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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 241 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 2-12 to 2-17 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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This is Murty and Senior Guard Cohen Fuller, and you're listening to the Walcome
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Preps Podcast with Tyler and Ryland co Trojans. Greeting exen, Welcome into the
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Watcom Preps Podcast. This is episode two hundred and forty one, a winter
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sports weekly wrap up for Monday, February twelfth through Saturday, February seventeenth.
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I'm Rylan Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson WACOM Preps.
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Tyler, how are we doing? Doing pretty well? I thought you're gonna
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say Tyler Anderson from Walkom Prep spotted, but yeah, either way, you're
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right. And episode two forty one, So we are we are. I
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think we're officially five more than the show Friends, and we're catching up on
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Will and Grace, who had two hundred forty six episodes, So we're we're
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knocking down the big the big ones there, Tether, Why the hell do
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you know how many episodes they have? Because there's numbers attached, and I
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know numbers. I just remember them, like you know, I didn't know
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where you were going with that. Yeah, And you know what's crazy is
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I drive around a lot these days going to games, going to whatever.
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I drove all around the county today handing out awards, and every single day
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I do this, I spot at least three or four cars that their tabs
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are overdue every day. Yep, you are psychotic, you, And so
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I don't know if I should be a cop or because you can get a
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ticket for that, right, Yeah. Yeah, that's a ticket, an
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easy ticket. I remember my brother in law we were driving around one time
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we got pulled over were this is when I worked for him. We're we're
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driving around and we got pulled over and he's like, he's like, Wow,
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of all the illegal things I've done today, I don't think I was
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doing one right now. And the cop comes up and he goes, hey,
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you know your tabs are out of date. And he goes what and
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he goes, yeah, come look at it. It was it was July
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and they were from like January. Oh wow, he's like six months.
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He goes, yep, I should probably get that fixed. Huh. It's
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like yeah, And so he actually gave him a he gave him like a
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ticket, but it was like, oh, if you, if you,
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if you do something by a certain time, yeah, I think he had
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like five days to get him, you know, to get it fixed,
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and and he could take he could go to court and they would wave every
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day, three or four every day. It's crazy. It's yeah, I'm
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like easy about it. That's where my eyes go to. They just go
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to those things, you know. So see, I'm just I'm crazy about
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stuff like that. Like mine's August twenty ninth. I know that because yeah,
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that's what I do. Like, I know that stuff. Like I'm
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like, oh, it's football season starting, ye better get my tabs.
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Yeah. Well, and you know what's funny, I haven't even had to
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renew those tabs because it's a new car, you know what I mean.
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So like yeah, right, whereas my old one was uh February twelfth,
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which February twelve, that's mine too. Oh really that's funny. Yeah,
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I just got my tabs last week. Yeah, although I don't have to
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do that anymore because that cars no longer working anyway. Yeah, the old
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the old niece on pos there's they not being used anymore, tyler. Let
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me let me put it to you that way. It's just kind of hanging
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out here right now. Until well, I tried to donate it and then
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they wouldn't even come take it. I was like, hey, look,
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I know it's not a nice car, but I mean you guys said you
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take anything anyway. Cohen Fuller with the intro of Meridian Boys Basketball, Tyler,
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I saw videos of this guy doing some stuff, so we're definitely gonna
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talk about him. We also we need to give a thank you to Kurt
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Tyler, we had state championships, we got district basketball to talk about.
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We're gonna talk girls wrestling again. I mean, there's all kinds of stuff
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to talk about. We've got boys women dive, We've got boys and girls
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basketball, lots of tournament's going on, and we now have the state tournament
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locked in for boys and girls basketball. We will talk about those games upcoming.
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Lots of stuff. I mean, we have, there's so much this
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time, there's a ton and before we get into it, if I said,
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ats zero nine seven six. Does that mean anything to you? Yeah,
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it's my old Uh what's the license plate? Yeah? How'd you know
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that? I remember seeing it in the parking lot. Yeah, you're psychotic.
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And I remember when you when you said your tabs are doing February.
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I was like, I wonder if I remember his license plate number? And
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so Yeah, anyways, you are like, that's a I know, it's
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it's it's it's the wait. Yeah, we've talked about the spectrum stuff,
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but yeah, it's it's it's nuts numbers. Just stick with me. Yeah,
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I mean that's really far on the spectrum. Tyler Boys Wrestling. Yeah,
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we're gonna start off with the three to A boys state tournament. Mead,
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they are the state champions from over there in the Spokane area to seventy
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two point five Hermiston of Oregon. That's right of Oregon finished second with one
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hundred and thirty two points. Lincoln of Tacoma, they finished third with one
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hundred and nineteen. Ferndale the lone Wacom County team. They finished twenty six
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with thirty three points. Let's talk boys two A state tournament, ording the
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champions two hundred and ninety nine and a half Othello, listen to this second
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place with one hundred and twenty. That's one hundred and seventy nine and a
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half points. Tyler, Yeah, I mean my goodness. White River they
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finished third with one hundred and three. Wacom County four teams. Squalicum finishes
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fortieth with five, Bellingham finishes forty fifth with four, Linden and Seahome both
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finishing forty ninth with a lone point in the one A ranks Topinish as usual
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three hundred and thirty points. They are the state champions. Castle Rock with
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a very respectable one hundred and sixty seven they finished second, and then Omak
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ninety one and a half they finished third. Mount Baker the top placing team
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from Wakam County. They finished tenth with forty five points. Blaine right behind
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him at eleventh with forty two. Nooksack Valley finishes thirty third with eleven points,
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Meridian thirty fifth with five and a half. On the girls side,
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Mead they win the girls state championship. Also they had two seventy two and
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a half Hermiston one thirty two, Lincoln of Tacoma one nineteen. Wait a
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minute, here did the boys and the girls really finish with the exact same
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one, Tyler. I when you started, as soon as you started saying
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that, I was looking at it. Yeah, can't. We had to
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have done something wrong there, I must have, because that doesn't seem right
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at all. But then Ferndale three and a half points. They finished eighty
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fifth, which sounds funny when you say eighty fifth, right, eighty fifth
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just sounds crazy. But there's so many teams in that three AM and four
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A and some of them only have like one or two girls, so it's
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not like you know, the boys side where there's you know, and it
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wasn't that long ago that all the girls wrestled in the same tournament, Yes,
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exactly, which brings me to my next point two A one A two
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B one bet girls top and Ish wins that one with one sixty six,
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ording second with one oh three. Royal the Knights the the Evil Empires in
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football. They finished eighty nine and a half in third. Five teams from
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Wakam County at this level. Squalcumb finishes nineteenth with twenty eight Linden finishes thirty
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first with twenty points. Meridian finishes thirty fourth with nineteen, Mount Baker thirty
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eighth with eighteen and a half, and Blaine forty second with fifteen. Now
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we have a lot of champions to talk about here, Tyler, or excuse
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me, placers people getting medals here. Yeah, sixth place. I see
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two names here, Give them to me. Yeah, a couple of underclassmen
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from Mount Baker. Andrew Monteeth at one hundred and twenty six pounds at the
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one A level finished sixth place, just a freshman, so really excited for
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his future. I knew he could make it to state. I didn't know
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he would place. He did really, really well. And then Wyatt Freeman
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has who had a great year junior at one hundred and sixty five pounds for
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Mount Baker at the one A finished the sixth place as well. Yeah,
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both those guys coming back next year. Awesome. Yeah, fifth place.
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I see three names here, Tyler. Yeah. Wyatt Bacon, the loan
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representative from Nukxack Valley to make it the state. He was a district champion,
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regional champion, really good wrestler. He's just a sophomore, I believe,
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at one hundred and ninety pounds, so he finished fifth place. And
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then a couple of girls at the two A one A level. Lucianna Doll
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of Blaine finishes fifth at one hundred and forty five pounds, and Reagan Swope
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from Meridian one hundred and seventy pounds. That is like maybe the best set
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of names of any of these placers. Yeah, it's great. Why have
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Pagon Lucy on a Doll and Reagan Swope like Swope that's a cool last name.
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Yep, fourth place, tiler, two names there, Yeah, Cal
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Fitzgerald from Blaine at one hundred and forty four pounds at one A, and
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then Tyler Olsen, a girl wrestler from Mount Baker at one hundred and forty
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pounds at the two A one A. I see two names also in third
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place. Yeah, third places, that's that. Third place is tough because
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usually you get really close and then you just went out, and both of
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these wrestlers went into this with really high aspirations and third place is an unbelievable
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finish. Victor Gervol from Blaine to eighty five at the one A and Belen
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Lopez, who entered the state tournament undefeated, a girl wrestler from Lyndon at
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one hundred and fifty five pounds. How about second place? I see two
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more. Yeah, Ferndale's heavyweight Wyatt Straight just a junior too, so he'll
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be back. Really great year for him, finished second place. And then
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Daniel Washburn at Mount Baker, who's had a great year all year, finished
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his finishes in second place for Mount Baker at one hundred and fifty seven pounds.
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I had heard that in his I believe it was his semi final match.
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He right in the middle of the match his opponent they had to keep
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stopping the match because of his nose was bleeding and it was bleeding so hard
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and so fast and so much that they had to cancel the match because he
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it was like they allotted blood time and it was just a huge deal.
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I mean, it's semi finals, you know. But yeah, it's crazy.
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I heard something about and this is just speculation. I didn't see it,
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but I saw a tweet about something about the opponent's coach went to go
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shake coach Lepper's hand after the match and then took his hand away. And
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I wouldn't do that with coach if I were anybody. But anyways, so
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there might have been some well craziness down there at Tacoma High School. Boy,
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that's a lot of lemons now, Tyler, Yeah, we did get
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a state champion out of Wakam County. Tell us who it is, Yeah,
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we did. Isabella Phillips from Squalicum unfinished the season undefeated, so resting
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at the girls two A one A level at one hundred and ninety pounds.
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I know Connor Ben and Tendi wrote a wrote up a thing about her in
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the preseason, so there was obviously a lot of hope for her, and
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she just carried it through the whole year, had pinfalls all the way through
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the Matt Classic and then I believe she won like eight to one in the
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finals something like that, eight to one, So unbelievable year. Great job
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by Isabella Phillips from Squalicum. Tyler. Do you know the name Cody Miller?
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I know somebody named Cody Miller, but it might not be the same
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one Sumner High School Cody Miller. Yeah, I don't. There was a
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there was a Cody Miller that it was a running back at Sea Home in
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the nineties. So that's the only Cody Miller I know. Cody Miller just
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finished his high school wrestling career. Undefeated is high school career, yes,
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total start to finish, never lost. Wow, undefeated, Yeah, can
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you believe that? And then somebody told me, and I don't know,
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I don't know how true. I don't know much about the kid. I
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just know that he's ridiculous. Somebody told me he took his sho his shoes
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off and left him in the middle, meaning he's done. So he's not
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going to wrestle in college. He's not gonna Like that is mind blowing that
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you go completely undefeated and then you don't. I mean, wow, that's
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yeah. Could you imagine the dedication and the Yeah, I mean, I
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mean, wrestling to me is the hardest sport. Yeah, when you consider
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especially and I didn't even I've wrestled heavyweight, right like, yeah, so
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I didn't really have to worry about my weight because I was way under.
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But when you think about guys that are at like, you know, one
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forty five, one fifty, and it's like, you know, you got
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to cut down doing you got to stay there and yeah, I mean to
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go on bedeat. It's true. I mean, honestly, for any of
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these kids that we talked about here, what do we get one, two,
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three, four five, that's six more eleven twelve twelve total e yeah,
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places, yeah, and you know what you've talked about cutting you talk
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about cutting weight and stuff. I don't know how much you know about Ryland
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Lang for man of chrtis yeah, Verdica. But but I saw him wrestle
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at like one ninety earlier this year and he won stayed at one sixty five.
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No, that's interesting because somebody told me you're only allowed to lose so
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much weight. Now, well, he might have been wrestling at one ninety
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at the tournament that I saw him at. It could have been one seventy
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five, I guess, but I thought it was one ninety. Well,
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yeah, you know what now that I'm thinking about it, Tyler, I
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guess. I guess it only depends on what you weigh in at the weight
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Wise, it doesn't matter what weight class you wrestle at. So maybe he
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might have wrestled up he might, you know what I mean. So I
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don't know what he weighed that first week. But during football, he's a
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big he's a big receiver like and then yeah, for that to happen,
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I mean to get down to one sixty five and win state. That's pretty
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impressive. So I was just thinking, like, what is the do I
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have it here? Is it easy to bring up the media packet? What
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did the media packet say he weighed at for for football? Let's see here
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if we look it up really quickly, because that's I mean, yeah,
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that's pretty impressive. He is He's unbelievable. I mean he really is.
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Yeah, he's yeah, he's is what he's listed at for football? Yeah,
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okay, so he So that reminds me so Mount Baker. My freshman
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year, we had a senior that was a state champion. He went undefeated
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named Lyle Kronk, and he wrestled at one thirty five and he won state.
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But but during football season he played nose tackle and he probably weighed about
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one sixty. I mean, he was but he was just he was the
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man as far as we were all concerned, you know. But he was
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all county, you know, first team nose tackle and then he trims down
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to one thirty five and wins state undefeated. It's just crazy. It's just
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that's absolutely insane. We had a we had one wrestler from or it was
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two wrestlers, two wrestlers from Bothel make it to state. One of them
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was the regional champion. He went on and two not a great Uh.
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Isn't it just crazy how that happens sometimes? You know what I mean,
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Like you see these guys that win, and you know, some of these
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guys are like, you know, thirty and one or whatever they are,
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and then to get in the state tournament go oh in two and you're just
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like, how the heck did that happen? Well, you know, the
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wrestling in the dome it's a little different. Yes, it's uh and all
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that stuff. And it's it's funny because they people talk about how like being
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in a big gym is hard to shoot free throws on and stuff, you
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know, or like it's hard to gate. It's kind of the same thing
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for wrestling. Like you get down there and you're not in a tight area.
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It's not afe, you know, it's it's weird. It's just you
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know. And then the other thing too, is like and this is just
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an example here, you know, Wakome County. You guys are up there
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wrestling each other, you know, not really getting out of the area too
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much other than going to tournaments. Sure, if and you know, every
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weekend there's so many tournaments going on. Yeah, you know, and so
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it's like you might never wrestle some of these, you know, if you're
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a if you're a one A team and you go to these tournaments and you're
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wrestling some two A three A schools or whatever, and then all of a
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sudden you get into the state tournament. You might have never wrestled a single
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guy out of that thirty two other than guys that came from your district,
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right, you know, or at sixteen, I guess it is. But
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so yeah, you just kind of never know. I mean, it's one
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of those things where you see these guys and it's like, wow, that
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guy's undefeated on the year, and then all of a sudden he just gets
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absolutely smoked by somebody. You're like, how the heck did that happen?
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Yeah, and it's like, yeah, well, maybe he just didn't wrestle
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thirty two really good guys, you know, And yeah, you you start
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hearing about guys that you know, have been injured recently and yeah, and
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you know it's tough something too, yeah, or there's or there's guys I
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saw one guy. There was one kid this year I think he finished second
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or third that somebody was telling me about. They said that he missed most
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of the year because he was hurt from last year's state tournament and and didn't
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and didn't or and then I think he finished like third or fourth or something
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like. He finished like way up there, uh this year, and but
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last year he didn't even place because he and like the first round got hurt.
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Oh man, you know, and so it's like, wow, like
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that's actually pretty wild, Like you don't you don't think about that, you
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know, because then you know, if he tears his ACL or something,
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Yeah, sure, he might not be able to wrestle until the end of
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December. Right at that point. Man, you're only getting so many matches
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in, you know. So yeah, and you're you're way behind the you
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know, way behind everybody else. Yeah, it's yeah, I mean getting
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in shape, like you said, it's the hardest sport. That's the hardest
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thing I've ever done in my life is wrestling practice. That's that is,
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yeah, you know, and I and I just did it for a little
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bit my I mean, I did it growing up in junior high and stuff.
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But but my freshman year, I couldn't I couldn't hack it anymore.
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It was it was just the hardest thing. I mean, I can't even
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imagine, you know. Yeah, and it's I mean, to me,
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it's the best though. Like I I tweeted it and I probably I'm sure
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I've tweeted it before. I think the Matt Classic is the best event that
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goes on in the state of Washington. Much as I love football, the
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Matt Classic it's the best. Man, it just is. Well, it's
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got everybody. Yeah, every is in that one place, and that's they're
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all getting Every single state champion is getting crowned within like an hour, you
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know what I mean, Or not an hour, but you know what I
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mean. It's like all happening within like minutes. Boom boom boom boom.
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Yeah. I mean it's just if you follow the w I A A on
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Twitter, your timeline is nothing but people with their hands raised because they've got
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I'm pretty sure they have a different like internet each Matt that's tweeting out of
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the last Last night, it was my phone was going off with all that.
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It was. It was crazy. It was crazy. Uh So,
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Tyler, that's a wrap. We're done with wrestling. That's it. Yeah,
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no more to talk about wrestling. You know. Now, some people
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might be disappointed, but you know they're probably on a computer down at the
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library. That being said, Tyler Swim and Dive also had state championships over
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A u f f e R. I'll get that right. Eventually, we're
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almost done with swimming, so I should have had it done already. Good
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thing is they're on board for track, so we've got that going too,
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so I can screw that up a lot of times here in the spring,
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which, by the way, I guess we've only got a couple weeks left
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of the Winter Sports Weekly wrap up and then it'll be the Spring Sports Weekly
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wrap up. Oh boy, yeah, I mean, just great times for
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everybody. Yep. That being said. Two a final team results here for
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the boys Swim and dive. Pullman gets the win. Pullman, who I
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mean, never would have thought Pullman would be a powerhouse of swimming over there,
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not close to the water. Yeah, if I'm being completely awesome,
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surprised they even have a pool in that city. They win three hundred and
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thirty two points. Smammish out of Bellevue they finished second with two hundred and
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eighty nine and a chordus. They're just good in everything right now, one
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hundred and forty six points. And then Squalkum finishes fourth with one hundred and
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thirty six. Other teams from Wakam County also getting points here. Seahome finishes
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tenth with eighty five. Bellingham finishes seventeenth with forty nine. Tyler, we
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had people finishing like first, second, third, fourth, all the way
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up to like sixteenth. We're gonna talk about the top four or not the
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top four. If they finish in the top four, that's who we're talking
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about today. So let's start with fourth place. Yeah, fourth place was
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the two hundred medley relay team by Squalicum. That was Hayden Nelson, Dylan
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Fisk, Michael Ciotti, and Finn Smith. It seems like we've been saying
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those names over and over again. Fourth place finished in the state with the
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time of one minute forty six point nine to six seconds. Uh. And
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I want to say, I'm trying to remember here, but I think all
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those kids are coming back. Wow. Yeah, so that's that Squalicum right
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now. Like you said earlier, finished fourth in the state. I think
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they only had two seniors on the team, so really really impressive. Third
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place, Yeah, third place was our guy, Dylan Fisk in the two
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hundred individual medley, the sophomore swimmer one minute fifty five point seven six seconds.
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That tells me a lot. I mean that's four laps doing each discipline
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on each one, So that is that's a good overall swimmer right there.
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Dylan Fisk will be hearing about him for the next couple of years and for
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the next couple of places. Because in the second place, Tyler, yes
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that another relay team by Squalicumb coach Elsner reached out to me sent an email.
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He was so proud about his relay teams and how well they did and
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how much they've improved, especially lately. This is Dylan Fisk, Michael Siotti,
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Mac Hofstett, and Aiden Hayden Nelson with a time of three minutes twenty
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eight point sixty five seconds. Just an incredible run. Second place finish for
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that Squalicum team. Four state championships, three state champions Tyler, give me
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those names. Yeah, Well, you know, it's a three day event
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down there, so even on Thursday, they start off with the diving.
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And we've been talking about Jack Leagan in every for Seahome, every event,
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he's always taken first place. I didn't realize how good he was until he's
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going against the best divers in the state and he beat all them too.
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So state champion diver Jack Leagan from Seahome three and four point seventy five points.
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Dylan Fisk of Squalicum with a one hundred butterfly fifty one point six seconds.
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So he had four races and he finished in the top four in all
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four of them. Unbelievable job by him. And this just a sophomore from
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Squalicum. And then Miles Kratzenberg, who holy cow, from Bellingham. We've
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been talking about him as well. H State champion in the long distance,
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the five hundred freestyle four minutes and thirty three point nine to seven seconds that's
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an incredible time. You see a lot of first place finishes that are that
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are around five something, you know, and he, you know, he's
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a half a minute ahead of that. And then in the two hundred freestyle
23:42
he broke his own meat record with a minute thirty seven point three to two
23:48
seconds. Uh, that's a that's that had that AA time next to that
23:52
all American type time. So uh, and this is a kid that's had
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you know, he's going to swim in college somewhere, I want to say,
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I think I heard maybe University of Utah. I'm trying to remember exactly
24:04
where I've heard, but I know he's been going off and doing swimming in
24:07
different events around the country and and it'll be fun to follow his career.
24:11
But he finished it, finishes it with a bang, with two state champions
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and the five hundred freestyle and the two hundred freestyle. Yeah, that's uh,
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it's pretty amazing. I mean it really is, especially when you consider
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just you know, not only how fast, but the fact that it's records
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and he's breaking his own records. Yeah, you know what I mean,
24:33
that's pretty amazing. So yeah, congratulations to everybody there swim and dive and
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again thank you to Stoffer Insurance for their continued support of a wat Come Preps.
24:45
Tyler. We now get into basketball and we're getting kind of down into
24:51
it here. Not as many games to talk about, uh, but some
24:56
very big games and some games that came down to literally really the final buzzer,
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I mean, some craziness going on this week in basketball. Basketball scoreboards
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brought to you by Eily Dairy, big time sponsors of watcom Preps. Let's
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talk girls basketball first, Tyler. Two A district tournament. What do we
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have here? Five games this week? Yeah, it was really busy,
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all games at Mount Vernon and that what was great about all these games boys
25:23
and girls one A, two A is that they spaced them all out so
25:26
people could go to all of them if they wanted to. I made it
25:30
to every single game except for the two A district championships because those were on
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Valentine's Day and I had prior engagements, you know what I'm saying. So
25:38
I went. But I went to Mount Vernon four times over the week,
25:44
and he did stop you went to I did stop at the Big Scoop.
25:47
I went there once for dinner after the Thursday night game, and then I
25:51
went again on Saturday and met a friend for dinner, so before the Saturday
25:56
game. So and I think I'm gonna take Miss walcom Preps there this upcoming
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week because we talked about it. She's a huge ice cream fan. But
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they got all sorts of other things, and so I took a big picture
26:07
of the of all the different ice creams they have there, the different Sundays
26:11
and stuff. So so we'll figure out what we're gonna get. But unbelieve
26:15
I love the atmosphere at Mount Vernon. I wish there were more games there.
26:18
I hadn't been in that gym in years, and it was just I
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had it pictured in my head, like I remember this and I remember sitting
26:26
right here thirty years ago at the district. You know, it just brought
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back a lot. But the two eight girls district tournament, you know,
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it was pretty crazy on the girl's side. Earlier in the week, there
26:38
was a couple of games loser out games, Sea Home beat Ana Chordus forty
26:44
five to thirty eight, Stay Alive, and then right after that, Burlington
26:48
kind of beat up on Squalicum sixty one to thirty one. So Squalicum season
26:52
ended. They had three seniors that were just you know, you know,
26:57
the emotions came out at the end and I almost started crying. It was
27:00
just hard. It's just hard because you know, you get to that moment
27:03
where they start to realize that that's it, and I'm still I'm sitting there
27:07
trying to keep stats. That's the crazy thing too, is that Mount Vernon
27:11
does not have They're not set up with NFHS, So any games that are
27:15
at Mount Vernon, I'm like, I have to be there because there's no
27:18
other way to do get the stats. So I'm doing full stats while I'm
27:22
there. It was fun, but but Squalakam was out. Seehom remained in
27:27
on Wednesday the district championship game winners in losers not out, but they still
27:33
have to win their way in somehow. Lindon beat Archbishop Murphy sixty six to
27:37
forty five. That you know, Linden right there, secure as a trip
27:42
to state and what an unbelievable year. I mean, yeah, every year
27:47
they're really good, but there's something really special about this team, especially on
27:49
the defensive side. And for Archbishop Murphy to score forty five points against that
27:52
defense told me a lot. I'd seen them on film against Linden Christian,
27:57
but that was the first game of the year and Christian got him on a
28:00
buzzer beater three in overtime. And you know, if you can hang with
28:04
Lindy Christian, that told me a lot. Archbishop Murphy had a few transfers
28:08
this year. They were really so they were really, really good, so
28:11
they were going to be a hard out later on in the tournament. That
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big game was that Thursday night. I went to see Home against Burlington,
28:18
the two teams that won on Tuesday, so now they have to play each
28:22
other in a loser out game. And when they played earlier in the year,
28:25
Burlington got him by like twenty, so I was kind of thinking,
28:27
well, you know, hopefully see them can kind of hang with them and
28:30
see them came out and was up like eighteen to seven after one quarter,
28:33
and I said, Okay, this is good. They can so they this
28:37
is a good thing to have because Burlington can come back at any moment,
28:41
and they just kept adding to it, and I was so impressed with the
28:45
Mariners. They ended the season for the Burlington Edison Tigers. See them has
28:49
seven seniors, you know, so there's a lot of leadership they've been Those
28:55
kids have been playing together since like second grade, and you could tell that
28:57
they kind of knew, like when the cuts were gonna happen. I mean,
29:00
they looked like they were throwing blind passes to areas where there was no
29:04
player and then someone would just show up, get it, lay it in.
29:07
It's like, how do they know? And the really good teams have
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that. That was a great game to see a lot of emotion there.
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See Home eliminating Burlington Edison, which meant that they had to play on Saturday
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against Archbishop Murphy who lost to Linden again. They believe that they could do
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it. They're up fourteen to eleven after one quarter, but Archbishop Murphy just
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it was just too much it and they proved to be the better team.
29:32
Seahome had an unbelievable year. Their third straight loser out game, but they
29:36
lost that one seasons over for the Mariners, but it was a great year.
29:40
So Archbishop Murphy moves on, as does Linden in the two A district
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tournament. Now, Tyler, when we talk one A district tournament, remind
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me last week Nooksack Valley secured the district championship, right, yes, so
29:53
they are in no matter what. They beat Lyndon Christian. So a week
29:57
off though, yeah, ok yeah, okay, yeah so they basically yeah,
30:02
they exactly, they had they had a week off, they secured state
30:06
and so they were playing at Linden on Friday, and so they were playing
30:10
against the winner of that Blaine Meridian game that came down to the very end
30:15
game game winning bucket. Meridian gets them Blaines out and Meridian, you know,
30:19
their two best seniors have been out for the last couple of weeks,
30:23
so they're just running on fumes. They know they have a losing record.
30:27
For them to still be in this is just unbelievable. And it was just
30:32
too much. You know, Linnen Christian links to handle. They were bigger,
30:34
they were faster, they were more athletic. It was it was just
30:38
really hard to get anything going against them, and Linna Christian when they when
30:42
they know they have the size advantage and everything, they really try to jump
30:45
on you early and just put it out of reach early and then just go
30:48
from there. That's exactly what happened. Brady Bomber's crew looked great. Grace
30:55
Heinz recovering from that knee injury. Is she looks really good. She was
30:59
back. She scored fifth ten points to lead the team. Is very balanced
31:02
scoring. Uh, Lynny Christian got them sixty two to twelve, and uh
31:06
it was you know, it's a tough one for Meridian because nobody expected them
31:11
maybe to get that far and to play in a final loser out winner to
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state game. Uh, pretty impressive for the for the Trojans that have a
31:19
lot of young players. And I, you know, I noticed that I
31:23
see a lot of the last names, the Bernardi's, the Konings, these
31:26
are these are these are kids that their dads were these unbelievable football players,
31:32
you know. And I even know that the mom for Eden Bernardi, their
31:34
mom was a great She was a great basketball player and stuff like that.
31:38
So it's there's a lot of talent, a lot of youth in that program.
31:42
And uh and I thought that the coach, uh Bree Joye Hat said
31:48
it really well after the game. She said, you know this was you
31:52
know, this was lynnon Christian's Day, But uh, We're gonna have our
31:55
day at some point. And I could you always see those young, those
31:57
youthful teams that turn heads a little bit, and then all of a sudden,
32:01
it's like, oh, they're here. You know. That's what happened
32:04
with the Nioxack Valley football team for years. It was always like, they're
32:07
so young. We sat there waiting for it, right and you knew it
32:09
was coming, is just and then boom, here they are. So so
32:14
I'm excited for the future of the Meridan Trojans, but Lindy Christian getting the
32:17
state that's just kind of the way that it is. I think those parents
32:21
book hotels in Yakama months in advance. It's just a it's just the way
32:24
that it goes. You know, once it gets to February, you know
32:28
that's gonna happen. I think that's eighteen or nineteen straight years going to the
32:31
state tournament for the Lennen Christian girls. Just an unbelievable program overall. And
32:37
it'll be fun to cover them down there. Yeah, covering them, Tyler,
32:42
because you're going and you will at some point find yourself at Majors to
32:45
get a burger. Yeah, Tyler, I got to make sure I'm going
32:47
to the right spot. I will do it right this time. Yes,
32:50
Majors. As a matter of fact, you'll text me at some point just
32:53
to make sure, yes, I will. Let's talk boys basketball Tyler Eedeline
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Dry again sponsoring the scoreboards over there. Thank you to Eily thevery Uh.
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We'll start with the two A district tournament, and it looks like a couple
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of teams from Wakam County were eliminated this last week. Yeah, right off
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the bat Monday, I go down for the doubleheader, and I knew it
33:14
was gonna be a tough one for both teams. Lakewood against Seahome. Lakewood
33:16
got them by ten, sixty three to fifty three. Lakewood is very streaky,
33:22
you know. They they can. You know, I saw them beat
33:24
Anna Cordis this year, and I saw them lose to I think they lost
33:30
to I think they lost a Seahome earlier in the year. I think they
33:31
lost to Knuksack Valley earlier in the year. So they're just kind of just
33:36
never know. But if they get hot, they could beat anybody. See
33:38
Home struggled, Nolan Wright went off, and it was but they were They
33:44
didn't have Braddick Duckworth in that game. And and and it really showed this
33:47
with the size they did. You know, I think their tallest guy.
33:51
There was six three without Braddick Duckworth, and even the the KRKO guy kind
33:57
of leaned over to me and he goes, where there's Braddock Duckworth. It's
34:00
like he's at a volleyball tournament. He goes, they need him. I
34:05
was like, I know, so, you know. It's a tough way
34:07
to end it, but a really good season nonetheless for the Seal Mariners.
34:12
Then right after that, Ana chordis They're a high flying show. They're really
34:15
fun to watch. They get up and down the court really fast, to
34:17
shoot a lot of threes, very athletic, and it was just too much
34:22
for Bellingham. Whyatt Stephan had a tremendous game. He showed a lot of
34:28
because a lot of people were there to see Davis Folge, and I think
34:30
a lot of people came away going holy cow. That kid for Bellingham as
34:34
something as well. So Whyatt Stephan closed out his career with another great game.
34:38
I thought Jesse Harwood had a really good game in his final game.
34:42
But Bellingham is a lot of good young players too that are going to be
34:45
coming back, so I like their future as well. But both of them
34:51
were out after that game. Wednesday night district championship Lyndon Cedarcrest. I think
34:55
everyone was expecting that one to be great. A couple of like top five
35:00
teams in the state, and Linden just took care of business. I think
35:04
at one point Anthony Canalis scored like seventeen straight points of the game, like
35:09
for either team. Yeah, and once he takes over, it's really hard
35:13
to do anything. And and he's on a mission to not only you know,
35:17
win his third state state championship, but be the three time you know,
35:22
state tournament MVP and be the all time leading scorer in Linden history.
35:27
And when you say something like that, when you talk about the history of
35:30
Linden basketball, they are that is a that it doesn't get any more historical
35:35
than that as far as boys basketball and walkin county. So really really impressive
35:39
there. So congratulations to the Linden Lions. And they secured the number one
35:44
seed, so that's a that's a big deal for them. Last year they
35:47
were state champions and they were they went in I think is the number six
35:51
seed. So yeah, great, great job by the Linden Lions. No,
35:55
no huge surprise there. Yeah, And just to give people an id
36:00
of what else happened in that tournament. Specifically, Lakewood ended up playing Anna
36:07
Chordis. Ana Chordis got them, and then Seniorcrats who had lost to Lindon,
36:10
they had to play Ana Chordis on Saturday. I believe it was Anachordus
36:16
got them as well. So yeah, I believe it did so Anachordus and
36:23
Linden. Those two headed onto the state tournament. We'll talk about the two
36:28
state tournaments. Uh, well, I guess four state tournaments here in just
36:30
a few moments. But uh, Tyler, Uh, the one A district
36:35
tournament was going on as well, and there was a big game, and
36:38
you know what, Tyler, let's just do this really quickly. All right,
36:43
Uh well, let's see, well this is going to be combined here.
36:47
Yeah, the one A district tournament. We're talking boys basketball sponsored by
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Edily and Dry. We're also going to talk about the boys basketball game of
36:54
the week because it's the same game. All right, Yeah, let's just
36:59
talk about this game because it was ridiculous. It was incredible. I was
37:01
so coming into the game. It was one of those where, you know,
37:07
I don't know if from spending three days in Vegas, I had this
37:10
on my mind, but this is one of those where I was like a
37:13
total pick them, like it was. There's no real edge on either side.
37:17
I guess the biggest edge you could say is Nuksack has a rookie coach
37:22
with Jason hughesjink his first year head coach, and Meridian Shane Stacy has been
37:28
their twenty years. But other than that, it was they split each other
37:32
during the season. Nuk Sack got them in the regular season, Meridian got
37:38
him in the district game and the rematch. I knew this was going to
37:45
be amazing, huge gym at the Jake Mayberry Gymnasium at Lyndon packed and right
37:52
off the bat, I mean you just thought, Okay, the Knucksak is
37:55
securing this. They're kind of putting it not out of reach, but everything's
37:59
going their way. They're hitting big shots, Meridians getting into foul trouble.
38:05
It was a very physical game. Allan Jenkins for Meridian, who's a six
38:08
' five, a legit six' five guard, is just is one of
38:15
those just tremendous talents that can go off for I've seen him go off for
38:20
like twenty points in a quarter like he'll he'll just go off. And he
38:24
got his third foul in early in the second quarter, and it was and
38:30
it was on a technical where he just made a shot. He made a
38:34
shot. I don't know if he said something. He's a great kid.
38:36
I can't imagine him really saying anything, but all of a sudden they had
38:39
to sit him down. There was administration around me that it was not affiliated
38:45
with either school that were putting their hands up and just being like what you
38:49
know, because they wanted to see a great game and and they thought with
38:52
that it was going to kind of get away from them. And this is
38:55
where I give Shane Stacy a lot of credit because he really dug into his
38:59
bed and she did the right thing, and they were able to kind of
39:02
hold it for a while without Talon Jenkins. It didn't get two out of
39:07
control. I think they were down maybe nine or ten and half and they
39:10
start the second half. Talon Jenkins is back out there. Twenty seconds into
39:15
it. He gets called for a foul after a shot was like made like
39:20
this is almost like during the inbounds and a knooksack player fell to the floor
39:24
and they called Talon Jenkins on the foul. And it was like, that's
39:28
his fourth. We just started the second half and it was the place is
39:32
loud. I mean, it is so loud, and you know, it
39:37
was just crazy and the atmosphere was unbelievable. They really had to lean on
39:43
Jagger Fife at that moment, and he was doing a lot of good things,
39:46
but then he started picking up fouls. Now, all of a sudden,
39:49
it's the third quarter and they both have four fouls in the third your
39:52
two best players. So now you're relying on Christian klaus And in the middle
39:57
six ft sixth center, and he's he's doing a lot good stuff. He
40:00
leads the county and field goal percentage, so he takes really high percentage shots.
40:04
He's like upper sixties, like sixty eight percent on the year, so
40:07
he's very you know, he takes high percentage shots. He knows he's not
40:09
doing anything crazy. And and on the other side, Brady Ackerman is muscling
40:15
his way and laying the ball in and it's it's just a battle back and
40:17
forth, and these kids know each other. It's unbelievable offensive. There's charging
40:22
calls and there's been a there's a couple of dunks. Colton Lentz had a
40:25
dunk. Cole Coppinger had a dunk. I mean it was it was exciting.
40:30
And then all of a sudden what was happening was they always had either
40:35
five or Jenkins out there at one time. They never sat him both,
40:38
so there's always one of them that they could rely on, a bailout three
40:43
or something like that. And they were just kind of hanging with them,
40:45
hanging with them, hanging with them. And Cohen Fuller backup point guard was
40:50
He's the shortest guy out there. He's five eight maybe, and he's you
40:55
know, he's getting the little points and you know, grabbing it quickly and
40:59
laying and in and doing all these things. And you know, a steal
41:01
in a layan in the fourth quarter and he's keeping them in it a little
41:05
bit. Tarn Burks is another player for Meridian that I give a ton of
41:07
credit to. He played the entire game and that kid has more energy than
41:13
anybody like he will. He's great for defending the inbounds pass. He's got
41:16
a great vertical big time uh uh arm you know, uh what am I
41:22
trying to say that? The side to side the arm like uh reach,
41:27
you know, wingspan wingspan, thank you. And he's just he can deflect
41:30
a lot of passes and he's playing great defense, and he can he can
41:35
hit a three. He can do a lot of good things. And he's
41:37
about six feet tall. He's about but he's like Meridians got really good size.
41:42
All of a sudden, Jagger Fife fouls out, but then on the
41:45
other side, Brady Ackerman fouls out. And then now you're getting to the
41:47
fourth quarter of Meridians cut it to like five, and and then Cayden Utink
41:52
fouls out. Coach's son is the point guard for Knuksack Valley, so now
41:57
Cole Coppinger has to move over to point guard. And it's just it's back
42:00
and forth, and you keep looking up at the clock. And I'm watching
42:01
the game with Blake Van Dalen, and he goes, if they can cut
42:05
it to this, if they can cut it to that, and they kept
42:07
doing that, and we just looked at her like, man, this is
42:10
this is crazy, you know, And then all of a sudden, it's
42:14
a three point game. Nuksac has the ball, they have a three point
42:17
lead, and there's less than a minute to go. It gets stolen and
42:21
tapped out to Tallon Jenkins, who hits a three to tie it up with
42:24
like ten seconds to go. So now they inbound it. Corey only inbounds
42:30
it right away. They run down the court, Nuxack Valley's got the ball,
42:32
but they don't have their point guard. It ends up getting going into
42:36
Colton Lentz, who all year is really good at just driving to the lane
42:39
and just making something happen, just kind of out muscling opponents, jumping higher
42:44
than opponents, banking it in either making it or getting fouled, going to
42:47
the line, just out athleting the other athlete basically. So he tries that.
42:52
The ball gets tipped by I think it was classing. It gets thrown
42:58
out to Tarren Burks. A tight game, there's like five seconds to go.
43:01
Tarren Burks runs after it kind of underhands it really quickly to Cohen Fuller
43:06
who's sprinting down the left side of the court. Goes in for the right
43:08
handed layup, but almost gets blocked by Cole Coppinger. And as soon as
43:14
and I'm recording this, as soon as he left lets it go. You
43:16
hear the buzzer and I'm recording this, I don't think he makes it because
43:21
I can't really see it, and he's going on. He's on the left
43:23
side and he uses his right hand, and so it's kind of awkward,
43:28
and you know, you just never know. There's a lot of pressure,
43:31
and all of a sudden, I'm getting mobbed by the whole Meridian team,
43:35
coaches, players, and I might they must have won because he was crazy.
43:42
Randy Small and I are comparing videos. We're trying to see if we
43:45
can see the clock at the same time, so now we try to go
43:49
to so we can listen to it. It's so close. But there was
43:52
a picture that was sent to me where it shows the ball out of his
43:54
hands and it shows the clock at point one and it was a great call
44:00
by the referees at the end he did make that Meridian led forer point one
44:05
seconds of the entire game, and it was the final point one seconds.
44:09
I can't remember seeing a game like that. It was and with the stakes
44:15
winner to State Losers done. It was a great, great game, and
44:21
they've had great games all year, but that was this one took the cake.
44:24
It was an honor to be there and just a The atmosphere was nuts
44:30
because it was so high and so low and and on opposite sides, and
44:36
there's some great there's I've seen probably four different videos of that last shot from
44:40
four different angles and they're all amazing, especially when you hear it with the
44:44
sound. And so congratulations to Shane Stacey, my nemesis, the guy who
44:50
won All County First Team kicker the year. I was honorable mention, but
44:55
no, I Shane's awesome. Really happy for him and the Meridian Trojans.
45:01
You know, it was a tough year for Knuiksack Valley, but they returned
45:05
a ton. So it was a good senior class led by Wayne Silvus and
45:09
Joey Brown and some guys coming off the bench that you know, Dalton Hickey,
45:14
brock Lankar, Jordan Vigor. Uh, but the bulk of that squad
45:20
is led by the underclassman. So Nukzak will definitely be back and it's going
45:24
to be a really tough one a again next year. But congratulations to the
45:29
Meridian Trojans. They're back on their way to state. And uh, it
45:31
was just an unbelievable way to do it. Yeah, and Tyler correct me
45:35
if I'm wrong. Here are they twelve and eleven on the season. Yeah,
45:39
yeah, that sounds about right. So I'm just looking over the state
45:43
tournament really quickly. Here the team that seeded one below them is seventeen and
45:47
six. So what does that tell you about Wakham County basketball? Right?
45:53
You know? Well then, yeah, that's the thing is, like they
45:55
have to play Anna, Chordus and Lyndon, and you know that's who you
46:00
have to play. It's the two teams below. Directly below them are Riverside,
46:05
who I just told you about, and Monta Sano who's nineteen and six.
46:09
Yeah, nineteen and six, and there are two spots below. I
46:14
mean that tells you everything you need to know about how tough it is to
46:16
play basketball up at Wakame County. I mean, it just is. It's
46:21
awesome. Yeah that being said, Tyler, that is your boys' basketball scoreboards
46:29
and your boys' basketball game of the week. We still got to talk about
46:34
the girls basketball game of the week, which we kind of already did,
46:37
but let's go back and revisit Seahome Burlington Edison. Tyler. Yeah, that
46:40
one was just I just got chills and just now thinking about it again.
46:45
And I think a lot of it was being in that mount Vernon Gym is
46:49
a magical place. But I seriously went into that thinking, well, you
46:53
know, I'm glad I'm here to capture this these seven seniors from Seahome and
46:59
it was a good year. But this Brilliington team is really good. They
47:01
beat Lyndon Christian earlier in the year. I mean, that's that tells me
47:06
a lot. And for Sea Home to play the way they did, it
47:09
was just it was awesome. And it turned into like I kept looking at
47:15
the clock and I just kept kept come on clock, just keep going,
47:19
hold on to that lead, just just just keep going. And then when
47:22
the game was over, I wanted more. It was like I wanted the
47:24
clock to go fast, and then I didn't want it to end. It
47:27
was it was an awesome game to see. And there's some there's some fun
47:30
ties with that because the Seahome girls coach is Kim Stenzgar, who is the
47:36
daughter of my old varsity football coach, Doug Preston. So that's a really
47:40
cool deal. They have an assistant coach, Andy Hart. He's got some
47:45
Mount Baker ties. His you know, his his son Brayden, is the
47:49
I think the all time leading three point shooter at at Mount Baker history.
47:52
But his daughter Emmy is the probably the all time three point shooter at Seahome
47:55
history, so uh, there's some fun ties there. I got to see
48:00
coach President at the game on Saturday. Yeah, just Natalie Brewer, who's
48:06
a really good player for Sea Home. Her mom was my driver's ed partner
48:08
in high school. We known each other since we were five. She was
48:12
a state champion for cross country her senior year. So there's some really good
48:16
jeans athletically, but some fun ties with Mount Baker going back to the history
48:21
with me. So I love learning about these things and getting to know more
48:24
about these teams, and Seahome was a great story. It did end a
48:30
couple of days later against Archbishop Murphy, but that game against Burlington is one
48:32
that they'll be talking about for a while. So that is boys and girls
48:38
basketball game of the week, Tyler. Let's talk anytime Fitness Basketball players of
48:45
the week again, Anytime Fitness Linden, Linden North, and Ferndale. Those
48:50
are the three locations. Let's talk girls first, Tyler, who's the girls
48:53
basketball player of the week. I got to see her three times and just
48:59
this last week, and more times than that over the year. But I
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was so impressed with Matti Cooper, the point guard of Seahome. Super instinctive
49:10
and really good defensively. I think one of the games I saw she had
49:14
like seven or eight steals and great. She's just got great control with the
49:21
ball. You know crossovers, doesn't you know, not even looking down,
49:24
she's looking at the coach's She's running the team the whole time, and she's
49:30
when it calls upon the moment, she will. She's a shot maker.
49:34
She can make a lot of different shots. She has a really good jump
49:37
shot. You see a lot of girls that when they shoot it, it's
49:39
kind of a jump and shoot at the same time. She's got a legit
49:43
jump, hang in the air shoot. You don't see that a ton really
49:47
good foul shooter. I thought she had an awesome tournament and an awesome week.
49:52
Mattie Cooper, senior point guard from Seahome. What about on the boys
49:57
side, who is the boys basketball player of the week? Well, everyone
50:00
just played one game and I was kind of looking at all of them and
50:04
uh, you know that play at the end that Cohen Fuller had, and
50:08
I know he's a reserve player. He came off the bench, but he
50:12
had a huge game, especially a huge quarter. He was the difference.
50:16
You know, you hear about that plus minus stat. I know you're not
50:20
huge into basketball, but you've heard of that stack hockey stat. Oh okay
50:22
there, so yeah, there there, there, there you go. So
50:25
I would imagine his plus minus in that game was huge because when he was
50:30
in the game, big things happened, and he's kind of a pest defensively,
50:35
and he could just kind of tap the ball out of nowhere, and
50:37
he's got that low center of gravity and he's very instinctive. That's what The
50:42
other thing I really love about Cohen Foller is like when I went to that
50:45
the Storm Trojan Storm Classic or whatever it was where Meridian and Squalic and kind
50:51
of hosted together after Basketball Classic. Like I went there for an early game.
50:57
Uh, Meridian's not playing for like six hours, and I see Coen
51:00
Fuller sitting in the stands watching. He's like a basketball junkie. He loves
51:06
it. He's he's there all the time. He gets there early. Same
51:10
thing with that tournament, with the four games that happened, it started at
51:14
noon a couple of weekends ago, he's there for the first game. He's
51:16
the only Meridian player there, you know, watching the game, and because
51:21
they don't play for another four hours, but he's there watching like he's he
51:25
And so I love that that he you could tell how much he loves the
51:30
game and when he had when the moment came to him, it wasn't too
51:32
big for him. He made the big shot. So happy for him and
51:37
uh so, yeah, he is the Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball Player of the
51:42
Week again Anytime Fitness and Linden, Linden North and over in Ferndale, Tyler.
51:49
We will wrap it up with the upcoming games. Usually it's games to
51:52
look for, but we've only got six games to talk about, so we're
51:54
gonna talk about all six of them here and what it is. We've got
51:59
three the girls, three in the boys, and we're gonna I guess the
52:02
first thing we need to do is explain just a little bit how the state
52:06
tournament works. Yeah, there are how many teams? Is it exactly?
52:10
Is it twenty four? Um? It would be. I think it's I
52:17
think it's sixteen that they knock down to twelve. Oh yeah that's what it
52:21
is. Yeah, well yes, so what's gonna happen here. You've got
52:27
sixteen teams, but one through eight are playing each other. Both those one
52:31
through eights, they're moving on to the to the Dakota or to excuse me,
52:36
to the Tacoma Omen three A and four A yakamav Valley Sundome and for
52:39
what we're talking about here, So if you're A one through eight, you're
52:44
automatically going to the dome on the twenty eighth or the twenty ninth. If
52:49
you're below that, you're playing for your life this coming weekend. Now,
52:53
we've only got one team to talk about that's on the boys side, that's
52:57
playing for their lives. We've got three girls games. All three girls games,
53:02
they're automatically going to the Yakama Sun Dome. This is just a matter
53:07
of seeding. So in two A Linden. The Linden Girls secured the number
53:13
two seed. They will take on White River which is down there at Sumner
53:19
pwall Upish area. I believe the actual city is Buckley. For White River,
53:23
they will take on Linden. That's Friday, six pm at Linden High
53:29
School. On the one A side. Though we've got two games, we've
53:34
got lakeside of Nine Mile Falls they are coming over to They are the sixth
53:38
seed coming over to play the three seed Linden Christian. That is Saturday four
53:44
pm at Mount Vernon High School. Just before that, your number one seeded
53:50
Nooksack Valley Pioneers. They will take on the number eight seed Top A and
53:54
Ish That is Saturday two pm Mount Vernon High School. So that's the girls
54:00
side, now, Tyler, I would ask you which one you're most excited
54:02
for, but I'm pretty sure not only are you excited for all three of
54:06
them, but you don't know anything about the other teams anyway, so it
54:08
doesn't really matter, right right. I mean, I'm assuming they're all gonna
54:13
be pretty darn good games. I mean, you would think, although then
54:16
again, I think we're both probably pretty confident in the three Wakam County teams
54:22
in those games. Yes, but you still got a plan. As my
54:25
dad used to say, the only thing that matters, or the only time
54:30
paper matters in sports, is at the end with the final score. On
54:35
the boys side, though, we do have a loser out game. That
54:38
is Friday eight pm Mount Vernon High School. The number fifteen seed Life Christian
54:45
Academy Eagles. They will come up and take on the number ten seed Meridian
54:50
Trojans that we just spent well, Tyler just spent about a half hour talking
54:52
about if they can continue that magic. They're going to move on to the
54:58
Sundome in Yakama, but they have to beat Life Christian or else they're done
55:02
for the year. Now. A couple hours before that game over at Mount
55:07
Vernon High School, or no excuse me, is the next day seven number
55:13
seven seed Seaton Catholic. They are coming to town to take on Linden Christian.
55:19
I guess not really coming to town. They're coming to Skeatget County to
55:22
take on the number two seeded Linden Christian Links. Saturday, six pm.
55:25
Mount Vernon High School. Now welcome County again. Friday. It is a
55:31
doubleheader up there. We've got the girls game at six, We've got the
55:35
boys game, Number eight Prosser Mustangs. This sounds like a football matchup.
55:38
Number eight prosper Mustangs coming to town to take on the number one seeded Linden
55:44
Lion Boys. Friday, eight pm, Linden High School. Tyler, between
55:50
Linden and Mount Vernon, We've got a lot of basketball going on next weekend.
55:53
Oh, it's gonna be unbelievable. I'm looking at the schedule. I'm
55:59
trying to figure out exactly what I'm gonna do. I think I'm gonna hit
56:00
up Lindon Girls' early six pm at Lindon High School. Stay for as long
56:07
as I feel like I can, because I have to be there. I
56:09
have to be there for the whole game at Mount Vernon to do the stats
56:14
because the video I probably won't be able to capture. So so yeah,
56:17
so that's but then Saturday, three games at Mount Vernon. Oh Man,
56:22
say, hello, that is fantastic. And I don't and I don't know
56:27
if they have the rosters up there. They do all these teams, But
56:30
Deceiton Catholic. Does Jason Guesser's son play basketball too? That is a great
56:35
question, Tyler. Let's let's see here. What am I looking at here?
56:39
I am on the wrong one. Let me pull that up for you.
56:43
I can I can do that here in just a few seconds, because
56:45
I yeah, I mean, I was a huge Jason Gesser fan. I
56:47
know his son plays quarterback and they made that great run with the one a
56:51
football and I'd love to get a picture with him. If I could know
56:54
Jason Guesser's son. Oh I think is his name? Yeah? Well wow,
57:01
somehow they've got six coaches on their roster here. They got almost as
57:07
many coaches as they do kids. Tyler, you're talking kids are players because
57:13
it is Catholic school. Yeah. Uh. Something else noticing here, Tyler?
57:20
Yeah? And the boys one b yeah, oh yeah, lummy is
57:24
like they've went Lummy nation. They are number one. They got the number
57:30
one seed. They're playing on Saturday at two pm at Mount Vernon also quadruple
57:37
against Naceel And then let's see, I don't know if their girls are any
57:40
good, but let's uh, I think I'm on that they've been. They've
57:44
been okay this year. The transfer they had a transfer from Ferndo and a
57:46
transfer from Sea Home in mid season the girls did Yeah wow. Uh let's
57:53
see here, come on. His website is really slow tonight. Uh uh
58:00
girl, A lot of people see yeah, that's probably true. The girls
58:04
they are playing, they are in one of the loser out games in the
58:08
one b uh. They are playing Mount Vernon on Saturday at noon. So
58:15
what time is the Lemmy boys playing on Mount l so the girls are playing
58:20
at noon, the boys are playing at two and Saturday on Saturday exact same
58:24
time, the Nuksac girls are playing wait at at Mount Vernon. Yeah,
58:31
huh, well that's interesting, it is. Let's go over to the girls
58:37
one A. Let's see what it says here Nooksack Valley. No, it
58:40
says they're playing at four pm, Tyler, Saturday at four. Yes,
58:45
so then when are the Lennon Christian boys playing. We're getting figured out now,
58:52
non Christian girls, Len Christian girls, sorry, Lynn Christian girls,
58:57
Linden Christian girls. They are playing at noon at Linden. Whoa, things
59:04
have been changed since I did all this not that long ago, so it
59:08
was posted and then changed, which makes me now wonder about the Bothel girls
59:14
because and I'll tell you what, Tyler, I'm just gonna I don't want
59:17
to go on like a crazy rant here, right and this and actually this
59:22
is kind of funny because this isn't even about the Bothel girls. This is
59:24
about the Woodenville girls. The Woodenville Girls are the number two seed and they
59:31
have to go for their It's not a loser out, it's the seeding game.
59:37
Yea. They have to go to Isaquah to take on Tahoma. Well,
59:43
is a Quah from Tahoma is like fourteen minutes? Woodinville to Isaquah is
59:50
like twenty five minutes. So how is it that the lower seed is right
59:55
down the road or excuse yeah, the lower seeds right down the road.
59:59
Then the team that's technically the home team, right, well, what are
1:00:02
we doing here? Yeah, some of this doesn't make any sense to me.
1:00:07
Well, the good news is that I don't think anybody's listening to this
1:00:09
to figure out what games are going to go to. I'm pretty sure that
1:00:13
they're gonna I mean, but check it updating where they're going. It's gonna
1:00:15
be an awesome weekend of basketball again. And I'm hoping that it could all
1:00:20
work out with these changes to where I could still go and see the teams
1:00:24
I want to see. I'll just put it tay, you know. And
1:00:27
of course what's gonna happen is that I'm going to go down to the Yakama
1:00:30
and there's always gonna be two Walking County teams playing at the same time,
1:00:32
and that that's what it seems like. That's always what happened at the volleyball
1:00:37
tournament, but yeah, this is the way it goes. Then again,
1:00:39
there was what like six courts going at once, or there was five of
1:00:43
them. Yeah, so maybe a little bit tougher to get yeah, to
1:00:46
get too at the same time. But at the same time, if you
1:00:51
know, if Meridian wins on Friday, you've got a lot of teams.
1:00:55
You've got six teams going at once, or six teams going in the same
1:01:00
tournament. Yeah, I don't know, Tyler. Lots of basketball coming up
1:01:04
over the next what fourteen days, I guess it is. But yeah,
1:01:07
yeah, I mean exciting time, you know, for these teams. And
1:01:13
that's all we got left for for the winner. It's just some basketball here.
1:01:16
So yeah, yeah, two weekends of the state tournament. But yeah,
1:01:21
lots of stuff coming up here, Tyler. We got anything else we've
1:01:23
done. I think we're good. This is another week where about halfway through
1:01:29
the basketball I was looking at it, going, wow, we're really early,
1:01:30
and how here we are one hour? Yeah I was too. I
1:01:35
was looking at it, and I knew I was had a lot to talk
1:01:37
about with that boys basketball game. So yeah, I just don't know how
1:01:40
it happens that way, you know what I mean like it's kind of funny
1:01:43
how it happens sometimes, but which is also kind of funny because when you
1:01:46
and I first did this Winter Sports Weekly wrap up, our whole thing was
1:01:51
like, eh, you know what, let's just try to be about an
1:01:52
hour. Yeah, and honestly we have no control, really like we don't
1:01:58
do stuff, and then go a, let's take that out, so we
1:02:00
get closer to an hour. No, we've back and somehow we end up
1:02:04
right about an hour. So yeah, alrighty, well, let's wrap it
1:02:07
up right there. Tyler uh, he is Tyler Anderson of wacom Preps.
1:02:12
Wakompreps dot com is the website. I'm Rylan Spencer. You'd be listening to
1:02:15
episode at two hundred and forty one, a Winter Sports Weekly wrap up here
1:02:20
on the walkom Preps podcast. We will talk to you next week. What's that