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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 253 - Spring Sports Wrap Up - 5-5 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is Lyndon senior Lane Simonson, and you're listening to the walcom Preps Podcast
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  with Tyler and Ryland. Go Lions, Greetings, and welcome into the watcom
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  Preps podcast. This is episode two hundred and fifty three Spring Sports, a
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  weekly wrap up. I'm Ryland Spencer along with me as always Tyler Anderson of
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  whatcom Preps. Tyler, how we doing doing great? Doing great? It's
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  crazy, two and fifty three. That's like almost how many draft picks there
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  are in the NFL draft, right, I mean it's yeah, it's unreal,
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  it's it's pretty it's pretty cool doing doing pretty good. Saw a lot
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  of sports this week. Saturday was a fun day and we'll get talking about
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  that a little later on two five three. Also, the area code for
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  like the Tacoma area. That's true, that's true. Let's see how many
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  draft picks were there this year, Tyler. There was two hundred and fifty
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  seven. Yeah, so we will pass that before the next draft hopefully.
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  Well yeah, i'd hope. Yeah, I mean, actually we might pass
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  that before the end of this spring sports season. That's true. Let's see
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  here, because actually, Tyler, the thing that you and I were talking
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  about the special thing you're going to do here. I guess that could be
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  turned into a podcast for the most part, right, Yeah, definitely.
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  You know I was going to talk to you about that off the air too,
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  So there'll be kind of an extra bonus episode coming soon, yeah,
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  which we're not going to tell you about until it happens, because if it
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  doesn't happen, then it doesn't matter anyway. That making said Tyler, we
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  need to give a thank you to Lane Simonson Lyndon, senior baseball player headed
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  to the University of Washington to pitch there. Kind of funny that we've gotten
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  this deep into it and we haven't even had him on yet, so I
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  know, I know it was weird sending him the message because I kind of
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  thought, has he done one before? I was like, well, we
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  just started doing spring stuff. Yeah, and I Forbes did the preview,
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  the baseball preview, and I'm been trying to jump around to get all the
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  sports. Yeah, I'm kind of back on baseball, and I was like,
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  and he's having another tremendous year seven to oh e r under one again,
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  And I just thought, yeah, I gotta have Lane do one,
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  so so that that's awesome that he stepped up to the plate and did it.
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  Yeah, it doesn't help that at various times throughout the spring sports here,
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  I've randomly kind of pushed into one. You know what I mean?
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  Hey, if that kids, listen and just go ahead and reach out to
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  that, Tyler, you know, way we go anyway, Let's give Kurt
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  Mayberry Farm a thank you here. Also, Kurt Mayberry Farm dot com is
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  Be sure to visit them online Kurt with a C M, A,
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  B E R R Y Farm dot com. Tyler, we also need to
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  talk about Fresh Aesthetics by Monica. You can text three six zero three two
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  five sixty two fifty eight. You can also find them well. You can
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  go to wakompreps dot com and look over to the right and you can find
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  Fresh Face Aesthetics Buy Monica by the way, Tyler. Yeah, Mother's Day's
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  coming up. Your mom does not want flowers. She wants her to lash
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  is done or facial. So get the mom in your life a gift certificate
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  today by texting three six zero three two five sixty two fifty eighth and Fresh
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  Face is steck by Monica. Right there in Ferndale. We talked about it
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  last week, right across the street from j e KK Sports Cards. Right,
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  yeah, absolutely, really close to the Metallica Bridge right there, right
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  when you're driving a downtown fernhit Ferndale, you cannot miss it, right next
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  to Cedars Restaurant. Great location, easy to get to. Usually there's parking
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  right there available. Everything works out just right, Tyler. You said the
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  Metallica Bridge. Yeah, well, it's known as the Metallica Bridge. There's
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  in Ferndale. There's yeah, the bridge where the train goes over the Knooksack
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  River and it goes Yeah, I gotta know here it goes like it's like
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  there's like yeah, it's like kind of goes along the trains closer to something,
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  right, Yeah, there's something right there and there and there's been you
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  know, someone always spray paints the Metallica logo right on it, and that's
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  that happened I think in the late eighties. And then someone will spray paint
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  over it with something and then and then it always gets repainted over with Metallica
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  and that's been happening for I want to say thirty something years, and it's
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  just known as the Metallica Bridge, like you could, like everybody in Ferndale
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  knows what the Metallica Bridge is, gotcha. I mean I was thinking maybe
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  it was like a bridge that you know had an exit of light or something.
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  You know. Yeah, well, I'm sorry. It doesn't go over
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  the Kooksack. It goes over like it goes over the road basically like over
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  the main street, and so there's don't have to worry about stopping and train
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  crossing and stuff like that. I mean, wouldn't it still have to go
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  over the Knooksact though? Yeah, but not right there at that point is
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  what I'm saying. Ah, gotcha. Yeah. And this would, I
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  would assume, be the line the train line that used to go right behind
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  the football stadium and like like yeah, bounce the stadium up and down the
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  time that I was standing on the roof and thought I was going to lose
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  my life. Absolutely, that's the one that was some scary times. But
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  yeah, Fresh Face Aesthetics by Monica. Perfect time this week to give a
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  text over there, get your mom something for Mother's Day. She'll get you
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  taken care of. We talked about it last week, Tyler. There is
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  so many different things going on here. Teen facials half leg wax, which
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  you and I are not doing, but we might do the full leg wax.
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  No, we're not doing that either. There's a lot of things going
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  on here though. I mean a blueberry lemonade facial. Don't know what that
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  means, no idea what that means. It makes me thirsty, though I
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  could go for a blueberry Tyler. You ever take like a lemonade and then
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  add like seven up to it? Oh, my goodness, don't even get
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  me started. Absolutely, I've done some crazy things like that. To me,
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  those are my mixed drinks right there. I will take a raspberry lemonade
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  yea with a mountain dew and and I and I and that's like, that's
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  like living the high life right there. That's like, you know very much.
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  I'm holding that cup, you know, with the pinky out that is
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  uh, that's that's designated for special times. Have you been to Mod Pizza?
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  I haven't, but I know there's one in Bellingham, So mod Pizza,
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  Well, to me, Mod Pizza is way too expensive for what you're
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  actually getting. But it is absolutely delicious. I mean it is really really
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  good. They have like a it's I want to say it's BlackBerry maybe,
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  or a huckleberry lemonade, one of those berries and it's lemonade. And if
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  you go like three quarters of that life lead and then like a quarter sprite
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  or seven up whatever it is they have you know, on tap there.
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  Oh baby, I mean it is really really good. Oh yeah. And
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  you know what else is really the best mixed drink of all time Tyler,
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  Yeah, of all time? Hawaiian punch and seven up. Yeah, I
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  think I've done that. I think you're I think it is a darn good
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  uh oh yeah, oh yeah. And if you're getting a little uh you
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  know, I want to get a little risk, you throw a little red
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  bowl in there too, and next, you know, bouncing off the walls.
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  I'm good, I'm good. But I do like raspberry, rasberry,
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  cranberry juice with a sprite or seven oh yeah that too, yep, any
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  of those any of those berries. Like if you have a just a good
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  if you have a really good like juice or lemonade like things like that,
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  and you just add a little seven up or a sprite to it, yeah.
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  Oh, it text her to a whole new level. Yeah, definitely.
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  And you know what, maybe maybe mom would like one of those and
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  a facial boom or what was the other thing, eyelashes something like that.
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  Yeah, get your lash slashes done, Get your lashes done. Yeah,
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  lashes done. Or maybe she wants a brow lamination and tint. There's so
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  many things. Just get a just get a gift certificate. You know,
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  it's a you know, get this business up and going. And they came
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  to walk the preps, so return the favor. Yeah, a full face
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  wax sounds excruciating, but I'm sure she would love it. But if you
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  get her a gift certificate, maybe she doesn't want that. Maybe she can
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  just well, she wants the gift certificate, she doesn't want the the what
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  was the one, the booty facial or something. I can't remember it was,
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  But maybe she doesn't want that. Maybe she wants something else. And
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  you know what, you give her the gift certificate, she could figure out
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  herself exactly get what she wants. Yeah. Perfect, And it says here
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  that I think we talked about it last time. Monica. She's a graduate
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  and a license esthetist certified in lash lift tint dorm. I don't even know
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  this other stuff. She knows what she's doing. Let's just call it that
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  all right right there in Ferndale should get you taken care of. Uh.
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  And Mother's Day's coming up. It's the next Sunday, right so uh yeah,
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  get on it this week that's a week away. Yeah, all you
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  guys that are listened to this right now going, oh crap, that's right,
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  that's this weekend. Monica's got you taken care of right there. And
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  actually it says here we got an email address, Tyler Monica VB zero to
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  at outlook dot com. I mean it's right here on her on our website.
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  So yeah, uh, and you can find it all right there,
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  go to walkompreps dot com. Over on the right. You'll see, uh,
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  you'll see the little it's underneath cart Mayberry Farms right there there. Click
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  on it, little one right there, Click on it. Tyler, you
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  even got look at you. You gotta walk them preps QR code I do.
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  Yeah, where the heck did that come from? I mean, you're
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  way more advanced than I thought you were. Yeah, you know, I
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  mean it'd be nice if it got clicked on every once in a while,
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  but it's there. It's there. Yeah. Oh, look at you all
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  right, Yeah, let's see here. Where are we at, Tyler.
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  Oh, we got a lot of stuff to talk about here. Yes,
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  we got track and field, we got golf, we got some tent Oh,
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  tennis had a big week. There was a lot there, Tyler,
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  there was so much tennis going on this week, we might have to book
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  out a whole show for it. I mean good. But yeah, let's
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  start with track and field. And track and Field is sponsored by Staffer Insurance
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  hey, Tyler, Anderson said that you guys are giving away all kinds of
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  free insurance for the next six months, and then he's gonna go no,
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  But if you want to pay for it, we're the place, and then
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  you know, you get hooked up with some good insurance up there with Staffer
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  Insurance. Tyler not, well, okay, there was meats going on,
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  but not a lot of changes this week. Five meets on Wednesday alone,
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  spread out all over a Watcome and Scat County. But as I'm looking over
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  the new well, well, I guess you know what, Tyler, Now
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  that I'm thinking about this, you put the blue on there as like a
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  new name. But that doesn't necessarily mean there weren't new times. It just
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  means that there isn't there's a new person leading, right right, Yeah,
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  I mean on the on the boy's side, Chase Bartlett retook the sixteen hundred
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  meters best time four minutes twenty two point five to four seconds. That's just
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  an incredible time. I mean, you start talking about running a mile and
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  under four and a half minutes. He really impressive. Yeah. I believe
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  I saw something online too where he's gonna go run at Washington State University.
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  So nice, really cool deal there. He's been one of the top distance
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  runners for the last few years in Walking County and now he's kind of,
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  you know, showing to be one of the top ones. And uh so,
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  yeah, but there's been a lot of times and distances that have been
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  really really close. We saw a handful of them last week. But you're
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  right with these meets, you know, the weather was so so on Wednesday,
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  depending kind of where you were, they were all spread out. I
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  went out to Ferndale, got to see them and Lynden Christian compete with another
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  school. I want to say, boy, I'm trying to remember who else
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  was there. Burlington was there and so yeah, a lot of events kind
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  of all over the place. On the girls side, there were some new
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  times set by the same people. Sloane Dixon at Lyndon eight hundred meters,
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  she re it. She bettered her walking county best time two minutes, fifteen
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  point eight three seconds. Faith van Brocklyn she keeps to kind of she keeps,
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  you know, make she keeps getting a star next to her name,
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  keeps bettering her time at three hundred meters hurdles forty six point three to two
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  seconds. The four by four hundred relay team for Linden with Sloane Dixon,
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  Faith van Brockln who we mentioned both of them earlier, and Kiki and Ella
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  frearics four two nine five they beat that by five seconds. That was their
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  best time, So to beat that by five seconds is really really impressive.
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  They're talking going to State and turning some heads there. I'm really excited for
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  that. Tabby de Young again. Every single week she ups her shot put
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  now she's at forty one feet literally every week, yes, she every single
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  week. It's is she. There's a star next to her name from from
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  Lindy Christian. I got to see her throw this this past week. It
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  was awesome. She's been on top of discus all week or all year as
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  well. But her teammate, Ellie Van Lowe from Lyndy Christian one hundred and
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  seventeen feet and eight inches. I saw that throw up close to personal.
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  I was taking pictures. It was really impressive. When she launched that.
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  Everyone you could just hear them go whoa, because I don't know if it
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  was expected because Tabby hadn't thrown yet, and and so it was. It
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  was And the biggest cheer and clap was from Tabby, her teammate, which
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  was just awesome because they're out shagging the discs and getting them for each other
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  and I was standing right here again with each other. I mean, there's
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  nothing more fun than like being the best at something with one of your teammates,
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  you know what I mean? Yeah, and then it's like, all
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  right now I'm going to try to beat you, you know what I mean,
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  he just kind of go back and forth and that's right, absolutely,
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  and so it was it was really really cool to see and to just to
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  witness it, like to be right there because that throw, I mean you
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  start talking about school record type stuff, you know, top twenty walking county
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  all time, like those kind of numbers. So it was that was really
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  cool to just witness up close. Kate Shintaffer keeps up being her distance in
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  the javelin one hundred and fourteen feet eleven inches. That's a heck of a
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  throw on the javelin. Eda Deyong from Linden Christian becomes the first female athlete
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  this year to high jump five feet, which is just a crazy, crazy
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  jump. It seems like there's always a Linden Christian athlete every year that jumps
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  five feet. Really really impressive. Those girls are extremely great athletes. Chase
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  Flick Williams up upping her distance in the long jump seventeen feet five and a
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  half inches, and then her teammate Genevieve Blum retakes the lead in the triple
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  jump thirty five feet three and three quarters inches. She held it for a
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  little bit, it was tied. I think Aleena Veltcamp tied with her from
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  Lenny Christian and Genevieve Blum takes it back now. So yeah, just really
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  really impressive numbers and so many athletes, and it's been so fun to go
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  to these track mats and see all these different events. There's been a lot
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  of kids that have come up to me and they're like, you're Tyler,
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  and I'm like, and I, but I don't know what to say back.
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  And then they go, my name is so and so and you don't
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  know who I am, but I love what you're doing. And sometimes I
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  remember it. I mean sometimes like you know, I remember a kid,
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  it was Finn Smith from Squalicum introduced himself. He was a pole vaulter.
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  So I was like, hey, I'll get some good picture of you and
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  i'll send them to you. He's like, oh, that'd be awesome.
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  And then he did. He'd like, he did a pr in the poll
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  ball. I think you pull vaulted like twelve feet or twelve six or something
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  like that. Motivational and over there. Yeah, exactly. So it's so
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  cool. So sometimes you just never know. And uh, I love popping
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  into these events and and uh and like I always say, I mean,
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  you just get to see so much, and I love going to the different
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  schools to kind of see how the different setups are. You know, you
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  go out to Linden and it's really spread out, and like where are they
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  throwing the javelin When they're throwing the javelin like like from the you know,
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  from Yeah, it's like from one end you're like throwing it into the outfield
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  of the other and then way over here is where the long jump pit is,
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  and over I mean, it's just so it's always interesting because you we
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  you and I we go to tons of football games and all of a sudden
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  you're walking on the sidelines and then it's like there's the long jump pit,
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  you know, or and but then sure, yeah, and you're in the
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  back of the end zone and you see the shot put pit, you know,
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  you see all the the big pat right yeah. And then all of
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  a sudden you go to the exact same place, but it's not dark now
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  it's light, and everything's set up differently and you kind of you go,
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  oh, this all makes sense kind of how it's all set up. So
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  it's just really really cool. And we're getting really close now to postseason and
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  with the weather getting better and I'm really really hoping to pop into Yakama for
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  State. I've never been to State track and field. I'm going to try
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  to make it work logistically, but we'll see. So's it's a lot of
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  fun, really really cool. That is Boys and Girls Track and Field again,
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  brought to you by Stafford Insurance in Linden three six zero seven four six
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  eighty eight three. Give them a call if you need some insurance. Girls
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  tennis Tyler, very busy week. As we mentioned earlier, every team played
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  three games this week, Linden remained unbeaten, and all three city schools are
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  now double digits and wins. Tyler, I mean this is a jam packed
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  week of girls ten Yeah, it was. It was crazy, and I
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  didn't know if I don't think it was set up a specifically like this.
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  I think there was some rain delays and different things like that that kind of
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  set this up. But but the weather held enough this week to where all
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  six walking kind of teams were able to get all to get three matches in
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  for that throughout the whole week, and and we you know, blamed one
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  another one. They beat Segar Woolly, so they're definitely playing better. They
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  even They even took a court against Seahome, which is pretty pretty awesome.
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  You know, Ferndale went fern went oh and three, but they played against
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  some really good squads, losing to Squalkum four to three, which is pretty
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  darn good. Squalkum's one of the better teams in the conference. Squalkam went
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  undefeated Bellingham, you know, beat Ferndale and no Carver, but they lost
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  a heartbreaker to Lyndon four to three, really really close one there. See,
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  Home went unbeaten, as did Lyndon. Of course we talked about them
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  being unbeaten on the season. I went to a handful of tennis events and
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  and during the week and something kind of funny happened that's never really happened before.
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  I felt horrible about it. And I'm not gonna, you know,
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  say who this was or anything, but I was taking a picture and I
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  was I was pretty far away and right in the middle of the serve.
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  She throws it up and my camera kind of goes like quick, quick,
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  quick, and if I'm holding it down, and she caught the ball and
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  looked up at me. And I felt horrible because I was like and I
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  was like, I'm sorry because I was, I was distracting her during her
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  serf and you know, I'm I'm I'm learning these things. And I apologize.
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  And she actually texted me, and I was on my way home,
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  and you know, and she, you know, she just kind of said,
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  hey, you know, I saw you out there taking pictures. She
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  goes, please don't post any of me. I'd feel uncomfortable about it.
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  And I said, I, no problem, that's totally fine. I'm really
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  sorry that I you know, I was distracting. She goes, no,
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  it's it's all good. She goes, you're good, You're good, and
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  you know, she but I but I'm glad that she she spoke. She
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  reached out to me about that, because if someone doesn't want their picture on
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  walking preps, just let me know, because I'd feel bad to do something
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  that you don't want. So I give her props for that. And you
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  know, because you know, sometimes you know, playing you're playing tennis,
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  you're you're you know, you might make a funny face when you're hitting the
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  ball. And I've learned that you know, a good time to do it
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  is, you know, in the follow through or when you're sitting there in
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  the balls. On the other side of the court and you're ready for another
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  shot coming your way. So but boy, really really good tennis this week.
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  That Lindon Bellingham match was pretty amazing, I mean Belling, especially with
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  I expect. I was hoping for the big doubles matchup because Linden has two
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  undefeated doubles teams and Bellingham's top doubles team took second in state last year and
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  they're back. And but what that Bellingham does a lot of the time is
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  they they use both those girls in singles every once in a while if if
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  the matchup works out. They were in singles against Linden and all and it
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  almost worked out London one, four to three. So uh so we'll see
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  going forward with playoffs and stuff like that and see where everything settles. But
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  really good two way teams this year, uh in Walking County for girls tennis.
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  Yeah, Tyler, I'm just looking at it here. How about the
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  Bellingham Linden match for three? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's that's the
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  one. I mean, that was the one that you know, I was
• 21:22
  just talking about. I mean, that's I mean, but that's amazing to
• 21:26
  me because Lindon on the year had only lost ten total Courts. Yeah right,
• 21:32
  I mean it's to lose three, I mean that is incredible. I
• 21:37
  mean that's that's a huge I mean it's a loss, but that's almost like
• 21:41
  a win for for Bellingham in a way, you know what I mean,
• 21:44
  Like, yeah, that is wow. I mean they found they found matchups
• 21:48
  that would work really well. Yeah, and they took advantage of it and
• 21:52
  they almost pulled out the overall win. I mean that's you know, and
• 21:56
  it was at London really really well done. The BayHawks, like the coach
• 22:00
  Steve Cronister, Hall of Famer, he's been doing it forever. He knows
• 22:04
  what he's doing, and and that one was that one would have been quite
• 22:10
  a feather than the cat for the BayHawks. Yeah. I mean it's crazy
• 22:12
  when you look at those those those top four teams are just I mean it's
• 22:18
  almost like anybody can beat anybody, even though Lindon's undefeated, you know what
• 22:21
  I mean. Oh yeah, no, you're absolutely right. And there's some
• 22:23
  really really close scores in these two That is girls tennis, let's talk boys
• 22:30
  golf. Tyler and uh, we're now at the end of the I guess
• 22:34
  you'd say the regular season, and we've got some district stuff going on here.
• 22:40
  But let's take a look at the at the league's standings and uh,
• 22:44
  we'll just talk about the top ten teams here, Tyler, And uh,
• 22:47
  there are some serious competitors here as far as Walkam County goes. And when
• 22:52
  we talk league standings, this is the Northwest Conference kind of as a whole.
• 22:56
  I mean there's there's Oak Harbor's in this and and Mount Vernon and then
• 23:00
  you know Caedgar Woolley and you know all these teams that are outside Wakham County.
• 23:04
  So we got to give props to those teams as well. But there
• 23:07
  are some well, actually there's a lot of them. Of the ten teams
• 23:12
  in the top ten, Tyler, seven of them for the boys golf are
• 23:17
  from Walkham County, Burlington Edison's on top. Seaholme Is is at number two,
• 23:22
  followed by Oak Harbor at three, Ferndale at four, Meridian five,
• 23:26
  Lyndon six, Lynnen Christian seven, Blaine in An eight, squal Come at
• 23:30
  nine, and Ana chordis in at tenth. Now, obviously these are mixed
• 23:37
  because it's two A and one A here, Tyler, But overall Walkham County
• 23:41
  very very strong as far as the Northwest Conference goes, yeah, and three
• 23:45
  A as well, like you mentioned with the Oak Harbor and Ferndale and stuff
• 23:48
  like that. So yeah, it's it's a lot of teams up and down
• 23:52
  the board, and and uh, Burlington Edison is really really strong. Uh
• 23:56
  you know, you look at when I look at the scores in some you
• 24:00
  know, I'm hosting the top ten individual scores when they play an event,
• 24:07
  and then I just do the other WALKA county scores. But almost every time
• 24:10
  in the top ten overall scores of a certain tournament, four of them are
• 24:15
  from Burlington, almost every time. I mean, they have some really high
• 24:18
  end talent there, and they're going to be shooting for a state championship.
• 24:22
  I would imagine as a team might be hard. I mean, Rex Wilson's
• 24:26
  a really good golfer. Him he could bring home this the uh the the
• 24:30
  individual the individual state championship. That'd be that'd be tough, but he could
• 24:34
  do it. He's he's he's averaging seventy you know, so, I mean
• 24:37
  he's right, he's under par. I think for the whole year. He's
• 24:41
  only one shot behind Baylor Larabee, who won state last year at the three
• 24:45
  A level, so uh, you never know and coach would Seehome. Congratulations
• 24:48
  to him, really really strong regular season. And he has a handful of
• 24:52
  golfers there that are that are all pretty good. He's got some good high
• 24:57
  end guys too, but the key he is having you know, five or
• 25:00
  six good ones that you could rely on getting really good team score. And
• 25:04
  uh and Ferdale, you know, obviously with Baylor Larrabee up there, coach
• 25:10
  Chad Heidel, who I've known since I was five years old. Uh,
• 25:12
  really cool to see him doing well out there coaching and and uh and getting
• 25:18
  his getting his team together and they all you know, yeah, Baylor Larrabie
• 25:21
  is the big name, but there's other guys. Travis Brocky is pretty good
• 25:23
  too, and he had a tremendous round last week, going shooting from sixth
• 25:29
  place to fourth place. Now in the top ten for the individual golfers,
• 25:33
  so you saw there's a little bit of movement in there. Zach Barns from
• 25:37
  Sea Home goes from tenth to ninth. Other than that, everything is kind
• 25:41
  of stayed where everything is. But the big jump this week individual wise was
• 25:45
  Travis Brocki of Ferndale, going from from six to four and as he shot,
• 25:51
  I believe he shot under eighty at a pretty big tournament. Wow.
• 25:56
  Yeah, let's hawk girls golf, Tyler. Yeah, and well what's that.
• 26:04
  Oh, I was just I was gonna I was just gonna cut into
• 26:07
  it with I mean, but I know you got a little bit to say
• 26:11
  here, but I and I know you're gonna go with the league standings.
• 26:15
  But I am shocked to see some of these scores that Oak Harbor has put
• 26:19
  in. And I we haven't talked about Okarbor because they're not Walking County,
• 26:23
  but they had a tournament the other day where I think the top five,
• 26:29
  you know, players were all ok Harbor girls. So wait, they are
• 26:33
  the top five, all right, save school, right, And it's almost
• 26:37
  like what they are to girls golf is like what Burlington is to boys golf,
• 26:41
  but maybe even better. Yeah. So, but go ahead and take
• 26:44
  it away with the league standings. Okarber obviously on top. Yeah, and
• 26:48
  you know, as you look it over here, it's it's you know,
• 26:49
  a couple of the same names. I mean, bros To Edison's right there
• 26:52
  at number two. Now I don't know because I don't have anything in front
• 26:56
  of me, but you make it sound like maybe Okarbor is a little further
• 27:00
  out in front of Burlington Edison than Burlington Edison is in front of other people
• 27:04
  in boys. But that being said, ok Harbor one, Burlington Edison at
• 27:10
  two. Meridian is in at third, obviously the leader as far as Walkam
• 27:15
  County goes Cedar Willie at four, Lyndon five, Blaine six, Lyndon,
• 27:19
  Christian seven, Ferndale eight. Nice run of Walkham County teams right there,
• 27:25
  and then Lakewood at nine, Mount Vernon at ten and Tyler. We've also
• 27:30
  got the top Walkham County golfers here, which not a ton of changes,
• 27:36
  but there is a couple of new names at the bottom. But yeah,
• 27:38
  overall, you know, another strong top ten there as far as Walkham County
• 27:42
  goes. Yeah, you're right, Meridian at third, top team in Walkham
• 27:48
  County for as far as the girls are concerned, and they have three golfers
• 27:51
  here in the top ten. I'm sorry, Oh no, yeah, three,
• 27:56
  I was gonna say four, But some of these get confusing after a
• 27:59
  while. Jovie Jensen has really come on strong recently and has just moved up
• 28:03
  and moved up and moved up, doing really really well averaging one oh seven
• 28:08
  right now and Dallas Dallas RANKI not too far behind. And then a new
• 28:14
  name, Kennedy Berzowski from Meridian, been playing pretty well lately to break in
• 28:19
  as a tie in the top ten there at tenth. And also Emily O'Toole,
• 28:25
  a new name from Ferdale's tied at one thirteen as well, with Matty
• 28:29
  Taylor from Bellingham who's been in there near that spot for most almost all year.
• 28:37
  The name that we love Elie tan Wakio from Blaine, who moves from
• 28:41
  fifth to fourth now, so she had another really big week to move up
• 28:45
  a spot. Really hard to move around at this point when you've played that
• 28:49
  many tournaments to kind of bring your average eighteen hole score that many to actually
• 28:56
  move ahead of somebody else because they're competing as well. Kinsley Erector really stands
• 29:02
  out as the top girl golfer. She's at Lyndon High School. Just great
• 29:07
  round aut she I think she shot her best round all year on this on
• 29:11
  this last one. She's just she's dialing in. She's dialed in, is
• 29:15
  what you know. She's in the zone right now, going into postseason play
• 29:18
  and hoping to bring home some hardware for the Lions. Uh. I don't
• 29:22
  know if they have any room left in the trophy case out at London,
• 29:26
  but they will make room for that. And yeah, I've just been a
• 29:30
  really really strong season, excited about upcoming postseason stuff, getting out there,
• 29:34
  getting some pictures and and and watching these athletes do their thing. I'm sure
• 29:40
  they got a wood shop class up there at Lindon, Tyler. They can
• 29:41
  build another case. What the heck? I mean, just you know,
• 29:45
  take a couple of guys away from some bucking some bails for a couple of
• 29:49
  days and build yourself another trophy case. Yeah, that's boys and girls golf,
• 29:53
  Tyler. Uh, let's move on to talk about boy soccer. And
• 29:56
  there's a lot to talk about here, which good because there's a lot of
• 30:02
  sponsorship from North County Alliance FC. Tyler mc Alliance FC. There dot com
• 30:10
  is the website. Ncalliance FC dot com is the website. They sponsor everything
• 30:15
  having to do with soccer here. And by the way, they still got
• 30:18
  some tryouts left. Let's see here. This will be posted on May sixth,
• 30:22
  May sixth and May seventh, They've got tryouts for boys and girls soccer.
• 30:32
  The girls is twenty twelve through twenty ten birth years, the boys twenty
• 30:37
  twelve and twenty eleven birth years. That's going on the sixth and the seventh,
• 30:42
  Then on the eighth and the ninth, you've got some girls the high
• 30:47
  schools, the sixth, seven, eight and nine birth years as far as
• 30:52
  eight or six through nine, and then on the boys side you've got twenty
• 30:56
  ten, twenty nine or twenty ten, two thousand and nine, two thousand
• 31:02
  and eight, and two thousand and seven. So lots of stuff going on.
• 31:04
  Check them out NCALLIONSFC dot com backslash tryouts if you want to specifically look
• 31:08
  at that, but head on over to their website. There's a lot of
• 31:12
  soccer going on over there. And there was a lot of soccer going on
• 31:15
  this week, Tyler, and it is playoff time, so we've got a
• 31:18
  lot of stuff to talk about here. Let's start off with three A boys
• 31:22
  soccer. Unfortunately, this one here is pretty quick. Ferndale lost to Shorecress
• 31:30
  on Wednesday down What was that at Shoreline Stadium? I just know it was
• 31:37
  on the road, that's yeah, I'm pretty sure it was at Shortline.
• 31:40
  Oh yeah, Actually it says SLS st so Shoreline Stadium down there, a
• 31:44
  six nothing loss to the Scots. Yeah, I watched that one online.
• 31:48
  It was one nothing at half. I was pretty hopeful because I you know,
• 31:52
  I've seen friend up close maybe more than any other team. It's it'd
• 31:57
  be hard to say. And it just all of a sudden, it just
• 32:01
  kind of fell apart in the second half and every time I looked up it
• 32:06
  was just another another score, another score, and it just kind of that
• 32:10
  was that strong season by Ferndale. You know, it's tough because you play
• 32:15
  a lot of these teams, you play some you know, two A teams,
• 32:17
  one A teams, and then you get to the three A district tournament
• 32:22
  and everyone was fantastic. Yeah, and so that was that was a tough
• 32:27
  run. And you see that Shortcrest prevailed in the next round. So that's
• 32:30
  a pretty good team, you know. And and for them to be a
• 32:34
  team that was already seated higher, significantly higher, to not have to play
• 32:39
  a first round game and to beat them as well, that that that says
• 32:43
  a lot. And I've seen Mount Vernon a few times, not surprised to
• 32:45
  see them win in that in that round as well. So Mount Vernon Shortcrest
• 32:51
  both of the semis and and that's some pretty strong soccer at that level,
• 32:54
  at three A level, Yeah you mentioned it, Shortcrest. They move on
• 32:59
  after eating Ferndale and then they'd be Cascade of Everett, which puts them into
• 33:02
  the semi finals of the district tournament where they will play their I guess cross
• 33:07
  Freeway rival if you will, uh, shore shore Wood. So shore Wood
• 33:13
  and Shortcress are going to play each other. And where would you play it
• 33:15
  other than Shoreline Stadium which they both share. So yeah, I mean,
• 33:21
  good luck to those teams now that now that Ferndale is not in it,
• 33:24
  you know, I hope that's I hope that's a good match. I mean
• 33:27
  it looks like it could be a real good one. Yeah. And then
• 33:30
  the winner of them of that one could get couldn't get Mount Vernon, which
• 33:34
  would be pretty wild to see. But uh yeah, that's three eight.
• 33:37
  Let's move on talking about two A boys soccer and a little bit more action
• 33:42
  out of Wakham County. Now, the good thing for Walkham County is there
• 33:45
  was no no teams in the playing round, but that meant that we had
• 33:50
  four teams going on in the I mean I guess is that technically the first
• 33:53
  round is what it would be. Yeah, you know you call it.
• 33:57
  Yeah, I guess it's weird. Yeah. Well, because if you think
• 34:00
  about it, Tyler, the you call it the quarters. I guess,
• 34:04
  well, yeah, I mean it would be the quarters. But when you
• 34:07
  think about the NCAA tournament, those Tuesday and Wednesdays that they play, those
• 34:09
  are called the first four or whatever, the first whatever it is. I
• 34:13
  don't even know what's it, the first four opening Yeah, we used to
• 34:15
  be the opening round and then it was the first but then the first round
• 34:20
  is Thursday Friday. So but I guess technically this is the first round.
• 34:23
  So Lyndon Archbishop Murphy. Archbishop Murphy gets a win four nothing over Lyndon.
• 34:30
  That was down there at Archbishop Murphy High School. Then there was a triple
• 34:32
  header at Civic Stadium in Bellingham, Squalicum two nothing over Anna Chordis. Bellingham
• 34:38
  loses to Burlington Edison three to two and Seahome takes care of Cedar Crest six
• 34:45
  to two, and that sets up some stuff that was on Saturday. Also
• 34:49
  at Civic Stadium, Squalicum defeats Archbishop Murphy and Seahome defeats Burlington Edison. So
• 34:55
  May seventh, we will have the All City I guess if you will swallow
• 35:00
  come and see home match at Civic Stadium. That will be for the district
• 35:06
  championship on the in the loser's bracket or I guess consolation brack, I don't
• 35:12
  know what you call it. There, Bellingham defeats cedar Crest three to two
• 35:15
  to stay alive. Lyndon loses to Ana Chordis. They are done for the
• 35:20
  year. So it sets up on the seventh. Also, it'll be down
• 35:23
  there at Archbishop Murphy High School. Bellingham will take on Archbishop Murphy Tyler.
• 35:29
  Lots of stuff to talk about here in two wa What did you see?
• 35:31
  Yeah? I saw well, I saw Sea hoome Cedarcrest on that Wednesday.
• 35:36
  It was kind of the middle game of that triple header. I was able
• 35:38
  to pop in there at that time, and Cedarcrest actually looked pretty darn good.
• 35:43
  They were up one nothing early and I kind of looked around. They
• 35:46
  brought a lot of fans down, which was cool to see and and I
• 35:51
  thought, oh oh, because I mean soccer can be weird like that,
• 35:54
  Like you get a hot goalie and and a team that's not expected to win,
• 35:58
  could just pull one out just like that. And you know, I
• 36:01
  heard from a fan that the best kept secret and soccer is is a two
• 36:06
  nothing lead is not that great of elite, you know. It's like,
• 36:10
  I mean, all of a sudden, one goal makes it a one goal
• 36:13
  game, and you don't It's just it's it's that quick. But Sea Home
• 36:16
  started to do their thing and and they kind of took over, especially in
• 36:21
  the second half. On Saturday, I went over and saw Bellingham play.
• 36:25
  We're at Civic Stadium. They were playing against Cedar Crest, so I guess
• 36:29
  I saw Cedar Crest twice, and it was it was pretty emotional because in
• 36:35
  that consolation round there's a lot of seniors out there that could be playing their
• 36:37
  final soccer game. And it's kid that. You could feel it, you
• 36:40
  could see it. And when I got there, Bellingham was up one nothing.
• 36:45
  It was halftime. They come out of half and and Cedarcrest scored right
• 36:50
  away make it one one, and I was like, oh, here we
• 36:52
  go. I mean, it was like two minutes into the second half and
• 36:55
  h But then I saw Judash Strait get a goal about ten minutes later and
• 37:02
  to take the lead two to one. He was super pumped up. Came
• 37:06
  over to me and uh was just jacked up and excited, and as all
• 37:09
  his teammates were all over him. He ended up scoring all three goals in
• 37:14
  that game, picking up the hat trick. He won the Golden Toe Award
• 37:20
  for the most goals scored in the Northwest Conference this past year during the regular
• 37:24
  season, and he, you know, he kept he kept the BayHawks alive
• 37:29
  by winning three to two. That Squalicum See home game for the championship is
• 37:31
  gonna be awesome. They played twice earlier this year, see him winning both
• 37:35
  of them by one goal, which doesn't happen very often in Sea home games.
• 37:38
  They usually win. I mean, as you can see here, they
• 37:40
  won by four, they won by three. They usually take care of business,
• 37:45
  uh pretty pretty well. But against Squalicum, that's gonna be a heck
• 37:47
  of a game. Really good athletes. These are kids that have known each
• 37:50
  other forever. It's gonna be seven o'clock Civic Stadium, Like that's like perfect,
• 37:54
  Like everything's gonna be right there. You know, it was gonna be
• 37:58
  a lot of fans there, gonna I'm to be there. It's gonna be
• 38:00
  a lot of fun. Sad to see Lindon fall out. They had such
• 38:04
  a strong end to their regular season to make it so they didn't even have
• 38:07
  to play in the playing game, and you know, there was thought that
• 38:12
  they might not even get to districts. But they go on that three game
• 38:15
  winning streak, they go past the play end to face Archbishop Murphy, lose
• 38:19
  that one, lose a heartbreaker and a chordus and it's done, so just
• 38:22
  like that, it could be over. But still three teams left in the
• 38:24
  two way. Yeah, and the loser of that Squalicum Seahome game will have
• 38:30
  to go down into the consolation or whatever you yeah, whatever it is here
• 38:35
  and they will have to still win win another game if they want to get
• 38:40
  to the state tournament. But it looks I mean, obviously we're gonna have
• 38:45
  at least one Wakam County team in the state tournament because they're playing each other
• 38:50
  for a fir chance to go there. So but I mean we've still got
• 38:54
  Bellingham and whoever loses that one still left to get some things figured out.
• 39:00
  So so yeah, good luck to those teams. That game is on Tuesday
• 39:04
  night, Tyler seven pm out there at Civic Stadium, so expected to be.
• 39:08
  Sorry, yeah, that's right. I said it was Saturday. My
• 39:10
  bad. Tuesday seven o'clock. Yeh, yes, that'll be Tuesday, and
• 39:15
  then the loser and actually so is the Bellingham game. The Bellingham game at
• 39:20
  Archbishop Murphy that is also on Tuesday, that is six pm down in I
• 39:24
  don't know, is it Mill Creek, South Everett whatever it is down there
• 39:28
  where Archbishop Murphy is. Technically, yeah, I was just right by the
• 39:31
  today I went over to Brooklyn Brothers. Had a couple of slices. Very
• 39:36
  good pizza, by the way. But then if Bellingham wins, they will
• 39:40
  play again on Thursday, and if they win that one, then they'll have
• 39:45
  to play again on Saturday. The loser of the Squalaicum Sea home game they
• 39:51
  will get a few days off, they don't won't have to play again until
• 39:52
  Saturday. So still a lot of soccer left to go before we even get
• 39:57
  to the state tournament. But it's definitely look and promising for Wakome County.
• 40:02
  Tyler. Let's talk one a boy soccer, and this one a little bit
• 40:07
  a little bit easier to figure out because there's only five teams in it.
• 40:10
  Let's see here, it would have been what Thursday, Mount Baker Nuksack Valley
• 40:15
  over at Blaine High School. Nuksack Valley takes out Mount Baker to nil.
• 40:21
  And then on by the way, did you hear that nil? I didn't
• 40:23
  even do that on purpose, to nothing to nil? Whatever you want to
• 40:27
  say, same thing. And then on Saturday that now because Nuksack Valley won,
• 40:32
  that puts them in against Lennon Christian Saturday doubleheader over at Blaine High School.
• 40:37
  You had Blaine versus Meridian, you had Nuksack Valley and Lynn and Christian
• 40:42
  Tyler. What went on over there? Yeah, really good games here.
• 40:45
  These are teams that have played each other multiple times during the season, and
• 40:49
  that first one Blaine as the the you know, the lower seed if you
• 40:54
  will, but but kind of playing host because it's a beautiful stadium. I'm
• 41:00
  a great, great place to play, you know, I taught. I
• 41:01
  didn't know exactly where Districts was going to be. I assumed it was going
• 41:05
  to be at Blaine. I talked to a few parents and I said,
• 41:07
  do you know if districts would be at Blaine this year? And they and
• 41:08
  both parents at different times at the same thing. Man I hope. So
• 41:12
  that's an awesome field. Yeah. Well, and you know, now if
• 41:15
  they wanted to go neutral site, they could go to Ferndale and have the
• 41:19
  exact same stadium basically, right like yeah, yeah, right, yeah,
• 41:22
  you're absolutely right. And that was a really that was a really close one
• 41:25
  there. Meridian pulls it out two to one. Uh and and just and
• 41:30
  just like a blink of an eye, now Blaine season is done as well.
• 41:34
  A really strong year for them. I I. You know, there's
• 41:37
  some really good players, some really good underclassmen offensive players that we'll get to
• 41:40
  see next year. But Meridian is they can get they can get a little
• 41:45
  streaky at times, and they have a lot of firepower. They would have
• 41:50
  great players off the bench. They could do some things. So uh yeah,
• 41:53
  big week for them. They go on to the next round. And
• 41:58
  then in the nightcap, Lendy Christian beats Nuksack Valley to nothing. Uh and
• 42:02
  you know it was it was nook Sack uh just you know, not that
• 42:07
  long ago that played Elsie to a two to one game, which was which
• 42:12
  meant that was like the first goal that Elsie had given up in all quite
• 42:15
  a while. And so you know, to see if they could do it
• 42:19
  again, it couldn't happen Elsie. I think they had possession of the ball
• 42:22
  for three quarters of the game, and uh you know there and I had
• 42:29
  heard from from uh the Lindon Christian coach that that he doesn't have even a
• 42:35
  recording of Nuksack Valley getting a shot on goal. So that tells you how
• 42:39
  strong the Elsie's defense has been. I've talked week in and week out about
• 42:44
  the size of their defenders and how they can protect back there. So well,
• 42:46
  and obviously they did a great job, uh securing another clean sheet,
• 42:52
  getting the win. Elsie and Meridian both move on for that single spot and
• 42:57
  this you know in the state championship tournament and now Knooksack Valley season has done
• 43:01
  as well. Another very very young team, a lot of underclassmen there.
• 43:07
  You know, some of their best players are freshmen, you know, sophomore
• 43:10
  stuff like that. So, uh, well, that'll be a team on
• 43:13
  the rise. I really like their coach, Josh Tremaine, young guy gets
• 43:17
  them going really well, so I you know, we'll see a good trajectory
• 43:21
  there. But Lynnon Christian and Meridian, that's gonna be an awesome, awesome
• 43:24
  game Saturday at Blaine High School. I've seen them play each other twice already
• 43:31
  this year and at both places. Saw them at LC, saw them at
• 43:36
  Meridian, and uh, it's you know, that's gonna be a great,
• 43:39
  great game. It's gonna be Meridian's offense against Lyndon Christian's defense. That's gonna
• 43:44
  be how it's gonna go. And whoever can get the best in that outcome,
• 43:49
  and that's how I think it's gonna turn out. Yeah, And it's
• 43:52
  kind of funny, you know when you look at the two A, then
• 43:54
  you look at the one A and two totally different looking brackets because in two
• 43:59
  A, you've got two conferences kind of coming together, if you will,
• 44:02
  or like one kind of big one in a way almost, but you got
• 44:06
  the two big you know, district conference kind of coming together, and then
• 44:12
  you end up with double elimination, whereas here it's, hey, we're just
• 44:17
  going straight through. We're gonna play four games total and we're done with it,
• 44:22
  you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, so there's no mistakes
• 44:24
  to be had. I mean, it could be one mistake and you lose
• 44:29
  one nothing in boom, good night nurse. So uh so, yeah,
• 44:34
  that is boys soccer Tyler and uh, let's talk just real quickly about the
• 44:40
  leading scores and it looks like did Judas Straate have himself another good week here?
• 44:46
  Yeah? Another four goals, three of them in that one game against
• 44:50
  Cedar Crest that was talking about with that at trick that he had to keep
• 44:53
  them alive, winning three to two. So another big week for Judash Straight
• 44:57
  who won the North County Alliance f Player of the Week last week. And
• 45:02
  another like I said, another huge week remains in first place. Simon Agner
• 45:07
  got another one is to be alone in second place seventeen and Noah Allen and
• 45:12
  Jude Decker each tied now at third with sixteen, and skythern Brow moved up
• 45:20
  from being tied at seventh now alone at number six with fourteen. Katadom Fasani
• 45:24
  stayed at fifteen. He just had the one game where they got shut out
• 45:28
  six nothing. His season's done, His career is done at Ferndale, but
• 45:30
  perhaps not his acting career, as we know about playing playing Tarzan and the
• 45:37
  show there and Blake Kresky, Tarren Burks and Liam Schumacher all with thirteen.
• 45:43
  Ada Maguire from Bellingham and Isaac Grimes of Squalcum each with twelve. Isaac Grimes
• 45:46
  had another. I think he had a couple goals in that first round game
• 45:52
  to shoot them onto the next round. He's been really coming on as of
• 45:55
  late. He had a hat trick last the week before and so he's been
• 46:00
  putting on the you know, he's scored almost half his goals in the last
• 46:04
  two and a half weeks. Uh. And he was really strong in the
• 46:07
  beginning of this season too, so there was a little dip where other guys
• 46:09
  were scoring, and now he's back doing his thing and and has them alive
• 46:14
  against Sea Home in that in that district championship game. So so all the
• 46:17
  same names here, just a little bit of moving around and a little bit
• 46:21
  of separation here from with Judas Strait uh kind of leading the way and keeping
• 46:25
  the season alive. He can keep adding to his numbers. That is Boys
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  n see Alliance fc dot com. Tyler, let's move on and talk about
• 46:39
  fast pitch. Scoreboards are brought to you by the good people up there at
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• 46:59
  I even got a text message from our guy, Blake Whitman this week
• 47:02
  and he said he was over in Prosser, Washington, and he sent me
• 47:07
  a picture of Art Fiker Stadium where the Prosser Mustangs play, and he was
• 47:14
  talking about how much of an honor it was to be there. And the
• 47:16
  guy just loves his football, you know. And I told him a story,
• 47:22
  and I'll tell you I want to hear real quick. At that stadium,
• 47:27
  the wind comes over the hill and it just goes right at the at
• 47:30
  the stands, I mean right at the stands, and it was blown so
• 47:35
  hard. One night, I saw a guy kick a punt and it went
• 47:37
  way up into the air and it went exit stage left and ended up in
• 47:40
  the stands. He didn't shank it, he hit it dead on and it
• 47:45
  went flying way to the left. I looked at my buddy that was with
• 47:47
  me and I said, did you just see that? I said, that
• 47:51
  was absolutely incredible. I've never seen anything like it before. That was That
• 47:57
  was the first game I saw that year in Prosser. The second game I
• 48:00
  saw was a couple of weeks later, and it was twenty eight degrees at
• 48:02
  kickoff. As you can imagine, Tyler, I never leave games early,
• 48:07
  even if I want to, and that was one of the ones that I
• 48:09
  really really wanted to stats in Fast Pitch is brought to you by a Line
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  and online at line drivenw dot com. Tyler. Lots of action this week
• 48:25
  in Fast Pitch. Ferndale wins another thriller, this time against Mount Vernon,
• 48:30
  Mount Baker splits two against Watcham County Powers, and Bellingham picks up their first
• 48:35
  win of the season in possibly the craziest game we've heard of and seen all
• 48:39
  season. Two teams that were just absolutely battling it out, both teams looking
• 48:45
  for their first win. Yeah, Tyler, what went on around the county
• 48:49
  this week in Fast Pitch? Oh, you're right. Bellingham Squalicum, which
• 48:52
  got postponed earlier, was supposed to be on that Saturday about a week and
• 48:57
  a half ago, and I was all ready to go to it. It
• 49:00
  got moved to this past week. Watched a lot of it online on the
• 49:05
  game Game Changer, app and I mean it was just it was crazy,
• 49:08
  back and forth, back and forth, and it was hard to keep track
• 49:13
  of because both teams were scoring multiple runs every single inning. And Bellingham scored
• 49:21
  six in the top of the seventh to take a you know, to take
• 49:24
  a I think it was a five run lead. They were down by one.
• 49:30
  Yeah, so they were down by one. They scored six. Squalkin
• 49:32
  goes up there and they got to score four or no, they got to
• 49:37
  score five to just to keep it going. They end up loading the bases
• 49:43
  and I think it was Addison Harbor hit a triple. They scored three runs
• 49:47
  on that on that, and there was a run scored earlier in the inning.
• 49:52
  So now that now she's on third and that's the you know, she's
• 49:55
  the tying run on third, and there's two outs. Next batter walks,
• 50:00
  and so it was a run around third and first, and and it was
• 50:05
  crazy because she went to go steal and you know, she's the winning run
• 50:08
  and she can get into scoring position, and the pitcher kind of had a
• 50:12
  kind of a kind of a herky jerky wind up where she doesn't release the
• 50:15
  ball until a little later than you would think, and she gets called out
• 50:19
  for leaving early. That's the game. So it was it was just one
• 50:22
  of those games where you know, you don't want to see an end like
• 50:27
  that. But it was really just kind of like holy cow, the jailation.
• 50:31
  Yeah, it was just there were so many things that went on.
• 50:35
  But congratulations to the BayHawks picking up their first win. Coach Kayleie Anderson,
• 50:39
  who is who is for a graduate of Squalicum and a very young coach.
• 50:45
  I mean she's I think she's twenty two maybe, and and she's been at
• 50:51
  the Bellingham job for a while now trying to build that program back up and
• 50:54
  getting her first win was as an awesome thing at her own you know old
• 51:00
  you know home field, which is really cool. Uh, So congratulations to
• 51:04
  them. Mount Baker had that heck of a week having to play. They
• 51:10
  had to man, they had to play Blaine and Linden in the same week.
• 51:14
  Yeah, and they and they beat Blaine a really, really good game.
• 51:17
  I was out there. You you called me right after the star Spangle
• 51:22
  banner. You were really close to interrupting the star Spangle banner, and uh,
• 51:25
  but I did answer the call, and and but uh it was funny
• 51:30
  because I was thinking about you because I was looking at I was actually looking
• 51:34
  at the Rick Flair flag right as you called, So I thought that was
• 51:37
  fitting and I was like, oh, the champ is dialing me up right
• 51:40
  now. And then but then they did lose to Linden, so really,
• 51:45
  you know, kind of up and down week for Mount Baker. They finished
• 51:47
  it off by by beating Seahome at home, the final home game of the
• 51:51
  year for the Mountaineers. And then Ferndale. I mean that game against Mount
• 51:57
  Vernon. I was out there. Mount Vernon really really good team. They
• 52:01
  beat Blaine on Saturday. They've beat some really good teams. It was a
• 52:06
  really close game against Ferndale, and at the end of the game they had
• 52:12
  I think they were down two and they got a runner on and then Caylen
• 52:17
  Blakely came up, who leads in like every single category you could think of
• 52:22
  him. She's batting seven point fifty, she's got ten home runs, like
• 52:25
  over forty RBIs like she is the offensive player in the conference and there's no
• 52:31
  question about it. She comes up, she's the tying run. They intentionally
• 52:35
  walk her. She's been intentionally walking numerous times this year. And then Jaysina
• 52:39
  Lwan comes up and I'm watching the game. I was there earlier in the
• 52:44
  game. Now now the game's over. I'm at home. I'm getting scoreboards
• 52:46
  ready, so I'm watching it, and I could hear after the intentional walk,
• 52:52
  I could hear them go end it right now, walk it off,
• 52:53
  end it right now, and I'm like yeah, and then she just drills
• 52:58
  when at center over the fence, and that is just it was the ultimate.
• 53:02
  I mean, I I got yes, I I teared up watching it
• 53:07
  because it was just so it was not that it was unexpected, but against
• 53:13
  a really good team, you just intentionally walked the possible, you know,
• 53:17
  MVP of the league. And then she comes up and does that, and
• 53:22
  it was just she's a really aggressive hitter. I mean she you don't,
• 53:25
  you know, you throw anything anything near the zone on the first pitch and
• 53:29
  she's gonna she's gonna act at it, and she just hit it right,
• 53:32
  you know, right on the screws right center field, and you know,
• 53:37
  head coach Brittany Rodondo was just like, let's go. I mean, she
• 53:40
  was so excited as as Luwan passed third base. It was just so great
• 53:46
  to see. It was so raw and emotional. And pure, and it
• 53:52
  was awesome and I loved it. And Ferndale has been a team where from
• 53:57
  the beginning of the year to now really really improved. Now it's gonna be
• 54:00
  tough once you get to three A you know, you know, district tournament
• 54:02
  that kind of stuff. But I've been really impressed with you know, they
• 54:07
  have some major talent Kaylen Blakely Mallory Button shown these are these are college level
• 54:12
  players. They're both probably gonna play in college and and but the other players
• 54:16
  are starting to come through and make a difference and do some really good things.
• 54:20
  So I'm I'm really really impressed. That was a heck of a game
• 54:24
  and and and there was there were some other ones too, but those were
• 54:28
  the really the big ones that stood out. And where are we at now,
• 54:32
  Tyler, as far as like, are we close to tournaments? Here?
• 54:36
  Where we Yeah? I think this next week will be the last week
• 54:38
  of the regular season for fast pitch, so we're getting right there. Uh.
• 54:44
  Two A and one A districts will be both held at Janicky Field's down
• 54:47
  at a Seger Woolley. They kind of go off and on like like like
• 54:52
  you know, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, they kind of go back and
• 54:54
  forth between each classification, and I just find myself hopping in the car and
• 55:00
  and down every day. And much like the you know, going to Mount
• 55:02
  Vernon for the basketball districts, when it seems like every night I'm going down
• 55:07
  there for you know, boys or girls or one A or two A.
• 55:09
  You just kind of never know. You just drive down there and see what
• 55:13
  they have, and it'll be very very similar. And it's gonna be it's
• 55:15
  gonna be tough, especially at the two A level for Walking County. I
• 55:19
  mean, Linden's good, They're very very good, but Man, Lakewood is
• 55:22
  fantastic, Sie drow is They're they're gonna be the conference champions. Uh,
• 55:29
  Burlington is it was great. You know, they've they beat some really good
• 55:32
  teams from Walking County and uh, it's it's gonna be. It's gonna be
• 55:38
  tough for Linden just to even advance. It's gonna really big time, high
• 55:43
  end teams that are gonna be competing in that. And of course we've talked
• 55:45
  at nauseum all year about the one A and how only one team's gonna go
• 55:51
  and that's gonna be. That's gonna be a dog fight with some really good
• 55:53
  teams, and you know where you play that championship game, then you have
• 55:57
  to you have to have a repeat of the same matchup later on in the
• 56:00
  tournament, just to prove that you belong to go all that stuff. So
• 56:04
  it's gonna be it's gonna be a little crazy down there at Seizure Woolie.
• 56:07
  Whoa, I forgot I had that on here? Of course, yeah,
• 56:15
  I have that on there for strikeouts in baseball. I play that whenever we
• 56:20
  strike somebody out. Let's see here, Tyler. That's all we got for
• 56:24
  uh for fast pitch? Yeah, yeah, yes again, Fast pitch brought
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  Farms dot com. Uh, Tyler, we are back to looking at brackets
• 56:59
  here because we've got some district tournament stuff to talk about. So let's talk
• 57:04
  to a district tournament which has been down at Daniels Field and Volunteer Park down
• 57:07
  in Anacordis. Yeah, so not a great playing round for Wakam County.
• 57:15
  Lakewood defeats Squalicum ten to nothing and then Cedarcrest tops Seahome two to one,
• 57:22
  so both of those teams are out. Squalicum Seahome have been eliminated. That
• 57:28
  was on April thirtieth, so Tuesday. On Thursday. By winning Lakewood they
• 57:36
  got to play Cedar Woollie. They lost there. Anna Cortus defeated Bellingham nine
• 57:40
  to one, Burlington Edison defeated Archbishop Murphy ten to one, and then Lindon
• 57:46
  got a two to nothing win over Cedar Crest. That was on Thursday.
• 57:52
  So then those teams move on in the winners bracket. The losing teams move
• 57:58
  on in the losers bracket. Bellingham defeats Lakewood five to two down in the
• 58:04
  loser's bracket, and Archbischer Murphy defeats Cedar Crest three to two. In the
• 58:09
  winter side, Annacordis over Caedgar Woollie six nothing, and Lyndon over Burlington Edison
• 58:16
  five to one. That sets up a Linden and a Chordis District Championship on
• 58:23
  Thursday at daniels Field down in Anna Chordis, Bellingham. They will play what
• 58:30
  would that be? They will play Tuesday at daniels Field against Burlington Edison and
• 58:36
  then Cedar Willie and Archbitch of Murphy. They will also play that same day
• 58:38
  as Tyler. So lots of craziness going on in two A. What did
• 58:42
  you see there this week? Yeah, I Michayla was down there this week,
• 58:45
  so I got to see a little bit from videos and different things like
• 58:50
  that, but she covered She covered the tournament down there for me and reported
• 58:54
  back at some awesome pictures and stuff like that. I did see. I
• 58:59
  was at Sea Home for their playing game against Cedar Crest. That was a
• 59:01
  heartbreaker. They played really, really well. They just didn't get that one.
• 59:07
  Tough to see that. It's I mean, I'm sitting right there in
• 59:09
  the dugout when you know the final player strikes out and that's the game,
• 59:14
  that's the season, and that's tough. A good thing about Seahome is it's
• 59:20
  basically their entire team coming back. So that's a really promising thing. I'm
• 59:27
  sad to say It's not gonna be the same for Squalicum because their head coach,
• 59:30
  Kevin Fry, stepped down. He's you know, he's got some things
• 59:34
  to take care of down in Arizona. Love that guy. It was a
• 59:38
  was you know, was the head coach at Meridian for a while about fifteen
• 59:44
  years ago or so, and did some good things there. Ended up coming
• 59:47
  over to Squalkum and been He's been the coach there for the last handful of
• 59:52
  years, totaled up fifty seven wins in his career. Hope he comes back
• 59:57
  at some point to coach, because that's a guy that just loves baseball,
• 1:00:00
  like you know those guys that are just baseball crazy guys, and loves the
• 1:00:06
  game, loves to teach, loves everything about it, loves his players,
• 1:00:10
  and is very very passionate. So sad to see him go, I get
• 1:00:15
  it, but I just hope he'll be back at some point because wherever he
• 1:00:20
  ends up coaching is it's you know, the kids will be better for it.
• 1:00:24
  And Bellingham losing that game, Nana chordis, you know, that's a
• 1:00:29
  that's a tough one, but they they's kept their season alive by beating the
• 1:00:31
  Cougars and did really really well in that one. Jake Trust, the senior,
• 1:00:38
  got over one hundred strikeouts now in his career. He's seems a lot
• 1:00:42
  of these guys, it seems like I've been watching them since they're refreshman,
• 1:00:45
  you know, for for Bellingham, the Joe Tooth, Jake Trust, you
• 1:00:47
  know a lot of these guys, Jesse Harward, they've been you know,
• 1:00:51
  playing varsity baseball for a long time. It's starting to you know, reap
• 1:00:55
  those awards a little bit. And Bellingham season stays live. They're going to
• 1:01:00
  play Burlington and I think that's a that's a winnable game there, So hopefully
• 1:01:04
  they can win that one and keep going. Linden is just doing what Linden
• 1:01:07
  does. You know. I think they're eighteen and four now on the season,
• 1:01:12
  but they don't they just don't blow teams out. I mean to nothing.
• 1:01:15
  Over Cedar Crest Lane, Simonson uh surpassed three hundred strikeouts in his career
• 1:01:22
  and it was picked up his twenty fifth career win in that game. And
• 1:01:27
  uh, yeah, and that and we're talking yeah and and and I you
• 1:01:34
  know, it's it is, it's it's crazy. And I want to say
• 1:01:37
  that his freshman year was kind of was one of a shortened year because it
• 1:01:42
  was a year of playing, but there was no postseason, yes so,
• 1:01:45
  and it was even a shortened regular season, so the numbers are deflated a
• 1:01:50
  little bit from that. So you put all that together and that's the kind
• 1:01:53
  of career that he's had. Uh But he powers them to a to nothing
• 1:01:58
  when there they go on and win five to one over Burlington in a really
• 1:02:01
  good game. Kale Stapleton goes the distance in that one. Really really top
• 1:02:07
  end number two pitcher and as a leadof hitter we talked about him last week
• 1:02:12
  with over thirty steals on the year, plays center field when he's not pitching,
• 1:02:15
  gets on base constantly. He's been hit by a pitch like eleven times
• 1:02:20
  or something like that. And he's just a gamer and and he's been doing
• 1:02:27
  it offensively all year. Super underrated, but as a pitcher, I think
• 1:02:31
  he's been even more underrated. And that one two punch, especially when you
• 1:02:37
  get deeper in the playoffs. You know, I think most teams and correct
• 1:02:42
  me if I'm wrong. When you got like you have two games to play
• 1:02:45
  on a weekend, you got state tournament stuff like that most teams are gonna
• 1:02:49
  throw their ace in that first game because they just they have to they have
• 1:02:52
  to get to the next one. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it almost
• 1:02:54
  doesn't matter on this in the next one, right, I mean, you
• 1:02:58
  got to get that first win. Yeah. And so when you have a
• 1:03:01
  number two like Cale Stapleton, yeah, uh, he could be up there
• 1:03:06
  on a big, big, you know, big moment at Joe Martin Stadium.
• 1:03:10
  I'm just saying because and that's and that's the way that it's all setting
• 1:03:15
  up. I mean, it's weird because they don't win, you know,
• 1:03:17
  twelve to one. They don't, you know, they they win two nothing,
• 1:03:22
  they win five to one. You know, Matt Matthew Carroll has got
• 1:03:24
  five saves on the year. You know, you don't you don't see that
• 1:03:29
  in high school baseball. You just don't see a lot of saves. You
• 1:03:31
  see either a guy pitching the complete game or they win by two match to
• 1:03:35
  where you can't pick up a save. And but that's what what Lennon does.
• 1:03:38
  They play great defense, they don't beat themselves, and and now they're
• 1:03:43
  gonna play for another, you know, chance to get to the regional round
• 1:03:45
  of the state tournament. And and playing ast a really good and a Chordus
• 1:03:50
  team, So we'll see how that goes. And again kind of like blaying
• 1:03:52
  with the soccer and a Chordus playing in Anna Chordus there and uh, Lennon,
• 1:04:00
  the winning will be the home team in that game, and we'll just
• 1:04:02
  see how it goes that. You know, it's funny that's at Daniels Field.
• 1:04:06
  I don't know if you've ever been there, but that's a tricky place
• 1:04:09
  to park. Not a ton of spots and they fill up fast, so
• 1:04:13
  you got to try to get there early. And but it's crazy because you
• 1:04:16
  don't want to park too close obviously because it's baseball, but you got to
• 1:04:20
  find one of those spots and take advantage. And because if you try to
• 1:04:25
  park on the road, it's going to be a while because there's not a
• 1:04:28
  lot of parking available on the road. Usually you got to get one of
• 1:04:30
  those spots inside and go from there. I'm saying conflicting numbers here, Tyler,
• 1:04:36
  but it looks as though that shortened the year they played thirteen games.
• 1:04:42
  Yeah, I know, it wasn't very many. It was less than twenty.
• 1:04:45
  Yeah, Well, according to the to the NWC, athletics website,
• 1:04:49
  it says they played nineteen which is there's no way they played that many.
• 1:04:55
  But Max Preps has them well, I guess fourteen games is what it has.
• 1:05:00
  But it's obviously a shortened season. I mean they're playing a lot of
• 1:05:03
  games pretty quickly. But yeah, so that's I mean, just those those
• 1:05:09
  numbers are wow. I mean wow, like that is Yeah, we haven't
• 1:05:13
  seen the likes of it, you know. It's and Jonah Austin's right there.
• 1:05:15
  I mean he's a year younger. Yeah, and he's been he hasn't
• 1:05:18
  pitched most of the year this year, but he did get back on the
• 1:05:23
  hill a little bit on Saturday, and we'll talk about that a little bit.
• 1:05:26
  But but it is really really impressive. I mean just the overall production
• 1:05:32
  has been fantastic, and he's just a great kid and and really really impressive.
• 1:05:39
  I got his numbers here. This is crazy. Yeah, give it
• 1:05:43
  to me. It's yeah. So twenty five and two is his overall record
• 1:05:49
  and with one save, one hundred and ninety four innings, one hundred and
• 1:05:54
  five hits given up, nineteen earned runs, sixty two and two hundred and
• 1:06:00
  ninety three strikeouts. So he's seven shy at three hundred. That's what I
• 1:06:03
  meant to say. Now, hold on second, here, how many games
• 1:06:06
  has he pitched? I don't have the games, but he's twenty five and
• 1:06:11
  two. So he's twenty five and two as a starter. And how many
• 1:06:15
  hits did you say? He's giving up one hundred and five hits in one
• 1:06:18
  hundred and ninety four innings. So, oh, my lord. And so
• 1:06:25
  when you talk hits and walks, which is like the whip, right,
• 1:06:30
  whip is his career whip is zero point eighty six and his career is career
• 1:06:36
  eer a zero point six eight. Wow? Yeah, I mean my goodness,
• 1:06:45
  yeah heity, Yeah, well, we're definitely not facing that guy,
• 1:06:49
  Tyler. You and I are not facing that guy. No, he's like
• 1:06:53
  the thirteenth best picture at Lincoln. Yeah, no kidding, he's uh,
• 1:07:00
  he's he's a he's a fun one. And it's it's it's it's great when
• 1:07:03
  I take pictures of him, because if you, like I think of Dwight
• 1:07:09
  Gooden, you remember Dwight Gooden. Obviously, like there are pictures of him
• 1:07:12
  when he's in his when he's plants down, when he plants with his left
• 1:07:15
  butt and he's throwing and and like his his elbow is square with his shoulder,
• 1:07:20
  but his hand is way back like the elasticity of his elbow, almost
• 1:07:26
  like Michael Vick when he used to just on cork one deep and you're like,
• 1:07:29
  how does he do that? Right? And that's what Laane Simonson has.
• 1:07:32
  He has that great bend in his arm to where he can whip that
• 1:07:38
  pitch and it's you know, he's about six three six' four, so
• 1:07:42
  you got that you know, downhill coming down at you. And it's just
• 1:07:46
  been and he can throw strikes, you know, and he's he just he
• 1:07:48
  knows how to pitch. Been doing it a long time. Uh, really
• 1:07:54
  really impressive and and uh yeah he's he's the leader of that team and it's
• 1:07:59
  been it's been a lot of fun watched him in these last four years.
• 1:08:02
  Tyler does his arm make the noise that Henry Roland Gardner's did in the Rookie
• 1:08:05
  of the Year, you know, like remember how it like snap forward like
• 1:08:11
  yeah, yeah, right, o man, great movie. Underrated, very
• 1:08:15
  underrated. Yeah yeah. When he starts coming up with all the crazy names
• 1:08:19
  because you can't say right garden hoser. So, uh, something I heard
• 1:08:25
  Tyler on the radio the other day, listen to the Mariners game. Get
• 1:08:29
  this this this blew me away Logan Gilbert never pitched a game in his life
• 1:08:34
  until his junior year of high school. Oh can you believe that? With
• 1:08:40
  how good that guy is? Like that's crazy. Yeah. And then he
• 1:08:44
  goes D one and you know, like wow, Like when I heard that,
• 1:08:46
  I was like whoa, whoa, whoa, Like Rick Riz, what
• 1:08:49
  are you talking about here? Guy? And then he said it again and
• 1:08:53
  I just went, oh, my goodness, like that's unbelievable. Yeah,
• 1:08:58
  let's see here, Tyler, that was two way. Let's talk one a
• 1:09:00
  district tournament and one a district tournament. Has a lot of names that people
• 1:09:03
  probably don't hear all that much because they only come around in certain sports,
• 1:09:09
  right like over Lake Bear Creek. That being said, there was a bit
• 1:09:15
  of a play in game that would have been Sultan and Blaine. It says
• 1:09:18
  here that was at D two, Tyler. Where was this game played at?
• 1:09:23
  I just know it was on the road. Blaine was the home team,
• 1:09:25
  but they were I just know that it wasn't in Walkham County. That's
• 1:09:30
  all says at D two, number five, So maybe that might have been
• 1:09:32
  a Blaine, I mean, I don't know, or at Sultan, right,
• 1:09:36
  So the game was played at Sultan, but Blaine was whatever. Well,
• 1:09:42
  that was the thing. It took a while to get the game going.
• 1:09:44
  I noticed on game Changer, and I wonder if there was an argument
• 1:09:46
  about it was supposed to be at Sultan, but Blaine supposed to be the
• 1:09:48
  home team because Blaine actually was the like they batted first, so for some
• 1:09:54
  reason they decided, well, Blaine's gonna bat first because the game's at Sultan,
• 1:09:58
  and then they went out and scored four runs and just kind of went
• 1:10:00
  from there. I think they were pretty angry and they took it out on
• 1:10:02
  the Turks right away. Yeah, they were like, you know what,
• 1:10:03
  guys, all right, you want to play that game? Here you go.
• 1:10:06
  Yep, you have some runs right in your face there, Luigi so
• 1:10:12
  Tyler. Yeah, that's the thing. Though it didn't matter. Blame nine
• 1:10:15
  to to over Sultan, which put them into it put them into a Saturday
• 1:10:23
  in which people are playing double headers here and what ended up happening was they
• 1:10:29
  lost. Well, doubleheaders at Joe Martin and over at Seahome is what it
• 1:10:34
  is. So there's an opportunity to play at both fields depending on what you
• 1:10:39
  do here. But over Lake Bear Creek they lost six or excuse me eight
• 1:10:45
  nothing to Lendon Christian. That game was at Seahome at the exact same time.
• 1:10:50
  Blaine lost six nothing to Cedar Park Christian. That was at Joe Martin
• 1:10:57
  Seahome again at twelve thirty that was Kings over Nooksack Valley ten to nothing.
• 1:11:03
  All these games are shutouts, that's kind of wild. And then over at
• 1:11:09
  Joe Martin at the exact same time, Meridian defeats South Widby won nothing.
• 1:11:14
  Now, the winning teams they all either stayed or made their way over to
• 1:11:18
  Joe Martin. The losing teams they made their way or stayed over at Seahome.
• 1:11:26
  On the loser side of things, over Lake Bear Creek defeats Blaine two
• 1:11:30
  to one. Blaine season over Noksack Valley defeats South Widby to nothing. South
• 1:11:38
  Widby season over. Now let's go to the winner side of things. Over
• 1:11:43
  at Joe Martin Stadium, Lyndon Christian loses to Cedar Park Christian nine to three,
• 1:11:50
  which puts Cedar Park in the district championship. Meridian they defeat Kings two
• 1:11:58
  to one, heads into the district championship. That game will be played Saturday
• 1:12:05
  three point thirty at Joe Martin Stadium between Meridian and Cedar Park Christian of Bothel,
• 1:12:13
  which to most of us is just Cedar Park Christian about the only time
• 1:12:16
  I think that they really have Cedar Park Christian of Lynnwood or whatever. The
• 1:12:19
  other one is Montley Terrace or something is I think when it is it just
• 1:12:24
  basketball? Maybe maybe soccer, I don't know. I think it's just basketball
• 1:12:28
  anyway, Nooksack Valley they will take on lynn and Christian that is Saturday at
• 1:12:35
  Seaholme High School. The winner of that one will end up going to State.
• 1:12:41
  The loser is out. So there's four spots left over, and well,
• 1:12:47
  technically right now Meridian is going to State, but there's four spots being
• 1:12:51
  awarded. Two of them are going to go to Wakam County teams, so
• 1:12:58
  we're gonna end up with two teams from Wakam count One of them is going
• 1:13:00
  to be Meridian, the other one is going to be either Nuksack Valley or
• 1:13:04
  Lending Christians. So definitely exciting going on there. But Tyler, as far
• 1:13:10
  as one a goes here in the district tournament. What did you see there?
• 1:13:13
  This is This could be my favorite tournament of the year. I always
• 1:13:15
  love this one. I haven't missed it since twenty boy, I think I
• 1:13:20
  think I've been to everyone since twenty seventeen. I want to say, I
• 1:13:26
  just it's so cool, so much baseball going on all day at seem and
• 1:13:30
  at Civic Stadium Blaine. Winning that game to get in was great. Karen
• 1:13:36
  marcuson their ace. He threw the first I think six innings and only threw
• 1:13:41
  fifty five pitches, which allowed him with three days rest, to be able
• 1:13:45
  to go a full game in the next in the next you know, on
• 1:13:49
  Saturday, which was huge because that's a big, big deal for him to
• 1:13:53
  be that efficient and win that game and then be able to use him for
• 1:13:56
  a full three days on Saturday. So that was huge. I what I
• 1:14:01
  always do is I plant myself at Seal High School first, and because it's
• 1:14:05
  always walking County versus non walking County, so you gotta kinda they're always playing
• 1:14:10
  all over the place at the same time. So I got to see the
• 1:14:12
  Lennon Christian win over over Lake. They scored all eight of their runs in
• 1:14:15
  one inning, and it was just one of those where they got to their
• 1:14:18
  ace, they rattled them, there was some errors and it just kind of
• 1:14:23
  kept tumbling from there. Liny Christian is very aggressive offensively, and they scored
• 1:14:27
  all eight of their runs in the fourth inning and that was that game.
• 1:14:30
  Basically, Jonah Turpstrip pitched a great game. He doesn't throw hard, but
• 1:14:34
  he throws strikes. He's one of those guys that's thrown, you know,
• 1:14:39
  forty eight innings or something this year and he's like walked seven and struck out
• 1:14:43
  fifteen. You know, he is pitching to contact. He's gonna only throw
• 1:14:46
  seventy pitches in the entire game. He's gonna get outs and like he he
• 1:14:50
  allowed nine hits and got the shutout. You know what I mean. Pitching
• 1:14:55
  to contact, doesn't walk anybody, lets his defense take care of it and
• 1:14:59
  they win. And he's been doing great this year by doing that. And
• 1:15:03
  then and then the next game I saw was Kings over Niksack Valley and it
• 1:15:08
  was just it was just one of those days where just was not just not
• 1:15:12
  the way for the Pioneers. They haven't been in this tournament since twenty eighteen.
• 1:15:16
  You know they they'd had a few playing games that they would lose and
• 1:15:20
  uh, but they hadn't been in that first run of the tournament since since
• 1:15:24
  twenty eighteen. So good to see them come back. But it was a
• 1:15:27
  it was a tough one right off the bat, like you said, Blaine,
• 1:15:30
  losing that game to Cedar Park Christian. They only got one hit in
• 1:15:31
  that game. But you know, that was a tough one. Cedar Park
• 1:15:35
  Christian is you know, they're the favorites here that they always have been.
• 1:15:39
  It seems like and and so I and then Meridan getting that one nothing win.
• 1:15:45
  They only got one hit in that game. It was a you know,
• 1:15:46
  and it was it was an RBI double and that and boom they won
• 1:15:53
  one nothing and their pitcher, Nate Payne, the freshman, pitched a two
• 1:15:57
  hitter and uh he he almost pitched the complete game. It allowed just two
• 1:16:00
  hits. Silas Bershier came in got the final two outs. But uh,
• 1:16:04
  and that's again they're kind of like Linden. That's what Meridian does, especially
• 1:16:08
  in the postseason. They score a ton of runs in the regular season.
• 1:16:11
  They get to the post season, they start winning one nothing, two to
• 1:16:13
  one, three to two. They just that's just what they do. So
• 1:16:17
  I stuck around Seahome because Blaine was coming over, because after they lost that
• 1:16:23
  game, I wanted to see every team at least once. Yep, and
• 1:16:26
  you can. You can. You can do that if you do it right.
• 1:16:28
  And so I stuck around at sea Home. Blaine came over to play
• 1:16:30
  over Lake, and over Lake was the only team I saw twice. Oh
• 1:16:34
  no, that's not true, because I saw Kings twice. But uh,
• 1:16:38
  and that was a rough game. After seven innings, it was still zero
• 1:16:42
  zero and they saved marcuson for that game. He was just lights out,
• 1:16:47
  nine strikeouts, pitched into the eighth inning where you know, some stuff happened.
• 1:16:51
  There was an air. Overlake scores a couple of runs, both of
• 1:16:56
  them unearned, and Blaine comes up and and they did some good things.
• 1:17:00
  They scored a run, but they just couldn't do enough and lose that game
• 1:17:05
  too. Won the season's done. A lot of seniors on that team,
• 1:17:10
  so that's tough. But you know, and Karen Marcuson pitching eight innings,
• 1:17:15
  you know, not allowing an earned run, striking out nine as a tough
• 1:17:19
  way to go out, but a really good career for him, and then
• 1:17:24
  I popped over to Joe's to watch Meridian play. I hadn't seen Meridian yet,
• 1:17:29
  and they scored both their runs in the first inning. It was boom
• 1:17:31
  boom, and I thought, Okay, they're just gonna you know, they're
• 1:17:34
  gonna get their offensive woes out of the way because I only had the one
• 1:17:38
  hit in the first game. Scored those two runs, and I think after
• 1:17:43
  the first inning, they only had one hit after that and they held on.
• 1:17:47
  Now what happened. They Ian Forbes pitched that game. Usually the catcher
• 1:17:51
  he pitched that game. He pitched the first five and the third they bring
• 1:17:56
  in jonah Assi, who you know, we all know pitched that perfect game.
• 1:17:59
  Earler in the year struck out seventeen batters, hasn't pitched since boy.
• 1:18:04
  I want to say it was late March. It was against Sidrow where he
• 1:18:08
  took himself out of the game and like the third inning, and saw him
• 1:18:12
  stretching his arm quite a bit in the dugout during that game, and I
• 1:18:15
  didn't want to ask him or anything, but I had the feeling that they
• 1:18:17
  might go to him late in the game if they need to. He gets
• 1:18:20
  the final four outs all strikeouts. Well, he gets the final five outs,
• 1:18:25
  but he struck out the final four in the game, picks up the
• 1:18:28
  save, and Meridian wins two to one, and they're gonna go to the
• 1:18:30
  regional round of the state tournament and that is huge for them. They just
• 1:18:35
  they you know, that's a team that could do a lot of damage,
• 1:18:39
  especially if Jonah Assi is healthy and he's able to pitch, because at the
• 1:18:44
  one A level, you just don't see a pitcher like that very often.
• 1:18:46
  And they've got a handful of guys that can also throw, like the Nate
• 1:18:49
  Payne, the Freshman Ian Forbes, Silas bursh Hoer, Trey Alexander. They
• 1:18:56
  got a lot of guys that can pitch if needed. They played great deep,
• 1:19:00
  they do things the right way, they're smart at the play. That's
• 1:19:01
  just all those things are Steve Slesk like related, Like you could just you
• 1:19:06
  know, he's got his fingerprints all over that team. I love what Tyson
• 1:19:10
  Timmer does in the outfield. Uh, It's just it's a great team where
• 1:19:14
  you don't see a ton of coaches, you don't see a ton of guys
• 1:19:15
  on the bench. There's like, you know, they suit up like twelve
• 1:19:18
  guys and there's two coaches and they're coaching at first and third and that is
• 1:19:23
  that. It is business. It is it is get work is get the
• 1:19:27
  job done. And that's just Meridian baseball. I love that Lenny Christian knoksac
• 1:19:30
  Valley are still in it. And you know it's tough that they have to
• 1:19:35
  play each other, but that's just the way that it is. But you're
• 1:19:38
  right, the winner gets to go to state. And uh so that's really
• 1:19:42
  cool that two teams from one A level will be going to state. And
• 1:19:45
  that's really really exciting. And and and I'll be out there at Bellingham because
• 1:19:48
  it'll be it'll be a fun one to see some more baseball and see how
• 1:19:53
  it all turns out. You said it was the Sedra Woolie game. That
• 1:19:59
  was I think the last time Iridian but Joona Austie pitched. Yeah. Yeah,
• 1:20:01
  and that would have been April Monday, April first, Okay, yeah,
• 1:20:05
  so it's nine over a month loss. Yeah, and they were up,
• 1:20:09
  they were I think it was two nothing when Austin came out and and
• 1:20:13
  it was uh yeah, so it's it's been a while. His numbers,
• 1:20:19
  well, I can pull up quite quickly here. Yeah. Uh. In
• 1:20:23
  his this well this season, I mean he's only pitched nineteen innings, but
• 1:20:27
  he's given up three hits and he's struck out forty six, so we're not
• 1:20:31
  hitting against him either right now. And in his career he's fifteen and seven
• 1:20:38
  with two saves and one hundred and forty three innings. He has allowed seventy
• 1:20:42
  nine hits and he struck out two hundred and thirty eight. So his ERA
• 1:20:46
  is zero point eight nine. It's a nuances w zero point nine ERA one
• 1:20:51
  point one two and he's just a junior, so we'll see kind of how
• 1:20:57
  that goes. But it's been fun to see both those guys, you know,
• 1:21:00
  since their freshman year, really and pitching and and and doing things offensively
• 1:21:04
  too. I mean, Joan Ausi has more walks than anybody. He's up
• 1:21:09
  there in RBI's Of course, these are all unknown stats because I'm not allowed
• 1:21:13
  to post him. But there are some big time numbers in the Meridian offense
• 1:21:16
  that that are hidden from everybody. That is baseball again brought to you by
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• 1:21:29
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• 1:21:32
  But who is the no sponsor yet fast Pitch Player of the Week this
• 1:21:40
  I had a few names in mind, but I have to give this to
• 1:21:43
  jay Cina Lewan of Ferndale, that that home run just did it for me.
• 1:21:47
  I mean, I, like I said, I was emotional when that
• 1:21:51
  happened, that game winning home run. They put Kaylen Blakely on and she
• 1:21:57
  hits Blakely's the time run and they put her on and the one with the
• 1:22:01
  home run to win that game walk off. Uh just told me everything.
• 1:22:06
  It was so awesome. She's so aggressive at the plate, good infielder as
• 1:22:12
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• 1:22:16
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  Funeral Incremation Services Baseball Player of the Week. Now Lyndon Lyons winning those two
• 1:22:41
  games to get to the district championship game was huge, not by huge margins,
• 1:22:46
  but in both games, Cale Stapleton, the senior from Lyndon, had
• 1:22:49
  big, big roles. You know, he's just he's the catalyst, leadoff
• 1:22:57
  guy, great pitcher, center fielder, gets on bass, steels, bases,
• 1:23:01
  he does so many things for that Linnen line team that's underappreciated, unsung,
• 1:23:08
  but I'm definitely noticing what he's been doing and it's been so much fun
• 1:23:14
  to see. I mean, he was great last year too. I remember
• 1:23:18
  I think he got hurt in the state championship game, hurt his hand had
• 1:23:23
  to get taken out, and I think he's just put in a lot of
• 1:23:27
  work and dedication to be the best player he can be this year and it's
• 1:23:30
  really shown. And the numbers he put up have been amazing offensively and as
• 1:23:35
  a pitcher and on the bass pass everything. So yeah, really great job
• 1:23:40
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• 1:23:46
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• 1:23:48
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• 1:24:02
  player of the week. It could have gone to a few different people.
• 1:24:06
  I mean Judas Strait another huge week here keeping his team alive. He won
• 1:24:12
  it last week as well. I looked at some other names stuff like that.
• 1:24:16
  The one A tournament is so tricky because you, like you pointed out
• 1:24:23
  perfectly earlier on one little mistake in your season's done. It's really tricky.
• 1:24:29
  Uh. Meridian did have a non tournament game earlier in the week. I'm
• 1:24:32
  trying to remember who was against. They scored like nine goals in that game,
• 1:24:36
  and Skylar Rowe scored a few of them. He also scored in that
• 1:24:45
  game against Blaine to get them to the district championship game. Skylar Rowe a
• 1:24:48
  sophomore from Meridian, having a really good year and he's really starting to come
• 1:24:54
  on strong recently and his play has been a big time benefit to the tre
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  Trojans and how they're getting how they're staying alive and playing so well. So
• 1:25:04
  Skyler Rowe for Meridian is the North County Alliance FC Boys soccer Player of the
• 1:25:09
  Week. Was it granted falls, Yes, it was granted falls, granted
• 1:25:13
  falls. So there it is Players of the Week, brought to you by
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  North County Alliance FC and SIGs of Funeral and Cremation Services. Tyler, let's
• 1:25:21
  take a look ahead at next week and let's start with the girls again like
• 1:25:26
  we did last week, because the boys is a little bit more playoff ee
• 1:25:30
  if you will, playoffish, if you will girls, Tyler, what are
• 1:25:34
  you looking at over there? Well, we've we talked about the tennis and
• 1:25:38
  how you know, the how the high level is right now in the two
• 1:25:42
  ways with Linden being undefeated in all three city schools with double digit wins.
• 1:25:45
  We're gonna have Bellingham at Squalicum later on today at four o'clock. That's gonna
• 1:25:50
  be huge. I mean, that could go either way. It's probably gonna
• 1:25:54
  be a four to three matchup. Again, really curious to see how Bellingham
• 1:25:58
  uses Ela Moro Kira Carlson. Are they gonna put him together for doubles or
• 1:26:02
  do they need him for the big time singles because Squalicum number one singles player
• 1:26:09
  Bernatine Salvatierra is a great, great player. They're probably gonna Bellion is probably
• 1:26:14
  gonna have to break up their team and combat them in singles to try to
• 1:26:17
  win. I mean, it's it's really tricky, and that's why I love
• 1:26:20
  about how they play that matchup. And and I'm gonna go out there and
• 1:26:27
  and I might be surprised, who knows how it's gonna be. And and
• 1:26:30
  uh, that one's gonna be a really good one. And then on Thursday
• 1:26:32
  at four o'clock, going out of the county here heading down to Lakewood,
• 1:26:38
  I think, am I going down two counties? Is? Yeah, that
• 1:26:42
  might be stall Hoomers County probably, Yeah, so traveling a little bit.
• 1:26:46
  Blaine heading down to Lakewood a Thursday at four o'clock, that's a great game.
• 1:26:50
  I mean, Lakewood is is tough. They have a really good first
• 1:26:56
  baseman and she hits lead off and she's like six to one candid and could
• 1:27:00
  just crush the ball. Their catcher is great, their short stops great.
• 1:27:03
  Their pitcher is really really really good. I think that that could be a
• 1:27:08
  really tough game for Blaine. But man, Plaine is just so solid too,
• 1:27:13
  I think, and that's why I think this is this is one of
• 1:27:15
  those games. It's gonna be like a three to two game, which you
• 1:27:18
  don't see very often in fast pitch. You see more nine to eight type
• 1:27:23
  games. But this is one of those games. Two really good pitchers and
• 1:27:26
  all it could take is just one big pop off the bat. You win
• 1:27:29
  that one, three to two, three one, something like that. It's
• 1:27:30
  gonna be a really really good game. Let's talk the boys side, Tyler
• 1:27:35
  and I'm just kind of looking at some brackets here and there's some interesting things
• 1:27:40
  going on this week. Let's start. Let's just talk Tuesday. Tuesday,
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  we've got Bellingham at Burlington Edison. Well, Bellingham Bellingham versus Burlington Edison in
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  boys bit Eric excuse me, and just baseball Bellingham Burlington Edison. That's that
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  Daniel's Field, three point thirty pm down there in Anna Chordis. And then
• 1:28:05
  we've got some serious soccer action. We've got Bellingham going down to take on
• 1:28:11
  Archbishop Murphy. That's at Archbishop Murphy High School six pm. That is a
• 1:28:16
  loser out game. The winner will take on the winner of Anna Chordis Burlington
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  Edison. But the big one is the district championship game, Civic Stadium,
• 1:28:27
  seven pm, Squalicum, See Home. Let's just start there, Tyler.
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  Let's just talk about that Tuesday stuff and then we'll move on and we'll kind
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  of go from there. Yeah, right, that's I said earlier. They've
• 1:28:39
  played twice earlier this year and both games were one goal games, which tells
• 1:28:44
  me all I need to know about how Squalicum is a contender. To see
• 1:28:48
  them. Yeah, Seelm hasn't lost a game all year. They had the
• 1:28:50
  one tie against Mount Vernon that I was at, which was probably the best
• 1:28:55
  soccer game I'd seen all year. And I've been to oh boy, I
• 1:28:57
  don't know seventeen of them now or something like that, and See Home and
• 1:29:03
  Squad. I mean, these kids know each other so well. You know,
• 1:29:06
  they're playing summer you know, leagues against each other with each other.
• 1:29:12
  They know everything about each other strengths, weaknesses, everything. And to play
• 1:29:16
  it at a neutral site but is still home to both of them, I
• 1:29:21
  just think that's such a cool deal that there is a place like Civic Stadium
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  for both these teams to play against each other and the winner gets to go
• 1:29:30
  to State, the loser can still go. They just have to win again
• 1:29:33
  later, but man, that's gonna be a great one. I I might,
• 1:29:41
  you know, it might be one of those where I'll be down there
• 1:29:43
  taking pictures and then when I'm like, yeah, I got a pretty good
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  picture, I might just play. I might just go up in the stands
• 1:29:47
  and just enjoy the rest of it because I have a feeling it's gonna come
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  down to the wire. There's no weaknesses in either of these teams. It's
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  gonna be fantastic. I'm really excited about it. So that is Tuesday the
• 1:30:00
  seventh. If Bellingham wins, they will move on to the ninth. So
• 1:30:08
  let's talk about the ninth really quickly. That would be Thursday, Thursday,
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  May ninth. We've got potentially, if Bellingham wins, they will head to
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  it says here Cedar crest Or Civic. So I don't I would assume that's
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  not going to be at Cedar. If Bellingham wins, I would assume that's
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  going to be at Bellingham. Although the crazier things have happened, I mean,
• 1:30:32
  really crazy things happen, but I would assume that game would be at
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  Civic. That would be Thursday at seven pm. Again, Bellingham has to
• 1:30:43
  win Tuesday. If they do, they will play the winner of Ana Chortus
• 1:30:46
  Burlington Edison. But over on the baseball side, we got some serious action
• 1:30:50
  here because if Bellingham wins there as well on Tuesday, they will move on
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  and play at Daniel Field again. That would be a three thirty game.
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  But the big game of the day that day, Lyndon Ana chordis at Daniels
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  Field down there in Anna chordis six pm. Linden Anda Chortus Tyler Have they
• 1:31:14
  I mean they've played this year obviously, but is it just once twice?
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  What happened there? Do you know? Yeah? It should have been just
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  the one time, unless unless they had a non league game against each other,
• 1:31:24
  which there was some earlier this year. Like I know Linden Christian and
• 1:31:27
  Bellingham played each other earlier in the year and it was a non conference game.
• 1:31:30
  But yeah, so it was probably just the one time. And and
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  uh, you know, I would imagine Linden's gonna just gonna throw out Lane
• 1:31:39
  Simonson and say do your best, and it's gonna be It's gonna be fantastic.
• 1:31:45
  I mean, but again, Anna chordis the road team playing at home.
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  Oh boy, you never know. This is gonna be really really strong
• 1:31:54
  game. Again, it probably really low scoring. Uh. You know,
• 1:31:59
  they played each other earlier in the year and it was a three to it
• 1:32:03
  was four to three. Linden won that one, four to three, really
• 1:32:06
  close game at that point. Looking up right now, who pitched for Linden
• 1:32:12
  in that game, and it was Lane Simonson. Uh pitched, pitched the
• 1:32:15
  complete game, allowed one hit, struck out five, walked six. So
• 1:32:20
  he was a little off his game in that one. Uh, but you
• 1:32:25
  know they got the win four to three. Uh So it allowed three hits
• 1:32:29
  or allowed three runs only one hit. So that's what happens when you put
• 1:32:32
  guys on. I'm sure it'll be a lot sharper in this one. That's
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  gonna be a great, great game I've seen. I haven't seen anacordis a
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  ton. I saw them out at I think it was out at Ferndale and
• 1:32:44
  they What really surprised me about them are not surprised me, but really,
• 1:32:47
  uh you know, maybe go wow, this is really good. Was just
• 1:32:51
  how strong their defense was. I mean, their whole outfield were making diving
• 1:32:56
  catches and I was like, this is not a normal high school base,
• 1:33:00
  Like they've got nine guys that can flat out fly. And and we've talked
• 1:33:04
  about them just overall with a lot of sports about how the athletes out of
• 1:33:09
  Vanna Cordis have just gotten so much better in the last four or five years
• 1:33:13
  across the board with so many sports, and so not surprising with that.
• 1:33:17
  But and now they've reached this far and and Linden's right there, and it's
• 1:33:23
  gonna be it's gonna be a great one. Yeah, it's pretty wild,
• 1:33:25
  Tyler, when you look at Anacordis and Linden, I mean, Ata Cordis
• 1:33:30
  wins the state championship in football, and those two teams battled, you know
• 1:33:34
  when they played basketball. Linden won the state championship, correct, Yeah,
• 1:33:40
  and those two teams battled. It was Canalis. And who's the guy from
• 1:33:44
  from Ana Chordas, Yeah, Davis Fogel. Yeah, I mean they just
• 1:33:46
  ring. By the way, he's transferring down to Arizona, so we won't
• 1:33:49
  see him this next year. Oh too bad. So then here we are
• 1:33:55
  now talking baseball. And and you know what the kind of crazy thing too
• 1:33:59
  is now that I'm thinking about it, Tyler, even though it's some of
• 1:34:01
  the same names, really the big names on each team have are not the
• 1:34:06
  same names, you know what I mean, Like like the Beaner Brothers not
• 1:34:13
  basketball and baseball, you know, and and uh, you know, the
• 1:34:17
  Canal is not anything up vocal not you know what I mean. Like it's
• 1:34:20
  weird how Charlie Aers is running track and yeah, yeah, Charlie Ayers is
• 1:34:26
  just everywhere else though, I mean, Charlie Ayers is yeah, football and
• 1:34:30
  basketball. Yeah, and he's probably you know, out there servicing I don't
• 1:34:33
  know, nineteen different farms and you know what I mean, Like that guy
• 1:34:36
  just gets around, doesn't he. Yeah, Tyler, that's becoming one of
• 1:34:42
  those things though where it's like, yeah, sure it's out of county.
• 1:34:45
  But man, those two teams and cities just I don't know. I think
• 1:34:48
  they probably respect each other, but I got a feeling they kind of don't
• 1:34:51
  like each other either, you know what I mean. Like it's a good,
• 1:34:55
  healthy rivalry. I mean for year. I mean, Lyndon Burlington was
• 1:34:58
  always a really good one for baseball and football and and uh and it still
• 1:35:04
  is. And but Anna Chordis has really stepped up to the plate last few
• 1:35:09
  years in multiple sports, and that Linden Anna Chordis rivalry now is growing quite
• 1:35:15
  a bit. It's it's gonna be a fun one. I would imagine Michayla
• 1:35:18
  is going to be out there for that one. She's been covering a lot
• 1:35:23
  of Linden stuff and and has a blast doing it. And and I,
• 1:35:28
  you know, I might pop out there. I'm not quite sure, but
• 1:35:31
  yeah, I probably will. But uh but yeah, it's that's gonna be
• 1:35:35
  a fantastic game. I mean, that's gonna be a big, big game
• 1:35:39
  Thursday night. So that's Thursday, Tyler. Let's talk Saturday, and let's
• 1:35:43
  start off with the boys soccer because there's plenty of action going on there.
• 1:35:48
  We've got a couple of big ones here, Lynnen Christian Meridian seven pm,
• 1:35:56
  Blaine High School District championship winner to state loser goes Home. Wait that was
• 1:36:03
  at seven pm. And at the same time over at Civic Stadium, Tyler,
• 1:36:09
  we've got Squalicum and Sea Home. Uh or no, excuse me.
• 1:36:15
  The loser of Squalic com See Home is what I meant. They are gonna
• 1:36:18
  have to be playing. Oh no, and that's a one pm game,
• 1:36:21
  actually, now that I'm looking at it here, Yeah, that's a one
• 1:36:24
  pm game. But the loser of that one will have to be playing one
• 1:36:28
  of four teams Ana Chordus Burlington, Edison Bellingham or Archbishop Murphy, whoever comes
• 1:36:32
  through that side of the bracket, they will have to be playing the loser
• 1:36:35
  of the game from Tuesday night, so that the loser is going to get
• 1:36:42
  a few days rest, whereas the other team's gonna have played three games in
• 1:36:45
  three days. And that sounds absolutely exhausting. Uh, but yeah, Tyler,
• 1:36:50
  two big games, I mean two games where only two total teams are
• 1:36:56
  going to state. Yeah, I mean yeah, it's it's it's it's is
• 1:37:01
  crazy. And there's gonna be walking flavor, Walking County flavor in both of
• 1:37:05
  them, yes, you know, and guarantee one a Yeah, I guaranteed
• 1:37:11
  one A Linney Christian Meridian. I mean that matchup. I've seen two of
• 1:37:15
  them earlier this year, one at Meridian, one at Lennon Christian, and
• 1:37:19
  uh and Linny Christian, you know, got the best on both of them,
• 1:37:24
  and it's just been it's been their defense, and like I said,
• 1:37:28
  it's it's Lenny Christian's defense against Meridians offense, and that whichever, you know,
• 1:37:32
  whichever has the advantage during that is how it's gonna go, and they're
• 1:37:36
  gonna earn that, they're gonna really earn that trip to State. It's gonna
• 1:37:40
  be really really hard. A really good team is not gonna be able to
• 1:37:44
  go. And that's just the way it goes sometimes. Uh. And then
• 1:37:46
  it's at two way. You know, you could you could you could look
• 1:37:51
  at it and go, Okay, whoever loses that game is probably gonna be
• 1:37:55
  heavily favored because of a couple of reasons. I mean, though, these
• 1:37:59
  are the two teams that you know in in the in the area, and
• 1:38:03
  and they're getting like you said, and it's a well, it's a great
• 1:38:06
  point is that they will be a little bit more arrested. They won't have
• 1:38:11
  to be playing on Thursday. You know, they'll just play Tuesday and then
• 1:38:14
  play Saturday, where the other team will have to play on that Thursday.
• 1:38:17
  So whoever it is, whether it's an a Chortus, Burlington, Bellingham or
• 1:38:20
  Archbishop like you said, uh, that team will be kind of sitting there
• 1:38:25
  ready for it. It's gonna be great. It's it's uh, it's that
• 1:38:30
  it's that time, man, and it you know, if it isn't civic,
• 1:38:33
  then I think right around that same time there will be some games,
• 1:38:38
  some baseball games, you know, some one A games over at Joe Martin
• 1:38:41
  Fields. So uh, that makes it a little easier for me to pop
• 1:38:45
  back and forth and see what's going on. Yeah. That's uh, that's
• 1:38:48
  like right in your wheelhouse. Yeah, I mean that is that is Tyler
• 1:38:51
  is salivating thinking. That's how I like it. Yeah. Uh, let's
• 1:38:56
  talk baseball Tyler, and uh we'll start with the two A stuff here.
• 1:39:00
  Now, oh we already we already talked. I'm sorry for Saturday, Yes,
• 1:39:03
  yes, for Saturday. For Saturday. If so, if Linden wins,
• 1:39:09
  they're in. If Lindon loses, they could have to play that Saturday.
• 1:39:14
  We also got Bellingham still left in it here, and if Bellingham wins
• 1:39:17
  on let's see, Bellingham would have to win Tuesday Thursday, and then they
• 1:39:24
  could be playing on Saturday if they get a couple of wins there. Obviously
• 1:39:28
  tough tough road to go there for Bellingham, but they could pull it off.
• 1:39:31
  You never know. Now over at one A, one A, we've
• 1:39:35
  got doubleheaders galore, lots of baseball going on here. So if Meridian wins,
• 1:39:45
  they're going to State or excuse me, Meridian is going to State no
• 1:39:47
  matter what. But on the other side, you've got over Lake Bear Creek,
• 1:39:51
  You've got Kings. The winner of that one is going to play the
• 1:39:55
  winner of Knoksack Valley and Lynden Christian. Those games were will be at Sea
• 1:40:00
  Home Lynnon Christian or excuse me, knok Sack Valley Lynn Christian is at Seahome
• 1:40:03
  no matter what. That is being played at Seahome twice. So those two
• 1:40:10
  teams are going to play there twice or one of them will. So yeah,
• 1:40:15
  lots of stuff going on here, Tyler. I mean, there is
• 1:40:16
  baseball, just tons of baseball going on. I mean, and it's all
• 1:40:20
  within about a few miles of each other. It's pretty crazy what's going on.
• 1:40:24
  I love it. I love it's going to be crazy. You know,
• 1:40:26
  Bellingham at the two Way, if they could survive that, they beat
• 1:40:29
  Burlington earlier in the year four to three and Jake Truce got to win that
• 1:40:33
  one. He struck out eight batters and six innings. So that's that is
• 1:40:36
  a game that they know that they can win. And then that's the tough
• 1:40:41
  one is playing the winner between Archbishop Murphy and sie Joe they lost to sieg
• 1:40:44
  Drow not that long ago, a couple of weeks ago, six to two.
• 1:40:47
  They haven't played Archbishop all year traditionally a pretty strong team, and Linden
• 1:40:54
  had doesn't have many losses yet. Let's say that they happen to lose against
• 1:40:57
  Ana Chordis. One of their other losses iss to Bellingham, So you know,
• 1:41:01
  the banks have they have that belief that they could beat pretty darn good
• 1:41:06
  teams, so you might see a rematch there. Of course, that's not
• 1:41:11
  what we want. We you know, Lyndon could take care of business and
• 1:41:14
  Bellingham could win out and that'd be awesome. Yeah, but Bellingham beat Anna
• 1:41:17
  Chordus don't have them playing Lyndon exactly. But I'm what I'm trying to say
• 1:41:21
  it, I mean, you know, what I'm saying is that they have
• 1:41:24
  that they have that kind of firepower where they could beat anybody. And that's
• 1:41:28
  that's a really that's a really cool thing to have. H Again, yeah,
• 1:41:31
  one a level. I do. I love all this stuff. You
• 1:41:34
  know, the Cedar Park Meridian game is gonna be awesome three point thirty.
• 1:41:40
  It's really interesting for me because I know there'll be seeding involved. I would
• 1:41:45
  imagine. I mean they're both going to State. You know, if you're
• 1:41:47
  a Meridian, do you throw jonah Ausi in this game? Do you really
• 1:41:50
  need to? Do you really need to win this one if you're going to
• 1:41:54
  state, you know, it's a tough one. I'm sure that they're seeding
• 1:41:57
  involved, so there's probably some extra instead of to do. So yeah,
• 1:42:00
  well I'm pretty sure it's a committee, right, Yeah, I think so.
• 1:42:02
  Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a committee. And that and getting a
• 1:42:05
  win in a district tournament could be the difference. Yeah, yeah, they
• 1:42:11
  could be a huge one. So maybe that'll happen. I would love to
• 1:42:14
  see because Cedar Park Christian is loaded. They are loaded. They have some
• 1:42:17
  big time talent. Uh. They got a shortstop that is really really good.
• 1:42:26
  I think that you know, you're talking, you're talking. You know
• 1:42:30
  he's gonna get paid to play at some point, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:42:32
  Yeah, and so I and and that's that. I'm really curious to
• 1:42:36
  see how that matchup's gonna go. Nuksack Valley against Lennon Christian again rivals there
• 1:42:43
  Lyndon Christian's coach Noah Rawls, played at Nuksack Valley. Uh, you know,
• 1:42:48
  there's they have some assistance Kirk Veldman. You remember Kirk Veldman, the
• 1:42:53
  big lineman from Nuksack. He was the left tackle for Casey Bawman for all
• 1:42:57
  four years. Yeah, I was gonna say I know that name. I
• 1:42:59
  couldn't figure why though. Yeah, yeah, he's an assistant for lynnon Christian
• 1:43:02
  baseball. He's a knucksat guy. Uh. Of course on the knucksack side,
• 1:43:06
  Joeldawis player is a knucksack guy. You know. Coach Bartels a knucksack
• 1:43:11
  guy. So these guys all know each other really good, you know,
• 1:43:16
  friendly rivalry there. There was a little bit, you know, little rivalry
• 1:43:19
  there for football. And so this is gonna be a go A winner goes
• 1:43:24
  to state. You know, Linna Christian made that huge run last year when
• 1:43:28
  they when they they kind of did the same thing where they they went to
• 1:43:30
  the loser's bracket and they won out and they got that trip of state.
• 1:43:33
  They beat Jonah Assi for that final birth. I think we only I think
• 1:43:38
  they only got three berths last year, so they or it was either that
• 1:43:42
  or they won it in the in the first game. Kind of like this
• 1:43:45
  LC Knoksack game. That's what it was. They won that one, you
• 1:43:48
  know, the earlier game for the Saturday to get the birth and and they
• 1:43:53
  beat Jonah Aussie to do it, and that was kind of a shocker.
• 1:43:56
  And they went on and just I think they're just trounced Kings or whoever they
• 1:44:00
  played in the next round and then they they started winning game. I mean,
• 1:44:02
  they kind of went on a role from that and they've stayed hot ever
• 1:44:05
  since. So I think that's gonna be a really really good game. And
• 1:44:10
  I'm curious to see who's gonna pitch in that one. I would imagine it'll
• 1:44:14
  be Jonah Turpstra against Casey Newton. Uh, you know a couple of seniors
• 1:44:17
  that you know, a couple of aces there. The great thing about Nuksack
• 1:44:20
  is they have three legit like starting pitchers, which a lot of one A
• 1:44:26
  teams don't have. Yeah, you got Casey Newton, but you got got
• 1:44:29
  Eddie Surda, who I love his energy. He could pitch, he can
• 1:44:31
  and he could throw seven innings no problem. And they got Evan Brown sophomore
• 1:44:38
  younger brother Joey Brown. He's got a really good live arm and and uh
• 1:44:42
  pitched a he pitched that great game against South Widby, pitched the complete game
• 1:44:45
  there to keep their season alive. Uh in the in the later game there
• 1:44:50
  in the afternoon on Saturday. So it's uh, it'll be an interesting,
• 1:44:55
  you know decision that they'll make to see who they're gonna throw. But winning
• 1:44:59
  the that game gets you in. It'll be a really close one. Lenna
• 1:45:02
  Christian beat Nooksack earlier this year eight to five. The pitchers in that game
• 1:45:08
  were could you do vamping? Vamping? It was Evan Brown against Uh looks
• 1:45:17
  like it looks like it was against Brody Bowman, who we've seen as one
• 1:45:21
  of the few three sport athletes. Uh and uh and so you never know.
• 1:45:27
  I mean, you know Bowman through against Cedar Park Christian. It'll be.
• 1:45:31
  Yeah, that's a couple of big tall That was a couple of six
• 1:45:33
  four guys going at it, you know, putting your muscle against muscle there.
• 1:45:36
  But it'll be it'll be a great game. It's gonna be good.
• 1:45:41
  You know what I like about it is that I'm gonna there. I'm gonna
• 1:45:45
  be there to see multiple games because one of them is gonna win. They're
• 1:45:46
  gonna keep playing. It's gonna be another really fun Saturday coming up. Could
• 1:45:53
  you imagine if there was like a brawl between the two coaching staff like that
• 1:45:56
  would be just fun to watch. Uh No, it wouldn't, Tyler.
• 1:46:00
  Only other thing I want to mention here is the Thursday, May ninth,
• 1:46:05
  one thirty pm district golf tournament at North Bellingham Golf Club. You you were
• 1:46:12
  telling me this is one A only the one A schools as far as we
• 1:46:15
  can tell, at least, only the one A schools boys and girls going
• 1:46:17
  at the same time. You're telling me you might pop out there. Yeah,
• 1:46:21
  definitely, I mean I think what you say. The tea time was
• 1:46:24
  like one one thirty pm. Yeah, I mean yeah, grabbing yourself lunch
• 1:46:27
  on the way and that way is perfect. That's perfect. And that's what
• 1:46:31
  I love about doing this full time. Now, if I meant the chocolate
• 1:46:34
  factory, I don't know if I can get out and go out and you
• 1:46:38
  know, or I'd have to worry about missing some work and stuff like that.
• 1:46:41
  And you know, what the community has done has allowed me to be
• 1:46:44
  able to go out and do this and and and just and it just have
• 1:46:49
  the availability. Yeah, And a lot of people said, like man,
• 1:46:53
  I wonder how much more stuff you could do if you didn't have another full
• 1:46:56
  time job. Well, people are finding out now covering eight sports, you
• 1:47:00
  know, and there's ten teams on each sport almost you know, Tennis there's
• 1:47:03
  only six. But and yeah, you're gonna get a lot of posts,
• 1:47:08
  a lot of stuff, and a lot of big things coming on the way
• 1:47:11
  with walking preps. So stay tuned. It's gonna be awesome and I'm excited
• 1:47:15
  for playoffs. It's gonna be great. Is that it we done? Heck
• 1:47:18
  yeah, heck yeah, Tyler. It is eleven fifty three pm. I
• 1:47:24
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• 1:47:27
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