm Defensive Player of the Week. And now
45:49
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46:07
Speaker 1: been one of those crazy years where it hasn't gone
46:10
Speaker 1: to a kicker yet. And we're in week three now.
46:12
Speaker 1: And I was looking at everything and there was some
46:15
Speaker 1: good performances by the kickers, you know, nothing crazy. You know,
46:18
Speaker 1: Alejandro Pringle had the field goal and, you know, Enoch
46:22
Speaker 1: Smith made all eight of his extra points and Jackson
46:25
Speaker 1: Yoon made a field goal again. And, but when I
46:30
Speaker 1: looked at it, the blocked punt, it was the blocked
46:33
Speaker 1: punt by Brock Hewitt of Ferndale that really got them
46:37
Speaker 1: going early on in that game and kept them in
46:40
Speaker 1: it as Linden had more yards, but Ferndale was able
46:42
Speaker 1: to stay with them in points wise because of that
46:45
Speaker 1: block punt that ended up becoming a touchdown when Lucas
46:48
Speaker 1: Bailey fell in the ball. So the pets real estate
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Speaker 1: special teams player of the week is Ferndale senior Brock Hewitt.
46:54
Speaker 1: So congratulations to him. And finally, it's time for the
46:59
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47:27
Speaker 1: Right Tackle Owen Buttonshone. Talk about a player that has
47:32
Speaker 1: kind of been off my radar that when I'm watching
47:36
Speaker 1: the film and things are, I'm starting to notice things more.
47:40
Speaker 1: He really stood out, especially in this game against Kings,
47:43
Speaker 1: the offense, like I said, putting up a ton of
47:46
Speaker 1: yards against Kings on the road, both running and passing.
47:51
Speaker 1: And he just had a tremendous game. So congratulations to
47:53
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Speaker 1: heard about their business on the Whatcom Preps Podcast. Well,
48:08
Speaker 1: that was a lot of games. We've got a bunch
48:10
Speaker 1: more this upcoming week. Of course, two on Thursday, a
48:13
Speaker 1: bunch more on Friday, another one on Saturday. And we'll
48:18
Speaker 1: have all that information coming out to you Thursday morning
48:20
Speaker 1: on the Gatorade Game Day Podcast Football Preview Podcast. And
48:24
Speaker 1: that will be a lot of fun as we interview
48:26
Speaker 1: more coaches and do all that fun stuff. So I'll
48:30
Speaker 1: talk to you then in a few days. But until then,
48:32
Speaker 1: this has been the Walkin' Preps Podcast, Episode 447, the
48:35
Speaker 1: Week 3 Football Recap. I am Tyler Anderson of Walkin' Preps,
48:40
Speaker 1: and I will talk to you in a couple of days.