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Whatcom Preps Podcast Episode 235 - Winter Sports Wrap Up 1-8 to 1-13 · Whatcom Preps Podcast

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  This is nickzac Valley senior basketball player Landy Kimball, and you're listening to the
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  Walkom Preps podcast with Tyler and Ryland Rally the Valley. Greetings and welcome into
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  the WATCUM Preps podcast. This is episode two hundred and thirty five, a
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  winter sports weekly wrap up for Monday, January eighth through Saturday, January thirteenth.
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  I'm Ryland Spencer. Along with me as always is Tyler Anderson Wakum Preps.
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  Tyler, how we doing doing great? Just trying to get through the
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  cold. Has everybody else's who's probably listening to this, and we're getting through
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  it and winter season is flying by man, Tyler. It is brutally cold
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  at my house and you want to know how I can tell? It is
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  unbelievably cold up there in Welcome County. Our podcast numbers have been great.
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  Everybody's just sitting at home listen to the podcast. Yeah, I love it.
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  Yeah. Did you see the other day maybe it was today, our
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  guy Randy Small over there posted a picture of like the sunset with like water
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  and it was like red in this It was unbelievable. Well, speaking of
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  Randy Small being unbelievable, he almost won Player of the Week this week because
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  I saw a pass that was like a more than half court lead pass in
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  the air that went out of bounds that he caught one hand with his left
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  hand while probably holding a you know, twenty thousand dollars camera in the right
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  hand, and it was awesome. I saw it on the live feed actually,
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  and texted him and said, dude, I nice catch. I saw
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  that. He texted back and he goes, are you watching the live feed?
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  I said yeah, and he goes, nice, yeah, and he
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  goes one handed, left hand. I said, yeah, absolutely, So
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  he's multi talented. Tyler. Did you I can give you a Randy Small
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  Wakcom County weather weather report for the upcoming days here in Walcome County. Hello,
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  Wakcom County football fans, It's gonna be really cold. Well, I
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  saw it. It's weird because I saw a thing pop up on my computer
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  that says expect ten to twelve inches of snow on Wednesday. What and then
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  and what's that? Yeah? And then I and then I look at it
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  on my phone and it says it's just supposed to be in like the thirty
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  seven, thirty eight degrees and ninety eight percent chance of rain that day.
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  Well, you know, we'll see if it's going to be rain or snow,
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  but I think midweek is gonna be a little Craig Gray, Well,
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  hopefully randy's listening right now, and I'm sure he's listening at some point.
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  Maybe he can just send you a message and let you know. Well,
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  I'll just take whatever comes, you know, deal with it. Then.
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  Well either way, you just won't leave the house, You'll just hang out
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  and be very happy about it. Hey, live feed, man, that's
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  all I got to say. Two words for you. I I I enjoy
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  this. NFHS is a blessing. Yeah, it's a it helps and there's
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  a lot of schools that don't use it, but they use but those are
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  the ones that usually do live feed on YouTube. So yeah, it's the
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  only thing that's bad about it is there's no announcers for most of them,
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  you know what I mean. But like for most of them being able to
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  at least watch is you know, at least you can see it. And
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  I love to be their live. I mean it's it's it's great to be
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  their live and especially if they got the band. Oh man, absolutely,
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  you know, I love a good band. Tyler, having a band at
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  a at a basketball game. There's there's two things about it. One,
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  it's just the mood is so much better, you know what I mean.
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  It's it's loud, it's fun. But then two, it's loud, man,
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  and it's really hard to talk to people, you know, like if
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  you're sitting there and it's halftime with something and the band just plays all the
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  way through halftime, like, yeah, hey, how about we knock her
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  down for a couple of minutes here and just you know, let us let
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  us breathe a little. But I love a good band, uh, Tyler.
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  You know what else? I love a good intro. And the intro
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  this week Laney Kimball. So thank you to Laney for that Nooksack Valley girls
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  basketball team. Or they're pretty good. They are pretty good. As a
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  matter of fact, Tyler, you know who I spoke to the other day.
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  I got a call from my guy, Todd Elvig. You probably don't
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  know that name, but we talked about him a couple of weeks ago because
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  he runs STSPN. Yes, and I said, hey, by the way,
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  I give you a shout out on the WACOM Preps podcast. And he
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  goes, I don't know what that is. I said, I know,
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  because you're not from Walkam County and uh. And I told him, I
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  said, you know, you guys had the uh was it called Top of
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  the Peak? I think yeah, yeah, I said, And we were
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  talking about it and and uh, you know the guy that I'm I'm working
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  with up there mentioned that it was a great broadcast and I said, oh,
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  I know those guys and he was like, wait what And I said,
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  yeah, Nukxack Valley was there, right, and he goes, yeah,
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  he goes, by the way, they are really good. I was
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  like, yeah, I've heard they are really good. Yeah. I mean
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  they played Mead in that tournament, yeah, and beat him pretty handedly.
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  And they're the top ranked team in three eight. Yes. And then he
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  mentioned yeah because he had mentioned that Mead was really good, Lake City was
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  really good, Nooksack Valley was really good. And then was there another team
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  that was there maybe or was it just that Glacier Peak wasn't very good?
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  I can't remember. I don't know, but those are top of the line
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  teams. Those are a big time yeah. Yeah, and that's it,
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  and that's what he was saying, and he was. He was he was
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  saying some good things about Knokxack Valley, that's for sure, because he was.
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  He was pretty pumped that he because he he knew that I did a
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  podcast about football up there, but he didn't know what it was called.
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  And so then when I told him exactly what it was, he was like,
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  Oh, he's like, that's awesome. You guys do that. And
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  I was like, yeah, you should listen sometime, but that's just because
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  I want to get more views. But yeah, no, they do a
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  tremendous job. Tyler, we need to give a thanks to Kurt Mayberry Farm
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  Kurt maayberry Farm dot com. Fourth generation, family owned and operated berry farm,
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  committed to growing the highest quality berries, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries.
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  I kind of feeling they don't grow real well in the weather that's going on
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  right now up that way. That being said, if anybody could grow them,
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  it's Kurt Mayberry Farm. That's who you do, and you can find
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  them kurtaberry Farm dot com. That's Kurt with a C, M, A
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  B E r R y farm dot com. Tyler, we got all kinds
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  of things to talk about here, actually, before we go too far if
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  somebody wants to sponsor anything with Walkompreps walkompreps dot com, how do they get
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  ahold of you? Tyler. Easiest way is through social media. Just look
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  for walkom Preps, hit the button to send a message and just say,
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  hey, I'm looking to I'm interested in sponsoring or I want to help out
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  or do whatever I can or whatever, and we can just take it from
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  there. And there's you know, there's still a lot of things that can
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  be sponsored, and it depends, you know, even if your budget isn't
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  what isn't fantastic, or if you have a lot spend or whatever, we
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  can always just kind of make it work somehow. There's not really there's a
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  few set things, but there's a lot of negotiating that could happen, and
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  you know, it's just more about you know, coming together as one as
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  a community and making it all work and keeping walking Preps alive. So that's
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  by far the easiest way. Search for walking Preps on any social media things
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  that's you know, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, send a personal message and
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  we'll go from there. All right, Tyler, I'm going to throw you
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  off a little here. What if I say, owned a taco truck on
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  the Guide Meridian and I had one hundred bucks a month I wanted to spend
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  on walk them preps. Would you have something for me? Yeah? Absolutely,
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  one hundred bucks a month and you know you'll put my logo a few
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  places or something, you know what I mean. Like, that's that's what
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  we're talking about here. If somebody's got it, if they if you've got
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  you know, just a little bit to spend and you want to do it,
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  how it'll take care of you? I mean, I mean you should
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  come up with something. So reach out to him on all social medias you
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  can find him. The easiest way to do it just reach out and say,
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  hey, I'm interested, what can you do for me? This is
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  kind of where I'm thinking money wise or something and then boom or if you
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  are passionate about baseball or you know, whatever it is and you want to
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  be specific for something, just reach out to him and say, hey,
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  this is what i'd like to sponsor. You know, we're going to talk
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  about stoff for insurance. A little bit later, we're going to talk about
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  what Edilne Darry We're going to talk about anytime fitness. That's kind of how
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  some of that stuff just got started. Hey, I'd like to just,
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  you know, be a part of it. What do I gotta do?
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  I want my business a part of Walcome preps. How do we do it?
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  Tyler, We're gonna talk about winter sports today. And speaking of Anytime
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  Fitness, the Anytime Fitness Top one hundred countdown is officially over. Yeah,
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  done, Zode. It went fast as of today, It's done, right.
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  It was today the last day. Today was the last day that where
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  we are recording this on set. This morning was the last day. So
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  uh yeah, it zoomed right by. So I'll tell you this. I'll
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  tell you this really quickly. This was the least amount of negativity I've ever
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  received for the Top one hundred, you know what, which which is just
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  makes me feel good because you dominated, you did, you did real good.
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  Uh yeah. The top five Tyler, Jeremiah Wright at number five from
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  Linden, Christian John Stremler, number four from Nuksack Valley, Connor Walker number
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  three from Ferndale, Colton Lentz number two from Nukzack Valley. And today as
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  we record this yesterday, as most of you are probably listening to this,
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  Caden Site number one from Linden Christian that was the top five. Other than
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  me, nobody else knew about it other than you, Tyler. I mean,
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  it was it was. It was fun. It was It was a
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  lot of fun to record this year. There was I feel like maybe more
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  names this year that I didn't know than any of year. Maybe it's because
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  I'm not involved as much with like the media side of football now other than
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  in Walkham County. But usually I'd be way ahead and know a lot of
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  those guys. But there was a lot of names that maybe I didn't recognize,
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  but then you know, as you would start talking about them, a
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  lot of times I was watching film and sinner, going wow, this guy
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  can actually play. So it was definitely cool. It was fun to sit
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  down and record all of those and people can go back and listen to them
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  all. There's a lot of them, ten total, five of them count
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  down nineteen players at a time, and then we do the top five get
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  their own. So go back and listen to all of those. I won't
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  give you the numbers on them all, but go back and listen to them
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  all. You know, it was a lot of fun. That being said,
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  Tyler, Now that that's over, we've got the Walkham Preps Awards.
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  Depending on when you're hearing this, voting might already be open. You can
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  get on wakampreps dot com starting at nine am Monday, so that would be
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  today. This podcast was released eight am on Monday, so just an hour
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  later, boom, it's open, and it's open for twenty four or excuse
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  me, forty eight hours Tyler, Now really quickly, how how many times
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  can they vote? Do we know? Well, that's the thing is I
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  I looked into it and it's it is just one time. I can't edit
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  that. The only thing I could edit is if you voted for the amount
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  of people you can vote for at that one time, Like so that one
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  time you vote and there's four different names, you can vote for two people
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  instead of one. Well, I didn't want that. I want everyone to
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  vote vote for one. Yeah, and that it was it's a tricky thing
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  and it you know people, you know it's kind of didn't really complain about
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  it last year. But like, if you're in the same household and you
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  guys all use the same Internet as a family, you might only get one
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  vote. Yeah, so you know you might off your Wi Fi at home,
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  right exactly to turn the Wi Fi off on your phone, and you
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  should all be able to vote separately from the phone. Yeah, you know,
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  figure it out. It'll be it'll be great. And it's a really
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  fun thing that we've done over the years where the fans get involved and they
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  they're they're their collective vote counts as one third of the overall vote. So,
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  uh, you and I have those other thirds and we go from there
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  and sometimes there's a tie and if that's the case, then that's the case,
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  and it's multiple winners, but it's a it's this is kind of that
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  fun time to see how people do and and uh yeah, it's it's really
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  cool. So each category is going to have four right, yeah, except
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  for the fan Favorite category. Yes, so each category has four except fan
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  Favorite. Is one player from each team? Yeah, senior from each team?
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  Yes, excuse me, yeah, one senior from each team. Now
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  that being said, voting, like I said, nine am Monday to nine
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  am Wednesday. Then that night, Tyler and I we're going to record a
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  podcast going over everything that will be released Thursday morning at nine am. So
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  the award winners are going to be ready to go nine am on Thursday.
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  Yeah, so that's how you're gonna find out about it, because you could
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  look at how the voting went, but you might not know how the actual
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  overall winners are until you listen to that podcast on Thursday. Correct, So
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  the actual So the voting that you see online, that's only a third of
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  it because then Tyler gets a vote, I get a vote. So if
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  let's just say, Tyler, you win the Player of the Year award as
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  far as the fans voting, but then you voted for me and I voted
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  for coach lepp m h. I mean, we got all kinds of ahem
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  there, you know what I mean. And a lot of it is based
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  on first, second, third, fourth, Yes, yeah, and that's
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  that's kind of a key to it also is Yeah, whoever finishes first gets
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  what four points. Let's just say, whoever finishes second gets three, third
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  gets two, fourth gets won, and then then you and I. Yeah,
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  yeah, so if you and I voted for somebody to finish second,
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  and the fans voted for them to finish first, but then you and I
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  both had a split going the other way, they could actually it could actually
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  be uh, you know, whoever the fans vote might not be the person
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  that wins. So when you look at it online and you see, oh,
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  this guy one player of the year, No that's not that's not right.
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  Like the fans voting, isn't right. They have a yeah, they
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  have a strong case. Yes, they've got thirty three. Yeah, so
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  it's it's a bit, it's a good jump. And then based on how
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  we feel and where they are, and we'll just see, you know,
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  I mean a lot of times it's pretty darn close. The fan. The
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  fans are pretty they don't they they know what they're doing. I would say
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  more than fifty percent of the time the fans have it, but you know,
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  you just never know. And yeah, it'll be a lot of fun.
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  Now we've got oh and then actually the fan vote, that's one hundred
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  percent by the fans. Yeah, you and I don't have a say in
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  that. Well, I will admit last year I did go vote. Yeah,
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  you went and logged on as a fan, right exactly. I went
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  and logged on as a fan, and actually I think that was the only
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  thing I voted for. I don't think. I don't think i'd voted for
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  the other one because I was like, I'm ever got thirty three percent of
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  that vue. I don't need any Yeah, but that being said Tyler,
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  the categories Player of the Year, Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player
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  of the Year, Special Teams Player of the Year, Coach of the Year,
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  Assistant Coach of the Year, Linemen of the Year, Sophomore of the
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  Year, Freshmen of the Year, and then as I said, fan Favorite.
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  Now that being said Tyler, there are some new things that we're adding
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  this year. Yes, but these won't be voted on by the fans.
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  These are going to be strictly well, there's five new categories are getting added.
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  Four of them are going to be from you, and then I've got
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  one of my own. So, Tyler, you are awarding Band of the
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  Year, Cheerleaders of the Year public and that's that's cheerleading squad. You know
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  I should say yes, Well, and it's not. It's not like they're
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  going to competition and that's what they're winning. No, this is they're standing
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  on the track make a noise, getting the fans going like right, this
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  is this is? This is me what I notice? Yeah, yes,
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  on a Friday night at games? Not right? Not what are they doing
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  in a gym throwing each other up in the air, which, by the
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  way, I saw a few minutes of one of those competitions. Holy crap,
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  like that is that is truely, I'm glad. I hope they practice
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  that a ton because that is honestly unbelievable. But yeah, Band of the
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  Year, Cheerleaders of the Year, PA, Announcer of the Year, which
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  by the way, I am one now, so I don't think I can
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  win, but uh, and then referee of the Year. So Tyler,
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  you are gonna pick all of those. Now, we have a new award
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  this year that is going to be chosen by myself. The center position,
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  Tyler. Every week I'm highlighting something, right, I'm going eight seas up,
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  you know whatever it is like, we're talking about centers. I'm gonna
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  I'm gonna say something because the center position is just it's me. Now.
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  The the award is essentially going to be a Center of the Year award,
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  but it's not necessarily the best center, but the center that embodies the spirit
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  in which the award is named after and what it is. Tyler, I
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  basically said to you, hey, I want to pick kind of who who
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  is my favorite center from around the county because I do watch film. People
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  may not believe it, but I do watch film of Walkham County, even
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  though it doesn't really do me any good other than you and me talking about
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  it here. But I do watch some film and usually what I'm looking for,
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  honestly is offensive line play, because that's what I love. And for
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  me, it starts with the center. Now, what I said to you
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  was I love Centers. This is what it is, Tyler, this is
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  kind of what I'm thinking. And you knew right away who it is to
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  name this award after. And when you said it to me, I said,
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  I don't know who that guy is. Just like I say, with
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  a lot of stuff from in the past, you told me Mark Newton.
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  So this is going to be the Mark Newton An Award. We're gonna give
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  it out every single year to kind of like the Center. Who truly like
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  who? When you think of Centers, I think of a guy with like
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  tape on his wrist, I think of I mean, honestly, I hate
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  to say it, I kind of think of guys like Landon Hatchet from the
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  last couple of years. Guys that just are mean, nasty, guys that
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  eat, sleep, breathe, you know, sneeze the center position, and
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  actually sneezes maybe even better than breathe, because we breathed heavily, and then
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  we sneeze a lot because we got a lot of bookers and stuff. Now,
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  Tyler, I don't know who Mark Newton is, so one I need
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  to know who Mark Newton is, and the audience needs to know who Mark
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  Newton is. Well, I would say, oh, boy, probably about
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  eight or nine years ago, I didn't even know that much about Mark Newton.
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  I've seen newspaper articles. He graduated from Meridian High School nineteen eighty five,
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  so it's been a while since he played. He I guess a sophomore.
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  He was a running back and he got moved to the offensive line his
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  two years as the center. Meridi had never lost a football game in those
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  two years, a league football game. And when I asked, I went
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  over and talked to coach Bob Ames years ago and went over a bunch of
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  players that were on the top five hundred list way back when, you know,
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  and I went over a ton of guys, and he probably had the
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  most to say about Mark Newton. Mark Newton was about five nine, one
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  hundred and eighty pounds and he said it's the best center he's ever had.
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  And he said it wasn't even close. And they've had some great centers.
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  Yeah. Wait, give me the heightened weight. And when you when you're
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  saying this heightenw weight, this isn't a Bob Ames height, No, this
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  is true five nine and eighty pounds. Yeah, maybe where it all got
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  started. Yeah, yeah, And and he was just, man, that
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  guy played with so much intensity and and was and then I got to he's
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  some film, you know, some old film from the eighty four season,
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  probably like three or four games worth, and his like, his helmet was
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  just different than everybody else's because it was just the you know, the the
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  battle scars and everything on it, and you know, he had the long
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  hair sticking out the back, and it was just like, man, that
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  guy is awesome. Like he's just that dude out there. And he passed
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  away at a younger age. And and he's the uncle of Casey Newton,
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  who plays at Nuoksack Valley's a senior this year, and and I just you
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  know, this is just a really cool deal. And so when you brought
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  that up and said, you know, who's Who's a guy, and I
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  was like I have the guy for you. I mean, if Bob Ames
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  says that's the best center he's ever had, then yeah, that's that's enough
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  I need to hear. Because and then when I got to see the film,
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  it was it was awesome. And he played middle linebacker two was it
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  was great and center and middle linebacker that just screams Walkham County. You know,
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  yeah, yeah, when you get that combo, it's awesome. Yeah,
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  you know, and Tyler to give the people an idea, I gave
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  you. I kind of said to you, like, this is what I
• 21:15
  this is kind of what I want to do. This is what I'm thinking.
• 21:18
  It's not going to necessarily be the best guy, right, it's not
• 21:22
  going to be like like we might have a guy. Well, okay,
• 21:26
  last year Land and Hatchett may not have won it. No, right,
• 21:30
  Land and Hatchett very much. I mean when you think centers like yeah,
• 21:33
  I mean he's the best center, pure center in Walkham County history. Yeah,
• 21:37
  but that's not really what this is about. Yeah, but when you
• 21:41
  when when I think of who I want to give an award to, like
• 21:45
  that, like Land and Hatchet doesn't body everything about the center position, right,
• 21:51
  But that's not necessary. We could have we could have multiple guys going
• 21:55
  division one at the center position sometime and they're not necessarily going to win it.
• 22:00
  I mean they might not, you know. So that's that's what this
• 22:03
  is about. This is about when when I think of the center position,
• 22:07
  I think of I think of an ugly guy. I think of a guy
• 22:10
  that is just yeah, well yeah. When I say ugly, I'm not
• 22:12
  talking about physical appearance. I mean, not always at least, but I'm
• 22:18
  thinking of a guy that, like, you could be on turf and somehow
• 22:22
  his jersey is still going to have mud on it, you know what I
• 22:23
  mean. Like, like, that's what I'm thinking about here. Yeah.
• 22:26
  And so when I said to you, this is what I'm thinking, Tyler.
• 22:30
  You know, if you were to name the award after somebody, who
• 22:33
  would it be? Mark Newton? And I was like, oh, okay,
• 22:36
  like we don't need to think about this. You're like, no,
• 22:38
  like that, you just described Mark Newton and exactly, yes, okay,
• 22:42
  well then that's who we're going with. Yeah, we're going to Mark Newton.
• 22:45
  So then I said to you, hey, we're going to need to
• 22:48
  reach out to his family because we can't just do something like this, right,
• 22:52
  And what you told me was, you know, yeah, not a
• 22:55
  problem. I'll reach out. I'm sure they're going to be more than happy
• 22:56
  about it. And he said to me tonight there was multiple exclamation points like
• 23:03
  yes, happiness, like yes, please go right ahead, this is awesome.
• 23:07
  Yeah. So yeah, I reached out to his brother Chad and and
• 23:11
  it was he was all for it. He's you know, he loves what
• 23:15
  Walker preps does. He was a really big time offensive lineman for Meridian as
• 23:18
  well. And uh so, yeah, it's a it's a really cool deal
• 23:22
  and I and it's fun and hopefully we can have more awards like this type
• 23:27
  of deal in the future as well, and and and have him be named
• 23:32
  after players. I mean, I love that every time I see like the
• 23:33
  Doak Walker Award given out, or the Ray Guy or the you know Dave
• 23:40
  Dave. Yes, there's your guy right there, Dave davey O'Brien. Uh,
• 23:45
  there's there's all these awards, John Mackey Award, Dick Buckets, I
• 23:51
  mean these are all there's yeah, all those college football awards are they all
• 23:56
  are named after somebody. It's like, man, I'd really love to do
• 23:59
  so something like that for walking preps and this is kind of that first step
• 24:03
  into it, and it's a really really cool deal. I'm excited about it.
• 24:07
  Yeah. So that is an award that's gonna get awarded this year,
• 24:11
  and we'll talk about it on the podcast on Thursday. We're going to talk
• 24:14
  about every single award winner. And you know, Tyler, now that I'm
• 24:18
  thinking about this, now that we've got what ten voted on and five that
• 24:23
  aren't voted on, the five that you and I are just awarding, we
• 24:27
  can do this a little bit a little bit different format this year. We
• 24:32
  can do like a couple that are voted on, and we can throw in
• 24:33
  one that's not voted on, you know what I mean. Like, this
• 24:37
  is gonna be a little bit more like a normal awards show where they kind
• 24:38
  of go off topic for a minute and give the you know, the Arthur
• 24:41
  ash Award or whatever. You know what I mean, Like, Yeah,
• 24:45
  oh man, this is gonna be like a black tie affair in like twenty
• 24:48
  years, you know it. It's gonna be a big thing twenty years.
• 24:52
  I think we found for it for next year. I think we should be
• 24:53
  looking to have I'm just gonna throw it out there right now. There's there's
• 24:57
  got to be an athletic director or somebody some that's going, Hey, I
• 25:00
  want the Walkham Preps Football Awards in our auditorium, you know what I mean?
• 25:04
  I want it right there. Reach out to Tyler. You know how
• 25:08
  to do it. We've already talked about it with the sponsorships. We're gonna
• 25:12
  do it next year. Next year, the Walking Preps Awards are gonna be
• 25:15
  in person, Tyler. I'm telling you, it's gonna be sponsored by somebody,
• 25:19
  you know what I mean. I don't know who, but yeah.
• 25:22
  So we've got all that going on, Tyler. But we've also got boys
• 25:27
  wrestling. We've got boys swim and die. We've got girls basketball, We've
• 25:32
  got boys basketball. We got a lot of stuff to talk about here.
• 25:36
  So let's get into it. Uh, let's start with boys wrestling, Tyler,
• 25:40
  and uh, there were some matches around the county this week, but
• 25:42
  really two big ones going on Bellingham and Squalicum and then Blaine and Mount Baker
• 25:48
  in a in a one, a hard nosed battle there. What went on
• 25:55
  in those two duels this week? Tyler, Oh, Bellingham defeated Squad fifty
• 26:00
  four to twenty five, and so they won the Battle of the Boot,
• 26:03
  which basically means Bellingam takes home the city championship. They beat Seahome earlier and
• 26:07
  it's just a boot that they get and they spray paint their team's colors and
• 26:12
  and I think Bellingham won it last year, so they just they just keep
• 26:15
  it for another year. They don't have to repaint it. So congratulations to
• 26:19
  Coach Brewery and the BayHawks. And in that much anticipated one A matchup,
• 26:25
  Blaine beat Mount Baker and you know, it's it's and I think a big
• 26:30
  part of that is, you know, Blaine can fill all those weight classes
• 26:33
  and that's a huge, huge deal when it comes to that. When I've
• 26:37
  seen different tournaments that they've been at, you know, Mount Baker has maybe
• 26:42
  more guys in the finals in some of these tournaments, but Blaine just has
• 26:48
  more bodies. And so that's that's been such a big matchup over the years,
• 26:55
  you know, going back to you know when I was in school and
• 26:57
  even in the mid nineties. You know, Coach Lepper took over the wrestling
• 27:00
  program in Mount Baker in the ninety four to ninety five season, and and
• 27:06
  you know he's in the Coaches Hall of Fame from it now. And he
• 27:10
  he stepped away for a few years and then came back and and and Blaine
• 27:14
  has always been that that big time school up here for wrestling going going,
• 27:19
  you know, way back to the sixties and seventies, and so that's always
• 27:22
  a big time matchup, and Blaine took it this year. So now there
• 27:26
  were some tournaments going on over the weekend, Tyler the Marysville Premier Tournament that
• 27:33
  was won by Marysville Pilchruck with one hundred and eighty five points. Squalicum,
• 27:37
  Linden, and Seahome they were all there. Who are some of the guys
• 27:41
  that placed in that one. Yeah, Grant Oliver from Seahome, he's kind
• 27:45
  of stepped out as being that main guy for the Mariners. He took second
• 27:49
  place at one hundred and fifty pounds. He's seventeen and four on the season
• 27:53
  so far. Hugo Contreras of Lyndon took third place at one hundred and twenty
• 27:57
  six pounds. He's sixteen and eight on the season, and then Miles Morgan
• 28:02
  at one hundred and thirty eight pounds. In Isaac Lowry of Squalicum at two
• 28:06
  hundred and eighty five pounds. Both those guys wrestled for the Storm. They
• 28:08
  both took third place in the tournament. Sergeant Justin Norton Memorial Tournament down at
• 28:14
  Rainier High School. If you don't know where that is, it's kind of
• 28:15
  a little southeast of Olympia. It's kind of like almost like it creates a
• 28:21
  triangle with like Olympia, Rainier and what do you call it, Lewis Fort
• 28:27
  Lewis, Right, it's kind of like a triangle right there. It's a
• 28:30
  little you have to go through Yelm to get there, let's put it that
• 28:33
  way. That being said, Mount Baker was there. The tournament was won
• 28:38
  by Castle Rock with two hundred and twenty six and a half points. Mount
• 28:41
  Baker finished third with one thirty seven point five. Who, by the way,
• 28:48
  Rainier, they are the mountaineers, Mount Baker Mountaineers who finished second.
• 28:52
  Wasn't Rainier was? It was Mount Baker the best mountaineers and attendance, that
• 28:57
  being said Tyler. For the mountaineers, who were the guys that placed there,
• 29:00
  Well, Daniel Washburn has just been winning all these tournaments he's been in.
• 29:04
  It seems like he took first place to get at one hundred and fifty
• 29:07
  seven pounds. He is on a mission. You know. His older brother
• 29:10
  won state last year. I believe Daniel got third last year, so he's
• 29:15
  he's looking to do some damage this year. Andrew Monteeth and Vance Lawrence each
• 29:18
  took second place. Monteeth At won twenty six, Vance Lawrence At won seventy
• 29:22
  five. Isaac Da Creek third place at one O six. Wyatt Freeman took
• 29:26
  third place at one sixty five, and Dylan Moa took fourth place at one
• 29:30
  hundred and ninety pounds. The other tournament that was going on the Justice for
• 29:36
  All Tournament down at Isaquah High School kind of my Neck of the Woods that
• 29:41
  was won by PW Wallup with two hundred and twenty two and a half points.
• 29:45
  Bellingham finished second with one hundred and eighty eight. Meridian finished tenth with
• 29:48
  eighty eight points. Lots of names here, I see Tyler on this one.
• 29:52
  As guys that placed in the top eight, go ahead and give me
• 29:56
  give me the names from this one. Yeah, there is a lot names.
• 30:00
  Dylan Roath of Bellingham first place at one O six. Havevel Shintar of
• 30:04
  Bellingham took first place at one hundred and fifty pounds. I've watched some I've
• 30:10
  been able to watch some wrestling, some matches of his, and he's a
• 30:12
  really impressive wrestler, but he keeps getting like around second or third place.
• 30:17
  I'm glad to see him take first in this one. And Finnegan Jensen it
• 30:19
  took first place at two hundred and eighty five pounds. So Bellingham with three
• 30:23
  champions, they're all very shut up in the wrestling. Got the lowest class,
• 30:29
  the biggest class, and right in the middle there Aiden borchert at Bellingham's
• 30:32
  second place at one twenty six. Sonny Powell also took second place from Bellingham
• 30:36
  at two fifteen. Meridians Trace and Lewis Kelly took third place at one oh
• 30:41
  six. Connor Rodriguez Stiff also took third place from Bellingham at one hundred and
• 30:45
  thirty eight pounds. Then you get some football players here, Nate Loss from
• 30:49
  Bellingham third place at one forty four, and you'll recognize these names. Joshtin
• 30:53
  Elmer and Landon Downey each took third place from Meridian at one fifty and one,
• 31:00
  and then Max Day at Bellingham seventh place at one thirty two. Carlo
• 31:04
  Lockanen at Bellingham seventh place at one sixty five. I feel like he's been
• 31:08
  and wrestled in higher weight classes all year, so he's recently dropped down to
• 31:12
  one sixty five. Rhett Dershit seventh at took seventh place at two hundred and
• 31:18
  fifteen pounds plays at Meridian. He's an awesome football player and really really good
• 31:25
  kid. I'm excited to see him do well in wrestling. Jamison lad Alexander
• 31:29
  took eighth place at one hundred and twenty pounds for Meridian, and Kylon Peterson
• 31:33
  also took eighth place for Meridian at one hundred and seventy five pounds. Tyler,
• 31:36
  I'm scanning through the rankings here just kind of, you know, wanted
• 31:41
  to see if there was anything. I think it's pretty obvious they don't have
• 31:44
  anybody in the Watkam County area letting him know who's up there. Not a
• 31:49
  not a lot of Walkham County names on this list. I'm scanning through the
• 31:53
  one a's here. How updated is the rankings? Well, the last rankings
• 31:57
  was actually on December thirty first, So okay, so it's a couple of
• 32:01
  weeks. Yeah, Well, ago, but yeah, more updated than it
• 32:05
  had been. Yeah, because it was it was way out of date just
• 32:09
  a couple of weeks ago. Who was the uh what what at the one
• 32:13
  A? I think if you go one hundred and fifty seven pounds, I
• 32:16
  was going to ask you. I'm looking at one A right now, so
• 32:19
  so give me gimme, what do you say one fifty seven? Let's go
• 32:22
  look at one fifty seven, one fifty seven. Daniel Washburn first is what
• 32:25
  they have for him, okay? And then who else we got here?
• 32:30
  So one seventy five and Dylan Moa is also listed at eighth eighth in one
• 32:36
  fifty seven. That's he's been wrestling one ninety all year. Yeah, about
• 32:39
  to say, I'm pretty sure they're not in the same weight class. Vance
• 32:45
  Lawrence. They have him listed at second, okay, and one seventy five,
• 32:51
  yeah, one seventy five yeah, and then at two eighty five.
• 32:53
  Uh, you know it has to be Victor Gervil from Blaine. He is
• 32:58
  listed as second behind the kid from of course Topinish. Well. He beat
• 33:01
  a Topish kid at the tournament, Anthony Nava. I can't remember who he
• 33:07
  beat, but it was in the championship of that huge tournament that two dly
• 33:09
  enough that kid is listed as as one, and then Victor two, and
• 33:14
  then another kid from Topnish listed three. Okay, that might have been the
• 33:17
  kitty beat then I'm not quite sure. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not
• 33:20
  really sure either. But it's unbelievable Top Andish how many? Yeah it is.
• 33:23
  I mean, they've got the number one guy in the heavy in the
• 33:27
  uh two fifteen, They've got the number one guy in the one seventy five.
• 33:34
  Yeah, it's crazy. It truly is unbelievable. They got the number
• 33:37
  one guy in the one fifty. How about what about Blaine? Is it?
• 33:43
  Is it just Victor? Who else is really good there? At playing?
• 33:45
  There's some Yeah, there's some other guys. The names are escaping me
• 33:47
  right now here. Justin Elmer's listed at eleventh in one four nice and then
• 33:53
  what was landed down yet? One ninety one ninety Let's see if he's on
• 33:59
  there at all? One ninety Uh Nooksack Valley guy, uh Whitett Baker White
• 34:05
  Bacon, Yeah, yeah, he's on there. How's uh, how's uh
• 34:08
  Wyatt Freeman from Mount Baker one sixty five on the sixty five, one sixty
• 34:13
  he's got to be a top top top five kind of guy. Let's see
• 34:16
  here. Uh he is listed his eighth okay behind a Riverside, A Freeman,
• 34:22
  A Keona, Benton, Castle, Rock Deer Park Les Center in Kashmere.
• 34:27
  I guess one sixty five would be pretty pretty stud weight class. There
• 34:30
  a lot of you know, guys that are you know that's that's a that's
• 34:34
  a lot of kids in that class. Yeah, it's pretty cool to see
• 34:36
  Daniel Washburn up there at number one. Yeah, I'm not surprised he Yeah,
• 34:39
  he's the real deal of the year. Yeah, it really is.
• 34:43
  Oh is that another Blaine name that I see there? Uh? Oh no,
• 34:49
  well maybe it was. I don't know. I was scanned by it
• 34:51
  way too quickly. Whoa this kid here from vash On? Last name Ryland
• 34:55
  with the D at the end? Yeah? Nice? How about that?
• 34:59
  Yeah, not too often you see, Usually when it's Ryland, there's no
• 35:01
  D at the end. Right, So it's not me, you know,
• 35:06
  at least not enough. But yeah, so that's pretty cool. It's always
• 35:09
  fun to look through those rankings. Obviously they mean nothing. Yeah, it's
• 35:15
  just fun to get an idea of kind of where the guys stand and it's
• 35:17
  always uh yeah, it's always cool. Oh, here's a Carson see it
• 35:22
  all from Meridian, it says, and then Cole Voight from the cole Voy
• 35:29
  from Blaine. Yeah, yeah, both those guys are nine and ten at
• 35:31
  the one twenty weight class. Yeah, he's cold, Voy's good. And
• 35:35
  then I don't see anybody at one thirteen. Oh there's a royal guy.
• 35:39
  Must not be a football player though. Oh Chris Christopher Zamudio, a freshman
• 35:46
  from Blaine at hundred and six. He's listed as fourth. Yeah, so
• 35:51
  yeah, that's kind of where we're out with that. But uh yeah,
• 35:53
  that's wrestling, Tyler. Yeah, let's uh, I see some blue here
• 35:58
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  I mentioned it every week, though, Tyler, Squalicum, Seahome, Ferndale,
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  Bellingham and Linden. Those are the schools that participate in Boys Swim and
• 36:19
  Dive, And as usual, I guess I should mention if there's a student
• 36:22
  that is at one of the schools that isn't listed there and they want to
• 36:27
  they want to swim. It's they go to somewhere else and do it specifically
• 36:30
  for that. They don't go to school there. But that being said,
• 36:34
  Tyler, I see what do I see her? Four four new scores times?
• 36:40
  Yeah, I guess it's both times and scores, because we do have
• 36:44
  both times and scores this week. Who are the new ones as far as
• 36:47
  top times in the county? Oh A two hundred medley relay, Squalum Hayden
• 36:53
  Nelson, Dylan Fisk, Michael Siatta and Finn Smith. That's the dream team
• 36:57
  right there. They broke their own time by I want to say it was
• 37:00
  even less than a second, with a one minute fifty seconds point or one
• 37:06
  one minute fifty point sixty one seconds, and so they had the record for
• 37:12
  walking county and they it's the same group too, in that same order broke
• 37:16
  their own record. Dylan Fisk in the fifty freestyle, that's the that's the
• 37:21
  quick race. You blink and it's over twenty three point seventy five seconds one
• 37:25
  end of the pool to the other, and and that is I think he
• 37:30
  beat that one by over a second, So that's pretty impressive. In diving,
• 37:36
  Jack Leagan at Sea Home two hundred and seventeen point nine. That just
• 37:40
  almost doubled the score from before. There hasn't been a lot of diving this
• 37:45
  year. I mean there's sometimes where I ride about events and there was no
• 37:47
  diving at all. So and it's really weird because I kind of have like
• 37:52
  my templates set up and then I have to take that out for that specific
• 37:54
  event, you know. So that's that's really really impressive. And then the
• 37:59
  one hundred breaststroke, Dylan Fisk again broke his own time one oh four point
• 38:05
  seventy three. So uh, you know, you start seeing some of these
• 38:09
  names multiple times. Dylan Fisk is in there for three relays and three different
• 38:16
  races, and here's the impressive thing. He's in there for a specific stroke,
• 38:24
  the breaststroke, also the quickest one, the fifty freestyle and the five
• 38:28
  hundred freestyle, so like the long distance, that'd be like a guy winning
• 38:30
  in a sprint and a and of you know, the sixteen something and then
• 38:36
  yeah, exactly, So that's really really impressive. So so that's that's,
• 38:40
  you know, and and the swimming postseason, it it sneaks up on you
• 38:45
  like it's coming up. So, uh once they get all their league stuff
• 38:50
  done, boom, they just have to qualifying times and they start going and
• 38:53
  and uh so we're gonna be rooting on a lot of Walking County kids and
• 38:57
  these and these postseasons swimming and diving. Yeah, it's pretty wild to look
• 39:00
  at this stuff, Tyler, because I think about it. Fifty freestyle twenty
• 39:05
  three point seven five. I think you and I could do it in twenty
• 39:07
  three point seven five, but it would be like twenty three minutes, you
• 39:10
  know, And well I guess technically twenty three point seven five would be what
• 39:15
  twenty four minutes and fifteen seconds. But you know what I'm saying, like
• 39:20
  that is unbelievably fast. And I don't even know what the like state fastest
• 39:24
  time is, but to me, I'm thinking about how fast that actually is.
• 39:28
  And I'm like, good lord man, like I'm I'm I'm thinking,
• 39:30
  and I cause I saw some stuff. Yeah, I think it's around twenty
• 39:35
  one, so I mean he's really close. So that's that's that's pretty cool,
• 39:40
  you know. And and you know, I went to I've gone to
• 39:45
  a lot of local like Hall of fame inductions for like schools. Yeah,
• 39:49
  and and I went to the first class of Bellingham's Boy It was probably five
• 39:55
  years ago or something like that, and I was really excited to go to
• 39:59
  that first class. And and because they put in all like the legends and
• 40:02
  there was a there was a guy that like played with Mickey Mantle with the
• 40:06
  Yankees, you know, like stuff like that. It was really neat to
• 40:08
  go to that. But there was a swimmer that just like had all these
• 40:13
  crazy state records and national rankings and and it was just really impressive to like
• 40:19
  cause I didn't know anything about that. And then you go and you hear
• 40:22
  about these things and you look at the program and you look at those times
• 40:25
  and you're just like, holy cow, like that's crazy. And it happened
• 40:30
  like in the seventies, like I did, you know, I had no
• 40:31
  idea I And so it's it's been fun to go back. I mean,
• 40:36
  I really want to go. I mean I love the history and I love
• 40:38
  researching stuff and finding stuff. And I've been doing that obviously a lot with
• 40:43
  football, but I've done it now with basketball, and I've started to do
• 40:45
  it with baseball, and and I did a lot I've done a lot with
• 40:47
  track and field, trying to find like top tens of each category for each
• 40:52
  school all time, and just going back and look at all these old track
• 40:55
  meets and stuff like that, and and I want to do that with swim
• 41:00
  as well, because it's it's one of those things where you know, a
• 41:04
  high jump is a high jump. You know someone there, there was a
• 41:07
  there's a Linden kid in nineteen twenty five. They're like one state in the
• 41:13
  high jump in the twenties, like one hundred years ago. The heck did
• 41:15
  you find that? You will? I? I? I yeah, so.
• 41:21
  Uh. But the cool thing is that it's still the high jump,
• 41:24
  you know what I mean? You know what I mean, like it's there's
• 41:27
  not yah, it is. It is what it is. It's not like
• 41:30
  the game of football has changed a lot from the twenties, right. I
• 41:32
  definitely still the high jump, you know, Yeah, you still have to
• 41:36
  jump over the thing. You know, they're not going they weren't jumped over
• 41:38
  it a little bit differently. Yeah, they weren't doing the Fosbery flop quite
• 41:42
  yet. Yeah exactly. But the the general idea of what it is you
• 41:45
  had to do was still exactly the same who could jump the highest, you
• 41:49
  know, and he's that that guy is still in the top ten school history.
• 41:52
  Wow. You know. And so it's just it's just neat seeing that
• 41:54
  kind of stuff and and I love the history and and that's what I do
• 41:59
  in this summer. You know, people say, well, well there's no
• 42:00
  high school sports going on. That's when I research and I start finding all
• 42:05
  these things and start creating high school sports going on. It's just a completely
• 42:07
  different way of going on. Oh yeah, there you figure it out.
• 42:13
  And yeah, I know what I'm saying. It's you looking at all the
• 42:16
  high school sports stuff. That's what's going on, because there's a lot of
• 42:22
  stuff to look at from well over the years that absolutely you can go fine,
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  Swim and Dive. And they're doing more things too. They they're Software Insurance.
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  They're yeah, they're they're they're going to be on for Spring and they'll
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  be on for fall coming up. So they like they locked in, they're
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  locked in, they're ready. Let's talk girls and boys basketball and we'll start
• 43:00
  the girls basketball scoreboards sponsored by Edeline Dairy. Uh Tyler, When is the
• 43:05
  last time, I mean it's been cold out. You can't exactly. It's
• 43:07
  it's a little tough to talk yourself into some ice cream during this kind of
• 43:10
  weather. But yeah, you know, still getting up there. You get
• 43:16
  any Edeline Dairy, You get any ice cream here lately? How about a
• 43:20
  banana split? Miss Walking Press a banana split? Recently? She has not,
• 43:23
  but it's it's been a few weeks, you know, it's you're right,
• 43:27
  in the wintertime, it doesn't really it doesn't really come to your mind.
• 43:30
  But I but I tell you what they got other stuff. And you
• 43:34
  know, me and and Miss Walker Press, we love our chocolate milk.
• 43:37
  And yeah, we will go into Edelin day just for chocolate milk. And
• 43:40
  so we always have chocolate milk in the fridge and it is always Edeling Dairy
• 43:45
  chocolate milk. There's there's no there's no you know, there's no deciding over
• 43:50
  that. That's and that's an easy one in this household. Yeah, I
• 43:52
  got a feeling she'd fight you if you try to do anything different. Let's
• 43:55
  talk girls basketball scoreboards here, Tyler. Let's go with over the last week.
• 44:00
  This is kind of what we do here. We talked about what went
• 44:02
  on the last week. Well, you will start with the girls side and
• 44:06
  we'll go with Meridian, Mount Baker and Bellingham. Tyler, what went on
• 44:08
  with those three schools, Well, there are three very young schools and they
• 44:13
  all three of them had two games that they lost. Meridian lost to Blaine
• 44:16
  forty nine to thirty four, and then they lost to ELC seventy one to
• 44:20
  thirty. That first game against Blaine, they were right there. I think
• 44:23
  they were up by one to a half even They just kind of ran out
• 44:27
  of gas at the end. They're playing without their best player, Ali Richter,
• 44:29
  which is always tough. Mount Baker ran into that crazy Lindon defense,
• 44:34
  lost eighty one to twenty four, and then they played Squalicum on the road
• 44:39
  lost to them sixty six to thirty three. Bellingham, it's been a really
• 44:44
  tough year for them. They started out doing pretty well, get a couple
• 44:46
  wins early, but it's been a rough, rough roads ever since. Lost
• 44:51
  Oakrver forty nine to sixteen, then lost Anacordus fifty two to twenty four.
• 44:54
  Next up, let's talk about Fernindale and Blaine. What was going on with
• 44:59
  those two. Yeah, Ferndale, you know, they went up against Burlington
• 45:04
  Edison at home. I went and saw that one. There are a lot
• 45:07
  of media there for that one. I mean, anybody who was you know,
• 45:09
  you saw Walcom Hoops, Lennon Tribune, Cascadia Daily, you saw everybody
• 45:14
  there for that one. That was kind of the one that we were excited
• 45:16
  about. They were with Burlington the whole way. Brillington a very very good,
• 45:20
  strong team, but they ultimately lost sixty four to fifty two, and
• 45:23
  then they had to travel down to or travel up to Knoxzack Valley, I
• 45:28
  should say. And those Pioneers are, like you said earlier in the podcast,
• 45:31
  those they are so darn good. They lost seventy nine to thirty two
• 45:36
  to them. So a tough week for the Golden Eagles. The Blain Border
• 45:38
  Rights small team, no sub varsity, it's tough, but they've got the
• 45:45
  best of Meridian forty nine to thirty four earlier in the week, and then
• 45:49
  they played a tough game against Lyndon, and Lynden does what Linden does.
• 45:53
  They lost sixty one to seventeen there, so Blaine went one and one on
• 45:57
  the week. Seahome Lynnon Christians squal them. Give me those three schools.
• 46:02
  Yeah, it's seal them. You know they will not go away. They
• 46:07
  are a really really strong team. They beat Mount Vernon fifty two to twenty
• 46:09
  six and beat seger Willie sixty seven to thirty. Very very senior heavy team
• 46:15
  that is is gonna make some waves in the once they get into the postseason,
• 46:22
  I think, and I'm really excited to see them play Linden later on
• 46:25
  this year. A couple of really good two way squads should be a great
• 46:30
  one. Lennon Christian they only had one game this week. They beat Meridians
• 46:32
  seventy one to thirty. But the big thing about that one was the return
• 46:37
  of Grace Heintz. She was a super dynamic player last year as a sophomore
• 46:44
  and she had surgery to renee. This was her first game back. I
• 46:47
  didn't know if she was even gonna play this year, so excited when I
• 46:51
  saw that she was playing. She led her team in points and it's adding
• 46:54
  her at this point, man, that's like a baseball team just winning the
• 46:59
  tree deadline, just adding a big time bat to their lineup. It's exact
• 47:02
  same thing. That's a huge boost for the Links. They're gonna really benefit
• 47:07
  from that going forward. Squalicum, Uh, they lost to that awesome Nuksack
• 47:12
  Valley team sixty three to twenty seven, turn around and beat mont Baker doubled
• 47:15
  them up sixty six to thirty three. So you know, Squalicum is Uh,
• 47:19
  they won that. They won that tournament. Earlier in the year,
• 47:22
  they were on a big time winning streak. I believe it was seven games
• 47:25
  at one point. So uh, they're you know, they're really starting a
• 47:30
  team. And you'll you see this a lot, especially with younger teams,
• 47:32
  at the beginning of the year to like two thirds of the way through the
• 47:36
  year. They start to find their rotations, finds what works playing together better
• 47:39
  as a team. And that's what the Storm's doing right now. Last,
• 47:43
  but certainly not least here, let's talk Nukzack Valley in Linden. Well,
• 47:46
  those are just the you know this the class, you know, the class
• 47:50
  of the league. You know, there's those are two unbelievable teams uh Nuksack
• 47:53
  Valley thirteen and one on the season. That one loss was to Lake City,
• 47:58
  Idaho. They beat Squalk them sixty three to twenty seven. Then they
• 48:01
  beat Ferndale seventy nine to thirty two. That game where they beat Ferndale,
• 48:05
  that was without Laney Kimball, who's out with an injury right now. She
• 48:08
  should be back pretty soon. But even to put a that kind of number
• 48:12
  against the Golden Eagles, who were pretty durned good without one of their key
• 48:15
  players, it just tells me how complete of a team that they are.
• 48:20
  Uh Lindon. The big thing that always stands out with all their scores is
• 48:22
  their defense, and just they just attack, attack, They're in your face
• 48:28
  constantly. They do not let up. They're constantly subbing, playing ten girls.
• 48:32
  Just just they're dush on a rotation. They just keep coming in,
• 48:36
  coming out, coming in, coming out, and they are go, go
• 48:37
  go beat mont Baker eighty one to twenty four, and then beat Blaine sixty
• 48:40
  one to seventeen. Boy, they are just tough to play against. I
• 48:45
  don't care who you are. You know. Their one league loss this year
• 48:50
  was to k Nooksack Valley, but and Linden and Linden Also, if you
• 48:53
  ask, if you ask me, who are their two best players, it's
• 48:57
  a freshman and a sophomore. So that's scary for the future. Both of
• 49:00
  them are over six feet tall, they could both handle the ball, both
• 49:04
  shoot outside everything, So I love the future for Lynnon. But right now
• 49:08
  there's got something special as well. Let's talk boys basketball, who also are
• 49:14
  sponsored by Ediling Dairy. Tyler, you want to know what people should do.
• 49:19
  They should go get some Ediling Dairy ice cream, sit in front of
• 49:22
  the fire in their house and get like really really close to the point that
• 49:25
  you start sweating, and then go get some ice cream. That's not a
• 49:30
  bad idea, don't feel next summer. That being said, let's start with
• 49:34
  Blaine and Mount Baker. Tyler, what do you got for them? On
• 49:37
  the boys' basketball side, Oh, Blaine has just been a tough year.
• 49:39
  Just getting points has been tough. Lost a game earlier in the week to
• 49:44
  Meridians seventy two to forty eight, and then you had to follow that up
• 49:46
  with playing the Lions, which is always tough. Losing seventy nine to twenty
• 49:51
  seven. Mount Baker was kind of the same deal. And they're really I
• 49:55
  like what they're starting. They're really trying to do too. And what I
• 49:59
  love about their team is that their two best players are also a sophomore in
• 50:01
  a freshman, so they have a bright future. But it's been a rough
• 50:05
  year, especially as of late, losing to Lindon's seventy two to twenty nine,
• 50:09
  and then they lost to Squalum sixty four to thirty three. That was
• 50:13
  on Friday night at home. It's you know, those are two teams that
• 50:15
  they're gonna be playing each other pretty soon. I think this upcoming week,
• 50:19
  so that will be a lot to see for jockeing for districts and stuff like
• 50:23
  that, but that should be a really close game. Ferndale Meridium Squalicum give
• 50:29
  me those three Tyler Ferndale are. They're playing great. I love their in
• 50:35
  season improvements. If you talk about game one to now, I just love
• 50:40
  what they've done. They're playing with so much more confidence. They lost to
• 50:45
  Burlington by eight point sixty one to fifty three, but then they beat Nuksack
• 50:49
  Valley in a great game on Saturday night, fifty four to forty six.
• 50:52
  I was there for every point. That was really, really, really cool.
• 50:54
  To see and just some really good athletes out out there. Meridian they
• 51:00
  beat Blaine seventy two to forty eight. It's a big win for them,
• 51:05
  kind of kind of puts them in a decent spot for for third place.
• 51:09
  Of those one A teams still got to, you know, see what they
• 51:14
  how they do against Nuksak. They had their other game against Lenny Christian was
• 51:16
  canceled. The power went out out at Murdy in high school, so that
• 51:22
  has yet to be replayed. I'm sure it'll be rescheduled soon. I just
• 51:25
  haven't seen when it will be played. Uh Squalicum they had a great week.
• 51:30
  They beat Nuksack Valley at home fifty four to thirty nine, and then
• 51:35
  they turn around and beat Mount Baker sixty four to thirty three. So there
• 51:37
  are another teams zero seniors. So fun to watch, very athletic. They
• 51:43
  spread the floor. Not a ton of inside threats as far as size,
• 51:47
  but they have guys that will play inside. They have guys they will drive.
• 51:52
  They will they don't you know, they don't waste a lot of threes.
• 51:54
  So they there their guard based but they but they play like forwards,
• 52:00
  if that makes any sense. So getting two wins against a couple conference,
• 52:05
  you know, fos that was a great thing. And both those games were
• 52:07
  on the radio too, which was a which was a cool deal. So
• 52:10
  they're getting some good exposure and they're playing very well right now. Bellingham,
• 52:15
  Seahome, Nooksack Valley. What he got for those three Bellingham. It's it's
• 52:21
  been a weird year because they started out so well and then and they lost
• 52:25
  Harmon Winkers to injury, and and they've had to kind of reshuffle their lineup,
• 52:30
  and you know, they had to put their best sixth man, Gay
• 52:32
  van Hofwagen, into the starting lineups. So now they got to find another
• 52:36
  sixth man. They bring Jill Harward up from the JV who's been playing great.
• 52:39
  They beat Okarver fifty six to forty five, but then lost to Annacordis
• 52:44
  sixty eight to forty four. The Fighting Fogals Davis Fogel is that guy man.
• 52:49
  I I just every time I watch film of him playing Sawak County team,
• 52:53
  he puts up between thirty eight and forty five points every time. It's
• 52:58
  it's unreal. See them had a rough week. Man, It's it's it's
• 53:02
  weird because they they have some really impressive wins this year. But when when
• 53:08
  things don't work, it's just like man, it's they they Sometimes they lose
• 53:13
  to teams they should have beat. You know, they lost a really good
• 53:15
  Mount Vernon team seventy three to forty four. There's no shame in that.
• 53:19
  I thought they were gonna beat the Cubs Seed of Seedgar Woolley. They just
• 53:22
  offense just couldn't get going. Lost forty seven to thirty eight in that one.
• 53:27
  And Knoksac Ballet had another really tough week losing that game against Squalkum.
• 53:31
  I was there for that one as well. It just they just weren't making
• 53:35
  shots, and that's sometimes that just happens. They could not score. They
• 53:38
  lose fifty four to thirty nine there, and then they go on the road
• 53:42
  to Ferndale lose fifty four to forty six. Both kind of similar games,
• 53:45
  both road games against Walking County teams. I was at both those games,
• 53:50
  and something's just not clicking with their offense right now. I don't know what
• 53:53
  it is, and it's you know, something's got to change because the regular
• 53:59
  seasons getting you know that they're running out of time in the regular season,
• 54:02
  and you know they're gonna I think they're gonna play Baker this week, and
• 54:06
  if they get tripped up by them, there could be some some hopping around
• 54:09
  and moving around jocking for position in the for the one A District tournament.
• 54:13
  So uh, but they're they're really, really talented. They just got to
• 54:16
  they got to find the groove that they were on earlier in the year.
• 54:19
  Yeah. Kind of one of those things where they just need to need to
• 54:22
  figure it out. If they get it figured out, they could do some
• 54:24
  serious damage. Yeah, they have, they have the guys. It's just
• 54:27
  something. Something's not clicking. It's hard to see what it is. Let's
• 54:30
  talk Lyndon Christian and Linden Tyler. Oh Man, Well it. Lindon had
• 54:36
  a great week. Uh. You know, they played a couple of teams
• 54:38
  that you know they should handle and they but they did. They they took
• 54:42
  air of business, beating Mount Baker seventy two to twenty nine and then beating
• 54:45
  Blaine seventy nine to twenty seven, so very similar scores there. Lindy Christian
• 54:50
  had just the one game, with the other game against Meridian being canceled due
• 54:53
  to the power outage, and it was against Anti Chordus on Saturday, afternoon
• 54:58
  kind of only game in town that time. Everybody's there. And they lost
• 55:02
  to the fighting Focals of Ana Kordas seventy eight to sixty six. And it's
• 55:06
  the first loss of the year. And they've beaten some really good, you
• 55:08
  know, teams and higher divisions than them, and it happens, you know,
• 55:15
  but it's weird because Anna Chordis lost to Lakewood earlier like last week,
• 55:20
  so it's it's a you know, and teams can be beat here and there,
• 55:23
  and basketball is kind of weird like that. But you know, they
• 55:28
  they played really really well. But you know, Davis vogels Is that is
• 55:32
  just he's just a stud. And and Lennon Christian they'll bounce back. You
• 55:37
  know. They're still in first place in the conference, so you know,
• 55:42
  and with the one A teams, Linden Man Linden Is just like I said
• 55:45
  earlier, playing those two teams get two more wins. They are, man,
• 55:50
  they're really really good, just defense turning into offense. And they're just
• 55:54
  so well coached. Like I said, they're coach Brian Brian Roper, their
• 55:58
  head coach is closing in on four hundred victories. It's just a great,
• 56:04
  great great team, and and I think I think that that uh that one
• 56:08
  loss for Lyndon Christian so was that. So they're thirteen and one on the
• 56:14
  season right now. I got to do some really quick math here, but
• 56:17
  they that means they're head coach Tim Zilstras since he has taken over, has
• 56:22
  won seventy one games and lost five. So that tells you're right there that
• 56:30
  I mean, he's you know, he took over for Roger de Borr.
• 56:32
  He's a heck of a coach. That's amazing. Seventy one and five since
• 56:37
  he's taken over, So, uh, you know, we haven't heard the
• 56:42
  last of the leaks, that's for sure. Let's talk girls and boys basketball
• 56:46
  game of the week Tyler, And as I mentioned pretty much every week,
• 56:52
  this isn't necessarily what was the biggest game of the week, but what was
• 56:55
  the one that kind of stands out in Tyler's brain as the game of the
• 57:00
  week where he was like, Wow, that was a great basketball game.
• 57:04
  Tyler. Let's start with the girls. What was the girls basketball game of
• 57:07
  the week. There was a couple of them that I saw that one that
• 57:10
  I was at, one that I saw in film that were just really good
• 57:15
  back and forth games. You know, the Burlington Edison beating Ferndale sixty four
• 57:19
  to fifty two. That was a great game to be at, really good
• 57:22
  atmosphere, well played hitting shots, you know, pretty good scoring in that
• 57:30
  one. But the game of the week was was Blaine beating Meridian forty nine
• 57:35
  to thirty four. That was a very close game for three quarters and then
• 57:38
  it just kind of turned into the Jordan Vezzetti show. You know, points
• 57:44
  were pretty hard to come by early for both teams. Blaine held a ten
• 57:47
  point league going in the second quarter, but then Meridian took the momentum outscored
• 57:52
  the border Rights fifteen to four and that quarter, and and Meridian was up
• 57:57
  eighteen seventeen at the half, and they matched each other pretty well in the
• 58:00
  third quarter, and it was tied going into the fourth. But Blaine's Jordan
• 58:07
  Vezsetti, she scored thirty one points. The team scored forty nine. She
• 58:10
  scored thirty one of the forty nine. Deja Dube had ten. And then
• 58:15
  for the Trojans, freshman guard Eaton Bernardi led the way with eleven points,
• 58:21
  and sophomore Kinsley Neil scored nine. For Meridian. It was just a really
• 58:24
  good battle, and it was it's you know, in a way, it's
• 58:29
  kind of that battle for that third place spot of the one a's for girls
• 58:34
  basketball. You know, looksack Valley and Lennon Christian kind of have socked away
• 58:37
  the one and two and getting that third seed is big, so so Blaine
• 58:44
  kind of has the inside trek there. Do I recognize Bernardi from from volleyball?
• 58:50
  Yes? You do. She led the county in aces per set and
• 58:53
  just a freshman, I mean, and it's yeah, it's a very very
• 58:58
  talented family. By the way, Deja Dubay, that's an awesome yeah.
• 59:02
  Yeah. And she has a younger sister, Teya Dubay. Yeah, that's
• 59:06
  uh. Those parents did well with the naming. They did. Yeah,
• 59:08
  they did really really Yeah, Tyler, let's flip it over talk boys basketball
• 59:13
  game of the week. What do you got there? Yeah, there are
• 59:15
  some good ones. Again, there was some that I was at, you
• 59:17
  know, the Ferndale Nuksac Valley game. That was a great just back and
• 59:22
  forth game battle hard uh you talk about I was. I was, you
• 59:27
  know, standing next to Eric Tripp, who's the athletic director at Ferndale during
• 59:31
  the game, and I said, yeah, I said this is these are
• 59:36
  two great football schools playing basketball, and you know, it's just that's just
• 59:39
  the way that it is. I mean, they are playing rough and tumble
• 59:43
  out there. That was a good one Bellingham beating Oak Harbor fifty six to
• 59:46
  forty five. It was kind of a needed win for them to kind of
• 59:50
  give them some confidence. That seems like they've been trying to find themselves ever
• 59:52
  since the injury. But the game of the week was was Ana Chortus beating
• 59:58
  Lennon Christians seventy eight to sixty six. I said it last week. That
• 1:00:00
  was the game going into this week that people should be looking forward to.
• 1:00:05
  The Links led thirty five to thirty at the half, and Seahawks took the
• 1:00:09
  lead in the third quarter extended it in the fourth quarter to give the Els
• 1:00:14
  their first loss of the year. Davis Fogel sixteen of twenty seven attempts for
• 1:00:20
  forty three points, seven rebounds, four blocks, three assists. You know,
• 1:00:23
  at six foot seven playing the point guard, he's just right in the
• 1:00:29
  middle of the floor doing so much stuff. Elsie was led by da Dawson
• 1:00:34
  Bauma, who scored twenty points. He's averaging I think right around twenty on
• 1:00:37
  the year, Jeremiah Wright had a double double with thirteen points ten rebounds.
• 1:00:40
  Gannan Dykster had sixteen points and seven assists. Cayden Stite twelve points, five
• 1:00:45
  rebounds, another thunderous two handed dunk by Caden Styte as well. And yeah
• 1:00:52
  it is. It's just a really lot of talent on the floor there,
• 1:00:57
  and it's an awesome atmosphere, big time game again, another one where everybody
• 1:01:02
  was at h Just an awesome, awesome, awesome game. Let's see here,
• 1:01:07
  let's talk Anytime Fitness girls basketball player of the Week, Tyler. Anytime
• 1:01:12
  Fitness Ferndale, Linden and Linden North locations are the ones that sponsor the girls
• 1:01:17
  basketball player of the Week, Tyler. Who is it? Yeah, it
• 1:01:21
  was Blaine senior forward Jordan Vezzetti. You know, went one and one on
• 1:01:27
  the week. They beat Meridian, then lost to Linden. But in those
• 1:01:30
  games combined, I think she scored post to eighty percent of her team's points.
• 1:01:36
  You know, she caught fire in that first game, scoring thirty one
• 1:01:38
  points. She scored thirteen in the next game out of the seventeen points that
• 1:01:43
  her team scored just to put up thirteen points against that Linden defense. Tells
• 1:01:47
  me a lot. A very very athletic player. You know, she plays
• 1:01:52
  in the post, a little undersized in there. She probably about five seven,
• 1:01:55
  five eight, but she is she's she's, I mean, she's awesome
• 1:02:00
  player. She's great shortstop on the fast pitch team. Unbelievable athlete. So
• 1:02:06
  she just throws her athleticism around. But she can play inside, but she
• 1:02:08
  could shoot the three. She's a good foul shooter. She had a really
• 1:02:12
  good week. Uh. And on the and uh yeah, So Jordan Veazzetti
• 1:02:15
  from Blaine is your Anytime Fitness Girls Basketball Player of the Week. You were
• 1:02:20
  gonna jump to it, Tyler, tell me who I was? Who was
• 1:02:22
  the asty Time Fitness Boys Basketball Player of the Week? Yeah, I was
• 1:02:25
  looking. I was looking as over and I had a couple of names in
• 1:02:30
  there. But when I was looking at the numbers and the importance and everything,
• 1:02:35
  Marcus Nixon really jumped out. He almost had a triple double earlier earlier
• 1:02:39
  in the week, uh, in the win against Nukxack Valley, and then
• 1:02:44
  he you know, he just kind of went off against Mount Baker and it
• 1:02:45
  seems like when things kind of start to falter with their offense, he just
• 1:02:51
  makes something happen. But he does so much stuff because he can get so
• 1:02:54
  many rebounds. He's leading the counting steals. He gets almost four a game.
• 1:03:00
  But he's very unselfish with the ball, always looking for the open guy.
• 1:03:05
  Can knock down free throws, can hit into occasional three pointer as well.
• 1:03:07
  He does so many things for his team, led them to two big
• 1:03:12
  wins over Nuksack Valley and Mount Baker. He just had a fantastic week.
• 1:03:15
  Marcus Nixon, the junior guard from Squalkum, is your Anytime Fitness Boys Basketball
• 1:03:20
  Player of the Week. Let's talk upcoming games to look for as far as
• 1:03:24
  the girls go. Tyler, what are the games this week that you're looking
• 1:03:28
  out for? There's a hand there's a lot of them. Actually, you
• 1:03:31
  know there's a game later on today at three point thirty Union versus Nuksack Valley
• 1:03:37
  that's gonna be at University of Puget Sound. You might can you help me
• 1:03:40
  with this union? Their classification they are four A. Actually I think our
• 1:03:45
  girls might be playing like right after that. Okay, yeah, I think
• 1:03:49
  the Bofel girls they're playing some team out of California or something nice. So
• 1:03:52
  it's like a big Martin Luther King day kind of pretty sure they do it
• 1:03:55
  every By the way, you need to get somebody from Knoksack Valley to get
• 1:04:01
  you a picture of the Puget Sound gym. It is old and it is
• 1:04:08
  really cool. Well, they used to have the state tournament there, oh,
• 1:04:11
  really long time ago. Yeah, and that makes sense. I mean,
• 1:04:14
  it's got a very much a like I don't want to say Hoosiers,
• 1:04:17
  but you know what I mean, Like it's gotta like Mount like Mount Vernon
• 1:04:19
  kind it's totally different but bigger. Yeah, it's cool. It is really
• 1:04:25
  really cool arena as far as basketball goes. But yeah, that's a big
• 1:04:30
  Martin Luther King thing going on down there. There's quite a few of those
• 1:04:33
  going on. As a matter of fact. Our boys are actually like randomly
• 1:04:36
  playing at Gig Harbor. So I'm pretty sure they're taking the same bus and
• 1:04:41
  they're dropping the girls off on their way to Gig Harbor. Yeah, and
• 1:04:45
  then they'll play their game and then pick them up on the way home.
• 1:04:47
  Yeah. So I'm not sure how good Union is, but they're fora and
• 1:04:53
  you know, Nuksack Valley. They want to schedule these kinds of games to
• 1:04:56
  get them ready for the state tournament. So I think that's gonna be a
• 1:04:58
  really good one. Friday Harbor at Bellingham. You know, I think this
• 1:05:02
  is a winnable game for Bellingham. I think that this will help them kind
• 1:05:05
  of get back into things. And and I'm excited for that one that'll be
• 1:05:10
  on Wednesday at four o'clock out at Bellingham. And when it has that four
• 1:05:13
  o'clock tip off, I'm like, I love that because it's kind of the
• 1:05:16
  only game in town at that point. So I'll probably go out just check
• 1:05:19
  that one out. But the big one of the week that I look at
• 1:05:23
  is Burlington Edison at Lyndon Burlington is they just are so good on the girls
• 1:05:29
  side. They beat Lyndon Christian earlier this year, you know, a one
• 1:05:32
  point game. They you know, they have good size, they can shoot,
• 1:05:36
  and just have them matched up against Lyndon, I think that's gonna be
• 1:05:41
  a fantastic game. Wednesday night, seven fifteen at Jake Mayberry Gymnasium. That's
• 1:05:46
  just one that I love. That matchup. That's one that I think both
• 1:05:51
  teams have been waiting for that. It was a great matchup in volleyball,
• 1:05:55
  you know that when they played each other in the in the regular season,
• 1:05:58
  then they play each other for the district championship, then they played each other
• 1:06:00
  for third place at state that you know, I'm sure it's a lot of
• 1:06:04
  the same girls on both sides and a really good rivalry game there. So
• 1:06:10
  just give you an idea, Tyler. The Union girls twelve and one on
• 1:06:14
  the year. Yeah, and their only loss is the Camas their biggest rival.
• 1:06:20
  Yeah, and Camas. I was just looking at there because I'm like,
• 1:06:24
  oh, Camus must be really good, right, Camas is ten and
• 1:06:27
  six, so I'm like, well, that doesn't seem very good. Then
• 1:06:30
  I look, they haven't lost to a single team in state. Yea.
• 1:06:32
  Their losses have all come at tournaments and stuff out of the state, and
• 1:06:36
  then a random game against Clackamas. And Clackamas is I think. I'm pretty
• 1:06:42
  sure usually one of the better teams in Oregon. And their two losses have
• 1:06:45
  come to actually two teams that Camus has lost too at the same tournament,
• 1:06:50
  I believe. I believe it was that big one down in the Portland Classic.
• 1:06:56
  Yeah that see Home played that Yeah, Yeah, exactly. So,
• 1:06:58
  yeah, I mean that's uh, that's a big, big time matchup there.
• 1:07:02
  Let's just look really quickly. Are the Union girls ranked? They are?
• 1:07:06
  Union Girls are ranked fourth in the state as far as as far as
• 1:07:11
  the w I A goes. Now, yeah, take that with a grain
• 1:07:14
  of salt. But that's that's ranked. Actually, you know what, I
• 1:07:16
  don't even know why I'm looking there, Tyler. Let's let's see if Matthew
• 1:07:19
  Evans from Evans Rankings has his rankings out, because he posted earlier that he
• 1:07:26
  was going to be updating him and he has he does have him up here?
• 1:07:30
  Girls, let's see here, Let's just look at it really quickly.
• 1:07:33
  Here, Yeah, girls, what do we got here? One A and
• 1:07:39
  this is Matthew Evans Evans Rankings. It's a computer based ranking system. Zero
• 1:07:43
  bias, and I mean zero bias. He's got the Knooksack Valley Girls at
• 1:07:47
  number one. Nice. Let's see is there anybody else there? No,
• 1:07:55
  they are not okay. And then in two A Allensburg won Linden two.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah, our omer Burlington up there, Burlington Edison seven. Yeah, So
• 1:08:08
  see what I mean about that Lynden Burlington game. Yeah, Oh yeah,
• 1:08:11
  it's good. It's a good game, beauty. Uh. And then let's
• 1:08:14
  see maybe just forern Dale sneak into three A. No, no, let's
• 1:08:19
  see here Boys Boys one A Lennon Christian Boys one A Zilla one, Lynnon
• 1:08:27
  Christian two yeah okay, and man, uh got Kings at eight. Yeah,
• 1:08:32
  Lennon Christian beat Kings earlier this year. Yeah. I don't see anybody
• 1:08:35
  else there in the top ten. Uh, let's talk two A yeah,
• 1:08:41
  Linden West Oh, Lindon seventh is what he has listed. And of course
• 1:08:45
  five yeah. West Value of Spokane's got a number one Grand View of all
• 1:08:51
  teams and number two the Grand View Hounds. Yeah, they have a they
• 1:08:57
  have a stadium that is like nothing super special for football, but for some
• 1:09:00
  reason there are sunsets there just awesome, like I don't know. Yeah,
• 1:09:06
  they look at you three A. Let's see. Uh, let's just see
• 1:09:12
  what they got here. How's Mount Vernon? Mount lay Terrace is number one
• 1:09:15
  in three? Yeah and beat them? Yes, and then Mount Vernon is
• 1:09:20
  four? Okay, yep. Let's see here. North Thurston, North Central,
• 1:09:25
  Mount Spokane, Bellevue Stadium, Lincoln of Tacoma. Yeah, I mean
• 1:09:30
  that is Uh, I was gonna look up the Union Girls. That's what
• 1:09:32
  I wanted to see. Uh, Union Girls. Evans has them at three.
• 1:09:38
  So yeah, I mean this is a big time, big time,
• 1:09:41
  big time matchup. Tyler. Yeah, I mean that is a big one.
• 1:09:45
  Well, what's gonna a thing? Yeah, what's gonna hurt the Pioneers
• 1:09:48
  is I don't know if Landey Kimball will be ready for that one, and
• 1:09:53
  she is. She is just pure athleticism. Leads the team in assists,
• 1:09:58
  but she's a forward as she's very very unselfish, does a lot of things.
• 1:10:02
  She's I think the second leading scorer on the team without her, and
• 1:10:08
  she's about five to ten without her. That's that's gonna hurt. But they'll
• 1:10:13
  be all right. But man, yeah, that's gonna be a great,
• 1:10:15
  great matchup. Yeah, that should be a yeh, I'm not gonna lie,
• 1:10:18
  Tyler. I'm even half excited. I hope it's on NFHS. Yeah,
• 1:10:24
  yeah, me too, because then if not, if not, I
• 1:10:27
  guarantee you because that's this is one thing I love about the Knicksac Valley parents.
• 1:10:30
  If the game is not streaming, one of the parents will stream it
• 1:10:33
  live on Facebook. Beautiful every time, and there's been times where I've had
• 1:10:39
  to get my stats from their stream. That's happened off the least off of
• 1:10:45
  a phone. Yes, so that's so yeah. So bless you Hallie Kimball
• 1:10:49
  and Tanya Silvis because without you I would not have season stats. So that's
• 1:10:56
  awesome job. Yes, well, Tyler, let's wrap it up with the
• 1:11:00
  the boys game of the week. What do you got over there? Well,
• 1:11:02
  again, another one of those MLK tournaments, Lyndon at Kings. You
• 1:11:09
  know, it's a two o'clock game, so I'm assuming there's some sort of
• 1:11:12
  tournament there, but that's gonna be a great one. Bellingham at Squalicum on
• 1:11:15
  Saturday at seven point fifteen is just a great rivalry city city, you know,
• 1:11:23
  city bragging rights type of game. Squalm's playing really well right now.
• 1:11:27
  I think Belling has a better squad, but Squalicum's playing better at the moment,
• 1:11:31
  so I think that'll be a great game. But the big one I'm
• 1:11:33
  looking forward to Friday night at London hosting Mount Vernon. Like you said,
• 1:11:39
  Matthew Evans had them ranked fourth and three a Friday night seven fifteen. The
• 1:11:44
  band is going to be rocking. That is going to be an awesome,
• 1:11:48
  awesome game. I am so excited for that one, huge, huge game.
• 1:11:53
  I know it's three a versus two way, but it is a conference
• 1:11:56
  game and that's gonna be that's gonna be an awesome someone. I I really
• 1:12:01
  really looking forward to that one. What's uh, Tyler? If I said
• 1:12:04
  to you, like, what by the way, wait, you said Linden
• 1:12:09
  is playing Kings, that's all two o'clock. Yeah, I'm looking at girls,
• 1:12:15
  let's go board. So this is this is and you think maybe it's
• 1:12:17
  a tournament or something or well, I'm just thinking thinking because it's it's at
• 1:12:21
  two o'clock. Yeah, I mean it doesn't say anything specific, but it
• 1:12:26
  does. Uh yeah, two o'clock is an interesting time. Yeah. Oh
• 1:12:30
  no, it looks like the games at the Showwear Center. Oh okay,
• 1:12:33
  and that would be an MLK thing because I know they do not there every
• 1:12:36
  year. Yeah. Yeah, it says here Showwear Center in Kent. Yeah.
• 1:12:43
  Huh. Now, Tyler, though back back to the topic. I
• 1:12:46
  need to get an answer from here for okay, what is like your favorite
• 1:12:51
  Like when you walk into a gym and you hear the band, you know,
• 1:12:55
  banging out a song, what is it like? I mean one.
• 1:12:59
  There's some good there's some good fight songs. Somebody had a good fight song
• 1:13:01
  the other day that I heard and I was like, wow, like that's
• 1:13:03
  a really good one. But when you think of like what is the song
• 1:13:08
  that you want to hear that like gets you pumped up? What is it?
• 1:13:11
  Well, you're gonna laugh at me, but it's very very recent.
• 1:13:15
  Yeah, okay, it's gonna be and Saylor Swift or something. No,
• 1:13:19
  no, no no, but I heard it. I heard Linden play it
• 1:13:24
  at a football game and I was so jacked up. I took my phone
• 1:13:27
  out and you know, it takes me and I'm dead serious, and you
• 1:13:30
  know, this takes me about fifteen seconds to yeah, land to like find
• 1:13:35
  me like on my phone like how to get the video up and had a
• 1:13:39
  hit record and because I'm totally lost on that stuff, but I was able
• 1:13:43
  to get about twenty seconds of the song and I was so jacked up for
• 1:13:45
  it. And then I went to when I saw Lyndon host Bellingham and boys
• 1:13:51
  basketball. As soon as the team ran out, Holy cal The band was
• 1:13:58
  so loud and it was just drums and then the trump is brown and it
• 1:14:06
  did the Edwin Diaz song Oh the Narcos or Yes, Yes, And it
• 1:14:13
  was so loud and so well done, and it was just and I get
• 1:14:17
  so jacked when I hear that song. Yeah, and and they do it
• 1:14:21
  so well. And it's one of those songs where like, if you have
• 1:14:26
  a band that's only got like fifteen to twenty people, it's just not gonna
• 1:14:30
  give. It's not gonna be the same yeah at all. But when they
• 1:14:34
  do it and there's like one hundred kids over there and they're just wailing at
• 1:14:39
  it as hard as they can the drums, you know, holy cow,
• 1:14:43
  it was I I almost wanted to steal the ball from Charlie Aires and get
• 1:14:46
  do a layoup myself in the layup line because I was ready, man,
• 1:14:50
  I was, I was ready to go. I was, Oh it was
• 1:14:54
  awesome. It was awesome. So that's the one now, and that's I
• 1:14:57
  know, it's a relatively new thing, but it's awesome. I love it.
• 1:15:00
  I like that song, you know, I think it's like everybody's everything,
• 1:15:04
  you know, it's like d d d dud du oh yeah yeah,
• 1:15:10
  and then it's like dun dun dud dudu. The Husky's played all the time,
• 1:15:15
  dun dun, dun't dun. I love that. I don't know why
• 1:15:21
  that. That one just gets me fired up. And there's there's some good
• 1:15:27
  and there's some bad. But for the most part, that's an easy one
• 1:15:30
  to play. You know, I don't know how easy it actually is to
• 1:15:32
  play, but you know what I mean, Like that one's not exactly you
• 1:15:35
  know, the hardest of the ones that I hear. But I'll tell you
• 1:15:39
  what, there's nothing like a good band, man, I mean, there
• 1:15:43
  just isn't. And and you know, I love I've said it before.
• 1:15:45
  A really really good band is worth seven to ten points in football. Mm
• 1:15:49
  hmmm. I think in basketball it might be worth more. I mean I
• 1:15:54
  think it could. I mean, you get a band playing, man and
• 1:15:57
  they're rocking and rolling and and the and especially if this dents are feeding into
• 1:16:00
  it, and oh man, I'm getting fired up over here just thinking about
• 1:16:03
  it. And it's like I loved it. I loved it being in the
• 1:16:06
  band during basketball. And you know, for three years sophomore, junior,
• 1:16:12
  and senior year, I was on that drum set during basketball and a real
• 1:16:15
  drum set, yes, and and and my sophomore and junior year we had
• 1:16:18
  really good teams. Our senior year not so much. But uh, I
• 1:16:23
  loved it because I sat really close to where they ran out from the from
• 1:16:28
  the locker room and we had a song and it was call and we we
• 1:16:31
  would play Hot Stuff by Donna Summer, which is kind of a disco song
• 1:16:34
  from the seventies, but we played it like twice the speed and so and
• 1:16:40
  it started out with the drums and so the band knew that once I,
• 1:16:45
  once I did, once I did the like it was time to go.
• 1:16:48
  And so I'd look and if I saw the captains like peak out, he'd
• 1:16:51
  like gnadd at me, like okay any anytime. And as soon as I
• 1:16:55
  hit that, they sprinted out and the fans all got up, and it
• 1:16:58
  was so cool to be a part of that. And you're right, A
• 1:17:00
  good band is just bring so much to it. And and now that you're
• 1:17:05
  a PA and doing a PA announcing at basketball games, Uh, it's tough
• 1:17:10
  sometimes if there's a band there to get what you need to have said in
• 1:17:14
  it. You know, if you have to do a read or something at
• 1:17:16
  halftime or during breaks or timeouts or whatever, just stay out of the way.
• 1:17:20
  Yeah, I just don't say anything. I just leone do it.
• 1:17:24
  And it's crazy too because you have to know your you know, the band
• 1:17:27
  director's got to know is this a full time out? Is this a thirty
• 1:17:30
  second time out? You know? So you know, I started to look
• 1:17:32
  over your back and then just have it ready to close off. What I
• 1:17:34
  started doing to help out the band is you know, Normally the PA guy
• 1:17:40
  would just say, you know, Linden has requested a timeout. I started
• 1:17:45
  saying the actual time on it instead of a full or you know, a
• 1:17:47
  half. I started I started going, you know, Bothel has requested a
• 1:17:51
  sixty second timeout or thirty second time out, Like I say, how much
• 1:17:56
  it is? And then you see the band guy turn around. He's like,
• 1:17:58
  let's get here. Yeah, hey, we have some time to get
• 1:18:00
  a little bit of dune. Dun't dunt dund dum right you or whatever it
• 1:18:04
  is. But yeah, there's hot stuff right there is the I means you
• 1:18:13
  guys would played fast, We've but twice as fast. Yeah, can you
• 1:18:16
  do that on YouTube? Can you speed it up? I wonder if you
• 1:18:18
  can. I don't think so play speed? Here we go? We can
• 1:18:21
  speed up? What what? What would be faster? In the play speed?
• 1:18:26
  Tyler would it be h. It'd be like, oh, like,
• 1:18:29
  let's go one point seventy five. Okay, let's see. Yeah, that's
• 1:18:35
  about what it was. Like whoa, whoa. I don't know about that,
• 1:18:40
  but you know it was fast. It was a do do do do
• 1:18:43
  do Do Do Do Do Do do do. That's of all the random songs
• 1:18:45
  to pick, although I guess at the time that was probably a little more
• 1:18:48
  well, this wasn't the seventies, know what I'm saying, but not not
• 1:18:51
  super far out to where people knew what the song was either A right,
• 1:18:55
  no, absolutely, yeah, you played it in a high school gym right
• 1:18:57
  now. Everybody look around at you, going, I have no idea what
• 1:18:59
  the plant right now? Tyler? Where you you were on the court then,
• 1:19:03
  yeah, we were on the corner. Yeah, we were kind of
• 1:19:05
  Yeah. See. The thing that I thought was cool was the other day
• 1:19:08
  I was in a gym and they had built one of those you know,
• 1:19:12
  stands to put up in the stands so that they can get the drum set
• 1:19:15
  right in the battle. Yeah. Yeah, they when they came walking in
• 1:19:18
  with that, I was like, oh, oh, I like these guys
• 1:19:20
  already, like they're they're bringing the whole the whole drum set in, like
• 1:19:26
  you know, normally you just have the drums, not you know, an
• 1:19:29
  actual drummer, like you know what I mean, a dude sitting there looking
• 1:19:32
  like you know, Taylor Hawkins or something, you know what I mean.
• 1:19:34
  Right, So, all right, Tyler, we are just going on and
• 1:19:40
  on and on here and we're done. Yeah, we don't have anything else
• 1:19:43
  to talk about, right, We're done. Yeah, I think we're good.
• 1:19:45
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  here on walcomepreps dot com. I'm Ryland Spencer. He's Tyler Anderson. Wait.
• 1:21:04
  Also, I just got throw out really quickly good luck to everybody at
• 1:21:09
  the Cleats versus Cancer game today at noon at FOLKINI Stadium. And there's actually
• 1:21:15
  two games, noon and four. I think, oh, okay, you
• 1:21:18
  know what, Tyler, I guess we gosh, we should have thought about
• 1:21:21
  that one before. We do. Need to look it up really quickly to
• 1:21:27
  the rosters. Do we know who's playing? Camden Raymond, Bishop, Ootsie
• 1:21:31
  Cooper Moore and Zach Welch. Okay, that's who I have from Walkam County.
• 1:21:36
  Well, let me run through. Let's let's run through it really quickly.
• 1:21:40
  Just make sure we know who all is playing. Just looking at the
• 1:21:45
  I guess it would be on the North roster. Yeah, and they've been
• 1:21:48
  practicing over at Shoreline Stadium, I believe. Let's see here. I know
• 1:21:55
  we got quite a few Boffel guys are playing. I think there's by the
• 1:22:00
  way, there's dudes from Stockholm, Sweden that are playing, is what I
• 1:22:02
  was told. Wow. Yeah, I don't know how that happened, but
• 1:22:06
  yeah, actually here it is. Here's one, two, three, four
• 1:22:10
  five. It was like six guys on the North team. I mean that's
• 1:22:15
  pretty far up north. Yeah, I mean a little excessive north, if
• 1:22:17
  you will. Let's see here. I don't see anybody from Wacom County on
• 1:22:24
  this one. This one here says Cleveland Stern as a school also, so
• 1:22:28
  I don't know where that guy's from, but it's pretty cool. I mean,
• 1:22:31
  here's a guy from Shellanne. Here's another one from Shellanne. Here's manson
• 1:22:35
  over there in central Washington. You know what I mean. It's it's pretty
• 1:22:39
  cool to see some of the stuff that goes on here. That's a South
• 1:22:42
  roster. Here's a North roster. North Creek sannel Prep and another Bofel guy.
• 1:22:46
  I've seen quite a few Kings guys on here, Archbishop Murphy, Caleb
• 1:22:51
  Hall from Sedro Woolley. He's a good player. By the way, did
• 1:22:55
  you happen to notice that the who's the young man from Sedrow Wollie that we
• 1:22:59
  both really like? Oh my goodness, what is his name? Carson Reynolds.
• 1:23:03
  Yeah, you know that he signed with the team that won the FCS
• 1:23:06
  national championship. Good for him. Yeah, I mean that's pretty wild that
• 1:23:12
  school does not recruit out here. They've never needed to recruit out here.
• 1:23:15
  By the way, he's playing in the game. He's playing in the let's
• 1:23:19
  see, he's playing with Bryson and he's playing in the noon game. But
• 1:23:26
  also there's a couple of seed Raw Woolie guys. Here's some anachordus guys.
• 1:23:30
  Rex Larsen is on it. Kellen Lefayve Yeah, oh from Berndelli. Yeah,
• 1:23:34
  yeah, he's playing in the in the noon game. Let's see here
• 1:23:40
  at Camden Raymond, you mentioned he's playing in that noon game. Zach Welch.
• 1:23:46
  I think you said in that noon game. Yeah, those are the
• 1:23:49
  only ones I see really there, I'm surprised guys, and I thought I
• 1:23:54
  heard Bishop Bootsy and Cooper Moore as well. Okay, I didn't see him
• 1:23:58
  on that, maybe I just missed him. But yeah, that's a that's
• 1:24:02
  a good event that goes on. And by the way, those games are
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  gonna be streamed to Tyler. Yeah, I know, I'm yes, I
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  am excited, but yeah, wow, there's a lot of guys from Timberline,
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  which is pretty cool because that's a school that doesn't get a lot of
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  attention, but they've always had really good athletes up at Timberline. But yeah,
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  so good luck to all those guys. And I'm sure maybe you know,
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  if any of them do something, we'll be sure to let you know
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  on next week's Winter Sports wrap Up. But yeah, anyway, he's Tyler
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  Anderson, Walkompreps walkompreps dot com. I'm Ron Spencer. You've been listening to
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  episode two hundred and thirty five Winter Sports Weekly wrap Up here on the Walk
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  the Preps podcast. But we will talk to you in a couple of us. I